[Dawn] Taliban beturbanned goons killed 13 local coppers while they were sleeping on Friday, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said.
The coppers were rubbed out in the Andar district of Ghazni province, said district governor Mohammad Qasim Desiwal.
"They were asleep when their checkpoint came under attack by the Taliban and were killed by AK-47 fire," Desiwal told AFP.
Provincial governor Mosa Khan Akbarzada confirmed the corpse count and said a delegation had been sent to the district to investigate.
The victims were members of the 18,000-strong Afghan Local Police, a village-level force formed in 2010 to provide security in areas where the better-trained national police and army are scarce.
Afghan troops and police are increasingly on the front line against the krazed killers, and suffering heavier casualties, as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... combat troops prepare to withdraw by the end of next year.
The bodies of four Afghan regular soldiers were found on Wednesday with their throats slit in Jawzjan, a day after they were kidnapped by the Taliban along the road to the northern province.
The Taliban have been waging an insurgency against the Afghan government since they were toppled from power by a US-led invasion in 2001.
Attacks traditionally intensify in spring after the harsh winter recedes.
A total of 23 people were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday, including the four soldiers and two local employees of the Red Islamic Thingy medical charity.
Gherardo Pontrandolfi, head of the International Committee of the Red Thingy delegation in Kabul, said those killings would make it even harder to reach people in need.
"In many areas people cannot reach hospitals or clinics safely. And the end of winter is likely to bring renewed fighting, making the problem worse," Pontrandolfi said in a statement on Thursday.
Separately, the interior ministry in Kabul said on Friday that police have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! five Taliban beturbanned goons who were planning suicide kabooms on civilians in the capital and in another city later this month.
The four men and one woman were placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Thursday and police seized four suicide bomb vests and C-4 explosives along with other weapons, the ministry said.
"They were trained outside Afghanistan's borders and have confessed their crime," ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference.
He said the five Afghans were linked to the Taliban and the Haqqani network and were arrested "as they were preparing to launch a coordinated attack on civilian facilities on April 27-28" in Kabul and Jalalabad.
April 28, Victory Day, is a public holiday marking the mujahideen's overthrow in 1992 of the Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah.
The Haqqani network, a faction of the Taliban, was founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a mujahideen leader against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s who is now based with his family in Pakistain.
Haqqani is close to Al-Qaeda and his fighters are active across east and southeastern Afghanistan and in Kabul.
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[Al Ahram] Hardline Islamists threw stones and bottles at young women in a student hostel in Tunis to stop them staging a performance of dance and music, witnesses said on Thursday, in another blow to secular freedoms in the country that spawned the Arab Spring.
Since secular dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fell two years ago in the first of multiple revolts across the Arab world, moderate Islamists have won election and radical Moslems have targeted symbols of a hitherto mainly secular society.
Female university students housed at the Bardo district hostel in the capital were just starting a weekly show of dance and music on Wednesday evening when dozens of hardline Salafists
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[Al Ahram] A video showing members of the group which clashed with the Islamist protesters on Friday using firearms
A video captured by Ahram's Arabic news website shows members of the group which clashed with the Islamist protesters on Friday using firearms.
Clashes broke out between Islamist protesters and unknown opponents near Cairo's High Court on Friday, leaving dozens injured.
Thousands of Islamist protesters were holding a rally before the High Court in downtown Cairo to demand the "purge of Egypt's judiciary" when festivities erupted.
Another video, captured by Ahram Online, showed of two men on the Islamists side using firearms.
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Apparently, Ahram Online doesnt agree with the AP stylebook (or CAIR for that matter) that the term 'Islamist' is an ill-defined pejorative.
[Al Ahram] Ahram Online captures footage of two men on side of Islamist protesters using firearms against unknown opponents as festivities break out near Cairo's High Court
Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court.
The demonstration was called for by the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist forces.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A one-time front man for Malian Islamist group Ansar al-Din said Wednesday (April 17th) that he was ready to turn himself in.
Sanda Ould Bouamama told ANI that he was close to the border between Mali and Algeria and was going to surrender to Algerian authorities.
"I have walked more than 80 kilometres on foot to reach the Algerian border so that I can surrender to the Algerian army," he said. "Right now I'm close to the Algerian town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar, where I intend to turn myself in to the Algerian army."
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[An Nahar] At least 82 people were hurt on Friday after Egyptian opposition activists marched on thousands of Islamists rallying outside the Supreme Court in central Cairo demanding judicial reform, an official said.
The fighting took place in Abdel Moneim Square and on the October 6 Bridge that passes over it after crossing the Nile River. Islamists on the bridge threw rocks at Islamic fascistibelow, including masked members of the so-called Black Bloc.
