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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Gina Bellman aka Tamar in "King David" aka Helen in "Secret Friends" aka Clegg (Spotter) in "Silent Trigger" aka Dr. Sydney Catchadourian in "Zerophilia" aka Kathleen Bury in "Permanent Vacation" (age 45)
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ZOMG! I thought at first that was Hot Lips Houlihan GB.
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She's 77...grant her some slack.
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It is odd how the face shows the ravages of time.
I have seen and I have read articles on how for many the body looks so much younger than the face.
Eyes are the windows to the sole but the face shows the ravages of time. Olivia De Haviland is another who has aged in the face but has the look of a kind grandmother and even the Queen of England also. Looking back at their youth is pain full as well as their mirror. Reminds me of the Portrait of Dorian Gray.
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"read articles on how for many the body looks so much younger than the face"
I'm certainly no sun Nazi, but I think a large part of that is that the body is usually covered by clothing, whereas the face usually is not. Sunscreen really isn't the same as cloth.
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IG : paste the link addy into a new tab or window and it will show
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[Dawn] An Afghan guard rubbed out two 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 accompanying a reconstruction team convoy travelling in a northern province Saturday, police said.
Police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh said the shooting took place in the Darah district of Panjshir province, about 62 miles north of Kabul.
Jangalbagh said the shooter was a bodyguard working for the country's second highest-ranking intelligence official. He said the shooter stopped the convoy, engaged in an argument with NATO troops and opened fire.
Jangalbagh said another NATO soldier fired back and killed the shooter.
NATO said it was investigating the incident and declined to offer additional information.
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"..the shooter was a bodyguard working for the country's second highest-ranking intelligence official.."
then one would think that afghan intelligence knew what sort of man this was...
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...coulda been a cousin, nephew...it's not like merit is the basis of a lot of jobs hirings there. Sorta like D.C.
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then one would think that afghan intelligence knew what sort of man this was...
It's a serious mine field. For over 1000 years, since the imposition of Islam at swordpoint, Afghans have been taught about the inferiority of the infidel and his rightful place as a servant to the devout (Muslim). The odds of running into people who buy that religious propaganda are a lot higher in Afghanistan, where Muslims are roughly 100 pct of the population than stateside, where Muslims are about 1%. This is why important Afghan officials keep getting assassinated - enemy infiltrators.
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lets go a step further than Sherman. Pull out all troops quickly and nuke the shit out of afghanistan and pakiland and be done with the cockroaches.If the first strike don't work try until it's done right. What good is either one of these countries or their ppl besides being assholes at the local convenience store?
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[Dawn] Celebrations erupted in South Sudan, the world's newest country, on its long-awaited day of independence from the north after a decades-long war that left the region in ruins and claimed millions of lives.
Fireworks lit the sky when the clock struck midnight (2100 GMT Friday) and packed cars drove around the capital Juba with drivers honking and passengers waving their new flag from the windows.
The noise from the large crowd gathered around the countdown clock, at the main crossroads in the new country's capital Juba, was deafening, an AFP news hound said.
Standing next to the flashing clock, which read "free at last," 27-year-old university student Andrew Nuer could barely describe how he felt as cars hooted around him and people danced in the street.
"We have struggled for so many years and this is our day -- you cannot imagine how good it feels," said Nuer, who had just come back from Cairo to celebrate independence.
"We pray to God in the future to help us make this a prosperous and peaceful country, and to show the world that we can do it," he added.
Hours earlier, world leaders including UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... had flown into Juba for Saturday's official celebrations.
"Fifty years fighting for independence and if this is freedom, then this is great," said Daniel Bol, banging his tin drum.
One sign on the back of a car full of flag waving southerners read: "Just divorced." South Sudan's independence comes exactly six months after a referendum that saw southerners vote almost unanimously to split with their former civil war enemies in the north.
For decades, until a peace agreement was signed in 2005, southern rebels fought two wars with successive Khartoum governments for greater autonomy and recognition.
"We are free! We are free! Goodbye north, hello happiness!" screamed Mary Okach.
Saturday's independence ceremony is to be held at the mausoleum of the late rebel leader John Garang, who died only months after signing the peace accord that ended Africa's longest-running conflict and opened the door to eventual nationhood.
Military parades, prayers and a performance of the new national anthem are to take place from 0815 GMT, followed by the declaration of independence, the raising of the Republic of South Sudan's flag and the new country's first president, Salva Kiir, taking the oath of office.
The ceremony, due to be attended by 30 African leaders and top-ranking foreign officials, will be the largest international gathering ever seen in Juba -- a war-damaged former garrison town on the White Nile that lacks even basic infrastructure, including reliable power, water and sewage systems.
Southern officials have said the chief guest of honour at the celebrations will be Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , who is wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... for alleged crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
The UN chief said after arriving in Juba on Friday that the people of the world's newest nation had "achieved their dream." The UN and the international community will continue to stand by South Sudan. I am very happy to be here," Ban added.
