(Xinhua) -- A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force opened fire at a protester who attempted to enter a military base in the southern Uruzgan province on Thursday, a press release of the alliance said.
"A protester armed with an AK-47
Since when do protesters, even Rage Boys, carry AK-47s instead of protest signs in English?
attempted to access the Forward Operation Base (FOB)through a side gate and was shot by an International Security Assistance Force service member," the press release added.
However, The infamous However... it did not say if he was shot to dead, adding ISAF is assessing the situation and will provide more details as they become available.
Meantime, the military alliance confirmed in the press release that some 100 Afghan civilians staged a demonstration in Chorah district today.
Khudai Rahim, the governor of Uruzgan province, in talks with Xinhua confirmed that some people staged a demonstration to register their protest over the alleged Kuran burning by a church in the United States.
He blamed anti-government Islamic fascistifor exploiting the situation and said that one civilian was killed in the incident as the vested interest elements attempted to attack security forces checkpoints.
Similar demonstrations have left over a dozen dead and injured in other cities of Afghanistan over the past week, according to media reports.
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Hopefully, the bastid was gut shot and will die on Christmas Eve...
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Sepsis is a bitch....
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"Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."
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why didn't the headline also include that the "protestor" was armed and rushing a gate at a military base?
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Well Chris, my first guess is liberal media control. My second it irresponsible reporting. It sounds more attention getting if you leave off or manipulate facts. I mean, how could any one in their right mind call a person rushing a military base with an AK be called a protester? It's would have to be pure media psych warfare. Plant the idea it was a protester in the mind with the headline to maybe you gloss over the armed part. Even if you don't, there is that little bit of sympathy if doubt because he was called a protester.
(Xinhua) -- Taliban-led insurgency and skirmishes in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan in the past 24 hours have left at least two dozen people dead with majority of them bad boys, officials said.
In the latest waves of mounting pressure against the turbans, the NATO-led troops stormed Taliban hideout in the northern Kunduz province Wednesday night killing eight fighters including a commander.
"Coalition forces conducted a precision air strike and a follow-on ground operation against the Taliban district commander for Aliabad district of Kunduz province Wednesday, killing eight turbans," a statement released by NATO-led forces here on Thursday said.
Although, the military alliance did not reveal the name of the killed Taliban capo, local officials identified him as Mullah Juma Gul Hamdul, saying he was active in Aliabad and the neighboring Chardara district.
The conflicts and Taliban-linked security incidents steep up amid Afghan government's preparation to hold the second parliamentary elections since the fall of Taliban regime on Sept. 18, enabling over 10.5 million eligible to vote.
In a separate statement, the NATO-led troops also reported capturing two suspected Orcs and similar vermin on the same night Wednesday night in Kunduz province.
"Afghan and coalition forces detained two suspected gun-hung tough guys in Kunduz province last night in their continued pursuit of an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander operating in Chahar Darah district.
Without identifying the name of the jugged commander, it stressed that,"The commander is well integrated with Taliban senior leadership in Kunduz province."
Six more Taliban fighters, according to officials in Taliban former stronghold Kandahar province in south Afghanistan, were killed on Wednesday.
"Intelligence reports indicated that a number of Orcs and similar vermin assembled to disrupt election process in Arghandab district but security forces conducted an operation on Wednesday as a result six rebels were killed," a senior police officer in the province Abdul Raziq told newsmen at a joint press conference with provincial governor Tooryali Weesa on Thursday.
The NATO-led troops in another statement stressed that precision air strike in Paktika province on Wednesday left three Orcs and similar vermin dead including a key Taliban capo Abdul Rahman.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Taliban gun-hung tough guys stormed a private company in the southern Ghazni province early Thursday killing seven employees of the firm, Taliban's purported front man Zabihullah Mujahid in talks with media via telephone from undisclosed location claimed.
However, The infamous However... a police officer Dillawar Zahid confirmed the attack, saying the gun-hung tough guys raided a local security firm in Diak district Thursday morning killing five guards.
In another Taliban-linked insurgency, a rocket fired from unknown location hit a residential area in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, 60 km south of the capital city Kabul in the wee hours of Thursday, left two children killed and five more civilians including a woman sustained injuries, district governor Mohammad Rahim Amin confirmed.
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[Dawn] A kaboom at a concert by Afghanistan's top singer maimed at least 13 people on Tuesday, an official and witness said.
The kaboom happened at the end of Farhad Darya's concert in a sports stadium in the western city of Herat, as thousands of fans began to leave, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
"It seems the blast was from a bomb fixed to a motorcycle and parked near the stadium," he said.
