A deputy commander in an al-Qaida linked bad boy group was apprehended in an overnight raid in eastern Afghanistan that killed a woman, NATO said Friday.
NATO said the deputy commander, who was captured by a joint Afghan and coalition force in Khost province , which is coincidentally snug up against Pakistain, ran weapons for the Haqqani network and was controlled by the group's senior leaders safe across the border in Pakistain. U.S. officials have described the Haqqani network as the most potent threat to American forces in Afghanistan.
When the troops arrived at the scene, they saw two men bravely running from the targeted compound to grab some innocent bystanders. They fired after seeing someone point a weapon out of a window. Inside the room, they found one woman dead and another with a minor injury. An AK-47 was next to the female victim and a rifle and another AK-47 also was found in the building, NATO said. So Fatima wasn't an innocent bystander. She was holding a gun.
"Afghan and coalition forces do not intentionally target women and we take these incidents very seriously," said U.S. Army Col. Rafael Torres, a front man for the coalition. "On the other hand, if you're a non-combatant then it's a good idea not to go engaging in combat, ain't it? We are taking a step-by-step approach in investigating what happened during this operation." "But we know we're gonna get slimed."
Troops at the scene treated the injured woman, who was later evacuated along with two male relatives to a coalition forces medical facility. Had the positions been reversed, the two male relatives would have chopped the coalition forces' head off.
While questioning the men at the scene, the security force identified and detained the deputy commander along with several suspected bad boys. In the compound where the commander was captured, the security force found an AK-47, a rifle, seven grenades, six magazines and an ammunition belt.
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why is it supposed too bad too kill a woman that is shooting an AK at you? Try that shit in the US at a cop and I'm pretty sure the same outcome would happen and no one would bitch one bit.
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no one would bitch
Yes, they would, depending on the neighborhood and the races of the various involved people.
[Tolo News] In a suicide kaboom in the south-western Kandahar province Wednesday night, the police chief of the province's Daman district and three of his bodyguards were killed
A suicide kaboomer blew himself up on Wednesday night when the vehicles of Ghulam Rasool, the police chief of Daman district were passing by, a police officer told TOLOnews reporter on condition of anonymity.
Four coppers, including the police chief of Daman district was killed in the incident and three others were maimed, he added.
A front man for the governor of Kandahar, Zalmai Ayubi, confirmed the suicide kaboom, but gave no details about casualties in the incident.
Taliban bad boys have escalated their attacks in the country to target government authorities and Afghan and foreign forces, and violence has spread to the northern provinces as well.
In the latest such incident, unknown gunnies attacked the house of the Border and Tribal Affairs Chief of the south-western Zabul province, Ata jan Kajarwal, and killed him along with his wife.
According to local authorities, the incident had happened on Tuesday night in the province's Shahjoy district.
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[Tolo News] At least 13 Taliban hard boys and 5 hostages were killed following a US-led attack on a Taliban prison in Helmand Province, Afghan officials say
In operations conducted by the US-led coalition forces in the south-western Helmand province, at least 13 Taliban hard boys and five hostages were killed and 27 prisoners were freed, local officials reported on Wednesday.
The overnight operations had taken place in Musa Qala district in Helmand, Dawood Ahmadi, a front man for the governor of Helmand, told TOLOnews.
"All the prisoners who were imprisoned by a Taliban commander called Mullah Qayoom, were released," he added.
He also said that hard boys had executed five of the hostages before the US-led forces reached the Taliban hideout.
Two of those executed were employees of a US firm, Economic Recovery and Development (ERD Group).
Ahmadi said the freed hostages were on their way to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
Musa Qala was under Taliban control for years, but currently US forces are stationed there.
The US-led coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan in an effort to wipe out Taliban bad boys from the country's volatile regions.
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[Tolo News] Taliban hard boys attacked a NATO convoy in the central Logar province on Wednesday night, no casualties reported so far
"A group of Taliban hard boys attacked a convoy of foreign forces in Pul-e-Alam, the provincial capital of Logar that was on its way to Kabul at 00:11 pm Wednesday," Ghulam Mustafa Mohseni, the Police Chief of Logar, told TOLOnews.
There are casualties on the foreign forces' side, but no exact figures are available yet, he added.
