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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Ilona Massey aka Baroness Elsa Frankenstein in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" aka Maria Sorenson in "Invisible Agent" aka Lydia Pavlovna Marakova in "Balalaika" aka Madame Egelichi in "The Marx brothers: Love Happy" aka Mme. Galli-Cazetti in "Jet Over the Atlantic" aka Natalia Alanova in "Northwest Outpost" (Died in 1974 at age 64)
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You sometimes wonder why a really nice looking woman like this didn't make it bigger in movies.
Thanks for a picture of a really gorgeous woman.
Separately, I just want to scream everytime I see some kid wearing a Che t-shirt. The man was a socio-path and a thug. We are universally condemned by the international community for activities that are innocent child's play compared to the brutal and horrific things Che did during the Cuban revolution. Castro essentially shipped him to Columbia because he couldn't control this homicial maniac. If he was a caucasian, some would call him a serial killer.
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Mooselimbs vs Rowmans, they only missed each other by a few centuries.
[Dawn] A jacket wallah detonated an exploding car in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two coppers and four civilians, a front man for interior ministry said.
The attack happened in Kapisa province, northeast of the capital Kabul, front man Najib Nikzad said.
"A suicide kaboomer in a car wanted to attack the education department of Kapisa province, but he was stopped at a checkpoint, where he detonated his vehicle," Nikzad said.
"Two coppers and four civilians have been martyred and three civilians and two coppers injured," he added.
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[Dawn] Afghan Vice President Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Besmullah Mohammadi beat feet unhurt after a rocket attack targeted a police centre in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.
Provincial front man Shahidullah Shahid said the attack happened in the Chaki Wardak district of Wardak province, a restive area west of Kabul.
"There was a security meeting in the police training centre at which the interior minister and second vice president were present," he said.
"After the meeting was over and we were leaving, a rocket landed within a few hundred metres of the centre but nobody was injured," he added.
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[Arab News] Troops from Sudan's north and south clashed on Wednesday in the disputed region of Abyei, as a southern military front man accused Khartoum of trying to expand the territory the north controls.
Casualties were reported after the clash near what southerners call the Kiir River, but southern front man Col. Philip Aguer said he didn't immediately have an exact casualty toll.
Abyei -- a fertile land near oil fields -- is the major flashpoint between the north and the south as the south prepares to secede and become the world's newest nation on July 9.
Aguer said the northern troops tried to cross the river on Wednesday. A UN spokeswoman said there were conflicting reports indicating that either northern troops or southern troops tried to cross.
Violence has spiked ahead of the south's independence declaration, prompting US President Barack B.O. Obama on Tuesday to warn that leaders in the north and south "must live up to their responsibilities." Obama said the Khartoum-based government "must prevent a further escalation of this crisis by ceasing its military actions immediately, including aerial bombardments, forced displacements and campaigns of intimidation." Wednesday's fighting in Abyei came a day after the northern military bombed the north-south border region of South Kordofan, including at least one bomb that landed near a UN outpost.
A UN spokeswoman, Hua Jiang, said 11 bombs were dropped in South Kordofan, five of which went kaboom!. One bomb -- caught in a vivid photograph -- went kaboom! near a UN airstrip.
"There have been some artillery shellings and small arms firing near Kadugli town and certainly the fighting since is moving closer to our headquarters in Kadugli," she said.
Jiang said 60,000 residents have been displaced by the violence, and that the UN is providing food and water to about 40,000 of them. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the UN has been unable to fly in supplies for days.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR accused Sudan on Tuesday of blocking aid deliveries in South Kordofan. UNHCR said north Sudanese authorities have for almost a week blocked planes from landing at Kadugli, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the provisional border. Militias allied with the north have also set up roadblocks in Kadugli to stop overland access, it said.
Jiang said Wednesday that a road was opened to the UN on Tuesday. She said the situation in the region remains "tense and unpredictable" but that there were not any reports of major festivities on Wednesday.
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I don't want to sound too liberal however, when something as inhumane as the Sudanese situation goes on as long as it has without any apparent collective angst in the media, mainstream or otherwise, you have to wonder if it is because of the ethnicity of the combatants. To me it smacks of collective racism for the UN, NATO, and the collective talking heads of the media to not be foaming at the mouth and chewing on their Armani ties.
