Izabella Scorupco aka Natalya Simonova in "GoldenEye" aka Helena Kurcewiczówna in "With Fire and Sword" aka Monique Aubertine in "Vertical Limit" aka Alex Jensen in "Reign of Fire" aka Sarah in "Exorcist: The Beginning" aka Paige in "Cougar Club" (age 41)
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Can't believe you guys haven't posted a story and link to this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393355/Hero-Gurkha-handed-bravery-medal-Queen-said-I-thought-I-going-die--I-tried-kill-I-could.html
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It is a wonderful story, though, and quite possibly Mr. Carrol is not the only one who didn't poke his head in yesterday. Thank you for mentioning it, Peter. Anyone may submit articles articles here at Rqntburg, subject to being the first and moderator agreement. We won't discuss how many times I've submitted something that someone else got to first, leaving me to feel pleased that others agree with me on the importance, at least. ;-)
That's what happens when Pakistan Army professionals are running the show instead of Talib amateurs. The P.A. ought to be careful, or they're going to end up with a real war on their hands, should the Afghans decide to attack the source of their problems.
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The thing that the mighty Pakistani army brigadiers should ponder is that while their predecessors were trained by Britain over half a century ago, the Afghan Army's newest officers are being trained by West Point professors right now. We'll ignore that the mighty Pakistani army has lost every war it ever started (and it started all its wars), despite the best the Brits could do with them. War gaming the situation might be a nice project for East Point's senior class...
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Having a $100m intelligence base in Mazar-e-Sharif, with probably several billions of dollars of espionage electronics in it, I wouldn't be surprised if our intelligence agencies would be willing to buy every Afghan within a hundred miles as security. With bonuses for scalps.
India is lobbying Lloyd's of London to reverse its expansion of the area judged prone to pirate attacks to cover almost all of the nation's west coast after insurance costs surged as much as 300-fold this year.
And you were wondering why the Indians were getting aggressive with the Somali pirates...
It certainly is an attention-getting figure. Not exactly easy on the eyes when coupled with the rising price of oil.
"There is no longer any threat along the Indian coast," Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas said in a May 23 interview, adding there had been no attacks within 800 kilometers (500 miles) of the coast due to stepped-up naval patrols. The Joint War Committee, which assesses insurance risks, extended the zone in December about 900 miles east as the hijacking range grew.
A reversal by Lloyd's would reduce insurance costs after some premiums skyrocketed to as much as $150,000 per voyage from $500, the Indian National Shipowners' Association said, hurting shippers' earnings. Essar Shipping Ltd. and Varun Shipping Co. are among companies that say the move is eroding margins as they struggle with overcapacity and rising costs.
"Typically ships bought insurance for the three days they were moving through the Gulf of Aden -- now they have to pay for the additional 10 days" through the Indian Ocean, said Sean Woollerson, an insurance broker at London-based Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Plc (JLT), which specializes in shipping. The larger zone means about 28,000 more journeys a year are liable to higher premiums than the 22,000 made in the old zone, he said.
The shippers will pay to protect their ships and crews when it gets expensive enough to make it worth doing that versus paying ransoms. We're getting to that point.
Shares of Mumbai-based Essar and Varun have underperformed this year as an oversupply of ships knocked 16 percent from the Baltic Dry Index, a gauge of raw-material transportation costs. Essar slid 13 percent to May 17, when its shares were suspended pending a spinoff, and Varun is down 19 percent this year, while India's benchmark index has fallen 10 percent.
India's government and shipping companies gave evidence last month to the Joint War Committee that shows increased Indian naval patrols have driven the pirate threat away. The government will continue to press for the decision to be overturned, Mohandas said in his New Delhi office.
Varun Shipping is paying an extra $70,000 per voyage to cover the risk of piracy on about 16 ships that travel between India and the Middle East, Managing Director Yudhishthir D. Khatau said. "The extra cost is harming us very seriously," he said.
The decision to expand the zone was driven by increasing attacks and the sophistication shown by pirates able to strike further out at sea, according to Neil Roberts, a senior executive of the Joint War Committee.
The Indian navy currently has four ships patrolling the area at all times and has formed an inter-ministerial committee to negotiate with hijackers and advise vessel owners. There are about three dozen military ships altogether now engaged in anti- piracy operations, according to an April report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service.
The Indian government's response to piracy has been inadequate and won't bring down premiums, said P.K. Ghosh, who writes about piracy for the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation.
"This problem needs to be tackled at its root, which is in Somalia," said Ghosh. "So far there is a lack of will in the international community to do this."
About 52 percent of the 530 million tons handled by India's 13 major ports in 2008-2009 went through the west coast, according to government data. Indian trade grew from 14 percent of gross domestic product in 1988 to about 51 percent in 2009, according to the World Bank and World Trade Organization.
The efforts of more than 20 navies, including the U.S., U.K. and China, failed to prevent a record surge in pirate attacks last year.
That's because they've given up on drumhead trials followed by dancing from the yardarm. The research shows it's the surety of punishment that deters criminals.
Pirates cost shipping companies as much as $12 billion in 2010, according to the London-based International Chamber of Shipping.
Hamilton, Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd., the world's biggest supertanker operator, last week said diverting to avoid pirates in the area costs about $100,000 per trip in extra fuel.
War-risk insurance premiums typically cost 0.1 percent of the value of a ship, according to Jardine Lloyd Thompson's Woollerson. While some insurance charges may have risen as much as the Indian National Shipowners' Association estimates, for most vessel operators the additional charges are "much more modest," he said.
There were 17 hijackings and 29 cases of vessels being fired at in the new zone last year, according to the Joint War Committee. This year, that has dropped to one successful hijacking and 12 attacks, according to the London-based International Maritime Bureau.