The provincial public health hospital said they received 13 maimed from the blast.
"Among the maimed are a child, a woman, one policeman and ten other male fans," Ghulam Sayeed Rashid, the head of public health in the province, said.
The award-winning singer, composer and peace and rights activist survived the attack unhurt, said the AFP reporter who witnessed the incident.
Darya has been the most influential figures in Afghan music in recent decades, and also runs a charity project for street children in Afghanistan.
Darya was on his way to hospital to visit his fans maimed in the blast, said the reporter.
Security concerns mean concerts and public events are limited in Afghanistan, which is due to hold parliamentary elections on Saturday.
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Afghanistan has concerts? And a top singer? Who would have known after years of Taliban rule?
[Iran Press] Somalia's al-Shabab group has imposed a ban on three aid organizations, claiming they are "actively propagating Western ideology" in the Horn of Africa country.
The idea that life can be better.
"Starting today (Wednesday), the aid groups Mercy Corps, Med-Air and Horn Relief will not serve inside the country. I am urging the other NGOs who have contract with American government to stop or else we will take action against them," Radio Garowe quoted al-Shabab spokesman, Sheikh Ali Dhere, as saying at a press conference in the country's capital, Mogadishu.
In August, al-Shabab group ordered three international aid groups -- World Vision, Adventist Development and Relief Agency, and Diakonia -- to cease their operations in Somalia since they were allegedly proselytizing when distributing aid.
Relief agencies serving Somalia say aid to millions of Somalis is hampered by the danger that aid workers are faced with and a lack of respect for international humanitarian law by the parties to the conflict.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people in Somalia, including 300,000 in Mogadishu.
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(Xinhua) -- At least 12 people were killed and almost 45 others were maimed on Thursday in heavy shelling exchanges after Islamist fighters launched a mortars attack on Somali lawmakers meeting in Mogadishu, medical sources said. "We have so far taken 45 injured civilians to the hospitals and our ambulance staff has spotted the bodies of 12 dead people that were killed as a result of the shelling," Ali Muse, head of the local Mogadishu emergency service told Xinhua.
The Somali lawmakers were holding a debate over a confidence vote on the hapless Somali government led by Prime Minister Omar Abdurashid Sharmarkeh at the National Assembly House overlooking the jihad boy held area south of Mogadishu.
At least one lawmaker was slightly injured after a mortar shell landed outside the parliament building as Islamist fighters fired several rounds at the compound igniting intense barrage of artillery fire from African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces protecting the parliamentarians meeting.
Residents say most of the shells landed in and around the main Bakara market in the Islamist controlled section of the Somali capital where thousands come to trade and shop every day.
Somali lawmakers have overwhelmingly agreed to call on the government to seek the confidence of the parliament as difference between Somalia's top leaders resurfaced with the government of Premier Sharmarkeh accused of failing to carry out its responsibilities, a charge vehemently denied by the government.
Somali Premier has been reluctant to ask parliament for a vote of confidence and in a letter to the legislature on Wednesday he reiterated that his government does not need to ask for the vote and that the time was not right for such a move.
The end of the term of the current government is drawing ever closer with almost a year left here is a sense of urgency within the transitional government to do something as beturbanned fascisti keep their deadly three year long insurgency against the fragile but UN-backed government which now controls only a few section of Mogadishu.
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[Al Jazeera] Seven people, including at least two French nationals of state-owned nuclear company, Areva, have been kidnapped in northern Niger, a front man for the company confirmed.
There's no real difference between jihadis and common criminals, except that common criminals are generally nicer people.
Pauline Briand said that the seven were kidnapped overnight from Wednesday to Thursday near the town of Arlit, in the West African nation.
Briand said that at least two of those abducted were Areva employees and French citizens. She said the five others worked for an Areva subcontractor.
Construction firm Satom, a subsidiary of French engineering giant Vinci, said the five others kidnapped were its employees.
Bernard Valero, a French foreign ministry front man, confirmed the kidnappings and said French authorities were "totally mobilised'' to respond to the situation.
A front man for the government of Niger said that at least five people had been kidnapped overnight and that they were "mainly" French citizens.
"A certain number of measures have been taken, by police and the military, to quickly find the victims and the kidnappers without putting the hostages' lives in danger," Laouali Dan Dah, a Niger government front man, said.
Areva employees working in Niger have been abducted in the past. In 2008, the company announced the release of four of its employees, all French nationals, who had been kidnapped by the Movement for Justice group, which opposes the mining of ancestral lands.
Kidnappings of foreigners has become more frequent in West Africa's Sahara-Sahel region over the last year, with hostages usually ending up in the hands of groups linked to al Qaeda's North African wing.
