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Known as "The Polka Dot Girl" of World War II pinups, Chili Williams (born Marian Sorenson Uhlman in 1922) was discovered by a modeling agent in 1943 at Fire Island in New York. The modeling agent's photographer, Ewing Krainin, took her picture while she was frolicing in the Atlantic Ocean surf, and a series of photos appeared in the September 27, 1943 issue of LIFE Magazine. Krainin had stitched together a black-and-white polka-dot dance-set (which would later come to be known as the "bikini") for her. The photos were so well received, that 100,000 fans sent in letters requesting copies. The pinups eventually found their way into the hands of homesick GIs fighting during the final phases of World War II. She signed a movie contract later in 1944 and moved to Hollywood, California, where she appeared appeared in 17 films, including the wartime favorites "Girl Rush" (1944), "The Falcon In Hollywood" (1944), "George White's Scandals" (1945), "Johnny Angel" (1945), "Wonder Man" (1945), and "Having A Wonderful Crime" (1945). Chili died on October 17, 2003.
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and a series of photos appeared in the September 27, 1943 issue of LIFE Magazine.
Is that the one that?
A: was a wardrobe malfunction
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[Shabelle] The seven Bangladeshi crew members, who had been kidnapped from a sinking vessel off Somali coast on July 7, are alive and have been shifted to another hijacked fishing boat by pirates, claims the government.
According to the foreign ministry, the update has been primarily confirmed through London-based Maritime Piracy and Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) that contacted sources in the UN office for Somalia, Nairobi.
In a blurb the foreign ministry yesterday said it had learnt that the Bangladeshi crew members of the Malaysian flag vessel MV Albedo that reportedly sank on July 7 off the coast of Somalia were on board before the ship had capsized.
Apart form Bangladesh, the crew of the ship were from India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Pakistain. But the release of the abductees has become uncertain as the Malaysian authorities informed that they were unable to use their offices since the ship's owner had already abandoned the vessel.
The foreign ministry said it remained actively engaged with all concerned, both at home and abroad, for speedy release and safe return of the Bangladeshi crew members.
It said the authorities concerned in Malaysia had been approached as the ship owner is a Malaysian national. The high commissioner of Malaysia in Dhaka had also been called at the ministry and she was asked to use their good offices. Bangladesh High Commission in Nairobi had also been instructed to maintain close liaison with the UN office for Somalia.
The ministry has urged the media to refrain from any incorrect information, which might complicate the issue further and undermine the efforts by the government.
As of paying ransom to the hijackers, the foreign ministry noted that as a matter of principle, no government, including the government of Bangladesh, can pay ransom to any such case of piracy
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KISMAYO, Somalia -- The security forces of Somalia's Jubaland administration launched a massive security operation in two areas of Kismayo on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
Speaking on Puntland-based independent station Radio Garowe on Wednesday night, Abdirahman Ahmed Abdullahi an officer in charge of the security forces operation said the security forces have "recovered three AK-47 rifles and captured four Al Shabaab suspects" during the operation.
"The general security situation of Kismayo has been improving for the past weeks after our security forces took tougher security measures and ousted a group of criminals who were sent from Mogadishu to destabilize Jubaland," Mr. Abdullahi added.
Continuing, Mr. Abdullahi said that they will continue the ongoing security operations until the situation returns to normal "I am hopeful that Kismayo will be free from Al Shabaab remnants and anti-Jubaland elements," he stated.
In September 2012, Kenyan-AMISOM troops and Somali local forces liberated Al Shabaab militia from Kismayo, followed by the formation of Jubaland administration and Kismayo became a hotbed for deadly battles between Jubaland administration led by President Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) and the Somali Federal Government's widely speculated proxy former warlord Col. Barre Hirale.
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Fighting between South Sudans army, rebels and rival tribes has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, UN and aid officials said on Sunday.
South Sudans army is facing a rebellion from local politician David Yau Yau in the vast Jonglei state, and new clashes have broken out between rival Lou Nuer and Murle tribes. Western powers are worried the violence will escalate into full civil war, undermining stability in the young African country, which is awash with arms after decades of conflict with Khartoum that led to its secession from Sudan in 2011.
