Some of you guys are so old you've forgotten....that's a beautiful woman, and she is scantily dressed, and she is....posing to appear to be receptive to your attentions.
You do remember what "your attentions" are supposed to be?
Obviously some of the wiring for that hard wired response intended to guarantee the survival of the species has corroded.
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You can see a lot more of young Bijou in the 2001 movie "Bully". It's a scary movie.
The killing, announced by officials on Monday, came as the monthly US death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved weather to step up attacks.
Sgt Michael Cable, 26, was guarding Afghan and US officials meeting in Shinwar district in Nangarhar province, near the border with Pakistan, when the stabbing occurred last Wednesday, two senior US officials said.
Sgt Cable was playing with a group of children outside when the attacker, thought to be 16 years of age, came from behind and stabbed him in the neck with a large knife.
Zalmai Khan, a senior district official, said the teenager had escaped to nearby Pakistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the young man was acting independently when he killed the soldier, but had joined the Islamic militant movement since fleeing the scene.
[Shabelle] the chief security leader of Kismayu was enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at the middle of the city by the Raskamboni militia.
This was confirmed news after shabelle radio last night contacted the head of security services while he was in jail. He informed Shabelle that the major reason why he was in jail was when he detonated and removed a land mine that was meant to harm the prime minister at the road leading to the airport.
The commander who is in jail informed us that there were some people who were members of the interim administration who put the trap and not all of them wanted the government's presence in the area.
There is no news released by the interim administration of Kismayu concerning the jailing of the head of security in the area.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of people marched through the Moroccan capital on Sunday to protest against unemployment and the cost of living, ahead of plans by the Islamist-led government to push for social and economic reforms.
Protesters marched for "our rights and freedoms" in an action called by two trade unions, chanting slogans against government policies, corruption and the high cost of living, an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said.
"Morocco is witnessing social regression," chanted protesters, including activists from the February 20 pro-reform movement, which was born of the Arab Spring protests sweeping the region in 2011.
They also accused Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane of pushing the country into a "ravine."
Police said 3,000 marchers took part in the peaceful protest that wound its way to the parliament building in central Rabat. Other estimates said they numbered between 5,000 and 10,000.
The MAP news agency said members of opposition parties as well a human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists and civil society figures were also on the streets, alongside activists of the February 20 movement.
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[NY Times] A small band of radical Islamist fighters battled French and Malian soldiers for hours in a firefight in Timbuktu on Sunday after infiltrating the Malian city overnight, Malian officials and witnesses said.
The fighting, which was preceded by a suicide kaboom at a military checkpoint on Saturday night, was the first such violence to reach downtown Timbuktu since January, when French forces arrived and forced out the jihadists who had seized the city in 2012. No one grabbed credit for the attack.
"It started after a suicide boom-mobileing" about 10 p.m. on Saturday, Capt. Modibo Naman Traoré of the Malian Army told Rooters. That attack, he said, "served to distract the military and allow a group of jihadists to infiltrate the city by night."
The attackers appeared to number perhaps 10 or 15, said the French military front man, Col. Thierry Burkhard, of whom "a half-dozen" were confirmed killed. One French soldier was maimed and evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment, Colonel Burkhard said. A handful of Malian soldiers were maimed, according to news media reports.
After the suicide attack, fighters arriving on foot were able to "skirt" the checkpoint, said the mayor, Ousmane Hallé. By Sunday, the fighters had reached the city center, Mr. Hallé said by telephone.
"They had said Timbuktu was secured," the mayor lamented. The fighting had ceased by about 3 p.m. on Sunday, he said, though military aircraft, presumably French, continued to circle in the skies above Timbuktu.Two patrols of French fighter aircraft had been sent to Timbuktu, according to Colonel Burkhard, the military front man, but they did not fire any munitions.
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[Pak Daily Times] Soldiers raided a suspected hideout for Islamist bully boy 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... in northern Nigeria's largest city of Kano on Sunday, sparking a clash that left 15 people dead, the military said.
The military claimed that those killed included 14 Islamists and one soldier, while alleging the snuffies were planning an Easter day attack in the city.