An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said some of the Black Bloc members fired birdshot at people on the bridge, wounding two of them.
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[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] A family from La Belle France who were kidnapped in Cameroon and held in Nigeria for two months by suspected 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... Islamist faceless myrmidons have been released, but French president François Hollande has denied that a ransom had been paid.
Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, an expat employee of the French gas group GDF Suez, based in the Cameroon capital, his four children, aged between four and 12, as well as his wife and brother, were on holiday near the Waza national park in the far north of Cameroon in February when they were seized by men on cycle of violences armed with Kalashnikov rifles.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni security officials confirmed on Thursday that an American-led drone strike aimed at one al-Qaeda' stronghold south of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killed five alleged terror jihad boys.
The drone missiles hit four terror suspects as they were traveling in the desert area of Wussab al-Ali, about 140 Km south of Sana'a, in the province of Dhamar said a local official, adding that a second strike aimed directly at a house killed a fifth suspect, Hamed Radman, a man who has been identified by the American intelligence services as a jihadist.
Eye witnesses spoke of tunneling smoke rising above the hit area.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Thirteen more people were tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! from three upazilas of Chittagong yesterday in connection with the April 11 attack on an Awami League procession that killed three people at Bhujpur in Fatikchhari upazila.
Police arrested them after conducting raids in Fatikchhari, Raozan and Hathazari from Thursday night to early yesterday, said Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bhujpur Police Station.
With the arrest, 86 people have so far been held for their alleged involvement in the attack.
Of the arrestees, 73 have been remanded for different periods.
On April 11, Jamaat-Shibir activists with Hefajat men attacked the law enforcers and an anti-hartal motor procession of the AL in Kazirhat Bazar of Bhujpur. It left three AL men killed and more than 100 injured.
The following day, police filed a case against some 5,000 people, including 100 named, with Bhujpur Police Station on charges of attacking law enforcers and obstructing them from performing their duties during the attack.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Friday placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three operatives of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir with some leaflets which they were distributing to the devotees at Azad Mosque in city's Gulshan.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, said they first caught Isa Khan, 24, red handed while he was distributing the leaflets just before starting the Juma prayer at noon in the mosque.
Isa Khan's two other cohorts--Delwar Hossain, 25, and Nayem Abdulla, 24, who beat feet from the scene--were arrested from the city's Niketon areas little later, he added.
Isa Khan completed graduation last year from North South University, Nayem is a student of Dhaka International University while Delwar is a higher secondary level student under Open University, police said.
The OC said the statements of the recovered leaflets urged army to come foreword in 'rescuing' the nation from the alleged 'grip' of both ruling Awami League and BNP.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion personnel on Friday recovered fire arms, ammunitions and bombs from Harinakunda upazila in Jhenidah.
Acting on a tip-off, a contingent of the elite force raided Dakhalpur bazar area in the upazila at around 6:00am, said Captain Ashraf Ali, Rab-6 camp commander.
They recovered a shotgun, a pistol, seven rounds of fresh ammunitions and seven bombs, reports our Jhenidah correspondent quoting the Rab official.
New writer opts for efficiency. I miss the old days.
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An attempted kidnapping of a municipal president by at least 20 armed suspects in a tiny central Zacatecas municipality has left two municipal police agents, one Policia Federal (PF) operator and one security agent for Ferremex railroad dead, according to Mexican news accounts and an anonymous correspondent for Borderlandbeat.com.
According to a news account published on the website of Zacatecas En Linea news daily, the incident took place in Canitas de Felipe Pescador Wednesday afternoon as armed suspects travelling aboard several trucks attacked the town.
"There was an attempt to kill or kidnap Oswaldo Sabag Hamadan...over 20 vehicles of sicarios (gunmen)," according to the correspondent.
The firefight lasted for hours, say some press accounts.
A PF detachment was apparently in the municipality when the assault began but was reportedly too small to deal with such a massive attack, and had to call in and wait for reinforcements, according to press accounts. The PF detachment had been assigned to guard a freight train as it passed through Canitas de Felipe Pescador, which was the stated reason for their presence.
Several armed suspects were shot and killed during the firefight, but their bodies were removed by their comrades in arms, a common tactic among drug gangs involved in shootouts. Going by descriptions in Mexican press, the armed group which attempted to kidnap Sabag Hamadan had apparently badly miscalculated the strength of local and federal security in the town.
Last August Sabag Hamadani was involved in another security incident which sparked fears of a kidnapping.
According to a news account published on the website of Pagina 24, Sabag Hamadani and his family had closed their residence -- which is less than five blocks from Zona Centro -- and had cut off utilities, all apparently without telling anyone.
