[Al Ahram] Talibs have killed 17 captured Afghan soldiers in the far northeast in one of the deadliest single attacks on local forces in recent years, officials said on Wednesday.
The men were taken hostage in Badakhshan on Saturday while guarding a convoy. Their bodies were discovered by local people in the relatively peaceful mountainous province, which borders Tajikistan, China and Pakistain.
"The enemy have executed 17 soldiers whose bodies were found last night," provincial deputy police chief Sayed Jahangir Keramat said. "Seven other soldiers were released in exchange for some Taliban prisoners."
The attack came as local forces take over responsibility for tackling the Taliban from the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led military coalition.
"Last night locals found 17 bullet-riddled bodies of Afghan soldiers in Warduj district," Abdul Marouf Rasekh, front man for the provincial governor, told AFP, confirming several others had been released after talks led by tribal elders.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack but said the deaths had occurred during fighting rather than after the soldiers had been captured.
"The soldiers were all killed in the battlefield," Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement sent to AFP.
"A huge amount of munitions and two vehicles were also seized," he added.
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Love your meat butcher picture. I was close up to a meat cutter with his blood stained apron. His eyes were big because of his glasses. With knife in hand he begins to sign and dance this tune; Her lips were red like a roosters dink. Her hair was a horse shit brown. Her tits hung lose like the balls on a moose and she came from a chick chick town. I mentioned it to him in later years and he remembered nothing. You can see I remembered word for word. He made an impression on myself. Yes, a little saucy but real life shop talk.
[MAGHAREBIA] A kaboom in blood-stained Tizi Ouzoumaimed an Algerian army officer on Tuesday (March 5th), Tout sur l'Algerie reported. The bomb went off while soldiers were conducting a search operation between Azazga and Yakourene.
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[Al Ahram] Clashes re-erupted Wednesday between tens of protesters and police near the US embassy where security presence is most intense. Protesters, mostly young, blocked the Nile Corniche with a tree as they continued to throw rocks at the police.
It is unclear what triggered the restart of violence. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... intermittent festivities in the area have been ongoing for three days.
Since the January 25 Revolution second anniversary, violence has escalated in Cairo and other governorates after mass anti-government protests erupted into the streets. Port Said has seen a civil disobedience campaign in protest at perceived marginalisation by the government.
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[Al Ahram] Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim on Wednesday dismissed Port Said security chief Mohsen Radi, appointing Radi's deputy, Sayid Gad, in his place.
Since 26 January, when a court sentenced 21 Port Said residents to death for their roles in the February 2012 Port Said stadium disaster, the canal city has seen intermittent festivities and riots.
For over two weeks, the convicts' relatives -- along with members of the 'Green Eagles' (hardcore fans of Port Said football club Masry) -- have attempted to launch a 'civil disobedience' campaign in the city to protest what they see as an unjust court verdict and the city's marginalisation by the central government in Cairo.
So far over 40 people -- including security personnel -- have been killed in the festivities. This week alone, which witnessed renewed festivities, three local residents and three coppers were killed.
A second court ruling, this time on security officials allegedly involved in last year's stadium disaster, is expected Saturday. Members of the Ultras Ahlawy -- hardcore fans of Cairo football club Ahly -- have vowed to wreak "chaos" in the event that the court delivers light sentences.
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[An Nahar] The car of Libya's interim leader came under fire in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... as he left a chaotic session of the national assembly disrupted by protesters, without causing casualties, the interior minister said Wednesday.
"The car of the General National Congress speaker (Mohammed al-Megeryef) came under fire as assembly members left in a state of total confusion" on Tuesday night, Ashur Shwayel told a presser.
The demonstrators who disrupted the session of the General National Congress, the highest authority in Libya, in effect making Megeryef the country's interim leader, were armed and some carried explosives, said the minister.
Dozens of protesters insisting the national assembly adopt a bill banning from politics associates of former dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... blocked MPs from leaving the meeting room in a southern suburb of Tripoli.
The official news agency LANA, quoting an assembly official, said Megeryef's car came under heavy gunfire. It was unclear if the attack was "an liquidation bid or a collateral incident," the official said.
