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Saw a video on the internet last week where two guys told girls on a beach they would donate $20 to breast cancer research if they could motor boat them. I was amazed at how many said yes. I'm getting old....
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[Tolo News] The Kandahar office of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) reported the arrest of a group of 15 terrorists, which led to intelligence about a Taliban capo who was released from Bagram prison a year ago.
The office provided audio and video confession tapes of the locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! group to media outlets. In the footage, one of the members of the arrested group named Mullah Dad Muhammad said that the group's leader, Mawlawi Muneeb, had been released from Bagram a year ago and fled to Quetta, Pakistain.
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I don't understand how Karzai has managed to stay alive and pull all this off? Can someone tell me why it isn't easier to let one of the Talib's pick him off? It's well known he isn't favored by many on the US side. Please explain.
[Egypt Independent] Army forces stopped a train before it headed out of Port Said Railway Station on its way to Cairo at 1 pm on Thursday, after a suspicious object was discovered between two train carriages.
A bomb squad from the armed forces rushed to the scene and dismantled the object.
Security officials inspected the train and cleared it for boarding.
Some passengers, however, preferred leaving the station and using other means of travel.
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[Libya Herald] Sebha saw prolonged, violent festivities last night when gunnies opened fire on soldiers guarding the city's central hospital. The troops returned fire. No casualties have been reported and there is no clear explanation for the attack.
Ayoun Al-Zaroug, the head of Sebha Local Council, told the Libya Herald that the firefight erupted at around midnight when the army was shot upon outside the main hospital. He said that security forces were able to force the unknown gunnies into a retreat and fighting ended in the early morning.
Zaroug said that Sebha local council was closed today because of security concerns. He added that the commander of the city's security forces had promised to provide the council with adequate protection, so that normal work could resume as soon as possible.
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[Libya Herald] An explosion in Derna last night severely damaged a building housing a number of shops and a cafe.
No casualties were reported in the blast, although the explosion was in a built-up area.
The building, on Derna's Brega street, is understood to belong to the Al-Kharam family. Damaged premises housed within the building included clothing and furniture shops.
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[Egypt Independent] Egyptian courts convicted 113 Moslem Brüderbund supporters on Thursday on charges including attacking police, rioting and weapons possession in three separate cases brought after protests against the army-backed government.
The authorities have been cracking down hard on the Brotherhood since the military deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsy in July following mass protests against his rule.
The government accuses the Brotherhood of turning to violence and declared it a terrorist group on December 25.
The group says it is committed to peaceful protest.
Thursday's rulings included three-year prison terms for 63 people in a single case, one of the biggest mass sentencings to date. The judge fined each of them 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,200). He set a bail of 5,000 pounds which allows them to avoid prison while they appeal the verdict.
The case related to protests in Cairo in late November.
In a separate case, another 24 Brotherhood supporters were also sentenced to three years in prison, with labor, over festivities around the same time in a different part of Cairo.
The charges against them included rioting, illegal gathering, attacking the police and belonging to an armed terrorist gang.
In the third case, a court sentenced 26 students of Al-Azhar University to 2-1/2 years in prison each, also on charges including assaulting the security forces, illegal gathering and thuggery. Al-Azhar University in Cairo has been the scene of frequent anti-government protests since Mursi's downfall.
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[An Nahar] Authorities in Nigeria's central Plateau state said Thursday that 34 people were killed in a brutal village raid in the center of the country, in a revised deathtoll after the attack earlier this week.
State Information Commissioner Yiljap Abraham said that 34 people were killed, 24 injured and 600 people displaced in the attack by gunnies on Shonong village in Plateau state on Monday.
He added that 56 houses were burned down during the raid.
The state police chief Chris Olakpe had on Tuesday put the corpse count at 17, with five of the victims burnt beyond recognition.
Witnesses and survivors described how gunnies attacked the village on Monday in the Riyom area of the state, which along with neighboring Kaduna has been plagued by communal strife.
The attackers, suspected to be ethnic Fulani herdsmen, also killed or took away animals in the latest outbreak of violence blamed on long-standing ethnic divisions.
Local television stations on Wednesday showed footage of the victims who were given a mass burial.
Plateau and Kaduna lie in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt, where the country's majority Mohammedan north meets the predominantly Christian south.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said last month that more than 10,000 people had died in the two states in brutal tit-for-tat violence since 1992 purely because of their religious or ethnic identity.
Several thousand of those had bit the dust since 2010, the rights monitor added.
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brutal tit-for-tat violence
Is there a scoreboard someplace? Muslims killed vs. Christians killed? Or are they talking about tattooed boobs?
[Yemen Post] Following weeks of intense fighting in between the Houthis, a Shiite group based in the northern province of Sa'ada and the Salafis, Sunni radical turbans who advocate a return to a more austere practice of Islam, the conflict has moved way beyond its point of origin, Dammaj.