In cross firings after the attack, foreign forces killed 8 Taliban hard boys, said Logar Police Chief.
Locals said at least 2 NATO soldiers were killed and another 2 were maimed in these attacks.
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wonder how long before they will be saying this is the Great Zuba. The one from Iraq a few years ago who was also thought too be a chechen.
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Is the Chechen super-sniper trope based on reality, or is this a recycling of the legend, very popular in Russia, of Chechen female snipers/amazons who supposedly targeted Russian privates' privates?
[Ennahar] The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the "full mobilization" of the French security device according to new threats of al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and said that they came from "murderers".
"The device, both for our fellow residents or passing that our diplomatic Way is activated and updated, depending on the assessment of risks and threats," said Valero.
When foreign minister Bernard Kouchner had visited Mauritania, Mali and Niger in late July, "he was keen to ensure, primarily, to the highest authorities and with our ambassadors and our compatriots Instead, the full mobilization of our security," he said.
These are "threats from assassins," said the spokesperson of the Quai d'Orsay, Bernard Valero, at a regular press briefing.
The spokesman was asked about including the words of Abu Anas al-Chanqiti a leader of AQIM aired Monday on Islamist forums, calling the tribes which belonged AQIM militants killed in a Franco-Mauritanian operation 22 July to "pursue retaliation (against) the treacherous apostates, children and staff of Christian France.
"To the enemy of God Sarkozy I say you missed your chance and open the doors of unrest in your country," added the leader of AQIM.
Seven members of AQIM were killed in the raid against a database of AQIM in Mali to free French hostage Michel Germaneau, kidnapped April 19 in northern Niger, according to Nouakchott. AQIM announced then the killing of the French hostage July 24 to avenge the death of its members.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemeni security forces have arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda militant who was among 23 people sentenced to death for attacking a French ship who escaped from jail in 2006, a security official said on Thursday.
Huzam Majali, who is considered a leading figure of al-Qaeda in the area of Arhab, north of the capital, was arrested on Wednesday.
"He surrendered after a successful raid by the anti-terrorism forces on a house he was hiding in," the official said.
Information obtained from "recently arrested elements and leaders of al-Qaeda have helped in arresting new people and foiling plots for terrorist attacks on vital security and economic installations," the source added.
Majali was sentenced in August 2004 for his involvement in the deadly attack on the French tanker, the Limburg, in October 2002, off Yemen's southeastern coast. An explosion ripped through the ship, killing one Bulgarian crew member and wounding 12 others.
The brazen escape from a prison controlled by Yemen's political security service in February 2006 left Sanaa red-faced. Most of the escapees have either been recaptured or killed.
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A Yemeni woman was killed and eight policemen wounded in two separate attacks in south Yemen, security officials said on Thursday.
Five policemen were wounded in an explosion on Wednesday when a masked biker hurled a hand grenade through the window of a police station in Zinjibar, the main city of Abyan province, a police officer told AFP, adding that the assailant managed to escape. A medical official at Al-Razi hospital in neighbouring Jaar town said two of the policemen were critically wounded and had been transferred to a hospital in Aden.
Meanwhile, a woman was killed and two police officers wounded on Wednesday when a wanted southern militant fired at a security patrol which was attempting to arrest him in Al-Afar area of the Lahj province, the defence ministry news website 26Sep.net reported. Jamil Ali Saif, who is wanted for murder, escaped, a security official was quoted as saying, after the police refrained from firing at him to avoid harming civilians in the vicinity. The latest violence comes two days after masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles gunned down a Yemeni intelligence officer in a market in Zinjibar before fleeing.
South Yemen is feared to have become a base for al Qaeda militants to regroup, under the network's local franchise al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The south is also the site of frequent protests and periodic unrest with many southerners complaining of discrimination by the Sanaa government over the allocation of resources.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and party leader Mir Kashem Ali hours after the National Board of Revenue (NBR) filed two separate cases against them for tax evasion.
Sayedee was charged for dodging income tax amounting to Tk 56.45 lakh for the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2009-2010 while Kashem for evading income tax of Tk 11.27 lakh in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
NBR Deputy Tax Commissioner Masuma Khatun filed the case against Sayedee, who is already detained in a number of cases, while Tax Commissioner Moniruzzaman filed the case against Kashem, central executive committee member of Jamaat, with the Senior Special Judges' Court of Dhaka.