"These waters are far, far safer than many places across the globe," said Essar's Ramakrishnan.
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It took three years, but Lloyd's is finally doing what it did with the Straits of Malacca. With any luck, it'll force the sort of international anti-pirate coordination that's in place in the Straits region.
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There's a scam, going on right now where the Paki/Islamics/Indian call America and threatn YOU.
You've not paid back a payday loan if we don't get $1.500 TODAY we'll turn it over to the Police, they'll be at your door tomorrow and arrest you, You'll go to jail, lose your job and have to pay your Lawyer $5.000 or more to get out, and we'll get our money anyway.
Remember that's 5 Pm today.(usualy on a Friday so you can't check)
Now us reading this seems plain, but hearing it over the telephone, WITH your Bank account number, Credet card serial and related things, like your Social Security, Drivers License and whatever they have FROM AN OFFICER(Fake) scares most Elderly.
And so they PAY,THEN check it out and discover they've been screwed, and NO you can't get your money back.
It's far worse than what the Nigerian scammers Pulled.
So be warned America, they're out there, RIGHT NOW.
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Well the pressure is getting strong enough that recently a Chinese official commented that it will be necessary to conduct military action against the ports that the pirates operate from. Oh, Joy, Chinese naval bases on the Somali coast, all due too the West being all PC with their thumbs up over this issue.
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I've been saying all along that all it would take to end this piracy was one 12-ship ARCLIGHT strike over Haradhare or Eyl, one time. There probably wouldn't be any survivors, but if there were, they'd be so shell-shocked they'd never even CONSIDER doing anything to have that experience again. You've GOT to make the punishment worse than the crime to get their attention. That's why necktie parties were so effective.
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There's a scam, going on right now where the Paki/Islamics/Indian call America and threatn YOU... So be warned America, they're out there, RIGHT NOW.
Ah, the joys of the Old Folks' Circulatory Email System. I much prefer the cute puppies and "find G-d's face in nature" ones.
Telephone pirates. Perhaps we could get Lloyds to raise their rates as well .
British Apache attack helicopters have been used over Libya for the first time, Nato has confirmed.
They attacked and destroyed two military installations, a radar site and an armed checkpoint near Brega, the Captain of HMS Ocean told the BBC.
French Gazelle helicopters also took part in simultaneous attacks on different targets in Libya for the first time.
On Wednesday, Nato extended its mission in Libya by 90 days.
The BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said: "The Captain of the HMS Ocean reported that those targets had been successfully destroyed and both Apaches returned to their base on HMS Ocean."
The dance continues, with only two possible endpoints.
[Al Jazeera] Libyan opposition fighters have made a major advance towards the capital, Tripoli after claiming victory in western Libyan towns against forces loyal to leader Muammar Qadaffy. ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... An opposition military leader said on Friday that local fighters won control of four towns in the western Nafusa mountain range, where government forces have besieged and randomly shelled rebel-held areas for months.
Fighters who had decamped then used their knowledge of the area to chip away at the government forces, Colonel Jumaa Ibrahim of the region's rebel military council told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency via Skype.
"They know all the hills and valleys, so they were able to trick the brigades and destroy some of their vehicles," he said.
Opposition fighters also pushed government troops from Shakshuk and Qasr al-Haj, two towns near a key road that runs along the mountain range's northern edge, Ibrahim said.
Ibrahim said opposition forces took the towns on Thursday then moved north to clash with Qadaffy forces in the village of Bir Ayyad on Friday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
After a brutal siege by pro-Qadaffy forces, Misrata, Libya's third largest city, is now in opposition hands. Opposition fighters there have now pushed halfway to the town of Zlitan after taking control of Zintan.
At one stage, their advance came to within 60km of Sirte but the government troops held their line and repelled the attack.
Earlier on Friday, at least 10 NATO air strikes hit the capital and elsewhere in Libya. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
Four early morning blasts shook central Tripoli, targeting a barracks near the sprawling compound where Qadaffy sometimes lives, said a government official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... in line with government policy.
Six earlier strikes targeted a cop shoppe and a military base outside the capital, the official said.
A NATO spokeswoman, speaking by phone from Naples, said the alliance hit a storage facility for military vehicles in Qadaffy's compound.
In a statement, NATO said it also targeted surface-to-air missile launchers and armoured personnel carriers near Tripoli, as well as other targets elsewhere.
The strikes appeared to be the heaviest in Tripoli since South African president Jacob Zuma visited Qadaffy in the capital earlier this week in an apparently unsuccessful effort to find a peaceful resolution to the country's crisis.
China meets rebels Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the Chinese foreign ministry said that China's ambassador to Qatar recently met with the head of Libya's opposition council, the first known meeting between the two sides.
A Chinese foreign ministry statement said Beijing's ambassador to Qatar, Zhang Zhiliang, had met and "exchanged views on developments in Libya" with Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the chairman of the rebel council that is trying to offer itself as a credible temporary alterative to Qadaffy.
The ministry gave no details of the talks but the meeting itself was an indication that Beijing wants to keep open lines of communication with the rebel forces.
China abstained in the UN Security Council vote authorising NATO military action in Libya.
The conflict in Libya is nearly four months along, but the situation on the ground appears mostly stalemated.
NATO air strikes have kept the outgunned rebels from being overrun, but the rebels have been unable to mount an effective offensive against Qadaffy's better equipped armed forces.
Qadaffy's government has been slowly crumbling from within. A significant number of army officers and several Cabinet ministers have defected, and most have expressed support for the opposition.
Rebels have turned down initiatives calling for ceasefires, insisting that Qadaffy and his sons must relinquish power and leave the country.
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[Al Jazeera] Bahraini police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters marching against the government near the capital Manama, eyewitnesses say.
