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NATO and Pakistani forces may have attacked one another in a tragic case of mistaken identity — each thinking the other side was Taliban, according to the first battlefield accounts after the worst incident of fratricide since the Afghan war began.
According to the U.S. military records described to The [News Agency That Shall Not Be Named], a joint U.S. and Afghan patrol requested backup after being hit by mortar and small arms fire by Taliban militants. Before responding, the joint U.S.-Afghan patrol first checked with the Pakistani army, which reported it had no troops in the area, the military account said.
[Tolo News] A 12-member turban group laid down its weapons and surrendered to Afghan forces in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province on Sunday, the National Directorate for Security (NDS) said in a statement.
"Twelve armed beturbanned goons under Mullah Abdul Salam Dilawar handed over their weapons to security authorities in Adraskan district today and joined the grinding of the peace processor," the statement said.
Now these men have joined the grinding of the peace processor, security will be improve more in Adraskan district, it added.
The turbans' surrender comes as Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces conduct clearing operations around the country in advance of handing over responsibility for providing security to local troops.
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[An Nahar] Three people were maimed in a suspected kaboom inside the main hospital in the war-torn Somali capital, officials and witnesses said Monday.
The kaboom occurred late Sunday inside a room near one of the main meeting halls of Banadir hospital.
"We were informed about a bomb kaboom that occurred inside Banadir," said Dahir Adan, a government security official said.
"We are still investigating the reason but the initial reports indicate that several people were maimed in the kaboom."
The hospital in central Mogadishu provides life-saving care for severely malnourished children struggling from ongoing famine in the city's crowded camps for displaced people.
"I heard a large kaboom which shook the whole building, it occurred inside one of the hospital rooms in the hospital and three people were slightly injured," said Sadiq Ali, a witness.
"There was nobody inside the room where the kaboom occurred, this kaboom has really shocked patients," said Shamso Mumin, another witness.
Many high ranking international officials have visited the hospital in recent months to draw attention to what the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Several roadside kabooms and grenade kabooms have rocked Mogadishu since al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels abandoned fixed positions there in August and switched to guerrilla attacks against the government.
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Nothing wins the hearts and minds of common folk like deliberately bombing a hospital.
Of course this is Somolia.
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[An Nahar] Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels ordered 16 international aid agencies shut Monday in areas they control after armed raids on several offices, and warned more would follow if they did not toe the line.
"Any organization found to be supporting or actively engaged in activities deemed detrimental to the attainment of an Islamic State, or performing duties other than that which it formally proclaims, will be banned immediately without prior warning," the Shebab said in a statement.
Witnesses and aid workers reported that Shebab gunnies stormed the offices of several aid agencies in apparent coordinated raids in rebel-controlled regions of Somalia, an area gripped by what the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
"Three armored vehicles with gunnies surrounded the offices, including the office of UNICEF," said Adulahi Idle, a resident in the city of Baidoa. "I saw many cut-throats go inside the places and force the people there to leave and the men took control."
The al-Qaeda linked group accused the agencies of "lacking complete political detachment and neutrality... thereby intensifying the instability and insecurity gripping the nation as a whole." The Shehab also said the groups were working to "foster secularism, immorality and the degrading values of democracy in an Islamic country."
The United Nations has warned that nearly 250,000 people face imminent starvation in southern Somalia, the main base for the hardline Shebab, with several areas under famine or emergency conditions.
Six U.N. organizations were ordered closed by the Shebab, including the agencies for refugees (UNHCR) and children (UNICEF), as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). It also barred the U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU).
A regional security source said the raids in south and central Somalia were well planned and coordinated, with gunnies seizing computers, telephones and other equipment from aid workers. No arrests were reported.
"It was a surprise, but something that was clearly planned," said an aid agency official working in Somalia.
Other aid agencies affected include the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Concern, Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and the Italian Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI). It also shut down the Swedish African Welfare Alliance (SAWA), the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Action Contre la Faim (ACF), Solidarity and Saacid.
The orc Shebab imposes draconian rules on humanitarian workers and has blocked international staff working for aid agencies in its areas, but has allowed limited operations by Somali nationals.
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[An Nahar] A Kenyan court issued an arrest warrant Monday for 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-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its 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. , wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... on genocide charges.
Though Kenya has ratified the founding the ICC's founding Rome statute, it failed to arrest the Sudanese leader when he visited the country in August 2010.
Monday's high court ruling means that his arrest "should be effected by the Attorney General and the Minister for Internal Security should he ever set foot in Kenya," Judge Nicolas Ombija said.
Bashir is the subject of two arrest warrants issued by the ICC for atrocities committed in Darfur in western Sudan. The first was issued in March 2009 on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The second was issued in July 2010 on charges of genocide.
The Sudanese President in August 2010 attended a ceremony in Nairobi to mark the adopting of Kenya's new constitution.
As a signatory of the ICC's founding treaty, Kenya was theoretically obliged to arrest Bashir when he entered the country.
