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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Something different... a new release by a Korean girl band..
Posted by: 3dc || 02/03/2014 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ...yeah...that was different...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 02/03/2014 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, someone doesn't love someone.
Posted by: no mo uro || 02/03/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Birthday Gam Shot

Angela Fong [aka Savannah] [Canuck][Filmography](age 28)



Fong in a Thong Design

Could be a Gritty Motorboat


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/03/2014 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Hubba Hubba!
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 02/03/2014 11:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Nuthin wrong with Fong.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/03/2014 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  That's not a gritty motorboat - I think that's an invitation to wrestle.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/03/2014 13:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Fongtastic!
Posted by: gorb || 02/03/2014 13:49 Comments || Top||

#9  3dc: no slight intended. Mrs. Phester like invited a houseful of like "tweener" Granddaughters to spend the like w/e with us including their like, er, musical accompaniment, like...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 02/03/2014 13:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Beginning to consider moving to Asia...
Posted by: Charles || 02/03/2014 14:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Just remember, of the two - its South Korea.... You don't want to go North...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/03/2014 14:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Unless you like the anorexic look, that is.
Posted by: gorb || 02/03/2014 14:49 Comments || Top||

#13  http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/angela-fong

Seeing photos of Angela in action... she could really hurt one while they were down.... hmm ...
Posted by: 3dc || 02/03/2014 15:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Ukraine Got Talent update.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2014 18:04 Comments || Top||

#15  Yes indeed Mr. B. That girl is doing some very difficult moves but also can put on a show. They made fun of her at the beginning but she won them all over.
Posted by: Dale || 02/03/2014 18:11 Comments || Top||

#16  I watched it 7 times. Couldn't understand a word of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2014 18:21 Comments || Top||

#17  Thanks for the video 3dc! Love me some K-Pop. Miss Fong has a pierced tongue. I wonder what that's all about.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 02/03/2014 20:25 Comments || Top||

#18  @ #14 Ukraine Got Talent update.
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-03 18:04:


...they certainly seem to have replicated some of the more interesting (and, I assume, lasting) aspects of Western Culture...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 02/03/2014 22:20 Comments || Top||

#19  Yes, she has added more drama. That's what artists do. Maureen O'Hara was and is a favorite of mine. She is in her 90's now. Very active in life that one. She also won over the hearts of men in her time. Alas, I am more of this sort but contented;

Posted by: Dale || 02/03/2014 22:33 Comments || Top||

#20  Don't try this at home :)

http://youtu.be/I7q6lWLjKzg

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Afghanistan
Afghan Presidential Candidate's Aides Shot Dead in Herat
[Tolo News] Unknown gunnies rubbed out two aides of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
late on Saturday in the western city of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, highlighting concerns about security in the run-up to the April vote.

Shujahudeen and Dr Faiz Ahmad Hamdard were rubbed out on Saturday around 06:30 pm by unknown gun men driving a car, officials said, while they were finishing campaigning for Abdullah, officials said.

"It's our rivals who are behind it," said Fazl Rahman Orya, a front man for Abdullah Abdullah, who declined to name anyone.

"No one coordinated with us regarding Dr Abdullah's electoral campaign and about their office. And regarding whether they were Dr Abdullah's electoral campaign aides or not, we cannot confirm that because till yet electoral campaigning are not started officially and there were no coordinating information with police from before," said Samiullah Qatra, Provincial Police Chief.

The killing occurred just one day before the official start of the election campaign.

Security officials in Herat province say no one has yet grabbed credit for the attack, and the police have started investigations.

Taliban faceless myrmidons have threatened to target the candidates.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Hey bra, an old man of Herat,
Born in Arabi, raised as a yat,
Was coldbloodedly shot
In Herat in his heart --
Now, in heaven by God's where he's at.

That decedent old man of Herat
Pinched his puls to save up for a yacht.
When he wanted a treat
He snuck out for pig's feet --
Dat mischievious yat of Herat!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/03/2014 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Bravo!
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2014 22:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
2 Killed in Clash at Terror-Linked Mombasa Mosque
Granted, the 'terror-linked' phrase in the headline is redundant in that part of the world...
Police opened fire on Muslim terrorists youths wielding daggers at a mosque linked to recruiting Islamic terrorists extremists, and at least one officer and a youth were killed, witnesses and officials said in the coastal resort and port city of Mombasa.

