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Happy Birthday, America - the most interesting political experiment in the last 500 years. We have been successful beyond all expectations for two centuries now. Thanks to everyone who has made that possible. Let's try to not screw it up, OK?
(Sh. M. Network)-At least seven Al shabab suspects were locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in an operation carried out by Somali especial security forces in the town of Afgoye, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest Mogadishu, Officials said.
According to military source, who spoke with Shabelle Media via phone from Afgoye on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said the forces launched on Tuesday house-to-house searches in the town and captured seven youths alleged to have close links or members with Al shabab bad boys.
"There has been heavy presence of army from corner to corner in Afgoye this morning, and they were hunting elements of Al shabab hiding themselves in the villages of the town. At least 7 people aged between 18 and 25 years in connection with Al shabab," said a local resident who asked anonymity.
The crackdown is reportedly halted public movements and vehicles for a moment, but later, things have returned into normal, according to the locals.
Somali army chiefs said the operations are meant to secure the city and prevent insecurity acts and attacks from Al shabab Death Eaters who have last month carried out a suicide kaboom at Somali army base in the town that left 4 people, mostly soldiers.
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(Sh.M.Network)-China is closely cooperating with the navies of Japan and Indiain patrolling against piracy off Somalia as the country shows more willingness to work with other nations in safeguarding global trade.
The effort also comes despite mixed sentiments among Chinese toward the country's main Asian rivals.
Chinese Defense Ministry front man Yang Yujun saidJapan's Maritime Self-Defense Force on Sunday became the lead navy among the three aiming to synchronize patrols and best allocate their ships.
China joined theGulf of Adenpatrols in late 2008. It's gradually moved from guarding Chinese ships to escorting ships of all nationalities.
The three nations began coordinating their patrols this year.
Analysts say the escort pact is a sign of Chinese naval confidence and could reduce the chances of confrontation in Asian waters.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Unknown assailants in Somalia have shot to death overnight former deputy police Commissioner of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a semi-autonomous state in northern Somalia, reports said.
According to Witnesses two faceless myrmidons armed with pistols have bumped off Col. Abdullahi Salah Nadalo, the victim in the vicinity of Bulshale hotel at 1st August village in Garowe town at about 7:15 pm local time on Monday evening.
"He was shot multiple times on head by anonymous attackers with pistols who escaped unscathed from the scene shortly after they carried out the coordinated shooting," said a witness who spoke with Shabelle Media by phone from Garowe town on condition of anonymity.
On July 1, 2012, the 54-year-old deceased official was sacked from the post of deputy police chief under unknown circumstances by the officials of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in northern Somalia.
The move behind the murder and the identity of the killers are yet to be established, but he is believed to have been the driving force for the anti pirate operations of the Puntland police forces.
Dozens of Puntland security forces mounting on vehicles have reached at the crime spot in Garowe town and conducted manhunt operations, but no one was reported tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for the killing so far.
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Myrmidons ???
Is that like - male mermaids?
What the he** is a myrmidon???
I definitely wouldn't want that on my epitaph.
Hahahahahahahahaha !!!
Al-Qaeda offshoot Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) drove Touareg rebel group National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) out of Gao last week. The first-ever armed clashes between the two rival factions left at least 21 dead.
The strife followed a protest last Tuesday by residents upset over the killing of municipal councillor Idrissa Oumarou. Malian rebels opened fire on the rally, but it was not clear which rebel group had started shooting civilians.
MUJAO has now become the dominant force in the city and imposed a night curfew last Wednesday, Le Journal Du Mali reported Friday.
MUJAO member Abu Daoud said, "We are now present in the Koro Gusso area after MNLA's army escaped last night," adding that MNLA had a chaotic evacuation and left behind equipment, including two tanks, two trucks and a missile launcher.
Echourouk reported that terrorists had seized heavy weapons and anti-aircraft missiles. MNLA fled the scene after their field commander Belal Ag Sharif was injured and transferred to Burkina Faso for treatment along with four interim government ministers.
