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Oh my goodness, GB! I think you forgot a NSFW there somewhere! :-). Fortunately I'm not at work so I can check back whenever I want to make sure she's still waiting for me.
[Dawn] An Afghan minister survived an bad boyroadside kabooming Sunday, the third attack on high profile officials in three days, a provincial governor said.
Obaidullah Obaid, the higher education minister, was travelling between the northern provinces of Baghlan and Kunduz when his motorcade hit a roadside kaboom, similar to those used by Taliban bad boys.
The minister escaped unhurt but two coppers escorting his convoy were maimed, Munshi Abdul Majeed, the Baghlan governor told AFP, blaming the blast on the Taliban.
In a separate attack Sunday, a twin bombing maimed 14 people in Pashtun-infested Logar province south of Kabul. The second kaboom hit security forces as they gathered to investigate the first one, police said.
The casualties were mostly police, army and intelligence Sherlocks, police said.
The bombings came a day after a suicide kaboomer killed a prominent Afghan MP and former warlord, Ahmad Khan, targeting him at his daughter's wedding party in the northern town of Aibak in Samangan province.
Sixteen other people were also killed and dozens more were maimed.
On Friday, the Laghman provincial women's affairs director, Hanifa Safi, was killed when a bomb attached to her vehicle went kaboom!, critically wounding her husband and daughter, police said.
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[Saudi Gazette] Officials at Sudan's main university have ended classes about a week early, campus sources said Sunday, after a series of Arab Spring-style student demonstrations sparked by high inflation.
"It is not a closure but they just made the program (finish) quicker... instead of allowing some disturbance" one source at the University of Khartoum said, adding that students have been told to return after the holy month of Ramadan to sit for examinations. Ramadan begins Friday.
The decision affects most colleges on the university's main campus in central Khartoum, but satellite campuses are still in session, the source added.
The decision to cancel many classes this week came after students on the main campus last Wednesday staged perhaps their biggest protest since unrest began June 16.
A witness said security forces fired tear gas at the students -- estimated at more than 100 -- who were shouting and throwing stones. That followed a demonstration on July 8 which was also met with tear gas.
There have been other periodic protests on campus since students first voiced their opposition to high food prices one month ago.
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(Sh.M.Network)-A vast kaboom was heard on Sunday in the heart of Baidoa town, the capital city of Bay province in southern Somalia, where has been a main stronghold for Al shabab before TFG and Æthiopian troops retook control early this year, witnesses said.
Eyewitnesses told Shabelle Media that the blast happened at about 7:20 a.m. local time after gunnies attacked with a hand grenade on a coffee bar that frequented by Somali government soldiers and officials.No deaths and wounds reported so far.
Baidoa, which sits just 250 kilometers south of Mogadishu, has seen several deadly attacks, including car booms and landmine blasts since Somali and Æthiopian troops captured it from Al shabab gunnies this year.
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[Saudi Gazette] Tuareg-led Mali rebels who seized the north of the West African country in April declared Sunday they had dropped claims for a separate state after the rebellion was hijacked by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists now holding sway in the north.
"We are seeking cultural, political and economic independence but not secession," Ibrahim Ag Assaleh, a senior member of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), told Rooters by telephone.
"Tuareg for the Tuaregs!"
Azawad is the name which the MNLA gives to the northern territory of Mali in which it declared an independence that has been ignored by a world more concerned with the threat of Mali become a launch pad for radical activities.
Sorry. That's "Azawad for the Tuaregs!" and stop snickering!
A second MNLA official, Hama Ag Mahmoud, told Rooters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott: "Independence has been our line since the start of the conflict but we are taking on board the view of the international community to resolve this crisis."
Someone has been educated in the British style...
Islamist groups including the local Ansar Dine have imposed strict Shariah across the north and destroyed UNESCO-listed sites in the ancient town of Timbuktu.
Contacted by telephone in Timbuktu, Ansar Dine front man Sanda Ould Boumana said he was not aware of any change in the MNLA position but added: "What I can tell you is that it is us who control the three regions of the north."
But of course. That's why those ignorant Islamists can impose strict Shariah where they will.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... a witness and a combatant affiliated with Death Eaters in northern Mali say the group has enlisted new fighters from a tribal militia to strengthen its grip on the region.
A resident of Douentza town told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named Sunday that some 400 combatants of the government-backed Gandakoy militia appear to have broken ranks and joined the Islamists, bolstering the radicals' edge over ethnic Tuareg rebels in the area. The witness declined to be named for fear of reprisals by the Ansar Dine group.
One of the group's Timbuktu-based fighters, Oumar Ould Hamaha, confirmed the resident's observation, saying the Gandakoy Death Eaters in in Douentza are "100 percent with Ansar Dine."
The group's front man, Sanda Abou Mohamed, also confirmed that the Gandakoy "who respect our principles" arrived in Douentza, some 250 kilometers south of Timbuktu.
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"We are seeking cultural, political and economic independence but not secession," --- Huh- whats left? Sounds like they must be working with some NGOs from Quebec.
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When I look at that "TIMBUKTOO Stories" cover I keep thinking the slaver is asking for two dead rats for Madonna but the highest offer seems to be just one.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
This is what happens, Hillary, when you stand with corrupt generals and nutcase Islamicists instead of standing with American principles...
A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria.
A senior state department official said that neither Clinton nor her vehicle, which were around the corner from the incident, were struck by any of the projectiles.
Protesters chanted: "Monica, Monica", a reference to Former President Bill Clinton's extra-marital affair.
Ruder, but clever...
Some chanted: "leave, Clinton", Egyptian security officials said.
It was not clear who the protesters were or what political affiliations they had.
But their message was clear...
Protesters outside Clinton's hotel on Saturday night chanted anti-Islamist slogans, accusing the United States of backing the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power.
The assault on her motorcade came on a day Clinton spoke at the newly re-opened U.S. consulate in Alexandria, addressing accusations the United States, which had long supported former President Hosni Mubarak, of backing one faction or another in Egypt following his ouster last year.
"I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which of course we cannot," Clinton said.
That does seem to be contrary to most known history of the last fifty years...
Clinton also met the country's top general, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, on Sunday to discuss Egypt's turbulent democratic transition as the military wrestles for influence with the new president. The meeting came a day after she met Mursi, whose powers were clipped by the military days before he took office.
In their hour-long meeting, Clinton and Tantawi discussed Egypt's political transition and the military's "ongoing dialogue with President Mursi," a U.S. official travelling with Clinton said in an email brief.
"Tantawi stressed that this is what Egyptians need most now - help getting the economy back on track," the official said.
