[Al Ahram] Sudanese Government forces have counter-attacked a rebel-held town in southern Darfur, as the UN's top Sudan official called for immediate access to help thousands of civilians
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DUBAI A Saudi diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda in Yemen for more than a year has urged the kingdom to secure his release, in a new video published by the extremist networks media arm. Abdullah Al Khalidi, Saudis deputy consul in the southern port of Aden, was dressed in a traditional black outfit and appeared to be in good health in the 19-minute video interview by Al Malahem Media, apparently produced between February and March.
He appealed to the custodian of the two Holy Mosques,King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, to secure his release by meeting his kidnappers demands, asking: Will he release me and return me back to my family and children?
They are demanding the release of a few women and some clerics detained by Saudi authorities over their links to Al Qaeda, he said.
Militants from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula seized Khalidi on March 28 last year seeking the release of female prisoners and to collect a ransom. AQAP claimed responsibility for Khalidis abduction in April.
This is Khalidis fourth such appeal. He last appeared in October in a similar recording, and made appeals on May 25 and again on July 1.
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A total of nine unidentified individuals were found dead in a grave in northern Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news account which appeared on the website of El Universal news daily, the victims were found in a grave on the banks of the Rio Silla between Nuevo Leon and Reforma colonies near the intersection of calles Villa de Santiago and Agualeguas in Guadalupe municipality, a suburb of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon state.
Initial reports by the Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE), or attorney general were that two bodies were found. Later it was reported that a total of nine had been found.
The report of the medical examiner said that the victims had been shot to death two days before.
A separate news account which appeared more than two weeks ago on the website of El Porvenir news daily said that one unidentified man was found on the banks of the Rio Silla near the intersection of Avenida Paseo de las Américas and Calle Escritores Mexicanos in Contry La Silla colony.
The find was made at around 1115 hrs and the victim was not found in a grave. Reports were the victim may have died of natural causes.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
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A total of five individuals have been killed or were found dead in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Tamaulipas state including three armed suspects who died exchanging gunfire with a unit of the Mexican Army, according to official government news sources.
According to a press release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general, the three armed suspects were amongst a group travelling in a convoy aboard a Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck and a Chevrolet Malibu sedan near a gap that leads to the village of Lopez Rayon in Gonzalez municipality when they were encountered by a Mexican Army road patrol.
In the aftermath soldiers secured four rifles and 58 poncha llantas or spikes used to puncture automobile tires, along with the vehicles.
According to a press release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state PGJE, two other individuals were found dead in southern Tamaulipas state.
A man was found shot to death Monday evening in Ciudad Victoria. The victim was identified as Rodrigo de los Santos Gonzalez Gomez, 48 and was found at 1940 hrs near the intersection of calles 6th and Carrera. He had been shot three times with a .223 caliber rifle.
Tuesday morning a man was found shot to death in ejido Francisco Villa in San Fernando municipality at around 0830 hrs. The victim was identified as Luis Arrellano Herrera, 64, and was found aboard a Dodge Caravan minivan. The victim had been shot once in the head.
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[FOXNEWS] The FBI has confirmed that a letter addressed to President B.O. has "preliminarily tested positive" for ricin, a day after politicians said another letter sent to the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Roger Wicker ...junior United States Senator from Mississippi, a member of the Republican Party. In December 2007 he was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to fill the seat vacated by Trent Lott, winning reelection the next year. A lawyer by training, he was previously a Congressman, and before that a state senator... tested positive for the same substance.
The warnings come amid a flurry of reports on suspicious packages on Capitol Hill. Fox News has learned of several suspicious packages or envelopes in various Capitol Hill office buildings. Capitol Police say three packages that were flagged have been removed and the areas have been cleared. Separately, the office of Sen. Carl Levin, ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... D-Mich., reported a "suspicious-looking letter" at one of the senator's Michigan offices, and other suspicious packages were reported at the Arizona office of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years...
The package alerts compounded security concerns in the wake of the letter incidents and the Boston bombing, which the FBI has said do not appear to be related.
Both of the initial suspicious letters were apparently intercepted on Tuesday. They never reached the Hill or the White House.
An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News said the letter sent to Obama is still being screened, though it initially tested positive.
