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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Mamie Van Doren aka Silver Morgan in "Girls Town" aka Saxie Symbol in "3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt" aka Dr. Mathilda West in "Sex Kittens Go to College" aka Cpl. Bunky Hilstrom in "Francis Joins the WACS" aka Nora Hall in "The Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (age 80)
Charlotte Rampling aka Meredith in "Georgy Girl" aka Anne Boleyn in "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" aka Sarah Morton in "Swimming Pool" aka Consuella in "Zardoz" (age 65)
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Yes Zardoz. A somewhat silly movie but the use of Beethoven's 7th at the end of the movie as a time lapse life cycle is shown was truly a brilliant idea.
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Charlotte's recline pic looks like she has inverse raccoon eyes.
[Tolo News] Taliban Friday attacked on houses of gunnies who had surrendered to government, local officials said on Saturday.
Taliban have attacked on houses of gunnies yesterday afternoon in Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul province, where the gunnies had recently handed over their weapons and surrendered to government, Sayed Anwar Rahmati, Governor of Sar-e-Pul told TOLOnews.
Afghan and Nato forces have launched military operations to wipe out Death Eaters from the area and it is still continuing in Sayad district, he added.
Mr Rahmati said six gunnies including their acting Taliban shadow district governor for Sayad have been killed and four others were maimed in the operation.
One other Islamic myrmidon was nabbed by Afghan and Nato forces in the operation, Sayed Anwar Rahmati said.
There were no Afghan, Nato and civilian casualties in the operation, Mr Rahmati added.
After Afghan and Nato forces launched their offensives, dozens of Taliban fighters have laid down their weapons and joined the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
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[Tolo News] In a joint Afghan and Nato forces' operation in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night 15 snuffies were killed, local official said.
How nice! I wonder how many jihad-drunk fools that makes altogether since we arrived? What d'you suppose Paradise provides, when they've run out of proper perpetual virgins?
The operation was launched in Lal Poor district of Nanagarhar last night to clear the district of turbans, Alishah Paktiawal, police chief of Nangarhar told TOLOnews.
One Taliban capo named Lal Khan was also killed in the operation, he added.
There were no Afghan, Nato forces casualties in the operation, police officials said.
Taliban have not yet commented about the operation.
Mr Paktiawal said the operation continues in other parts of Lal Poor district to wipe out the beturbanned goons.
Lal Poor district is bordered by Pakistain and it's one of insecure districts in the province where snuffies are active.
Militants in the districts have used Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and Nato forces.
Some of Afghan forces' check posts have also been targeted in the past.
Afghan and Nato forces have launched several military operations in the country to clear the insecure areas of turbans.
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What d'you suppose Paradise provides, when they've run out of proper perpetual virgins?
72 Helen Thomases
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I know we've gotten out of the body count business, but we must have taken out a lot of bad guys during the past year or two. I read somewhere that the Marine units are really kicking butt.
A rebellion by former pro-Khartoum militiamen in south Sudan against giving up their heavy weapons sparked two days of clashes which killed 20 people in oil-producing Upper Nile state, a military spokesman said on Saturday. Fighting in Malakal, the state capital, close to the border with the north, killed 20 people and wounded at least 24, said Philip Aguer, spokesman for the former rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA).
There was heavy fighting with mortars fired by both sides, but the clashes have now been brought under control, Aguer said. Our forces in the SPLA, along with the United Nations peacekeepers, have succeeded in creating a buffer zone between the two sides and to bring the situation to an end.
Upper Niles information minister Peter Lam Both said fighting had also erupted in three other areas of the sensitive state on Saturday morning Paloich, Malut and Maban.
The fighting started this morning but is now over... We dont have any casualty figures but were fearing the numbers are heavy, Lam told AFP.
The fighting around Malakal airport was sparked on Thursday when loyalists of Gabriel Tang, who commanded a pro-Khartoum militia during the 1983-2005 civil war between north and south, objected to surrendering their heavy weaponry.
The former militiamen are deployed alongside regular northern troops in so-called Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) with southern forces that patrol the town under the peace agreement that ended the civil war. In reality the units are far from integrated and the component elements effectively operate as separate forces.
The northern troops are shifting their equipment back home as the south gears up for its expected international recognition as an independent state in July following its overwhelming vote for secession in last months landmark referendum.
But the ex-militiamen, whose roots are in the south, want to keep hold of their units weaponry and they have put up a ferocious resistance to its redeployment.
Saturdays fighting outside Malakal broke out for the same reasons as the earlier mutiny, Lam said, adding that the militiamen there were not necessarily Tang supporters.
The SAF (Sudanese armed forces the northern army) JIUs have men of southern as well as northern origin in them. Now with the northern section moving back with their equipment towards the border, the southerners are wanting to keep the artillery, he explained.
Six civilians and one SPLA soldier were killed in the crossfire in Malakal, as the southern force tried to intervene, the southern military spokesman said. Two of the dead were young children, Aguer added.
Six regular northern troops and seven former militiamen were also killed in the fighting, he said. Two civilians and a total of 22 members of the northern force were wounded.
Aguer said the southern army was now assisting in the redeployment of the heavy weapons. We are now supporting the movement of the tanks back to the north, he said.
Malakal was a key garrison town for the Khartoum government during the civil war and it still houses much heavy weaponry supplied to northern troops and their militia allies.
Tang gave up his own position in the northern army after accepting an offer of clemency from southern president Salva Kiir late last year but many of his men remain in northern units.
The town is now calm, and people are now back out walking on the streets, Upper Nile information ministry official Bartholomew Pakwan Abwol said. The situation has obviously created a lot of concern in the town, but we are hoping that things can now return as quickly as possible to normal.
The Joint Integrated Units deployed in sensitive areas like Malakal are due to be phased out in July when the interim arrangements set by the 2005 peace agreement come to an end.