After the hearing, Judge (In Charge) Mohammad Ismail Hossain took the charges into cognisance and issued the warrants.
The court also directed the officers-in-charge (OCs) of Motijheel and Dhanmondi police stations to submit reports by September 16 on execution of the arrest warrants. It also fixed September 16 for the next hearing.
In the case statement, Masuma said Sayedee, also a former Jamaat lawmaker, evaded Tk 56,45,812 in income tax on Tk 2,27,40,120 earned from different sources. He repeatedly provided false information about his income and expenditure, the statement said.
Sayedee was arrested on June 29 this year in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Muslims. Later, he was shown arrested in a number of criminal cases including three for allegedly killing people during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
The statement of the case against Mir Kashem says that he evaded Tk 11,28,235 in income tax on Tk 34,85,866 earned through Keari Limited as its chairman and director. It also states that Kashem repeatedly misinformed NBR about his actual income.
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Felipe Dominguez-Vargas, a purported "cell leader" of the infamous Juarez drug cartel, made his initial appearance in federal court in El Paso on Monday, where he waived his detention hearing and was ordered to remain in custody pending trial.
The violent Juarez cartel, which controls major smuggling routes into the United States for billions of dollars worth of illegal drug shipments annually and is known to have beheaded its rivals and mutilated their corpses, has suffered significant setbacks over the past several months at the hands of Mexican and U.S. law enforcement authorities.
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A total of 18 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included five individuals killed in three separate crimes in the small far southern Chihuahua city of Jimenez, a Chihuahua state police agent killed Thursday and a retired police officer killed in Hermosillo, Sonora Wednesday evening. For a map, click here
A woman kas shot to death in Juarez Wednesday evening, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Plomo and Francisco Javier Mina in the Gregorio M Solis district where armed suspects riding aboard a grey sedan shot the woman.
Two unidentified men were shot to death Wednesday in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. The assault took place near then intersection of calles Guadalajara and Veracruz in the Felipe Angeles district where armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Tahoe dismounted from their vehicle and shot the victims.
An unidentified woman was found strangled to death late Wednesday night, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida Ejercito Nacional and Camino Viejo just behind Universidad Pedagogica Nacional.
A young man was found dead south of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. The victim, in his 40s, was found just outside a residence on calles Rio Grande and the railroad tracks in the Crucero district.
Two men were found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, overnight, according to Mexican press reports. The victims were found aboard a Dodge Durango SUV near the intersection of calles Ahumada and Colima in the Industrial district. One victim was identified as Alberto Cardenas Urias, 34, while the other man, in his late 20s, has not been identified.
A retired Hermosillo, Sonora police officer was found shot to death near his home, say Mexican press accounts. Manuel de Jesus Zamorano Peinado, 36, was found dead following an attack at his home near the intersection of calle Horizonte Azul and Abelardo Sobarzo in the El Encanto district. Investigators found eight 9mm spent cartridge casings at the scene. Peinado had only a few weeks ago escaped an attack that killed two others.
A Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death Thursday afternoon in Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. Gregorio Martinez Espinoza, 38, was shot at his residence near the intersection of calles Nicolas Bravo and 37th in the Obrera district. Witnesses report four armed and hooded suspects riding aboard a Mercury Sable shot the victim with AK-47 assault rifles and 9mm pistols.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Yepeto and Saturno in the Satelite district while driving his SUV.
A man was found shot to death in San Isidro, Chihuahua Thursday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found at a landfill six kilometers from the Juarez-Porvenir road. Reports say the victim may have been previously abducted in Juarez.
Two unidentified men were executed following a rollover accident in Juarez Thursday afternoon, say Mexican press accounts. The accident ended near the intersection of calle Ejercito Nacional and Francisco Villarreal Torres where a vehicle overturned and ejected the two victims. A pair of armed suspects appeared at the scene and shot them dead.
A member of China's restive Uighur minority killed seven people on Thursday in a kaboom in far western Xinjiang, an official said, a region that has long been the scene of ethnic tension and occasional violence.
Police jugged an Uighur suspect who drove a three-wheeled vehicle into a crowd in a town near the southern Xinjiang city of Aksu, Xinjiang government spokeswoman Hou Hanmin told a news conference in the regional capital Urumqi.