With the MUJAO controlling Gao, the three main cities in northern Mali (Kidal, Timbuktu and Gao) are now dominated by terrorist groups.
Gao-based journalist Osman Ag Mohamed Osman said Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb "provided military supplies and equipment to MUJAO and was a part of the military operation, forcing MNLA to depart from city and airport."
Meanwhile, rumours circulated that AQIM emir Khaled Abou El Abbas (aka Mokhtar Belmokhtar, or "Laaouar"), who was reportedly personally directing and participating in the clashes against the Touareg rebels, was killed in the battle.
MNLA media official Moussa Ag al-Saeed said his body had been seen on a road. On the other hand, MNLA member Yahya Osman Ag Mohamed said that the terrorist leader sustained critical wounds to his chest and leg. AQIM, however, denied rumours of Laaouar's death.
[An Nahar] Algerian authorities have identified a suicide kaboomer who killed one person and maimed three at a paramilitary police headquarters in the town of Ouargla, al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Investigators have "identified the DNA of the attacker," local commander Colonel Tahar Othmani was quoted as saying on al-Watan's website, without naming the person.
They also have the serial number of the car used in the attack and of the Kalashnikov assault rifle that was used.
A Mali-based Islamist group has already grabbed credit for the dawn attack on Friday.
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) said in a text message to AFP in Mali's capital Bamako that a young Algerian from the southern town had carried out the attack in a 4X4 packed with almost 1,300 kilograms of explosives.
According to reports cited by the APS news agency, the attack was carried out "by a terrorist who sought to break into the headquarters building in his vehicle, after an exchange of fire with gendarmes."
The term "terrorist" is generally used in Algeria to describe armed Islamist krazed killers, mainly active in the northeast of the country.
The MUJAO front man said the group accused Algeria of encouraging Tuareg rebels to go to war with it, although the secular MNLA Tuaregs had got together with the Islamists three months ago to take control of the vast north of Mali.
Ouargla is a town of almost 150,000 people, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southeast of the coastal capital.
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[Yemen Post] Three suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies were killed in an Arclight airstrike in south Yemen on Tuesday, where the army is pursuing the remaining and escaping faceless myrmidons after driving them out from 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... in the past few months, informed sources said.
The Arclight airstrike, believed to be from a US drone, targeted the car of the three carrying weapons in the Harib area in the district of Bayhan, Shabwa, the sources said.
"The suspects in the car were killed and kabooms of the weapons were heard after the strike," they added.
Earlier, the authorities said Al-Qaeda has been eradicated by 85% in Yemen and that the hunt for those who beat feet from Abyan after the recent offensive is continuing until all gunnies were killed or tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! The army has regained control of all the strongholds of Al-Qaeda, which were seized in Abyan and Shabwa last year, and killed hundreds including senior Qaeda leaders.
The US and tribal fighters have provided direct support to the national forces, with many gunnies including wanted leaders targeted by drones.
Separately, three civilians were maimed in an kaboom in the Lawder town, Abyan, which was believed to be a landmine of those which were planted by Al-Qaeda after it was driven out from the province.
Dozens of civilians have been recently killed in landmine kabooms in Abyan just as many families are trying to return to their areas after almost a year of displacement in nearby provinces.
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[Yemen Post] Commander of the Central Security Fadhal Al-Qawsi has affirmed that Yemen has undermined Al-Qaeda 85 percent 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... and Aden, pointing out that Al-Qaeda movements were founded out in Al-Baidha governorate.
Al-Qawsi told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper that Saudis, Somalis, Tunisians and Africans were captured while fighting with Al-Qaeda, pointing out that hundreds of Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys were killed.
He made it clear that Yemen exerts efforts to release the Saudi diplomat Abdullah Al-Khalidi, indicating that several government agencies and tribal leaders seeks to free al-Khalidi.
