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Nigerian cult ambush kills 46 policemen
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Audrina Patridge[Filmography](age 28)



Litoral Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/09/2013 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Audrina Patridge is naked literally in the Littoral Design. I am living up to my name, a feeling that is Gluling Dingle, when I look at the littoral pictorial and the titan image.
Posted by: Gluling Dingle8438 || 05/09/2013 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd like to see nekkid Audrina on a pear tree.
Posted by: twobyfour || 05/09/2013 23:59 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Six Killed in Clashes at Afghan Protest
[An Nahar] At least six people were killed during festivities with police at a protest in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.

There were differing accounts of what happened.

Authorities said most of the dead were Taliban forces of Evil who infiltrated what they described as the latest in a series of protests against alleged border intrusions by the Pakistain military.

During the demonstration Taliban gunnies opened fire, targeting government buildings and killing two drivers on a highway where hundreds of people had gathered, Kandahar province police chief General Abdul Raziq told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Raziq said police fired back at the gunnies and killed four of them.

"People were demonstrating against Pakistain but the Taliban turned it violent," he said. "The police had to shoot."

The Kandahar province media office said three drivers had been killed by attackers and eight Taliban had been rubbed out by police in Maiwand district.

"There were some armed people who... opened fire from among the demonstrators," it said.

Local residents told AFP the protest was against night raids on homes by joint U.S.-Afghan forces. A Taliban front man said none of its fighters were involved.

A doctor in Maiwand hospital said on condition of anonymity that five bodies and 20 maimed victims had been brought in.

On Monday more than 2,000 people demonstrated and chanted "Death to Pakistain!" on the outskirts of Kabul in response to the border dispute.

Around 3,000 students held a similar rally in the eastern province of Khost
...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency...
that borders Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
Jihadists Hunted in Tunisia 'Former Mali Fighters'
[An Nahar] Jihadists being pursued by the army on Tunisia's border with Algeria are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in Mali, where La Belle France led an intervention to oust them in January, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said Wednesday.

"They came from Mali," the minister said during an open session in the national assembly, without giving more details on the krazed killers.

"I would have liked this to be a closed session to be able to say more," he told MPs, who were grilling him about the hunt for the two runaway Islamist groups.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian cult ambush kills 46 policemen
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Detectives are investigating if the gunnies were linked to the country's al-Qaeda offshoot.

A detachment of 60 coppers were on their way to arrest the leader of the Ombatse militia when the group's fighters launched their attack. At least 23 officers were killed and many were still missing, said Abayomi Akeremale, the police commissioner of Nasarawa State, which lies on the nominal border between Nigeria's Christian south and its Mohammedan north.

Separate reports said that 46 people were killed, but they could not immediately be verified.

"There was a huge ambush and our men were caught offguard and killed like they were animals," Mr Akeremale said. "Already 23 bodies have been recovered. Most were burnt after they were killed. There are many others who remain unaccounted for."

The Ombatse cult is known to have historic links to animist religions but has recently shifted its focus in line with radical Islamist movements further to Nigeria's north, including 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...

Like that group, Ombatse has said that it would now target people involved in adultery - as defined within interpretations of strict Islamic law - and those who drink alcohol.

"We decided to send our men to the area to arrest members of Ombatse including their priest," Mr Akeremale said.

"(They) have been going to churches and mosques initiating people into their cult by forcefully administering an allegiance oath to unwilling people."

Hamza Elayo, Nasarawa's Commissioner for Information, said that the authorities had been unconcerned with the movement until its sudden turn to violence.

"Everybody has right to freedom of religion, but when people go about forcing their creed on others in a violent way it becomes unacceptable," he said.
If it's 'unacceptable', what are you going to do about it?
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 12:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Nigerian Town on Lockdown after Fresh Islamist Violence
[An Nahar] Nigerian soldiers blanketed the town of Bama on Wednesday, where residents stayed indoors after coordinated assaults by heavily armed Islamist snuffies killed 55 people.

The military said the brazen raid was carried out by some 200 gunnies from the krazed killer group 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...
, who stormed the town in a convoy of buses and 4x4 trucks, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian police kill eight suspected Islamist militants in North Caucasus
Russian police officers killed eight suspected Islamist militants in the volatile North Causcasus region where insurgents are fighting to establish an Islamic state, Russia's anti-terrorism agency said on Thursday.

Four were shot dead in a rural region of predominantly Muslim Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said.

"(The men) opened fire with automatic weapons on law enforcement officials and as a result of the firefight the militants were fatally wounded," the agency said in a statement.