At the time, Zacatecas Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general Arturo Nahle Garcia said Sabag Hamadani had not been kidnapped but did not elaborate.
It was not until a month later that Sabag Hamadani reemerged in an announcement by Zacatecas state top police official Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), Jesus Pinto Ortiz, according to a separate news account featured in Zacatecas en Linea played down the disappearance saying Sabag Hamadani "comes and goes as he likes."
The news account quoted Senor Pinto Ortiz as saying Canitas de Felipe Pescador is a "hot spot" for criminal groups.
Wednesday's incident seems to indicate that Sabag Hamadani is a target of one group or another, either Los Zetas or the Sinaloa cartel and their allies. The Gulf Cartel is also known to operate in the area and the massive influx of vehicles with armed suspects travelling in the open en convoy in large groups is a Sinaloa cartel tactic in this area of Mexico.
According to the anonymous correspondent talking about about last August's disappearance: "...supposedly he went into hiding due to threats from organized crime, he had a reputation of working for the zetas and this was roughly a month before El Taliban´s arrest so I figure El Taliban had already switched sides at that point and that´s where the threats and hiding came from."
Another kidnapping incident was resolved last week, this time involving a candidate of the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico (PVEM) for Canitas de Felipe Pescador municipal president Jaimie Rincon, according to press accounts.
Two weeks ago Rincon was kidnapped by armed suspects travelling aboard five vehicles at around 0400 hrs April 2nd at his home in La Seccion del Ferrocarril, according to a news account posted on the website of ZTR Zacatecas. Reportedly no ransom had been made nor had any denunciation of the crime took place at the Zacatecas PGJE or with the national Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR).
A week ago, April 13 Rincon was released, beaten and dumped alive near a cemetery in Villa de Cos municipality.
Since his release nothing has been said about the incident.
Zacatecas is one of several states undergoing primary midterm elections for local deputies and municipal presidents, due to take place next July.
Rincon has been kidnapped three times before. He had also run for election for president of a local ejido, and a local livestock trade group.
In national politics, the PVEM is often closely allied with the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), now holding the national presidency in the person of Enrique Pena Nieto.
Said the correspondent: "I have no clue if Jaime Rincon, the precandidate from PVEM, had any link with any of the cartels or if Oswaldo was behind Jaime´s kidnapping, it just called my attention 2 kidnappings of politicians, or one plus a failed attempt, in a town so small, I don´t believe in coincidences of this magnitude."
BorderlandBeat.com reporter Chivis Martinez contributed to this story.
Special thanks to the BorderlandBeat anonymous correspondent for the data and insights into the incidents.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
[An Nahar] A German police bomb squad Friday destroyed a letter containing an explosive substance that was sent to the Berlin residence of President Joachim Gauck, his office and security sources said.
Gauck, whose post as head of state is largely ceremonial, was not at the Bellevue Palace residence at the time, and no staff were endangered, an office spokeswoman said.
The suspect letter was discovered in routine mail screening and destroyed in a controlled kaboom in a remote part of the grounds of the palace in Berlin, said Gauck's office.
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The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, but it set in motion an equally intense phase of the case that will begin with the grilling of the man who for now at least is the only surviving suspect.
An indication of the complex investigation ahead came Friday night, when an Obama administration official told NBC News that Tsarnaev would not be given a Miranda warning when he is physically able to be interrogated after receiving medical treatment.
Instead, the official said, the government will invoke a legal rule known as the "public safety exception," which will enable investigators to question Tsarnaev without first advising him of his right to remain silent and to be afforded legal counsel. The exemption can be invoked when information is needed to protect public safety. In this instance, the government believes it's vital to find out if Tsarnaev planted any other explosives before his capture or whether others might have plotted with him to do so, said the official.
The rule waiving the Miranda warning does not set a precise limit on how long a suspect can be interrogated before being advised of his rights, but it likely buys authorities no more than 48 hours.
During that time Tsarnaev, 19, will be questioned by a federal government team called the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, consisting of officials of the FBI, CIA and Defense Department. Though he will not have a lawyer present, any statements he makes during the questioning will be admissible in court.
Among the questions investigators are certain to focus on is whether he and his brother had help in plotting or carrying out the terrorist attack at the finish line of the marathon. That question took on more urgency when police in New Bedford, Mass., south of Boston, announced Friday evening that three people there had been taken into custody as part of the bombing investigation.
In addition to possible co-conspirators in the U.S., the interrogators also will want to know whether the brothers, both ethnic Chechens, received any assistance from overseas.
