An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation, in Watahpur district, Kunar province, ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... yesterday. The target of the operation was Khatab Shafiq, a Lashkar-e-Taiba leader. Khatab Shafiq was the LeT's senior leader in Kunar province. He was responsible for several attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, and provided money, weapons and training to insurgents in the region. Khatab Shafiq also established multiple insurgent training camps in eastern Afghanistan, where insurgents learned how to use mortars, rockets and machine guns. Most recently, he was involved with teaching insurgents how to build and emplace improvised explosive devices. During the operation, the security force positively identified Khatab Shafiq among an armed group of insurgents. After determining there were no civilians in the area, the security force engaged the insurgents with a precision airstrike away from all civilian structures. After the strike, the Afghan and coalition security force conducted a follow-on assessment and confirmed Khatab Shafiq, along with multiple other insurgents, had been killed. The assessment also confirmed the strike had not harmed any civilians or damaged any civilian property. Following the initial airstrike, the security force identified several more armed insurgents in the immediate area and engaged them with a second precision airstrike. A follow-on assessment confirmed the second precision airstrike had killed several insurgents but had not harmed any civilians or damaged any civilian property.
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It's both amazing AND disgusting we have to abide by almost impossible rules-of-engagement whilst our enemy is free to fight us in unfettered fashion.
Here's a story where the best outcome is a bloody tie...
KABUL: Hundreds of thousands of Afghans face the threat of deportation back to their war-torn country from Pakistan once a deadline expires today, but Kabul is crying foul over the move.
Pakistan is home to 1.7 million refugees and hundreds of thousands more unregistered migrants from its neighbour, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). But Islamabad says it cannot be expected to tolerate illegal migrants, and 400,000 undocumented Afghans in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the bulk of the Afghan community live, face the imminent prospect of removal.
The UNHCR describes the situation of Afghans in Pakistan as the largest and most protracted refugee crisis in the world and warned that the question of how to deal with it was becoming increasingly politicised. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said law enforcement agencies had been told to compile lists of illegal Afghans and once the June 30 deadline passed, orders would be issued for their arrest, appearance in court and subsequent deportation to Afghanistan. No country allows illegal immigrants, how it is possible to legalise something which is illegal? Hussain said. We have been accommodating Afghan immigrants for 32 years. The provincial government cannot take their burden any more. They should go back to their country.
But Afghans are nervous about welcoming home so many jobless, impoverished people to a country where returnees have in the past struggled to find work and roofs over their heads. The government in Kabul denied the expulsions would take place. Afghan refugee ministry spokesman Islamuddin Jurat conceded there was a small problem in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but said the two sides had agreed to solve the issue and give the Afghans some legal status to stay there.
The Afghan-Pakistani border is notoriously porous and even if the deportations were to go into effect there would be little to stop returnees coming back to Pakistan.
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[Al Ahram] Sudanese police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters outside an opposition party mosque on Friday, the 14th day of anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, a witness said. Protesters had gathered in the capital's Hijra Square beside the mosque of the opposition Umma party.
The witness said demonstrators carried Sudanese flags and banners reading "The people want the regime to fall," a slogan used by protesters during the Arab Spring uprisings against regional strongmen over the past year.
After the tear gas and an unknown number of arrests, demonstrators burned tyres and threw stones at police before running for cover, the witness said. Demonstrators planned major protests for Friday and Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of a coup by 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. .
Human rights groups say scores of people have been placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since the protests against high food prices began on June 16 at the University of Khartoum.
After Bashir announced austerity measures, including tax hikes and an end to cheap fuel, the protests spread to include a cross-section of people in numerous locations throughout the capital and other parts of Sudan.
Demonstrators, typically in groups of 100 or 200, have burned tyres, thrown stones and blocked roads in a call for regime change which has almost universally been met by police tear gas.
Bashir, suggesting that someone was behind the disturbances, has called them small-scale and not comparable to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere. He maintains that he himself is popular.
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... peaceful Sudan protesters tear-gassed
Caught them before they can work themselves up, eh?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Armed security agents on Friday raided the AFP bureau in Khartoum and arrested a part-time correspondent who had taken pictures of an anti-regime protest.
