A suicide bomber has killed at least seven people in an attack on spectators at a buzkashi sports event in north-east Afghanistan. Hundreds of people were watching and the death toll may rise further.
Buzkashi is played on horseback and is similar to polo, but uses the headless carcass of a goat instead of a ball.
The governor of Kunduz province, Mohammad Anwar Jigdalak, said Abdul Qayum Ebrahimi had been killed in the attack along with his father. He had been the local chief of police and brother to Abdul Raouf Ebrahimi, the speaker in the Afghan House of Representatives.
It is not clear if they had been the targets of the attack, however.
Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood has sharply criticized a U.N. draft document on violence against women as "deceitful," saying its articles clash with Islamic principles and undermine family values.
The group, from which Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi hails, called on other Muslim nations, women's groups and Islamic organizations to reject the document, which is expected to be endorsed at the end of a meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women this week.
The Brotherhood's statement Wednesday says the document propagates sexual freedoms, advocates the use of abortion and equates sexual assault by a stranger with assault by a spouse.
It called on women groups not to be "lured by phony calls for civilized behavior."
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"Next they'll be telling us we can't consort with our goats!"
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The Brotherhood's statement Wednesday says the document propagates sexual freedoms, advocates the use of abortion and equates sexual assault by a stranger with assault by a spouse.
"he's got a right!"
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services dismantled a corpse-littered Boumerdes group allegedly behind the kidnappings of civilians, La Depeche de Kabylie reported on Monday (March 11th).
Over the last fortnight, four suspects from Bordj Menaiel and Zemmouri reportedly provided information that helped security services foil a false roadblock and attempted kidnapping near Draa Ben Khedda.
Weapons, military uniforms and other equipment were seized in the operation, which netted another four suspects.
The judicial police are investigating the gang's possible connection to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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[MAGHAREBIA] A Tunisian man is at death's door after immolating himself Tuesday (March 12th) in central Tunis.
"This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment," the man shouted before setting himself afire on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, AFP reported.
Passers-by rushed to douse the flames but not before the man, believed to be in his 20s, suffered serious burn wounds. The young man was still conscious as he was rushed to Ben Arous Hospital.
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Unless he was slapped by a female police officer before his self immolation, I can't see this leading to another Arab Spring.
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services on Saturday (March 9th) broke up an al-Qaeda terror cell in the town of Bordj Badji Mokthar along the Mali border, Echorouk reported.
Seven people, including two Malians, were tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for facilitating the infiltration of a number of snuffies who fled the war in northern Mali. An eighth suspect reportedly managed to flee to Mali.
The Algerian security authorities and army forces stepped up their movements along the southern border in the last few weeks to prevent forces of Evil fleeing the battles in northern Mali from infiltrating into Algeria. These security measures have helped the authorities arrest a number of snuffies as they tried to cross into Algerian soil.
The latest security operation was carried out by an Algerian army unit in the wilaya of Tamanrasset. The newspaper said that authorities "monitored communications that the group had with terrorist organizations".
It added that the suspects belong to al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and used Bordj Badji Mokhtar, located along north-eastern Mali frontier near the Ifoghas Mountains, as their headquarters. The mountainous area had become a last refuge for al-Qaeda-linked snuffies fleeing a French and African military intervention in Mali.
The task of the group was to provide information and take pictures of movements of the Algerian army that has intensified its presence in border areas with Mali since the start of war on Islamist groups last January.
The cell members were reportedly preparing to facilitate the "infiltration of a number of snuffies who fled the hell of battles in northern Mali to Algerian soil". It said that a large number of the snuffies in northern Mali hail from southern Algeria, especially Adrar, Tamanrasset, Illizi and El-Meneaa in Ghardaia province.
At the terrorist cell's headquarters, the Algerian security forces seized Thuraya satellite phones, communication devices, advanced night-vision goggles, and two all-terrain vehicles, which had been under surveillance for a while by the security forces. The vehicles were reportedly used by the suspects in their movements between Bordj Badji Mokhtar and Tamanrasset.
