[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement on Friday said 12 Talibs were killed in several coordinated operations conducted by Afghan and coalitions forces around the country.
Three other hard boyz were maimed and eight other were tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! during the operations.
"In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some of the areas from forces of Evil and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," read the MoI's statement.
The operations were conducted in Kabul, Balkh, Kandahar, Maidan Wardak, Pashtun-infested Logar, Nimroz and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
Light and heavy rounds ammunition was confiscated.
The forces were also said to have defused two anti-vehicle mines placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Helmand province.
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[An Nahar] Armed snuffies on Saturday laid siege to a village in northern Kenya where they also seized three police posts, amid a territorial dispute between local communities, Kenyan authorities said.
"Armed snuffies believed to be from the Pokot community are holding three police camps hostage in Lorokon village, Turkana county," said the National Disaster Operations Center in a tweet.
"The siege follows a border dispute between the Pokot and Turkana communities," it said. "Police officers and reservists (are) combating the bandidos in Turkana, but there is heavy resistance."
The regional governor told the Kenyan press agency (KNA) that the village was facing a humanitarian crisis after having been besieged for four days by "armed criminals".
"More than 900 people, mostly women and kiddies, cannot go out to look for water and food because they are surrounded by gunnies," Josphat Nanok was quoted as saying.
Kenya's interior ministry said in a tweet that it was handling the siege and has imposed a curfew in the area.
The war-like Turkana and Pokot tribes often clash, mostly over cattle rustling.
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MOGADISHU -- Federal Government of Somalias Minister of Justice Abdullahi Abyan Nur has declared that a dispute among Somali National Army (SNA) divisions in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia degenerated into deadly battle this week, Garowe Online reports.
Speaking to the media in Mogadishu Minister Nur, a member of reconciliation committee that was deployed in the region said the government launched investigations into the incident in an effort to resolve the recurring clan conflicts.
We succeeded to relocate [Somali Government Forces] to their previous positions and following collected reports we are planning to identify the group who is responsible for the fighting, Nur told reporters on Thursday.
The justice minister alongside a ministerial delegation including Interior and National Security Minister Abdikarin Hussein Guled and Defence Minister Abdihakin Haji Mohamud Fiqi Wednesday toured K.50 area, about 50km west of Mogadishu where the fighting had taken place for two days.
On Sunday afternoon, heavy battle broke out between local militiamen and Somali Government forces reportedly led by Gen. Mohamed Roble Jimale Gobale, a close associate of former warlord Yusuf Mohamed Siyad Indhaade leaving over dozen dead according to witnesses.
Lower Shabelle region has been a spot for armed confrontations between Somali Government forces along clan loyalties. On July 24, Somali Government troops belonging to Biyamal and Habar Gedir clans fought each other over regional influence.
The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said in a confidential report in July that the 3rd Brigade of the Somali National Army (SNA) whose composition is mainly drawn from Habar Gedir sub-clan of Hawiye controls the Afgoye-Marka area of Lower Shabelle region.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen on Saturday rubbed out a former member of Moamer Qadaffy's security services in eastern Libya, in the latest violence to hit the region, an official said.
Unidentified men with assault rifles bumped off Fares Al-Zarruk in a busy street in the centre of Derna, a town that has been hit by mounting deadly unrest, the security official said.
Zarruk was struck down in his prime and his attackers fled, the official told AFP.
Since last Saturday a judge, a tribal chief and two traffic coppers have been killed in Derna near Libya's second city Benghazi, the epicentre of the 2011 uprising that toppled Qadaffy's regime.
Most of the violence is blamed on Islamists whose influence has grown since the revolt in which Qadaffy was also killed. Some of them rose from the ranks of rebels who helped overthrow and kill the veteran dictator.
Since the end of the uprising the ex-rebels have banded into militias, carving their own fiefdoms in a country awash with weapons looted from Qadaffy's arsenal. The government has struggled to stamp its authority and repeatedly called the ex-rebels to lay down their weapons or integrate into the armed forces, to no avail.
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Another 'plumber's facets are always dripping' moment. Oftentimes it's far better to simply let it go, move away, and find a new line of work.
[Libya Herald] Derna is tense this evening after the murder last night of a prominent local official as he left a mosque. After his funeral today at the town's Al-Sahaba mosque, there were a large demonstrations protesting the presence of militias and demanding that the police and army take back control of the city.
There was anger too over a bomb kaboom at around 4.30 am today outside the Oum El-Mominee girl's school which also houses the local 60-Committee election office. It is not known of the elections or the school was the target.
Fawzi Al-Zuwki, the secretary of Derna's Shura Council (council of elders), was bumped off as he left Al-Sahaba mosque the last night and later died at Al-Hareesh hospital. He had recently given an interview in which he condemned the deteriorating security in the city.
For their part Death Eaters have claimed maintained that some decisions made by the Shura Council were un-Islamic.
Zuwki's murder is the latest in a growing list of terrorist liquidations and bombings in Derna.
The demonstration was peaceful and continued until sundown. There was no attempt to enter any of the militia bases in the town. One person taking part, told the Libya Herald that when the crowd passed militia positions, they deliberately ignored them. Reports that the vehicle of one Islamist commander was attacked have not been confirmed.
Two nights ago, at around 11 pm, members of the militia calling itself the Army of the Islamic State of Libya, led by 28-year-old Yusef Bin Tahir, set up road blocks at a central roundabout and at entry points into Derna.
