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[Tolo News] As many as six people including four local police and two non-combatants were killed in remote controlled kaboom in southern Kapisa province on Monday morning, local officials said.
The incident happened at around 11:00 am local time when a suicide kaboomer detonated his explosives at Tagab district of Kapisa province wounding 17 others, 202 Shamshad Zone Media Center said in a statement.
This comes as, Hussain Khan Sanjani, head of provincial council in Kapisa told Washington Post that a local police commander along with his son and two bodyguards were also among the deaths.
No groups including have claimed the responsibility of the attack.
This comes as four French soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Nejrab district of Kapisa province earlier this month, Isaf confirmed the incident.
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An Æthiopian security officer with the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... faced up to 10 years in jail after a court in Addis Ababa found him guilty Monday of "participating in a terrorist organization."
"The defendant has not convinced us that he did not commit a crime... he's guilty," judge Mulugeta Kidane said.
Abdurahman Sheikh Hassan, who was based in Æthiopia's troubled southeastern Ogaden region, was charged last July with having links to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a secessionist rebel group.
He is charged along with Sherif Baido, whom the charge sheet lists as a senior member of the ONLF and was convicted on the same charge in absentia, according to Mulugeta.
The two men face five to ten years in prison. The court is expected to deliver a sentence on Friday.
Hassan was incarcerated Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! after negotiating the release of two U.N. World Food Program (WFP) officers kidnapped in the Ogaden.
Judge Mulugeta said defense witnesses failed to prove Hassan did not have links to ONLF members.
The key evidence used by the prosecution was recordings of phone conversations between Hassan and his co-defendant.
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(Sh. M. Network)-The administration of Afgoye district for Somali government, declared that Al shabab forces of Evil failed yesterday to carry out a suicide kaboom at army base in Afgoye, 30 Km north-west Mogadishu,Somalia capital.
Abdullah Ibi, the district commissioner of Afgoye for TFG told Shabelle Media that security forces managed on Saturday to intercept and prevent a car-laden with explosives that Al shabab intended to detonate an army base at Bar Ismail area in Afgoye district.
"Al shabab used to carry out such attacks when they lose main positions in the battle with Somali and Africa Union peacekeeping soldiers," said Mr.Ibi, adding that only the jacket wallah had lost his life in the failed attack.
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(Sh.M.Network)- Somali security forces have placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! alleged Al shabab Death Eaters in connection with the insecurity situation Mogadishu after search operations in the past few days, an official said on Sunday.
Omar Abdulle Ja'fan, the district commissioner of Huriwa for Somali government, told news hounds inMogadishuthat more than 10 people charged to have links with Al shabab were placed in long-term storage Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! during crackdowns during cordon and search operations undertaken by a joint security team made up of police and military forces of TFG in Huriwa district.
"We placed in long-term storage He came out and they shot anyway... these criminals as they dressed in military uniform and committing acts against local people living in Huriwa district after successful operations," said Ja'fan, adding denied that there are any illegal roadblocks set up in Huriwa district.
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(Sh. M. Network)- At least One person dead and Two others sustained somber wounds after a roadside kaboom struck on car belonging to a well-known Somali Elder in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Sunday.
Elder Mohammed Hassan Haad, the chairman of Huwiya clan elders, confirmed to Shabelle Media that a vehicle carrying his two youngsters accompanying a girl detonated a bomb on Sunday night at Hamar-Bile village in Mogadishu's Wardhigley district.
"My two sons and a girl suffered variety of wounds in the kaboom as they were driving a Surf car on Sunday night inside Hamar-Bile neighborhood. They were admitted to a hospital for treatment," said the Elder, adding that a nearby civilian was killed.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... broke out between Somali government troops allied with Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a (ASWJ) fighters and Al shabab cut-throats at townships in Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, reports.
Witnesses said, the battle started after Somali government soldiers and ASWJ fighters attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying Al shabab cut-throats at Tulo-Barwaqo area in Gedo region controlled by the Islamist.
Sheik Mohammed Hussein (Al Qadi), the front man of ASWJ, confirmed to Shabelle media that the coalition forces have killed at least two Al shabab combatants while many others injured during their attack.
