[Iran Press TV] Taliban forces have attacked a convoy supplying fuel to the US-led forces in Afghanistan, torching three tankers in the northeastern province of Parwan, Press TV reports.
The attack occurred on Monday night in Parwan's Sheikh Ali district, provincial police chief General Mohammad Akram Nekzad said.
Afghan police blamed the Talibs for the attack, which they said did not leave any casualties.
The incident was the first such strike against a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... supply convoy in the district.
Taliban have not yet commented on the attack.
Pro-Talibs have also destroyed hundreds of NATO tankers and trucks in neighboring Pakistain over the past years.
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How about flying it in over Pakistain in stealthy KC-10s?
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See also DEFENCE.Pk?FORUMS > US-PAKISTAN FREEZE CHOKES FALLBACK ROUTE IN AFGHANISTAN.
Soviet-era Salang Tunnel, which is proving to be inadequate given the magnitude of international truck, vehicle traffic - alternate routes not much better + more costly..
[Tolo News] As many as 60 school girls were poisoned in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province on Tuesday, as security forces began making arrests in relation to the recent string of poisoning cases.
Takhar provincial front man Mustafa Rasouly said on Tuesday that at least eleven people, including a "group leader", were placed in long-term storage Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by local security forces after investigations into the poisonings.
Today's apparent poisoning took place in the Rustaq district of Takhar province, with health officials confirming the hospitalization of the school students.
This comes as Ministry of Interior front man blamed elements of the myrmidon Taliban, other krazed killer groups, and even foreign spy agencies, for the spate of suspected poisonings in Takhar.
"Preliminary investigations show that this has been done by Taliban and those terrorist groups and intelligence agencies of some foreign countries," Sediq Sediqqi said on Tuesday.
He added that the Taliban have shown themselves to be the enemy of any kind of education and development of Afghanistan, particularly the education of girls.
The Taliban strongly rejected the accusations in a statement in the past fortnight, threatening punishment to anyone who tries to poison Afghan students.
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sharia takes a dim view of damaging another man's property......
[Tolo News] As many as 12 Islamic fascistiwere killed in a clash with Afghan border police in northeastern province Nuristan, local officials told TOLOnews on Tuesday.
The Islamic fascistiwere ambushed by the Afghan border police in the Patigar area of Kamdish district, front man for the Eastern Border Police Edris Mohmand said.
The clash continued for four hours, and one of the coppers was also maimed.
No further details were provided by the official.
This comes as 83 Islamic fascistirenounced violence in northern Baghlan province, provincial police chief Asadullah Shirzad told TOLOnews.
A group of bully boys, led by Zia-ul-Haq, joined the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and surrendered their weapons to the local security officials, he added.
More than 580 Islamic fascistihave turned themselves over to join the reconciliation process since the start of this year, according to government officials.
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(Sh. M. Network)-An official in Somalia government says at least four soldiers were killed and many others injured after TFG soldiers have exchanged gun fire in Afgoye district, 30 Kilometers north-west Mogadishu.
Abdullah Ahmed, the district commissioner of Afgoye district, told news hounds on Tuesday that the combat began around 10:30 pm local time on Monday night with both sides used both heavy and slight weapons during the festivities, but subsided hours later.
"So far at least four soldiers have been killed and more than that number were also maimed in the fighting. We are launching an investigation about the grounds of the combat," the commissioner added.
He stated that the security situation if Afgoye district is getting out of hand in the past few days.
Afgoye district, a former Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al shabab stronghold lies30 Kilometers north-west Mogadishu was captured last week by Somali and 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... forces after secured a critical humanitarian aid corridor between Mogadishu and the town of Afgoye like Elasha-Biyaha and Lafole areas.
Afgoye corridor is home to approximately 400,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), who have escaped fighting in the southern portion of the country.
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A bomb targeted the U.S. embassy offices in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi late on Tuesday, an embassy official said. He said the improvised explosive device hit outside the gate of the offices and no one was injured.
Sad. Libya used to have such good bombmakers, back in the day -- whatever happened to them?
"We have asked the Libyan government to increase its security around U.S. facilities," the official told Reuters. The main U.S. embassy is in the capital Tripoli.
The attack is the latest on international missions and institutions in Benghazi, the coastal city 1,000 km east of Tripoli where the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began last year and where many overseas bodies station representatives.
On May 22, a rocket-propelled grenade hit the offices of the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross in Benghazi, leaving a small hole in the side of the building but causing no casualties.