Clinton "stressed the importance of protecting the rights of all Egyptians, including women and minorities".
The talks also touched on the increasingly lawless Sinai region and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Speaking after the meeting, Tantawi said the army respected the presidency but would not be deterred from its role of "protecting" Egypt.
"The armed forces and the army council respects legislative and executive authorities," he said in a speech to troops in the city of Ismailia. "The armed forces would not allow anyone to discourage it from its role in protecting Egypt and its people."
In other words, he listened politely to the infidel woman and then shooed her away so as to get on with more important business...
During her speech, Clinton said: "When we talk about supporting democracy, we mean real democracy."
"To us real democracy means that every citizen has the right to live, work and worship as they choose, whether they are man or woman, Christian or Muslim."
"Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else."
You can see how that's not going to work either with Tantawi or with Mursi...
That was a message she is likely to have repeated in meetings on Sunday with women and Christians, both groups that correctly fear their rights may be curtailed under a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government.
"She wanted, in very, very clear terms, particularly with the Christian group this morning, to dispel that notion and to make clear that only Egyptians can choose their leaders, that we have not supported any candidate, any party, and we will not," a senior U.S. official told reporters.
Which pretty much means the Copts are on their own.
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Clinton said: "When we talk about supporting democracy, we mean real democracy."
Like we have in the US, where the duly-elected Lightbringer can void years of law and the expressed will of the people with the stroke of a pen.
Because it's better for us, or that only subset of 'us' about which he cares - Dem voters.
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"Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else."
The obvious work-around is of course....Presidential Executive Order (EO).
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Egypt as a nation has existed well before the time of Christ. Some reports indicate it age reaches back as far as 3000 years. Appears they have survived quite handily without our incessant political meddling for most, or least 2700 or so of those 3000 years. I would suggest we permit them to continue without it.
Libya's Olympic committee president was taken from his car by gunmen in Tripoli on Sunday and his whereabouts are unknown, colleagues said. Nabil Elalem was in his car with a colleague when two vehicles carrying men in military-style clothing blocked them off, another colleague, Arafat Jwan, said.
"They told him he was needed and he had to go with them. He asked if he could take his phone and laptop with him and then the cars sped away with him," Jwan said, adding that Elalem's colleague was left in the car. It was not clear who the men were.
Ezz-Edine Journaz, a spokesman for the committee, told an independent Libyan television channel that the men had claimed to be from the army and had asked him to come with them "politely". He said the group of about eight or nine were armed.
Sports and youth minister Fethi Tarbel said he had been informed about the matter and called for Elalem's immediate release.
I'm guessing this means Libya isn't competing in women's water polo...
"We condemn this kind of action. Whoever did this are criminals," he said. "This goes against the revolution, this brings us back to the Gaddafi culture Â… I don't know if he had any issues with anyone."
Since the end of last year's uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the interim government has struggled to control myriad armed groups who refuse to lay down their weapons and often take the law into their own hands and detain people.
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The U.S. Navy says a security team aboard one of its ships fired on a small boat after it disregarded warnings and raced toward the vessel near the Dubai port of Jebel Ali..
Lt Greg Raelson, a spokesman for the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, says sailors aboard the USNS Rappahannock issued a series of warnings Monday before resorting to lethal force using a .50-caliber machine gun.
A U.S. consular official and an Emirati rescue official in Dubai told The Associated Press that one person was killed and three were wounded in the shooting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the incident between the two allies.
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Right you are Besoeker. Wood splinters is the best outcome, or its amputation (one or the other). In any event - its Board of Inquiries here we come, and likely imposed expensive VISAs for US air passengers (as the UAE did to Canadians). Its an Arab way of sending a message.
We know what happened to the USS Cole. Its a tough call, but someone made it.
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Froma Canuck perspective, grey hull in the North Atlantic grey fog means stealth. (although many ships in WW1 and WW2 were specifically painted with broken pattern stripes. Merchant ships - strictly speaking -want to be seen by others (except in the Guld of Aden). Maybe we should paint ours off white to lurk in the North. (Pure white is hospital ship colors as set out in Geneva Conventions)
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BBC reports this as an Indian fisherman killed, with the boat being a 30 footer with 3 outboard moters. Sounds more like a Go-fast smuggler than a fisherman. I can undersand the fire order given the profile.
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Is there regulation or conventions that Navy ships are a grey vs merchant ships various colors?
Makes it harder to discern regarding profile and heading. Riverine craft and some Scandanavian coastal defense warships get painted green for the same reason.
For a while, a few ships in the Gulf were painted a lighter gray with just slightly darker gray hull numbers.
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That is affirmative Skipper, we've got one dead Indian and three dead Mercury's. Survivors appear to be frantically waving a bloodstained white dishdashah. I suspect they are signalling for reinforements. Shall I fire another 100 rounds ? OVER
perhaps an innocent mistake, or perhaps a dry run to test ROE. If they do it often enough, it'll make some idiot complacent. Nice shooting today, sailor
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Agree w/ dry run theory. As to paint schemes, visual deception takes many forms. If you look at a Nimitz class CV, there is a tall light pole fwd of the island. Properly lit the CV can visually (at night) resemble a merchantman.
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Mr. Radar is not fooled by such pitiful human tricks.
Weelll, yes and no. In one war game with the USN against a Southeast Asian naval force, the latter 'sunk' an Australian merchant instead of the USN target. I won't go into detail, but suffice it to say that advanced radar and electronics didn't quite work as well that day as cunning and experience.
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The most likely counter-response at this time, iff any, from Iran or Radical Islamic Groups would be a TerrOp agz US andor Israeli target(s) somewhere in the ME.
* VARIOUS MSM-NET NEWS > repor that the Persons aboard the small boat were INDIANS - howvere, this alone does necessarily prove or disprove they were affiliated wid Iran + violent Islamic Groups.
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In one war game with the USN against a Southeast Asian naval force, the latter 'sunk' an Australian merchant instead of the USN target.
Man, I'd love to hear that story some day (or what can be told). My dad taught radar operation and tactics during WWII. A lesson from his stories was that sensors report data, but you still have to interpret what you are seeing. And as Pappy says, experience and cunning count big time.
[Saudi Gazette] A Yemeni security official says a suspected Al-Qaeda cut-thoat accidentally set off a bomb he was preparing in a metal workshop in the capital, killing himself and injuring one other person. The official said the kaboom happened early Sunday in Sana'a's southern Hizzayz district.
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The RED wire! How many times have I told you connect the RED wire first!