When is someone going to pay attention, I mean REAL attention to the vast crimes that are going on everyday in Africa. Nigeria, the Congo, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Somolia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe go on everyday with mass murder, rape and torture.
Is it because the perps are black and heaven forbid we are not supposed to say anything negative about black leaders?
Or worse, is it because the liberal ninnies in the foreign ministries of Europe cut these countries loose from their colonial ties without proper preparation?
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Two problems: One is the enormous difficulties in logistics to support an effective force over the vast territories. I don't think anybody can do it.
Second, to do it would require mostly white troops--American with a few other Anglosphere guys--to kill huge, enormous numbers of black guys. Since in many cases, the weapon of choice is the bush knife, machete, panga, anybody doing ag work is a suspect. But there's no capacity for arresting them, detaining them, and investigating them. So either they're shot on sight or let go and nobody knows what they'll be up to later on.
In addition, in the west, the most obvious victim is the good guy. But in the real world, the victims are just one side of buttheads who got caught. They'll catch the other side tomorrow.
No good guys. The innocent victims are, in between being victimized, rooting for victimizing the other guys.
It would require an enormous logistical effort and a huge amount of killing--those guys won't stop because the UN says so, they like that stuff--to end this. Then permanent occupation with more killing as necessary.
And, of course, the world will be condemning us as racist, imperialist murderers.
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[Ennahar] Niger's army continued on Wednesday searching the area north of the country where she clashed Sunday with fighters of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), who were carrying explosives from Libya, it was learned concordant sources.
"The gunnies who clashed on Sunday with the Nigerian army in the north Arlit where Islamist elements of AQIM," a security source told AFP.
The Nigerian Ministry of Defence had first evoked a clash with "bandidos", 80 km from the mining town of Arlit. A soldier and a veteran of AQIM were killed and six soldiers maimed.
The men who were travelling in three vehicles "from neighbouring Libya," the security source said on condition of anonymity.
"The army, whose reinforcements have arrived in Arlit, was searching the area Wednesday to try to locate the other two vehicles managed to escape after the shooting," said a military source.
The boxes containing 640 kg of explosives and 435 detonators, found in the vehicle seized "are stamped "Libya" and are Czech-made," the source added.
These sources could not specify the destination of the elements of AQIM.
According to security sources, their guide, Mohammed Apta, "surrendered to the Arlit police" and may "move the investigation forward."
This Nigerian Arab is an ex-combatant of Tuareg rebellions in the 1990s and 2007-2009 which have occurred in the Agadez region (northern Niger).
AQIM kidnapped in September 2010 in Arlit five French, a Togolese and a Malagasy. It still retains four kidnapped Frenchies and demanded the departure of French troops from Afghanistan in exchange for their release.
The Islamist movement, which has bases in Mali and its roots in Algeria, is guilty of bombings, kidnappings and other traffic in several countries of the Sahel.
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Forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy, the Libyan leader, have shelled rebel positions in the western mountains, after opposition fighters edged closer to the capital on three fronts.
A rebel front man in the town of Nalut said there were no casualties from the shelling on Wednesday.
"Qadaffy's forces bombarded Nalut ... Over 20 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... landed in the town. They bombarded from their positions ... around 20km east of Nalut," he said, adding that they had also shelled the Wazin-Dehiba Tunisia border crossing.
The rebels have made advances in key areas in recent days but still have to overcome heavy odds if they are to successfully march on Qadaffy's well-defended territory.
The rebels said NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... leaflets warning of helicopter strikes had prevented them from pushing towards Zlitan, and had prompted some rebels to retreat from their newly-captured positions about 10km outside the city, towards their base in Misrata, east of Tripoli.
A NATO official said the alliance dropped the leaflets west of Misrata, and closer to Zlitan. A Rooters news agency correspondent in Misrata said there were no further advances towards Zlitan on Wednesday.
NATO war planes bombed Tripoli, the capital, on Tuesday night, causing loud kabooms that filled the sky with plumes of smoke, but there were no further reports of bombing on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the rebels tried to advance in the east, setting their sights on the oil town of Brega to extend their control over the region, epicentre of the four-month rebellion against Qadaffy's four-decade rule.