A month earlier, a bomb was thrown at a convoy carrying the head of the U.N. mission to Libya. That attack was the first of its kind targeting a foreign mission since last year's revolt overthrew Gaddafi.
There was no indication who was behind the embassy attack.
But with national assembly elections due to be held in less than 20 days' time, it underscores the instability in the country, where rival armed militia and tribesfolk are still jockeying for influence.
[An Nahar] Crowds of Egyptians flocked to Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday for a mass demonstration to protest against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's murder trial.
Marchers prepared to leave from several mosques around the capital led by the runners-up in last months' presidential election first round -- Hamdeen Sabbahi, Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh and Khaled Ali-- to join thousands already in the square.
In Tahrir, demonstrators chanted against the ruling military council and vowed to keep their revolution alive.
"Revolutionaries, free, we will continue our journey," they chanted.
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[Iran Press TV] Senior Egyptian political figures have denounced the court ruling to jail Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... for life, demanding a 'revolutionary trial' of the former dictator and his regime figures, Press TV reports.
A 'revolutionary trial'? That's sorta like a 'show trial', right?
The call for the revolutionary trial of the ousted dictator was made during a meeting between Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Hamdeen Sabbahi and Khaled Ali, the presidential candidates who lost the first round of the presidential election last month, and Moslem Brüderbund hopeful Mohammed Morsi in the capital Cairo on Monday.
The figures met to discuss the demands of the revolutionary forces.
In addition to the need for the revolutionary trial of Mubarak, they agreed on some other core demands such as establishing a presidential council, a trial of the Mubarak regime figures by the revolutionaries and applying political isolation to the remnants of the toppled regime.
Morsi also vowed to spare no effort until the demands of the Egyptian people are fulfilled.
The meeting came as several Egyptian political groups called on the people to attend mass demonstrations on Tuesday to protest against the life sentence issued for Hosni Mubarak in his trial and demand a tougher punishment.
Many Egyptians are outraged that the court has spared the lives of Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adli, who were involved in the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the revolution. Six police chiefs were also acquitted of wrongdoing in their trials.
The verdicts sparked fierce festivities between the families of the victims and security officials inside the court while angry spectators called the court illegitimate and demanded that Mubarak be executed.
On Monday, hundreds of students of Cairo University marched to Tahrir Square to demand Dire Revenge for the deaths of the revolutionary protesters, the retrial of Mubarak and other defendants and the disqualification of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's former prime minister, in the upcoming runoff election.
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[Tripoli Post] A military court handed stiff prison terms to 19 Ukrainians, three nationals from Belarus and two Russians accused of serving as mercenaries for ousted leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... during the conflict in Libya that eventually ousted the former dictator.
One of the Russians, judged to have been the coordinator, was condemned to life imprisonment while the others were sentenced to 10 years' hard labour.
The 24 men, who all denied the charges and insisted they were in Libya to work in its oil sector, were accused of having primed ground-to-air missile batteries to target NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... warplanes supporting the revolt against Qadaffy.
At the start of the trial in April, a military front man said the eastern Europeans had also backed the regime in attacks on civilians while "in the pay of Qadaffy and his brigades."
The front man said the "mercenaries," held since their arrest on the fall of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in late August 2011 by a brigade of former rebels in the capital, had travelled to Libya of their own accord without the backing of their governments.
The ambassadors of Ukraine and Belarus were in court for the verdict and said the men would appeal.
Before the verdict was read out, Belarus Ambassador Anatoly Stepus said the 24 men had come to work for a joint Libya-Russia oil company.
But his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Nahornyi, said after the sentence that the accused were forced to work for Qadaffy's regime "under armed threat."
"This is part of the case," he said without elaborating on why the men travelled to the North African nation in the first place.
He added that the rocket launchers "did not target NATO or any Western nation's aircraft," noting that the latter had not filed a complaint against the accused and that the weapons were never fired.
On April 11, Ukraine's foreign ministry said it believed its citizens were innocent and would fight for their release. If convicted, Kiev would seek to have them repatriated to serve out their sentences.
Ukraine had close links with Qadaffy's regime, and estimates that around 1,500 of its citizens were in Libya before the conflict started in mid-February 2011. Among them was Qadaffy's Ukrainian nurse, Galina Kolotnitska.
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[An Nahar] At least 16 gunnies have been killed in three days of fighting between Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... rebels in north Yemen and Sunni Salafist krazed killers, according to claims by both sides on Tuesday.
"Four of our men were killed and six others maimed in confrontations on Saturday with Salafist gunnies in Al-Qobaaf," east of the Houthi stronghold of Saada, said Huthi front man Mohammed Abdulsalam.