[Saudi Gazette] As Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz grew louder over the weekend, the United Arab Emirates quietly loaded its first cargo Sunday from its long-awaited new oil export terminal on the Gulf of Oman.
UAE oil officials and executives from oil majors such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Total gathered on the eastern coast of the country to open an alternative route for up to 75 percent of UAE's exports.
A European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ban on Iranian crude imports came into effect on July 1 and Iran has been intensifying its threats to disrupt oil shipments from the Gulf. Two Iranian military officials warned over the weekend that Iran could stop oil from sailing through the vital shipping lane.
Alarmed by the Iranian threats, the UAE has completed its long-delayed project to pump up to 1.8 million barrels a day (bpd) to an export terminal on the eastern port of Fujairah.
Over the next few months, the Gulf OPEC member hopes to increase exports from the new facility to around 1.5 million bpd, nearly two-thirds of the 2.4 million it typically exports each day, and the new pipeline could carry three-quarters of the UAE's oil exports if needed.
"This is a very strategic project, it gives the options to our clients to transport larger quantities (of oil)," UAE's oil minister Mohammed bin Dhaen al-Hamli said. "I consider this project to be complementary, so we have an alternative...to give us choice to have more than one trade route."
The 370-km Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline carries oil from fields in the UAE's western desert to Fujairah, a major oil storage and fuel bunkering hub on the east coast. The new terminal also has eight crude oil storage tanks each with a capacity of one million barrel.
The first cargo loaded on Sunday with oil pumped from western fields in Abu Dhabi across the mountainous north-east tip of the Arabian peninsula is to be shipped to Pakistain. The bulk of UAE's oil is exported to Asia.
"It will make other projects viable in this area, and will also avoid more insurance and also will give access to the open sea," Abdulla Nasser Al Suwaidi, the head of state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) said after the opening ceremony.
Exports from the new facility would start at a few hundred thousand barrels a day and rise gradually over the next few months, Suwaidi said.
Until now, the UAE, like Qatar and Kuwait, had been entirely dependent on Hormuz to export its crude and the pipeline ends its dependence on a shipping artery that Iran has increasingly threatened to block as Western sanctions on its oil exports have tightened.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... too has opened a bypass in the last few months, giving Riyadh scope to export more of its crude from Red Sea terminals should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, but other Gulf oil exporters remain dependent on it.
Flows through the Strait last year accounted for about 35 percent of all sea-borne traded oil, or almost 20 percent of oil traded worldwide.
Almost 17 million barrels of oil were shipped between the northern tip of Oman and the southern coast of Iran in 2011, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
"By the end of the year this 1.5 mln bpd will be fully operational which is almost 70 pct of the UAE's crude," IPIC's managing director Khadem Abdulla Al-Qubaisi said.
Abu Dhabi government-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) undertook the pipeline project and ADNOC's onshore unit ADCO will be the operator.
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OOOOOOOOO, you can just hear SEAN PENN in "Fast Times" saying "Princely" instead of "Narly", can't ye???
hehe.
* ION TOPIX > IRAN PARLIAMENTARIANS CALL FOR NUCLEAR SHIPS, i.e. nuke-powered "Merchant" Ships.
VARIOUS POSTERS = unless ole' Moud + Khamenei, etal. intend to impress some Iranian Babes, + outside of NAVAL/MILITARY UTILITY, such nuke-powered vessels are not really needed in the Oil-Gas = Energy, etc. transhipment industry save for [Concorde-esque]IDEO-POL, MEDIA PRESTIGE???
* SAME > 5+1 RECOGNIZE IRAN'S NUCLEAR RIGHTS AT TALKS: BAQERI.
The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it has dismantled a group plotting against state security without identifying their affiliation or the number of arrests.
The prosecutor general, Salem Said Kabish, said an unspecified number of people were being questioned for having formed "a group aimed at damaging the security of the state," the official news agency WAM reported.
It said they were also suspected of "rejecting the constitution and the founding principles of power in the Emirates" and of having links with foreign organizations.
Kabish said they were being questioned to determine "the nature of the plot."
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[An Nahar] Petrol bombs were thrown during the night by unknown attackers at a parking lot of a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... n court in the kingdom's unrest-hit Shiite-populated east, an official and witnesses said on Sunday.
They said the bombs were thrown in the parking lot outside the compound of the court in Qatif district, setting the plastic shades that covered the area on fire.
"The shades of the parking lot outside the court caught fire," said a civil defense official in Eastern Province as videos posted on social networking websites showed the blaze.
Attacks on Saudi government facilities in Qatif have increased after the deaths of two Shiite protesters during festivities with the police there last week.
On Friday, the Interior Ministry announced that a gunman was killed during an attack on a cop shoppe and four Saudi coppers were maimed in a separate assault on their patrols in the same region.
Qatif witnessed several protests triggered in February 2011 after an outbreak of violence between Shiite pilgrims and inquisitors religious police in the holy city of Medina.
The sporadic protests escalated after the kingdom led a force of Gulf troops into neighboring Bahrain to help crush a month-long Shiite-led uprising last year against that country's Sunni monarchy.
Last week, tensions intensified after authorities set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock You have the right to remain silent... prominent Shiite holy man Nimr al-Nimr, described by the kingdom as an "instigator of sedition."
Saudi Arabia's estimated two million Shiites, who frequently complain of marginalization, live mostly in the east, where the vast majority of the OPEC kingpin's huge oil reserves lie.
Some 37 Shiite holy mans released a joint statement on Friday in which they urged youths to "steer away from violence" and not to "respond to some who try to provoke you and lure you to violence to mark your movement as terrorist."
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Throw a Fire Bomb, DIE asshole.(And too stupid to live)
That's assault with a deadly weapon, stupid too.
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By Chris Covert
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An additional 746 Mexican Army troops have been dispatched to the La Laguna region of Mexico, according to an official announcement by the Mexican Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the controlling agency for the Mexican Army.
The announcement did not provide any other details except to note that the reinforcements have already arrived in the area.
In practical terms, 746 troops represents a regiment of infantry, which is as heavy a one time movement of Mexican Army troops to any region.
La Laguna, which represents the area that includes Torreon, Coahuila, Ciudad Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, Durango has been the site of one of the heaviest concentrations of federal and Coahuila and Durango state security forces in Mexico. At last count, 4,000 total security troops were stationed in La Laguna, all part of Seguro Laguna, a security operation began last October.
Mexico has similar operations in other states, such as Operacion Noreste in Tamaulipas state, Seguro Veracruz in Veracruz state and Seguro Guerrero in Guerrero state, all intended to place a high concentration of federal security forces in areas known to be used by Mexican drug gangs.
