[Pak Daily Times] Clashes between government forces and fighters from an alliance of Darfur rebel groups have left 40 rebels dead, Sudan's army said on Saturday, announcing a figure contested by the turbans.
The fighting that occurred on Friday in the Shangil Tobaya region, about 65 kilometres south of El-Fasher, historic capital of Darfur in western Sudan which has been gripped by civil war since 2003, the army said. "The army attacked and defeated an alliance of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Minnawi (SLA-Minnawi)," the official SUNA news agency quoted army front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad as saying.
"Forty rebels were killed and a number maimed," the front man said, adding that two soldiers were killed and 13 maimed. The rebels in a statement however proclaimed victory in Friday's fighting and reported "two deaths and some injuries" in their ranks.
Since Thursday, fighters from JEM -- the most armed rebel group in Darfur -- and SLA-Minnawi have been fighting alongside each other against government troops, according to JEM military front man Ali al-Wafi. According to Wafi, the Sudan Liberation Army of Abdelwahid Nur has also joined the newly formed Alliance of Resistance Forces but a top SLA-Abdelwahid official said talks were ongoing and nothing had been decided yet.
Such an alliance would bring together all the main Darfur rebel groups which have opposed the central government in Khartoum since 2003, accusing it of neglecting the development of the vast desert region. Since the civil war broke out, some 300,000 people have been killed and another 2.7 million displaced, according to UN figures. Sudan says 10,000 people have died in the conflict. The Khartoum government has been trying to secure for months a comprehensive peace agreement with all Darfur rebel groups to no avail. Minnawi is the only rebel leader to have struck an agreement with Khartoum, but relations between them have soured and the rebels clashed with the army earlier this month.
According to UN officials, the festivities between Minnawi's supporters and troops have forced the displacement of more than 12,000 people in less than a week.
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Somali pirates yesterday captured a Thai bulk carrier with its 27 crew members in the Arabian Sea, a maritime official said.
The Thor Nexus was seized in the early hours while on its way to Bangladesh from the United Arab Emirates. All its crew members are Thai, said Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.
Mwangura said the vessel was taken some 350 nautical miles east of Salala port, but the nature of its cargo was still unknown.
According to maritime watchdog Ecoterra International, Somali pirates are currently holding at least 40 foreign vessels and nearly 700 seamen, though the European naval force in the area put it at 25 vessels and 601 hostages.
A statement from the Brussels-based NAVFOR said the 20,377-tonne general cargo ship, which is Thai-flagged and owned, was heading to Bangladesh from Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates at the time of the attack, some 450 nautical miles north-east of the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean.
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[Pak Daily Times] A series of unprecedented kabooms and attacks on churches on the eve of Christmas have left at least 38 people dead in Nigeria as authorities worked on Saturday to keep the violence from spreading.
Seven kabooms went off in two different areas of the flashpoint city of Jos in central Nigeria, killing 32 people and injuring 74, many of them as they were doing their Christmas shopping, police said.
In the city of Maiduguri in northern Nigeria, suspected members of a sect that launched an uprising last year attacked three churches, leaving six people dead and one of the churches burnt, an army front man said. There was no immediate indication the incidents in the vast country's north and central regions were linked.
The situation was especially tense in Jos, which has been previously hit by sectarian unrest that many observers say has been stoked by politics and which has killed hundreds this year. Police sought to calm the situation after some residents reported that a gang of youths had barricaded a road leading to an area where one blast occurred and had set about five vehicles ablaze.
"We lost 32 and 74 were maimed," Plateau state police commissioner Abdulrahman Akano said.
Previous violence in the region has often involved inter-communal festivities and reprisals, and the kabooms marked a dramatic turn in the situation. "This is the very first time explosives of this magnitude are involved," said Akano.
Police had not determined who was behind the blasts, he said, adding it appeared dynamite was used. "People were doing their shopping," he said of the areas where the kabooms went off. "The place targeted had all kinds of people there -- Mohammedans, non-Mohammedans."
