[Tolo News] At least 50 armed beturbanned goons were killed or nabbed Please don't kill me! in Kandahar province military operations in the past week, local officials said.
Security chief of southern Kandahar province Colonel Rahmatullah Atrafi said during the past week more than 50 beturbanned goons had been killed or set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! during the police forces operations across Kandahar province.
During these operations 31 bad turbans, including four suicide kaboomers, were killed. Another fourteen beturbanned goons were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and five were maimed, he added.
In an operation in the Spin Boldak district of the province, an operation saw four beturbanned goons incarcerated Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! and four kilograms of drugs sized by security forces, he added.
He said that the beturbanned goons confessed that they are involved in the insurgency in Kandahar province and had learned combat training in Pakistain.
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Kill those who survived before they get escaped from a very porous jail.
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Spin Boldak is the origination point for Afghan Highway-4 (safest road in Afghanistan) to Khandahar and is a major border crossing and Taliban infiltration point between Chaman Pakistan and Afghanistan. On the Afghan side, the Afghan Border Police (ABP) control the action under the leadership of General Abdul Raziq. Raziq is a very wealthy Achaksai tribal leader, as was his father who was killed by the Taliban. President Karzai pulled Raziq up to Khandahar last year to be the Chief of Police. Many believe Raziq is being groomed as a follow-on to Karzai. Raziq's wealth is, yes you have it, derived from his tribal position and power at the district border crossing.
The long standing competition between the Afghan National Police (ANP) and the ABP is just one of the challenges in the border regions. Whilst the Achaksai control Spin Boldak, the ANP have a much larger, cross-tribal responsibility. Therein lies the the rub, or at least one rub.
General Raziq maintains a firm grip on Spin Boldak through an extensive intelligence reporting network. He has survived a number of assassination attempts by the Taliban. Taking prisoners and turning them over to ISAF is not one of General Raziq's strong points.
(Sh.M.Network)- Kenyan troops were integrated into the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... 's peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM), with Kenya's defence minister signing an agreement at AU headquarters Saturday.
"We conclude the process of establishing a formal, legal framework for the integration of the Kenyan defence forces into AMISOM," Defence Minister Yusuf Haji said at the signing in Addis Ababa, the Æthiopian capital.
Kenyan tanks and troops rolled intoSomaliain October following a series of kidnappings and attacks on Kenyan soil believed to have been carried out by Shebab beturbanned goons linked to Al-Qaeda.
In December, the AU said it backed the integration of Kenyan troops into its peacekeeping mission.
AU peace and security commissioner Ramtane Lamamra welcomed the official integration and said it marked progress towards defeating Shebab cut-throats inSomalia.
"We are really opening a new chapter -- a chapter that will take us closer to... the completion of the mission inSomalia," he said.
Haji said the Kenyan contingent in AMISOM would number 4,631, boosting the force now made up of some 11,000 Burundians and Ugandans.
The re-hatting of Kenyan troops comes three days after they took the Shebab-controlled town ofAfmadow, a long-term target ever since they entered Somalia.
Haji said they were inching closer to capturing the strategic port city of Kismayo, but he did not specify a timeline.
"We are not very far from Kismayo, but we can't say when we are taking over," he said, adding that although the rebels still posed a threat, they had lost strength.
"They have been diminished and also their command structure has been destroyed on the ground, but you can never rule out a few remnants of al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... here and there. But we are very hopeful that at the end of the day AMISOM will end the war inSomalia," he said.
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A group of disgruntled militiamen took over the country's main airport on Monday, storming it with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles and forcing airport authorities to divert flights, a security official said.
Mohammed el-Gharyani of Tripoli Security Committee said militiamen from the city of Tarhouna occupied the airport runway. Flights were diverted to Metiga air base in the city's center.
He said the militiamen were angry over arrest of their commander, Abu Elija, on Sunday.
Tarhouna in central Libya was widely seen as a favorite of deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi. Its dominant tribe, also called Tarhouna, held many positions in the Libyan military under Gadhafi. The city's residents are viewed with suspicion by former rebels.
Tribal rivalries have swept Libya since Gadhafi was overthrown last year. Much of the fighting has pitted militias that fought Gadhafi against those who remained loyal to his regime.
[USA Today] Yemeni military officials say 21 al-Qaeda Islamic fascistihave been killed in a southern province where the Islamists took advantage of the country's political turmoil last year to seize entire cities.
Officials say 13 al-Qaeda gunnies were killed in festivities with troops outside the city of Jaar.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations, say six more died fighting troops in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... 's capital of Zinjibar Sunday. The military has not yet fully reclaimed the city in its offensive.