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(Sh. M. Network)-At least one person was reportedly killed and many others were maimed as two heavily armed Somali pirate groups fired at each other in the coastal district Hobyo, Mudug region on Monday morning, reports said.
Heavily armed boys will be boys...
Witnesses in Hobyo town, north-central Mudug region of Somalia, said the fighting erupted when a bunch of pirates tried to apprehend forcibly another pirate gang in the group, and then started firing guns at each other.
"We woke up this morning hearing the barrage of bullets and sounds of artillery fire exchanging between two groups of Somali pirates in Hobyo town. The fighting continued for hours and one pirate has been slain in that combat, a resident told Shabelle Media via phone from Hobyo.
Hours of fighting all for one deader? Someone needs time at the range...
According to the latest reports indicated that the situation returned to calm and the skirmish subsided. The fighting halted for moment the movement of people and vehicles, frustrating locals.
The town of Honyo in Mudug region of --North-central Somalia is believed to be one of pirates hide outs in the country where they can operate without much interference.
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Good. Let them all kill each other.
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TOPIX > EGYPT ANALYSTS WARN OF NEW POLITICAL CRISIS BREWING.
ARTIC > VARI PERTS = denote that ...
> Victory of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is a real + symbolic victory for both Egyptian + Regional Radical Islamism.
> Egypt's military remains highly pro-Status Quo + anti-Reform, preferring to turn back the clock to how it was under the establishment of the [pre-reform] Mubarak Govt-Regime.Egypt's military turned on Mubarak when it began to introduce reforms due to popular pressure = "Arab/islamic Spring" Protests.
EGYPT'S WESTERNIZED MODERN ARMY? CIVIL NUCPROGS?
SUEZ CANAL INT'L TRADE?
[An Nahar] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists on Monday claimed suicide kabooms on three churches in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state that killed at least 16 and sparked riots that killed dozens more.
"Allah has given us victory in the attacks we launched against churches in (the cities of) Kaduna and Zaria which resulted in the deaths of many Christians and security personnel," said the email statement sent by Abul Qaqa, the purported Boko Haram front man who has similarly claimed previous attacks.
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[Yemen Post] Three non-combatants were killed in a landmine kaboom in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , a province in south Yemen where the army drove out Al-Qaeda forces of Evil in the past few days, the interior ministry reported.
The landmine went kaboom! while the victims were passing on the highroad during a tour to inspect their house in Zinjibar, the capital, after the battles between the army and the forces of Evil since mid-2011, it said.
After defeating Al-Qaeda forces of Evil and driving them from the key towns sized last year, the authorities started removing landmines planted by the krazed killers.
Today's casualties were the first amid warnings by the authorities the people should not rush back to their homes for now.
In the meantime, the defense ministry said technical teams are continuing removing thousands of landmines, which were planted by the forces of Evil at roads, entrances of towns, farms and where they were stationed.
"The technical teams have been urged to work around the clock to prevent similar incidents amid preparations by the authorities to help many families to return to their homes in Abyan," the ministry said.
In recent years, many civilians including children have been killed in landmine kabooms in south and north Yemen.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda has grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom that left a senior commander in the southern port city of Aden killed on Monday morning.
Earlier the day, only a few hours after withdrawing from Azan, al-Qaeda stronghold in the southeastern province of Shabwa, a Somali national went kaboom!" and killed Salem Qatan, the commander of the Southern Military Region, as well as two of his guards.
Qatan has a major role in dislodging the forces of Evil from their strongholds in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... as the military troops under his command have been very active since he assumed his position two months ago.
In a statement of which BBC obtained a copy, al-Qaeda said that the attack is retaliation to the military campaign waged against its forces of Evil in Abyan's towns, vowing to target more officials in the days to come.
After it pulled out from the three key strongholds in Abyan province, al-Qaeda threatened to move the war to the capital and that it would chase the" crusaders --the leaders of the war against the terror network-- to their cities and palaces.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda-linked Death Eaters on Sunday pulled out peacefully from Azan, al-Qaeda stronghold in the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa after a tribal committee, comprised of tribal chiefs and dignitaries from the province, managed to persuade them to withdraw in order to spare Azan war and bloodshed, local source told al-Masdar news website.
