[Ynet] Moslem Brüderbund's Mohammed Badie blames General al-Sisi for committing massacres 'the likes of which were only committed by bitter Zionist enemies,' insists 'Zionist fingers maneuver countries of Arab Spring so as to fulfill vision of Great Israel'
As thousands of supporters of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund stood their ground in Cairo on Sunday, the movement's Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie accused Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of "committing massacres the likes of which we have only seen committed by the bitter Zionist enemies and their treacherous agents."
Badie further added that "Zionist fingers are at play in countries of the Arab Spring, so as to fulfill the vision of the Great Israel."
The Moslem Brüderbund representative added that Sisi was worse than the Pharaoh who killed children of believers and let women live, as Sisi and his soldiers, Badie stressed "are worse; you kill everybody."
Badie added that the current regime twisted the truth in such a manner that communication with Gazoo is considered a crime while communication with the 'Zionist enemy' is considered an honor.
Egypt's emergency service said 80 people were killed in Saturday's violence at a Cairo vigil by backers of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, triggering global anxiety that the Arab world's most populous country risked plunging into the abyss.
An Egyptian Health Ministry official says the corpse count in weekend festivities between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi has risen to 80, as opposed to the 72 originally reported.
Khaled el-Khateeb, the head of the ministry's emergency and intensive care department, provided the new tally Sunday. An official at Cairo's main morgue, however, put the toll at 83 after 11 bodies arrived at the facility Sunday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press.
Saturday's killings took place the day after mass rallies called by military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who said he wanted public backing for a crackdown on "terrorism".
Egypt's presidency said Sunday it was "saddened" by the deaths, but linked the bloodshed to "terrorism".
"We are saddened by the spilling of blood on the 27th," Mostafa Hegazy, an adviser to army-backed interim president Adly Mansour, told news hounds. But, "we cannot decouple this (incident) from the context of terrorism," he added.
The Brotherhood saw the demonstrations as an attempt to justify an imminent onslaught against itself.
Morsi's Brotherhood, which won repeated elections after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011, accuses the military of reversing the uprising that brought democracy to Egypt and demands his reinstatement.
"They will not be content until they bring back everything from the era of the corrupt, murderous security and intelligence state," senior Brotherhood official Essam el-Erian said on Facebook. "They've stepped up their efforts to do so by committing massacres never before seen in Egyptian history."
The Interior Ministry has rejected eyewitness accounts that police opened fire on the crowds and a public prosecutor has launched a probe into the violence, investigating 72 suspects for an array of crimes including murder and blocking streets.
Although Cairo was quiet on Sunday, violent festivities rattled the Suez Canal city of Port Said, with a 17-year-old youth killed in fighting between the pro- and anti-Morsi camps and a further 29 people injured, security sources said.
The violence has deeply polarized Egypt, with its secular and liberal elite so far showing little sympathy for the Brotherhood or reservations about the return to power of a military which ruled for 60 years before the 2011 uprising.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... in one of the first signs of doubt from within the interim cabinet installed after the military takeover, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Ziad Bahaa El-Din said the government must not copy the "oppressive" policies of its foes.
"Our position must remain fixed on the need to provide legal guarantees not only for the members of the Brotherhood, but for every Egyptian citizen. Excessive force is not permitted," El-Din wrote on Facebook.
On Sunday morning army vehicles still surrounded entrances to the square in northeast Cairo where thousands of Moslem Brüderbund supporters have camped out for a month.
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[Al Ahram] Polling closed in Mali without any major incidents on Sunday after a presidential election expected to usher in a new dawn of peace and stability in the conflict-scarred west African nation.
The vote had been conducted in the shadow of a threat by an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group to "strike" polling stations but there had been no reports of violence as booths across the country shut.
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[Al Ahram] Tunisia's secular opposition, angered by two liquidations in its ranks and emboldened by the overthrow of Egypt's president, said on Sunday it was considering setting up an alternative "salvation government" to challenge the Islamist-led leadership.
If agreed, the move would mark a significant escalation by the country's opposition groups, who say they have no interest in reconciliation with the ruling Ennahda party.
"We will meet this evening to discuss creating a new salvation government and will study the possibility of nominating a new prime minister to replace this failed government," said Jilani Hammami, a leader of the Salvation Front coalition and Tunisian Workers' Party.