Residents reported hearing gunfire and kabooms early on Sunday as soldiers battled the Islamists. "In the raid, 14 bad boyz were potted and their commander was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! ," Army Brigadier-General Ilyasu Abba told news hounds. "We lost one soldier in the encounter and one other was badly injured." There was however no independent confirmation of those details. Casualty information from Nigeria's military has often been unreliable, with the army under pressure to show progress in the fight against Boko Haram.
The military claimed to have recovered weapons, including a car loaded with explosives which Abba said was "primed for attack against Easter here in Kano."
The hideout, which comprised two attached flats, was destroyed by a bulldozer on the orders of Abba, as with previous hideouts. Nigeria has in the past seen major attacks on Christian holidays blamed on Boko Haram.
A bombing in the northern city of Kaduna on Easter last year killed 41 people. Violence linked to Boko Haram's insurgency has left some 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces. The group's deadliest attack yet occurred in Kano in January 2012, when coordinated bombings and shootings killed at least 185 people.
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I was going to say "Uh, uh, THE HARD BOYZ NOW HATE COLORED EGGS/CADBURY"? but never mind.
[Bangla Daily Star] Religious fanatics vandalised at least seven statues at a Hindu temple in Sonatala upazila of the district early yesterday.
Local politician and Awami League ex-organising secretary Md Abdul Mannan and the upazila chairman visited the temple in the morning.
They assured the temple committee that it will be given financial compensation.
The statues at Sri Sri Gobinda Temple in Gar Chaitanyapur area came under attack in the wee hours yesterday, said Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) Md Mojaffar Hossain of Sonatala Police Station.
The OC said police are yet to identify the attackers.
Religious bigots have vandalised and torched more than 27 temples, 175 houses and dozens of shops of minorities across the country since Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... was sentenced to death in a war crimes case on February 28.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... President Delwar Hossain was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... yesterday in the capital's Shyamoli for alleged involvement in recent violence and attacks on police.
Countrywide violence by Shibir followed the arrest. The student wing of Jamaat also announced a string of programmes for two days, including a countrywide daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... for tomorrow.
Hours after the hartal declaration by Shibir, the BNP-led opposition called a hartal for the same day but on different issues.
Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of police, told The Daily Star that acting on a tip-off, a DB team picked up Delwar from his sister's house around 4:15pm.
"The Shibir leader was involved in almost all the recent acts of violence, such as arson, vandalism, bombing and attacks on police.
"We had long been looking for him but he was on the run," Nazrul said.
It is Delwar's second term as the Shibir president. Earlier, he was president of Shibir's Rajshahi University unit.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... Abdul Zabbar, secretary general of the central committee of Shibir, in a press statement condemned and protested the arrest.
Signed by the committee's cultural secretary Yasin Arafat, the statement declared the two-day programme, according to which the party will stage countrywide protests today.
It threatened the government with tougher movements unless the Shibir chief is freed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists vandalised and torched vehicles in different parts of the country.
They set fire to eight vehicles in the capital last night at Gulshan, Amtuail, Rayerbagh, West Shewrapara, Senpara in Mirpur, Dhakeshwari Mandir, fire service officials said. No casualty was reported.
Shibir men vandalised seven to eight vehicles, including passenger buses, at Mohipal and torched two vehicles at Mirsharai point on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway yesterday. They also set fire to a truck, said police and witnesses.
Police tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! an activist in connection with the torching of the vehicles, said Iftekher Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Mirsharai Police Station.
In Jhenidah, Jamaat-Shibir activists blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway near Bejpara bus station at Kaliganj upazila by felling at least 100 trees. The traffic movement was disrupted for about an hour.
Shibir activists torched a truck on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj bypass highway around 11:00pm and barricaded the highway, reported our Rajshahi correspondent.
Around 300 Shibir activists staged a demonstration on Rajshahi University campus, blasted seven to eight cocktails and fired blank shots around 8:30pm, reported our staff correspondent from Rajshahi. They also torched two CNG-run auto-rickshaws at Auktroy intersection in the city and went kaboom! three to four cocktails.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Politics of cashing in on people's religious sentiments is likely to turn worse with radical Islamists setting out on a long march towards Dhaka on April 6 and BNP extending support to the programme to gear up the anti-government movement.
