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Police in Malindi have said a ballistic analysis has confirmed that slain Al Shabaab suspect Ali Mohamed Delawa, killed counter-terrorism agent Ahmed Abdalla Bakhshwein on January 28 this year using a stolen US rifle.
Delawa was killed on February 1, and police say an analysis of the US Colt .45mm rifle and 5 rounds of ammunition found on him when he was murdered in Ngala estate Malindi, link him to several gun and grenade attacks in Kwale. Bakhshwein was a former police reservist, who also assisted US and Kenya counter-terrorism efforts in Somalia and on the Kenyan coast.
Delawa was also on the polices most wanted list with alleged links to Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda. Police claim that he belonged to a terrorist cell that was exterminating counter-terrorism agents.
On Thursday, Malindi District Criminal Investigation Officer Mr John Ndungu said Delawa was in a list of most wanted criminals and alleged that he was involved in Bakhshweins killing and a series of criminal attacks in Kwale and Diani towns on the Kenyan south coast. Mr Ndungu said a report from government ballistic expert revealed that the gun recovered from Delawa after he was shot dead by a police officer was the one used to kill Bakshwein and had also been used in other south coast robberies.
The ballistic experts have indeed confirmed that the firearm recovered from the shot thugs was the one that was used in Malindi, Kwale and Diani shootings, Mr Ndungu noted adding that closed Circuit Television had also captured Delawa shooting Bakshwein in his car.
Two of Delawas accomplice escaped on a motorbike after Bakhshweins killing near Malindi police station. They had gunshot wounds, according to police but are yet to be apprehended.
According to police sources Delawa was a member of a terror group and he had recently entered the country from Somalia where he had undergone a military training. The colt rifle is believed to have been stolen from US Special Forces in Somalia in the 1990s.
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News from Marka the headquarter town of the volatile Lower Shabelle region say that confrontations and heavy explosions were heard after an AMISOM armored vehicles hunted down Alshabab fighters between El Kanin and Danane divisions.
Residents of the Marka town confirmed to Shabelle radio in Mogadishu that the hunt down changed to a heavy confrontation between the fighting sides. The exact figure of casualties suffered by the fighting sides has not yet been established yet.
On the other side, a blast occurred in Marka town targeting an AMISOM water tank. The AMISOM troops opened gunfire immediately after the blast killing 1 civilian. Both AMISOM troops and Alshabab fighters are yet to comment on the fighting in the lower Shabelle region.
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Seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the entrance of Mogadishus heavily-guarded international airport where many foreign diplomats are based, police said.
Armed group al-Shabaab told Al Jazeera that they detonated the bomb and that the target was a United Nations convoy.
We claim responsibility for the Martyrdom operation. We have killed three white UN staff and injured one, Abdul Aziz Musab, the groups military operations spokesman, said.
The spokesman also told Al Jazeera the group had fired mortars at the presidential palace on Wednesday.
A car laden with explosives was remotely exploded in front of a tea shop just outside the airport, senior police officer Colonel Abdikadir Ahmed told the Reuters news agency. So far we have confirmed 7 people dead and 15 others injured. Many cars got burnt. We believe al-Shabab was behind the attack.
Ahmed Omar, a member of airport staff, told Reuters a earth-shattering kaboom deafening blast rang out near the airport and then the sky was covered with smoke.
Although al-Shabab were pushed out of Mogadishu in 2011 by African Union peacekeeping troops, they have carried out several bombings in Mogadishu targeting government officials and foreign nationals.
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[Egypt Independent] Warraq coppers in Giza tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Thursday three assailants in a car after allegedly throwing a bomb at the cop shoppe.
Authorities said the assailants were members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
The bomb was defused by explosives experts.
Security forces followed the suspects' car and after making the arrest, they were taken to the cop shoppe and will be referred to prosecution.
The suspects were found to be in possession of machine guns and three bombs, said Amr Saudi, chief detective of Warraq cop shoppe.
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[Egypt Independent] A security source said three were locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on charges of killing a policeman and wounding another during a march of supporters of President Mohammed Morsy in front of a church in Ain Shams on Wednesday.