Leaders of AQIM and Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) work through middlemen in southern areas in recruiting support elements, taking advantage of sympathy with the jihadist groups. Others work with the "Movement of the Sons of the Sahara for Islamic Justice" that was led by Mohamed el-Amine Bencheneb, who was killed by the Algerian army forces during the attack on the gas plant in In Amenas.
These groups seek to re-form the cells in the south after the security authorities dismantled many of these networks following the terrorist attacks on national gendarmerie headquarters in Ouargla and Tamanrasset last year.
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[Al Ahram] Suspected Islamist gunnies on cycle of violences stormed a primary school in Nigeria's main northern city of Kano on Tuesday and opened fire on teachers, wounding four of them, police said.
The attackers made teachers at Dan Maliki Primary School lie on the ground before shots rang out, a witness told Rooters.
No one grabbed credit for the assault, but Islamist Death Eater 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... - whose nickname means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language - has targeted schools before.
The movement has killed many hundreds in gun and kabooms since it launched an uprising against the government in 2009, opposing Western cultural influences and seeking to carve an Islamic state out of Africa's largest oil producer.
The gunnies hit the headteacher and three other teachers, leaving them severly maimed, said police front man Magaji Musa Majiya. Boko Haram was the main suspect, he added.
None of the pupils were harmed.
"They made the teachers lie down on the ground, then there were gunshot sounds and everyone scampered to safety," said Hauwa Jinjiri, a trader working on the school premises who witnessed the attack.
The shooting came a day after a rival Islamist movement Ansaru posted a video it said showed the bodies of seven foreign construction workers it killed after abducting them from a remote northern town last month.
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[Yemen Post] A Pro-government tribal militia based in the southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... confirmed on Monday it managed to crack-down on one al-Qaeda cell in the region.
A tribal leader told the press on Sunday his men had sussed out and destroyed an important terror cell near the city of Jaar. Jaar was invaded by al-Qaeda gunnies back in 2011 when it remained under the group's control for months. It took a large scale military operation to outroot Islamist gunnies in the province.
The Sheikh explained his men had been on the hunt for quite some time, knowing the terror cell was planning to run operation from its hideouts which would destabilize the province.
With so much ground to cover and a limited men power, the Defense Ministry has been relying heavily on local tribes to maintain order and keep the threat that is al-Qaeda at bay.
"Our tribal fighters stormed an al-Qaeda-held site in Jaar town and seized 10 cut-throats along with three improvised bombs," Xinhua agency quoted a tribal source as saying.
The Defense and Interior Ministries have been both on the look-out for any sign of unrest or renewed terror activities in Yemen as officials are putting the final details to Yemen crucial National Dialogue Conference (March 18).
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[Bangla Daily Star] Amid threats from radical Islamists and imposition of Section 144 by police in Chittagong, the Gonojagoron Mancha protesters yesterday postponed their today's rally in the port city.
Section 144 prohibits gathering of more than five people.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... three cocktails were went kaboom! near the Gonojagoron Mancha before the Chittagong Press Club around 8:25pm, sending a wave of panic in the area. Many people were seen running for shelter at the time, reports our Chittagong correspondent.
Police tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! one person from the spot as suspect, said Kusum Dewan, additional deputy commissioner of CMP.
The Gonojagoron Mancha organisers were holding a presser at the Press Club when the cocktails went off, but nobody was hurt in the incident.
As tension ran high centring over today's rally and counter-rally called by the Gonojagoron Mancha and radical Islamists at the same venue, the Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday imposed Section 144 in all parts of the city from 6:00am till midnight today, modifying their earlier decision to impose it only in parts of the city.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Stray incidents of vandalism, cocktail kabooms and festivities between activists of the BNP-led alliance and law enforcers marked yesterday's dawn-to-dusk shutdown by the 18-party combine.
At least 29 people, including two coppers, were maimed when BNP men clashed with police in Sirajganj and Rajshahi. Pro-hartal activists also clashed with ruling party men in Dinajpur and Brahmanbaria.
Apart from blasting cocktails, opposition activists vandalised and set fire to vehicles in at least eight districts, report our district correspondents.
The BNP-led opposition called the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... minutes after some cocktails had been blasted some 250 feet from a rally in front of the BNP central office in the capital's Nayapaltan area Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... a dawn-to-dusk hartal was called in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar for today, protesting the arrest of central BNP leader Abed Raza and demanding his release.