Even if authorities determine that the Tsarnaevs received support from an overseas terrorist organization, the Obama administration official said the government will not seek to declare him an enemy combatant and try him before a military commission, as it has done with senior al Qaeda officials captured overseas and imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Administration officials see that scenario as a non-starter, the official said, particularly given the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is an American citizen, naturalized last September.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona issued a statement late Friday urging that the administration hold Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant.
Can't we get these two to retire?
"It is absolutely vital the suspect be questioned for intelligence gathering purposes. We need to know about any possible future attacks which could take additional American lives," said the statement, posted on Graham's Facebook. "The least of our worries is a criminal trial which will likely be held years from now."
Why will it take years? My timetable is three months to question Dzhokhar, three months more holding him to make sure the info checks out and to prepare for the trial, a month for pre-trial motions, then a week for the trial. Add two weeks for appeals, a day for the appeals to be turned down, a day for him to pray, and ten minutes or so for the execution. That's 233 days and 10 minutes.
At the same time they are seeking to uncover the bombing suspects motives and determine whether they had a support network, investigators will continue to collect and analyze vast amounts of forensic evidence from crime scenes stretching across three cities.
In addition to processing evidence from the bombings, FBI technicians will analyze hundreds of hours of video camera recordings from private and public surveillance and traffic cameras as they attempt to trace the brothers movements both after the attack and before it. Investigators also will obtain and assess phone records, seeing who the brothers were in contact with in the weeks and months leading up to the attacks.
Only when they have scrutinized every bit of data, and explored every lead, will they turn over the mountain of evidence they have assembled to prosecutors. It will be up to them to decide what charges the younger Tsarnaev should face and whether to seek the federal death penalty in a state where life in prison is the maximum sentence that can be imposed.
But despite such a massive expenditure of time and technological know-how, they may never answer the most haunting question surrounding the case, as President Barack Obama noted.
Why, he asked during a brief statement on Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs arrest late Friday, did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and country resort to such violence?
Are you asking because you want to know the answer, Champ? Because I think you know and you really don't want to know...
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Given that this "kid" is a college student does anyone really think he doesn't know his right to a lawyer and saying nothing?
What do they do if he says "I want my lawyer and I won't say a thing till I get him."? Waterboard?
Also, since Dzhokhar returned to school Wed. after the bombing, and school is ~45 miles south of Boston, why did they go back to Boston?
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He was naturalized last September? Was the bombing in the planning stages back then - if so then I would think we would have cause to strip him of his citizenship and ship his ass to Gitmo.
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Loose wymins...and evillll Juice, of course.
Seriously, searching granny and little kids while Timur-the-lame goes to the Caucasus for 6 months. No reason to investigate that!
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That the ghost of that poor little 8 year old white boy who was blown limb from limb is being used to bludgeon this fluffy chechnyan bunny is causing untold heartburn in liberal (I repeat myself) newsrooms across Amerikka. The horror. The horror...
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Yeah, why can't they just be good Democratic voters? That's the idea!
Except, apparently, our young citizen was an Obama fan. And the ricin guy defined himself as a Democrat and a Christian. The real question is whether they actually went and voted their beliefs last November.
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Use a cheese grater diesel powered belt sander...
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I am of a mixed mind here. As revolting as the Boston bombers were/are, they are American citizens and that is supposed to guarantee certain rights under the rule of law. That 0bama is announcing that the survivor will not be Mirrandized is almost as disturbing as the administrations claims that they have the right to kill, without due process or judicial oversight, anyone, citizen or otherwise, on the sole discretion of the president or his delegate.
that vast swaths of the populace are on board with this and demanding he be water-boarded or similar is also disturbing. Are we really willing to grant such wide authority and set aside the rule of law so easily?
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How many Americans do NOT know about Miranda?
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"0bama is announcing that the survivor will not be Mirandized"
Thus deliberately guaranteeing the little bastard will have to be let go.
Can we call him a traitor NOW? >:-(
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..there's always release into the open prison environment. Lot of cons there have children with mama on the outside they care about. Just saying.
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Barbara, actually, it just means that anything he says probably won't be admissible in court. If they have enough other evidence on him - and I would guess they have - they could still convict him. In the meantime, unless he just shuts up, they may learn who trained/supported him.
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Word on CNN is he has a thoat injury and can't talk. That's convenient. Meanwhile, I expect CAIR to log a complaint that the jihadist is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,and that violates his freedom of religion rights!
The FBI is really good at running down accomplices and enablers when they're allowed to do their work...
The search for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings and anybody else who may have been involved hit New Bedford, Mass. Friday evening.
After local and state police and FBI agents allegedly searched Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs UMass Dartmouth dorm room, authorities swarmed to the Rockdale West apartment complex in New Bedfords West End. Three people were arrested on scene, and are allegedly friends of the second suspect.