Police said they raided the mosque acting on intelligence that a meeting to recruit terrorists militants was going on.

A reporter at the scene saw police shoot and kill one person as they tried to disperse a growing crowd outside the Masjid Musa mosque, which has been the recent site of violent confrontations between young Muslim terrorists radicals and police.

A police officer who was stabbed in the face later died of his wounds, said Mombasa police commander Robert Kitur. Another police officer was stabbed in the stomach and is being treated at a local hospital, he said.
So the 'youts' with the knives were serious. Why are they still breathing?
Police later occupied the mosque and its precincts, Kitur said.

“We have arrested dozens of youths who attacked our officers while on duty at the mosque and they are under interrogation,” he said. “We have recovered a rifle that was robbed from one of our officers in the exercise. The officers were on a mission to remove radical paraphernalia from the mosque when they faced resistance.”

Kenyan police have linked the Masjid Musa mosque to recruitment of militants for Somalia’s al-Shabab terrorist organization, which claimed responsibility for an attack last year on an upscale shopping mall in which up to 67 people were killed in Nairobi, the capital. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab terrorist group said that attack was in retaliation for Kenya’s military involvement in Somalia, where the country’s troops are deployed as part of African Union troops fighting the terrorists militants.

Henry Ondieki, the Mombasa chief of criminal investigations, said police forcibly entered the mosque after getting intelligence that a meeting to recruit terrorists militants was underway. “This was not a normal day of prayers,” he said. “Their intention was clear: they were planning to recruit terrorists and attack innocent Kenyan civilians.”

Rights campaigners say the Kenyan government’s harsh counterterrorism measures are pushing Muslim youths toward extremism.
Yup, it's always government's fault. The imams and crazy elders never have anything to do with recruitment...
Posted by: Steve White || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Somali Govt troops and farmers clash in deadly battle
JOWHAR, Somalia -- At least five persons died and five others were wounded in a deadly battle between Somali Federal Government troops and armed farmers in Middle Shabelle region town of Balcad of southern Somalia on Sunday morning, Garowe Online reports.

The fighting broke out after quarrel over farmland tax degenerated into shoot-out, with witnesses reporting that angry farmers seized the control of the areas where the battle occurred from government soldiers.

Speaking-on Mogadishu-based radio station, elder Abdullahi Mohamed said that Somali government forces under the command of Balcad mayor began the gunfire: "Of the five people who were killed in the deadly clash, two of them succumbed to their injuries" he said via telephone from Balcad town.

The deaths included fighters from the opposing sides while government soldiers retreated from the town, residents said.

Balcad, about 36km north-east of Mogadishu was liberated from Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab militants on 26th of June 2012.
And now they don't want to pay their taxes...
Posted by: Steve White || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Abdullahi Mohamed said that Somali government forces under the command of Balcad mayor began the gunfire"

So, the Mayor wasn't getting a big enough cut?
Posted by: tipover || 02/03/2014 2:35 Comments || Top||


Africa North
3 Civilians Hurt in Bomb Attack on Egyptian Army in Sinai
[An Nahar] A boom-mobile targeting a bus carrying Egyptian soldiers maimed three civilians in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, security officials said.

An explosives-laden car exploded by remote control near government buildings in the town of Rafah, on the border with the Paleostinian Gazoo strip, they said.

The blast went off around 10 meters (yards) from the bus transporting soldiers who were on leave.

Militants have stepped up attacks on Egyptian security forces in north Sinai since the ouster 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...
in July, killing scores of soldiers and coppers.

The jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) has claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Egypt since Morsi's overthrow.

Analysts say the group is inspired by al-Qaeda, but Egyptian security officials claim it is derived from the now-banned Moslem Brüderbund, to which Morsi belongs.