In Dhaka, a very few opposition leaders and activists were seen on the streets during the hartal hours. Pickets blasted bombs at Mohammadpur, Mirpur-1 and set fire to vehicles in Khilkhet, Mirpur, Saidabad, Green Road, Gulshan Avenue and Jatrabari areas.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... two cocktail like substances were recovered from the road beside the International Crimes Tribunal set in the High Court area in Dhaka for war crimes trial.
Huge contingents of law enforcers were deployed at all the key points of the city. Though less than normal, public transports were seen in good numbers on the city thoroughfares.
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Now, refresh my memory.
Why did East Pakistanarchy go independent of West Pakistanarchy?
Man alive, 1500 miles apart and just as crazy as their western cousins...Banglamess is obviously relalted to Pakistanarchy.
You know they riot by the thousands when a US drone kills a Taliban (no wait that's NYC) but if a kaboom kills a busload in Karachi, its business as usual. I bet the bookies run odds on the next kaboom and the number of casualties.
Yep, Mahmoud will give you three to one that the next suicide bomber will be a Sunni and four to one he'll kill at least 20.
Someone forgot to salt the popcorn
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[Bangla Daily Star] Miscreants vandalised 23 idols of Hindu god Shiva at a temple in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah early Tuesday, creating panic among the people of local Hindu community.
Some unidentified people broke into the temple at Angita cremation ground and vandalised the idols, reports our Jhenidah correspondent.
Local Awami League politician Abdul Mannan, Deputy Commissioner Khaja Hannan, Superintendent of Police in Jhenidah Altaf Hossain, Kaliganj Upazila Chairman Anwarul Azim Anar, Vice-Chairman Tithi Rani Biswas and Officer-in-Charge of Kaliganj Police Station Liakot Hossain visited the spot.
Joygopal Chakrabarti, the priest of the temple, and its caretaker Sabita Chakrabarti said the temple was built 250 years back where around 10,000 people of adjoining villages offer their prayers.
They never witnessed such inhuman activities in their 30 years of career, they added.
Badal Tagore, president of the temple, demanded exemplary punishment to those involved with the vandalism.
Some people who do not believe in the country's liberation might have damaged the idols, said Anwarul Azim Anar, chairman of Kaliganj upazila.
The local administration will take stern action against the criminals after investigation, he added.
Liakat Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station confirmed the vandalism and said he will take steps in this regard.
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Britain said on Tuesday it could break with a European Union arms embargo on Syria to allow for arming opposition fighters as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad vowed to fight for years.
The arms embargo is part of a package of EU sanctions on Syria that currently roll over every three months, with the last extension achieved with the agreement of all 27 EU members on March 1.
Britain pushed for and won an agreement to amend the embargo to allow the supply of non-lethal equipment such as body armored vehicles to rebels, but warned that in future it might act alone.
Without unanimous agreement between all EU members to either renew or amend the ban in three months time, the embargo becomes void.
I hope that we can persuade our European partners, if and when a further change becomes necessary, they will agree with us, Prime Minister David Cameron told a parliamentary committee when asked whether Britain could veto the embargo.
But if we cant, then its not out of the question we might have to do things in our own way. Its possible, he added.
On Monday, France urged the European Union to look again at lifting the arms embargo, putting it at odds with Germany which said such a step could spread conflict in the region.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said ending the embargo would help level the playing field in the two-year-old conflict in which 70,000 people have died. His German counterpart Guido Westerwelle said that could lead to a proliferation of weapons in the region and spark a proxy war.
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Meanwhile, Syria said it is ready to fight for years against rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad, as the U.N. warned a generation of children risked being lost in the spiraling violence.
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I don't think Costco has enough popcorn in their distribution center for what we need for this mess.
My stars, the Syrian civil war has all of the makings of a crackerjack good time for arms deallers, terrorists, fanatics, and pure nutjobs. I think it's a good idea to arm them. Anything to keep them distracted and off your neck...the Brits need to talk to Ollie North about what happens to aid to terrorists when the fighting stops.