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[Al Ahram] All indicators in Alexandria show that Islamists parties are likely to win a large share of the seats in the parliamentary battle in the second the largest governorate in Egypt.
Alexandria will send 24 out of 498 representatives to the People's Assembly. 16 members will be elected on the basis of proportional representation from party and coalition lists across 2 large constituencies, while 8 seats will be filled by independents elected through 4 constituencies.
New eligible voters' lists that were prepared by the Supreme Electoral Commission after the January 25th revolution show that Alexandria has 3,024,000 voters; more than 40% of these voters are under the age of 30. Alexandria voters are expected to cast their ballots in 3349 poll stations.
The Mohammedan brotherhood (MB), which enjoys a mass base in Alexandria, announced a strategy to win more than 30% of the seats in the new parliament.
In the 2000 and 2005 parliamentary elections, the MB won more than half of the seats in Alexandria cashing on their popularity among the middle and upper middle classes in the governorate, but failed to win seats in the 2010 elections after widespread rigging by Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) in that year's contest.
Both the MB's Justice and Freedom party and Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't...s' Al Nour Party are competing with full electoral lists and on all independent seats. The moderate Islamist Wassat party, a 1999 split from the Brotherhood, are only running through lists.
The MB are fielding some of the same candidates who scored a sweeping victory over the NDP in 2005 such as Hamdy Hassan and Sobhi Saleh. The well-known reformist Judge Mahmoud el-Khoudariy who is running on the MB's Freedom and Justice ticket as an independent in the Ramel constituency is battling Tarek Taalat Mostafa, a former leading member of ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's defunct National Democratic Party (NDP) member and one of the wealthiest construction tycoons in the country.
Some political experts believe that MB could win at least 11 out of the 24 seats in the governorate; six out of electoral lists and five independents. The Salafist Al Nour party, experts predict, might collect five or six seats, and finish second behind the MB in Alexandria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... observers think that Wassat party, facing an uphill battle against the MB and salafists, might be unable to pick up any seats in the governorate.
Other Some observers here believe that the MB's chances of winning a majority of the seats might not be as strong as some predict becauseof the heavy voter turnout -- expected to reach 50% of eligible vote compared to only 23% in the 2005 contest -- might work against the Brotherhood.
Alexandria has a long history of tilting towards Islamists in elections. Both Salafists and the Brotherhood have performed well in parliamentary elections in the governorate since 1987.
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I hope the Alexandrian's take to heart the threat by the radicals to destroy the new Alexandrian Library, because it is "un-Islamic". Those who espouse such ideas should be thrown off high cliffs onto jagged rocks below.
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We have to respect the wishes of the Egyptian people...Actually to hell with that. Islamonazis hardly respect the wishes of non-muz peoples. Popular nazis were still the enemy in WW2.
BHO: do you understand the concept "political Frankenstein?"
[Al Ahram] The "moderate Islamist" Wasat Party accuses the Moslem Brüderbund of stealing ballot papers in Damietta. Neither the Brotherhood nor its Freedom and Justice Party are yet to comment on the accusation. Needless to say
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[Al Ahram] The first day of the maiden post-revolution parliamentary elections witnessed several drawbacks and violations across the nation, most of which were reportedly committed by the Moslem Brüderbund. Yet, it is fair to say that, on the whole, the ballot opener turned out to be way better than initially expected.
The elections got underway on 28 November as scheduled, in spite of political turmoil and further deteriorating security in Egypt in the wake of severe festivities that took place between protesters and Central Security Forces, and lasted for days in Tahrir Square and surrounding streets this month.
Last week's bloody festivities, which saw over 40 killed and several thousand injured, significantly intensified revolutionaries' calls for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to immediately hand over power to a national salvation government led by presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee.
The anti-SACF demonstrators believe a parliament under the ruling SCAF would have no real constitutional authority and insisted the military rulers had to step down before elections. Subsequently, they joined the current Tahrir Square sit-in that up until yesterday consisted of many thousands, boycotting the polling.
As police forces used batons, tear gas and even live ammunition against pro-democracy demonstrators during the confrontations, many also demanded the postponement of the ongoing elections, saying security has to improve first in order to ensure transparency and safety of the ballot. Nonetheless, protests against SCAF and worries about the stuttering security status seem to be negligible the next day as elections got underway as schedules, with the overwhelming majority of Egypt's voters casting their votes against all odds. And meanwhile, numbers in Tahrir dramatically decreased.
The numerous electoral committees, which were primarily stationed at school buildings, saw incredibly long queues of voters as the voting process lasted, at least theoretically, for over 12 hours.
The scene evoked memories of March's nationwide referendum on constitutional amendments proposed by SCAF, which was approved by most of the voters. It was widely regarded as Egyptians' first experience of democracy. The first day of elections was similarly acclaimed by many.
"For weeks, I have been planning to boycott elections and was even trying to persuade the people I know into following suit," Wafaa Abou Ouf, a 63-year-old senior citizen, told Ahram Online. "But after I saw the lines on TV I changed my mind and will go to vote Tuesday."
