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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Glynis Johns aka Mrs. Firth in "The Sundowners" aka Mrs. Banks in "Mary Poppins" aka Elsie in "While You Were Sleeping" aka Maid Jean in "The Court Jester" aka Rose Chasseur in "The Ref" aka Mrs. Squeezum in "Lock Up Your Daughters!" aka Amberlyn Griffith in "Papa's Delicate Condition" aka Clarissa Hailsham-Brown in "The Spider's Web" aka Marjorie Corder in "No Highway in the Sky" (age 88)
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Eohippus Phater7165 Hello !, Yes indeed, cash is king. That's why our government wants all of it.
Give us cards for all our purchases. Every transaction traceable. Keep you from eating restricted foods because you are overweight. An authorized permit for travel. If you can have children and how many or M/F. So you smoke. Then you can't have that operation. 50 years old? notice to visit glue factory. Sorry where was I. I seemed to have wandered off. I guess if they were successful then it would be serious. Achmed, practice makes perfect. Next time you might get lucky. Next time we'll dress like Mexicans. Then they got to let us in. Hey it works in the states.
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IIUC ARTIC > IOW, in lieu of any major improvements occurring in the US economy between now + 2012 POTUS Elex, ANY BAMMER EFFORT TO COMPENSATE OR "LEVERAGE" Re-ELECTION ODDS VEE SURGICAL KILLING OF TOP = HIGH-PROFILE MILTERR LEADERS BEARS THE RISK OF VIOLENT MILTERR RETALIATION AGZ HIS OWN PERSON + US GOVT.
NATO-led forces fighting in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that an airstrike had killed a senior commander of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network and two of his associates in eastern Khost province, near the Pakistan border.
Dilawar, who was only known by one name, was a "principal subordinate" to Haji Mali Khan, who NATO captured last week and said at the time was the top Haqqani commander for Afghanistan.
Dilawar's death is "another significant loss for the insurgent group," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement that described his responsibilities as including coordinating attacks on Afghan forces and arranging weapons deliveries.
NATO also said that Dilawar helped foreign militants move into Afghanistan and had links with both al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
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Signals : Cheers From Somalia ! Niger : Should Be Good Listen ! Goodbye , Charlie ! Hate To See You , GO !! Goodbye , Charlie ! Hate To See You , Go ! Goodbye , Charlie ! Hate To See You , GO ! BLIMEY ! Charlie !!
Six people have been arrested after an alleged plot to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai was foiled, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
"The Afghan intelligence agency has arrested a group of six people in connection with an assassination plot against the life of the president," interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said.
The news comes following a string of assassinations of key Karzai allies.
On September 20, peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a turban suicide bomber at his Kabul home, throwing into turmoil Karzai's strategy for trying to talk peace to the Taliban.
The Taliban have not claimed responsibility for the attack but Afghan officials claim it was carried out by a Pakistani and have accused Pakistan of refusing to cooperate in the probe into his death, a charge denied by Islamabad.
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This is the latest tactic by the other nations fighting piracy. The Russians apparently do it one batter. They release the pirates and leave them a "gift" with a short fuse.
Not sure we're doing much of this. OTOH, we are doing drone attacks and helo raids.
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Und wenn du auch gehst bis ans bis ende der Welt
wird dir von uns dein Weg verstellt.
Die Menschheit betrügt damit ist es vorbei,
wir brechen dem Löwen die Kiele entzwei
Nun hört in den weiten der Ruf ist so groß
wenn der Ruf erschallt TorpedoLos!
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Seif al-Islam, the best-known son of fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... , is leading the final stand of loyalists in Bani Walid against NTC forces, a commander with the new regime said Tuesday.
The town some 170 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Tripoli and Qadaffy's coastal hometown of Sirte on the coast to the northeast are the two final strongholds resisting assault by National Transitional Council forces.
"We captured a general from the pro-Qadaffy brigades, and he said Seif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and directing military operations there," an NTC commander, Adel Benyur, told journalists.