The crackdown on Friday came just two days after the tiny Gulf kingdom's authorities lifted emergency rule.
The protesters in Manama were marching adjacent to the city's Pearl Roundabout, which was the epicentre of weeks of protests against the kingdom's Sunni rulers, with demonstrators in particular demanding more rights for the island nation's majority Shia population.
Egged on by Iranian agitators...
There were no immediate reports of injuries during the protests, the eyewitnesses said. They spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.
Witnesses said that police fired tear gas at a crowd of hundreds of people who had gathered to mourn Zainab Altajer, who died on Thursday. Opposition activists said she died as a result of exposure to tear gas, but the government said her death was due to natural causes.
The protesters marched through the village of Sanabis, adjacent to the Pearl roundabout.
Also on Friday, hundreds of mourners gathered at a cemetery in Manama to bury Salman Abu Idris, a 63-year old protester who died in hospital earlier in the day of injuries from a demonstration in March, a witness told Al Jizz.
Security forces had set up multiple checkpoints around the cemetery in Gudaibya, where they were checking the identities of those attempting to attend the funeral, and refused entry to "many", the witness said.
One carefully doesn't wonder if these are native Bahraini security forces or loaner troops from Saudi Arabia hired by the battalion from Pakistan...
He said that people at the funeral were "calm", and while some in the crowd did raise slogans against the ruling al-Khalifa family at one point, "not many people chanted with them".
He said some left after the funeral to protest at the slums near Bab al-Bahrain, but were stopped by security forces armed with tear gas and rubber bullets. It did not appear that security forces used these weapons in that confrontation, however.
The witness was speaking to Al Jizz on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals from the authorities.
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Of course, Formula 1 racing has re-instated the Bahrain GP for October 30th. This has caused some comments.
"Bernie Ecclestone [head of F1] has cited "unusual circumstances" as the reason behind Friday's decision to reinstate the Bahrain Grand Prix on this year's F1 calendar."
[Yemen Post] At least three civilians were maimed in the festivities that erupted early on Thursday morning between the army and gunnies in Yemen's Lahj province, alsahwa-yemen.net reported.
Fierce confrontations started at dawn and lasted several hours in Radfan leaving three citizens injured and causing damages to some homes, the website said.
They followed a meeting by beturbanned goons including those from Abyan and Yafi who have links to the Islamists who occupied a seaport in Abyan today after consolidating control over cities in the southern province over the past days.
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[Yemen Post] Huge kabooms are shaking Yemen's capital Sana'a, the battlefield for fierce festivities between the army and tribal fighters loyal to Sadeq Al-Ahmer, the sheikh of Hashid.
They are the biggest ever since deadly festivities between both sides erupted early last week, with almost people all over the capital hearing these kabooms.
Informed sources said cannons and tanks are shelling positions of the tribal fighters in Al-Hasaba and nearby areas and that military vehicles are heading to the house of Al-Ahmer, whose office denied on Thursday the army had retaken public offices.
Earlier today, an official at the Interior Ministry said the army retook public offices that were seized by Al-Ahmer's loyalists including ministries.
" We already recovered the ministries of Local Administration and Trade and Industry, the permanent committee of the ruling party and other offices," the official said, as he pointed to continuous battles at the Interior Ministry.
Families have decamped the district, and today Sana'a International Airport suspended flights due to the intensifying battles that triggered countries to urge their citizens to leave the country.
During the past two days, the elite republican guard shelled the first armoured division, whose commander, once a close ally of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... , announced peaceful support to the popular uprising in the squares of change and freedom in most of the Yemeni cities.
After a short-lived truce between both sides collapsed earlier this week, street battles spread to many parts of the capital, with shootouts being heard, mainly at night, even in very far areas from the battleground.
The truce led to a two-day ceasefire during which the rustics handed ovre some public offices to the mediation committee.
There were not specific numbers of most recent casualties, after scores from the army and rustics were reported dead and hundreds injured over the last few days.
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[Al Jazeera] President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... the Yemeni president, says he is "well and in good health" after suffering injuries in an attack on his presidential palace in the capital, Sanaa.
In an audio address delivered on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
late on Friday night, Saleh said the strike, where "seven officers were martyred", was by an "outlaw gang" - the opposition Hashed tribe led by powerful Sadiq al-Ahmar.
Shells hit a mosque in the presidential palace compound where officials, including Saleh, were praying.
At least three guards and Sheikh Ali Mohsen al-Matari, a holy man at the presidential compound's mosque, died and "several other officials and officers" were maimed, Yemen's state news agency SABA said.
The president was taken to the defence ministry hospital to be treated for his minor injuries, officials said.
"I salute our armed forces and the security forces for standing up firmly to confront this challenge by an outlaw gang that has nothing to do with the so-called youth revolution," Saleh said in his late night audio address.
The president, who has faced nationwide protests against his 33-year rule since January, was scheduled to address the nation earlier in the day. His appearance was postponed for several hours until his audio speech on Friday night.
Initial reports of the palace attack hinted at Saleh's possible death, to which the Yemeni state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said - as an assurance to the public - that the president was "well".
Abdu Al Jandi, the deputy minister of information, has said, "There is nothing that affects his health," while mentioning that a probe on Friday's violence at the palace has been launched.
The blame game Authorities blamed the shelling on dissident rustics loyal to Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar who have been locked in fierce festivities with government forces in Sanaa since Tuesday.
"The prime minister, head of the parliament and several other officials who attended the Friday prayers in the mosque at the presidential palace were maimed in the attack," Tareq al-Shami, front man for the ruling General People's Congress, told the AFP news agency.
"The Ahmar (tribe) have crossed all red lines," he added.
Abdul Ghani Al-Iryani, an independent political analyst in Sanaa, told Al Jizz that it was "quite reasonable to assume" that al-Ahmar's fighters were behind the palace hit.
