I got all dressed up for the final battle and its mid 60's and sunny here in East TN. No serpents, no battling (little g)gods, no reanimated heroes of Valhalla...
Boy, do I feel like a chump.
I guess I'll just go back to the festival of Jolablot and get drunk.
[Tolo News] Afghan presidential candidate Dr 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... survived a Taliban attack on Wednesday on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway, his campaign said.
The attack occurred on Wednesday about 4:30 pm, when a group of gunnies targeted Abdullah's convoy while he was returning to Kabul from an electoral campaign event in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
"Yesterday after participating in a gathering...Dr Abdullah was on his way from Nangarhar province to Kabul, when he was targeted in the Tangi Abrasham area of Sorobi district," said campaign front man Fazal Rahman Oria. "Fortunately no one was hurt and then Abdullah went to Sorobi district and gave a speech."
Oria condemned the attack, and accused the government of neglecting in providing security for the candidates.
"Unfortunately I must say that the government should provide security and arrange forces in the area, which the government didn't," Oria added.
Ministry of Interior Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told TOLOnews that the attack was on police forces and not Abdullah. Sediqqi added that candidates should cooperate with the ministry and that police forces took control of the area after the attack.
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid grabbed credit for the attack and said that three of Abdullah's personal guards were killed in the attack.
Previously, unknown gunniesrubbed out two of Abdullah's 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 just one day before the official start of the election campaign in early February.
Security has been a top concern for Afghan officials leading into this year's elections, which come as President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... leaves office and the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... coalition leaves Afghanistan.
A number of presidential candidates have mounted criticisms recently against what they say are insufficient security measures being taken to protect the elections.
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MOGADISHU -- Suspected Shaboobs Al Shabaab gunmen have launched a daylight assault on Villa Somalia Presidential Compound in Mogadishu, with a suicide bomber firstly ramming an explosive-laden car into the highly fortified zone on Friday, Garowe Online reports.
According to witnesses, shortly after the car bomb attack men wearing military uniform fired live ammunitions at Somali government officials who attended Jum'a prayer at a mosque in the presidential compound, triggering a gun battle that left the secretary of the Prime Minister's office Mohamoud Idhacase and former National Intelligence and Security Agency Chief Gen. Nuur Shirbow dead.
Sources within Somalia Federal Government officials tell Garowe Online News Agency that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud haven't today arrived at the presidential compound mosque for Juma prayer.
The bodies of the attackers who bluffed their way past the gate of the presidential place are lying on the ground under the presence of heavily armed government soldiers.
Speaking on Mogadishu-based radio station, Federal Government of Somalia's National Security Minister Abdikarin Hussein Gulled said the security in and around the presidential palace remains tight.
"The anti-peace elements attempted cowardly attack which was organized from Boondheere district side but frankly speaking, the attack was foiled and the security forces prevented it from happening," noted Gulled.
Mogadishu's Huriwaa district have been a spot for clashes between Al Shabaab fighters and allied forces over the past nights. The militant group stepped up military-style ambushes, planned shootout and suicide bombings in Mogadishu, making the security situation extremely volatile.
Speaking to the media, Al Shabaab operations spokesman Abdiasis Abu Muscab unveiled that special Al Shabaab fighters carried out a planned attack inside the presidential compound.
"Our special forces today attacked the so-called Presidential palace and they killed senior government officials," said Al Shabaab spokesman. He didn't disclosed the casualty figures on their side as reports of many deaths are emerging from the scene of the attack.
A journalist working for Mogadishu-based media house, Radio Kulmiye sustained major injuries to his upper body during the firefight between the attackers and Somali government soldiers. Ahmed Saed Ahmed is being treated at a hospital in Mogadishu, relatives and colleagues said.
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[Libya Herald] A judge who was receiving treatment for injuries following an liquidation attempt yesterday has died in hospital.