Sorur al-Wadii, a front man for the Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... said 12 Sunni gunnies were killed in three days of fighting, but claimed that his comrades killed 18 Houthi fighters.
He blamed the Houthis for the festivities, saying the killings on "both sides were result of attacks by the Houthis who are trying to expand (their control) in the province of Hajja, Marib and Jawf."
Abdulsalam accused the Sunni gunnies of receiving support from neighboring Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , a bastion of Salafism which is a puritanical approach to Islam.
"We are in total control of the situation," he said, insisting that hostilities were started by a Salafist group "paid by Saudi Arabia."
Dozens of people have been killed in sectarian festivities since last year between the rebels and Salafists trying to tighten their grip on the north, where government control has slackened since a political crisis in Sanaa.
Yemen's mountainous north is a stronghold of the Houthis, who from 2004 fought six wars with central government forces before signing a truce in February 2010. The rebellion claimed thousands of lives.
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(Sh.M.Network) -- A federal appeals court has thrown out 19 of 20 contempt-of-court citations against a Minnesota woman convicted of funneling money to cut-throats in Somalia.
The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed the first contempt charge against Amina Farah Ali, a Mohammedan, who refused to stand for the judge and jury early on in her trial last October, saying it is prohibited by her religion.
The three-judge panel vacated all other contempt counts against Ali and sent the case back to Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis. The appeals court says the judge ruled only on First Amendment grounds, and failed to consider a separate federal law protecting religious freedom.
Ali and a co-defendant, who say they only sent money for the poor, await sentencing on terrorism-related charges.
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Amina Farah Ali
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Another way to headline this article would have been, "One contempt of court citation upheld against disrespectful Muslim terror financier," but I guess that would have been too long and too accurate.
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[Dawn] After a two-day relative lull, a surge in assassinations was witnessed in the city on Monday when five people, including three workers and a supporter of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , were killed, police said.
Nearly half a dozen drive-by shootings in the old city areas of Kharadar, Paan Mandi, Garden and 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.... came as a grim reminder of the assassination of seven people, mostly Baloch, in different parts of the city on Friday.
The shootings spread tension in the old city areas, where traders pulled down shutters for fears of violence.
In what police described as the first gun attack in the early hours of Monday, four friends sitting near Paan Mandi were targeted. Gunmen riding two or three cycle of violences opened fire on them and sped away, officials said.
All the four victims, supporters of the MQM, were later rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , where one of them died, the police said, adding that he was identified as Irfan Sattar, 30. His friends -- Mohammad Hanif, 45, Asghar Yousaf, 33, and Obaid Saleem, 20 -- were admitted for treatment, said the police.
Shortly afterwards, gunnies riding two to three motorbikes opened fire on two men sitting in Kamil Gali near Sarafa Bazaar.
Mohammad Zubair and Sher Alam sustained gunshot wounds and were shifted to the CHK for treatment, the police said, adding that both were MQM workers.
The police quoted hospital sources as saying that their condition was stable. In yet another gun attack in the early hours of Monday, two workers of the party were targeted near Shoe Market.
Sharif Abdul Waheed, 48, and Anisur Rehman, 24, were sitting close to Azeem Plaza on Siddique Wahab Road when gunnies riding motorbikes pulled up there, fired at them and sped away, said a duty officer at the Garden cop shoppe. He
added that both men sustained gunshot wounds. Sharif was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, while Anisur Rehman was admitted for treatment.
The police quoted party men as saying that the victims were workers of the MQM Lyari sector's unit 32.
Within some hours, another drive-by shooting was reported in the Kharadar area. "This time gunnies have targeted people near Paper Market," said an official at the Kharadar cop shoppe.
He added that Mansoor aka Churiwala, 32, and Sohail Sikandar, 28, both workers of MQM unit 30 and residents of Kamil Gali, were sitting near a stall when gunnies riding motorbikes fired at them and fled. The two men sustained gunshot
wounds and were rushed to the CHK, he said.
"Mansoor was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, while Sohail has been admitted for treatment," he said, adding that doctors described Sohail's condition as serious.
In Bihar Colony, a hakim was killed at his clinic in the afternoon, police said.
They added that Asim Sohail, 35, was rubbed out inside Ahsan Dawakhana.
The police said the hakim had relocated to North Bloody Karachi from Bihar Colony last year. He was an active worker of the MQM in North Bloody Karachi though he maintained a low profile in the old city area, where he ran the Dawakhana.
Speaking to Dawn, a police brass hat in the old city areas said that in all the targeted attacks, 9mm pistols were used. He added that police Sherlocks had collected dozens of spent bullet casings at the crime-scenes.