"[The rustics] probably wanted him to know that [Saleh] can no longer attack them with impunity, and that they can reach him as he can reach them," Al-Iryani said, of the attack's possible message.
But al-Ahmar's office denied responsibility and instead blamed Saleh for the attack, calling it part of his effort to help justify a government escalation of street fighting in the capital.
Tribal home 'shelled' Friday's attack came soon after Yemeni troops, who have deployed heavy weaponry in their battle against the rustics, sent a shell crashing into the home of Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar, a leader of the biggest opposition party and brother of Sheikh Sadiq.
Three shells also struck near the university campus in the city centre where opponents of Saleh have been holding a sit-in for four months demanding his exit.
After a brief lull at dawn, artillery and heavy machine-gun fire rocked the Al-Hassaba neighbourhood of northern Sanaa where Sheikh Sadiq has his base, witnesses said.
They said that during the fighting the headquarters of national airline Yemenia was burnt down and the offices of Suhail TV, a channel controlled by Sheikh Sadiq, destroyed.
There was no immediate word on casualties from the latest fighting as medics said ambulance crews were unable to access the battlegrounds.
Before the attack on the palace, protesters paraded the coffins of people it said were killed by Saleh's forces.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... also spread for the first time to the southern part of Sanaa, an area held by forces loyal to Saleh and possibly marking a turning point in the conflict.
Explosions were heard in the southern city of Taiz, where the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... has said it is investigating reports that 50 people have been killed since Sunday.
'Very concerned'
The White House expressed its concern amid the fighting on Friday. It urged "calm and restraint on all sides" in Yemen, and called for the dispute to be resolved through negotiations, Tommy Vietor, US National Security Council front man, said.
Vietor added that John Brennan, US president Barack B.O. Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser, had travelled to Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates "to discuss options with government officials on how to address Yemen's deteriorating situation".
Mark Toner, the state department's deputy front man, also denounced Friday's violence and made a call for an immediate ceasefire.
"We strongly condemn all these senseless acts of violence that have taken place in the last 24 hours, and call for an immediate cessation of all hostilities," Toner said.
"All parties must end these attacks and avoid any further escalation or any further casualties in the days ahead."
"Clearly the deteriorating situation in Yemen can be only addressed through a peaceful and orderly transfer of power and so we again call on president Saleh to move immediately to heed the calls of the Yemeni people," he added.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Further investigation in sensational 10-truck arms haul cases has apparently come to an end after three and a half years and 13 time extensions.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) showed 11 new accused including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and former minister for commerce and industries Matiur Rahman Nizami in the memorandum of evidence (ME) of the cases.
The other new accused are India's United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) leader Paresh Barua, former director general (DG) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, the then director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, who was later appointed as DG of NSI, former NSI director Wing Commander (retd) Shahab Uddin, former deputy director of NSI Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain, former NSI field officer Akbar Hossain Khan, former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin, former managing director (MD) of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL) Mohsin Talukder and former CUFL general manager (admin) Enamul Hoque.
Of the accused, Ulfa leader Paresh Barua and additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin are absconding.
CID hopes to submit the probe report with in the given timeframe, June 29, as it has prepared an initial ME of the cases.
The investigation officer (IO) of the cases Md Moniruzzaman Chowdhury, also a senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP) for CID, on Thursday submitted the primary ME to Public Prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed for his review.
CID officials said names of the 11 accused were included with 41 other who were accused in the two previous charge sheets submitted by CID earlier in 2004.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday IO Moniruzzaman said they have almost completed the investigation.
He hoped to submit his probe report after the PP approves the ME.
Sources in CID said names of over 200 people including police officials, a magistrate, former officials of NSI, DGFI, and former secretaries of different ministries have been mentioned in the ME as important witness.
They said CID has so far solved six out of seven issues that a Chittagong court directed to solve during the further investigation. The unsolved issue is identifying the vessel that transported the consignment.
PP Kamal Uddin has confirmed receiving the ME and said he would return it to CID with his opinion after analysing legal aspects.
On April 3, 2004, two cases -- one under arms act and one for smuggling of arms -- were filed with Karnaphuli Police Station against 43 people in connection with the arms and ammunition recovery at CUFL jetty. Names of two accused were later dropped from the charge sheet as they died.
CID started investigating the cases after the first IO of the cases Ahadur Rahman, also the then officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station, was dropped within less than a month for his controversial investigation.
Kabir Uddin Ahmed, Chittagong zone ASP of CID, was then appointed the next IO who submitted his report on June 11, 2004.
ASP Nawshad Ali was later appointed as the third IO and he submitted a supplementary charge sheet on August 28 of the same year.
On February 12, 2008, during the tenure of the last caretaker government, the court of Metropolitan Session Judge ANM Bashirullan ordered further investigation in the cases following an appeal by the then PP Ahsanul Haque Hena.
The court in its order directed to investigate seven specific points in the further investigation.
ASP of CID Ismail Hossain carried the further investigation as the fourth IO of the cases but he failed to submit his probe report even after six time extensions.
On January 18, 2009 a Chittagong court ordered to replace Ismail Hossain following an appeal by the state lawyer and ASP Moniruzzaman was appointed as the fifth IO.
It was alleged that the previous investigations were not done seriously and the charge sheets were prepared poorly without accusing the criminal masterminds.
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Let this be a lesson to all you wanna-be terrorists - it's a tough way to make a living.
A wanna-be terrorist from Chile was left horribly disfigured after a half-baked bomb plot literally blew up in his face.
Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, 22, suffered third-degree burns throughout his body, lost his eyesight and had to have both hands amputated when an explosive he intended to detonate in a local bank unexpectedly went off, El Mercurio newspaper reported.