"There is no longer any doubt that the time for it to go has passed."
Tunisians are bracing for what many worry may be one of the most tumultuous and critical periods in their transition to democracy since the toppling of autocratic president Zein El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, a revolt that inspired uprisings across the Arab world.
Last Thursday, assailants bumped off the opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi - the second liquidation targeting the secular opposition in six months.
The opposition blames the Islamist Ennahda party for the killing and protests have erupted in the capital Tunis as well as other provincial cities.
The secular opposition had already been poised to mobilize against the Islamist-dominated government, inspired by the mass protests in Egypt that saw the army oust and detain the former Islamist president.
Critics of the Tunisian opposition say the campaign is threatening stability during a fragile transition process.
The speaker of parliament said on Saturday the government was discussing a new power-sharing deal and urged politicians withdrawing from the transitional Constituent Assembly to reconsider.
"It's not rational to throw in the towel just metres away from the finish line," Mustafa Ben Jaafar said in a televised speech.
Ben Jaafar, a member of one of the secular partners in the Ennahda-led government, said the body was only weeks away from finishing the new constitution.
But the opposition position has hardened.
"The opposition completely rejects all efforts at reconciliation presented by the head of the Constituent Assembly in terms of expanding powers," Hammami told Rooters.
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[Al Ahram] Glass shattered on the floor, vehicles charred, blocks of bricks deployed on Al-Nasr Street across a distance of one kilometre separating between a line of security forces and the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya in Cairo's Nasr City.
"Photograph the blood before they clean it," one protester said as a number of army soldiers gathered in front of the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier to sweep the ground that witnessed a long night of violent festivities.
The festivities started in the early hours of Saturday between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and security forces, leaving dozens killed.
"The moment I entered the hospital I could smell death everywhere," Ismail Hasheesh, a young surgeon at the field hospital, told Ahram Online as he recalled the night of festivities.
Hasheesh has just ended his Friday shift when he received an emergency call.
"Corpses were everywhere in the hospital, and almost all the cases we got were at death's door; some were already dead while others were gasping for their last breath," he said, adding that very few were saved.
According to Hasheesh, most of the cases that arrived to the field hospital were persons shot with live ammunition that targeted the head or chest.
"These are shots aimed to kill, not to disperse," he said, explaining that he is familiar with such situations as he volunteered in field hospitals during the Battle of the Camel in 2011 and at the Republican Guard Club festivities that took place 8 July, leaving at least 50 dead.
Hasheesh added that no official number of deaths has been issued; however, he asserted that at least 50 had been killed and thousands injured.
The Moslem Brüderbund claimed at least 120 people have been killed and 4,500 injured Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, the health ministry reported 38 dead and 239 people injured.
The interior ministry held a presser Saturday where they accused Moslem Brüderbund members of purposefully causing a crisis, in addition to denying that the police opened fire on pro-Brotherhood protesters. The ministry also claimed that festivities erupted after pro-Morsi supporters attempted to block 6 October Bridge and clashed with local residents.
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"These are shots aimed to kill, not to disperse,"
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior minister has said that the Moslem Brüderbund is "purposefully causing a crisis," denying that the police opened fire on pro-Brotherhood protesters in overnight festivities that left scores dead.
Interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim said in a presser on Saturday afternoon that the police "have never fired at a protester using live ammunition."
Interior ministry front man Hani Abdel-Latif said in a televised statement earlier on Saturday that supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi moved in a march from their sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo's Nasr City district to the nearby 6 October Bridge.
"They halted traffic, set tires on fire and clashed with residents of the nearby [working class] Mansheyet Nasr district using live fire and birdshots, and this killed 21 people," Abdel-Latif said. "The police moved to stop the festivities between the two groups and opened the road again."
"The ministry asserts that its forces have not used anything more that teargas," he said.
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"David Ubben waited for twenty hours after he was hit on that rooftop with Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty. His leg was shredded. We know that he has been recovering for ten months at Walter Reed as Catherine has just reported. He was defending the US consulate and then no medical aircraft was apparently sent to this scene to get him out of there. How could this be?" This is the first report from a survivor. How could this be? Because much of our government is led by REMFs, that's how...
An email sent by the then British ambassador in Tripoli details how a prisoner transfer agreement would be signed once Libya "fulfils its promise" to buy an air defence system.
