[Libya Herald] The severed head of a Derna student who apparently challenged members of an Islamist brigade has been found dumped in a mosque in the eastern town.
A Derna resident identified the young man as Abdul Moaz Abdul Razk Turkawi saying his head been found wrapped in a plastic bag in the town's Sabaha mosque. The resident said he had witnessed an incident yesterday where Turkawi had challenged members of the Islamic Army in Derna who had seized his car at a checkpoint.
Turkawi walked away from the altercation and the events leading to his death are unknown.
The teacher training college in Derna where Turkawi was a student has expressed its sadness at his death, offering condolences to his family.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Morocco on Monday (May 26th) tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! three men for allegedly sending jihadists to join up with al-Qaeda in Syria, AFP reported.
Two suspects arrested in the central city of Fez "are implicated in recruiting Moroccan fighters for Syria", the interior ministry said in a statement.
The fighters "will join the ranks of al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups, in co-ordination with elements active in the Turkey-Syria border region", it said.
The third suspect was nabbed in the town of Mrirt, also in central Morocco, on charges of providing funds to gangs in Syria by "hacking credit cards".
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[MAGHAREBIA] 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... gunnies on Tuesday (May 27th) fired rockets and small arms at the home of Libya's interim prime minister, AFP reported.
"There was an attack with rockets and small arms on the prime minister's house," an official said on condition of anonymity.
Ahmed Miitig and his family were in the house at the time of the 3am attack, but escaped unharmed.
The premier's guards opened fire on the attackers and tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... two, the official added.
In related news Monday, the deputy chief of Libya's General National Congress (GNC) asked Abdullah al-Thani to remain in office, Libya Herald reported.
In a letter, Ezzidden Al-Awami said al-Thani should continue his duties as prime minister until a replacement was either named by the GNC or selected by politicians after the June elections.
Al-Awami's move followed confirmation from the justice ministry that the May 4th election of Miitig had been invalid.
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[An Nahar] Cameroon on Tuesday began deploying large troop reinforcements to buttress its border with Nigeria against the threat posed by marauding Boko Haram militants, security officials said. "The deployment has begun. Today, soldiers have started being sent to the border regions," a senior police official in the area told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.
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[HINDUSTANTIMES] 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 attacked a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi, killing 31 security personnel, security sources and witnesses said.
The attack late on Monday in Yobe state occurred not far from where the Islamist bully boyz shot or burned to death 59 pupils at a boarding school in February.
The Death Eaters, whose violent struggle for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria has killed thousands and made them the biggest threat to security in Africa's top oil-producing state, are still holding more than 200 girls kidnapped on April 14, an act which provoked international outrage.
Yobe police front man Nansak Chegwam said he was aware of the attack but could provide no further details.
A resident of Buni Yadi, who identified himself only as Mustafa for fear of retribution, said the gunnies arrived in an armoured personnel carrier and six technicals Toyota pickup trucks before dismounting and firing into the air.
They fired rocket propelled grenades at both bases. A senior security source in Yobe state said 17 soldiers were killed and 14 coppers also died.
That's some serious firepower. Where did they get that -- Libya?
In what has become rare for a movement that has killed thousands of civilians in the past year, Boko Haram called out to people on the street not to run away as they had only come for the security forces, Mustafa and the security source said.
The bully boyz also razed the police barracks, the army base, the high court and residence of district head Abba Hassan.
"One was shouting in English to the others: 'Let's go, let's go. Finish this and let's go'," a policeman who escaped the attack and fled to the state capital Damturu said.
- See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/boko-haram-attack-kills-31-nigerian-security-personnel/article1-1223535.aspx#sthash.OsFdBgqJ.dpuf
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If they can pull off an attack like this it doesn't look good for those kidnapped girls.
[Yahoo] 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... has tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! nine university professors for their alleged links to the banned Moslem BrĂźderbund movement, media reported on Monday.
Investigators found the professors, two Saudis and the rest from neighbouring countries, had been involved with "foreign organizations" based on "voice recordings and emails" linked to them, Okaz daily reported.
It identified the organization as the Moslem BrĂźderbund, designated by the interior ministry in March as a "terror" group.
The investigation should be completed by mid-June, said the daily which is close to the government.
If convicted, the group could be enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for 10-15 years, after which the foreigners would be deported, it added.
