Paticia Neal aka Helen Benson in "The Day the Earth Stood Still' (1951) aka Alma Brown in "HUD" (Academy Award for Best Actress) (Died 8/8/10 at age 84)
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Patricia Neal was in many very good movies. She battled back from strokes herself. The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center eventually her hospital, as she regarded the Knoxville rehabilitation center bearing her name, is inspirational to many. She visited the patients at the each time she was in town. She was so inspirational to the patients. She stopped to hear their stories, held their hands, applauded them on their accomplishments. And she knew a thing about the value of applause. Knoxville News Sentinel
The rehab center handles stroke victims, traumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries and brain injuries.
An Afghan prisoner shot and killed two U.S. Marines during an escape attempt Saturday in southern Afghanistan.
NATO said Monday that the Marines died while trying to subdue the prisoner who had escaped a room where he was observing prayers. The prisoner grabbed a rifle and fired at Afghan and coalition forces before he was shot and killed.
"The prisoner escaped a room where he was observing prayer time, acquired a rifle and subsequently engaged Afghan and coalition forces. The Marines were killed while trying to subdue the prisoner," NATO said in a statement.
NATO did not disclose the exact location of the prison and said the incident is being investigated.
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Sounds like prisoners need to be manacled when praying from now on. Any subsequent protesters should be familiarized with this incident, and they should be offered a chance to offer an alternative that is just as secure for the guards. Until then, they are manacled.
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Why was there a rifle available to him?
This muslim shit is .... shit.
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In investigation will probably show the Marines were violating the unloaded guns in a hot area ROE. (Thanks Obumble, Gates and all the toads in DC, may you all suck toe jam from a rabid camel)
May they Rest in Peace and whoever is/was in charge in that sh!thole carries their face in his / her memory to his grave....
[Tolo News] The Civil Order Police Chief, and five others were killed in Imam Sahib district of the north-eastern Kunduz province on Saturday night
Unidentified gunmen attacked the house of Haseen, the Civil Order Police Chief of Kunduz on Saturday night, and killed him along with four of his guests and a bodyguard while they were having dinner, Nazuk Meer, a member of the Provincial Council told TOLOnews.
Three others were reportedly wounded in the attack, who were then taken to the Kunduz central hospital.
The sub-governor of Imam Sahib, Muhammad Ayub Haqyar, has also confirmed the report.
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[Tolo News] At least 1 man was killed and ten others were wounded in a bomb blast in Kandahar city, the provincial capital of the south-western Kandahar province
The incident happened when a government vehicle carrying the province's prisons employees was hit by a bomb that detonated in a rickshaw, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, Zalmai Ayubi, told TOLOnews reporter.
One man was killed and 10 others were wounded in the incident, he added. The wounded ones were taken to Mirwais Public Hospital.
No group, including the Taliban has taken responsibility for the attack so far.
Kandahar prison has come under insurgency attacks many times before.
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[Tolo News] Nearly, four police including a woman were killed and one other was severely injured on Monday in a suicide attack in western Afghanistan, provincial officials say
The attack took place on airport road close to Gozara district of Herat province and police forces were the target.
Provincial security officials refused to comment on the civilian deaths in the incident.
In recent days, Afghanistan has gone through a surge in insurgents' activities and the Taliban usually target foreign and Afghan security forces by suicide bombings in which mostly civilians are the victims.
Despite a surge in the number of US forces in Afghanistan based on the strategy of President Barack Obama, early on the outset of the year, top US officials had also warned of a tough summer a head of the foreign forces.
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Police in Afghanistan have detained one of the drivers of a convoy of foreign medical workers who were killed in the north east of the country.
The bullet-riddled bodies of five American men and three women - an American, a German and a Briton - and two Afghan translators were found in a remote area of Badakhshan province.
The Taliban said they carried out the ambush, but police have said they believe robbery was the motive, the BBC reports. The victims had been stripped of all their valuables
The local police chief says the driver is a suspect and may have assisted the men who ambushed the convoy. He disappeared after the attack and was arrested in Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, after a police search.