The country's new rulers have been trying for weeks to take Sirte and Bani Walid, where NTC fighters have been unable to progress further than the outskirts of the vast desert oasis despite nearly a month of combat.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... an offensive on Bani Walid is imminent, Benyur said.
"Most of the town's inhabitants have left, and that will make it easier for us to attack in the next two days," he said.
Seif al-Islam, at one time widely viewed as Qadaffy's heir-apparent, had presented himself as a reformer who wanted to make Libya more open, before showing his true colours after the uprising broke out in February.
On June 27, the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... issued a war crimes arrest warrant for Qadaffy, Seif al-Islam and the former head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, for murder and persecution in the bloody uprising.
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Gaddafi Has Been Hidden In Subha : Sub-Commander And Tells Of Falling Numbers And SA- 7 Missiles Heat Seeking : 10,000 Missiles Destroyed ! Then again , Shoulder Packed , Stinger Missile , Has Been Sold Outside ! Fat Chance , Low Orbit Satellites Watching , Gaddaf ! Gaddafi : Remote : Dream Sell : TERRORISM ! FAT CHANCE ! GADDAF ! SURRENDER : DUDE !! ALL : BENEFIT : LIBYA - WITHOUT GADDAF - PROSPERITY FOR : ALL - LIBYA !! GET HEEM , MAHMOUD al NASSAR !!
[Al Arabiya] The Specialist Penal Court of Riyadh resumed on Monday the trial of a terrorist cell comprising 16 Saudis and one Yemeni after the Court of Appeals dismissed the preliminary verdict in the case.
Members of the cell are facing several charges, all related to terrorism. The first of the charges leveled against the cell, and which amount to around 97 charges, is its affiliation to al-Qaeda and following direct instructions from the group's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Second in command of al-Qaeda, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... ; it is also charged for links to al-Qaeda's affiliates in Syria.
According to the official front man of the Saudi Ministry of Justice, Abdullah al-Saadan, the prosecution directed several charges at the defendants, including planning a series of terrorist attacks inside Soddy Arabia and targeting oil wells with mortars.
They are also charged with planning to assassinate a prominent Shiite holy man with the aim of creating sectarian sedition in the country and distracting the authorities from the hunt for al-Qaeda operatives.
The accused, according to court records, were planning to kill the holy man, who is from the eastern province, by firing on his car or by poisoning him with cyanide. Members of the cell were reportedly brainwashed by an al-Qaeda operative in Syria, Abu Walid, who convinced them that the holy man supports Shiite militias in Iraq who are using violence against Sunnis.
Members of the group were also accused of planning to set up a training camp at which recruits were taught how to use hand grenades and other weapons. They were also charged with forming an army and recruiting youth and taking them to Iraq to take part in operations carried out by the Islamic Army in that country.
Another charge relates to covering up for a man who was prepared to sell chemical substances to al-Qaeda and who headed a cell that collected money to fund terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq. This charge was specifically leveled at defendant number one.
Defendant number two is accused of collecting 1.1 million riyals ($293,000) from supporters of al-Qaeda; the funds were to be sent to Syria. He is believed to have collaborated with Yemeni gangs involved in the sale and trafficking of weapons to Soddy Arabia, from whom he brought arms and weapons for use in the kingdom. He was also planning to travel to Sudan with two al-Qaeda operatives to receive training.
The defendants are also accused of funding a TV channel that incites violence and promotes terrorist activities, and were charged with the illegal possession of weapons, most of which were purchased from Yemen.
The court session was attended by lawyers representing several of the defendants; some of the defendants chose to represent themselves. A representative of the Human Rights Association was also in court, but members of the press were not allowed to attend the proceedings.
The court presented defendants number four, five, 15, and 16 with their documented confessions, which, barring a few exceptions, they acknowledged. Another session is expected to be held shortly at which the judge will listen to the defense of all 17 members of the cell.
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[Dawn] A Bahraini court on Tuesday incarcerated 26 Shia's for lengthy terms in three cases involving the alleged kidnapping of coppers and calls to overthrow the regime during a month of protests, the chief military prosecutor said.