Saudi Arabia and its neighbour the United Arab Emirates have cracked down on Islamists accused of links to the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
But in the past Saudi Arabia gave refuge to many Brotherhood members who suffered repression in the 1960s under the regime of Egypt's first modern military ruler, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Traditionally, members of the group were active in academic institutions in the kingdom.
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[THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Police in China's restive northwest foiled a terror plot by detaining five suspects and seizing 1.8 tons of bomb-making materials, the regional government said Tuesday, five days after a market bombing in the region killed dozens of people.
Authorities in the Hotan section of the Xinjiang region destroyed two bomb-making workshops in the latest raid on Monday, the regional government said on its official Tianshan Net website.
The Mohammedan region, home to the Turkish-speaking ethnic minority of Uighurs, has seen rising violence that China blames on secession-seeking terrorists. Uighurs complain of restrictive and discriminatory policies and practices by the government and the dominant ethnic majority of Han Chinese.
An attack last week in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi blamed on Uighur turbans left 43 people dead when men rammed vehicles through a vegetables market and tossed explosives.
Tianshan said the suspects detained in Hotan had planned a similar scheme. It said the suspects had watched materials promoting violence and religious extremism. The report did not identify the suspects' identity but all have Uighur names.
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[An Nahar] Norwegian intelligence services announced Tuesday the arrest of three men suspected of wanting to support or join a radical group in Syria.
"There are strong reasons to believe that two of the enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! people have acted as imported muscle for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL)," the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) said in a statement.
The three men were Norwegian citizens residing in the Oslo region and have denied all accusations, PST spokeswoman Siv Alsen told Agence La Belle France Presse after the questioning.
The identity of the suspects was not revealed, but one of them is of Somali origin and 29 years old, and the others are two brothers originally from the former Yugoslavia, aged 27 and 24.
The siblings had a third brother who recently was killed in Syria, according to PST.
All three suspects were arrested in the morning in their homes "in order to prevent any further support or involvement with ISIL," the intelligence services said.
"We consider them a threat for Norway," PST senior officer Jan Glent told public broadcaster NRK.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Three unidentified young men were found rubbed out in Surjani Town on Monday, police said.
Circumstantial evidence suggested that they had been kidnapped somewhere before being brought in a vehicle near a gas plant, off the Northern Bypass, where they were rubbed out with a 9mm pistol, said an official of the Surjani cop shoppe.
He said the police Sherlocks found five spent bullet casings at the crime-scene.
The official said that a police van passing through the area spotted the three bodies there at 5:30am and informed the Surjani cop shoppe about them.
The bodies were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination, he said, while quoting hospital officials as saying that they aged between 30 and 40 years.
Surjani SHO Bashir Ahmed said that each suspect sustained a gunshot wound each in the head and chest.
Following the medico-legal formalities, the bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification, the officer added.
Speaking to Dawn, SSP West Irfan Baloch said that the dear departed, clad in shalwar kameez, wore long beards.
Surjani Town is one of the areas on the outskirts of the city where the bodies of several 'missing' activists of political and religious groups have been found earlier this year. On Feb 18, a prayer leader, who had been missing since Jan 11, was among the four persons found rubbed out in Surjani near Zero Point.
When asked about their identity, the police officer said that the four bodies found on Feb 18 were later identified as suspected gunnies belonging to Quaidabad, Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Surjani Town.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside the Lahore High Court on Tuesday in a so-called "honour" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.
Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a police brass hat.
Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.
All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honour.
Cheema said Farzana had been engaged to her cousin but married another man. Her family registered a kidnapping case against him but Farzana had come to court to argue that she had married of her own free will, he said.
Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Paks, who view marriage for love as a transgression.
Around 1,000 Pak women are killed every year by their families in honour killings, according to Pak rights group the Aurat Foundation.
The true figure is probably many times higher since the Aurat Foundation only compiles figures from newspaper reports. The government does not compile national statistics.
Campaigners say few cases come to court, and those that do can take years to be heard. No one tracks how many cases are successfully prosecuted.
Even those that do result in a conviction may end with the killers walking free. Pak law allows a victim's family to forgive their killer.
But in honour killings, most of the time the women's killers are her family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. The law allows them to nominate someone to carry out the murder, then forgive him.
"This is a huge flaw in the law," he said. "We are really struggling on this issue."
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There are no cops outside the HIGH COURT?
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There are no cops outside the HIGH COURT?
They were 'helping the family'.......
