[Al Ahram] A 10,000-person protest march started at Al-Fath Mosque in Ramses and crossed Al-Nour Mosque in Abbasiya heading towards Rabaa Al-Adawiya on the second day of Eid- Al-Fitr, which closes the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Along with chants for regime change, the protesters sent greetings to the deposed president Mohamed Morsi, who has been held in an undisclosed locatio since 3 July, and wished him happy holidays.
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, an Islamist umbrella group supporting Morsi, had called for nationwide mass protests following Friday prayers.
Dubbing the day the "Eid of Victory" the alliance has called on Morsi loyalists to march from several mosques across Cairo and in Egypt's other governorates.
The main banner under which the protesters will march is "the people want to topple the coup," the alliance said in a statement released Thursday.
The alliance's call comes one day after Prime Minister Hazem Beblawy declared that his government is all but ready to disperse pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo after attempts by foreign dignitaries to mediate a resolution to the 6-week-old standoff between the government and a defiant Brotherhood failed.
In the greater Cairo area, the demonstrations were set to kick off from Nour El-Mohamadeya Mosque in Matareya; Al-Aziz Bellah Mosque in Zaitoun; Amr Ibn El-Aas Mosque in Masr Al-Qadeema; the Nour Mosque in Abbasiya; the Fath Mosque in Ramses; the Assad Ibn El-Fourat Mosque in Dokki; Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandiseen (all in Cairo); the Istikama Mosque in Giza and El-Hasry Mosque in 6 of October.
In Giza, pro-Morsi marches blocked three main streets after Friday prayer as they headed to join a weeks-long sit-in at Nahda Square. The satellite district of 6 of October also witnessed a small protest, iterating slogans against the interior ministry and the army, while raising pictures of Mohamed Morsi.
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[An Nahar] A Libyan doctor who hosted a television program on human development was rubbed out by unknown gunnies in the restive eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, a security official said.
Azzedine Koussos, a presenter for Libya Al-Hurra television, was hit by several rounds as he sat in his parked car near a blood bank in Benghazi's Sidi Hussein district after weekly Mohammedan prayers, the source said.
Koussos had worked for Radio al-Manara FM before joining Al-Hurra, the country's leading private TV channel, created after the 2011 revolution that overthrew long-time dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... His program had no political connotations, journalists in Benghazi said.
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[An Nahar] Libya's army said on Friday it had deployed reinforcements in the capital 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... and its suburbs to bolster security after weeks of deadly violence.
An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said he saw more than 100 armored troop carriers and military vehicles mounted with machineguns and anti-aircraft guns rumble into Tripoli late Thursday.
"Army units have been deployed in the capital and its suburbs to secure them during the Eid al-Fitr holiday (marking the end of Ramadan) and thereafter," the military said in a statement on its Facebook page.
The official Libyan news agency LANA said troops were deployed in several parts of the capital and its suburbs in a bid to "reassure people during Eid al-Fitr."
The army said the deployment was ordered by Nuri Bousahmein, the president of the General National Congress, Libya's highest political authority.
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Doesn't say who they're fighting. Al Qaeda? QDaffy people?
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[Ynet] Five suspected al Qaeda bully boyz were killed in an air strike in eastern Yemen, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, in an escalating campaign against the bad turban group's Yemeni branch after recent warnings of possible attacks.
The ministry said the men were attacked while they were travelling in a vehicle in the province of Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... in an area called Ghail Bawazeer, 45 km (28 miles) from the placid provincial capital Mukalla. It did not elaborate on the source of the air strike, but a Yemeni official earlier told Rooters that a US drone fired the missiles.
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[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two suspected members of al-Qaeda who may have been plotting against Western embassies in the Middle East, the interior ministry announced Thursday.
The two men, a Yemeni and a Chadian national, had contacts with the Yemeni branch of the terror network, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), state news agency SPA quoted ministry front man General Mansour al-Turki as saying.
The Chadian suspect had been expelled from Saudi Arabia but returned with a passport issued by another country, Turki added.
