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Re: the ghost city in China.
Basically, the local CP bigwigs dream up these projects then force the banks to lend to them.
The developer, contractors all make money and the CP types take a cut all the way down the line.
All funded by the Chinese saver.
The banks pay way under the inflation rate to savings accounts, which means people try and put their savings into tangible assets. Often buying into these kinds of development projects.
Thus reinforcing the cycle.
It will of course end very badly, the question is when?
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Now that Fred has his new toy, can we get back to the really important stuff?
You know the "why we fight" posters and such.
Okay, nimrods, I am talking about pictures of gorgeous women exposing their legs...
Enough with the new server, its a box on the floor that flashes, whizzes and purrs...there is no long term opportunities for a meaningful relationship with a box full of microprocessors, disk drives and magic potions.
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"there is no long term opportunities for a meaningful relationship with a box full of microprocessors, disk drives and magic potions"
I suspect there's also no long- or short-term opportunity for a meaningful relationship with the "gorgeous women [in those photos] exposing their legs" either, Bill - as least for you. ;-p
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Can't a man drool in the privacy of his own cubicle?
[Dawn] Twin Taliban attacks killed four people and maimed 24 others, including children, in the Afghan city of Herat and at an Italian-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... reconstruction team on Monday, officials said.
The blasts came just weeks before the usually peaceful historic city is to become one of the first places in the war-torn country to transition from NATO to Afghan security control nearly 10 years after the 2001 US-led invasion.
Italian press agency Ansa reported that 15 Italians had been injured, quoting parliamentary sources, but the Italian defence ministry could not confirm this when questioned by AFP.
An AFP news hound at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Herat said there had been a large kaboom at the gate and there was a crater at the scene, with fragments of twisted metal from at least one car scattered around.
The news hound added that the attack appeared to be ongoing as he could hear gunfire.
"Four are martyred and 24 are injured," said Ghulam Sayed Rashid, Herat provincial health director.
"Among the maimed we have four children and a woman. The rest are men. There are two among them (the injured) who are in military uniform, they are guards of the PRT. Three of the injured are at death's door," he added.
Farooq Kohistani, Herat's criminal investigation chief, had earlier put the corpse count at two with 26 maimed.
"There was a suicide kaboom at the gate of Herat PRT and a second in the city centre," he said. Kohistani did not have details on whether the dead were foreign or Afghan, or what the target of the second blast was.
The attack was claimed by the Taliban. Its front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP: "Our mujahedeen are working on the operation in Herat.
"There have been kabooms inside the compound as well as outside the PRT."
Local television pictures showed extensive damage at the scene.
The area around the PRT, which is in a residential part of the city, had been cordoned off and both Afghan and international security forces were in the area, the AFP news hound said.
Herat, close to the Afghan border with Iran, is seen as one of the safest parts of Afghanistan and is among the first wave of seven places due to pass from foreign to Afghan security control from around July.
PRTs are typically joint military and civilian operations that work on trying to help build up Afghan government capacity in a province. There are 28 of them in total working in provinces across Afghanistan.
There are nearly 4,000 Italian troops serving in Afghanistan as part of a 130,000-strong international force fighting a Taliban-led insurgency.
The current conflict in Afghanistan has been running for nearly 10 years.
It started when a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks for harbouring al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who can now be reached at RFD Boneyard... , who was killed by US forces in Pakistain this month.
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Methinks we just found out one of the areas the North Wazoo Hard Boyz will be heading to once the Pakistan Govt. begins its long-awaited North Waziristan [final?]offensive.
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED + HOPE THAT CHINA, INDIA HAVE THEIR BORDERS AS SECURE AS THEY CLAIM IT IS.
[Al Jazeera] New satellite images provide evidence that northern Sudanese troops have committed war crimes, including ethnic cleansing, in the contested border town of Abyei where the forces took over more than a week ago, according to an advocacy group.
The Satellite Sentinel Project said in a statement on Sunday that satellite images by DigitalGlobe show that the Sudanese army burned about one-third of all civilian buildings in the north-south border town, used disproportionate force and indiscriminately targeted civilians.
"The totality of evidence from satellites and ground sources points to state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of much of the contested Abyei region,'' the group said.
The Satellite Sentinel Project said the evidence is being sent to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) and the UN Security Council for assessment.
Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , Sudan's president, is already wanted by the ICC for war crimes in the Darfur region.
Northern Sudanese tanks rolled into the town of Abyei on May 21, scattering southern troops that were there as part of a joint security unit.
Thousands displaced
The seizure of Abyei followed an attack on a convoy of northern soldiers by southern forces on May 19 and two days of aerial bombardment of the area by the north.
The northern takeover has displaced tens of thousands of civilians who now live in squalid conditions in southern villages.
On Sunday, Save The Children's UK office warned that a new wave of violent conflict has displaced up to 35,000 children.
The group said in a statement on Sunday that children who have been separated from their families since fighting broke out are at "grave risk'' of being targeted for sexual and physical abuse or recruited into the armed conflict.
Save the Children said it is "desperately worried about those children currently beyond the reach of humanitarian assistance".
George Clooney, the Hollywood actor, urged the UN to protect civilians in Abyei, saying the north's takeover was meant to disrupt the south's upcoming independence in July.
"We now have undeniable proof of the Khartoum regime's war crimes in Abyei. We've captured visual evidence of the Sudan Armed Forces ransacking and razing Abyei town," Clooney said.
Clooney initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project along with John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, after they travelled to Southern Sudan in October 2010.
Visual evidence The Satellite Sentinel Project was established to use satellite images and on-the-ground reports to help deter the resumption of full-scale civil war between Sudan's north and south.