Jos, the capital of Plateau state, is in the so-called middle-belt region between the predominantly Mohammedan north and the mainly Christian south and has long been a hotspot of ethnic and religious friction in Nigeria. Local rights groups say 1,500 people have died in inter-communal violence in the Jos region this year alone.
"The aim of the criminal mastermind is to pit Christians against Mohammedans and spark off another round of violence that will eventually culminate in the scuttling of the ongoing electioneering activities," Plateau state governor Jonah David Jang said in an address carried on local television.
Elections are set for April in Nigeria and observers have warned of an increase in violence as the polls approach.
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return the favor - have an explosive Ramadan next year
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[Pak Daily Times] Yemen has deployed new anti-terrorism forces in the country's restive south, the ministry of interior announced on Saturday, as Washington urged Sanaa to step up its fight against al Qaeda.
The announcement follows a spate of deadly attacks on government and military targets in the south, the latest on Friday when according to a security official a suspected al Qaeda beturbanned goonrubbed out a soldier who ferried him on his motor-bike taxi in Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province.
The Yemeni government is deploying the anti-terrorism units in four southern and southeastern provinces, Hadramawt, Abyan, Shabwa and Marib, the ministry said in a statement on its website. The creation of these units will "bring the confrontation with the members of the al Qaeda terrorist network to a critical stage" and will "tighten the noose around it," the statement said.
US counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan urged Yemeni President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday "to emphasise the importance of taking forceful action against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in order to thwart its plans to carry out terrorist attacks in Yemen as well as in other countries," the White House said in a statement. Brennan's comments came a year after a botched attempt to blow up a US passenger plane last Christmas by a Nigerian with Yemeni and AQAP links.
AQAP has taken credit for a foiled air cargo bomb plot in October, in which printer toner cartridges that had been rigged as bombs were shipped out of Sanaa and, according to Sherlocks, set to explode over the United States.
One of the leaders of the group -- US-Yemeni citizen Anwar al Awlaqi, believed on the lam in Yemen's vast and lawless tribal areas -- is now viewed by Washington as a threat on par with al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden.
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Saudi security forces shot dead a suspected Al Qaeda militant and arrested another after one of them opened fire at agents at a checkpoint on Friday, the interior ministry said.
Most excellent!
One of the two men, who was disguised as a woman,
Which is why we have to check the black shopping bags at courthouses, airport security, and so on ...
opened fire after their car was stopped at the checkpoint in the central town of Wadi al-Dawasir, said Mansour al-Turki, the ministrys security spokesman. We have a strong suspicion it is Al Qaeda, but we are still trying to identify the dead man and questioning the detained suspect, the spokesman said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel recovered ammunition including bullets, fuses used for detonating mines and a grenade from bordering Bakakura village in Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur district yesterday.
Police and BDR sources said, on information a team led by Company Commander Mafizul Islam of BDR Nakshi Camp in Jhenaigati rushed to the spot and recovered 97 bullets of pistol, rifle, light machine gun (LMG); a hand grenade, seven fuses, three satellite phone sets and a mobile set in an abandoned state around 12:45pm.
The team also recovered huge quantity of paper and documents of land written in different languages including Bengali and English, 19 mobile SIM cards and eight mobile cards.
Different equipments of pistol and LMG, five compact discs (CDs), equipments of mobile phone, two films, books of the dissident groups of India, motor cycle license, travelling bag and many other things were also recovered.
All these things were brought to BGB Mymensingh headquarters yesterday evening and these will be handed over to police after examination, Mafizul Islam said.
He also said the papers might be related to the Indian dissident group ULFA.
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"Sergeant Rafiq, I suspect these Hizb ut Tawhid activists are female!"
"Sir! How do you do it?"
[Bangla Daily Star] Police jugged four female suspected activists of Islamist organisation Hizb-ut-Tawhid at Dakkhin Shihipasha village at Goila union in Agoiljhara upazila yesterday.
The arrestees are Asma Akhter Runa, 28, of Jessore, Bakul Begum, 50, of Shahjira village of Gouranadi upazila, Farzana Akhter Moni, 19, of Charhoglapati village of Babuganj upazila and Jebun Nahar, 19, of Ghanteshwar village under Uzirpur upazila of Barisal.