The disclosure is embarrassing for members of the then Labour government, which always insisted that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's release was not linked to commercial deals.
The email, which contained a briefing on the UK's relations with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime, was sent on June 8 2008 by Sir Vincent Fean, the then UK ambassador, to Tony Blair's private office, ahead of a visit soon after he stepped down as prime minister.
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All of that shooting and murder; couldn't have been the shiny objects found in the Witwatersrand. Neither Albion or Washington would ever be moved by such motivations.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
In what amounts to be the most frank discussion by a state official in Mexico's six year war on the cartels, last week Chihuahua state attorney general told Mexican press that the area of southern Chihuahua has a "grave problem" in security, according to Mexican news accounts.
In the report, which appeared in an online edition of El Norte Digital, Carlos Manuel Salas, Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) said that the problem with crime in southern Chihuahua state, particularly around Guadalupe y Calvo municipality is compounded by the lack of state and municipal police personnel.
According to the report, Salas said the the dramatic reduction in murders in Chihuahua state has been realized in Ciudad Juarez and in Chihuahua, the state capital, which he said was because of state efforts in those areas to reduce violent crime.
"It is not a pretext," Salas was quoted as saying. "The territory (in Guadalupe y Calvo) is vast, we continue to work and the help of the army is more intense." He also said that more police are being appointed and that cooperation with the military is increasing.
But Guadalupe y Calvo municipality is not the only southern and western municipality affected by violent, drug related crime.
A column which appeared Saturday in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez news daily by Javier Flores Luis Valero quoted a count provided by Reforma news daily that 40 people have been executed in the last 60 days in several remote mountain communities in the sierras of Chihuahua, including Guadalupe y Calvo, Madera, Balleza, Bocoyna and Moris in just the past two months. These municipalities compose the Chihuahua state part of La Triangulo Dorada or Golden Triagle. The communities are also part of the area called La Tarahumara, after an Indian tribe which resides in the area, colloquially known as the Raramuris.
According to the same report, data compiled by staff of El Diario de Juarez indicated that the murder rate statewide is about two per day, which is well above the average in 2007, when then Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa began to use the military against the drug cartels. According to the report, murder statistics are on track to rival the 755 murders in 2012, the high water mark for violence in Chihuahua state.
The report dismisses the government's claim that federal and state efforts have been instrumental in the documented reduction of violent crimes, but the report claims the reduction is more because likely fighting between criminal gangs has shifted from the cities where the most noticed reductions have taken place to areas such as La Tarahumara.
Another disturbing long term trend has been noted as well. According to Jose Antonio Ortega, president of the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Pena or Citizen's Council for Public Security and Penal Justice, compounding the problem of violence has been impunity, or the lack of criminal convictions for the crime of murder.
A separate news item which appeared in El Diario de Chihuahua news daily last December said that the conviction rate for murder in Mexico nationwide in 2012 was the second lowest since 1997, and has been declining since 2007. Specifically in Chihuahua state, in 2005, 326 were convicted for murder, while in 2012 145 were convicted and in 2011, 199.
The state government of Chihuahua is under increased pressure from residents in La Tarahumara. According to a news account which appeared in the online edition of Yancuic.com, a letter sent to Governor Cesar Duarte Jaquez last July 6th criticized the state government for "shouting from the rooftops" about the reduction in violent crime, while violence has been increasing in the area.
The letter was signed by 100 residents of the region including a sectional president of Creel in Bocoyna municipality, Salvador Bustillos, and Javier Avila, a Jesuit priest who is part of a human rights group in the area, Comision de Solidaridad y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, AC.
The letter says that residents of the region have complained repeatedly to authorities about murder, kidnapping and assaults only to be greeted with more murders, kidnappings and assaults. Another problem in the region, as with Guadalupe y Calvo municipality, is the constant existence of checkpoints operated by criminal groups which rob residents in the area on pain of having their children assaulted or raped.
What is most astonishing about the charges against the government is that the Mexican Army maintains at least one permanent infantry company base in Creel municipality.
The authors complained in the letter that government officials have little problem in coming to the area to boast about projects, but have failed to discuss security issues with constituents.
For his part Governor Duarte has dismissed charges of increased violence in La Tarahumara, and has apparently failed to address the concerns in the letter. He said the letter was a " political manipulation of reality". He said the violence in the region not as bad as in Michocacan state.