"The two suspects may have been implicated in the threats against Western embassies in the region," he said.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, at the heart of the security alert that has shut a number of U.S. and Western missions in Sanaa, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, is seen by Washington as the most active branch of the jihadist network.
It was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of al-Qaeda and is led by Nasser al-Wuhayshi.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing an anonymous U.S. official, Wuhayshi criminal masterminded the plot.
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[Dawn] The United States on Thursday evacuated all non-emergency staff from its consulate in the Pak city of Lahore, citing "specific threats" amid a worldwide alert over Al Qaeda intercepts.
The travel warning issued by the State Department also reiterated longstanding advice to US citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Pakistain.
The closure comes as Pakistain celebrates the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and a day after a jacket wallah killed 38 people at a police funeral in the southwestern city of Quetta.
"On August 8, 2013, the Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency US government personnel from the US Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistain," a State department statement said.
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[Dawn] A major terrorism attempt was foiled Friday afternoon when a jacket wallah was bumped off at a Shia mosque in the federal capital Islamabad.
According to initial reports, the suspected bomber was trying to enter the Imambargah in Bara Kahu a village on the northeastern outskirts of Islamabad, when he was stopped by security guards.
"A suicide bomber targeted a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad in Bhara Kahu area but could not explode himself due to timely interception by a private security guard," police officer Nasir Mehmood told news agency AFP.
"The guard opened fire on the bomber as he entered the mosque and killed him. He could not explode his jacket."
Another police official, Majeed-ur-Rehman, said a guard was killed in an exchange of fire with the bomber before he was rubbed out. Another police official confirmed the death.
TV channels showed the body of the bomber lying in the main prayer hall of the mosque. Two cables going up from his left arm could also be seen.
Senior Superintendent of Police Operation Dr Rizwan told a TV channel that the mosque was later sealed off by police personnel and that the bomb disposal squad was called in to clear the area of any explosives.
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[Dawn] At least 10 people were killed and many others injured on Friday in an attack that targetted a mosque the Eidul Fitr prayers near Quetta's eastern bypass, DawnNews reported.
The shooting came a day after a jacket wallah targeted a police funeral and killed 38 people, mostly coppers, in the same city.
"Four gunnies opened fire when people were coming out of the mosque after saying Eid prayers," senior local police official Bashir Ahmad Brohi told AFP.
Brohi said a former Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) provincial minister, Ali Madad Jattak, was also in the mosque and could have been the target.
"But we are not sure at the moment and are investigating, "he said, adding that Jattak escaped unhurt although bullets hit his car.
Another local police official, Sultan Ahmad, confirmed the incident and casualties outside the mosque, which is also a preaching and research centre.
Nobody has so far grabbed credit for the shooting. Most recent attacks in Quetta, the capital of oil- and gas-rich Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, have been linked to a Baloch separatist insurgency or sectarian violence.
On Tuesday Baloch separatists rubbed out 14 people including three security officials, 70 kilometres southeast of Quetta.
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[An Nahar] Attacks killed four people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, as Mohammedans marked the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan which has been one the bloodiest in years.
More than 800 people were killed in attacks during Ramadan, which began in the second week of July and ended this week.
Militants have struck targets ranging from cafes where Iraqis gather after breaking their daily Ramadan fast, to mosques where extended evening prayers are held during the month.
On Friday, gunnies killed two anti-al-Qaeda gunnies and maimed two others near Baiji, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... The Sahwa, who joined forces with the U.S. from late 2006 and helped turn the tide of the war against the insurgency, are frequently targeted by Sunni bad boys, who consider them traitors.
Gunmen also killed a farmer near Baquba, north of Storied Baghdad, while a magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a man and maimed his wife in the capital.
And 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, a jacket wallah attempted to attack a police checkpoint but was shot by security forces.
The explosives the bomber was carrying still detonated, wounding two coppers and a civilian.
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An Israeli Air Force drone reportedly struck a jihadist rocket launching site in the Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli-Egyptian border, killing four suspected terrorists who were planning to launch missiles at Israel, Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Friday.