Three others were killed in separate firefights in two other regions of Dagestan. An eighth suspected rebel was killed in the nearby North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Russian security forces are trying to staunch an insurgency in the North Caucasus, between the Caspian and the Black Sea, where militants want to establish an Islamist state. Dagestan, on the Caspian Sea, is the epicenter of the insurgency.

Posted by: tipper || 05/09/2013 14:33 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and dat's the end of dat.
'sounds of hands, dusting'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/09/2013 17:11 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a start ....
Posted by: Barbara || 05/09/2013 18:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Reduces trial & prison costs,
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/09/2013 19:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Third man arrested in connection to train terror plot
U.S. prosecutors charged a third man in connection with an "al-Qaeda-supported" plot to derail a passenger train at the Canada-US border.

Authorities in New York unsealed an indictment Thursday against Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian citizen, who used to reside in Canada, with fraudulently applying for a work visa in order to remain in the United States to facilitate an act of international terrorism.

Mr. Abassi was arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on April 22, 2013 but the charges against him were sealed until Thursday. The RCMP arrested two men in Canada that same day -- Chiheb Esseghaier, also a Tunisian national, and Raed Jaser, an Canadian immigrant of Palestinian heritage.

The Mounties have accused the suspects they arrested of a murderous "al-Qaeda-supported" plot to derail a passenger train as it crossed the Canada-U.S. border, and recruiting an unnamed person to advance that conspiracy.

Mr. Abassi is accused of entering the United States specifically to advance a terrorism plot.
This article starring:
Chiheb Esseghaier
Posted by: tipper || 05/09/2013 14:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI details
Posted by: tipper || 05/09/2013 14:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Gilani's Kid Abducted as Campaign Nears End
[NY Times] Unidentified gunnies kidnapped a son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday, according to media reports, throwing an already violence-ridden election campaign into more tumult.
Should we be concerned about this or should we nod and remind Gilani that what goes around comes around?
The motive behind the kidnapping remained unclear, but suspicion immediately focused on the Pak Taliban and banned sectarian krazed killer groups. Talibs have issued several threats to political candidates, especially those belonging to liberal and secular parties, and have targeted political rallies with suicide and remote-controlled bombings.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 12:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Three killed in Peshawar gunbattle between militants and police
[Dawn] A gunbattle between security forces and snuffies in the Rashid Gari area 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.
, following an attack on a elite force, has left two coppers and one woman dead.

The gunnies took refuge in a house and exchanged fire with the police force. Explosions were also heard during the fighting.

The snuffies took the residents of two houses as hostages.

One jacket wallah went kaboom! inside the house while two more put up a stiff resistance. One woman died in the suicide kaboom.

The two snuffies have now been incarcerated
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
by security forces after the operation was successfully concluded. The suicide jackets taken from their possession have also been defused.

Three women and two children were also injured in the cross firing. The dear departed coppers have been identified as Misbah and Wahab.

The Capital City Police Officer Liaqat Ali Khan speaking to media said, "we had information that there were some gunnies in the Rasheed Gari and we had launched a search operation and reached this house.

"On spotting the police the snuffies opened fire on them and threw hand grenades killing two officers," he added.

He said that one of the suicide bombers went kaboom! after which the house collapsed leaving a woman buried under the debris.

"The snuffies were trying to sabotage the election process and a huge tragedy has been averted," the CCPO said.

"We had been conducting raids throughout the city and a number of suspects have been arrested," he added.

The CCPO said that they have also arrested two suspects from the area.

The house is owned by one Naveed, but there is no other information if the snuffies had taken refuge in the house or the owners were also involved.

The CCPO said its not clear how many of the snuffies are under the debris but it will be known once removed.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Blast injures at least 20 in Karachi's Mehmoodabad
[Dawn] At least 20 people, including two women and six children, were maimed in an kaboom 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 Mehmoodabad neighbourhood just after midnight on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

Initial reports suggest the ongoing electioneering in Mehmoodabad No.6 near Sitara Bakery was the apparent target of the unknown myrmidons.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Blasts in Hangu and Bajaur kill four
[BETA.DAWN] A blast in Bajaur tribal region killed two persons and injured another on Wednesday.

The blast occurred near the election office of Haji Abdul Mannad, an Awami National Party (ANP) candidate from the area.

Earlier during the day, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went kaboom! in the central market of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
killing two persons and injuring eleven others on Wednesday.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Hussain Badshah told Dawn.Com that the bomb was planted on a hand cart and went kaboom! when their was huge rush in the bazaar injuring 13 persons.

Rescue and emergency teams reached the site of kaboom and shifted the injured to District Headquarter Hospital Hangu for medical treatment.