The elections' opening day was far from violation-free though, with the Moslem Brüderbund, who are tipped to comprise the majority of the coming parliament, accused of several breaches. The Brotherhood were already slated by many from across the political for boycotting the latest Tahrir Square sit-in. Their critics said they are only pursuing their own interests by making sure the elections would be held. Now, they are facing a new wave of criticism.
Leafleting
Egyptian law stipulates electoral candidates and political parties must halt leafleting 48 hours before polling. This particular law was repeatedly broken today, especially by the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) who reportedly committed other infringements throughout the day. Reports of intensive FJP and Brotherhood campaigning, including leafleting, have intensively come in from Ahram Online news hounds and elsewhere around the country. Social network sites have also been publishing dozens of photos and videos showing FJP supporters campaigning before polling stations.
In the Abrahimya district in Alexandria, for instance, FJP and Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... Al-Nour Party volunteers were heavily leafleting polling stations, claiming ignorance when told their actions were in violation of the law.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Ahmed Abu Baraka, one of the leaders of the FJP, denied reports that the party is violating electoral rules and handing out campaign flyers in front of polling stations. Abu Baraka accused the media of "systematically" spreading these rumours, which he says are completely false.
"None of the members of FJP has committed any violations of the rules, and what is happening now is a systematic media campaign against us by our competitors who own satellite channels and are violating the rules of ethical journalism," Abu Baraka said.
In the meantime, the Islamist Wasat Party filed a complaint in Fayoum against the FJP for breaching election laws by leafleting outside electoral polls and using microphones to call on people to vote for their candidates. Other non-FJP candidates were also campaigning.
The Amira Fawzia School in Maadi saw journalist Moustafa Bakry, one of the candidates, has been leafleting at the polling stations too, causing arguments among the voters as many objected that this is in violation of the ban on campaigning during the ballot. In Assiut, a car with an amplifier was reportedly calling voters to vote for one of the independent candidates, which is also against the law but on the bright side not threatening the welfare of voters, unlike thuggery.
Thuggery
As promised by SCAF, joint troops from the army and CSF heavily secured the electoral committees and voters. Security forces kept acts of thuggery to a minimum, contrary to initial fears that candidates from the now-defunct National Democratic Party (NDP) would stoop to violence in order to rig elections.
The 2010 elections, the last parliamentary ballot in the 30-year tenure of toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , were blatantly orchestrated by the then ruling NDP who eliminated almost all the opposition forces. The electoral scandal was one of the catalysts that triggered the January 25 Revolution.
The ongoing elections are nowhere near as chaotic and manipulated as last year's poll, or those previous ones to it. Nevertheless, thugs were not completely ruled out this year. The Egyptian Coalition for Electoral Observation said in an official statement that it "found thuggish acts in some voting stations".
"In El-Zawia El-Hamra Voting Centre, thugs prevented people from reaching the polling stations. The civil society organizations' observers were prevented from reaching the voting stations, too," read the statement, which mentioned many other violations that were spotted on the elections' opening day.
"The coalition observers monitored thuggish acts in front of El-Salam Primary School, in El-Zawya El-Hamra and El-Abedin School in Downtown Cairo. In Assiut, thugs in El-Badary Village prevented the voters from reaching the polling stations," the same statement added.
What's more, angry voters in Mattariya have taken hostage the election judge at the polling station in Ahmed Shawki School. They locked him up in protest for making them wait for long hours, for no apparent reason. Several disputes took place for what appeared to be lack of organization.
Delays
Polling, on paper, should have started at 8:00a.m., but practically many electoral committees in different districts started to receive votes nearly at 1:00p.m., leaving many voters bemoaning while waiting for hours to reach the ballot boxes.
The Operations Room of the National Council for Human Rights has received many complaints pertain to delays in opening polling stations across the country, with many putting the delay down to lack of organization. At the Amira Fawzeya school in Maadi, a wealthy suburb in southern Cairo, poor organization saw one of the polling stations open at 12:00p.m., four hours later than scheduled as frustrations initially boiled over in the first parliamentary elections, according to an Ahram Online news hound.
"I decided to be positive and come and vote, I did my duty but they are forcing me to hate the whole process," an angry man, who arrived early in the morning to take a leading position in what turned out to be a very long queue, shouted after one of the judges failed to show up on time, an Ahram Online news hound said.
The Egyptian Coalition for Electoral Observation said there were no ballot papers in some of the committees, such as in Dawedar, El-Kawmia, Ibn Khaldon Schools and Helmia Industrial School in Nasr City, Cairo, which was cited by many as a possible reason for the delay.
With less than half an hour to go before voting finished, the Egyptian Current Party also revealed that peripheral polling stations in the Ain Shams district of Cairo have yet to take delivery of their ballot papers, with voters running out of patience.
