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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Nicole Eggert aka Summer Quinn in "Baywatch (TV Series 19892001)" aka Jamie Powell in "Charles in Charge (TV Series 19841990)" aka Megan in "Blown Away (1993)" aka Alyssa Lloyd in "The Demolitionist (1995)" aka Laurel Canyon in "Cattle Call (2006)" aka Kristy in "Siberia (1998)" (age 40)
[Dawn] An Afghan official says a suicide car boomer has killed five people including a local district chief in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.
The governor of Kandahar's front man Zalmai Ayubi says the top official of the province's Panjwayi district was traveling in a car with his two sons and two bodyguards when the bomber rammed him with a vehicle packed with explosives. Ayubi says all five were killed in the Thursday afternoon kaboom.
Fazluddin Agha is the latest in a long string of government officials assassinated by cut-throats trying to undermine the US-backed Afghan government.
Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalia member says nine civilians also were maimed in the kaboom, which occurred on a road between Panjwayi district and Kandahar city.
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[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Thursday strongly condemned a video appearing to show U.S. soldiers "desecrating" the corpses of slain Islamic fascistiby urinating on them.
"The government of Afghanistan is deeply disturbed by a video that shows American soldiers desecrating dead bodies of three Afghans," said a statement from the president's office.
"This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms.
"We expressly ask the U.S. government to urgently investigate the video and apply the most severe punishment to anyone found guilty in this crime."
The U.S. military said it was investigating the "disgusting" footage of what appears to be four servicemen dressed in United States military uniform relieving themselves onto three bodies.
If authentic, the images -- which conjure up previous abuses committed by U.S. troops during the decade-long war -- could spark deep anger and resentment in Afghanistan and the wider Mohammedan world.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed told Agence La Belle France Presse that the video would not affect peace talks.
"I don't think this new issue will affect negotiations which at this stage are mainly about prisoner exchange," he said. "After all, we've done far worse," he added softly.
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I say, pi$$ on 'em. Hypersensitive hypocrites think that they have the corner on sensibility and morality. Give the soldiers a stern lecture and move on. I guess blowing up women and children is ok in their twisted value system.
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Piss on Karzai.
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Just leave.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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I wonder how much of this happened in WWII and nobody gave a $hit.
And I'd say that if Afghanistan and/or Iraq implode because we left early to satisfy some political cause, then whomever is responsible basically did the same thing to every Coalition member who fought and got injured or died there, including their families.
Specifically identifying the unit in the upload is definitely Idiot of the Day material. I'll bet they don't do that again for a while.
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Noooooooooo, death takes you to pair-a-dice, even if you don't get 72 raisins. If we captured them and slit their throats, that'd be halal, so it's OK.
As opposed to the US contractor, hanging by his privates from the Fallujah bridge.
Different world.
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So I guess having the pigs piss on them instesd is ok then right?
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In WW2, a late friend of mine in the British Army in Burma related stories of catching injured Japanese soldiers. Some of the Brits would put them under tracked vehicle treads and slowly drive over them. No quarter was given or offered by either side.
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Taliban cut the heads off of captives and innocent people, bomb schools, etc., and Karzai doesn't give a poop, because "It's Sharia, so it's got to be good!"
But for infidels to pee on dead Muslim terrorists is an unthinkable act of desecration.
Word to Karzai: Muslims are dogs. Non-Muslims are a whole lot better beloved of Allan than are Muslims. Even Jews and atheists are better loved.
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Perhaps the Taliban should think of the U.S. Marines as our "moral police", like they have in Islamic countries. If you misbehave, Marines will bomb you, burn you, shoot you, stab you, and throw you grenades. Being peed on is the least of your troubles, although we will try to do better. You know where the Marines are in Afghanistan; if you do not like these things, you can go and talk to them directly. They would be glad to see you.
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Desecration (also called desacralization or desanctification) is the act of depriving something of its sacred character.
What could be sacred in a murderous turd?