The Seguro Laguna operation is commanded by the XI Military Region based in Saltillo, Coahuila and was originally intended to place several troops in choke points used by Mexican cartels to move drugs, munitions, shooters and migrants to the northern border with the United States.
One of the main goals of the operation was to reduce violence in the area, but an increase of shootings and several recent mass murders in the region involving rival drug gangs had officials considering requesting additional federal reinforcements, but from the Mexican Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), the controlling agency for the Polica Federal (PF).
However, Policia Federal troops had been asked to leave the region last February because the presence of PF troops had reportedly exacerbated violence in the area. The news dispatch which dealt with the local officials' request named SSP head Genero Luna Garcia. However, news released a day later indicated that PF troops from Zacatecas would be redeployed to Sinaloa and replacement troops would soon be arriving in Zacatecas as reinforcements. There was no mention in those news releases about additional PF troops moving to La Laguna.
SEDENA is constantly rotating maneuver ground units in and out of critical regions such as La Laguna, both as a security measure and to give tactical and unit commanders valuable experience in counternarcotics operations.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Mexican Army and naval personnel since July 7th have seized
11,182.1 kilograms of marijuana, 335 kilograms of unprocessed marijuana, 94 kilograms of marijuana seeds, 21.02 kilograms of cocaine, 1.95 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, 14 liters of liquid methamphetamine, five kilograms of poppy seeds, 1 kilogram of opium gum and MX $620,570.00 (USD $46,681.51) in cash.
An army unit with the Mexican 29th Military Zone detained two unidentified individuals and rescued one who had reportedly been kidnapped July 7th in Veracruz state. The operation took place in Frutos de la Revolucion colony in Coatzacoalcos municipality where the unit had been dispatched on an anonymous report of criminal activity in the area. Soldiers also seized three rifles, 178 rounds of ammunition, seven weapons magazine and one vehicle.
A Mexican Army unit with the 43rd Military Zone July 8th while on patrol located contraband in Florida colony in Apatzingan municipality in Michoacan state. The haul included three handguns, 19 weapons magazines, 2,905 rounds of ammunition and one vehicle.
A separate army unit with the Mexican 43rd Military Zone while on patrol in Parotilla colony in Lazaro Cardena municipality July 8th rescued three unidentified individuals who had been kidnapped. Soldiers also seized six rifles, one hand grenade, 34 weapons magazines, 680 rounds of ammunition and one truck.
A Mexican Army unit with the 26th Military Zone killed one armed suspect in Veracruz state July 8th. The unit had been on patrol in Manlio Fabio Altamirano municipality when it came under small arms fire by an unknown number of armed suspects. Army return fire killed one. Soldiers also seized two rifles, one handgun, weapons magazines and ammunition and one vehicle in the aftermath.
On July 8th, a Mexican Army unit with the 34th Military Zone seized 100 kilograms of marijuana in Quintana Roo state. The unit was on patrol near the village of Sergio Butron Casas in Orthon P. Blanco municipality when it found the drugs wrapped in 10 packages.
An army unit with the Mexican 8th Military Zone in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas located abandoned drugs July 6th. The unit was on patrol when the discovery was made. A total of 180.1 kilograms of marijuana was found in 20 packages.
On July 7th an army unit with the Mexican 8th Military Zone found drugs near a village located near Rio Bravo in Tamaulipas state. The unit was on patrol near ejido La Brigada in Matamoros municipality when 126 kilograms of marijuana in 144 packages was found in the bush.
Also on July 7th an army unit with the 8th Military Zone located drugs in Nuevo Laredo municipality in Tamaulipas. The unit was on patrol near ejido Miguel Aleman when 41 packages of marijuana totalling 549 kilograms were found.
Also on July 7th a Mexican Amy unit with the 8th Military Zone located an abandoned fuel tanker containing 20,000 liters of gasoline. The fuel was found near ejido El Realito in Valle Hermoso municipality in Tamaulipas state.
Mexican Army personnel seized a quantity of cocaine at a military checkpoint in Chihuahua state July 9th. The checkpoint was established near Samalayuca municipality, where soldiers stopped and searched a passenger bus finding 18 kilograms of cocaine in 15 packages. The unidentified bus driver was detained at the scene.
An army unit with the Mexican 13th Military Zone located drugs in Nayarit state July 9th. The unit was on patrol near the village of Los Aguajes in Jala municipality when it found 400 kilograms of marijuana, 26 kilograms of marijuana seeds, one rifle, one weapons magazine and 25 rounds of ammunition.
Three armed suspects died in an exchange of gunfire with Mexican Army personnel from the 19th Military Zone in Veracruz state July 9th. The army unit was on patrol near Panuco municipality when it came under small arms fire from an unknown number of armed suspects. Army return fire killed three. A total of five unidentified individuals being held for ransom were rescued. Soldiers also seized three rifles, three weapons magazines and ammunition.
A Mexican Army unit with the 2nd Military Zone detained four unidentified individuals and seized a quantity of liquid methamphetamine July 11th in Tijuana municipality in Baja California state. Soldiers searching the baggage claim area at Abelardo L. Rodriguez International airport found 14 liters of liquid methamphetamine in eight 1.75 liter containers labelled as tequila bottles.
An army unit with the 9th Military Zone located an abandoned vehicle and a number of drugs and guns July 12th in Sinaloa state. The find was made while the unit was on patrol near the village of Arroyo el Tecomate in Morocito municipality, where soldiers found .300 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, 3.02 kilograms of cocaine. four rifles, one handgun, 24 weapons magazines, 472 rounds of ammunition, one ATV, 93 ammunition belt links (presumably for 5.56mm), tactical gear and the truck.
Army personnel with the Mexican 9th Military Zone seized drugs and a number of guns in Sinaloa state July 10th. The unit was on patrol near the village of San Javier de Abajo in Badiraguato municipality when it located an abandoned truck containing the contraband. Material seized included 43 kilograms of marijuana seeds, one kilogram of opium gum, one rifle, one handgun, one weapons magazine and 43 rounds of ammunition.
A Mexican Army unit with the 2nd Military Zone detained one unidentified individual who was in possession of drugs in Mexicali municipality in Baja California state July 11th. The army unit was on patrol in Maestros Estatales colony in Mexicali when the detention took place. The detainee allegedly had .45 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine on his person.
Army personnel with the 2nd Military Zone located more than 40 metric tons of marijuana in Tijuana municipality in Baja California July 12th. The find was made at a warehouse on Granjas Familiares colony in Centenario Delegation where four tractor trailer rigs were found with the drugs inside. Four unidentified individuals were also detained at the scene.