A source at Benghazi's Al-Jelaa Hospital told the Libya Herald that Mayloud Amar Al-Rajhi, a South Benghazi Court judge, had died this morning of complications following surgery.
Rajhi was left with severe injuries after a bomb went kaboom! under his car yesterday morning in Benghazi's Majouri district. He was 40 years old.
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[Libya Herald] Othman Milaiqtah, the commander of the Qaaqaa Brigade, has been gravely injured late this afternoon in what is variously being called an liquidation attempt or a car accident.
Abdulmajid Milaiqtah, the chairman of the National Forces Alliance Steering Committee, has told the Ajwa Liblad Facebook news agency that his brother had survived an liquidation attempt and that he was now in intensive care in a 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... hospital.
Some Zintani sources also say there was an liquidation bid. Others, however, say that the Qaaqaa commander was injured in a car crash in Ras Al-Afaa near Azziziya, in which Salah Al-Madani, nephew of the celebrated Zintan martyr Mohammed Al-Madani, was killed. He was the brother of Ibrahim AL-Madani, a Zintan brigade leader.
A leading Military Police source told the Libya Herald that there were no clear details as yet. They had had two conflicting reports. The first was that Salah Al-Madani had had an argument with Milaiqtah and shot him, and then been rubbed out by Milaiqtah's guard. The other was that the car being driven by Madani had crashed in an ordinary accident.
Various reports claim that the shooting incident took place at the 7 April camp in Tripoli, Qaaqaa's headquarters.
There are also conflicting reports about Milaiqtah's present whereabouts. Sources in Zintan claim that he has been taken to hospital to Tunisia, not in Tripoli.
Earlier this afternoon, Milaiqtah had announced that he was going to give a press statement. But he did not. According to a news hound who was waiting for the statement, Milaiqtah abruptly left, apparently to meet a group of elders. It was while driving to meet them that the accident/liquidation attempt supposedly occurred.
Two days ago, the Qaaqaa brigade issued an ultimatum to Congress members saying that if they did not resign within five hours they would be enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! .
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[Egypt Independent] Al-Matareya Metro Station was closed temporarily on Friday due to festivities between the pro-Moslem Brüderbund protesters and the security forces at al-Naam Square in Ain Shams neighborhood.
Clashes occurred as protesters released fireworks and threw bottles at an apartment building after a resident threatened protesters at al-Naam Square to throw a gas cylinder to disperse them.
The demonstrators set fire to tires to block entrances and exits of the square and prevent the police from reaching them.
A number of protesters used fireworks and shot bullets in the air to intimidate police forces. The protesters reportedly had also caught a security personnel in plain attire and beat him.
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[Egypt Independent] Clashes broke out on Friday in pockets across Egypt between supporters of toppled President Mohammed Morsy who were staging marches in Maadi and Nasr City, and opponents.
A number of children threw stones at protesters of al-Salam Mosque march who responded with stones as well. The protesters were dispersed before the arrival of security forces to the area.
Security forces were stationed at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square and around vital facilities in Nasr City.
In Maadi, festivities occurred between protesters of al-Embaby Mosque and opponents as both pelted stones at each other. The security forces used tear gas, leading to the dispersal of the march.
Light festivities occurred in Fayoum City, Fayoum Governorate between pro-Moslem Brüderbund protesters and opponents as both sides pelted each other with stones and fireworks. The security forces used tear gas to disperse the march.
Three marches were organized in Fayoum by Moslem Brüderbund supporters on Friday.
Quarrels took place in Mohandiseen between pro-army elements and pro-Moslem Brüderbund protesters who staged a march after Friday prayers as the protesters chanted anti-military slogans and slogans against Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Protesters chanted "We will not live as slaves for your sake, we will set you free against your will." They also raised images for Morsy and Rabaa signs.
Dozens of Constitution Party members staged a march in Dokki and chanted for party founder and former vice president Mohammed ElBaradei.
