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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336099 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Aracely Arámbula [Mexican][Filmography](age 38)



(No es Adecuado para el Trabajo) Diseño Limpio aka Mujer Que Se Bañan



Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/06/2013 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Muy caliente
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/06/2013 10:22 Comments || Top||

#3  There's a Hessian in the woodpile somewhere.
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/06/2013 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep, the Irish, the Germans, and the Swedes spent alot of time in Mexico fighting for other people's independence. When Charles of Sweden got his comeuppance in Russia (doesn't everyone that invades that place?) and the Swedish Army fell apart, lots of them fought for other countries...Of course she could be more pure Spaniard with her family roots in Northeastern Spain where the Goths, Vistagoths, and Huns wandered around sharing their DNA with the local population.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/06/2013 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  (sigh)

Mrs. Uluque won't let me watch Mexican soap operas.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/06/2013 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Mia compadre GolfBravoUSMC no comprehendo idiota, bambino.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/06/2013 15:29 Comments || Top||

#7  (Not Suitable for Work) Clean Design aka Woman Bathing
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/06/2013 15:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Mia compadre GolfBravoUSMC no comprehendo idiota, bambino.

Funny, I'd think you'd have taken to it right off.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2013 23:18 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Weapons found in Bizerte mosque
[MAGHAREBIA] Bizerte security units on Monday (March 4th) uncovered weapons and Molotov cocktails hidden inside the Al Hidaya mosque in Menzel Abderrahmen, Tunisie Numerique reported. Three salafists were arrested as part of the investigation.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  What's so bizarre about finding weapons in mosque?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/06/2013 4:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Not a damn thing I assure you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2013 5:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't mosque arabic for armory?
Posted by: Alanc || 03/06/2013 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  raze the building
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2013 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Gosh, how unusual!
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/06/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Whatever happened to Dirty Gertie?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/06/2013 18:25 Comments || Top||


Students, salafists clash anew in Tunis
[MAGHAREBIA] Salafists and members of the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET) clashed Monday (March 4th) at the Tunis Institute for Humanitarian Sciences, Shems FM reported. Police intervened to stop the violence.

The students were distributing leaflets for a March 8th rally to celebrate international women's day when they were attacked by unknown men armed with clubs and bars, Tunisie Numerique quoted Professor Fathia Saidi as saying.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


15 Islamists die in Mali fighting - France
[News24] Around 15 Islamic cut-throats were killed overnight in heavy fighting with French and Chadian forces in northeastern Mali, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday.

The defence ministry has said dozens of Islamists have died in the area over the past few days. A third French soldier died in the conflict on Saturday.

"There were operations carried out by our troops overnight against a group of Islamic fascisti in the region, in the Ametettai valley," Le Drian told BFMTV, adding that there were "around 15 killed".
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336085 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1  So, mes amis, what exactly is the kill ratio?
Posted by: Injun Stalin7884 || 03/06/2013 16:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Somewhere around 30:1.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2013 23:20 Comments || Top||


Civilian shot, two policemen stabbed in Port Said clashes
[Al Ahram] One person was shot in the head and two low-ranking coppers were stabbed during ongoing festivities in Port Said near its security directorate on Tuesday afternoon, reported Ahram Arabic news website.

Clashes intensified again when three Central Security Forces (CSF) vehicles arrived at the vicinity of the directorate and fired teargas at the groups gathering there. They in turn started throwing stones at the security forces.

According to the website, unidentified persons carrying bladed weapons stabbed low-ranking coppers Salama Khalifa and Mohamed Fikry who were coming out of a side door of the directorate.

They were stabbed in their chests as well as in other areas.

Military forces arrived at the scene and reportedly fired shots in the air to disperse the crowds at the security directorate.

The man who was shot was transferred to Port Said general hospital in a critical condition.

The two coppers were transported to Port Said military hospital which in turn sent them to the police hospital in Cairo because of the gravity of their injuries.