Agoiljhara thana officer said they were held while distributing Jihadi books and compact discs (CDs) at about 11:00am.
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Only a week after declaring a state of siege, Guatemala has made definitive moves to counter inroads the Mexican criminal gang Los Zetas has made into Guatemala, according to Mexican and English language news accounts.
The declaration, made last Sunday and limited to the Alta Verapaz department, is to last for 30 days and includes provisions for arrest and detention of suspects for crimes considered to endanger the state. The legal move could be expanded to four other departments bordering Mexico.
The declaration was endorsed by the Guatemalan national legislature December 22nd.
Guatemala president Alvaro Colom's latest move has been to transfer 335 police officers out of the department as a preventative measure to stop leaks to Los Zetas of information relating to government measures against them.
Since the declaration a total of 22 suspects reports say are members of Los Zetas have been detained in several operations.
Reports also say since last Sunday, Guatemalan security forces have arrested 18 individuals and have seized a total of 18,600 rounds of ammunition, 150 firearms including assault rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, five light aircraft, 28 vehicles, several armored vehicles, and more than $62,000 in cash.
THE HAGUE - Twelve Somalis suspected of involvement in terrorist activities have been arrested in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands prosecution service said on Saturday.
Somalis, huh? They're wearing out their welcome in lots of places around the world; Minneapolis, Netherlands, ...
A statement said the arrests were made late Friday following a tip-off by Dutch intelligence that a number of Somalis wanted to commit a terrorist attack in the Netherlands in the near future.
The arrested youts Somalis were aged between 19 and 48, the statement said. Six lived in Rotterdam, five had no known address and one was a Danish resident.
A shop and four houses were searched in Rotterdam and two motel rooms in the southern town of Gilze-Rijen, but no weapons or explosives were found, prosecutors said.
The men are being questioned, prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP. They will be brought before a judge within three days to decide whether or not to keep them in custody.
De Bruin said more arrests were not on the cards for now.
Pity ...
Dutch news agency ANP quoted the National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism as saying the arrests did not warrant changing the countrys terror threat level from limited.
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An unidentified ship with over 25 Pakistani and Iraqi nationals on board has been detained off the coast of Lakshadweep by security agencies after it illegally entered Indian waters.
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Mumbai precursor? Or is India now the place in that area to go to find jobs?
[Pak Daily Times] A female jacket wallah ripped though a gathering of conflict-hit people waiting to receive food in Bajuar Agency, killing at least 42 people, including women and kiddies, and injuring scores of others, officials and locals said.
A political administration official told Daily Times on Saturday that the suicide kaboom took place at a food distribution centre being run by the World Food Organisation in Khar. He said around 300 people from the Salarzai tribe were gathered to receive food when the bomber struck. A WFP front man said the attack took place where people were being screened at a security checkpoint near their centre.
Assistant Political Agent Tariq Khan said the bomber was a woman. He said she appeared in full veil and blew herself up while being searched at the centre.
Witnesses said she threw hand grenades at rustics before detonating the bomb. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain front man Azam Tariq grabbed credit for the attack on behalf of the group and said the attack was retaliation for the Salarzai tribe's activities against the Taliban.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... WFP temporarily stopped its food distribution operation in Bajaur after the attack. A front man WFP front man said a curfew was imposed in the area after the terrorist attack, due to which the WFP halted its operation.
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More than 80 people have been killed after a suicide bombing and helicopter raids in Pakistan.
"I strongly condemn the outrageous terrorist attack in Khar, Pakistan," Mr Obama said in a statement from Hawaii, where he was spending Christmas with his family.
"Killing innocent civilians outside a World Food Program distribution point is an affront to the people of Pakistan, and to all humanity," Mr Obama added.
The blast occurred in Khar, the main town of lawless Bajaur tribal district, once a stronghold of Taliban militants who have carried out several bombings and suicide attacks in the area, which is near the Afghanistan border.