The Canadian Forces has confirmed that a Chinook helicopter forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday was brought down by enemy small arms fire.
The helicopter immediately burst into flames upon landing 20 km southwest of Kandahar city.
Eight of the 21 people aboard the Canadian CH-147 Chinook suffered minor injuries.
Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, the commander of Task Force Kandahar, said small arms fire struck the aircraft, igniting a fire that forced the aircraft to land and then eventually destroyed it.
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Great flying! Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, and if you can re-use the airplane it's a great one.
Well Good beats Dead any day, and considering all the parts and pieces that go into the drive train ( drive shafts, rotor heads, swashplates and all that dirty greasy metal neat stuff) and flight controls/hydraulics of that bird the shooter was unlucky ( but lucky for us) to not hit anything that prevented the use of them.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Sudanese authorities have denied the U.N.'s humanitarian arm access to a Darfur refugee camp after an outbreak of violence, a U.N. spokesman said Friday.
Kalma camp is home to around 100,000 of the more than 2.5 million people displaced by fighting in the large region of western Sudan since 2003.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman Samuel Hendricks said at least five people have died and thousands have fled the camp since demonstrations protesting peace talks turned deadly a week ago.
He said 5,000 people from the camp gathered for protection at a nearby community policing station, and many hundreds remain displaced inside the facility.
Talks were under way to persuade authorities to allow the agencies to go in and distribute aid, he said.
"All we can do is keep talking to authorities," Hendricks told the Associated Press.
He said that other humanitarian agencies have tried to get into the Kalma camp but failed.
A week ago, the Security Council received a briefing on clashes and rising tensions in South Darfur's Kalma camp. According to the peacekeeping force, known as UNAMID, the violence stemmed from differences over peace talks in Doha, Qatar.
The talks in Doha are the first between Sudanese government officials and Darfur rebels in nearly two years, after comprehensive peace talks broke down in late 2007.
The council expressed concern at civilian casualties in Kalma "which have resulted from clashes within the camp between those who oppose the Doha peace talks and those who support them." It condemned targeted killings and urged all parties to join the peace process, resolve differences through dialogue, and refrain from violence.
"It is a serious situation," said Hendricks. "A major concerns is simply protection of those people and you're talking about families living in already in very vulnerable circumstances and it's in the middle of the rainy season."
Fighting in Darfur that began with a 2003 rebellion by groups who accused the government of neglecting the vast desert region has left up to 300,000 people dead and forced 2.7 million to flee their homes, according to U.N. figures.
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Security forces on Sunday attacked the base of a militia linked to an krazed killer group and killed 15 gunnies, a regional government minister said.
Double-plus good!
Yusuf Ahmed Kheir, security minister for the semiautonomous northeastern region of Puntland, said soldiers were countering the militia's attack on an army post near the region's commercial capital, Bossaso.
Militia front man Abdullahi Sheik denied they attacked first, saying the soldiers surprised them. Sheik said no militiamen were killed and only seven were injured. He said that there were civilian casualties but did not give any figures.
Sunday's clash is the second in two weeks between Puntland forces and the militia group, which is led by arms dealer Mohamed Atom. He has been singled out by the U.N. for supplying arms to the al-Shabab krazed killer group.
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Late at night on Friday 6 August the MV SYRIA STAR requested medical assistance for two crewmembers that were injured in the initial hijack. The MV SYRIA STAR was hijacked on Thursday 5 August in the eastern part of Gulf of Aden and is now free. Initial reports are that the pirates left the ship of their own accord utilising one on the rescue boats.
EU NAVFOR warship FGS SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN was in the vicinity of the MV SYRIA STAR and sent her helicopter with a medical team onboard in order to assist the vessel. On arriving on the SYRIA STAR they found a third member of the crew who had been injured in a work related incident. FGS SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN is standing by to conduct a medical evacuation if required.
EU NAVFOR Force Commander Rear Admiral Jan Thörnqvist said: It is always good to hear a hijacked ship is free and now EU NAVFOR will give the injured crew members the medical assistance they require.