A Mexican Army unit with the 45th Military Zone seized quantities of drugs and guns in northern Sonora state July 11th. The unit had been dispatched to a building in Altar municipality based on an anonymous complaint of armed individuals in the area. Soldiers seized 10 rifles, one handgun, 2,681 rounds of ammunition, 36 weapons magazines, 10 kilograms of marijuana in seven packages, other equipment and one vehicle.
Army personnel at the airport in Culican, Sinaloa found drugs in luggage from a flight from Distrito Federeal July 13th. Soldiers found a DVD player which had four packages of crystal methamphetamine hidden inside totalling 1.2 kilograms.
A counternarcotics sweep in Tepehuanes municipality in Durango state by Mexican Army personnel with the 10th Military Zone seized quantities of drugs and guns, and secured the release of four unidentified individuals being held for ransom. The operation took place between the 10th and 13th of July. Soldiers seized 29 rifles, 25 handguns, 29 weapons magazines, 232 rounds of ammunition, one marijuana plantation with an area of 400 square meters, 335 kilograms of unprocessed marijuana, 25 kilograms of marijuana seeds, five kilograms of poppy seeds, 1.4 kilograms of an unidentified chemical, one ATV and three vehicles, which were painted in a camouflage scheme similar to the one Mexican Armed forces use.
Mexican military personnel with the 29th Military Zone in Veracruz seized a large amount of cash July 12th. The road unit performed a traffic stop of three individuals acting suspiciously in Santa Clara colony in Minatitlan municipality. Aboard the vehicle soldiers found MX $620,570.00 (USD $46,681.51) in cash, one rifle, weapons magazines and ammunition, 21 doses of marijuana, one cell phone and the vehicle. The three individuals aboard the vehicle were detained at the scene.
An army unit with the 45th Military Zone seized a large quantity of marijuana and detained one individual in San Luis Rio Colorado in Sonora state July 14th. Military personnel were conducting a military checkpoint when a tractor trailer rig was stopped for inspection. Aboard the rig soldiers found 2,100 kilograms of marijuana wrapped in 330 packages. The driver of the truck was detained at the scene.
Mexican Naval Infantry personnel on July 6th seized quantities of drugs and weapons in Veracruz state. The unit observed nine individuals aboard three vehicles travelling near the village of Agua de Oro in Apatlahuac about 25 kilometers northwest of Orizaba and performed a traffic stop. Weapons including four AR-15 rifles, five AK-47 rifles, 35 weapons magazines and 1,050 rounds of ammunition were found, and small packages of marijuana and communications gear were seized. The report also said the nine detainees were kidnapping suspects.
In a second incident Mexican naval personnel stopped five unidentified suspects who were travelling aboard two vehicle travelling along the Acapulco-Pinotepa highway. Aboard the vehicles marines found quantities of marijuana and crack cocaine wrapped for retail sale as well as one AR-15 rifles and one AK-47 rifle.
A joint ground and seaborne counternarcotics operation off the coast of Sonora state yielded a seizure of nearly 3.8 metric tons of marijuana. According to the news release, a Mexican Navy maritime patrol helicopter spotted two boats hidden in trees off the coast of Isla Huivulai in the Sea of Cortez about 45 kilometers south of Ciudad Obregon July 10th. Three boats and another aircraft were dispatched along with naval infantry personnel to the location where marines found the two boats with 3,843 kilograms of marijuana in 355 packages.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
North Korean military chief Ri Yong-ho has been removed from all official posts, according to state media.
As well as being head of the army, he was vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission and held top posts in the ruling Workers Party.
In a short statement, the party said Mr Ri had been removed from his posts "because of illness".
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I dunno - given the recent News on China's expanding, newly "aggressive/pusher" influence vee the DPRK, + SCS, ECS issues, I'm more inclined to believe the CCP/CPC + CMC, PLA have quietly demanded Jong-un put "their Man" as DPRK CMC + WP???
[Saudi Gazette] German public prosecutors jugged You have the right to remain silent... a leading figure of the German Salafist scene at Frankfurt airport after he was deported from Turkey, according to media reports Sunday. Turkish security authorities had locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Peter B., 31, in Istanbul last week and subsequently deported him to Germany, where he was then set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! on his arrival at Frankfurt airport, the weekly magazines Der Spiegel and Focus reported. Prosecutors accuse the German national, who is a convert to Islam, of belonging to a terrorist organization and of recruiting young Islamists in Afghanistan for jihad or holy war. According to Der Spiegel, Peter B. denies the charges.
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"You have the right to remain silent..."
You have that right but no Miranda warnings here
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East several months early to make sure at least two carriers will constantly be present in the troubled region.
There are two carriers in the area now, but one was scheduled to leave before its replacement arrived to fill that gap, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has approved sending by late summer the USS John C. Stennis strike group, which also includes the Aegis guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay and some 5,500 sailors.
The extra presence was approved late last week on a request by Gen. James Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, Pentagon press Secretary George Little said Monday. Questioned about whether the deployment is a response to problems with Iran or perhaps the violence in Syria, he declined to be specific. Little said the need comes from a "wide range of security issues" in the region.
"This is not about any one particular country or any one particular threat," he said.
The USS John C. Stennis will have to accelerate its training and re-equipping of the ship, because it just left the area in December.
The Pentagon also recently doubled the number of minesweepers in the region, giving the U.S. greater flexibility to counter any Iranian effort to mine the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Another ship, the USS Ponce, has also been sent. The amphibious transport dock was recently retrofitted to become what is known as an afloat forward staging base.
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[Dawn] Ten people including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... were killed on Saturday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, witnesses and police said.
They said that the 36-year-old MQM worker, identified as Syed Jamal Faisal, son of Mehfooz Ahmed, was riding a cycle of violence when he was intercepted by assailants near his house in Orangi Town.
The witnesses said that the attackers, who were also riding on a bike, pumped bullets into the victim and rode away after their swift operation of assassination.
The police said that the victim was a relative of an MQM MPA and was a staff of the Sindh High Court.
No case was registered till late in the night, the police said.
Couple rubbed out in Khokhrapar
A couple, parents of three, was found rubbed out in their house in Khokhrapar No 4, a locality in Malir.
Police said that 38-year-old Jumman Shah and his 32-year-old wife, Nida, were rubbed out in the early hours of Saturday as their children, two daughters and a son, were asleep.
They said that their neighbours woke up in the morning to find the victim's main door ajar with no sign of activity in the house.
The police said that they immediately reached the spot after the neighbours informed them of the incident and shifted the bodies to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for autopsies.