Bribes and other complaints
Buying off votes has always been one of the most infamous drawbacks in the parliamentary elections that were held throughout Mubarak's rule, and that people were hoping not see during the ongoing ballot. That was not the case unfortunately. Some political forces have reportedly resorted to bribes in order to win votes. Once again, the Brotherhood's name was brought up in this accusation.
According to El-Badeel news website, several political parties are engaged in buying votes in Cairo and Alexandria. Evidence, if there was any, is yet to emerge to substantiate the allegation. Election observers have told El-Badeel that among the offenders are the Brotherhood's FJP, the Salafist Nour Party, established liberal party Wafd, and members of the dissolved NDP who have all been buying off voters with mobile phone credit and meat in various impoverished neighbourhoods.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... there were other concerns that ballot papers have not been stamped by the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC). The Egyptian Coalition for Electoral Observation documented that problem, highlighting that the same setback occurred during the constitutional referendum in March.
In other complaints cited by the Egyptian Coalition for Electoral Observation, some independent candidates were transporting voters to vote for them El-Ashraf Primary School, which is also against the law.
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The lower house will be holding elections and runoffs through Jan 2012. Then the Upper house will have elections and runoffs through Mar 2012.
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[An Nahar] Egyptians flocked to the polls on Monday for a first post-revolution election, making a mostly orderly and joyous start to their transition to democracy after a week of violence and political crisis.
Ten months since the end of 30 years of autocratic rule by Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , ousted by popular protests in one of the seminal events of the Arab Spring, up to 40 million voters are being asked to choose a new parliament.
"It was no use to vote before. Our voices were completely irrelevant," Mona Abdul Moneim, one of several women who said they were voting for the first time, told Agence La Belle France Presse in the Shubra district of Cairo.
Voting for the lower house of parliament is taking place in three stages beginning in the main cities of Cairo, Alexandria and other areas, with the moderate Islamist group the Moslem Brüderbund expected to triumph.
The highly complex procedure to elect a full assembly will end in March.
The backdrop was ominous after a week of protests calling for the resignation of the interim military rulers who stepped in after Mubarak's fall, with 42 people killed and more than 3,000 injured.
Voting passed off peacefully and the polling booths closed at the extended time of 9:00 pm (1900 GMT) to enable the thousands who waited for hours in long queues to cast their ballots.
"We were surprised that people turned out to vote in large numbers, thank God," Abdul Moez Ibrahim, who heads the High Judicial Elections Commission (HJEC), told news hounds, adding that there had been no security problems.
The poll was endangered last week as unrest gripped the country, but military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi stuck defiantly to the schedule and called for a large turnout.
Much remains unclear about how the new parliament will function and whether it will be able to resolve a standoff with the armed forces over how much power they will retain under a new constitution to be written next year. The formerly banned Moslem Brüderbund, a moderate Islamist group, is widely expected to emerge as the largest power but without an outright majority when results for the lower parliament are published on January 13. Hardline Islamists, secular parties and groups representing the interests of the former Mubarak regime are all expected to win seats, raising the prospect of a highly fragmented and ideologically split legislature.
"I'm voting for the future of Egypt," declared Youssef, a 25-year-old software engineer in the al-Raml district of Alexandria, Egypt's second biggest city and a major Mediterranean port.
"This is the first free election in our country. I hope it will be the first fair election," he told AFP.
The stakes could not be higher for Egypt, but the conduct and results of the election will also have repercussions for the entire Middle East at a time of wrenching change.
"For most Arabs, the primary examples of democratic processes in the Arab world are in Iraq and Leb," said Bruce Rutherford, a Middle East specialist and author on Egypt at the U.S.-based Colgate University.
"In both cases, elections produced weak, fragmented, and largely ineffectual governments.
"If Egypt produces the same result, then the appeal of democracy in the region may be weakened. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... if the Egyptian experience is positive ... the effect could be very powerful."
Egypt, with a fast-growing population of more than 80 million, is a former British protectorate ruled by military leaders for most of its history since independence in 1922.
The fresh protests last week stemmed from fears that Tantawi and his fellow generals, initially welcomed as a source of stability in the days after Mubarak's fall, were looking to consolidate their power. Critics say they have also been too quick to resort to the repressive techniques of the Mubarak regime, jailing dissidents and unleashing deadly violence on dissent.
The leading new civilian powers -- a pro-democracy movement in iconic Tahrir Square, the Moslem Brüderbund and future presidential hopefuls Mohammed ElBaradei and Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... -- have been caught in the uncertainty.
The Tahrir movement, named after the square where protests began against Mubarak, is deeply divided over whether to take part in the elections and lend legitimacy to the military rulers. By contrast, the Moslem Brüderbund has supported a poll from which it expects to capitalize.
"We expect to win. We've been working with the people for a long time," one volunteer, Fayiz Mohammed Shaarawi, told AFP outside a polling station in the Manian district of Cairo.
After two days of voting in the first stage of the elections for the lower parliament, other cities and regions will follow on December 14 and January 3. After these, another round of voting will take place from January 29 for the upper house of parliament, and presidential elections are to be held by no later than the end of June.
