KABUL (AP) -- A heavily armed Taliban commander was killed Saturday during an pre-dawn shootout at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said as it reported an American service member was killed in a separate attack.
A joint Afghan-international force went to a compound in Wardak province to look for an insurgent believed responsible for planning attacks and buying weapons and parts for making bombs, the international coalition said. When the joint force approached the compound, the Taliban commander, who was armed with grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, ran to a nearby mosque.
Where else would he go for more guns and ammo?
Afghan security forces surrounded the mosque outside the town of Pirdad in the Nirkh district and called for him to surrender. When he didn't, they went inside.
At least 15, mostly civilians have been killed and over 30 others injured in heavy clashes that erupted between Somali militants and government forces backed by African Union troops in the restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses.
The clashes started on late Wednesday in the capital's KM4 and Dabka intersections and Shaqalaha road, where fighters loyal to Somalia's Hizbul Islam carried out surprise attacks on government positions, leading to heavy gun battle.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting killed at least 15 people, mostly civilians and caused the injuries of several other civilians.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting killed at least 15 people, mostly civilians and caused the injuries of several other civilians.
Mohammed Osman Arus, Hizbul Islam spokesman confirmed that his forces carried out attacks on government and AU troops, killing several soldiers. "We carried out attacks on their positions. I saw dead bodies of three AU soldiers with my on eyes," he claimed.
AU troops' spokesman Barigye Bahoku, however, refuted those claims when reached for comments.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia claimed victory in a conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels, saying the kingdom's army was successful in driving away the last infiltrators from its territory, press reports said on Saturday.
King Abdullah told the Arabic language daily Kuwaiti newspaper al-Seyassah that his instructions to Saudi forces were "clear," demanding operations were confined to Saudi territory without entering Yemen.
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday the conflict was nearing an end, with at least 73 of its troops killed in fighting against Yemeni rebels since November.
King Abdullah told al-Seyassah that his orders to the army were to "only drive away infiltrators and preserve the security and borders" of the kingdom.
"We are not a nation that interferes in other countries' affairs and do not accept other countries to interfere in ours," the king said.
"We are not a nation that interferes in other countries' affairs and do not accept other countries to interfere in ours," he said.
In November, Saudi Arabia launched a military offensive against Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as Houthis after their leader's clan name, after a rebel cross-border incursion.
There are international fears that al-Qaeda is trying to use Yemen, where the Houthis are fighting government forces, as a launch pad for attacks in the region.
The Houthis belong to the minority Shiite Zaidis, and complain of social, economic and religious marginalization, but both rebels and the Yemeni government deny their aims are sectarian.
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Yup, mission accomplished. Peace is restored in Arabia. Nobody should have any more problems from that neck of the woods.
/sarc off//
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A US fighter jet has carried out multiple airstrikes on the home of a senior official in Yemen's northern rugged province of Sa'ada, Houthi fighters say.
The Yemen-based Houthi fighters say the warplane struck the home owned by the governor of Sa'ada province, Hassan Mohammad Manna in five blitzes. There were no reports on possible casualties in the attacks.
The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters. The conflict intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada.
The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption.
This is while in addition to the Yemeni government, Saudi Arabia also pounds the Houthis. The Houthis say that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials, including white phosphorous bombs, against civilians in northern Yemen.
The US military is also said to raid Yemen's northern rugged regions of Amran, Hajjah and Sa'ada which have already been the target of joint Saudi-Yemen offensives.
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took "five blitzes" by US Fighter Jets to bomb a house, huh? The liars haven't heard of JDAM accuracy
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Saudi warplanes reportedly mount a dozen air attacks on the Yemeni side of the common border, as Riyadh continues to reinforce Sana'a's anti-Shia campaign.
Yemen's Shia fighters on Saturday said Saudi aircraft fired more than 700 missiles overnight on the northern villages along the border with Saudi Arabia.
They also said that Yemen's northern areas had come under Saudi artillery bombardment, tank raids and mortar attacks. The Houthi fighters added on their website that Saudi forces had targeted villages over night with hundreds of surface-to-surface missiles.
Saudi Arabia joined the Yemeni government's months-long fierce armed campaign against the Shia fighters in November.
The Houthis are accused by the central government of breaking the terms of a ceasefire agreement by taking foreign visitors hostage. The Saudis, on their part, claimed that the fighters had attacked one of their border checkpoints.
Houthis, however, reject the allegations, accusing the Sunni-dominated Kingdom and the central governments of joining forces to uproot the Shia faith in the territory.
The Saudis are as well blamed by the fighters for using banned weapons against the areas resided by the Shia civilians.
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Police are searching a number of properties in central London as a man is charged with trying to blow up a US airliner flying to Detroit.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, from Nigeria, is alleged to have had an explosive device hidden in his clothes. He is said to have been an engineering student at University College London.
The Metropolitan Police have been searching a flat at an apartment block in Mansfield Street, central London, and other properties in the capital. Police have cordoned off Mansfield Street in front of the apartment block.
Nigerian former banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallab said he believed the man was his son. Mr Mutallab said his son Umar had studied in London before going travelling. His son had not lived in London for some time and he was not sure of his whereabouts, he added.
He said: "I believe he might have been to Yemen, but we are investigating to determine that."
A spokesperson for University College London (UCL) said a student called Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was enrolled on a mechanical engineering course between September 2005 and June 2008. It added: "It must be stressed that the university has no evidence that this is the same person currently being referred to in the media."
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the British authorities were informed of a possible connection to the UK on Friday evening. It is understood one of their key priorities will be to check whether the arrested man has cropped up in the course of any other investigations.
BBC News correspondent Richard Slee said there was fairly low-key police activity at the last known London address of Mr Abdulmutallab, a basement flat in the block near Harley Street. Reporting from the scene, he said police forensic officers had been seen going into the building.
A blue English Heritage plaque states that philanthropist Sir Robert Mayer once lived in the block where properties have recently sold for between £1.5m and £2.5m.
The Metropolitan Police said its officers were liaising with the US authorities.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "Searches are being carried out at addresses in central London."