In its statement, the group said the new visual evidence shows that the government of Sudan has committed grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and other war crimes, some of which may also constitute crimes against humanity.
North and south Sudan ended more than two decades of civil war in 2005 with a peace deal that promised both Abyei and the south a self-determination vote.
The south voted overwhelmingly in January to secede and will become an independent nation July 9. Abyei's vote never happened, so its future is being negotiated by the north and south.
Prendergast on Sunday urged B.O. regime to punish Sudan by isolating it diplomatically and denying it debt relief. He also asked the Abyei matter to be referred to the ICC.
"What is happening in Abyei is what the international community feared would happen in Benghazi, Libya," he said.
"We're not advocating military intervention, but we do think the Responsibility to Protect doctrine requires more assertive action in support of ongoing emergency diplomacy."
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Only Israel and, occasionally, USA can commit war crimes.
I was thinking, which for me is always a dangerous occupation, that every major war crime in the last fifteen years, essentially had a UN peace keeping force standing by with their thumbs up their butts watching it.
Rwanda
Serbia
Sudan
Did I miss one?
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I kinda believed the local testimony, and the numerous pictorial proofs of arab savagery. Satellite evidence is the least of it.
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"every major war crime in the last fifteen years, essentially had a UN peace keeping force standing by with their thumbs up their butts watching helping it"
FTFY, Bill.
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"Rwanda
Serbia
Sudan
Did I miss one?"
DR Congo, Chad, Somalia, Corte d Vore, burkina Faso, ferris? anyone?
[Al Jazeera] At least two soldiers with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force in Somali (AMISOM) have been killed in a suicide kaboom attack on a peacekeeping base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
African Union (AU) and Somali officials said at least three attackers were also killed in the assault on Monday.
The attackers, disguised as Somali government troops, were killed in the afternoon firefight after they assaulted a position guarded by AMISOM and pro-government militia.
"The faceless myrmidons drove up in a white saloon car and engaged AMISOM troops there in a firefight. However, The emphatic However... they were unable to gain entry into the position. Three of them were killed, including one would-be suicide kaboomer," AU forces said.
Captain Prosper Hakizimana of the African Union said that one jacket wallah was stopped when he was shot at by AU forces and immediately blew up, adding that casualties for that attack were unknown.
Fighters with links to al-Qaeda are battling the weak UN-backed government for control of the capital.
About 9,000 AU troops are stationed in the city to prevent the government from being overrun by anti-government fighters. The insurgency has frequently launched suicide attacks against both government and AU soldiers.
The government once controlled only a couple square kilometres near Mogadishu's seaside airport. AU officials say they now control half the city.
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Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation that foreign special forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict. Yet another news tidbit the public really didn't need to know.
A group of six westerners are clearly visible in a report by al-Jazeera from Dafniya, described as the westernmost point of the rebel lines west of the town of Misrata. Five of them were armed and wearing sand-coloured clothes, peaked caps, and cotton Arab scarves.
The sixth, apparently the most senior of the group, was carrying no visible weapon and wore a pink, short-sleeve shirt. He may be an intelligence officer. The group is seen talking to rebels and then quickly leaving on being spotted by the television crew.
The westerners were seen by al-Jazeera on rebel lines late last week, days before British and French attack helicopters are due to join the Nato campaign. They are likely to be deployed on the outskirts of Misrata, from where pro-Gaddafi forces continue to shell rebel positions to the east.
There have been numerous reports in the British press that SAS soldiers are acting as spotters in Libya to help Nato warplanes target pro-Gaddafi forces. In March, six special forces soldiers and two MI6 officers were detained by rebel fighters when they landed on an abortive mission to meet rebel leaders in Benghazi, in an embarrassing episode for the SAS.
The group was withdrawn soon afterwards and a new "liaison team" sent in its place. Asked for comment on Monday, a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: "We don't have any forces out there."
The subject is sensitive as the UN security council resolution in March authorising the use of force in Libya specifically excludes "a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory".
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Name a single Secular or near-Secular government or entity in the arab world that has received even moral support in the past 30 years. When you acquire leadership in Western Civilization, you leave intelligence at the door to power.
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Update Former SAS soldiers and other western employees of private security companies are helping Nato identify targets in the Libyan port city of Misrata, the scene of heavy fighting between Gaddafi's forces and rebels, well-placed sources have told the Guardian.
Special forces veterans are passing details of the locations and movements of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to the Naples headquarters of Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, Canadian commander of Nato forces, the sources said.
The targets are then verified by spy planes and US Predator drones. "One piece of human intelligence is not enough," a source said.
The former soldiers are there with the blessing of Britain, France and other Nato countries, which have supplied them with communications equipment. They are likely to be providing information for the pilots of British and French attack helicopters, who are expected to start firing at targets in and around Misrata this week.
[Al Jazeera] Eight high-ranking Libyan army officers have appeared in Rome on Monday saying they were part of a group of as many as 120 military officials and soldiers who had defected from Muammar Qadaffy's side in recent days.
The eight officers - five generals, two colonels and a major - spoke at a hastily-called news conference organised by the Italian government on Monday.
"What is happening to our people has frightened us," said one officer, who identified himself as General Oun Ali Oun.
"There is a lot of killing, genocide ... violence against women. No wise, rational person with the minimum of dignity can do what we saw with our eyes and what he asked us to do."
Another officer, General Salah Giuma Yahmed, said Qadaffy's army was weakening day by day, with the force reduced to 20 per cent of its original capacity.
"Qadaffy's days are numbered," said Yahmed.
Abdurrahman Shalgam, the Libyan UN ambassador, who has also defected from Qadaffy, said all 120 military personnel were outside Libya now but did not say where they were.
