Reports say that twenty Yemeni soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen. The state-run Saba news agency says the attack took place in Hadramawt province.
Security sources earlier reported eight had died and six were injured in an attack that a source attributed to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
"Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint" near Reida, located 85 miles east of the provincial capital Mukalla, the state-run news agency said. One source said that the attack was carried out by gunmen in several vehicles.
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Recent reports from Qoryoley in the Lower Shabelle region allege that gunfire has opened in the district. The gunfire was exchanged after it was said that Al-Shabaab started shooting first.
Our correspondent Abdiaziz Mohamed Ali Hajji, reported that gunshots could be heard from many neighborhoods In the district.
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Attackers shot dead two people Sunday and wounded 10 when they burst into a church service near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, spraying the congregation with bullets, police said.
Local police chief Robert Mureithi, from the Likoni district just south of Mombasa, said the gunmen had killed the two worshippers -- a man and a woman -- and then fled, the latest violence amid heightened warnings of a threat of Islamist attacks.
"Two people have been killed, they were shot by gunmen who shot indiscriminately at worshippers and then fled," said Mureithi.
"About 10 others were injured and they have been taken to hospital," he added, without giving details on how seriously they were wounded.
Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre said there had been "mass casualties" in the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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[USATODAY] Rights activists lashed out Monday at the death sentences handed down against 528 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of a government campaign to squash the Islamist movement. Draco is pleased.
More than 150 of 545 defendants stood trial on charges of killing a policeman and attacking police. The others were tried in absentia, Egypt news agency MENA reported; sixteen defendants were acquitted. "Tried in absentia" always works.
The court hearings that convicted the defendants lasted two days. Defense lawyers complained they never had a chance to present their case in the trial held in the city of Minya.
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that's a start
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A Boon for Rope Exports to Egypt, hope they are partial to the hang them upside down technique
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Who needs rope, just dump them into a pit and pour concrete. Smooth over, new Egyptian Supreme Court Parking Lot!
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"Who needs rope"
Entertainment value, I suspect, Charles.
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Who doesn't like a good pinata?
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Any of the "tried in absentia" with Chicago, Illinois addresses ?
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Well they're building a gallows outside my cell I've got 25 minutes to go
And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell I've got 24 minutes to go
Well they gave me some beans for my last meal I've got 23 minutes to go
But nobody asked me how I feel I've got 22 minutes to go
Well I sent for the governor and the whole dern bunch with 21 minutes to go
And I sent for the mayor but he's out to lunch I've got 20 more minutes to go
Then the sheriff said boy I gonna watch you die got 19 minutes to go
So I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye got 18 minutes to go
Now hear comes the preacher for to save my soul with 13 minutes to go
And he's talking bout' burnin' but I'm so cold I've 12 more minutes to go
Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine 11 more minutes to go
And the trap and the rope aw they work just fine got 10 more minutes to go
Well I'm waitin' on the pardon that'll set me free with 9 more minutes to go
But this is for real so forget about me got 8 more minutes to go
With my feet on the trap and my head on the noose got 5 more minutes to go
Won't somebody come and cut me loose with 4 more minutes to go
I can see the mountains I can see the skies with 3 more minutes to go
And it's to dern pretty for a man that don't wanna die 2 more minutes to go
I can see the buzzards I can hear the crows 1 more minute to go
And now I'm swingin' and here I go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!
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[Libya Herald] The oil tanker Morning Glory has docked at Zawia and the three Libyans and 21 crew that were on board the vessel are now being transferred to 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... .
The crew, consisting of six Paks, including the Captain, six Indians, three Sri Lankans, two Syrians, two Sudanese and two Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ns, are being taken to Tripoli by boat, a source close to the government told the Libya Herald.
The journey was being made by sea, he said, because some difficulties were anticipated if they tried to travel by road. This is thought to be because of protests in Zawia earlier today following the arrest of former Chief of Staff Major-General Salem Al-Gnaidy.
They would be met in the capital by Libyan authorities and embassy staff, he added.
Once in Tripoli, the Attorney General would take control of the investigation into the illegal loading and export of the oil from Sidra port, the source said. It was expected that both the Libyans and the crew would be questioned, he said.
Sidra is one of three eastern oil export terminals that have been blockaded by federalists operating under the control of Ibrahim Jadhran since August last year.