The National Safety Court, set up specially by the Sunni-ruled kingdom after Shia-led pro-reform protests were crushed in March, sentenced nine defendants to 15 years for allegedly kidnapping policeman Mohammed Falah.
The nine had used "force against him and threatened him with serious harm," said the prosecutor, Colonel Yusof Fleifal, as quoted by the official BNA news agency.
Among those listed was holy man Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, who was also convicted of inciting attacks on coppers in sermons delivered at Pearl Square, the focal point of the protests against the Al-Khalifa dynasty.
The same court acquitted three others, BNA said, while another was referred to a civil court.
In another case, four defendants, including Muqdad, were incarcerated for 10 years after being found guilty of kidnapping policeman Saifullah Ibrahim and taking him to Pearl Square, "parading him in front of people gathering there and then to Salmaniya Medical Complex to incarcerate him," BNA said.
Some of the defendants also took part in "gatherings held with the intent of committing crimes and disturbing security," it added.
In the third case, six defendants were incarcerated for 10 years and eight others to five years on charges including "calling to overthrow the political system using force and illegal means" as well as "holding assemblies and illegal demonstrations... and going on strike."
They were also guilty of "spreading false news" through different means including "falsifying images and providing them to satellite channels," it said.
The verdicts were issued a day after 36 other Shia's were incarcerated up to 25 years in cases related to the month-long protest which was quashed in mid-March and followed by a wave of arrests of Shia's.
They also come after lengthy jail sentences were meted out against 20 medics for charges including attempting to overthrow the regime, in.
All defendants would be able to appeal their sentences at a civil court, the prosecutor said, in line with a pledge by King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... The National Safety Court has a mixed military and civil panel.
Scores of Shia's were also been tried in the quasi-military court, including at least five sentenced to death for killing coppers.
Authorities said in May that 405 detainees had been referred to courts, while 312 were released.
[Al Arabiya] Mortar fire killed two Yemenis and maimed six in Sanaa on Tuesday in what appeared to be fresh fighting in the capital between soldiers loyal to President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... and forces siding with anti-government protesters.
Elsewhere, a Yemeni air strike in the south killed at least 10 Islamist bully boys, while three others died in a clash, along with a soldier, a local official and residents said.
A doctor said the Sana'a victims, all civilians, had been hit by a mortar round that landed in a market on Hayel street in a district contested by government troops and those of a rebel general, Ali Mohsen, a former Saleh ally.
Residents further down Hayel street heard an exchange of gunfire but it was not clear whether that was a separate clash.
Violence has been sporadic since Saleh's surprise return to Yemen from Soddy Arabia 10 days ago, but tension remains high in the impoverished country, which is awash with guns.
Tensions boiled over in Sana'a last month when political deadlock gave way to a military showdown between Saleh loyalists and Mohsen's forces. More than 100 people died in the fighting ─ most of them protesters caught in the middle.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis have so far failed.
The upheaval is fanning international fears that weakening government control may help al-Qaeda's local wing expand its foothold in Yemen, which borders oil giant Soddy Arabia and lies near shipping routes through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.
The army is fighting to regain territory lost to hard boyz in the south, notably in Abyan province, where Islamist fighters control the city of Jaar and other locations.
The 10 hard boyz were killed in one of two air force raids in the Jaar area, residents and a local official said, adding that three more hard boyz and a soldier were killed in a shootout in Abyan's placid provincial capital of Zinjibar, which the government said it had recaptured from Islamists last month.
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A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear made a defiant political outburst Tuesday, demonstrating again why his courtroom behavior will be closely watched throughout the trial where he's representing himself. Ah. Acting as his own lawyer? Enjoy Florence, asshole...
"The mujahadeen will wipe out the U.S. the cancer U.S.," said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, scowling as he referred to Muslim guerrilla fighters. When marshals removed his handcuffs, he also claimed that a radical Muslim cleric killed last week by the American military is still alive. "Anwar is alive," Abdulmutallab said, referring to American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in an air strike in Yemen just days ago.