Police allegedly found with them the murder weapon, an iron pipe stained with blood.
Authorities say the men were members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
The source also said another two members of the Brotherhood were arrested on charges of inciting demonstrations and violence.
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[MAGHAREBIA] In the latest assault on Libyan media, gunnies attacked the 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... headquarters of al-Assema TV early Wednesday (February 12th).
Three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the building, lightly wounding a guard, AFP reported. The assailants ransacked offices and kidnapped several employees for a few hours.
The channel has been accused by Islamists of urging people to demonstrate against the General National Congress (GNC). The privately owned station was also assaulted last March.
On Sunday, Al-Wataniya TV news hounds Ibrahim Abdel-Gader, Sadam Al-Rashidi and Ibrahim Al-Wafi, along with Abdel-Gader's brothers Ramadan and Shaban, were kidnapped on Tripoli's Airport Road.
The five men from Sabha have not been seen since.
Tarablus editor and LANA news hound Younes Ali Younes was also briefly kidnapped. Younes was taken Monday and released a day later unharmed.
"The party behind the kidnapping is still unknown, and so are the reasons. It may be because of the attitudes and opinions he writes in the newspaper," his brother Meftah Ben Younes told Magharebia in a telephone conversation.
LANA director Abdel Basset Abudiah said a colleague was with Younes at the time of the abduction.
"They were surprised by a car from which four to five people came out, including some wearing military uniforms and snatched Younes. He said that when he tried to speak with them, they threatened to arrest him too," Abudiah said.
Abudiah pointed out that no one knew the reason for the kidnapping.
"Our news features are credible because they are from official sources and we deal with information professionally and patiently," the LANA director pointed out.
Abudiah asked for protection for the media that had suffered "more than once from attacks due to news that some believe is not in their favour".
Targeting the media is a direct infringement on freedom of expression, he added.
A statement issued by LANA condemned the kidnapping and considered it "incompatible with international conventions and international laws, [and] all guarantors of the freedom of the media".
"Such criminal acts will not deter us from continuing our national and professional duties in spreading the bare truth and transmitting it to the domestic and international public neutrally and professionally without bias to a particular party or person. We put the interests of the country first and foremost," the statement added.
It also asked that "the competent authorities in the Ministry of Interior take responsibility in finding and tracking the kidnappers and those who stand behind them".
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[An Nahar] 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... gunnies killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told Agence La Belle France Prese Thursday.
The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali area of Adamawa state when they were bombarded by Salafist tough guys armed with anti-aircraft weapons mounted on the backs of 4X4 trucks, said Maina Ularamu, a local government official in the area.
"There was heavy fighting yesterday evening between soldiers and Boko Haram gunnies," Ularamu said.
He added that the Islamists "ambushed a military convoy on a mission to avert a planned attack... on Izhe village."
Adamawa is one of three northeastern states which has been under emergency rule since May, when the military launched a major operation to crush the Islamist uprising.
A source at the Federal Medical center in the state capital Yola told AFP the hospital "received nine bodies of military personnel on (Wednesday) night from Madagali district."
Ularamu said the fierce shootout that followed the Boko Haram ambush caused "casualties on both sides" but could not provide figures.
The clash was the latest in Boko Haram's krazed killer insurgency which has caused thousands of deaths since 2009, especially in the northeast.
On Tuesday, in neighboring Borno state, at least 43 people were killed in two separate attacks blamed on the Islamists.
The deadliest raid struck the town of Konduga, where scores of gunnies razed more than half the village, spraying gunfire on fleeing civilians and killing 39.
Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create a strict Islamic state in the mainly Mohammedan northern half of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and top oil producer.
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[An Nahar] Fourteen inmates, mostly from al-Qaeda, managed to escape from the central prison in Yemen's capital Thursday when gunnies launched a deadly assault on the facility, officials said.
Seven coppers and three gunnies were killed, according to the interior ministry and security officials.
Another two coppers and two gunnies were maimed, and one of the attackers was captured, the ministry said.