The two agents from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), one of them wielding a pistol, seized Talal Saad, a local journalist who had just begun work as a temporary correspondent for the agency, at about 1550 GMT.
They claimed he would come back in two hours.
The raid took place shortly after Saad arrived at the AFP office with pictures he had taken of an anti-regime protest in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.
The NISS refused to let the AFP staff correspondent make a telephone call, and threatened to seize every computer in the bureau unless the pictures were deleted. AFP complied with the request.
Saad is a Sudanese journalist with the local newspaper Al Tayar.
National Security agents last week held AFP correspondent Simon Martelli for more than 12 hours without charge after he talked to students and took pictures at the University of Khartoum, where protests sparked by inflation began two weeks ago.
A correspondent for international news wire Bloomberg, Salma El Wardany, an Egyptian, was deported by Sudan on Tuesday, after also being detained while trying to cover the country's widening protest movement.
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KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters outside an opposition party mosque yesterday, the 14th day of anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, a witness said.
Lord Kitchener to the red courtesy phone, please...
Protesters had gathered in the capitals Hijra Square beside the mosque of the opposition Umma party. The witness said demonstrators carried Sudanese flags and banners reading The people want the regime to fall, a slogan used by protesters during the Arab Spring uprisings against regional strongmen over the past year.
After the tear gas and an unknown number of arrests, demonstrators burned tires and threw stones at police before running for cover, the witness said.
Demonstrators planned major protests for yesterday and today, the 23rd anniversary of a coup by Thug-in-Chief President Omar Bashir. Human rights groups say scores of people have been detained since the protests against high food prices began on June 16 at the University of Khartoum.
After Bashir announced austerity measures, including tax hikes and an end to cheap fuel, the protests spread to include a cross-section of people in numerous locations throughout the capital and other parts of Sudan. Demonstrators, typically in groups of 100 or 200, have burned tires, thrown stones and blocked roads in a call for regime change which has almost universally been met by police tear gas.
Bashir, suggesting that someone was behind the disturbances, has called them small-scale and not comparable to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere. He maintains that he himself is popular.
Sure you are, Omar, everybody loves ya baby...
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Algerian jihadists arrived in Gao on Friday to reinforce Islamist fighters in the northern Mali city after they chased Tuareg rebels from the town they had jointly occupied for three months, sources said.
"About 30 Algerian jihadists arrived in Gao on Friday to assist in securing the town and hunting down rebels" from the Tuaregs' National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), a regional security source said.
He said they had come to join Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who is currently in Gao.
The Islamist group which drove out the Tuareg in fighting that caused 20 deaths, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), along with AQIM and Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) have taken firm control of Mali's vast north.
Two other witnesses reported seeing Algerian jihadists in Gao, who have much lighter skin than their Malian counterparts, and Afghan clothing.
Ansar Dine leader Iyad Ag Ghaly arrived in the town on Thursday, after the fighting a day earlier erupted between the Tuareg and Islamists resulted in the desert nomads being dislodged from all key positions in the city.
According to witnesses at least 20 people were killed and scores injured in the festivities as the simmering tensions erupted between the two groups which captured Gao three months ago with vastly different intents.
The Tuareg, who had kickstarted the rebellion with an eye for independence of northern Mali, or Azawad, did not agree with the Islamists who wanted a state based on strict Islamic law, which they have already enforced.
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You can read her story at the link. Time for western journalists to pull the plug on Cairo (except for CNN which always makes deals with dictators, like Saddam, Pencilneck and Pudgy).
Egypt is lost.
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Ghastly, horrible, but entirely predictable.
Awaiting NOW comments in 10.....9......8......
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Are you telling me the lefties and Islamoapologists are rationalizing sexual assault because it occurs other places. I thought violence against women was a human rights issue and a cause for alarm in any civilized society. Or so says our feminazi friends over at NOW, or at least as long as those darlings of the left, the Moslem faithful are not involved.
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[Yemen Post] Minister of Foreign Affairs Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi has affirmed that Yemen lost $150 million in 2011 due to sea piracy, pointing out that pirates constantly attack Yemeni ships.
