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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Ashley Tisdale aka Sharpay Evans in High School Musical (2006)TV Movie" aka Maddie Fitzpatrick in "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (TV 20052008)" aka Savannah Monroe in "Hellcats (TV 2010-2011)" aka Bethany Pearson in "Aliens in the Attic (2009)" aka Kim, Dorky Girl in "Donnie Darko (2001)" (age 27)
Olivia de Havilland aka Maid Marian in "The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)" aka Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind(1939)"(Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) aka Emmy Brown in "Hold Back the Dawn(1941)"(Nominated Academy Award for Best Actress) aka Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris in "To Each His Own(1946)"(Academy Award for Best Actress) aka Virginia Stuart Cunningham in "The Snake Pit(1948)"(Nominated Academy Award for Best Actress) aka Catherine Sloper in "The Heiress(1949)"(Academy Award for Best Actress) aka Elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine aka Paternal cousin of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito (age 96)
Susan Hayward aka Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!(1958)"(Academy Award for Best Actress) aka Lillian Roth in "I'll Cry Tomorrow(1955)"(NominatedAcademy Award for Best Actress) aka Jane Froman in "With a Song in My Heart(1952)"(NominatedAcademy Award for Best Actress) aka Eloise Winters in "My Foolish Heart(1949)"(NominatedAcademy Award for Best Actress) aka Angelica 'Angie'/'Angel' Evans Conway in "Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman(1947)"(NominatedAcademy Award for Best Actress) aka Constance Chesley in "The Fighting Seabees(1944)" (Co-star with The Duke) aka Helen in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)" (Died in 1975 at age 57)
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Ashley was the auditorium girl in Donnie Darko??? Color me surprised! And Olivia is a real treat. She must have been a tiny gal, when I click through it looks like she stands about 4' 8"!!!
[Dawn] A Taliban roadside kaboom tore through a bus on a highway in myrmidon-plagued southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing five passengers, including women and kiddies, officials said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing in the province of Ghazni but officials blamed the blast on the "enemies of Afghanistan", a standard phrase used to refer to the Taliban.
"The bus was travelling from Kabul to Kandahar. Along the road near Ghazni city it struck a roadside kaboom. Five people were killed and 11 others were maimed," provincial police chief Zarawar Zahid told AFP.
Baz Mohammad Hemat, a doctor in the local hospital, confirmed the casualties.
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Revelations in February that US troops burned copies of the Koran at a base in Afghanistan - reportedly by accident - as well as the shooting of 16 Afghans by a US soldier in March have inflamed public opinion against the foreign forces.
Notice there is absolutely no mention of the tactic of Taliban infiltrators. In the article's closing, or bottom line as we call it, the inference here (thank you once again BBC for reminding why I detest you), is that it's once again the fault of the Yanks.
(Sh. M. Network)-At least seven people are reportedly killed and indefinite number of others were maimed in a fierce battle between Somali government forces backed by Kenyan army and Al shabab Islamic fascistiin southern Somalia.
According to the local residents, the skirmish sparked at Qoqani town in Lower Jubba region, after Al shabab agents armed with rocked and automatic machine-guns attacked overnight on military positions in the town that manned by the coalition forces, killing 7 combatants on both warring sides.
Somali military chiefs in the region said, they repelled the attack and killed many Islamic fascistiduring the assault in Qoqani town which is one of areas controlled by TFG and its allied forces from Kenya.
Locals reported that the situation has returned into normal on Sunday morning and the area remains in full control of Somali and Kenyan army.
Al shabab has yet to release any comments on the raid so far.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Awin Elmi Nur, the deputy governor of Hiiran region for Somali government says he survived narrowly at liquidation attempt on his life on Sunday. Speaking with Shabelle Media via phone, Mr.Nur said that he was attacked by gunnies armed with pistols as he was heading his home in central Beledweyne town, but fortunately escaped unharmed from the liquidation. The town is under Somali government control.
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[VOA News] On Sunday, gunnies attacked two churches in Garissa, a city in northeastern Kenya. At least 17 people were killed, and more than 40 maimed. The Somali thug group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... and its supporters have been blamed for other attacks in Kenya.
Four gunnies attacked the African Inland Church in Garissa on Sunday morning. The shooters were masked in balaclavas, regional police chief Philip Ndolo told Rooters. They entered the church after throwing two grenades inside. Two grenades also went kaboom! in a nearby Roman Catholic Church. Two police are among the dead.