South African intervention Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, has travelled to Tripoli for talks to end Libya's conflict, as calls mount from the international community for the Libyan leader to stand down.
Zuma's office said the main objectives of his visit include negotiating an immediate ceasefire, enabling the delivery of humanitarian aid and adopting and implementing reforms to eliminate the causes of conflict.
Zuma walked down a red carpet at Tripoli's airport to meet assembled dignitaries to the sound of a band and children chanting "We want Qadaffy!" in English, while waving Libyan flags and pictures of the leader.
There was no sign of the Libyan leader, however.
Al Jizz's Cal Perry, reporting from the opposition-held Libyan city of Benghazi, said there was much confusion surrounding the South African president's visit.
"We heard initially that [president's Zuma's] visit was to 'find an exit strategy for Colonel Qadaffy', [but] his aides have since knocked down these reports, calling them misleading and framing this visit as more of a regional visit to discuss humanitarian concerns.
"One of the issues that this visit raises is a political question ... certainly here in the eastern part of the country, or what they might call liberated Libya. People here are fearful that if a political deal is struck, what would the cost of that political deal be and would this mean a divided Libya?
"There is concern on the ground that this could potentially happen."
'Roadmap for peace'
Libyan state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said that Zuma was going to discuss the implementation of the AU "roadmap" for peace, as it reported fresh NATO raids on the Nafusa mountains in the far west and the town of Bani Walid, near Misrata.
In a statement on the eve of Zuma's visit, his ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa condemned the NATO bombing of Libya.
"We also join the continent and all peace loving people of the world in condemning the continuing aerial bombardments of Libya by Western forces," it said after a two-day meeting of its executive council.
On Friday, G8 leaders from Perfidious Albion, Canada, La Belle France, Germany, Italia, Japan, Russia and the United States called for Qadaffy to step down after more than 40 years in power.
The Libyan government responded by saying any initiative to resolve the crisis would have to go through the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... .
"The G8 is an economic summit. We are not concerned by its decisions," said Tripoli's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaaim.
"We are an African country. Any initiative outside the AU framework will be rejected."
United front
Over the weekend, more than 100 Libyan community and tribal leaders met with members of the opposition National Transitional Council at a conference in Turkey in a bid to show a united front against Qadaffy.
The delegates, mostly from the powerful Warfalla clan based in the western city of Baniwalid, were calling for an end to the violence and the departure of Qadaffy and his sons.
Baniwalid is said to hold a position of vital strategic importance, and was thus being aggressively targeted by Qadaffy.
The meeting was billed as a possible game-changer for the Qadaffy government as the Warfalla are said to have been supporting Qadaffy militarily, especially around the western city of Misrata.
Meanwhile ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... on Monday, Navi Pillay, the UN rights chief, condemned the brutality of the government's crackdown on protesters in Libya and Syria, saying the actions were shocking in their disregard for human rights. ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
"The brutality and magnitude of measures taken by the governments in Libya and now Syria have been particularly shocking in their outright disregard for basic human rights," he said.
Separately on Monday, two French lawyers said they planned to bring legal proceedings against Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , La Belle France's president, for crimes against humanity over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya.
Ibrahim Boukhzam, a Libyan justice ministry official in Tripoli, said Jacques Verges and Roland Dumas had offered to represent families he said were victims of the NATO bombing campaign.
Dumas said the NATO mission, which was meant to protect civilians, was killing them.
He denounced what he described as "a brutal assault against a sovereign country" and said he was ready to defend Qadaffy should he ever be brought before the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) in the Hague.
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Nigerian police yesterday probed a set of kabooms that destroyed a crowded beer garden at a military barracks, killing at least 10 people after President Goodluck Jonathan's ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... inauguration.
Two other kabooms also occurred in other areas of the country, but only three minor injuries were reported in those blasts and it was unclear whether the incidents were connected.
There was no indication of who was behind the three kabooms that went off near simultaneously at the beer garden Sunday night in the northern city of Bauchi, located in one of the states hardest hit by deadly post-poll riots last month.
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[Yemen Post] At least 50 protesters were killed in Taiz today in continuous attacks by government security forces, medical sources in Taiz confirmed. Bushra Maktati, a leading human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist in Taiz said that freedom square has basically disappeared after bulldozers took down all the tents and burnt everything down.
She added that over half a million Protesters were always at freedom square and now it is empty. "More than 52 have been killed among them 15 burnt alive while the were sleeping in thier burning tents," said Maktari.
The government denies the youth allegations and called them exaggerated. Abdu Ganadi, spokesperson for the Yemeni Govt said that protesters kidnapped security forces and beat them. "We did not attack the Protesters. Reports are all exaggerated. Only two were killed," said Ganadi. "President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... is with the youth and their demands so he would never allow thier killing."
Clashes in Taiz started on Sunday at 9pm. By 11pm Saturday, the festivities escalated and festivities continue until now.
A security bigshot in Taiz said that the protesters were causing chaos when they march and they would force store owners to close thier shops are force them to enter a civil disobedience in Taiz.
Four grenades were also thrown at marchers which resulted in 7 of the death cases today. Governmental bulldozers stomped protesters tents taking down more all the tents, eyewitnesses said.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Air Force bombed suspected Al-Qaeda positions on Monday as Islamists consolidated their control over more cities in Abyan, amid accusations the government is colluding with Islamists.
The opposition and analysts said the government had handed southern areas to forces of Evil to convince others the situation will be worse if the regime falls.
At least 4 soldiers were killed in the festivities between the forces and forces of Evil in Dofas area, informed sources said.
On Sunday, forces of Evil took over Zunjbar, the capital, and several people were killed and others injured in festivities between them and the security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the people have continued to flee the city where jet fighters have been seen overheads all day and battles over the last four days.