Clashes broke out Sunday in Egypt's Suez Canal city of Port Said when locals protested an interior ministry decision to transfer 39 detainees from Port Said to the Wadi Natroun Prison in the Beheira governorate located on the other side of the Nile Delta. Police reportedly fired teargas at the crowd.

These detainees were convicted of involvement in last year's football disaster in which over 70 Ahly football club fans were killed after a match between Cairo's Ahly and Port Said's Masry.

According to the ministry of health, at least 352 people have been injured in recent festivities in Port Said.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Attack on Nigeria cop station - 10 dead
[News24] At least two coppers and eight non-combatants were killed in an attack on a cop shoppe in Nigeria's northern Borno state, a stronghold of the 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...
Islamist group, local media reported on Tuesday.

Boko Haram gunnies attacked the cop shoppe in Gwoza town late on Monday, according to Nigerian Vanguard newspaper, and festivities followed.

Gwoza lies near the Cameroonian border, about 135km south-east the state capital Maiduguri, a Boko Haram stronghold.

The attack came a day after Nigerian security forces killed 20 suspected Boko Haram cut-throats who had attacked army barracks in Munguno, which also lies in Borno state.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Where's the RLI when you need them? Oh, never mind.
Posted by: Injun Stalin7884 || 03/06/2013 16:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Back in Bulawayo ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2013 16:57 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Jamaat continues attacking Hindus
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir attacks on Hindu community and their temples continued in different parts of the country yesterday creating widespread fear among general people living unprotected in rural areas.

Reports of arson, vandalism and physical assaults on members of Hindu community and also on Awami League activists have been rampant since Thursday, when the International Crimes Tribunal-1 had awarded death penalty to Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
Yesterday in Khulna, more than 300 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP acitivists brought out a procession from Chad Ali Bridge in Amadi Bazar area of Koyra upazila around 10:30am, during the BNP-called hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
Locals said the focus of the procession suddenly turned to Dhopapara, an extremely poor locality with predominantly Hindu population traditionally making a living on washing clothes. Within minutes, eight houses belonging to Hindus were set ablaze. While the Hindu men, women and kiddies ran for safety, the attackers looted whatever they could put their hands on.

The attackers soon swooped on to nearby Amadi Bazar. They broke into eight to 10 shops belonging to local Hindus and looted them before being dispersed by Border Guard Bangladesh and police personnel around noon.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
the attack left a woman and a young man injured. They were admitted to the local health complex.

Amiya and Apurbo Das, who lost their home in the attack, said neighbours had tried to douse the fire but their thatched house stood no chance. Others who lost their houses to the arson include Subodh Das, Kartik Das and Sona Das. Each of the victim families had more than one thatched house. The attackers also torched a prayer room set up inside a house.

"We do not know what to do and are living in fear of further attacks," said Apurbo Das. Locals said the attackers also unleashed violent assaults on several residents.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Khairul Kabir of Koyra Police Station said they had tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
two Shibir activists from the area. "Two to three houses were torched and looted and about eight shops were looted during the attack," said the OC.

Superintendent Golum Rouf Khan of Khulna police said BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men had set fire to thatched houses and a semi-concrete structure, and vandalised shops belonging to local Hindus.

The ploy in which attacks on Hindu temples and idols were executed, bear striking similarity in most cases throughout the country.

At Rotherpar village in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat, religious fanatics entered the Sree Sree Shoshan Kali Mandir [temple] some time early hours yesterday and vandalised the temple smashing the idol of goddess Kali.

President of the temple committee Subhas Chandra Roy said they had lodged a written complaint with the police and it was now up to the law enforcers to take action.

At Lakhirpar village under Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj, zealots set fire to a temple of goddess Kali on Monday around 7:45pm. The fire partially gutted the temple and destroyed four idols of the goddess. The arson instantly drew protests in the area.

Kotalipara police placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
five suspects in this connection.

In NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
re, Jamaat-Shibir men are strengthening themselves in the border areas of Lalpur upazila where Awami League activists and members of the Hindu community are living in fear.

On Monday evening, Jamaat-Shibir men in a bid to spread further panic set fire to a temple of Shoair village under Singra upazila and destroyed the Hori Protima [the idol of god Hori].

Isahaq Ali, secretary of Lalpur upazila unit Awami League, said Jamaat-Shibir men were capitalising on the innocence of the villagers through anti-minority propaganda.

"The situation is such that we cannot even go to the border areas of Char Jazira, Horir Char and Gorgoria where on the one hand, gangs of Jaamat-Shibir rule and on the other, outlaws roam around on the lam," said Isahaq Ali.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez dead
WSJ Online has about the most even summary of the death of Oogo.
CARACAS, Venezuela--Hugo Chavez, a former tank commander turned populist politician who used Venezuela's oil riches to pursue his vision of socialism and challenge the U.S., died Tuesday from complications related to cancer. He was 58 years old.

With Mr. Chavéz just months into his fourth term, his death plunged Venezuela into political uncertainty. Vice President Nicolas Maduro will succeed Mr. Chavez as interim president, but must hold a new election within 30 days, according to the constitution. It seems likely Mr. Maduro will face off against opposition governor Henrique Capriles, who lost to Mr. Chavez in October's presidential election, but retained his governor's seat during an election in December.

Mr. Chavez's death is a blow to populist governments in the region, including those of Bolivia and Ecuador, which he led in a perennial campaign against American hegemony. His death could have major economic and political repercussions for Cuba, which receives billions in virtually free oil from Venezuela.

Domestically, Mr. Chavez leaves behind a deeply divided country with an economy in disarray, barely kept afloat by high oil prices.

For almost half his countrymen, Mr. Chavez was anathema, an authoritarian who fueled class hatred as he pursued what he called his Bolivarian Revolution. But for a majority of Venezuelans, Mr. Chavez was a messiah.

He was voted into power in 1998 on a tide of citizen disgust with the corruption of democratically elected politicians who had ruled Venezuela for three decades. He went on to dominate the country, which boasts the world's largest oil reserves, for the past 14 years, spending billions to create what he called "21st-century socialism."

A silver-tongued preacher-in-uniform, Mr. Chavez was the latest in a long line of military caudillos, or strongmen, who have left their mark in Latin America since the region gained independence from Spain and Portugal in the 19th century.

After failing to reach power through a military coup in 1992, Mr. Chavez proclaimed himself a democrat. But once in power, he proved difficult to remove. He changed the constitution twice to allow continuous re-election. He also used rhetoric to sharpen class divisions, pitting millions of poor Venezuelans against a prosperous middle and upper class, which he scornfully called "the squalid ones."

Mr. Chavez expropriated thousands of farms and businesses, and transformed the state oil company into a behemoth that did everything from build houses to distribute food. He saddled Venezuela with high inflation, some $80 billion in foreign debt despite high oil prices, and made it even more dependent on oil.

Mr. Chavez's biggest achievement, one even his detractors will admit, was to end the social and political exclusion of a large number of Venezuela's poor. He spent billions of dollars on his "Missions"--well-publicized educational, health and welfare programs aimed at the millions who live in cement-block slums on the hillsides surrounding Caracas and other cities.

Some studies have indicated that the programs have had little effect on reducing poverty or eliminating its structural factors. Crime in the barrios has risen and public schools remain far behind countries with comparable per-capita income.
Much, much more; worth the read if you don't quite remember all the stunts Oogo pulled.

WaPo summary here, skews moderately left.

Daily Mail (UK) summary here; lots of 'people in the street' photos as is their style.