The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
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It appears the hunt for the so far unidentified Boston nomber may be coming to an end. From Bloomberg:
OFFICIALS BELIEVE BOMBING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED, CNN SAYS
ONE SUSPECT CLEARLY IDENTIFIED IN VIDEO, CNN'S KING SAYS
AUTHORITIES HAVE IMAGE OF SUSPECT W/BAG AT 2ND BOMB SITE:GLOBE
IDENTIFICATION COMING FROM STORE SECURITY CAMERA, CNN SAYS
Authorities have an image of a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene - Globe.com
And the kicker:
Suspect is a "dark-skinned male" according to CNN. Apparently that is the proper nomenclature.
(CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 1:47 p.m. Wednesday ]
An arrest has been made in the Boston bombings investigation based on two videos showing images of the suspect, a federal law enforcement source told CNN's Fran Townsend.
(NBC) -- [Breaking news update at 2:47 p.m. Wednesday ]
Authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombing said Wednesday they have the face but not the name of someone seen on video leaving a black bag near the scene of the blasts.
The person was seen on a surveillance camera from a Lord & Taylor department store, one official said. Investigators said they had "solid leads" after viewing hundreds of hours of video. NBC News sources said there had not been an arrest.
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I don't like the look or the two-handed lock grip that bearded guy has on his...rather hefty looking bug-out bag. Those other fellows wearing caps and cargo pants...troubling also.
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Squank: I doubt it. Legitimate "security" personnel [and bad guys] would attempt to blend in, look innocuous. Looking like a knuckle dragging, Oakleys wearing Blackwater contractor is not the desired look.
Tracking a a cellie circuit board detonator from a blast site to a tower, then on to a specific user could be [could be] futile as well. The cellie could be stolen or purchased using no ID or false ID. The Feds are running the traps correctly at this stage, soliciting fotos and video from civilians and businesses.
My only criticism is not having a single point of contact for Law Enforcement (LE) media releases. This may have already been corrected.
Similar to DoD overseas dining facilities (DFACS), you can say goodbye to carrying bug-out bags to events such as the Boston Marathon. this won't stop suicide vests however. It has arrived.
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Looks like we might start seeing security tables at the entrances to Malls and other public gatherings. That is what the've been doing for years in the Philippines.
Please open your bag or purse and let us peek inside with this little penlight...
Big Sis was been wanting for years to install TSA in malls, Bus depots, and other places.
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Besoeker. Yep. You are correct. IEDs have arrived. As a direct result of knuckledragging politicians running amuck in DC. It is going to be up to us to counter this sadistic state of affairs here now.
If you have a simple free graphics program such as Infranview that can be downloaded and installed on any pc you will be able to import these these images onto your pc, open them with Infranview, and zoom in to the logo of the cap of the far right member of the cargo slacks adorned security detail in the back area viewing the entire scene. You will see that logo is the the Seal Team 6 Skull Mask logo.
BOSTON - The investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have carried heavy bags or backpacks, but entered a third day on Wednesday without any arrests or word on who was responsible.
Investigators appeared to have gathered enough evidence at the crime scene on Tuesday to slightly narrow their search. A stretch of Boston's Boylston Street almost a mile long and blocks around it remained closed on Wednesday as investigators searched for clues. The explosions sprayed shrapnel far enough that police were collecting fragments from rooftops along the marathon's course.
Hospitals are saving the shrapnel pieces doctors pick out of the wounded for police. Dr. Peter Burke, the chief of trauma surgery, said the fragments include metal, plastic, wood and concrete.
"We've taken on large quantities of pieces we send them to the pathologists and they are available to the police," he said.
Among the items recovered at the bomb scene were pieces of black nylon that could be from a backpack, fragments of ball bearings and nails, and possibly the remains of a pressure cooker device, Richard DesLauriers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's special agent in charge in Boston, told a news conference on Tuesday. Evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, DesLauriers said.
Bomb scene pictures produced by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force and released on Tuesday show the remains of an explosive device including twisted pieces of a metal container, wires, a battery and what appears to be a small circuit board.
One picture shows a few inches of charred wire attached to a small box, and another depicts a half-inch nail and a zipper head stained with blood. Another shows a Tenergy-brand battery attached to black and red wires through a broken plastic cap. Several photos show a twisted metal lid with bolts.
A U.S. government official, who declined to be identified, made the pictures available to Reuters.
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White House mail handlers identified a "suspicious substance" in a letter sent to President Barack Obama the same day one suspected of containing the poison ricin was found in a Senate mailroom, the Secret Service said Wednesday.