Responding to calls from the governments of Libya and Cyprus, as well as from the Captain, who reported that gunnies were on board the Morning Glory and the crew were in danger, US military personnel took control of the oil tanker on Monday.
This afternoon, in international waters off the coast of Libya, the US returned the vessel to the control of the Libyan government.
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Of course the journey is being made by sea, ever try to drag a ship across sand. What a heartache, let me tell you!
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[An Nahar] At least 17 people have been killed by an kaboom in a village market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... in an attack blamed on 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... Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday.
The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, Borno state, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko.
News on the attack was slow to emerge after gunnies destroyed nearby telecom towers, shutting down communications in the area.
"An kaboom in the market in Nguro-Soye killed 17 people," Tanko told AFP, adding that police were investigating the source of the kaboom.
"The attack on Nguro-Soye, as in previous attacks, is the handiwork of Boko Haram turbans."
Residents who fled the village to the state capital Maiduguri put the corpse count at nearly 30, and said more people were hurt.
"They (attackers) fired RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) on the market and opened fire, killing 29 people," said local trader Hamisu Ibrahim.
"Many people were maimed in the attack and the stampede that followed," said Ibrahim.
Nguro-Soye lies close to the town of Bama where 60 people were killed last month in coordinated bomb and gun attacks by Boko Haram that burnt half the town.
Deadly attacks blamed on the sect have intensified since the turn of the year, making it one of the bloodiest since the insurgency began in 2009.
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[An Nahar] At least four people have been killed in festivities between gangs and international peacekeepers in the capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic, a military official said Sunday.
A further seven people were maimed when violence erupted Saturday in the PK-5 district of Bangui between Christian militia and Moslem groups, said an officer with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... military force known as MISCA.
"The festivities erupted in several places at once, causing international forces to intervene to stop the hostilities," said the officer.
A French military source confirmed the violence, saying: "Our men were attacked and fought back."
Businesses in Bangui's mostly Moslem PK-5 district have been targeted for weeks by looters and the mainly Christian militia known as "anti-balaka", or anti-machete.
The Central African Republic was plunged into chaos by a March 2013 coup that ousted president Francois Bozize, sparking a cycle of Dire Revenge™ attacks between the Moslem minority and Christian majority.
The violence has killed thousands and displaced around a quarter of the impoverished country's 4.6 million people, and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... is investigating genocide allegations.
The U.N.'s rights chief on Thursday expressed horror at the level of violence in the Central African Republic, citing cannibalism, child decapitations and gruesome lynchings.
French forces Thursday reported festivities with anti-balaka fighters in Bangui and on the main route that connects the capital to the border with Cameroon.
Staff Colonel Gilles Jaron said local rebel groups had become more hardline in recent weeks, "which probably reflects the impact of French and MISCA peacekeeping forces in areas where they are implanted."
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The U.N.'s rights chief on Thursday expressed horror at the level of violence in the Central African Republic, citing cannibalism, child decapitations and gruesome lynchings
[An Nahar] Hundreds of Shiite Houthis protested Sunday in northern Yemen and blocked a road leading into Amran city, a day after festivities with government forces left 12 people dead.
Tension remained high after the rebels set up a protest tent in the middle of the road at the northern entrance to Amran, near an army checkpoint where their comrades clashed with security forces on Saturday.
Other rebels, mostly toting guns, marched inside the city demanding the sacking of the governor and a regional army chief, who they accused of belonging to the Sunni party Islah, an AFP news hound said.
Eight rebels were killed Saturday, as well as two soldiers and two civilians, after shooting erupted when gunnies heading to join a demonstration insisted on crossing through a checkpoint with their weapons.
A presidential mediating committee has been sent to Amran to defuse tensions after the rebels brought in reinforcements from their northern strongholds and the army boosted its presence.
The committee gave the rebels a 24-hour ultimatum, ending Monday morning, to remove the protest tent, open the road and pull out gunnies.
"If the Huthis have certain demands, those will be carried to the president," said Ahmed al-Makdissi who heads the committee.
"We are concerned now about cementing security and stability," he told AFP near the protest tent.
Last week, Huthis armed with assault rifles paraded through Amran and drove in vehicles fitted with rocket launchers, demanding the sacking of the "corrupt government".
