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Linda Christian (Mexico) aka Bianca Milan in "The Devil's Hand" aka Miriam Marshall in "The V.I.P.s" aka Mignonette Chappuis in "The Happy Time" aka Linda, American woman in "The Moment of Truth" aka Madre Martha in "The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall" aka Eva in "Passport for a Corpse" aka Grace McNaughty in "Meet Peter Voss" aka Mara in "Tarzan and the Mermaids" (Died in 2011 at age 87)
[Dawn] Six non-combatants were killed by a roadside kaboom in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, a local official said, the latest innocent victims to die despite a Taliban call to limit their deaths.
"A roadside kaboom hit a civilian car in Alingar district of Laghman province, killing six people including one woman," said Laghman provincial front man Faizanullah Patan.
The bombing, which took place at about 10am (0530 GMT), was confirmed by interior ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi in Kabul, who said that four civilians had been killed.
Laghman province is located in volatile eastern Afghanistan towards the border with Pakistain, where Death Eaters have hideouts.
It has long been troubled by bad turbans, particularly by the Hezb-e-Islami faction led by former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... .
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The Forward Air Controllers' hotline is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. If you wish to schedule an air strike you can use fac@nato.org to call in an airstrike.
Remember to have map coordinates, ordnance type to be used and the type of target. Further delays may entail consulting with our legal department before a mission may begin.
[Tripoli Post] Niger has literally slammed the door on efforts by the National Transitional Council of Libya to try Saadi Al Qadaffy by granting the former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy's ... who is now deader than a rock...
son, asylum for what it says, are humanitarian reasons.
How much does humanitarian cost in that part of the the world?
The announcement was made Friday by Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, who went on to say that Saadi's brother Seif al-Islam, who faces charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the crackdown against Libyan protests is not in the country. The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... is seeking Seif's capture through Interpol.
"We have agreed on granting asylum on Saadi Al Qadaffy for humanitarian reasons," Issoufou told a a news conference in Pretoria at the end of a two-day visit to South Africa.
Referring to Seif al-Islam, he said that Al Qadaffy's second eldest son is not in Niger. "I would have to consider what to do if he comes," he said.
He maintained: "We will deal with issues in terms of law and democracy and international agreements."
The 38-year-old Saadi decamped Libya across its southern frontier to Niger in August during the fall of the Libyan capital, Tripoli that ended his authoritarian father's 42-year regime.
Libya's National Transitional Council the interim leadership of the country wants Saadi Al Qadaffy to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed while heading the country's football federation.
In September, Niger's prime minister Brigi Rafini that there was "no question" of extraditing Saadi, at least until he could be assured of a fair trial in Libya.
Earlier, the global police agency Interpol had issued a notice warning its member states, which include Niger, that Libya is seeking Saadi's arrest for his alleged crimes.
Niger's decision is expected to strain further already difficult relations with the new leaders of Libya who had been expecting its neighbour to abide by the rules and hand Saadi for trial in Libya.
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Referring to Seif al-Islam, he said that Al Qadaffy's second eldest son is not in Niger. "I would have to consider what to do if he comessee how much he is willing to pay," he said.
JEDDAH: A terror cell planning attacks against the Saudi Embassy, the King Fahd Causeway and other vital installations in Bahrain has been broken up, a Bahraini Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
Four members of the cell were detained in Qatar and turned over to Manama, while a fifth Bahraini was arrested inside the country, said Gen. Tareq Al-Hasan.
The alleged targets also included the Bahraini Interior Ministry and other individuals. Al-Hasan said the four arrested in Qatar had been traveling by car from Saudi Arabia. Security officers at a checkpoint seized "documents and a computer containing information of a security nature (and) details on certain vital sites." They were also carrying US dollars and Iranian rials.
The four confessed that they had left Bahrain illegally at the instigation of others and gone to Iran to form an "organization to commit armed terrorist acts in Bahrain," the spokesman said. The four, who were sent back to Manama on Nov. 4, named a fifth accomplice, who was subsequently arrested, and the five have been turned over to the judicial authorities.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two members of an alleged pirate gang were killed in a three-hour-long shootout with law enforcers yesterday at the Sundarbans under Dacop upazila in Khulna. But not just any law enforcers... Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6), West Wing of the Coast Guard and East Wing of the Forest Guard conducted the operation in Vedkhali Canal area of Nishankhali around 10:00 am. "Sergeant Chaudray! Have the recruits ready for a daylight mission!"