The United Nations said thousands of people were hiding in the bush outside Pibor town in Jonglei to escape from conflict between the army and Yau Yau, who says he is fighting corruption, army abuses and one-party rule in South Sudan.
The communities are in urgent need of medical attention, Toby Lanzer, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, said in a statement.
At least 200 wounded people had arrived in the Jonglei town of Manyabol after fleeing clashes between the Lou Murle and Murle, the UN said. Bringing in aid was difficult as the rainy season had made overland travel impossible.
A United Nations source said armed Lou Nuer youth had attacked at least three Murle villages in the past two weeks. Fighters loyal to Yau Yau, who is popular with his Murle tribe, had come to help fight back.
South Sudans army spokesman Philip Aguer confirmed there had been new fighting in Jonglei but gave no details.
South Sudan accuses Khartoum of supplying Yau Yau with weapons. Diplomats say the claims are credible but South Sudans army is also fuelling dissent with abuses such as rape, killings and torture committed during a state disarmament campaign.
Last week, the United States, South Sudans biggest ally, said Juba was not doing enough to protect civilians and urged the army to stop attacking UN staff and looting aid agencies. South Sudan has struggled to turn its army, a loose group of former guerrillas formed during the civil war, into a professional force.
A cycle of tribal violence has killed more than 1,600 people in Jonglei since South Sudans secession, hampering plans to explore for oil with the help of Frances Total and U.S. firm Exxon.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian military source told state-owned news agency MENA that a member of a "terrorist group" was killed on Sunday as he was attempting to plant an bomb on El-Sheikh Zuweid road in north Sinai.
The source further denied media reports that the kaboom happened in the vicinity of a vehicle owned by security forces.
Hours earlier, Al-Ahram Arabic reported that a bomb went kaboom! late Sunday in the region close to a military vehicle.
The military source also refuted media reports of an Israeli patrol being attacked by gunnies south of the Rafah border, stressing that what had taken place was an exchange of gunfire between Egyptian security forces and "terrorist Death Eaters" who were trying to cross the border.
Israeli newspapers reported an exchange of fire between the Egyptian army and unidentified faceless myrmidons on the border, and Israeli news website Ynet reported that Israel had raised its alert level after the incident.
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[AnNahar] Gunmen clashed with the Egyptian army on Sunday near the Israeli border, security sources said, in the latest violence to erupt in the Sinai peninsula since the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi.
The fighting broke out in the area of al-Wifaq, in northern Sinai, after hard boyz tried unsuccessfully to blow up a police vehicle with explosives.
Clashes between the gunnies and the army were ongoing, the sources said, with Bedouin elders trying to negotiate a ceasefire.
[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia's branch of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... on Saturday (July 13th) announced on its website the release of one of its leaders, Shems FM reported.
Wannas Fekih was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Mahdia on May 21st, following the skirmishes after the government ban on the group's third salafist congress in Kairouan.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A roadside kaboom on Friday (July 12th) killed two people in in Chechar, 70km from Khenchela in eastern of Algeria, El Watan reported.
Toumi Amine, a 28 year-old journalist, and his friend were travelling back from hunting with four friends, when their car hit an bomb in the mountainous region of Siar. The other three people were seriously maimed.
On Saturday, another roadside kaboom targeted a military convoy near Kadiria, 25 km west of Bouira. The blast caused no casualties.
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[AnNahar] The body of a French hostage who was announced killed by his al-Qaeda captors in March appears to have been found in Mali, a member of the investigating team said on Sunday.
Tests are currently being done to see if the body found in early July is that of Philippe Verdon, said the source on condition of anonymity.
Verdon was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from a hotel while on business in northeastern Mali in November 2011.
Earlier on Sunday, French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said in an interview that Verdon appeared to have been killed.
"We have the worst of news on Philippe Verdon," Hollande said. "Everything indicates that he died weeks ago."
AQIM announced in March that it had killed 53-year-old Verdon, but French authorities have not officially confirmed this.