France has said it is at war with the group and pledged further military support to countries in the region after Islamists said in July they had executed aid worker Michel Germaneau, a French citizen they were holding after a failed French-Mauritanian raid to free him.
He had been abducted three months earlier in Niger.
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[Dawn] Bahrain has jugged two people who the Gulf Arab nation said had planned a series of car bombings to go off during festivities to mark the end of Ramadan.
Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet and a regional offshore banking centre, has seen an increase in violence in recent weeks ahead of parliamentary elections on October 23.
The authorities in August jugged more than 20 Shia opposition leaders in a broad crackdown, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government by instigating unrest.
On Wednesday Bahrain's Ministry of Interior said two people from a Shia village had prepared explosive devices to detonate ten cars in different areas of Bahrain.
The pair were jugged on Sept 8. Car bombings would be an escalation of the violence beyond the night-time clashes between young Shia protesters and security forces, which are frequent in Bahrain.
The country is headed by a Mohammedan Sunni ruling family and its majority Shia population complains of discrimination in jobs and services, an accusation the government denies.
"It's not that we're discriminating, it's just that Shias aren't as smart or as hard-working as Sunnis. They can't help it, poor things -- it's the Sunni burden to rule over them."
The opposition leaders and musclejugged were mostly members of the mainly Shia Haq movement, that disputes the legitimacy of the country's democratisation process launched in the early 2000s to quell the violent unrest of the 1990s.
"We'll show them what hard work is. Yar!"
The Ministry of Interior said in its statement the two persons jugged had received funding from Hassan al-Musheimea, the leader of Haq.
Diplomats and analysts have said the arrests are an effort to press the opposition to calm down protests before parliamentary polls in October.
Western human rights groups have voiced concern and urged Bahrain to investigate allegations by some opposition muscle that they have been tortured in detention.
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(Xinhua) -- Yemeni southern separatists broke into a police headquarters and set free 15 separatist detainees on Wednesday in southern troubled province of Lahj, where secessionist sentiments are simmering, a local councilman said.
"As many as 200 separatist gunnies raided the police headquarters of Karish city without resistance from coppers and freed all 15 detainees from the police jails," the councilman Hussein Abdu told Xinhua via phone.
He said the gunnies forced the soldiers out the building and took control of it.
"The accident came after two of the separatist fellows were killed in clashes with security forces last month," he added.
Breaking into police and intelligence buildings as well as releasing detainees have recently become common in south Yemen since terrorist forces of Evil or separatists attacked security headquarters in Aden on June 19 and in Abyan on July 14.
On Tuesday, the country's interior ministry said armed separatists blew up three huge, simultaneous kabooms that rocked the capital of Yemen's troubled southern province al-Dhalee. It said no casualty was reported, but the kabooms shook up local residents and interrupted stability and security of the city.
Besides worries of resurgent al-Qaida regional wing, and fragile truce with northern Houthi-led Iranian catspaws, Yemen has also been facing growing troubles since 2007 with armed separatist movement in the south which seeks to secede southern part from the north.
Northern and southern parts of Yemen were unified in 1990 according to a deal between the People's General Congress and the Yemeni Socialist Party. However, The infamous However... the deal fell apart, leading to a crisis between the two allies, which developed into a civil war in 1994.
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(Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida regional wing said Thursday one of its filed commanders, a former Guantanamo detainee, was killed in a Yemeni-U.S. air raid early this year.
Well done, someone!
"Hani Abdu Mosleh Shalan, a filed commander in the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in a Yemeni-U.S. join air strike on a camp in southern Yemen early this year," said the group's statement posted on jihadist forums.
It said Shalan was caught by the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. He was sent to Guantanamo military jail for his participation in anti-U.S. war in Afghanistan alongside with Sheikh Osama bin Laden after 9/11.
The statement said Shalan was freed from Guantanamo and sent to the Yemeni authorities where he was finally released.
Early 2009 he joined the AQAP to become a leader of armed affiliate in southern Yemen where he carried out with his group a number of attacks against Western and Yemeni interests, according to the statement.
Yemen, the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida network leader Osama bin Laden, has witnessed a series of deadly attacks by al-Qaida group across the country since late last year.
On Wednesday, Yemeni explosive experts found remnants of high kabooms surrounding the key gas pipeline which was bombed in the southeast of the country last Monday, said the country's Interior Ministry.
A local security official said the kaboom caused a huge fire and the pipeline was badly damaged, cutting off the LNG supply. "Initial investigations proved that al-Qaida was behind the bombing," the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
With the support from Washington, Yemen has intensified crackdown and air strikes on terrorist groups since the Yemen- based al-Qaida arm claimed credit for a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. passenger plane in Detroit last December.