In a speech delivered in the conference of sea piracy held in Dubai in the period from 27-28 June, Al-Qirbi said that Yemen is a key partner in counter-piracy, stressing that piracy in the Gulf of Aden affected on thousands of Yemeni fishermen and deprived them from their living income.
He further explained that piracy led to the abduction of scores of Yemeni commercial and fishing ships and that 15 Yemeni fishers were killed by pirates.
He expressed deep concerns about that increase of piracy, indicting that it endanger safety and security of navigation.
"Though the maritime forces existed in the international water off the Somali coasts contributed in reducing piracy recently, it posed a main reason behind the obstructions of fishing in the region," he added.
He affirmed that Yemeni fishermen are always subjected to the fires of the International forces and security teams who are existed on the board of fat merchantmen with the aim of protecting them.
Piracy acts in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea affect on fishermen and led to the decline of fish products and harm the international navigation line and fish production.
Media sources stated that 57 ships were hijacked in the Yemeni territorial waters with 225 failed hijacking attempts in 2010 alone. Seaborne gangs have been exploiting political turmoil in Yemen to smuggle fuel, and possibly other supplies including food.
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So quit whining and turn The Mighty Yemen Navy loose, ya moron.....
[Yemen Post] Dozens of angry soldiers from the Republican Guard and Central Security Forces in an area located on the northern outskirts of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a kidnapped on Thursday a high-ranking elite republican guard commander in protest over the continuation of suspending their salaries, al-Sahwa news mobile service reported.
The soldiers' salaries were reportedly suspended in part of their refusal to take part in the crackdown conducted against the peaceful youth revolution last year.
Angry that their suspended salaries were not released, the soldiers kidnapped the 62 Brigade's commander Murad al-Awbali and took him to an unknown location, said the news service which belongs to the Islah Party.
Al-Awbali was kidnapped in Jahana Market of Khawlan, a few kilometers northern Sana'a city, according to al-Sahwa.
After he led a fierce crackdown on the peaceful protesters calling for change in 2011 in the southern province of Taiz, the protesters kept taking to streets calling for holding al-Awbali accountable for the crimes committed against them by forces under him command.
This prompted Saleh's son--the chief of the Elite Republican Guards, the best equipped and trained military troops in Yemen--to transfer al-Awbali from Taiz to the 62 brigade located in al-Sama area, some 30 kilometers northern Sana'a.
In the meantime, dozens of soldiers were reported to have cut off the road leading to Taiz provincial security headquarters building, a move that aims to show their protest and refusal to the decision stating the soldiers who joined the youth revolution must return to their barracks.
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[Yemen Post] Tribal tensions erupted on Thursday between Khwalan and Sanhan tribes following the abduction of a high-ranking military commander, Murad Al-Awbali, by soldiers from Khawlan, local sources said.
The sources said that the Sanhan that Al-Awbli is originally from it kidnapped a number of persons who are from Khwlan in an attempt to put pressures on the kidnappers to release Al-Awbali.
Al-Awbali who commands the 62nd Republican Guard Brigade was kidnapped in protest at not giving the soldiers their salaries after they declared their support to Yemen's peaceful revolution.
The sources said the soldiers staged an set-in two days ago, demanding to release their suspended salaries and their demands were not met.
The soldiers had declared their support to the Yemeni peaceful revolution after they refused to take part in the crackdown conducted against the uprising that overthrew the former 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... last year.
Military sources said the soldiers had been ordered to return to the brigade to receive their salaries, and they had refused to do so while Saleh's son, Ahmed, remained in charge for fear of disciplinary action.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... well-informed sources said that the commander of the Republican Guard Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to release Al-Awbli and that he will behave on his own way if Al-Awbali is not released.
They said that the soldiers joined the revolution after they refused to take part in the crackdown conducted against the peaceful youth revolution last year.
Al-Awbali is accused of committing crimes against protesters in the southern province of Taiz. Taiz protesters demonstrated repeatedly, demanding to hold al-Awbali accountable.
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[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the terrorist cell behind the suicide kaboom which killed and injured more than 400 soldiers during a parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa in May, the 26 September weekly reported Thursday, quoting a statement by chief of the national security.