At the end of last October, state officials confirmed that following months of escalating tensions and threats of retaliations, 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" ... turbans had moved against Salafi turbans in Dammaj, where the group settled its main regional religious centre, on account Dar al-Hadith were being used as a training camp for wannabe jihadists.
While Salafis have always denied such allegations, calling on the government to intervene, the Houthis paid no heed to their objections and instead decided to move to the offensive. Within weeks the whole of Sa'ada fell victim to the sectarian spat, literally held hostage in between the two religious factions.
Incensed Houthi rustics have managed to score a series of victory against the Salafis, to such an extent that Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, the powerful leader of the Hashid confederation of tribes and prominent figure of al-Islah party (Yemen most prominent Sunni faction) had to step in and involve his men.
With fronts spread across the northern provinces of Sa'ada and al-Jawf, the Houthis have crossed earlier this week onto al-Ahmar's tribal territory in the province of Amran. Not only does Amran lies directly north of the capital, Sana'a, it is a main bastion for the Hashid.
As fighting rages on this Wednesday, tribal sources confirmed that dozens of Hashid rustics had been killed since Monday and many more maimed.
Ansar Allah, the Houthis' political arm posted a statement on its website stressing that its turbans had successfully managed to seize control over several Salafis' strongholds in Amran, thus claiming victory over al-Ahmar.
Hashem al-Ahmar, younger brother to Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar is said to have barely escaped an ambush on Wednesday. Four of his relatives were allegedly killed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Attacks on Hindu communities, allegedly by BNP-Jamaat activists, continued in different parts of the country yesterday. Various human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. , cultural and social organizations voiced protests at the attacks.
In Jhargaon village under Thakurgaon's sadar upazila, BNP-Jamaat activists torched a temple and vandalized an idol in the early hours of yesterday, our Thakurgaon correspondent reports.
Locals told the Dhaka Tribune that the attack was carried out at a temple adjacent to the house of one Mahindra Nath.
Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Ruhiya cop shoppe, said the police were working to arrest the perpetrators.
On the other hand, police in Mymensingh tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two Jubo Dal activists yesterday for their alleged attempt to torch a temple at Kanihari in Trishal upazila, our correspondent in the district reported.
The arrestees were Bhulu Miah, 35 and Sarwar Hossain Millat, 22.
Early on Wednesday, miscreants tried to torch a temple at Kanihari Tirki Tarafderbari in Trishal, but expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when locals rushed to the spot, said Firoj Talukder, the Trishal cop shoppe OC.
Anti-polls activists have been attacking Hindu communities since the January 5 general elections.
Human rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, in a statement issued yesterday, protested against the attacks and called for immediate relief and rehabilitation. Signed by its executive director, Mohammad Nur Khan, the organization's statement said the affected people were leaving their houses due to the lack of security.
The organization also demanded the investigation of the incidents by a judicial commission and punishment for the perpetrators.
The Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA) also formed a human chain yesterday, demanding immediate punishment for the miscreants who have been killing innocent people, attacking minorities, and destroying educational institutions and government property during the recent blockades and shutdowns.
Speaking at the human chain, DUTA president Farid Uddin Ahmed said: "We have to protest against evil forces from now on, as they want to make Bangladesh like Afghanistan and Pakistain."
Although being held under the banner of the DUTA, teachers from the BNP-backed white panel did not join the human chain.
Meanwhile at Rajshahi University yesterday, 351 pro-BNP and Jamaat-backed teachers condemned the attacks on minority communities, and demanded an impartial and independent investigation under the supervision of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... .
In Barisal, the city and district units of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Gay Pareehad and Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Gay Pareehad, formed a human chain and brought out a procession, demanding the punishment of the perpetrators and calling for security to be ensured for members of the Hindu community.
In Dinajpur and Karmojibi Nari, an NGO for women, formed a human chain demanding security for the Hindu communities and exemplary punishment for the people behind the recent attacks.
In Rangamati, Sanatan Jubo Gay Pareehad and Puja Udjapon Committee, demanded the immediate arrest and exemplary punishment for the attackers.
In Sherpur, Bangladesh Garo Students Association formed a human chain, demanding punishment forthe people who attacked the Hindu communities, as well as calling for security to be ensured for all minority groups.
Bangladesh Islami Andolon Chairman Syed Mohammad Rezaul Karim also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... and anger over the recent attacks on the Hindu community members.
Criticising the government for not "taking action against the perpetrators," he said: "The government's silence is mysterious."
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[ABC.NET.AU] The father of a Pak teenager, who died after tackling a jacket wallah, has hailed his son for saving "hundreds" of lives through his bravery.