Medico-legal sources at the JPMC told Dawn that both victims were shot once to their head from point-blank range as the bullets went through their skulls.
Khokhrapar SHO Izhar Hussain told Dawn that the assailant(s) used TT and 9mm pistols in the offence as two spent bullet casings were seized from the spot.
He said that eight-year-old eldest daughter of the victims told the police that her maternal uncles had a dispute with their father, who was a minibus driver of route P-1 and hailed from Tando Mohammed Khan.
She told the police that her uncles, who belonged to the Urdu-speaking community, also had an altercation with her father when they visited their house on Thursday.
The police officer said that the investigation was still under way as the police were waiting for the relatives of Jumman Shah before a case of double murder was lodged.
Man rubbed out
A 42-year-old man was found trussed up and rubbed out at a desolate place at Sammu Goth within the remit of the Memon Goth cop shoppe.
The body was shifted to the JPMC where the victim was identified as Abu Turrab Haider, son of Sajjad Haider, a resident of Jaffar-e-Tayyar, Malir.
Hospital sources said that the victim was shot three times in his upper torso from a very close range as all bullets pierced the body.
The police said that the victim was a drug addict.
The police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unknown culprits on a complaint of a victim's brother.
Trailer driver rubbed out
The driver of a coal-laden trailer was rubbed out and another trailer driver maimed when occupants of a car opened fire on them in the early hours of Saturday near Singer Chowrangi in Landhi No 4.
The Awami Colony police said that Fateh Bashir, 42, died and Hazrat Khan maimed in the attack.
They said that the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity.
Young man rubbed out
A 28-year-old supervisor of an embroidery factory in SITE was rubbed out near his residence on Jahangir Road within the remit of the Jamshed Qaurter cop shoppe.
The police said that the victim, Shahzad Memon, son of Abdus Sattar, was a resident of Dakkan Palace. Armed men riding a cycle of violence opened fire on him as he pulled over near his residential plaza, said the police. Witnesses said that the victim died instantly and the attackers rode away immediately after pumping several bullets into him.
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital where medico-legal sources said that the victim sustained seven bullets in his upper torso.
The police said that the victim had moved to his new residence only a month ago.
They said the police were still gathering information about the victim and a case would be registered later.
Paramedic rubbed out
A 55-year-old man was rubbed out near Annu Bhai Park at Nazimabad No 2 in the late evening.
The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the victim was identified as Jamshed Ali, son of Roshan Ali.
The police said that the victim was the official in charge of nursing school of a medical university hospital and resident of Defence Housing Authority, Phase-7.
The police said that no case was registered till late as the medico-legal proceedings were still under way.
Woman found buried
The body of an unidentified woman was found at a desolate place within the remit of the Sachal cop shoppe.
Witnesses said that the body was buried in a two-foot-deep pit at Sikander Goth and it became visible as the mud was removed by wild animals. But the body was not mutilated, they said.
The body was shifted to the JPMC where medico-legal sources said that it bore marks of torture.
They said that the victim, clad in dark coloured shalwar-qameez, appeared to be in her early-30s.
Later, the police moved the body to the Edhi morgue at Sohrab Goth for a want of identification.
Youth rubbed out over petty dispute
A 30-year-old man was killed at Dawood Goth in Baldia Town on Saturday.
The Saeedabad police said that Jameel Baloch was rubbed out allegedly by Ilahi Bux and Khalid, his neighbours, over a dispute regarding stealing electricity through a kunda connection.
They said Ilahi Bux was enjugged Please don't kill me! while Khalid escaped.
Man killed in SITE
A 45-year-old man, Pai Khan, was rubbed out near Malang Hotel in Pathan Colony.
The SITE police said that the victim, resident of Rehmani Mohallah, was killed by Abdul Sattar over some personal enmity.
They said the suspect managed to escape.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against Abdul Sattar under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
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[Dawn] QUETTA: About 5,000 Islamists who oppose the anti-terrorism alliance with Washington began a march to the border on Saturday in protest over the reopening of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supply routes into Afghanistan.
The protesters joined a convoy of buses, trucks and cars with many carrying the black-and-white striped flags of Difa-e-Pakistain Council.
They will make stop-overs in various cities and towns on the 120km highway from Quetta to Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan, where they will arrive on Sunday.
Pakistain reopened overland routes to NATO convoys crossing into Afghanistan on July 3 after closing them in protest against a US air raid that killed 24 Pak soldiers in November.
"We have started this march to protest against the resumption of NATO supply. We warn our government to get out of the war on
terrorism," DPC chairman Maulana Samiul Haq ...leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... said as the convoy set off.
"If they think that the United States' war is only against Afghanistan, they are wrong. The US will target all the Mohammedan countries after strengthening its control on Afghanistan," Maulana Sami said.
"But we won't allow them to do this; we will fight against them and will fail their plans."
The DPC has attracted large turnouts at rallies across the country, which some see as a build-up to the formation of a political party to contest the next general election, widely expected within the next year.
The convoy is scheduled to reach Chaman on Sunday, however the protesters are unlikely to disrupt traffic at the border because the march has been declared peaceful.
"We don't have any plan to go on the crossing point on the border, instead we will stage a rally inside the Chaman town and closer to the Afghanistan border," Abdul Sattar Chishti, a local organiser of the march, told AFP
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[Dawn] A Tribal elder was killed and his brother received critical injuries in a remote controlled blast in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Sources said that a jirga of Kamarkhel tribe was in progress in Takhtaki village when an bomb concealed in a sack went kaboom!. Tribal elder Rasheed Khan, who was also head of a local peace committee, was killed while his younger brother was critically maimed in the blast, they added.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the kaboom. The Kamarkhel tribe has maintained its neutrality in its area since long as it has not allowed so far any Death Eater group to either take shelter or establish hideouts in Takhtaki.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... members of banned Death Eater organization Lashkar-e-Islam torched at least three houses of Zakhakhel elders and two shops in Matray area of Bazaar Zakhakhel. The inmates of the affected houses had left the area since long owing to armed festivities between Lashkar-e-Islam and its opponents.
Also, unidentified persons dynamited the house of Meena Baz, a tribal elder, in Bango village in Zaodin area. Nobody was hurt in the kaboom as the house was empty.
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... , one person was injured in a landmine kaboom in Balishkhel village on Saturday.
The residents of the area said that Younas Ali was walking in fields when he stepped on an anti-personnel mine. The landmine went kaboom! and injured him seriously, they added. The injured primitive was rushed to agency headquarters hospital in Parachinar. They said that the victim lost his right leg in the blast. -- Dawn
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[An Nahar] A stray mortar bomb smashed through a house in a village in northwestern Pakistain early Sunday, killing three children and their mother and injuring their father, police said.