Abdulmutallab, a well-educated man from a wealthy African family, has spent two years in custody and rarely causes a ripple in court. But Tuesday's outburst was his second in two weeks.
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I know they've fallen out of fashion, but electrical shock belts for unruly defendants did much to improve courtroom decorum for a while.
I gather the trouble was that each belt had several remote controls, any of which could zap the defendant a good one, but you couldn't tell which one did it, the judge's, the prosecutor's, the defense counsel's, or the bailiff's.
Or perhaps the grinning electronic technician who had hacked the frequency, sitting there with a big grin in the gallery, after having sold several transmitters to family members of the victims.
In all seriousness, this video the prosecution wants to show has me a bit confused. I mean, why such lenghts for what should be an open/shut case? Can the prosecution not convey in words what happens to in-flight airplanes when a bomb goes off? Does it set a precedent for future theory-based video as evidence and how subjective is that potential going to be allowed to explore?
[Dawn] The judge who sentenced to death the killer of liberal Pak politician Salman Taseer on Tuesday failed to show up at work and may be transferred after his courtroom was ransacked, lawyers said.
Judge Pervez Ali Shah on Saturday convicted police bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri over the January 4 liquidation that exposed huge faultlines in Pakistain.
Qadri said he killed Taseer over the politician's opposition to blasphemy laws which sentence to death those convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.
Qadri's actions made him a hero in the eyes of religious thugs.
On Monday, dozens of furious lawyers ransacked Shah's courtroom, smashing windows to protest against the judgement.
"After yesterday's protest and the attack on his office, the judge is not attending his office," Malik Khalid Jawad, president of the district bar association in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, told AFP.
Asked about media reports that Shah has gone on indefinite leave, Khalid said: "What I know is that he is not coming to his office. The bar has also requested his transfer because it can create a law and order situation."
Lawyer Farooq Sulehria confirmed Monday's attack and said lawyers would boycott Shah's court because of the "unacceptable" sentencing.
Shah heard the Qadri case behind closed doors in the high-security Adiyala prison, largely in order to protect proceedings from protests and attacks.
The religious right holds increasing sway in Pakistain and the government says it has no intention of reforming the controversial 1986 blasphemy law.
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Eight Paks working for a US charity have been released following a two-month kidnap ordeal near the Afghan border, one of their colleagues said Tuesday.
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) workers were kidnapped on July 18 in Pishin district, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
It is understood the hostages were held in South Wazoo, part of Pakistain's lawless tribal belt that Washington considers a headquarters of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighting US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
"Our eight colleagues who were kidnapped in July have been released," Muhammad Shafique, ARC's provincial coordinator told AFP. "They are safe and sound." Shafique said that the workers had "reached" the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, seen as a gateway to the tribal belt, on Tuesday and were expected back in Quetta within a few days.
When asked who seized the group and whether a ransom was paid, he said he had no details.
According to its website, ARC has been working in Afghan refugee camps near Quetta since 2002, providing health care to 101,000 Afghans, and has helped 156,000 people affected by flooding in Pakistain.
Kidnappings blamed on criminal groups and Death Eaters plague Balochistan and northwest Pakistain, where hostages snatched by common criminals can be sold on to Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked groups.
But while anti-Americanism is rife in the country, abductions of Westerners are rare.
In August, an American development consultant was kidnapped from his home in the eastern city of Lahore just days before he was due to return to the United States.
Police say so far they have drawn a blank on the whereabouts of 70-year-old Warren Weinstein or the identities of his abductors.
Diplomatic relations between Pakistain and the United States have been severely compromised this year by the American raid killing the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... on May 2 and Pakistain's detention of a CIA contractor over double murder charges.
On July 1, a Swiss couple were also kidnapped in Balochistan after driving into Pakistain from India on holiday, possibly en route to Iran.