A suicide bomber wearing a burqa, and who some officials said was a woman, killed at least 43 people and wounded 100 as many of them queued for food that was being distributed by the United Nations food agency.
Most of the victims belonged to the local Salarzai tribe which supported military action against the militants and formed a militia to force them from Bajaur.
"The United States stands with the people of Pakistan in this difficult time, and will strongly support Pakistan's efforts to ensure greater peace, security and justice for its people," Obama said in his brief statement.
Someone is tasked on the "unsafe" side, with keeping the people in line dispersed.
The lowest density is in the search area itself, which is one-at-a-time, so the most people the boomer can kill are two guards. Doing it in a room, or just four walls, is ideal.
Then, as long as the "safer" side has been cleared ahead of time, chances of mass casualties are minimal.
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Does anybody notice that most of the victims of Muslim terrorist attacks these days are other Muslims?
Where are the imams condemning the slaughter of innocents, which is forbidden in the Koran? Where are the other Muslims screaming that such slaughter should not go unpunished?
Yes, yes. I know that ultimately it is America's and Israel's fault.
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Prez Obama did not, IIUC, issue a condemnation of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Nigeria that occurred the same day and which killed about as many people.
Perhaps, this is because he is afraid of the reaction of moslem Paks who will blame the US (which is an actual type of Islamophobia).
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[Pak Daily Times] Security forces thwarted a terrorist plot by seizing a car full of explosives in Doaba area on Saturday, police said. Acting on a tip off, a police party signalled to stop a suspected car for searching at Maroofi Banda. The outlaws, seeing security forces, abandoned the car and started firing in a bid to flee from the scene. During an exchange of fire with security forces, three outlaws, Abu Bakar, Anwar and Saeed Gul, sustained injuries and were jugged. Later, police defused the explosives in the vehicle, cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
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[Pak Daily Times] An official said on Saturday that army helicopter gunships and artillery had killed 40 more Orcs and similar vermin on the second day of large-scale fighting near the border with Afghanistan.
Top government official in Mohmand, Amjad Ali Khan, said gunships backed by artillery pounded terrorist hideouts on Saturday, killing 40 of them.
On Friday, about 150 Taliban staged simultaneous attacks on five paramilitary checkpoints in the Baizai area of Mohmand sparking an hours-long battle that resulted in 11 soldiers being killed and a dozen being maimed. Twenty-four Taliban were also killed in the gunbattles, officials said.
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ION TOPIX > [MQM Chief] ALTAF SEES FRANCE-LIKE REVOLUTION [ocurring] IN PAKISTAN.
Uh, uh, GOTTA PARTY HARDY LIKE ITS 1789, + a NOT-IN-USA'S-BURN-NOTICE-TV-SHOW MILITANT BABE NAMED "MARIANNE/MARIENNE"???
IIRC She carried a REVOLUTIONARY FLAG, a GUN, + she's from the LAND(S) OF ATTILA-THE-HUN???
JAIPUR - In a major breakthrough, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Rajasthan Police claim to have found the car that carried explosives for the Ajmer bomb blast in 2007 that killed three people and injured over 30.
We have traced the car, a black Hyundai Santro, bearing Madhya Pradesh registeration number, which was used to transport the explosives for the Dargah bomb blast, an official of Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) said on Saturday.
The explosives were taken in this car from Indore to Godhra in Gujarat and then to Ajmer in Rajasthan, he added.
The ATS, however, was tight lipped as to where this car was found.
The squad has also identified five more suspects wanted in the case. We have identified that five men Bhavesh, Divesh, Sunny, Mukesh and Mehul. We have been on their trail for long, the official added.
The ATS has so far arrested four for the blast in the Dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer.
In October, Rajasthans Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) filed charge sheets in an Ajmer local court against the five accused in the blast case. It alleges that supporters of a radical Hindu group called Abhinav Bharat carried out the blast on October 11, 2007.
The ATS has charged Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma, Chander Shekhar Lave, Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangre with murder, attempt to murder, conspiracy, harming or defiling place of worship and other crimes.