After sunset, two men riding a motorbike were targeted on Nishtar Road.
One of the victims was struck down in his prime while the other, identified as Zeeshanur Rehman, was rushed to the CHK, where he was admitted for treatment, said SDPO Qaiser Ali Shah. He quoted doctors as saying that Zeeshan's condition was critical.
The identification of the dear departed and the victims' political affiliation could not be immediately ascertained, said the officer.
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[Dawn] Twelve gunnies were killed in aerial shelling and a clash between rival groups in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Monday.
Security officials said that fighter planes targeted hideouts of Taliban affiliated with Tariq Afridi group in Dwa Thoe area in the morning that resulted in killing of 10 jihad boys. The hideouts of Taliban were also destroyed in the bombardment, they added.
Taliban are also facing stiff resistance from Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... tribal lashkar in the same area. A Kukikhel jirga had earlier resolved to expel Taliban from their area and punish those, who were providing shelter to gunnies of any gang.
Also, two gunnies affiliated with Lashkar-e-Islam were killed and three volunteers of Zakhakhel Peace Committee sustained
injuries in a clash in Bukarrh area of Bazaar-Zakhakhel on Monday.
In Akkakhel area of Bara tehsil, three local commanders of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam surrendered to Akkakhel Peace Committee.
The committee had given an ultimatum on Sunday to all gunnies in Akkakhel area to lay down arms and surrender before June 10.
The peace body has warned of imposing a huge fine and demolishing the house of those, who refuse to surrender or provide shelter to jihad boys.
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[Iran Press TV] A human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organization says ethnic, sectarian and politically-fueled violence has killed at least 740 people in southern Pak city of Bloody Karachi. ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... "About 740 people have been the victims of violent shootings in the last five months," Zohra Yusuf, chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP) said on Tuesday.
The port city has experienced a tug of war between members of political parties who represent rival ethnic groups, while the authorities have failed to stop violence.
"People are being killed with impunity by various ethnic groups while the government, it seems, has little control to put an end to it," Yusuf complained.
Pakistain has suffered financial losses due to the deep hostilities in Bloody Karachi, where residents flee the violence and shops and markets have to close in large swathes of the economic hub.
According to the rights group, a total of 1,715 people were killed in violent incidents which broke out in 2011 in Pakistain's biggest city, home to an estimated population of 17 million.
The victims include 107 political activists assassinated by members of rival groups, while the rest are people with no political affiliations, HRCP said.
Much of the violence has been blamed on tensions between supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , representing the Urdu-speaking majority, and the Awami National Party, which represents ethnic Pashtun migrants.
Bloody Karachi has also been used by the US-led military alliance to ship supplies to their forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
Islamabad shut down the border crossing after US air strikes killed 24 Pak soldiers on the Afghan border in November 2011.
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[Dawn] Following the Supreme Court's orders, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. 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. has stepped down from his office. He said that he does not want any conflict with the courts.
Speaking with DawnNews, Malik said that he has taken off Pakistain flag from his house and his car.
He said that he has not been informed about him being appointed as the interior ministry adviser.
Earlier, the documents from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) showed that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had renounced his British citizenship.
According to documents received by DawnNews, the UKBA in a letter issued on May 29 informed the minister that his request to renounce his British citizenship had been granted.
The letter said that the British High Commission had also given its opinion on the matter and that Malik was no longer a Brit.
Malik's Senate membership had been suspended on Monday by the Supreme Court for holding dual nationality.
The court had issued the order after Advocate Azhar Chaudhry, representing Malik, had shown reluctance to submit a declaration by the UKBA to establish that his client had surrendered the British nationality.
The court had also noted that the process of renouncing British citizenship had been started by the minister on May 29 much after the present proceedings and that he was a foreign national when he submitted his nomination papers to become PPP senator.
Therefore, the order said, Malik was not qualified to contest the Senate elections under Article 63(1 c) of the Constitution which disqualified a person as member of the parliament who ceases to be a citizen of Pakistain or acquires the citizenship of another country.
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[Iran Press TV] Pakistain's Foreign Ministry has called US Charge d'affaires Richard Hoagland over Washington's continued liquidation drone attacks in the country.
The ministry "officially conveyed the government's serious concern regarding drone strikes in Pak territory," it said in a statement.
The ministry protested against the drone strikes, calling them "unlawful, against international law and a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty."
The move came following a recent hike in the number of the unauthorized air attacks, which Pakistain has repeatedly criticized as counter-productive.