He declined to name those countries that backed al-Qaeda with weapons, reaffirming that Yemen locked away Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! elements who plotted to kill the Southern Region commander Salem Qatan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Yemen's security services have stated they locked away Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! a number of terrorist cells and published names of the suspects in many state-run media outlets, singled out that a number of Al-Qaeda suicide kabooms were thwarted in Sana'a, Aden and other governorates.
chiefs of the National Security Mohammad Al-Anisi and the Political Security Ghalib Al-Qamish presented a detailed report about a number of terrorist cells including the cell that killed about 100 soldiers in a military parade rehearsal on May 21.
The Yemeni authorities stated on Monday that three Al-Qaeda jacket wallahs in the capital Sana'a after the foiling of three suicide kabooms Al-Qaeda planned to carry out. Security sources told Al-Khaleej Newspaper that the bombers planned to carry out bombings in the Old Sana'a and Souq Bab Al-Yaman.
The Interior Ministry, for its part, has cautioned against the infiltration of Al-Qaeda operatives to the capital Sana'a, pointing out that Al-Qaeda has plans to carry out a suicide kaboom using car booms.
Commander of the Central Security Fadhal Al-Qawsi has affirmed that Yemen has undermined Al-Qaeda 85 percent in Abyan and Aden, pointing out that Al-Qaeda movements were founded out in Al-Baidha governorate.
Al-Qawsi told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper that Saudis, Somalis, Tunisians and Africans were captured while fighting with Al-Qaeda, pointing out that hundreds of Al-Qaeda gun-hung tough guys were killed.
He made it clear that Yemen exerts efforts to release the Saudi diplomat Abdullah Al-Khalidi, indicating that several government agencies and tribal leaders seeks to free al-Khalidi.
He declined to name those countries that backed al-Qaeda with weapons, reaffirming that Yemen locked away Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! elements who plotted to kill the Southern Region commander Salem Qatan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... Yemen's security services have stated they locked away Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! a number of terrorist cells and published names of the suspects in many state-run media outlets, singled out that a number of Al-Qaeda suicide kabooms were thwarted in Sana'a, Aden and other governorates.
chiefs of the National Security Mohammad Al-Anisi and the Political Security Ghalib Al-Qamish presented a detailed report about a number of terrorist cells including the cell that killed about 100 soldiers in a military parade rehearsal on May 21.
The Yemeni authorities stated on Monday that three Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in the capital Sana'a after the foiling of three suicide kabooms Al-Qaeda planned to carry out. Security sources told Al-Khaleej Newspaper that the bombers planned to carry out bombings in the Old Sana'a and Souq Bab Al-Yaman.
The Interior Ministry, for its part, has cautioned against the infiltration of Al-Qaeda operatives to the capital Sana'a, pointing out that Al-Qaeda has plans to carry out a suicide kaboom using car booms.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Top listed criminal "Dakat" Shahid and one of his accomplices were killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion at Laxmibazar in Old Dhaka last night, Rab officials said.
Rab identified the second victim as Kalu, aged around 37.
A team of the elite force set up a check post at Laxmibazar of Sutrapur around 11:45pm yesterday following intelligence that "Dakat" Shahid and his gang might be in the area, Rab's Legal and Media Wing Director Commander M Sohail told The Daily Star.
Soon after, members of Rab saw three cycle of violences speeding towards the check post. The Rab team signalled the bikers to stop, but they sped away, Sohail said over the phone around 1:30am today from the spot.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Rab personnel chased the bikes and managed to catch Shahid and Kalu from behind.
The duo then fell on the road, still trying to run away, added Sohail.
The "criminals" opened fire as the Rab members approached them, prompting the force to fire back. The two died instantly, he said.
Rab recovered two pistols from the spot, said the top official.
Shahid was accused in 18 cases, including six for murder, according to Rab. Also, more than 100 general diaries were filed against him with different cop shoppes in the capital.
Apparently relieved at Shahid's death, locals in Laxmibazar brought out a procession.
Rab sources said Shahid came to old Dhaka from abroad a few days ago.
Dakat Shahid's gang, which operates in the old city and in Keraniganj across the Buriganga river, is one of the largest in the capital. Over the last few years, his gang was allegedly involved in many killings and extortions.