In Michoacan state, according to press reports, the Mexican government has claimed to have 6,000 federal security effectives in the region. However, that number is dwarfed considerably by the number reported only a little over a year ago when then Mexican president Felipe Calderon had maintained some 8,000 federal security effectives in the region.
Since the Mexican federal government maintains an effective clamp on drug war news, it is impossible to say if the 6,000 troops are the total in the state after a February, 2013 promise to sent about 1,000 troops to the area in augmentation to that number.
In his inauguration speech three years ago Governor Duarte pledged a crackdown on crime, to include life sentences for kidnapping.
Despite the current claims of additional federal security, violence in Michoacan has skyrocketed. Violence in Chihuahua state has also become grave enough that Duarte's Fiscalia had to respond.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Al Ahram] South Korea on Sunday proposed "final" talks with the North over the fate of a shuttered joint industrial zone, suggesting it may permanently close the estate if the negotiations fail.
The latest offer came after six recent rounds of talks aimed at reviving the Seoul-invested Kaesong complex in North Korea -- suspended since April -- produced little signs of progress.
"We are offering the final talks to discuss the issue (of Kaesong)," Ryoo Kihl-Jae, Seoul's unification minister in charge of cross-border affairs, told reporters.
Seoul will send a formal proposal across the border Monday, he said, without elaborating on when the talks would be held.
The Kaesong complex, built in 2004 as a rare symbol of cooperation, had survived previous inter-Korean crises but eventually became the most high-profile casualty of two months of elevated tensions following a nuclear test by the North in February which sparked international condemnation.
Production at the estate, 10 kilometres (six miles) over the border, has been suspended since North Korea withdrew its 53,000 workers from the zone in April at the height of soaring military tensions with the South.
Ryoo reiterated that the South wants the North to accept responsibility for what Seoul insists was the unilateral closure of Kaesong by Pyongyang, and give a written guarantee that it will never happen again.
"We want a clear answer from the North on preventing a recurrence," he said.
"Otherwise, we will be left with no choice but to make a grave decision to prevent even bigger damages on our companies in the future," he said.
The North has said it was not responsible for the shutdown, arguing that its hand was forced by hostile South Korean actions and intimidation -- in particular, a series of joint military exercises with the United States.
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A Canadian jailed in Mauritania for trying to join an Al-Qaeda training camp in neighboring Mali has been released and is back in Canada.
Aaron Yoon, who is of Korean descent and a convert to Islam from Catholicism, arrived in Toronto. He had served almost two years in Nouakchott after being convicted in July last year.
Yoon had been detained in December 2011 when he tried to visit the camps of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali, according to an indictment against him. He denied any links to terrorism, saying he had come to Mauritania from Morocco to study the Koran and learn Arabic, but Mauritanian authorities contended he had "strong links with AQIM terrorists and his plan to join the movement is indisputable."
The same month, two of Yoon's former schoolmates who grew up with him in London, Ontario and traveled abroad with him were among 29 militants and their 38 hostages killed during a days-long siege and rescue operation at an Algerian gas plant.
Canadian police and intelligence have said they may wish to speak with Yoon.
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Who's the zombie? Those who pull the neo-Marxists party lever every election for power and free stuff or those who sign their names on contract to defend a government and urban society that demonizes the very strata of society that they come from?
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In my day, everyone in my high school class was required to take the ASVAB + PSAT in their junior year, + highly urged to repeatedly take the SAT, ACT, + CLEP, etc. ASAP AMAP + also in our senior year.
Methinks its safe to say that a "normal percentage" [national average] of my graduating class includ moi ended joining the Armed Services before + after graduation, + ROTC during college.
From The Grauniad: We know whose side they're on... Mrs. O'Leary's cow made a difference. What's to be proud of?
The lawyer representing Bradley Manning has asked the judge presiding over the soldier's court martial to decide between two stark portrayals of the accused -- the prosecution's depiction of him as a traitor and seeker of notoriety, and the defence's account that he was motivated by a desire to make a difference in the world and save lives.
Over four hours of intense closing arguments at Fort Meade in Maryland, David Coombs set up a moral and legal clash of characterisations, between the Manning that he laid out for the court, and the callous and fame-obsessed Manning sketched on Thursday by the US government. "What is the truth?" the lawyer asked Colonel Denise Lind, the presiding judge who must now decide between the two accounts to reach her verdict.
