At least 20 employees of a road construction company were killed in a suicide car bomb in eastern Paktika province on Sunday night and 50 others were wounded, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Monday.
The incident happened last night at 08:00 pm in Barmal district of Paktika province when three suicide bombers first killed a security guards of Zahir road construction company and then blew themselves up inside the building of company, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement.
Twenty employees of the company were killed in the incident and 50 others were wounded, added the statement. Roads are bad. They lead to education and commerce and economic development, and that leads to decreased influence of theocrats.
Taliban gunnies have kidnapped around 50 off-duty coppers in an ambush in a volatile province in northeastern Afghanistan, the jihad boy group and provincial officials have said.
Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban front man, said on Sunday that the coppers, who were from Nuristan province, had just finished their training to join the force.
In an emailed statement to news hounds, Mujahid said that the Taliban ambushed the men on Saturday afternoon after being tipped off that they would be traveling in Kunar province. ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral...
Jamaluddin Badr, the Nuristan governor, said, "The coppers were kidnapped by faceless myrmidons in the Chapa Dara district of remote northeastern Kunar province after returning from neighbouring Nuristan province where they had travelled to collect their salaries."
"The coppers were in civilian clothes and had no weapons with them," Badr told Rooters.
Mohammad Farooq, a police brass hat in Nuristan, also confirmed the kidnapping.
Kunar and Nuristan are remote and mountainous provinces that share a mostly non-existent border with lawless areas of neighbouring Pakistain, where gunnies are said to have safe havens from which they launch attacks into Afghanistan.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks against coppers in recent months at a time when Kabul has announced security responsibilities for seven areas will be handed to Afghan forces in July.
The process announced this week is programmed to end with the withdrawal of all foreign combat troops from the country by 2014.
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Whom they cannot bribe, they kidnap and murder. Incentivizes the survivors. It's the Chicago tribal way.
[Tolo News] Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) has jugged seven would-be jacket wallahs who were planning to mar the New Year celebration.
Well done!
At a news conference in the capital Kabul NDS Spokesperson Lutfullah Mashal said all the seven would-be suicide bombers are linked with the Haqqani Network, an Death Eater group active in Pakistain's tribal belt.
Mahmudullah the Weasel strikes, possibly again.
Mr Mashal said air raids by US unmanned planes in Pakistain's lawless tribal areas have forced Death Eaters to relocate in Korm Agency that could end up to threatening security in a number of provinces, including Nangarhar, Pashtun-infested Logar, Badakhshan and even Kabul.
"They plan was to carry out suicide kabooms against security forces, officials and civilians at a shrine in the west of Kabul," Mashal said.
"Fortunately, security forces tossed in the calaboose them and they were not able to carry out their attacks during the New Year celebration."
Mashal also said two brothers, involved in a suicide kaboom in January that targeted a bath house in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar, have also been tossed in the calaboose.
He said intelligence forces have also tossed in the calaboose plotters of Nangarhar suicide kabooms.
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[Tolo News] Talibs attacked a district office in Ghazni province on Saturday in which three of the assailants got killed by Afghan forces, officials said on Sunday.
The incident happened yesterday in Rashidan district of Ghazni province when Taliban attacked on district governor's office, Maroof Ayubi, a front man for governor of Ghazni told TOLOnews.
"Three Taliban were killed in the incident, one other was maimed and there are no Afghan police casualties in the attack," he added.
Rashidan is an insecure district in Ghazni where Death Eaters have been active often planting Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces.
According to reports beturbanned goons have previously carried out some raids on Afghan police check posts in the district.
Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
Afghan and foreign forces have launched many military operations in the country to wipe out the Death Eaters ahead of the security handover that is expectected to begin in July this year.
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MOGADISHU — Somali security forces Sunday arrested two local journalists from an independent radio station in Mogadishu over comments made about visits by the country’s president to frontline areas, sources said.
Colleagues said Abdirashid Omar Qase, the director of Shabelle radio, and one of his journalists, Abdi Osmail, were arrested after responding to a warrant letter issued last week by Somalia's National Security Agency (NSA).
‘There was a letter from the National Security Agency last week demanding the director and Abdi Osmail show up at NSA headquarters, and today they were arrested after responding to the call,’ said Mohamed Bashir, a colleague.
‘We are not really aware of the reason, and we are trying to establish contacts with government officials to help secure their release,’ he said.
Arrested by the security apparatus and they're not sure why?
An official in the information ministry who asked to remain anonymous confirmed the arrest and said Shabelle radio broadcast negative propaganda against President Sharif Shaikh Ahmed.
"So, Abdirashid, youse not gonna make any more negative comments, right?"
"Yes, yes! Just stop doing that!"
‘These guys at Shabelle tend to propagate negative propaganda against the head of state and it may be the security agency is investigating information they disseminated last week,’ the official said.
Other officials suggested that commentary on Shabelle about SharifÂ’s visits to frontline areas where his forces are fighting the Islamist rebels who still control much of the country might have been behind the arrests.
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gonna put a damper on the Shabelle Radio "Mogadishu Morning Zoo" show with those wacky DJs
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It's hard to believe that Somalia has electrical power, much less a radio station.
Hat tip Sense of Events
While much of the world’s attention is focusing on crude oil prices and the Libyan pipelines in the east of the country– human right groups say rebels are committing crimes against humanity.
In east Libya, African hunt began as towns and cities began fall under the control of Libyan rebels, mobs and gangs. They started to detain, insult, rape and even executing black immigrants, students and refugees.
In the past two weeks, more than 100 Africans from various Sub-Sahara states are believed to have been killed by Libyan rebels and their supporters. Somebody tell Rev. Wright
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I do not support this so called Democratic Movement espoused by the Lame Stream Media.
I do not support this President, Gates or NATO in this war. The wheels have fallen off. Mankind is experiencing the darkest part of America's history. Obama the monster, having hijacked the super power of this nation is leading America into the same shame, dishonor through attrocities America is now supporting such as those attrocities committed by Japan, Germany and Itally fell into priot to and during during WWII.
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Gorb,
I saw a story last week about the black immigrants being pushed out of eastern Libya. There was fear that they supported the mercenaries or had mercenary ties, but they were pushing them all out.
It should be on Rantburg from last week when I posted it and mentioned the ethnic cleansing.
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Samuel Johnson: 'Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.' (from The Idler, 1758)
The reality is - we don't know and are unlikely to know till, literally, the dust settles. That's part of the game of the Burg, to filter and sort it all out.
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Unfortunately, as per AFRICAN + MUSLIM HISTORY, Milyuhns of black native Africans including black African Muslims fell victim to various abuses at the hands of their fellow Africans + fellow Muslims.
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Well, this is the Somali press. And they may be influenced by Gadaffy.
The LA Times also had something on this:
The opposition's image has been stained by roundups of blacks from sub-Saharan Africa accused of being mercenaries. Since Sunday, rebel gunmen have been hunting what they claim are "sleeper cells" of former Kadafi operatives hiding in Benghazi.