"Yessir, but don't we usually work at 0 dark 300?"
"We want to blood them before sending them out on real missions."
They also recovered 15 firearms including shooter-gun and rifles, 18 mobile phones and a binocular from the spot, according to officials of the law enforcement agencies. 'Shooter-guns'? A new weapons category in the RAB mix?
The singular of binoculars is monocular. Either way, it seems to be a special pirating item, as neither has been mentioned following land-based miscreant encounters.
They claimed that Mannan, 30, and Masud, 38, the alleged associates of infamous pirate Waliur Rahman Razu, Never heard of him...
But he's got three names, so he must be important.
were caught in the line of fire during the firefight. "Now see here, Private, you stand Mannan at the back of the truck just like this..."
"Yes Sergeant"
"And them you shoot him like this behind the ear..." [POP] [thud] [bounce]
"Yes Sergeant"
"And he lands on the pavement off the back of the truck like so. Got that?"
"Yes Sergeant. Sergeant, do we always shoot them in the line of fire in a banana grove?"
[Sigh] "Not always in a banana grove, Private."
Around 25 armed members of Razu group managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... unhurt.
How is it known they were unhurt, if they were never seen?
The law enforcers later discovered a den in the forest and recovered the weapons and ammunition from the place. "Sergeant! Sergeant! They have a secret lair!"
"Yes, Private, how about that."
In a blurb Rab claimed the gang used to abduct fishermen with trawlers and collect ransom. The ring also collects toll from shrimp cultivators of the Sundarbans and its adjacent areas.
The gang was preparing to collect tolls from the fishermen and boatmen who came to attend the 'Rash Mela', a traditional religious festival of the Hindus in Dublarchar area. Detectives of the security agencies collected information in the guise of devotees, the statement added. Very sneaky and cost effective, too. No CI fees, no springing of the CI's latest squeeze...
Coast Guard official Lt Hasanuzzaman said sensing presence of the law enforcers the pirates opened fire that triggered the shootout.
Let us pause for a moment to admire that seriously efficient sentence.
He added that about 1,000 bullets were exchanged during the fight. Wow. 300 rounds per hour. I'm impressed. No tea or bathroom break for the miscreants this time.
They found the bodies after the pirates had decamped the scene. "Sergeant, they're right where we left them! Both of them!"
Deputy Forest Officer Jahir Uddin confirmed the incident saying they also jugged a pirate from the spot but failed to ascertain his identity immediately.
Law enforcers were hunting for the gang leader Waliur Rahman Razu and his abettors. "Sergeant, we'll never find them sitting inside this bar!"
"Of course not, Private. You have a lot to learn."
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What a great story, Razu's Raiders!
Might be Shutter guns Fred.
[Dawn] Five people, including an apparent jacket wallah, were killed on Saturday in a combined shooting and kaboom in the southern Kazakh city of Taraz, the Interfax news agency reported.
An unknown individual attacked a weapons shop, stealing two Saiga rifles and killing a security guard, the interior ministry said in a statement quoted by the agency.
He then beat feet in a vehicle, shooting dead two coppers on his way.
When finally apprehended, the gunman detonated his charge, killing himself and a traffic policeman.
"After being incarcerated, the maimed criminal went kaboom!" and as a result a member of the traffic police was killed," the interior ministry said.
Kazakhstan, which this month passed a new law tightening control over religious organizations, has seen an unprecedented spate of small-scale attacks over the last year blamed on religious jihad boys.
The attack comes after a suspected jihad boy accidentally went kaboom!" in the western Kazakh city of Atyrau on the Caspian Sea on October 31.
A group Jund al-Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate) said it was behind that incident and another blast that took place on the same day in Atyrau.
Kazakh prosecutors last week confirmed that the group was to blame for the Atyrau kabooms and warned that its members wanted to "unleash jihad on the territory of Kazakhstan".
Such unrest has until recently been highly unusual in majority Moslem but secular Kazakhstan, which under strongman leader Nursultan Nazarbayev ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around... has earned a reputation as by far the most stable country in Central Asia.
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[Dawn] Miscreants destroyed over a dozen CD shops in Swabi and Miramshah early on Friday.