Two other Islamic fascistiwere killed in al-Code when troops shelled their car.
Also, the U.S. Embassy in Yemen says Washington is providing another $6.5 million in aid to the impoverished Arab country, bringing the total of U.S. humanitarian assistance to Yemen to $80 million this year.
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For a map, click here For a map of Nuevo Leon state, click here For a map of Monterrey, click here.
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A total of three armed suspects were killed in a shootout with Nuevo Leon state police agents Saturday in Montemorelos municipality, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a post on the website of Milenio news daily, the armed group was gunned down around 2020 hrs at a hotel near the village of Bugambilias. The suspects had been ordered to surrender, but instead opened fired on police agents with the Nuevo Leon Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) as the agents attempted to detain them.
The AEI unit involved in the shootout was an anti-kidnapping unit which had been investigating abductions in the area for several weeks. AEI agents found that a local taxi driver was being used to transport the suspects and their victim.
The gang numbered ten total, and presumably the other seven were either not present during the shootout or had escaped AEI agents.
Execution in San Nicolas de los Garza
In an unrelated shooting, four individuals were shot to death in an encounter with another armed group in San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon Friday night, according to a separate report posted on Milenio news daily website.
The four suspects were travelling aboard a Nissan X-Terra SUV near the intersection of calles Corregidora and Hercule in Hacienda los Morales colony, when they were intercepted by several armed suspects travelling aboard Ford Crown Victoria and Volkswagen Jetta sedans.
A pursuit was initiated which ended minutes later when the victims in the SUV decided to dismount and make their escape on foot. Three of the victims died at the scene while a fourth died while receiving medical attention.
According to a late report by Milenio writers Sandra Gonzalez and Nestor Hernandez, two of the shooting victims were the sons of Jose Santos Ornelas Almaraz, a former Secretaria Seguridad Publica (SSP) for Guadalupe municipality during the term of Cristina Diaz Salazar.
The victims were identified as Hector Almaraz Salvatore Daniel, 19, Diego Huerta, 20, Serna Jesus Ivan Gonzalez, 25, and Adam Zapata Mireles, 21.
Milenio reported that Jose Santos Ornelas Almaraz had been detained by the Mexican Army in June 2009 after his name was found on a list in Zuazua municipality of SSP and other officials who allegedly provided protection for local criminal gangs. The list was found at a Zuazua safe house maintained by a local cartel affiliated gang. Jose Santos Ornelas Almaraz was later released and apparently exonerated for the crime.
Despite that, the records found in the safe house said that several SSP officials had been paid MX $4,500 (US $314.24) every two weeks. Two police commanders and 37 other police agents were detained, then sent to prison for their connection to organized crime.
The mayor of Guadalupe, Cristina Diaz Salazar, went on to become a deputy in both the Nuevo Leon and national Chamber of Deputies, eventually winding up as general secretary to Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). She has served as interim president of PRI since the resignation of disgraced PRI president Humberto Moreira Valdes last December.
Coppers bust five safe houses
A total of five safe houses used by a local cartel gang were found and dismantled by Escobedo municipal and Nuevo Leon state police agents Friday.
According to a report published in Milenio news daily website, Escobedo municipal police officers detained three suspects at a traffic stop near the corner of avenidas Camino Real and Las Torres in Santa Martha colony. A police patrol had observed the three suspects travelling aboard a taxi cab which ran a red light, initiating a pursuit.
Police at the scene also seized two pistols from the suspects, who were identified as Fernando Vela Carlos Carranza, 24, and Joseph Alexander Rosales Tovar, 18.
Information provided by the suspects led police to five different safe houses used by a local criminal group in Escobedo, San Nicolas de los Garza and El Carmen municipalities.
A safe house near the intersection of calles Campollines and Acosia in Rincon del Carmen colony had been used by the group for kidnapping. At that location police found marijuana, explosives, Molotov cocktails, and cash.
[Al Ahram] After arrest of Naoko Kikuchi, only one fugitive and former member of the Japanese cult that murdered 13 by nerve gas in 1995 remains at large
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Wow, that's her! I remember going to Japan in 2002 and seeing her (and two others') wanted posters everywhere. They were faded, but still prominently displayed. It was a surprise to me as the attack was in 1994. I thought they'd never get her, but turns out she was in Japan all along.
A Danish court found four men guilty of plotting to kill a large number of people at a newspaper to retaliate for its publication in 2005 of cartoons of Mohammed. The men, three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian, had pleaded not guilty to the charges though one of them had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of weapons.