General Ali Muhammad Al-Anesi was quoted as saying "the security authorities tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the terrorist cell of the Partisans of Sharia Law, Yemen Al-Qaeda's offshoot, which carried out the deadly attack".
Al-Anesi did not give more details, according to the paper.
On May 21, a jacket wallah infiltrated into Al-Sabeen Square in downtown Sanaa where units of military and security were conducting a parade rehearsal and below himself up killing more than one hundred central security forces. More than three hundred others were maimed.
Later, Al-Qaeda grabbed credit for the attack, which coincided with severe blows it was receiving under a US-backed offensive in the southern 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.
In association with tribal fighters, the army could drive Al-Qaeda snuffies from Abyan province and nearby areas after hundreds of them including big shots had been killed and injured during the offensive.
In the meantime, Al-Qaeda has vowed to retaliate through attacking US and key Yemeni targets, with several suicide kabooms reported recently including the one killing commander of the southern military region who led the offensive.
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Airline passengers helped foil an attempt to hijack a plane in the western region of Xinjiang, according to Chinese state media. Passengers and aircrew subdued six people who tried to take over a flight 10 minutes after it took off from the remote desert city of Hotan, a heavily ethnic Uighur area that has been hit by recent bouts of violence, Xinhua news agency said.
The Tianjin Airlines plane was flying to the regional capital, Urumqi, on Friday when the attackers were overpowered, Xinhua quoted police sources as saying.The aircraft then returned to Hotan where six people were taken into custody.
Two guards on board the plane were seriously injured during the incident, while the senior flight attendant and seven passengers were slightly injured, the agency added.
Xinjiang is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people who speak a Turkic language, and there is discontent among many at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion. In March 2008, Chinese officials said they had foiled a plan by an ethnic Uighur woman to bring down a flight from Xinjiang.
The government, wary of instability and the threat to the Communist party's grip on power, often blames what it calls violent separatist groups and religious extremists in Xinjiang for attacks on police and other government targets.
In September, courts in Xinjiang sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities last year in which 32 people were killed. The government blamed the incidents in Kashgar and Hotan both in the majority Uighur southern part of Xinjiang on Muslim hardliners who want to establish an independent state, East Turkestan.
In January, authorities said seven people killed by police in Xinjiang had been trying to leave the country to wage "holy war".
China is also concerned about Uighur activists linking up with Islamist militants over the border in Pakistan.
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Have The Arab League And The Prime Minister Of Qatar With Jabril Run Syria And The Islamic Brotherhood And The Islamic Jihad With Hamas And UN Observers With The Red Crescent Society And The International Red Cross Together Have Assad Live With Rightful Gains And Rightful Means The Monies And Properties Secured With Gweneral Amnesty For : ALL : Arabiya : Syria : For Palestine Statehood ! ALLAH O AKBAR !!!
Border Patrol agents in Arizona are blasting their bosses for telling them, along with all other Department of Homeland Security employees, to run and hide if they encounter an "active shooter."
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If you are outmanned, outgunned and less experienced than your opponent, it is probably best to run/hide. But it should not end there - what should happen is a radio call and an appropriately armed re-enforcement (AH-64 Apache?) should eliminate the threat. Permanently.
Hey! Anybody! Everybody! All you need is a popgun and you can blast your way into the United States of America! Because we need your votes and we need your drugs and we need your diseases! C'mon! Everybody! Hurry, hurry, hurry!!! Offer ends January 2013!
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Zetas are now coming across to do hits. Armed by the Choom Gang in charge of Washington DC and now given the green light to expand across the border.
National parks are already no mans land because of the lame excuse that Border Patrol vehicles are not allowed to mess up the pristine parks. But now the cartels need access to the population to do hits on rivals or deserters, or anyone.
They carried out a execution of 5 people in Pima county, were spotted by the Border Patrol but got away and carried out the hit. Pima county requested help from the DOJ and the DOJ now says, leave the hit men alone. Plain and simple. MSM will not report this, there are other sources of these state side encrouchments by the Zetas and the paid off DOJ officials.