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But the ex-militiamen, whose roots are in the south, want to keep hold of their units weaponry and they have put up a ferocious resistance to its redeployment.
stay and die, then.
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The naval forces of the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran have thwarted an attempt by pirates to seize a Hong Konger commercial ship in the Red Sea.
The VRYK3 with 32 crewmembers, which was headed from Italy to Australia, was attacked by pirates on Saturday.
In response to the distress call, Iran's 12th fleet came to the vessel's rescue. The pirates decamped the scene following the clash with the Iranian forces and the ship continued on its way.
In line with international efforts against piracy, the Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008 to safeguard maritime trade and in particular ships and oil tankers owned or leased by Iran.
Over the past years and despite patrols by the European Union, NATO and several other countries, Somali pirates have hijacking dozens of ships, making tens of millions of dollars in ransom.
The tenth Iranian fleet along with two destroyers has been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden.
Iran's ninth fleet along with two destroyers was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden three months ago with the objective of protecting Iranian commercial vessels against Somali pirates.
Iran also plans to dispatch another fleet to the Red and Mediterranean Seas in the near future in order to expand its presence in international waters.
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So what do the Iranians consider a "fleet"? Because it appears they have at least 12 of them.
Bedouin terror cell members that massacred tourists in Sinai in 2004 and 2005 have escaped from their jails in Sinai, according to Egyptian intelligence sources cited by the Ma'an news agency.
Approximately 50 prisoners from the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad group have escaped to unknown locations, say these sources. A Hizbullah unit has escaped from jail as well.
The Taba Hilton was attacked in 2004 by a truck full of explosives that drove into the hotel lobby and blew up, killing 31 and wounding 159 others. The explosion collapsed ten floors of the hotel. Nine of the murdered victims were Israelis, two of them children.
Fifty kilometers south, a car bomb in front of a restaurant at the Moon Island resort exploded, killing two Israelis.
Some of the terrorists were killed in the attacks, others were executed by Egypt. Still others were imprisoned - and now appear to have escaped.
Ma'an also reported that three Egyptian police officers disappeared Friday in northern Sinai. They had been going to El Arish when they were last heard from. There is speculation that the three have been abducted or murdered.
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"Multiple platoons" is a pretty good indicator that their 'senior marine' is probably at company-level or less.
Officially, the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) and USS Ponce (LPD-15) are in the Red Sea. The Enterprise carrier group is in the eastern Med. Figure anywhere from 700-1000 Marines.
News of an Islamist massacre of two Christian Coptic families has emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of Internet connections to the country, after a one-week Internet blackout imposed by the troubled regime. The massacre, not the first in Egypt in recent weeks, took place on Sunday afternoon (January 30) at the village of Sharona near Maghagha, in Minya province, and is being reported by AINA, the Assyrian International News Agency.
According to the report, the Islamist murderers, aided by Muslim neighbors of the Copts, stormed the homes of the families, gaining access to the houses' roofs fyesrom the roofs of the families' Muslim neighbors. They killed eleven, including children, and seriously injured four more people.
Anba Agathon, Bishop of Maghagha, told Coptic activist Dr. Mona Roman in a televised interview on Al-Karma TV that the killers are neighbors of the Copts, who "seized the opportunity of the mayhem prevailing in Egypt and the absence of police protection to slaughter the Copts."
The bishop said that he had visited the injured Copts at Maghagha General Hospital and that they informed him that they recognized the main attackers, who come from the same village, Sharona.
"The two families were staying in their homes with their doors locked when suddenly the Islamists descended on them," said Bishop Agathon, "killing eleven and leaving for dead four other family members. In addition, they looted everything that was in the two Coptic houses, including money, furniture and electrical equipment. They also looted livestock and grain."
One group of masked assailants infiltrated the home of Copt Joseph Waheeb Massoud and killed him, his wife Samah, their 15-year old daughter Christine and 8-year-old son Fady Youssef. Another group simultaneously accessed the house of Copt Saleeb Ayad Mayez and shot him dead, along with his wife Zakia, their 4-year-old son Joseph and 3-year-old daughter Justina, Saleeb's 23-year-old sister Amgad, his mother Zakia and a woman named Saniora Fahim.
"The massacre has nothing to do with the mayhem in Egypt," the bishop said, "but the murderers took advantage of the lack of police protection and thought they could commit their crime and no one would notice."
"Why have those Islamists chosen those two Coptic families and not Muslim ones to slaughter and rob? I believe it is because they know that with Copts they can literally get away with murder," accused Coptic activist Dr. Hanna Hanna.
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You'll get my attention when the article reads,
"Coptic Christian kills two Muslim families".
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This is only the 'pre-game show'' if you will, of what is going to happen if the MB gets control of the gov't. And if so,Bambi's hands will be bloody.
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In Washington, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., hailed the Egyptian government's talks with the Brotherhood and other opposition groups as "quite extraordinary."
So that should make it official. This will not turn out well...
[Iran Press TV] Out-of favor Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak and his son Gemal have stepped down from the positions they held in the ruling party as anti-government protests intensify.
Hosni Mubarak resigned as the head of National Democratic Party (NDP) along with the party's secretary general Safwat el-Sherif on Saturday, DPA reported. Moreover, Gemal stepped down from a position he held in the party.
Hossam Badrawi, a member of the Upper Chamber of the Egyptian Parliament, is expected to take over as secretary general, state media reported.
The developments come as millions of people gathered in Cairo's Liberation Square for the 12th straight day, calling on Mubarak to immediately step down.
Is that Western millions or Middle Eastern millions? Because the square doesn't look quite big enough for even that first million, not if one counted them up.
Egyptians also continued massive anti-government rallies on Saturday across major cities of the country. Large rallies were also held in other cities including Alexandria and Suez.