Yaslam Bajnoub, a member in the tribal committee, said the tribal committees have taken over the checkpoints in and at the entrances of the town after the Death Eaters withdrew completely from the town, which had been under the myrmidons' control for months.
Realizing that the government is resolved this time to eliminate the beturbanned goons and push them out from Azan, a tribal committee was formed on Saturday with the aim of sparing their town from carnage and destruction which were absolutely going to take place as the government was planning to storm Azan and recapture it from the terror network.
The committee was formed a day after the armed forces regained control of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... completely after the myrmidon group held it for over a year.
Locals from Azan confirmed to the website that al-Qaeda Death Eaters withdrew completely from the town and that they saw trucks carrying them leaving the town.
They said that the Death Eaters started last night surrendering the town to tribal committees which will take up the role of preserving security.
On Sunday, soldiers were seen manning the main intersections in the capital of Sana'a and searching every car in a bid to foil any retaliatory al-Qaeda attack. Female soldiers were available to search women as al-Qaeda Death Eaters have reportedly used women's clothes before to infiltrate military checkpoints in Abyan.
The terror network had threatened that it would move the war to the capital and that it would chase crusaders to their cities and palaces after its elements were defeated and dislodged from Abyan.
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Little 12 year old girls Al-Qaeda run away like cowards again?
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[Yemen Post] A massive combing operation has been launched to clear the remaining Al-Qaeda Death Eaters from all areas in Yemen's Shabwa province, a day after Al-Qaeda retreated from its main stronghold in the Azzan area.
Forces and popular committees are participating in the operation, which was commenced in the capital Ataq and headed toward the southern parts.
The operation coincided with a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to assassin Shabwa governor Ali Al-Ahmedi and the suicide kaboom which killed commander of the southern military region in Aden this morning, Salim Qatan
Over the past few months, the Yemeni army in association with tribal fighters has fought Al-Qaeda Death Eaters and driven them out of their strongholds in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province. The Death Eaters received severe blows, with hundreds of them including big shots killed, injured and nabbed Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! After the army retook control of Abyan, it pursued the fleeing Death Eaters targeting their positions in Shabwa and other nearby provinces. Tens of Death Eaters have been killed in Arclight airstrikes and battles so far.
The US is providing direct support on the offensive against Al-Qaeda, which exploited the unrest last year to occupy key towns and declare them Islamic emirates in south Yemen.
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A total of seven armed suspects were killed in a firefight with a joint Mexican security road patrol late Sunday night in central Veracruz state, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news item posted on the website of Proceso news weekly, the confrontation took place in near the village of La Gloria in Ursulo Galvan municipality, where the security patrol signalled the drivers of two vehicles to stop, but instead were met with preparations to fire weapons by the armed suspects.
La Raza news daily reported the patrol was a joint patrol comprising Veracruz state police agents as well as Mexican Army units.
After the confrontation, patrol elements seized four rifles, ten weapons magazines, communications gear and the two vehicles.
Ursulo Galvan is a coastal municipality, about 20 kilometers north of the port city of Veracruz and 40 kilometers southeast of Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz state.
Veracruz state has been the scene of a major security operation for the last 18 months dubbed Seguro Veracruz, a security program operated jointly by state and federal security forces including Mexican Army and Mexican Naval Infantry forces.
The security operation, similar to one in the La Laguna region and in places such as Tamaulipas state, seeks to concentrate security forces in choke points used by the drug cartels to ship product, shooters and munitions north to the US border crossings.
FORT HOOD -- A military judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to delay the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the fatal 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.
The judge postponed Maj. Nidal Hasan's pre-trial hearing earlier this month because the defendant had grown a beard, ... The real reason is to hold the Court Martial when they know a President is in the Oval office who will NOT prevent Hassan from being summarily executed by a full firing squad. In favor of the delay as long as conditions become right for that day to be assured.