This evening there were reports that power had been cut in several parts of the city. Two days ago, a parcel bomb severely damaged the thermal power plant five kilometres to the west of the town, injuring five volunteer guards. The blast happened at 6 am and it was not until 14 hours later that the damage was repaired. Thereafter, power engineers went on strike briefly in protest at the absence of state security in Derna and the presence of militias.
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[Libya Herald] An Iraqi professor working in Derna was kidnapped when his taxi was stopped by another vehicle.
Hamid Khalf, who teaches at the Derna Higher Institute of Work Studies was grabbed as he was being driven to work this morning from his home in Shara Al-Bahar. The vehicle that was used to intercept his taxi was described as a "Chevrolet taxi". He has been living in Libya since 1998 and previously taught at Omar Mukhtar University in Beida. According to social media, in August he was assaulted and robbed of his car and valuables.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt has jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 39 people, including a US citizen, accused of torching a tram during a protest against the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , judicial sources said Saturday.
The accused, who were placed in 15-day preventive detention, were members of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement, the sources said, adding that they were also accused of rioting and attacking coppers on Friday during protests in Cairo.
On Friday the interior ministry said students linked to the Moslem Brüderbund had torched a tram carriage in Cairo's eastern district of Heliopolis.
Sources said Saturday that one of the detainees had a US passport, but it was unclear if he held other citizenship.
Islamist backers of Morsi have regularly staged protests against the country's new military-installed authorities since his 3 July ouster.
On Friday, a young boy and a man were killed as supporters and opponents of Morsi clashed in several parts of Egypt, including in Cairo, officials said.
The confrontations came as pro-Morsi groups called for a week of anti-military protests under the slogan "Massacre of the Century" -- a reference to the violent dispersal of two pro-Morsi protest camps on 14 August in which hundreds of people, mainly Morsi supporters, were killed.
Authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on Islamists in recent months, arresting some 2,000 people, including most of the top leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund, the country's oldest and most well-organised Islamist movement.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, is himself in jug on charges of inciting violence during festivities outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen killed 12 people in a raid on a northeastern Nigerian village on Saturday, the police said, in a region where troops are battling an Islamist Death Eater insurgency.
The attack was in a part of Borno state regularly targeted by 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... , an Islamist sect that has killed thousands in the last four years.
"About 30 fully gunnies in three Hilux vehicles and cycle of violences stormed the Sandiya village and started chanting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest), before opening fire on the helpless," local resident Modu Judum told Rooters.
State Commissioner of Police Tanko Lawal confirmed 12 people were killed in the attack, houses were set ablaze and vehicles were stolen. He did not say who the attackers were.
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[Yemen Post] A senior Interior Ministry official confirmed to the Yemen Post that UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar escaped an liquidation attempt Friday evening while his convoy was on Shurta St. of the capital Sanaa.
A top National Dialogue official and Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... spokesperson Hasan Al-Hamran confirmed the attack on the UN envoy and the NDC secretary general to Yemen Post.
The official said that National Dialogue Conference (NDC) Secretary General Dr Ahmed Ben Mubarak was with the UN envoy at the time of the attack.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... has called a daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... (shutdown) in Chittagong district for tomorrow protesting killing of a union-level leader in Sitakunda on Wednesday and an activists in Mirsarai early today.
The ongoing primary terminal examinations however will remain out of the hartal purview, reports our Chittagong correspondent quoting Mohammad Ullah, publicity secretary of the Jamaat's port city unit.
The dawn-to-dusk hartal will begin at 6:00am Sunday, the Jamaat leader said adding that the decision was taken at a meeting in the party city office chaired by ANM Shamsul Islam, politician of Chittagong-14 (Satkania-Lohagara) constituency.
Hours into the hartal announcement, Jamaat-Shibir activists brought out a brisk procession in the city's Momin Road area in support of the shutdown around 5:00pm, blasting two crude bombs and burning tyres on the road.
On information, police chased the activists away and picked up nine people from the spot in connection with the blasts, reports our correspondent quoting Mirza Sayem Chowdhury, assistant commissioner of Kotwali zone of police.
Earlier on Wednesday, body of Aminul Islam, general secretary of the Jamaat's Barabkunda union unit, was found after he went missing three days ago.
His body was found lying beside a roadside in Ponthichila area of the upazila. His head bore marks of bullet injuries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... Jashim Uddin, 27, a Jamaat activist of Shayerkhali union in Mirsarai upazila, died early today, five hours after unknown myrmidons attacked him.
The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, are responsible for the attack, alleged Nurul Kabir, Jamaat secretary of Mirsarai upazila unit.
Nurul Mostafa, chairman of Shayerkhali union and also the AL president of the union unit, however denied the allegation.
Three days ago, activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , went on a rampage on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila after the body of Aminul was found.
They torched three vehicles and vandalised around five vehicles on the highway.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... clashed with cops, vandalised vehicles and blasted crude bombs at the capital's Merul Badda yesterday.
About 100 Shibir men brought out a procession in the area around 8:15am as part of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... 's countrywide demonstrations protesting oppression on religious minorities throughout the country.
As the law enforcers obstructed them, unruly protesters went berserk, vandalised several vehicles and blasted two cocktails, said Badda police.
Cops fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse the troublemakers. A police was injured in the clash.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... in a statement yesterday, Jamaat acting secretary general Rafiqul Islam Khan said, "Awami League activists attacked the homes of religious minorities and passed the blame on us. No one could prove such a charge against us."
Jamaat is the parent organization of Islami Chhatra Shibir.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... witnesses, police and newsmen have found Jamaat-Shibir men guilty of launching attacks on religious minorities. National dailies have recently reported many such incidents.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Michoacan state, click here Excelsior now says that the total is 42. Also updated with corrected count of detainees
By Chris Covert.
