KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a health clinic in eastern Afghanistan as women and children lined up for maternity care and vaccinations, killing at least 35 people in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians this year. The sport utility vehicle smashed through a wall at the Akbarkhail Public Medical Center on Saturday before anyone could shoot the driver or blow out the tires, local officials said. The force of the blast caused the building to collapse.
Survivors frantically dug through the rubble with shovels and bare hands. At least 53 other people were wounded, provincial public health director Dr. Mohammad Zaref Nayebkhail said.
'They were offering important services for the people. We had very good services and lots of patients. There were only 10 beds but lots of other services in that centre. It's why the casualties were so high,' he said.
Wary of being blamed for civilian casualties, the Taleban denied it was behind the bombing in Azra district in Logar province. 'This attack was not done by our fighters,' Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Of course. It was done by your jacket wallahs, which is a separate division.
Nayebkhail said an Afghan army helicopter was dispatched to the area to deliver medical supplies and to ferry survivors to other hospitals. He said the clinic had recently been expanded to meet the health needs of the far-flung district's population in the mountainous area.
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[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... accuses Pakistain of firing 470 rockets into two of its eastern border provinces in a three-week barrage.
Afghan cops said Sunday that 36 people have died in the barrages, which hit civilians in areas where 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... forces have withdrawn.
After the civilians decamped, Pak Taliban came in and occupied the cleared areas, Afghan border officials said.
Afghan security officials say joint NATO and Afghan border units have fired back into Pakistain. NATO and Pakistain military officials, however, have denied any knowledge of border skirmishes.
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Meanwhile ...
* RUSSIA TODAY > AZERBAIJAN RATTLING SABRE OVER DISPUTED TERRITORY, agz Armenia vee NAGORNO-KARABAKH.
ARTIC > Azerb President says country continues to be in a "state of war", of which only the first phase of the struggle = war to regain NK has been completed, Azerbaijan will employ any means necessary to recover NK + Azeri territorial integrity.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > AZERBAIJAN WARNS ARMENIA WITH [Army-Navy, MilTech]SHOW OF MILITARY MIGHT.
versus
* TOPIX > RUSSIA TO LEASE ARMENIA BASE THRU 2044.
* SAME > DISPUTED NAGORNO-KARABAKH HAS BEEN INDEPENDENT FOR TWENTY YEARS, espec from Azerbaijan.
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Also from RUSSIA TODAY > {Rian.ru] RUSSIA'S SOVEREIGNTY OVER SOUTH KURILS IS IRREFUTABLE, MOSCOW TELLS US, JAPAN.
OTOH post-Soviet Russia's econ may collapse sometime this decade or the very NT than previously anticipated, e.g. after Year 2015 when Mosocw might no longer be effec able to pay its state pension obligations.
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Russia is doing just fine money wise. It sell oil and gas to most of europe. The UK is fairly dependant on it for supplies. If Russia was going to go bankrupt (which it probably won't, as it is in the green finacially) then it would just squeeze the taps and ask for more money. Their poor but they have common sense on there fiscal side. 14trillion dollars gdp to america and your a third of the way in debt, maybe more? That's most of africa and st america put together!
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Good point re the Russkies bucks, dVTN, OLD SON, youse learned to learn! Good one. Now, yes, the Russkies have Europe stitched up, no question. Seem to remember a shed loada Ukrainians or some dying last winter when the Kremlinski shut down the gas. Hard b'stards.
Now, is it any wonder Africa hasn't got debt problems when the average PCI is probs less than a freshly issued $1 note, if they exist. No-one will lend on that income unless it's the recycle öoney on your bottles, so, not huge personal debt levels.
Meanwhile, the big money gets stashed in Switzerland, not even bothering to get washed from it's origins, FOREIGN AID, so, still no debt or even thanks for the fish, just another war to pay their foreign masters for. SSDD.
Perhaps someone from S America could comment, not my strong point.
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Could we have a formal moment here for a second?
I know eloquently speaking I am not the most and I haven't pleased all all of the time but I am extremely proud to tell you guys that dVTN is my young 20 yr old son.