Hou said evidence indicated the blast was intentional. She did not say what the motive for the attack might be. Chinese cities are occasionally hit by small explosions carried out by people with personal grievances, such as disputes over medical treatment or failed relationships. Beijing often blames what it calls violent separatist groups in Xinjiang for attacks on police or other government targets, saying they work with al Qaeda or Central Asian hard boys to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.
"Xinjiang's development will not be affected by a small group of bad people. The overall situation in Xinjiang is good," Hou told a news conference for foreign reporters on a pre-arranged trip to the region.
"I repeat what our governor said this morning: hostile elements are always there, in the past, present and in the future. They don't target any particular ethnic group since casualties are also minorities. They are the common enemy of the Xinjiang people."
Many Uighurs -- a Mohammedan, Turkic-speaking people native to the region -- chafe under rule from Beijing and restrictions on their language, culture and religion. They now make up less than half of Xinjiang's population after decades of immigration by the majority Han from other parts of China. In July last year, Urumqi was convulsed by deadly ethnic unrest after a protest by Uighurs gave way to street killings and riots that left at least 197 dead, most of them Han Chinese.
In June, the government said it had broken up a "terrorist" cell planning attacks in the southern Xinjiang cities of Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu. All those killed or injured in the latest blast were members of ethnic minorities, Hou said. She did not specific their ethnicity.
Uighur exiles accuse China of whipping up the threat posed by armed separatists to justify harsh crackdowns in Xinjiang.
China has promised to increase investment in oil-and-coal rich Xinjiang, strategically located on China's Central Asian and Pakistain borders, to try to soothe income disparities that have contributed to ethnic violence.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] France has expelled for a second time an Egyptian Mohammedan cleric it accused of preaching hate, the ministry of the interior said on Thursday, the latest deportation carried out in a crackdown on crime.
Cleric Ali Ibrahim al-Sudani was deported back to his native Egypt, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said.
"This individual very recently reappeared on our territory despite an expulsion order in his name, carried out in January," Hortefeux said in a statement of the former holy man of the Hamza mosque, at Pantin outside Paris.
"This hate preacher has repeatedly said violently hostile things about the West that are totally against our society's values," he said.
The step comes after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a drive against crime and illegal immigration, which has been condemned by human rights groups and the opposition.
There has been no comment from Soudany.
Since 2002, France has expelled 125 radical Islamists, including 29 holy men and preachers, the statement said. It did not say how Sudani managed to get back into France.
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That's a start...
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next time, deport him to the Mid-Atlantic
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[Dawn] India's army on Thursday accused Pakistan of violating a ceasefire along their militarised border, accusing it of trying to push militants into divided Kashmir under the cover of fire.
A defence spokesman said Indian military posts in southern Kashmir came under small arms and mortar fire from across the border in a pre-dawn skirmish with Pakistani troops that lasted around two hours.
"Pakistani troops opened unprovoked firing at Indian posts and targeted several positions in Poonch" district, Lieutenant Colonel Biplab Nath said in Indian Kashmir's winter capital Jammu.
"Our soldiers retaliated to the firing," Nath said, adding there were no casualties on the Indian side in Poonch, a hilly Kashmir district some 240 kilometres northwest of Jammu.
The Press Trust of India quoted an Indian commander as saying dozens of mortar shells exploded around Indian posts.
"It is ceasefire violation and it was aimed at infiltrating militants into this side of the Line of Control (LoC)," brigadier S. Dua said, referring to a de facto border which divides the Indian and Pakistani zones of Kashmir.
India has in the past accused the Pakistani army of providing covering fire for infiltrating militants. Islamabad denies the charge.
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over the mainly Muslim region of Kashmir, which is held in part by each country but claimed in full by both.
They agreed to a ceasefire along the LoC in 2003 and began a peace process in 2004. Since then there have been sporadic clashes with both sides accusing each other of violating the truce.
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Around 11 terrorists were killed on Thursday in different operations of security forces in the Orakzai and Kurram agencies.
At least seven terrorists were killed and seven others injured when security forces retaliated after an attack on a security checkpost in the Tapoo area of Orakzai Agency. According to sources, terrorists attacked a security checkpost and started indiscriminate firing, killing a security official Ejaz and injuring another Asif. The forces retaliated killing seven terrorists and injuring seven others.