In a sign that Qadaffy's forces may be getting stretched, the rebels seized the town of Kikla, 150km southwest of Tripoli. ... which means Fran and Ollie have to fall soon...
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They bombarded from their positions ... around 20km east of Nalut," he said, adding that they had also shelled the Wazin-Dehiba Tunisia border crossing.
Nalut is like 40km from the border crossing, so I'm guessing that these wondrous rocketeers were *not* bombarding both locations from the same position. Which probably means, if these are even the same units, that they've been zooming back and forth along that beautiful Wazin-Tripoli superhighway without any significant opposition, which makes this:
In a sign that Qadaffy's forces may be getting stretched, the rebels seized the town of Kikla, 150km southwest of Tripoli.
incredibly pointless, as Kikla is a valley town way the hell away from anything even remotely strategic. And by strategic, I mean "blocking positions which keeps the other side from rampaging at will through your back country". The Berbers seem to show no interest whatsoever in securing their rear.
In fact, the more I look at the map of the Berber areas in west-central Libya, the more I realize that Gaddafi built the whole damn roadnet as a trap for the Berbers. There's a set of parallel military highways running through the open desert to the north and south of the little villages and towns between Nalut and Kikla, so that it's simple as pie for mechanized forces to roam at will, raiding or shelling rebellious towns like Zintan and Nalut and Kikla, and scooting off on beautiful concrete highways to get supplies and rest at some garrison town somewhere, far from the clouds of smoke and the screaming. The rebels can take every town along that corridor and never stop the regime from blowing shit up as they please, because none of the artery roads go *through* the towns.
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Libyan rebels captured two western villages on the road to Tripoli on Wednesday, as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... insisted it could complete its mission without putting soldiers on the ground against strongman Moammar Qadaffy.
The Western military alliance which has carried out 10 weeks of air strikes against Qadaffy's forces can see out its mission without ground troops, its operations commander said in a briefing on an Italian aircraft carrier.
Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard also said that the military situation in western Libya, where there has been an upsurge in fighting between regime loyalists and rebel forces, was developing "very positively."
"I do believe we can complete the mission without bringing in ground troops," the Canadian general told news hounds off Libyan shores on the Garibaldi. "We are receiving adequate assets to complete the mission and carry out our mandate."
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... and Foreign Secretary William Hague later on Wednesday for talks on the operation.
Senior military officials from Britannia and La Belle France, key players in the NATO campaign, have expressed concerns about how to maintain the NATO operation, which has been extended for a second three-month period from June 27.
Anti-Qadaffy rebels, meanwhile, seized two villages as they sought control of a key junction connecting the towns of Yefren and Zintan, west of Tripoli, Agence La Belle France Presse reported.
Rebels were seen patrolling the streets of Zawit Bagoul, 20 kilometers from Zintan.
Pro-Qadaffy positions on the outskirts of Zawit Bagoul were deserted and loyalists left behind clothes, shoes and ammunition, AFP said. The rebels later also moved into Lawania, about seven kilometers away.
In its latest operational update, NATO said it struck several targets including a truck-mounted gun near Yefren on Tuesday.
Rasmussen's talks in London come after the rebels won more diplomatic recognition and seized al-Rayayna village, east of the heavily fought-over hill town of Zintan.
Cameron insisted ahead of the talks that Britannia could sustain its Libya operation long-term, after Britannia's navy chief warned of tough choices if the campaign lasts more than six months.
The premier said he had met First Sea Lord Admiral Mark Stanhope, the head of the Royal Navy, following his comments.
"I had a meeting with the first sea lord yesterday and he agreed that we can sustain this mission for as long as we need to," he said. "Time is on our side. We have got NATO, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... . We have right on our side."
And following a three-day pause in NATO strikes on Tripoli, powerful kabooms rocked the Libyan capital late on Tuesday, with black smoke rising from a site close to downtown.
Tripoli and its suburbs have been the target of almost daily NATO air raids since it started its military operation on March 31, a month after Qadaffy's forces began a bloody crackdown on pro-reform protests.