The pre-dawn incident took place in Sheikhan village, a suburb of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar close to the Khyber tribal district, where the military is fighting against local warlord Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... and his Lashkar-e-Islam faction.
"The victims were asleep. A mother and her three children was struck down in his prime," Shafiullah Khan, a police brass hat told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The two sisters and their brother were aged between two and nine years, Khan said.
The officer said it was not yet clear who fired the mortar bomb but Pak troops and Mangal Bagh's fighters exchange fire on a daily basis.
More than 250,000 people have fled the fighting in Khyber since January, according to Pak officials.
Khyber is part of Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, considered to be the world's premier al-Qaeda hub despite the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... he's rotten though not quite forgotten... by United States troops last year.
Separately, Talibs on Sunday bombed a government-run high school for boys in the outskirts of Peshawar, partly destroying the building.
The remote-controlled bomb was planted on the outer wall of the school.
Islamist gunnies oppose girls education and have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistain in recent years.
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[An Nahar] Gun and kabooms north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed three people, including a young girl, and left 10 others maimed on Sunday, security and medical officials said.
In the restive ethnically-mixed province of Diyala, a spate of shootings and kabooms killed two, among them the five-year-old child.
"Gunmen opened fire on a five-year-old girl in front of her home in Muqdadiyah," a police colonel said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . "She died immediately."
Another shooting in town of Khales, also in Diyala, left a local butcher dead in front of his store, the colonel said.
Three separate bombings in scenic provincial capital Baquba and the town of Ghalbiyah, just west of Baquba, left 10 people maimed, including five anti-Qaeda beturbanned goons known as the Sahwa, the officer and another security official said.
Doctors at Baquba Hospital put the toll from Sunday's violence in Diyala at two dead, including the young girl, and 10 maimed.
Much of the province was made of strongholds of Sunni bad turbans, and in particular al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq, during the country's bloody sectarian war from 2006 to 2008 and, while violence is dramatically lower than that point, attacks remain common.
In the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... meanwhile, police captain Shaaker Mahmoud was killed by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car in the town of Riyadh, according to police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader.
The latest violence comes after the country suffered a spike in unrest in June -- at least 282 people were killed last month, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally, though government figures said 131 Iraqis died.
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[An Nahar] A retired Paleostinian security officer died on Sunday of injuries sustained after falling from a window while in Paleostinian custody, security sources told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Osama Aql Mansour, 49, was pronounced dead at a Ramallah hospital, where he was transported suffering serious injuries. His brother told AFP he believed Mansur had been murdered.
"This citizen is a retired security officer who was being held by the intelligence services in Ramallah on suspicion of corruption involving the sale of land," a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"He fell from a building and died, but we do not know if he fell or was pushed," the source added.
The details were confirmed by a second security source, who said the man was being investigated on suspicion of having "manipulated land records and sold land to Israel."
Reached by phone, Mansour's brother Hassan said the family held the Paleostinian Authority responsible for the death.
"The family visited him on Friday and he was in good psychological condition with no indication that he was in any sort of state to commit suicide, so we demand an autopsy to find out who killed my brother," he told AFP.
Medical sources said Mansour's body had been taken to the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
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Lemmee guess. This PA guy had the "accident" while in the custody of Hamas guards, right???? Helloooo. UN? Hello? (Crickets).
Can you imagine the outcry if something similar had happened to him while in Israeli custody?
The International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross says Syria is now in a state of civil war, a definition it suggests could change the rules of engagement in the violence-ravaged country and help lay the ground for war crimes prosecutions.
Now you've done it, Pencilneck, you've gone and angered the Red Thingy...
The ICRC ruling marks a significant moment in the Syrian uprising, which during the past year has changed from a series of anti-regime protests into a full-blown insurrection. It had previously said that localised states of civil war existed in Homs, Hama and Idlib. The ICRC is considered to be a guardian of the Geneva convention, which prescribes the rules of warfare. The declaration signals that the Geneva-based organisation regards all civilians and detainees as protected under international law.
Alexis Heeb, an ICRC spokesman in Geneva, said: "Now there are many places in Syria that fulfil requirements to be a called a non-international armed conflict, and the situation is fluid and constantly evolving.
"What matters is that humanitarian law applies across the country, and that means civilians and those no longer taking part in the conflict are protected."
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But the Olympics are still on-schedule, right? I mean priorities are priorities. Penn State, and Sandusky, et al... right? Money, home team, adults playing with little balls! Money! Woo hoo! Thanks college sports fans! Thanks UN! Thanks IOC! Distraction rules.
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what's the olympis got too do with syria? Arw we supposed too stop life altogether because more middle easterners are killing each other? Hell nothing else would never get done if we stooped evry time they started fighting.
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Syria is a spectator sport, just hope it stays that way.
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The Olympics produces winners, the middle east produces losers. Besides, whatever international currency was blown on the botched puppet-coup in Egypt with the all-in on el-baradai and the past-charter maneuvers in Libya. All that leaves is very small footprint operations and hopefully without the tradeoff of giving the UN a number of treaties, such as arms and water rights as well as the normal boodle.
Normally the shoot-down of a fighter is, to paraphrase the fourth most effective vice-president in US history, a big fnkn deal; nobody other than those who choose to know, know. Prez can't make it through a fundraiser off-teleprompter, think he wants to go 0/5 in Middle East during prime time?
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"What matters is that humanitarian law applies across the country, and that means civilians and those no longer taking part in the conflict are protected."
[An Nahar] Syria's army blasted rebel strongholds in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... with mortars Sunday, sparking the "most intense" fighting in the capital since the revolt erupted 16 months ago, a monitoring group said.
The army's offensive, aimed at driving rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) out of Damascus, was launched soon after Syria's foreign ministry held a presser to deny its troops had carried out a massacre in Treimsa village.
"The regular army fired mortar rounds into several suburbs" where FSA rebels are entrenched, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The fighting was heaviest in the Tadamon, Kfar Sousa, Nahr Aisha and Sidi Qadad neighborhoods, he said.
"(It has) never been this intense," Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The security forces are attempting to take control of these neighborhoods but so far they have not succeeded," he added.
The Local Coordination Committees, which organize anti-regime protests in Syria, said plumes of black smoke were billowing out of Tadamon Sunday night and that loud kabooms had been heard in Nahr Aisha.
The Observatory earlier said violence across Syria on Sunday had killed at least 55 people. They included a girl who died along with three other people when the army rained shells on the town of Rastan, a rebel stronghold in the central province of Homs.