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I'd still like to see the night use of napalm, just once. Or a Spectre gunship. Something to give the invaders pause. And a nuke on Mexico City when the president bitches. I do pray that President Romney will take the gloves off, but I won't hold my breath.
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Instruction or ROE coming a bit too late for Agent Brian Terry.
I wonder what our fearless regime will do about the Mexicans who are still dying daily because of these guns.
QUETTA: A shutter-down strike was observed in the city on Friday against the suicide attack on a bus in Hazar Ganji a day earlier, as the death toll from the bombing rose to 15.
The call for a strike had been given by the Hazara Democratic Party with the support of Tahfuz-e-Izadari Council, Tehreek Nifaz-i-Jaffaria, Balochistan Shia Conference, trader unions and other major political parties.
All business centres within the commercial district of Quetta remained closed. Traffic was thin on roads as people preferred to stay indoors. There was also a thin attendance in government offices while most of the banks also remained closed in response to the strike call. A large number of personnel from Frontier Crops (FC), police, Balochistan Constabulary (BC) and Anti-terrorist Force (ATF) were deployed in the city to thwart any untoward incident.
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Horse-Barn door.
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NEW DELHI: Blaming Pakistan for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram called on Pakistan on Friday to acknowledge that an arrested suspect had helped coordinate the assault from a command post in Karachi.
Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, was detained at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East.
Wonder what he was planning to do in Delhi that day...
Indian police say Zabiuddin, who also goes under the names Abu Hamza and Abu Jundal, has confessed to being a key handler for the 10 terrorists who attacked Indias financial capital in 2008, killing 166 people. According to police, he admitted being present in the control room in Karachi from where the attack was monitored and coordinated.
Muhammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the attack, is currently on death row in a Mumbai prison.
Zabiuddin had found a very safe haven in Pakistan, Chidambaram told reporters. Pakistan should admit that (he) did go to Pakistan, that he was part of the group which prepared Kasab and nine others, that (he) was in the control room among one of the handlers and masterminds of the attack. Just as we admit facts, Pakistan should also admit facts, the minister said.
Pakistan has asked India to share information on Zabiuddin and urged New Delhi to refrain from blaming Islamabad. India should supply details... enabling us to take action, adviser on interior affairs Rehman Malik said on Wednesday. Let us end the blame game... We have to fight terrorism together, Malik added.
And ensure that the Paks cover their tracks with the information India gives them...
Pakistan has indicted seven people for their alleged role in the Mumbai attacks but their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by delays.
It's almost as slow as it would be if Carla del Ponte were in charge...
The United States has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed, who lives openly in Pakistan and is accused of masterminding the attacks.
Can't we just drone-zap him?
The leader of the Pakistan-based group may have been present in a Pakistani control room where the attacks were coordinated, Indian officials said.
Although Islamabad did not react to the charges on Friday, it previously has rejected Indian allegations of any involvement and said it has acted against the members of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba accused of mounting the raid.
"Lies! All lies!"
The Indian home minister told reporters that questioning of an Indian man suspected of helping plot the operation had revealed the existence of the control room and suggested it had state support.
Yes, others were also present and we think one of them was Hafiz Saeed, he said.
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BAJAUR AGENCY: Terrorists blew up another girls school with explosive material in Bajaur Agency on Friday.
According to local political authorities, terrorists had planted explosive devices in a girls school situated in the Mata Shah area of Salarzai tehsil, which exploded early on Friday morning, badly damaging the building. No causality was reported in the incident.
More than 100 schools have been targeted in the agency so far.
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Is blowing up a girls school an easy way of making your bones in the islamic gangs?
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but, but, but, it happens EVERYwhere...look at Tim McVeigh!! This has nothing to do with Islam!!!!
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[Saudi Gazette] Three Pakistani men allegedly arrested by security forces when they disappeared a year ago were found dead Thursday after authorities ordered that they be produced alive in court, police said.
The case spotlights the plight of the "missing" in Pakistan, where judges are seeking to bring the powerful military and intelligence agencies to book over mass arrests of alleged terror suspects, who are never seen again.
According to a preliminary autopsy report, the three men aged 30 to 35 were recently killed -- first poisoned, then their necks were broken.