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You heard the man, "there is huge flaw in the law." What else needs to be said.
#7
Given the preference for close-cousin marriage -- to keep the property in the family, and because brothers are more trustworthy than neighbours -- many family trees are braided among the Arabs and Pakistanis. Granted, this does lead to a high level of congenital physical and mental disorders -- these families have deaf children, those have schizophrenics, the others are prone to club feet or mentally retarded -- but how much brain power or graceful movement is needed for hewers of wood and having babies in a semi-feudal society such as Pakistan's or Saudi Arabia's? As long as the head of the family is sharp, sane, and presentable, all will be well.
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A Saudi, surprising his houseboy
Salaaming while sizing up Playboy,
Said, "I'll never tell,
Since you didn't yell
When you busted me browsing _The Borzoi_."
[TVNZ.CO.NZ] A jacket wallah set off his explosives-laden belt today in a mosque in busy commercial area in central Storied Baghdad, killing at least 17 people, Iraqi officials said, as the country remains without a new government following last month's national elections.
The bomber entered the Shiite mosque in the Shorja market in downtown Storied Baghdad as worshippers were heading inside to attend noon prayers, a police officer said. The kaboommaimed 29 other people, he added.
Inside the mosque, furniture lay overturned, walls were pockmarked with shrapnel and the ground was littered with shattered glass. Outside the mosque, blast barriers were stained with blood.
Also in Storied Baghdad, a bomb went off in an outdoor vegetable market in the eastern Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, killing two civilians and wounding five others, police said. And two coppers were killed and six other people maimed when a bomb hit a police patrol in the southern Dora district, another police officer said.
Three medical official confirmed causality figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... . The group frequently targets Shiites, who it considers heretics, and carries out coordinated bombings in an attempt to incite sectarian strife.
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[Ynet] A Police Special Patrol Unit officer sustained light injuries after stones were thrown at security forces in the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem. The police managed to quell the disorder and the site is open to visitors as planned.
In wake of stone throwing at the Temple Mount, complex closed to visitors
The Temple Mount complex has been closed to visitors after riots broke out Wednesday morning. Masked Paleostinian youths pelted coppers with stones and then barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. One officers was lightly injured.
According to the police, the stone throwing began with the site's opening in the morning hours, with Arabs shouting out and heckling Israeli visitors, but the police managed to subdue them, leading a few violent youths to flee to the mosque. Wednesday is Jerusalem Day in Israel.
Two communist militants were killed in an clash between Philippine soldiers and the New People's Army (NPA) on Monday afternoon in Matuguinao, Samar. The troops were conducting security operations in Barangay Mahayag, when about 10 to 20 militants fired at them. A five-minute gun battle broke out, which left two NPA members dead.
WASHINGTON -- With reports indicating that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are gaining ground in that country's brutal civil war, "moderate" Syrian rebels have told a visiting journalist that the United States is arranging their training in Qatar.
Scare quotes around 'moderate' are mine. Moderate is relative...
In a documentary to be aired Tuesday night, the rebels describe their clandestine journey from the Syrian battlefield to meet with their American handlers in Turkey and then travel on to Qatar, where they say they received training in the use of sophisticated weapons and fighting techniques, including, one rebel said, "how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush."
That requires sophisticated training? Even the Talibunnies and the Shaboobs can do that...
The interviews are the latest evidence that after more than three years of warfare, the United States has stepped up the provision of lethal aid to the rebels. In recent months, at least five rebel units have posted videos showing their members firing U.S.-made TOW anti-tank missiles at Syrian positions. The weapons are believed to have come from Saudi Arabia, but experts on international arms transfers have told McClatchy that they could not have been given to the rebels without the approval of the Obama administration.
Arms suppliers usually do have those clauses in the fine print...
The documentary, produced by FRONTLINE for airing on PBS stations, features journalist Muhammad Ali, who has been following the Syrian civil war for the program. The commander of the unit also told Ali that their American contacts had asked him to bring 80 to 90 members of his unit to Ankara for training. Once in Ankara, after a 14-hour drive from Syria, they were interrogated for days about their political leanings and their unit's fighting history. The commander told Ali that their questioners identified themselves as belonging to "the military," but that he believed they were from the CIA.
And that's good enough for PBS!
On the final day, they were told that they would be flown the next day to a training camp in Qatar, a monarchy in the Persian Gulf. Then they were transported to a training facility they believed was near the border with Saudi Arabia.