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...Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a very good chance that in Yemeni, 'Al-Qaeda'= 'anybody who doesn't agree with Fearless Leader"?
Mike
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[Al Jazeera] At least six Yemeni soldiers have been killed and dozens injured in an apparent ambush as they travelled to Zinjibar, a southern city reportedly under the control of al-Qaeda gunnies, a security official has said.
According to residents, Yemeni warplanes later targeted positions held by the fighters.
Earlier on Sunday, residents spoke of up to 300 fighters entering Zinjibar and taking over "everything". The fighters were alleged to be al-Qaeda members.
Opposition leaders accuse President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , Yemen's embattled president under pressure to quit and end his 33-year rule, of allowing Zinjibar on the Gulf of Aden, to fall to al-Qaeda and allied fighters in order to raise alarm in the region that would in turn win him support.
The security official who spoke about the attack in Zinjibar said he not did not know who was responsible and gave no figures of the injured soldiers.
Elsewhere in the troubled country swept by anti-government protests, at least 20 people were killed in the southern city of Taiz after soldiers opened fire indscriminately on a protest camp, a source said.
They did not give further details on the violence in Taiz, but said the corpse count was likely to rise.
Ashraf Khandari, a journalist based in Aden, said protesters were sprayed with live bullets and hot water, adding that "a lot of people" had been killed.
The latest unrest came days after troops loyal to Saleh clashed with Hashed rustics who support the opposition.
Tents burnt down
A tenuous truce was reported on Sunday, but unrest erupted when security forces tried to storm Taiz's Liberty Square, where hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been camped for days.
The security forces set fire to some tents of the protesters and fired water cannons and tear gas at the crowd, Al Jizz correspondents said early on Monday.
The violence in Taiz came as seven kabooms were heard north of the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday, according to local residents.
"There are a number of kabooms, heavy kabooms, that have shaken the area," Mohamed al-Qadhi, a Yemeni journalist, told Al Jizz by phone from Sanaa.
"We have also heard heavy gunfire exchanged between the two sides. We cannot exactly figure out where the kabooms have taken place."
Separately, rocket attacks by government forces were reported in the tribal area of Arhab in south Yemen where fighting has taken place in the past, Al Jizz's correspondents said.
People were fleeing the area, but there were no reports of casualties as yet.
Deal rejected
Saleh has refused to sign a deal, mediated by Gulf Arab states, to start a transition of power aimed at averting civil war in Yemen.
A breakaway military group called for other army units to join them in the fight to bring down Saleh, piling pressure on him to end his rule over the destitute country.
Generals and government officials began to abandon Saleh after deadly crackdowns on protesters started in force in March.
There have been no major festivities yet between the breakaway military units and troops loyal to Saleh.
Yemen borders Soddy Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, and sits along a shipping lane through which about three million barrels of oil pass daily.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion yesterday tossed in the calaboose a man for giving shelter to the leader of a crime ring Morshed Jamaddar and unearthed a bunker used by the kingpin at Sonahar village of Banaripara upazila, said a Rab release.
A team of Rab-8 tossed in the calaboose Kazi Md Badsha Mia, 55, son of late Kazi Burjuk Ali of Sonahar village.
Earlier on March 23, a Rab team maimed 16-year old college student Limon Hossain by shooting in his left leg at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi, taking the lad for a member of Morshed's gang.
The maiming incident drew widespread criticism around the country as rights bodies and general people alleged violation of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... by the elite force members.
Badsha confessed to sheltering Morshed at his home for the last few days, but he (Morshed) decamped the scene sensing a raid, added the release.
Rab recovered some evidence including a mobile phone SIM card from the bunker.
Commanding Officer of Rab-8 Col Manirul Huq said their hunt for Morshed, an accused in 19 cases, was on.
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For a map, click here For a map of Coahuila, click here
By Chris Covert
A Mexican marine operation was concluded last week in northern Coahuila where marines seized more than one ton of cocaine according to a news release by the Mexican Secretaria de Marina (SEMAR).
The seizure took place May 24 near the town of Monclova where Mexican Marine and army units raided a number of locations including ranches and farms searching for drug and weapons.
The cocaine was found on a ranch abut 40 kilometers from Sabinas Hidalgo in 1.057 packages.
Arrested in the raid were Lorenzo Villegas Palacios, 58, Pedro Fernandez Ramirez, 32, Carlos Lopez Izaguirre, 25, Ruben Fernandez Ramirez, 32, Bernardino Gonzalez Treviño, 38, and Jonathan Agüero Fernandez, 27.
Weapons seized included five rifles, 20 weapons magazines, 330 rounds of ammunition, one 40mm grenade launcher, and an armored vehicle.
Reports suggest the cocaine belonged to the Los Zetas criminal gang.
On a farm used as a safe house near Monclova, soldiers seized a cache of information on Los Zetas, including documents and personal effects. Also seized were a number of race horses.
Also at a house near Monclova, Marines found another safe house used by the same gang and seized an undisclosed quantity of ammunition and communications gear, as well as vehicles.
Marines also found a shop the gang used to armor their combat vehicles.
Friday Mexican marines set up two checkpoints on the Saltillo-Monclova highway, one north of Monclova near the Sofy-Mar resort and one near Castaños south of Monclova, looking for contraband including drugs and weapons. A total of 120 marine effectives were used in the search operations.
Marine seized two armored trucks.
In other news, the Saltillo Vangardia newspaper in Saltillo, Coahuila was attacked late Sunday night by armed suspects who used a 40mm grenade launcher. The newspaper offices near the intersection of avenidas Venustiano Carranza and Chiapas were damaged by the blast, but damage was limited to broken glass.