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Erm... I believe volvo is a chinese owned company, and although it's nice to hear that the gdp of africa isn't worth that of £100 I think you'll find it's worth considerably more to the chinese who have their whole foot in their rather then the desperate drone strikes to claim libya as a toenail (maybe just to defend the E.U.) That would be nice. Those swiss banks accounts aren't worth as much as you'd think, Oliver North just went through a normal American bank to carry out his dodgy dealings so... Would that conceivable today? Maybe. Maybe not, and after all these years DadN how could you! Will be intresting how it turns out now the chinese are building stealth bombers, second the US really only has a military idustrial complex left, not so much a consumer driven industry - therefore it would cause problems to tackle China when they produce a fair ammount of goods. The UK imports mainly from Germany ironically.
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Yes, Chicoms own Africa inasfar as Africa must pay in kind. Those mega-bucks in Schwiezland are worth nothing to folk on the lam and nothing to lizards.
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Ha! Hey mate, cover blown! Hopefully see you soon man (no place for a personal) but we go st petersburg then back stockholn (then gatwick)
See you soon old man, take care. Cheers for heads up text
[An Nahar] Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy has no intention of leaving power or Libya, despite rebel claims they are expecting a proposal to end the conflict from Tripoli very soon, the government front man said on Sunday.
"Qadaffy is here. He is staying. He is leading the country. He will not leave. He will not step down because he does not have any official position," Moussa Ibrahim said when asked about rebel reports that they expect an offer from Qadaffy very soon.
"We will not give in to some criminal gangs who took our cities hostage. We will not give in to the criminal organization of 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... . Every one continues to fight. We are ready to fight street to street, house to house," he added.
Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC), said on Saturday intermediaries had indicated that a proposal from Qadaffy was in the works, offering a faint glimmer of hope for a deal to end the bloodshed.
"We expect to get an offer very soon; he is unable to breathe," said Ghoga.
"We want to preserve life, so we want to end the war as soon as possible," he added. "We have always left him some room for an exit."
Ghoga said the NTC was not in direct talks with Qadaffy, but understood through contacts with La Belle France and South Africa that an offer was being prepared.
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If that hat was on E-bay I'd open at $250 and be damn serious.
It's so me.
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"If that hat was on E-bay I'd open at $250 and be damn serious.?
I'd bid $500 if the head were attached, S.
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Sprockets, 4 bucks each, all you can get. Actually, if I had more than a few bucks, I would pay to get rid of theses guys and then watch the pandemodium. Oops, you mean that's happening. My Swedish tax bucks they refuse, and I,m happy not to give. No money spent, all is good,.paying peeps in strange clothing to kick yer arse, and then complaining is not a plan. Strategy for a War Against Terror = personal stuff, kill or die.
[Emirates 24/7] Libyan rebels said late Saturday that they expect to receive an offer from Muammar Qadaffy ... Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years ... "very soon" that could end the four-month war but insisted the veteran strongman must agree to step down.
The rebels said they were not in direct contact with Qadaffy officials but said they expected to receive the offer through South African and French intermediaries.
South African President Jacob Zuma, who met Qadaffy last month without securing a deal acceptable to the rebels, was to host a meeting of 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... 's Libya panel on Sunday to discuss the bloc's mediation efforts.
"We expect to get an offer very soon; he (Qadaffy) is unable to breathe," Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the rebel National Transitional Council, told AFP in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
"We want to preserve life, so we want to end the war as soon as possible," he added. "We have always left him some room for an exit."
Ghoga said the NTC understood through contacts with La Belle France and South Africa that an offer was being prepared by the authorities in Tripoli.
"These are the countries chosen by the Qadaffy regime to present a proposal to the National Transitional Council, but we have not received anything to date," he said.
"Any proposal that is brought to us, we will take a serious look at it so long as it guarantees that Qadaffy and his regime, his inner circle, do not remain in power."
Zuma was to meet in Pretoria with fellow heads of state on the African Union panel from the Congo Republic, Mali, Mauritania and Uganda.
Qadaffy is a long-time backer of the AU and a forceful advocate for stronger continental integration. He held the pan-African body's rotating chair in 2009 and has twice held talks with members of the panel.
Many AU leaders have publicly criticised 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... 's assault on his regime, including Zuma, who earlier this month accused the alliance of abusing the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... resolution that justified its bombing.
He said that by pursuing regime change NATO had strayed far outside the resolution's civilian protection focus.
Zuma's government, which currently holds a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, did vote in favour of the resolution and has accused Qadaffy of committing a "heinous violation of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... against his own people" with his crackdown on the anti-government protests that sparked the rebellion.
Earlier this month, Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who chairs the AU panel, told AFP Qadaffy "can no longer lead Libya," and that "his departure has become necessary."