AQIM is currently holding hostage eight Europeans, including five Frenchies.
Thierry Dol, Daniel Larribe, Pierre Legrand and Marc Feret -- mostly working for French public nuclear giant Areva and its subcontractor Satom -- were kidnapped in Niger by al-Qaeda-linked bully boyz on September 16, 2010.
Francoise Larribe, wife of Daniel, was also captured but was released in 2011.
The fifth French hostage, Serge Lazarevic, was kidnapped along with Verdon.
AQIM said in late June that the eight Europeans are alive and that it would soon release a new video of the five Frenchies.
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[AnNahar] Nigeria's military on Sunday claimed the rescue of women and kiddies hostages from a 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 stronghold, saying troops killed several gunnies during recent shootouts in the area.
The Bulabulin Nganaram area of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where the fighting occurred, is considered an enclave of the radical Islamist group.
The military battled Boko Haram fighters in the area from July 3 to July 8, killing "some terrorists", front man Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said in a statement.
"Many kidnapped women, children and girls were rescued and handed over to their families," he added.
Boko Haram, which has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's mainly Mohammedan north, has been accused of carrying out a series of abductions across the region.
The military also said it discovered a series of bunkers dug by the gunnies at the site.
A number of bodies were also found, Musa said.
The dead included people "killed by the terrorists" as well the bodies of presumed Boko Haram fighters which had been buried in the area, according to Musa.
He mentioned "mass graves" found amid the bunkers, but provided no figures or details.
Nigeria's military has repeatedly been accused of providing misinformation about the Boko Haram conflict, including with respect to casualties.
Boko Haram combatants are known to retrieve the bodies of members killed in festivities. The corpses allegedly found at the site may be those of Islamist fighters killed in previous battles and later buried by the group.
The security forces continue to enforce a mobile phone shut down in much of the northeast, including in Maiduguri.
The communication blackout was imposed in mid-May to block Boko Haram fighters from coordinating attacks amid an ongoing offensive aimed at crushing the insurgency.
With no mobile phone service, it has been difficult to verify or corroborate the military's accounts of any festivities.
The defense ministry front man was not available to comment on the nature of the discoveries at the Maiduguri site.
Nigeria has claimed huge successes against Boko Haram during the offensive, but Death Eater attacks have persisted in some areas.
There have been three attacks targeting schools in recent weeks in three locations, leaving more than 50 people dead, most of whom were students.
The conflict is estimated to have cost 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security services.
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MAMUDO, Nigeria -- They crept up to the school under cover of darkness, armed with petrol and automatic weapons. Most of the teachers and pupils had fled, but some students, one teacher and headmaster Adanu Haruna were still in the compound, one of many rural boarding schools in Nigeria surrounded by forest and farmland.
"They made the students line up and strip naked, then they made the ones with pubic hair lie face down on the ground," Haruna said, eyes wide with horror at describing the attack on the iron-roofed school built by British colonizers in the 1950s.
[Al Ahram] A home-made bomb maimed four Bahraini coppers outside a Shiite village, the interior ministry said on Sunday, in the latest unrest to rock the Sunni-ruled Shiite-majority Gulf state.
The bomb was "planted by terrorists" near Janabiyah village, west of Manama, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official BNA news agency, without specifying when the kaboom took place.
The device was "remotely detonated," the Al-Ayam newspaper cited a security official it did not identify as saying.
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A home-made bomb
with instructions in Farsi
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A man was killed and 50 people including 4 cops were injured and 50 vehicles vandalized during violence in different parts of the capital on Sunday afternoon ahead of Jamaat-called hartal. The deceased was identified as Abu Ala Iqbal, 45. He was lecturer of Gulshan Commerce College. Dhaka metropolitan north Shibir secretary Foysal claimed that Iqbal was Jamaat Ameer of Tejgaon Industrial Area.
Foysal said, "Police arrested Iqbal from a procession of Jamaat-Shibir in Mohakhali and later set him free after a while."
At that time, some youth chopped him severely and fled the scene at once, leaving him seriously injured. He succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.