Swabi police said two CD shops were completely destroyed and three partially after an bombdestroyed a market of Yar Hussain area.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... no damage to human life was reported in the kaboom.
Soon after the kaboom, police reached the market, cordoned off the area, collected evidence and recorded statements of shopkeepers and passersby.
They later started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified myrmidons before launching a hunt for them. No arrest could be made until Friday night, however. No group grabbed credit for the attack.
As for Miramshah incident, unidentified people torched 12 CD shops in the main bazaar before fleeing in the small hours of Friday.
Owners of the torched shops said they had long been receiving threats from myrmidons, who wanted early closure of the `un-Islamic business`.
Many CD shops had been blown up by myrmidons in Miramshah city in the past.
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Clearly they're innocent as long as it was Rap CDS being destroyed.
[Dawn] A bomb went kaboom! at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistain, killing one officer and wounding two others, police said.
Local police officer Zahir Shah said the bomb went off at a barricade outside a mud-brick police post on Saturday in the town of Shabqadar, which lies close to the 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 Beautiful Downtown 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... tribal region.
The area is a hotbed for Death Eaters fighting the government, and has witnessed many such attacks in recent years.
In May, a pair of jacket wallahs targeted recruits as they were leaving the main paramilitary training centre of Shabqadar, killing 80 people. The Pak branch of the Taliban myrmidon organization grabbed credit.
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[Dawn] Three people, including a woman, were maimed when a remote-controlled bomb went kaboom! in Balochistan's ...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... Dera Murad Jamali district, DawnNews reported.
Police said the bomb was fixed to a cycle of violence in the Bakra Mandi area of the district and went kaboom! when a police vehicle was passing by.
The vehicle remained safe but three passersby were maimed. They were shifted to the district hospital.
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[Dawn] Authorities in Pakistain say four intelligence officials have been killed during a raid on a Death Eater hideout in the country's east.
An army officer says the hard boyz were from Lashkar-e-Jangvi, an al-Qaeda-allied group.
He and another officer said some of the hard boyz were killed or captured in the raid Saturday in a hilly part of Jhelum district, but gave no more details.
They asked that their names not be published because they were not allowed to talk to the media.
Pak security forces are battling an insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives over the last five years.
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Don't you find it a little odd that the story focused on the death of the Pakistani intelligence officers rather than the death eaters' losses?
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[Dawn] The most powerful krazed killer leader in Pakistain's North Wazoo border region has threatened to tear up a peace accord and turn his fighters against the Islamabad government.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur ... a member of the Maddakhel clan of the Uthmanzai Wazirs. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the JUI-F political party. Upon the formation of the TTP in December 2007 he was the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo. He has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with Mehsud and is now just another al-Qaeda pawn.... has an unofficial non-aggression pact with the military.
Pakistain can't afford new krazed killer enemies. The army's hands are full with the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistain, blamed for many of the suicide kabooms across the South Asian country.
Bahadur is known to have links with notorious krazed killer groups in tribal North Waziristan, including the Haqqani network.
Bahadur criticised Pak leaders for allowing the United States to conduct drone missile strikes in North Waziristan and said the council of krazed killer groups he heads would no longer hold talks with the government.
"We have been showing patience because of problems being faced by common people but now the government has also resorted to repression on our common people at the behest of foreigners," Bahadur, who heads a Pak Taliban faction, said in a statement distributed in North Waziristan.
He accused the government of firing mortar bombs and cannons on civilians and demolishing a hospital and other buildings in North Waziristan. Army officials were not immediately available for comment.
Local military officials said "terrorists" had used public buildings to launch rocket attacks at military checkpoints.
"We are disbanding the jirga (council) set up for talks with the government. If the government resorts to any repressive act in the future then it will also be very difficult for us to show patience," said Bahadur.
Bahadur, believed to have thousands of fighters, reached a peace agreement with the Pak government in 2007. But it has been strained lately.
Two holy mans who are leaders of the committee that overseas the pact, Maulana Gul Ramazan and Hafiz Noorullah Shah, suggested the army had violated the deal.
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On Sunday, the Filipino relative of a kidnapped American boy escaped from Abu Sayyaf rebels, who've held them for four months in the southern Philippines.