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Good Luck to you all.
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[Al Jazeera] Muammar Qadaffy has threatened to take the war in Libya to Europe while rebels come under heavy fire as they renew their push against his forces. So Europe, now you know the consequences of failing in Libya. What are you going to do?
Thousands of Qadaffy supporters rallied in the Green Square in Tripoli, Libya's capital, for Friday prayers, underscoring his refusal to step down after four decades in power and five months of fighting.
Large numbers also turned out in the desert town of Sabha, 800km to the south, in an apparent attempt to show that Qadaffy still enjoys support in the areas of Libya he still controls.
In a speech on Libyan television, Qadaffy threatened to send hundreds of Libyans to carry out attacks in Europe in Dire Revenge™ for the 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... -led military campaign against him.
"Hundreds of Libyans will martyr in Europe. I told you it is eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. But we will give them a chance to come to their senses," he said in an audio speech.
Ali Abu-Sowah, a religious preacher, told worshippers that Libya could implement reform without the intervention of the West and accused the rebels of being Western stooges.
"How can we allow such meddling when we see what happened in beloved Iraq and Afghanistan?" he said.
NATO has denied the Libyan government's charge that it has intentionally carried out air raids to aid rebel advances, saying it is sticking to UN mandate to protect civilian lives.
'Writing on the wall'
Qadaffy's threatening rhetoric contrasted with a prediction by Britannia, one of the main backers of the campaign against Qadaffy, "the writing is on the wall" for him.
"I think it's heading towards a clear conclusion - eventually, we don't know when that will be, when Colonel Qadaffy realises that his departure is essential to the future of Libya and its people," William Hague, the British foreign secretary, told the Rooters news agency in an interview on Friday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
"I think the pressure on the regime is increasing all the time. We have intensified the military campaign, it will be intensified further. The economic pressure is intensifying also, and so is the diplomatic pressure."
And in what may be the latest financial squeeze on Qadaffy, Turkey has frozen $1bn of Libyan central bank reserves deposited in its banks, a Turkish newspaper reported on Friday.
The developments on the diplomatic front came as opposition fighters on the ground took fresh casualties, after advancing on two fronts in the past two weeks against Qadaffy's forces.
At least six fighters were killed and 17 injured on Friday on the frontline near Misrata, on Libya's Mediterranean coast, according to local medical workers.
They had come under heavy artillery fire from Qadaffy's forces.
Approaching Zlitan
A rebel sympathiser in Misrata told the Rooters news agency that opposition forces had been moving closer to neighbouring Zlitan, one of a chain of government-controlled towns blocking their advance to Tripoli.
As they advanced, pro-Qadaffy troops inside the city fired rounds of explosives to block their progress, the sympathiser said in an e-mail.
"The rebels are waiting for NATO back-up or for Qadaffy forces to run out of ammunition to make a move to take the city centre," he said.
On the other major front, in the Western Mountains region southwest of Tripoli, NATO jets bombed forces loyal to Qadaffy several times, their bombs landing about 3km east of the village of Qawalish, according to one rebel fighter.
After weeks of static fighting, the rebels made significant advances on Wednesday: pushing west from Misrata to within 13km of Zlitan, where large numbers of pro-Qadaffy forces are based, and seizing the village of Qawalish in the southwest.
Taking Qawalish brings them closer to having control of a major highway into Tripoli.
Rebel advances over the last two weeks have allowed normal life to resume in towns no longer in shelling distance of Qadaffy's troops.
Rebels staged a military parade on Friday evening in Zintan, one of the main towns in the Western Mountains. Children thronged the streets to watch the rebels drive through on tanks.
People fired rifles in the air including one small boy who opened fire with a Kalashnikov assault rifle while perched on his father's shoulders.
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...No, no, no. He's taking the war to the United States, because we're the ones who will have to do the fighting. The Euros have pretty much run the cupboard bare on men and materiel - if Muammar strikes back, they will pretty much fold and scream for an Article Five meeting, and we'll have to bail them out.
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Khadaffy would go and take a kabbodle of real value commodity with him in trunks, gold reserves etc. IF ( wait for it ) anybody would offer him a safe haven. THEN he would have to obtain a MEANS of getting there safely.
BUT, the truth is there isNOT a single place in the world which (ONE) will TAKE him and (TWO) he doesnt have any means to fly, crawl, or pogostick to get out of Libya to GET to this imaginary haven.
ERGO: the Moslem clown has to stay in Libya and wait for the Mussolini on a meathook ending. Tell me with a straight face there is no Hell. And everybody around Khadaffy knows ( in their very boners) that they are in the same boat and headed for the deep end right along WITH him ( unless they are gargling blind stupid ).
And he isnt going to shoot himself, now is he?