Investigators are also searching for a motive behind the botched attack. A self-described anarchist with reported ties to fringe groups, Pitronello ran a short-lived, anti-capitalist blog as a teenager.
"We thought it was just a phase, but apparently he became a radical. We never thought he'd end up like this," an unnamed friend told La Segunda newspaper. He probably didn't figure on ending up blind and with no hands, himself.
In a chilling new video, U.S. born Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on American Muslims to buy weapons from gun shows and carry out random, lone-wolf attacks.
The video, called 'Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself', was produced by al Qaeda's as Sahab media team and shows 32-year-old Gadahn speaking alongside old clips of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin laden.
The proposed switch in tactics from organised bombings to lone-wolf style attacks will worry the security services who find tracking individuals much harder than uncovering pre-planned plots.
California-native Gadahn tells Muslims it is easy to get weapons from gun shows and carry out random attacks.
He said: 'America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms.
'You can go down to a gun show at the local convention centre and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card.'
In one section of the video the logos of Exxon, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America are shown as possible targets.
Gadahn, the grandson of a Jewish urologist, was born Adam Pearlman.
In a bizarre twist, his parents became fundamentalist Christians and changed their name to Gadahn.
And for those fearful of getting caught, the Muslim convert offers reassuring words.
He adds: 'Over these past few years, I've seen the release of many, many Mujahideen whom I had never even dreamed would regain their freedom.'
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Just another wantabe stupid twit. Yea, it's not a word but the shoe fits. I can see it now. Achmed bursts into a crowded bar shouting his dribble as about thirty off duty police retirement party officers draw their guns. Hey, there might be half a dozen legal permit gun owners. Just a head game because he can't do anything.
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I am more afraid of DHS and BATF using this as an excuse to further restrict legal gun ownership - they can say - terrorists can buy guns at gun shows and use them for terrorism. Therefore, we must prevent ANYONE from buying and owning a weapon.
Also, IANAL or a member of NRA, but I don't think you can actually buy a "fully automatic assault rifle" at a gun show.
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It depends on the state. In some states you can own a fully automatic weapon. You need to find a Class III dealer. The weapon must be one that was already in the country and registered before the "ban". There are less than 100,000 of those in the country, maybe something closer to half of that.
But that said, there are shady operators out there. If you have the money you can find pretty much anything you want.
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My feeling is that the attitude of the Muslims who support terrorist attacks against the West is "You first..." Most people who support a certain course of action don't necessarily want to be personally involved.
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...FWIW, think about this for a second - what to the real whackjobs do when they know they're going down? They scream for everybody who can carry a weapon to grab one and go running for the enemy (While they run for cover, of course). Hitler had his Werewolves, Noriega had his 'Dignity Battallions', Saddam had a whole bunch of God-only-knows-what-they-called-themselves units, and Khaddafi is busily throwing guns to anybody who will carry one. That is the sign of a regime - or leadership - in mortal fear of its life. The regular and elite troops are panicking or useless, all the stuff that worked against unarmed peasants and civilians is now being fought by highly trained and motivated men with guns who have a score to settle with you.
Rantburgers, I submit that since this came from Gadhan and not what's left of the al-Q leadership, I think lil' Adam is now the most senior surviving al-Q leader still above ground.
And he's wetting himself. He knows what we found at the Abbottabad House. And he knows we're coming.
Mike
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Mike that just about covers it all. Great job. I always speed write. Fewest words possible. You are definitely a writer.
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Keep up the good work, Goat Boy. I'm amazed we could get the spawn of Joooos and infidels into the position we did. I guess your bosses are as dense as you said they were.
But keep sending the good stuff. The targeting info for the drones is especially good. You'll be boss in no time. Then we'll really have some fun...
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ssshhhhhhh they haven't noticed Agent Gadahn is still alive while all around him get Hellfire demotions
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This call by Gadahn is just a restatement of the call in Sheikh Abu-Bakar Naji's 2007 book Governance of the Wilderness. Naji's the chief theoretician of Islamic warfare for Al-Qaeda.
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This call by Gadahn is just a restatement of the call in Sheikh Abu-Bakar Naji's 2007 book Governance of the Wilderness.
It''s 2011. And we haven't had a rash of such attacks since the last call, which I assume was publicized on jihadi websites... Either most of the keyboard jihadis are all talk, or our guys have been really, really good at picking them up, or good jihadis prefer simply prefer bombs.
A top Al Qaeda terrorist militant, Ilyas Kashmiri, has been killed in Pakistan by a US drone. The drone strike was in the village of Lehman, South Waziristan. ♪♫ Oh, the cockles of my heart are so warm and toasty ♪♫
Locals said that Kashmiri, regarded as one of the world's most dangerous terrorists militants, was among nine people killed and that he and his crew men had just recently arrived in the area.
Intelligence and security officials have said they have no information confirming that Kashmiri was killed. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said that he was still alive.
Kashmiri has been accused of organising the recent assault on a Karachi naval base. He was also accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks three years ago.
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"There are strong indications that he has been killed in the strike, but we cannot confirm it and we are still trying to confirm it," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Militants on the ground sealed off access to the area of the drone strike and the bodies of those killed were burnt beyond recognition and already buried.
As a result, the official said: "It's impossible for anyone to confirm."
Nine militants were reported killed in the US missile strike at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.
Officials said Kashmiri had been in the area for several days and that all those killed where fighters in his Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islam (HuJI) group.
"We have reports about his death and we are trying to confirm these reports," another security official told AFP.
"It is now confirmed that two of his close associates, Amir Hamza and Mohammad Usman, were killed in this drone strike," the official added.
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Amazing how AQ and Taliban leaders suddenly find themselves dead from drone strikes right after they attack targets that the Pakistan establishment values. If I were a suspicious soul, I might suspect Pakistani intel knew where they were all along.