The bill is controversial because it could put more than 30 members of the General National Congress out of office, including al-Megeryef and even Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.
Proposed in December, the bill would ban from politics all officials of the Qadaffy regime and their associates.
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Wait until Libya becomes an advanced nation; then they can do all their attacks through the media instead.
[REUTERS] Egyptian protesters demanding the release of prisoners battled police in Port Said for a fourth day on Wednesday, challenging state authority in the turbulent city at the northern end of the Suez Canal.
Violent demonstrations also broke out in Cairo, where protesters threw petrol bombs at police and soccer fans set fire to a security car, in another a sign of the insecurity that has plagued Egypt since Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's overthrow two years ago.
Port Said has been a focus for violence since January, with people staging angry protests over death sentences handed down to some residents in connection with a football stadium riot in which more than 70 people died last year.
Hundreds gathered again on Wednesday, throwing rocks at police, who fired teargas to drive them back from a local government building, a Rooters witness said.
Army troops tried to separate police and protesters, and at one point a soldier was evacuated in an ambulance after choking on teargas, the witness said.
"Stamp your foot, shoot your gun, Port Said is free," protesters shouted, demanding the release of several demonstrators enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Tuesday. "The people want to overthrow the regime."
That was the signature chant of the demonstrators who ended Mubarak's 30-year rule in an upheaval that helped install an elected Islamist-led government which is still struggling to assert its authority, restore order and revive the economy.
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[PMNEWSNIGERIA] A man accused of being an informant has been beheaded by Islamist group Boko Haram. ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... The incident was recorded in a video obtained Tuesday in which the victim accused of being an informant appears to be beheaded on camera.
Suspected leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, denies any ceasefire deal with the government and also makes no mention of kidnappings in the video, including last month's abduction of seven members of a French family in neighbouring Cameroon that was blamed on his group.
It was not clear when or where the video was made. The clip has been distributed to Nigerian journalists in the country's north in recent days through intermediaries.
Shekau and other Boko Haram members. PHOTO: AFP
Sources familiar with Boko Haram say it was handed out in this manner because Nigerian authorities have been blocking the group's videos from being uploaded to YouTube.
AFP could not verify the authenticity of the video but the man speaking closely resembles a person identified in previous clips as Shekau.
There are two separate parts to the video: one of Shekau speaking and another of the apparent beheading. Shekau cannot be seen in the second part.
The video is in part a response to a man claiming to be a Boko Haram commander who has appeared in public several times in recent months calling for dialogue and declaring a ceasefire.
There has been deep suspicion over whether the man calling for the ceasefire has truly represented Boko Haram.
"We have never made a truce with anybody, and no one represented us in any dialogue," Shekau, wearing a knee-length green caftan and with an AK-47 dangling from his neck, says in the video, which is about 10 minutes long.
Speaking in the Hausa language common throughout northern Nigeria, he names the man who made the ceasefire claim, Sheikh Muhammed Abdulazeez Ibn Idris, and promises punishment for those who falsely represent the group.
"We have not entered into dialogue with anyone," he says. "Which kind of dialogue, for God's sake, when day and night our brothers are being placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , imprisoned, including women and kiddies?"
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response: take two Bokos and one of their politician backers out of jail and behead them in the street.
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Just two?
I'd take ALL of their membership and shoot them on sight, they are like rabid dogs. Or you could hack them to pieces and stick their heads on sticks like they are want to do to Christians.
I hope Nigeria knows they need to take the gloves off on this cancer before it spreads and just freaking kill them all...
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[An Nahar] A court in Bahrain on Wednesday condemned a protester accused of involvement in a kaboom on police in a Shiite village to 15 years in prison, the official BNA news agency reported.
It quoted a judiciary source as saying that the High Criminal Court in Manama handed down the sentence to the unidentified defendant on charges that included "attempted murder of members of the security forces."
The suspect was also charged with "possessing and making explosives for terrorist purposes" and "detonating an bomb to intimidate and spread panic."
The agency said two coppers were maimed in the incident in the village of Sitra.