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Promote these soldiers. I would rather have soldiers that will piss on the enemy every chance they get than to bow down and apologize to our enemies like one President Hussein Obama does every chance he gets.
GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had suspended food distribution to 1.1 million people in central and southern Somalia after Islamist terrorists militants blocked deliveries in parts of the famine-hit country.
A Somali government minister told Reuters the suspension could worsen the humanitarian crisis in a country where 250,000 Somalis already live in famine conditions and a total of 4 million need aid, according to UN figures.
The ICRC, which was one of the last agencies working in terrorist rebel-held areas, said terrorists militants had stopped its trucks since mid-December in the Middle Shabelle and Galgadud regions.
The suspension will continue until we receive assurances from the terrorists authorities controlling those areas that distributions can take place unimpeded and reach all those in need, as previously agreed, Patrick Vial, head of the ICRC delegation for Somalia, said in a statement.
The ICRC said it was talking to Al-Shabab, an Islamist terrorist rebel group linked to Al-Qaeda, to try and solve the problem as soon as possible.
The terrorists rebels, who are hostile to Western intervention in the lawless Horn of Africa country, outlawed 16 relief agencies in November.
So it's going to be a short conversation...
Somalia has been mired in anarchy since forever warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
Abdullahi Haji Hassan, Somalias agriculture minister, said the action by the terrorists rebels would cause another humanitarian crisis, and called for international help to avert a disaster.
Al Shabab wants the Somalis to perish, Hassan told Reuters on Thursday.
The suspension also hit the ICRCs distribution of seeds and fertilizers to farmers, part or its emergency operation begun last October to combat the effects of severe drought and war.
Somalia is the ICRCs second largest humanitarian program after Afghanistan, with an initial budget of about 70.2 million Swiss francs for this year.
The suspension of aid will have effect on both civilians and Al-Shabab ... Al Shabab terrorists fighters are parasites, Hirsi Yusuf, the director of Somalias federal and reconciliation ministry told Reuters.
Residents said the terrorists militants wanted only Islamic agencies to provide aid in the areas it controls, and many would flee to the capital Mogadishu to find food.
Al Shabab halted the ICRC aid a fortnight ago. Al Shabab wants only Islamic organizations like Islamic Relief which also operates here, local elder Mohamed Nur told Reuters from Bardhere District in southwest Somalia. We the people need ICRC to continue aid but we have no power to challenge Al-Shabab. The rebels openly told ICRC that Islamic organizations brought abundant food.
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So, the ICRC saves itself some money if as stated the rc can deliver enough. Put it to the test.
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Residents said the militants wanted only Islamic agencies to provide aid in the areas it controls, and many would flee to the capital Mogadishu to find food.
This is as bad as it gets and they still let their own die. They cannot be reasoned with.
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From the perspective of Al Shabab: "It's for their own good. Better they should die of starvation than be damned to eternal Hell for eating food handled by non-Muslims."
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"starvation and death by disease is very Islamic. Soooo 7th Century!"
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"The ICRC said it was talking to Al-Shabab."
Hmm, following the Obama-Karzai model of talking to the Taliban?
What could go wrong?
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I think the problem is *any* food going to *anyone* in Somalia. Somalia has about 10m people. Why? If Somalis eat, then they kill each other. Maybe if they stop eating, they will be interested in something other than killing each other. Like eating.
[An Nahar] Twenty gunnies were killed Thursday in festivities between Zaidi Iranian catspaws and Sunni 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 in northern Yemen, a security official said.
Clashes erupted in the morning in the northwestern Hajjah province between rebel gunnies, known as Huthis, and Sunni beturbanned goons, the local official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The official said the shootout took place in the city of Mustaba, close to the Red Sea port city of Midi, at the border with Soddy Arabia.
Other festivities erupted between the Sunni Waela tribe and Iranian catspaws in the province of Saada, the stronghold of the rebels.
Fighting between the Sunni fundamentalists and the Houthis had raged over the past months in the northern town of Dammaj, south of Saada, where a Salafist Islamic teaching school was besieged by Houthis.