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After the dronezap, and the scene is cordoned off, another zap needs to be done like rinsing after a wash when the body swarm starts up.
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Since we got #1 three weeks ago, and the new #1 yesterday, it looks like #23 has moved up to #21...
(I never have understood the news reports of Al Queda rankings) And I have no idea who the MSM thinks the new #21 is... Suspect Zawahiri doesn't want tho be announced as the new #1... It has gotten to be a dangerous designation recently...
[Dawn] At least four people, including a Rangers official and a policeman, were killed in violence in the city on Friday following a shutdown strike called by certain political parties against the worsening power crisis and in support of the striking workers of the Bloody Karachi Electric Supply Company.
Some nine vehicles were also set on fire in separate arson attacks, officials said. Tension gripped the city late on Thursday after firing incidents and arson attacks, apparently carried out to enforce the strike. The officials said scattered incidents of firing and arson reemerged after sunrise.
In the first such incident, a 60-year-old man was killed by armed riders while he was waiting for a bus on University Road.
The area police said four youngsters on two cycle of violences restored to random firing apparently to harass traders into
pulling down their shutters.
"Badal Gul Muhammad was standing in front of a roadside restaurant near the Meteorological office when he was hit by a bullet in the head. He was a labourer and resident of Sachal Goth," said an official at the Mubina Town cop shoppe.
Almost the same incident was witnessed near the NIPA bus stop, where a youngster was killed.
"There is a fuel station along Rahsid Minhas Road near the NIPA bus stop where gunnies on motorbikes fired multiple shots. The firing caused panic and one of the bullets hit 32-year-old Syed Ali Shah," said an official at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal cop shoppe.
The deadliest episode was, however, witnessed near Al-Asif Square on the Superhighway, where a shootout between law-enforcers and suspects claimed the life of a haveldar of the Rangers' and left two coppers badly maimed. Three passersby were also maimed in crossfire.
"There had been disturbances in the area since morning with frequent gunfire and arson activities on and around the main Superhighway," said DSP Ahmed Baig.
"The police force backed by the Rangers reached the spot and were taking position to disperse the myrmidons when they came under fire near Al-Asif Square. The police and Rangers responded, but two coppers and a Rangers official sustained bullet wounds."
Mumtaz Ahmed, a 35-year-old haveldar of the Bhitai Rangers, died while being treated at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Police officers --45-year-old Sub-Inspector Nawaz Lashari and 42-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector Kahdim Hussain ---- were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment.
"Both officers are associated with the Sachal cop shoppe and are said to be stable now. The dead Rangers official hailed from Rawalpindi. Three passersby ---- Iqbal, Anwar and Mushatq ---- were also maimed in the shooting. They are also being treated at the JPMC," added the DSP.
At the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, a police constable who had sustained bullet injuries late on Thursday in Orangi Town, died from wounds in the early hours of Friday.
An official at the Pirabad cop shoppe said 48-year-old Mukhtiar Ahmed was riding his motorbike home when came under fire in the area between Banaras Chowk and Qasba Colony.
"He was posted at the Orangi Town cop shoppe and lived in Sector 10 of the town. Armed riders were prowling in the area late on Thursday and firing randomly ahead of Friday's strike. It seems Mukhtiar Ahmed became a victim of the same firing," added the official.
Some 12 more injured people ---- with minor and major bullet wounds ---- were also brought to the city's three major public sector health facilities ---- the JPMC, Civil Hospital and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital ---- from violence-hit areas. Meanwhile arson attacks triggered late on Thursday continued into Friday.
Nine vehicles were destroyed in the attacks while three were partially damaged. The central fire station recorded 12 complaints of vehicles being ablaze during the day.
"Two trucks ---- TPO 4712 and TLH 765 ---- were set on fire on the Superhighway within the remit of the Sachal cop shoppe. In the same area two cars also met the same fate. A truck was set on fire near Toll Plaza in Gadap Town," said a fire department official.
In Gulistan-i-Jauhar, he said, a car was set on fire near Pehlawan Goth while a minibus of route M-1 (JE 5161) was seen ablaze at the Baloch Colony flyover crossing over Sharea Faisal.
In Orangi Town, near Shahzad cinema, a motorbike (KPI 9071) and a rickshaw were set on fire.
Similar attempts were made on three different vehicles on the main University Road but they were prevented from complete destruction, added the official.
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[Dawn] Indian police said Friday they had killed three gun-hung tough guys suspected of being from the Lashkar-i-Taiba beturbanned goon group in a fierce gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmire.
The guerrillas were killed in Sopore town, 55 kilometres north of Srinagar, police superintendent Altaf Khan told AFP.
"The encounter broke out last evening when a joint party of police and army confronted the gun-hung tough guys and ended with their killing this morning," he said.
The firefight came just two days after security forces recovered a big haul of rifles, pistols and grenades from a roadside dump in Sopore.
For more than 20 years, beturbanned goon groups in Indian-administered Kashmire have fought against New Delhi's rule, killing police and soldiers in the highly militarised Himalayan region.
Not to mention a great many innocent civilians, but the Dawn journalist would never upset his readers by mentioning vulgar facts critical to shaping their understanding of the situation.
The Lashkar-i-Taiba was blamed by India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead
Not just by India, my dear Dawn journalist.
and US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week that the group was "in the same rank" as al Qaeda.
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Innocent Victim, any Jihadi who's rifle was picked up by the fleeing forces, before the press got there.
Ballyhoo'd as THE POOR INNOCENT CIVILIAN VICTIM loudly.
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[Dawn] Four people, including three security officials, were maimed in a blast targeting a check post in the Khyber tribal region's Jamrud tehsil on Friday, DawnNews reported.