The army has poured troops in the mountainous and underdeveloped peninsula to combat the growing militancy.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula


Egypt to try 20 Al-Jizz journalists on terrorism-related charges
Unless they've been caught red-handed making Molotov cocktails this is a bad idea for the military. They need to let them go; expel the foreigners if they wish but don't jug journalists unless you have real proof that they've crossed the line.
Egypt said 20 Al-Jazeera journalists, including both Egyptians and foreigners, will face trial on terrorism-related charges.

Among them are three journalists employed by Al-Jazeera English, the Qatari-based international news channel. Award-winning Australian correspondent Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian producer Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed were arrested on Dec. 29 in a raid on a Cairo hotel room, which the network was using as a temporary bureau. The Egyptian government alleges that 12 of the Al-Jazeera journalists remain at large, while eight are in state custody, including Greste, Fahmy and Baher.

Authorities have not set a date for the trial or released the full list of the defendants' names. However, in a statement released by the General Prosecutor's office, the Egyptian defendants have been charged with "crimes of belonging to terrorist organizations violating the law, calling for disrupting the law and preventing state institutions from conducting their affairs, assault on personal liberties of citizens and damaging national unity and social peace."

The foreign defendants were charged with collusion, broadcasting false news and effectively harming national security. The government also alleged foreign media were harming Egypt's image abroad.

"This attempt to criminalize legitimate journalistic work is what distorts Egypt's image abroad. The government's lack of tolerance shows that it is unable to handle criticism," said Sherif Mansour, the Middle East and North Africa coordinator of the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists.

The arrest and the charges brought against the journalists -- a first since a military-backed popular revolt removed Egypt's first democratically elected civilian President Mohammed Morsi from power in July -- have drawn strong international condemnation. The move has also led many journalists and human rights organizations to fear the Egyptian government may be expanding its crackdown to other groups beyond the Muslim Brotherhood, which backs Morsi and has been outlawed as a "terrorist organization."

Egypt has become among the most dangerous and difficult places to work for journalists.

"Today's decision by Egypt's chief prosecutor to refer a number of journalists to trial on alleged terrorism-related charges is a major setback for media freedom in Egypt," said Salil Shetty, secretary general of nonprofit Amnesty International. The organization considers the journalists to be prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to free expression, and is calling for them to be immediately and unconditionally released, according to a statement posted on the organization's website.

At a news conference in London Wednesday, Heather Allan, head of newsgathering for Al-Jazeera English, said the network was doing all it could to secure the release of all Al-Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt. Allan said some of the network's journalists have been held indefinitely, with their detentions renewed every 45 days without charge.

Conditions in the prisons are "horrific," according to Allan and letters smuggled out by Fahmy and Greste. Allan also added, "We continue to support them, we managed to get food in, toiletries in, blankets. There is nothing there, they don't give them anything even to sleep on, it's the floor, basically" and the provisions that have been taken in "have been taken away."

Egyptian authorities have depicted Al-Jazeera as biased toward Morsi and the Brotherhood, a description the network rejects.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Yemen rebels overrun tribal strongholds
Huthi rebels have overrun strongholds of powerful tribes in northern Yemen, witnesses said on Sunday, in a major advance following weeks of combat that have left scores dead.

The Huthis seized the town of Huth and Khamri village — the seat of the Hashid tribal chief, as tribal defence lines crumbled, local sources and witnesses said.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Peerabad Police Station attack leaves 2 cops injured
[Pak Daily Times] At least two coppers sustained injuries when unidentified cycle of violence-mounted attackers hurled a hand grenade at the main gate of Peerabad Police Station located in Orangi Town here on Saturday.

According to officials, unknown miscreants riding on two cycle of violences lobbed a hand grenade at the gate of the cop shoppe, and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after abandoning their vehicles and weapons.

"Police went after the attackers but they disappeared in the narrow streets of the residential area," officials said.

The stationhouse at which the attack was carried out has been attacked many times in the past too.

Wounded cops were shifted to nearby hospital where condition of one personnel has been reported as critical.

In recent days turbans have increased their attacks on security forces including police and Rangers in the troubled city.After the launch of crackdown, police and Rangers are now the target and are in the midst of targeted attacks, kabooms and other crimes. Pakistain's largest city, the commercial capital and home to more than 18 million people has been plagued with political and ethnic violence that has claimed close to 3,000 lives during 2013.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Grenade Attack on Cinema Kills 4 in NW Pakistan
[An Nahar] At least four people were killed and 31 maimed late Sunday when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistain, police and medics said.