Me? I'm pleased he's cavorting with Himmler right now. I pray for the people of Venezuela; they're in for a rough time.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336096 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sic transit hijo de puta
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/06/2013 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny thing, on March 5 1953 Stalin died
Posted by: European Conservative || 03/06/2013 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Celebration should be cautiously restrained.

It was within that environment that on Sunday, March 5, 1933 Germans flooded into election booths. Participation was high, with nearly 89 percent of able voters taking part. Hitler calculated that his own party would walk away the winner - yet Germans would disappoint him. The next election would be more to his liking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/06/2013 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I read somewhere he left a fortune of a billion dollars - no doubt all honestly earned.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/06/2013 8:19 Comments || Top||

#5  One could see the metaphorical tear-stains on the Associated Press version of his obituary.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2013 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder if Obama will attend Hugo's funeral in person.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/06/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Plant him and forget him. There's a new moustache in town.
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/06/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  The day he died and the day it was announced do not necessarily have to be the same; could be trying some legacy building with the 3/5 thing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/06/2013 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9  pro Hugo obit at Salon here

anti Hugo obit at Slate here
Posted by: lord garth || 03/06/2013 16:40 Comments || Top||

#10  I wonder if Obama will attend Hugo's funeral in person.

Nah. That sounds like a job for Slow Joe.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/06/2013 17:05 Comments || Top||

#11  another pro Hugo obit in the nation
Posted by: lord garth || 03/06/2013 17:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Still dead.
Posted by: eLarson || 03/06/2013 18:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Got a stake and a hammer, just to make sure?
Posted by: Pappy || 03/06/2013 23:21 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Four 'LJ militants' held, arms seized: IG
[Dawn] Police on Monday claimed to have tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
four suspected snuffies of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
during overnight raids in the city.

Sindh police chief Fayyaz Leghari told a presser that a list of targets had also been recovered from the four suspects, who were identified as Saifur Rehman, Abdul Ghani, Zubair and Mohammad Gul.

He said that the suspects had completed the surveillance of their potential targets.

He did not disclose the name of any potential target of the suspects.

He said that the held suspects confessed to having killed several people -- including Kazim Ali, Dr Jafar Mehdi, Mohammad Shahzad, Amir Abbas, Hussain Ibne Hasan, Dr Hasan Alam -- in the city.

He said that the suspects had also carried out a bank heist in Quetta.

He claimed that suspect Zubair was also involved in a previous kaboom in Abbas Town during Muharram.

The police claimed to have recovered 50 kilograms of explosives, 50 feet of detonating wire and two AK-47 assault rifles.

He said that around 60 other suspects were also picked up in various raids in the city and they were being questioned.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Security forces defuse 50 kg bomb in Quetta
[Dawn] Security forces on Tuesday foiled a major bid of terrorism by defusing a 50 kilogram heavy bomb in Sariab road area of Quetta, said officials.
Um... that's a tad large, isn't it?
Security forces, on a tip off, spotted a rickshaw with 50 kilogram of explosives installed in it in Sariab road area of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's restive capital.

Officials said that unknown myrmidons had planted the bomb in the rickshaw. "Rickshaw was being brought to main Quetta city," a security official who requested not to be named told Dawn.Com.

He however said that no arrests were made during the operation. Bomb disposal squad was quick at the scene to defuse the heavy bomb. "Had myrmidons succeeded in parking the rickshaw there would have been a major terror attack," said the official.

A suicide-bomb, targeting Shia Hazaras had killed more than 90 people including women and kiddies and maimed 200 others on Feb 17.

And in a similar attack, at least 93 people were killed and 121 maimed on Jan 10 when two jacket wallahs blew themselves up at a crowded snooker club in Alamdar Road area of Quetta city dominated by the Shia community.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had imposed governor rule in the province under article 234 of the constitution after the attack.

Surrounding areas were evacuated before the bomb disposal squad started defusing the bomb on Tuesday. The official said rickshaw driver was also taken into custody for interrogation.