"The parliament had emphatically stated that they were unacceptable. Drone strikes represented a clear red-line for Pakistain," the statement said.
Pak-US relations experienced particularly serious strains in 2011 after a CIA contractor killed two Paks and a US team infiltrated the Pak territory under the pretext of killing al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... This was topped by US air strikes in November which killed 24 Pak soldiers at two army outposts on the Afghan border.
The last incident prompted Islamabad to shut down supply routes to US-led foreign military forces in Afghanistan.
On Monday, Pakistain's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar reiterated Islamabad's demand for a US apology before the supply lines could be opened, a demand Washington has so far rejected.
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They didn't stop to wonder why there was no ambassador and only a Charge d'affaires?
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PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN KEEPS HAGGLING US ON TRANSIT [closed NATO Supply Routes] FOR CASH. US cutbacks to Pak CSF taking a deep toll.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM LINK > [Defence Professionals] OPENING THE NATO SUPPLY ROUTES: DOES PAKISTAN HAVE ANY [real] OPTION?
Given Islamabad's subtantive reliance of the CSF for mucho of its indigenous annual Budget-Defense appropriations???
and
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PANETTA: US TO KEEP UP [post-AL-LIBI] ATTACKS [drone strikes] ON AL-QAEDA IN PAKISTAN.
* SAME > OBAMA AIDE [NatSecAdv Ton Donilon] THREATENED KAYANI [Pak COAS], BUT HE STILL REFUSED TO HELP, i.e. promised to take or NOT take Pak Army-Mil action agz Haqqani Network.
ARTIC > COAS KAYANI SEEMINGLY "UNMOVED" BY US PLAN TO KEEP 10-15,000 CT TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN PROPER AFTER 2014, TROOPS WHICH TECHNICALLY COULD CROSS OR ENTER INTO PAKISTAN IN CASE OF CRISIS.
* PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > WE DO NOT TRUST NOR UNDERSTAND PAKISTAN: PENTAGON CHIEF.
> US-shared/supplied INTEL leaks by internal Pak sources ending up wid Militants.
> Why Osama in Abbottabad = major PAK MIL REGION?
Panetta could not trust Pak enough to NOT inform Osama US Commando task force = SEAL TEAM 6 were coming to get him.
> Top Pak Govt Politicos, Officers non-informed, misinformed, or disinformed compared to lower level Subordinates, i.e. are weirdly-n-mysteriously routinely "out of the loop" as per normal or sensitive information. TRUST? KNOWLEDGE? PROFICIENCY? .....@ETC. GAP???
YOKAY, I'LL SAY IT - OUCH!
* SAME > 9-11 ATTACKS WAS PLANNED IN PAKISTAN [Tribal Areas]: PENTAGON CHIEF.
Israel's Air Force attacked what it said were two weapons storage facilities in the Gaza Strip.
Direct hits were identified in the early Wednesday morning attacks, according to statement from the Israel Defense Forces spokespersons' office.
The statement said that the sites were targeted in response to rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israeli communities. So far in 2012, over 270 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, including at least two this week.
Last weekend, the Air Force struck three weapons production sites in central Gaza, and two terror tunnels.The Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported that the strikes hit a poultry farm and a naval police post. `
Phillipine negotiators hoping to end a Muslim insurgency have proposed creating monuments to abuses committed on both sides, including beheadings by rebels and a president's desecration of an insurgent headquarters with a pork feast.
That's quite the moral equivalent.
The monuments would help tell the full story of the long Muslim rebellion in Mindanao and remind future generations of the brutality and blunders that helped perpetuate the violence, said chief government negotiator Marvic Leonen. He said, "We have seen that future generations would not move on and heal unless we really tell the story."
"I'm not sure where, but I'm sure we've seen it."
Rebel negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said the proposal was acceptable, but the government should first concentrate on resolving the rebellion.
The Philippine government and the 11,000-man Moro Islamic Liberation Front remain optimistic a peace treaty can be reached under President Aquino's term despite key differences that have stalled Malaysian-sponsored talks. Those differences include the size of an expanded autonomous region in southern Mindanao and the powers to be accorded to the Muslim officials who would run it.
In a new irritant, the terrorists rebels have protested the arrest by government forces of a rebel in southern Davao del Sur province over the weekend, saying it violated a cease-fire that shields the rebels from arrest in their strongholds. The military said the terrorist guerrilla, Galib dela Cruz, was wanted for murder and kidnapping and was illegally carrying assault firearms outside of a rebel camp.