The two-pronged attack began when an explosives-laden vehicle went kaboom! at the facility's eastern entrance, breaching a hole in the prison fence, security officials said.
At the same time, gunnies attacked guards at the main entrance, creating a diversion that allowed some of the prisoners to escape through the hole in the fence.
One official told Agence La Belle France Presse that "14, mostly al-Qaeda inmates" had fled.
Nasser al-Wuhayshi, chief of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- seen by the United States as the network's deadliest franchise -- vowed in August to free imprisoned members of his network.
Wuhayshi himself beat feet from the same Sanaa prison with 22 other members of AQAP in February 2006 and was named as the group's leader a year later.
The AQAP detainees escaped through a 44-meter (145-foot) tunnel they dug between their cell and a nearby mosque.
AQAP has taken advantage of the weakening of the central government in Sanaa since a popular uprising that toppled president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... in 2011.
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[An Nahar] Yemen has handed over 29 Saudis wanted for suspected links to al-Qaeda, the interior ministry announced on Thursday.
"As part of joint efforts between security services in the two countries, the kingdom has received 29 Saudis... (who) had joined al-Qaeda in Yemen," interior ministry front man General Mansur al-Turki told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Eleven of them had already been tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and later released from prison in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Yemen's oil-rich neighbor, he said.
Nine others were on trial in the kingdom when they fled, said Turki.
The defense ministry in Sanaa announced the handover this week without giving details.
Saudi authorities are hunting for dozens of the ultra-conservative kingdom's citizens who have joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen.
Former prisoners at the U.S. Guantanamo prison who had been returned to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation in December 2006 later escaped to Yemen, two years ago after completing a reform program.
Saudi and Yemeni al-Qaeda branches merged in January 2009 to form AQAP, posing a serious threat to Western interests across the region.
After a wave of deadly al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, Saudi authorities launched a crackdown on the local branch of the group founded by the late the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... , himself Saudi-born.
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Attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the main prison in Yemen's capital on Thursday in a failed attempt to free inmates, security sources and witnesses said, Reuters reported.
I've seen this movie, it's on all the late-night channels lately...
Explosions and gunfire between security forces and the attackers could be heard several kilometers away from the prison in northern Sanaa, which has al Qaeda members among its inmates. The biggest explosion rattled windows in the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but witnesses saw ambulances driving towards the high-security prison, which police secured after the 30-minute gunfight.
Attackers fired at least one rocket at a police patrol vehicle outside the main prison gates, a police officer at the scene said. Police sealed off the road to the airport which runs through the neighborhood where the prison is located, close to the Interior Ministry. Special forces and armed personnel carriers were being sent in to chase the attackers, a security source said. The attackers failed to enter the prison.
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Seven individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in southern Chihuahua state, including two Chihuahua state police agents according to Mexican news accounts.
A Chihuahua state police raid in Bocoyna municipality took the lives of three people, including two men and one woman.
According to a news report posted on the online edition of El Diario de Juarez news daily, a Policia Estatal Unica unit was dispatched to a farmhouse near the village of San Juanito on reports of armed suspects in the area Wednesday. At the location, the police agents were fired on. Police return fire hit and killed three.
One police agent were reported wounded in the encounter, but his wounds were not life threatening. A later news account said that three unidentified individuals were detained at the scene.
Police seized six rifles, one 9mm pistol,ammunition, tactical gear and several dozen vehicles.
Following the confrontation Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas announced he would send additional police reinforcements to the area.
Later that same day armed suspects ambushed a police unit in Bocoyna municipality. According to a news account on the website of El Diario de Juarez, apparently in response to the police raid.
According to a report by the FGE, the attack took place on the road linking San Pedro to San Juanito at about the 24 kilometer marker. A total of four police agents were wounded, and two were killed on the gunfight. El Diario de Juarez said that the wounded total for the police was seven.
The area is said to be reinforced with state and federal forces, and one Mexican Army unit on patrol as a result of the new encounter.
Meanwhile in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality, two brothers were killed in an apparent home invasion Monday, according to a separate news report which appeared in on the website of El Diario de Juarez.
The victims were identified in the news account as Eufronio Ramos, 33, and Martin Olivas, 28.