Some detainees were put on display for a busload of journalists at the same prisons where Kadafi's security services once held and tortured dissidents. The irony seemed lost on opposition officials, who vowed to shoot or jail all remaining Kadafi loyalists.
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We are all in the same leaky boat and you can be sure that somebody is going to stand up in the boat. The boat is going to tip, and when it does, some survive, some donÂ’t. Rev. Wright probably thinks his boat is pretty good, and prolly doesn't care for those with lesser boats.
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[jpost] - Six gunmen overpower guard and plant explosive device at gas terminal near el-Arish in Sinai that carries natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan on Sunday; soldiers defuse bomb, suspects flee.
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Iff the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD = RADICAL ISLAM succeed in taking dominant political power in Egypt, the risk is real that they may try to reduce any + all Energy exports to the US-West [NATO-EU] + Israel, in part or in whole as per their past threats.
DITTO AS PER TRADE ACCESS = FLOWS VEE THE SUEZ CANAL.
The US + LIBYA NFZ COALITION is no hurry to get rid of Uncle Muammar.
[Iran Press TV] Libyan revolutionary forces have taken control of more strategically-important cities as they push westward toward the capital, Tripoli. Latest reports say opposition forces took control of the oil-rich eastern city of Ras Lanuf on Sunday, after recapturing the key cities of Ajdabiya and Brega the previous day.
The opposition forces also recaptured Ben Jawad, a hamlet 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Ras Lanuf.
Sources say opposition forces took advantage of French Arclight airstrikes on Ben Jawad on Sunday morning that destroyed several Libyan tanks.
Revolutionary forces lost control of the three cities to forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy about two weeks ago.
The revolutionary forces are being led by the Benghazi-based National Libyan Council. The council, headed by Libya's former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel Jalil, plans to lead the country to an election.
Jalil was among the first high-profile Libyan figures to join protesters following the Qadaffy regime's brutal crackdown on the opposition.
Ras Lanuf is located 370 kilometers (230 miles) west of the opposition stronghold city of Benghazi.
Also on Saturday night, French fighter jets destroyed at least five warplanes and two helicopters belonging to pro-Qadaffy forces in the western cities of Zintan and Misratah.
The US-led military alliance has been carrying out Arclight airstrikes between Ajdabiya and coastal city of Sirte -- Qadaffy's hometown.
US President Barack B.O. Obama recently said that Western military mission in Libya is close to victory.
"Make no mistake, because we acted quickly, a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided and the lives of countless civilians - innocent men, women and kiddies - have been saved," Obama said in his weekly address,
The Libyan government, however, says the fresh Western-led Arclight airstrikes have left many civilians dead.
"We are losing many lives, military and civilians," Libyan government Spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli.
Libya says at least 114 people -- many of them civilians -- have been killed in US-led Arclight airstrikes in the country.
Libyan troops have also killed hundreds of civilians and tortured several others in the North African country since a revolution started against Colonel Qadaffy in mid-February.
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wish qaddafy would shut up about civilian casualties. He didn't seem too mind them when his troops fired randomly at ppl in the beginning of the whole thins
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He also doesn't mind when his own snipers shoot people going into hospitals.
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[Iran Press TV] The Stop the War Coalition says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).
That didn't take long...
The report recently published on the Coalition's website said that in the first 24 hours of the war on Libya, dozens of bombs and cruise missiles were launched by US, British, and French forces -- all with depleted uranium warheads.
US B-2 Arclight aircraft dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs on key Libyan cities, it added.
DU munitions are controversial because they raise long-term health concerns like kidney damage, cancer, skin disorders and genetic defects.
No worse than other heavy metals, and better than some...
"[Depleted uranium tipped missiles] fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way... I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people," said Marion Falk, chemical physicist (retd.), Lawrence Livermore Lab in Caliphornia.
Marion is being quoted at the Democratic Underground, Current TV (Al Gore's network), ConCen, and way back in 2004 by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Just so you know who's being quoted, since Iran Press TV unfortunately had space limitations on the web and couldn't be bothered to tell you.
The report comes as the Western forces claim the operation in Libya is aimed at protecting civilians.
Director of the US military's Joint Staff Bill Gortney has told news hounds at a Pentagon briefing that he is not aware of any use of depleted uranium munitions in Libya.
Libya says at least 114 people -- many of them civilians -- have been killed in US-led Arclight airstrikes in the country.
"We are losing many lives, military and civilians," Libyan government Spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli.
Mostly the civilians are the ones being killed by the mercenaries. The dead civilians then have their bodies displayed to the gullible press as 'victims' of airstrikes. Talk about indignity after death.
Dozens of civilians have been killed in Libya since US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the North African country.
Libyan troops have also killed thousands of civilians since a revolution started against Colonel Qadaffy in mid-February.
Let's see: 'dozens' versus 'thousands': which ones will the peace groups focus on?
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I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people
If we are going to have a discussion about "depleted uranium bombs" (Jeez, not again!), shouldn't we drop some plain old non-depleted uranium bombs to provide a controlled comparison? Just to be all sciency and stuff.
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That reminds me, it might be time to dust off my Dense Inert Metal Infrared Incendiary High Explosive Armor Piercing Anti Personnel Heat Seeking Depleted Uranium White Phosphorus Napalm Hollow Point Laser Guided Flame Throwing Thermobaric Thermonuclear Cluster Bomb Munition design.
If only to piss off the hippies...
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Which is why the people that printed this to damage the Bush administration need to be charged with sedition and aiding and abetting the enemy during a time of war.
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My understanding is that DU is used as a kinetic penetrator against armored vehicles. That must be one hell of a tank to require a 2000 lb bomb using DU. I'm guessing this same guy has been using the old "this is 12 inches" line with the old lady.
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Civilian deaths? I was watching a show last night on the History Channel about the final days of the Third Reich. One of the little factoids they put on the screen was that 40 million Europeans died in WWII and, of those, 20 million were civilians. Let's face it, war is not healthy for children and other living things.
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What makes depleted uranium deadly is that it gets fired out of a cannon at 4,000+ feet per second. Hell, if you got hit by a bowl of Cap'n Crunch or a goose-down pillow doing 4,000 FPS it would probably not be conducive to your continued existence.
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Frozen chickens fired at high velocity can take out a locomotive, or so the story about the British high speed train tests indicates.
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WTF do they not understand about the word DEPLETED ?
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That reminds me, it might be time to dust off my Dense Inert Metal Infrared Incendiary High Explosive Armor Piercing Anti Personnel Heat Seeking Depleted Uranium White Phosphorus Napalm Hollow Point Laser Guided Flame Throwing Thermobaric Thermonuclear Cluster Bomb Munition design
[Al Jazeera] Libyan rebels are moving westwards towards a possible showdown with government forces loyal to the country's embattled leader, Muammar Qadaffy.
Opposition forces backed by coalition air strikes have already seized control of the key towns of Bin Jawad, Ras Lanuf, Uqayla, Brega and Ajdabiya in a rapid advance along the coastline.