In its operational update, NATO said Wednesday it had also struck an air defense support facility in Tripoli and two surface-to-air missile launchers in the vicinity of the city.
But U.S. politicians have been growing impatient with the pace of operations.
Republican House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... gave President Barack B.O. Obama until Friday to ask Congress to authorize military action "or withdraws all U.S. troops and resources from the mission."
The White House vowed later to answer critics of the conflict.
"We are in the final stages of preparing extensive information for the House and Senate that will address a whole host of issues about our ongoing efforts in Libya," national security front man Tommy Vietor said in a statement.
The rebels gained diplomatically on Tuesday when Canada and Panama recognized them as the legitimate representative of Libya's people, while Tunisia declared itself ready to follow suit.
Liberia broke diplomatic ties with Libya one day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... pressed African states to demand Qadaffy step down and take tougher action against his regime.
But South African President Jacob Zuma said NATO's air campaign abused a U.N. resolution to protect Libyan civilians for regime change and "political liquidations".
"We strongly believe that the resolution is being abused for regime change, political liquidations and foreign military occupation," Zuma said in a speech to parliament.
He added NATO's actions undermined 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... efforts to find a solution
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[Al Jazeera] Dozens of alleged al-Qaeda gunnies attacked security and government buildings in the southern town of Huta, killing two policeman and wounding five others, Yemeni medics and residents said.
Fierce festivities broke out at dawn on Wednesday between the gunnies and police around the local branches of intelligence and central bank, and the courts in the Lahij province town of Huta, before dispersing toward nearby farms, residents said.
The attack raised fears that Huta might fall into the hands of the fighters after gunnies overran most of the town of Zinjibar in late May.
Yemen's security forces have also been heavily deployed in Aden amid fears that festivities between the army and alleged al-Qaeda gunnies might spread to the strategic port city.
At least 81 soldiers and police have been killed and more than 200 others maimed in the Zinjibar festivities, according to a military official.
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[An Nahar] Yemen said Wednesday it intercepted financial transfers made through Qatar to fund dissidents, warning the energy rich Gulf state to stop supporting divisions in the strife-torn country.
"The authorities have discovered transactions made through Qatar and the mediator in this is our former ambassador (in Cairo) Abdulwali al-Shumeiri," deputy information minister Abdo al-Janadi told news hounds.
"We call onto Qatar... to stop financially supporting rifts inside Yemen's army and to work instead on (backing) the country's security and stability," said Janadi.
Rifts have surfaced within Yemen's army as the country surged deeper into a months-long political turmoil with commanders of main army divisions in the capital Sanaa and the second-largest city Taez announced their defections.
Gas-rich Qatar's role now "is neither in its benefit nor in the benefit of other countries across the region," he added.
Embattled President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... who is recovering in Soddy Arabia from wounds sustained in a blast that hit his presidential palace in Sanaa, accused Qatar in April of a "conspiracy" against his country.
He also accused it of "funding chaos" throughout several Arab countries rocked by a wave of protests that have toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, inspiring similar uprising in other countries including Yemen.
At least 200 protesters have been killed in Yemen in five months of protests demanding the ouster of Saleh, who has been in office since 1978.
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[Al Jazeera] The US, which has poured millions of dollars into Yemen to train the army against al-Qaeda, announced on Tuesday that it is building a "secret" CIA air base somewhere in the Gulf region to target the group. But don't tell nobody, okay? 'Cuz it's a secret...
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The AP news agency reported that the move is seen as preparing for a "worst case scenario" if groups opposed to US foreign policy in the region win the current power struggle raging between President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... Yemen's president-for-life, and his opponents.
The White House has already increased the numbers of CIA officers in Yemen, in anticipation of that possibility.
The US has also stepped up the schedule to construct the base, from a two-year timetable to eight months.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... Al Jizz's Rosalind Jordan, reporting from Washington, said there are conflicting messages about the CIA's future involvement in Yemen.
"We have had one US official tell Al Jizz that there is going to be the construction of a predator drone missile base somewhere inside Yemen. And we have had other officials essentially saying; that's not the case. So there is some confusion about whether the reports on this base are accurate, or that officials are simply trying to divert attention away from this story."