The Huthis have fought the central government in Sanaa for years, complaining of marginalization under former 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... , who was ousted in 2012 following a year of protests.
Last month, President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and party leaders in Sanaa agreed to transform Yemen into a six-region federation as part of a political transition.
The rebels, who complain that Yemen would be divided into rich and poor regions under the plan, have been trying to enlarge their zone of influence by pushing out from their mountain strongholds in the far north to areas closer to the capital.
In early February, they seized parts of Amran province in fighting with local tribes that left more than 150 people dead.
Military sources said last week the rebel objective was to seize Amran city and, from there, lay siege to the capital.
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A bomb exploded on Saturday in the Bahraini village of Sitra, east of Manama, causing minor injuries to a policeman, a source from Bahrain's interior ministry said. It was not immediately clear who planted the bomb or the extent of the damage.
The source told Reuters that some protesters in Sitra had also clashed with the police using iron rods and Molotov cocktails, but that no further details on casualties were available.
In a separate incident, unknown individuals set a car on fire in the kingdom's capital of Manama on a road close to the interior ministry's headquarters, but no injuries were reported.
"Thugs burn car on Shaikh Mohamed road," the Ministry of Interior said on its official Twitter account.
The island kingdom, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, has suffered low-level civil unrest since mass protests in 2011. In 2011, Saudi Arabia and UAE sent forces to support Bahrain's rulers. Demonstrations remain frequent and often lead to clashes with security forces.
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Saudi Arabia has detained a man accused of firing at German diplomats as they drove through the Eastern Province village of al-Awamiya in January, the kingdom's interior ministry said on Sunday, Reuters reported. Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the diplomats' car caught fire.
"My Mercedes!"
Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour Turki described the incident as a "terrorist attack" and said that several other suspects had been identified but not detained.
The investigation has also led to the detention of another man wanted in a different case, he said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Awamiya, a village in the Qatif district of the Eastern Province, has been a focal point for protests against the Saudi government and ruling family, as well as occasional attacks on security forces and police raids to detain activists. Qatif is mostly inhabited by members of the Shi'ite Muslim minority, who complain they face systematic discrimination from the authorities, which the government denies.
"We don't discriminate. We just treat them like the heretics they are."
Around 20 people have been killed in Qatif, mainly in Awamiya, since demonstrations started there during the Arab uprisings in 2011. The government has described all the deaths as resulting from exchanges of fire after gunmen shot at police.
And the police shot back...
Local activists have accused the authorities of also shooting unarmed protesters during demonstrations and of killing people while attempting to arrest security suspects.
The government denies this.
"Lies! All lies!"
It has said some protests and attacks by Shi'ite demonstrators were instigated by Riyadh's main regional rival Iran, but local activists say this is not true.
"No, no, certainly not!"
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[Ynet] North Korea launched short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast for a second straight day on Sunday -- 16 this time, according to South Korean officials, in what's believed to be Pyongyang's way of protesting US-South Korean military drills.
The rockets flew about 37 miles early Sunday morning, said Col. Eom Hyo-sik, an official with South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's about the same range as the 30 rockets the North fired early Saturday. South Korea believes the North fired FROG rockets, which are unguided, old Soviet-developed missiles.
[NATION.PK] Indian police have incarcerated Please don't kill me! four suspected Islamist bully boys, including an aide of the leader of a bully boy group accused of several kabooms, who they said could be plotting an attack ahead of elections starting next month.
Zia-Ur-Rahman, alias Waqas, was arrested on Saturday in Ajmer in the western state of Rajasthan, the second major blow for the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... after the capture of founder leader Yasin Bhatkal in Nepal last year.
Three other suspected members of the group were also arrested with a large quantity of explosives, police said. Waqas, who police said was a Pak national, was wanted for kabooms in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad over the past several years, officials said.
The Indian Mujahideen bully boy group has been accused of dozens of kabooms over recent years. The group is also suspected of being behind an attack on a rally by prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi last October that killed six people and maimed more than 80.
Police said the latest arrests were made possible after they gathered information from two arrested Indian Mujahideen snuffies including Bhatkal.