The rallies were largely peaceful. However, The infamous However... gunfire and street battles between protesters and government forces were reported in Cairo.
This comes as Mubarak has held talks with key cabinet ministers to try and kick-start an economy hit by the ongoing protests.
Clearly, President Mubarak has that Kabuki thingie down pat...
Egyptian officials have delayed the reopening of the country's stock exchange as anti-government protests continue.
Egypt's stock exchange was scheduled to reopen on Monday. However, The infamous However... the state-run MENA says no decision has been made as to when it will resume business.
And the imported grain is sitting on the docks, because the banks are still closed, so naturally the government can't pay for it. D'you suppose President Mubarak has a plan that hadn't occurred to President Obama?
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have also held demonstrations in support of the Egyptian revolution.
There's that counting thingie again.
Egyptian opposition figure, Mohamed ElBaradei says he wants to discuss a peaceful political transition with top army officials.
In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel to be published next week, ElBaradei said he prefers the talks to take place soon.
ElBaradei also said he doubts any Arab country would welcome geriatric President Hosni Mubarak if he leaves Egypt.
Saudi Arabia generally welcomes the Sunni tyrants, as does Paris, and sometimes London -- Dr. Elbaradei seems to have forgotten his geography.
The former head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency has taken part in several anti-government rallies, calling for the ouster of Mubarak.
In a separate development, unknown assailants blew up a pipeline, which carries natural gas to Israel and Jordan, in Egypt's El-Arish city.
The blast, which occurred near a mining site, three kilometers from the El-Arish airport, reportedly struck the Jordanian branch. Flames from the kaboom could be seen some 70 kilometers away.
Wow. That's, like, halfway down the Nile, right? ("Barbie says, 'Geography is haaarrd!'")
The Egyptian army closed the main source of gas supply following the kaboom, halting supply to Israel as a precaution.
"A precaution. Brilliant idea, Cpl. Abdullah! Feel free to think of other precautions."
"Effendi, yes effendi!"
Authorities have declared a high state of alert in the area. Egyptian authorities blamed foreign elements for the attack.
On Friday, millions gathered in Cairo to observe what they called the "Day of Departure" for the long-time ruler. The protests continued into the night, in defiance of a curfew.
According to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, at least 300 people have so far been killed and thousands more have been injured during nationwide protests in Egypt.
And being the U.N., they'd know. Even though they decamped days ago.
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so - did he step down or not?
just read this
'he CBS News anchor mistakenly informed her 140,000 followers that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had stepped down after 30 years.
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daily mail
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'Mubarak clings to power as it is announced he's quitting as party leader... then hours later he's STAYING'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353951/Egypt-protests-Hosni-Mubarak-quits-party-leader-announces-hes-staying.html
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak huddled with his new government for the first time on Saturday, seeking a way out of an almost two-week popular uprising which shows no signs of abating.
The turmoil in Cairo loomed large over a meeting in Munich, Germany of the Middle East diplomatic Quartet, where US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the Middle East faced a bumpy road on the transition to democracy.
*sigh* It would be so nice if they quietly sipped their champagne for a while, instead of undiplomatically telling everyone what to do.
At the same time, Clinton praised the "restraint" shown by the Egyptian security forces during a mass demonstration on Friday, billed as the "day of departure" for Mubarak by protesters.
At least 300 people are believed to have been killed and thousands injured since the protests began on January 25, according to the United Nations.
With big crowds swelling anew in Tahrir Square, epicentre of a stubborn campaign to get Mubarak to stand down immediately, the veteran president met for the first time with the government he had sworn in five days earlier.
Present were his new prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, the ministers of petroleum, trade, finance and social solidarity, and the head of the central bank, state news agency MENA reported.
In northern Sinai, a pipeline sending Egyptian gas to Jordan was attacked, officials said, prompting gas supplies to Israel to be halted as well. But it was unclear if the attack had any link to the anti-Mubarak movement.
Unlike the Egyptians, the Israelis know the story about Joseph and the seven fat and seven lean rams.
Gunfire was heard in Tahrir Square in the early hours of Saturday as several thousands protesters spent a chilly night alongside Egyptian army tanks, regarded as protection from riot police or pro-Mubarak militants.
Witnesses said warning shots were fired by soldiers on the nearby October bridge over the River Nile to prevent a clash between pro- and anti-Mubarak groups.
The sound of some tanks outside the Egyptian Museum on the edge of the square starting their engines later in the morning prompted dozens of people to immediately sit down around them to prevent them from moving.
France on Saturday said it suspended sales of arms and riot police equipment to Egypt two weeks ago after the outbreak of the mass protests which have produced deadly clashes with police as well as between rival supporters.
In the latest reported fatality, Egyptian journalist Ahmed Mohammed Mahmud died on Friday of gunshot wounds sustained during clashes between Mubarak supporters and anti-government protesters, the state-owned Al-Ahram daily said.
Despite a return to relative calm, Egypt's stock exchange will not reopen on Monday, as previously announced, MENA reported. Banks, however, were due to resume business on Sunday.
Mubarak, 82, whose three decades as leader of the Arab world's most populous nation had gone unchallenged until now, has said he is "fed up" with his job, but prefers to stay in power until September while calm is restored.
But protesters -- inspired by the downfall of Tunisia's long-time president last month -- want Mubarak out immediately, while the European Union and the United States are stepping up pressure for a transition to begin.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is refusing to negotiate with the government, has kept a low profile because it does not want the revolt to be seen as an Islamic revolution, a leader said in an interview to be published on Monday.
"It is an uprising of the Egyptian people," Rashad al-Bayoumi, a spokesman for the influential group, told the German weekly Der Spiegel.
"And later, if we can, we're going to take it away from them in the name of Allah."