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"But if we can't, then it's not out of the question we might have to do things in our own way. It's possible," he added.
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Interesting part will be when the situation resolves itself and the region is awash with fresh weaponry.
Indeed. I'm thinking the best outcome here is that everyone *does* fight "for years". I can't for the life of me think of anything that remotely resembles a happily ever after ending.
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The Lebanonification of Syria...couldn't happen to a nicer country. Many thanks to our Russian friends for arming Pencilneck (no sarc intended). This thing could go on for years.
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Another sh8thole arab country w/a penchant for tinpot dictators and islamic insanity. Stay out of it methinks. Real Politik - Pay them only lip service while they bleed each other dry. Whoever wins is still a loser.
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I still maintain the Russians, whom I loathe, are actually on to something. The more I listen, the more I enjoy the tune. Let them keep grinding away whilst Israel and the rest of the world watch the monkey dance.
German authorities banned three ultraconservative Islamic groups Wednesday, including one whose Internet propaganda videos helped inspire the extremist who killed two American airmen at Frankfurt airport in 2011, the country's domestic intelligence chief said.
Police launched early morning raids on 21 apartments and one meeting room belonging to DawaFFM, Islamic Audios and al-Nussrah all of which adhere to the hardcore conservative Salafi interpretation of Islam.
The groups were largely involved in recruitment, fundraising and propaganda, including videos and other postings urging people to fight against those who did not believe in their version of Islam, said Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
"These organizations are oriented against the basic right to freedom of religion against Christians and other faiths including Shiites," Maassen said.
For example, he said, in one DawaFFM YouTube posting, an Arabic speaker told Shiite Muslims: "If the Prophet Muhammad heard your words he'd hack off your hands and feet and banish you from the earth."
It was also DawaFFM YouTube videos and Facebook postings that helped radicalize Arid Uka the lone-wolf attacker who killed two U.S. airmen and injured two others at the Frankfurt Airport in 2011, Maassen said.
Uka was convicted of murder last year and sentenced to life in prison.
[An Nahar] German federal prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against a 35-year-old Turkish man suspected of recruiting for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) throughout Europe.
Prosecutors charged the man, identified only as Metin A., with "membership of a foreign terrorist organisation."
They said he worked from March 2008 until his arrest in July 2011 as a leading recruiter for the youth wing of the PKK, known as "Komalen Ciwan".
He was responsible, prosecutors charge, for persuading youths and young adults to join the group, first in Berlin, then throughout Germany and the rest of Europe.
A. was arrested on July 20, 2011 in Switzerland and handed over to German authorities on November 1, 2012.
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India: Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two suicide attackers were among seven persons killed and nine others wounded in a fidayeen attack in the Bemina locality of the Srinagar on Wednesday morning. Those injured included seven CRPF troopers and two civilians. All the injured have been evacuated to hospital for treatment.
A senior police officer said two militants attacked a CRPF patrol at Bemina near a public school on Wednesday morning lobbing grenades and firing from automatic weapons. "Five CRPF jawans were killed on the spot and seven other jawans were injured," the officer added.
Senior policemen and paramilitary CRPF officers rushed to the spot along with reinforcements and the area was immediately surrounded. He said the CRPF and police retaliated and engaged the militants in a gunfight near a school during which the two suicide attackers were killed.
However, the he Police Public School was closed due to strike called by separatists in support of their demand for return of mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Abdul Gani Mir aid the group affiliation and identity of the militants killed in the incident was a matter of investigation.
[Dawn] Armed gunnies on Tuesday rubbed out a senior local election official in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, police said, days before parliament is due to dissolve ahead of general elections.
Muhammad Tariq, the Superintendent of Police in Quetta said two armed gunnies riding a cycle of violenceshot up the vehicle of Muhammad Ziaullah Qasmi, the District Election Commissioner for Quetta district, in the Munir Mengal road area of the city.
Tariq said Qasmi initially sustained serious wounds, receiving eight bullets to the body.
"Qasmi succumbed to injuries on his way to hospital," he said.
The driver of the election official was also injured during the attack.
The assailants managed to escape unhurt from the spot.