While he is yet confined and not tried, that worthless murdering piece of kak is still a commissioned officer in the United States Army. As such he is subject to the USMJ and the grooming strandards of the Army. So-called relaxed grooming standards do not apply to officers in pre-trial confinement.
Give the murdering bastid a direct order to immediately repair. If he refuses, he has disobeyed a direct order and can be then be punished via Article-15 and forteiture of pay and as a prisoner in pre-trail confinement, he can be forceably groomed, deloused, bathed, clothed, medicated, whatever is necessary.
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The firing squad is unlike not because of the President but the Military Court of Appeals which like its civilian counterpart disregards the Constitution that stipulates that with due process one may be deprived of life.
As amended -
VII - "..nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.."
XIV - "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.."
Because, you know, it's a living breathing document [disregarding the Article V process].
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Lead defense attorney Lt. Col. Kris Poppe says Hasan grew the beard as a deeply sincere expression of his Islamic faith and because he has a premonition he will die soon.
H/T The Holy Blogfaddah Massive Bombing Exercises Reported at Fort Knox - Have Been Ongoing For The Past Several Weeks
Infidel Bloggers Alliance Contributor Christine, who lives in Kentucky near Fort Knox, reports that massive bombing exercises have been ongoing for several weeks.
Locals who have lived in the area for a long time say these kinds of exercises are unprecedented.
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Fort Knox has been SERIOUSLY rocking today. The bombing has been going on since early this morning. Been like a day long earthquake.
Somethings up. Doesn't make sense to me. I'm just an old ex-enlisted squid, but this story would make more sense as a precursor of Something Really Really Big if it was happening at, say, Fort Hood or Fort Irwin. I'll gladly accept correction from any current or former Army types, but IIRC, Knox is mostly a venue for junior EM's and 2nd Lt's getting their initial training as Armor crew and officers - not a place where large combined-arms units are doing live fire workups preparatory to going somewhere hot.
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Doesn't make sense to me, either. I checked the post website, nothing unusual noted. Looks like this summer's first class of cadets just arrived on June 14. Terrain at Ft. Knox doesn't match anything in Syria or Iran so I would also expect something like Ft. Irwin or even Ft. Carson.
My guess is it's a lot of nothing. Maybe they are using a range they haven't used in a while or something that is closer to where this person lives.
Person reporting this has only lived there six months. Person reporting says locals "don't remember this much activity in a long time" but that is qualified with "we don't really notice it much anymore" so it might be one of those things that gets noticed when attention is called to it.
NOTE: I grew up near a military base and we were told by our parents not to pay much mind to "military business". I am surprised this person is reporting this in this manner. Personal opinion: she should (trying to find a nice way to put it) STFU
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Some years ago an anal-retentive professor I know was testing an experimental sensor system at the Fort Knox shooting range. This guy loved very large digital video databases - there was no other excuse for his range behavior. He had Russian and US high velocity sniper rifles and over time blew the berms up so bad that the range needed to be rebuilt. In addition, he totally wore out two Dragunovs and an unlucky shooter's ear drums. All he got out of it was huge stacks of hard drives full of mostly useless crap.
So what I am trying to say is "Don't assume that there is any strategic intent by what you are hearing!"
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As an alumus of the Armor School (AOBC,AOAC)
and a veteran of nights at the Fiddler's Green, (O-Cubb and the Brick Mess), its not a combined arms site, but if there are several simultanous enlisted and officer classes sharing the range for main gun tables, it does get loud and for a prolonged period, day and night tank gunnery tables. A new neighbor might get that impression
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I suggested on her blog that she call the post community relations number if she is concerned about her proximity to the shelling. They're probably closed now but they're probably more eager to talk to someone on the phone than to have to deal with idle speculation on the Internet.
After an early morning kaboom targeted at a university bus that killed four students, another bomb went kaboom! at Quetta's Sariab road. Four men received injuries in that, DawnNews reported on Monday.
The kaboom was placed at the side of the road. Four pedestrians, including a child, were maimed by the blast, police sources said.
Injured have been taken to the civil hospital of the city.