Mubarak, who is on trial for murder and corruption along with his two sons, is expected to be following events from a Cairo military hospital where he is reportedly being treated for cancer.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... sect was responsible for a string of weekend bombings targeting government buildings and churches in Geidam in the northeast, its purported front man said Monday.
Abul Qaqa, who claims to speak for Boko Haram, said in an emailed statement that the sect carried out Saturday's attacks to protest the "continued arrests" of its members.
"We are responsible for the attacks in Gaidam and such attacks will continue as long as our members placed in long-term storage by the Nigerian authorities remain in detention," he said.
Witnesses said sect members armed with Kalashnikov rifles hurled explosives at Geidam cop shoppe, freed suspects and stole arms. The gunnies then rampaged through town attacking six churches, a high court, a shopping complex, a local government secretariat, and robbed a bank. They also bombed an abandoned beer parlour and looted shops, according to a Nigerian Security and Civil Defence official in the town.
At least three coppers and a civilian were maimed in the attacks, according to a security source.
Geidam is the hometown of the Yobe state governor Ibrahim Geidam, and is close to the border with Nigeria's northern neighbour, Niger.
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[Yemen Post] Tens of thousands of women marched nationwide calling the international community to hold the Saleh regime accountable for the crimes it committed against unarmed protesters.
Women were present in large numbers around Yemen mainly in San'a, Taiz, and Hodeida. Carrying their children in their arms, they insisted on coming up and supporting the call for change.
"I am marching in support for a better future for my kids who are next to me now," said Afrah al-Shuja, a housewife who was surrounded by three of her children.
Women in Yemen have played leading roles in ensuring change in the country. Some are going to the extreme and saying that the Yemen revolution is also a women's revolution.
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Some are going to the extreme and saying that the Yemen revolution is also a women's revolution.
And then butterflies flew out of their collective keisters.
For a map, click here. For a map of Sonora state, click here. New information, including press statements from the Sonora attorney general's office.
By Chris Covert
A member of Javier Sicilia's Movement for Peace Justice and Dignity was found shot to death in Hermosillo, Sonora Monday afternoon, according to Mexican news accounts.
Nepomuceno Moreno Nuñez, 56, was shot as he was driving his Chevrolet pickup truck near the intersection of avenidas Reforma and Pesqueira in Centenario colony of Hermosillo near the Sonora state government palace where he had met with officials numerous times before to discuss the disappearance of his son in Cajume, Sonora.
Moreno Nuñez was hit by several 9mm rounds fired by individuals from another moving vehicle.
Moreno Nuñez's son, Jorge Mario was reportedly kidnapped last summer in Cajeme in Sonora while he was with several friends. Moreno Nunez maintained it was Sonoran state police agents who abducted and killed him.
The Procuradoria General del Estado (PGE) or attorney general of Sonora state, Jose Larrinaga Talamantes, released a statement Tuesday afternoon disputing elements of Moreno Nuñez's accusations against Sonora state security apparatus.
Larrinaga Talamantes said that Moreno Nuñez never filed a report on his missing son with any authority, and that Moreno Nuñez and his son were likely murdered by groups associated with organized crime.
Larrinaga Talamantes also said that Moreno Nuñez had previously served time in prison for smuggling heroin 1979, and had reported being kidnapped in 1997 by Ambrosio and Ramon Vazquez Villagrana, two individuals who had alleged links to drug trafficking and organized crime.
Moreno Nuñez was also arrested in 2005 for his role in a murder in the Los lagos colony in Hermosillo. He was later acquitted of that crime and for illegal possession of firearms.
Larrinaga Talamantes also noted another son of Moreno Nuñez, Gilberto Moreno Leon, has been arrested in the past for armed robbery, a crime for which he is still serving time.
In the abduction of Jorge Mario, reports are that a ransom was demanded and transmitted to Moreno Nuñez's by his unidentified daughter for MP $30,000 (USD $2138.73). The ransom was collected, but apparently never paid. The unknown number of friends with Jorge Mario were later also disappeared.
Moreno Nuñez had attended the Movement for Peace Justice and Dignity's October 14th meeting with Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa held at Castillo Chapultepec in Mexico City, where he denounced Calderon for his son's disappearance.
It transpired at the meeting that Moreno Nuñez had received death threats just before his trek to Mexico City.
Sicilia and a Universidad Nacional Automoma de Mexico professor and human rights activist , Emilio Alvarez Icaza told a Mexican publication Tuesday they would seek an audience with Sonora governor Guillermo Padres, saying the responsibility for the murder of Moreno Nuñez rests with the governor and the prosecutor (Larrinaga Talamantes).
Alvarez Icaza later characterized the PGE press conference as "shameful for criminalizing Moreno Nuñez." He also urged the Sonora PGE to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Moreno Nuñez's murder.
The Moreno Nuñez shooting is the second deadly shooting of a member of Sicilia's peace movement in less than two months.