"The incident seems to be an act of murder," said a police official who requested not to be named.
The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained immediately and police were contacting relatives for further details.
Nobody immediately grabbed credit for the killing, but Balochistan suffers from sectarian violence as well as an insurgency by Baloch nationalists who want greater autonomy for the mineral-rich province.
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"The incident seems to be an act of murder," said a police official who requested not to be named.
(Breathless) NO.
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[Dawn] A remote controlled blast targeting a police mobile van near Cantt police station in Bannu district killed two persons and injured 18 others on Tuesday.
All victims were shifted to the District Headquarters hospital Bannu.
The bomb, weighing five to six kilograms, was fitted on a motorcycle and was detonated using a remote control, Bannu's DSP Cantt, Ismail told Dawn.com.
The dead included a child and a policeman, according the acting medical superintendent of DHQ Bannu, Dr Farooq Khattak.
Earlier during the day a cylinder explosion occurred near the residence of Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain in Pabbi town.
BDS official killed defusing bomb
A constable of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) died when a pressure cooker bomb exploded near Pump road in Adezai area, about 25 kilometres south of Peshawar, within the remit of Mattani police station.
The roadside-planted bomb weighing three kilograms exploded while the BDS personnel were trying to defuse it. within the remit of Mattani police station
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PESHAWAR A remote-controlled bomb targeting police killed two people in Bannu on Tuesday, police said, hours after a blast near the home of a prominent provincial minister. The bomb exploded near a police van carrying six people outside the main police station in the town of Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district police chief Nisar Ahmed Tanoli said.
Bannu is close to the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border where Taleban and other militants have hideouts.
An earlier blast in the town of Pabbi, just 60 metres from the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, wounded six people.
In a third blast on Tuesday, a bomb disposal officer was killed on the outskirts of Peshawar while defusing a roadside bomb, officials said.
Tanoli said the Bannu device contained two kg of explosives and completely destroyed the police van.
It was a remote-controlled bomb, planted on a motorbike parked outside the police station, he said, adding that the blast killed two civilian passersby.
Police constable Mohammed Shiraz said: We were six people in the van which was on routine patrol in the city. A sudden blast ripped through the van and all of us were wounded.
Doctor Mahmood Jan at Bannus hospital confirmed the death toll and said medics had received 14 wounded.
Hussain, a member of the provinces ruling Awami National Party (ANP) whose son was killed by Taleban militants, was 25km away in Peshawar at the time of the blast near his home, police said.
A bomb exploded near the house of information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and wounded three children and three passersby, district police chief Mohammed Hussain said.
The police chief said the bomb was hidden in a pile of gravel being used to build a roadside drain, and television footage showed the blast had left a sizeable crater. Hussain is well known in Pakistan for speaking out against militants. In July 2010 the Taleban shot dead his only son Mian Rashid Hussain, 28, as he travelled home. The Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan has vowed to kill politicians from the secular ANP.
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ISLAMABAD District Election Commissioner Ziaullah Qasmi was shot dead in Quetta, the capital of the volatile Balochistan province on Tuesday. According to details, Qasmi was on his way home from work when two unidentified motorcyclists shot him dead.
Security situation has been volatile in Quetta for the past few months. The government had imposed Governors Rule in Balochistan in January after a bomb blast in Quetta left around 90 people dead.
Earlier, the Balochistan election commissioner had submitted a report to the Election Commission of Pakistan outlining security concerns in the province ahead of the elections expected to be held on May 9. Several political leaders have also voiced fears that a lot of violence is expected in the province during the elections.
The provincial election commissioner had suggested increased security in sensitive areas during polls.
But not soon enough...
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[An Nahar] Israeli troops shot dead a Hamas militant and wounded two other Palestinians during a clash with stone-throwers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, Palestinian security officials said.
They named the dead man as Mahmud al-Titi, 23, and said he was a member of the militant Islamic group.
Medics said one man was moderately wounded and one lightly hurt in the clash in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the city.
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Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, are fighting with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a soldier allegedly belonging to the Syrian Republican Guard said in a video posted online Monday.