Qadr, a Garissa resident, is looking for his housekeeper. He fears she may be a victim of the attack.
"She's not around, I've been looking for her, I don't even know if she was one of those people who died," he said
Garissa is a city in northeastern Kenya populated by ethnic Somalis. Garissa is located 100 kilometers from Dadaab, home to what is often considered the largest refugee camp in the world. Dadaab has received a steady stream of Somalis fleeing the civil war in their country.
Kenyan troops invaded southern Somalia last October, joining African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops in a battle against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamists. Since the Kenyan invasion, a wave of grenade attacks and kidnappings have beleaguered Kenya. Analysts believe al-Shabaab or its supporters may be behind these attacks.
Earlier this week, four foreign aid workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council were kidnapped in the Dadaab camp. Their Kenyan driver was killed.
In the last year several aid workers have been kidnapped from Dadaab. Many international NGOs and humanitarian groups have since scaled down their operations in the camp
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Up until this point they have been hitting small local pubs in Kenya with grenade attacks. Typically a car pulls up, a guy runs to the front door and tosses a grenade inside, then they exit quickly. Usually the targets are places with local citizens and relatively poor security. This switch to hitting churches is a concern - primarily because it's what Boko Haram has been doing in Nigeria. But the attack in Garissa happened in the far north of Kenya - well away from major population centers. Watch to see if this pattern is repeated by Al Shabaab (against churches) in major cities.
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Islamists know major cities can not survive without agricultural products from the country side. This is a first attempt to subdue the Christian country side and then lay seige to major cities.
[An Nahar] Beturbanned fascisti in northern Mali took hoes and chisels to the tombs of ancient Moslem saints in Timbuktu for a second day Sunday, ignoring international pleas to halt their campaign of destruction.
After smashing three ancient tombs on Saturday, the Islamist beturbanned goons who consider the World Heritage shrines idolatrous, set about wrecking four mausoleums at the cemetery of Djingareyber, a local journalist told AFP.
Mali's government and the international community have expressed horror and outrage at the destruction of cultural treasures in the fabled city, an ancient desert crossroads and center of learning known as the "City of 333 Saints".
On Saturday the Islamists destroyed the tombs of Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi Moctar and Alpha Moya, and on Sunday attacked Cheikh el-Kebir's mausoleum as residents stood by helplessly.
Crying "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great), the men circled the cemetery clasping tools such as chisels and hoes, but did not have construction vehicles that were used in Saturday's rampage.
"There are many of us watching them destroy the mausoleum. It hurts but we can't do anything. These madmen are armed, we can't do anything but they will be cursed that is for sure," the journalist said on condition of anonymity.
The cemetery is situated in the south of Timbuktu in the suburb of the eponymous Djingareyber mosque built from mud in 1327.
Another resident of Timbuktu, a former tour operator, said the Islamists had also threatened to destroy the ancient mosques.
"This morning (Sunday) the Islamists told us that if there are saints inside the mosques, they will also destroy these mosques."
Several saints are buried inside the city's three historic mosques. Timbuktu is also home to 16 cemeteries and mausoleums, according to the UNESCO website.
The Islamist fighters from Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) are among the Al-Qaeda-linked gangs which occupied the north of Mali in the chaos that emerged after a March coup in Bamako.
Their presence in Timbuktu prompted UNESCO on Thursday to list the city as an endangered site because of the continuing violence in northern Mali and in the wake of an attack on a 15th century tomb in May.
"God is unique. All of this is haram (forbidden in Islam). We are all Moslems. UNESCO is what?" a front man for Ansar Dine, Sanda Ould Boumama, said on Saturday.
He said the group was acting in the name of God and would "destroy every mausoleum in the city. All of them, without exception".
Mali's Culture and Tourism Minister Diallo Fadima Toure on Sunday urged the UN to take action to preserve her country's heritage.
"Mali exhorts the UN to take concrete steps to stop these crimes against the cultural heritage of my people," Toure told UNESCO's annual meeting in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg.
The attacks were reminiscent of the Taliban blowing up the giant Buddhas of the Bamiyan valley in Afghanistan -- an ancient Buddhist shrine on the Silk Road and a world heritage site -- in 2001 after branding them un-Islamic.
The Malian government has denounced the "destructive fury, comparable to war crimes" as pleas poured in for a halt to the Islamist rampage.
UNESCO session chairwoman Yeleonor Mitrofanova told a meeting in Saint Petersburg that the destruction was tragic.