Police have cordoned off the area and started investigations of the incident.
Two people were rubbed out in the same area after the blast which created a panic--like situation in the area.
Earlier today, a car boom tore into a university bus in Pakistain's insurgency-torn southwest, killing four people and wounding more than 40 others, mostly Shia students, police said.
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[Dawn] At least six people were rubbed out and six others injured in different incidents of firing in various areas of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Monday, police and ambulance sources said.
They said that two men were bumped off by unknown gunnies in Sherpao Colony. The dear departed were identified as Akhtar Khan, 50 and Zubair 35.
Their bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medico legal formalities.
Separately, in a clash between two rival groups at Pehlwan Goth, Gulistan-e-Johar at least nine people were maimed. They were rushed to nearby hospitals, where a seriously injured man and a woman breathed their last.
The dear departed were identified as Imdad, 22 and Gulshan Bibi, 40. Shops and markets in the area went closed after the incident. Police and rangers started a search operation in the area and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Please don't kill me! at least 10 suspects.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pool hall, Peoria Slim had found another sucker... two people were killed by unidentified armed assailants in New Bloody Karachi. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where one of the victims was identified as Amir.
Moreover, 30-year old Sher Khan was injured by unknown gunnies in Frontier Colony, Metroville. He was shifted to the JPMC.
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[Dawn] Four Indian coppers have been tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in Kashmire for alleged links with rebels fighting against Indian rule, the police chief of the disputed Himalayan region said Monday.
The case has rattled Indian authorities who administer the tense region, where cut-throats have waged a violent campaign for decades demanding independence or a merger with neighboring Pakistain.
The alleged rebel ties were discovered last week during a routine investigation into a recent shooting attack on a former krazed killer, police chief Rajendra Kumar said.
Authorities have tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! two intelligence officials and two low-ranking coppers, and two more suspected officers are still on the lam, he said.
Kumar said the six are believed to have links to Kashmire's largest krazed killer group, Hizbul Mujahideen. Officials are investigating whether they might have helped rebels stage attacks, procure arms, avoid arrest or move undetected through the region.
One of the suspects, a constable who has worked undercover infiltrating rebel groups in the past, was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! briefly in 2008 for allegedly buying cell phone cards used by gunnies in deadly attacks that year in Mumbai. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the constable, Mukhtar Ahmed, was released after authorities said he had made the purchase as part of his undercover work.
Ahmed's re-arrest follows new evidence that suggests he may have operated outside of his official mandate on behalf of the rebels, Kumar said.
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[An Nahar] Bombings in Iraq, including one targeting the deputy head of a Shiite religious foundation, killed two people and maimed five on Monday, officials said.
Sami al-Massudi, the deputy head of the Shiite endowment which oversees Shiite religious sites in Iraq, said a roadside kaboom hit his convoy at about 12:15 pm (0915 GMT) in the Saidiyah area of south Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Massudi said the bomb, which maimed three of his bodyguards, hit the middle vehicle in his convoy.
The attack came on the same day that employees found a threatening letter in the central Storied Baghdad headquarters of the endowment, which was destroyed in a suicide car booming on June 4 that killed 25 people.
"We say to the Safavid rejecters (Shiites) that this is a first letter that you received with the color and smell of blood, and the sound that will make you deaf, and what is coming, with God's permission, will be much stronger," the letter said, according to Massudi, who added it was "signed by Al-Qaeda."
On Wednesday, 72 people were killed in a wave of attacks across Iraq that were claimed by Al-Qaeda, some of which targeted Shiites, a majority in the country.
And on Saturday, 32 people were killed in two car boomings against Shiite pilgrims in Storied Baghdad.
Also on Monday, a roadside kaboom targeted a police patrol in Baquba, north of Storied Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding two others, and a shepherd was killed by a roadside kaboom east of the city, a police lieutenant colonel said.
Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital said the facility had received two bodies and two other people who were maimed.
Violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, but attacks remain common, especially in the capital. A total of 132 Iraqis were killed in violence in May, according to official figures.