Later, the rickshaw was shifted to Kechi Baig Police Station for further investigation.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi

#1  50 kg? That IS a big one. That will do more than kick a Humvee off the road, that was intended to really ruin someones' days...

It took big brass ones to walk up to a thing like that and cut the wires knowing how our buddies on the darkside seem to confuse green wires and red wires. My hat is off to the bomb disposal guys on this one.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/06/2013 10:43 Comments || Top||


Four arrested for involvement in Abbas Town blast: Malik tells NA
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
told the National Assembly on Tuesday that authorities had tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
four activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LeJ) for their involvement in the deadly bombing in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Abbas Town area.

Malik told the NA that the Karachi bombing was a replication of similar sectarian attacks in Quetta. He claimed that a conspiracy was being hatched to delay general elections.

The interior minister said he had visited Karachi on Monday and had held meetings with law enforcement agencies to stop the recurrence of such incidents.

The interior minister said he would give a detailed statement in the National Assembly on Wednesday on the law and order situation in the country, particularly Karachi.

Malik again urged the Punjab government to take action against LeJ in Punjab province.

Speaking to news hounds, the interior minister said the LeJ was conducting its activities through supervision from Punjab. He urged the Supreme Court to inquire from the Punjab Chief Minister over why no action was being taken against the banned outfit in the province.

He said that if the forces of Evil could be controlled in Punjab, then terrorism could also be curbed in Karachi.

He reiterated that a list of suspects belonging to the banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
had already been sent to the Punjab government.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Blast at polio center in Jamrud hospital injures LHW
[Dawn] A blast at a hospital in Khyber tribal region's Jamrud area left a lady health worker (LHW) injured and damaged a room being used as a polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination centre early on Tuesday.

The blast also caused damage to the room in the hospital which was being used as a polio vaccination centre.

Assistant political agent (APA) Jehangir Azam Wazir told Dawn.com that the bomb was planted in the bathroom of the hospital and that the watchman and Khasadar personnel posted on duty at the hospital were tossed in the clink
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for investigations.

Wazir added that six khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
personnel and four commanders as well as four personnel of the hospital staff were suspended for negligence over the incident.

Official sources told that the blast rocked the building which was being used as a polio centre. It was the second day of the anti-polio vaccination being conducted in the area.

A senior lady health visitor, who is also a polio worker, was injured in the incident.

No further loss was reported.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
the Bomb disposal unit defused a bomb averting a a huge sabotage bid in Maryam Zai area of Mattani in the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
The AIG Bomb Disposal Unit Shahfqat Malik told that the road side Improvised Explosive Device (IED) defused by the unit weighed about 12 kilograms adding that the home-made device could have caused huge damage.
Posted by: Fred || 03/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Thirteen People Killed in Several Iraq Attacks
[An Nahar] A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 13 people and maimed at least 35 others on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.

Two boom-mobiles targeted police in the restive northern city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
killing five and wounding at least 18, while gunnies killed a town council member and a North Oil Company employee south of the city, police and a health official said.

A boom-mobile went kaboom! near a football field southeast of Baquba, a city north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, killing three people and wounding another 17, according to a police colonel and a doctor.

And gunnies attacked a real estate office near Taji, north of Storied Baghdad, killing two people, as others armed with silenced weapons killed an agriculture ministry employee in Saidiyah in southern Storied Baghdad, officials said.
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Syria rebels detain UN Golan observers
About 20 UN observers have been detained by about 30 armed fighters in the Golan Heights on the Syria-Israel border, the UN has confirmed.

A video posted earlier on the internet showed men claiming to be Syrian rebels standing next to vehicles with the letters "UN" written on them. The UN said the observers were monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel.

A team is being despatched from the UN mission to assess the situation.

UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the observers were on "a regular supply mission" when they were stopped near Observation Post 58 by the armed men. He said the post had sustained damage and was evacuated over the past weekend following "heavy combat in close proximity".