Explosives were placed inside a scale model of the former Pearl Square in the capital, the focal point for Shiite-led anti-regime protests in February and March 2011, and detonated remotely when the officers approached.
BNA did not say when the attack took place.
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RIYADH Saudi authorities have freed 100 protesters arrested last week while staging a sit-in to demand the release of prisoners in the city of Buraida, police said on Wednesday.
One hundred people were released on Tuesday of the 176 people arrested in Buraida, capital of the northern Qassim province, said police spokesman Colonel Fahd Al Habdan. Procedures are continuing to free nine more prisoners."
How badly were they beaten prior to release?
Authorities have accused the protesters of acting on behalf of deviant groups a term they usually use to refer to the Al Qaeda network.
Saudi rights activists say those jailed are extremist political prisoners.
So both sides agree...
Small groups of women have gathered almost daily in Buraida, north of Riyadh, to demand the release of imprisoned Islamist relatives, and dozens of protesters held a rare sit-in outside the Buraida prison in September.
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SANAA Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline that runs from Yemens eastern Marib province to its west coast, the defence ministry announced on Wednesday.
Subversive elements blew up the pipeline at 93 kilometre in the Sarwah region between Sanaa and Marib, said a statement on the ministrys news website 26sep.net.
The attack caused a large fire in the pipeline, it said, without mentioning whether crude exports had been interrupted.
In December, the army launched an offensive against tribesmen suspected of repeatedly sabotaging the pipeline, sparking clashes which left 17 people dead.
According to official figures, lost production due to pipeline attacks in the east cost the government more than $1 billion in 2012, while oil exports fell by 4.5 per cent.
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Interestingly, blowing up a pipelines and sabotaging approval for construction of new pipelines both appear to have similar economic outcomes.
[Bangla Daily Star] They were born and raised as Mohammedans. Yet, according to Jamaat leaders, they are not Mohammedan enough because they are not involved with Jamaat politics. Instead, they are with Awami League politics.
So to make them sufficiently Mohammedan, the Jamaat men in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat caught 16 AL activists, forced them into a mosque and then administered "tauba" (oath of penance).
"We've become non-Mohammedan for supporting Awami League. We're now promising to be Jamaat to become Mohammedan again. Those who support Awami League are Jewish and if we breach this oath, we will become non-Mohammedan again. Ameen," the 16 men, aged between 22 and 45, said after the imam.
The "tauba" took place at Bharahuta Jame Mosque around 11:30am on Monday in front of some 300 villagers, witnesses said, adding that the victims were all from Bharahuta village.
Moiz Uddin, a holy man of another mosque of the same area, administered the rare oath when local Jamaat leader Zafir Uddin and a BNP activist Abdul Khaleque were present. Zafir Uddin is locally known as Razakar.
Many AL supporters left the area following the incident.
Locals said Abdur Rahim, known to be an influential BNP figure, two Jamaat leaders Abdul Malek Master and Siddique and Ashraf Ali, an office assistant at Ali Mostafabia Fazil madrasa of the area, oversaw the oath.
Despite repeated attempts none of these men could be reached over the phone except for Ashraf.
He dismissed his connection with the incident and went on to deny that the forcible "tauba" ever took place.
But district superintendent of police Hamidul Alam confirmed the incident to The Daily Star yesterday.
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DHAKA: About 100 people, including politicians and journalists, were injured, most of them with bullet wounds, after gun-totting law enforcers fired a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets on scheduled protest rallies by opposition BNP and Jamaat in citys Naya Paltan and Bijoynagar areas Wednesday afternoon.
The crowded downtown areas were rocked by innumerable gun shots and cracker blasts instantly foiling the rallies and sending panicked protesters, local residents and commuters to rush for shelter and shopkeepers to down their shutters.
During the nearly hour-long noisy violence police swung into action indiscriminately firing shots towards BNP leaders and activists attending their protest rally in front of Naya Paltan party office. The BNP activists who dispersed in the face of police attack quickly regrouped and tried to fight back with stone chips and later setting a few vehicles on fire.
BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan, its Dhaka city unit member secretary Abdus Salam and joint secretary general Amanullah Aman were among senior party leaders who were injured in police action and firing. Scores of injured BNP leaders and workers who were rushed inside the party office and nearby buildings during the police action were later brought out and taken in ambulances to nearby hospitals for treatment, witness said.
At least five photo journalists, including Nayem Ahmed Julhas of The Independent, who were covering the BNP rally, were injured mostly from rubber bullets and were treated at the Emergency section of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Both BNP and Jamaat later separately called for nationwide day-long hartal on Thursday to protest Wednesday police atrocities.
If I were the hospital administrator I'd be double-staffing the ER again for Thursday...
The trouble at Naya Paltan prompted violence in nearby Purana Paltan, Bijoynagar and Baitul Mukarram areas where Jamaat was scheduled to hold a protest rally. The rally was foiled by police who also chased away Jamaat-Shibir activists from holding processions by firing shots and teargas shells.
Witnesses also said a crude bomb exploded at the Nightingale crossing near the Naya Paltan BNP office at around 4:30 pm when the BNP rally was in progress to protest the earlier arrest of its leaders and activists and also against police repression on them.
The loud blast prompted police to move towards the rally firing volleys of shots, leaving many people injured and forcing BNP leaders and activists to abandon the rally and rush for shelter. The law enforcers there also lobbed several teargas shells.
BNP on Tuesday announced to hold protest rallies nationwide on Wednesday to protest police action and arrest of their leaders and workers during Tuesdays violence-marred day-long hartal.
As part of the programme, leaders and activists of the party and its different front and associate bodies started gathering in front of the partys Naya Paltan central office at about 1:30 pm on Wednesday.
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Brahmanbaria -- Pro-hartal elements on Monday set railway tracks afire, blasted 20 crude bombs and vandalised 20 vehicles, injuring one in the town ahead of Tuesday`s day-long general strike called by BNP.
Police and witnesses said, hartal supporters, in simultaneous attacks, torched several slippers on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet railway tracks by pouring petrol on those in the evening. However, police arrived in time after receiving information and put out the fire in two rail routes beside Niaz Mohammad High School.
The pro-hartal elements also vandalised 20 vehicles in different areas of the district headquarters, simultaneously blasting 20 crude bombs on TA Road, College Road and other parts of the town in the evening.
The incidents sent a panic wave in the town.
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PORTLAND (Oregon) An Oregon man was arrested on Tuesday on charges he gave advice and financial assistance to one of three militants who carried out a 2009 suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed 30 people and wounded 300 others, US officials said.
Reaz 'Ralph' Qadir Khan, 48, a naturalised US citizen, was indicted on a single count of conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
After which we revoke his citizenship and send him to Pakistain...
Khan, whose country of origin was not disclosed,
...okay, so we send him to Mauritania...
was arrested without incident in Portland, prosecutors said. His lawyer said Khan later pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance. He was scheduled to return to federal court on Wednesday for a detention hearing.
According to the indictment, Khan used email and intermediaries to consult with and provide financial support to a Maldivian national named Ali Jaleel and his family, making it possible for Jaleel to attend a training camp in Pakistan in preparation for the bomb attack.
The indictment says the conspiracy began in December 2005 and continued on through the attack on Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Lahore on May 27, 2009, and into the following month.
Approximately 30 people were killed and 300 more were wounded in the blast, federal prosecutors said. The Pakistani government said at the time that the car bomb attack was carried out in apparent revenge for an army offensive against Taleban militants in that nations northwestern Swat region. Pakistani officials had said that two intelligence officers and six lower-level officials from that nations spy agency were among those killed. In addition to damaging an ISI office, the bomb demolished a government ambulance service.
Jaleel and two others carried out the attack, the indictment says.
The indictment cites several instances in which Khan is accused of helping Jaleel with various travel arrangements and instructions on how to avoid detection. In November 2008, it says, Jaleel wrote that he was about to gain admission to a training camp and would have money left over from funds that Khan had provided him. Khan, according to the indictment, advised Jaleel to keep the extra money so it could be sent back to Jaleels two wives in the Maldives.