"Their target was a terror strike," S.N. Srivastava, a top police official in New Delhi, told a news conference on Sunday, but declined to comment when asked if Narendra Modi was being targeted, saying they needed further investigation. "Any important event, including elections, could be targeted."
Interior Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the arrest of Waqas was a great success as he was a crucial link to the group.
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Its about time India terrorize Pakistan.
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[An Nahar] At least seven people were killed on Sunday in a series of attacks in Iraq, most of which were concentrated in predominantly Sunni areas north of the capital, officials said.
The latest unrest is part of a sustained surge in bloodshed that is Iraq's worst since 2008, when it was emerging from a brutal sectarian war, and which has left more than 2,000 people dead already this year.
It has primarily been driven by anger in the minority Sunni Arab community, which alleges it is unfairly targeted by the Shiite-led government and security forces, as well as spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The deadliest of Sunday's violence struck in the restive northern province of Nineveh, where three separate attacks killed four people, including two soldiers who were on patrol in the south of the province.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a roadside kaboom in Tikrit, also north of Storied Baghdad, killed two civilians, while a university professor was rubbed out in the Shiite-majority city of Kut, south of the capital.
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[NATION.PK] The military wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, which rules Gazoo sent threatening text messages to Israelis on Saturday, 10 years after the Paleostinian Islamist movement's spiritual leader was killed in an Israeli air strike.
Israelis, as well as foreign news hounds in Israel, received messages reading: "If Gazoo will be attacked the life of the Zionists will be hell" and "In the next war all the Land of Paleostine will return".
A Hamas source said it was the work of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"Al Qassam has chosen you to be the next Shalit," another message read, referring to Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped and held in Gazoo for five years until Hamas freed him in exchange for more than 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners.
The messages were sent from different cell phones. The owner of the only one who answered a call was an Israeli man who said his line had been hijacked.
The email account of an Israeli security-oriented newsletter, Israel Defence, was also hacked and an email posted on Yassin's killing.
"We don't forget the blood of our sheik, We swear again to take Dire Revenge™, and this time by taking off the head of your leaders," read an email.
"Zionist killed our sheik by missile and now our missile can hit every corner of Zionist state," it read, signing off as "Sheikh Yassin's Followers".
Ahmed Yassin, who was founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, was assassinated in an Israeli air strike in 2004.
An Israeli police spokeswoman said she was unaware of the hacking incidents and that no complaint had been filed.
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with frowny emoticons!
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Give the bastids a dose of Kosher "Dire Revenge."
"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk." H.L. Mencken
[Ynet] Forces pelted with stones, IEDs in riot in Paleostinian refugee camp north of Bethlehem, sustain light to moderate injuries.
Two Border Guard officers were maimed after being pelted by stones thrown at the force near Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, only a day after an IDF raid left three Paleostinian snuffies dead in Jenin.
The two soldiers sustained light to moderate injuries and were evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri was quoted by Paleostinian news agency Ma'an say saying that Paleostinian youths threw "improvised bombs" and Molotov cocktails towards members of the Border Guard in the Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem, but the soldiers reportedly sustained their injuries from stones thrown at them from rooftops.
The agency also claimed that some eight Paleostinians were maimed.
The incident took place two days after a joint operation by the IDF, Shin Bet, and an elite Border Guard counter-terrorism unit (Yamam) killed three Paleostinians in Jenin, among them 22-year-old Hamza Abu Al-Haija, the son of a senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official in the West Bank.
The incident sparked a protest by some 150 Paleostinian youths who demonstrated near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday night. Several dozens of them started throwing stones at police. No one was injured. Police forces dispersed the crowd and three protesters have been incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Overnight Friday, Israeli force circled Al-Haija house and ordered the 22-year-old krazed killer to exit peacefully, but he refused to come out, attempting to evade the IDF force. According to the IDF, the terrorist began shooting at the soldiers with a M-16 assault rifle, who returned fire. The 22 year old was killed and two special forces soldiers were lightly injured in the operation.
Al-Hija's father -- Gamal -- is one of the top Hamas representatives in the West Bank, currently serving a life sentence in prison. Among the Paleostinian casualties was Mahmoud Abu Zina from the military wing of Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... . According to Paleostinian sources, several armed gunnies were also in the house, seven of which were maimed in the operation and were evacuated to a nearby hospital.