But he and other African leaders have repeatedly called for a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict, although they have so far failed to come up with a truce proposal that meets the rebels' and NATO's precondition that Qadaffy and his inner circle must leave power.
In recent days rumours have been rife that the Libyan may consider leaving Tripoli and that rebels could accept his internal exile to a remote location.
But it remains to be seen if such a deal is just wishful thinking.
The rumours have been fuelled by a military deadlock on the ground and a steady trickle of defections from Qadaffy's forces.
The rebels said Saturday that 38 Qadaffy officers -- including six of high rank -- decamped to Tunisia a day earlier.
But the front line between the rebel-held east and the mainly government-held west has remained largely static for weeks and the rebels have made little progress from their two western enclaves around Libya's third-largest city Misrata and in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli.
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[Al Jazeera] Authorities in Nigeria have said that three separate bomb kabooms in the country's northeast have killed at least 25 people and maimed many others.
The attack on Sunday targeted outdoor beer gardens in the city of Maiduguri.
Authorities have accused the Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... of being behind the attacks.
The group is believed to be behind a number of attacks that killed more than a dozen people in the country's north this month.
Reporting from Lagos, Al Jizz's Yvonne Ndege said, "A resident that we were able to get in touch with on the ground told Al Jizz that they could hear the loud kabooms and screams, cries of terror from people caught up in the chaos."
Quashing Boko Haram has now become a major priority for the government in Nigeria.
"There have been a series of meetings over the last week between Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan ... 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... , and key security chiefs in Nigeria to figure out a strategy how exactly to get rid of Boko Haram," our correspondent said.
Follow them home from a raid, then make sure they can't cause any more trouble. The details are left as an exercise for the student.
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He is a lover of nifty hats,
Bald?
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DAMMAM: Saudi brothers Ali and Hussein Muhammad Hussein may be jailed for life after a Bahraini court charged them with attempt to occupy a police station on March 16, Al-Watan daily said Sunday.
It said the two Saudi brothers, two Iraqis and 15 Bahrainis were facing seven charges, including the attempt to destroy the Al-Khamis police station, incitement against the government, joining unlawful mobs, use of violence and acquisition of Molotov cocktails. "Yew ain't from 'round here, are yew?"
Quoting court sources, the daily said the defendants would be tried on the most serious charge of attempting to occupy a police station, for which the maximum punishment is a life sentence.
But the lads had just gone across to party, and got carried away. Literally carried away by the police, which did not comport to the evening's plans, unfortunately.
The next hearing is set on June 28 when witnesses will testify.
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The Yemeni government has plans to supply oil and diesel and put an end to the persistent power outages, said Abdul Janadi, Deputy Information Minister on Sunday, amid acute fuel, water and key supplies shortages and day-and-nigh blackouts.
Are these executable plans or castles-in-the-air plans?
Al-Janadi said four people of those who were included in a list of 43 suspects wanted on charges related to banditry and bombing oil pipelines and power towers in Marib published by the Interior Ministry Saturday have surrendered.
Furthermore, he said that the condition of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... is improving and that the President, who was injured in a rocket attack on his palace earlier this month, will come back to Yemen soon. "President Saleh's release and what he should do after that remains up to his doctors," Al-Janadi said.
Meantime, the front man for the government insisted that the government strongly refuses any power transition at this time, saying that can happen only through the ballot boxes and through early elections that should be regionally and internationally monitored.
Vice President Abd Rabu Hadi is working hard to maintain security, push armed people out of main cities, reopen roads and supply key materials topped by fuel, cooking gas and electricity, he said, pointing out that Hadi has made big strides on these issues.
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[Emirates 24/7] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... will make a media appearance within the next 48 hours, his media secretary said on Sunday.
"The president will appear within the next 48 hours despite our fear that the burns on his features and on different parts of his body will be an obstacle given that his appearance will not be as the media expects it," Ahmed al-Sufi said in a statement.
Saleh was forced to leave Yemen for treatment in a Saudi hospital after an attack on his palace earlier this month.
Yemen power transfer ruled out while Saleh away Yemen's deputy information minister on Sunday ruled out any transfer of power in Yemen so long as maimedPresident-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh remains hospitalised in Soddy Arabia.
"Our moral values do not allow us to discuss a transfer of power as the president lies on his sick bed" in Riyadh, where he was flown on June 4 for treatment after an kaboom at his palace compound in Sanaa, Abdo al-Janadi told AFP.