[Maghrebia] The founder of Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), Hassan Hattab, was removed from the latest UN Security Council blacklist of terrorists, Liberte reported on Sunday (August 8th). Hattab, alias Abu Hamza, was placed on the list in 2001 as "head of a terrorist organisation". The list includes 26 Algerian terrorists.
Reform school worked?
This article starring:
Hassan Hattab
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[Ennahar] The streets of Algiers were invaded yesterday morning by a group of Muslim brothers, bearded fanatics, who were distributing leaflets to unveiled women and even those who wear a veil not complying with Islamic law.
Such pamphlets entitled "The veil of the Muslim woman", treats women not wearing veils who reveal parts of their bodies, as Middle Aged women.
These are young people aged between 25 and 40, wearing white, gray or brown Kamis, having well furnished beards. Scenes that reminded us of the era of Islamic salvation front (FIS), where the activists were harassing women in the street trying to force them to wear the Hijab.
A young woman in Algiers wondered: "Is the FIS Back? "
After a gap of more than two decades, the Salafists reappeared in the streets of the capital.
Leaflets distributed to women, of which Ennahar has a copy, bears the title "The veil of the Muslim woman" by Sheikh 'Deifallah al Maliki, containing verses from the Koran and Hadiths of the Prophet (PBUH) dealing with the subject.
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Sounds like time for the government to set up a flying squad, and dig some graves.
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Mexican Marines rescued 12 kidnap victims in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon early Saturday morning. The raid took place at 0200 hrs in the town of Guadalupe near the intersection of calles Plateros and Manuel Salanueva at a safe house.
According to local residents, the marines blocked off the area immediately surrounding the house. When Marines fell upon the house, armed suspects fired on the marines. One dead suspect was reported, but no marines were wounded.
In a terse statement, Armada de Mexico (SEMAR) reported no arrests.
Inside the home, Marines found 12 victims most of whom had been abducted within the last few days. The house itself was reported as a mess with covered windows and bloodstained matresses and chairs. Marines also found shrines to Santa Muerte.
Outside of the house were bloody gauze, clothing, blankets, tennis bags, junk food and soft drink containers
Many of the victims were reported abducted near Regio Motors August 5th in Monterrey near the intersection of Avenida Morones Prieto and Calle Guadalupe where 20 luxury sedans and SUV were reported stolen.
Reports do not state if the vehicles were recovered as well.
The ongong drug and gang influenced violence claimed 14 lives, violence which included three men shot to death in Parral, Chihuahua, and a suspected butchered Mexican Federal agent in Juarez.
A man was shot to death and two others wounded in an attack early Sunday morning in Juarez, Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. Jaime Gonzalez, 39, died at the scene while two others, Francisco and Hector Torres were, wounded in an AK-47 attack. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Copaiba and Jilotepec in the Ampliacion Aeropuerto district.
A man was found butchered and quartered in Juarez early Sunday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. The grim discovery was made by guards at the Plaza las Torres shopping mall near the intersection of Calle Palacio de Mitla and Avenida de las Torres. A message left with the remains said the victim was a Mexican Federal agent.
Three unidentified men were shot to death and a female accompanying them critically wounded in Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. The four were found aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck in the Colony Park district in Parral. Also a second person died in the armed assault at the Parral Howard Johnsons Saturday.
The remains of three unidentified individuals were found in Palomas, Chihuahua Sunday, according to Mexican press reports. Severed heads of the three were found in the town square, while the rest of their remains were found aboard a burned out minivan on Km. 12 of the Casas Grandes highway. Palomas is 120 kilometers west of Juarez Chihuahua, on the border with New Mexico.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in an ambush in Juarez Sunday, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place on Camino Electrolux in front of a commercial establishment while three people were riding in their Chevrolet pickup truck. A woman accompanying the two survived the attack, but was wounded.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Two militants have been killed as they engaged in an exchange of fire with police and military forces in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya.