Saltillo was recently the focus of fighting between armed criminal groups and Mexican security forces last March which killed five suspects and one soldier. To see Rantburg reports on the fighting in Saltillo last March click here and here
A total of 38 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexico including a Tubutama, Sonora police officer and his 14 year old son shot to death Saturday in Hermosillo, Sonora. For a map, click here
An unidentified man was found dismembered in Juarez early Saturday morning. The victim was found on Calle 20 de Noviembre with a message attached. The content of the message was undisclosed.
Two men armed with AK-47 assault rifles robbed a money changer in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday morning. The Famsa shop robbed was near the intersection of avenidas Fuentes Mares and Nueva España.
Two unidentified men and a women were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday. The shooting took place near a residence near the intersection of 12th and Ankara in the El Palomar colony where several armed suspects travelling aboard a pickup truck shot the trio. More than 50 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday. The shooting took palce as the two victims were making repairs on a residence near the intersection of calles Rafaelo and Francisco de Goya in the Insurgentes colony. Two other victims parked in a nearby Ford Lobo (F-150) were shot and killed at the scene as well.
Two inmates at a Juarez city prison were stabbed to death in a brawl Saturday night. Miguel Marquez Estrada, 23, and Jesus Adrian Ramirez, 23, had just entered the Juarez city Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) and were being held on charges of murdering a Juarez municipal police captain three days before.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in a remote area in Chihuahua state Sunday. The victim was in his 30s and had apparently been abducted hours before. He was shot on Km 29 of the Casas Grandes highway.
Two unidentified men were shot to death at a liquid gas distributor in Juarez Sunday. The victims had just sat down to take lunch at the Grupo Fuentes on Avenida Gomez Morin when a pair of armed suspects entered the business and shot them both more than 50 times.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday. The victims were at a residence near the intersection of calles 60 and Carlos Fuero in the Cerro de la Cruz colony when they were shot.
An unidentified man was shot to death by a Chihuahua state police agent in Chihuahua Sunday night. The victim had apparently pointed a toy pistol at the agent near the intersection of calles Bahia de Kino and Bahia de Huatulco in the Bahias colony. The unnamed agent did not realize it was a toy until the shooting was done.
Two unidentified men were shot to death during an armed robbery in Juarez Modnay morning. The robbery was of an Oxxo convenience store near the intersection of calle Aeromoza and Planeador in southern Juarez. Reports suggest the robbery suspects were killed by armed suspects instead of by police.
An unidentified man was killed early Monday morning in Agua Prieta, Sonora. The victim was near the intersection of calles 22 nd and 43rd in the Nuevo Progreso colony when he was killed.
A man was shot to death in Sonoyta, Sonora Saturday night. Toribio Luna Rivera, 33, was at a residence near the intersection of calle D and 2nd ejido Hombres de Blanco colony when he was shot numerous times. Police found a .50 caliber rifle in the victim's residence and an AK-47 assault rifle.
A Tubutama, Sonora municipal police officer and his 14 year old son were shot to death, while his wife and seven year old daughter were wounded in a shooting in Hermosillo, Sonora Sunday. Julio Adrian Paz Robles, 34, and Jorge Luis Lopez Celaya, 14, were killed as armed suspects aboard a Chevrolet Suburban fired on the family as they travelled in a Chevrolet Malibu sedan near the intersection of calles Serdan and Pino Suarez in a commercial district of the city.
Guadalupe Celaya Varela, 36, and her daughter Paulina Guadalupe Lopez Celaya, 7, were wounded in the attack.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Saturday night. The victim was found lying in a pool of blood in front of El Dorado grocery store on calle Cholultecas in the Mariano Matamoros colony. An unidentified teenager was found nearby wounded in the attack.
Two men were found shot to death in a remote region of western Chihuahua state Saturday. Eliseo Mendez Olivas, 35, and Cruz Hernandez Hernandez, 31, were found in the village of Cieneguita de Trejo in Urique municipality. Earlier reports that a gang of 20 armed suspects had taken over Urique were discredited by public officials including Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte.
Five unidentified taxi drivers were shot to death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Monday. The four men and woman were found at a mall near the corner of Avenida Estazuela and Mexican Highway 85.
An unidentified man was found tortured to death near China, Nuevo Leon Saturday. The victim was found wrapped in a blanket about 400 meters from the main Monterrey-Renosa, Tamauliaps highway near the ejido La Morita.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon late Friday night. The victims were seen, but their bodies had been taken away from the scene near the corner of calles 14 de Octubre and Labradores in the Fomerrey 1 colony. Los Zetas are known in northeast Mexican for removing their dead following intergang firefights.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in San Nicholas de las Garza, Nuevo Leon Sunday night. The victims were sitting together on a park bench near the intersection of calles Enrique Recio and Durazno in the Los Naranjos colony when armed suspects riding in a taxi cab opened fire on them. A third individual was wounded in the attack. Several .223 and AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had to be assisted by Yangzhou Mayor Wang Yanwen as he walked through a shopping mall in the city, suggesting he is still suffering the after-effects of his 2008 stroke.
Last Monday, the fourth day of his China trip, Kim visited a food corner on the second floor accompanied by around 70 officials and had to be helped by Wang, according to mall staff. Kim toured the mall for about 20 minutes.
In the grounds of the Yangzhou State Guesthouse, where he stayed, he apparently used a golf cart for VIPs. A hotel staffer said Kim "limped" when he walked from the entrance to his room and looked "very uncomfortable."
Meanwhile, Kim reportedly met with former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin not at the hotel but somewhere else in the city.
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Went to the food court for some spring rolls...
North Korea has obtained the names and e-mail addresses of most South Korean military officers and launched cyber attacks on the e-mail accounts of generals to steal sensitive information, a government source said Monday.