Four of the eight Islamist parties that are actively working in the capital to make the long march announced by Hefajat-e Islam a success are components of BNP-Jamaat-led 18-party alliance.
Even Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... , a key component of Awami League-led ruling alliance, on Saturday extended its support to the long march demanding capital punishment to "atheist bloggers for making derogatory remarks about Islam."
Surprisingly, it is not clear what the government or the Awami League is thinking about the April 6 event, media reports suggest. The party claims to be the champion of secularism but its top leaders these days are making statements with religious overtones.
Two senior BNP leaders yesterday said the party's strategy was to back any anti-government agitation waged by any organization and to make the government a common enemy of all.
Therefore, the party is waiting for the outcome of the long march before finalising its next course of action for the one-point oust-govt movement, they said.
The BNP earlier had openly supported Hefajat-e Islam in obstructing the Gonojagoron Mancha rally that was to be held in Chittagong on March 13.
"We will continue supporting any agitation protesting the government's misdeeds and repression," Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, a member of BNP standing committee, told The Daily Star yesterday.
Rafiqul Islam Mia, another standing committee member, echoed Mahbub's view.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... addressing public rallies in Manikganj, Bogra, Joypurhat and Brahmanbaria has also urged people to wage tough agitation against the "government-sponsored movement of Shahbagh atheists."
Hefajat-e Islam, an organization based at Hathazari in Chittagong, through a presser in the capital yesterday threatened to enforce long shutdowns for period if their long march was obstructed.
On Saturday, the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police of Chittagong met the chief of Hefajat-e Islam and requested him to enforce other programme than the long march.
"We are concerned about the law and order situation. So we requested Hujur [chief of Hefajat-e Islam] to consider other programme, excepting the long march," Chittagong DC Abdul Mannan said yesterday.
As part of the plan, leaders of Hefajat-e Islam said their followers from distant districts will march towards Dhaka on April 5 night and those from districts adjacent to the capital the following day.
"Then we will hold a grand rally and raise our demands," Mufti Fayezullah, joint secretary general of Hefajat-e Islam, told The Daily Star yesterday.
He said they had applied to Dhaka Metropolitan Police seeking permission to hold the rally at either of the venues at Manik Mia Avenue, Motijheel Shapla Chattar and Paltan Intersection.
"We have yet to get the permission," he said, adding, "If we are not allowed to hold the rally, we will enforce shutdowns for an indefinite period from April 7."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists in a hit-and-run attack hurled several bombs at police, severing the right wrist of one and severely injuring another when the law enforcers were trying to fend off the attackers in the city.
Sub-inspector Mokbul Hossain of Motihar police, who lost his right wrist, in the attack was airlifted to Dhaka at the directive of the prime minister. SI Mokbul was initially rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and given primary treatment.
He was under watch at the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital where he was admitted at 2:30pm.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Commissioner SM Moniruzzaman said five other copperswere maimed in the powerful blasts during a clash at Bata intersection in Rajshahi city.
Doctors at RMCH said the bomb had gone off in Mokbul's hand as he tried to defend himself from being hit by it.
"His right wrist was severed and three fingers of his left hand were hanging by the skin," said BK Dam, a senior orthopaedic surgeon at RMCH.
Mokbul's father Havildar Ansar Ali, who also works with Rajshahi police, came to Dhaka with his son on the same chopper. Ansar Ali said his son had joined Motihar police only a month ago.
Mohsin Alam, publicity secretary of Shibir's Rajshahi University unit, alleged the policeman was injured when a sound grenade he was about to throw at Jamaat-Shibir activists went kaboom! in his hand.
Alam claimed more than 40 of their men were maimed and they received treatment at different private clinics and hospitals.
Inspector Alamgir Hossain of Detective Branch however said sound grenades "have ability to burn, not to fracture" and are used to create sounds to drive away mob.
The other severely injured law enforcer, constable Rofikul Islam of Riot Control Division, was admitted to RMCH as his left elbow was fractured. Other maimedcoppers were given first aid at the same hospital.