The spokesman did not provide any further details.
"I can say no more!"
Some reports suggest the UN observers were from the Philippines.
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In the video published on the internet, the gunmen identified themselves as the "Martyrs of Yarmouk".

They are heard saying that the UN personnel would not be released until forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad withdrew from the village of Jamla in the area.

The video was circulated by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
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Rebels Capture Governor of Raqa Province
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels fighting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's
Terror of Aleppo ...
forces captured the governor of the northern province of Raqa after overrunning the placid provincial capital, a watchdog said on Tuesday.

A short amateur video filmed by rebels and distributed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showed the governor, Hassan Jalili, and Suleiman Suleiman, the ruling Baath party's secretary general for Raqa province, seated among rebels.

"All we want is to get rid of the regime," an unidentified rebel tells the captives, who can be seen sitting in silence, wearing dark suits and pale blue shirts.

"This is the highest profile capture by rebels of a regime official. Raqa has suffered a lot because of the governor's corruption," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Jalili's capture came a day after rebels overran the placid provincial capital Raqa, in their biggest victory since the outbreak of the anti-regime insurgency almost two years ago.

Though cut-throats took most of Raqa on Monday, troops and pro-regime militia fought on during the night near the military intelligence headquarters in the city, said the Observatory.

"New army reinforcements are on their way to Raqa. We have yet to see whether they will make it into the city or not," Abdel Rahman said.

On Monday, after the fall of much of Raqa to rebel hands, the army had used warplanes and tanks to bombard the city.

Elsewhere, fresh festivities broke out on Tuesday pitting rebels against troops in beturbanned goon enclaves of the city of Homs, in central Syria, said the Observatory.

The battles come three days into a fierce army and pro-regime militia campaign to reclaim rebel belts in the heart of Homs, dubbed by anti-Assad activists as "the capital of the revolution."

An activist in the rebel-held Old City district of Homs, which has been under army siege for eight months, compared Tuesday's round of fighting to "a war of attrition," as rebels fought off the onslaught and both sides sustained heavy casualties.

"Everywhere you look, it's raining bullets," said Abu Bilal. "Everything in the Old City is burning."

The Syrian Revolution General Commission, a grassroots network of activists, meanwhile reported "heavy rocket shelling and tank fire on the (nearby) district of Khaldiyeh, while loud kabooms shook the neighborhood and fierce festivities raged."
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Rebels seize Raqqa governor in northern Syria
BEIRUT — Syrian rebels battled pockets of regime loyalists in the northern city of Raqqa on Tuesday after capturing the governor of the northern province in fierce clashes overnight, activists said.

Rebel fighters pushed government troops from most of Raqqa, a city of some 500,000 people on the Euphrates River, on Monday. If the opposition manages to wrest all of Raqqa from the government, it would mark the first time an entire city has fallen into opposition hands, dealing both a strategic and a symbolic blow to President Bashar Assad’s regime.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said opposition fighters captured the governor of Raqqa province, Hassan Jalili, after clashes overnight near the governor’s office in the provincial capital, also named Raqqa. The Observatory said the head of Assad’s ruling Baath party in the province was also in rebel custody.

Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said Jalili is one of the highest-ranking officials to fall into rebel hands since the Syrian crisis began nearly two years ago.

Righting was still raging on Tuesday near an intelligence building in the city as well as several other places, he said, adding that “some of Raqqa is still under regime control.”

The Observatory said government warplanes carried out airstrikes on two targets in the city, causing an unspecified number of casualties. It also reported heavy fighting near an ammunition depot on the northern edge of the city.

Rebels have been making headway in Raqqa province for weeks, capturing the country’s largest dam west of the city. On Sunday, anti-Assad fighters stormed Raqqa city’s central prison, and after rebels swept regime forces from much of the provincial capital on Monday, euphoric residents poured into the main square and tore down a bronze statue of Assad’s late father, Hafez.
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