One of the fighters said they received three weeks of training in how to conduct ambushes, conduct raids and use their weapons. They also said they received new uniforms and boots.
"They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road," said the fighter, who is identified only as "Hussein." "They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush."
But whether such aid from the United States helps bring the peace in the form of negotiation or extend the war by giving the rebels false hope remains unclear. Indeed, the fighters told Ali that they cannot win without anti-aircraft missiles against Assad superior air war, which they have yet to receive.
For the United States, its new effort means treading slowly into murky waters. In the last few months, the United States has signaled it is increasingly interested in finding an ally that can force Assad to the negotiation table and curtail the burgeoning al Qaida threat coming from extremist groups fighting Assad.
Seeing as those are the only two sides, and there is no third side, this seems like more wishful thinking from an unengaged, uninformed, and anti-intellectual president...
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What they need are stinger's whose shelf life has been intentionally limited. But who in their right mind would given even those to Al-Qaeda or to groups that Al-Qaeda could attack and then seize the weapons?
If the Saudi's want the Syrian AF grounded they need to do it using their air-to-air and air-to-ground assets directly. It's called war.
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JohnQC, not recently. Back in the day, they conquered a lot of territory.
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Back in the first Gulf War the Saudi pilots flew a lot of sorties and engaged the Iraqi air force. They can fight if they chose. Not as well as Israeli pilots but better than most Arab ones.
[An Nahar] A senior 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... commander branded by the FBI as one of the world's most wanted turbans was killed fighting in Syria, residents of his village in southern Leb told Agence La Belle France Presse Tuesday.
Hizbullah has deployed thousands of fighters into neighboring Syria to back Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's army as he battles hard boyz who have been trying to overthrow him for the past three years.
"Fawzi Ayoub was killed fighting in Syria. His funeral was held in (his home village of) Ain Qana yesterday (Monday). Many people came to the funeral, to give their condolences to his family," a resident of the village said on condition of anonymity.
According to another resident of Ain Qana, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Beirut, "Ayoub was a leading Hizbullah commander in the Aleppo area" in northern Syria.
The FBI's website says Ayoub was indicted in the United States in 2009 for "willfully and knowingly" trying to enter Israel, Hizbullah's arch-enemy, with a fake U.S. passport "for the purpose of conducting a bombing."
Ayoub, who had lived in Canada, was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Israel in 2000. He was released three years later in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah.
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Hizbollah is really stretching itself if it is going to have a sizable presence in Aleppo.
Published estimates are that Hezbollah has lost at least 500 troops in past 2 years and at least 50 in just the past 2 months (about the same number of Iraq Shia militia have also died in these time periods)
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"Many people came to the funeral, to give their condolences to his family,"
target-rich environment
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An interesting analysis of force numbers here, suggesting that all quotes involving "an army of 12,000" are an entirely symbolic reference to that claimed number for Muslim armed forces in Hadith, and that Hisb'allah's entire fighting force likely numbers around 5,000.
In which case, 500 dead in a war that is perhaps half over is significant. Will they have enough trained manpower to shoot off their 12,000 Iranian missiles at Israel when the time comes?
[THEGLOBEANDMAIL] A convoy of inspectors from the international watchdog overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program came under fire on Tuesday in Syria but all staff members were safe, the organization said.
The statement came within minutes after Damascus said that gunnies had kidnapped 11 people, including six members of a UN fact-finding mission and their Syrian drivers, in the countryside around Hama.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said its team was travelling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when the convoy was attacked.
The OPCW, which monitors the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and oversees the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, had sent a team to Damascus this month to investigate claims that chlorine has been used in the central Syrian region of Hama.
The OPCW statement was issued shortly after Syria's Foreign Ministry announced the abduction of the 11 UN staff and Syrian drivers.
The ministry blamed rebels fighting to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , accusing them of committing "terrorist crimes" against the UN staff and OPCW.
Following the incident, the OPCW director-general, ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu, expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... , repeating his call to all parties for co-operation with the mission.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Libya Herald] The severed head of a Derna student who apparently challenged members of an Islamist brigade has been found dumped in a mosque in the eastern town.
[HINDUSTANTIMES] 
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[An Nahar] Norwegian intelligence services announced Tuesday the arrest of three men suspected of wanting to support or join a radical group in Syria.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Three unidentified young men were found 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