The militants had been blocked on Sunday morning in an apartment of a nine-storey residential building in the Leninsky district of Chechnya's capital, Grozny. A gunfight broke out after militants refused to heed the demands to surrender, a Chechen Interior Ministry source told ITAR-TASS news agency.
The skirmish left one police officer killed and another wounded. There were no reports of civilian casualties.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A South Korean fishing vessel with seven crew members on board has been seized by North Korean in the Sea of Japan amid growing tensions between the two neighbors.
According to a statement released by South Korean Coast Guard on Sunday, the vessel was carrying four South Korean crewmen and three Chinese sailors near the North's exclusive economic zone off the east coast of the Korean peninsula.
All crew members have been taken into custody on suspicion of illegal fishing, North Korean media reported.
Meanwhile, Seoul called for the safe return of its vessel and a swift resolution to the problem under the international rules and regulations.
"We urge North Korean authorities to handle this case in accordance with international norms and practices and return the ship and the crew at the earliest possible date," the South Korean coastguard said in a statement.
The latest incident comes as Seoul has staged its naval drill in the Yellow Sea on the other side of the peninsula, unleashing a wave of string reactions from Pyongyang officials who vowed to mount a "physical counterattack" in response to the drill.
A war of words has further heightened in the Korean peninsula over the sinking of a South Korean war ship back in March.
Seoul has blamed a North Korean torpedo for the shipwreck, which left 46 sailors dead.
North Korea has categorically denied any involvement in the sinking of the vessel, saying the subsequent military drills are "political provocations" aimed at keeping the current status of the disputed sea border between the two countries.
Additional information from a South Korean source:
Vessel is the Daeseung 55, a 41-ton 'squidding' boat. Four South Korean and three Chinese crew aboard verified.
Maritime officials said South Korean authorities lost contact with Daeseung 55 Sunday morning. The ship communicated through satellite phone around 2:35 pm the same day, saying it was being taken away by a NorK patrol ship
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I gotta believe their real goal is war. And my brother went there Thursday to teach in a mission school adjacent to the Kunsan Air Force Base.
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Today the Daeseung, tomorrow the USS George Washington.
Turkish police have detained 15 people with suspected links to Al Qaeda. Police allege they were trying to recruit supporters to their cause.
The suspects, rounded up in the town of Gebze and Darica in western Kocaeli province, included three men accused of receiving weapons and bomb making training in camps in Afghanistan.
The detainees are also accused of setting up an association in Darica where they spread Al Qaeda propaganda.
Police and local prosecutors will question the suspects before releasing them or sending them to court on charges.
Turkish police regularly target suspected Al Qaeda supporters since two sets of twin suicide bombings hit the country's biggest city Istanbul five days apart in November 2003.
A Turkish cell of Al Qaeda was held responsible for the attacks, in which explosive-laden trucks first targeted two synagogues, the British consulate and a British bank, killing 63 people.
Seven men were jailed for life in 2007 for the bombings, among them a Syrian national who masterminded and financed the attacks.
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BAGHDAD - A series of car bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded scores in the Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Falluja on Sunday, while the prominent governor of troubled northern Nineveh province escaped an assassination attempt.
The blasts followed a series of explosions at a busy market in the centre of Iraqs southern oil hub Basra late on Saturday that killed at least 43 and wounded 185, officials said.
In the northern city of Mosul, considered one of Iraqs most dangerous places in recent months, a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy transporting Atheel Al Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province, from his home to work on Sunday, police said. Nujaifi and his staff escaped injury in the initial blast, which took place on a road that is considered one of the safest in Mosul. But a second roadside bomb exploded when police responded to the scene, wounding three officers, police said.
In Falluja, about 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, three car bomb blasts two of them targeting police patrols killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others, police and medical sources said. One of the car bombs was left behind by gunmen who robbed a currency exchange merchant of $85,000 at his home, police said.
In Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of the capital, a car bomb exploded near a restaurant on a busy main street, killing at least eight people and wounding 50, police said.