The blast destroyed the check post in Jamrud's Ghundi area.
Authorities said security officials were on routine duty on the check post when gun-hung tough guys detonated a bomb planted nearby.
The four injured were shifted to a hospital in Jamrud.
Security forces cordoned off the area after the blast and started a search operation.
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[Dawn] Hundreds of forces of Evil on Friday again besieged a Pak area on the Afghan border, shortly after troops claimed to have regained control after fighting killed 34 people, police said.
I understand that the technical term in such situation is targets.
"Militants have attacked again. There are hundreds of them. They have besieged the area and torched a government school," regional police chief Qazi Jamilur Rehman told AFP, saying that they had attacked from Afghanistan.
Rehman said reinforcements and helicopter gunships had been moved into the Nusrat Darra area in the northwestern Upper Dir district of troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province in order to quell the attack.
The area is around 10 kilometres from the Shaltalu checkpost which was destroyed by forces of Evil in two days of intense fighting, killing 28 coppers and six civilians.
Police said up to 45 forces of Evil were also killed in those festivities, which started on Wednesday, but the information could not be confirmed independently as the bodies were not left behind on the battlefield.
Police earlier Friday told AFP that Shaltalu was under control.
"The area is in complete control of our troops. We have started a search operation," Rehman had told AFP.
Rahim Gul, another police official at the nearby Barawal cop shoppe, confirmed the latest attack.
After the first clash, Pakistain Wednesday conveyed "strong concern" to the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, calling for "stern action" by Afghan and US-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... troops to crack down on forces of Evil in eastern Afghanistan.
Shaltalu and Nusrat Darra are surrounded by mountains and forest, about six kilometres from the border with Afghanistan's Kunar province. ... which is right down the road from Chitral... Upper Dir is part of Pakistain's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and borders the region where the military waged a major offensive to put down a local Taliban insurgency in Lower Dir, Buner and Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... in 2009.
Thousands of Paks have died in kabooms over the last four years and thousands more soldiers have been killed fighting home-grown cut-thoats.
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[Dawn] A US missile strike targeting a beturbanned goon compound killed five rebels in Pakistain's tribal badlands near the Afghan border on Friday, security officials said.
The strike took place in Ghwakhwa area, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Wana, the main town of South Wazoo tribal region, where the military launched an operation two years ago.
"A US drone fired three missiles on a beturbanned goon compound, killing five rebels," a security bigshot in the area told AFP.
Another security official confirmed the strike and casualties but said the "identities of those killed in the attack were not immediately known".
Friday's attack was the ninth to be reported in Pakistain's tribal areas, close to the Afghan border, since US commandos killed terror criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who went shovel-ready... in a raid in the Pak city of Abbottabad on May 2.
The Pak parliament has called for an end to US drone strikes and said there must be no repeat of the operation that killed bin Laden, despite the fact that President Barack B.O. Obama has reserved the right to act again.
The raid also rocked Pakistain's seemingly powerful security establishment, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden close to a military academy.
The drone strikes are hugely unpopular among the general public, who are deeply opposed to the government's alliance with Washington, and inflame anti-US feeling, which has heightened further after the bin Laden raid.
But US officials say the missile strikes have severely weakened Al-Qaeda's leadership and killed high-value targets including the former Pak Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
The United States does not confirm drone attacks, but its military and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy them in the region.
Missile attacks doubled in the area last year, with more than 100 drone strikes killing over 670 people in 2010, compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally.
Most of the attacks have been concentrated in North Waziristan, the most notorious Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda bastion in Pakistain, where the United States wants the Pakistain military to launch a ground offensive as soon as possible.
Local newspaper The News reported this week that Pakistain had decided to launch a "careful and meticulous" military offensive in North Waziristan after a recent visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... to Islamabad.
But Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik, the commander supervising all military operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, told news hounds on Wednesday: "We will undertake operation in North Waziristan when we want to." "We will undertake such an operation when it is in our national interest militarily," the general said, describing North Waziristan as "calm and peaceful as it was weeks ago".
Under US pressure to crack down on snuffies havens on the Afghan border, Pakistain has been fighting for years against homegrown snuffies in much of the tribal belt, dubbed a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
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Much better than that according to BBC!
US strike 'kills' key Pakistan militant Ilyas Kashmiri
One of Pakistan's most senior militants has been killed in a US drone strike, locals and officials say.
Officials confirmed reports from locals that Ilyas Kashmiri had died in the overnight strike in the tribal region of South Waziristan.
He is believed to have been one of nine people killed in the attack.
Ilyas Kashmiri headed a group that specialises in co-ordinated Mumbai-style strikes on targets, and was a key commander in al-Qaeda.
The US blames him for organising multiple attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - and has offered its maximum reward for a most-wanted target, $5m (£3.04m).
Ilyas Kashmiri had been leading a group called the 313 brigade, which is reported to be a unit of the banned Pakistani organisation Harkatul Jihad al-Islami.
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Water Modem's link. Further down the story, after all the important information, comes this delicious bit:
Locals and witnesses told the BBC Urdu Service that the militants had only recently moved into the area around Laman village, south-east of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.
Kashmiri and his men were said to be taking tea in an apple orchard when the attack occurred.
As I believe the saying goes, "If you run, you'll only die tired."
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The individual responsible for Balad pro-government Al-Sahwa (Awakening) commander escaped an assassination attempt by sticky bomb in the center of Baghdad, police sources said today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that "he was injured along with his companion."
No other details were noted, other than they were rushed to a nearby hospital.
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[An Nahar] A bomb placed outside a mosque frequented by provincial officials in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed 17 people and maimed 50 after the main weekly Mohammedan prayers on Friday, a security official said.
Two members of the provincial council and a police officer were among the maimed, the official said.