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[Ynet] A senior Paleostinian source spoke to Ynet and said that the Paleostinians agreed to return to peace talks only after receiving assurances from the Americans
That is to say, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, universally acclaimed Second Smartest Man In The Room...
that the Israeli-Arab prisoners will also be released.
"The only prisoner list that Israel has is the list we passed onto John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... so he could give it to the Israeli leadership. All the statements bein made by Israeli officials are politics and nothing more."
[Ynet] Fadl Shaker, one of Arab world's most famous singers, becomes radical Sunni, wanted for death of 17 soldiers in festivities in Sidon
Once adored by women for his warm voice and good looks, Lebanese crooner Fadl Shaker followed an unlikely path to become an Islamist bad boy now on the run with fellow runaway Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir.
The pair are now being sought in a nationwide manhunt after festivities between Assir and his Salafist supporters and the military in the southern city of Sidon left 17 soldiers dead.
Though he grew to become one of the Arab world's most famous singers, Shaker suffered through a miserable childhood of poverty, which a onetime musician friend says helped lead him down a dark path later in life.
Now in his mid-forties, Shaker was born to a Paleostinian mother and Lebanese father in the country's biggest Paleostinian refugee camp, Ain al-Helweh.
Born Fadl Shmandur, he began his career as a popular wedding singer who performed from the rooftops of the camp, an over-crowded and hopeless place.
"He has a beautiful voice. Hearing him live was even more beautiful than a recording," a former friend of Shaker's told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"But he has always been naive and gullible. The more of a star he became, the further he strayed from the people who really loved him. He constantly ended up in bad company," said the friend, who lost touch with him some years ago.
In his prime, Shaker sang love songs that were instant region-wide hits. He released his first album in the late nineties, and continued to perform until 2011.
His biggest hits, Bayyaa al-Qulub (The Heartbreaker), Ya Ghayeb (You who are far away) and Law Ala Albi (My heart melted in your love), are regularly played at Arab weddings and parties.
Shaker's songs are romantic and his voice full of longing. "He is a very sensitive, extremely reserved person," said Shaker's friend.
"When his Paleostinian wife left him, he would cry on stage as he sang, thinking of her. He is very emotional."
In one of his most well-known songs, he sang: "O you who are far away, why don't you ask after the one who loves you, and who can't sleep at night? I am thinking of you."
Shaker's immense popularity was boosted by the fact he was also a defender of Paleostinian rights, and was granted honorary Paleostinian citizenship by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... Shaker also opened a restaurant in Sidon and pondered swapping his music career for a less hectic life, closer to his three children.
"I knew he would leave music one day, but I would never have thought he would join Assir. It's such a shame, he has such talent. I feel sorry for him," his friend told AFP.
Haram
Shaker's brother had long been a strict Moslem, and he tried for years to convince him to leave music.
But it wasn't until after the outbreak of an uprising in Syria against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... that Shaker became convinced that singing is haram, or forbidden in Islam.
Shaker soon became the best-known face of Assir's small movement of openly sectarian, Sunni faceless myrmidons and praised the holy man as "the lion of the Sunnis".
He grew a beard and became a highlight of Assir's rallies, helping attract attention to the phenomenon of Sunni radicalism in the small Mediterranean country.
Performing during a television interview earlier this year, Shaker swapped his love songs for a chant about jihad (holy war) and death.
Sitting by Assir, Shaker smiled and sang as sweetly as ever: "God gave me the gift and invited me to join the jihad... Mother, don't cry for me... Death does not frighten me, and my wish is to become a martyr."
His latest media appearance came in an amateur video in which he boasts: "We got rid of two of your swine, of your dogs... God is great."
'We got rid of two of your swine'
The video went viral, with many alleging Shaker referred to killing army troops. Others said the footage referred to earlier festivities between Assir supporters and pro-Hezbollah fighters.
Leb's judicial authorities issued a detention order for Assir and 123 of his supporters, including Shaker, whose brother was killed in weekend festivities with the army in Sidon.
"Fadl's story makes me sad, but in a way I am not surprised. He has always been easy to manipulate," his friend told AFP.
"These people have used him. Without him, no one would have heard of them."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