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We must do something about the poverty that drives people to terrorism.
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there are alot of ppl who are poor that are not terrorist
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Give them money, ya say? All we have are O-Bucks, and people are getting hesitant to take them these days. How about some gold? Would they like us then?
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[Kyodo: Korea] Twelve North Korean men fled to South Korea from Russia"s Amur Province in September, the first defections of a group of North Korean workers from the Russian Far East to a third country, Russian security authority officials and other sources said Wednesday. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helped the North Koreans, who were in Amur as migrant workers, defect and is currently dealing with applications of four other North Koreans who want to go to South Korea.
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ION WMF > [Report]SOKOR KOREA INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSIS: NORTH KOREA WILL EVENTUALLY DEV THE CAPABILITY TO INSTALL SMALL NUCLEAR WARHEADS ON ITS BALLISTIC MISSLES.
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MARIANAS VARIETY GUAM [MVGUAM.com]: FULL MOVE TO GUAM NIXED [USMC Reloc to Guam]. IIUC JAPAN = "DETERRENCE EFFECT" of keeping some or certain USMC forces in Japan + East Asia Region outweighs any desire by many Nipponese for full/total withdrawal of USMC forces from Okinawa-Japan.
IMO Read,
* CHINA > 2010-2020/2025+ at least until such time JAPAN is allowed to have Strategic nukes of its own, +
* INCREASINGLY ECON WEAKER RUSSIA?, +
* NORTH KOREA > Kimmie's Nukes + possible CHINA takeover of NOKOR iff DPRK-Pyongyang Regime collapses due to famine, +
* GROWING PAN-ASIAN ISLAMIST, COMMIE, Other MILITANT THREAT [Sub-Read, Post-2012 NUCLEAR IRAN = NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM due to covert or "black market" proliferation, etc. of NUCTECHS, NBC-CBRN MILTECHS.
Eight Turkish soldiers have been detained over an alleged plot to assassinate Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, the army has said. It said the soldiers were taken to the army headquarters in Ankara after being interrogated by a prosecutor on Friday.
The arrests follow an inquiry which was launched last week after Mr Arinc said a car with two officers had been spotted several times near his house.
The Turkish military denied being part of any plot. It said the officers were investigating a military official living nearby.
The detentions come amid renewed speculation that there is mounting tension between the governing AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam, and the powerful armed forces. The Turkish army sees itself as the guardian of the country's secularism.
Earlier this year, dozens of people, including two retired generals, journalists and academics, went on trial in Turkey accused of plotting to overthrow the government. Prosecutors argue that they were members of a shadowy ultranationalist network - dubbed Ergenekon - which allegedly aimed to provoke a military coup.
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Several police vehicles and a police command unit have surrounded a plane at Detroit's Metro Airport, after the pilot of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight requested emergency help.
Metro Airport spokesman John Witner said there was a report of suspicious activity on the Delta/Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam Sunday. That is the same flight number as the flight that a Nigerian man was suspected of attempting to blow up over Detroit on Christmas Day.
All 257 passengers and 12 crew have deplaned safely, said Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott. The flight landed safely in Detroit at 12:34 p.m. Sunday.
The flight crew requested that law enforcement meet the aircraft after a passenger on the plane became verbally disruptive, said Elliott.
The Associated Press reported that the incident lead to the arrest of a Nigerian man, who is now in custody. 2:00 CST update:
Two sources tell Fox News that the suspect boarded a plan in Lagos with no baggage, and said the FBI has already sent an email alert to other federal agencies notifying them of the incident. 2:21 CST update:
White House spokesman Bill Burton said President Obama was notified of the disturbance Sunday as federal officials began reviewing airline security measures.
"The President was notified shortly after 9:00 a.m. Hawaiian time of the incident regarding an unruly passenger on the flight arriving in Detroit by NSS chief of staff Denis McDonough," Burton said. "The President stressed the importance of maintaining heightened security measures for all air travel and gave instructions to set up another secure teleconference briefing as soon as possible." 2:52 CST update:
The official says the passenger was taken into custody after becoming verbally disruptive on landing. Subsequent interviews by investigators determined he was a businessman who became ill during the flight.
A source confirmed this report to Fox News, saying the passenger was indeed sick and that the incident appears to be "a non-event at this point."
A federal law enforcement official said the man, who was from Nigeria, was interviewed by authorities and the aircraft was swept. But the official said the incident was all an incredible coincidence.
A federal law enforcement official told Fox News that it "looks like a non-serious incident at this point. Early indications are that this person is not a threat."
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20-30 something male, boarded in Nigeria, locked himself in the head for an hour. Crew and passengers kicked the door in and he got a little testy at that point.
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The System Is Working. Pretty soon we'll have all the shaky jihadi Nigerian guys in jail here, at least, the unsuccessful ones. When will Janet resign?
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Was the President notified of this incident? Did he get the email?It might have made a difference, ya know.
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If this was "Plan B", obviously we are dealing with some inferior minds, to quote Daffy Duck.
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"The President was notified shortly after 9:00 a.m. Hawaiian...... "The President stressed the importance of maintaining heightened security measures...
....then returned to reading 'Dreams from My Father,' his Lucky Strikes and Aloha cake with Macadamia nut sauce take-away from Sam Choys.
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I'm a bit surprised the Admin hasn't tried to blame these on Bush yet. I guess they are waiting for the right meme.
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Gimme a break--two incidents on the same flight from Amsterdam to Detroit over two days involving two Nigerians? Just pushing the envelope again to see what the new procedures are, and sow a little panic in the process.
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If nothing else, I bet Al Qaeda is testing the effectiveness of explosive diarrhea on these flights...
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But...but...he gave that speech in Cairo.
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KAILUA, Hawaii, Dec 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. government created a record on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in November 2009 in the intelligence community's central repository of information on known and suspected international terrorists, but there was not enough negative information to put him on a no-fly list, a U.S. administration official said on Saturday.
There are 550,000 individuals contained in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment repository, where a record of Abdulmutallab was created.