His gang was also infamous for land grabbing. Shahid had long been absconding and was suspected to have been leading his group from India, police sources said.
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Four terrorists militants were killed in Russia's Caucasian republic of Dagestan on Tuesday, according to the National Antiterrorism Committee.
One of the terrorists militants was subsequently identified as a Bagavudin Bagayev, also known as Gusein Apandi, a purported terrorist recruiter.
The terrorists militants were holed up in a private country home following a security check. They refused to surrender and opened fire. All four were killed by in the return fire.
A terrorist militant leader was killed on Tuesday in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
The terrorist militant, Azparukh Shamayev, has long been on a federal wanted list for a series of murders. On November 14, 2011, he personally killed two precinct police officers in Nalchik, the republic's capital.
Police tried to stop Shamayev and another man on Tuesday morning for a document check. The two opened fire on police. Shamayev was killed by return fire
[news.com.au] TWO men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew. A pack, not a herd...
The Global Times newspaper reported that two of the suspects died in hospital from injuries they suffered during the ensuing fight with passengers and crew on board. "Doctor Casey! They're sinking fast! Oh, what shall we do?"
"Hmmm... Should we have a late lunch at Dino's? Or should we just knock off early and go dancing?"
"What about the patients?"
"Somebody'll put them on ice when they finally peg out."
The men were part of a six-strong gang involved in the foiled hijack of a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for the regional capital of Urumqi last Friday. "Mahmoud? Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"No. But it's our Islamic duty."
"Well, okay then. But I get to make a martyr's video!"
Just minutes after the flight took off from Hetian, southwest Xinjiang, the men, all aged between 20 and 36, stood up and announced their plans to terrified passengers. "Arrrr! We're terrorists an' we're takin' over this plane!"
"Oh, we're so frightened."
The gang reportedly broke a pair of aluminium crutches and used them to attack passengers while attempting to break into the cockpit, Hou Hanmin, a regional government spokeswoman said. "Mother's crutches! They broke Mother's crutches! The bastards!"
They were tackled by police and passengers "Let's roll!"
who tied them up with belts before the plane, carrying 101 people, returned to the airport safely just 22 minutes later. "Mr. Wang! Are you sure that belt's not too tight around the miscreant's neck? He's turning blue!"
"Don't worry about it. He was that color when he came on board."
"Yeah, I seen it, too."
"That's right. He commented on it to me!"
"Heh heh!"
"Heh heh!"
"'He was that color when he come on board!' [Snicker!]"
Hanmin added that police were still testing materials they had been carrying, thought to be explosives. [Sniff!]
"What's it smell like, Sergeant Xiu?"
"Either some kinda cheese or C4. I can't make up my mind!"
"What's it taste like?"
"Either C4 or Liederkranz. I still can't decide..."
The men were reported to be Uighurs, the local Muslim ethnic minority. Dilxat Raxit, ... a close relative of Nurse Raxit...
spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress which campaigns for Uighurs' rights, said that it wasn't a hijacking attempt, rather an in-flight brawl over a seat dispute. "We warn China not to use this incident as another excuse for crackdown," he said in an emailed statement. ... which has left all the Han Chinese ever so frightened. All the party members are hysterical.
Two more suspects are reportedly being treated in hospital after mutilating themselves. "Whoa! Chopped 'em right off, did they?"
"Betcha that hurt."
"Betcha it still does."
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Works for me....
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...without the vast expense and inconvenience of a TSA.
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Two more suspects are reportedly being treated in hospital after mutilating themselves.
Thats right officer, after punching himself in the back of the head 15, 20 times he tore his ears off and threw himself into the toilet then did a headstand.
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This is what would really happen in America if someone tried to hijack a plane today. On 9/11, we learned that it does no good to sit there passively while someone takes over the plane. That and the fact that the cockpit doors have been reenforced make it so that no one is likely to take over the plane. Yes, they can still blow it up, but if the terrorists are discovered trying to set off the explosives, they will suffer the same fate as if they tried to take over the plane.
In other words, all the security theater of the TSA is just that - theater.