George Ishaq of the opposition group Kefaya ("Enough" in Arabic), speaking on Al-Jazeera television, said on Saturday his secular group was opposed both to a religious state in a post-Mubarak Egypt and to foreign intervention.
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[Arab News] The top leadership body of Egypt's ruling party resigned Saturday, including the president's son, but the regime appeared to be digging in its heels, calculating that it can ride out street protests and keep geriatric President Hosni Mubarak in office.
Protesters rejected the concessions and vowed to keep up their campaign until Mubarak steps down, convinced that the regime intends to enact only superficial democratic reforms and keep its hold on power.
Tens of thousands thronged Cairo's central Tahrir Square in a 12th day of protests, chanting "He will go! He will go!" But the United States gave a strong endorsement to Mubarak's deputy Omar Suleiman's handling of the transition, warning that order was needed to prevent bully boyz from hijacking the process.
"It's important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government actually headed by now-Vice President Omar Suleiman," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at an international security conference in Munich, Germany.
Frank Wisner, the retired American diplomat sent by President Barack B.O. Obama to Cairo this past week to tell Mubarak that the US saw his rule coming to an end, said Mubarak had to keep a leadership role at least temporarily if the "fragile glimmerings" of progress were to take hold as quickly as needed.
Mubarak insists he will remain in his post until his term ends in the autumn after presidential elections in September. Washington has said the transition should bring greater democracy to ensure a free and fair vote. But protesters fear that without an immediate Mubarak exit and the pressure from the streets, the regime will emerge with its authoritarian monopoly largely intact.
"What happened so far does not qualify as reform," said Amr Hamzawy, a member of the Committee of Wise Men, a self-appointed group of prominent figures from Egypt's elite that is unconnected to the protesters but has met with Suleiman to explore solutions to the crisis. "There seems to be a deliberate attempt by the regime to distract the proponents of change and allow the demands to disintegrate in the hope of (regime) survival." Wael Khalil, a 45-year-old activist protesting in Tahrir, greeted news of the party resignations with scorn, said they would "reinforce their (protesters') resolve and increase their confidence because it shows that they are winning, and the regime is retreating inch by inch." The ruling party leaders who resigned included some of the country's most powerful political figures -- and its most unpopular among many Egyptians. State TV, announcing the resignations, still identified Mubarak as president of the ruling party in a sign he would remain in authority.
Among those on the six-member party Steering Committee that stepped down was the National Democratic Party's secretary-general, Safwat el-Sharif, and the president's son Gamal Mubarak, who has long been seen as his father's intended heir as president. The turmoil has crushed those ambitions, however, with Suleiman promising in the past week that Gamal will not run for president in September.
Hossam Badrawi, a ruling party figure who is a physician and whose family owns one of Cairo's exclusive hospitals, was named as the new secretary-general and as head of the party's policies committee, replacing Gamal.
The move suggested that the military figures now dominating the regime -- including Suleiman and Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq -- judged that dumping party veterans was the price for convincing enough Egyptians that it is serious about reform to weaken the demonstrations to the point they die down.
On Saturday, authorities were projecting an air of confidence they can ride it out. Suleiman has invited all the protest groups and opposition parties into immediate negotiations on constitutional reforms. So far, the youth movements leading the protests have staunchly refused, saying Mubarak must leave and a broad-based transitional leadership put in place to ensure the ruling party and regime do not dominate the terms of constitutional change.
But Shafiq, speaking to journalists on state TV, depicted the protest movement as weakening. He noted that a re-invigorated protest -- estimated at around 100,000 people -- had failed to force Mubarak out on Friday as organizers had hoped. "All this leads to stability," he said.
He indicated the government hopes to convince enough factions to enter talks that the others will be forced to join in. "Once they find the others are negotiation, for sure they will or they will be left alone," he said. "The level of aspirations is going down day by day." So far, however, only a couple of official opposition political parties have agreed to talks. The official parties, which operate with regime consent, are not involved in the negotiations, have little popular base and are viewed with contempt by many protesters.
Government officials, meanwhile, sought to depict that normality was returning to a capital that has been paralyzed for nearly two weeks by the crisis. State TV announced that banks and courts, closed for most of the turmoil, will reopen Sunday, the start of Egypt's work week, though daily bank withdrawals will be limited to $15,000
Could that be a typo? It seems awfully high, just to buy bread and lentils and blood oranges.
and the stock market will remain shut at least through Monday.
In Tahrir, Elwan Abdul Rahman, a 26-year-old who came from southern Egypt on Friday to join protesters, dismissed the prime minister's comments. "He's laughing at the world, he's laughing at all of us," he said, pointing at the crowds and saying, "Do you think they're gonna go away tomorrow? ... People are here with their blood and their soul." The government and military have promised not to try to clear protesters from Tahrir, and soldiers guarding the square continued to let people enter to join the growing rally.
But there were signs of tension Saturday. At one point, army tanks tried to try to bulldoze away several burned out vehicles that protesters used in barricades during fighting this week with pro-regime attackers. The protesters say they want the gutted chassis in place in case of a new attack. Protesters clambered onto the vehicles and lay down in front of them to prevent soldiers from removing them, and only after heated arguments did the troops agree.
Also, there were reports for the first time of attempts by troops guarding the square's entrances to prevent those entering from bringing food for protesters, thousands of whom have camped out for days and need a constant flow of supplies.
Mohammad Radwan, 31, said soldiers harassed him as he brought in supplies of bread, cheese and lunch meat and tried to confiscate some of the food until he shouted them down. "They want to suffocate the people in Tahrir and this is the most obvious attack on them without actually attacking," he said.
So far, protesters have been willing only to start contacts with the government on terms of Mubarak's exit. A group of youth activists organizing the protests met Friday with Suleiman.