Separately, security forces bombed the hideouts of terrorists in Wasti Kurram and Chinarak areas of Kurram Agency killing four terrorists and injuring 10 others.
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A powerful blast ripped through Preety Gate area in Bannu on Thursday injuring 12 people, four of them critically.
The blast occurred at 9:30am when an unidentified man left a shopping bag at Preety Gate, which blew up and injured 12 people while the suspect managed to flee. The injured were rushed to the nearby District Headquarters Hospital where an emergency was declared.
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The federal government on Thursday asked the provinces to initiate action against terrorist organisations, which are operating in the country under the guise of charity.
The government asked the respective home secretaries of all the provinces to constitute a task force headed by a police deputy inspector general (DIG) to identity such elements and initiate action against the charity organisations, which had been banned by the government. The proscribed organisations or terrorist organisations would not be allowed to operate in the country under the garb of charity, the government said.
Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik on Thursday chaired a meeting at the Interior Ministry to review the law and order. He told the participants of the meeting that the government had noticed that all terrorist organisations were likely to involve themselves in charity work in the flood-affected areas. The meeting decided that the provincial home secretaries would constitute task forces headed by DIGs to identity such elements and initiate action against illegal charity organisations. The government asked people to only donate to registered charity organisations.
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Arson and violence once again reared their ugly heads in Karachi on Thursday after the Awami National Party office bearer, Ubaidullah Yousufzai, was gunned down along with a colleague near the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport. In the subsequent violence, eleven people were shot dead and 16 others were injured, while 12 vehicles were set on fire by miscreants.
Airport police station house office (SHO) Abdul Ghaffar Korai said Yousufzai, who was an employee at the PIA Cargo Terminal, and a coworker, Saleem Akhter, were sitting in their car when unidentified attackers opened fire on them.
"Both sustained several bullet injuries and the police shifted them to the PIA dispensary, where they succumbed to their injuries, the SHO said. Korai said the deceased were residents of Malir Cantonment.
ANP spokesman Qadir Khan said Yousufzai was the Salaar (security in-charge) of the party and announced three days of mourning.
The bodies were later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for post-mortem examination, where ANP leaders and a large number of workers also gathered.
Violence: After the incident, unidentified miscreants resorted to aerial firing and pelted passing cars with stones while a passenger bus was also set ablaze.
Heavy contingents of police and Rangers arrived at the JPMC and Railways Cantonment area to control the situation. Sajid Ahmed, son of Sadiq Hussain, was gunned down in his car by unidentified men near Askari Park located at old Sabzi Mandi, PIB police said.
In Pirabad police precincts, a man was killed and seven people sustained injuries when gunmen sitting on nearby hills started firing shots in the Orangi Town area.
Dr Seemi Jamali of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre said that two dead bodies had been brought to the hospital from Korangi. She said the identity of the victims could not be ascertained.
Another man, Shariq, was gunned down near A-1 Chowk, Siddique Goth in the Al Falah police limits by unidentified gunmen who escaped from the scene.
In the Saudabad police limits, Anwar, 40, was killed by unidentified attackers near the RCD ground. Police said the deceased was heading towards a mosque to offer prayers, when two motorcyclists opened fire on him.
Separately, unidentified men stabbed Saghir Ahmed in Ittehad Town in the Baldia Town area, who later died of the wound.
Unidentified attackers gunned down 16-year-old Daniyal, son of Afzal Jabbar, in Sector 19-D, Baldia Town in the Saeedabad police precincts. The violence continued overnight in Karachi and more casualties were being reported.
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SRINAGAR: Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley have received anonymous letters from Islamic militants asking them to either embrace Islam and join the protests against civilian killings or pack up and leave the Valley. The 60,000-strong Sikh community is the single largest minority group in the Valley.
The 300,000 Hindus having been ethnically cleansed almost two decades ago
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Sikhs don't bend. Plus they regard Muslims as somewhere between cockroaches and rats. When Muslims push Sikhs, the Sikhs push back, and hard.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Three improvised explosive devices went off successively targeting Iraqi judges and forces, leaving four soldiers wounded in central Mosul city on Thursday, a security source said.