Leiva Pedro Dominguez was shot to death October 8th in Santa Maria Ostula in Michoacan state. He did not attend to meeting in Mexico City.
Pedro Dominguez was involved in a civil conflict with landowners in La Placita. About 300,000 hectares of land had been transferred to Pedro Dominguez's indigent group in 2009 which had been previously granted other landowners.
Pedro Dominguez was a Nahuatl, one of several Mexican Indian tribes directly descended from the Aztecs. His group was also one of the few indigenous groups with the legal right to carry heavy firearms to defend and police their land, including AK-47 assault rifles. To read the Rantburg.com report on the murder of Leiva Pedro Dominguez click here
[Dawn] Two workers of the 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... who hailed from Gilgit-Baltistan, were rubbed out in a Gulshan-i-Iqbal locality, police said on Sunday.
They said the bodies of the two men were found late on Saturday night at around 12.45am in Gulshan-i-Iqbal's Block 4 near a private hospital.Gulshan-i-Iqbal SHO Dost Mohammad told Dawn that initially it appeared that the victims were killed somewhere else and the bodies were dumped at the scene. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the police found two spent bullet casings at the crime-scene, which suggested that they were killed at the same place where their bodies were found. The two men were shot in the head, he added.
A memory card found on one of the victims helped the police in establishing the identities of the victims, said the police, adding that they were identified as Sikandar, son of Hamza, and Naseer, son of Kaseer Ahmed, both in their late twenties.
The police said that Sikandar was the MQM's sector-in-charge for Gilgit-Baltistan and had arrived here about a week back.
They said a paternal uncle of Sikandar lived in Soldier Bazar No 2 and the victims were living there.
The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.
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[An Nahar] An Iraqi member of parliament was maimed and at least two other people killed on Monday in a mortar attack near parliament in Storied Baghdad's ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... heavily fortified Green Zone, an MP and security officials said.
"A mortar round landed near parliament's car park. One colleague, (MP) Muayid al-Tayyeb, was maimed," MP Ali al-Shila told Agence La Belle France Presse.
An interior ministry official said two people were killed when a mortar round hit the car park, and a defense ministry official said three people were killed and four maimed by an kaboom in a parliament parking area.
According to the Iraqi parliament website, 185 MPs attended the session held on Monday.
The shelling came after 15 people were killed in bombings near and in the Iraqi capital.
Violence has declined nationwide since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 258 people were killed in October, according to official figures.
General Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has warned of "turbulence" on the security front as American forces depart and bad turban groups including al-Qaeda seek to take advantage of the vacuum.
U.S. troops are set to depart by year's end.
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The IDF returned fire on the source of at least three rockets fired into northern Israel from Lebanon overnight Monday.
Three rockets fired from Lebanon landed in the Western Galilee, with police searching for a possible fourth rocket. No injuries were reported in the attacks.
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I've been surprised that Pencilneck hasn't used his puppets in Leb to provide a distraction from Syria's civil war via Da Jooooz. Perhaps he just remembered that tactic?
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It's probably taken a while for Assad's goons to find anyone willing or greedy enough.
Hesb'allah is likely a tad leery right now of starting anything with the IDF. They'd have their turf locked down and an eye out for troublemakers.
(Rooters) - Iranian brownshirts briefly took six British embassy staff hostage on Tuesday when they stormed two diplomatic compounds in Tehran, smashing windows, hurling Molotov cocktails and burning the British flag in a temper tantrum against sanctions imposed by Britannia.
Britannia said it was outraged by the attacks on its embassy compounds, but had no immediate comment on the seizure of its staff who, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said, were freed by police from a leafy residential complex in north Tehran.
The attacks were launched at a time of rising diplomatic tension between Iran and Western nations who last week imposed fresh sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program which they believe is aimed at achieving the capability of making an atomic bomb.
The embassy storming is a local tradition. It is also a clear sign of deepening political infighting within Iran's ruling hardline elites with the conservative-led parliament attempting to force the hand of President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad and expel the British ambassador.
Several dozen brownshirts broke away from a crowd of a few hundred outside the main embassy compound in downtown Tehran, scaled the gates, broke the locks and went inside.
Brownshirts pulled down the British flag, burned it, and put up the Iranian flag, Iranian news agencies and news pictures showed. Inside, the regime hard boyz threw stones and Molotov cocktails. One waved a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth for some reason, state TV showed.
Others carried the royal crest out through the embassy gate as cops stood by grinning, pictures carried by the Fars news agency showed. Demonstrators waved flags symbolizing martyrdom and held portraits of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Another group of brownshirts broke into a second British Embassy compound at Qolhak in north Tehran, the IRNA state news agency said. ... and if you can't believe the state news agency who can you believe? Once the embassy's summer quarters, the sprawling, tree-lined compound is now used to house diplomatic staff.
Six embassy staff were taken hostage there, but were later freed by coppers, Fars news agency reported.