What do we pay Intell FOR in a case like this? We dont have any competent "assets" who can find him in the hospital basement and tie off his airhole? No? Do we have any smart boys among Intell and sneaky diplomats who cant QUIETLY arrange among shifty quivering Khadaffy entourage a means to BOLT and make it convincing enough to get them to make a run for that exit and get everybody lined up on the tarmac ? Then dispose of the entire circus somewhere en route.? We arent to that level of organization yet?
SURELY Khadaffy has someone to Judas him for thirty silver coins. It isnt like he has surrounded himself all these years with the cream of virtue, is it? I thought the world worked on money, it doesnt? I thought no one appreciates a bribe like an African? Apparently not? Well, we can wait for the EUroweenies to queer out and go home....their French cowardice overcoming their Italian greed ( or was it the other way round ), in which case Khadaffy can laugh and set another bomb off in some crowd in Belgium or Lourdes or a French Bidet, perhaps an exclusive Berlusconi bordello?
Obama is at the helm what could go wrong, I mean, he alone got Bin Laden, now didnt he?
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I think O'bammer had NOTHING to do with Getting
Osama, he just happened to be The one to grab the "Glory" so to speak.
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FREEREPUBLIC > FRANCE TELLS LIBYAN REBELS TO MAKE PEACE WID GADDAFI [Is POTUS Bammer losing the war agz Uncle Muammar in Libyuh?].
Have to agree wid #1 RJ - right now the UNSC is still operat widin the context of UNO NFZ only oer Libya. Any change from NFZ-only to UN/UNSC-ordered removal of Gaddafi from power will likely cause the Euros to demand that the US be principal to any formal invasion + occupation of Libya.
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maybe BP will step in and make everything alright! Oh never mind they rfreed the Lockerbie bomber. Remember that the next time you fill up the gas tank.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen started on Saturday the trial of 78 suspects accused of criminal acts against antigovernment protesters in the capital Sana'a including killing more than 60 protesters on March 18.
Security forces in and out of uniform and regime supporters snipped from rooftops protesters in the square of change outside Sana'a University after prayers on Friday of Dignity.
The killings drew wide local and international condemnation and triggered resignations from the Sale government and the ruling party.
Many suspects appeared in a court in western Sana'a, but the prime suspect, called Al-Baidhani, is still on the lam.
Media were barred from covering the trial, which was described by relatives of the victims as a farce. The trial was adjourned till July 18th.
The trial was held as the army continued to shell Taiz province in the south where hundreds of thousands of people have been calling for the ouster of the regime.
Locals said ten civilians including a teenager were maimed and homes destroyed when shells fired by elite republican guard landed in the districts of Oseifra and Al-Rawdha.
Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured since protests erupted in Yemen in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings.
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Killing for Dignity seems an Oxymoron akin to Raping for Virginity.
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[An Nahar] A Yemeni army officer and two of his troops were killed in an ambush by gunnies near the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, military sources said.
They said the person or persons unknown opened fire with automatic weapons on a jeep in the village of Thalaet, west of Daleh, killing Lotf al-Mazlum and two soldiers as well as wounding two civilians, witnesses said.
The attack took place in a region that is a stronghold of the Southern Movement, which seeks independence for south Yemen, which was a sovereign state prior to unification with the north in 1990.
Also in Aden, dozens of young protesters and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists rallied calling for an "end to violence" in the city of Zinjibar, a city hit by air raids and abuse of civilians by gangs linked to al-Qaeda.
"We demand the departure from the city of gangs and the return of those displaced," said Linda Hosni, an activist who took part in the protest.
Six Zinjibar residents died after drinking water from a well contaminated by a bomb that fell inside it two days previously, said the city's deputy health officer Nasser Bellil.
Zinjibar has been in the hands of suspected al-Qaeda snuffies since late May.
"Residents only discovered the device after six people had died," Bellil told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that he was concerned for the health of those who remain there.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo leon, click here. For a map of Monterrey, click here. Additional info with a hat tip to Nota Roja
By Chris Covert
A total of 21 individuals were shot to death as a large group of armed suspects attacked a bar in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon late Friday night.
The shooting took place at around 2200 hrs at the El Sabino Gordo bar near the intersection of calles Villagran and Carlos Salazar in the Zona Centro of Monterrey.
Reports say 14 were killed inside the bar while another five were killed outside. Two more presumably wounded in the shooting died later while receiving medical attention. One other unidentified individual is said to have been seriously wounded in the shooting.
The suspects emerged from two vehicles, and entered the bar shouting for waiters. As some on the wait staff attempted to hide from that attack, the shooters opened fire. Most of the dead were wait staff. AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles were used in the attack.
Milenio reports that the bar was a known venue for selling drugs, but reports were unclear as to which cartel benefited from drug sales.