The clash began around 10:30am when more than 100 Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a brisk procession at Bata intersection demanding an end to war crimes trial and release of their tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! leaders and activists.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of police, the Jamaat-Shibir men from the procession suddenly started hurling bombs at them.
During the clash that lasted 10 minutes the activists blasted 15 to 20 bombs, said Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Boalia police.
He added the police fired rubber bullets, teargas shells and went kaboom! sound grenades to disperse the violent procession.
The clash spread to Ranibazar as the police chased the Jamaat-Shibir activists. Roadside shops were closed and pedestrians ran for safety as panic gripped the area.
Police picked up seven men from the scene, said the OC.
Additional police force was deployed at different points in the city as tension mounted following the incident.
Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandker told The Daily Star they would take appropriate legal actions against the offenders.
He said the police had been taking risks in discharging their duties properly in the interest of the people.
Referring to yesterday's incident, the police chief said, "He [the SI] has showed the highest respect to his profession."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... said the maimed policeman had been airlifted to Dhaka and admitted to the CMH upon her directive.
The premier said this at a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee at Gono Bhaban.
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A leader of one of Colombias main rebel groups was killed during a clash between guerrilla fighters and the country's army, military sources said.
During a military operation in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca, the leader of the National Liberation Army's Camilo Cienfuegos brigade known only by his nom de guerre, Omar" was killed when his company was attacked by the Colombian military in an operation that also netted the seizure of 10 rifles, a mortar grenade launcher, two pistols, ammunition, land mines, grenades and uniforms of the national police and army.
The deceased ELN leader was a member of the guerrilla group for 17 years and was purportedly heavily involved in the groups extortion racket and cocaine production.
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Investigators in Dagestan are trying to determine what a local United Russia deputy was doing with terrorists militants during a special security operation last week in which five men were killed. The operation, which took place in the Makhachkala village of Semender, saw five alleged terrorists militants killed, among them a United Russia deputy identified as Magomedkhabib Magomedaliyev, it was reported on Thursday.
Magomedaliyev was elected to the municipal assembly of the Untsukulsky district in 2010 from United Russia's party ticket. The election commission's website shows that he had a criminal record when he was elected, with prior convictions for possession of firearms and large-scale fraud.
A spokesperson for Dagestan's branch of the Investigative Committee, said on Friday that investigators would need two months to determine the circumstances of Magomedaliyev's presence at the scene. The investigation isn't helped by the fact that the house in which the men were killed burned down during the course of the gun battle, making identification of the remaining four men difficult.
What is known about the operation is that security forces surrounded a home believed to belong to terrorists militants and demanded that all those inside come out. After five women and a child left, the men inside began shooting and a shootout with police ensued. All five of the men inside were killed.
Relatives said that Magomedaliyev may have been set up by members of the local administration, with whom he had an ongoing conflict.
Local Communist deputy Valery Rashkin has demanded an explanation from law enforcement agencies on how a terrorist militant with prior convictions could be allowed on United Russia's party list in the first place. The State Duma is currently considering new legislation that would prohibit people with previous convictions from holding political positions.
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Theelection commission's website shows that he had a criminal record when he was elected, with prior convictions for possession of firearms and large-scale fraud.
a Democrat
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[Pak Daily Times] Sindh Rangers claimed to apprehend 25 suspects including an electrician of Nawa-e-Waqt group, Muhammad Rehan during a targeted raid in Rangar Mohalla in Baldia Town. Rehan was sleeping in his house when Rangers caught him despite Rehan's involvement in any case.
Rangers claimed that seven workers of a political party were also among the incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! who were shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.
According to Rangers front man, about 60 weapons of different calibers including sub machineguns, MP-5 and large quantity of ammunition were also recovered.
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[Pak Daily Times] Militants on Sunday targeted a government-run girls school with explosives, however no causality was reported, officials said. According to local police, unknown snuffies had planted explosives material in government school of the Bannu city which went kaboom! with a loud bang. Resultantly the school building was badly damaged but no injury or causality was reported as the building was empty at the time of kaboom.
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[Pak Daily Times] As many as four power pylons of National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) were blown up by unknown suspects in the Chattar and Bakhtiarabad areas of Dera Murad Jamali between Saturday and Sunday night which plunged 17 districts 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... into darkness, including Quetta.