One proposal floated by the "Wise Men" would have Mubarak "deputize" Suleiman with his powers and step aside in every way but name, perhaps keeping the presidency title for the time being at least. The Wise Men have met twice with Suleiman and Shafiq to discuss the proposal, which also involves the dissolving of the parliament monopolized by the ruling party and the end of emergency laws that give security forces near-unlimited powers.
But "the stumbling point remains that of the president stepping down," said Amr el-Shobaki, a Wise Men member.
The group comprises about a dozen prominent public figures and jurists.
One of the protest organizers who met with Suleiman Friday night said the proposal "could be a way out of the crisis." But he too said there was no sign of Suleiman accepting. "The problem is in the president," he said.
"He is not getting it that he has become a burden on everybody." The protest organizers themselves are a mix of small movements who managed to draw broadbased support among a public disenchanted with Mubarak's rule. The majority are young secular leftists and liberals, who launched the wave of protests though an Internet campaign, but the fundamentalist Mohammedan Brotherhood also has built a prominent role.
Suleiman and Shafiq say they want negotiations with all the factions, promising their voices will be heard.
Protesters, however, distrust a process conducted by the current government, given the regime's overwhelming domination of the playing field, including a grip on security services and the media, a vast patronage system, a constitution that effectively enshrines its monopoly and a history of rigging elections.
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WAFF > {YouTube] EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST: "WE WANT TURKISH SECULARISM IN EGYPT, NOT IRANIAN ISLAMO-FASCISM | EGYPT WILL FOLLOW TURKEY, NOT IRAN, IFF THE WEST ACTS QUICKLY ENOUGH.
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* NEWS KERALA > ANTI-MUBARAK PROTESTORS BEGINNING TO DIVIDE?
* Also from NEWS KERALA > DIVIDED EGYPTIAN MILITARY WOULD LIKE MUBARAK TO LEAVE WID DIGNITY.
[Arab News] The French prime minister's office says that La Belle France suspended the sale of arms and tear gas to Egypt in late January, as an uprising to force the ouster of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak mounted.
The official says that the decision to suspend the sale of arms was made at a Jan. 27 meeting.
According to the official, speaking Saturday, the meeting came two days after the French Customs service suspended authorization to export equipment to maintain public order, notably explosive products such as tear gas.
The official, not authorized to speak publicly, asked not to be named.
La Belle France was embarrassed by an offer to share its know-how in maintaining order with Tunisia despite an uprising that ultimately pushed President El-Abidine Ben Ali into exile.
La Belle France's Foreign Ministry says that three French journalists and a researcher who went missing in Cairo amid attacks on journalists during violent demonstrations have been located and are safe.
Michele Alliot-Marie had spoken by telephone with her Egyptian counterpart demanding the four be located.
Saturday's statement said all four «have been found safe and sound" but provided no details.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says it has documented at least 101 cases of direct attacks on journalists and news facilities over the past week.
The Gay Paree-based World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers on Saturday called on Egyptian authorities to protect journalists covering protests in Egypt.
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[Ennahar] Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak seemed to cling to power on Saturday, bringing together for the first time his new cabinet at a time when thousands of people continued for the 12th consecutive day to protest to demand his immediate departure.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... a gas terminal has been the target of a kaboom in the Egyptian Sinai, but it was not immediately clear whether the sabotage was linked to the uprising.
In Tahrir Square, emblem of the challenge which is not fading in downtown Cairo, thousands of demonstrators chanted "Go away, go away" to Mr Mubarak, 82, who governs Egypt with an iron fist for 29 years.
But Mr. Mubarak also called by the U.S. to fade as quickly as possible, shows no sign of willingness to resign.
He has met Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, who had ruled out the day before a transition between Mr. Mubarak and Vice-President Omar Suleiman, Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy, the head of the Central Bank Farouk Oqda and Finance Minister Samir Radwan.
This is the first time he has done since the sacking of the previous January 29 cabinet under pressure from the street.
For the leader of the opposition movement Kefaya, George Ishaq, the meeting "is proof that he (Mubarak) clings to his position and wants to show the people that he is still there."
But abroad, news reports revealed a number of scenarios that would aim to ensure a dignified exit for Mr. Mubarak, after President Barack B.O. Obama said that "discussions" had taken on the political transition.
According to The New York Times, the new vice-president Omar Suleiman and Egyptian army chiefs discuss assumptions to limit the authority of Mr. Mubarak.
Among them, it could be suggested to Mr. Mubarak to go live in his residence in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, or go for one of these medical treatments he usually does every year in Germany, which would be extended this time. Mr. Suleiman would then form a transitional government and launch a dialogue with the opposition to reform.
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If Mubarak is clear that he is leaving in September, his forces still have the chutzpah to enforce an orderly transition, no matter what Bambi wants. Doing so would do much to reinforce the notion that Egypt is more stable than the typical hummus republic.
[Ennahar] A church in Rafah, the Egyptian Sinai border with Ghaza, was in flames on Saturday, told AFP witnesses, one of whom said they heard an kaboom. Flames and smoke rose from the Mar Guirguis Church after an kaboom whose origin was unknown, said a witness. Another, who was a hundred yards away, said he saw gunnies on a cycle of violence in front of the Shrine.
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[Ennahar] One of two suspected members of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Searched for three days in Mauritania, killed himself by blowing himself and the other was nabbed, told AFP on Saturday a military source.
"The army has managed to locate and surround them in a small forest" of the Senegal River region (southern Mauritania), "but one of them was able to blow himself before his arrest," said this source indicating that the second was nabbed "without resistance".
The two men, who killed a policeman who was pursuing them, were on the run since the failure Wednesday in a car boom operation intended to carry out attacks in Nouakchott that the army blew up at the gates of the capital.
Pathetic. Whither the terrorists of yesteryear, the ones who could actually blow themselves up?