The initiating event was a decision by the club managers to stop selling of drugs inside the bar entirely, after they received threats about one of the rivals being allowed to sell drugs.
Other reports say that a cartel federation, dubbed Nueva Federacion operating in Nuevo Leon and comprising the Sinaloa, Gulf and La Familia cartels was involved in the shooting. Friday's shooting as described as a settling of accounts.
The Sinaloa and Gulf cartels are known to have joined forces in northeastern Mexico from Mexican published reports last fall. At that time the announcement of the new group came with no formal identifying name, but was an apparent response to Los Zetas kidnapping and extortion operations in Nuevo Leon. The announcement followed a car bomb in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, and was faxed to several national publications including Proceso, the Mexican leftist weekly. To read the Rantburg account of the new cartel alliance following the General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon car bombing, click here.
Sinaloa cartel cocaine operations have moved to the east coast in states such as Tabasco and points north, in an apparent alliance with the Gulf Cartel.
Both the Gulf and Los Zetas criminal groups have suffered heavy losses in fighting each other over last summer and fall, especially in the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, so the additional help of the Sinaloa cartel is seen as a counterbalance to Los Zetas operations in the same area. To read Rantburg reports on the new alliance between the Sinaloa cartel and the Gulf cartel click here and here.
The attack took place less than five blocks from the Monterrey quarters for the Mexican Policia Federal detachment in Monterrey.
Federal agents went to two other nearby bars later that night, Infinito and Givengis, to conduct searches of the premises. In the same area, Federal agents located a vehicle with bullet holes.
A report by Milenio described a second shooting as the shooters exited the bar, and it is possible one or more armed suspects were waiting outside the bar. However, no accounts have been released detailing any return fire against the shooters.
Suspected terrorists militants have gunned down a village school principal in the North Caucasus. Sadikullakh Akhmedov, 59, was gunned down outside his house by two terrorists men in the village of Sovetskaya late Friday night.
Police are searching for the terrorists attackers who are suspected to be members of a local terrorist insurgent group.
(KUNA) -- One Turkish soldier was killed and another injured in a clash that erupted between members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces in the eastern province of Tunceli on Friday.
Turkey's daily Zaman reported on its website that a Turkish soldier was killed and another maimed in a shootout between security forces and PKK rebels.
Turkish soldiers have been clashing with the PKK for the past few days in the Pulumur district of Tunceli province. Two soldiers were also injured in festivities on Thursday as a large-scale military operation is under way in the region.
The PKK has recently stepped up its attacks in Turkey's east and southeast. Two soldiers were rubbed out by unknown assailants in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Tuesday. The attacks come in spite of a recent statement by tossed in the slammer PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, delivered through his lawyers, in which he said he had decided to prolong a unilateral cease-fire his group had declared last summer. The PKK refers to its cease-fire as a "non-attack" decision. Ocalan's lawyers also said he believes the continuation of the cease-fire will contribute to a democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
The PKK has been declared a terrorist organization by the international community, including the US and the EU.
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(KUNA) -- Indian security personnel killed as many as two terrorists, one of whom was a Pak national, belonging to the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in the country's northern most state of Jammu and Kashmire, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI) on Saturday.
The encounter between the cut-throats and the security personnel took place in the Pulwama district in south Kashmire.
After receiving a tip-off that the cut-throats were hiding in the area, the security personnel launched a joint operation and asked the cut-throats to surrender. But, the latter opened fire resulting in a gun-battle between the two sides. According to a Defence front man, as many as two AK-47 rifles were recovered from the slain terrorists' possession.
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[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Saturday said terrorist activities in Bloody Karachi were being controlled from within jails, DawnNews reported.
Malik, after a meeting with Pakistain Mohammedan League (Functional) chief Pir Pagara, said the government would also launch a crackdown in jails to nab elements behind the violence in Bloody Karachi.
Speaking to media representatives, Malik said the government was not oblivious to the plight of the people and was taking action to control the situation.
He said the government would chase gun-hung tough guys until they were eliminated.
Speaking on the occasion, Pir Pagara said he was not very hopeful with regard to the situation in Bloody Karachi.
He said the government would have to call in the army to deal with the law and order situation.
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[Dawn] Violence continued for the fifth day in Bloody Karachi and the corpse count from the current wave of killings rose to 102 on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
At least 13 people were killed in incidents of firing overnight.
Earlier on Friday, the Sindh government authorised the Rangers to exercise the powers of coppers to 'use necessary force to prevent terrorist acts' as steps promised and taken hitherto failed to stop killings in Bloody Karachi.
During Friday's violence, the Qasba Colony and adjoining areas remained the worst affected, although the violence spread to the southern and eastern parts of the city and grenade and rocket attacks were also reported.
Scattered arson attacks left at least eight shops burnt in Aligarh Colony on Friday and a commercial centre in Kharadar met the same fate.