Among the historic sites that could be marked are Camp Abubakar in the heartland of southern Mindanao, where then-President Joseph Estrada feasted on roast pork with his top generals during a victory party after the sprawling terrorist insurgent headquarters fell in July 2000 after a months-long military offensive. The feast took place near the ruins of a burned mosque and the terrorists' insurgents' military academy. A truckload of beer was also consumed by the victorious troops.
Estrada's actions were seen as inflammatory and sparked fierce protests at the time, although he claimed that he was not trying to disparage the Islam.
"Where would anyone get such a silly idea?"
The terrorists insurgents considered Abubakar sacred ground, where they tried to practice a puritanical Muslim life by banning luxuries like smoking.
Leonen also said a marker should be installed at Basilan, where the terrorists guerrillas were accused of beheading 10 Filipino marines during a 2007 clash.
Philippine officials said they were considering whether to ask the National Historical Institute to begin studying where the monuments and markers could be installed in what could be a joint project, Deles said, adding that versions by both sides would be examined in portraying violent events.
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Any suggestions for the monument to the Roasted Pork incident?
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I hope they don't get wind of this in Washington, Obummer will be on this like a duck on a june bug and he'll be trotting Hillary out to propose this lamebrained, ignorant and generally stupid idea to the Taliban.
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Philippine security forces said that a Muslim rebel commander was behind Monday's abduction of two Chinese businessmen in southern Philippines.
First Infantry Division Spokesman Captain Albert Caber said on a local radio station that based on intelligence accounts, the incident was carried out by followers of Waning Abdusalam, a senior leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's Special Operations Group. He said, "But as of this time, no group has acknowledged responsibility of the incident and there is still no ransom demands from the kidnappers."
Jampong Lin and James Lou, both engaged in mining business in China's Guangdong province, were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday night in Kabasalan. Six gunmen burst into the rented house of the victims and seized them at gunpoint. The suspects dragged them into a white van and fled.
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I could be wrong, but I'm a'guessin this has to do wid the Scarborough Shoal = PHIL-Panataq-vs-CHINESE-Huangyan-Island sea spat???
As per the above ...
* STRATEGYPAGE > CHINA SAYS WE AINT AFRAID OF ANYBODY.
* WORLD NEWS > ACCESS TO PACIFIC HARBORS KEY TO NEW US STRATEGY: PANETTA.
* SAME > SEOUL WON'T OBJECT TO JAPANESE AEGIS DESTROYERS IN NEARBY WATERS [West = Yellow Sea], in response to DPRK claims that is now a constitutional "Nuclear/Nuke-armed State".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ANALYSIS: AMERICA WILL DO WELL TO WATCH DEVELOPMENTS IN PANATAQ SHOAL CLOSELY
* SAME > PHILIPPINES HOLDS NO CARDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA SPAT WIDOUT US.
* SAME > RUSSIA VOICES AGZ "OUTSIDERS" [read, USA]MUDDLING IN SOUTH CHINA SEA. Moscow suppports Beijing's claims.
* SAME > AQUINO, DEMPSEY TALK SCARBORORUGH SHOAL STANDOFF.
* GMA NETWORK > CHINA STATE PAPERS [State Medias = People's Daily, PLA Daily] WARN US STRATEGY RISKS RIFT, between the US + China.
No one in China or Asia-Pacific believes that the US Strategy is NOT aimed at isolating, minimizing, or containing China = China's rise.
MORE INTENSE + FREQUENT US MEDDLING IN CHINA'S + ASIAN-PACIFIC AFFAIRS ANTICIPATED.
* GMA NETWORK > CHINA SAYS US NAVAL SHIFT TO PACIIFC "UNTIMELY".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Philippines] TWO CHINESE GOVT. SHIPS, PHIL VESSEL WITHDRAW FROM PANATQ SHOAL [8 Chinese, 2 Phil Govt. ships left].
* SINA > CHINESE SHIPS REMAIN DEPLOYED IN HUANGYAN ISLAND: FM SPOKESMAN [Liu Weimin].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US LETS SOUTH KOREA EXTEND MISSLE RANGE TO 550-KMS [up from curren 300-kms].
ARTIC = ROK has initially asked the US to extend to 1000-kms, enuff to cover all of the Korean Peninsula.
* SAME > [France = French DM Jean-Yves Le Drian] "EUROPE MUST RETHINK DEFENSE" AFTER US NAVAL SHIFT TO ASIA, by + for Europe + Europeans at its own costs, moreso since USDOD Spending is expected to reduce by US$500.0Bilyuhn oer next years [2022-23].