Details of the strike remain unclear. Five different security sources told Reuters the strike was carried out by Israel, while an Egyptian army spokesman issued a statement on Facebook several hours after the strike denying Israel was behind it. Israeli officials, meanwhile, declined to comment on the reports.
A Malaysian wanted by the U.S. for terrorist activities in southeast Asia is hiding in territory held by Moro militants in this province, according to a senior Bangsamoro leader Another source said a member of the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah is also hiding in the province of Sultan Kudarat.
Von Al Haq, spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said that Zulkifli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, is being safeguarded by a breakaway group led by Ameril Umra Kato. Kato, formerly a MILF commander, broke away from the MILF in 2008 over disagreements with fellow militant leaders over negotiations with the government.
He has since founded the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) whose armed wing, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), has been involved in recent attacks on government security forces in Maguindanao, including a roadside bomb attack that injured seven soldiers on Wednesday.
Al Haq said Marwan may have played a role in the Aug. 5 bombing in Cotabato City that killed eight people and injured nearly 30 others. He said, "That's what we got on the ground. He's hiding among BIFF members. We also got feedback from residents (of areas) near BIFF camps."
A military source said an Indonesian national was among those killed in a recent military operation against the BIFF in Datu Piang. In a separate statement, Col. Dickson Hermoso said there was an intelligence report that a Jemaah Islamiyah member had been spotted among Moro militants in Datu Piang. But BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama denied his group had ties with Marwan or any Jemaah Islamiyah member.
[An Nahar] A house was damaged in a northern town near the Syrian border from overnight shelling, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The shelling damaged the house in the Akkar town of Jenin, which along with other border towns and villages have bore the brunt of the cross-border attacks.
Jenin residents urged the authorities to protect them, NNA said.
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[An Nahar] The Free Syrian Army kidnapped three Lebanese citizens in the Bekaa region, media outlets reported on Friday.
"FSA rebels entered Lebanese territories and kidnapped three members of the Ismael family in the Brital plains in eastern Baalbeck," al-Jadeed television said, adding that a fourth person was injured during the operation.
The same source pointed out that financial reasons could have motivated the abduction.
Meanwhile, LBCI television said four members of the Ismael family were kidnapped by the FSA in the Brital plains.
Later on Friday, however, the state-run National News Agency said FSA members that are located on the western side of the Eastern Mountain Belt near Syria kidnapped two people who hail for the Ain al-Qarqouz town in the Brital plains.
"They transferred the abductees to Syria amid a heavy gunfire exchange," it elaborated.
The NNA remarked that a third person, Ibrahim Hikmat Ismael, was injured during the incidence and was able to escape.
"He headed towards Lebanese territories and reported the kidnapping of his brother Hasan Ismael and his brother-in-law Saleh Kurdieh who got injured in the foot."
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[An Nahar] A Turkish pilot and copilot were kidnapped in Beirut early Friday by gunnies who intercepted their van as they were heading to a hotel in the Lebanese capital.
The kidnap is believed to be linked to the abduction of nine Lebanese pilgrims in Syria, whose families have urged Turkey to use its influence to secure their release.
The Turkish Ambassador, Inan Ozyildiz, told LBCI TV that he is following up the case, hoping that Lebanese authorities would work for their release.
Pilot Murat Akpinar and his co-pilot Murat Agca were on their way from Rafik Hariri International Airport to a hotel in Beirut's Ain Mreisseh seafront when they were kidnapped at the Cocodi bridge around 3:00 am.
The abductors were riding a four-wheeler and a Kia.
The van, which had six crew members on board, belongs to Turkish Airlines and its driver is a man from Zoaiter family who was taken for questioning by police.
In the wake of the incident, Lebanese soldiers deployed in the area, with two armored personnel carriers stationed by the roadside where the kidnapping took place.
Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told Agence La Belle France Presse he had spoken with Turkey's ambassador and that an investigation was under way.
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An Israeli Air Force drone reportedly struck a jihadist rocket launching site in the Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli-Egyptian border, killing four suspected terrorists who were planning to launch missiles at Israel, Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Friday.