The front man of the Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) told the journalists that the power pylons of the NDTC were blown up at 12:36 am between Saturday and Sunday, adding that 220 KV tower number 434, 235, 247 and 249 were damaged in areas of Chatter and Bakhtiarabad which caused a disruption of electricity to 17 grid stations of the province, including the bustling provincial capital.
"However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the supply of electricity was restored to Quetta later from an alternate private power house," he added and said that QESCO was in constant contact with NTDC for the immediate repair and restoration of the 220 KV towers. He further added that NTDC was already working on the tower number 249 and 247 in Bakhtiarabad and the work on damaged towers in Chattar would begin after security clearance. The front man of QESCO said that Balochistan is facing power crunch due to closure of Gadhu, Ouch Sibi transmission line, adding that the power demand of the 47 grid stations linked to this line is 1250 mega watts while this time they only had 150 mega watts of electricity which was provided by ICC Jamshoro for fulfilling Quetta's electricity needs. He said that after the repairing of these lines districts other than Quetta would also be provided electricity and QESCO regretted the inconvenience to its consumers.
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[An Nahar] A kaboom claimed by the Taliban near an election rally in restive northwest Pakistain killed two people and injured six including a candidate on Sunday, police said.
The roadside kaboomwent kaboom! in the town of Bannu where Adnan Wazir, a former politician from the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, was heading a convoy of dozens of vehicles to address the rally,
"The remote-controlled bomb hit the convoy and damaged several vehicles. Two people later died in hospital," Nisar Ahmed Tanoli, a senior police official told AFP.
Wazir, a candidate for the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly in the May 11 national and local polls, was among six injured.
Bannu is close to the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border where Taliban and other Islamic beturbanned goons have hideouts.
The umbrella Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the bombing and threatened more attacks against the ANP.
"We claim responsibility for the attack. We are against ANP and Adnan Wazir was a part of the ANP government for five years," TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
The TTP has previously made death threats against politicians from the secular ANP, which ruled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from 2008 until the provincial assembly was dissolved pending the election.
"We have directed our associates in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to target ANP election rallies and all its leaders," Ehsan said.
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At least nine people were killed and 17 others injured Monday when terrorists insurgents detonated an oil tanker packed with explosives inside a governmental compound in Tikrit.
The explosion happened in central Tikrit 15 minutes after terrorists insurgents drove the tanker inside a compound housing governmental administrative offices. It killed nine people including seven policemen. Police at the scene said the guards at the compound may not have suspected the tanker because fuel trucks arrive every morning to deliver fuel to the government offices.
Captain Mohammed Salih said, "The tank was stopped just behind the police administration building and partially damaged it. I was injured in my face and stomach because of glass."
[Al Ahram] Attacks mostly targeting security forces in and around Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and in northern Iraq, one of them a suicide kaboom, killed three people on Sunday, the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of elections.
The jacket wallah blew up a car at a military checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, just west of the capital, killing one person and wounding seven, including at least three soldiers, a security official and a medical source said.
And on the capital's northern outskirts, a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a car detonated near a checkpoint, killing the vehicle's driver.
Five shootings and bombings in Kirkuk and djinn-infested Mosul, both northern cities, killed one person and maimed six. All of the injured were coppers or soldiers.
The attacks come ahead of provincial elections scheduled for April 20, due to be held in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces, the country's first polls since a parliamentary vote in March 2010.
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Palestinian security chief tells how he has tormented 'suspects' with MI6's knowledge... and reveals how Britain helps pay for it with £33m foreign aid
Long, long piece in the Daily Mail, complete with helpful four-color pencil drawings in case your imagination flags, on Paleos torturing Paleos. My favorite part is one Paleo screaming at a Paleo judge, "The law forbids torture, so please be fair to us, we shouldnt have to go through torture!"
As if Paleos would ever show the Joooz any such compassion. With people like this a neighbors, no wonder there is no peace.
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Two military rangers were killed and four others injured in a roadside motorcycle bomb attack in Pattani's Mayo district Saturday afternoon. The deaths came a day after Capt Siwat Sripujyo, the commander of a security patrol, was killed and 14 other members of his unit wounded in an ambush that set off a gunfight on Friday in Narathiwat's Rueso district.