There was not enough negative information to include his name in a subset of that group, the Terrorist Screening Data Base (TSDB) that has more than 400,000 individuals and is the main identities database within the U.S. government for international terrorism, the official said.
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Bureaucratic bungling or the fog of war?
Cause and effect need not be mutually exclusive and frequently aren't.
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Strange, very strange. There WAS enough derog to put him on the "known and suspected interntional terrorist list" but there WAS NOT enough derog to keep him from flying on US air carriers? One must assume then, that "known or suspected terrorists" are still welcome to travel on US air carriers.
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Those who put the original firewalls in place were never held accountable or publicly rebuked. Instead they were provided cover by their sponsors in Congress. So, why shouldn't they be back in place if just only in practice rather than on paper. Fort Hood and this are just the warning signs that something big is going to happen. The usual suspects will gamble that hopey changey thingy will make it go away. Hope is not a plan.
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An anti-terrorism strategy that relies on accurately maintaining multiple databases will always be full of holes.
Long past time we moved to the Israeli solution: hire hundreds, maybe thousands, of well-trained psychology (or social work or drama) grads as full-time psychological screeners. Have them ask EVERYONE preparing to go through security on any US-bound flight, from any port, a few simple questions, a la:
Where are you flying today? What's the purpose of your trip? Why are you not taking any bags for a one-way trip, Mr Atta? You say you're an architect, sir-- so tell me, in what city is Brunelleschi's dome?
A good interrogator can instantly spot nervousness, a liar whose story is inconsistent, evidence of coordinated group activity. The Israelis have done this successfully with not a single sky terror incident in almost four decades.
Cost? Maybe 20,000 FTE screeners, max, at an annual fully-loaded cost of maybe $100k each = $2B per year. How many billions are pissed away by DHS every year on Beltway Bandits' software and systems integration? This would be a bargain.
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It's a good point, lex. You could always sell it to the Dhimmicrats as part of a 'stimulus' package.
And it would provide jobs for graduates with degrees in gender studies.
Only problem is that the SEIU would be all over those jobs like flies on ...
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UK had enough data to deny a VISA even though his daddy is a millionaire diplo attache. Yet US won't even assign double-secret probation.
Did the UK intelligence agencies share that data with their American counterparts? Separately, I really would like to know what religious ceremony young Mr. Abdulmutallab was headed for in Detroit, and who was running it. How he knew about it and obtained an invitation would be nice, too.
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likely the Catholic Holy day of Obligation: Mary, Mother of God?
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You are probably right about nothing being done.
After all the Visa Express program (no checks, no interviews necessary for Muslims...) continued even after 9/11. Most of the terrorists came over via Visa Express. Only very public exposure and outcry caused the State Department to reluctantly cancel the program.
They even gave the idiot who came up with the program a Big Bonus and Promotion for it.
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This is still 9-10 in mentality. Even under W's administration, there was no shakeup of the system after 9-11, though people tried. A human wall of people was created in the form of DHS.
Under the new Administration, we are on the defensive now as a matter of policy, so our enemies will keep probing, and if they get any brains, will create mini 9-11s. And rather than take the fight to the enemy, our govt will go after the law abiding citizens.
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And lex has it right. The Israeli model is definitely worth considering. It HAS worked for them. They target the potential terrorist, not the person carrying the nail clippers.
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The inside story of the privileged student who embraced al-Qa'ida and tried to blow a transatlantic jet out of the sky - and the lessons for us all
He was a quiet man ...
With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britain's leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet -- able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world.
Instead, the son of one of Nigeria's most important figures opted to make his impact in a very different way -- by detonating 80g of explosives sewn into his underpants, and trying to destroy a passenger jet as it came in to land at Detroit Airport on Christmas Day.
As he was charged by US authorities last night with attempting to blow up an airliner, a surprising picture emerged of the would-be bomber. Abdulmutallab, 23, had lived a gilded life, and, for the three years he studied in London, he stayed in a £2m flat. He was from a very different background to many of the other al-Qa'ida recruits who opt for martyrdom.
The charges were read out to him by US District Judge Paul Borman in a conference room at the medical centre where he is receiving treatment for burns. Agents brought Abdulmutallab, who had a blanket over his lap and was wearing a green hospital robe, into the room in a wheelchair.
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Clearly a desperate young man, driven to extremism by a mixture of anguish, hopelessness, poverty and anger at President Bush.
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interestingly,the election of Barack Obama is a factor in that, because, whatever you think of him as a president, the fact of him shows young people that there is an alternative to killing yourself
Sure. You can kill infidels. Especially those who worship false idols like The One.
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"He was shaking. He didn't resist anything. It's just hard to believe that he was trying to blow up this plane. He was in a trance. He was very afraid."
Wrong conclusion. It was OBVIOUS that he was contemplating a horrific act involving his own death.
This is why the Israelis use trained psychological screeners to interview everyone about to board an Israel-bound plane. It's very easy to suss out a terrorist with just a few simple questions - whereareyougoingtoday, whatareyoudoingthere, whydoyouhaveasyringestickingoutofyourlowerpantslegsir?
It works, has done so for decades. The cost would be a billion or two. A bargain.
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Israeli style screening would, in addition to costing lots of $$$, also result in increasing wait times.
The solution is a combo of technology, behavioral screening and profiling. Unfortunately, the latter two go against PC.
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"Abdulmutallab's background has confounded terror experts. Dr Magnus Ranstorp of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College..."
The headline should have been:
"Experts Confounded" (In the USA it would have been "Experts Surprised")
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Getting really tired of the media and Govt citing that he was "self-radicalized" as if it happens in a vacuum...the common denominators never mentioned are:
1) Wahhabi Mosque
2) Wahhabi Imam
3) Wahhabi Propaganda
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Maulana Shah Dauran, deputy leader of the Swat chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), died after a protracted illness and has been buried in the Damadola area in Bajaur Agency.
Official and tribal sources were sure that one of the most wanted Swat militants and the closest aide of Swat Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah was dead.