New Bedford Police say the three people in custody are being questioned by the FBI. Police say Tsarnaev spent a substantial amount of time at the Carriage Drive apartment.
One neighbor says he had a friendly relationship with Tsarnaev, and the three that were arrested share the same cell phone bill with the bombing suspect.
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The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him.
As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage.
Both Tsarnaev brothers were legal permanent residents of the U.S. There is no evidence so far that either brother received any tactical training.
CBS News correspondent John Miller reports it is likely Russia asked to have the elder Tsarnaev vetted because of suspected ties to Chechen extremists.
The FBI is likely to have run a background check, running his name through all the relevant databases, including those of other agencies, checking on his communications and all of his overseas travel. Miller reports that culminated in a sit-down interview where they probably asked him a lot of questions about his life, his contacts, his surroundings. All of this was then written in a report and sent it to the requesting government.
This is an issue they've had in the past. They interviewed Carlos Bledsoe in Little Rock, Ark., before he shot up an Army recruiting station in 2009. They were also looking into Major Hasan Nadal before the Fort Hood shootings. However, the FBI has maintained in those incidents that they took all the steps they were asked to and were allowed to under the law.
Although the FBI initially denied contacting Tsarnaev, the brothers' mother said they had in an interview with Russia Today. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said her son got involved in "religious politics" about five years ago, and never told her he was involved in "jihad."
In other words, it's the typical progression of a young man who decides to become a jihadi. It didn't happen overnight, in a week or a month. Step by step he made decisions and thought thoughts that brought him to the Marathon with a backpack bomb. So the questions are --
1) who were the people who aided him in this conversation and conversion? We know, know, that he didn't get there on his own.
2) who financed the latest steps? Who got him to plant the bombs?
He didn't do this on his own.
She insisted the FBI "knew what he was doing on Skype" and that they counseled him "every step of the way."
Tsarnaeva, who is a U.S. citizen currently in Russia, told Russia Today the FBI had called her with concerns about her elder son, although she did not specify when exactly she was contacted.
"They used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me ... they were telling me that he was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him," Tsarnaeva said. "They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites... they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step...and now they say that this is a terrorist act!"
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If INS Agent Brian A. Terry were alive today, he might have an interesting comment or two.
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SO let me get this straight. If a non-citizen is referred to the FBI/DHS by a foreign intelligence service, and the standard for denial to retain green card status after six months out of the country, when the subject is a known Muslim, Chechen jihadi-condoning individual, must be incriminating evidence?
Jesus Mary and Joseph, how f'ing stupid a nation have we become?
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File under investigations right next to Muslims studying at flight schools prior to 9/11. No one got fired on ignoring that one either. Has 'making an example to encourage others' been forgotten in human behavior modification? Kimmel and Short could not be reached for comment.
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"They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites... they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step...and now they say that this is a terrorist act!"
If true, appears to be an amazing similarity between Nadal Hasan and the older Tsarnaev. Was Tsarnaev an unwitting source gone bad? Lots of questions here.
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I hope the Congress demands to look at the Tsarnaev file. Look at the last date of contact. Last US contact with foreign intelligence ref the subject. Agent assessments on subject, recommendations, etc.
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From the above Debka article: An elite American college in Cambridge admitted younger brother Dzhokhar and granted him a $2,500 scholarship, without subjecting him to the exceptionally stiff standard conditions of admission.
The city of Cambridge was the source of the scholarship. UMass-Dartmouth is not an 'elite American college". I'm sure UMass has admission qualifications, really doubt they are 'exceptionally stiff.'
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The city of Cambridge was the source of the scholarship. UMass-Dartmouth is not an 'elite American college". I'm sure UMass has admission qualifications, really doubt they are 'exceptionally stiff.'
Debka's almost up there with the BBC, or the NYT when it comes to the Midwest.
There are very well established protocols [Laws] for US Intelligence or law enforcement contact with Non-US Persons. How many times and on what dates did the Bureau [or anyone else] meet with Tsarvaev? Reports on each personal meet [PM] with Non-US Persons are maintained? Outstanding issues? Recommendations? Contact terminations, etc?
If Tsarnaev was of no interest to the Bureau or US Intelligence, why not ?
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From #4 Proc wrote "Kimmel and Short could not be reached for comment. " For the first fifteen seconds I was trying to recall the movie starring Jimmy Kimmel and Martin Short.
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I'm not discounting Debka either. This type of story is closer to their editorial objective; it would make sense that they'd do a more thorough 'journalistic' job, like quoting people.
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I didn't think the Midwest started in Cambridge these days; I thought you had to go all the way to the Hudson.
Just ask Maureen Dowd. The Midwest starts on the western side of the Hudson River just across from Manhattan.