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Saudi, Egyptian citizen purportedly launched the attack that killed an Israeli worker, video shows; over 30 rockets fired from Gaza in past day, at least six Palestinians killed in IDF strikes on the Strip. An al-Qaida-linked group calling itself "The Shura Council of Mujahideen in the Holy Land" claimed responsibility Tuesday for a cross-border attack along Israel's southern border that killed one construction worker on Monday.
Reuters obtained a video showing a group of masked men who claimed responsibility for the attack. The masked men used Islamic slogans, pledging to liberate the Holy Land from what they termed Jewish control.
A second video showed two men, one of whom said they were about to embark on a mission to attack "the Zionist forces on the border of Egypt and occupied Palestine", an apparent reference to Monday's incident on the Sinai border.
The first man said he was an Egyptian named Abu Salah al-Masri. The other said he came from Saudi Arabia and gave his name as Abu Huthiyfa al-Rathali. The videos could not immediately be verified.
Meanwhile, Some 30 rockets and mortar shells pounded southern Israel on Tuesday, in one of the worst days of violence in months. Israel was expected to escalate its response and Defense Minister Ehud Barak held security consultations late Tuesday night to review various options
Tensions rising in south: Air Force fires at Paleostinians as they attempt to plant bomb near Gazoo fence early Tuesday; army killed four beturbanned goons in two separate Arclight airstrikes earlier
Gazoo escalation in cards? Air Force aircraft fired at a Paleostinian terror cell early Tuesday as its members were attempting to plant an bomb near the central Gazoo Strip border fence.
The army said the attack target was hit. Paleostinian sources later confirmed that the strike left casualties on the Paleostinian side; no further details were provided.
The latest attack marked the third Israeli airstrike in the Strip in the past 24 hours.
"The IDF will not tolerate any bid to harm the State of Israel's citizens and IDF soldiers and will continue to operate against any element that utilizes terror against the State of Israel," the military said following the strike. "The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group is the address and it bears the responsibility."
The latest attack marked the third Israeli Arclight airstrike in the Strip in the past 24 hours.
Rocket cell hit
Earlier, the Air Force struck a terror cell as it prepared to fire rockets at Israel; two bad boyz were potted in that strike, including a member of Hamas' military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The strike was carried out after a rocket went kaboom! in southern Israel, causing no injuries.
Another rocket was fired from Gazoo following the strike and went kaboom! in an open area in the town of Sderot; no injuries were reported.
Also Monday, the Air Force killed two beturbanned goons belonging to the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... 's military wing in a midday strike.
Army officials said that Gazoo strikes were not connected to the terror attack on the Egypt border Monday morning that left one Israeli laborer working on the border fence construction project dead.
[Jerusalem Post] Barak on border attack from Sinai which killed Israeli workman, 2 terrorists: "New Egyptian president must clear Sinai of terror."
The army will bolster its presence along the border with Egypt and troops will remain on high alert after bully boyz killed an Israeli construction worker there on Monday.
The attack was perpetrated by a cell consisting of about four terrorists. Two men crossed into Israel, planted a roadside kaboom and detonated it next to jeeps carrying staff on their way to work on the fence that Israel is building along the Sinai border.
Said Phashpashe, an Israeli Arab from Haifa and the father of four children, was killed. After detonating the bomb, the bully boyz shot up the jeeps, using weapons that included a rocket-propelled grenade.
A force from the Golani Brigade immediately arrived, a shootout ensued and a bomb carried by one of the bully boyz went kaboom!. Two bad boyz were potted in the shootout.
Col. Tal Hermoni, commander of the Southern Gazoo Brigade, said the soldiers' quick response prevented a larger attack from taking place. Sources said it was possible that the bully boyz had planned to either kidnap an Israeli or infiltrate a nearby Israeli community with the aim of killing as many people as possible.
Fearing additional attacks and that some of the bully boyz were still in Israel, the IDF moved a number of Merkava tanks up to the border to help protect against additional infiltrations. The tanks were removed immediately after the IDF confirmed that all of the bully boyz had been accounted for.
The decision to move the tanks up along the border was made while considering the peace treaty with Egypt, which forbids the deployment of Israeli tanks in the area. IDF sources said they were deployed as the attack was unfolding and that it was part of a defensive posture.