The violence forced residents of Qasba Colony and adjoining areas to flee to safe places.
A Sindh Rangers front man said personnel of the paramilitary force had helped evacuate hundreds of people trapped in strife-torn areas.
"We are moving the families to safe places and the exercise continues. Rangers troops helped mainly people in Qasba Colony and adjoining areas," he said.
"More than 100 suspects, many of them with weapons, have been tossed in the calaboose," home ministry front man Sharafuddin Memon said on Saturday, noting that paramilitary troops were in control and patrolling streets in the city's troubled parts.
Many people who were stranded due to unrest for four days were now going out safely, Memon said.
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Not enough dead yet, presume doing what you are dong until hte streets are bare
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For what we gave AIG in a bailout, we should have paid India in AID too wipe this shithole out. Money better spent.
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[Dawn] At least three people were killed and two others were maimed in a clash between two groups in the Khyber tribal region on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
The clash took place between members of Zakhakhel tribe and Lashkar-i-Islam group in the tribal region's Tirah valley.
Both sides used heavy weapons in the clash which led to three deaths and two injuries.
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[Dawn] The services of Afghan cellphone companies are being used freely in Kohat region, mainly Hangu, and the adjoining tribal areas, where the local mobile companies have suspended their services to check contacts between cut-thoat groups.
It shows the helplessness of the authorities concerned to stop the illegal service and effectively cut off links between the hard boyz on either side of the Durand Line.
Sources said that the intelligence agencies had informed the federal government that there were about 40,000 SIMs of Afghanistan`s mobile phone services of Mubarik, Etisalat, Roshan, Afghan and MTN, which were being used in border areas on the Pak side.
The coverage of Pak areas had been launched recently by sixth BSIM cellphone service, they said.
"This problem of easy connectivity and availability of Afghan SIMs will have enormous repercussions on the fight against terror, economy of the country and patriotism of rustics," the sources said, quoting the intelligence report.
Strangely, the Afghan mobile services were also available in Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... of Kohat division, which was a settled area and only 100-km from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and 45-km from the regional headquarters of ISI, MI, IB, IXth division of army and seat of commissioner Kohat division.
According to the report, the signals of these services were clear in Mamozai and Dabori areas of upper Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... and 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, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... which were occupied by some of the prominent leaders of various factions of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain.
The sources said that certain Afghan Taliban based in Wazoo and Kurram areas were also using these phone services without any check.
The sources said that the government had suspended mobile phone services in these areas from the past several years to cut off links between the hard boyz in different parts of tribal areas on Pak soil and with that of Afghanistan through phone to check their use in the suicide kabooms and other terrorist activities.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the Afghan SIMs have been used freely in tribal areas though the call charges are high compared with those offered by Pak companies.
The sources said that the Afghan phone services were available in Kurram Agency of Kohat region while use of Afghan SIMs was rampant in Waziristan and other parts adjacent to the Durand line.
An official said that the rustics living on both sides of the border had dual nationalities and the elders known as maliks were drawing monthly stipends fixed for them in recognition of their loyalty to each country. Similarly, they used cars and foodstuff of Afghanistan.
He said that certainly the reason for growing use of Afghan phone services was the absence of Pak mobile service and poor telecommunication facilities offered in the tribal areas.
The sources said after the cellphone service was suspended in Darra Adamkhel last month the rustics appealed to the higher authorities and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... governor to restore the service, as this was creating problems for them besides affecting their business.
They said that several people had businesses in Punjab, Peshawar and Sindh and could not contact with the parties there due to the ban on cellphone use.
The Afghan mobile service was not available in Darra Adamkhel because of its long distance from the Durand Line.
It has also been learnt that the PTCL wireless service was working even across the border in Afghanistan due to its strong signals and lack of measures to block it.
When contacted, the PTCL officials, who requested anonymity, said that the technical system usually used for blocking transmission of signals across the border was not yet installed on the sensitive border between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... they said that the cross-border misuse of the wireless service could be effectively blocked with the installation of the system.
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[Dawn] MIRAMSHAH/ LANDI KOTAL: A man was killed and another injured when security forces opened fire on a cycle of violence at Easha checkpost, about 10 kilometres east of here on Friday.
Sources said that the security personnel manning the checkpost signalled the two men riding a cycle of violence to stop for checking, but they ignored the signal and tried to escape. The personnel opened fire, killing one of them on the spot, while the other one was injured, who was shifted to a nearby hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... a NATO container truck was partially damaged when a time device went off near Torkhum border, officials said on Friday. They said that the truck was parked at private terminal at the time of kaboom. Militants had planted a time device near the engine of the vehicle.
The khasadar personnel took the driver and the cleaner of the vehicle into custody after putting out the fire. Other vehicles parked nearby remained safe and were driven away after the blast. The incident also caused suspension of traffic at the border for some time.