The attack on the Picture House cinema 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.
, the region's main city, took place as some 90 people were watching a late night show of the film 'Ziddi Pakhtun' (Stubborn Pushtun), police said.

"At least four people have been killed and 31 injured. Attackers hurled two grenades and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace," Faisal Mukhtar, a senior police official, told Agence La Belle France Presse.

A stampede following the blasts was responsible for many of the injuries, Mukhtar added.

Jamil Shah, a front man for Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital said three dead bodies and 31 injured people had so far been taken to his hospital.

No one has yet grabbed credit for the attack, but police said that cinema houses in the city were already under threat.

"We had informed the cinema owner about the possible threats," Najeeb-ur-Rahman, a police brass hat, told AFP.

Peshawar is a frontline city in Pakistain's battle against Islamist bad boys, who regard films as sinful.

The Taliban closed down cinemas in the scenic Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
valley in the country's northwest which they controlled from 2007-2009.

The decline of cinema houses in Peshawar has also been accelerated by the advent of videos, DVDs and the Internet and today only seven remain.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Attacks Kill 21 as Iraq Forces Hit Anbar Militants
[An Nahar] Iraqi government forces pressed their assault on krazed killer strongholds in Anbar province Sunday as attacks elsewhere killed 21 people, with intensifying violence fueling fears of a return to all-out conflict.

The effort to win back parts of Ramadi, capital of the western province of Anbar and one of two cities that either entirely or partly fell out of government control weeks ago, comes with violence at its highest level since 2008.

Soldiers and police fought alongside armed pro-government rustics in southern Ramadi in some of the heaviest festivities of recent weeks, a police officer and an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist said.

They were making slow progress in retaking krazed killer-held neighborhoods as acting Defense Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi visited to oversee operations.

Two coppers said the assault enabled government forces to wrest back control of parts or most of several key areas of Ramadi, including the Malaab, Street 60, Humeirah and Albu Jabar districts.

On Saturday the defense ministry announced that warplanes and artillery had hit a neighborhood of northern 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...
a rare military operation inside the city itself.

The army has largely stayed out of Fallujah, a short drive from Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, fearing major incursions could ignite a protracted conflict with massive civilian casualties and damage to property.

U.S. battles in the city, a bastion of faceless myrmidons following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, were among their bloodiest since the Vietnam War.

For weeks, anti-government forces have held parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, the first time they have exercised such open control in cities since the peak of violence that followed the 2003 invasion.

The al-Qaeda-linked 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...
has been involved in the fighting, as have other krazed killer groups and anti-government tribes.

The police and the army have recruited their own tribal allies.

The stand-off has prompted more than 140,000 people to flee their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said, describing it as the worst displacement in Iraq since the peak of the 2006-2008 sectarian conflict.

Elsewhere in Iraq on Sunday, attacks in and around Storied Baghdad and north of the capital killed 21 people, security and medical officials said.

The deadliest violence struck in the town of Baiji, where a coordinated attack on an encampment of anti-Qaeda Sunni militiamen, or Sahwa fighters, killed eight people in all, security and medical officials said.

An initial gun attack on the base was followed by a suicide boom-mobile, with 17 others maimed.

Attacks in the areas of Storied Baghdad, Balad, Taji, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and Kirkuk killed 13 more people.

Violence has spiked markedly in recent months, with more than 1,000 people killed in January, the highest toll for a month since April 2008, according to government data.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Armed men storm government building in Baghdad
Armed men have assaulted an office of Iraq's transportation ministry in northeast Baghdad, killing at least 20 people and briefly taking a number of civil servants hostage, security officials have said, Aljazeera reported.

The attack was mounted by eight armed men, said police and an interior ministry official on Thursday. Four out of the eight are believed to have been killed in clashes with security forces.

"A terrorist group infiltrated the company, which is next to our building," said Kamal Amin, spokesman for the human rights ministry, which has offices next door. "For the safety of our employees, we have taken all necessary security measures and we have evacuated our building."