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called its supporters on Thursday to stage marches on Friday after prayers in Cairo and Giza under the slogan "Bring Down the regime, the revolution continues."
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[SABANEWS.NET] An official source at the Supreme Security Committee declared Thursday that within efforts exerted by the government in combating terrorism and according to information gathered by the security bodies they managed to capture a number of treacherous terrorist elements.
According to the source, these elements were involved in in carrying out terrorist operations targeting vital institutions as well as implementing liquidations targeted a number of national figures and personnel of the armed forces in addition to foreigners.
"By investigating these terrorists, the security devices get information of an arrangement by al-Qaeda to carry out terrorist operations targeting sovereign institutions and vital installations in the capital," the source added.
He asserted that the security authorities would spare no efforts in tracking down terrorist elements and bring them to justice to get fair and deterrent punishment, calling on all citizens to cooperate with the security devices in revealing any information they know about terrorist elements for their danger to the security and stability of the countrty.
The source announced that there is a financial reward for those who provide information leading to arrest any of the terrorist elements and revealed their criminal plans, warning at the same time all of those involved in hiding or sheltering any of the terrorists.
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probably Scandium and Hafnium. I never trusted them
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calling on all citizens to cooperate with the security devices in revealing any information they know about terrorist elements for their danger to the security and stability of the country
"If you see Francium, though - keep your distance."
Eight individuals were killed or were found dead in separate incidents in drug or gang violence in the northern Mexican border state of Tamaulipas since Monday, according to official Mexican news reports.
According to a news release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state government, one man was killed by a Mexican Army patrol last Thursday in Ciudad Vitoria, the state capital of Tamaulipas.
The incident took place near the intersection of Avenida Jose Sulaiman Chagnon and Calle Carlos Adrian Aviles in La Paz colony.
Armed suspects were observed by a Mexican Army patrol, which attempted a traffic stop. According to the report, the armed suspects opened fire on the soldiers. Army return fire hit and killed one suspect.
Two other suspects were detained at the scene and were identified as Daniel Rafael Martinez Gonzalez, 24, and Juan Ramon Alvarez Jaramillo, 30. Soldiers also seized one rifle, one weapons magazine and 27 rounds of ammunition.
Three days before, a Tamaulipas state police agent was killed in Ciudad Victoria as he was dining at a seafood restaurant. The agent was identified in the official news release as Omar Oswaldo Nava Gil. The news release failed to detail how Nava Gil died.
On Monday in Nuevo Laredo, two inmates were killed in a prison brawl, according to a separate news release. The victims were identified as Jorge Gonzalez Gomez, 21, and Luis Eduardo Corral Oropeza, 28. Both men had been admitted to the Nuevo Laredo Centro de Ejecucion de Sanciones (CEDES) only the day before.
Three inmates, identified as Humberto Lopez Perez, 32, Valentin Casas Franco, 26, and Vidal Gutierrez Chavez, 28, were said to have committed the murder, which was the result of a "personal grudge".
A second prison brawl took place on Thursday, this time at the Centro de Ejecución de Sanciones (CEDES) in Ciudad Victoria.
According to the data supplied, Carlos Palacios Ramirez, 39, and Edgar Villafuerte Cabriales, 28, were attacked by two other inmates using a makeshift knife. Both victims were serving time for murder.
Two other inmates, identified as Arturo Valdez Loera, 29, and Rodolfo Solis Rodriguez, 28, were said to have confessed to the crime.
Finally, the Tamaulipas Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general reported finding at least two dead in separate graves.
In Gomez Farias charred remains, presumably of an unidentified woman were found in a field, along with articles of women's clothing on January 31st.
Meanwhile in El Mante municipality, charred remains were found in a creek bed in ejido El Abra, also with articles of women's clothing, February 12th.
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] At least 10 young Dutch citizens suspected of wanting to become jihadist fighters in Syria's deadly conflict have been refused passports over the "last months", the government's anti-terror organization said on Friday.