Rights activists say more than 150 people were massacred by Syrian troops backed by pro-regime shabiha bully boyz on Thursday in the village of Treimsa in central Syria.
If the number is confirmed, this would be one of the bloodiest episodes of the uprising.
But foreign ministry front man Jihad Makdissi vehemently denied both the allegations of a massacre and the number of people reportedly killed.
"What happened was not a massacre ... It was a clash between regular forces and gangs who do not believe in a peaceful solution," Makdissi told the news hounds in Damascus.
"What happened was not an attack by the army on innocent civilians," said Makdissi. He also denied activists' allegations that helicopters and heavy weapons had been used in Thursday's assault on Treimsa.
"This is absolutely not true. Only troop carriers and lights weapons were used, the most powerful of weapons being RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades)," he said.
Makdissi said "only five buildings, where there were very sophisticated weapons were targeted".
And dismissing allegations of more than 150 killed, he said that "37 gunnies were killed and two civilians only", citing an unidentified source who claimed to have buried them.
The U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria said a team of "specialized civilian and military experts" had visited Treimsa on Sunday to continue their investigation into the reports of the mass killing.
"The integrated patrol ... observed over 50 houses that were burned and/or destroyed. Pools of blood and brain matter were observed in a number of homes," UNSMIS front man Sausan Ghosheh said in a statement.
"On the basis of some of the destruction observed in the town and the witness accounts, the attack appears targeted at army defectors and activists," she added.
"The number of casualties is still unclear."
The Treimsa incident has galvanized international diplomatic efforts over the crisis.
Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... and the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... are headed respectively for Russia and China on Monday to press the two U.N. Security Council members to back tougher action against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime.
The visits by Annan, the U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy, and U.N. leader Ban, come at a crucial new stage in the conflict.
The Security Council has until Friday to renew the U.N. mission in Syria but is divided over Western calls to add sanctions.
"So divided that maybe Annan and Ban now have the most influence over Russia and China to get anything done," said one senior U.N. council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
The international community has reacted with outrage to the latest killings, which have added urgency to deadlocked U.N. Security Council negotiations on a Syria resolution.
A draft statement which said the Syria government was in "violation" of its international commitments was circulated among the 15 Council nations on Friday, diplomats said.
Russia's envoys said they could not agree. Russia has led the resistance and Annan is to meet President Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during two days of talks in Moscow, said his front man Ahmad Fawzi.
China has supported Russia's position and Ban heads for Beijing on Monday, officially for a China-Africa summit.
But Syria will top his agenda when he meets President Hu Jintao ...Hu has been involved in the Communist party bureaucracy for most of his adult life, meaning his viewpoint has a lot more theory than it does practice. He espouses a Harmonious Society approach, suggesting everybody should play nice or they'll be shot... and other big shots, said a U.N. official.
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so.. what's the YTD count?
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BHARAT RAKSHAK > SYRIAN CONFLICT DECLARED A CIVIL WAR BY [International] RED CROSS.
GENEVA CONVENTION + UN WAR CRIMES, ETC. = NOT-THE-MARQUIS-OF-QUEENSBURY-RULES now applies to any + all Combatants, Wannabes.
[An Nahar] A Russian ship that tried to supply attack helicopters to Syria last month before being forced back was Sunday sighted sailing back home after unexpectedly starting a new voyage.
The privately-chartered Alaed had to return to Russia after its initial attempt to deliver the controversial cargo to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's regime in June was exposed by the U.S. State Department.
The 9,000-ton private cargo was forced to turn back when its British insurer ended up pulling coverage.
The ship then docked in an Arctic port before setting sail again on Tuesday following pledges by Russian military officials to complete the delivery despite the anger it caused in the West.
The timing of the second voyage sparked alarm as it coincided with the deployment of a Russian flotilla to the Mediterranean that could have provided protection from any foreign attempt to block the ship.
The Russian arms export agency on Friday confirmed that the helicopters were aboard the Alaed when it set sail for the second time but refused further comment.
The MarineTraffic.com website that tracks global maritime activity showed the Alaed's radar signal coming in Sunday just north of Denmark following the ship's southern passage along the Norwegian coast.
The ship was shown to be sailing eastward to the Baltic Sea -- in line with suggestions from the owner that it would dock in Saint Petersburg after making a brief port call in the Kaliningrad exclave in the coming days.
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They COULD hit an Old Pre-War floating mine and vanish, lots of suspects there.
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[An Nahar] Syria's regime on Sunday denied its forces used tanks and helicopters in an assault on Treimsa, saying what happened in the central village was the result of festivities with rebels and not a "massacre."
Foreign Ministry front man Jihad Makdissi said 39 people were killed in Treimsa on Thursday, all but two of them gunnies, and that government forces only used light weapons to target five buildings.
Following a visit to Treimsa on Saturday, the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) said heavy weapons were used and several homes were damaged, including five that were burned. It was unable to provide casualty figures.
"Government forces did not use helicopters and tanks," Makdissi told a news conference in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... , adding: "What happened was not an attack by the army on innocent civilians."
"The aim of this news conference is to tell people that what happened was not a massacre... It was a clash between regular forces and gangs who do not believe in a peaceful solution. This is the reality, politically and militarily."
Makdissi staunchly denied reports suggesting that the Syrian army used aircraft in the assault on Treimsa.
"This is absolutely not true. Only troop carriers and lights weapons were used, the most powerful of weapons being RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades)," he said.
The ministry front man admitted that "the situation is difficult on the ground" but insisted that Syria is "in a state of defense not in a state of attack."
A team of U.N. observers returned on Sunday to Treimsa to pursue their investigations after saying activists and rebels bore the brunt of an army assault that activists say killed more than 150 people.
Citing an unidentified source who claimed to have buried them, however, Makdissi said that "37 gunnies were killed and two civilians only."
In a statement on Saturday, UNSMIS spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh said after the observers' visit that a "wide range of weapons were used, including artillery, mortars and small arms."
"The attack on Treimsa appeared targeted at specific groups and houses, mainly of army defectors and activists. There were pools of blood and blood spatters in rooms of several homes together with bullet cases," she said.
But Makdissi said "only five buildings where there were very sophisticated weapons were targeted."
Syria's military has said already that army had killed "many terrorists" in Treimsa, but no civilians, in a "special operation... targeting armed terrorist groups and their leadership hide-outs."
The international community has reacted with outrage to the latest killings, with U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... appealing for urgent action to stop the bloodshed and urging China -- a key ally of Syria -- to "influence" Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in ending the conflict.
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