Military authorities and government ministers had in the past made claims that Shah Dauran had died in the Army action. But
The sources said Shah Dauran, who was reportedly hiding somewhere in Bajaur, was suffering from kidney disease and injuries suffered by him during the fighting in Swat had become gangrenous.
all those claims lacked evidence.
The sources said Shah Dauran, who was reportedly hiding somewhere in Bajaur, was suffering from kidney disease and injuries suffered by him during the fighting in Swat had become gangrenous. The sources also said he was probably suffering from cancer for sometime. His condition deteriorated due to lack of proper medication in the remote tribal region.
According to the sources, Shah Dauran died somewhere in the Mohmand Agency on December 17. He was reportedly being shifted by the militants to the Khyber Agency through unfrequented routes for better medical treatment but he expired on the way and his body was taken to the Taliban-infested Mamond area in Bajaur. His funeral prayers and burial took place in Damadola on December 18.
It was learnt that Taliban commanders and militants from Swat and Bajaur attended the funeral.
Sources in the intelligence agencies said they were sure that Shah Dauran was dead as it was confirmed by those who were personally aware of the funeral and his burial in Bajaur.
Shah Dauran hailed from Qambar village in Swat where he ran a Madrassa. He joined the Taliban group in 2007 and soon became an important member of its Shura. He was a hardliner and was known for his hawkish views.
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"we had to bury 'im. He smelled horrible. We're pretty sure he was dead. A bit"
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#1: "we had to bury 'im. He smelled horrible. We're pretty sure he was dead. A bit"
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Part of him was dead, Frank, or there would have been no gangrene. After they buried him, I'd suspect he's ALL dead.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Sargodha had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities, authorities said on Saturday.
The young Muslims were picked up earlier this month in a case that has spurred fears that Westerners are traveling to Pakistan to join the militant groups.
Police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory allegations about the men's intentions, while the US officials have been far more cautious, though they, too, are looking at charging the men.
A Pakistani government official said on Saturday that the men had established contact with the Taliban commanders and planned to attack sites in Pakistan. Earlier, however, the local police accused the men of intending to fight in Afghanistan after meeting militant leaders.
The men had a map of the Chashma Barrage, a complex that, along with nuclear power facilities, houses a water reservoir and other structures, said Javed Islam, a senior police official in Sargodha.
He stressed that the men were not carrying a specific map of any nuclear power plant, but rather the whole of the Chashma Barrage. The detained men also had exchanged e-mails about the area, Islam said. "We are also working to retrieve some of the deleted material in their computers," he said. Police plan to recommend that courts charge the five men with collecting and attempting to collect material to carry out terrorist activities in Pakistan, police official Nazir Ahmad told The Associated Press. The punishments for those charges range from seven years to life in prison, he said.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the men had established contact with the Taliban commanders.
He said they had planned to meet Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and his deputy Qari Hussain before attacking sites inside Pakistan. The nuclear power plant might have been one of the targets, Sanaullah said.
Police have also alleged that the men met representatives from the al-Qaeda-linked Jaish-e-Mohammed group in Hyderabad and from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Lahore, but the groups turned the men away because they did not trust them.
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VARIOUS MUIL FORUMS > Artics allege that so-called "US JIHADIST" DAVID HEADLEY [aka DAEWOOD GILANI, etal.] took photos of INDIAN NUCFACS including Facilis capable or involved in PLUTONIUM PROCESSING, as part of terror conspiracy-plot to strike at India's nuc assets???
KHAR: Terrorists assassinated an anti-Taliban tribal elder and dumped his beheaded body by the roadside in Bajaur Agency, officials said on Saturday. According to a local official, Gul Muhammad, 42, an elder of the Salarzai tribe, had been actively participating in raising a village militia to battle the Taliban in the region.
The body of Gul Muhammad was found this morning in Mamund village, Faramosh Khan, the official, said. A note found on the beheaded body said that anyone who would join the militia against the Taliban would be killed in the same manner, he said.
A local security official confirmed the incident, saying that Taliban militants wanted to scare the local population away from supporting army operations.
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BARA: At least five people were killed and two others injured in a clash between two banned militants groups Ansarul Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam in the Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency, officials said on Saturday.
Political administration officials told Daily Times that armed supporters of the two groups were using heavy weaponry to target rival hideouts in the valley.
Destroyed: The officials said security forces fired at hideouts of Lashkar-e-Islam, destroying two of them. Hundreds of people have been killed in bloody clashes between the two groups in the past five years. Scores of people have reportedly relocated to other parts of the tribal agency and Peshawar in a bid to escape the increasing violence.
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KARACHI: A roadside bomb wounded at least 26 people soon after a procession of mourners passed the Khalifat Chowk in Paposh Nagar police precincts in Karachis North Nazimabad Town on Saturday.
Karachi Capital City Police Officer Waseem Ahmed told Daily Times that it seemed that a remote controlled device was used to detonate the bomb, that weighed around half a kilogramme.
Twenty-six people, including two rangers personnel and two policemen were wounded and taken to hospital. Six of them have been discharged while others may be released soon, the police chief said.
Ahmed added the bomb was placed close to a car parked on the road, adding that from now on, all procession routes would be checked by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) beforehand.
What a good idea ...
We cannot say who is behind the attack, he said, denying reports regarding the arrest of two suspects from the spot.
BDS Assistant Sub-Inspector Abdul Rauf confirmed that around half a kilogramme of explosives was used along with ball bearings, nuts and bolts, which also caused cracks in the ground around the blast site.
Sindh Police CID SSP Fayyaz Khan told Daily Times that it was likely that the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) outfit and other anti-Shia elements might have carried out the attack. He said the CID had informed the authorities about possible terrorist activities, including suicide bombings, roadside bombings and target killings by the LJ in Orangi Town, Nazimabad, Paposh Nagar, Golimar, Gulbahar and others areas of the city.
However, a senior investigation officer told Daily Times that the area where the explosion occurred was dominated by the LJ.
LJ chief Ataur Rehman alias Naeem Bukhari who is now imprisoned in Sukkur jail after being arrested by the intelligence agencies in 2002 also used to live in the area where this explosion took place, the officer explained.