Balochistan, which borders both Afghanistan and Iran, has seen a recent surge in violence, linked to a separatist insurgency, sectarian violence and Talibs.
Local rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
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[Dawn] Eight gunnies were killed and three injured in a clash with security forces in Dabori area 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... on Monday, sources said.
They said that a group of gunnies attacked a checkpost in Arhang area of Dabori and injured a security man. Security forces, backed by tanks and artillery, retaliated with full forces, they added.
Sources said that eight gunnies were killed and three maimed in the retaliatory action. "Security forces have been facing stiff resistance from gunnies in Arhang and Zakhtun areas of Dabori for the last few days," they added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a minor girl was killed when a hand grenade went kaboom! in her hands in Lachi tehsil of Kohat district on Monday.
Fanyaza Bibi, 12, was grazing cattle near her house in Malgeen village when she found the grenade. The grenade went kaboom! and injured her seriously when she was playing with it. She was taken to a hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.
The Lachi cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else on the complaint of the mother of the victim and launched investigation.
The bomb disposal squad also defused a rocket shell in the old bus stand area of Kohat city. The bomb disposal squad successfully defused the RPG-7 rocket, placed by unidentified persons in the busy area.
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[Dawn] The United States on Tuesday put the alleged leader of al Qaeda in Iraq on its special anti-terror blacklist and placed a dollar 10 million bounty on his head.
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, also known as Abu Du'a, was added to a US list of "specially designated global terrorists" for his role as a top leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the State Department said.
"This designation plays a critical role in our fight against terrorism and is an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to abandon terrorism," a statement said.
In a statement after the death earlier this year of al Qaeda criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... , Abu Du'a threatened violent retaliation, and grabbed credit for attacks that have left scores of people dead and maimed in Iraq.
The US government said Abu Du'a is responsible for managing and directing large scale terror operations in Iraq, including an August 28, 2011 attack on the Umm al-Qura mosque in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... which killed prominent Sunni politician Khalid al-Fahdawi.
He has vowed to commit many more acts of mass violence, US officials said, including raids, suicide kabooms, roadside kabooms and small arms attacks in all cities and rural areas across Iraq.
The State Department action includes a prohibition against knowingly providing material support or resources to, or engaging in other transactions with him. It also freezes of any property or interests in property in the United States.
The US government also is offering a dollar 10 million reward for information that leads to Abu Du'a's capture.
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Is there a back log? Wouldn't he be on it already?
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When was Mr. Abu Du'a promoted to his present position? If it was only recently, it's not a surprise we're behind in listing him -- there's been so much turnover among middle and upper level managers in the past six years...
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
In a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."
And that will definitely be the end of your pathetic regime.
(AFP) -- A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected 'price tag' attack as village residents clashed with police on Monday, a front man said.
A number of suspects entered the mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria and set fire to it, causing heavy damage to the carpets and walls, police front man Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP. On the outside of the mosque were scrawled the words "price tag" and "Dire Revenge™" in Hebrew, Rosenfeld said.
Jamal Zangriya, a resident of the village, told Israel Radio: "We believe gunnies from outside the village did it," blaming rabbis from the nearby town of Safed for incitement against Arabs, which he said may have led to the incident.
They also wrote the word "Palmer," in an apparent reference to Asher Palmer, an Israeli settler who died with his infant son in the southern West Bank on September 23 after his car was hit by stones thrown by Paleostinians, causing it to crash.
Paleostinian member of the Israeli Knesset Ahmad Tibi condemned the arson attack and "racist" graffiti sprayed on mosque walls. "This group is not 'price tag,' as it is called, but rather a terrorist Jewish organization which practices whatever it wishes fearing no deterrence," he said in a statement. "This dangerous deterioration must be stopped, and we hold the right wing, Death Eater, racist Israeli government responsible for that, and the police are responsible for getting to the perpetrators of this deed."