Khan himself is accused of sending money to Jaleels family during his absence from home and after he died in the bombing.
In a video released by an al Qaeda media outlet after the attack, Jaleel was shown making a statement taking responsibility for the blast and preparing for the bombing at a training camp in Pakistan, prosecutors said.
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If we can't promote "Intelligent Design", can we stop calling these people Americans?
Though bombing Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters might not be seen as a problem by some.
[Dawn] Police defused two improvised bombs in limits of Mattani cop shoppe in suburbs of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Tuesday.
An official of the rural police said each bomb weighed about 12 kilogram which had been packed in pressure cookers. He said that one bomb had been planted along a road in Yousuf Khel area and the other on track leading to Adezai village.
He said one of the explosives had been defused early in the morning and the other in the afternoon. He said that the apparent target of the bombs was police and volunteers of the Adezai Qaumi Lashkar.
The officials of Mattani police said some local informers had given information to police and thus personnel of the bomb disposal unit were immediately called, who defused the bombs.
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[Dawn] Two workers 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 bumped off in the city on Wednesday, police said.
They said that the body of Abdul Wahid aka Shahzan, 25, was found near a storm drain in the Samoo graveyard within the remit of the Murad Memon Goth cop shoppe.
The victim had been shot in the head and chest, the police said.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
The police said that the victim was a resident of Musarrat Colony in the Malir City area and was an employee of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Water and Sewerage Board. He was also associated with some poultry related business.
They said that he was an active worker of the MQM.
According to his family, he last talked to them at around 11pm on Tuesday night, when he was in Saudabad.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... another MQM activist was bumped off in Landhi on Wednesday.
Police said that gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on Rashid Khan, 35, in Landhi's Sector 36-G near Aulia Masjid and rode away.The victim was rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died during treatment.
He was working in a garments factory and was associated with Unit 83 of the MQM's organizational structure, the police said.
They said that the victim had shifted back to the area about a year back.
Policeman rubbed out
A police constable was rubbed out in the SITE area near the Denim traffic intersection on Wednesday night, police said. They said that gunnies riding a cycle of violence targeted 29-year-old Constable Fazle Amin, who was also riding a bike.
"The police constable was heading to the Site-A cop shoppe to resume duty when he was killed," SP Ali Asif told Dawn.
The police took his body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
Factory worker rubbed out
A factory worker was bumped off in Korangi on Wednesday, police said.
They said that assailants riding a motorbike fired at Qadir Hussain, 62, who was passing through Korangi No 2 ½ within the remit of the Zaman Town cop shoppe.
The victim was struck down in his prime. The body was shifted to the JPMC for a post-mortem examination.
The police said that he worked at a garments factory and father of four.
They said that the motive for the killing might be some personal enmity.
Killing in old city area
The driver of a Suzuki pickup was killed in the old city area on Wednesday, police said.
They said that men riding a motorbike first had some altercation with Pasand Khan, 36, and they then fired shots at him in Khajoor Bazaar within the remit of the Lea Market cop shoppe and rode away.
The victim was struck down in his prime. The body was moved to the JPMC.
The police said that the victim originally hailed from Bajaur.
Quoting some witnesses, the police said that the gunnies were wearing shalwar-kameez.
Youth killed
A young man was killed in Korangi on Wednesday.
Police said that motorcyclists rubbed out Jalal Bilal, 25, and maimed Maqbool Sabir near Murtaza Chowrangi outside a flour mill.
The police were not sure about the motive for the killing.
They suspected that it could be an outcome of some personal feud.
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KARACHI Under fire from the Supreme Court for failing to provide security to the people of Karachi, Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday claimed to have arrested three alleged terror suspects including a would-be suicide bomber on the outskirts of city.
The arrests came after the paramilitary troops swooped on a locality near New Sabzi Mandi and nabbed the accused. The Rangers also claimed to have recovered a suicide vest and other weapons from the suspects believed to be involved in target killings in the city. The raid was conducted on the basis of information extracted from the suspects arrested from different parts of the city soon after the deadly bomb blasts.
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Palestinian Territories: Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank were united in grief on Thursday over the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, whose untiring support for their cause saw him make blistering attacks on Israel.