He said a group led by Qari Abid Mehsud, chief commander of the LJ, and also affiliated with Taliban, could be behind the bombing. Qari Abid has been involved in various terrorist activities in the city, including the Nishtar Park suicide bombing, suicide bombing on Shia scholar Allama Hassan Turabi, abductions and the killing of noted transporter Shaukat Afridi, he said.
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26 December 2009 MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - At least five people were killed Saturday when missiles from an unmanned US aircraft hit a suspected militant compound in Pakistans northwest tribal belt, security officials said.
The missiles struck a house in Saidgi village of North Waziristan tribal district, which borders Afghanistan, officials said. Two missiles hit a house, five militants were killed, an intelligence official told AFP.
Another security official confirmed the drone attack and the toll, adding that the house belonged to a local tribesman named Asmatullah, who, he said, had links with Taliban militants.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims descended on the holy shrine city of Karbala on Saturday for the climax of Ashura commemorations, despite fears of violent attacks by Sunni extremists.
Security forces have beefed up their presence in the central city and authorities are also checking on the 60,000-odd foreign worshippers also expected to attend the ceremonies to ensure they do not have swine flu.
Black flags, representing the sadness of Shiites during Ashura, were to be seen all over the city, 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of Baghdad, along with pictures of Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas, who are both buried there.
"I came to show my belief in Imam Hussein -- this event has nothing to do with personal motivations or politics," said 40-year-old Mohammed Abdul Hussein, who came from neighboring Babil province.
Karbala police chief General Ali Jassim Mohammed said that around 25,000 policemen and soldiers had been deployed to secure the commemoration ceremonies, which climax on Saturday and Sunday, and mark the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, in 680 AD.
Security perimeters have also been formed throughout the city, while helicopters are providing extra surveillance and bomb-sniffing dogs are being used at checkpoints.
To counter women suicide attackers who have struck Karbala before, security forces have deployed 600 female personnel on three roads into the city.
During Ashura in March 2004, near-simultaneous bombings at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad and in Karbala killed more than 170 people.
Authorities are also concerned about the spread of swine flu from foreign worshippers, the majority of whom are arriving from Iran, Pakistan and Arab Gulf countries.
"We expect more than 60,000 foreign pilgrims to come, and we have ordered them to visit health centers to be sure they do not have any diseases," said provincial governor Amal Adin al-Her.
He estimates that around one million pilgrims will visit Karbala on Saturday and Sunday.
Ashura, which means tenth in Arabic, falls on the 10th day of the Muslim month of Muharram.
Tradition holds that Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, was decapitated and his body mutilated by the armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid.
To express remorse and guilt for not saving Hussein, some Shiite volunteers flay themselves with chains or slice their scalps during processions to the Karbala shrines.
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It won't be long before more Shiite pilgrims are going to Iraq than to Iran. Iran will lose its grip as the center of Shiite theology.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces on Saturday arrested an al-Qaeda-in-Iraq (AQI) leader in Mosul City, a local source said.
On Saturday, a force from the 3rd Brigade, Quick Intervention Corps (QIC) arrested a leader of al-Qaeda-West Coast, Jassem Mohammed al-Jabouri, in al-Saddeeq neighborhood, northern Mosul, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Jabouri is wanted for his involvement in several crimes and bombings in Mosul and Kirkuk , the source pointed out.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
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a leader of al-Qaeda-West Coast
West Coast?
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San Diego branch. Makers of incendiary coffee-cup bombs.
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Three Katyusha rockets have been fired at the Delta base in Kut City, but no casualties have been reported thus far, a local security source said on Saturday.
On Saturday evening, unknown gunmen fired three Katyusha rockets at the MNF-run military Delta base (7 km west of Kut), the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Police patrol vehicles have headed to al-Tashash area, the site where the rockets were launched from, in search of the attackers.
No official comment has been made by the Multi-National Force (MNF) on whether the incident has caused damage.
Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
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26 December 2009 BAGHDAD - An Iraqi police official says a roadside bomb has killed three Shiite pilgrims in eastern Baghdad in the latest round of violence to strike worshippers during a revered Shiite observance.
The official says Saturdays bomb was planted near a tent that offered drinks and food to pilgrims. He says 16 people were injured. A medical official confirmed the casualty figures.
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[Ma'an] The splinter faction that claimed responsibility for shooting an Israeli settler on Thursday vowed on Saturday to retaliate for Israel's assassination of three Palestinians in Nablus the same morning.
"The Imad Mughniya Group," a militant organization proclaiming affiliation to Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, told Ma'an late Saturday evening that "retribution for the Israeli massacres in Gaza and Nablus will be equal in size to the crime."
"We shall have Dire Revenge!!"
"This massacre exposes the true face of the occupation," the group said in a new statement. "There is no option but resistance."
Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus in the early hours of Saturday morning, raiding several homes and killing three men affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
On Thursday, the Mughniya faction said its members killed an Israeli settler near Nablus. In an emailed message, the organization also warned of "a series of attacks to come."
The self-proclaimed militant group is named after the late military chief of the Lebanese movement Hizbullah, who was killed in a car bombing in Syria in 2008 for which Israel was widely blamed.
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[Ma'an] The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, the Jihad Jibreel Brigades, said a group of fighters launched an RPG at Israel near Beit Lahiya on Saturday morning.
A statement from the group said the attack occurred at 1am, with fighters clashing with Israeli troops attempting to enter the Strip through its northern border.
They said no fighters were injured in the clash.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said officials in the army were not aware of the incident.
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Apparently it's not in jeopardy when Paleos rocket the Israelis, but then, this is the Guardian and you already knew that.
Israeli troops yesterday shot dead six Palestinians in two separate incidents, as evidence emerged that an increasingly fragile ceasefire between armed groups loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and Israel appeared to be in danger of breaking down.
The shootings, the most serious violence in months, came a day before today's first anniversary of the outbreak of Israel's war against Gaza in which almost 1,400 Palestinians died and as allegations have emerged from Israeli human rights campaigners who opposed the war that they are facing concerted attempts to silence them.