Saleh, 69, who has faced nearly six months of protests against his 33-year-long autocratic rule, has not appeared in public since the attack that killed 11 people and maimed 124 others, among them bigwigs.
In his absence, Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has come under pressure from the parliamentary opposition and the West to assume power, while street protesters demand he form an interim ruling council.
"The president is in good health. He is recovering but his discharge from hospital will be decided by his doctors," said Janadi.
Hadi, who under the constitution replaces Saleh in his absence, "is working hard to normalise the situation in Yemen and to gather all parties in Yemen for dialogue," said the deputy minister.
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[Pak Daily Times] Eighty-five al Qaeda suspects went on trial in a special Saudi security court on Sunday in connection with deadly attacks carried out in the kingdom, state news agency SPA said. The defendants face charges of belonging to al Qaeda, of taking part in attacks on public buildings and residential compounds, and of smuggling and possession of weapons, it said. Thirteen of the group are accused of participating in the May 2003 car boomings of three residential compounds that left 129 people dead or maimed, including women and kiddies, SPA said. Nine US nationals were among 35 of those killed. SPA said the arrests of the 85 suspects had foiled plots to attack two air bases, a residential compound in the Eastern Province of the Gulf state and on state oil giant Aramco.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Charges have been pressed against 11 new suspects including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... chief Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... in two cases filed in connection with the 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong in 2004.
The arms produced in Chinese factory Norinco were to be transported to India for Assamese separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), Muniruzzaman Chowdhury, investigation officer of the two cases, told news hounds yesterday after submitting two supplementary charge sheets.
Muniruzzaman, senior assistant superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department, handed over the charge sheets to Md Mainuddin, assistant commissioner (Prosecution) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, at the latter's office at about 5:30pm.
Two cases were filed -- one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act -- a day after ten truckloads of arms and ammunitions were seized at a jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) in the port city on April 2, 2004.
Mainuddin said the supplementary charge sheets would be sent to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court.
In 2004, Sherlocks submitted charge sheets against 45 people in the case filed for smuggling of firearms and 43 people in the other case filed under the arms act. Four people, who were accused in both the cases, have died.
In a memorandum of evidence to Public Prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed on June 3 this year, the CID mentioned the names of 11 new accused.
Apart from Babar and Nizami, Ulfa leader Paresh Barua, former director general of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, the then director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury, who was later appointed as the DG of NSI, are on both the charge sheets.
The others are former NSI director wing commander (retd) Shahab Uddin, ex-NSI deputy director Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain, ex-NSI field officer Akbar Hossain Khan, former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin, ex-CUFL managing director Mohsin Talukder and former CUFL general manager (admin) Enamul Hoque.
All 11 new suspects except Ulfa leader Paresh, and Nurul Amin are in prison, said the investigator.
The names of the 11 suspects were added to the previous list of accused in the two cases. Of the 11 accused, six have already given eight statements, he said.
The charge sheets mentioned 265 names as important witnesses including police officials, magistrates, former officials of NSI and DGFI, and former secretaries of different ministries.
SUPPLEMENTARY CHARGE SHEETS
The supplementary charge sheets said prime accused Hafizur Rahman with the help of other accused smuggled in the huge cache of arms in two fishing trawlers -- Amanat and FB Khazardan. The arms were being unloaded at a CUFL jetty in Chittagong in the early hours of April 2, 2004.
When havildar Golum Rasul of Bandar police outpost was tipped off that huge cartons were being loaded onto trucks from two trawlers, he informed sergeant Md Alauddin, the then outpost in-charge, about it.
Alauddin conveyed it to Abdullahel Baki, the then deputy commissioner (DC) of port zone.
Baki sent Sergeant Helal Uddin Bhuiyan and Ahadur Rahman of Karnaphuli Police Station to the spot to look into it.
When the coppers reached the spot, two persons identifying themselves as Hafizur Rahman and Abul Hossain claimed ownership of the goods. The person who identified himself as Abul Hossain was actually the then NSI deputy director Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain.
Police seized the huge cache of arms and ammunition, and loaded those onto ten trucks.
The then officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station filed two cases -- one under the arms act and the other for smuggling arms -- with the same cop shoppe against 43 people the next day.
The CID took charge of investigation into the two cases after IO Ahadur Rahman was relieved of the task for his controversial probe in less than a month.