[An Nahar] Two rockets landed on Sunday in the outskirts of the Bekaa town of Sarein, leaving one person maimed.
"A Syrian worker was maimed when a Grad rocket fired from Syria hit a grove in the northern Bekaa town of Sarein," Voice of Leb radio (100.5) reported.
For its part, Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said "two rockets landed between the towns of Sarein and al-Nabi Sheet, causing material damage."
OTV also confirmed that two rockets struck the town.
Later on Sunday, the Lebanese Army announced that "two rockets fired from across the border with Syria landed in the plain of the town of Sarein at 4:30 p.m., causing no casualties."
It said army units inspected the area where the rockets fell.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the so-called Baalbek Ahrar al-Sunna Brigade grabbed credit for the rocket attack on its Twitter account.
On Friday, two rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt on the Lebanese-Syrian border hit a plain between the Bekaa towns of Hermel and al-Qaa, according to al-Mayadeen TV.
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[An Nahar] One person was killed and at least ten were maimed on Sunday in festivities that erupted at dawn between Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... and supporters of Arab Movement Party leader Shaker al-Berjawi near the Sports City center in Beirut.
Al-Jadeed television identified the victim as Khalil Nabil al-Hanash, whom Agence La Belle France Presse said Hanash was a member of the Arab Movement Party.
The Internal Security Forces said that 13 people were maimed in the unrest that witnessed the use of rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns.
The festivities ended as soon as the army intervened and deployed heavily in the area.
Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... television said that the festivities broke out after a verbal dispute erupted between the rival forces.
The National News Agency meanwhile said Berjawi's supporters came under attack by hardline Sunni Islamists.
Witnesses said that the opposing gunnies were members of small Lebanese and Paleostinian factions hostile to 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... , whose fighters have intervened in Syria alongside the forces of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , reported AFP.
A front man for the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement denied to MTV claims of the existence of Salafists in the area, saying that Berjwai was using this as an excuse to spark the fighting.
Berjawi meanwhile accused supporters of the Mustaqbal Movement of being behind the unrest, reported al-Jadeed.
The Army Command later said that the festivities broke out in the western neighborhood behind the Sports City.
The army intervened to contain the fighting and then cordoned off the area in order to restore calm.
It has also been carrying out raids against gunnies hideouts to arrest the perpetrators.
Sunday's battle between members of the small pro-Damascus Sunni group -- the Arab Movement Party -- against gunnies opposed to Assad's regime was not the first to take place between the two sides.
The Arab Movement Party was at the center of the fighting when the first Syria-linked violence erupted in Beirut in May 2012.
Its supporters were forced out of the Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood in fighting with gunnies sympathetic to the Mustaqbal Movement of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. .
The latest Beirut fighting came after nine days of festivities between pro- and anti-Assad groups rocked the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , killing 24 people and wounding 128.
Tripoli has been the scene of chronic sectarian fighting since the war in Syria erupted three years ago, with gunnies from the Sunni district of Bab al-Tabbaneh battling fighters from neighboring Jabal Mohsen, whose residents belong to Assad's Alawite sect.
Berjawi is a veteran bad boy whose career has spanned multiple decades and causes.
He fought in the Lebanese civil war under the banner of the Paleostine Liberation Organization before heading to Iraq to fight alongside now executed dictator Saddam Hussein's forces in his 1980-88 war with neighboring Iran.
At the time the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were bitter rivals, and on his return home, Berjawi was a staunch opponent of the troop presence in Leb which Syria maintained from 1976 to 2005, earning him a spell in prison in Damascus.
But he later changed sides and became a staunch ally of the Assad regime.
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[Beirut Daily Star] A Hezbollah ambush Sunday killed three rebels who were experts in preparing boom-mobiles along with four of their bodyguards in the strategic Qalamoun region of Syria near the Lebanese border, a source close to the party said.
Also Sunday, a senior Hezbollah official said the Syrian army's recent recapture of the town of Yabroud, the last strategic rebel stronghold in the Qalamoun mountains, would curb boom-mobileings and suicide kabooms in Leb.
"A special Hezbollah unit infiltrated 11 kilometers deep inside rebel-held territory in the Qalamoun region and planted bombs inside the garden of a house frequented by the three car-rigging experts," the source told The Daily Star.