Meanwhile the next town in the rebels' path, Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte, was reported to be under attack by coalition warplanes for the first time late on Sunday, according to Libyan state television.
Coalition air strikes against targets in Tripoli also resumed on Sunday night with kabooms heard in the Libyan capital.
Al Jizz's James Bays has been following the rebel offensive which has seen them claim a string of towns and key oil facilities since Friday.
Our correspondent said Qadaffy's forces appeared to be withdrawing eastwards. Those still in Bin Jawad, the latest town to fall to rebels, surrendered without a fight, Bays said.
"It seems there has a been withdrawal and a surrender of Qadaffy forces, not a battle," Bays said. "They removed some of their vehicles that were not bombed further up the road but they removed these vehicles in haste."
Rebels were intent on pressing onwards in the direction of Tripoli, Bays said, but Sirte presents a major obstacle.
"There is only one plan. That is to head on, head west up this road," our correspondent said. "There really is only one coastal road and that is the road to Tripoli. The problem they are going to face is the huge roadblock ahead of us and that's Sirte, a Qadaffy stronghold where many of his troops are based."
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PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > TURKEY OFFERS TO BROKER LIBYA CEASEFIRE AS REBELS ADVANCE ON SIRTE.
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* FREEREPUBLIC > GADDAFI'S FALL MAY ALLOW AL-QAEDA AFFILIATES [e.g. AQIM] TO TAKE OVER SOUTHERN LIBYA: ANALYSTS [US].
* TOPIX/NEWS KERALA > MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN DEAL WID MILITARY FOR BIGGER ROLE IN POST-REVOLUTION EGYPT.
* SAME > NUMBER OF [foreign-based = external] IRAQI ARMED GROUPS JOIN THE NATIONAL RE-CONCILIATION.
[Al Jazeera] There were reports Sunday of a column of military vehicles including truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns seen fleeing leaving Sirte in the direction of Tripoli, accompanied by dozens of civilian cars carrying families, according to a Rootersnews hound in the vicinity.
The rebels' advance along the coast has triggered exuberant celebrations in towns along the route such as Ajdabiya with rebel fighters firing their weapons in celebration.
In Ras Lanuf, a major oil exporting terminal, Qadaffy fighters appeared to have withdrawn with their heavy armour.
"[There are] no signs of Qadaffy's forces here," Bays reported. "What they left behind is here, some of their weaponry is here, some of their armourments are here. But they have not left their tanks behind or any of their heavy armour, just some of the ammunition has been left behind, suggesting it was a pretty speedy retreat."
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There was renewed fighting on Sunday in the rebel-held western city of Misurata, which had endured days of bombardment, punctuated by coalition air strikes against pro-Qadaffy military targets.
A rebel fighter told Rooters that rebels were fighting government forces in the centre of the town.
"We heard tanks, mortars and light weapons being used. This is still going on now," he said by telephone.
A resident told Rooters that eight people had been killed and 24 maimed in mortar attacks by government forces.
French and British warplanes launched strikes against government targets near Misurata on Saturday, temporarily halting the fighting.
The French armed forces said around 20 French aircraft supported by an AWACS surveillance plane struck targets during the day, including five Galeb fighter jets and two MI-35 helicopters on the ground outside Misurata.
British missile strikes also destroyed three armoured vehicles in Misurata and two more in Ajdabiya, the Royal Air Force said in a statement.
Ahmed Al Misrati, a pro-democracy activist, speaking from Misurata, told Al Jizz that the town was "besieged from all sides".
"Since morning [Misurata] has been under heavy gunfire and heavy bombardment ... by tanks or mortar shells," said Al Misrati. "They [Qadaffy troops] are also stationed in other rooftops, especially the high buildings."
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[Al Jazeera] NATO on Sunday assumed full command of coalition air operations in Libya.
"We have directed NATO's top operational commander to begin executing this operation with immediate effect," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary general, said in a statement. "Our goal is to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat from the Qadaffy regime."
The operations will be led by Canadian General Charles Bouchard, NATO said.
The transatlantic organisation had been manning naval operations to enforce an arms embargo against the Tripoli regime, but had agreed to take to the air to enforce a no-fly zone to protect civilians against bombings.
Elsewhere, Pope Benedict called for the "suspension of the use of arms" in the Libya crisis.
"I appeal to international organisations and those with political and military responsibilities to immediately launch a dialogue to suspend the use of arms," he told pilgrims in the Vatican on Sunday.
Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, said on Saturday that the military mission in Libya was succeeding.
"Because we acted quickly, a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided and the lives of countless civilians - innocent men, women and kiddies - have been saved," Obama said.
But Obama reiterated that the military mission was clear and focused and that the role of American forces had been limited. "Our military has provided unique capabilities at the beginning, but this is now a broad, international effort," he said.
Last week Libyan officials said nearly 100 civilians had been killed in the coalition strikes.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismissed the assertion on Saturday, saying: "The truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for."
"We do have a lot of intelligence reporting about Qadaffy taking the bodies of the people he's killed and putting them at the sites where we've attacked," Gates told CBS News' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer.
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TOPIX > RUSSIAN NATO ENVOY WARNS OF [full-scale] LIBYA WAR, devol ala Iraq + Afghanistan [AFPAK].
[Ennahar] Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... responds to accusations of Qadaffy on bribes he would have received and also that he had been manipulated by the Mubarak regime to quell the revolt. The latter accuses Qadaffy to plan for his liquidation.
Moussa denied having received as gift a car worth 42,000 euros plus a certain sum of money. He said the car was offered to the vaporous Arab League and the price was rather 24,000 euros, with consent on behalf of the Arab League and not in his name.
On bribes, Moussa defies Qadaffy to prove that he had accepted a single penny. "And then this man is a miser, he even refused the contribution of Libya to the Arab League. Only at the last summit that we were able to get them" he said.
About Qadaffy's accusations saying that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. had sent his special plane and gave him $ 10,000 to intervene to find a solution to the crisis, Moussa says, "This man is an ass. He also said that I was given one Million Sterling. Yes, I flew Hariri special plane once, but many Arab monarchs and presidents send me their private plane as the Secretary General of the Arab League and that, during my missions.
I said that I flew Saudi, Lebanese and Egyptian and if I took Hariri's plane once I took that of Qadaffy a dozen times. As for the 10,000 dollars, I say I am disappointed because this price is too low for me. I am worth much more than that, this supposing that his allegations were true.
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[Ennahar] French fighter planes in Misrata (200 km east of Tripoli) have destroyed "at least" five Galeb fighter planes and two combat helicopters MI-35 of forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Qadaffy, said on Saturday the staff of the French armies.
In the last 24 hours, said the staff in the evening on its website, "French aircraft have carried out several strikes in the regions of Zintan and Misrata.
According to "the first observations," he adds, these strikes have destroyed "in Misrata at least five Galeb combat planes and at least two combat helicopters MI-35 preparing to conduct operations in the region."