Their bodies were discovered in the district of Haripur, part of the northwest where the army has been fighting to put down a Taliban insurgency. "The dead bodies were recovered from three different places," Mohammad Ali Gandapur, district police chief, said.
He said police were investigating who killed them and why.
Relatives of one of the victims told police he was arrested by security forces and had been missing for 11 months, Gandapur said.
Footage broadcast by private TV channel Geo showed the bodies being taken away by ambulance, accompanied by relatives and rescue workers. A senior police official, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said the victims had been arrested by intelligence agencies.
An unnamed relative told Geo that the victims were three of 170 missing people ordered to be produced court by judges in the northwestern capital Peshawar. --
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were recently killed -- first poisoned, then their necks were broken.
then hung, set on fire, electrocuted, beheaded, then hung again. The last part was not very easy
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RAIPUR, India: At least 21 Maoist rebels were killed in a series of violent clashes with security forces in the central state of Chhattisgarh, a hotbed of left-wing extremism, police said yesterday.
In one attack, 17 guerrillas were killed in a night-time gun battle with security forces in a thickly forested area of Chhattisgarhs Bastar region, about 295 kilometers (184 miles) south of the state capital Raipur. Four more were shot dead in two separate incidents in the same region.
A large number of forces are searching the forest to capture more Maoists sheltering there, district police superintendent Prashant Agrawal told AFP by phone. A further 19 rebels were captured and taken into custody, Agrawal said.
It was a rare success for the security forces who have struggled to strike back at the rebels since the launch of a counter-insurgency drive known as Operation Greenhunt in 2009. The guerrillas meanwhile have carried out repeated attacks on police and paramilitary targets, inflicting heavy casualties.
In New Delhi, Home Minister P. Chidambaram praised the courage and great skill of the police units involved in the overnight shootouts.
Chhattisgarh is one of several states where Maoist guerrillas, who say they are fighting for the rights of poor tribals and farmers, have waged a decades-long battle to overthrow state and national authorities. The government describes the guerrillas as the countrys most serious internal security threat.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen rubbed out four anti-Qaeda Death Eaters in central Iraq on Friday, while a roadside kaboom killed an Iraqi soldier, security and medical officials said.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Khan Bani Saad, south of the city of Baquba, killing four Sahwa Death Eaters and wounding four others, a militia commander said on condition of anonymity, adding that the attackers were able to escape.
And a roadside kaboom against a patrol in the city killed one soldier and maimed another, an army major said. Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital confirmed the tolls. Friday's deaths brought the number of people killed in attacks since June 13 to at least 212 -- an average of more than 12 per day, and a far higher toll than the 132 who were killed in the entire month of May, according to official figures.
A significant amount of the violence has occurred in and around Baquba, capital of confessionally mixed Diyala province, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
On Thursday, a car boomwent kaboom! near a Shiite place of worship in Baquba, killing six people and wounding 51, while two people were killed and four maimed in another bombing, and three more maimed in an attack near the city.
On June 18, a jacket wallah killed 22 people in an attack on Shiite mourners in Baquba, and 10 people were killed in a series of attacks in and around the city on June 13.Violence has declined significantly since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks still remain common.
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ANTAKYA (Turkey) Helicopter gunships bombarded a strategic town in northern Syria overnight and tanks moved close to the commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels said, but kept well clear of new Turkish air defences installed to curb Syrian action near its frontiers.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 190 people, including 125 civilians, were killed on Thursday. General Mustafa Al Sheikh, head of the Higher Military Council, a grouping of senior officers who defected from Syrian forces, said around 170 Syrian tanks had assembled at an infantry school near the village of Musalmieh northeast of the city of Aleppo, just 30km from the Turkish border.
Theyre either preparing to move to the border to counter the Turkish deployment or attack the rebellious (Syrian) towns and villages in and around the border zone north of Aleppo, Sheikh said by telephone from the border.
Omar Abdallah, an activist in Idlib coordinating with the Free Syrian Army, said: After taking hits in rural Aleppo and Idlib, the army is re-grouping ... There is speculation that these forces intend to ring Aleppo, starting July 1.