"It is a very effective way to prevent them from leaving," Jochgem van Opstal, front man for the National Anti-Terror and Safety Coordinator (NCTV) agency told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The NCTV's announcement comes amid increased worries by Dutch authorities about young citizens leaving to join the jihad, or holy war in Syria.
More than 100 young Dutch citizens have so-far traveled to Syria to fight against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's forces in the near three-year conflict in which 140,000 people have now died, according to NGO figures.
At least seven Dutch jihadists have been killed in fighting so far, the Dutch media reported.
Van Opstal said young Dutch Mohammedans returned from Syria "traumatized and radicalized, with an increased knowledge of weapons and that can be dangerous".
Although Dutch citizens carry an identity card which allows travel anywhere within Europe, a passport is needed for the Middle East, Van Opstal pointed out.
"You can't just walk into Syria," he said.
Dutch popular broadsheet De Telegraaf recently reported about an 18-year-old woman from the southern city of Maastricht who wanted to travel to Syria with her husband but was refused a passport.
The woman planned to challenge the decision in court, the newspaper said.
Dutch law states that a passport can be refused "in cases where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a citizen plans to commit acts outside the Netherlands that threaten the country's safety or that of its allies".
Last year, the NCTV raised the threat level to the Netherlands to "substantial" as a result of would-be jihadists travelling to Syria.
Upon their return, they are "closely being monitored," the NCTV added.
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Nice start, but additional measures may soon be required.
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It is a very effective way to prevent them from leaving
Dipshit, its the return you don't want.
At least seven Dutch jihadists
Stop. Going to Syria to wage jihad and you don't want them coming home because they are a militant threat to the population?; they may be Dutch citizens but they ain't Dutch.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A suicide jacket was defused after bully boyz abandoned it while fleeing the police here on Friday.
An official said two men riding a cycle of violence opened fire on police, when they were signaled to stop near Achini Khwar in Sarband cop shoppe limits. He said the accused coming to 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. from Khyber Agency fled back to the tribal area, throwing a suicide jacket in the nearby woods.
He said personnel of Bomb Disposal Unit were called immediately who defused the vest safely. The official claimed that the police averted a sabotage attempt in Peshawar by seizing the suicide jacket.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... a bomb hoax caused panic among people in areas near Kambo bus stand on Friday evening. A Rescue Service 1122 front man said unknown caller had informed them about presence of an bomb at the bus stand. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he said that the call was found to be a hoax as the area was thoroughly checked and no bomb was found.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... West cantonment police tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... four people involved in robberies in Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore. Police also recovered weapons and tools used for breaking locks, gates and walls.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: Gunmen riding cycle of violences rubbed out three persons, and injured three others, in two separate drive-by gun attacks in the city on Friday. The killers escaped in both cases.
Family feud was behind the first attack, which took place at dawn in the Race Course precinct. But police suspect sectarian enmity behind the second attack, which took place in the Purana Qila section of Raja Bazaar, just metres away from the ruins of Taleemul Koran madressah-mosque-market complex, after the Friday prayers.
"Apparently, it is sectarian violence. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... we are investigating the murder case from different angles," SHO Nadeem Zafar of Banni cop shoppe told Dawn.
Two unidentified motorcyclists arrived at the Dubai Chadder shop in Purana Qila selling material used by the Shia community in its religious rituals and started firing, killing two men inside the shop and injuring three others, he said.
Their shooting killed Mohammad Faisal alias Sunny and Ramzan Qureshi and injured Haji Nasir, Umer and Fareed.
Ironically, the shopkeepers the gunnies killed belonged to the Sunni sect.
What looked paradoxical to the police, however, was that Dubai Chadder opened for business when it used to observe Friday as weekly holiday and when no Shia rituals, or gatherings, were scheduled for the day.