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[Ennahar] The National popular army forces have managed to eliminate last Friday evening, the terrorist called "Bourihane Kamel", aka "Kamel Abu Hafs", communication officer, member of the council of elders of the group and coordinator between the different
Awright, guys, who's ready to be promoted to Number Three?
The National popular army forces have managed to eliminate last Friday evening, the terrorist called "Bourihane Kamel", aka "Kamel Abu Hafs", communication officer, member of the council of elders of the group and coordinator between the different heads of regions in the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... (GSPC), in a military operation in coordination with the armed security forces between the regions and Hizer and Tikejda in the province of Bouira.
According to sources of Ennahar, the terrorist's weapon was recovered. This one was on board a vehicle brand "DFM", stolen from a citizen in that region.
The terrorist eliminated, from the municipality of Keddara Bouzegza, province of corpse-littered Boumerdes, was one of the former Salafist, known for his active participation in planning suicide kabooms in the capital on April 11, 2007, as well as those of December of the same year and many other criminal acts.
The latter was seen in recent times, as an essential element especially after the elimination of Islamic fascistiHarek Zoheir, alias Sofiane Façila and Saad Abdelhamid, alias Yahia Abul Haitham.
Abu Hafs was appointed by the head of the organization of Al Qaeda, Abu Masaâb abdelouadoud, aka Abdelmalek Droukdal, as coordinator between the regional leaders of the terrorist organization, replacing Nooh Abu Katada, alias Louzaï Mourad, eliminated in an ambush in El Kheither, El Bayadh the end of 2009.
The route of the terrorist Kamel Bourihane shows that he belonged to the core of the terrorist organization. He has held several important positions in the hierarchy of the organization, among others, military commander of the centre zone, communications officer in the same area before being designated coordinator between regions and responsible of communication.
The information recently provided by repentant, allowed the elimination in an ambush of this dangerous lieutenant of Droukdal.
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Yeah, go ahead and piss off Russia.
See what happens.
Teh Ruskies aren't restricted by PC whiny liberal f**ks.
I'm sure their response will be more than adequate, if attacked.
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NOT-CHRISTOPHER-LEE COUNT DOKU UMAROV + NORTH CAUCASUS EMIRATE ...
and
* TOPIX > [Doku Umarov]CHECHEN LEADER CLAIMS TO HAVE SENT A [young] MAN ON A SUICIDE MISSION TO MOSCOW. Jusry is still out whetehr Umarov is referring to the Moscow Airport attack, or Other?
* TOPIX > AIRPORT ATTACKS WAS JUST THE BEGINNING, MILITANTS WARN RUSSIA + CHECHEN MILITANTS THREATEN RUSSIA [new violence].
versus
* SAME > INVESTORS FEAR US RADICALISTS' TIES TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
* SAME > EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION IN SAUDI ARABIA? | [YouTube Video]SAUDI WOMEN PROTEST, WEB ACTIVISTS CALL FOR REFORMS. Saudi King + Royals, Govt. urged to make vital reforms before its too late.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Bangladesh]BJP SAYS PM HAS ADMITTED FAILURE, WARNS OF EGYPT-LIKE SITUATION.
* INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY > RISING UNREST MAY UPEND TOP-DOWN CHINA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Noam Chomsky OpEd] IT ISN'T RADICAL ISLAM THAT THREATENS THE US, BUT INDEPENDENCE, as per Egypt + ME Regional
"Jasmine" mass protests.
IIUC ARTIC = the US strongly fears NON-US CONTROLLED/ADVISED, SOVEREIGN FREEDOM-OF-ACTIONS BY POST-JASMINE ME STATES, I.E. US HAS MINIMAL-TO-NO MILPOL INFLUENCE IN NEW REGIMES.
* CNN VIDEO:AL QAEDA POPULATES THE US WID PEACEFUL, "DECOY MUSLIMS"???
* GULF TIMES > JORDAN'S NEW PM WARNED OF UPRISING. Possible POPULAR REVOLT during his new tenure.
* SAME > PALIN SAYS OBAMA HAS PUT THE US ON THE "ROAD TO RUIN".
Vee POTUS Bammer-led SUPERSIZED GOVT, SUPERSIZED NEW $$$ SPENDING,+ UN-HERALDED SUPERSIZED GOVT. INTERVENTIONISM IN ANY + ALL THINGS ORDINARY LIFE + PRIVATE SECTOR.
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The Tir is manned by cadets
Indian Coast Guard Ship Samar on routine patrol off the Lakshadweep Islands, was diverted with dispatch at 1845 hrs on 05 Feb 11 for sanitizing the area. The ship proceeded at maximum speed, arrived the area at 0500 hrs and commenced search for the pirate mother vessel operating in area. At about 0510 hrs on 06 Feb 11, the ship encountered an unlit contact operating in the area suspected to be the pirate mother vessel. ICGS Samar commenced shadowing the vessel. In the meantime, a small
contact approached the ICG ship from the stern at high speed. ICG ship fired at the contact and therefore it broke off its chase and returned to the pirate mother vessel.
ICGS Samar continued shadowing of the pirate vessel till day break. INS Tir reportedly in the area, joined the coordinated anti piracy operation with the ICG ship. ICGS Samar assumed the duties of On Scene Commander. ICG Dornier was also launched from Kochi in armed configuration at about 0630 hrs on 06 Feb 11 for sea-air coordinated operation. At day break, ICGS Samar closed in towards the pirate mother vessel and identified her as Prantalaya-11 (Thailand flagged fishing vessel hijacked by Somalian pirates in Apr 10). The efforts of the ship to contact the mother vessel on MMB channel 16 did not yield any result.
The vessel was sighted picking up the speed and proceeding west. ICGS Samar fired warning shots across the bows and ahead of the fleeing vessel to compel her to stop.