Both letters arrived Tuesday at off-site postal facilities set up after the 2001 anthrax attacks and have been sent to laboratories for additional tests, authorities said.
"A letter addressed to the president containing a suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. The Secret Service, FBI and Capitol Police are investigating, he said.
Shortly after that announcement, Capitol Police were checking out reports of suspicious packages or letters in two Senate office buildings. The first floor of the Hart Senate Office Building was evacuated shortly before noon.
That news came a day after preliminary tests on a letter sent to the Senate indicated the presence of ricin, a deadly toxin with no known antidote. Further tests on that letter took place Wednesday, the FBI said.
And the authorities have a suspect in mind. Let us hope he actually is the culprit. Then give him a fair, fast trial, followed by a fast, fair sentence
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... , D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing.
Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation being led by Capitol Police and the FBI after tests indicated that a letter mailed to the Mississippi Republican's Washington office contained the potentially deadly toxin. The letter was intercepted at a Senate mail facility in Prince George's County, Md., just outside Washington, said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... , then the junior senator from Illinois.... , a member of the Senate's Democratic leadership.
The letter's discovery shook the U.S. Capitol, where several events were canceled Tuesday in response to Monday's Boston bombing that killed three people, injured more than 170 and ignited fresh fears of terrorism. There was no evidence of a connection between the two events.
FBI front man Paul Bresson said initial field tests on the substance produced mixed results and it was undergoing further analysis at a laboratory. Only after that testing could a determination be made about whether the substance was ricin, Bresson said.
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Odd that a Tn Senator, widely regarded as a conservative, and O. would be on the same mailing list....
[FRANCE24] US mail authorities intercepted a letter bound for the Washington office of Senator Roger Wicker that contained the poison ricin, a Senate leadership aide said Tuesday.
The letter was detected during a routine inspection of mail at an off-site facility and did not reach the US Capitol or Wicker's office, the aide said, citing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who briefed lawmakers about the security breach.
The letter had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer wrote in an e-mail to senators and aides.
Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... told news hounds after a briefing for politicians that a suspect has already been identified in the incident, but a knowledgeable source said no one was in jug Tuesday night.
Wicker (R), the junior senator from Mississippi, has been assigned a protective detail, according to a law enforcement source.
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WASHINGTON -- The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.
The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives emerged as investigators appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues to who carried out the attack. The chief FBI agent in Boston vowed we will go to the ends of the Earth to find those responsible.
A person who spoke on condition of anonymity said the explosives were put in 6-liter kitchen pressure cookers, hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground. They were packed with shrapnel. The person said law enforcement officials have some of the bomb components but do not yet know what was used to set off the explosives.
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[Pak Daily Times] Anti-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... workers came under attack in Khanewal and 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... on Tuesday. According to media reports, members of a polio vaccination team were beaten up in Kabirwala town of Khanewal. DCO (Health) Dr Afzal Bashir said that two lady health workers, identified as Sorayya and Tasleem, were thrashed in Mastpur. Separately, another anti-polio vaccination team was attacked in Karachi's Baldia Town. According to police, the polio team entered Sector 8 of Baldia Town where assailants opened fire on them, adding that no injuries were reported. SSP Asif Sheikh said that they had placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... four people, including a woman, involved in the attack. The police also said that the polio campaign in the area had been suspended until today (Wednesday).
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[Pak Daily Times] Militants in Khyber Agency on Tuesday attacked a security checkpost in the Akakhel area, injuring five security personnel. Security sources said that bully boyz stormed a security checkpost and shot injured the officers. Forces retaliated and pushed back the bully boyz into the mountains. Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the entire area and defused four bombs during a search operation following the exchange of fire. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... bully boyz fired at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... tankers in the Ali Masjid area of Jamrud. Luckily, no loss of life was reported in the incident.
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[Pak Daily Times] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least four police officials were maimed and two gunnies killed when forces of Evil attacked a police mobile on Tuesday. According to sources, the police mobile came under attack by a terrorist group outside the house of the Political Agent (PA). Four police officials sustained injuries, while two of the bad boyz were potted during crossfire. The injured coppers were shifted to a nearby hospital. Police cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
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[Pak Daily Times] A bomb attack killed four Pakistani soldiers and wounded many others on Tuesday in the country's most notorious militant stronghold on the Afghan border, local officials said.