Three of the Palestinians were killed in an airstrike just inside the Gaza border. According to Israeli officials they had been scouting the area for a possible infiltration operation, but according to Hamas officials and medics they had been searching for scrap metal to salvage.
More serious in its implications, however, was the shooting dead of three members of Fatah's armed wing the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in a raid on the northern West Bank city of Nablus, apparently in retaliation for the shooting of an Israeli driving near the settlement at Shavei Shomron. Relatives who witnessed the Nablus shootings said soldiers fired at two of the men without warning. An Israeli army spokesman, Major Peter Lerner, said troops fired after the three men failed to respond to calls to surrender.
It also follows the discovery of an improvised explosive device on a busy road leading to the huge Israeli settlement at Modi'in with a letter from an al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades unit claiming responsibility. The two incidents have followed recent warnings from both Israelis and Palestinians that frustration among a younger generation of al-Aqsa members which signed an amnesty deal with Israel in 2007 over the lack of progress in the almost moribund peace process was in danger of boiling over.
An aide to Abbas described the killings as a "grave Israeli escalation" which showed "Israel is not interested in peace and is trying to explode the situation".
The article goes on to wring its collective hands about the treatment of human rights groups in Israel that bravely expose all the evilness of the Israeli government. Apparently most of the public ignore them, and the government harasses them by requiring them to state publicly their sources of funding. Oh the perfidy!
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There are only a few people authorised by custom to contract to dig Graves in several mountain Counties here in the North Georgia mountains. Maybe one could vacation in Israel and find work in Gaza. I hear the climate is sunny and the area is historic and full of tourist attractions he could visit. Most are older men who have been digging Graves for years. You bring your own tools, pack a Lunch. The Funeral Homes and the local Churches with the Graveyards for the community employ a local man who does the work. You get about $475 per grave. The work is year round and regular. Cash money and low overhead.
Everybody in the Community knows who the grave diggers are. A few shovels or a specialized back hoe. A pickup truck and some canvas drapes and a pocket tape measure...you dont need much. It takes an honest hard working experienced man to dig a proper grave.
Not a whole lot of Jews or A-rabs up here really (absolutely no Synagogues or Mosques a-tall for some reason...not even one ), but digging Graves in Gaza cant be all that different from digging Graves anywhere, surely.
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Angleton9, please bury me on a steep grade between the Toccoa and the tracks of the Blue RR. Near some gentle rapids please. Mrs. Besoeker will send you the check.
Three Muslim villagers and two militants have died in the latest violence in Thailand's insurgency-plagued southern provinces, police said on Sunday.
Suspected militants shot and killed a 39-year-old Muslim as he was standing in front of his house in Pattani province late Saturday, they said. After midnight, a group of insurgents also shot and killed two Muslim men, aged 25 and 20, while they were riding home by motorcycle in Yala province. A third man was wounded in the attack.
Early Sunday, army and police forces raided a house containing suspected rebels in Yala, and a 32-year-old militant was killed in an exchange of fire that lasted more than ten minutes, the police said. In a second raid on a house in Yala, combined forces killed another fighter.
This announcement was received via telephone from a high ranking Army officer of NIRU from Iran
Start of announcement
Saturday December 26th, 2009
In the name of God the Merciful & Forgiving
Praise be to God and peace on the His Messenger (PBUH) and his family I take refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan
The coordination center for National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces (NIRU) hereby declares its existence & accuses the current government and the leader of the Islamic Revolution, Mr. Sayyed Ali Khamenei of legal transgressions and high treason of nation and homeland.
We, a number of Officers, Soldiers and personnel of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, hereby declare our readiness for rise to the armed defense of our nation against the forces of the criminal, illegitimate, transgressing and occupying current Government of Iran, and hereby inform our brothers and sisters serving with the armed security forces of Iran, invite them to join us, request their support and ask them to provide cover for us in this moral & national act. A special request for support & cooperation goes to our brothers of the Military Police.
Our action has no political or revolting aspects. Wed rather see our actions as the carrying out of the moral & national duties of all soldiers & Iranians. Our intention is the defense of the oppressed against oppressors, and avoidance of further crimes committed by the illegitimate Government, as well as the return of freedom, peace, order & justice to our land.
Now, after 6 months of crisis, oppression, crimes, repeated violent transgressions of our nations rights, as well as the trampling of Constitutional & moral laws, the Leader and other main agents of the Government have stripped themselves of their qualification and legitimacy by committing these acts or failing to carry out their legal & moral duties and therefore are considered an occupying and forced regime. In accordance with the regulations of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we are commissioned to protect the lives, properties and honor of our nation, and defend our sacred soil, as well as combat all occupying forces within the borders of the land. Any failure in carrying out this duty is considered a betrayal of nation and oath. According to the constitution, the defense of the rights of the nation of Iran, and avoidance of the collapse of the country takes precedence over protection of the ruling regime. Such (defensive) action is promotion of the good & rejection of wrong which one is of the two main principles of our constitution, the other being democracy.
In accordance with the decision of this command, and in carrying out our national & moral duties, we hereby announce the initiation of Operation Azadi (Freedom).
Name of Operation: Azadi (Freedom)
Start of Operation: December 27th, at noon
End of operation: Upon declaration of acceptance by trusted & esteemed high ranking regime officials & unconditional surrender of the occupying Government & leadership.
Operational Stages:
1. Immediate creation of command and coordination centers at tactical level for seizing your places of service (bases,etc ) with complete observance of rank & military regulations.
2. Disarming & arrest of Government supporting agents within your units & transfer to military detention facilities under strict observance of their rights.
3. Announcement of seizing of your station & recitation of the principles and aims of the operation through military & public communication facilities as well as other news media.
4. Establishment of communication with allied units & coordination of operations
5. Start of combat mission at regional level, and expanding. In order to better identify ourselves to allies and protesting people, green symbols and the Hosseinian (green) banner should be flown next to our national tricolor banner.