Further, men with arms were observed on the upper decks of the vessel. The vessel subsequently stopped due to firing by ICGS Samar along with ICG Dornier and IN ship. After firing by ICGS Samar using higher grade weapons, the crew of the pirate
vessel surrendered by hoisting a white flag and mustered on the forward portion of the ship.
All personnel onboard the pirate vessel were thereafter directed to jump into the water for recovery by ICG ship. While 22 Somalian pirates and 16 Thai crew members were recovered by ICG Samar, 06 Somali pirates and 08 Thai crew members were recovered by INS Tir. During the operation 03 pirates are reported to be injured and most of the arms from the mother vessel are suspected to have been dumped overboard.
Further rummaging of the mother vessel is in progress and she is likely to be towed to Mumbai for handing over to the police for initiating legal action.
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There's going to be a lot of disappointed Somalian communities in the US who had sent a lot of their ill gotten gains via hawala to Somalia to pay for that motherships upkeep. They won't be happy at all.
Expect to see targeting of Indians pretty soon in the US.
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This guy doesn't seem real bright.
Why would anyone want to attack a country with a BILLION AND A HALF population, that has a large standing army, control of most all strategic shipping lanes and mountain passes in the area.
Yeah, go ahead piss off India and see what you get.
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See also WAFF > Jud LEADERS CHANT JIHAD [agz India], WOULD NOT MIND INDO-PAK N-WAR [NucWar]. Extremist Leaders including Jamaat-ud-Dawah [Jud] Leader Hafiz Saeed.
ARTIC = The Same support the use of PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS in Regional NucWar as necessary to liberate Kashmir from India, + PROCLAIM NOT TO FEAR NUCLEAR WARFARE.
In addition, other TOP JUD DLEADERS also call for PAK PM to set up an INDEPENDENT MINISTRY = JIHAD OFFICE IN SUPPORT OF THE KASHMIR LIBERATION = JIHAD EFFORT, + for PAK to provide conventional weapons e.g. AK-47'S to the Kashmir Jihad. JuD claims it can provide ONE-MILYUHN FIGHTERS IN SUPPORT OF KASHMIR JIHAD???
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ION INDIA, DAILY TIMES.PK > INDIA FACING A [growing, dangerous, massive] UNEMPLOYMENT
"BOMB".
ARTIC = INDIA'S economic boom has been fueled mainly by IT, Services, + High-End Manufacturing
[read, College + post-College level education, intensive technical training required]; + HAS BEEN CAPITAL-INTENSIVE, NOT LABOR-INTENSIVE.
EVEN POSSESSING A COLLEGE, POST-COLLEGE/GRADUATE DEGREE(S) WON'T HELP MANY INDIANS IFF ITS NOT IN DEMAND.
* SAME >[Asia Development Bank = ADB] ASIA { Asia-Pacific]FACING A CLIMATE-INDUCED "MIGRATION CRISIS].
Besides poor Country, Region-specific ECON CONDITIONS + ditto various LOCAL SECTARIAN STRIFES, NOW COMES CLIMATE-CHANGE = GLOBAL WARMING [aka Ex-POTUS Dubya] TO CAUSE MILYUHNS-N-ZILYUHNS OF PEOPLE TO DISPLACE + SEEK NEW SAFE HAVENS ELSEWHERE.
IFF THE PEOPLE OF A FUTURE GUAM-WESTPAC + MICRONESIA/CENTPAC WANT TO KNOW WHY THERE ARE MALAY-INDONESIAN = EAST-SOUTH ASIAN STYLE VILLAGES, CANALS, + OTHER, ETC. + NON-INDIGENOUS PERSONS IN THEIR BACKYARD, WONDER NO MORE.
[Pak Daily Times] Terrorists rubbed out four men for alleged spying and dumped their bodies outside a northwestern Pak town on Saturday, police said. Police said they found four bullet-riddled bodies with notes from hard boyz in their pockets outside Karak, a northwestern town near the lawless North Wazoo tribal district. "We found bodies of four men, they had been rubbed out and notes in their pockets said they were spying for Indian and Jewish intelligence agencies," district police chief Sajid Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot for the most part. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, spreading down to the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... said. "We are trying to ascertain the identities of the dead men," he said, adding that it was the first such incident in Karak. A local intelligence official also confirmed the incident. Terrorists frequently kidnap and kill rustics in the troubled region, accusing them of spying for the Pak government or for US forces in Afghanistan.
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[Pak Daily Times] Three people were killed and two injured when a bomb planted in a car went kaboom! in the Barqambarkhel area of Khyber Agency on Saturday, official sources said.
"Three people were killed and two pedestrians were maimed when a time bomb planted in the car went kaboom!," Khyber's top administrative official Shafirullah Khan said. A political administration official told Daily Times that three people were killed and two critically injured when a time bomb planted in a car went kaboom!, in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
He said that the people, who were in the car, were on their way to Barqambarkhel from Shalobar, which had a time bomb fitted into it by terrorists. The official said that three people were killed on the spot while the two injured were shifted to the Hayatabad Medical Complex Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, where their condition was stated to be critical. He added that the people in the car did not belong to any terrorist organisation.
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[Iran Press TV] Four people have been killed and sixteen injured in the latest spate of terrorist attacks across Iraq, which occurred after a period of relative calm.
On Saturday, an improvised bomb (IED) detonated in the east of Fallujah in the western province of Anbar, an unnamed security source told the Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The bombing, which targeted a funeral procession, killed Hamid al-Halbousi, the chief of the al-Halabsa clan, and maimed two other tribal chiefs, the source added.
In the northern province of Salahuddin, two non-combatants were killed and 14 others were maimed in two separate bombing attacks against Shia pilgrims.
In the first attack, an IED went kaboom! near a vehicle close to the Shrine of Imam Hassan al-Askari (PTUI!) in the town of Samarra, injuring six foreign pilgrims, two Iraqi coppers, and one Iraqi civilian.