By Chris Covert
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Another four bodies were found in the La Barca, Jalisco mass grave Friday bringing the death toll to 37, according to Mexican news reports.
As of Sunday evening, according to Excelsior news daily, the death toll in La Barca is at 42.
According to an El Universal wire service report featured on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, all but two of the dead were men. Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam, was quoted saying that 31 bodies have been examined, but none of them are the two PGR ministerial agents who went missing two weeks ago.
The grave was found after police detained 20 individuals of a kidnapping ring, including local police agents almost two weeks ago. Information from the raid led investigators to the La Barca site. Apparently the gravesite extends over an area which straddles the Michoacan and Jalisco state borders, and include Villa Hermosa municipality in Michoacan, as well as La Barca municipality.
Michoacan is currently one of Mexico's most violent states, as drug cartels have reacted with violence to indigenous self defense groups, which were formed stop encroachment on Indian land considered sacred.
Meanwhile in Tancitaro municipality, a Mexican Army road patrol exchanged gunfire with suspected members of Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel Friday. The Proceso wire service report did not detail casualties in this latest encounter.
Armed suspects were caught at around 1600 hrs. According to the wire report, the encounter was the third in Tancitaro municipality since November 16th, when self defense groups, colloquially known as autodefensa took control of Tepalcatepec and Buenavista Tomatlan municipalities.
The report also mentions a separate shooting involving drug cartel shooters taking place in November 19th in Tancitaro municipality near the village of Zirimbo. In that incident, cartel shooters fired their weapons on a residence. Casualties in that shooting were not detailed in the wire report.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[An Nahar] Pakistain rustics were negotiating on Saturday to release seven polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers who were kidnapped earlier this week by a hard boy group from the northwestern Khyber tribal district, officials said.
Authorities said the workers were kidnapped on Thursday from the Bara area by Lashkar-e-Islam, the hard boy group in the country's Khyber tribal district, while carrying out a polio vaccination campaign.
Two government officials in Khyber said the workers included four teachers of a private school, a male nurse and two volunteers.
"Tribal jirga has started negotiations with Lashkar-e-Islam people. We are hopeful for the early release of polio workers," a senior government official in Bara told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The second official said the abduction occurred in broad daylight when the workers were busy vaccinating the children.
"Now the jirga is requesting them to release the kidnapped workers," the second official said.
Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio is still endemic, but efforts to stamp out the crippling disease have been hit by repeated attacks on health teams.
Militant groups in the restive country have rejected vaccination as a Western plot against Mohammedans and banned teams from giving out polio drops in some areas which has hampered efforts to vaccinate children against polio.
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[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court here on Friday acquitted 11 activists of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -F including one of its candidates in general elections in a case of storming and ransacking courts in Charsadda district during an electoral dispute over recounting of votes.
The court presided over by Anwer Hussain Khan pronounced that the prosecution could not prove its case against the 11 suspects including Mufti Gohar Shah, who was a candidate for the provincial assembly seat PK-20, Charsadda, in the May 11, 2013, general elections.
Mufti Gohar Shah was prime accused in the case and had remained absconder for several months. Earlier, 17 other activists of the party were acquitted in the same case.
Mufti Gohar Shah had lost to a candidate of Qaumi Watan Party, Khalid Khan, on the said seat with a margin of 1,169 votes and he had alleged rigging in the polls. He had submitted an application to the returning officer concerned for recounting of votes and on the day of recounting he and his supporters staged a demonstration and later on allegedly stormed the tehsil courts at Tanghi.
The accused persons had allegedly ransacked courtrooms and pelted stones on the building. An FIR was registered against them at Tanghi cop shoppe under section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act and several sections of Pakistain Penal Code.
The counsel appearing for the accused persons contended that they were falsely implicated in the case. He contended that there was no evidence on record to prove that Mufti Gohar had instigated the persons who had attacked the building. He added that the offence was carried out by a mob in which it could not be identified as to who had participated in the illegal act.
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[Dawn] Nine protesters, including a woman, were maimed when a policeman opened fire on a protest rally in 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. , which was part of demonstrations staged across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata on Friday to condemn the Rawalpindi violence.
Wafaq-ul-Madaris had given call for the protests.
Police said that the firing incident took place in Wakho Pul area in limits of Bana Mani cop shoppe.
The injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital. They were identified as Sharifa Bibi, Sajid, Takbir, Tariq, Najeebullah, Abdur Rehman, Zakirullah, Amjad Ali and Muner.
A hospital source said one of the injured was at death's door.
"We were coming in a procession and as we crossed Ghazi checkpost a policeman opened fire on us from behind with his official rifle," Najeebullah of Bahadur Kili told Dawn at the LRH.
Peshawar deputy commissioner Syed Zaheer-ul-Islam told mediapersons that the police constable, Syed Ali Badshah of Bana Mani cop shoppe, had been nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and charged in a case under terrorism act. He said the overall situation in the district remained peaceful.
Police had blocked all the entry points towards Shoba Chowk where all the processions were to be converged.
Speakers condemned the Rawalpindi tragedy and criticised the government for failing to protect the lives and properties of people.
They demanded arrest of all those involved in the tragedy. They also asked the government to compensate the victims' families and take action against the officials who failed to maintain law and order on such sensitive occasions.
Similarly, the speakers also condemned drone strike at a seminary and asked the government to sever ties with the United States.
On the day, all the shopping centres remained closed and traffic was routed to GT Road and no one was allowed to participate in the rallies from the cantonment side. Owing to traffic problems the people were seen marching towards their destinations.