"Cops freed the six people working for the British embassy in Qolhak garden," Fars said.
A German school next to the Qolhak compound was also trashed, the German government said.
Cops appeared to have cleared the brownshirts in front of the main downtown embassy compound, but later clashed with hardline protesters and fired tear gas to attempt to disperse them, Fars said.
Protesters nevertheless again entered the compound, Fars said.
The British Foreign Office said it was outraged.
"There has been an incursion by a significant number of demonstrators into our Embassy premises, including vandalism to our property," the Foreign Office said in a statement. "This is a fluid situation and details are still emerging. We are outraged by this. It is utterly unacceptable and we condemn it."
Britannia said the Iranian government had a duty under international law to protect diplomats and urged Iranian authorities to act with "utmost urgency" to bring the situation under control.
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Dinnerjack and the mad mullahs are trying to relive their magic moments of 1979. Buggers.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "THREAT AGZ THREAT" IS IRAN'S NEW DEFENSE DOCTRINE: IRGC OFFICIAL.
Not certain yet as to the Doctrine's exact details, but it appears nominally to be an Iran mini-copy of Cold War Soviet strategies ala PARITY = "MATCHING" RESPONSE, COUNTER-RESPONSE wid US-NATO???
[Al Ahram] Syria has withdrawn almost all of its assets from Arab countries, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Monday, a day after 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... slapped sanctions on Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... for its refusal to halt a protest crackdown. "I reassure you that we have withdrawn 95 or 96 per cent of Syrian assets (from Arab countries)," Muallem told a news conference. "We must protect the interests of our people."
A teensy question that must now be niggling at non-Syrian Arab minds, not to mention the rest of us: 95% of what number leaves how many Syrian assets doing what kind of mischief?
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We're taking our toys and we're going home.
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[An Nahar] Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in the capital Monday against 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... decision to impose crippling sanctions on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's regime, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent reported.
Protesters waved Syrian flags and carried giant portraits of the embattled leader as they belted nationalistic songs in Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... ' central Sabaa Bahrat square.
"The people want Bashir al-Assad... We are your people Bashar," chanted the protesters.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
broadcast footage of the pro-regime rallies and slammed the vaporous Arab League describing it as an "instrument for implementing the Western and American plan against Syria."
The sanctions, voted on Sunday as violence in Syria claimed 23 new lives, will affect "all Syrians" not just target the regime, it said.
"The Arab League is punishing the Syrian people for their positions," added the ruling Baath Party's newspaper Al-Baath.
Many schools were closed Monday to allow students to attend the rallies and the official SANA news agency said protests also took place in Syria's second city and economic hub 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... and in Hasake, also in the north.
The Arab League on Sunday announced sweeping sanctions against Damascus to punish Assad's regime for failing to bring an end to the deadly crackdown on anti-government protests that began in mid-march.
The U.N. estimates that more than 3,500 people have been killed in the violence.
The sanctions include an immediate ban on transactions with the Syrian government and central bank and a freeze on Syrian government assets in Arab countries.
The Arab bloc also banned Syrian officials from visiting any Arab country and called for a suspension of all flights from Syria to Arab countries to be implemented on a date that will be fixed at a meeting next week.
Nineteen of the Arab League's 22 members voted for the sanctions, but Iraq abstained and said it would refuse to implement them, while Leb "disassociated itself," Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani.
Syria was suspended from the Arab League earlier this month.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who has denounced the sanctions as an Arab League attempt to "internationalize" the Syrian crisis, was expected to hold a presser later Monday to formally address the issue.
State television said in a terse statement after Sunday's vote that the Arab League's against a member state was "an unprecedented measure."
This is the first time the Arab League enforces sanctions of this magnitude on one of its members.
The Arab League sanctions are likely to be crippling for Syria, which already faces a raft of EU, U.S. and Turkish measures.
The Local Coordination Committees, an umbrella group of Syrian activists, welcomed the move on Sunday but warned that Damascus could get around the sanctions.
"Economic sanctions will have no impact on the Syrian regime unless there is a mechanism by which the implementation of sanctions can be strictly monitored and leave no opportunity for their circumvention," it said in a statement.
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[An Nahar] French military forces are training armed Syrian rebels in Turkey and Leb to fight the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , a Turkish newspaper has reported.
In Lebanon? Does Hizb'allah know?
According to Milliyet, as cited by The Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency, IRNA, the French forces are training the so-called Free Syrian Army to wage war against Syria's military.
The report said the French, British, and Turkish authorities "have reached an agreement to send arms into Syria."
The three countries have also informed the U.S. about the training and arming the Syrian opposition, it said.
The rebel army has stepped up attacks on regime targets in recent weeks in a bid to topple Assad's government which has waged a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters since mid-March.
The Free Syrian Army claims to have some 20,000 deserters in its ranks. The group's chief, Riad al-Assaad, is based in Turkey.
The report came after the media also revealed that the British and French intelligence agencies have tasked their agents with contacting Syrian dissidents based in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli to help fuel the unrest in Syria.