The attack took place in the village of La Soledad de Abajo where several armed suspects entered the residence of an unidentified acquaintance of the two victims demanding firearms. The armed suspects searched the residence then took the three victims with them after failing to find weapons. The shooters then shot the victims a short distance away. The third victim was apparently wounded at the scene.
The bodies of the victims were found about 200 yards away. Police found spent cartridge casings for AK-47, AR-15 and .40 caliber.
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] French police have detained an Egyptian national on suspicion of carrying explosives on board a Gay Paree-Venice night train, Besancon prosecutor Alain Saffar told Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday.
The man, who is 33 and lives in Italia, was taken off the train late Wednesday and placed in jug after customs officials who had boarded the train at the French city of Dijon confiscated a plastic bottle wrapped in aluminium foil.
After tests were carried out by a mobile laboratory at a border customs post at Vallorbe in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , an investigation for "transport and possession of explosive products" has been opened, Saffar said.
"The product contained in the bottle had some positive reactions to tests on explosive substances," Saffar said, but cautioned that "these tests are simply an indication, we need more precise analysis to determine exactly what it is."
He added that the tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Egyptian "said he did not know the nature of the products he was carrying."
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We are saved! Yes, the vigilant Swiss
Have detected a bottle of piss --
Its deadly aroma
When mixed with ammonia
Is a threat that we must not dismiss!
[Tolo News] At least 13 persons were killed and 47 others, including civilians, were maimed Thursday morning in an kaboom targeting a police bus near Razzaqabad police training college 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... 's Shah Latif Town.
The attack came early in the morning. "Apparently an car bomb hit the police bus transporting officials for security duty," Muhammad Iqbal, a senior police official, told AFP.
Rescue teams reached the site of attack whereas the victims were shifted to Jinnah Hospital and a private hospital nearby in the locality.
Doctor Seemi Jamali at Karachi's Jinnah hospital confirmed that there were at least 11 dead. At least 47 maimed officers were hospitalised, 10 of whom were at death's door, she said.
SSP Farooq Awan, who heads a special investigative unit, said the bus was making a U-turn after leaving a training centre when a small van struck it.
According to initial reports, 25 to 30 kilograms of explosives were used in the attack.
Police said that more than 50 officers were boarding the vehicle at the time of attack, which occurred in the eastern district of Karachi close to the national highway.
"Around 50-55 coppers were boarding the bus and going somewhere for duty from their training centre," Iqbal said adding that police suspect it was a suicide kaboom.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
The rear portion of the targeted bus was completely destroyed in the kaboom.
Moreover, additional contingents of police, Rangers and the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) reached the spot and cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
The intensive blast was heard in a radius of two kilometres.
Moreover, President Mamnoon Hussain,aa 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... Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch, Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... chief Altaf Hussain and the Majlis Wahdat-e-Moslemeen (MWM) issued statements in condemnation of the attack .
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[DAWN] Gunmen snatched two senior government officials after overpowering their subordinates in Pakistain's restive southwestern province 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... on Thursday, officials said.
The incident happened in Tump town, Kechh district, some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) southwest of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas rich province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.
"The deputy commissioner and the assistant commissioner of Kechh district were returning after a meeting with Iranian border officials when they were intercepted by dozens of gunnies," provincial home secretary Adil Gilani told AFP.
He said the gunnies overpowered at least 18 staff and security personnel accompanying the two officials and ordered the convoy to follow them.
The gunnies later allowed the staff and security personnel to go but took away the deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner.
Another senior local official Abdul Fateh Bhangar confirmed the incident.
No group has so far grabbed credit but Balochistan, one of Pakistain's most unstable provinces, is rife with separatist and Islamist gunnies and is plagued by sectarian bloodshed.
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[DAWN] Militants killed eight members of the family of an anti-Taliban volunteer when they attacked his house in the nearby Mashokhel village with light and heavy weapons on Wednesday. A guest of the family also lost his life.