Police front man Mickey Rosenfeld told Ma'an that around 200 people from the Tuba Zangaria village marched towards the town of Rosh Pina after the arson attack. Tear gas was fired to disperse villagers after stones were thrown at police, Rosenfeld said. Security has been heightened in the north to prevent any "deterioration" in the situation and police are talking to local leaders to calm the situation, he added.
Hardline Jewish settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy under which they attack Paleostinians and their property in response to Israeli government measures against settlements.
Northern District Police Commander Roni Attia set up a special investigation team to deal with the incident. "This is a very severe price tag incident," police quoted Attia as saying. He called on residents of the area to preserve public order and allow the police to investigate the incident without disturbances.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack, saying such incidences "do not belong in the state of Israel."
In June, a mosque in al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah was torched and sprayed with anti-Arab graffiti. In a similar incident, settlers broke into al-Nurayn mosque in Qusra, south of Nablus in September, smashing windows before setting fire to used tires inside the building, locals told a Ma'an correspondent. Settler-related incidents resulting in Paleostinian injuries and damage to property are up more than 50 percent this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which documents violence in the Paleostinian territories.
Yes, yes, but we know from experience that U.N. people find math hard. Are there any incidents other than the three mentioned here?
Almost all "price tag" attacks occur in the occupied West Bank, but last year an incident took place in the Paleostinian-Israeli village of Iblin, also in the northern Galilee region.
Around twenty percent, or 1.3 million people, of Israel's population are of Paleostinian origin. They are largely the descendants of Paleostinians that managed to remain during the 1948 war,
An interesting statement. Who are the one's who do not fall under that largely?
when an estimated 700,000 were expelled from or decamped their homes during fighting that would see the establishment of the state of Israel.
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Thanks for the photo, Fat Bob. The fellow with the bullhorn sports a white towel and fishnet coffiture, with open towel areas surrounding the head to allow residual hatred to flow out - quite intimidating. The gentleman to his right hasn't got the meringue pie look quite right, possibly due to an earlier head injury.
An explosives device was set off near IDF soldiers on Tuesday who were carrying out a routine operation next to the security barrier in northern Gazoo, according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit. No injuries were reported.
In light of the incident, the IDF, with the help of IAF planes, searched the area and found four other devices that had been placed along the border. These bombs were neutralized by security forces.
Philippine police have arrested in Sulu province a bandit suspected of being involved in the beheading of seven workers and kidnapping of Red Cross volunteers in 2010.
A Philippine National Police spokesperson said Adzhar Patta Mawalil alias Ajang Nedz Mawalil was arrested by police teams in Barangay San Raymundo in Jolo town at around 5 p.m. yesterday.
He said that Mawalil is a member of an Abu Sayyaf sub-group formerly headed by Albader Parad. He said the suspect is involved in the beheading of seven laborers, the kidnapping of three Red Cross volunteers, and several military atrocities in 2010.
[An Nahar] Two Syrian tanks infiltrated Lebanese territories in the Bekaa on Tuesday where they fired at an abandoned factory, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the tanks entered the Arsal region in the Bekaa in eastern Leb and fired at the abandoned battery factory, believing that armed individuals were hiding in the building.
No injuries were reported.
On September 15, a unit from the Syrian army accidentally fired at the Lebanese army when the former infiltrated northern Leb.
A 15-member unit from the Syrian army entered Leb near the northern town of al-Mwanseh as it was following shepherds along the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The Lebanese army soon arrived at the scene to inspect the affair.
The Syrian unit then accidentally fired at the army after it had mistaken its identity.
The situation returned to normality after contacts were made to clarify the incident.
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OOH, where's The Resistance? It's their annual two week vacation?
[Al Arabiya] Leader of the so-called Syrian Free Army, Col. Riyadh al-Asaad, denied to Al Arabiya the media reports about his arrest by Syrian government forces.
Syrian forces hunted protesters in the central region of Homs as they sought to crush armed resistance that is emerging after six months of protests 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... 's rule, Rooters reported.
Monday's crackdown came a day after Syrian opposition groups met in Istanbul and urged international action to stop what they called indiscriminate killings of civilians by the authorities.