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[Maghrebia] The African Union held a summit on the Libya crisis on Friday (March 25th) in Addis Ababa, with the participation of the vaporous Arab League, the European Union, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdel Elah Al-Khatib. The AU called for dialogue, reform, and an immediate end to hostilities in the country. However, The punctuational However... the European diplomats attending the summit said that the no-fly zone would remain in effect and that a cessation of military action would depend on the Libyan government.
A five-member delegation from the government of Libya travelled to Addis Ababa but was not allowed into the summit. The delegation was met afterward by representatives of the African heads of state panel set by the AU to mediate in the crisis.
The AU issued a statement saying that Libya had agreed to a range of proposals, including a cease-fire, "and the international community should impose the same obligations on the other parties. [Libya] is also committed to an observer mission of the African Union to monitor the cease-fire."
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A series of explosions at an ammunition factory in southern Yemen has killed at least 78 people and wounded many, doctors say. The blasts shook the southern town of Jaar and could be heard 10 miles (15km) away. It is not yet clear what caused the incident. Though the next sentence gives a clue:
The plant was reportedly seized by militants on Sunday amid clashes with government forces. They said the dead included women and children. Of course. Any fluffy bunnies hurt?
The factory, in the Khanfar area, close to Jaar city, makes munitions and Kalashnikov rifles, according to AP news agency. Ambulances have been bringing the injured to Jaar's al-Razi hospital.
Yemen's ruling party has recommended forming a new government tasked with drafting a new constitution based on a parliamentary system.
The recommendation was made by the Central Committee of the People's Congress on Sunday, as protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... 32-year autocratic rule intensify, Rooters reported.
Anti-regime protests escalated furiously on Sunday, a day after Saleh made a controversial televised speech, saying his government is firm despite demonstrations.
The president also set a condition for his immediate step-down, saying his respect and prestige should be maintained, but warned the country is like a "time bomb" that could slide into civil war unless there is dialogue.
The speech spawned even more outrage when protesters, who were holding a sit-in, threw shoes at a public television screen, demanding Saleh's immediate resignation.
However, The infamous However... Saleh said in a meeting attended by the members of the ruling party on Sunday that he "derives his strength from the people" and warned the opposition groups that he would not make any further concessions from now on, Yemen News Agency reported.
The president had vowed to quit power at the end of the year after holding presidential elections and leading the country to a "safe shore," but he has once again reiterated he will stay in office until the end of his current term in 2013, reports said.
More than 80 people have been killed in the government crackdown since protests against Saleh's three-decade rule started in mid-February.
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Lots of Artics on the Yemen, Bahrain Crises over at MEMRI.ORG.
* SAME > YEMENI PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH: "YEMEN IS A TIME BOMB". UNLESS WE ENGAGE IN POLITICAL DIALOGUE [good-willed Govts-States], THERE WILL BE A DEVASTATING CIVIL WAR WHIHC WILL ENGULF THE ENTIRE REGION.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US LACKS PLAN FOR DEALING WID CHAOS IN YEMEN DESPITE DIRE WARNINGS.
POSTER = opined that IHO POTUS OBAMA will be the first standing US PRESIDENT to LOSE SO MANY KEY ALLIES DURING HIS TENURE, wid consequences for LT US credibility???
[Al Jazeera] Bahrain's main Shia opposition group, Wefaq, has welcomed Kuwait's offer to mediate in talks with the Sunni al-Khalifa family-run government to end a political crisis gripping the Gulf Island kingdom, a Wefaq member has said.
Jasim Husain said on Sunday Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah had offered to mediate between the al-Khalifa ruling family and Shia opposition groups.
"We welcome the idea of bringing in an outside element," Husain told the Rooters news agency.
He said that Wefaq had no conditions for entering mediation talks but the presence of foreign troops in Bahrain would be a thorny matter in the discussions.
Wefaq and other six allies had said last week they would not enter talks offered by the crown prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa unless the government pulled troops off the streets and freed prisoners.
Husain said talks must be based on issues outlined by the crown prince before Saudi-led Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) troops entered Bahrain to quell weeks of unrest.
These include an elected government and reform of electoral districts that the opposition says were cut to ensure a Sunni majority in parliament.
Kuwait, which unlike Bahrain has a Shia minority, has sent navy vessels to Bahrain under the aegis of GCC to patrol its northern coast line.
The acceptance of talks comes more than a week after Bahrain imposed a state of emergency and drove protesters from the Pearl Roundabout, the focal point of the protests in Manama, the capital.
The deadly crackdown, which stunned Bahrain's majority Shias and angered Iran, was condemned internationally.
Iran, which is predominantly Shia, recalled its ambassador from Bahrain in protest and Manama also withdrew its ambassador in a tit-for-tat action.
More than 60 percent of Bahrainis are Shias, and most are campaigning for a constitutional monarchy.
But calls by hardliners for the overthrow of the monarchy have alarmed Sunnis, fearing the unrest serves Iran, separated from Bahrain by just a short stretch of Gulf waters.
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[Al Jazeera] Yemeni troops have clashed with fighters in the south of the country, increasing tensions in the Arab state already beset by protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president.
The army on Sunday tried to dislodge an armed Islamist group that had taken control of several key buildings, including an ammunition factory, in the town of Jaar in Abyan province.
One soldier was reported killed in the clash and other reports suggested that the police had deserted the town. A day earlier, five soldiers were killed in an ambush in Lowdar, also in Abyan.
The province is seen as a stronghold of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni wing of the network which Western countries and neighbour Soddy Arabia fear could take advantage of any power vacuum if protesters succeed in ousting Saleh.
Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said on Sunday that the replacement of Saleh by a weaker leader would pose "a real problem" for the US.
"I think it is a real concern because the most active and at this point perhaps the most aggressive branch of al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, operates out of Yemen," Gates said.
"And we've had counter-terrorism cooperation with President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... and the Yemeni security services.
"So if that government collapses, or is replaced by one who is dramatically more weak, then I think we'd face some additional challenges out of Yemen, there's no question about it. It's a real problem."
Beleaguered president
Both Washington and Soddy Arabia have backed Saleh in a bid to keep al-Qaeda from expanding its foothold in a country many political analysts say is close to collapse.
But Saleh has come under pressure in recent months, with tens of thousands of Yemenis demanding he step down.
The president, who has been in power for 32 years, has cracked down on protests but has also offered concessions, pledging not to seek another period in office beyond 2013.
Demonstrators and anti-government activists want him to step down much sooner.
But in an interview shown on Al Arabiya on Sunday, Saleh seemed to suggest that he would stay at least for the short term and warned that Yemen would slide into civil conflict if he left immediately.
"Yemen is a time bomb and if we and our friendly countries don't have a return to dialogue, there will be a destructive civil war," he said.
He also said that he was prepared for a dignified departure at any stage, but that opposition parties were hijacking the protests to demand he quit without organising a democratic handover.