* SAME > [Chen Guangching] CHEN: CHINA DOESN'T NEED TO LEARN WESTERN DEMOCRACY, BUT "EASTERN" DEMOCRACY.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > LILLIPUTINE [Pinoys = Filipinos] COCK A SNOOT INVOKING THE US,to defend a PHIL + PHIL interests that Filipinos themselves aren't able to defend on their own.
* SAME > US PACIFIC "PIVOT": PLA GENERAL SAYS CHINA HAS CAPABILITY TO STRIKE BACK WHEN INTERESTS ARE UNDER THREAT.
* SAME > JAPAN HAS ENOUGH PLUTONIUM FOR 5000 NUKES | JAPAN TO MAKE MORE PLUTONIUM DESPITE STOCKPILE ENOUGH FOR 5000 WARHEADS.
And once again, Virgina, we learn why nuke-wannabe Rising Iran likes the "Japan Model".
WORLD NEWS > IRAN: OUR NUKES PROOF OF NATIONAL POWER.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [DDG-1000 ZUMWALT-CLASS] STEALTH DESTROYERS, AT US$3.0BILYUHN APIECE, IS US NAVY'S ANSWER TO RISING CHINA.
* SAME > IN A HOLE? CHINA KEEPS DIGGING | CHINA ON [harmful?]SUPER-SIZED BINGE THAT CAN LEAD TO [prohibitive = over-excessive]INVESTMENT GIGANTISM, as per oversea FDI + espec domestic Infrastructure = Macros.
* TOPIX > INDONESIA, JAPAN, ASEAN WORRY ABOUT CHINA'S DEFENSE SPENDING.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > EX-PINOY DIPLOMAT: "WE DON'T WANT AN ASIAN COLD WAR".
POSTER/BLOGGER = opined that, in the PHIL, there are two Groups at odds wid each other - PRO-BEIJING CHINESE PINOYS whom don't want any grief or beef wid China; versus the MAJORITY INDO-MALAY PINOYS WHOM WANT THE US BACK AT SUBIC [Clark AFB?]???
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OOOOPPS, forgot TOPIX > [Heritage Foundation] DON'T SKIMP ON SOUTH KOREAN MISSLE RANGE. US should allow the ROK = SOuth Korea to extend to 800-1000-kms range.
* SAME > HAS AMERICA FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS OF MIDWAY?
* SAME > SEOUL JUST CAN'T WELCOME JAPANESE WARSHIPS INTO WEST SEA!
* SAMe > [Susumu Yabuki = Prof. Emeritus, Yokohama City University] JAPANESE SCHOLAR SAYS SCRAP US-JAPAN ALLIANCE, RECOGNIZE US-CHINA CO-DEPENDENCY, on part of Nippon.
ARTIC > PRO = argues that the US [covertly = ultimately]WILL NOT, NOR CAN IT [Econ]AFFORD TO, CONFRONT CHINA MILITARILY IN EAST ASIA INCLUD NE ASIA/NORPAC ON BEHALF OF JAPAN???
Lest we fergit, 9-11 + GWOT > WAR FOR PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US OWG-NWO > ANTI-US OWG = desire to see US Power + Influence, etc. anywhere around the World decline or be rolled back, unilaterally/
voluntarily or forcibly.
A school in this Pattani province was burned Sunday night and two army ranger units were attacked with M79 grenades. Police investigators said three classrooms were burned and that educational materials were destroyed after the school was set ablaze. The arson is believed to be the work of terrorists insurgents.
In the same district, two army ranger units were also hit with M79 grenades. No casualties were reported. In nearby Yaring, district, tire burnings were reported at two locations and a mobile phone-signal transmission pole was torched.
Investigators linked regional insurgency to the latest arsons and attacks.
[An Nahar] Exchange of gunfire renewed on Tuesday between the rival Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, as the army threatened an "unprecedented response" against anyone who violates the fragile ceasefire.
Army troops fired back at the sources of gunfire, as state-run National News Agency said no gunnies were visible on Bab al-Tabbaneh's streets.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... al-Jadeed television reported that gunnies from Jabal Mohsen shot up Bab al-Tabbaneh, while Al-Arabiya said Bab al-Tabbaneh gunnies opened fire first.
Al-Jadeed quoted Jabal Mohsen sources as saying that "orders have been given not to fire back at Bab al-Tabbaneh shooters."
The TV network also reported festivities between "the al-Amerkan neighborhood and Jabal Mohsen."
It quoted army sources as saying that "should the situation remain like this, there will be an unprecedented response (from the army) never witnessed before by the two parties."