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Don't know about the rest of the article but U-Mass Dartmouth is that "safe" school that you apply to cause you have to get in somewhere (first hand experience of youngest son).
Sounds like they conflated the UKs Cambridge with Dartmouth in New Hampshire.
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Here is where it gets really troubling. Tamerlan is inerviewed two years ago at the request of the SVR/FSB and we can assume that they cite Chechen/Jihadi connections. We can assume that State was the conduit or was copied a result of the field interview/EC by the field agent/JTTF member. One must assume in the filing of the interview report and followup investigation that produced no "incriminating evidence" that there were words for the cross reference/grographic search criteria that included Boston, redicalized, Chechen,foreign government referral, etc. Two years later, boom, with a signature explosive that in the initial 24 hour period gives a signature of the kind of device favored by jihadi groups, Islamists, foreign trained radicals. So the FBI and the entire federal government commits thousands of agents/analysts/investigators searching every conceivable database, and they get bupkiss about this kid? I've done a few linak analysis/analyst notebook/EC searches, and this is beyond understanding. They don't go loooking for the host of people who fit those criteria and come up with these mutts? It requires a photo plea to the public to get movement? Something is not adding up. And, what about the Mosque, its links to other Mosques, and the suddenly deported person of interest Al-Haribi ($) whose family is deep in AQ support and was also a student in the Boston area. an now we find the Chechen Emirate in Tamerlan past and its link to AQ. Does anyone else smell the whiff of overripe seafood? Please........
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I believe that Massachusetts only has a rear plate, like PA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
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First, there are clear shots of that plate elsewhere. It says terrorista. Second, MA requires legal plates front and rear. These guys are pretty bold and confident, aren't they.
WATERTOWN A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night.
After a nearly two-hour standoff in a Watertown neighborhood, Tsarnaev was taken from the scene by ambulance to a local hospital.
The standoff began just before 7 p.m., minutes after Massachusetts State Police announced that they had completed their door-to-door search in Watertown without locating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
WBZ-TVs Jim Armstrong was in the area of Franklin Street when he heard what he described as 15-20 seconds of rapid gunfire. He was forced to take cover, and was quickly moved back to safety by police.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino confirmed to WBZ-TV that police had surrounded the bombing suspect inside a boat in the backyard of a home on Franklin Street. Sources say that a resident called police to report finding blood by the boat. WBZ NewsRadio 1030 reported that authorities were able to confirm there was a person inside by using a thermal camera from a helicopter.
On the ground, Armstrong described a flurry of police activity that erupted moments after police wrapped up a press conference in which they lifted a day-long lockdown in Watertown, Boston and several surrounding communities. Police were seen carrying small children to safety. Because the lockdown had been lifted, there were people out on the streets when the gunfire started.
Additional loud bangs were heard around 7:50 p.m. approximately one hour after the first gunshots were heard in the neighborhood.
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Some were theorizing it was a police trick, to lure him out - declaring the area "cleared". The WaPo said a homeowner (apparently came out after the all clear) discovered blood on his boat and peeked inside to find the seriously wounded suspect. Police then tried to stir him with a flash-bang, but still got no response.
All the shooting? Where was Fearless Fosdick? Who missed looking inside the boat?
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Firstly, I certainly applaud the work of Local Law Enforcement. Don't wish to sound like an armchair quarterback however, some very interesting Rules of Engagement (ROE) appeared to be in play when compared to what was mandated in Iraq and AFG. If they had PI [positive ID] and returned fire, there were some very poorly placed shots. Might [might] be something to look in to in the After Action Report and Lessons Learned session. Just saying.
At this juncture, I am more interested in the financials, communications, potential network, and the tools used. Weapons, fuses, explosives, detonators, fone circuit boards, and training. I hope we learn more about these aspects and they don't somehow go behind the Benghazi 'Green Door'.
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Agree on that one. As ugly and awful as Beslan was in Russia, such an act would very much tear at our own social fabric.
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"They" missed looking in the boat cause the boat was outside the cordon.
What I want to know is why he returned to Watertown (probably has to do with his brother) since he was in Dartmouth ~60 miles south on Wed. after the bombs went off.
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Cowardly and errible as it was, we should be thankful hostages were not taken and that it was not another Beslan school massacre.
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I watched the day-long coverage of the Boston bombers on Fox and CNN.
When one Fox host described the culprits as punks, former-senator and current current Fox commentator Scott Brown said, Not punkscowards. Cowards. What is this need to describe terrorists as cowards? Is it supposed to make them feel inadequate? Call them savages, called them maniacal killers; no need to call them cowards. At the same time, the newscasters talk about how Boston residents were terrorized and living in fear for the past few days. Were they really? I think its unseemly to be terrorized by any problem a sidearm should be able to handle. If Bostonians were terrorized, I would apply the term cowards to them.