In three other attacks in restive Mosul, nine people were wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into a crowd of civilians and four others were hurt when roadside bombs exploded near police and army patrols, police said.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Baghdad's traffic cops are demanding their own guards after at least 10 were killed over the past week in drive-by shootings and other attacks that have set back efforts to restore normalcy to Iraq's capital after years of violence.
Security officials have blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for the killings, in which gunmen used pistols fitted with silencers. They said the militants target traffic cops to create chaos on Baghdad's congested streets and embarrass authorities who boast of improved security.
Many of the traffic cops are unarmed, surprising given years of violence on the city's streets. Now, they are demanding assault rifles to defend themselves as well as protection from the tens of thousands of heavily armed policemen and soldiers deployed across the city.
"Yes, they only have pistols so we are giving them heavier firearms"
police Brig. Gen. Nijim Abed Jaber
Authorities, eager to stop the killings, are moving quickly to meet their demands.
"Yes, they only have pistols so we are giving them heavier firearms," said police Brig. Gen. Nijim Abed Jaber, chief spokesman for the traffic police force. "But let me remind everyone that combat is not the job of traffic policemen. They are peaceful individuals whose job is to help people."
Persistent violence across the country has raised concerns about the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over their own security less than a month before the U.S. military ends combat operations and draws down to 50,000 troops, a step toward a full withdrawal by the end of next year.
However Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, maintained on Sunday that Iraq's military is ready and able to take over security operations even with the violence and Iraqi politicians continuing to squabble over the formation of a new government five months after an inconclusive election.
Baghdad's traffic cops - distinguished by their white shirts, navy blue trousers and hats - have struggled to regain control of the streets. Even before they were insurgent targets, it was not an easy job, coping with temperatures pushing 120 degrees (50 degrees Celsius) and relentless bombings striking Baghdad daily.
Members of the force have been killed in crossfire and bombings since the insurgency broke out in 2003, but this is the first time they have faced a string of killings in which they were the intended victims.
The capital was without traffic police for months after its capture by U.S. forces in 2003 and the city's unruly motorists did as they pleased, driving on sidewalks, medians and against incoming traffic. But the traffic police, with the help of American troops, were the first law-enforcement force to send its members out on the streets and have slowly begun to regain control.
Already in some Baghdad areas, traffic policemen are working in pairs, one directing the traffic and one shadowing him with an assault rifle at the ready. In other parts of the city, policemen and army soldiers are keeping a close watch on the traffic cops, standing guard close by.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A U.S. soldier was killed in Babel on Saturday, the first American army fatality to be announced in August, upping the total number U.S. since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to 4,414, including 44 in 2010, according to the U.S. military in a statement on Sunday.
A U.S. soldier was killed in Babel province on Saturday, read the statement as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It did not reveal further details on how the American serviceman was killed.
The death has brought to 4,414 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, including 150 killed in 2009 and 44 in 2010.
Four were killed in July 2010, three of them have reportedly died of non-combat causes, eight in June, including only two in military operations, six in May and eight in April, seven in March, five in February and five in January.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Unidentified gunmen shot dead the director of al-Multaqa district in Kirkuk province and wounded two of his bodyguards on Sunday, according to a senior security official.
The director of al-Multaqa district, southwest of Kirkuk, Abdulkareem Nassif Jassem, was killed and two of his bodyguards wounded when gunmen opened fire on them today (Aug. 8), Brig. Sarhad Qader, the chief of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Initial investigations into the incident showed that there was no act of terrorism involved, Qader added.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Weekend violence across Iraq killed 60 people, officials said on Sunday, just days ahead of the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan when insurgents typically step up their attacks. The human sacrifices are necessary, otherwise the Moon God won't be propitiated...
The unrest has fuelled concerns about security here -- more than 100 people have died so far this month -- amid a massive pullout of American forces, although U.S. officers insist that Iraqi soldiers and police are up to the task.
Iraq is also grappling with a five-month-long political impasse after March 7 parliamentary elections which failed to produce a clear winner, ushering in as yet fruitless coalition negotiations between the leading parties.