Rebel sources in Turkeys Hatay region said Syrian helicopters attacked Saraqeb, a strategic town deep in Idlib province, but kept away from the area directly along the Turkish border in the rural regions of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
Rebels sources said they saw two Syrian attack helicopters on Friday, flying about 4km from the Turkish border in Idlib province and landing at an army base at Bab Al Hawa, close to Reyhanli, one of the places where Turkey has stationed anti-aircraft defences.
It was the first time aircraft had been spotted close to the border and appeared to test Turkeys new rules of engagement.
The Syrians might accept a very narrow zone along the border. Syria will remain very reluctant to get involved in any conflict with Turkey. They would be up against a very serious military foe, said Malcolm Chalmers, research director at Britains Royal United Services Institute.
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BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey: A senior opposition official [in the Free Syrian Army, FSA] said Syrian opposition groups would reject a political transition plan proposed by peace envoy Kofi Annan unless it explicitly required Assad to step down before a unity government is formed.
Since Pencilneck is even more adept than a certain President in Yemen in staying in power...
Diplomatic sources at the United Nations said Annan's proposal did not stipulate Assad's resignation although it does say the unity government could not include figures who jeopardize stability.
"The proposal is still murky to us but I can tell you that if it does not clearly state that Assad must step down, it will be unacceptable to us," said Samir Nashar, an executive member of the international Syrian National Council.
Annan's transition proposal is one of the main topics that Russia, the other four permanent UN Security Council members and key players in the Middle East will discuss at a meeting in Geneva on Saturday, according to United Nations diplomats.
Rebel fighters locked in the war to topple Assad said there was no part of the plan they could accept, and they had lost patience with UN envoy Annan's peace-making efforts.
"This is just a new labyrinth. It is new silliness for us to get lost in and haggle over who can participate and who can't," said Ahmed, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter in Homs, epicenter of the revolt against four decades of Assad family rule in which the more than 10,000 people have been killed, by a UN count.
A member of the rebel group in Damascus suburb was also dismissive. "I'll be direct. The FSA is doing its work, and it is not looking to the outside world. We don't want a transitional government unless it is the one formed by rebel military councils. The world is conspiring against the Syrian revolution," he said.
In April, Annan tried to implement a cease-fire to quell violence before embarking on peace talks. But the truce failed to take hold. Diplomatic sources at the United Nations said the plan Annan will now pitch on Saturday aims to start the political process without waiting for a cease-fire.
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BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey: Rebel forces attacked Syrias main court in central Damascus yesterday, state television said. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a terrorist explosion in the court car park.
The car park is used by lawyers and judges working at the Palace, Syrias highest court. It was unclear if there were casualties in the attack on a potent symbol of Assads authority.
The FSA has been rapidly escalating pressure on Damascus in recent weeks, culminating apparently in Thursdays attack on the court building.
On Wednesday, rebels stormed a pro-Assad Syrian television channel and militants have targeted police and security personnel barracks. In April militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank building.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation, in Watahpur district, 
Sudanese police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters outside an opposition party mosque on Friday, the 14th day of anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, a witness said. Protesters had gathered in the capital's Hijra Square beside the mosque of the opposition Umma party.
Armed security agents on Friday raided the AFP bureau in Khartoum and arrested a part-time correspondent who had taken pictures of an anti-regime protest.
[Yemen Post] Dozens of angry soldiers from the Republican Guard and Central Security Forces in an area located on the northern outskirts of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a kidnapped on Thursday a high-ranking 
Tribal tensions erupted on Thursday between Khwalan and Sanhan tribes following the abduction of a high-ranking military commander, Murad Al-Awbali, by soldiers from Khawlan, local sources said. 
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni authorities 
BAJAUR AGENCY: Terrorists blew up another girls school with explosive material in Bajaur Agency on Friday. 
Three Pakistani men allegedly arrested by security forces when they disappeared a year ago were found dead Thursday after authorities ordered that they be produced alive in court, police said.
BEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey: Rebel forces attacked Syrias main court in central Damascus yesterday, state television said. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a terrorist explosion in the court car park.