Romnick Jakaria fled to freedom when special army forces got near an Abu Sayyaf hide-out near Sumisip town in Basilan province and startled the jihadis. Jakaria, 19 years old, is at an army outpost undergoing questioning.
On July 12, Jakaria and his Filipino-American aunt, Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, and her 14-year-old American son were kidnapped while on a vacation on an island near southern Zamboanga city.
Abu Sayyaf terrorists militants freed Lunsmann last month, but her son remains in captivity.
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Brig. Hassan Moghadam, head of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) missile development and sections of its nuclear program, was killed in one of the two consecutive explosions that hit two IRGC bases 46 kilometers west of Tehran Saturday, Nov. 12. The official fatality figure is 32. Fourteen hours after explosions blasts could still be heard and fires raged. Two bases? Intriguing, if true .... That would imply that it wasn't just some dumbass smoking, wouldn't it?
debkafile's exclusive sources report the bases are located in Malard, a town in the Shahryar district. The Moadarres facility was the first to be hit, while the second and bigger blast occurred at Amir-al-Mo'menin.
Their force was such that the Iranian Red Crescent rushed 45 ambulances to the two facilities plus 23 buses converted to first-aid vehicles and a helicopter to evacuate the critically injured.
However, only six rescue workers were given access to the Moadarres base and none were permitted to enter to enter Amir-al-Mo'menin because of the facility's sensitivity.
Fourteen hours after the explosions, the blasts continued and fires raged. Surrounding streets were closed and reporters kept away from the scene.
Our sources report increasing evidence that the first explosion was caused by a failed effort to mount a nuclear warhead on a Shahab-3 intermediate-range missile.
It was powerful enough to shatter windows and damage shops in Tehran. People gathering on street corners wondered if Israel had attacked Iran's nuclear sites or destroyed Revolutionary Guards missile bases. They recalled Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's threat Thursday, Nov. 10 to take the war to the streets of Tel Aviv if Tehran was attacked. Much more at the link
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The Jerusalem Post confirms that senior IRG commander was killed:
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander in charge of the force's self-sufficiency unit was killed in a blast at a military base near Tehran Saturday, Iranian news agency Fars A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander in charge of the force's self-sufficiency unit was killed in a blast at a military base near Tehran Saturday, Iranian news agency Fars reported.
Seventeen people were killed in the blast that officials said took place when soldiers were moving munitions at the base believed to be the storage center for some of Iran's most advanced long-range ballistic missiles..
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US blog: Mossad behind Iran blast
US blogger Richard Silverstein said Saturday that Israel was the mastermind behind the blast the killed at least 17 people at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base near Tehran.
In his blog, Tikun Olam, Silverstein quotes an Israeli expert as saying that the Mossad was responsible for the explosion, in collaboration with the Iranian militant opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq.
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Mossad behind the blast. Red-herring? Would think that cruise missles would show up on several radars in the area. Anybody know of stealth cruise missles?
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Inside job by dissidents? Israel? U.S.? I doubt the Saudis would do it even though a nuclear armed Iran worries them-- although probably not enough to get involved in their own defense.
Also, the Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile is very hard to detect.
Israel has three German-built Dolphin class submarines that (very likely) can launch cruise missiles.
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....As much as I'd like to believe the Israelis were behind this, Occam's Razor tells us otherwise. Poorly trained minions with attitude problems plus inshallah weapons storage and maintenance equals an accident - or accidents - that are going to happen. Two at once may be a stretch, but still believeable.
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I agree that one should never discount stupidity. But add to the unlikelihood of the two roughly concurrent explosions, the number of scientist associated with Iran's nuclear weapons program(s) that have met an early demise. That is a lot of weight for even stupidity to bear.
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If Mossad did anything it was provide info to MEK or other anti Mullah groups who had an agent at the base.
The agent perhaps was able to hide several devices in the explosive storage area and detonate them remotely or maybe in person.
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"... other anti Mullah groups who had an agent at the base.
As was previously mentioned, Occam's razor.
Still, Revolutionary Guard background checks must leave something to be desired.
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Poorly trained minions with attitude problems plus inshallah weapons storage and maintenance equals an accident - or accidents - that are going to happen.
Take what is essentially a political organization. Have a very small and well trained cadre. Make the rest minimally-supervised conscripts at the low levels, lifers (and generally uninvolved with daily routine) at the mid level, politically-connected-and-concerned at the upper levels. What could go wrong?