Whatever facts police investigations may upturn, the immediate impact of the targeted murders was that panic gripped the Raja Bazaar area. Big contingents of police were rushed there to control the situation as terrified shopkeepers started pulling down their shutters.
Many noted that the unfortunate gun attack took place on the eve of the ceremonial launch of the reconstruction of the Taleemul Koran seminary and the mosque and Madina Market attached to it, which were burnt down during sectarian violence in the old city last November.
Rawalpindi Traders Association President Sharjeel Mir condemned Friday's shooting and asked the Punjab government, which is rebuilding the complex, to ensure protection of the traders in worsening law and order situation.
"We are still suffering the tragic consequences of the last sectarian outburst and this incident has added to the traders' pain and concerns," he said.
In the early morning incident, milk shop owner Manzoor Hussain was rubbed out by two cycle of violence riders.
His son, Matloob Hussain, filed a murder case with the Race Course cop shoppe, accusing Amin and Ahmed of the crime in a family feud and litigation.
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KOHAT: A Shia leader and administrator of an imambargah was shot dead in Kohat on Friday. According to Sadar Police Station SHO Iqbal, unidentified armed men shot dead Sher Muhammad Tori at Gari Nawaz Khan Chowk when he was going to local courts. The body was moved to a nearby hospital while the attackers escaped. Police have registered an FIR and started investigation.
Sher Muhammad Tori hailed from Kurram Agency.
Separately, a low-intensity bomb exploded outside a shop in restive Matani area in the wee hours of Friday. However, no loss of life was reported. Police said that the bomb was planted at a shop in restive Matani area and no casualty was reported because nobody was present at the shop at the time of explosion. The Mathani police rushed to the spot and started investigation.
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Ten people were killed and 10 others wounded in two violent incidents in eastern and central Iraq on Thursday, police source said, Xinhua reported.
In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a fierce clash erupted when armed men attacked an army base in south of the city Sa'diyah, some 120 km northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving two soldiers killed and six others wounded, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The two-hour fighting also resulted in the killing of five gunmen, the source said.
In a separate incident, a roadside bomb struck a patrol of a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group in Nibai area, some 70 km north of Baghdad, killing three group members and wounding four others, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.
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A mortar attack has struck a busy area in a mainly Shia town south of Iraq's capital, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 50, authorities said.
The five mortar rounds slammed into a busy market, a residential building and a parking lot around 7pm local time as people returned home from work and shopped in the town of Mussayab, police and hospital officials said. Police said it appeared the rounds came from the nearby Sunni-dominated town of Jurf al-Sakr, though it wasn't immediately clear who fired them, Al Jazeera reported.
Mussayab, about 60km south of Baghdad, is in an area that holds a mix of Sunnis and Shias and has been a flashpoint for some of the worst sectarian violence in recent years.
On Tuesday, a parked car bomb in the town killed five civilians and wounded 13, authorities said. In 2009, a female suicide bomber targeted Shia pilgrims there, killing at least 40 people.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, but Sunni fighters frequently target Shia areas and security forces.
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Moslem Values. Religion of Peace...that sort of thing.
[Jihad Watch] While President Champ and John Kerry pressure Israel into making still more self-defeating concessions to the Palestinians, Hamas pursues violent jihad. Either way, Israel faces jihad. Surely even Champ and Kerry must not believe at this point that their negotiations will bring some kind of lasting peace to the jihadis and Israel. But they probably do believe that the negotiations will bring them votes and donors.
Meanwhile, its interesting that the inmates of the worlds largest concentration camp are able to get such sophisticated weaponry.
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Gazan anti-aircraft missile probably from Libya
Israeli official says Gaddafis downfall allowed Hamas to procure huge supply of missiles
A top Israeli defense official said Gaza is being flooded with sophisticated weapons from Libya and that the anti-aircraft missile fired last week at an Israeli helicopter likely originated there.