The death toll from three explosions in the southern port city of Basra on Saturday evening, which officials said were caused by bombs and not a power generator short circuit as first believed, rose to 43 on Sunday.
"We received 43 corpses, and 185 people have been wounded," said Dr Riyadh Abdelamir, director of Basra province's health department, adding that women and children were among the injured.
Ali al-Maliki, the head of the provincial council's security committee, said the deaths -- from a double car bombing and a third roadside bomb which caused a large fire -- were "the result of terrorist action."
The city's police command had late on Saturday attributed the explosion to the short-circuit of a communal electricity generator.
Eyewitnesses at the crowded Ashaar market in the centre of Basra, Iraq's third largest city, said there were three explosions between 7:00 pm and 7:30 pm, but the cause was not clear according to their accounts.
"I saw people running in all directions, even over those who were knocked to the ground by the force of the blasts," said Khulud Al-Hussein, 37, a housewife who was buying goods at the market.
Kadhim Ali Jaffar, a 61-year-old street salesman, harrowingly described the death of his son, Jawad, 25, also a market salesman.
"He did not come back after the explosion so I started to look for him in the hospitals," said Jaffar, crying and shaking as he recounted the incident.
"The first one told me he was dead and in the morgue. When I went there I found a young man but he wasn't my son. I continued to look until I found him in the fridge at another hospital."
On Sunday morning, meanwhile, a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at a petrol station in Ramadi, west of Baghdad and the capital of Anbar province, killing six people, medical and security officials said.
Two women and a child were among the dead, while 29 others were wounded.
Also in Anbar, masked gunmen robbed a currency exchange owner and detonated their empty explosives-laden car when police tracked them down, killing two people, officials and the robbery victim said.
On Saturday, seven policemen were among eight people killed near Baghdad and in north Iraq, including four who died in a fierce gunfight in a Sunni neighborhood of the capital.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Hospitals in the Gaza Strip declare a state of emergency as Gaza's main power plant was closed down Saturday night due to a shortage of industrial diesel fuel.
Power cuts have increased from eight hours to 12 hours per day and have severely affected childrens' hospitals, maternity departments, kidney departments, babies' nursery and intensive care units, Gaza emergency chief, Mo'aweya Hassanein, said on Sunday.
Increase in the hours of power cutoff "would lead to a humanitarian crisis and a deterioration of medical services," German news agency dpa quoted him as saying on Sunday.
The plant's closure, the third time this year, has caused chaos as hospitals had to use generators to maintain life-saving equipment.
The closure has also caused power cut to more than 700,000 people in the Gaza city, Kan'an Obied, the chairman of the Hamas' energy authority, confirmed.
Hassanein also warned that if generators are not reactivated, dozens would die.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority (PA) spokesman, Ghassan Khatib, said on Sunday that the PA is not responsible for the closure of Gaza's power plant, adding that the PA has paid 90 percent of its power bill amounting to almost $12 million, Maan news agency reported.
The Gaza Power Authority blamed the Ramallah government for the shutdown, saying it failed to make fuel payments to Israel.
In turn, Ramallah officials said the power authority had neglected to transfer cash to the PA to pay for the fuel.
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Paleos always make a lavish show of saying "we love death." What do they need hospitals for?
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kinda makes their fearsome death cult look somewhat ...involuntary... for some, no?
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Perhaps if Hamas sold a few of those rockets they could come up with the cash? Or had their bosses contribute from their Swiss bank accounts?
Just "thousands"?
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) The Turkish organizers of a Gaza-bound aid boat said Saturday that Israeli authorities painted over "thousands of bullets" in one of their recently returned ships. Hope they charged them for the new paint job. That's expensive...
Huseyin Oruc of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid told Reuters upon the Mavi Marmara's return that "When they captured the boats, the Israelis hid all of this proof on the outside of the boat." Reporters, according to the BBC, said the ship did appear to have been freshly painted.
Turkish prosecutors will board the vessels Monday to look for evidence of what happened during the raid on the six-strong flotilla, which was trying to reach Gaza with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid. Bet they find some too...