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[Dawn] Expressing deep concern over killing of innocent people in Bloody Karachi, the Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has asked the government to take stern action against the killers and protect the lives of citizens.
In a statement issued here from the party`s headquarters on Friday, Mr Khan said the time had come to take decisive action against the terrorists, who were committing atrocities in Bloody Karachi, otherwise the situation would further worsen.
Without naming any political party, the blurb quoting the ANP chief said some elements were trying to exploit the situation in Bloody Karachi for their vested interests. He said 25 ANP workers had so far been killed during last three days in Bloody Karachi, which he said, `added of a new chapter in the history of nationalist party`s sacrifices for the country.`
Paying glowing tribute to those workers, he said their sacrifices would not go waste, adding, "ANP is following the philosophy of non-violence, which is our major weapon." He said Pakhtun nation had rendered great sacrifices in development of Bloody Karachi and they would not allow anybody to destabilise it.
The ANP chief hailed the government`s shoot at sight orders and demanded a full-fledge action to clean the Bloody Karachi of weapons and terrorists. He also demanded implementation on the report of a join investigation team. He asked the ANP workers to remain calm and peaceful.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... President, Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , Asad Qaiser on Friday alleged that Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and other ruling parties in Sindh government were involved in the mayhem in Bloody Karachi.
Speaking at a presser at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar press club, he said that it was the responsibility of the Pakistain People`s Party, Awami National Party and MQM to chalk out a strategy aimed at steering the Bloody Karachi out of the existing turmoil.
These political parties should avoid leg-pulling and blame game for the killing of innocent people in Bloody Karachi, he said. He termed the violence in the business hub as civil war where no one was safe while on the other hand the political parties were making all out efforts to hold onto this mega city through different tactics including murders, occupying lands and extortion money.
Mr Qaiser criticised the government for its failure to maintain law and order situation and protect the life, honour, and property of the people.
He also condemned the baton charge on the PTI workers in Peshawar a few days ago, saying police thrashed the workers on the directives of the Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour.
The presser was also attended by secretary information Sahid Hussain Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... , district Peshawar president Zaffar Khattak and Arshad advocate.
Mr Qaiser further said Town-I municipal officer and police were ordered by the minister to whitewash the walls decorated with the PTI colour and removed flags of the party hoisting on the homes of the party activists.
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[Dawn] The Taliban leadership in North Wazoo has reacted sharply to a recent kaboom on a convoy in the area, saying the US agents -- not the Talibs --had attacked the military personnel to achieve their own objectives.
Three security personnel were killed and 14 others injured on Tuesday when the convoy was attacked with an improvised bomb. Security forces, believing hard boyz holed up in a local hospital were behind the strike, demolished the facility on Wednesday.
On Friday, the Taliban Shura met at Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location. A one-page statement released after the meeting, which was presided over by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, said: "Mujahideen Shura of the North Waziristan gives last warning to those elements who carried out the improvised bomb attack and opened fire from main bazaar a few days ago. If these people don't stop their activities then action will be taken against them."
The Shura asked the Taliban and their supporters to kill those elements who were involved in criminal activities and said the Taliban would own responsibility for their action.
Gul Bahadur said that Mujahideen could never commit such acts, adding the US agents were involved in these activities to serve its interests.
He said the Taliban had never used bazaars and other public places for attacks and had no plan to do so in future.
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[Dawn] Wah was tense on Friday as police called in reinforcements from Rawalpindi after firing on a mosque in the cantonment area overnight that injured three people.
Police linked the shooting to a tussle between two groups to gain control of the mosque and said the injured, Mohammad Zeeshan, Mujeebur Rehman and Iqbal Ahmed, were lying in a hospital but were out of danger.
Wah Cantonment police named the men who allegedly fired on the mosque after Isha prayers on Thursday as Mohammad Sadeeq, Mohammad Zubair, and Sajjad Ahmed and have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against them. But the accused have not been tossed in the slammer yet.
Use of guns by one side in the tussle over the mosque created panic and unrest in the vicinity and a heavy contingent of police, along with Elite Force commandos was deployed to cordon off the area.
On Friday, riot police was also called from Rawalpindi to avert any further clash between the two groups. The situation remained tense but calm on Friday.
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Boring, I'm moving on to other articles, I ain't a gonna study wah no more.
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maybe Wah is not the answer
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(KUNA) -- Pak law-enforcement agencies (LEA) have reportedly re-jugged more than 20 former Guantanamo Bay prisoners and are interrogating them for their links with bully boy and religious groups, said sources on Saturday.
The law-enforcers have jugged about twenty-one such prisoners from different areas of northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, LEA sources told KUNA. When contacted interior ministry sources also confirmed the report. They said the former Gitmo prisoners were jugged after reports that they have re-established links with Death Eaters and religiously-extremist groups.