A doctor at the city's hospital confirmed the casualty toll.
The bomb was hidden in a barrel at the entrance to the mosque where provincial officials often attend Friday prayers, the official said.
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And after the mosque bombing when the victims were being treated, "A suicide bomber later walked into the emergency room at the hospital and blew himself up near where family members had gathered."
Lovely people these are.
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[An Nahar] The British embassy in the Indonesian capital has evacuated its staff after the Jakarta administration ordered anti-terrorist vehicle barriers to be removed from an adjoining road, reports said Friday.
"This is due to circumstances specific to the security arrangements for the site of the embassy building. We're now working off-site in various places," embassy spokeswoman Faye Belnis said.
"It's not because of a specific threat or a change in the threat level in Indonesia," she said.
The Jakarta Globe said the staff were likely to remain working off-site until the mission's new building in Kuningan, South Jakarta, is ready around mid-2013.
Belnis said they were working with the Indonesian authorities to find a solution so they could move back into the premises.
"However, The well-oiled However... this situation is inevitably causing disruption to our service delivery, which is likely to get more significant the longer the situation continues," she said.
On its website the British embassy said it had to close the building for operational reasons.
Twelve people, including a jacket wallah, were killed when an explosives-laden van went kaboom! in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004.
Extremists targeted Westerners in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200 people and 2009 attacks on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta.
Indonesia, the biggest Mohammedan-majority country in the world, is struggling to deal with the threat of homegrown Islamist bully boyz who oppose the country's secular, democratic system and aim to create a caliphate across much of Southeast Asia.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces rubbed out at least 25 people while dispersing tens of thousands of demonstrators in the central city of Hama on Friday, activists said, as anti-regime protests spread to 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... Activists in the city told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone that dozens of other people were maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... a witness in Hama told pan-Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera that more than 50 people were killed when security forces opened fire on protesters in the city, while Al-Arabiya television quoted opposition activists as saying that more than 67 people were killed in Hama.
And another activist told AFP that the corpse count from Hama protests "might go above 50," describing what happened as a "real massacre."
Security forces unleashed "intense gunfire" against a crowd of more than 50,000 people in Hama, according to Rami Abdul Rahman who heads the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It was the largest demonstration in Hama since the mid-March outbreak of an uprising against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-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... , he said.
The official SANA news agency, however, reported "hundreds of people gathered after Friday prayers in Hama chanting diverse slogans" but that security forces and police had stayed away.
In 1982, Hama was the scene of a brutal crackdown that left an estimated 20,000 people dead when the Moslem Brüderbund rose up against the late Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashir al-Assad.
Thousands of demonstrators on Friday also rallied in and around Damascus, which so far has been largely spared the protests rocking Syria for more than 10 weeks, another rights activist said.
About 2,000 people marched in Rukn al-Din suburb and police armed with batons beat demonstrators in the southern Damascus district of Midan in a bid to break up a rally, said Abdul Karim Rihawi of the Syrian League for Human Rights.
Thousands more joined rallies calling for the end of Assad's regime across Damascus province, including in Jdaidet Artuz, Daraya and Zamalka.
"All the measures taken by the authorities to calm the street have failed," Rihawi said in apparent reference to Assad's decision on Wednesday to launch a "national dialogue" and decree an amnesty for hundreds of political prisoners.
Near the southern protest hub of Daraa, security forces opened fire to disperse a crowd in Jassem, a rights activist told AFP, as protesters also gathered in nearby Dal and in Kurdish towns of northern Syria.
Overnight, in several cities including 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... in the north and Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria residents took to rooftops to chant "God is Greatest," a slogan taken up by the opposition, said Abdul Rahman.
A government crackdown which focused earlier this week on the flashpoint Homs region left at least 75 civilians and military personnel dead since Sunday, according to the rights group chief.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Friday broadcast the accounts of three suspected members of an "an armed criminal group" who said they had "killed demonstrators and security agents" in Homs.
Al-Baath newspaper, viewed as the mouthpiece of the Baath party which has ruled Syria since 1963, quoted the men as saying they had "cut roads" and "burnt public buildings" in exchange for money and guns.
Residents, meanwhile, said Internet lines were cut in Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia on Friday, in a repeat of a suspension of services at the start of April.
Syrian activists called the latest protests over the dozens of children killed in anti-government protests such as 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib whom activists say was tortured to death, a charge denied by the authorities.
"The people want the fall of the regime. Tomorrow, it's 'Children's Friday' of rising up against injustice, like the adults," the activists announced on their Facebook page Syrian Revolution 2011, an engine of the uprising.
The U.N. children's agency UNICEF says at least 30 children have been rubbed out in the revolt against Assad's autocratic rule that erupted in mid-March.
The revolt in Syria was sparked by the arrest and torture of 15 children and adolescents accused of painting anti-regime graffiti in Daraa, which became a flashpoint of the deadly protests.
More than 1,100 civilians have been killed and at least 10,000 tossed in the calaboose in a brutal crackdown on almost daily anti-regime demonstrations in Syria since March 15, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations say.
The government insists the unrest in Syria is the work of "armed terrorist gangs" backed by Islamists and foreign agitators.
Snubbing government concessions that included the release of some political prisoners and a call for a national dialogue, opposition groups at a meeting in Turkey demanded late Thursday for Assad's "immediate resignation."
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A new al Qaida video from US terrorist Adam Gadahn encourages US Muslims to purchase fully automatic weapons at gun shows and begin shooting people in individual acts of terrorism
He explains that they shouldn't worry about being caught as so many have been caught and released to date and asks "What are you waiting for?". Offering advice such as "Do not wait for others, take the task upon yourself", he has made a general call for all Muslims in the West to take up arms and begin killing as many people as possible.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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