The 58-year-old Venezuelan president, who died on Tuesday after a nearly two-year struggle with cancer, was hugely popular with the Palestinians for his outspoken support for their plight.
"This is a great loss for us," president Mahmud Abbas said during a condolence call to the Venezuelan representative's office in Ramallah.
"The Palestinian people will remain faithful to Chavez whose memory will remain engraved in our consciousness in recognition of his courageous support for our right to an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," he said a day earlier.
The Palestinian love affair with the firebrand Latin American leader began in earnest in January 2009 when he accused Israel of "state terrorism" during its vast 22-day offensive on Gaza and severed all diplomatic ties over its "cruel persecution of the Palestinian people."
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"Palestinians mourn loss of their champion Chavez"
Feeling lonely, paleos? Feeling blue?
Y'all are welcome to join him.
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I'm sick of these turds, from now on, Palestinians refers to Israelis. These wackjobs are going to be called what they are: Jordanians. Jordan took their lands, assuming you accept they ever had any.
Reader Thromotch Pheatle9230 found this yesterday at a different aggregator. I went to the original news source. When possible (and we understand when it isn't), please cite the original source, and thanks. AoS.
Al-Qaeda operatives fighting the Syrian regime have been watching and studying IDF patrols along the border with Israel, from only meters away on the other side of the fence.
Members of the al-Furqan group -- affiliated with the global al-Qaeda organization which has acted in Yemen and Iraq -- were filmed close to Israel's border, out in the open, in footage screened by Israel's Channel 10 on Tuesday night.
In a number of videos uploaded to the internet, the fighters can also be seen holding various munitions, including old anti-tank rockets and heavy machine guns.
Sources in the IDF believe the gunmen affiliated with these and other terror groups are currently preoccupied with fighting President Bashar Assad's regime, and that if they plan on turning their focus on Israel they won't do so before they have more control in Syria, the TV report said. Plainly, though, it added, the decades of relative quiet for Israel on its border with Syria are coming to an end, and a year from now, Israel might have to brace itself to thwart cross-border attacks.
That won't end well for the hard-boyz. I don't think it would bother Israel a bit to take another dozen kilometers of the Golan away from Syria...
The latest reports confirm a Times of Israel story last week which said Assad's forces have largely left the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. The footage screened on Tuesday included film taken in the Quneitra area of the Golan, the TV report said.
Though the ongoing fighting in Syria is not directed at Israel, the IDF and Israeli security officials are keeping a close watch on the situation in the neighboring country, preparing for any development, the report said, adding that some in the IDF are suggesting that Israel seek to reach out to some of the more moderate Syrian rebel groups with an eye on the post-Assad future.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Ahram] Talibs have killed 17 captured Afghan soldiers in the far northeast in one of the deadliest single attacks on local forces in recent years, officials said on Wednesday.
[Al Ahram] Clashes re-erupted Wednesday between tens of protesters and police near the US embassy where security presence is most intense. Protesters, mostly young, blocked the Nile Corniche with a tree as they continued to throw rocks at the police.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim on Wednesday dismissed Port Said security chief Mohsen Radi, appointing Radi's deputy, Sayid Gad, in his place.
[REUTERS] Egyptian protesters demanding the release of prisoners battled police in Port Said for a fourth day on Wednesday, challenging state authority in the turbulent city at the northern end of the Suez Canal.
[PMNEWSNIGERIA] A man accused of being an informant has been beheaded by Islamist group 
[Bangla Daily Star] They were born and raised as 
DHAKA: About 100 people, including politicians and journalists, were injured, most of them with bullet wounds, after gun-totting law enforcers fired a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets on scheduled protest rallies by opposition BNP and Jamaat in citys Naya Paltan and Bijoynagar areas Wednesday afternoon.
Brahmanbaria -- Pro-hartal elements on Monday set railway tracks afire, blasted 20 crude bombs and vandalised 20 vehicles, injuring one in the town ahead of Tuesday`s day-long general strike called by BNP. 
[Dawn] Police defused two improvised 
[Dawn] Two workers of the 