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[Dawn] The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit Saturday for twin kabooms in 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... overnight that killed at least seven people and maimed at least 28 others.
Shahidullah Shahid, a front man for umbrella group TTP, told AFP that the attacks in Karachi were carried out in Dire Revenge™ for violence in Rawalpindi on November 15.
He said the attacks were aimed at Shias in Karachi, and vowed further violence.
"It was to avenge the Rawalpindi incident, we will carry out more such attacks to avenge the killing of Sunnis," Shahid told AFP by telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
Fighting erupted in the garrison-city of Rawalpindi, which neighbours the capital Islamabad, earlier this month when a procession by Shia Musselmens to mark the most important day of the mourning month of Muharram coincided with a sermon at a nearby Sunni mosque.
The groups clashed with each other, TV cameramen and security forces.
Officials said 11 people were killed and more than 60 injured while a Sunni mosque and seminary and an adjacent cloth market were burnt, with Sunni groups blaming Shia protesters.
Thousands of people in major cities across the country, including Karachi, protested amid high security on Friday after Sunni groups called for demonstrations against the Rawalpindi violence.
The kabooms overnight in Karachi Friday took place within minutes of each other in the city's bustling, predominantly Shia neighbourhood of Ancholi.
Karachi, a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 per cent of Pakistain's GDP, is rife with murder and kidnappings and has been plagued with sectarian, ethnic, and political violence for years.
The TTP has been behind hundreds of bomb and gun attacks that have fanned instability in Pakistain, killing more than 6,500 soldiers, police and civilians since 2007.
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[Dawn] Khan Wasey, the front man for Frontier Crops told Dawn.com that security forces conducted an operation in Bakhtiarabad area of Sibi and killed two members of an outlawed organization.
"The forces conducted a raid upon receiving an intelligence report", he said adding that "Major bid of terror is foiled"
Wasey said the forces recovered an explosive-laden cycle of violence from the possession of forces of Evil who were planning to detonate the explosives in Sibi to carry out a major terror act targeting government officials.
Sibi and adjoining districts are considered to be the sensitive districts.
Militants have been targeting the security forces and vital national installations since more than ten years ago.
This operation has come two days after more than one dozen people were killed in a series of kabooms and assassinations in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
The incidents prompted the Balochistan government to tighten security in Quetta and all troubled parts of the province.
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[Dawn] Unknown persons set ablaze a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... container near 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... 's Dasht area in the outskirts of Quetta on Saturday.
Police sources said that cycle of violence-riding-gunnies opened fire near Quetta's Sibi road on the Chaman-bound truck carrying a NATO container from 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...
Although there were no human casualties in the incident but the container caught fire as a result of the firing.
By the time fire brigade, rescue and security teams reached the spot the container had completely burnt down.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against unknown persons as police began investigations into the incident.
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[Al Ahram] Twin suicide kabooms at a Shiite mosque in north Iraq were the deadliest in attacks nationwide that killed 15 people Saturday, amid a surge in bloodshed authorities have failed to quell.
The violence, which has killed more than 200 people in the past week alone, has forced Iraq to appeal for international help in combating militancy just months ahead of its first general election in four years.
Officials have also voiced concern over a resurgent Al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighbouring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups in Iraq with increased room to plan operations.
Attacks on Saturday struck mostly in the north, although Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... was also hit.
The deadliest violence was in Tuz Khurmatu, where a suicide boom-mobileing followed by a suicide kaboom targeting a Shiite mosque killed at least 10 people and maimed 45, according to a police colonel and town mayor Shallal Abdul.
The initial blast was at 5:30 pm (1430 GMT) near the Imam Ali mosque, which is in the middle of a crowded market and near offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party of ailing Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Shortly afterwards, a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the entrance to the mosque.
"I am sure the attack was carried out by Al-Qaeda," said Abdul.
"There is major destruction and damage in the area, because it (the mosque) is located in the centre of a market."
Tuz Khurmatu, an ethnically mixed town, lies in the middle of a tract of disputed territory that Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous northern region over the objections of the central government.
Militant groups often exploit poor communication between the two sides' security forces in order to carry out attacks, and Tuz Khurmatu is frequently hit by violence.
Unrest in Storied Baghdad and two cities in the north -- Tal Afar, which is mostly Shiite Turkmen, and Sunni Arab Tikrit -- left five other people dead, officials said.
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[Al Ahram] Israeli soldiers met the demonstrators with hot lead in the West Bank north of Ramallah on Saturday, wounding four of them, Paleostinian medical sources said.
The shooting happened near a refugee camp at Jalazon during a protest against stone-throwing attacks by Israeli settlers on Paleostinian vehicles, the sources said. What's the Hebrew word for "intifada?"
Paleostinian security sources, meanwhile, said that three Paleostinians have been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by Israeli forces near the security barrier separating the Jewish state from the Gazoo Strip.
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I've only posted the beginning of the preamble
Geneva, 24 November 2013
Joint Plan of Action
Preamble
The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran's nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons.
This comprehensive solution would build on these initial measures and result in a final step for a period to be agreed upon and the resolution of concerns. This comprehensive solution would enable Iran to fully enjoy its right to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes under the relevant articles of the NPT in conformity with its obligations therein. This comprehensive solution would involve a mutually defined enrichment programme with practical limits and transparency measures to ensure the peaceful nature of the programme. This comprehensive solution would constitute an integrated whole where nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. This comprehensive solution would involve a reciprocal, step-by-step process, and would produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions, as well as multilateral and national sanctions related
to Iran's nuclear programme. The inspection situation is not as weak as I feared; however, the sanctions relief is far more than I thought Iran deserved
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GENEVA -- Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.