Security forces sealed off the surrounding area, which is home to other government offices, including the headquarters of the transport ministry and a human rights ministry building.

A spokesman for the human rights ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment made by the AFP news agency.

No group claimed responsibility for the assault, but fighters affiliated with the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have in the past mounted similar armed attacks on Iraqi government buildings.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Withdraws 'Anti-Missile' Force from Israel Border
[An Nahar] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers of Gazoo have withdrawn a special security force tasked with preventing rocket launches at Israel from their position near the border, a security source said on Sunday.

"The field forces that are posted near the border with Israel were withdrawn yesterday evening to protest the latest escalation and Israeli attacks against Gazoo," a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told AFP that while the 600-strong rocket-prevention force was removed, regular security forces remained in place.

The move comes a day after Israeli fighter jets attacked Hamas military positions in the Paleostinian enclave in response to a rocket attack at a southern Israeli town.

Tensions have risen in and around Gazoo after a year of relative calm, with six Paleostinians and an Israeli killed since December 20 and myrmidon rocket fire sparking retaliatory air strikes.

On January 21, Hamas said it had deployed forces in Gazoo to "preserve the truce" with Israel that ended the last major confrontation in November 2012.

While Hamas does not routinely launch projectiles at the Jewish state, Israel says it holds the Islamist group that seized power in Gazoo in 2007 responsible for any such attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Southeast Asia
Ambush in southern Thailand kills four
Three soldiers and an assistant district chief were gunned down and five others injured after a roadside bomb attack while on their way to rescue security volunteers at a checkpoint in Khok Pho in Pattani province, officials said yesterday. Police said the terrorists insurgents started the attack by spraying bullets at defense volunteers at a checkpoint to lure other security officials to the scene to rescue them.

Authorities accompanied by soldiers in an armored car had not reached the checkpoint when their vehicles were hit by an improvised explosive device. After the blast, they requested backup, both by land and air, because the terrorists insurgents threw nails around the scene.

Pattani's provincial governor said all officials were alive after the bombing but the terrorists insurgents came out from hiding and sprayed bullets at them before fighting erupted, leading to the casualties.
Posted by: ryuge || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tension in Ain el-Hilweh after Killing of Fatah Member
[An Nahar] The relatives of a Paleostinian man rubbed out in the southern refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole blocked on Sunday main roads to protest his murder, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.

NNA said Wissam Abul Kel, a member of Fatah, died after masked men shot him near the camp's grocery market.

Members of his family blocked roads in al-Fawqani neighborhood and held a protest, it said.

The Paleostinian follow-up committee held contacts to bring life back to normal in the area, NNA added.

Ein el-Hellhole, the largest Paleostinian camp in the country, is home to about 50,000 refugees and is known to harbor forces of Evil and runaways.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Fatah


Strict Security Measures in Dahr al-Baydar amid Reports of 'Beirut-Bound Bomb-Laden Car'
[An Nahar] The army on Sunday took strict security measures at its checkpoint in Dahr al-Baydar, especially on the lane leading to Beirut, over reports about a bomb-laden car, state-run National News Agency reported.

The measures "created a traffic jam in the vicinity of the checkpoint, which reached as far as al-Mreijat," NNA said.

Al-Jadeed television also reported that "the Dahr al-Baydar-Beirut road is witnessing a severe traffic jam, especially at the army's checkpoint in al-Namliyeh, after reports said a booby-trapped car had moved from the Bekaa."

The Traffic Management Center announced on its Twitter account that the traffic jam was created by "strict measures at the checkpoints of security forces."

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
a security source denied to Voice of Leb radio (100.5) that a booby-trapped car was headed from the Bekaa to Beirut.

"The strict security measures at the army's checkpoints were taken in light of the security situation in the country," the source noted.

On Saturday, a suicide boom-mobileing rocked the Bekaa town of Hermel, leaving three people dead and 28 others injured. The attack was claimed by a group calling itself al-Nusra Front in Leb, an apparent offshoot of the Syria-based krazed killer group.