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If that happened in the US, Holder would prosecute the killers.
[Dawn] French authorities have locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! the administrator of an turban French website who is suspected of playing a key role in financing and recruiting for al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups from Pakistain to Spain, the Gay Paree prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The man, whom prosecutors call an "operational vector and formidable financier of the bloodiest terrorist groups'', is being questioned Tuesday. He faces preliminary charges of planning terrorist acts and financing a terrorist enterprise, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The man, a Tunisian born in 1977 based in the southern French city of Toulon, was locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! Friday after a yearlong investigation, the prosecutor's statement said. It did not give the man's name.
The prosecutor cited "serious and concordant evidence" that the suspect sent material from his computer to terrorist groups. It says he played a "centralizing role" in collecting funds for terrorist groups to buy weapons, but did not elaborate on how much money was involved.
Prosecutors say he is suspected of acting as a financier and recruiter for groups including al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (North Africa), Fatah al Islam, and the Islamic State of Iraq.
Investigators studied thousands of email messages and analyzed a "considerable mass" of data, prosecutors said.
They called it an exceptionally advanced example of "the use of the Internet for terrorist ends in the domain of radical Islam."
The arrest comes three months after a gunman who police said claimed allegiance to al-Qaeda killed Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers in a rampage in southern La Belle France, in La Belle France's worst terrorist attacks since the 1990s.
Also earlier this year, a French court sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaeda's north African wing via online contacts. Adlene Hicheur, a former researcher at Switzerland's ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... CERN laboratory, was convicted of "criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks."
His defenders say he was a victim of allegedly overzealous French anti-terrorism laws and that he explored ideas on jihadist websites but never took any concrete step toward terrorism.
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Friday after a yearlong investigation, the prosecutor's statement said. It did not give the man's name.
a financier and recruiter for groups including al-Qaeda
Don't need a name, hang him and burn the body before the people as an example.
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[An Nahar] The United States will release about $1.1 billion to Pakistain's military as part of a deal that will see Islamabad lift a blockade on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supply convoys into Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The money, from a U.S. "coalition support fund" designed to reimburse Pakistain for the cost of counter-insurgency operations, had been withheld due to tensions between the two countries and Islamabad's closure of the supply routes.
Pakistain and the United States announced earlier that the border would be open once again to NATO convoys.
The coalition support fund is often the subject of wrangling between U.S. and Pak officials, with Islamabad's claims often rejected and smaller sums approved by Washington for reimbursement.
The $1.1 billion that will be freed up under the border deal does not include large sums that Pakistain says it is owed, said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"This is the amount that has been approved and already gone through the process," the U.S. official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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U.S. to Free Up $1.1 Billion for Pakistan
From where, pray tell.
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China, Jim.
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We apologize and pay them $1.1 billion? What a bargain!
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Ditto that AD. Just what I thought. Purchased good graces. Yes and China money. Laughing all the way to the bank.
The cold, hard facts are, Pakistani Frontier Corps personnel at that border outpost (or other personnel at the outpost) fired on ISAF aircraft. The aircraft returned fire. The incident was thoroughly investigated by ISAF authorities. No fault was found on the part of the ISAF pilots.
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What twists and wrenches my gut is those US Taxpayer dollars, (my tax dollars as well) at least some portion of the $1.1 Billion, will undoubtedly end up aiding and abetting Taliban insurgents and killing our young soldiers, and other ISAF soldiers.
Isn't a decade of aiding and abetting Bin Laden enough proof of Pakistani complicity? How much message traffic and open source data must one read related to the intentions of the Quetta Shura and the training madrassas of Chaman to link nefarious activity to the government of Pakistan? All Taliban infiltration routes along the Durand Line lead into Pakistan.
While I prefer the Roman method, If we must pay our way out of Afghanistan, so be it. But get the young people out safely first, then pay the worthless bastards if you must.
[Dawn] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Woman to Call at 3 a.m. and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... said Tuesday that Pakistain was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the US belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pak troops in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... Arclight airstrike.