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Still waiting to hear that the really big turban Anwar al-Awlaki has assumed room temperature and gone on to hell without any virgins.
[Bangla Daily Star] Detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Thursday was shown jugged in connection with a case filed against him for dodging income tax.
That's the FBI's fave attack against Mafioso -- so much easier to prove than murder and mayhem.
The court also fixed September 28 for hearing on charge framing against Sayedee in the case.
Judge (In charge) Mohammad Ismail Hossain of the Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after Additional Public Prosecutor Shah Alam Talukder submitted a petition to show him jugged in the case.
Deputy Tax Commissioner Masuma Khatun of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) filed the case against Sayedee on August 19 for committing such offences.
Sayedee, accused in a number of criminal cases, was charged for dodging tax amounting to Tk 56.45 lakh for the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2009-2010.
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.
Sayedee was jugged on June 29 this year in a case filed for hurting religious sentiment of Mohammedans. Later, he was shown jugged in a number of criminal cases including three for allegedly killing people during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
Meantime, the same court again directed officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi police on execution of arrest warrant issued earlier against Jamaat leader Mir Kashem Ali in a tax evasion case.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three criminals, including two outlaws, were killed in separate 'shootouts' with the law enforcers in Kushtia and Chittagong early Thursday. [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
Rosebud!
Rosebud!
Rosebud!
The deceased were identified as Mannan Mollah, 42, a regional leader of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF)
According to this article, GMF is the armed wing of Shromijibi Mukti Andolon. It's the kind of organization splitters from the Biplobi Maoists join.
and its member Mohammad Ali, 32, and Akhtaruzzaman Khushbu, 38, hailed from Sandwip of Chittagong.
In Kushtia, two members of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz were killed in a 'gunfight' between their cohorts and law enforcers at Dorbeshpur village in Sadar upazila.
Acting on a tip-off, "Hello? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud the Weasel! I got a hot tip for yez!"
a joint team of Rapid Action Battalion-12 and Kushtia Sadar police "Sergeant Rafiq! Round up the men! The game's afoot! Oh, and bring the Kushtia Sadar Police, too."
raided a field at Dorbeshpur where Mannan and his men were holding 'a secret meeting' at about 2:15am. "Now, lissen, men! We gotta keep this here meeting secret...!"
"Hark! What's that? My spidey sense...!"
Sensing their presence, the outlaws hurled two bombs "Bring forth the bomb, Comrade Ahmed!"
targeting the law enforcers, prompting them to retaliate. "Sergeant Rafiq! Have the men open [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] fire!"
"We found two bodies lying on the ground after the gunfight," Officer-in-charge Asaduzzaman of Kushtia Sadar Police Station said. "Sergeant Rafiq! Where are those bodies!?"
"Right where we left them, sir!"
"Well get them over to Dr. Quincy! They're beginning to smell!"
The other outlaws however managed to flee the scene, the OC said. ... almost like they were never there...
Two police constables were also injured during the 'gunfight', reports our Kushtia correspondent. "Oh, that's a bad one! You're gonna have to use a needle to dig that out!"
Police recovered two country-made rifles, one foreign made revolver, eight bombs and 19 bullets from the spot. "Which spot?"
"That one, over there!"
According to police, Mannan was accused on twelve systems in six cases, including five for murders, while Mohammad Ali in five cases, including four for murders. The cases were filed with the Kushtia Sadar and Islamic University police stations, the sources said.
With this, a total of 10 incidents of 'shootout' were taken place in Kushtia in last eight and a half months since January 1 this year that killed 11 alleged criminals. The figure was 42 in 2009. Gonna have to hurry to fill their bag limit before the season ends.
Only one case was filed against the 'shootout' in the district this year.
One Anju Begum, wife Abdul Alim of Kalabaria village in Kushtia Mirpur upazila, filed the case with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court on July 20 after her husband was killed in a 'gunfight' with police. There's those scare quotes again. Why, it's almost like they don't believe the 'offical' reports.
Our staff correspondent in Chittagong reports, Khushbu was killed in a 'shootout' with the members of Rab-7 in Mirersharai upazila of Chittagong.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Mostafizur Rahman said a gang, who were holding a clandestine meeting in Domkhali cross-dam area, opened fire at the elite force members when they raided the area around 1:30am. "Yikes, it's the RaB! Open random, reckless fire!"
At one stage, Rab was compelled to fire that triggered a gunfight. I guess they figure it takes two to gunfight.