I'm inclined to agree. Anyone who's willing to take on the entire law enforcement and military infrastructure of the country - which numbers over a million paid and trained full-time professionals equipped with the latest that our hundred-billion dollar a year procurement budget can buy - by perpetrating these acts can't be described as a coward. If that infrastructure did not exist, and the attackers were doing this at will, sure.
[Al Ahram] A car sought by Connecticut State Police and believed to be occupied by a possible suspect linked to the Boston Marathon bombing has been located in the Boston area, a police front man said on Friday.
Connecticut police declined to comment further.
The car was described as a gray Honda CRV with Massachusetts license plates.
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A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least four people and wounding four others.
The attack took place on Saturday in Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan where the military has carried out several offensives against al-Qaeda-linked Taliban militants.
"At least four people were killed and four others were wounded in the blast outside the main gate of the hospital," Mohammad Riaz, chief doctor at the government hospital said.
"It was a female suicide bomber, about 18-20 years old. We have found her legs and head," local administration official Abdul Haseebhe said.
The dead included a security personnel, a hospital worker and two civilians, he added.
Bajaur is one of seven districts that make up Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas (FATA).
[Dawn] A toy bomb went kaboom! in the Shewai village of Buner District on Friday killing two children and a woman after the rocket-like shell they were playing with went kaboom!.
Nawagai police confirmed that three people including a 10-year-old girl, a six-year-old boy and the children's aunt died when the bomb they had found in a field went kaboom!.
The aunt of the ill-fated children had gone to deliver food and refreshments to the male members of the family working in fields near the village.
The SHO of Nawagai cop shoppe, Muhammad Shah Khan confirmed that they had lodged an FIR on the report and are investigating.
Khan said that the children had found the toy-like bomb, which appeared to be either a mortar or an RPG shell and were removing mud from it when it went kaboom!.
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[Dawn] Several Islamic fascistiwere killed when helicopter gunships pounded different areas of Darra Adamkhel near the border of Khyber Agency on Thursday, sources said.
They said that the Islamic fascistifled Khyber Agency and crossed into Darra Adamkhel after hideouts were targeted by security forces in the tribal region.
At least two helicopter gunships shelled Landikhel, Noor Badshah Kallay and Kharmatang area of Akhorwal in Darra Adamkhel for six hours when security forces felt movement of krazed killers, they added.
Sources said that ground forces also launched an operation in those areas to trace the krazed killers, who fled Akakhel area of Khyber Agency.
They said that the residents of Akakhel had burnt few houses of Islamic fascistiand their harbourers few days ago. They said that the fleeing Islamic fascistiwere trying to enter Darra Adamkhel. Some arrests were made in the ground search operation, sources said.
In Khyber Agency, four houses and two hideouts were destroyed when jetfighters pounded positions of Islamic fascistiin Bara tehsil on Thursday.
Sources said that the air sorties were conducted in Khawangi Zawa area of Akakhel early in the morning and later in the afternoon.
They said that four vacated houses were destroyed in the morning strikes while few krazed killer hideouts and a bunker were targeted in the afternoon. No casualty was reported in the air strikes as Islamic fascistihad already vacated the area.
In Mardan, police foiled a sabotage bid by defusing a 15-kilogram bomb on Thursday.
DSP Khalid Naseem told Dawn that two motorcyclists threw the bomb in front of a small restaurant, situated opposite Mardan Press Club.
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[Dawn] Nearly half a dozen people, including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , were killed in separate incidents of firing in the city on Thursday, police and party sources said.
The MQM worker was rubbed out in Mehmoodabad, the area police said.
They added that gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on Mohammad Faisal Khan at his stationery shop in Mehmoodabad No 2 and sped away.
The victim was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where he was admitted in a critical condition, the police said.
"The patient had been brought with a gunshot wound in the head. His condition was very critical and he was put on a ventilator, but he died in the evening," said Dr Seemin Jamali, official in charge of accidents and emergency ward of the JPMC.Following the incident, tension gripped the locality leading to immediate closure of shops and markets.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, meanwhile, condemned the killing of Mohammad Faisal, Mehmoodabad Sector UC-5 joint sector in charge of the party's organizational structure. The MQM coordination committee announced a day of mourning over the incident.
'Sectarian' attack
A man was rubbed out in what police suspected to be a sectarian attack in Malir late Thursday night.
The police said gunnies riding a cycle of violence fired at Syed Hasnain Mehdi at a roadside tea stall in Urdu Nagar, Malir.
The victim was struck down in his prime, the police said, adding that the body was shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.