Freezes 'parts' of their development: which parts, the parts the Iranians have already figured a way around?
The deal was reached after four days of marathon bargaining and an 11th-hour intervention by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign ministers from Europe, Russia and China. the sources said. The agreement, sealed at 3 a.m. signing ceremony in Geneva's Palace of Nations, requires Iran to halt or scale back parts of it nuclear infrastructure, the first such pause in more than a decade.
"We have reached an agreement," Michael Mann, spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a Twitter posting.
"We have reached an agreement," echoed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a separate posting.
Negotiations had run into the late evening, with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia the European Union and the United States huddled in a hotel conference room. Several of the diplomats met earlier in the day with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who told reporters that the parties remained divided on key details of the six-month trial deal.
The talks had remained snarled despite the last-minute intervention of Kerry, who flew to Geneva for the second time in two weeks to try to break the impasse. The Obama administration has been seeking to quickly finalize an agreement in the face of threats by Congress to impose additional economic sanctions on Iran.
The marathon discussions with Iran were described by Western diplomats as "very difficult" and "intense," and several officials had sought to lower expectations that a resolution could be reached before Sunday, when Kerry and the other foreign ministers were due to depart.
Kerry, Zarif and the lead E.U. negotiator, Catherine Ashton, met late Saturday, but the session ended with no announcement of progress. Instead, Iran's deputy foreign minister hardened his country's position.
Although "98 percent" of the deal was done, Iran said it could not accept any agreement that does not recognize what it calls its uranium enrichment rights, Abbas Araghchi told reporters.
In other words, the "deal" is meaningless: the core is Iran's plan to enrich uranium to the point that it can build bombs. That's what all this is about. The Mad Mullahs won't give that away, ever.
"Any agreement without recognizing Iran's right to enrich, practically and verbally, will be unacceptable for Tehran," Araghchi said, according to Reuters.
Araghchi and Zarif have insisted that the deal hinges on international recognition of Iran's right to enrich uranium, a matter of deep national pride.
And of killing Jooooz...
The proposed deal offered to Iran would reportedly allow limited uranium enrichment, although under tight restrictions and heavy international monitoring. But Western officials have balked at recognizing a legal "right" to uranium enrichment, hoping instead to craft language in the final agreement that acknowledges the right of all countries to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Zarif appeared to endorse that approach publicly last week.
The sides also continued to haggle over details of the limited sanctions relief to be offered to Iran in return for scaling back its nuclear program, diplomats said. The relief would reportedly include freeing up a small portion of Iran's overseas currency accounts and easing other trade restrictions.
The most painful sanction, affecting Iran's oil and banking sectors, would remain until the end of the deal's first phase, depending on Iran's willingness to accept permanent curbs on its nuclear program, Western officials said.
Still another obstacle is Iran's partially completed heavy-water reactor in the city of Arak. Western powers are pushing for a freeze on construction of the reactor's core, which could, if completed, give Iran a pathway toward obtaining plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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As long as the fracking oil boom in the US and a few other countries continues, the price of oil will probably remain below $100/barrel and as long as that happens, Iran will have considerable financial problems, with or without sanctions.
Financial problems are one thing, we have them too. However, the sanctions are probably hurting the mullah owned businesses in Iran. How much is unknown by anyone in the west but they must be hurting if Iran is at the table at all.
It is painful to think that the advantages we have from the sanctions will be traded for very little but if that little includes enough inspection activity to improve targeting, that might make the pain less.
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You have now witnessed a "Lord Neville Chamberlain Moment" in world "diplomatic" history, regarding the rise of a hostile Islamic nation, anxious to become a Nuclear power.
Negotiations had run into the late evening, with the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia the European Union and the United States
Forgotten are the chants of Death to America, November 4, 1979 - About 500 Iranian "students" seize control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take 90 people hostage including 66 Americans working in the embassy.
Have the American "foreign ministers" forgotten this "little piece of American history" ?
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The only way we will know for sure if Iran's nuclear program is peaceful or not is when Tel Aviv and maybe a few other Israeli cities disappear under mushroom clouds.
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So Israel has been sold out for some takqia promises by some psychopathic despots masquerading as religious leaders. This will result in the glazing over of Tel Aviv. Teheran and a whole lot more. For shame. And what will the Senate do? Will they ratify this sellout treaty? My heart is sick.
The only reassuring thing is that Israel will do what it must do to survive.
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Unfinished business from the Carter and Reagan years, little more. Sadly, it now very much impacts the only democracy and hope for mankind in the region.
#8
Yes g(r)om, "assumption" appears to still be holding it's own as the mother of all disasters. Decades of so-called nation building in the Muslim world has left us penniless and confused. Well, some of us at least.
#10
Between this and the news story that Iran is building two more nuke sites it's clear to me that Iran is good to it's word.
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Targeting is nice. We seem to be GIVING them a great deal of money as well.
I can't help but feel anything "negotiated " by Kerry is suspect. I wouldn't trust Kerry to tie his shoes without help.
I don't really know WHY we negotiated with Iran. I liked it better when we had them down and were strangling them blue . I found it enjoyable that they had to pay 37,000 rials for a loaf of bread.
A good rule to follow is when you get them down keep kicking them in the head and neck...harder. There is no substitute for dead.
#13
Smartest man in the world, Harvard educated foreign student lawyer and constitutional expert is now 'spiking ball' this morning on Fox News. Terms of reference are not "containment" but rather prevention. Words do matter.
If you like your nuclear program, you can keep it...period !