Several cars that were used in previous bombings in Leb had reportedly entered the country from the Syrian rebel strongholds of al-Qalamoun and Yabrud.
Posted by: Fred || 02/03/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


36 Dead in Aleppo Air Raids after 85 Killed on Saturday
[An Nahar] At least 36 people were killed Sunday in regime air strikes and aerial attacks with explosive-packed barrels on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime aircraft carried out a series of deadly air strikes for a second day in eastern parts of the city.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse that most of the dead were killed in several raids in which regime helicopters dropped so-called barrel bombs on the Tariq al-Bab district.

He said 21 people were killed in three strikes in the eastern neighborhood, among them 13 children.

The other deaths were in additional air strikes and barrel kabooms in the city, which is divided between regime and rebel control.

The latest bloodshed comes a day after at least 85 people were killed in a string of barrel kabooms and aerial raids, according to the Observatory.

The Britannia-based group relies on a network of activists and other sources on the ground for its reporting.

Government troops have been advancing in the area around Aleppo city, once the country's economic hub.

The al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the government, said Sunday that government troops had seized control of most of the east Karam al-Turab district -- which the Observatory confirmed.

The newspaper said troops were seeking to take control of several eastern and northern districts in a bid to recapture large swathes of the city, where fighting began in mid-2012.

In recent months, the army has seized parts of the province from rebels, including the area around Aleppo airport, which was closed for nearly a year because of fighting nearby.

The airport was reopened to air traffic last month.

The newspaper said "vast military operations" were also underway to capture the majority Turkmen town of Zara in central Homs province, near the famed Krak des Chevaliers castle and the Lebanese border.

The Observatory confirmed the army had seized most of Karam al-Turab, and said fierce fighting was underway around Zara.

It also seven people, six men and a women had been killed in a regime air raid on the town of Mleha, southeast of Damascus.

The latest violence came the day after Syrian government and opposition delegations wrapped up peace talks in Geneva without tangible results or a government commitment to return to the table.

On Sunday, state news agency SANA carried scathing remarks from deputy foreign minister Faisal al-Muqdad, who accused the opposition of being "mercenaries manipulated by foreign forces."

Al-Watan added that the conflict had "transferred to the political and diplomatic field, which is one that the Syrians know well."

"Syria has a strong army of diplomats and politicians who can defeat all those they face," the paper said.

A top international goal for the talks was greater humanitarian access, particularly in besieged areas like the Old City of Homs.

No deal was forthcoming and Western nations are now planning a U.N. Security Council resolution on the issue, as well as possibly on the slow pace of a program to move Syria's chemical weapons out of the country.

Despite not being on the agenda at the talks, aid has entered the besieged Paleostinian refugee camp Yarmuk on the outskirts of Damascus.

On Sunday, the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees UNRWA distributed hundreds of food parcels for the fourth consecutive day.

UNRWA front man Chris Gunness said 3,420 food parcels had been delivered to the estimated 18,000 people trapped in the camp since the agency gained access to it on January 18.
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Syrian Shells Hit Akkar Houses as Warplanes 'Violate Lebanese Airspace'
[An Nahar] Two houses were badly damaged Sunday by shells fired from Syria on the Akkar town of al-Uwaynat as Syrian warplanes reportedly violated the Lebanese airspace over several towns in the region.

"Shells fired from the Syrian side of the border have been targeting the border town of al-Uwaynat since the afternoon," Leb's National News Agency reported in the evening.

"One of the shells hit the house of Shbib Shbib, causing extensive damage," NNA added.

It noted that the house of Lebanese citizen Elias Kafrouni was also hit by a tank shell that "caused major damage but no casualties."

"A third shell landed near the water tank that supplies the town with drinking water," NNA added.
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#1  But!!!! Sovereignity!!111!!!1!!!eleventy!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/03/2014 11:56 Comments || Top||


Al Qaeda fighters in Syria kill rival rebel leader
Syrian activists say Al Qaeda fighters have killed the military leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near the northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that the Al Qaeda linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant killed 26 people in the Saturday attack, near the base of a rival rebel group.

The Syrian rebel group, known as the Tawheed Brigades, confirmed the attack on Twitter, saying in an interview they posted that their number three commander, Adnan Bakour was killed.
"Good news, sub-commander! We have a new position open!"
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