Khushbu, accused in three murder and 16 other criminal cases, was caught in the line of fire and died on the spot, the ASP said. The spot being one inch behind his left ear
However, rest of the gang managed to escape. Without a trace of evidence of their being there. Funny how that works
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Police have jugged five suspected Islamist hard boyz planning to assassinate the Pope.
The men were jugged during raids at 5.45am at a business premises in central London based on an intelligence tip off received overnight.
The suspects, aged 26, 27, 36, 40 and 50 were jugged by officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
They are said to be from a variety of nationalities including a number of Algerian origin.
The men have been taken to a central London cop shoppe where they will be interviewed by detectives.
Searches are being carried out under the Terrorism Act 2000 at the business premises and at residential premises in north and east London.
Sources said that initial searches had not uncovered any bomb-making or hazardous items.
A front man for the Metropolitan Police said the arrests were made after they received "information" and added: "Following initial inquiries by detectives a decision was made to arrest the five men."
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Possibly the usual crap of Islamic Terrorists, cops can`t prove a thing in court because of Intel reasons. Some judge will rule that their human rights have been breached, nice pay out from the British tax payer, we can not deport them coz their lives would be in danger, oh how I despair.
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The pope's visit has divided opinion in officially Protestant, highly secular Britain. The trip has been overshadowed by disgust over the Catholic Church's clerical abuse scandal and opposition from secularists and those opposed to the pope's stances against homosexuality and using condoms to fight AIDS.
ThereÂ’s a reason for that in fact they are tied in with the Cold war are Grey Wolves Glaido network.
@Dave UK
The most senior terrorist like Hamza since the Bosnia war and Qatada who had been on the payroll of MI6 since 96/97 worked with MI6 intelligence to fight proxy wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Central Asia. In fact all of the European countries do in which these terrorist cells are off shoots from.
Britain worked to refuse extradition of Hamza and Babar Ahmad who among other charges tried to set up a Chechen training camp in the US.
Most terrorist cases turn out to be duds thatÂ’s why convictions are squashed.
So Hamza and Qatada worked for MI6?Why are they both in prison then?
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Ima feeling'rn like Catholic Rage Boy! Somebody behead somebody! Or not, since our religion isn't a primitive blood seeking moon cult. That said, a good beating and boot-teaching-moment prior to deportation would be my wish. Then I'll go to confession
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Ah, Frank? I hate to burst your bubble man, but going to Confession won't do you a lot of good. You have to feel bad for what you did and want to change. Basically recognizing what you did was wrong and owning up to the fact.
An exiled Pakistani politician has been murdered outside his home in north London, leaders of his party have said.
Imran Farooq, a senior member of the MQM party, was attacked in Green Lane, Edgware, on Thursday afternoon.
The Metropolitan Police said a 50-year-old man had died after suffering multiple stab wounds and head injuries.
The MQM has declared a 10-day mourning period and violence has been reported in Karachi, with cars being set alight and guns fired across the city.
It is understood nobody has been killed or injured.
Hundreds of party activists have converged on Mr Farooq's family home in the centre of Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan and the main base of support for the MQM (Muttahida Quami Movement)
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back in the late 80s and early 90s, the Muhajir population in the south resented the dominance of the Pathan and Sindhi politicians in the ruling party.
The deceased was a leader of the Muhajir student movement (although he was out of school at the time) and later became a biggie in the early days of the MQM party.
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In the five months or so since we started watching the Mexican drug war, this is the first time I have read about drug gangs instituting roadblock for tolls. This is a means the old Sandinistas and the Salvadoran FMLN used to fund their operations Death Toll Updated to 22 Bad Guys, 2 Wounded Mexican Soldiers
A total of 22 armed suspects dead and two wounded Mexican soldiers are the toll in Wednesday's gun battle in Nuevo Leon between a detachment of the Mexican Army and unidentified drug gangs, which authorities claim lasted more than seven hours.
In the same operation, the Mexican Army released unharmed three unidentified individuals who said they were kidnapped from Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas.
The battle began Wednesday morning when an army patrol received a call about gang roadblocks on the General Trevino-Ciudad Mier highway, where armed suspects were stopping vehicles and extorting a toll from motorists, and in some cases robbing the passengers and their vehicles.
Reports say the suspects manning the roadblocks fired on the army patrol on their arrival. The ensuing initial gun battle lasted 20 minutes and killed eight armed suspects.
The army detachment with the assistance of helicopters and other military units in the area pursued the surviving gunman and fought two more gun battles, killing nine in the second firefight and two in the third.
A final battle, possibly a fourth, took place at El Rancho El Troncon 15 kilometers from the General Trevino-Ciudad Mier road, where the group apparently maintained its base camp.