"I could leave power ... even in a few hours, on condition of maintaining respect and prestige," Saleh said. "I have to take the country to safe shores ... I'm holding on to power in order to hand it over peaceably."
Opposition parties have been in talks with Saleh about his stepping down, but have so far rebuffed his demands, which include protection for him and his family from prosecution.
"We still have a very big gap," said Yassin Noman, the rotating head of Yemen's opposition coalition. "I think he is manoeuvring."
More than 80 people have been killed since anti-government protests started in January.
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PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > AL-QAEDA BRANCH IN YEMEN [aka AQAP]PLANNING TERROR STRIKES.
MANAMA -- Bahrain's opposition group Wefaq has accepted Kuwait's offer to mediate in talks with Bahrain's government to end the political crisis gripping the kingdom. Jasim Husain, a member of Wefaq, said on Sunday that His Highness Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Amir of Kuwait, has offered to mediate between Bahrain's government and opposition groups. "We welcome the idea of bringing in an outside element," Husain said.
He said that Wefaq had no conditions for entering mediation talks but the presence of foreign troops in Bahrain would be a thorny matter in the discussions. Wefaq and its six allies said last week they would not enter talks offered by Bahrain's Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa unless the government pulled troops off the streets and freed prisoners.
Husain said talks must be based on issues outlined by Shaikh Salman. These include an elected government and reform of electoral districts. Wefaq and its allies also want an elected council to redraft the constitution.
A Wefaq delegation is set to meet Kuwaiti politicians, including Parliament Speaker Jassem Al Kharafi, Kuwaiti daily Al Seyassah said.
Bahrain cut curfew times by an hour on Sunday. The curfew from Seef Mall through the financial district to the diplomatic area now runs from 11pm to 4am.
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This will be far deeper than thought to say the least. Iran now has very little opposition, holds many proxies, and poses threat to every Sunni country as well as every other country.
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A total of 17 individuals were killed in drug and gang related incidents Saturday and Sunday in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, according to Mexican news reports.
Three unidentified individuals were found beheaded in two separate municipalities in southern Tamaulipas Saturday.
A man was found beheaded near the Unidad Modelo colony.
A male and female couple were found beheaded in nearby Luis Echevarria colony.
Seven unidentified individuals were found tortured and shot to death on kilometer 7 of the Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey highway at about 0600 hrs Sunday.
Four unidentified individuals were found tortured and executed on kilometer 11. At both locations a message had been left for authorities to find.
Three unidentified men were killed in an explosion and fire in a trailer carrying munitions Saturday. A detachment of the Mexican Army encountered a tractor-trailer rig on kilomter 13 of the Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey highway being driven erratically. When the soldiers attempted to open the trailer, they were fired on from inside the trailer. When the soldiers returned fire. an explosion and then, fire consumed the trailer.
Inside the vehicle were seized 31 rifles (27 of which destroyed), nine pistols (7 of which were destroyed), one RPG-7 rocket launcher (destroyed), 16 40mm grenades (13 destroyed), one fragentary hand grenade, 156 weapons magazines (142 destroyed), 24 .50 caliber rifle rounds, 71 hand radios and 13 cell phones, all destroyed.
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Representatives inside the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and Homeland Security knew about the renegade weapons sting operation that permitted weapons to be transferred illegally to Mexico to criminal gangs, according to a report released by APRO, the news service run by the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso.
John Dodson of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agency told Proceso writer J. Jesus Esquivel that he did not know if Eric Holder, the current Attorney General ofvthe United States, or Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security personally knew about the operation, but he did say representatives of the DoJ and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, were at the ATF office in Phoenix, where the sting was launched in December, 2009.
When asked about if the Mexican national government was aware of the weapons transferred he was quoted as saying:
"I do not know if the Mexican government was informed. What I know is that several ATF agents knew about the operation. I think that only a Mexican representative attorney general of the republic (PGR) of the assigned to the Phoenix (area office) knew of the operation, but what details I do not know."
In news reports posted on its site last Friday, CBS News reported that Darren Gil, an ATF representative posted to the US Embassy in Mexico City, submitted his resignation last December after he learned of Fast and Furious.
Gil said that Kenneth Melson, ATF head told him the operation had been openly approved through the Department of Homeland Security.
Gil also said that Lanny Breuer, Undersecretary of the Department of Justice, was briefed by ATF staff in Mexico City on the sting operation when he visited Mexico last summer.
Gil was replaced with William Newell, director of the Phoenix ATF office during the start of Fast and Furious.
A late Sunday report by the Mexican daily Milenio reprorted that Gil was under orders from Washington not to tell Mexico City about all the weapons which were allowed to go to Mexico.
Dodson, the subject of the interview, admitted he did not know who originated the plan; only that 60 days after he came to the Phoenix ATF office in December 2009, the operation was started.
Dodson also said in the interview that the quantity of weapons allowed to go into the hands of drug criminals was much higher than is commonly admitted, as high as 2,500, instead of 1,765.
The US government response since enquiries were made to DoJ and the Homeland Security has been Holder's announcement that Acting Inspector General Department of Justice, Cynthia A. Schneder would be investigating the case.
At the moment no one in the US government is willing to go on the record about the operation.
When asked by Esquivel about the operational details Dodson said ATF had identified individuals who were known buyers of multiple weapons as straw purchasers, who are individuals who purchase weapons to bypass background checks of end users.
ATF agents would then track the buyer through surveillance with the idea of stopping weapons traffickers and recipients, including Mexican drug gangsters.
"We watched these guys when they bought the weapons, acquired 5, 10 or 20 in one visit to a gun store. Coming out to meet with other people gathered in public parks or private garages. Then transferring weapons from one vehicle to another and then to the recipients," said Dodson
"What happened to the weapons once they were transferred to other cars?" asked Esquivel.
"We had been forbidden to detain individuals, we could not confiscate weapons or identify the people involved. Our sole mission was to observe. That's how I lost track of weapons that went to Mexico," replied Dodson.
Dodson said that the total number of known purchasers of weapons the ATF knew about was 20, all US residents or citizens.
Dodson also said the gun store that sold the weapons were aware of the ATF sting but had no idea the purpose was not to detain but to observe.
The gun stores owners "thought they were doing the right thing. They had no idea that we (ATF agents) were not intercepting weapons," said Dodson.
Esquivel asked: How many people were killed by weapons in this operation?
"I do not know," replied Dodson.
"Even if the weapons were to be recovered, they could have been used 10 or 15 times. So I think no one can know many of these weapons sold under the authorization of the ATF were used to kill."
"The damage that has caused this operation is inconceivable," said Dodson.
"The operation should never have been done. From my point of view there is no way to justify what we did," Dodson said.
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Operation "Fast and Furious"......what a delightful venue for the Anti-2nd Amendment effort. The scripted MSM photographic exploitation of tables full of automatic weapons allegedly captured by DoJ sleuths on their way to Mexican cartels. A double whammy! Success stories for the DoJ, Homeland Security, and FBI, and kuddo's from the leftest, hell bent anti-gun D.C. crowd. What's not to like?