The bomb struck on a road under construction, five kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town of the district of North Waziristan, known as a strong bastion of Taliban and al Qaeda linked militants. "An improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off near a military truck, killing four soldiers and wounding many others," a local intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said that the soldiers were providing security to workers building the road between Miranshah and the area of Ghulam Ali.
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[Pak Daily Times] A jacket wallah killed sixteen people and maimed dozens more at an election campaign rally attended by former cabinet minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour in 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. on Tuesday, officials said.
Senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who served as railways minister in the outgoing government, escaped the Peshawar bombing with cuts and bruises. He was shown on television footage with blood splattered on his trousers after the attack. "Six persons was struck down in his prime while others lost struggle for life while on their way to hospital or in hospital," a front man for the Lady Reading Hospital told media. The attack comes days after ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan wrote to the Election Commission of Pakistain protesting the withdrawal of security from big shots after completion of their government's constitutional term.
Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year.
"As Ghulam Bilour arrived for the corner meeting in a vehicle the suicide bomber went kaboom!," a leader of ANP leader told Daily Times. "The people were moving to receive the Bilours when the kaboom took place," he added. Police said it was a suicide kaboom. Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year.
The Taliban quickly grabbed credit for the attack, but apologised for injuring Bilour, saying it had been targeting his nephew, Haroon. "We apologise to Ghulam Bilour because we announced an amnesty for him," Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location. Haroon is the son of slain ANP leader Bashir, the elder brother of Ghulam who was killed in a suicide attack at a political meeting in Peshawar on December 22.
The Taliban has directly threatened the ANP and its outgoing coalition partners, the PPP and the MQM which are perceived as secular. Up to six kilogrammes of explosives along with splinters and ball bearings were used in the bombing, officials said. "We have found the feet of the bomber," police official Malik added. In another election-related attack, as many as four people, including the son, brother and nephew of Pakistain Moslem League-N 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... chapter President Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, were killed and 30 others injured when his convoy was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb in Zehri, on Tuesday.
Talking to this correspondent, a Levies official in Zehri said that Nawab Sanaullah Zehri was heading from Anjeera to Zehri as part of his election campaign in a convoy comprising as many as 30 to 35 vehicles. "When the motorcade reached Ghat Bulbul Tarsani, a remote-controlled bomb which was attached to an overpass went off," he said and, adding that it completely destroyed a vehicle and killed on the spot as many as four people -- the son of Sanaullah Zehri, Mir Sikandar Zehir, his nephew Mir Zaib Zehri and his younger brother Mehrullah Zehri and their gunman. Moreover, 30 people were maimed in the attack and five vehicles were damaged.
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[Pak Daily Times] Two men, including a cop, bit the dust falling prey to separate acts of violence in remits of Korangi Industrial area cop shoppe, here on Tuesday. A policeman was rubbed out in a targeted attacked near Bilal Colony bus stop within the remits of Korangi Industrial area cop shoppe. SHO Mohammad Ali said that victim Jawaid Iqbal, 32, resident of Gulzar Colony was on his way home after duty when unidentified armed riders sprayed bullets on him. As a result he sustained multiple injuries and was struck down in his prime. His body was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to his heirs. SHO Ali said that deceased was deployed at Jackson cop shoppe, and suspected that the motive behind the incident was on-going attacks on police, while further investigation are underway.
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[Pak Daily Times] India's security forces on Tuesday rubbed out nine Maoist rebels during a fierce gunbattle in a remote forested area of central India, a police brass hat said.
"Nine Maoists have been killed in a gunbattle with security forces and their bodies have been recovered," police inspector general Himanshu Gupta told AFP.
The battle was the latest in a simmering conflict pitting the left-wing gunnies against local and national authorities in the forests and rural areas of mainly central and eastern India.
Tuesday's fighting took place in the thick forests of Sukma district, some 525 kilometres south of Chhattisgarh state capital Raipur.
"Eleven sophisticated weapons, including self-loading rifles, have been recovered from the battle site," Gupta said.
Police commandos raided the area following an intelligence tip-off, Gupta said, adding that no casualties were reported among the security forces.
In February, the guerrillas, who say they are fighting for the rights of tribal people and landless farmers, killed six coppers in a landmine attack in Bihar state.