"He's dead, Jim."
Mahmudul Hasan Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Industrial Police Station told The New Nation yesterday that he didn't know anything about the incident.
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir have torched a police microbus and a motorcycle in the capital's Paltan area. Alamgir Hossain, Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of Paltan Police Station and three other policemen also sustained injuries during the incident, Mehedi Hassan, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Motijheel Division told the reporters. The injured police officials were undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), the ADC added.
Police and witnesses said the Jamaat-Shibirmen injured four policemen and torched a microbus and a motorbike.
Witnesses said 10-15 Jamaat-Shibir activists carried out an attack on a microbus carrying police personnel near Kosturi Hotel at Purana Paltan around 2 pm. The unruly Jamaat-Shibirmen threw brick chips on the police injuring inspector Alamgir, sub-inspector Nasir Ahmed, and constable Mizan.
How big were the 'chips'?
They also swooped on ASI Rafiqul Islam who was on a motorbike in the area, leaving him injured.
In the face of sudden attack, the policemen inside the microbus ran for safety.
Moments later, the group also intercepted the OC riding on a motorcycle and beat him.
They later set fire to both the microbus and the motorbike, prompting the police to fire shots in the air to disperse them. Several crude bombs were blasted in the area at that time. Later, they vandalized 22 vehicles, including the injured police officer's motorcycle.
In another incident at Nabisco Crossing point, two crude bombs were blasted at about 2 pm.
In Shahjadpur, a group of 20/25 Chhatra Shibir activists brought out a sudden procession and vandalized several vehicles in the area. At one stage, they hurled cocktails aiming car of Rapid Action Battalion in front of Suvastu Nazar Valley. Police opened rubber bullets to take the situation under control, leaving five people injured.
In Moghbazar, Chhatra Shibir activists brought out a sudden procession supporting Monday's hartal and exploded five cocktails.
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Khagrachhari - An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) was shot dead by unknown miscreants at Tapitapara in Panchhari upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Arun Kanti Chakma, 40, pastor of a local church and son of Shubhodhan Chakma.
Officer-in-charge of Panchhari Police Station Alamgir Hossain said the gunmen broke into the house of Arun around 2am and opened fire on him while he was sleeping and fled the scene, leaving him dead on the spot. Later, police recovered the body.
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By Chris Covert
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A total of five individuals were found shot to death in separate shootings in the southern municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo Friday, according to Mexican press reports.
According to a press account which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez news daily late Saturday night, Chihuahua state Policia Ministerial agents were dispatched by an anonymous phone call to a location near the village of Yerbitas along the Parral-Guadalupe y Calvo highway, where the dead body of Alicia Selena Madrigal Escarcega, 21, was found. The victim had been decapitated as well as shot.
According to the report, armed suspects armed with AK-47 rifles had kidnapped Sra. Madrigal Escarcega from her home. Investigating police were sent to another location near Yerbitas where two more shooting victims were found.
The victims were identified as Aurelio Castillo Vega, 49, and Francisco Valencia Lazos, 48. They were found in roughly the same location as Madrigal Escarcega. At the scene several spent cartridge casings for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles were found, as well as a number of unspent rounds, probably misfires.
The two victims had also been kidnapped Friday night, according to information provided by the victims' families.
A fourth victim was found in Yerbitas itself, Morelia Cuevas Silvia Morales, 17. The victim had been shot in the head.
The fifth victim in his 40s has not been identified, and was also found in Yerbitas, shot several times with an AK-47 rifle.
A late Saturday night report posted on the website of La Jornada news daily reported that a total of 15 dead had been found shot to death in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality.
The report said that local residents in the village of El Ocote had found the dead, but the southern delegate for the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) or attorney general had investigated the report and found no bodies.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
[AnNahar] Four police were rubbed out on Sunday in an ambush by unknown gunnies in Russia's violence-plagued Caucasus region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , the local interior ministry said.
The police drove to the village of Burshi where they had received a report of a robbery, and were rubbed out as they were leaving the area, Russian news agencies quoted the Interior Ministry as saying.