Yossi Kuperwasser, who directs the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, says significant numbers of weapons have been smuggled into the territory from Libya since the fall last year of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The country is awash in weapons after the eight-month civil war and has weakened central authority.
Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a shoulder-fired Strela missile at an Israeli helicopter last week, but missed. It was the first such launch from Gaza.
Kuperwasser said Wednesday that Israel has long assumed that Gaza militants have kept such weapons, but probably only fired them after they amassed a large enough stockpile.
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Popular Mechanics 7 Sep 2011 article.
UPDATE: CNN originally reported that shoulder-mounted SA-24s have gone missing in Libya. But arms control experts now tell PM that theres no evidence of gripstocks for the missiles in Libya. That means that any SA-24s looted from Gaddafis stockpiles could be vehicle-fired, but not shoulder-fired. This makes them less of a terrorist threat.
That said, the proliferation of these missiles on the black market is still a large concern, especially in other parts of the world where gripstocks might be available that would allow the weapons to be used as Man Portable Air Defense (MANPAD) missiles. Even in Libya, sources tell PM, there is evidence of shoulder-firing capability for the less-sophisticated SA-7s.
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AA missiles should bring area-wide destructive response. Warn them first, then do it
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You (PM) telling me they can rig up a vehicle mount but not a handle? I am not intimately familiar with the system and not much respect for the pooleos but I'd think that could be rigged up.
[SEATTLEPI] A Paleostinian medical official says at least two protesters have been injured in festivities with Israeli soldiers in the biblical West Bank city of Hebron.
Aid Jabari says the injured were hit by rubber bullets during a protest Friday to mark the anniversary of the closure of a shopping street that runs along Jewish settler compounds. The Israeli military says three protesters were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for throwing rocks.
The military closed Shuhada street, citing security reasons, after a 1994 attack in which a settler shot and killed 29 Moslem worshippers at a mosque.
Paleostinians say the central street's closure is disruptive and helps cement Israeli control over the area.
Tensions run high in Hebron where about 500 Israelis live amid 170,000 Paleostinians.
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Communist militants took responsibility for attacking Philippine troops in the southern provinces of Davao del Sur and North Cotabato that killed at least eight infantrymen.
Isabel Fermiza, a spokesperson for the New People's Army, said militants bombed an army detachment in Makilala town and ambushed troops in Digos City.
Femiza said, "Eight fascist troops were killed while nine were wounded from the command detonated explosives and actual combat. The NPA confiscated one M14 rifle, several backpacks and medical kits. One Red fighter, Ka Jiboy, was martyred and two other NPA guerrillas were wounded. The offensives were aimed at the 39th Infantry Battalion's forward deployment in Makilala and Tulunan towns in North Cotabato, expanding its former territorial jurisdiction which covered all towns of Davao del Sur. Arrogant and fascist to the core, the 39th Infantry Battalion swaggers as the 10th Infantry Division's biggest battalion, in a desperate move to widen its area of abuses."
The 10th Infantry Division had earlier said that Davao del Sur was free from militant influence. There was no immediate reaction from army officials about Fermiza's allegations.
[An Nahar] The brother of a member of Syria's opposition delegation to the failed Geneva II peace talks was nabbed Please don't kill me! Friday at a security checkpoint in Damascus, an opposition source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The Syrian authorities have arrested Mahmud Sabra, the 34-year-old brother of lawyer Mohammed Sabra, a member of the opposition delegation to the Geneva talks," said the source, who asked not to be identified.
"He was detained at a security services checkpoint in the Sayyida Zeinab area. He used to live in Jaramana (southeast of Damascus) but has been in hiding for a long time," the source said.
"We are convinced he was arrested as a way of exerting pressure on Mohammed Sabra, the delegation's legal adviser."
Britannia-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says many thousands of people have been held without charge since the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's regime began in March 2011.
A second round of peace talks in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... between Syrian regime representatives and the opposition, dubbed Geneva II, ended on February 15 without result and with no date set for more negotiations.