There were also some reports that they were involved in terrorist activities in the country, said sources, adding, they will also help trace hideouts of Al-Qaeda commanders and main leaders. Sources said that the juggedDeath Eaters are closely linked to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
The report of arrests came as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta ...former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, now SecDef. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... in Kabul said that Ayman Al-Zawahri, the new Al Qaeda chief, is living in Pakistain's bordering tribal belt.
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This ought to bump up the Gitmo recidivism another few percent. Has it hit 1/3 yet? Of course the see-hear-speak no evil Obama administration will not classify this as jihad-jihad.
An Islamic school teacher was murdered in a drive-by shooting by suspected terrorists militants. Prayat Chupetch, a 47-year-old teacher at private Islamic school was shot and killed while driving a motorcycle at 7:30 a.m. yesterday.
Prayat was heading to work at the school when he was followed by two men on another motorcycle. The pillion rider shot him twice in the head and they fled the scene.
The shooting took place about 100m from the school.Prayat was taken to a local hospital and underwent immediate surgery. He succumbed to the bullet wounds and was pronounced dead. Officials blamed the attack on terrorists insurgents.
Defectors of Syria's security forces have described receiving orders from their superiors to fire live rounds at protesters to disperse them, according to Human Rights Watch.
The New York-based rights body released a statement on Saturday detailing interviews with eight soldiers and four members of secret security agencies it said had defected to the opposition since anti-government protests erupted in March.
The interviewees said they had participated in the government crackdown in the Syrian cities of Deraa, Izraa, Baniyas, Homs, Jisr al-Shughur, Aleppo, and Damascus, the capital.
The soldiers also reported participating in and witnessing the shooting and wounding of dozens of protesters, and the arbitrary arrests and detentions of hundreds of civilians.
All the interviewees told HRW that their superiors had told them that they were fighting infiltrators, salafists, and terrorists, but were surprised to encounter unarmed protesters instead. They said they were ordered to fire on the civilians, including children, in a number of instances.
The defectors also reported that those who refused orders to shoot on protesters ran the risk of being shot themselves. One of them said they witnessed a military officer shoot and kill two soldiers in Deraa for rejecting orders.
Syria's government has not responded to the allegations.
Human Rights Watch interviewed the defectors in person in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan. Most of the interviewees gave testimony on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
"The testimony of these defectors provides further evidence that the killing of protesters was no accident but a result of a deliberate policy by senior figures in Syria to use deadly force to disperse protesters," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"Syrian soldiers and officials should know that they too have not just a right but a duty to refuse such unlawful orders, and that those who deliberately kill or injure peaceful protesters will be subject to prosecution."
"The accounts of soldiers who were horrified enough at their commanders' orders and deceit to flee should send a message to the UN and other countries that they need to do more to put a stop to these brutal attacks on civilians," Whitson said.
Syrian security forces have killed more than 1,400 people and detained 10,000 others since March, according to Syrian rights groups.
Member of Syria's secret police - Homs
One member of Syria's secret police - referred to locally as mukhabarat - told HRW he was deployed in Homs, Syria's third largest city, on April 19, to help security forces violently disperse tens of thousands of protesters staging a sit-in in the central Clock Tower Square.
"The protesters had sat down in the square. We were told to disperse them with violence if needed. We were there with air force security, army, and shabbiha (armed supporters of the government who do not belong to security forces). At around 3:30am, we got an order... to shoot at the protesters. We were shooting for more than half an hour."
"There were dozens and dozens of people killed and wounded. Thirty minutes later, earth diggers and fire trucks arrived. The diggers lifted the bodies and put them in a truck. I don't know where they took them. The wounded ended up at the military hospital in Homs. And then the fire trucks started cleaning the square."
Soldier of Presidential Guard - Damascus
A conscript who was a member of the Presidential Guard recounted how he was deployed on April 18 to Harasta, a suburb of Damascus, to quell a protest.
"They gave each one of us a Kalashnikov (rifle) with two magazines, and there was more ammunition in the vehicles. They also gave us electric tasers. They told us we were being sent to fight the gangs because security services needed reinforcement. We were surprised (when we got to Harasta) because we couldn't see any gangs, just civilians, including some women and children, in the street, and members of the mukhabarat firing at them.
"I was in a group with five other soldiers from my unit. We received clear orders to shoot at civilians from the Presidential Guard officers and from the 4th military battalion, although normally we don't get orders from other units.
"The exact orders were "load and shoot." There were no conditions, no prerequisites. We got closer to the demonstrators, and when we were some five metres away, the officers shouted "fire!" At that moment, the five of us defected and ran over to the demonstrators' side throwing our weapons to them while running away."
Sergeant Raqeeb Awwal - Al-Hara
Raqeeb Awwal, a first sergeant, who was posted in the southern town of al-Hara, near Deraa, described the orders his squad received when the army circled the town on May 10.