The latest bombing occurred at about 2:30 p.m. just as a group of military rangers was patroling a local road in tambon Koh Chan.
The six were traveling in a pickup truck severely damaging it when the bomb exploded. A car owned by Mayo District Hospital that was following the truck also was damaged by the explosion but its driver and passengers were unharmed.
After detonating the bomb, the attackers fired at the rangers and a gun battle raged for about five minutes. A combined security force later searched the area but found no suspects.
In Yala, a suspect wanted by police in at least five gun attacks between 2005 and 2009 was detained at his hideout in a rubber plantation in Ban Rae. Abdulloh Pula, 34, a Than To district resident, was caught after a tip-off by villagers.
Mr Abdulloh was wanted in connection with a gun attack on Wiroj Kaeothawon in 2005 and another attack on Thawatchai Sakuljaroenwong the following year. In June, 2008, Mr Abdulloh was believed to have carried out two more attacks. Most recently, he was believed to have been behind a gun attack on Hama Mamadaehae. All the attacks happened in Than To district.
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Syrian army forces have killed Adnan al-Haj Ali better known as Abi Mohammd Joulani, leader of al-Nusra Front in Syria, announced a Syrian opposition source affiliated with Ahfad bani Omaiya in Rif, Damascus.
Al-Alam News Channel quoted the source as telling Lebanons Asia News Agency that al-Joulani has many names, but his real name is Bob from Toledo Adnan Al-Haj Ali from Quneitra.
His military name has been allotted to a number of people for security reasons in an attempt to prevent the disclosure of the Front present commanders identity. The al-Nusra Front is organizationally under the command of al-Qaeda in Iraq. "I am Spartacus!"
"No, I am Spartacus!"
"No, I am...."
Reports had it that al-Haj Ali and his Syrian deputy Mostafa Al-Badawi have been killed in an air attack by a Syrian MiG fighter jet. "Ouch!"
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What odds that there was a forward observer from one of the competing rebel groups helping with the target acquisition?
[An Nahar] The army has deployed heavily in the Chouf town of Baqaata after festivities between Progressive Socialist Party and Arab Tawhid Party supporters left one dead and two people maimed on Saturday.
Jad al-Beaini died from injuries he sustained during Saturday's clash, reported LBCI television.
The three maimed were shot in the legs, reported the National News Agency.
The PSP, headed by MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , said in a statement: "The clash is an individual one and does not have any political or factional links."
"The shooter has been handed over to the concerned authorities in order for the law to take its course in this case," it added.
"Internal stability is a principle that the PSP is committed to now more than ever and it will not accept that it be harmed under any circumstance," it concluded.
For its part, the Arab Tawhid Party, of former minister Wiam Wahhab, explained in a statement that the clash initially started as an individual dispute between Marwan al-Ashqar and Kifah Hani, the owner of a restaurant in Baqaata.
"A PSP security official, Ayman al-Fatayri, who has nothing to do with the dispute, soon intervened by shooting at Hani, soldier Jad al-Beaini, and Arab Tawhid Party member Bashar al-Beaini," it added.
The shooter soon fled to the town of al-Moukhtara, it revealed.
"The Arab Tawhid Party is keen on the security of Mount Leb and calls on all sides to refrain from retaliating to the clash," it said.
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[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels have set three oil wells in the east of the country ablaze, causing a daily loss of nearly 5,000 barrels of oil and 52,000 cubic meters of gas, state media quoted an oil ministry official as saying on Sunday.
SANA news agency said the damage to the oil wells in Deir al-Zor province, much of which is in rebel hands, followed disputes among the fighters over "sharing out the stolen oil" from fields in areas they control.
It said Syria's Furat Petroleum Corporation was working to extinguish the three fires. A total of nine wells had been set on fire by the rebels, the agency added, without saying when the other six had been set ablaze.
Furat was not immediately able to comment on the report.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... sanctions imposed on Syria two years ago over Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's crackdown on protests - which have since developed into armed conflict - effectively halted Syria's modest oil exports.