The Mashokhel Qaumi Lashkar's chief Pir Israr Shah, his son Sadaqat Shah, brothers Mohammad Haji and Saeed Wali, nephews Yasir Shah, Sabir Shah, Akhtar Ali and Sadam died in the attack. The guest was identified as Rehmat.This was the ninth myrmidon attack 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. and its suburbs this month.
According to Badbher police, the attackers lobbed grenades on the house where people were asleep and opened fire on the male members of the family. "The mud-built house collapsed after a grenade blast," an official said.
The attackers were said to have come on foot and escaped without facing any resistance.The villagers avoided saying anything on record fearing myrmidons' reprisal but a peace volunteer said the men had been killed in the presence of women of the family. The attackers also took away weapons and the women's jewellery, he said.
Peshawar Rural Circle DSP Fazal Wahid Khan told news hounds that the turbans had earlier killed a relative of the victims and one of the attackers had been killed in an encounter on Feb 2.
He said the incident was a reaction to the killing in the encounter.
Asif Khan, who leads the Bazidkhel Qaumi Lashkar, told this news hound that the government had abandoned peace workers who were neither getting arms and ammunition nor ration, although they were called for help whenever police needed them during action against the Taliban.
"The family was on the 'hit list' of the Taliban and a Khyber Agency-based myrmidon group of Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... because they supported police in encounters with terrorists," he said.
He said the gunnies now had supporters in the suburbs of Peshawar and could easily escape after committing a crime.
"We know those who are facilitating the turbans in various villages and have pointed them out to the law-enforcement agencies but action has not been taken against them. We are running short of arms and ammunition and our volunteers are in dire need of ration," he said.
He said the 'Shahid Group' of Taliban was very active in parts of Peshawar and the government must act against them; otherwise the rest of the peace bodies' chiefs would also be attacked.
The people, he said, aspired for peace and wanted the negotiations between the government and Taliban to succeed.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Governor Engineer Shaukatullah termed the attack the worst act of inhumanity.
The governor said no effort would be spared to nab the elements involved in the crime and bring them to justice.
The chief minister announced a compensation of Rs50,000 under the Shuhada Package for the heir of each victim.
He said anti-state elements had been exposed after the launching of negotiations with the Taliban and foreseeing their failure they were trying to demoralise people through their terrorist activities.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Four men allegedly belonging to a criminal gang operating in Malir were killed in two incidents, police said on Wednesday.
They said that a joint raid of police and Rangers was carried out in Salar Goth where in an ensuing encounter two suspects were bumped off.
They were identified as Muhammad Arif alias Billa, 28, and Shan alias Shani Mohajir, 28.
Malir City DSP Rao Muhammad Iqbal said that they were members of the Sohail Dada gang, which is also linked with gangs in Lyari.
Earlier, the Memon Goth police said two young men were found rubbed out in 'Ber Sharif ground'.
The bodies were moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination. They were identified as Aman alias PMT, 22, and Muhammad Asif, 23.
Memon Goth SHO Naeem Khan claimed that they were members of the Sohail Dada gang.
They lived in Ghazi Goth and Daud Goth, respectively, he added.
Also on Tuesday, bodies of two faceless myrmidons were found within the remit of the same cop shoppe.
According to the Memon Goth SHO, the two men were identified on Wednesday as Gul Rehman and Muhammad Ali. Both of them were also members of the Sohail Dada gang, he claimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... area people, especially women and kiddies, erupted into the streets to lodge their protest against the targeted operation of the law enforcement agencies.
The protesters staged a demonstration outside the Malir district courts, where the police resorted to teargas shelling to disperse them.
The Malir City police said that no one was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and the protesters dispersed after the police lobbed 'three to four teargas shells' and the National Highway was cleared for traffic.
Man rubbed out in 'sectarian' attack
A man was bumped off in suspected sectarian attack in Federal B Area on Wednesday evening.
The Yousuf Plaza police said that Qari Jamil Rehman, 35, was riding a cycle of violence when gunnies, also on a cycle of violence, targeted him near Saghir Centre.
A passer-by, Shahid Zaman, was also hurt in the firing.
Qari Rehman sustained five bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim!