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P5+1 powers signed the treaty: United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France, plus Germany. Israel and the Saudis are not on the lis in the list--a couple of major players most greatly affected by this treaty. Are we to believe a group of Shi'a mullahs who believe institutionalized lying (taqiyya and kitman) is acceptable to achieve your ends? By the way it sounds like Champ also. We will be dealing with the threat of nuclear mushroom clouds (or actual clouds) in the future.
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Another signature achievement for Obama's legacy.
And for you visitors, that IS cynical sarcasm.
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Comparing this "deal" to Munich is an insult to Neville Chamberlain. At least Chamberlain had to worry about Hitler having at least parity if not real superiority in military and economic power. Here, starting from a position of enormous military and economic superiority, Champ and John Fn Kerry have sold out a gallant ally for magic beans. Chamberlain would have been disturbed, and Churchill's response would have been both memorable and unprintable.
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This is nothing more than Obama showing contempt for Israel and his desire for leveling the playing field between Islam and the West. He is strategically trying to dismantle the wests control of the world and give it to Islam.
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The Cynicismeter says that The Won and his media stooges were desperate for anything, absolutely anything, that could get the Obamacare debacle and the Clay-Footed Messiah's cratering poll numbers off the front pages.
Plus I couldn't help but notice that the basset-faced lady with bad British dental work who runs the EU's foreign policy shop had a sheaf of papers in her hand at the announcement ceremony. Wonder if there's a shot anywhere of her waving the papers a la Chamberlain?
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Besoeker: it was obvious when Champ took office, and from the jokers at CIA who wrote the national intelligence brief before that, that it would be all about "containment". We've been sending the message for quite a while that Iran could have a nuke if it wanted. They want.
So Iran will in the near future have a nuke. They have a delivery system today. They will need to miniaturize the nuke to fit the rocket. They will need some guidance system work. But in the near future they will have a serviceable IRBM.
And they have an enemies list that's longer than just Israel.
This will not end well.
Should have posted this with the Chamberlain pic.
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They will need to miniaturize the nuke to fit the rocket.
That sounds like work. Can't we just put one on a shrimp boat and send it up the Houston Ship Channel? We may be pretending otherwise, but Israel is not the only party with skin in the game.
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Have the American "foreign ministers" forgotten this "little piece of American history" ?
They're still the same people they were back in the mid-70's when they helped sell about 25 million people in SE Asia into communist servitude and/or time in work-to-death camps.
#26
I suspect Israel now will take matters into their own hands, Nation Survival Mode. I also would not be surprised to see military action before the end of the year.
"In a video clip now gaining fresh attention as the international community seeks to assess his credibility, Irans President Hassan Rouhani bragged on Iranian state television just four months ago that he and the regime utterly flouted a 2003 agreement with the IAEA in which it promised to suspend all uranium enrichment and certain other nuclear activities.
Rouhani, who was being interviewed by Irans state IRIB TV (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) on May 27, less than three weeks before he won the June 14 presidential elections, was provoked by the interviewers assertion that, as Irans chief nuclear negotiator in 2003-5, everything was suspended on the nuclear program under his watch.
Smiling but evidently highly irritated by the suggestion, Rouhani called it a lie that only the illiterate would believe, and said that whoever is talking to you in your earpiece was feeding false information. He proceeded to detail how Iran, in fact, had flagrantly breached the October 2003 Tehran Declaration, which he said was supposed to outline how everything should be suspended.
Although Iran issued a joint statement with visiting EU ministers in October 2003 setting out its pledged obligations under the Tehran Declaration, in practice, Rouhani said in the interview, We did not let that happen!"
#35
One difference between old Neville Chamberlain and Mr. O in negotiations, is that Neville was at least making an effort to rearm (example aircraft production - British production doubled from 1,440 aircraft in 1935 to 2,830 in 1938, and then increased another five-fold to over 15,000 in 1940 - the result of the re-armament measures put in place from 1935 on) whereas the 'smartest man in the world' is gutting cutting the military.
#38
Snowy: approval of a treaty requires consent of the Senate, per Article II, section 2 of the Constitution:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
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The United States has enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth 19 times over. Russia has enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth 27 times over. Pakistan, India, China, North Korea, and it is rumored that Israel also have nuclear weapons equivalent to many megatons of TNT.
All the above countries have one thing in common. Their peoples would rather live than die.
Iranian Mullahs and their Islamic followers would rather die than live and they especially love taking out as many infidels as possible on their way to hell.
#40
So the success is the agreement, not the content. Sounds par. So if the Senate is allowed to vote on this and turns it down, Obama has managed to not only piss of Israel KSA et al but show himself with even less power.
Did Kerry even ask for our drone back? Look at the bright side, with Kerry involved there is still a good chance this will get screwed up. Not good enough more me to not open the good stuff and see if Denver can win before the Mid East explodes. But a chance.
Finalized at 3am in Geneva. Why not primetime if so proud of this? Waiting for halftime to finsh? Are the additional sanctions threatened by Congress the very sanction just promised away a la tricky lawyer talk?
#41
Obama is gutting every program to fund what he knows will be a gigantic expenditure if and when ObumbleCare is actually in operation. The cost of that program alone will be more than George W's last Federal Budget.
I read "To Lose a Battle, France 1940" by Alistair Horne. There are a number of uncomfortable, well neigh, frightening parallels between the politics and personalities of the French Government between 1936 and 1940 and our current political climate.
As for a threat to Israel, only a complete madman would nuke Israel as the fallout would decimate most of Jordan, Northern Iraq, and Southwestern Iran. I am convinced the end game for Iran is to load the sucker in an ISO container and ship it to Long Beach. A nuke does not have to be inside the radiation detection zone of LA harbor for the detonation of a nuclear device to destroy most of Los Angeles county and northern Orange County. And with the winter time weather patterns a nuke in Long Beach would require evacuation of most of Arizona, New Mexico and North Texas.