Aitzaz Hassan, aged about 15, died in hospital after stopping the bomber, who went kaboom!, at the gates of his school in the north-western district of Hangu on Monday.
Mujahid Ali Bangash, 55, says he feels not sadness but pride over his son's death.
"Aitzaz has made us proud by valiantly intercepting the bomber and saving the lives of hundreds of his fellow students," he said.
"I am happy that my son has become a martyr by sacrificing his life for a noble cause."
Mr Bangash works in the UAE and was only able to reach Ibrahimzai village, which lies in an area of Hangu dominated by minority Shiite Moslems, the day after his son's funeral.
"Many people are coming to see me but if they try to express sympathy, I tell them to congratulate me instead on becoming the father of a martyr," he said.
"I will be even more than happy if my second son also sacrifices his life for the country."
Police official Shakirullah Bangash told AFP Aitzaz Hassan intercepted the bomber about 150 metres away from the main gate of the school, which has about 1,000 students, most of them Shiite.
The schoolchildren were the target of the attack, he added.
News of Aitzaz Hassan's bravery also led to an outpouring of tributes on social media.
Sherry Rehman, Pakistain's former ambassador to the United States, tweeted: "Hangu's shaheed (martyr) Aitzaz Hasan is Pakistain's pride. Give him a medal at least. Another young one with heartstopping courage #AitzazBraveheart."
Dream of becoming doctor 'not God's will'
Aitzaz Hassan's cousin, Mudassir Bangash, described him as an accomplished student who excelled in all extracurricular activities.
"Aitzaz was a little plump and we used to call him pehlwan (wrestler)," he said.
"My cousin wanted to become a doctor but it was not God's will."
Hangu borders Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , one of Pakistain's seven lawless tribal districts on the Afghan border, considered to be the hub of Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked bully boys.
The district has a history of sectarian violence and was declared a "sensitive region" during the month of Moharram, considered especially holy by Shiites.
Pakistain is rife with sectarian festivities, with Sunni bully boy groups linked to Al Qaeda and the Taliban often attacking gatherings by Shiites, who constitute about 20 per cent of the country's population.
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Let's honotr a hionorable man and his honorable son. Far too often it is the fathers of suicidal bombers who are proud of their sons.
[DAWN] A powerful kaboom targeted a convoy of police vehicles 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... on Thursday killing senior police official Chaudhry Aslam Khan.
Chaudhry Aslam, who had survived numerous liquidation attempts in the past, died along with two other officers when the bomb targeted the convoy on the Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... expressway in Karachi.
Senior police officer Iqbal Mehmood confirmed to news hounds that SP CID Chaudhary Aslam Khan died in the attack, which took place around 4:40 pm near the Essa Nagri area.
A jacket wallah smashed his vehicle into Aslam's convoy and he and two other coppers were killed, Iqbal Mehmood, a senior officer with the criminal investigation department, told news agency AFP.
The blast was so powerful that it threw the shattered wreckage of Aslam's vehicle some 20 metres (65 feet) from where it was hit.
The Mohmand agency chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack.
Sajjad Mohmand, a front man for the hard boy group said Aslam was targeted for carrying out operations against the TTP. "Aslam was involved in killing Taliban prisoners in CID cells in Karachi and was on the top of our hit-list," he said.
Television channels showed that the powerful blast completely destroyed the bullet-proof car of the slain police officer.
This was not the first time that the Aslam was targeted by the banned group. The slain officer was targeted at least three times earlier for his bold stance against Talibs.
Aslam had been receiving threats from the Pak Taliban, which tried to kill him in September 2011 in a huge kaboom that tore off the front of his house in the port city.
After that attack he made a defiant appearance before the media, saying: "I will give my life but I won't bow to terrorists."
Earlier on Thursday Aslam had claimed the killing of three suspected members of the Pak Taliban in an encounter in the city.
Police are currently involved in an operation aimed at clearing Karachi of gunnies and hardcore criminals including hired killers, gun runners and drug peddlers.
Tributes, condemnations and condolence messages started pouring in from several high-profile politicians and officials on the liquidation of the senior officer.
"Chaudhry Aslam was a brave officer," said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... . "We will not let the will of the nation be crushed by these cowardly acts by terrorists."
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[Israel Matzav blog] It's been way too long since we've seen one of these. Here's a video of the IAF wiping out an Islamic rocket squad in Gaza this morning [Jan 9, 2014]. Blog link
[An Nahar] Loyalist forces have killed at least 45 Syrian rebels as they sought to break a regime siege on part of Homs, in central Syria, an NGO said on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels, from different brigades, were killed late Wednesday and early Thursday as they attempted to end an army siege that has lasted more than a year.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the number of dead could be higher.
"They were killed as they tried to launch an operation to end the siege of Homs; they were ambushed by regime forces near the Khaldiya neighborhood, which is under government control," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Several thousand civilians are reportedly trapped by the siege, which has been imposed on rebel-held areas of Homs' Old City.