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Invisible Zionist UAV firing hair rays to cause premature explosion in Muslims!
I thought those Zionist rays were used to shrivel up their male thingies. Is this a multipurpose hair ray?
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Where are the people that take credit for this stuff?. We always hear of some group wanting to take credit for a kaboom like this. I suggest we give credit to the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
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It is always better to use covert means and help from dissident groups internally than to do a frontal assault. Paranoia strikes deep....into your life it will creep.
Sun Tzu is smiling somewhere.....
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"debkafile's exclusive sources "
This is your key to knowing that the article is not true and the "exclusive" source is probably someone hacking out the story on the keyboard. I have still yet to see a "debka exclusive" that has turned out to be true.
Don't take this with a "grain of salt" as the Morton girl in the graphic would imply. I would completely discount the story as most likely complete fabrication as every other "debka exlusive" has been so far to date without a single exception of which I am aware.
They're often right. Problem is, they're also often wrong.
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they're as much of a disinformation and propaganda effort as an information source.
Kinda like most American news sources
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Our sources report increasing evidence that the first explosion was caused by a failed effort to mount a nuclear warhead on a Shahab-3 intermediate-range missile.
But wait, I thought there was no proof Iran has ever run a nuclear weapons program.
Alaska Paul, love your reference ;)
Paranoia strikes deep....into your life it will creep.
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Our sources report increasing evidence that the first explosion was caused by a failed effort to mount a nuclear warhead on a Shahab-3 intermediate-range missile.
notice that the above statement is weasel worded; increasing evidence could simply be that before there was a thin wiff of evidence and later two thin wiffs of evidence.
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The Norkies are repor suffering from outbreaks of TB, yet also repor have 00's of Perts + technicians working on Iran's nuke + LRBM programs spread out all around the country.
How many TB meds is Kimmie getting from the IRGC or Tehran for his people???
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If Israel is behind this they will be doing all they can to make it appear dissidents, spies, traitors are behind it.
Remember the Iranian system is explicitly modelled on the Soviet system and suffers from the same flaws, paranoia and blame shifting.
Let's say an Israeli stealth UAV flew in and dropped a couple of GPS guided bombs, based on near-real time satellite imagery that showed Iran trying to install a nuclear warhead on a missile.
Do you really think Iran is going to publicly admit this.
I find the bit about mass casualties but only allowing in a few rescue workers (or none!). Top Secret secrecy? Or radiation hazard? Dang, speculation is fun!
The reason for the exclusion there is two fold - one its their seekrit stuff and they don't want people know what they had nor how much of it is gone, and two, it is probably quite toxic around those areas, given the types of rocket fuel they are likely using. No radiation, just a lot of really bad and volatile chemicals that shouldn't normally be near each other in an uncontrolled fashion.
ensha'Allah faith-based maintenance doesn't mesh well with volatile chemicals and rocket engine facilities.
[An Nahar] Leb voted on Saturday against a decision taken by the Arab foreign ministers to suspend Syria's membership in the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
18 countries agreed to the decision, while Leb, Yemen and Syria voted against it and Iraq abstained.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour told al-Manar television, hours after the decision was announced, that the "the resolution taken by the vaporous Arab League is dangerous, because it was taken against a member state."
"These decisions will not help solve the crisis in Syria but will push it towards a very critical stage," he stressed.
The foreign minister added that "security in Syria preserves the security of the region."
On October, Russia and China on a European-backed draft resolution that would have threatened possible action against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... . However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... non-permanent members Leb, South Africa, Brazil, and India abstained.
Arab League foreign ministers convened on Saturday for an emergency session to discuss Syria's failure to end a deadly crackdown on civilian protests.
Ministers made their way into the 22-member body's headquarters in Cairo to debate their response to Syria's defiance of an earlier League initiative calling for a cease-fire.
They walked past about 100 demonstrators, who echoed calls by Syria's opposition to suspend the country's membership in the 22-nation body -- a powerful symbolic blow to a nation that prides itself on being a powerhouse of Arab nationalism.
Protesters carried placards reading "Freedom for the Syrian people" and "Arab leaders are garbage" as they chanted for the removal of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. They were joined by demonstrators from Yemen, protesting violent government crackdowns in their country.