The end game is not Israel, it is us...the evil Shaitan, even the nuts in power in Iran do not want to kill millions of fellow Muslims to destroy Israel with a nuke.
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#37 Once again the World waits with bated breath: can the detested Jew once again pull a hat out of a rabbit?
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g(r)omguru, the mystical Mesmer,
Mumbled Yiddish as Bunny blew klezmer:
The music went silent
And every eye widened,
As he drew Flopsy out of his fezmer!
"Aww, that trick never works."
In back of the band, a menorah
Shone as g(r)omguru read from the Torah.
Coney Island was still...
Hair on end, such a thrill:
His angora coughed up a fedora!
#44
..would require evacuation of most of Arizona, New Mexico and North Texas.
We already nuked New Mexico in 1945. Didn't require much in evacuation. Those of us who lived down wind of the open air nuke testing in the 50s and early 60s seemed to have survived well enough. It's a nuke, not even an good size asteroid. Get a grip on the level of destruction.
#47
As a dialectic Politician, OBAMA THE PCORRECT "PRO-US", "NATIONALIST" > Rising Shia Iran is now our new BFF agz Al-Qaeda, etc. in Syria + ME, the US-Allies are giving it six months to see how it will behave agz the Qaeda Boyz.
OTOH, OBAMA THE ANTI-US MARXIST GLOBALIST > Rising Shia Iran needs Nukes because it is SSSSHHHHH .... CCCCCCC our future OWG Global "Co-Superpower" in the Muslim ME. ALONG THE SAME SCOPE, GLOBALIST AMERIKA + OUR 1990'S CLINTONIAN SACRED NATIONAL COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM, I.E. "AMERICA-N-ONLY-AMERIKA NEEDS TO BE RESTRAINED + CONTROLLED", NEEDS TO PREPARE TO LOSE 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC TO OUR OTHER OWG GLOBAL CO-SUPERPOWER RISING CHINA.
To include possibly the loss of Hawaii to China, or in altern the DE-MILITARIZATION OF HAWAII.
GOOD POLITICIANS/PCORRECTNESS = THE ABOVE WILL BE ACOMPLISHED WID THE [seeming] APPROVAL OF THE AMERIKAN PEOPLE.
* "STAR WARS" PREQUELS > QUEEN PADME AMYGDALA = "SO THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY/FREEDOM ENDS - WID APPLAUSE[ + Celebration]".
EYES WIDE OPEN, NOT EYES WIDE SHUT.
Pray to God that neither the soon-to-be-Nukulaar Hard Boyz andor "post-US", "Mahanist" China sees Amerika's actions in the name of OWG Globalism as de facto "strategic weakness" on the part of the US inspiring third-party MilPol take-over from the US.
MAHA-RUSHIAN HISTOIRE' + "THE GREAT GAME" AKA SUSTITUTION OF WEALTH + NATIONS BY ONE WID ANOTHER(S) SAYS IT IS MORE LIKELY THAT SUCH COVERT INTENTIONAL OR DELIBERATE US GLOBALIST UNILATERAL ACTIONS WIL BE INTERPRETED AS WEAKNESS - MORESO GIVEN THE PENCHANT OF US POL LEADERS THUS FAR TO REFRAIN FROM EXPLAINING ANYTHING TO THE AMERICAN = AMERIKAN MAINSTREAM = VOTERS + CONSTITUENTS.
* FYI FREEREPUBLIC > [Various = Yahoo News] US CRITICIZES NEW CHINA [Air Defense] ZONE, VOWS TO DEFEND JAPAN.
Ah yes - "Red lines".
Beijing would once again like to remind the friendly Amerikan Media-TV audience at this time that they have Nukes + US-hitting LRBMS aka ICBMS, IRBMS, etc. that Libya + Egypt + Assad + now Iran do NOT have [yet?], + that whole "200.0Milyuhn-man Army of the Apocalypse" thingy.
The agreement between the 6 parties and Iran does not require US Senate approval. This is because legislation permitted the President to execute trade sanctions and the President did execute such sanctions. S 65 in the 113th and H 568 in the 112th give the Pres direction and authority but don't constrain.
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The Nukes that hit Hiroshima and the early tests in New Mexico were small compared to the nukes today which are a 1000 times larger.
#52
Well, let's put it this way about destruction, none of the nukes in New Mexico were high yield. A nuke from the Iranians could be as high as a megaton, about 1000 times greater than anything tested in New Mexico or Nevada. The destruction would be an arch of about 50 miles in radius.
And besides, you need to reread my post, I was talking about the FALLOUT plume from a dirty bomb being propelled by winter time winds and the Jetstream across the southwest.
I know whence I am talking, perchance you have your prefix five also and can refute the extent of the fallout?
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I have my handy dandy Nuclear Bomb Effects circular slide rule calculator; unfortunately they don't make them any more, but try this ON LINE CALCULATOR for effects of nuclear weapons on your favorite target.
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[Al Ahram] Air strikes around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 40 people on Saturday, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The pro-opposition monitoring group said there were at least six strikes on the outskirts of Aleppo and nearby towns. Dozens of people were maimed, it said.
"Some of the strikes in the neighbourhood of Tareeq al-Bab appeared to be targeting rebel headquarters but instead the rockets fell in a busy street and caused heavy civilian casualties," Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory, said by telephone.
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There must be some way we can put this to Music.