The United States welcomed the development, saying it was encouraged by the opposition's statements supporting non-violence, and blamed the mounting corpse count on the Syrian authorities.
Local activists said a military operation on Monday focused on Talbiseh near Homs, 150 km (94 miles) north of 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... , after security forces entered the nearby town of Rastan, which lies on the highway between the capital and the northern city of 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... Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... the defected Khalid Ibn al-Walid battalion said that it has withdrawn from Rastan for the sake of protecting civilian lives.
Battling protesters and army deserters
For about a week, tank- and helicopter-backed troops have battled protesters and army deserters in Rastan, in the most sustained fighting since Syria's uprising began in March. The official Syrian news agency ... and if you can't believe the Official Syrian News Agency who can you believe? said on Saturday government forces had regained control of the town.
"Tank fire targeted Talbiseh this morning and communications remain cut. The town was key in supplying Rastan and now it is being punished for that," one activist said. "House to house arrests are continuing in the area for the second day."
Armed protesters, mostly in the central Homs region and the northwestern province of Idlib, have been so far outgunned.
Activists said dozens of villagers had been locked away in Talbiseh in the past 48 hours and there were deaths and casualties from the raids.
Information also was scarce from Rastan, which has been sealed off since tanks moved in at the weekend. Activists said hundreds of people were believed to have been locked away and held in schools and factories in the town.
Activists told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Syrian troops, going house to house, have jugged more than 3,000 people in the past three days in Rastan, which saw some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising recently.
The activist group Local Coordination Committees said fighting in the town has now stopped after the military operation that left dozens dead. The group and a Rastan-based activist confirmed about 3,000 in the town of 70,000 had been jugged. The activist told AP by telephone that the detainees are being held at a cement factory, as well as some schools and the Sports Club, a massive, four-story compound.
"Ten of my relatives have been jugged," said the activist, who asked that he be identified only by his first name Hassan for fear of retaliation. He said he was speaking from hiding in Rastan.
Events on the ground are difficult to verify as the authorities have expelled independent journalists from the country or banned them from working, although some foreign news hounds have been allowed to visit.
While some Assad opponents have taken up arms, others are still staging demonstrations against his 11-year rule. Night protests erupted on Sunday in several districts of Homs, where a crowd in the Khalidiya district shouted, "Homs is free."
Assad, 46, who succeeded his father in 2000, blames the violence on foreign-backed armed gangs. His officials say 700 police and soldiers have died, as well as 700 "mutineers."
Surge in sectarian killings
A surge in sectarian killings has heightened tensions in the city. The state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? "armed terrorist groups" killed five people there on Monday. Residents said two bodies had turned up in the city's Sunni Qarabid neighborhood.
Homs has a mixed population, with a few Alawite neighborhoods inhabited by members of Assad's minority sect, alongside others populated by majority Sunni Mohammedans.
Underlining the turn towards violence, the authorities said Sariya Hassoun, the son of Mufti Ahmad Hassoun, Syria's state-appointed top holy man, was assassinated in Idlib on Sunday.
It was the first attack on the state-backed Sunni clergy who have backed Assad for decades, despite widespread Sunni resentment at Alawite dominance.
As Syria's struggle has grown bloodier, claiming at least 2,700 lives so far, according to a U.N. count, demonstrators have begun to demand some form of international protection that stops short of Libya-style Western military intervention.
A statement issued in Istanbul on Sunday by a newly formed opposition National Council rejected intervention that "compromises Syria's illusory sovereignty," but said the outside world had a humanitarian obligation to protect the Syrian people.
"The Council demands that international governments and organizations meet their responsibility to support the Syrian people, protect them and stop the crimes and gross human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations being committed by the current illegitimate regime."
The council said the uprising must remain peaceful but that military assaults, torture and mass arrests were driving Syria "to the edge of civil war and inviting foreign interference."
It also said the Moslem Brüderbund, the Damascus Declaration -- which groups established opposition figures -- and grassroots activists had all joined the Council.
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