Earlier on Tuesday, unidentified attackers hurled two hand grenades on Starco Street which is adjacent to Syria Street.
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[Iran Press TV] Informed sources say anti-government gangs and the cut-throats in Syria have clashed with each other over some financial issues in the western city of Homs.
The fighting broke out after they argued over funds provided by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... and Qatar.
The internal conflict between the gangs have left some krazed killer commanders dead and several others injured over the past few days, the sources noted.
Residents of Homs said some of the forces of Evil had refused to obey foreign orders to blow up buildings, including religious sites in the older part of the city.
The growing conflict prompted some other gangs to intervene and execute those who disobeyed the order.
Syria has been the scene of ongoing violence since March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have bit the dust in the unrest.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters. But Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, stating that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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In-fighting among Syrians over money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar?
Gosh, I would have never expected internal squabbling among Arabs.
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[Iran Press TV] Armed groups in Syria have killed at least 15 soldiers in the western province of Latakia amid the country's ongoing violence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday dozens of other soldiers were maimed in several villages of al-Hafa region in Latakia.
The new corpse count came one day after the observatory group announced that more than 100 Syrian soldiers were killed in festivities and attacks on security forces' checkpoints across the country over the weekend.
Also on Tuesday, the Syrian government expelled a number of US and European diplomats in response to the expulsion of Syrian ambassadors from their countries.
Syrian Foreign Ministry front man Jihad Makdissi said the ambassadors of the US, Britannia, La Belle France, Turkey, Canada, Spain and Italia are no longer welcome in the country.
Syria has been the scene of ongoing violence since March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have bit the dust in the unrest.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters.
But Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, stating that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Russia has said it was prepared to see Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... leave power in a negotiated solution to 15 months of bloodshed that has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said a day after meeting mediator Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... in Geneva that Russia would back any peaceful settlement to the crisis as long as it did not involve the use of outside force.
"We have never said or insisted that Assad necessarily had to remain in power at the end of the political process," Mr Gatilov told the ITAR-TASS news agency in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "This issue has to be settled by the Syrians themselves."
The comments represent one of Russia's most explicit declarations of a position first signalled by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a day after a February 7 meeting in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... with Assad.
Mr Lavrov at the time refused to explicitly back Mr Assad and said the leadership structure of Moscow's Soviet-era ally "should be the result of agreement between the Syrians themselves."
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... Syria's government declared today that the ambassadors and staff of several Western countries as well as Turkey were personae non gratae.
"Some states recently informed heads of our diplomatic missions and embassy staff that they are unwelcome," the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding Syria was now designating the ambassadors of the United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Turkey, among others, as personae non gratae.
The ambassadors of Canada, Italia and Spain were also named in the statement, as well as various embassy staff members from Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany.
The statement concluded by saying that Syria "still believes in the importance of dialogue based on principles of equality and mutual respect" and that diplomacy is a "necessary tool" for countries to resolve disputes.
"We hope that those countries which initiated this step will adopt the same principles, allowing for relations to be normalised," it added.
A slew of mainly Western countries expelled Syrian diplomats in the wake of the Houla massacre of more than 100 people in late May, one of the worst atrocities in the country since an uprising broke out in March 2011.
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[Iran Press TV] The Syrian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... expelled the ambassadors of the US, Britannia, La Belle France, Turkey and some other states.
Ministry front man Jihad Makdissi announced the list of expelled diplomats on Tuesday.
The expulsions came after Western states expelled Syrian diplomats from their countries last week.
The ministry called the ambassadors of the Western and some regional countries as personae non gratae.
The ambassadors of Canada, Italia and Spain and embassy staff from Belgium, Bulgaria and Germany are also in the list.
The ministry also said in the statement that Syria "still believes in the importance of dialog based on principles of equality and mutual respect" and that diplomacy is a "necessary tool" for countries to resolve disputes.
"We hope that those countries which initiated this step will adopt the same principles, allowing for relations to be normalized," it added.
Syria has been the scene of ongoing violence since March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have bit the dust in the unrest.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters.
But Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, stating that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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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.
After a two-day relative lull, a surge in 
cycle of violence
[Iran Press TV] A 
[Dawn] Following the Supreme Court's orders, Federal Interior Minister 
Phillipine negotiators hoping to end a Muslim insurgency have proposed creating monuments to abuses committed on both sides, including beheadings by rebels and a president's desecration of an insurgent headquarters with a pork feast.
Armed groups in Syria have killed at least 15 soldiers in the western province of Latakia amid the country's ongoing violence.
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that 