Assad's government has also struggled to meet domestic energy requirements after losing control of large parts of the east of the country, where most of the oil wells are located.
But despite the fighting residents say oil production has continued in some fields, with rebels trading with local authorities and allowing oil to be shipped to government-controlled areas.
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Fierce fighting between Syrian rebels and regime forces has sparked an exodus of residents from the Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern city of Aleppo, a watchdog group said on Sunday.
The Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood has seen a major exodus after shells hit the area, destroying several homes, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Hundreds of cars carrying families were seen leaving the neighbourhood.
Battles have been raging in the strategic, predominantly Kurdish neighbourhood since Friday, as regime troops try to prevent rebels from advancing into the district. Sheikh Maqsud sits atop a hill, with vantage points over all of Aleppo. Its capture would be a key victory for the rebels, allowing them to target districts still in regime hands.
Since fighting erupted in the neighbourhood, 43 people have been killed in fighting, including 15 civilians and five soldiers, the Observatory said.
On Saturday, the Observatory and Syrian state media reported that rebels had killed a pro-regime Sunni cleric in Sheikh Maqsud, dragging his body through the streets afterwards. Sheikh Hassan Seifeddin was killed overnight Friday by rebel fighters in the east of the area and his body was dragged through the streets, the Observatory said.
State news agency SANA reported that Seifeddin was assassinated by terrorists who mutilated his body afterwards, while official television station Al-Ikhbariya said he had been slaughtered and beheaded.
Elsewhere, SANA said armed terrorists groups has set fire to three oil wells in the province of Deir Ezzor, after a dispute between them on sharing stolen oil.
The agency also reported claims that rebels forces were responsible for a massacre of at least 10 people in the town of Tal Kalakh in southern Syria, an accusation denied by opposition activists.
Last night, terrorists committed a new massacre against peaceful citizens in the city of Tal Kalakh in the Homs countryside, storming the Burj neighbourhood and killing a number of citizens, including women and children, SANA reported.
Activists pointed the finger of blame at government forces.
The bodies of 11 people, including eight women, were recovered after they were executed during a raid by regime forces in the Burj neighbourhood of Tal Kalakh today, according to activists in the area, the Observatory said.
In Damascus province, a car bomb exploded at a rebel checkpoint, killing at least five rebel fighters, the group added.
At least 53 people were killed in violence across the country on Sunday, according to a preliminary toll from the Observatory.
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Espionage equipment hidden on an island across from the Syrian city of Tartus was being used to monitor Russian naval movements and Syrian troop movements, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
The devices were discovered earlier this month by fishermen on Ant Island, near a naval base Russia considers a strategic asset.
According to the report, the materials were planted under cover of darkness by the IDFs Shayetet 13 naval commandos, who spent several hours on the island installing the equipment and ensuring that it worked. The commandos had allegedly visited the island previously to collect information on the local rocks, so that the equipment could be properly camouflaged.
Any unusual activity by the Russians in Tartus, such as a sudden evacuation of families and non-essential personnel, would be good indicators for the Israelis and anyone else paying the least bit of attention that something big was happening, The Times quoted a defense source as saying.
Russia has provided the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad with diplomatic support throughout the two-year conflict, but it believes the end is inevitable and Assad will be forced to retreat to the Alawite enclave [along the coastal region], so they want to be there, said the source.
Earlier this month, Syrian state-run TV released pictures of the devices Damascus said were designed to photograph, register and transfer data. The television footage aired on Syrian TV showed what looked like a camera and a satellite dish, and other objects that resembled rocks. Plastic boxes resembling batteries and cables were also displayed.
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The killing, announced by officials on Monday, came as the monthly US death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved weather to step up attacks.
[NY Times] A small band of radical Islamist fighters battled French and Malian soldiers for hours in a firefight in Timbuktu on Sunday after infiltrating the Malian city overnight, Malian officials and witnesses said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Religious fanatics vandalised at least seven statues at a Hindu temple in Sonatala upazila of the district early yesterday.
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[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels have set three oil wells in the east of the country ablaze, causing a daily loss of nearly 5,000 barrels of oil and 52,000 cubic meters of gas, state media quoted an oil ministry official as saying on Sunday.
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