The Army Cyber Warfare Command last Friday issued an immediate alert warning officers not to open suspicious e-mails. "There has been an increase in e-mails purporting to be messages from military academy alumni, but tracking them led to suspicions that they were sent by North Korean hackers," the source said.
"We don't know how many e-mails North Korean hackers sent to academy graduates, but this seems to have been going on for some time," the source added.
The hackers apparently targeted officers using hanmail e-mail accounts. Some of the e-mails come with viruses that infect the user's computer when attached files are opened, while others cause damage the moment they are opened.
A military source said, "It is impossible to access hanmail accounts from the military's intranet, so we don't expect any damage to that, but it is a big problem if North Korean hackers have the e-mail addresses of so many military academy graduates."
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SMALL explosives concealed in alarm clocks detonated at Ikea furniture stores in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, Belgian authorities said today. The explosions in stores in the Belgian city of Ghent, Lille in northern France and Eindhoven in The Netherlands caused no damage or injuries.
"The information we have is that the explosions happened the same way in all locations, with booby-trapped alarm clocks that had been hidden exploding," An Schoonjans, spokeswoman for Ghent prosecutors, told AFP.
In Ghent, an employee and a security agent complained of ear aches after two small explosions, which detonated almost simultaneously before the store closed last night. Two booby-trapped alarm clocks were detonated by remote control, Schoonjans said. A remote control alarm clock?
The spokeswoman said the circumstances were similar in Eindhoven and Lille, but she was unable to provide details. "We are in contact with judicial authorities in Eindhoven and Lille to see if there is a link between the three affairs," she said. Must have been a disgruntled customer who
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Do the Euro nut groups have a particular problem w/Ikea? They seemly drearily PC in the US -- are they considered to be like WalMart in these countries?
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Hide a timer+explosive in an old alarm clock which isn't ticking? Diabolical!
5..4..3.. to Homeland Security Alert: Watch out for alarm clocks which aren't ticking.
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Great thing about an IKEA kaboom alarm clock is that you only need one Allah wrench to assemble and arm it...
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Dr. White wins the thread! (And takes the lead for Snark O' the Day.™) :-D
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I guess those dhimmi doormats weren't sufficiently submissive. Gotta open the door to any snarly arab with a quran under one arm and 4 wives and baby abdullahs for the welfare system.
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Judging by size of the bombs and the economic and political situation, I'll go with anarchists or more garden-variety extreme leftists.
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Do the Euro nut groups have a particular problem w/Ikea? They seemly drearily PC in the US -- are they considered to be like WalMart in these countries?
No, regular joe. IKEAs are highly regarded for starter and simple Scandinavian furniture, whereas WalMarts are despised as everything that's wrong about America...even as everyone shops there on Saturday mornings for all the things that ares overpriced in the village shops. At least that's what I saw in Frankfurt and Brussels.
Pakistani warplanes attacked Taliban positions in the northwestern Orakzai region on Tuesday, killing 17 terrorists militants, a senior regional government official said.
Orakzai is one of seven ethnic Pashtun tribal areas where the Pakistani army has supposedly tried without success to root out terrorists militants with offensives against their strongholds.
The strike came a day after a local newspaper reported that Pakistan will launch an offensive in North Waziristan, a known sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists militants also located in Pakistan's tribal belt.
Pakistan's performance in fighting terrorists militancy has come under close scrutiny again after it was discovered that al Qaeda terrorist chief Osama bin Laden had been living in the country.
Army operations in areas like Orakzai have failed to break the back of terrorist militant groups such as the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up suicide bombings since U.S. special forces killed bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2.
"We had information that terrorists militants gathered there and were planning attacks so we launched the attack," a local senior government official told Reuters. He said 17 terrorists militants were killed and six terrorists wounded in the Orakzai operation.
[Dawn] Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) commander and alleged criminal mastermind of Benazir Bhutto`s liquidation plot, Baitullah Mehsud, has been placed on top of the list of most wanted hard boyz and criminals despite official claim that he was killed in a US missile attack in Wazoo in 2009.
Baitullah is also accused of scores of suicide kabooms including the kaboom on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
Besides, four other active members of TTP are also wanted by the police in connection with the liquidation of Ms Bhutto. They are: Abdullah Saddam and Abdul Rehman of Akora Khattak, and Faiz Mohammad and Ikramullah of Waziristan.
A murder case (No 471) dated December 27, 2007, has already been registered with the city police against the five accused.
Each of the individuals placed on the most wanted proclaimed offenders` reward list carries a head money. Though the TTP commander was killed in a US missile attack, the fate of the other proclaimed offenders is still unknown.
A senior police official, when contacted, said though Maitullah had already been declared as a proclaim offender, he would not be considered as dead until his `death certificate` was produced before the police.
The government had announced a reward of Rs2.4 million for any information leading the police to the capture, alive or dead, of the five most wanted criminals.
The five most wanted criminals involved in heinous crimes like murder, robbery and kidnapping for ransom have been identified by the police as Ibrar Khan of Nowshera, who is wanted by Banni, City and Wah Cantonment police in robbery and kidnapping for ransom cases. The city district police have already announced a reward of Rs400,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the accused.
Israr Khan of Nowshera is also wanted by the Banni and Wah Cantonment police in kidnapping for ransom cases and a reward of Rs200,000 has been announced for his arrest.
Rashid Ulfat, of Islamabad, is wanted for his alleged involvement in five robbery cases in Kotli Sattian. A reward of Rs600,000 has been announced for his arrest.
Shamraiz Akhtar alias Sheryar, a resident of Nilor, Islamabad, is wanted by the police for his role in four robbery cases and he carries a reward of Rs600,000.