The men, who were nabbed in a joint Danish-Swedish police operation at the end of 2010, were found guilty on the primary charge of terrorism but were acquitted on two charges of weapons possession on technicalities. Judge Katrine Eriksen said, "The accused...are guilty of terrorism, (They) agreed and prepared acts to kill people."
The men convicted were Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, Munir Sven Awad a Swedish citizen born in Lebanon, Omar Lars Abdalla Aboelazm, a Swedish citizen born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Egyptian father, and Sahbi Eric Ben Mohamed Zalouti, a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin.
[Jerusalem Post] French police searching for 10 suspects of North African origin who beat victims in Villeurbanne with hammers, iron bars.
Three Jews wearing kipot were attacked by 10 people in Villeurbanne, La Belle France, near Lyon, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls was quoted as saying on Sunday by the European Jewish Press.
Two of the victims were hospitalized. One victim sustained an open wound to the head, and another suffered a neck injury.
The attackers were described as being of North-African origin, and beat their Jewish victims with hammers and iron bars, an act denounced as "extremely serious" by French authorities. The attack occurred on Saturday.
Accordingly, Valls mobilized the police to search out and arrest those behind the attack.
The incident came after a March attack in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... La Belle France, in which Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.
Merah admitted anti-Semetic motivations for his attack during a 30-hour gunbattle with police who besieged his Toulouse apartment.
La Belle France is home to western Europe's largest Jewish community, estimated at about 500,000 people, and has intermittently faced bouts of violent anti-Semitism.
[Dawn] At least six people, including a policeman, were killed in Quetta when unidentified gunniesshot up a shop at Sarki road, DawnNews reported.
The attackers riding on two cycle of violences opened fire on people sitting in a shop in Sarki area of Quetta, senior police officer Jahangir Shah told AFP.
"They entered a welding shop when workers were having their lunch and killed five people," he said, adding that the dead included four members of the Shiite Hazara community and one passer-by. Before fleeing they also opened fire on a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding a police official, Shah said.
Four people was struck down in his prime while the other two gave up the ghost during treatment at Quetta's civil hospital.
The other shopkeepers left their shops and ran to save their lives, as the wave of panic prevailed in the market, sources said.
No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
The attack of assassination happened just before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... 's arrival in Quetta.
The prime minister was coming on a two-day visit of the province to discuss the law and order situation of the province.
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[Dawn] Unidentified armed persons blew up a high power transmission line in Jar area of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... on Saturday, disrupting supply of electricity to the entire agency.
Electricity is unislamic, according to those with the power to enforce their opinion.
Ten gunnies planted explosives at a tower of 66,000KV power transmission line near the Jar area, locals said.
The explosives went off in the small hours of Saturday and destroyed the tower completely. The kaboom was heard in far off areas.
Officials said that administration had launched investigation into the incident.
"Someone blew it up with malice aforethought, Watson."
"Holmes, how do you do it?!"
Locals said that the tower was located outside the village, where a post of Levies Force was established recently. The Levies personnel opened firing after the blast, they added.
Officials said that the administration had decided to beef up security of the high power transmission line in the agency. "For this purpose, more Levies personnel will be deployed at the towers along the power line," they added.
The local administration and security forces launched a search operation in Jar and its surrounding areas and tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! several persons.
An official told journalists that at least 20 people, majority of them locals, were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! during the crackdown.
An official of Tesco said that a technical team was called for repair of the tower. He said that the power supply to the agency would remain suspended for the next 36 hours.
This was the second attack on the high power transmission line during the past one week in the region. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... a government school was destroyed when forces of Evil fired rockets at Michni area of Shabqadar tehsil in Charsadda district on Saturday morning.
Local sources said that forces of Evil fried rockets at government girls primary school at Aisha Koroona near the FC Centre. The school building was destroyed in the attack, they added.
They claimed that actual target of the attack was FC Centre but the rockets missed it and fell on the school.
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[Dawn] A security man sustained injuries in a roadside blast while five forces of Evil were tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! in two separate incidents in Tank district on Saturday.
Sources said that a four-vehicle convoy of security forces, on way from Tank to South Wazoo tribal region, was targeted by a landmine near Kharkai post.
One security man received injuries and a vehicle was partially damaged in the attack. Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation after the incident.
The inured security man was taken to a military hospital at Tank Manzai area.
Also, security forces tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! five suspected forces of Evil during a search operation in Teng area. The tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! persons were shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.
Security forces also recovered huge cache of weapons during the operation.
In Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , a primitive was killed when he stepped on a landmine in Shaheedan Dand area near the Afghan border on Saturday.
Locals said that the landmine was planted at a dirt track. The primitive was killed on the spot when he stepped on the landmine. Political authorities started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons.
In Nowshera, security forces tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... a commander of banned thug outfit Lashkar-e-Islam during an operation at Jalozai camp on Saturday.
Officials said that the operation was conducted on a tip-off about presence of forces of Evil in the camp. "Some important documents have also been recovered during the search operation," they said. The jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! person was identified as Idrees Afridi alias Fidayi Commander, a resident of Bara in Khyber Agency.
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[Dawn] Two former activists of the Pakistain People's Party were killed in a gun attack outside their apartment building in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Saturday, police and party sources said.
They said that gunnies on a cycle of violence pulled up outside Afnan Arcade in Block 15 of Gulistan-e-Jauhar where Ghulam Shabbir and Aftab Magsi were having a chat.
One of the riders, the police said, got off the motorbike, took out a pistol and fired several shots targeting the two friends.
"The two men sustained multiple wounds and was struck down in his prime," said Shakil Awan, the area's sub-divisional police officer (SDPO). "The attackers left the scene in a flash after executing the job. Both the victims were in their 30s and residents of the same area."
The bodies were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. The incident sparked off tension in the area, where traders pulled down their shutters and traffic gradually turned thin.
The police Sherlocks claimed that the victims were once associated with the PPP, but actively not engaged with any political activity these days.
They said both youngsters had been living in the city for the past several years with their families and originally hailed from Shahdadkot.
The motive for the killings remained unclear, but the Sherlocks believed it might be linked with victims' recent history of political activism.
Teenager killed in clash
In Bhains Colony, a teenage boy was killed and three others sustain bullet wounds when two groups exchanged gunfire over the issue of cycle of violence parking, police said.They said the dispute between two neighbours in a Katchi Abadi near the Bhains Colony Mor turned ugly when one of them objected to the parking of the cycle of violence by guests of the other side.
The dispute that initiated with arguments finally led to firing from both sides.
"During the firing 13-year-old boy Asif died from wounds and three others sustained minor wounds," said Inspector Sarfaraz Ali Kakazai, the SHO of the Sukkun cop shoppe.
"The victims have been taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment where they are said to be stable. There is an old dispute between the two sides and they have a history of fighting over petty issues."
He said the police had nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! several people from both sides and were further investigating the incident to discover the people behind the tragic episode.
Youth found rubbed out
In the early hours of Saturday, a young man was found rubbed out in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... off Ahmed Shah Bukhari road.
"The victim has been identified as 24-year-old Saqib," said a police official. "He was meat seller, who had a shop in a Nazimabad area. The victim was a resident of Garden West from where he might have been kidnapped a few hours before his body was found."
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[Al Ahram] The second US drone attack in as many days killed 10 people in northwest Pakistain on Sunday, intelligence officials said, an incident likely to raise tensions in the standoff between Washington and Islamabad over NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... supply routes to Afghanistan.
The remotely-piloted aircraft fired four missiles at a suspected Islamist jihad boy hideout in the Birmal area of the South Wazoo tribal region near the Afghanistan border, officials said.
A drone strike in the same area killed two suspected forces of Evil on Saturday.
The United States and Pakistain are locked in difficult negotiations to re-open overland supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan, with no signs of a breakthrough.
Islamabad blocked the routes last November to protest the death of 24 Pak soldiers by cross-border friendly fire from NATO aircraft. The supply lines through Pakistain are considered vital to the planned withdrawal of most foreign combat troops from Afghanistan before the end of 2014.
The CIA drone campaign fuels anti-US sentiment in Pakistain and is counterproductive because of collateral damage, Pak officials say. But US officials say such strikes are highly effective against jihad boys.
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Per Bill Roggio:
US drones targeted a group of local Taliban fighters and "foreigners" who were gathering to mourn the death of a commander who was killed in another strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan just one day ago.
[An Nahar] Seven Paleostinians were maimed in a series of Israeli Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip early Sunday morning, two days after fire exchanges that left three dead from both sides.
According to emergency medical sources in Gazoo, the seven were maimed in four Arclight airstrikes, two carried out at targets east of Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Paleostinian territory, and two that hit Beit Layiha in the northern section of the Strip.
The Israeli army confirmed that its planes had carried out attacks, and said they were retribution for a Death Eater attack from Gazoo that had resulted in an Israeli fatality.