"Snipers were on rooftops. Their orders were, 'If anyone goes out on the street, detain or shoot'. I recall watching a guy go out to smoke outside and then being shot and killed by a sniper."
He also described the arrest campaign against protesters, including children, in the town.
"We surrounded the town for days. I saw how the snipers would shoot on anyone who went out of his house. Then we moved in. The mukhabarat who were with us had lists of people to arrest.
"They had details: this person tore a poster of the president or this person shouted "with excitement" at an anti-government protest. I saw many of those detained and some looked as young as 12.
"Six buses came and took the detained. We then gathered all the motorbikes in the town's centre, and a tank crushed them. We talked among ourselves about how some soldiers stole gold and money from houses. In one house, a colleague told me that they found one million Syrian pounds (around $20,000) and his commanding officer decided to confiscate the money saying it was being used to purchase weapons even though my colleague told me there was no such evidence.
He added that the army opened fire in the coastal town of Bayda on members of security services wearing civilian clothes because they mistook their identity. Other defectors reported that security services later dressed in army clothes to avoid such shootings.
Sniper - Izraa
A conscript trained as a sniper was deployed in Izraa, a town near Deraa, on April 25, three days after security forces had shot 28 protesters over two days, told HRW:
"I was in Squad 14 of the 4th Regiment. We were around 300 soldiers deployed to Izraa. I had heard so much about foreign armed groups that I was eager to fight them.
"But then [we received] the following orders: 'Don't shoot at the armed civilians (Syrian secret police). They are with us. Shoot at the people whom they shoot at'.
"We were all shocked after hearing his words, as we had imagined that the people were killed by foreign armed groups, not by the security forces. We realised that our orders were to shoot at our own people."
Soldier - Deraa
A soldier who was deployed for a month in Daraa before defecting on June 1, said:
"We received orders to kill protesters. Some military refused the orders and were shot with a handgun. Two were killed in front of me, by someone in the rank of lieutenant (muqaddam). I don't know his name. He said they were traitors."
Soldier of Special Forces - Baniyas and Markeb
A member of regiment 45 in the Special Forces, deployed in the coastal areas of Baniyas and Markeb, told HRW about the arrest campaign he witnessed in the village of Markeb:
"We had around 400 names of people whom we wanted to detain. We went to the village. Then a woman's protest came out refusing the entry of the army (we had not yet detained anyone) inside the village.
"We started going into homes. We would break into closed houses. We detained so many people. Some men tried to escape through a side road in a valley. But the army opened fire on those trying to escape. We brought those detained to the center of the village, stepping on them and insulting them.
"A security officer stood on a man, yelling "Who is your god? (Say) Bashar al-Asad." We had so many detainees in the area that we used the Banyas stadium as a detention facility."
The soldier also said that the security forces detained children.
"I saw the list of wanted individuals. So many were born in 1993, 1994, 1995. Mere teenagers," he said.
"We later entered Baniyas and also detained men and children. By the end of our first day in Baniyas, I asked an officer how many detainees we had taken that day; he said around 2,500 in Baniyas alone, all taken to the Baniyas stadium. People would get beaten in the bus on the way there and in the stadium as well."
Lieutenant - Damascus
A lieutenant in squad 14, posted in Damascus, described the briefing:
"Each morning we had guidance briefings. They would tell us there are gangs and infiltrators. They would show us pictures of dead soldiers and security forces."
Soldier - Damascus
Soldiers were reportedly not allowed to watch television in private to avoid any of them watching TV channels that aired anti-government information. Officers could watch television but only Syrian state television and Dunya TV, a pro-government channel owned by Rami Makhlouf, a cousin and close ally of President Bashar al-Asad.
A conscript doing his military service in Damascus said:
"Every night they used to summon us in a stadium-like place in the military barrack and make us watch Dunya TV from a big TV screen. It was all scenes from Deraa showing people killed by what they reported as foreign armed groups.
"Officers would repeatedly tell us that there is a 'foreign plot' going on in Deraa. Watching Dunya TV every night between 20:00 and 22:00, we had the firm belief that there is a foreign conspiracy against which we need to fight and protect our people."
Soldier of Special Missions Unit - Aleppo
A member of the Special Missions Unit, an elite unit under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry, described his unit's role in cracking down on university students in Aleppo:
"We were sent to the university dorms to arrest people, with a simple order: 'Go in and detain'.
"We must have detained more than 200 people in one day around late April and early May. We wanted to scare them and other students to prevent them from protesting again. Our job was to detain the students and take them to the branches of the mukhabarat, mostly Military Intelligence.
"We would beat people all the way to the bus. We didn't know what would happen to the detainees after we dropped them off with the mukhabarat."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[Al Jazeera] Muammar Qadaffy has threatened to take the war in Libya to Europe while rebels come under heavy fire as they renew their push against his forces.
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