The police said the victim was a resident of Quaid-e-Azam Colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He left his residence for Sakhi Hasan to teach children Koran. It appeared that the assailants chased him and then targeted him.
It might be a case of sectarian killing, said SSP-Central Amir Farooqi.
He said the victim returned to the city from his native town in Punjab on Tuesday.
Killing in Pak Colony
A young man was rubbed out in Pak Colony on Wednesday, according to police.
They said that Kashif Iqbal was standing outside his home in Moslemabad in Old Golimar when gunnies fired at him and fled.
The maimed was taken to the Civil Hospital 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... where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim!
Pak Colony SHO Munir Chandio said that the victim, who originally hailed from Hazara, was killed over an old enmity.
Guard killed
A private security guard was killed in the Shahrah-e-Noor Jehan area under mysterious circumstances, police said.
They said that Yaqub Akbar, 37, was performing his duty in North Nazimabad's Block-I when a bullet fired from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location hit him in the back. He was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim!
The police said they were probing the incident.
Suspect killed in 'encounter'
A suspected robber was rubbed out in a police encounter in the Rizvia Society area on Wednesday, police said.
Rizvia Society SHO Hasan Haider said that three suspects got off from a rickshaw at Lasbella bridge and entered a passenger bus and started looting the commuters. When the bus reached near the Hyderi mosque in Gulbahar, the passengers raised a hue and cry, alerting a police patrol.
The coppers chased the suspects and in an ensuing encounter two of them suffered bullet wounds. Afzal Abdullah, a suspect, was arrested but his accomplice managed to escape in a rickshaw along with the second maimed suspect, Asfar Khan. Later, he was found dead in the rickshaw in the Jamshed Quarters area.
The body and the maimed were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Man killed in Mubarak village
An elderly man, identified as Haroon Hasil, 65, was rubbed out in Mubarak Village on Wednesday.
The Mauripur police said he was killed allegedly by his nephew Khurram over a land dispute. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
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[DAWN] Five coppers belonging to the Anti-Car-Lifting Cell (ACLC) were sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court on Wednesday for killing four Baloch traders in a staged encounter.
The then station house officer of the ACLC, Malik Irshad Hussain, and constables Zafar Ali, Zahoor Khan, Zaheer Mirza and Noor Mohammad Shah were found guilty of killing the four traders 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... -- Haji Mohammad Tahir Achakzai, Obaidullah Khan Tareen, Mohammad Ibrahim Achakzai, and Zainuddin Khan Achakzai -- on the night of Dec 31, 2008 on Khalid bin Waleed Road in Ferozabad.
Judge Saleem Raza Baloch of the ATC-III read out the conviction order after recording evidence of witnesses and arguments from both sides.
The court also issued directives for confiscating property of the convicts.
The court ruled that all the accused persons being members of a police team had collectively with their common intention committed the murder of four traders; thus they were sentenced to death on four counts.
The killing had prompted a chain of protests particularly in Balochistan and especially when the police registered a manslaughter case against the police team and also booked the slain traders in three fabricated cases in order to cover up their high-handedness.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Supreme Court took suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice and ordered the authorities to register a premeditated murder case against the police party. Subsequently, a case was registered on a complaint of Haji Lala Khan, the father of one of the four victims.
On Wednesday, four accused were brought to court from prison, while the fifth one, Zafar, was present in court on bail.
The judge read out his verdict and handed down capital punishment to the convicts, but maintained that its implementation was subjected to the confirmation of the high court.
After the verdict, the complainant broke into tears.
Expressing contentment over the verdict, he said justice was done. The defence side said that they would challenge the verdict in the high court.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Two suspects described as 'potential terrorists' were tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the police during a raid in the capital's suburbs on Wednesday.
According to the police, the arrest was made during a raid at Ittefaq Colony in Tarnol.
The suspects were identified as natives of Katlang in Mardan and Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... and had been living in the colony since 2007.
During the raid the police also seized 5kg explosives. However there were no detonators.
The police said the affiliation of the suspects with any banned bad boy outfit is yet to be established. Besides "they are not experts in making bomb".