At least 71 people were killed in festivities that erupted in mid-October, a front man for the Dar al-Hadith school claimed in late December.
The school trains Sunni preachers and believes in the strictest and most draconian interpretations of Islam.
In 2004, Zaidi Shiites, who regularly complain of inequality and marginalization by the central government, rebelled against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's regime.
Thousands of Yemenis were killed before a ceasefire was declared in February 2010.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Zacatecas state, click here. To read the Rantburg report on the last encounter between Mexican security forces and criminal groups in Zacatecas state, click here.
A gunfight between Mexican security forces in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, ended up in several separate gunfights killing nine armed suspects, according to Mexican news accounts.
The confrontation began in Fresnillio, Zacatecas state's second largest city and then spread to several other municipalities on roads leading to the neighboring states of San Luis Potosi and Aguascalientes.
Apparently security encountered a convoy of armed suspects, which prompted a pursuit and running gunfight in Fresnillo. A total of six armed suspects were killed in that clash.
The remaining supects presumably split up into two groups, one fleeing for San Luis Potosi to the east and to Aguascaliente to the south. During the pursuits and exchange of gunfire -- which wended its way through Enrique Estrada, Calera, Morelos, Zacatecas and Guadalupe municipalities -- federal security forces put up four roadblocks attempting to capture the suspects. Criminal groups presumably aligned with the group under pursuit also put up roadblocks attempting to thwart the pursuit and aid the escape of the suspects, this according to an account published on the website of El Diario de Coahuila Thursday evening.
An additional three more armed suspects were killed in those subsequent encounters.
One Policia Federal Preventativa agent was wounded in the gunfights, but is expected to survive his wounds.
Zacatecas state has in the past been known as a Los Zetas stronghold, but it probably not the case any more as rival gangs and a reinforced and reinvigorated federal effort has led to the killing and capture of several operatives in the area.
[Dawn] An important commander of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain was rubbed out by unidentified gunnies in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Wednesday, sources said.
They said that the masked men tried to abduct Taliban capo Rafiq alias Akhlag in Maidan-Qambarkhel area but he was killed when he resisted them.
Rafiq, a key commander of Taliban in Tirah, was an aide to slain thug leader Adnan Afridi. Mr Afridi was murdered by unidentified gunnies in October 2010 in Rawalpindi.Sources said that Taliban top command had assigned Rafiq with responsibilities related to Khyber and Orakzai agencies.
Reason behind his killing could not be ascertained immediately as nobody grabbed credit for his murder.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... two more persons, critically injured in a car boom blast in Jamrud on Tuesday, died of their wounds in hospital on Wednesday. They were unidentified as Mohammadullah Zakhakhel and Khan Gul Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... . They were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyards. The corpse count in the car blast reached 32while 25 out of the total 76 injured were still stated to be in unstable condition.
The Jamrud bazaar remained partially closed on Wednesday. A large number of locals and non-locals continued to visit the site of the blast. Nobody has so far grabbed credit for the terror act.
MNA Noorul Haq Qadri has strongly condemned the blast in a statement, saying perpetrator behind such acts are the enemies of humanity and can`t be called human beings.
He said that shedding the blood of inno-cent and poor human beings was neither a holy war nor a service to Islam. He said that he was deeply saddened by the loss of innocent lives.
The local chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... has also piously condemned the Jamrud blast and termed it a cowardly act.
In a statement, JI local chief Shah Faisal said that rustics were paying a heavy price for the government proAmerica policy. The government was chopping its own arms by carrying out military operations in tribal areas, he added.
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So. Is someone taking out the trash, or just wants to be top of the refuse heap themselves?
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[Dawn] Unidentified gun-hung tough guys blew up a primary school for girls in Razaar tehsil of Swabi district in the small hours of Wednesday.
The residents of the area said that the two-room building of the government primary school for girls in Shagai village was badly damaged in the kaboom.
Kalu Khan cop shoppe SHO Mushtaq Khan said that the incident occurred at about 2am. Police reached the spot soon after the kaboom, he added.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified accused and started investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... three houses were damaged in Ali Abbas area when five mortar shells were fired at Hangu city from an unspecified location on Wednesday.