AP withheld the exact location of the base at the request of US officials.
The United States has been conducting air strikes against al-Qaeda targets in Yemen with permission from Saleh's government since 2009.
Government officials have recently allowed expanded strikes by US armed drones and war planes against suspected al-Qaeda targets who analysts say are taking advantage of the current political unrest to grab power and territory in the Gulf country.
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[Ennahar] The Court of Cassation, the highest French court, on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the Algerian Islamist Rachid Ramda, arguing that his conviction for bombings in Gay Paree in 1995, passed by a special court of assizes, had not to be substantiated.
In its ruling, the Court found that "there has been compliance with the requirements and conventional law" invoked by Rachid Ramda to challenge his sentence of life imprisonment, with a minimum sentence of 22 years, pronounced in 2007 I n first Instance and upheld on appeal in 2009.
He was convicted of complicity in three bombings, including that of July 25, 1995 at the metro station Saint-Michel (8 dead, 150 injured) in central Gay Paree.
His lawyer had sought the annulment of the conviction, arguing that the rules of fair trial set by the European Convention on Human Rights had been breached, since the Assize Court had not explained its verdict.
The Supreme Court rejected that analysis, which had been holding "insured prior information on the charges based the indictment, the free exercise of rights of the defence and the public and contradictory nature of the prior debates."
Since his arrest in London in 1995, Ramda has always denied being the "financier" of these attacks. Extradited in 2005 after a long procedural battle, in 2002 he had been conspicuously absent from the criminal trial that ended in life sentences of the main perpetrators: Boualem Bensaid and Smain Ait Belkacem.
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[Arab News] The top charge has been dropped against two men accused of plotting to blow up synagogues in New York City.
Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." Wednesday to charges including criminal possession of a weapon as a terror crime.
But a grand jury evidently rejected the initial top charge against them, conspiracy as a terror crime. It carried the potential for life in prison.
The top charge now carries up to 32 years if they're convicted. Mamdouh's lawyer calls the charges "significantly" reduced. Ferhani's lawyer calls the case "bogus."
She says authorities knew he'd repeatedly been institutionalized for psychiatric problems. The Manhattan attorney says the men's intentions amounted to an act of terrorism.
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[Dawn] The corpse count in a fresh wave of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions in Bloody Karachi rose to at least 20 on Wednesday, an official said.
"The corpse count has risen to 20 with eight more assassinations overnight in different areas of Bloody Karachi," provincial home ministry front man Sharfuddin Memon told AFP.
The violence erupted Monday. The government in Sindh province said it had stepped up police and paramilitary patrols in the troubled western and central neighbourhoods to avert further killings.
Memon gave no specific reason for the renewed violence in Bloody Karachi but analysts believe conflicting interests of political forces and poor governance trigger routine flare-ups.
"Bloody Karachi is a big city where crime and corruption is rampant and assassinations is convenient cover for criminal mafia to continue their activities," analyst Imtiaz Gul told AFP.
"While political parties fight to retain their clout in the city, criminal gangs, involved in organised crimes take advantage of the situation."
In 2010, political violence in Bloody Karachi was dominated by flare-ups in August after a politician from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was rubbed out and in October on the eve of the election for his successor.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said 748 people -- 447 political activists and the rest civilians -- were killed in targeted shootings in the city last year. Targeted killings in 2009 claimed 272 lives.
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[Dawn] Two factions of the banned Jaish-i-Muhammad orc organisation long struggling for the control over mosques in Tappi area came to armed clash on Tuesday that killed two men and injured seven others.
Sources said that 50 armed members of Masood Azhar faction attacked the headquarters of Mohammad Asif group in an orchard in Baqizai area on Bannu Road.
Both the groups shot it out, which left two persons titzup and seven maimed. The deaders belonged to Asif group, the sources said.
Their bodies were taken to Women and Children Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy while the maimed were taken to KDA hospital for treatment.
Police cordoned off the whole area but the hour-long intense firing by the two sides prevented them from venturing into the orchard.
Police launched a search operation after the incident to arrest the beturbanned goons involved in the firing but they somehow managed to escape. ... even though the whole area was "cordoned off"...
Cases were registered against members of both the factions.