The suspects were experimenting on blowing up the explosive without using detonators, and had carried out two unsuccessful experiments.
The father of one suspect was a retired hawldar of Frontier Constabulary, and was now a labourer with a contractor.
During interrogation one of the suspects told police that they were experimenting on a new method of carrying out kabooms and used it at a worship place in Tarnol.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... his accomplice gave a contradictory statement and said they were trying to make explosives to uproot trees and later sell them for money, the police said.
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[Haaretz] Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded another on Thursday in the Gaza Strip, local hospital officials said.
Relatives who rushed to a Gaza City hospital said Ibrahim Mansour, 26, was collecting gravel to sell from his donkey cart when he was shot dead. The Israeli military said soldiers fired at Palestinians tampering with Israel's border security fence. We're innocent gravel merchants, why do they hate us ?
"The soldiers took action in order to distance the Palestinians from the fence. They called on them to stop and fired in the air. When that did not help, they fired at the main instigator," an Israeli military spokesman said. Hey you there, gravel merchant. Move along or we'll shoot !
He said that since the beginning of the year, three explosive devices were detonated against Israeli forces patrolling the fence. Three too many, keep an eye on the gravel merchants and anyone else coming near the fence.
The Islamist Hamas group, which runs the Gaza Strip, and other Palestinian factions have voiced commitment to a ceasefire reached with Israel in 2012, but have cautioned that Israeli "violations" could cause the truce to collapse. "Truce to collapse"....as planned.
Israel's army said on Twitter that 28 rockets were fired from Gaza in January alone. Israel has mounted air strikes against militants it holds responsible for such attacks.
[An Nahar] A suspect belonging to the Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... was charged on Thursday as the military examining magistrate issued an arrest warrant against another suspected terrorist.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged Nawwaf Hussein for his ties with Sheikh Omar al-Atrash and for belonging to an armed terrorist organization.
The charges against him also include his participation in two bombings that have rocked the Haret Hreik district of Beirut's southern suburbs.
Saqr refered him to Military Examining Magistrate Nabil Wehbe.
Al-Atrash, a holy man from the Bekaa Valley who was incarcerated Please don't kill me! last month, has been charged with detonating bombs and explosive-rigged vehicles, attacking the army in Majdelyoun and al-Awwali bridge areas in the southern city of Sidon and launching rockets on Israel.
On Wednesday, the Lebanese army arrested a Paleostinian leader in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Naim Abbas, who was described as the group's number two man in Leb.
Also Thursday Military Examining Magistrate Imad al-Zain issued an arrest warrant against Mohammed Aa. for belonging to a terrorist organization and for having ties with Jamal Daftardar.
Another Paleostinian, who is not in jug, was charged along with Mohammed on Tuesday.
Daftardar, who was arrested in the western Bekaa region on January 15, has been charged with belonging to the Ziad al-Jarrah Battalion, which is part of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
Several of the latest attacks on Hizbullah strongholds have been claimed by the brigades whose leader Majed al-Majed was captured by Lebanese authorities in December and died in jug later month.
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[An Nahar] Fourteen cars have entered the northeastern town of Arsal from Syria carrying suspects from Lebanese and Gulf nationalities in addition to arms and ammunition, As Safir daily reported on Thursday.
The newspaper said that the 14 four-wheelers, which also transported huge sums of money, entered Arsal on February 8.
But the suspects were given fake IDs and four vans were put at their disposal to transport them to the North, Beirut and the central Bekaa at dawn Tuesday, the report said.
As Safir identified Abdul Rahman Aa., Ibrahim Ghadban D. Majed Fadel R., Abdul Malak Aa., and Assem Fahd M. among the suspects from the Gulf who infiltrated Leb.
It is believed that the suspects would carry out bombings and liquidations under the leadership of a man known as al-Saree (fast in English) and then travel to Turkey.
As Safir did not say what itinerary the suspects would take to escape to Turkey.
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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
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Seven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the entrance of Mogadishus heavily-guarded international airport where many foreign diplomats are based, police said.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Four men allegedly belonging to a criminal gang operating in Malir were killed in two incidents, police said on Wednesday.
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