Ali Imad Takla, who according to the amateur video was captured by the rebel Free Syrian Army told the opposition his brigade has been fighting in Daraya under the orders of General Yousef al-Masry using missiles, planes as well as canons. He added there are regime soldiers based at Souq al-Hadeed. However, Al Arabiya cannot independently verify the content of the video.
The FSA has accused Hezbollah members for attacking Syrian villages primarily in the region near the Lebanese border. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has admitted some party members had fought in Syria but on their own accord and not under his orders.
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This is wonderful news. Hizbollah and Iran are in it and their troops are committed? That means its going to spread and MORE Moslems will be killing Moslems.
Plus Jordan has allowed troops to be trained there in Jordan and the EU despite all the bans on nasty nasty is STILL going to find ways to add fuel and goodies to the fire. The place is awash in guns, the Turks are wonderful soldiers and everybody is going to need Tanks and expensive hardware. Obama won't last and who are the Donks going to run next time? The people that elected him CAN'T fight. They can just stand around with their hands out.
We got Wars in the near future coming up. No doubt about that. Egypt is rattling along like a Chicano cheap Taco carcrash with the doors held on with Chicken wire. Most of North Africa is terrified of its own and looking for an exit. This is the last Pope anyone will ever see and the Euroweenies are too queer stupid to defend themselves. The Vultures are closing in on them bigtime and they don't know it.
And in the USA its either California or Chicago with a useless constipated gridlocked incompetency for a government.
And dont look now but the Boy Scouts are feeling each others ass.
However, if you can lead a platoon and know the price of Gold and can tell a CZ from a real Diamond you might stand a chance. Too bad about your mother though.
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However, if you can lead a platoon and know the price of Gold and can tell a CZ from a real Diamond you might stand a chance.
Oh dear. Among my many employed adventures, I once worked in the jewelry business. I'm afraid there are only two ways to differentiate cubic zirconium from diamond for the lay person: take the stone out of the setting and weigh it (CZs are half again as heavy for the size. Granted, that does mean our lay person needs to know how much the same size diamond should weigh, but let's assume he has a chart handy, amd the owner of the jewelry didn't just assault him for assaulting the jewelry), or stick it in the freezer to see if crazes. Our platoon leader is in trouble, I fear.
That's how I would have called it, Ebbang Uluque6305. He does have that same, drunk on modifiers quality, a sort of Freshman English writing prompt run amok after watching too many Hollywood Vietnam War flicks.
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Yummy words and heaps of 'em. Twistin and turning like we did last summer, only I wasn't leading the dip shit rangers into a briar patch of bad coffee and peanuts. We do what we must do, keep an eye and and an ear of Joe, prepare for gurl scouts in tankettes, fake sanity and prepare for the troll Apocalypse.
[An Nahar] A General Security first sergeant was killed and three security personnel were wounded while chasing a fugitive in the Bekaa town of Chtaura.
MTV said the incident happened near the Ramia hunting rifles store where a security patrol came under gunfire.
Later on Tuesday, a statement issued by the General Directorate of General Security said one of its patrols "came under gunfire while passing on the main road in the Chtaura area, which resulted in the martyrdom of Third Inspector Michel Maalouf and the wounding of two other members."
The general directorate "is continuing its investigations under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities in order to unveil the circumstances of the incident," added the statement.
Quoting sources, al-Manar television said a General Security member was killed and four members of the Internal Security Forces were wounded while chasing fugitives in Chtaura.
"General Security members were conducting their routine patrol in Chtaura when they unexpectedly encountered a clash between an ISF patrol and gunmen who opened fired on both patrols," al-Manar said.
MTV reported a separate incident in the Bekaa, saying unidentified gunmen opened fire at a civilian car carrying a Judicial Police officer but missed it and hit another car instead.
"Security forces are probing the two incidents amid reports that the two areas in which the shootings took place were cordoned off," MTV added.
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[An Nahar] The security forces on Tuesday seized more than one million Captagon pills in a valley in the Bekaa region, reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars. Wikipedia sez Captagon is a mild stimulant. Sort of like amphetimine, but not nearly as strong. Apparently it's only popular for recreational use in Arab countries.
The Directorate General of Internal Security Forces issued a communique explaining that a police force raided the valley on Monday upon information received and investigated by the Bekaa anti-drug bureau.