"I appeal to all those engaged in the conflict in Timbuktu to exercise their responsibility -- for the sake of future generations, spare the legacy of their past," she said.
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[An Nahar] Gunfire and kabooms rocked a northeastern Nigerian city as security forces launched a pre-emptive offensive against 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, leaving three dead, police said Sunday.
The offensive on Saturday followed intelligence that the beturbanned goon group planned to attack the restive city of Damaturu again, said the deputy police front man of Yobe state.
"Security operatives were able to discover a plan by Boko Haram hoodlums to launch attacks in the city," said Gbadegesin Toyin.
The Joint Task Force (JTF) military unit "located their positions... they cordoned off these positions and engaged the gunnies in a shootout," he added.
He said soldiers fired mortar rounds at the Islamist thugs, who responded with gunfire and also threw improvised bombs.
The violence was most heavily concentrated in the Nyanya and Obasanjo Estates areas of the city, he said.
"Three suspected Boko Haram faceless myrmidons were killed and a female sect member was jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! . The hideout was destroyed in the raid," Toyin added.
Nigerian authorities on June 19 slapped a round-the-clock curfew on Damaturu, after suspected Boko Haram Islamists launched coordinated gun attacks on targets around the city.
The curfew was partially relaxed two days later after soldiers and police reclaimed control of the streets in an offensive that left at least 40 people dead, including 34 alleged Boko Haram members.
The ban on movements was further eased on Monday, but Damaturu residents are still forced to remain in their homes between 6:00 pm and 7:00 am.
Damaturu has repeatedly been hit by the radical Islamist group, responsible for more than 1,000 deaths since the middle of 2009 in Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer.
Yobe state borders the extreme northeastern state of Borno, where the capital Maiduguri is considered Boko Haram's base.
The Islamist group's insurgency, concentrated in Nigeria's mainly Mohammedan north, has frequently targeted the security forces, though the Islamists have attacked churches and other symbols of authority.
The government's response to Boko Haram in past months has included heavy-handed military raids, which had angered residents of hard-hit areas and failed to stop the beturbanned goons.
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... fired his national security adviser and defense minister, amid intensifying criticism of his administration's response to the Boko Haram threat.
The Islamist group initially said it was fighting for the creation of an Islamic state, but its demands have since shifted repeatedly. It is believed to have a number of factions, including a main Islamist wing.
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A gunman targeted the Shaarei Torah Yeshiva in Manchester overnight Saturday, firing shots at the building before escaping in a car. No one was maimed in the attack.
Two cars were reportedly seeing driving erratically around the yeshiva before the yeshiva was targeted around 2am Sunday. This is the largest yeshiva in Manchester, with 170 students.
Though of course, do realize if a homeowner had shot or injured a criminal, the UK police would have been right on it. Can't have them uppity serfs defending themselves.
For a map, click here For a map of Zacatecas state, click here
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An undisclosed number of municipal police agents in Zacatecas city were disarmed by Policia Federal, Mexican Army troops and Zacatecas state police agents early Sunday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
El Sol de Mexico news daily reported on its website Sunday afternoon that federal security forces had conducted an inspection of firearms in use by the Zacatecas municipal Policia Preventativa agents, and then decided to seize all weapons.
According to the report, the Zacatecas state Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), General Jesus Ortiz Pinto and the commander of the Zacatecas state Policia Preventativa Víctor Manuel Bosque apparently approved the plan to disarm the police agents.
After the disarmament took place, police agents scheduled to do so went out on regular road patrols unarmed.
Mayor of Zacatecas municipality Dagoberto Muñoz attempted to receive information as to why the police had been disarmed, but was told to contact the Secretaria de Defense Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army.
The disarming of local police agents en masse in Mexico is rare but it does happen, usually when a municipal police corporation fails certain security and reliability tests.
According to the article, federal and Zacatecas state security teams would be performing additional patrols for election day.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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A news report posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily Sunday morning says that a total of 12 unidentified individuals have been found dismembered in Durango state in the last ten days.
According to the report, the latest find was made in the La Laguna region in Mexico where police were tipped off by an anonymous phone call to the remains of a man stuffed into five trash bags. The find was made on the road between Gomez Palacio and Tlahualilo. The report said the victim was a man in his 30s.
According to a report in Contexto de Durango news daily, two more dead were found in roughly the same area between Ejidos Eureka and 18 de Marzo. Both victims were male, one in his 30s, while the other was in his 40s. The two victims were butchered and stuffed into nine bags.