Rules of Engagement:
1. Use of firearms is only permitted in defense of lives, property & honor of our people and allied forces.
2. In case they face Government forces, NIRU officers are obliged to establish communication & negotiate with the commanders of the opposite force in order to avoid violence.
3. Disarming & temporary arrests of opposing forces is permitted.
4. In case of request for cease-fire, and announced willingness to surrender by opposing forces, NIRU commanders are to carefully consider the proposition and, whenever possible, agree with such, and proceed as in rule 3 of engagement.
5. Refrain from heavy fire exchanges in residential areas and in the presence of civilians.
6. Avoid destruction (damage) of public or private properties
7. The responsibility to uphold the rights, and the lives of prisoners lays with the commander of the arresting unit & thereafter with the command of the prison.
8. Avoid any violent confrontation with unarmed civilians.
9. The responsibility to uphold public peace and order in (re)conquered areas lays with NIRU in accordance with the Artesh regulations for (re)conquering occupied areas within the borders of Iran, and in cooperation with local police & security forces.
10. Martial Courts cant be held during the length of the operation.
Operational goals in combat theatre:
1. Defense of lives, properties, honor and rights of citizens within the borders of the land.
2. Downfall of the illegitimate & occupying rule of Mr. Sayyed Ali Khamenei, and the transgressing current Government.
3. Seizing & defense of the Parliament.
4. Seizing and defense of Government (Central & Provincial) buildings, Basij and other military bases & facilities nationwide.
5. Seizing & defense of Radio & TV stations across the nation.
6. Seizing & defense of prisons, supervising proper & legal treatment, freeing of political prisoners after appropriate due diligence & in coordination with responsible officials.
Cease-fire & end of operation conditions:
1. Establishment of a temporary Government in coordination and cooperation with members of parliament, members of the steering committee of the Expediency Council, Steering Committee of the Assembly of Experts for leadership, and other political & social elites & activists.
2. Carrying out a referendum within 3 months of formation of temporary Government, to determine whether people would want a new regime based on democracy & separation of 3 powers principles, observation of human rights, respect for all faiths & religions, legal equality of genders and religions.
3. Formation of an independent, impartial and just council to reform the constitution and other laws of the land, in order to avoid any future repetition of such deviations and oppression, this council should be in cooperation with all political parties & movements, as well as social, scientific and cultural groups.
4. Holding of free parliamentary, and presidential elections within 9 months of the referendum.
5. Dissolution of Basij forces, fusion of IRGC security forces, and police to a national police force.
6. Fusion of IRGC Combat Forces with the Artesh to form an apolitical, and national Army without interfering in economic, social or cultural affairs of the country.
End of announcement
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Seyed Mousavi, the nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, former presidential candidate and one of the moral leader of the opposition was killed today in Tehran an opposition website said.
Seyed Mousavi was shot in the heart at Enqelab square, in the very centre of the Iranian capital. The BBC confirms his death and adds Mir Hossein Mousavi is at the hospital where his nephew was taken.
Opposition said at least 4 people were killed today in Iran in clashes between protesters and security forces.
The death of Seyed Mousavi, especially during the Ashura days is likely to ignite new demonstrations and violence across the country.
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the IRGC vs teh Army could be interesting. Legitimacy lost, it's just naked power and crushing boot now
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Who gives a flying fukc, let them fight it out on the streets of Tehran, at least it is contained in Iran, at the moment.
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Legitimacy lost, it's just naked power and crushing boot now. Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-27 14:11
Kinda like Washington, DC, under the donks, eh Frank?
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except we are armed
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I like the Iranian people. I visited before the Shah fell; everyone seemed happy, content, generally everyone smiled everywhere. A decent standard of living prevailed. I know Iranians who had to flee after the Shah fell, some military, some civilian. The mullahs who took over, and their sycophants, seem alien, or like a cancer to the Iranian body.
I want to see Iranians free, but it is best if they free themselves. I hope they do. Guns would help. If they succeed, I hope they institute their own 2nd Amendment. So pray for them.
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I struggled in how to respond, but Whiskey Mike did it better and I'll only add that the Iranians I've met are educated, non jihadi-oriented, and a people we have common goals with. The Shah did good things in his time, encouraging a western education system. Not ethat Ahmadinejad is a leisure-suit-wearing doofus. He couldn't earn a living past cab-driver in the west
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A reformist website said Iranian riot police fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters who used a Shiite religious mourning ceremony on Saturday to try to revive anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic.
"Police are firing tear gas to disperse a huge crowd in Imam Hossein square ... but people are resisting and chanting slogans against the government," the Jaras website reported.
The same website earlier on Saturday said security forces "fiercely" confronted opposition backers in different parts of the capital.
"Police sought to disperse about 200 to 300 people who wanted to gather in Enghelab square. They beat up some and detained several people," an AFP correspondent said, adding that demonstrators were shouting "death to the dictator."
Small groups of people also gathered around the nearby Tehran university -- a hotbed of anti-government protests -- with some shouting slogans and at least two people were seen arrested.
"Riot police are fiercely confronting the opposition supporters in different parts of Tehran ... they (the police) are also breaking windows of cars passing the area," Jaras said.
Iran police chief Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam issued a fresh warning Saturday against attempts to use Shiite processions marking the Ashura rituals as a means to stage fresh protests against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Police will severely crack down on rioters. We will identify and arrest riot leaders," he was quoted as saying by the official ISNA news agency.
Six months after a disputed election plunged Iran into political turmoil, tension has again mounted in the major oil producer after death a week ago of leading dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri at the age of 87.
Montazeri's death occurred in the tense run-up to Ashura on Dec. 27, an important Shiite religious commemoration that offers the opposition another opportunity to show its strength. That day coincides with the seventh day of mourning for Montazeri, when more memorial services are usually held.
On Ashura, Shiite Muslims commemorate the 7th century death of Imam Hossein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.
Religious ceremonies are also traditionally held across Iran on the day before Ashura, called Tasoua.
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"Arasradio, a self-identified Iranian protester in Tehran, has left a couple comments on the TNOYF You-Tube page concerning the situation in Iran:
We are going to bring Ahmadinejad down and once again our nations can unite in their battle against fundamentalists. We are about to free Iran. Pray for us..."