Two IEDs went off in unison near a motorcade of judges in al-Tayaran neighborhood, central Mosul, but left no casualties, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. A third IED went off minutes later in the same spot as Iraqi forces cordoned off the site, wounding two officers and two soldiers."
He said that the first two blats targeted a motorcade of three vehicles boarding judges of the Ninewa Criminal Court from the capital Baghdad while they were heading home in the fortified area near the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC) headquarters.
An investigation was launched into the incident to detect how these IEDs brought into the area, considered one of the heavily-fortified ones in the city, he said.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] As national dialogue resumes today in Lebanon at the Beiteddine Palace, under the chairmanship of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, and against the backdrop of the sharp political division that is being seen in the country over the international tribunal investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Hezbollah has called for the "abolition of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and for it to be replaced, and for the abolition of its operations and the treaty that exists in this regard." Pencilneck is getting worried, I think ...
Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat via telephone, Hezbollah politician Mahmoud Komati told Asharq Al-Awsat that "for our part, there is no recognition [of the international tribunal]...because it has been unfair and politicized from the beginning. It was formed to accommodate interests, not to uncover the truth, but to cover it up."
Komati confirmed that "Hezbollah will not engage with the decisions that will be issued by the international tribunal, for these decisions are being issued by a politicized tribunal whose goal is to pressure the resistance, and regional parties and countries."
On the other hand, the March 14 Alliance renewed its adherence to the International Tribunal "as an exclusive reference to look at and issue a judgment in the case of the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the other crimes related to this."
However al-Komati informed Asharq Al-Awsat that "from the first moment there was no consensus on the international tribunal, but it was working [to cause] division...and there was no confidence in it...because it contravenes the constitution and the law...and will therefore never lead to the truth."
Al-Komati added "the issue that was the subject of Lebanese consensus was to uncover the truth [behind Hariri's assassination] as a comprehensive national issue."
Responding to a question as to whether Hezbollah will continue to cooperate with the international investigation, allowing a number of its members to be interviewed, as promised previously by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, Komati said "we have cooperated with the investigation commission and we sent a number of our brothers there and they were interviewed as witnesses, however after the true nature of the tribunal and its politicization has been revealed, it is no longer justifiable to cooperate with it at all."
Asked whether he expects international prosecutor David Bellemare to take action with regards to the evidence presented to the tribunal by Hezbollah, Komati told Asharq Al-Awsat that "it is premature to comment on this issue, however we suspect that the tribunal will not deal with Israel as a serious and primary suspect, and from here we have no confidence or reassurance with regards to what the tribunal will do, however we agree with our state partners on the issue of calm, and we have responded to the request of Prime Minister Saad Hariri to hand over the evidence to the Lebanese judiciary which will act as it deems appropriate."
The Lebanon First bloc that is led by MP Fouad Siniora also dealt with the issue of the international tribunal, with MP Oqab Saqr calling for parties in Lebanon "not to debate the international tribunal in the interests of the country because this only adds to the confusion" adding that "the political controversies surrounding the tribunal serves and enhances the chaos." While Lebanon First bloc MP Ghazi Youssef said "this issue is not taboo, but we do not know anything about this expected decision [by the International tribunal] so why are problems being created over something we know nothing about?"
Future bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat said "nobody knows the preliminary decision that is expected to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon" and that "everything that has been published in the media has no basis." He said "the expected decision will accuse somebody, and it is the right and duty of whoever is accused to go to court to confirm his innocent" adding that "the tribunal cannot charge a state or group and therefore it is certain that there will be no accusation of Hezbollah."
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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
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A deputy commander in an al-Qaida linked 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemeni security forces have arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda militant who was among 23 people sentenced to death for attacking a French ship who escaped from jail in 2006, a security official said on Thursday.
A member of China's restive Uighur minority killed seven people on Thursday in 
[Al Arabiya Latest] France has expelled for a second time an Egyptian 
Around 11 terrorists were killed on Thursday in different operations of security forces in the Orakzai and Kurram agencies. 
Arson and violence once again reared their ugly heads in Karachi on Thursday after the Awami National Party office bearer, Ubaidullah Yousufzai, was gunned down along with a colleague near the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport. In the subsequent violence, eleven people were shot dead and 16 others were injured, while 12 vehicles were set on fire by miscreants.