"A patient was brought with a gunshot wound in the head," said a senior doctor at the JPMC.
Three found rubbed out in Kharadar
The bodies of three young men stuffed in gunny bags were found in the old city area of Kharadar on Thursday morning, police said.
They added that all the three victims were employees at a fisheries unit and had gone missing on April 16 on their way back home from work.
The families had lodged a missing report about the youngsters at the Docks cop shoppe, the police said.
The bodies of two victims stuffed in a gunny bag were spotted in a street near Sarafa Bazaar, said the officials. They added that the victims were later identified as 25-year-old Mustafa aka Bengali and 18-year-old Shahbaz.
The police said that just two streets from the scene of the crime, another body stuffed in a gunny bag was found.
The bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital 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... where the third victim was later identified as Yasin, a resident of Juna Market, Nishtar Road, said the police.
They said that Yasin and Mustafa were cousins.
The police Sherlocks were not sure about the motive for the murders.
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[An Nahar] Mortars and a bombing north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed eight people on Friday, on the eve of Iraq's first polls since U.S. troops withdrew and a day after a blast in a cafe in the capital left 27 dead.
Four mortars struck the Abu Tamur mosque in the town of Khales, which lies in restive Diyala province, as worshippers were departing following mid-day Friday prayers, a police colonel and a doctor said.
The mortars killed seven people and maimed 12 others, they said.
And in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a bombing at a Shiite mosque that also houses offices of the political movement loyal to anti-U.S. holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... killed one person and maimed 15, a Sadrist official and a medic said.
The latest attacks came after a bombing at a billiards cafe in west Storied Baghdad killed 27 people late on Thursday night, the country's deadliest single attack in a month.
The latest deaths bring to 118 the number of people killed since Sunday, an average of around 20 per day, according to Agence La Belle France Presse figures.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the latest attacks, but Sunni forces of Evil linked to al-Qaeda frequently carry out bombings in both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods across Iraq, in a bid to undermine confidence in the government and security forces.
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They need to develop a touch more subtlety in their election stealing before they can fully advance into the modern world.
Two policemen escaped from the communist New People's Army (NPA) who abducted them less than a week ago in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, police said on Friday.
Chief Superintendent Getulio Napenas, the regional police chief, commended officers Ronald Allan Munez and Nemuel Espana for their presence of mind in taking advantage of lax security to escape.
Napenas said Munez seized the AK-47 rifle of their lone guard when he fell asleep and fired the weapon to discourage their pursuers. To further confuse the rebels, Munez and Espana decided to separate as they escaped. Munez, he said, ran directly toward the police station in the town of Loreto, Surigao del Sur and got there shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday.
Concerned residents of a village helped hide Espana who was recovered at dawn on Friday.
Heavily armed NPA insurgents nabbed the two policemen while they were returning to the Loreto police station after investigating a hacking incident in a remote village late on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, security forces engaged about 30 suspected NPA insurgents in the town of Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay province also in Mindanao on Thursday afternoon.
A police investigator was gunned down while gathering intelligence in Pattani province yesterday in what officials believe was a premeditated attack.
The shooting took place about 8 a.m. as Pol Maj Neramit Churoj was traveling alone in his car. Four men on two motorcycles approached his car and opened fire with a 9mm pistol and an M16 rifle. The policeman was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The slaying was preceded by an intelligence warning that senior police officers in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani could be targeted by terrorists insurgents. Pol Maj Neramit had previously served at the police station in that district and he regularly traveled in the area.
Meanwhile, in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district, police were alerted to a fatal shooting in front of a mosque in Ban Paseputae yesterday. When security officers arrived at the scene, they found the body of Rosa Tayae, a former village chief. He had been shot five times.
An initial investigation revealed Rosa was walking to the mosque when two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire with a .357 handgun.
In Yala province, gunmen opened fire on a military outpost in Ban Ranor about 6:50 p.m. on Thursday. Capt Annaj Ruantip, head of the the Yala No.15 special force, yesterday said an unknown number of gunmen in a rubber plantation across from the outpost sprayed bullets at the station while eight soldiers were on duty there. The gunfight lasted about ten minutes before the attackers fled the scene.
Insurgent suspect Abe Jeh-alee and eight other armed men who have previously carried out attacks in Yala could have been behind the shooting, authorities said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni security officials confirmed on Thursday that an American-led drone strike aimed at one al-Qaeda' stronghold south of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killed five alleged terror
WATERTOWN A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night.
[Dawn] Nearly half a dozen people, including a worker of the 
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Two policemen escaped from the communist New People's Army (NPA) who abducted them less than a week ago in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, police said on Friday.