"When the three rigging experts arrived along with four bodyguards at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, the bombs were detonated, which resulted in the killing of the three along with their four bodyguards."
The three rigging experts were identified as Ahmad Ali Hamra, Farid Mohammad Kheir Jumaa and Hussam Masoud Hammoud.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, quoting a senior security source, said the military operation in Qalamoun targeted "security officials of an gang responsible for sending bomb-rigged cars to Leb."
The operation bears the hallmarks of Hezbollah's use of roadside kabooms against Israeli troops and their allied Lebanese bully boyz during Israel's 18-year occupation of a border strip in south Leb that ended in 2000.
Syrian regime forces, backed by Hezbollah fighters, recaptured the border town of Yabroud on March 16, dealing a heavy military blow to rebels and severing their supply lines from Leb.
It was the second major victory in the area after Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's troops, also backed by Hezbollah fighters, captured the key rebel-held town of Qusair near the border with Leb last year.
Hezbollah officials have accused rebel groups entrenched in Yabroud of rigging vehicles with explosives and sending them to Leb.
Leb has been rattled by a wave of deadly boom-mobileings and suicide attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups targeting mainly Shiite areas in Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley. The attacks also targeted the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... and the Iranian Cultural Center in Beirut.
Lebanese and Syrian Al-Qaeda-linked groups, such as the Nusra Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, have vowed to attack Hezbollah and Iranian targets in Leb in retaliation for their intervention in Syria.
Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said the defeat of Syrian rebels at the hands of Syrian forces, backed by Hezbollah fighters, in Yabroud would stem the wave of suicide and boom-mobileings in Leb.
"Perhaps some are not paying much attention to the big achievement made in the Qalamoun region or Yabroud. These achievements will certainly reduce to a large extent the number of deadly cars and the devil's jacket wallahs," Qassem told a memorial ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Calling for additional vigilance against would-be suicide bombers, he said: "These are very important steps to protect Leb, its security, stability and independence."
Yabroud is a strategic prize because of its proximity to the highway and the Lebanese border, across which the Syrian rebels have smuggled fighters and weapons.
Qassem called for Lebanese unity to face two dangers threatening Leb: one from Israel and the other from takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups.
"These two dangers concern all the Lebanese and all residents in the Arab world and the Mohammedan world," he said.
" Israel attacks, occupies and confiscates lands and steps up its actions in harming the Paleostinians," Qassem said. "The takfiris attack, destroy and damage life. They do not carry any project except that of killings and ending human life on Earth."
"We have to close ranks in order to face these two dangers," he said. "God willing, we will be victorious."
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[Ynet] One person was killed and 10 people were maimed in festivities in south Beirut on Sunday between supporters of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... and rival fighters, security sources said.
The fighting broke out before dawn between gunnies loyal to Shaker Barjawi, a Sunni Moslem who supports the Syrian Alawite president, and Sunni Moslems who back the three-year uprising against Assad's rule. Residents heard the sound of loud gunfire and kabooms coming from the Al-Gharbi district of southern Beirut, where Barjawi has an office.
A Syrian military official, who is also a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
So he's an Alawite?
has been killed on Sunday amid clashes with rebels near the border with Turkey, state news agency SANA reported. Hilal al-Assad, the head of Syria's National Defense paramilitary forces for the northwestern province of Latakia, was killed in fierce fighting Latakia's border town of Kasab.
When is the funeral, and can we get a drone on the scene in time?
The National Defense Force is a militia set up to support the army in its three-year battle with rebels seeking to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was quoted by Reuters as saying that Hilal was killed along with seven of his fighters in clashes with al-Nusra Front and other Islamist miltant groups.
Syrian troops and rebels have been fighting for control of Kasab since Friday. The battle erupted after three jihadist groups announced the launch of an offensive in Latakia, known to be a regime stronghold. At least 80 fighters on both sides have been killed in the battle of Kasab, reported Agence France-Presse.
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[An Nahar] Sniper activity continued on Saturday afternoon in the northern city of Tripoli, ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... wounding at least one person. The shooting goes on for hours and one person gets winged. No wonder they need to get next to each other and explode.
"Ahmed Mheish was maimed by sniper fire at al-Malloula highway in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh," the state-run National News Agency reported.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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