Nine Turkish nationals were killed aboard the ship on 31 May. It was then sequestered at the Ashdod port.
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You figure that even with spackle, some primer coat and the overcoat, you're never going to get an even match, so you might as well repaint the entire side.
Now if you want to be witty about it, you can make your spackle out of a variation of thermite, with an RFID magnesium fuse. Or just metallic mercury, if the hull is aluminum.
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Aluminum dust mixed into the primer (40/1 paint/AL dust) - hit it with a tracer round, and the entire ship goes up in smoke. Even if the Israelis only painted a 1-inch square, the Turks would have to completely sand down ALL the painted surfaces and repaint them, just to be sure.
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those where some bigass commandos too tote that much ammo
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If they wanted to hide the evidence they would have sunk it.
Abu Bakar Bashir, the Muslim cleric and 2002 Bali bombings suspect, has been arrested by Indonesian police for alleged involvement with terrorism. His lawyer, Muhammad Ali, said his client was taken in early today, allegedly for involvement with a new militant network in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.
Police said Bashir, 71, was arrested by the Indonesian police anti-terrorist taskforce Detachment 88 while travelling from Ciamis in West Java, where he had been attending Koran recitals, to his home in Solo. Bashir is accused of involvement in an Islamic militant training camp uncovered by police in Aceh province in February, said counter-terrorism chief at the security ministry, Ansyaad Mbai.
"He had been involved in terror network in Aceh. As we know, that terror group in Aceh is linked with Jemaah Islamiah and many other extremist groups in our country," Mbai told Agence France Presse. "One of the allegations is that he provided funding to the Aceh military training. It's one of many allegations weighed against him," he added.
In the aftermath of the discovery of the training camp, police claimed to have killed 13 suspects, including the senior Jemaah Islamiah operative and Bali bomber Dulmatin, and arrested more than 60 others. Three members of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, a group established by Bashir after splitting from the Indonesian Mujahadeen Council two years ago, are already under arrest on suspicion of helping to finance the Aceh operation. Rumours have circulated for weeks that Bashir, a fiery preacher known for propagating hatred against foreigners, was next on the list.
On Saturday, police arrested five suspects and seized high-explosive materials in separate anti-terror raids in several areas in West Java province. The target of the alleged terror plots was not immediately clear, but Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday said police had foiled a terror plot against him as he visited the province.
Wahyudin, the director of Bashir's Al Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Solo, told the Jakarta Globe today that the cleric's wife, Aisyah, might also have been taken into custody. Police were understood to be transporting Bashir to Jakarta and a police press conference was scheduled for this afternoon.
A female rubber tapper was killed by two terrorists gunmen armed with M16 and AK47 assault rifles while she was collecting latex in a plantation in this violence-plagued southern border province. Rattana Kwanjai, 42, was shot three times while she was working alone in a rubber plantation in Ruso district.
The gunmen were presumed to have returned to the nearby mountain forest. Police initially presumed they were terrorists insurgents active in the area.
Indonesia's counterterrorism squad jugged five terrorist suspects in West Java, a local police chief said Sunday, a day after the country's president said he had received reports that certain groups in areas of the province intended to do him harm.
West Java police chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said police also confiscated high explosive materials during four separate raids on Saturday in the province's capital, Bandung, and Subang district.
On Saturday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was visiting Bandung, said he had received reports that certain groups in the province intended to do him harm. He did not elaborate, or refer to the arrests.
On Sunday, his front man, Julian Aldrin Pasha, did not rule out that the suspects' alleged target was the president.
"It could be assumed that their activities were aimed at (attacking) the presidential entourage," Pasha said.
Sutarman said two suspects were jugged by the special anti-terror force in Sukaluyu hamlet on the outskirts of Bandung.
Bomb squads had to detonate a bomb found within their house after failing to defuse it, Sutarman said. One suspect managed to escape.
Two others were jugged in Cilenyi and Padalarang districts, also on the outskirts of Bandung, Sutarman said, adding that the fifth suspect was jugged in a raid on his house in Subang district.
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