Clinton expressed her condolences for the deaths in a telephone conversation with Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
The incident badly damaged already strained relations between the two countries and forced the US and its allies to send supplies via costlier northern routes into Afghanistan.
"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pak military," Clinton said in a statement, recounting her discussion with Khar. "I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pak soldiers who bit the dust. Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pak military lives," she added.
It is the first time any US official has formally apologized for the deaths, a step hotly debated within the B.O. regime and one demanded by Pakistain while its supply routes remained closed for seven months.
It came as key Pak civilian and military leaders were meeting on Tuesday evening in Islamabad to discuss whether to reopen NATO supply routes.
Clinton said a decision had been reached. "I am pleased that Foreign Minister Khar has informed me that the ground supply lines into Afghanistan are opening," Clinton said. She said Pakistain won't charge any transit fee, the subject of an earlier negotiation, and that the reopening would help the US draw down its war in Afghanistan "at a much lower cost."
"This is a tangible demonstration of Pakistain's support for a secure, peaceful, and prosperous Afghanistan and our shared objectives in the region," she said, calling the agreement "critically important to the men and women who are fighting terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan."
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... also welcomed Pakistain's decision.
"As I have made clear, we remain committed to improving our partnership with Pakistain and to working closely together as our two nations confront common security challenges in the region," he said.
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[Dawn] At least six people were killed in incidents of violence in 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 Tuesday, DawnNews reported.
Moreover, the police claimed arresting a suspected hit man.
In the city's Orangi Town area, two people, including a political worker, were rubbed out.
Separately, one man was bumped off in the Baldia Town neighbourhood.
Another man was killed in SITE's Metroville area whereas a policeman was rubbed out in Gulbahar.
Furthermore, a man who had been maimed in an overnight firing incident in Bloody Karachi's Quaidabad area succumbed to his wounds at a hospital.
'Target killer' tossed in the slammer
West zone police on Tuesday claimed arresting Shahid alias 'darinda' over suspected involvement in over 30 incidents of assassinations and gang war.
A hand grenade and arms were also recovered from the suspect's possession, police claimed.
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[Dawn] Afghan National Army troops intruded into a village in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Monday and killed two rustics and injured another, officials said.
The incident took place in Muqbal village, some 20km south of Parachinar, the agency's administrative headquarters.
Hours before the incident, a security post of the ANA came under attack near Anzer Kali in Danda Pattan area of Afghanistan's Paktia province. The border post is adjacent to Kherlachi village in Upper Kurram.
Sources said the pre-dawn attack had been repulsed by the Afghan army. They said Afghan troops intruded into Pak territory while pursuing the fleeing attackers and came across people of Muqbal village.
Local people said the ANA personnel fired at three farmers. Lahore Khan and Gul Wazir was struck down in his prime while Khwaja Din was injured.
Residents said they had seen more than 50 Afghan soldiers near the village and armed rustics exchanging fire with them. The gunbattle continued for over an hour.
Assistant political agent Javidullah Mehsud and other officials visited the village after the incident.
It may be mentioned that Pakistain deployed troops at two trade posts with Afghanistan -- Kherlachi and Borki -- last month after about five years.
INCURSION DENIED: Afghan defence officials denied the alleged incursion. "We are not aware of such an operation by the Afghan National Army in that area," AFP quoted Daulat Wazir, a front man for the ministry of defence, as saying.
Colonel Ahmad Jan, a front man for army corps 203 in southeastern Afghanistan, said: "It is not true; our forces have not entered Pakistain. We have not had any operations near the border recently."
But in Pakistain, border attacks have raised fresh concern that Pak Taliban, who fled a 2009 army offensive, have regrouped and again pose a threat.
Officials said dozens of gunnies based in Afghanistan had attacked a checkpost in Upper Dir on Sunday for the second time in eight days. They said six gunnies were killed after crossing into Sabir Killey village in Upper Dir.
One official said there were reports that `hundreds of krazed killers' were gathering in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar.
"Authorities have alerted local lashkars (tribal militia) amid fears of a bigger clash," he told AFP.