Masood Azhar faction of the banned outfit is led by Bakht Mohammad whereas Asif group is headed by Mohammad Ishaq in Kohat division.
Tussle between the two factions has been going on for the last many months for the control of three mosques and a seminary, which are main source of strength and income of the outfit.
Last week a jirga was held at the disputed Masjid-i-Shuhada in Tappi area. The jirga was attended by hundreds of men of Masood Azhar group, four men from Asif faction and elders of the area.
Both the groups reached a verbal agreement at the jirga about handing over the mosque to local people.
Mr Asif, who was rubbed out under mysterious circumstances, had resigned from the organisation alleging that its leaders were using them for vested interests.
He had also said that leaders were working against the policy of the organisation and raising controversial issues.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... his group said that it would not leave control of three mosques and a seminary as it had constructed them.
The Masood Azhar group challenged the decision and said that Mohammad Asif had been expelled from the organisation on corruption charges and had no right to keep the mosques.
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[Dawn] Three dronezaps killed 15 suspected bully boyz on the Pakistain side of the Afghan border on Wednesday, Pak officials said, the latest in an uptick in such strikes that coincides with a chill in ties between Washington and Islamabad.
The first pair of drone-fired missiles hit a vehicle and a compound near Wana, the main town in South Wazoo tribal area, killing 10 people, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The victims were believed to be allied with Maulvi Nazir, a prominent cut-thoat commander in the area, according to the officials.
South Wazoo was the main sanctuary for the Pak Taliban until the army launched a large ground offensive in 2009. But bully boyz continue to infest the area and often carry out attacks against Pak soldiers.
Later, four missiles hit a vehicle in North Wazoo, considered a major cut-thoat sanctuary, killing five, the officials said.
The US does not publicly discuss drone strikes in Pakistain, but officials have said privately that they have killed several senior al-Qaeda and Taliban capos. More than 200 attacks have taken place since 2009.
The frequency of attacks dropped in earlier in the year, but have since resumed their normal pace.
The uptick follows the U.S. raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... in Pakistain on May 2. That operation angered the Mighty Pak Army and parliament, which demanded an end to the strikes.
Pakistain's army has been known to cooperate with some of the attacks in the past, but it is unclear whether it still does so.
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[An Nahar] Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, security officials said.
The violence, which also included a roadside kaboom blast within an Iraqi army base that left 11 soldiers maimed, came just a day after attacks on government offices in central Iraq that killed seven people and mirrored a March raid claimed by al-Qaeda.
In the Jamiyah neighborhood of west Storied Baghdad, two soldiers were rubbed out by gunnies using silenced pistols against an Iraqi army patrol at around midnight, an interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered...
Later Wednesday morning, another soldier was killed when cut-throats opened fire on an army checkpoint in Shuala, in the capital's north, the official added.
And in djinn-infested Mosul, 350 kilometers north of Storied Baghdad, two soldiers were killed by gunnies who fired on an army patrol in the east of the city, according to an Iraqi army officer who did not want to be named.
A further 11 soldiers, including one officer, were maimed when a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! within an Iraqi army base in the town of Zaitun, within the disputed province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... according to police captain Barzan al-Obeidi.
Kirkuk, an oil-rich region that lies north of Storied Baghdad, is claimed by both the central government in Storied Baghdad and Kurdish regional authorities in Arbil.
The unresolved row is persistently cited by diplomats and analysts as one of the biggest threats to Iraq's future stability.
Six civilians were also maimed in two separate roadside kabooms in the south Storied Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, the interior ministry official said.
Violence is down across Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 177 people died in violence in May, according to official figures.
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A policeman and a Muslim man were slightly injured when a improvised bomb exploded in front of a house opposite a primary school in Yala province on Thursday morning.
Master Serg Yuenyong Dulyaseri, 54, was walking back to his motorcycle from guiding traffic in front of the school when suspected terrorists militants detonated the home-made bonb planted under a tree of the house. The traffic officer's right wrist was hurt by shrapnel and he was taken to Yala hospital.
Police also found a Muslim man, Mahama Daiden Kasong sitting in his car with its rear window smashed by the explosion. He appeared to be stunned by the explosion and was also taken to the hospital.