"Israeli aircraft targeted three weapon manufacturing facilities and the central Gazoo Strip, as well as two terror tunnels in the northern and southern Gazoo Strip," a statement from the military read.
"Direct hits were confirmed."
"This is in response to the infiltration on Friday morning, in which Staff Sergeant Nitnel Moshiashvilli was killed by terrorist fire adjacent to the security fence," said the statement.
Military sources said that the sites that had been targeted belonged to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which rules the territory, and the radical Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... group.
The Friday morning infiltration was executed by Ahmed Nasser, a member of the Islamic Jihad, who was killed by Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli Arclight airstrike later that day at Paleostinians on a cycle of violence east of Khan Yunis resulted in the death of a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, who according to the army was part of a squad that had fired a rocket at Israeli soldiers.
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[An Nahar] Syrian authorities on Sunday released two Lebanese citizens kidnapped by Syrian forces on Wednesday from the northern border town of al-Abboudiyeh.
The abduction led to an uproar in the region and prompted residents to block the international highway.
A statement issued by the Army Command on Sunday said "as a result of the exerted efforts, citizens Mohammed Yassine al-Merehbi and Mahdi Hamdan were freed this afternoon, after they were incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on May 30, 2012 by Syrian forces in the al-Abboudiyeh area on the northern border."
"The joint cooperation and coordination bureau of the Lebanese and Syrian armies handed them over to the (Lebanese army's) Intelligence Directorate at the al-Masnaa border crossing, and they were released following the necessary legal measures," the army's statement added.
For his part, Higher Lebanese-Syrian Council Secretary-General Nasri Khouri told state-run National News Agency that he handed over the abductees to the military bureau.
NNA said the Akkar region was preparing to celebrate the return of the two men.
Arab Democratic Party Secretary-General Rifaat Eid said Saturday the abductees would be released shortly.
"Mohammed Yassine al-Merehbi and Mahdi Hamdan will be in Leb in the next few hours," he said after his party mediated for their release.
On Thursday, President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... urged the Syrian authorities to release the two farmers.
The Syrian army also kidnapped Yehya Mohammed Fleiti in the border town of Arsal on Thursday afternoon.
"The rise in the rate of kidnappings and killings along the Lebanese-Syrian border is rejected," Suleiman said.
He urged the Lebanese and Syrian authorities to carry out the necessary investigations regarding the issue to "halt any recurrence."
"Respecting Leb and Syria's illusory sovereignty falls in the best interest of the security and peace of both countries," Suleiman said.
The two men, who were cultivating a grove, were "kidnapped by five gunnies who crossed into Leb from across the Syrian border," NNA reported.
In a statement on Wednesday, the opposition Syrian National Council accused the Syrian regime of "escalating its breaches of the Lebanese borders (and of) increasing its armed attacks targeting Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees."
The SNC also accused the Syrian regime of "kidnapping Syrian maimed patients from hospitals" in northern Leb, while also accusing "the regime's mercenaries of setting up checkpoints inside Lebanese territory."
The statement called for "people kidnapped on Lebanese territory by mercenaries of the Syrian regime to be set free."
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Osama bin Laden led an austere life, spending his personal fortune on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, according Ayman al-Zawahiri. In a new video posted online called "Days with the Imam, Part Two" a bespectacled Zawahiri fondly recalled his predecessor's meager comforts.
Zawahiri said, "When you entered his house you would be surprised. It was a very simple house, with some wooden beds and plastic coverings and very little furniture. If the Sheikh invited us to his house, he would give us what he had in the way of bread, vegetables, rice - whatever was available he would give us."
He added, "He spent all his money on jihad," saying bin Laden had given $50,000 to help finance the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. At the time, he had no more than $55,000 to his name.
Zawahiri chuckled occasionally as he recounted his memories of bin Laden, whom he said had urged his fellow mujahideen to shun electricity to prepare for the hardships of life as on the run.
Zawahiri said that despite his frugal way of life, bin Laden was a generous host and once bought a whole herd of sheep to feed his frequent visitors in Afghanistan. He said, "He was known for his generosity with guests. He would slaughter livestock for them and give them tasty food."
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Zawahiri is the supposed successor, but he lacks both charisma and influence. Hence his trying to tie himself to Osama (like somebody else is doing...).
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.
[Tolo News] At least 50 armed 
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Yemeni military officials say 21 al-Qaeda 
A Danish court found four men guilty of plotting to kill a large number of people at a newspaper to retaliate for its publication in 2005 of cartoons of Mohammed. The men, three Swedish citizens and a Tunisian, had pleaded not guilty to the charges though one of them had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of weapons.
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