Moreover three people, including two women and a policeman, were killed while 27 others, among them 10 women and kiddies, nine coppers and eight civilians were maimed as gunnies targeted Bannu's Domail Police station with a boom-mobile today.
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Attacks kill 11 people in Iraq
[Al Ahram] Suicide bombers killed four people in north Iraq on Wednesday, while seven more people, among them a gunnies, died in other violence, officials said.

One jacket wallah driving an explosives-rigged car targeted security forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, known as peshmerga, near the northern city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
killing a peshmerga and wounding 12, police and a medical official said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf kills Philippine soldier
Suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists rebels killed a Muslim soldier and injured another in an attack in the southern Philippine town of Jolo.

The soldiers were traveling on a motorcycle when the terrorists rebels attacked them in the village of Kasanyangan. The attackers escaped the shooting. Army Col. Rodrigo Gregorio, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, said, “They were shot by two Abu Sayyaf terrorists who escaped after the attack."

He added, “The Abu Sayyaf will do anything to terrorize the people, both innocent civilians and soldiers as well. Their latest victims were fellow Muslims and who just came from relatives and they were not spared from becoming targets of atrocities."
Posted by: ryuge || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Local official killed in southern Thailand
A member of a local government administration was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting by suspected terrorists militants in Narathiwat province on Wednesday evening.

Siwaka Niseng and Yalae Arlae were together on a motorcycle on a local road in Si Sakhon district when they were followed by two men on another motorcycle. The pillion rider shot at them with an unidentified weapon, killing Ms Siwaka, who was part of the Tambon Si Banpot Administration Organisation, on the spot.

Police from the Si Sakhon district station said they were advised of the incident by residents in the area by telephone. They will inspect the scene on Thursday because the attack occurred on an isolated stretch of road, sided by thick brush, and police feared the terrorists insurgents might use the shooting as a lure to set up an ambush of first responders.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian warplanes pound rebel positions in north
Syria on Thursday welcomed efforts by the United States and Russia to end the country's civil war, as warplanes pounded rebel targets in an offensive to reclaim territory from the opposition.

The strikes came against the backdrop of a new, joint U.S.-Russia effort to bring the sides in the 26-month conflict to the negotiating table before the end of the month. In the first official Syrian reaction to the initiative, Syria's Foreign Ministry said it welcomes the step that could lead to a "national dialogue."

In Israel, security officials said Thursday they have asked Russia to cancel the imminent sale of an advanced air defense system to Syria.

The officials said Israel shared information with the United States in hopes of persuading Russia to halt the planned deal to provide S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Disclosing the deal, the Israeli officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Israel aircraft evaded Syrian air defenses twice in the past week to strike weapons that it said were to be headed to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Israel has not officially acknowledged the attacks.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said President Bashar Assad's air force attacked rebel positions in Aleppo and Idlib in the north on Thursday. The group said warplanes hit rebels near the Mannagh military air base outside Aleppo.
Posted by: tipper || 05/09/2013 11:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


U.N. Pulls Back Golan Peacekeepers after Abductions
[An Nahar] The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
on Wednesday pulled peacekeepers back from an observation post in the Golan Heights ceasefire zone where four Philippine troops were kidnapped by Syrian rebels, a front man said.

The move came as countries which contribute troops to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) expressed renewed concern about security in the zone between Israel and war-stricken Syria.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Door, ass.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/09/2013 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  "Mission accomplished"
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 05/09/2013 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I see the UN peacekeepers are effective as ever.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/09/2013 15:51 Comments || Top||


Al-Nusra Chief Wounded near Damascus
[An Nahar] The leader of the powerful jihadist rebel force, Al-Nusra Front, was maimed by army bombing near the Syrian capital on Wednesday, a watchdog said.

Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani was maimed with other members of his group in southern Damascus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, citing Death Eaters in the area.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman was only immediately able to say that Jawlani had been hit in the foot.

Al-Nusra, which seeks to establish an Islamic state in Syria and has been termed a "terrorist organization" by Washington, is among the most prominent organizations involved in the country's conflict.

It has gained notoriety for suicide kabooms but also won admiration from other forces of Evil for its reputation as a formidable fighting force leading attacks on battle fronts across Syria.

Last month, Jawlani pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
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Posted by: Fred || 05/09/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Just so long as Muslims are killing Muslims, in excess of their birthrate.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 05/09/2013 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Jawlani had been hit in the foot

Honorary Paleostinian?
Posted by: Pappy || 05/09/2013 10:45 Comments || Top||



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