[Ma'an] A Hamas member was hurt in an explosion south of Beirut late Saturday night, security sources told Reuters. Other reports were conflicting. The Qatari satellite network Al-Jazeera said one person was killed, while the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyya reported that two people were hurt. It was not clear what caused the blast, which reportedly occurred in a Hizbullah stronghold.
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27 December 2009: Three bombs planted under a car exploded south of Beirut, killing one person and wounding several others in an attack that apparently targeted an official from the Hamas.
The official National News Agency said the explosion was caused by three bombs tied to each other that were placed under the car of an official believed to be from Hamas.
It did not identify the targeted official or the victims. One of the wounded was in serious condition, the report said.
Lebanese security officials told The Associated Press they could not independently confirm what caused the blasts or who the explosions targeted.
Gas leak ...
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which controls the area, sealed off the streets in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik and prevented journalists from getting close to the scene.
One senior police official said the blast occurred in a neighborhood that houses an office belonging to Hamas.
Hezbollahs Al-Manar TV only briefly mentioned the blast Saturday, quoting Lebanese security officials as saying an explosion in Haret Hreik targeted an office belonging to Hamas, causing a number of casualties. The broadcast offered did not elaborate, and a Hezbollah official contacted by The Associated Press said he had no information.
Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, was not available for comment Saturday and had no information, according to a person who answered his mobile phone. Other Hamas officials in Beirut and neighboring Syria, which shelters the exiled leadership of Hamas, did not answer repeated calls.
Explosions in the area, which is almost completely controlled by the Shia Hezbollah, are rare. Hezbollah has its own arsenal with tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, which it says it needs to fight off any threat from Israel.
So maybe it was a rocket warhead. Could happen ...
The area was bombed out by Israel during the monthlong 2006 war with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah leader Shaik Hassan Nasrallah is expected to address tens of thousands of supporters commemorating the Ashoura holiday by video link on Sunday.
Since His Enormity can't be seen in public ...
The explosion Saturday night occurred about 700 meters (2,300 feet) from a complex where hundreds of Shia Hezbollah supporters were holding a ceremony commemorating Ashoura and listening to a live televised speech by Nasrallah.
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hamas confirms that 2 of it spear catchers are dead and Lebanese sources say 3 Hezbollah grunts are dead also
based on the exactitude of the description of the explosive system and the other reports, it seems to me it was a Hezbollah operation that ended with a work accident
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Might be that someone deep inside Hezbollah is on Angleton9's payroll. Heh ...
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IRAN was braced for more violent clashes today as opposition demonstrators planned further mass rallies, which are expected to lead to fresh confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Tension was running high at rallies yesterday in which soldiers of the elite Revolutionary Guard and the paramilitary Basiji used tear gas and pepper spray and fired warning shots into the air to disperse demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans in three areas of central Tehran. They also smashed the windows of cars that were hooting in protest.
The reports by opposition websites could not be independently verified because foreign journalists are banned from covering opposition rallies. But one eyewitness said opposition supporters had gathered in groups along one of the capitals main streets, with the police out in force to keep them apart.
The opposition Jaras website claimed security forces had attacked a building housing Isna, an Iranian news agency, where it said some demonstrators had sought shelter during the clashes. An eyewitness said at least two people were injured when police chased after protesters into the building.
They fractured the skull of one Isna person and badly beat up another employee, the witness said. Isnas news service appeared to be working normally and it later issued a report on the incident, saying one of its reporters had been injured without specifying who was to blame.
Iran has been marking the first 10 days of the Islamic month of Muharram, a time of mourning for the 7th-century martyrdom of the grandson of the prophet Muhammad. The opposition has used this religious commemoration to revive anti-government protests which have flared sporadically since Junes disputed presidential elections.
Yesterday the opposition urged people to gather again today to mark Ashura, the tense climax of the commemoration which also coincides with the seventh day since the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Irans most senior dissident cleric. The death at 87 of this fierce critic of Irans hardline clerical establishment has given new impetus to the protests. Montazeri was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution and was named as successor to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader. He fell from grace after criticising the mass execution of prisoners in the late 1980s.
Significantly, the memorials last week for Montazeri attracted not only young urban activists, who filled the ranks of the earlier protests, but also older, more religious Iranians who revered Montazeri on grounds of faith as much as politics. He was the spiritual patron of the movement supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition candidate, in the June election.
Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Irans police chief, has threatened to take tough action against protesters.
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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.
At least 15, mostly civilians have been killed and over 30 others injured in heavy clashes that erupted between Somali militants and government forces backed by African Union troops in the restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia claimed victory in a conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels, saying the kingdom's army was successful in driving away the last infiltrators from its territory, press reports said on Saturday.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A US fighter jet has carried out multiple airstrikes on the home of a senior official in Yemen's northern rugged province of Sa'ada, Houthi fighters say. 
Police are searching a number of properties in central London as a man is charged with trying to blow up a US airliner flying to Detroit.
Eight Turkish soldiers have been detained over an alleged plot to assassinate Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, the army has said. It said the soldiers were taken to the army headquarters in Ankara after being interrogated by a prosecutor on Friday.
The inside story of the privileged student who embraced al-Qa'ida and tried to blow a transatlantic jet out of the sky - and the lessons for us all
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Maulana Shah Dauran, deputy leader of the Swat chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), died after a protracted illness and has been buried in the Damadola area in Bajaur Agency.
KHAR: Terrorists assassinated an anti-Taliban tribal elder and dumped his beheaded body by the roadside in Bajaur Agency, officials said on Saturday. According to a local official, Gul Muhammad, 42, an elder of the Salarzai tribe, had been actively participating in raising a village militia to battle the Taliban in the region. 
BARA: At least five people were killed and two others injured in a clash between two banned militants groups Ansarul Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam in the Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency, officials said on Saturday. 
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces on Saturday arrested an al-Qaeda-in-Iraq (AQI) leader in Mosul City, a local source said.