A largely Mohammedan region on the Caspian Sea, Dagestan has become Russia's worst trouble spot in recent years with almost daily attacks on the security forces blamed on Islamist Death Eaters.
PESHAWAR: At least nine suspected militants, including two foreigners, were killed in the tribal region in a US drone strike and a separate Pakistan military operation, security officials said on Sunday.
Two suspected militants riding a motorcycle were struck by missiles in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan on Saturday night, one official said. The two men, probably Arab nationals, were passing through Mosaki village when the drone fired two missiles and hit them, said the official. Their identities were not clear. Another security source said they were foreign militants of Turkmen origin. It is difficult to check the impact of drone attacks on both militants and civilians because independent observers and journalists have almost no access to the areas where most of the strikes occur.
In a separate operation by the Pakistan Air Force, jets pounded several militant hideouts overnight, killing seven insurgents, senior security officials said. These areas are known as strongholds of the militants from where they stage deadly attacks in Kohat and Peshawar, one official in Kohat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Military officials believe mountains linking the Orakzai, Khyber and Kurram tribal areas are one of the main strongholds for the Taliban-linked militants in Pakistan. Another senior military official in Peshawar confirmed that air strikes had taken place somewhere between Orakzai and Khyber. We could hear the sounds of fighter jets and see flames when bombs were dropped in the mountains, Shafqat Hussain, a local resident in Kohat, said.
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KARACHI: A nephew splashed acid on his aunt over a domestic dispute in early hours of Sunday. The woman was identified as Tasleem Bibi, 40, wife of Abdul Rasheed. Police said the nephew, Kamran alias Kami, of victims husband threw acid on her aunt at a house in Punjab Chowrangi and fled. Victim was brought to the Burns Ward of the Civil Hospital, Karachi, where she was later released after medical treatment.
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There must be a lot of acid shops there. It's a very common item.
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Every Pak gent carries a bucketful at all times, just in case.
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Well, they should outlaw acid in buckets, because no one needs it to defend their honor! Acid-splashing is not a constitutionally protected right, not even in California!
I, however, may engage in witless sarcasm at my will.
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"Abu-Billie Mays here with new 'Acid In A Drum'!"
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[Dawn] At least ten suspected snuffies were killed and 12 others injured as Pak jet fighters targeted nine snuffies hideouts in Khyber tribal region and Darra Adam Khel.
Official sources say that the jet fighters struck the snuffies hideous in Akakhel area of Bara Tehsil in Khyber tribal region destroying at least three of their secret bases while five alleged snuffies were killed and six others injured.
Separately in other strikes carried out by the military jets in Kharmatong, Mansoor Sangar, Zawao Adda and Khawngai area of Dara Adam Khel region, six snuffies hideouts were destroyed.
The corpse count could not be independently verified as access of media is restricted in the region.
Pak military officials believe mountains linking the Orakzai, Khyber and Kurram tribal areas are one of the main strongholds for the Taliban-linked snuffies in Pakistain.
Another senior military official in the northwestern frontier city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. confirmed that air strikes had taken place "somewhere between Orakzai and Khyber".
Many Taliban and their al Qaeda allies fled Afghanistan to Pakistain's tribal areas after the US invasion in 2001.
They retreated even deeper into the mountains following a Pakistain army offensive in 2009, launching attacks from places where ground forces cannot reach them.
In another unrelated incident a FC vehicle met with an accident in Charsadda area of Khyber Pahktunkhwa killing one FC person and injuring 24 others.
The victims were rushed to a nearby hospital.
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[Dawn] A string of kabooms in predominantly Shia provinces of Iraq killed at least 15 people on Sunday, police and medics said.
The largest kaboom took place in the southern oil hub of Basra, where at least eight people were killed when a bomb went kaboom! near the headquarters of a Shia political party.
The violence is part of a sustained campaign of bully boy attacks since the start of the year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shia and Sunni Moslems have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise.
It was not clear who was behind Saturday's kabooms, but Sunni Islamist bad turbans, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been regaining strength in recent months, security sources say.