Reports also said that French agents have been sent to northern Leb and Turkey to build the first contingents of the Free Syrian Army out of the deserters who have decamped Syria.
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Riad al-Assaad
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[An Nahar] Syria's military and security forces have committed crimes against humanity in their deadly crackdown on anti-regime protesters, U.N.-appointed Sherlocks said on Monday.
State forces have murdered, raped and tortured demonstrators since the beginning of protests in March this year, according to evidence gathered by the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
The panel interviewed 223 victims and witnesses, among them security force defectors, who told of shoot to kill orders to crush demonstrators and cases of children being tortured to death.
"The commission is gravely concerned that crimes against humanity have been committed in different locations in the Syrian Arab Republic during the period under review," it said in its report, while concluding that military and security forces were behind the acts.
"The sheer scale and consistent pattern of attacks by military and security forces on civilians and civilian neighborhoods and the widespread destruction of property could only be possible with the approval or complicity of the State," the panel said.
Defectors from military and security forces told the commission that they received orders to shoot at unarmed protesters without warning.
They, together with militias, had conducted joint operations with "shoot to kill" orders, notably in Latakia in early April and in a suburb of the city in August.
"The protesters called for freedom. They carried olive branches and marched with their children," a witness was quoted as saying.
"We were ordered to either disperse the crowd or eliminate everybody, including children. We opened fire."
The panel heard of sniper attacks on people leading marches and on those trying to rescue the maimed.
Torture and killings reportedly took place in the Homs Military Hospital by security forces dressed as doctors and abuse of detainees was described as "rampant" at the detention facilities of the Air Force Intelligence Branch at Mazzeh airport near Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
The report highlighted the case of 14-year-old detainee Thamir al-Sharee from the town of Sayda whose postmortem showed injuries consistent with torture.
A 40-year-old man told the panel he witnessed the rape of an 11-year-old boy by three security services officers.
The commission said Syria had violated the right to life, to peaceful assembly and to freedom of movement among others.
It called on the government to put an "immediate end to gross human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations" and launch an independent investigation into the violence.
The report also acknowledged the existence of the "Free Syrian Army," a group of defectors it said had grabbed credit for armed attacks against military and security forces and in its list of recommendations the panel urged opposition groups to respect international human rights law.
The Human Rights Council set up the commission in August to investigate human rights violations in Syria where the U.N. estimates at least 3,500 people have been killed.
The panel met with regional organizations including the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain... and 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... as it gathered evidence from the end of September to the middle of November but was not allowed to carry out its work inside Syria.
The council will study the report by the three experts, Karen Koning AbuZayd from the United States, Turk Yakin Erturk and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro from Brazil, at its 19th session taking place in March.
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[An Nahar] Syrian regime forces and cut-throats loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... killed nine civilians across the country on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Among the dead were six civilians killed in the flashpoint central province of Homs, one in Hama and two cut down by powerful machineguns in Rankuss near Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... , said the London-based Observatory.
The U.N. estimates that more than 3,500 people have been killed in the violence that has shaken Syria since mid-March.
The armed and political wings of the Syrian opposition also took a step Monday toward increasing their cooperation.
A delegation from the opposition Syrian National Council headed by its leader Burhan Ghalioun met with the Turkey-based leader of the rebel Free Syrian Army, a group of army defectors who have recently been fighting back Assad's forces.
The SNC said the two sides agreed to form a joint committee tasked with coordinating movements on the ground.
The Syrian opposition has struggled to overcome infighting and disagreements over the country's future in order to present a unified, credible alternative to Assad. If the groups coalesce, they could persuade more Syrians to abandon the regime.
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[An Nahar] The Internal Security Forces jugged on Monday a gunman, who along with another accomplice shot up the office of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement MP Mohammed Kabbara in the northern city of Tripoli, Voice of Leb radio (93.3) reported.
Kabbara confirmed to VDL the attack, saying the security forces opened an investigation into the incident that occurred at dawn Sunday.
"Nothing scares us," Kabbara said.
VDL reported that the security cameras at the scene spotted two assailants whom it identified as Mustafa Tarsha and Khodr Fayyad.
Security officers were able to detain Tarsha, while the whereabouts of Fayyad, also known as al-Limby, are unknown, according to VDL.
"I don't accuse anyone, and the investigation will reveal who are behind these assailants," Kabbara said.
The army released a statement later on Monday saying that the assailants used a hunting rifle in their attack.
The statement added that it was an "individual incident."
The army urged the media not to "exaggerate in (reporting) the individual incidents that tend to happen from time to time to prevent its exploitation."
On Sunday, the MP joined a rally organized by al-Mustaqbal in Tripoli. He was among the speakers of the gathering.
Kabbara said that the rally was a continuation of the Cedar Revolution in 2005, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Leb following the liquidation of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February that year.
The MP denounced the role of the resistance in Leb and the Syrian regime.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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handed over their weapons
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