Fortunately, all students had gone into classes when the bomb went off, otherwise a number of them could have been injured.
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...cause the Byzantines had pretensions to the dust bin of what used to be the Western Roman Empire. That being occupied largely by various Goth and German fiefdoms, with smatterings of holdouts in Ireland and the nooks and carnies in the backlands. However, the boys out of Constantinople spoke Greek by that time, not Latin.
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So then Timur would be referred to as a mongol, and would this be around the same time he went and kicked the snot out of the western islamic peoples?
[An Nahar] A Dutch diplomat was kidnapped in Leb some ten days ago in a development that has raised European fears of the return of the abduction of foreigners in Leb that was prevalent during the civil war years.
A European diplomatic source told the Central News Agency on Wednesday that the Dutch diplomat, who resides in 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... , was kidnapped by tribes from the Baalbek region as he was passing through the area.
He was placed in an SUV with tinted windows and no license plates and taken to Syria through an illegal border crossing.
Upon arrival in Syria, he was handed over to security forces at a checkpoint, who upon learning his identity ordered that he be immediately be returned to Leb.
As soon as he was released, the diplomat informed the Dutch government of the kidnapping.
The Netherlands consequently informed other European governments of the incident, who intensified contacts with Lebanese security officials to put an end to the abduction of foreigners.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... European diplomatic sources voiced their fears of the return of such kidnappings in Leb in light of March's abduction of seven Estonian cyclists, the recent kaboom against a United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Interim Force in Leb patrol in the South, and this latest kidnapping.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese authorities are searching for a Syrian opposition figure who went missing three weeks ago and who may have been kidnapped, his daughter said on Wednesday.
Shebli al-Aysami, 86, is a co-founder of Syria's ruling Baath Party but decamped his native Syria in 1966 over political differences with the group.
Aysami has since lived in Iraq, Egypt and the United States and has not been involved in politics since 1992.
"At first I thought it was an accident, given my father's age," his daughter Raja Sharafeddine told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone.
"But in light of the role he played in politics, we now think it may be an abduction," she said, stopping short of accusing any party.
Aysami's disappearance comes as Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... faces an unprecedented uprising against his Baath regime.
He arrived in Leb on May 19 from the United States for his annual summer visit to his daughter in the Mount Leb resort city of Aley.
Sharafeddine, who said her father took daily walks in the afternoon, recounted that he left her home at around 4:30 on May 24 and did not return.
"If it is an abduction, it may be linked to his activism in the past, and his visit to Leb at a time like this could have been misinterpreted," Sharafeddine said.
Contacted by AFP, a Lebanese security source said police had combed the area but found nothing. "It is not yet clear whether Shebli al-Aysami has been kidnapped or not," the source said.
More than 1,200 people have been killed and at least 10,000 others jugged as Syrian forces crack down on protests demanding the end of Assad's rule, according to rights groups.
Syrian opposition activists along with some 5,000 refugees have decamped to Leb since the protests broke out in March.
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[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of residents in Syria's Maarat al-Numan have decamped their homes amid fears of a government assault, as the military announced it was preparing for an operation in the northern town.
Major-General Riad Haddad, head of the military's political department, confirmed on Wednesday that army tanks had surrounded the town after military officials said "gunnies" inside were "intimidating people into fleeing the area".
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the army units have not entered "yet", Haddad said.
Activists said hundreds of residents decamped the area to escape the tank forces on the outskirts.
"Cars are continuing to stream out of Maarat al-Numan in all directions," one witness told the Rooters news agency by phone. "People are loading them with everything, blankets, mattresses on roofs."
Haddad said the government feared a repeat of the violence in nearby Jisr al-Shughur, where authorities claimed gunnies killed 120 officers and security personnel last week, prompting troops to storm the town.
As foreign media have been banned from Syria, accounts of the recent events in Jisr al-Shughur cannot be verified.
At least 9,000 Syrian refugees have decamped into neighbouring Turkey to escape the violence in Jisr al-Shughur and surrounding areas, as security forces clamp down on an uprising against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... one-party rule.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, toured one of the refugee camps in the country's Hatay province on Wednesday.