Sectarian tensions have been inflamed by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which is fast becoming a region-wide proxy war, drawing in Shia and Sunni fighters from Iraq and beyond to fight on opposite sides of the conflict.
On Saturday, two kabooms near Sunni mosques in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray after breaking their daily fast for the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
More than 300 people have been killed so far in July, according to the violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
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[AnNahar] Violence including an apparently-coordinated series of bombings that struck central and south Iraq on Sunday killed 31 people, security sources and medics said, bringing the July corpse count to more than 370.
The attacks are just the latest in a surge in violence in which more than 2,600 people have died so far this year, according to Agence La Belle France Presse figures based on security and medical sources.
Iraq has faced years of attacks by hard boys, but analysts say widespread discontent among members of its Sunni Arab minority which the Shiite-led government has failed to address has driven the spike in unrest.
Sunday was the fourth day in a row in which more than 30 people were killed in attacks, and an average of 26 people have died per day in unrest in Iraq over the first two weeks of July.
Both senior politicians and religious leaders have remained silent about the wave of violence.
The deadliest attacks struck central and south Iraq on Sunday evening.
In Kut, a boom-mobile near a bakery killed nine people and maimed 42, while another boom-mobilemaimed two coppers to the north of Hilla.
A boom-mobile also struck a market in Karbala, a city home to one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam, killing four people and wounding 19.
Another boom-mobilewent kaboom! in Nasiriyah, killing two people and wounding 25.
And in the southern port city of Basra, a sound bomb, a boom-mobile and a roadside kaboomwent kaboom!, killing eight people and maimed 35.
No group immediately grabbed credit, but coordinated series of bombings are a favored tactic of al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate.
Five other people were killed in Nineveh province in Iraq's north.
A roadside kaboom killed district councilor Mohammed Obaid Sultan south of djinn-infested Mosul, the province's capital, along with one of his sons. Another son was maimed.
The head of the same Hamam al-Alil district council, Saad Ali Shuwait, was targeted by another roadside kaboom, which maimed four of his guards.
In djinn-infested Mosul itself, two soldiers were rubbed out at a checkpoint.
And a policeman was rubbed out and another maimed in an attack on a checkpoint south of the city, while a roadside kaboom targeted Nineveh police chief Brigadier General Khaled al-Hamdani's convoy, wounding three of his guards.
In Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , gunniesrubbed out police Lieutenant Colonel Iyad al-Samarraie and maimed two of his guards near a mosque.
And a roadside kaboom near a restaurant, northwest of the Diyala placid provincial capital of Baquba, killed two people and maimed three.
In addition to security, the Iraqi government is also falling short when it comes to other basic functions.
Iraqis are faced with severely lacking services, including power shortages, widespread corruption and political disputes that have paralyzed the government, with almost no major legislation passed in years.
[AnNahar] The army announced on Sunday the arrest of a number of individuals for transporting weapons in the Bekaa region of Arsal, reported the National News Agency.
The Army Command said in a statement that a driver of a pick up truck was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... at a checkpoint after a number of weapons were found in his vehicle.
Other individuals linked to the incident were also arrested.
Investigations are underway in the case.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... the Beirut-based, pan-Arab television al-Mayadeen said the army arrested five people -- two Syrians, a Lebanese and two Paleostinians -- who were carrying "boom jackets."
The vests were carrying the Islamic phrase La Ilaha Illa Allah (there is no God but Allah), al-Mayadeen said.
It did not mention where exactly the five men were arrested or whether it was referring to the same incident that happened earlier in Arsal.
Later on Sunday, the National News Agency said the army intercepted a white van and arrested five people of Lebanese, Syrian and Paleostinian nationalities on Arsal's road.
"Uniforms carrying al-Nusra Front badges were found in their possession and they were on their way to Arsal's barren mountains with the aim of infiltrating Syrian territory," the agency added.
Border areas in the north and east have been struck by frequent cross-border shelling and festivities linked to the Syrian crisis, while the Syrian regime has told Leb to better control its mostly non-existent border to prevent the smuggling of fighters and arms.