Kabir Uddin Ahmed, ASP of CID (Chittagong zone), was appointed the IO, who submitted a report on June 11, 2004 accusing 42 people in the case filed under the arms act.
ASP Nawshad Ali was later appointed the third IO, who submitted a supplementary charge sheet in the same case on August 28 the same year. He added one more name to the list of 42 accused.
He also probed the arms smuggling case and submitted the charge sheet in November accusing 45 people.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court on February 14, 2008 ordered further investigation into the cases following an appeal by the then PP Ahsanul Haque Hena during the tenure of the last caretaker government.
The court gave directives to probe seven specific points that the previous Sherlocks had not addressed.
ASP of CID Ismail Hossain probed the cases further as the fourth IO for nearly 11 months but failed to submit probe report despite obtaining six extensions.
A Chittagong court on January 18, 2009 gave an order to replace Ismail Hossain following an appeal by the state lawyer.
ASP Muniruzzaman was appointed the fifth investigation officer, who started a fresh probe into the cases on February 4 in 2009. He obtained confessional statements of two prime accused -- Hafizur Rahman and Din Mohammad -- who gave information about the involvement of some government and intelligence officials in the arms smuggling.
The IO submitted the probe report yesterday after 13 extensions.
Muniruzzaman said the government did not put "any pressure" on him while carrying out the investigation.
The charge sheets are based on the findings, he said.
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I'm not surprised about Babar. There was always something suspicious about that beady-eyed little pachyderm.
US Predators struck for the first time in a week in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today, killing 13 "militants," according to reports from the region.
The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired four missiles at a vehicle traveling in the village of Kond Ghalay Pnaga in the Birmal area of South Waziristan. Thirteen "militants" were killed in the strike, according to SAMAA.
The target of the strike is unclear.
...although probably he was in that vehicle...
The strike took place in an area close to the border of North Waziristan, and is used by fighters loyal to Taliban Hafiz Gul Bahadar as well as the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Perhaps someday we'll learn whether the UAVs followed them home from a raid, followed them out from a meeting/safe house, or even homed in on a cell phone signal. There are so many possibilities when UAVs are involved!
Also today in North Waziristan a Taliban commander named Shakirullah Shakir was reported to have been gunned down while riding a motorcycle near Miramshah. Shakir is a spokesman for the Fedayeen-e-Islam, the suicide squad for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Shakir has claimed the Fedayeen-e-Islam executed suicide attacks in Lahore in September 2010 and January 2011. Most recently, Shakir boasted that more than 1,000 suicide bombers were training at three camps in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
Perhaps relatives of someone in Lahore decided to act on his grief and anger... or perhaps the Pakistani authorities are tired of him applying his skills on the wrong side of the border.
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Yep. How many miliiuN Pakistains have infiltrated your society, married your sisters and cousins, Paul? Sure you know what to do? I do. They won't like it' and it is not good for them. Get over the PC shite first, next step is easy. And, no, I don't really care about them' whether they're be-Turburbanned ass-hats from Ufukistan or Libya or Syrian opposition or pirates from Yemen. Kill them, the world will be a better place without the scum of Muslim gangsters posing as messengers from a piss-artist from the 7th Century. Choice is yours, that's what we're about.
[Pak Daily Times] Five rustics were taken into legal custody by the local political administration under Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) on Sunday in Landikotal, administration sources said. Sources said that two kabooms had occurred in the adjacent areas of the Government Girls High Secondary School and cantonment two days ago. The local administration took notice of the incidents and jugged five suspects of Ashraf khel for questioning, sources said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Law enforcement agencies on Sunday nabbed six Afghan Taliban from Shern Jogezai of Qila Saifullah district in Balochistan, an official said. The official added that after thorough interrogation more facts about the gunnies past activities would be revealed, a private TV channel reported. A large amount of weapons and kaboom had also been recovered from their possession. Following the arrest of the six terrorists, security in the area has been further beefed up.
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[Pak Daily Times] Six people, including a grandson of Balochistan nationalist leader late Akbar Bugti, were killed and nine others injured in firing at a dance party in the metropolis in the wee hours of Sunday.