Gupta, Sharma, Lave are in judicial custody while Dange and Kalsangre are untraced and on the run. Another accused, Sunil Joshi, died during the course of investigation.
Heart failure, of course ...
The 806-page charge sheet says that the conspiracy for the bomb blast was hatched during a meeting held in room 26 of Gujarati Samaj guest house near MI Road here Oct 21, 2005.
According to the charge sheet, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar was present at the secret meeting which six other functionaries of the outfit attended. Besides Kumar, Swami Aseemanand of Abhinav Bharat and Sadhvi Pragya of Jai Vande Matram Sangathan were also present at the meeting, it claimed. Indresh Kumar has so far not been made an accused in the case as further investigations are required, but he seems to be a conspirator, an ATS source said.
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Gorb, I think this is the story where the Iraqi authorities came to arrest the girl for being an Al Qaeda boomerette, but Daddy told them he'd killed her a month or so previously, to prevent her from deploying her new outfit.
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The father at first denied his daughter had any links to the terror group, but after further questioning admitted to killing her.
He described it as an attempt to protect the familys dignity and said his daughter had been recruited by al-Qaida to be a suicide bomber.
Al-Anbaky then showed police his daughters grave.
Better check her DNA. Maybe the daughter is not dead. Make sure it is her. As Gorg said, maybe he just murdered her.
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It's kind of understandable. If he had gotten his daughter arrested, he might shown up on al Qaeda's hit list. As it is, the exposure of his act might land him on that hit list, anyway. Getting his daughter arrested also exposes his family to scrutiny from government agencies on this reasoning - what is this man teaching his family that they become suicide bombers? Given the highly-coercive tendencies of Middle Eastern security personnel, I'd have to say his actions are perfectly understandable.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Three persons, including a soldier, were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in northern Mosul city on Saturday, a security source in Ninewa said.
An IED blast targeted an Iraqi army patrol on the main street in al-Sokkar neighborhood, northern Mosul, leaving two civilians who happened to be near the site and a soldier wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He did not give further details.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A police force arrested a "prominent leader" of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group was in charge of collecting money and blackmailing local residents, a police source in Ninewa said on Saturday.
They bagged another number three!
"A force from the Ninewa Police Department's 7th Contingent arrested today (Dec. 25) Abbas Mohammed Amin al-Farahat in Tammuz 17 neighborhood, western Mosul, in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"Farahat is a member of the ISI who used to charge owners of fuel stations, power generators, stores and trucks forced financial tributes on a monthly basis," he added.
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Iraq's defense ministry says security forces have arrested 93 suspects in an al-Qaida crackdown in the western Anbar province.
A defense ministry spokesman, Major General Mohammed al-Askari, said Thursday the arrests included 60 wanted men. He said the detentions resulted from a series of raids launched late Tuesday that included help from police, the army, pro-government tribal forces and members of an anti-al-Qaida militia.
Earlier this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki named security as one of his top priorities after parliament approved cabinet ministers for his new government.
Meanwhile, Iraqi officials say gunmen using silencers have killed a brigadier general and wounded a police lieutenant colonel. Both incidents occurred late Wednesday in Baghdad.
Two Islamic Jihadis were killed in a clash with the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip early today, according to Adham Abu Selmeya, from Hamass Health Ministry emergency services. An army spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying soldiers backed by helicopter gunships fired on a some terrorists laying mines near Israels border fence with Gaza.
[Emirates 24/7] Six people were maimed Saturday when a bomb went off in a church during Christmas mass on a southern Philippine island known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism, the military said.
Military front man Lieutenant Randolph Cabangbang said the Abu Sayyaf, a local Mohammedan beturbanned goon group linked to the Al-Qaeda network, may have been behind the attack on the church in a police camp on Jolo island.
"There is a possibility that this could be the handiwork of the Abu Sayyaf because they have been perpetrating similar attacks against the Catholic church," Cabangbang said.
"The kaboom occurred at around 7:15 in the morning while the mass was going on. Six people were slightly maimed in the kaboom," he said.
Among those maimed was the priest officiating the mass, he added.