Leb is sharply divided over the war in Syria and Arsal is a particular flashpoint as refugees from the uprising and fighters and smugglers hostile to the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... traverse the border.
[AnNahar] Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon, where fierce fighting between the army and rebels has trapped hundreds of families, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported a boom-mobile detonated outside a cop shoppe in Damascus province, causing an unknown number of casualties.
"The toll from shelling on Qaboon rose to 13 people," the Observatory said, adding three civilians and seven rebels were among the dead, and that three bodies had not yet been identified.
The deaths came after the Observatory warned that hundreds of families were trapped in the northeastern district by fierce fighting between troops and rebel fighters.
"There is a siege because regime snipers are posted on the outskirts of Qaboon and this makes any attempt to leave difficult," said the group. "The area has also been bombed by the army."
Regime troops have been trying for months to dislodge rebels from rear-bases they have established in parts of the outskirts of Damascus.
Footage filmed by activists in Qaboon showed smoke rising from the area as the sound of non-stop artillery and mortar fire rings out.
The Observatory said residents of the area were facing a "stifling" siege.
"There's a major shortage of food and some families have nothing to feed their children with," it said.
The Observatory also reported that dozens of people incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in an underground makeshift prison near a mosque in Qaboon escaped when regime forces guarding the site left to join the fighting.
Overnight, the opposition National Coalition had urged the international community to act to free "200 people" they say are being held in the mosque.
Rebels fighting to overthrow Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's government control several neighborhoods on the outskirts of Damascus from which they are able to shell areas in the city center, which is still in regime control.
Forces loyal to Assad have for months been trying to uproot those rear-bases, including in Qaboon and Barzeh, in northern Damascus.
Nearby, in Damascus province, the Observatory reported a boom-mobile detonated outside a cop shoppe in the town of Deir al-Attiya.
"There are casualties, dead and injured, including from the police, but we don't know yet what the details are," Observatory director Rami Abdul Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The kaboom caused heavy damage to the cop shoppe.
The Observatory meanwhile reported that the Red Thingy delivered 5,000 rations of food to Aleppo's central prison, which has been under siege by rebel forces for three months.
"Rebels allowed them to bring in rations for the Mohammedan month of Ramadan," the Observatory said.
At least 120 prisoners died in the facility in May alone as a result of shelling and food and medical shortages, according to the Observatory.
Rebel forces have been seeking to capture the prison and free around 4,000 people inside, who include political prisoners as well as common criminals.
The Observatory reported continued fighting throughout Syria on Sunday, including in the northwestern province of Idlib, where a man and his three children were killed by a helicopter gunship raid.
[AnNahar] A man who hails from the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has been killed while fighting alongside the armed Syrian opposition against forces loyal to the regime.
"Gunfire was heard in Tripoli during a prayer for the dead for Ahmed Zaki Mansour," LBCI television reported, adding that "Moamen Kahil, a minor, was maimed in the back by a stray bullet" from the shooting.
LBCI clarified that Mansour was killed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... the Facebook page Tripoli News Network said the gunshots were fired on al-Rahbat Street and published a picture of a crowd carrying black Islamist flags.
In November 2012, several Lebanese Islamists, including Tripolitans, were killed in an ambush by Syrian regime forces in the Homs town of Tal Kalakh.
Thousands of imported muscle have joined Syrian rebels pitted against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... Lebanese Islamist holy mans Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi have called on their followers to join rebels fighting in Syria and to support Sunni residents of the embattled central province of Homs.
Since it began in March 2011, Syria's conflict has fueled local tensions between the communities in Leb, with bouts of street fighting and kidnappings.
Hizbullah fighters have also helped regime forces recapture the key town of Qusayr near Leb's border from rebel hands.
In the wake of the Qusayr battle, Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said the group will stay involved in the Syrian conflict. "Where we need to be, we will be ... To defeat this very, very dangerous conspiracy we will bear any sacrifices and all the consequences," said Nasrallah.
He had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying it was defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in the Damascus province.
But during a May 25 speech Nasrallah said "if Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege."
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