Afghan threat: Afghanistan threatened on Monday to report Pakistain to the UN Security Council over what Kabul alleges is the shelling of its villages along the border between the two countries.
Authorities in the eastern province of Kunar have complained for weeks of being bombarded from across the frontier, blaming the barrage on Pak security forces.
Thousands of villagers in Kunar fled their homes as a result of "Pak rocket shelling" in recent weeks, officials said last
week.
Foreign ministry front man Faramarz Tamana said Kabul was discussing the attacks with Islamabad and President Hamid
Karzai would raise the matter with Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf when he visits Afghanistan in the coming weeks.
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DIWANIYA: Bombs killed at least 44 people at markets in Iraq yesterday, and authorities said they bore the hallmarks of sectarian attacks on Shiites by Al-Qaeda militants.
A bomb in a small truck exploded in a market in the city of Diwaniya, killing 40 people, and other blasts killed four more near the city of Karbala, police and officials said. The Diwaniya bombing was near a mosque where people gather on their way to Karbala to celebrate the birthday of one of their important imams, Al-Mahdi, this week.
Police announced a partial curfew and blocked all entrances to Diwaniya, 150 km south of Baghdad and 130 km southeast of Karbala. Police sources said 75 people had been wounded.
Earlier in the day, two bombs in a vegetable wholesale market killed four people and wounded 29 near the central Iraqi city of Karbala, hospital and police sources said.
The bombing happened because of sticky bombs attached to two parked cars which went off separately, said Hussein Shadhan, a provincial council member, who was at the hospital. Four of the wounded people are seriously injured and their medical situation is very critical.
Initial investigations show that todays bombs bear the fingerprints of Al-Qaeda terrorist group, Salim Hussain, governor of Diwaniya, told Iraqiya state television.
Iraqs Al-Qaeda wing has claimed responsibility for some of the recent bombings.
Last month at least 237 people were killed and 603 wounded in attacks, mainly bombings, according to a Reuters tally, making June one of the bloodiest months in Iraq since US troops withdrew at the end of last year. The deadliest attack occurred on June 13 when bombers killed more than 70 people.
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An assistant village leader was killed by a bomb explosion in Yala province on Tuesday.
Maromulee Eyuno, an assistant to the chief of Ban Lumo was returning home from a meeting in Raman district town back to his village in a pick-up truck. A 10-kg home-made bomb, buried on the road inside the village was detonated as the truck passed over it. The blast wrecked the vehicle and killed Maromulee.
Also in Yala, another bomb was detonated on a road in Bannang Sata district as a patrol vehicle from Infantry Company 7021 drove over it. One soldier was injured in the blast.
Press TV says suspects employed methods identical to those Israel trying to implement
Iran has placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two Azerbaijanis on charges of espionage, English-language Press TV reported on Tuesday, after months of rising tensions between the Caspian Sea neighbors.
"An official ... told Press TV that the collected evidence indicates that (they) entered Iran under the direction of the Republic of Azerbaijan's secret service known as MTN. They were supposed to recruit a number of dissidents in Iran to promote separatism," the report said.
The arrests, which Press TV said happened in May, are likely to add to tensions, already running high between the two countries.
Iran has accused Baku of helping Israel in what it says was the Jewish state's liquidation of Iranian nuclear scientists - a claim Azerbaijan has denied.
"The methods employed by the two agents is identical to those Israel has long been trying to implement," the report said, adding that the men had obtained confidential information and images of strategic locations.
Tehran recalled its ambassador in May for consultations after anti-Iranian protest in Baku following Tehran's criticism of Azerbaijan's hosting of the flamboyant Eurovision Song Contest - capping months of accusations by the two countries of meddling in each other's affairs.
The Iranian envoy returned to Baku last month.
Azerbaijan has placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! dozens of people this year on suspicion of links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and of plotting attacks, including on the Israeli ambassador to Baku.
It barred a senior Iranian official from entering the country in May and tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... an Iranian news hound for two years for possession of drugs.