In October, activists warned of severe food and energy shortages in the besieged areas and reported that residents were malnourished.
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[An Nahar] Jihadists battling rebels in northern Syria fought Thursday to recover lost turf nearly a week after a new front opened in the conflict gripping the country.
The fighting comes a day after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) was expelled from Aleppo city by rebels fighting to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... .
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... a massive boom-mobile blast in the central province of Hama killed at least 18 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Thursday's violence comes nearly a week after rebels launched an all-out attack on ISIL, and almost three years into a war that broke out after Assad's regime launched a brutal crackdown against dissent.
While jihadists were initially welcomed by rebels battling Assad's forces, ISIL became hated because of its systematic abuses and its bid to dominate areas that had fallen out of regime control.
In a counterattack, ISIL launched boom-mobile assaults late Wednesday against rival rebel checkpoints, the Observatory said.
"At least nine people were killed in a car kaboom by ISIL on a rebel checkpoint... in al-Bab town" in Aleppo province, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said similar attacks took place in Hreitan and Jarabulus in Aleppo province, and in Mayadeen in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
The attacks came after rebels overran ISIL's Aleppo headquarters on Wednesday, as claims emerged that the group had massacred prisoners there.
In Raqa city, fighting raged near the governorate building, which ISIL has for several months used as its headquarters.
While the rebels in Raqa city appeared to be advancing, ISIL was fighting back in the countryside, especially in the border town of Tal Abyad, from which they were expelled earlier this week.
ISIL is believed to be holding hundreds of activists, rival rebels and foreigners including journalists at several bases in Raqa province.
In less than a week, hundreds of fighters on both sides and scores of civilians have been killed.
Activists say Raqa has become "a city of ghosts", with bodies in the streets and people afraid to leave their houses because of the violence.
The fighting has not stopped the main conflict between opposition fighters and the regime.
At least 18 people, among them women and kiddies, were killed in the huge boom-mobileing in Kafat in central Hama province on Thursday, the Observatory said.
Much of the province, including Kafat, is still under regime control, and state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported the "terrorist" blast, saying 16 people were dead and tens more maimed.
In Aleppo, loyalist warplanes carried out a new air strike on the rebel-held district of Sheikh Maqsud.
A brutal aerial offensive by the regime against Aleppo that started on December 15 has killed hundreds of people, mostly civilians.
In southern Damascus, troops fired rockets at Yarmuk, a Paleostinian camp that has been under siege for a year, the Observatory said.
Some 20,000 of its pre-war 170,000 population are trapped with little food and medicine, and reports say 15 people have died from hunger in the camp since September.
On Thursday, the front man for the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees UNRWA described "profound civilian suffering" in the camp.
Chris Gunness said there was "widespread malnutrition" and reports of women dying in childbirth for lack of medical aid.
He urged the Syrian regime and other parties to allow aid into the camp, which is controlled by armed opposition fighters and under a tight Syrian army siege.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
meanwhile said an aid convoy carrying 5,000 food parcels had been blocked from entering Yarmuk by "terrorist gangs" who opened fire.
The violence comes less than two weeks away from a slated peace conference in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... .
The fractious opposition National Coalition has postponed a final decision on whether to attend the January 22 talks, but members said Thursday they face international pressure to participate.
"There have been clear signs indicating the Coalition must go to Geneva," said Coalition member Samir Nashar.
But he warned that the Coalition's legitimacy was at stake, amid widespread opposition towards the talks.
"The entire revolutionary movement in Syria is against Geneva," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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really, its
'Jihadists regain offensive from other Jihadists'
but that would offend both groups of Jihadists
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"Entire revolutionary movement in Syria is against Geneva", which explains, in part, why Iran is now Bammerika's new BFF + future OWG Globalist "Co-Superpower" in Syria + Middle East.
* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP] AL-QAEDA EXPLOITING SYRIA REBELLION TO ATTACK SHIITES ALLA CROSS THE MIDDLE EAST.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISIL: THE ISLAMIST GROUP THAT TERRORIZES THE MIDDLE EAST.
* SAME > [Al-Arabiya] US NON-LETHAL AID TO SYRIAN REBELS {still being] CONSIDERED.
Methinks its safe to say "TRIPLE FACE-PALM" IS REQUIRED HERE, WHENE THE FAIL IS SO GREAT ONE OR TWO JUST ISN'T ENOUGH.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[An Nahar] Authorities in Nigeria's central Plateau state said Thursday that 34 people were killed in a brutal village raid in the center of the country, in a revised deathtoll after the attack earlier this week.
[ABC.NET.AU] The father of a Pak teenager, who died after tackling a 
Nawaz Sharif
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