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[An Nahar] Bombings in Iraq, including one near a governor's convoy, killed eight people on Tuesday a day after a wave of attacks left 50 dead ahead of the first elections since U.S. troops withdrew.
A boom-mobile killed four people and maimed 15 in Aziziyah, while a roadside kaboom killed a soldier and maimed two near Mussayib, both south of the capital, security and medical officials said.
Three separate blasts north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed three people and maimed eight others, and a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! near a convoy carrying Nineveh province's Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi near the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, though no one was hurt.
Gunmen also attacked a military site northwest of the disputed city of Kirkuk in the north, wounding two soldiers, while two workers on an irrigation project were kidnapped west of the city.
The spate of bombings comes a day after more than 30 attacks killed 50 people and maimed almost 300, raising further questions about the credibility of April 20 provincial elections seen as a key test of Iraq's stability and its security forces.
A total of 14 election hopefuls have already been murdered and just 12 of the country's 18 provinces will be taking part in the vote.
Soldiers and coppers cast their ballots for the provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote, the country's first since March 2010 parliamentary polls.
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[Al Ahram] Iraq put 21 men to death on Tuesday, a senior justice ministry official told AFP, the latest in a series of mass executions that have drawn international condemnation.
All of the men were Iraqis and had been convicted on anti-terror charges, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered...
The latest executions brought to 50 the number of times Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has carried out the death penalty so far this year, despite widespread calls for a moratorium on the country's use of capital punishment.
Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari insisted last month that Storied Baghdad would continue to implement the death penalty in the face of widespread calls for it to issue a moratorium.
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all Sunnis, I'll bet....
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One soldier was killed and three others seriously injured Tuesday in a roadside terrorist bomb attack in Pattani province district. The blast killed Lt Boonpeng Bootyothee, 50, head of the community development unit.
The attack took place on a local road about 12:30 p.m.
The soldiers were returning from a community visit in one of two military pickup trucks. A terrorist bomb attached to a motorcycle parked beside a bridge was detonated as the truck carrying the four soldiers passed by.
Two drive-by shooting attacks were also reported in Mayo and Yarang districts the previous night, killing two people.
Maropee Ma was killed in a drive-by shooting while traveling home in a car. Two terrorists attackers rode up on a motorcycle and opened fire while the victim, along with his wife and child, were traveling on a road in Mayo district.
Maropee was struck by several bullets and lost control of his car, which crashed into a tree. He died at the scene while his wife and child escaped unharmed.
In Yarang district, Sgt Maj 1st Class Pawakorn Klomkhunthod, a military ranger, was killed in another drive-by shooting by two terrorists attackers riding a motorcycle. The soldier was returning home from work when the attack took place.
Meanwhile in Narathiwat province, a banner opposing peace talks between the government and terrorist separatist groups, and two Malaysian flags, were found on the side of a road in Muang district. The banner said in Malay language: "Peace will not occur as long as the host does not endorse it."
Police examined the site and found a fake bomb buried under the banner.
Pol Lt Col Somchai said the terrorists militants who hung the banner were probably responsible for hanging similar banners calling for an independent Pattani state across Pattani and Narathiwat last month. These terrorists militants oppose the peace talks between the government and representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional separatist movement, he said.
DAMASCUS President Bashar Al Assad declared a general amnesty on Tuesday as the conflict ravaging Syria showed no signs of abating, with Western and Russian differences proving unbridgeable.
Assad has issued several amnesty decrees since an uprising against his regime erupted more than two years ago, though it is unclear if they have been implemented, and tens of thousands of political prisoners remain missing.
It does seem a tad one-sided...
The official Sana news agency said that under the latest amnesty, which was to take effect immediately, the death penalty will be replaced with a life sentence of hard labour.
So you can be worked to death...
The amnesty would give lighter sentences to people convicted of joining the rebellion, but it would not apply to those found guilty of smuggling weapons or drug-related crimes, Sana added, quoting the text of the decree.
Which all the rebels did, of course, whether they knew it or not...
Syrians who joined a terrorist organisation will only have to serve a quarter of their sentences, said the decree.
So you only get a boot stamping your face daily for five years instead of twenty...
The decision does not apply to those who avoided conscription unless they handed themselves over to the authorities within 30 days if they were in Syria, or 90 days if they were abroad, it added.
The decree also annuls death sentences previously handed out to people over 70 years of age.
"Here's your amnesty, Gramps!"
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seems fair to me.
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