The report also says that nine of the victims were found in the La Laguna region, while a tenth, a female, was found in Durango city.
Thursday two decapitated victims were found in Santiago Papasquiaro municipality. The victims were found on a remote road near the village of Pascuales. Both victims were male.
To date the Durango Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE), or attorney general has yet to address the finds. The report also fails to make clear if any of the discoveries include the four dead found last Thursday, or the remains found in Cristobal Colon colony in Durango city. Those remains are presumably part of the 331 who were killed in Durango state between 2007 and 2011, but that has not yet been established by the Durango FGE.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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The tribes went their seperate ways after the flood. Interaction was infrequent and cautious. Over time however, their numbers grew and they began to stray and wander about like herds of Wildebeests. That's when the trouble began!
[Dawn] Four people, including an activist of the Pakistain People's Party, were killed on Sunday in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.
They said that the 32-year-old PPP worker, Sarfraz Baloch, son of Haq Nawaz Baloch, was sitting at the office of Mohammed Khan Gabol Goth within the remit of the Sachal cop shoppe along with four other people late in the night
when two gunnies came there and fired at him before fleeing.
The witnesses said that the victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds and he died before he could be taken to a hospital.
The Sachal police later shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where medico-legal sources said that the victim had received three bullets in the upper torso fired from a very close range.
The police said that 9mm pistol was used in the attack.
The victim was said to be a resident of Chapels City and was instrumental in regularisation of Gabol Goth.
Area people said that the victim had opened an office of Gabol Goth on a plot.
The police said that no case was registered till late in the night as the medico-legal formalities were still being completed.
Two men bumped off
Two young friends were killed near the Meena Bazaar in Karimabad.
Witnesses said that the victims were going on a cycle of violence when they were attacked by two gunnies also riding a cycle of violence.
They said that both the victims died instantly.
The bodies were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the victims were identified as Noor Mohammed Khan, 35, son of Gul Marjan Khan, a resident of Faqir Colony, Orangi Town, and Shakil Ahmed, 30, son of Bashir Ahmed, a resident of Baldia Town, Saeedabad.
Hospital sources said that Noor Khan and Shakil received two and three bullets respectively fired from a very close range as the bullets pierced through their bodies.
The Azizabad police said a 9mm pistol was used in the attack.
Man found rubbed out
A young man was found rubbed out near the Jama Cloth Market within the remit of the Arambagh cop shoppe.
The body was taken to the Edhi morgue for want of identification following medico-legal formalities at the Civil Hospital.
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[Dawn] Militants blew up a government girls school and grocery store in Mardan and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar areas.
According to police officials, building of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School located in the Shahbaz Gari area of Mardan was partially damaged when an improvised bomb planted by unidentified Islamic fascistiinside the school went kaboom! on the night between Friday and Saturday.
They said police personnel and residents of the surrounding areas rushed to the spot when they heard the huge sound of the kaboom. They, however, said that no one was hurt or killed in the kaboom as there was no one present in the building at that time.
The officials concerned took the watchman of the school into custody after registering FIR against unidentified Islamic fascistiand started investigation in this regard.
On the other hand, the grocery store located at Cherry Cuban Road in Pepal Mandi area of Peshawar was blown up early on Saturday, police said.
The store owner Riaz Khan said that he had no enmity with anyone nor he was associated with any of the peace bodies. He said that the entire store was destroyed but he was yet to estimate the loss the blast had caused to him.
He said that it was duty of the police to ensure protection to the lives of the people and their properties. He said maximum of the stuff had been purchased on credit.
An official of the local police said that case had been registered against unknown myrmidons.
He said the Orcs and similar vermin had planted the explosives under the shutter of the store and detonated it with remote control device at about midnight.
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Lotp beat me to it. Except given the lack of courage of these terrorists, I would have guessed they were intimidated on more than one level by the baby kosher dill pickles.
[Dawn] A close aide of jailed TNSM leader Maulana Sufi Mohammad was killed when unknown armed persons opened fire on him at Bandai, Maidan, on Friday night, residents and police told Dawn.
They said that the victim, Maulana Ghayasuddin Khan, was going to a nearby mosque to offer Isha prayer when armed men attacked and killed him on the spot.
Maulana Ghayas was the son of Khan of Bandai, Maidan, Abdul Wahid Khan and a close aide of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, chief of Tanzeem Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM). In 2009, he was kidnapped by Maidan-based Taliban, but later released him unconditionally.