Police said the dance party was organised by Arif Rajader, a local leader of Pakistain Mohammedan League-Functional (PML-F), with his friend Faisal for some 50 guests, including Taleh Bugti, at a bungalow in Khayaban-e-Rahat area of Defence Housing Authority (DHA). Taleh came with extra friends and entered the party but one of his friend got permission to get inside after an hour, which caused skirmish among the participants. Taleh's friend Zahid Butt started brawl and opened aerial fire. In retaliation, party organiser Dr Iqbal pulled out a pistol and warned Zahid. This caused exchange of fire that killed Taleh and Dr Iqbal. The guards of Taleh also started firing.
As a result, 12 more people received injuries and were shifted to local hospitals. Four injured Kamran Shafi, Mark Joseph, Kamran Gul and Ziauddin later succumbed to injuries. Those who sustained injuries were Zeeshan, 28; Zahid Fazal, 27; Faraz Amir, 22; Irfan Adnan, 33; Qamaruddin, 30; Shahbaz Habib, 30; Bilal Arshad, 25; Essa Jalaluddin and Ziauddin, 28. Police have registered cases against accused and taken nine persons into custody.
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[Pak Daily Times] Around 250 families have moved out of central Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended... after the start of an operation by the security forces against turbans. According to a private TV channel, a camp has been set up at New Durrani village with a capacity to accommodate 1,500 families. Sources said arrangements had been made at the camp for the provision of necessary ration to the IDPs. People have been asked to get themselves registered at the camp to get the required facilities.
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[Dawn] A kaboom in Multan injured three coppers on Sunday, a police official said, correcting his earlier report that the three had been killed.
"The bomb kaboom targeting a police check post maimed three coppers," Multan city police chief Aamir Zulfiqar said.
"It seems that the bomb was planted on a cycle of violence parked close to the police post," he added.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... condemned the attack, an official statement said.
Nearly 4,500 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on Taliban and other myrmidon networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
Militants have stepped up their activities, mostly targeting security forces, to avenge the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who now dances with worms... who was killed in a covert operation by US Navy Seals in the Pak garrison city of Abbottabad in May.
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BAGHDAD -- Two American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday, the US military said, making this month the deadliest for American personnel in more than two years.
'Two US service members were killed today while conducting operations in northern Iraq,' the military said in a statement.
Since June 1, 11 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq -- making it the deadliest since May 2009.
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[Emirates 24/7] An Iraqi judicial front man says a court has sentenced the wife of a slain al-Qaeda leader to 20 years in prison for terrorism-related charges.
Iraqi prisons aren't nearly as nice as American ones...
An Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council front man on Sunday said Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was convicted last Thursday.
Spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar didn't give details on the charges, but a government official said she was convicted of facilitating correspondence between Death Eaters and preparing explosive-laden belts.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information.
She has been in jug since the April 2010 joint U.S.-Iraqi north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that killed al-Masri along with another prominent al-Qaeda in Iraq myrmidon.
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[Dawn] A jacket wallah in a wheelchair attacked a cop shoppe north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them coppers, officials said.
"A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a cop shoppe, killing two civilians and wounding 17 people, including nine coppers in Tarmiyah," a town north of Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A defence ministry official confirmed the report.
"The suicide bomber came up to the entrance in a wheelchair," said Colonel Tawfiq Ahmed al-Jenabi, chief of the town's police, who added he did not know if the attacker was genuinely handicapped.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... two people were maimed by an improvised bomb that went kaboom! next to a convoy transporting Mohammed Ahmed al-Obaidi, mayor of the town of Al-Riyadh in the restive northern province of Kirkuk.
Obaidi, who beat feet unhurt and spoke to AFP after the attack, lost a foot in a similar bombing in June last year.
Twenty-four people were killed on Thursday in three separate attacks in Storied Baghdad, including 21 in a triple bombing at a crowded market, and an American contractor working for USAID whose convoy was hit by an improvised bomb.
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"...in a similar bombing..."?
this becoming a regular tactic with these guys?
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Fred:
technically, shouldn't it say "Obaidi, who beat foot" (since the young lad only has one)?
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a health clinic in eastern Afghanistan as women and children lined up for maternity care and vaccinations, killing at least 35 people in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians this year. The sport utility vehicle smashed through a wall at the Akbarkhail Public Medical Center on Saturday before anyone could shoot the driver or blow out the tires, local officials said. The force of the blast caused the building to collapse.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Charges have been pressed against 11 new suspects including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and 
US Predators struck for the first time in a week in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today, killing 13 "militants," according to reports from the region.
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BAGHDAD -- Two American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday, the US military said, making this month the deadliest for American personnel in more than two years.