About 15 percent of Iranians are ethnic Azeris and there are strong linguistic and family cross-border ties.
[An Nahar] Syrian troops pounded several rebel-held districts in the central city of Homs on Tuesday, as the corpse count mounted across the country, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In total, at least 48 people were killed on Tuesday, bringing to more than 120 the corpse count over two days, the Britannia-based watchdog reported.
Two civilians and three rebels were killed in Homs, as festivities raged in and around the neighborhood of Baba Amr, a former rebel stronghold that the army seized on March 1 after a fierce 27-day assault.
Rebels and troops also battled for the district of Khaldiyeh, the monitoring group said. Khaldiyeh is one of several rebel-held districts of Homs that have been besieged by the army for almost a month.
On Monday troops tried to storm the encircled district of Jourat al-Shiah, according to the Observatory.
Troops also rained shells in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the 16-month uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , killing six people, the watchdog said. Among the victims were a woman and her three children.
In the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, much of which is rebel-controlled, violent festivities broke out with regime forces, at least four of whom were killed, the Observatory said.
The Local Coordination Committees -- a network of activists on the ground -- said "125 families fled the city of Deir Ezzor and its suburbs ... as a result of the unrelenting military attacks."
Several areas of Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... province also saw heavy violence, the Observatory said. Troops shelled the town of Arbeen, killing one child, while two people were rubbed out by snipers near the city of Douma.
Of those killed on Tuesday, at least 18 were troops and six were rebels.
Earlier, the Observatory reported at least 78 people were confirmed killed across Syria on Monday, 44 of them civilians.
The watchdog also said it had received reports that 15 people were rubbed out in a village in the central province of Hama, although it had been unable to confirm the names of those killed in the Sunni-populated village of Douma.
The reported killings followed the liquidation in the area late on Sunday of three pro-government militiamen.
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Go ahead, "apologize" [tell them how sorry "we" are about the senseless killing] for the loss of life and move on. Do NOT send money. Do NOT send troops, advisors, contractors, observers, subject matter experts, negociators, communicators, strategists, equipment of any type, or "non-lethal" aid personnel.
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[An Nahar] Members of an Internal Security Forces patrol were assaulted by Hizbullah supporters in the Rweiss neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, security sources told An Nahar daily on Tuesday.
The sources said the ISF had set up a checkpoint on Monday as part of the one-month security campaign launched by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, when the security forces saw a motorcyclist carrying a gun.
The copperstossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the gunman identified as Ali Shoaib, they told An Nahar.
But around 30 Hizbullah members rushed to his help and engaged in a dispute with the patrol, which left policeman Mohammed Zoaiter with bruises.
Later Tuesday, Hizbullah's press office denied the report, saying the party had nothing to do with the alleged assault.
Charbel has said that scores of people were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! as part of the security plan that was launched last Wednesday, and the ISF has confiscated unlicensed trucks and cycle of violences.
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[An Nahar] Beirut Examining Magistrate Judge Ghassan Oueidat decided on Tuesday to put Wissam Alaeddine, who participated in the attack on al-Jadeed television, under judicial supervision, the National News Agency reported.
According to the news agency the judge's decision after questioning Alaeddine in the presence of his lawyer Mohammed Mantash.
Alaeddine's passport was also confiscated.
He is charged with attempted murder and the possession of weapons.
Last week, unknown gunnies attacked al-Jadeed television's headquarters in the Beirut neighborhood of Wata el-Msaytbeh, opening fire on the building, hurling Molotov bombs and setting fire to tires.
Alaeddine was nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! at the scene after his clothes caught fire.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The United States will release about $1.1 billion to Pakistain's military as part of a deal that will see Islamabad lift a blockade on 
US Secretary of State 
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[Dawn] At least six people were killed in incidents of violence in 
Kurram Agency
Syrian troops pounded several rebel-held districts in the central city of Homs on Tuesday, as the 
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Members of an Internal Security Forces patrol were assaulted by Hizbullah supporters in the Rweiss neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, security sources told An Nahar daily on Tuesday.