In the second attack, a car boomkaboom shook the city of Balad, south of the quiet provincial capital Tikrit. Five Shias were maimed in the attack.
And in the capital Storied Baghdad, gunnies shot and killed a civilian in the eastern region of al-Mashtal, security sources said, but gave no more details on the murder.
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SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were killed and 14 others, including Iranian and Pakistani pilgrims, wounded in two blasts in the districts of Samarra and Balad in Salah al-Din province on Saturday, a security source said.
An improvised explosive device went off near a vehicle parked close to the al-Askari Imams shrines in Samarra, (175 km) northwest of Baghdad, leaving four Iranians, two Pakistanis, two Iraqi policeman and one civilians wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Two civilians others and five Iranian pilgrims were wounded when a car bomb ripped through Balad, (70 km) south of Tikrit, near the Muhammad al-Hadi shrine, the source added. He did not give further details.
Tikrit, the capital city of Salah al-Din province, lies 175 km northwest of Baghdad.
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ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A tribal chief was killed and two others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a funerary procession of local resident in eastern al-Falluja on Saturday, a security source said.
An IED went off on Saturday evening near a funerary procession of a local resident of Falluja, leaving Hamid al-Halbousi, the chief of al-Halabsa clan in al-Anbar province, and two others tribal chiefs wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
One of the two wounded chiefs is a member of the local council of al-Falluja district, he added, not giving further details.
Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Actually, the article says that it may not have been terrorists, but drive-by shootings on roads between villages are a typical method of the local jihadis. If I find an article saying it was not terrorists, I'll post a correction.
An assistant to a village leader was gunned down while driving and trying to escape chasing gunmen yesterday. The situation ended as a double fatality when he crashed into a passing motorcycle, killing a passenger.
Police found the body of Machu Jaetae, 35, with two gunshots in the head in his pickup truck. The body of dead motorcyclist, Nihor Nima, 60, was three hundred meters away.
Machu had been driving his pickup with 15 tanks of live tabtim baby fish for delivery, along with three other workers, when a gang of gunmen in a blue Isuzu pickup with no licence plate approached and aimed a rifle at him. The victim saw this and tried to get away, accidentally hitting Nihor's passing motorcycle.
The gunmen shot at Machu twice before speeding away. Police suspect the motive for his slaying stemmed from either a personal conflict or was part of ongoing unrest in the region.
In Pattani province, one person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting on Friday at a Buddhist village. A security volunteer said later the shooting was the second time that residents had been targeted. Although the 30 families in the village were fearful, they had said they would remain.
Old man gunned down in Pattani
An old man was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province on Saturday afternoon.
Sompong Limpadaphan, 64, was attacked on a local road while driving a motorcycle back home by two men on another motorcycle. Gunman riding pillion shot five bullets at him from a 9mm caliber pistol. The victim died at the scene.
A machete-wielding mob of Muslims on Sunday attacked the home of a minority sect leader in central Indonesia, killing three and wounding six others, police and witnesses said.
Local police chief Lt. Col. Alex Fauzy Rasyad said about 1,500 people - many with machetes, sticks and rocks - attacked about 20 members of the Ahmadiyah Muslim sect who were visiting their leader in his house in Banten province on Indonesia's main island of Java.
He said the crowd demanded that the sect members stop their activities, but the request was rejected. As a result, the crowd stabbed to death at least three men, destroyed the house and set fire to their cars and motorbikes.
Six others were hospitalized, four with critical injuries.
The police were called, "but the attackers came faster," Rasyad said.
The attack was the latest targeting the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Many Muslims see followers of Ahmadiyah as holding heretical beliefs.
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Allah considers it very, very, very important to kill heretics. In fact it is more important than killing infidels and killing heretics will get you in to paradise faster and cleaner than killing infidels.
See Q (9:107- 9:111)
107. And as for those who put up a mosque by way of harming and disbelief, and to disunite the believers, and as an outpost for those who warred against Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) aforetime, they will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good. Allâh bears witness that they are certainly liars.
108. Never stand you therein. Verily, the mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety is more worthy that you stand therein (to pray). In it are men who love to clean and to purify themselves. And Allâh loves those who make themselves clean and pure (i.e. who clean their private parts with dust [i.e. to be considered as soap) and water from urine and stools, after answering the call of nature].
109. Is it then he, who laid the foundation of his building on piety to Allâh and His Good
Pleasure, better, or he who laid the foundation of his building on an undetermined brink of a precipice ready to crumble down, so that it crumbled to pieces with him into the Fire of Hell. And Allâh guides not the people who are theZâlimûn (cruel, violent, proud, polytheist and wrong-doer).
110. The building which they built will never cease to be a cause of hypocrisy and doubt in
their hearts, unless their hearts are cut to pieces. (i.e. till they die). And Allâh is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
111. Verily, Allâh has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price
that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allâh's Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) and the Qur'ân. And who is truer to his covenant than Allâh? Then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded. That is the supreme success[].
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Tolo News] In a joint Afghan and Nato forces' operation in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday night 15 
of Iran have thwarted an attempt by pirates to seize a Hong Konger commercial ship in the Red Sea.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak huddled with his new government for the first time on Saturday, seeking a way out of an almost two-week popular uprising which shows no signs of abating.
[Ennahar] A church in Rafah, the Egyptian Sinai border with Ghaza, was in flames on Saturday, told AFP witnesses, one of whom said they heard an 
[Ennahar] One of two suspected members of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Searched for three days in Mauritania, killed himself by blowing himself and the other was 
[Ennahar] The National popular army forces have managed to eliminate last Friday evening, the terrorist called "Bourihane Kamel", aka "Kamel Abu Hafs", communication officer, member of the council of elders of the group and coordinator between the different
[Pak Daily Times] Terrorists 