Mansour told MTV station on Friday that "Syria's major role in the Arab world, (political) positions and policies force us to disagree on suspending its membership."
He wondered how Leb would want "to stand against a country that it has a security treaty with?"
Syria agreed to a peace plan last week brokered by the Arab League, but the violence has continued unabated, with November shaping up to be the bloodiest month yet in Syria's 8-month-old uprising. More than 250 Syrian civilians have been killed in the past 11 days as the regime besieges the rebellious city of Homs.
The U.N. estimates some 3,500 people have been killed in the Syrian crackdown since the uprising began eight months ago, inspired by the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.
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[An Nahar] At least 13 people were killed in northwest Syria on Saturday, mostly security personnel, as activists reported festivities and military operations following the defection of dozens of soldiers.
Two non-combatants were killed in the restive central city of Homs.
"At least nine security officers were killed when their bus was ambushed by gunnies believed to be defectors as they were traveling from Maaret al-Numaan to Khan Sheikhun" in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"A civilian was killed ... in Jebel Zawiyah in Idlib where there were festivities between the army and presumed defectors," the Observatory added after reporting the defection of "50 to 60 soldiers" in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... gunfire rattled Saraqeb, also in Idlib, where security forces encircled the town. Soldiers there allegedly opened fire on a vehicle traveling from the central city of Homs to the commercial capital Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
"The deaders are the wife of a Syrian captain and a military recruit who was on leave to visit his family in Aleppo," the Observatory said citing a local activist.
A third person and three others were maimed by security forces in a separate incident in Saraqeb, the Observatory added.
In Homs, which is at the forefront of protests against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , two people were killed by gunfire in Deir Balaa and Souk al-Hal neighborhoods, the watchdog added.
Security forces carried out raids and arrests in the neighborhoods of Bab Sebaa and Bab Dreib while "heavy gunfire was heard in the neighborhood of Baba Amro," it said.
Elsewhere, at least 14 people were incarcerated in Saqba, near 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... , where security forces conducted raids searching for bandidos.
And in the coastal city of Banias, "authorities returned the body of a 35-year-old activist who died under torture and had been incarcerated by military security seven days earlier," the Observatory reported.
Security forces killed 23 people on Friday, the majority in Homs, where anti-regime demonstrators staged mass rallies calling on the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... to suspend Syria from the pan-Arab body.
At a meeting in Cairo on Saturday, the vaporous Arab League did just that and also called for sanctions and transition talks with the opposition.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian protesters have stormed the Saudi and Qatari embassies in 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... to voice their outrage at an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's decision to suspend Syria's membership in the Pan-Arab body.
The incident occurred late on Saturday when thousands of people poured into the streets of Damascus to stage protest rallies in front of the Qatari, Saudi, Turkish and US embassies.
Demonstrations were also held in Syria's major cities 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... , Raqqa, Lattakia, Tartous, Hasaka and Sweida.
In Damascus, some protesters broke into the Saudi embassy while some accessed the rooftop of the Qatari embassy building and raised the Syrian national flag.
Others pelted the Qatari facility with tomatoes and eggs to protest against Doha for heading the vaporous Arab League emergency session, where the suspension was announced earlier in the day.
Chanting slogans in support of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... , the protesters then gathered in front of the Turkish and US embassies, condemning the Arab bloc for acting out a plot they said had been hatched by the United States.
A similar protest was held against the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya and the Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channels in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The angry protesters tried to break into the buildings of news channels, which they blamed for following a US and Israeli agenda against Syria.
The Arab League voted "to suspend Syrian delegations' activities in its meetings" until the peace plan proposed by the body is implemented by the Syrian government.
It also urged Arab countries to recall their ambassadors from Damascus and called for the imposition of economic and political sanctions on Syria.
The announcement of Syria's membership suspension came during an emergency meeting at the League's headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Syria has been experiencing a deadly unrest since mid-March and according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , over 3,500 people have been killed in the violence. Hundreds of Syrian security forces are among the dead.
While the Syrian opposition accuses the security forces of cracking down on what it calls anti-government protesters, Damascus blames the violence on outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups sponsored by foreign countries.
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Islamic/Arab in-fighting. What's new.
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It's not really brown---just white that haven't been washed in a long, long time.
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