At the camp, soldiers found 23 late model vehicles inside of which were found numerous munitions. Two of the vehicles were painted to look like Mexican Army vehicles.
Seized 25 assault rifles including AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, magazines and 4,200 rounds of ammunition, 532 magazines and several handguns.
The army also seized a Barrett .50 caliber heavy rifle and magazines with rounds numbering into the hundreds.
Also seized were a antitank grenade launcher, dozens of fragmentation grenades and several cartridges, for a total of 55 explosive devices.
Reports say many suspects were wearing military uniforms, as well as tactical vests and helmets. The army also found two kilograms of marijuana.
Reports also say that between 10 and fifteen armed suspects escaped the cordon in the area.
Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has been arrested in Poland where he was due to attend a two-day Chechen congress, media reports say.
He had earlier been warned by Polish authorities he faced arrest because of a Russian warrant issued through Interpol.
Polish television said Mr Zakayev was detained on his way to the prosecutor's office in Warsaw.
A close aide had said he would ask prosecutors why he was being sought.
Mr Zakayev, who is considered a terrorist by Russia, was spokesman for Chechen separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed fighting Russian forces in 2005. He has been living in the UK where he was given political asylum in 2003.
Before travelling to Warsaw, he said that he had received his Polish visa and meant to attend the event which is expected to attract hundreds of people at Pultusk, around 40 miles (60km) north the capital.
Speaking yesterday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that if the Chechen separatist leader were to be arrested, the courts might not agree to extradite him to Russia. "The extradition procedure isn't the same as extradition," he told Polish media.
[Bangla Daily Star] A roadside bomb attack killed 10 people travelling aboard a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades, authorities said.
Turkish troops launched a manhunt for those believed to be behind the attack, which also injured four people including a 15-month-old baby near the village of Gecitli in the rugged Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, Hakkari Gov Muammer Guler said.
A brief scuffle broke out between Kurdish villagers and soldiers arrived to investigate, after some villagers allegedly refused to hand over a bag they found, CNN-Turk television said. Soldiers could be seen firing shots into the air while a youth was shown throwing a rock at troops.
Kurdish rebels have targeted military vehicles with improvised explosive devices, with the latest such attack on Wednesday in Hakkari province. There have also been several other attacks on police over the past week, which would violate a cease-fire the rebels declared before a religious holiday as a pro-Kurdish party called on the government to open dialogue with rebels for a peaceful solution.
On Tuesday, thousands of Kurds attended a funeral for one of nine Kurdish rebels killed in a clash in Hakkari last week. Youths at the funeral threw stones at police, but dispersed after the region's Kurdish mayor intervened, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party boycotted a referendum Sunday over the constitution, arguing that ethnic Kurdish identity was not fully recognised by the state.
The party is now calling for a five-day boycott of schools when they open on September 20 to force the government into allowing Kurdish-language education for Kurdish children. The party's leader, Selahattin Demirtas, has said he will not send his daughter to school on Monday, prompting an angry reaction from the Education Minister Nimet Cubukcu who accused the politician of "using children for political aims" and said legal action would be taken against the parents.
Teaching in schools is in Turkish, although Turkey recently took steps toward wider Kurdish-language education by allowing the opening of Kurdish-language institutes and Kurdish courses at universities.
The rebels have been fighting for autonomy in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast since 1984. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
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(Xinhua) -- At least 13 more people were killed Thursday in the ongoing clashes between two tribes over water dispute in Kurram tribal agency in northwest Pakistain, local sources said.
According to sources, the dispute between Mangal and Bangash tribes had taken a new turn after the involvement of snuffies in the clashes which took place in the tribal region's Shalozan and Tangi areas.
In a fresh clash, the two rival groups used automatic weapons against each other. As a result, 13 persons, including 10 Afghan nationals, were killed and 19 others were seriously injured.
A fine example of the ultimate back-up method of birth control.
Some locals said the Afghan nationals were urging the people for violence. After the fresh clash between the two groups, tension and fear gripped the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the region's political administration claimed that steps were being taken to restore peace between the tribes.
So far, at least 49 people have been killed and 80 others sustained injuries in the two-week clashes in Kurram near the border with Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] Protesters defied a round-the-clock curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday and attacked government forces with rocks, wounding six of them, police said.
On the outskirts of Srinagar, teenagers stoned a vehicle of paramilitary soldiers that overturned, injuring five soldiers. In the town of Baramulla, one police officer was maimed as government forces fired tear gas and swung batons to disperse scores of rock-throwing protesters, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to reporters.