The Maidan police have arrested one Mohibullah in the case after private sniffer dogs entered his house at Bandai on Saturday.
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What do the dogs learn by sniffing someone's privates?
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[Dawn] Two suspects allegedly involved in the blast at the Data Darbar two years ago, have been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by intelligence agencies, DawnNews reported on Sunday.
More than 50 people had been killed in the kaboom at the shrine in July 2010.
The IG Punjab stated that six suspects who were allegedly involved in the bombing are in jug and their investigations are still going on.
He stated that very soon an official report on the bombings and the criminals involved will be presented in a news conference.
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[Dawn] A US drone attack on a Death Eater compound in Pakistain's northwestern tribal district killed eight gunnies on Sunday, security officials said.
The latest attack killed fighters loyal to Death Eater commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur, the officials said.
Bahadur is believed by residents of the region to have an informal working relationship with the Mighty Pak Army, refraining from targeting the security forces while focusing on US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in nearby Afghanistan.
Two Pak intelligence officials said four Hellfire missiles were fired at a house used by suspected Death Eaters in Dre Nishter village of North Wazoo.
All the Pak officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The officials said some foreign Death Eaters belong to the Turkmenistan Islamic Movement were believed to have been killed, along with other local fighters from the Bahadur group. Militants from several central Asian countries have joined Afghans, Arabs, and others in Pakistain.
The strike destroyed the house and triggered a fire," an official said.
"It was difficult to identify the bodies immediately as some of them were charred," he said.
North Waziristan is one of several tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan that are hubs of Death Eater activity. Bahadur controls most of North Waziristan.
Washington considers Pakistain's semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt the main hub of Taliban and al Qaeda Death Eaters plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.
A similar attack in the region on Tuesday killed five Death Eaters.
The US rarely talks publicly about the covert CIA-run drone program in Pakistain which are a cause of discontent between the two countries.
The continued strikes, despite the likely political fallout, show Washington's confidence in the effectiveness of the drone program against al Qaeda and Taliban fighters who allegedly use Pakistain as a base.
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[An Nahar] A criminal court judge was among three people killed in gun and kabooms north of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, security and medical officials said, in the latest in a spike in nationwide unrest.
In the restive city of djinn-infested Mosul, gunniesrubbed out Judge Abdul Latif Mohammed while he was driving home, said police First Lieutenant Mohammed al-Juburi and Dr Mahmud Haddad in djinn-infested Mosul's main hospital.
Three roadside kabooms near two schools in Tikrit, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , detonated as middle-school students took their end-of-year exams, killing a policeman and wounding two colleagues, police and a doctor said.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity.
And in the central province of Diyala, gunnies opened fire on an army checkpoint in Khan Beni Saad, a town just north of Storied Baghdad, killing First Lieutenant Omar Ahmed and wounding two other soldiers, the sources said.
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[An Nahar] An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced a former military leader of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to multiple life sentences after convicting him of ordering the killing of dozens of Israelis, the army said.
"The Ofer military court sentenced Ibrahim Hamed to 54 life sentences," a statement said, referring to an Israeli court and prison complex located in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
"Hamed, who was the head of the military wing of Hamas in the West Bank, was convicted last week of responsibility for a long list of suicide kabooms which brought about the deaths of 46 Israelis and the wounding of more than 400 Israelis," the army statement said.
Hamed was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2006 with the help of Mosab Youssef, the son of a Hamas founder who became an undercover agent for Israel's Shin Bet security agency, Israeli media said.
Haaretz newspaper said Hamed was behind suicide kaboom attacks in a Jerusalem cafe, a crowded city square and the Hebrew University, among many others.
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Two defense volunteers were gunned down in Pattani province Friday morning. The victims were identified as Wiwat In-iad, 42, and Kritsana Thepsao, 34.
The attack took place as the pair were off-duty and going home in a pick-up truck. They were attacked by an unknown number of terrorists gunmen in another vehicle who fired several shots from M16 assault rifles and an AK 47. After the attack, the terrorists gunmen got off their vehicle and shot the two volunteers again before making off with the victims' two .38 caliber pistols.
Police said the killing was believed to be done by terrorists insurgents.
Israeli air force jets bombed a Hezbollah surveillance installation in southern Lebanon Monday morning, Lebanese news outlet LBC reported.
The news described the installation that the IAF allegedly destroyed as a wireless tapping device situated near the villages of az-Zrariye and Tair Filsay.