The mortar shells were fired in a short span of half an hour that caused panic among people of the area.
The bomb disposal squad termed the first blast as a hand grenade kaboom but later confirmed that mortar shells were being fired at the city by unidentified terrorists.
Officials said that bomb disposal squad was trying to locate the place from where the mortars were fired but so far no headway had been made in that regard. They said that it would be premature to blame Taliban for the attack.
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Girl's school?
Or did they screw up.
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Girls are are to be kept ignorant so they grow up to be good mooselimb wives, Jim. No mistake, the orcs have been doing this for some time.
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It's ok. The purpose of schools for girls in that part of the world is to be blown up -- that's why they build 'em. It's practice for blowing up non-madrassah boys' schools.
[Dawn] At least 14 personnel of the Frontier Corps died in an ambush by gunnies in the Nawano area of Turbat district late on Wednesday night. I know Turbat is a location, but I always think of the tasty fish when I see the name.
The banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) grabbed credit for the attack.
Official sources said the FC men were on duty in two vehicles on a road in the Nawano area, some 200km southwest of Turbat town, when the gunnies, hiding in nearby mountains, attacked them from three sides with rockets and automatic weapons.
The rockets hit the vehicles, resulting in the death of 12 FC soldiers and two non-commissioned officers.
The gunnies fired around a dozen rockets. Sources said that the gunnies used heavy automatic weapons.
"They fired rockets from the mountains, then came down and fired bullets from a very close range on the FC personnel," the sources said.
The gunniesbeat feet after the attack. The sources said that after receiving information about the attack, a heavy contingent of security forces rushed to the site and took the bodies to Turbat.
A BLF front man, Gohram Baloch, calling from an unknown place told newsmen that his organization was behind the attack.
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Investigators in Thailand have arrested a terror suspect from Lebanon who tried to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists, the Thai government stated Friday. The suspect is believed to belong to Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, the United States warned its citizens in Thailand of the possibility of imminent terrorist attacks in busy tourist areas of Bangkok. The U.S. has passed information to Thai authorities that put the Thai government on high alert. Neighboring countries received similar information.
A statement on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok mentioned "foreign terrorists" who may be planning attacks "in the near future", and said, "U.S. citizens are urged to exercise caution when visiting public areas where large groups of Western tourists gather in Bangkok."
The embassy said U.S. citizens should "maintain a heightened awareness when out in public," and advised them to be on the lookout for unattended packages and bags in public places and other crowded areas. It also suggested that they "keep a low profile in public areas, particularly areas frequented by foreign tourists."
[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Thursday rubbed out 32 people across the country, activists said, as a rights group said troops opened fire on anti-regime protesters as they tried to approach 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... monitors in the country's northwest.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 30 civilians and two army deserters in several regions.
Seventeen people were killed in the northwestern province of Idlib, ten in the central opposition bastion Homs, three in the eastern oil hub of Deir al-Zour, one in the central province of Hama and another in the 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... suburb of Douma, the LCC said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... New York-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said two protesters were shot and maimed as they tried in Idlib's Jisr al-Shughour to meet Arab observers overseeing a deal to stem the bloodshed in the country.
It quoted witnesses as saying observers were in a nearby square, but left in a car after the shooting began.
In other developments, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 2,000 students were demonstrating in the Damascus province town of Irbin on Thursday to demand an end to the regime and the "bringing to justice of the murderers of the Syrian people."
And Syrians were being called to demonstrate on Friday in support of the Free Syrian Army, which consists of deserters from the regular army and claims to have 40,000 men based in Turkey.
Also on Thursday, calls grew for greater protection for journalists in Syria after a French news hound was killed by a shell during a government-organized trip to the flashpoint city of Homs.
La Belle France demanded an investigation into the death of Gilles Jacquier, 43, who worked for La Belle France 2 television, while the U.S. accused Syria of failing to provide an environment hospitable to the media.