Violent civil unrest against New Delhi's rule in Kashmir has roiled the disputed Himalayan region for the past three months and killed at least 94 people, including 22 who died from police fire this week. The unrest prompted authorities to declare the curfew, under which violators can be shot.
There is little sign of the unrest abating. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella organisation of separatist political and religious groups, is calling for people to march on Indian military camps on September 21, which could escalate the protests.
An insurgency seeking the region's independence or merger with Pakistain that broke out in 1989 has waned in recent years, but the continuing Indian military presence is widely resented by Kashmiris. Wide scale street protests have broken out for three consecutive summers.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with top Indian politicians in New Delhi and decided to send a cross-party delegation to assess the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir, but separatist leaders dismissed it as a public relations ploy and Kashmiri analysts were sceptical it would achieve much.
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(Xinhua) -- Five people were killed and five others were maimed in gunfire and bomb attacks on Thursday in eastern and northern Iraq, while the Iraqi security forces captured 15 suspects across the country during the day, the police said.
In Diyala province, a member of government-backed Awakening Council group and his wife were rubbed out when gunnies stormed their house at a rural area near the town of Abu Sayda, northeast of the bustling provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Storied Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The Awakening Council group, or Sahwa in Arabic, are mostly anti-U.S. Sunni Islamic myrmidon groups, who fought the al-Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Mohammedan communities.
Also in Diyala province, a civilian was killed and three others maimed in an IEDkaboom near their car while travelling near a village in north of Baquba, the source said.
Separately, the Iraqi security forces conducted search operations across the province during the past 24 hours and apprehended five suspects and wanted individuals, the source added.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country, has long been a stronghold for al-Qaida hard boyz and other Islamic myrmidon groups since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite repeated U.S. and Iraqi military operations against them.
In Mosul, the capital of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi police traded fire with forces of Evil during a raid on a safe house in the al-Thawra neighborhood, killing two gunnies, capturing two more, and seizing a cache of weapons and ammunition, an anonymous provincial police source told Xinhua.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been a stronghold of Islamic myrmidon groups and al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country.
Elsewhere in northern Iraq, two coppers were maimed in a twin roadside bomb kabooms in central the city of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a local police source said.
Also in Kirkuk, the Iraqi security forces captured eight suspects, including six wanted individuals, during raids on villages of the al-Rashad area, southwest of the city, he said.
The oil-rich Kirkuk province and its capital Kirkuk City are part of the disputed areas between the Kurds and both Arabs and Turkmans. The area has long been the hotbed of insurgency since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Violence is still common in Iraqi cities as security deteriorated, causing a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the country more than two weeks after the U.S. military announced withdrawal of its combat troops from the war-torn country.
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(Xinhua) -- At least two Sunni Awakening Council group members were killed and three people maimed when a boomer struck the group's base in the city of Samarra in Salahudin province in north of Storied Baghdad on Thursday, a provincial police source said.
A boomer wearing an explosive vest blew himself up at the entrance of the anti-Qaida paramilitary group in the al-Mu' lmeen neighborhood in Samarra City, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source from Salahudin operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The source could not give further details about the incident as he was citing initial reports, but he said that the toll could rise.
The Awakening Council group consists of bands of Islamic bandidos, including some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni turban groups, who fought the al- Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Mohammedan communities.
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A teenager and his father were gunned down in Narathiwat province and a couple was shot and injured in Pattani province overnight.
The bodies of Latae Tangyongaree, 56 a local official and his 17-year-old son Sorlae Tanyongaree were discovered beside their motorcycle. Near their bullet-ridden bodies were 21 spent M16 cartridges. Mr Latae had left his home Wednesday to work a night shift at a village checkpoint.
When Mr Latae got off work at midnight, his son brought his motorcycle to pick him up. They were ambushed in front of their homes by four jihdis attackers.
In the adjacent province of Pattani, a couple was shot and wounded while they rode their motorcycle to work Thursday morning. While the two employees at Prince of Songkhla University were on route, a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle shot at them. Mr Sathaporn was hit twice while his wife was shot once.
The police believe the two incidents were the work of terrorists suspected insurgents active in the southern border provinces.
Terrorists Insurgents ambushed a teacher protection unit with a homemade bomb Friday morning, wounding three troops.
The bomb exploded at 6:30 AM while eight troops were leaving their base in Bacho district to escort teachers to school. The bomb was buried on a roadside just outside the base.
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So I have to ask, why the line through teh terrorist designation, and the use of insurgent instead?
Muzzies have sensitive feelings, best not to hurt them. Delicate things, the slightest...slight sets them off. No pun intended.