LBC quoted Hezbollah responding to the alleged attack, saying the al-Zrariyah blast resulted from Israels remote detonation of an explosive device installed on the Resistances wire line.
The IDF Spokespersons office had no comment on the report.
DEBKAfile's Western intelligence sources in Lebanon refuted the Hizballah al Manar TV claim that an Israeli jet blew up a spy device located on a Hizballah telecommunications cable laid by Iranian experts between the southern towns of Zrariyeh and Tayr Filsay in the region of the Litani River. It was blown by a self-detonating device operated by remote control, they said, although they allowed that it could have been the work of an Israeli drone operating from Israeli air space or out at sea. No comment has come from Israel.
The sources said the cable linked the device to Hizballahs southern district headquarters at Maaroub near Tyre. The militiamen who regularly inspect the device checked on an object apparently attached to the section buried one meter underground.
[An Nahar] Violence across Syria killed at least 43 people on Sunday, 36 of them civilians caught in fierce fighting between troops and armed bad turbans.
Sunday's highest concentration of deaths was in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor where nine civilians and three rebels were reportedly killed.
Regime forces shelled several areas of Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... province, a day after mortar fire killed at least 30 civilians attending a funeral in the town of Zamalka, 10 kilometers (six miles) east of the capital, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britannia-based watchdog said troops shelled the town of Daraya during the night, killing four people, adding that several blasts were heard in Damascus itself, without elaborating on casualties there.
A civilian and a rebel fighter were killed in al-Tal and Douma in Damascus province, both sites of festivities, the Observatory said.
The army reportedly staged a bloody attack on Douma on Saturday.
In the central province of Hama, regime forces rubbed out five people, the monitoring group said.
Activists in Hama told Agence La Belle France Presse that regime forces shelled the Halfaya suburb, while grassroots opposition network the Local Coordination Committees said the army was using helicopters to attack the area.
Meanwhile the army continued to shell several besieged neighborhoods of the central city of Homs, according to activists, with the Observatory saying several buildings in the Jourat al-Shiah neighborhood were destroyed, leading to at least one death.
Rebels and regime forces clashed in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the Observatory added.
The northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... saw continued fighting too, where "regime forces withdrew from the village of Atarib," the monitoring group said. A rebel fighter was killed in festivities in the same province, while a young detainee died under torture by regime forces, it added.
The village is situated near Idlib province, where three civilians were reportedly killed. Much of the northwestern border province is under rebel control.
Three people were also killed in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the uprising, including two maidens of tender years, according to the Observatory.
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[Saudi Gazette] Tensions between Turkey and Syria rose Sunday, as Ankara said it scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to the border, underlining the mistrust between the neighbors after the downing of a Turkish plane last month.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that a jet fighter shot down by Syria last month was in international airspace, dismissing a US newspaper report that it was downed inside Syria as untrue.
Erdogan waded into the row at a meeting of his AKP party, saying that the Wall Street Journal had "unfortunately published a story which is not true".
The comments follow a report Saturday in the newspaper citing US intelligence that claimed the plane was "most likely hit by shore-based anti-aircraft guns while it was inside Syrian airspace".
Turkey has repeatedly said its F-4 Phantom warplane was downed without warning in international airspace on June 22, although it admitted that it had violated Syria's airspace for a short time and "by mistake".
The Turkish military gave further details in a statement Sunday, saying the plane had been inside Syrian airspace "for about five minutes".
"We see no indication that it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile" as Turkey says, an unnamed senior US official was quoted as telling the newspaper.
Meanwhile four F-16 warplanes took off Sunday from Incirlik airbase after Syrian helicopters flew four miles closer to the border than is normal, the army said. Two more F-16 jets scrambled from a base in Batman after one helicopter approached the border in the south of Mardin province.
There were three incidents but there had been no violation of Turkish airspace, the army said.
Erdogan, speaking in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri, tied the publication of the article to the upcoming presidential election in the United States. "The election is looming there and this newspaper is acting on behalf of a political movement. This is an attitude adopted against President (Barack) Obama," said Erdogan.
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[An Nahar] Violence across Syria killed at least 43 people on Sunday, 36 of them civilians caught in fierce fighting between troops and armed
[Saudi Gazette] Tensions between Turkey and Syria rose Sunday, as Ankara said it scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to the border, underlining the mistrust between the neighbors after the downing of a Turkish plane last month.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that a jet fighter shot down by Syria last month was in international airspace, dismissing a US newspaper report that it was downed inside Syria as untrue.