All to be sung to soulful Arab instruments ( like the fagbut, the camelhorn and the sand flute )...and humming verses from the suras in the bass section.
[Al Ahram] Lebanese authorities have identified the second jacket wallah who attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut this week as a Paleostinian man with ties to a runaway Lebanese Islamist holy man, a security source said on Saturday.
Lebanese authorities had identified the first suicide bomber a day earlier as a Lebanese man with ties to hardline Sunni Musselmen groups.
The source said the second bomber, who lived in southern Leb, was a follower of Ahmed Al-Assir, a firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Sunni Musselmenholy man whose Death Eater supporters fought a two-day battle with the Lebanese army in June after barricading themselves in a mosque in the southern port city of Sidon.
Assir, a staunch supporter of the revolt in neighbouring Syria, was known for fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... sectarian and anti-Iranian rhetoric. He was not found when the army stormed the mosque and has been missing ever since.
Last Tuesday, twin blasts at the embassy killed 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attache, and maimed 146 others. A Lebanese group linked to Al-Qaeda, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claimed the bombings and threatened more attacks if Iran did not end its involvement in the 2-1/2-year-old Syrian conflict.
Lebanese authorities took the second bomber's father into custody for questioning, the security source said, after discovering that the bomber had ties to Assir.
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[An Nahar] Several people were maimed on Saturday evening in separate security-related incidents in 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... , several media reports said.
In the first incident, the state-run National News Agency said unknown assailants fired gunshots at two citizens in the Souq al-Arid area in Tripoli, wounding them in the legs.
The injured men were transferred to a northern hospital for treatment.
"Security forces deployed in the region and launched a probe in this matter," the NNA said.
Radio Voice of Leb (93.3) identified the injured men as Naim Raghda and Ali Anan, noting that they were admitted to Al-Salam Hospital.
The same source said the army brought reinforcement and is prosecuting the attackers in the Old Serail region.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Rifaat Mahfoud was also maimed in the leg in a gun shooting incident nearby City Complex in Tripoli, and was transferred to a northern hospital for treatment.
VDL remarked that the army cordoned off the City Complex and seized the security cameras' tapes to try to identify the shooter.
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and as a result of these incidents, telephoned caretaker Interior Minister urging the adoption of strict measures to prosecute the attackers, arrest them and penalize them.
In a separate incident also in the northern city, the NNA said a group of men riding a Kia car hurled three bombs in front of Abu Youness Maqsoud coffee shop in al-Jadeed street.
Two of the bombs detonated and lightly injured four people that were transferred to a hospital in the region.
The maimed men according to the NNA are Ziad Merheb, Wissam Dilati, Ahmed Kilani and Fawaz Nabulsi.
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[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes on Saturday fired several rockets on the border town of Arsal in the eastern mountain belt without causing any injuries.
"A Syrian military aircraft shelled the Wadi Hmayyed area in Arsal without causing any injuries," Future television reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... LBCI television said a Syrian helicopter fired three rockets on the center of Arsal, without reporting any injuries.
Since the eruption of the neighboring country's war, Arsal has repeatedly been targeted with Syrian rockets.
On Tuesday, a Syrian warplane shelled the uninhabited Aqabat al- Mobayyideh region in Arsal.
And two men were killed on Monday in a mine blast in Syria, where they had planned to join the fight against the regime.
The men from Arsal were headed to Qara, a rebel-held Syrian town near the frontier where loyalist troops have launched a major offensive in recent days.
Arsal has a long shared border with Syria, stretching along much of Damascus province and part of Homs province.
Smugglers have long taken their goods across the mostly non-existent border, and since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, weapons and fighters have moved across the border too.
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Syrian Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar's car came under fire Saturday near the coastal area of Tartous, Syrian activists and state media reported, but he was not in the vehicle at the time of the ambush, dpa reported.
Syria's state television said Haidar's driver was killed.
An eye specialist by training, Haider is the leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, one of the Damascus-based opposition parties tolerated by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He was appointed minister in 2012.
Haider's son was killed last year when his car was ambushed by rebels in the central province of Homs.
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Syrian activists say at least 24 rebels have died in battle for a military base near a northern opposition-held city but that government troops have managed to hold on to it.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assads government launched an assault on the base northeast of the city of Raqqa on Wednesday. Rami Abdurrahman, the Observatory chief, says sporadic clashes are still underway on Friday for the complex, known as Base 17, and that at least 24 fighters have been killed in battle.
In February, Raqqa was the first city to fall entirely under rebel control since Syrias crisis erupted in March 2011.
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Rebels captured the Al Omar field in the eastern Deir El Zour province along the border with Iraq. Rebel battalions led by Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized the largest oil field in eastern Syria on Saturday, activists said, cutting off President Bashar Al Assads access to almost all local crude reserves.
Rami Abdurrahman, who is director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says fighters from Jabhat Al Nusra captured the Al Omar field in the eastern Deir El Zour province along the border with Iraq on Saturday, ousting government troops during an overnight battle.
There was no immediate comment from the government. Losing the Al Omar oil field would mean Assads forces would be almost completely reliant on imported oil in their fight to end the countrys 2-1/2-year revolt.
Activists linked to the Nusra Front said its fighters stormed and captured the field, as well as several tanks and a weapons cache.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen killed 12 people in a raid on a northeastern Nigerian village on Saturday, the police said, in a region where troops are battling an Islamist
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GENEVA -- Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran's nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.
[Al Ahram] Air strikes around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 40 people on Saturday, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The pro-opposition monitoring group said there were at least six strikes on the outskirts of Aleppo and nearby towns. Dozens of people were 
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