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Near their bullet-ridden bodies were 21 spent M16 cartridges.
How does this erstwhile *writer* know these were "M16 cartridges"?
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... why the line through the terrorist designation?
I guess the idea in my mind has been that the reporter first wrote the common sense word (terrorist) and then changed his mind to the more PC word (insurgent) that was actually used in the article.
I can see how the other way around makes sense though (that I'm crossing out the reporters PC word & putting the better one in its place).
Now, I'm not sure which is better. LOL
I may begin to make an effort to see what other R'burgers do and consider switching the way I do it if I see that I'm in the minority. If I remember.
(Xinhua) -- One of the jailed Abu Sayyaf bad turbans, who bolted its cell and beat feet last year, was killed by Philippine Marines following a raid in his safe house Thursday in the southern Philippine province of Basilan.
Adel Kamla was killed in a brief firefight with the pursuing elements of the 1st Marine Brigade in Masola village about 6:30 a. m., local time.
Brig. Gen. Eugenio Clemen, 1st Marine Brigade commander said his forces got a tip about the presence of Kamla frequenting the area prompting them to conduct entrapment to recapture the runaway.
But Kamla, armed with gun, resisted arrest, prompting the Marines to shoot him.
Clemen said Kamla was one of the 31 Abu Sayyaf Islamic fascistiwho beat feet from the Basilan's prison last Dec. 13, 2009 when the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) stormed the detention facility and rescued its leader Dan Laksaw alias Asnawi.
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[Al Jazeera] A Lebanese general who called the country's prime minister, Saad Hariri, a liar and urged people to topple his government, has been summoned for questioning by the state, according to a judicial official.
Brigadier-General Jamil Sayyed, who made the comments, was among four military officers who were jailed without charge for nearly four years for the 2005 assassination of Hariri's father, Rafiq al-Hariri. They were freed last year for lack of evidence.
Said Mirza, the Lebanese prosecutor-general, summoned Sayyed for questioning over his "threats against the Lebanese state" and Hariri, the judicial official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to give official statements to the media.
Speaking on Sunday, Sayyed accused Hariri of selling his father's blood to frame Syria for the killing, which at the time set off huge protests that led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops after nearly 30 years.
'False witnesses'
Many Lebanese regarded Sayyed and the three other military officers as the men through whom Syria exercised its control over Leb.
Sayyed, who left Leb shortly after his remarks, also said Saad Hariri supported "false witnesses" who misled the investigation into the 2005 killing.
He warned Saad Hariri that he must be held accountable or "I will do it someday with my own hands". Sayyed later said he meant he would get justice through the courts.
"The Lebanese people must unite against this [government] and topple it, even if by force," he said.
Al Jazeera's Rula Amin, in Beirut, said: "Sayyed is now pursuing the international tribunal to release statements by these witnesses to pursue this further.
"He has already been to Damascus where he asked the judicial system there to pursue some of these witnesses as some of them are Syrians.
"Some of the people Sayyed has been naming are very close to Saad Hariri and his attempt here is seen as very dangerous."
Syrian connection
Rafiq al-Hariri, a billionaire businessman and a former prime minister, was Leb's most prominent politician after the end of the 15-year civil war in 1990.
Suspicion initially fell on Syria after the killing in February 2005, since al-Hariri had been seeking to weaken the country's domination of the country.
Syria has denied having any role in the killing and last week, in a sweeping reversal, Saad Hariri said it was a mistake to blame Syria.
Earlier this year, Sayyed asked the UN tribunal investigating al-Hariri's assassination to release his secret case file so that he might know who accused him.
Sayyed travelled to Paris following his news conference on Sunday to await the court's decision, which is expected this month.
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ION HAARETZ > {Ahmadinejad] IRAN READY FOR NUCLEAR TALKS [i.e. dialogue only wid "5+1" Group], BUT WILL NOT MAKE CONCESSIONS.
* WORLD NEWS > [ME Online] JORDAN WILL GIVE UP ON ATOMIC POWER RIGHTS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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(Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida regional wing said Thursday one of its filed commanders, a former Guantanamo detainee, was killed in a Yemeni-U.S. air raid early this year.
[Bangla Daily Star] Detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Thursday was shown 
Three criminals, including two outlaws, were killed in separate 'shootouts' with the law enforcers in Kushtia and Chittagong early Thursday.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A roadside bomb attack killed 10 people travelling aboard a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades, authorities said.
(Xinhua) -- At least 13 more people were killed Thursday in the ongoing clashes between two tribes over water dispute in Kurram tribal agency in northwest Pakistain, local sources said.
(Xinhua) -- One of the jailed Abu Sayyaf