( Publish the Serial Numbers please, make, model, manufacturers, shipping invoices, addresses, signatures....the usual investigatory procedures please...... oh, they've all gove missing have they? )
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Well, it looks like Operation Reichstag Fire didn't work out as planned. It's back to the Politburo committee to work some other provocation to suppress the Constitution. Stay tuned for Part II.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian man was killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a taxi cab went off in western Baghdad on Sunday, a police source said.
“An IED attached to a taxi cab in al-Yarmuk area, western Baghdad, went off, leaving a civilian killed and three others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The explosion also damaged the vehicle and another one passing by,” he added.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army force freed two children taken hostage one hour after they had been abducted and arrested the kidnappers in eastern Mosul city on Sunday, a security source in Ninewa said.
“A force from the Iraqi army’s 2nd Division stationed in Mosul managed to free two children kidnapped in al-Intissar neighborhood, eastern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The force arrested two of the kidnappers and they are now remanded under investigative custody,” he added, not revealing further details.
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[Iran Press TV] Pictures have begun circulating in some Internet websites showing security forces in Jordan cracking down on women protesters wearing Islamic hijab.
Following the revelation, eyewitnesses came forth to confirm that Jordanian security force and riot police had targeted women wearing Islamic headscarves in the March 24 protest rallies and that they pulled the scarves off their heads while beating them, Fars News Agency reported.
Jordanian security forces threatened female protesters and told them to leave the rally site, another eyewitness said, adding that shortly afterwards King Abdullah II's mercenaries began hurling stones at the women from the other side of Jamal Abdul Nasser square where the protesters had gathered.
Security forces did nothing to stop plainclothes mercenaries from attacking the protesters.
Following growing public discontent over the country's political and economic situation, a number of citizens staged a rally titled the "March 24 Movement" at Jamal Abdul Nasser square.
Jordanian security forces accompanied by the regime's mercenaries attacked the protesters, killing two people and wounding more than 100 others.
Jordanians want the ouster of Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit and intelligence chief Mohammed Raqqad. They say that the regime has carried out "crimes against humanity."
Jordan's king, who has already offered a series of concessions to end the protests, has reportedly called for an early election by the end of 2011.
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The Jordanians have a hanger on the Canadian ramp at Kandahar Airfield (KAF). They drive the Kanuks nuts on nearly a daily basis with their antics. In a perverted sort of way, it's actually fun to observe while transiting. The Canadians by the way, run a very impressive helo support operation out of KAF.
[Al Jazeera] Israel has deployed a cutting-edge rocket defence system to try to halt a recent surge in attacks from the neighbouring Gazoo Strip. The Iron Dome system just north of Beersheba, a southern city twice hit by rockets during this month's flare-up of cross-border violence, will provide increased security to Israelis.
However, The all-purpose However... officials warned that the homegrown system will not do the job alone.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, told his cabinet in Jerusalem: "I do not want to create an illusion that the Iron Dome system, which we are deploying for the first time today, will provide a full or comprehensive response."
"The real response to the missile threat is in the combination of offensive and deterrent measures with defensive measures, and with a firm stance by the government and public."
Netanyahu spoke shortly after Israel killed two members of Islamic Jihad, a Paleostinian group behind much of the recent rocket fire, in a Gazoo air strike.
Hard to track
Primitive rockets - often fired by groups including Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which controls Gazoo - have evaded Israel's high-tech weaponry, in part because their short flight path, just a few seconds, makes them hard to track.
The government approved Iron Dome in 2007 and developers have compared the effort to a high-tech start-up, working around the clock in small teams to perfect its weapons, radar and software systems.
The developer, local defence contractor Rafael, declared the system ready for use last year.
Iron Dome uses sophisticated cameras and radar to track incoming rockets, determine where they will land, and intercept and destroy them far from their targets.
If the system determines the rocket is headed to an open area where casualties are unlikely, it can allow the weapon to explode on the ground.
Brigadier-Geneneral Doron Gavish, commander of Israel's air defence corps, said Iron Dome had passed a series of tests and reached its "evaluation phase" in the field. It is expected to be fully operational in a matter of months.
He added that it was only supposed to be deployed later in the year, but it was put into operation earlier because of the recent rocket attacks from Gazoo.
"Obviously, after what we saw in the last few weeks, we accelerated the phases," he said, standing before the brown, box-like battery on the outskirts of Beersheba, southern Israel's largest city with a population of nearly 200,000.
A second anti-missile battery will be deployed in another large southern city, Ashdod, the military said, without specifying a date.
Officials refused to say how many batteries would be deployed altogether, what their range was, or how much the system would cost. Analysts have estimated the cost of shooting down a rocket could be tens of thousands of dollars, compared to just a few hundred dollars to produce the rocket.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC > GUNMEN TARGET EGYPT [TO ISRAEL] GAS PIPELINE.
* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > JORDAN GOVT BLAMES MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD [+ Iran] FOR PROTESTS.
Once again, US-NATO/EU, + TEL AVIV?, to Uncle Muammar > "D *** NG IT, MUMMAR, WE LUV YA, MAN"!
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This is all well and good, but they've never explained why they didn't get the relatively cheap, each $15m including radar C-RAM system. They could buy a dozen of those, set them up overnight, and have an effective system of 20mm defense against most low level threats from mortars to rockets.
They would be great to have even as a complement to Iron Dome. The manufacturer even created air burst 20mm rounds, because the Israelis were so wracked with guilt at the idea that their defensive weapons might hurt Palestinians while the Palestinians are trying to kill Israelis.
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why they didn't get the relatively cheap, each $15m including radar C-RAM system.
From a quick browse at Wikipedia (yeah, yeah...), the answer appears to be range. C-RAM sounds like a land based version of the naval CIWS which is a point defense system. IRON DOME has a range of about 40 miles making it more of an area defense. And as tw notes, the end game the Israelis are planning for is the coming war with Hisbollah.
It's a short range beam rider missile. Its range is a few km at best. The 40 mile range refers to incoming rockets and arty. And it looks to be completely funded by US taxpayers.
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WAFF [long] > CALLS ON FACEBOOK FOR MILYUHNS OF PALESTINIANS TO RETURN TO THEIR [old = former] HOMES IN ISRAEL ON MAY 15th [2011 = this year].
Lots of activities planned for Paleos.
HMMMM, HMMMMM, MEXICAN CARTEL VIOLENCE TURNS PALEO INTIFADA IN THE MIDEAST? Iff so, methinks the "IRON DOME" BMD Missles are pointing in the wrong vector.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA'S MUSLIMS MAY FIND INSPIRATION IN EGYPT. Despite routinely high electoral turnouts, India's Muslims are effec failing to progress socio-economically vee secular, democratic statehood.
India's Hindu majority tends to view Muslims as solely desiring a mostly anti-democratic Theocratic State.
IIUC as per the view of INDIAN HINDUS > IT IS ISLAM ITSELF AS A SOCIO-ECON MODEL WHICH IS INHIBITING INDIA'S MUSLIMS???