Mohammad Sohail, also a resident of Nilor, has been declared as proclaimed offender and wanted in four robbery cases. A reward of Rs600,000 has been announced for his arrest.
Various law enforcement agencies have different individuals on their `most wanted people`s list`.
Sometimes, the offenders on the list of police are placed on the `alert list` of immigration department to arrest them when they try to leave or arrive in the country.
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"Death Certificate is produced" > Whoa, BAITULLAH MEHSUD WAS BORN IN HONOLULU, KENYA - you know, INDONESIA???
[Dawn] The house of a doctor was partially damaged when an improvised bomb planted near its main gate went off in Sheikh Maltoon Town here on Sunday.
The officials of Sheikh Maltoon Town cop shoppe quoted Dr Mohammad Yousaf as saying that he along with his other family members was asleep when the device went kaboom! at the main gate of his house.
He told police that he and all his family members rushed to the door and saw that main gate, veranda and his motorcar were partially damaged in the kaboom. "All of us remained unhurt," he added.
Sources said that the doctor had also received threats from unidentified bully boyz few days ago. Police registered FIR against unidentified bully boyz on the complaint of Dr Yousaf and started search operation in the surrounding areas.
The kaboom created fear among the residents of Sheikh Maltoon Town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... police recovered 590 dynamites from a passenger coach and tossed in the slammer a suspected jihad boy at Masati Patik on Mardan bypass road on Sunday.
Officials said that they stopped a Tangi-bound passenger coach, coming from Punjab province, at Masati Patik and recovered 590 dynamites and tossed in the slammer its owner identified as Ishaq, a resident of Khanoray Batkhela area.
Sheikh Maltoon Town cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else against the tossed in the slammer person and started investigation.
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Sounds like a warning blast. Otherwise they wouldn't have done it in the middle of the night outside his gate. They'd have waited to detonate until he was getting ready to leave for work I suppose.
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[Dawn] Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistain bureau chief of Asia Times Online, went missing Sunday evening, DawnNews reported.
Days before his disappearance, Shahzad had authored an article that alleged links between navy officials and al Qaeda.
Ali Imran, a Coordinator at the South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) in an email stated that Mr Shahbaz had left his house in Islamabad to participate in a television program but that he did not reach the TV station.
He did not contact his family and friends either, Mr Imran said, adding that Mr Shahzad's mobile phone and car had not been traced yet.
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[Dawn] Pak security officials have jugged a former navy commando and his brother in connection with last week's krazed killer attack on a naval air base, intelligence officials and relatives said on Monday.
The brazen assault on the PNS Mehran base in Bloody Karachi, the headquarters of Pakistain's naval air wing, embarrassed the military and raised doubts about its ability to protect its bases after a similar raid on the army headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi in 2009.
Kamran Ahmed, who was sacked from the navy about 10 years ago, and his younger brother, Zaman, were picked up from the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, five days after the attack that killed at least 10 military personnel.
"They have been jugged in connection with the naval base attack and are under interrogation," one intelligence official said, without giving details.
Imran Ahmed, another brother who was not tossed in the clink, told Rooters the two were taken away by intelligence officials on Friday. He gave no details.
An earlier arrest of a suspect in the Mehran base attack led to the arrest of the Ahmed brothers.
A second intelligence official said Kamran Ahmed served at Mehran and was court-martialed for assaulting a senior officer.
The military court declared him mentally unfit for the job.
He was also under suspicion after a suicide kaboom on the naval war college in Lahore in 2008 but was not jugged, the official said.
"The suspect tossed in the clink earlier said Ahmed provided information about the base to a krazed killer network, which carried out the attack."
The Pak Taliban, which is allied to al Qaeda, grabbed credit for the attack on the Mehran base, but many analysts believe they had inside help.
A group of between four and six forces of Evil besieged the base for 16 hours and destroyed two P-3C Orion aircraft from the Unites States, crucial for Pakistain's maritime surveillance capabilities.
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[Dawn] A deadly kaboom on Monday struck a hotel in North Wazoo, officials said.
One person was killed and eight maimed in the blast at the 12-room Super Waziristan hotel in Miramshah, the main town of the tribal region.
"An improvised bomb (IED) that was planted in one of the rooms went off, initially wounding nine people," an intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Another official confirmed the incident and said a girl died of her wounds after reaching hospital.
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MOSUL / Aswat al-Iraq: Unknown gunmen assassinated two cops west of Mosul, security forces said today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the two cops belong to the Federal Police in New Mosul area. He added that the two cops were within the vicinity of a check point.
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Israeli troops arrested twelve Islamic Jihadis overnight near Jenin. Paleo security forces corroborated the arrests, saying two of those detained were women.
The twelve were "suspected of providing guidance in planning terror activities, as well as transferring finances and taking an active part in the rebuilding of terror networks in the region."
The military has also ordered the closure of a charity called Al Bara'a, accusing it of Islamic Jihadi links and a Gaza-based group called "The Soul of Jerusalem."
Both "were declared illegal organisations as they operate constantly in order to harm the security of Israel's citizens and security forces."
Paleso sources said the two women lived in Ar-Rama, southwest of Jenin.
One of the women, Mona Qaidan, a 40-year-old employee of Al Bara'a, was freed in 2009 after three years in an Israeli prison. Her brother, a top Islamic Jihadi, was arrested last month, a year after having completed an 11-year sentence in Israeli prison, according to their family.
The other woman, Saja Shibani, 22, works with an Islamic charitable front association, according to her family.
Two terrorists suspected insurgents killed themselves in a failed attempt to plant a roadside bomb to ambush security forces in Narathiwat province on Tuesday.