Jacquier is the first Western news hound to die in Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in March.
An Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said he died when a shell went kaboom! on Wednesday amid a group of some 15 journalists covering demonstrations in Homs on a visit organized by the authorities.
Six Syrians were also reported killed, and several more people were said to have been maimed.
While anti-regime activists in Homs said the authorities had orchestrated the attack, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said it was "a terrorist group" which had opened fire on the journalists and a gathering of regime supporters.
Wissam Tarif, an Arab campaigner with international activist non-governmental organization Avaaz undermined the government's claims.
"The journalists were attacked in a heavily militarized regime stronghold. It would be hugely difficult for any armed opposition to penetrate the area and launch such a deadly attack," he said.
Tarif also said the incident was an "unacceptable breach of the vaporous Arab League protocol," to which Syria has committed itself and which requires journalists to have freedom to report across Syria.
"The regime has denied journalists free access to the country, forcing them to join press tours organized by the ministry of information and chaperoned closely by regime minders," he said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... said in a statement that "La Belle France expects the Syrian authorities to shed light on the death of a man who was simply doing his job: reporting."
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe separately demanded that the circumstances of the death be clarified and reminded Syria of its duty to protect foreign journalists.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the attack while EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton joined global press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in demanding a rapid inquiry.
The attack on the journalists came hours after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... erupted into the streets of Damascus to address cheering crowds of supporters.
"Without a doubt we will defeat the conspiracy, which is nearing its end and will also be the end for (the conspirators) and their plans," Assad said during the rare public appearance in the capital's Omayyad Square.
The United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... estimated last month that more than 5,000 people had been killed in the crackdown since March, many bumped off during peaceful street protests.
In a nearly two-hour televised speech on Tuesday, Assad vowed to crush "terrorism" with an iron fist.
"Regional and international parties who are trying to destabilize Syria can no longer falsify the facts and events," said the embattled leader.
That prompted opposition movements to accuse him of pushing Syria towards civil war and world powers to accuse him of trying to shift the blame for the 10 months of bloodletting in the protests against his regime.
In Moscow, Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev said, "there is information that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... members and some Arab states of the Persian Gulf, acting in line with the scenario seen in Libya, intend to turn the current interference with Syrian affairs into a direct military intervention."
In this instance, he said in an interview published on the website of the daily Kommersant, "the main strike forces will be supplied not by La Belle France, Britannia and Italia, but possibly by neighboring Turkey."
Washington and Ankara may already be working on plans for a no-fly zone to enable armed Syrian rebel units to build up, he said.
On Wednesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... met the prime minister of crucial Gulf ally Qatar at the White House, and discussed the deepening violence in Syria, officials said.
"In particular, they condemned the ongoing violence in Syria perpetrated by the Assad regime and noted the significance of the Arab League observer mission's final report due on January 19," the White House said.
Critics say the mission has been completely outmaneuvered by Damascus, with the opposition Moslem Brüderbund accusing it of covering up "crimes of the Syrian regime".
Syria said on Thursday it would set up a commission of inquiry into the death of French journalist Gilles Jacquier, killed by a shell in the flashpoint city of Homs on Wednesday, official media said.
"The governor of Homs, Ghassan Abdul Al, issued a decision to create a commission charged with investigating the circumstances of the terrorist attack that cost the life of the French journalist and eight Syrians," the official SANA news agency said.
The commission will consist of a judge, the head of criminal security in Homs, two weapons experts and a representative from the La Belle France 2 television channel Jacquier worked for, according to SANA.
The award-winning Jacquier was the first Western news hound to die in Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March last year.
An Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said he was killed when a shell went kaboom! among some 15 journalists covering demonstrations in Homs on a visit organized by the authorities.
The international community has called on the Syrian authorities to guarantee the protection of journalists in the country.
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Let's see now:
Foreign terrorists
Mossad
Bush did it
It was an accident
What journalist?
The CIA
Take your pick, we already know that the answer will be one of the above.