Regional police director Chief Superintendent Felicisimo Khu said the bomb was a small device that went off near the altar. He said the bomb caused so few injuries because it contained no shrapnel.
Police Sherlocks were searching the site for clues as to who might be behind the blast, Cabangbang said.
He added that besides the Abu Sayyaf, other possible suspects included individuals acting on a personal grudge.
Security has been tightened in the mostly-Mohammedan island of Jolo in the wake of the blast.
The Abu Sayyaf, a gang of self-styled Islamic cut-throats founded in the 1990s with seed money from Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, has long used Jolo as a base, carrying out kidnappings and bombings.
It is believed to have carried out the worst beturbanned goon attacks in the Philippines including the bombing of a passenger ferry in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people in 2004.
It has also kidnapped many foreigners and Filipino Christians, including priests and nuns, often hiding them in the jungles of Jolo and other southern islands.
US forces have been deployed in the southern Philippines since 2002 to train local troops in hunting down the Abu Sayyaf.
A roadside kaboom believed planted by the Abu Sayyaf killed two US soldiers on Jolo in September last year.
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Adds tasty detail to yesterday's article...
[Emirates 24/7] The leader of an Al-Qaeda splinter group was found rubbed out execution-style on Saturday in Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Leb, a Paleostinian official said.
"The body of Ghandi Sahmarani, leader of Jund al-Sham, was found this morning in a garage inside the camp," Fatah official Mounir Makdah told AFP.
An AFP photographer who saw Sahmarani's body in the morgue in the southern coastal city of Sidon said his hands had been bound with wire behind his back and it appeared he had been killed with a single shot to the mouth.
Makdah said that Sahmarani, a Lebanese, had been "a friend" of Abdel Rahman Awad, the presumed chief of the shadowy Fatah al-Islam, A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. an Islamist group which fought a deadly battle in 2007 against the Lebanese army at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the country's north.
In August, Lebanese troops killed Awad, a Paleostinian, and his aide, "Abu Bakr" Mubarak, in a shootout in the eastern town of Chtaura in the Bekaa Valley.
Jund al-Sham, the Arabic for "Army of Greater Syria," is a radical Sunni snuffy group believed to be based in Ain al-Hilweh, the largest of Leb's 12 refugee camps, and linked to Al-Qaeda.
Ain al-Hilweh, outside Sidon, has gained notoriety as a refuge for bully boyz and runaways.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the country's camps, leaving security inside in the hands of Paleostinian factions.
Most of Leb's hundreds of thousands of refugees live in the overpopulated camps, which are armed to the teeth.
On October 28, a 13-year-old boy was killed and four other people maimed in a grenade blast outside a scrapmetal yard in northern Leb's Nahr al-Bared camp, scene of a fierce 2007 battle between Islamists and the Lebanese army.
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Robin: "Holy Living Bra Batman, have you ever seen a pair that.."
Batman (inturupting): " Robin, whatever you do, DO NOT wash my side of the Batmobile."
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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Saudi security forces shot dead a suspected Al Qaeda militant and arrested another after one of them opened fire at agents at a checkpoint on Friday, the interior ministry said.
[Pak Daily Times] Security forces thwarted a terrorist plot by seizing a car full of explosives in Doaba area on Saturday, police said. Acting on a tip off, a police party signalled to stop a suspected car for searching at Maroofi Banda. The outlaws, seeing security forces, abandoned the car and started firing in a bid to flee from the scene. During an exchange of fire with security forces, three outlaws, Abu Bakar, Anwar and Saeed Gul, sustained injuries and were 
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A police force arrested a "prominent leader" of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group was in charge of collecting money and blackmailing local residents, a police source in Ninewa said on Saturday.
Iraq's defense ministry says security forces have arrested 93 suspects in an al-Qaida crackdown in the western Anbar province.
Two Islamic Jihadis were killed in a clash with the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip early today, according to Adham Abu Selmeya, from Hamass Health Ministry emergency services. An army spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying soldiers backed by helicopter gunships fired on a some terrorists laying mines near Israels border fence with Gaza.