The incident occurred very early in the morning in Ruso district.
Two bodies, mangled from the blast, were found near the scene. They have been identified as Sorahudin Dolo, 30, and Abas Abu, of unknown age. Ninety M16 assault rifle cartridges and a mobile phone were found near the body of one of the dead men.
Local villagers saw three suspects on a motorcycle going to the scene, a roadside near the foot of a bridge, at around midnight. Two of them took the 5 kilogram bomb built into a metal box to bury it beside a roadside tree during heavy rain.
The bomb blew up due to an apparent short circuit. Sorahudin was killed, while the uninjured third man tried to help Abas, who had been seriously injured, taking him into the nearby rubber plantation.
Abas died from his wounds, so his friend then left the bodies and fled the scene.
Police believe that the bomb was intended to target a teacher protection unit which passes the area in the morning.
[Dawn] Syrian forces killed at least 11 civilians and maimed scores on Sunday, a prominent human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... campaigner said, in a widening military push into central Syria to quell protests against the rule of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad. One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... Tanks, supported by troops, fired heavy machineguns in the towns of Talbiseh and Rastan and several villages near the city of Homs, residents said.
They are the latest population centres to come under army assault since a military crackdown to crush dissent against Assad's autocratic rule began at the end of last month in southern Syria, the cradle of the 10-week uprising.
The killings occurred in and around the towns of Talbiseh and Rastan in rural Homs, human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouna said by telephone from 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... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Perfidious Albion, said earlier it had the names of eight civilians killed.
"Soldiers are now all over Talbiseh. They are breaking into houses and arresting people," one resident in the town of 60,000 said in a telephone interview. The sound of bullets echoed in the background.
The official state news agency said four members of the security forces were killed in Talbiseh "while chasing armed terrorist groups... to detain them and present them to justice."
Talbiseh is 10 km (6 miles) north of Homs, Syria's third largest city, where tanks shelled a main neighbourhood earlier this month.
Troops have been occupying the main square in Homs to prevent scenes similar to when tens of thousands demonstrated in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen to press for reform.
Witness reports of violence in Syria, as well as official accounts, are difficult to verify independently because the government barred most international media from the country not long after the start of the unrest in March.
Another witness in Rastan, further to the north, said the town's main clinic was full of maimed people and there was no way to get them to a hospital because of heavy tank fire.
"This is pure Dire Revenge™," said the witness, a lawyer who declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
Thousands of protesters in Rastan on Friday demanded the removal of Assad in one of the largest demonstrations in the region since the uprising against the government erupted in southern Syria on March 18.
Rastan, a relatively prosperous town in an agricultural region, is on the main northern highway from Damascus to Syria's second city Aleppo. ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... The lawyer said Internet, water, electricity, land lines and most mobile telephone links had been cut, a step commonly used by the military before they storm urban centres.
Protesters Defy Army Assaults
Protests in Syria have continued despite the increasing force used to crush demonstrations that began with calls for political freedom and an end to corruption but are now urging the removal of Assad.
The president has responded to the growing protests, the biggest challenge to his rule, by intensifying a military crackdown that has killed hundreds.
The 45-year old leader has lifted emergency law and promised reforms but the opponents say there has been no change in Syria where the ruling Baath Party has banned all opposition and political freedoms since 1963.
Rights groups estimate at least 1,000 civilians have been killed by security forces, the army and gunnies loyal to Assad in the past 10 weeks. They said 10,000 people have been jugged, with beatings and torture commonplace.
Authorities blame gangs, Islamists and foreign agents for the violence and say at least 120 soldiers and coppers have been killed. Activists say secret police potted scores of soldiers for refusing to fire at civilians.
In the eastern town of Deir al-Zor, protesters staged a night-time rally on Sunday, a day after at least one man was hurt when security forces opened fired to disperse a demonstration that had went through the night, witnesses said.
"I was hearing the bullets and the protesters chanting 'the people want the overthrow of the regime' at the same time," one witness, a resident of the city, said by telephone on Saturday.
Demonstrations have been held nightly in Deir al-Zor and other cities and towns to circumvent heavy security which has intensified in recent weeks after street demonstrations grew in numbers and tanks were deployed in and around urban centres.
Human rights campaigners said a night-time rally took place on Saturday in the town of Binish in the northwestern province of Idlib in protest against arrests on Friday, when the biggest demonstrations typically occur after weekly prayers.
The Syrian National Organisation for Human Rights said security forces rubbed out 12 demonstrators on Friday during protests in 91 locations across Syria.
"The authorities are still pursuing the calculated course of using excessive violence and live ammunition to confront mass demonstrations," the organisation said in a statement.
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Summary: Arrest announced on Islampolicy.com, successor site to the closed Revolutionmuslim.com. Arrested was Younus Mohammad, formerly known as Jesse Curtis Morton of Brooklyn. This arrests follows the conviction of his colleague Zachary Adam Chesser on the same charges in February.
Bet he'd give anything about now to be in that paradise, Riker's Island. :-D
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we should refuse extradition, but offer compensation for his jailing in the lowest possible levels..think of it as deficit reduction. We won't have to treat what he contracts...
/earliest application of Obamacare rationing?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
International Criminal Court
Qadaffy's side in recent days.
Goodluck Jonathan's
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had to be assisted by Yangzhou Mayor Wang Yanwen as he walked through a shopping mall in the city, suggesting he is still suffering the after-effects of his 2008 stroke. 
North Korea has obtained the names and e-mail addresses of most South Korean military officers and launched cyber attacks on the e-mail accounts of generals to steal sensitive information, a government source said Monday. 
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He told police that he and all his family members rushed to the door and saw that main gate, veranda and his motorcar were partially damaged in the 
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