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like OJ trying to find teh "real killers"
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The opposition Syrian National Council accused the regime on Thursday of "liquidating" journalists in order to hush up what is happening in the country, a day after a French news hound was killed.
The SNC's accusation came as La Belle France demanded an investigation into the death the previous day of Gilles Jacquier, 43, who worked for La Belle France 2 television, during a government-organized trip to the flashpoint city of Homs.
The SNC denounced the "murder" of Jacquier, saying it was a "dangerous sign that the authorities have decided to physically liquidate journalists in an attempt to silence neutral and independent media."
The award-winning Jacquier, who had covered conflicts in Iraq, Kosovo and Afghanistan, was the first Western news hound to die in Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March last year.
An Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said he was killed when a shell went kaboom! among some 15 journalists covering demonstrations in Homs on a visit organized by the authorities.
Six Syrians were also reported killed, and several other people maimed.
Anti-regime activists in Homs also said the authorities had orchestrated the attack, while state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
blamed "a terrorist group" that had opened fire on the journalists and a gathering of regime supporters.
Wissam Tarif, an Arab campaigner with international activist non-governmental organization Avaaz, undermined the government's claims.
"The journalists were attacked in a heavily militarized regime stronghold. It would be hugely difficult for any armed opposition to penetrate the area and launch such a deadly attack," he said.
Tarif also said the incident was an "unacceptable breach of 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... protocol," to which Syria has committed itself and which requires journalists to have freedom to report across Syria.
"The regime has denied journalists free access to the country, forcing them to join press tours organized by the ministry of information and chaperoned closely by regime minders," he said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... said in a statement that "La Belle France expects the Syrian authorities to shed light on the death of a man who was simply doing his job: reporting."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the attack, saying the "deaths highlight once again the terrible price being paid by the people of Homs, as well as the courage of journalists who take great personal risks to bring to light what is happening to the people of Syria."
And EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton joined global press watchdog Reporters Without Borders in demanding a rapid inquiry.
The SNC urged international organizations to deal with the "crimes perpetrated by the regime against Syrian and foreign journalists."
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Kill one journalist (and French at that) and its time for International outrage. But kill thousands of your own citizens? Fey!
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And you would think it would be just the other way around.
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[An Nahar] Two 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... monitors in Syria have quit, officials said on Thursday as the head of the operation accused an Algerian observer who resigned of making unfounded claims about the operation.
"Two monitors have excused themselves, an Algerian and an Sudanese," Syria operations chief Adnan Khodeir said at Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
He said that the Algerian monitor quit "for health reasons," while the Sudanese "was returning to his country for personal reasons."
On Wednesday, Algerian Anwar Malek told Doha-based Al-Jazeera that he had quit the mission and accused the Syrian regime of committing a series of war crimes against its people and of duping his colleagues.
But the head of the mission slammed Malek's claims as "baseless" because since his deployment to the flashpoint city of Homs in central Syria he stayed in his hotel room and did not join other observers in the field.
"What observer Anwar Malek said on a satellite television is baseless," General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, former head of Sudanese military intelligence, who leads the operations in Syria, said in a statement.
"Malek was deployed to Homs among a team but for six days he did not leave his room and did not join members of the team on the ground, pretending he was sick," Dabi said in the statement.
He echoed remarks by an unnamed Arab League official who said Malek was bedridden throughout his assignment in Homs and his accusations unfounded.
"What I saw was a humanitarian disaster. The regime isn't committing one war crime but a series of crimes against its people," the Algerian observer told Al-Jazeera.
"The mission was a farce and the observers have been fooled. The regime orchestrated it and fabricated most of what we saw to stop the vaporous Arab League from taking action against the regime," he said.
According to Dabi, the Algerian monitor requested leave for medical treatment in Gay Paree but departed before waiting for the green light.
Meanwhile Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi told a private Egyptian television late Wednesday that reports he is receiving from Dabi on the mission are "extremely worrying."
Earlier this week Arabi had warned that the mission launched on December 26 to end the Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on democracy protesters could be suspended, after three monitors were hurt in an attack.
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