* SAME > ALL-INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE DEMANDS FOR SEPARATE [national] EELCTORATES.
[Al Jazeera] Two people have been killed and three others maimed in an Israeli air strike early on Sunday, hospital officials told Al Jizz.
The raid hit targets east of Jabaliya, Adham Abu Senmya, a front man for Gazoo emergency services, told the AFP news agency.
An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed the raid, saying "an air force plane attacked on Sunday morning a terrorist cell that was preparing to fire a rocket at Israel from the northern Gazoo Strip."
Islamic Jihad, an armed Paleostinian group, said that the two people killed belonged to its military wing, the Al Quds Brigade. Countering the claim that they were preparing to fire a rocket, the group said those targeted were standing outside their homes.
After weeks of bloody festivities with Israel that have killed eight Paleostinians, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-led fighters met on Saturday and declared that they wanted to restore calm in Gazoo.
Ismail Radwan, a Hamas official, told news hounds after a two-hour meeting with Islamic Jihad and other factions that "we are committed to calm as long as the occupation [Israel] commits to it."
Israel says that it is conducting the raids in response to more than 70 rockets being fired into Israeli territory from Gazoo.
On Friday, Prime Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said his country was ready to act with "great force" in response to rocket and mortar fire, which sparked retaliation from Israel.
Officials from both sides have said, however, that they wish to prevent a repeat of Israel's 2009 war on Gazoo, a three-week assault during which about 1,400 Paleostinians were killed.
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With all the world chaos one area of the world sees a new brave new world being born. Reflect for a moment on all the world events that have occurred so far. It appears random to us but to many they see a new beginning. These events will only unify and drive them to a unified pursuit of purpose. Emotion will drive their actions. Logic and common sense are abandoned. I have no desire to view this video. No good will come from this madness.
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There are people on both sides of the Moslem/Judeo-Christian fence saying the rapidly occurring chaos and disasters are "signs" of the second coming.
I personally think the CIA should realize that with the apocalyptic mindset of short round and the Mullahs in Iran, it is not the time to be spiking the drinking water with hallucenogenics...
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Fire
Brimstone!
Apocalypse!
Bringing my attention...back to my glass of wine and dinner.
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IMO Moud claims the Shia Mahdi is "near" becuz Radical Islam's desired future OWG Caliphate = Global Islamist-Jihadist State is humming along steadily, slowly but surely, despite seeming setbacks. IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT DEFEATED OR DESTROYED, + IS WORKING HARD TO GO NUCLEAR.
IIRC MAD MULLAHS > the SHIA = ISLAMIST MAHDI may NOT know He is the Mahdi = Hidden Imam.
In addition, AFAIK no one in the Arab-Muslim World including Radical Islam has done anything to indicate, teach, or tell Him, etc. otherwise.
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FREEREPUBLIC > [EWTN = long] THE GREAT + ENDURNG HERESY OF MOHAMMED. The origins of Islam as a MILITANT/VIOLENT HERESY OF CATHOLICISM + CHRISTIANITY THAT CAME TO CHALLENGE THE EXISTENCE + AUTHORITY OF ROME.
Methinks its safe to say that, buy extension, ISLAM = MOHAMMEDANISM is also a heresy of HEBRAISM = JEWISH/HEBREW RELIGION.
ISLAM'S MAHDI = HIDDEN IMAM > is an ABROGATION-VS-ABERRATION OF BOTH THE CHRISTIAN + JEWISH "MESSIAHS"???
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Now would be a superb time for a Hail Mary PSYOP.
They want the 12th Imam, give them the 12th Imam. Get the most ignorant and superstitious among them believing that the Mahdi has arrived, but...
1) Has been kidnapped by the government because he opposes them. Or,
2) That the people are immoral, so must destroy all modern machines. Or,
3) That all who believe in the 12th Imam must go to Qom and wait for his arrival.
The bottom line is to get as many true believers as possible involved, and set them up for a huge disappointment.
One clarification, should the PSYOPS 12th Imam be either:
1. autistic
2. stupider than a door knob
3. Jewish
4. A woman
5. An American
6. Sarah Palin
7. I think the best idea is to tell them Joe Biden is the 12th Imam..that'll set them back a few thousand years.....
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ION NOT-IRAn = ISLANDS-IN-THE-STREAM ...
To wit,
* MEMRI.ORG > SHIITE BAHRAINI CLERIC TO DEMONSTRATORS: OUR REVOLUTION WILL LEAD TO A STATE OF THE MAHDI.
versus
* SAME > LEADING SUNNI SCHOLAR SHEIK YOUSEF AL-QARADHANI: THE REVOLUTION IN BAHRAIN IS A SHIITE SECTARIAN REVOLUTION.
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Methinks its safe to say that, buy extension, ISLAM = MOHAMMEDANISM is also a heresy of HEBRAISM = JEWISH/HEBREW RELIGION.
ISLAM'S MAHDI = HIDDEN IMAM > is an ABROGATION-VS-ABERRATION OF BOTH THE CHRISTIAN + JEWISH "MESSIAHS"???
We call our faith Judaism, JosephM. As the Jewish messiah is required to be a descendant of King David who will rule from Jerusalem during the messianic age, I agree with you that
the 12th imam doesn't quite makes the cut.
[Emirates 24/7] A bomb went kaboom! overnight at the entrance of a church in the eastern Lebanese city of Zahle, causing no injuries, a church official said Sunday.
The bomb, which consisted of about two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of TNT, was placed at the side entrance of St Mary's Church, a Syriac Orthodox church, Monsignor Youstinios Boulos Safar told AFP.
The device went off at 4:15 am (0115 GMT), blowing out a side door of the church and damaging benches inside as well as the altar, Safar said.
Seven cars parked nearby were also damaged. No one grabbed credit.
"I denounce this type of attack and urge people to remain calm," said Safar, who hails from neighbouring Syria and is bishop of Zahle, a mainly Christian town about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the capital Beirut.
He said he planned to hold Sunday mass at the church despite the attack.
The church is located in the industrial part of Zahle, where seven Estonians were kidnapped earlier this week by gunnies. Officials have launched a large manhunt but have so far been unable to locate the missing men.
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[Al Jazeera] A Syrian government adviser has confirmed to Al Jizz that the country's emergency law is to be lifted.
Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Bashir al-Assad, the Syrian president, told Al Jizz's Cal Perry in the capital, Damascus, ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... on Sunday that the law would "absolutely" be lifted, but failed to give a timetable.
The repeal of the emergency law, in place since the 1963 coup that brought the Baath Party to power, has been a key demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in recent days to demand greater political freedoms.
The emergency law imposes restrictions on public gatherings and movement and authorises the arrest of "suspects or persons who threaten security".
It also authorises the interrogation of any individual and the surveillance of personal communication as well as official control of the content of newspapers and other media before publication.
The state also announced a series of reforms, including the release of detainees and plans to form new laws on the media and licensing political parties.