By the afternoon, the IDF had ruled out the possibility that bully boyz remained in Israel and shifted its focus to determining the identities of the attackers. The army confirmed that it did not have intelligence about the attack.
IDF sources said that one possibility was that the bully boyz were Paleostinians from Gazoo who had crossed into Sinai and then into Israel for the attack. Another possibility was that the attackers were Beduin from Sinai who were operating on behalf of a Paleostinian terrorist group.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel expected the new president in Egypt -- whoever they may be -- to retake control of the Sinai Peninsula and to clear it of terrorist infrastructure.
"We expect the president to take responsibility for all of Egypt's international commitments, including the peace treaty with Israel, and to ensure security arrangements are in place in Sinai to stop these kind of attacks," Barak said.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the attack on the border with Egypt would not deter Israel from building the security barrier.
"This barrier is meant both to prevent terrorism and also to prevent the entrance of infiltrators. Its construction is of supreme national interest," Netanyahu said.
Monday morning's attack was the most sophisticated infiltration from Sinai since the attacks last August 18 that killed eight Israelis. Israel said that last year's attacks were orchestrated by the Popular Resistance Committees -- a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, offshoot based in Gazoo -- but were carried out by Beduin from Sinai.
[Al Ahram] Two Paleostinians were killed Monday in a second Israeli air strike on the northern Gazoo town of Beit Hanun, raising the overall toll to four dead, Paleostinian medics said.
"Two people were killed in a Zionist air strike on a street in Beit Hanun," an official at Kamal Edwan hospital told AFP after the second such strike on the town in seven hours.
At least three other people were maimed in the attack, he said, without saying how badly.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers of Gazoo, identified one of the dead men as one of its activists, 23-year-old Jihad Abu Shbab, a statement said.
A medical source named the other dead man as Mohammed al-Zaanin, 25, and said he was not affiliated with any armed faction.
The earlier strike targeted a cycle of violence just east of Beit Hanun, killing two Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... activists, medics and witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying it had targeted "a terrorist squad attempting to fire a rocket at Israel." Troops identified "a direct hit," the statement said.
The two air strikes came just hours after after gunnies mounted a bushwhack along Israel's southern border with Egypt, killing an Israeli civilian construction worker.
But an Israeli military source earlier insisted the initial air strike was "in no way related to today's incident along the Israel-Egypt border."
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[Jerusalem Post] Two Paleostinians were killed in festivities with the Lebanese Armed Forces in the north Leb refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared on Monday, The Daily Star reported.
According to the report, Lebanese soldiers opened fire and killed the men after they attacked military posts within the camp. Three soldiers and ten Paleostinians were maimed in the incident.
The Paleostinians who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the LAF military posts were part of a funeral procession for a 15-year-old boy, killed during a standoff between local residents and soldiers last week.
[An Nahar] At least one Paleostinian was killed and several people, including three Lebanese soldiers, were maimed on Monday in festivities that erupted between the Lebanese army and residents of the Paleostinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared during the funeral of Ahmed Qassem, who was killed during unrest at the camp on Friday.
An official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... told Agence La Belle France Presse that "one Paleostinian refugee was killed and seven others were maimed" by gunfire.
The Lebanese Army Command said in a statement that the three soldiers were maimed in the festivities.
The army used "tear gas and rubber bullets, and then fired live rounds at people who insisted on attacking (a military post), leading to several of the attackers being injured," said the statement.
It added that youths threw Molotov cocktails at the soldiers and torched an army vehicle as well as part of the military post.
A camp resident said soldiers had opened fire on the youths without provocation.
"The situation in the camp has been tense for days," another camp resident told AFP. "Both the army and the youths were provoking each other. We fear something bigger is being prepared, because the army is deploying in large numbers around the camp now."
Al-Manar television said that the residents surrounded an army vehicle before setting it on fire.
Conflicting reports have emerged over the number of injuries, with LBC television saying that four people were maimed and al-Manar television saying around 10 were maimed.
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