"The Captagon pills were found in 12 burlap bags, hidden inside a dried up mud pool," the communique detailed, adding that they were readied to be exported.
It noted: "The price of the 1,070,400 pills was estimated at USD 5 million".
The bags were transferred to the anti-drug bureau and investigation is currently underway to reveal and arrest those involved in this case, the ISF's statement said.
In 2012, the security forces launched a mission to destruct cannabis crops in the Bekaa region amid protests from local residents.
Seventeen tractors were involved in the destruction of the fields that measure up to 300 dunums.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the residents of the Bekaa town of al-Yammouneh staged in August 2012 a sit-in in protest against the destruction of cannabis crops in the region.
The town's municipality head Mohammed Sharif, who participated in the sit-in, expressed: "The destruction of the cannabis crops has turned into the destruction of the souls of the citizens who have been seeking to earn a decent living given the government's absence".
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"The destruction of the cannabis crops has turned into the destruction of the souls of the citizens who have been seeking to earn a decent living given the government's absence".
We've all been there.
Those bastards!
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Fenethylline, commonly known by the trademark name Captagon, is one of the most popular drugs of abuse among the young affluent populations of the Middle East. Since the cessation of legal production of Captagon, this synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant has been clandestinely produced in southern Europe and trafficked through Turkey to the consumer markets on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit Captagon...
[An Nahar] Russia's emergencies ministry on Tuesday airlifted 103 Russians and citizens of former Soviet republics from Syria amid continuing violence in the strife-torn country, news reports said.
The Il-62 plane left from Latakia airport in western Syria where President Bashar Assad enjoys his strongest support at 1440 GMT, news agencies quoted a ministry spokeswoman as saying.
Russia denies organizing a major evacuation of its nationals and says it is only taking back people who volunteered to leave aboard planes that were sent to provide Syria with various supplies.
A coordinated airlift would be read as a signal of Moscow's admission that Assad's regime was on the brink of collapse.
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[An Nahar] At least 11 people were injured on Tuesday in renewed gunfights at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, the National News Agency reported.
"Fighting has ended in Ain el-Hilweh and we're now investigating the circumstances of the incident," al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander Munir al-Maqdah told Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5) later on Tuesday. Here's a nifty idea: Let's take a few square miles of our country here and there and fill them with "refugees" from a culture where violence is traditional. Let's fence those square miles off and not allow either the army or police into it. Let any kind of policing be done by "militias" who're beholden to no man. Then we can have our own Ein el-Hellhole. And the next time some sophomore starts spouting off over the joys of anarchy, throw him over the wall.
"The situation will not deteriorate and we will not allow any party to drag the camp into the abyss," Maqdah added.
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BEIRUT New clashes erupted on Tuesday in an intensifying battle for control over Aleppos international airport and nearby military bases in Syrias north, activists said.
Rebels have tried for weeks to capture Aleppos international airport and nearby air bases as part of their campaign to erode the regimes air supremacy in the 2-year-old conflict that the United Nations says has claimed more than 70,000 lives.
The rebels control large swathes of land outside of Aleppo. The battle for the city itself, Syrias main commercial hub, is locked in a stalemate. Rebels pushed into the city in July and captured several neighborhoods and it has been a major battleground in the civil war ever since.
The army still holds large parts of Aleppo and maintains control over the airport, the countrys second largest. Crucially, Syrias air space is firmly controlled by the regime in Damascus, which uses its warplanes to regularly bomb rebel strongholds.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes erupted anew on Tuesday around the airport and rebels also intensified their assault on the Nairab and Mannagh air bases near the strategic facility, which has not been handling fights for weeks because of the fighting.
There were also intense clashes at another nearby airfield known as Kweiras, according to the Observatory, a Britain-based anti-regime group that relies on a network of activists on the ground.
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[An Nahar] Russia's emergencies ministry on Tuesday airlifted 103 Russians and citizens of former Soviet republics from Syria amid continuing violence in the strife-torn country, news reports said.
[An Nahar] At least 11 people were injured on Tuesday in renewed gunfights at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, the National News Agency reported.