Shaaban added that there will be a debate in parliament regarding the establishment of political parties.
"There are many issues which were decided, and which are being followed up with the president and the government," she said.
Pressed on when reforms would be implemented, she said that "one or two steps in the implementation [of reforms]" would be announced within a week.
Despite the week-long crackdown, Syria's government had pledged to consider reforms and has released dozens of political prisoners in an effort to defuse demonstrations.
Al Jizz's Perry said the move to lift the emergency law would go some way towards appeasing the protesters' demands.
"It will open up press freedom and political freedom. This is something that people have been calling for on the streets. Certainly it is a concession on the government's part," he said.
Dozens of pro-reform protesters have been killed in festivities with security forces and government supporters in towns and cities across the country.
Probe launch
Shaaban also told Al Jizz that the government will launch an investigation into the violence that occurred in Sanamin.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea... in the northeastern port of Latakia, the army has been deployed after festivities resulted in the deaths of at least three people.
Rights groups however have claimed that the corpse count could be higher.
Soldiers erupted into the streets of Latakia on Saturday night to help secret police and security forces control the port, residents said.
The army also increased checkpoints around the southern city of Deraa, where Human Rights Watch says 61 people have died.
"There is a feeling in Latakia that the presence of disciplined troops is necessary to keep order," one resident told Rooters news agency.
"We do not want looting."
Dozens of people have also died in protests in Deraa and in nearby Sanamin, Damascus and other towns over the last week.
There have also been protests in Hama, a northern city where in 1982, the forces of president Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, killed thousands of people and razed much of the city's old quarter to surpress an armed uprising by Islamist fighters.
The government blames gangs for setting off the recent bloodshed.
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See also WORLD NEWS > ASSAD'S FALL [Syria] COULD DELIVER LEBANON TO IRAN + HEZBOLLAH.
[Al Jazeera] Syria's interior ministry urged residents to ignore text messages and leaflets to join a rally in Damascus' ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... Umayad Square on Sunday night for their own safety.
In a message on state television, the ministry called on people not to respond to the calls, which it said were "tendentious" and "untruthful".
But pro-government Syrians have previously taken to the streets to show their support for al-Assad.
However, The punctuational However... Al Jizz's Perry, said that while pro-government protests have been called for in Damascus, the authorities are advising people not to attend.
"They're also sending residents text messages that they should not attend any demonstrations," he said.
The unrest in Syria came to a head after police jugged more than a dozen schoolchildren for scrawling graffiti inspired by pro-democracy protests across the Arab world.
Such demonstrations would have been unthinkable a couple of months ago in this most tightly controlled of Arab countries where the Baath Party has been in power for nearly 50 years.
In another move said to be aimed at placating protesters, Syrian authorities on Sunday released a lawyer - Diana Jawabra -along with 15 others who were tossed in the slammer for taking part in a silent protest demanding the release of the children responsible for the graffiti.
This follows news of the freeing of 260 political prisoners.
Assad also faces calls to curb a pervasive security apparatus, free political prisoners and reveal the fate of tens of thousands of dissidents who disappeared in the 1980s.
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SYRYUH NET + IPADS + BLACKBERRIES?
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* TOPIX > LIEBERMAN/US SENATOR CALLS FOR NO-FLY ZONE OVER SYRIA, espec iff Baby Assad starts doing a Gaddafi agz his own Syrian People.
* SAME > SYRIA TROUBLES HAS DANGEROUS IMPLICATIONS FOR LEBANON.
And by extension ISRAEL, since JORDAN already has the Islamic Action Front.
[Ma'an] Mohammedan fundamentalists who aim to destroy religious coexistence in Syria are behind the unrest hitting the country but will "fail again", presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban said Sunday.
Shaaban, a high-profile adviser to President Bashar Al-Assad, also said authorities have made the decision to lift emergency rule, which has been in force since the Baath party came into power in 1963.
"These are fundamentalists (behind the violence) who hate to see Syria as an example of peaceful coexistence," Shaaban told AFP in an interview in Damascus. ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
"I think this is target number one: coexistence in Syria, and it is very different, it is separate, from the legitimate demands of the Syrian people."
More than 30 people have been confirmed killed in a spiral of violence that has gripped Syria since a wave of dissent broke out earlier this month.
While the violence initially centered on Daraa, a tribal town at the southern border with Jordan, unrest has spilled into other cities, including the religiously diverse northern port city of Latakia.
The majority of Syria's 22.5 million population are Sunni Mohammedans. The country is also home to Christians and a minority Alawite Mohammedan community, an offshoot of Shia Islam, who have long coexisted side-by-side.
Political power in Syria has been in the hands of the Alawite-controlled Baath party for close to 50 years.
President Assad, who is facing unprecedented domestic pressure since rising to power in 2000, succeeded his late father Hafez al-Assad as leader of the Middle Eastern powerhouse.
Hafez al-Assad dealt harshly with domestic opposition, and in 1982 launched a crackdown on Islamists in the town of Hama, where tens of thousands of people were killed in army bombardments.
Today, Shaaban holds Islamist movements responsible for attempting to pit Syria's confessional communities against one another.
"We trust our people. They were the ones who defeated the Moslem Brüderbund in 1982. Without the help of the Syrian people, we never could have defeated them," she said.
"The Mohammedan Brothers never forgave, and they want to do it again. But they will fail again.
"I think they used what happened in Tunisia and Egypt to say that this is the same thing," she added. "But it's not the same thing."
While access to cities like Daraa has been restricted to journalists, demonstrators have reportedly continued to hit the streets there in increasingly angry rallies.
"Those who want to remove their governor, who have problems with water, who have problems with their land, who want better salaries, these are legitimate demands by our people," Shaaban said.
Assad is expected to address his country in the days to come, but there is no confirmation that he will officially announce that the emergency law had been lifted.
Syria's emergency law, written in December 1962, imposes restrictions on public gatherings and movement and authorises the arrest of "suspects or persons who threaten security".
The law also authorizes interrogation of any individual and the surveillance of personal communication as well as official control of the content of newspapers and other media before publication.
Shaaban also said talks were underway to adopt new laws on the media and licensing of political parties in Syria, a country long known for its iron grip on security.
"This will all be open to discussion. There are no red lines when it comes to the legitimate demands of our people," she said.
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i'm surprised Syrian intelligence is so bad.
We've been blabbing about the Moslem Brotherhood for weeks and he's just coming to that conclusion.
Pencilneck and his support staff should read Rantburg and get the straight skinny.
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ION MEMRI.ORG > FATH AL-ISLAM CALLS FOR JIHAD IN SYRIA [calls on Sunnis in Lebanon + Syria to defend Sunni Muslims + Sunni Islam, etc. from the Allawis + their Shia Allies IRAN + HEZBOLLAH].
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There was renewed fighting on Sunday in the rebel-held western city of Misurata, which had endured days of bombardment, punctuated by coalition air strikes against pro-Qadaffy military targets.
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