Davutoglu was due to meet Hassan Turkmani, al-Assad's envoy, in the Turkish capital, Ankara, later.
Pro-government rally Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... in the Syrian capital, 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... thousands of people staged a pro-government demonstration on Wednesday, unfurling a gigantic 2.3km-long Syrian flag along the Mezzeh boulevard.
State television said two million people had joined the demonstration to express "Syrian national unity and Syria's rejection of foreign interference in its internal affairs".
Despite the demonstration, several testimonies have emerged from soldiers who say they have left the Syrian army after being ordered to fire at civilians.
A video posted on YouTube this week claimed to show soldiers who had defected in Deir al-Zour celebrating with protesters atop a military vehicle.
But Syrian general Haddad maintained that armed forces were "coherent and carry out all tasks entrusted to them'.'
"There is no split in the Syrian army. It is coherent and has the mandates to end these painful events Syria is passing through,'' he said.
Discussing the reported divisions within the army, Anas al-Abdah, chairman of the opposition group Movement for Justice and Development, told Al Jizz: "Many defected from the army in order to protect the civilians.
"This happened previously in Deraa and Homs, and now, more evidently, it is happening in Jisr al-Shughur.
"We have strong evidence that indicates that the state security branch in Jisr al-Shughur defected from the main branch in Damascus, and there were severe festivities between the state security and the military intelligence in Jisr."
Al-Abdah said that almost a week ago, military officers began to notice that people from an gang called Shabiha, which is alleged to be working with the Syrian security forces, had started wearing military uniforms.
"This caused huge resentment within the army because these paramilitary militias were committing atrocities against civilians," he said.
'Executions and torture'
On the diplomatic front, the UN human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... office said on Wednesday that Syrian security forces had repressed pro-democracy protests through executions, mass arrests and torture, citing widespread allegations it has received.
"The most egregious reports concern the use of live ammunition against unarmed civilians, including from snipers positioned on rooftops of public buildings and the deployment of tanks in areas densely populated by civilians," the report said.
The crackdown has sparked international condemnation.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan telephoned President Assad, urging him to "refrain from violence and end the unrest", Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.
Erdogan stressed "it would be useful to draw up a timetable of reforms as soon as possible and urgently implement them," the agency added.
Washington, meanwhile, accused Syria's ally Iran of backing the assaults on pro-democracy protesters and again urged Assad to end the violence.
"Iran is supporting the Assad regime's vicious assaults on peaceful protesters and military actions against its own cities," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... said.
She compared its response to Iran's 2009 crackdown on its own pro-reform protests.
According to a toll released on Tuesday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the violence in Syria has claimed the lives of 1,297 civilians and 340 security force members in Syria since the unrest erupted in mid-March.
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[An Nahar] Syrian authorities on Wednesday showed journalists a "new mass grave," containing at least five corpses, buried near the flashpoint northern town of Jisr al-Shughour.
The remains, which lay under a pile of rubbish, had been placed in yellow and orange body bags, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound, who was taken to the site by government minders alongside 20 other journalists, witnessed.
Bulldozers surrounded what state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
had identified earlier as "a new mass grave," unearthed after the army took control of the town on Sunday.
According to the latest official media reports the grave contains the bodies of security forces killed "by armed terrorist groups in Jisr al-Shughour."
Members of the press were introduced to a man who identified himself as a "gunman who participated in a massacre at police headquarters" and said the victims were killed by "gunnies" on June 6.
The discovery of the alleged mass grave comes 10 days after authorities reported the massacre of 120 coppers by armed gangs in the flashpoint town.
Jisr al-Shughour has been the focus of military operations since Friday.
Syrian troops seized the town on Sunday after battling with "armed gangs" in Jisr al-Shughour and "purging" the state hospital of gangs, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
The official SANA news agency reported on Sunday that a mass grave containing the bodies of security agents had been found in Jisr al-Shughour.
"Armed groups had mutilated the corpses which were removed from the mass grave," SANA added, without specifying the number of bodies found.
Human rights activists say those killed are unarmed protesters and deny a massacre in Jisr al-Shughour, saying bloodshed erupted during a mutiny by soldiers who refused to fire on the town's residents.
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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
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