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[An Nahar] Fierce festivities raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided myrmidon strongholds, a monitoring group said.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven rebels were killed in regime shelling and air raids in the district of Jobar.
Violence has escalated in Jobar since February 9 when a Jordanian jacket wallah from the jihadist 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... killed 32 government forces.
Since then festivities have intensified between the rebels and forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , said the Observatory which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground for its reports.
Friday's shelling also spilled into the district of Qabun further north of Jobar, the Observatory said.
In other violence, regime forces stormed the village of Khirbet al-Naqus in the central province of Hama on Friday and reportedly killed nine men, said the monitoring group.
It quoted activists as saying the men were "summarily executed" in the village square.
Five children were killed, meanwhile, in regime air raids in the northern province of Idlib.
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[An Nahar] A Syrian woman has been tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in the Bekaa for trying to recruit women for the turban al-Nusra Front while a runaway was maimed in a clash with the army in al-Masnaa, state-run National News Agency reported.
"The army arrested in the town of al-Nabi Sheet a Syrian woman identified as Umm Jamal on suspicion of her collaboration with al-Nusra Front," NNA said.
The woman used to work in the town in the past and she raised suspicions after her return to the same job, the agency noted.
"During interrogation, the woman confessed that she was seeking to recruit women to assist the Front in its acts of sabotage," NNA added.
Al-Jadeed television said the woman was arrested three days ago.
In a separate incident, "the runaway Abdul Hayy Saleh Ammoun was maimed in an exchange of gunfire with an army patrol following a chase on the al-Masnaa road" in the Bekaa, NNA said.
The agency said the incident took place near al-Akramiyeh's intersection and that the maimed suspect was rushed to the Hrawi state-run hospital in al-Maalqa. But al-Jadeed said the man was killed when a hand grenade that was in his possession went kaboom! during the chase.
On February 12, the army intercepted a booby-trapped vehicle on the Arsal-al-Labweh road in the Bekaa region.
The Army Command announced in a statement that the vehicle had arrived in Leb from Syria's Yabrud region. Containing three women, the car was going to be transported to Beirut where it was to be handed over to would-be suicide-bombers.
Quoting military sources, LBCI television said the women confessed to plotting "a triple bombing during which the car and two jacket wallahs were supposed to blow up."
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... two of the three women were freed on Saturday afternoon.
"State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered the release of Hala Rayed and Khadijeh Audeh for not having any links with the incident," NNA said.
The third suspect, Joumana Hmayyed, was kept in jug, according to the state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
Extremist organizations, including a group calling itself al-Nusra Front in Leb, have grabbed credit for a series of suicide kabooms in recent months against areas considered strongholds of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
Dozens of non-combatants were killed and scores were maimed in the bombings.
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Lebanese security forces said on Friday they had detained a Sunni Muslim militant suspected of recruiting suicide bombers and assembling car bombs for a radical group behind attacks on Iranian interests in Beirut, Reuters reported.
Hassan Abu Afleh, they said, was suspected of being a leading figure in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades - a movement that has carried out bombings to punish Iran and Tehran's Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah for their role in the Syrian war. The Brigades claimed responsibility for Wednesday's twin suicide attack near the Iranian cultural center in Beirut that killed eight people, and an assault on the Iranian embassy in November.
Abu Afleh's arrest in Beirut on Saturday followed last week's detention of Naim Abbas, another leading militant who, according to a security source, worked for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - a hardline Sunni group that is fighting in Syria.
Abu Afleh was arrested in a predominantly Sunni district of Beirut, said security services. Details had not emerged sooner because of the ongoing investigation, they added.
Another suspected leader of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades died while in the custody of the Lebanese security forces in January. Majid bin Muhammad al-Majid, a Saudi national who was wanted by authorities in his own country, had been suffering from acute cirrhosis kidney failure.
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades is named after an associate of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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