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Jacquiline Alice Newlin (November 7, 1905 died May 25, 1995), better known as Alice Day, was a film actress who began her career as of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.
Day appeared in 70 movies between 1923 and 1932. In 1929, she starred with Edward Buzzell in a film version of the George M. Cohan stage musical Little Johnny Jones, the title better known in revised excerpts staged in the Cohan Biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. There are no known copies of the Buzzell-Day films.
Day also co-starred with Ted Lewis in the musical Is Everybody Happy? (1929) which is also considered a lost film. Alice Day was the elder sister of actress Marceline Day. Day appeared in the film Two-Fisted Law (1932) with Tim McCoy and John Wayne.
Marceline Day (April 24, 1908 February 16, 2000) was an American motion picture actress whose career began as a child in the 1910s and ended in the 1930s.
Born Marceline Newlin in Colorado Springs, Colorado and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, she was the younger sister of film actress Alice Day.
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Somali Federal Government in Mogadishu is planning to free wanted Al Shabaab official Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who has been in custody for the past two months according to independent sources, Garowe Online reports.
The source, which is close to Villa Somalia, noted that Sheikh Aweys was temporarily released from an intelligence base in Mogadishu on Saturday night, a first move to be reported since late June when Aweys was detained by the Federal Government.
As always, we prefer that terror chiefs be released at a high altitude...
The source added that a meeting held at a building near Villa Somalia brought together self-proclaimed Hawiye clan elders, Aweys's close allies, ex-warlords, and government officials including Somali Interior and National Security Minister Abdikarin Hussein Guled, who together discussed the fate of Sheikh Aweys and the methods needed to release him from custody.
In addition, the source confirmed that key points -- including retiring from Somali politics -- was prepared in print and presented to Aweys, but he reportedly refused to sign the printout.
Speaking on VOA Somali Service, Ahmed Dirie Ali, Hawiye clan elders' spokesman said, the meeting "did not produce agreeable points".
Continuing, Dirie added: "Hassan Dahir is a prominent politician and an elder, also the Federal administration is a legitimate government".
Political analysts said the reported plan would be considered as a failed step and a weak anti-terrorism policy as the public is keen on to hear indictment by courts.
Following bitter feud and violent dispute within Al Shabaab ranks, Sheikh Aweys escaped from Barawe coastal town of Lower Shabelle region, in southern Somalia, after Al Shabaab chief Ahmed Godane dispatched Al Shabaab death squads to Aweys and other officials including his deputy Ibrahim Haji Jama Micad (Ibrahim Afghani), who had made allegations against Godane.
Sheikh Aweys was transported by plane from Adado district in Galgadud region of central Somalia, where he reportedly "surrendered" to Himan and Heeb local administration, which later transferred to Federal Government in Mogadishu.
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In addition, the source confirmed that key points -- including retiring from Somali politics -- was prepared in print and presented to Aweys, but he reportedly refused to sign the printout
Is this henna boy? Kill him
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I continue to believe a battery powered electric chair set to "slow roast" is the way to go in cases like this...
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Is this henna boy? Kill him
I found a photo in Fred's copious files, and yes, he is.
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I continue to believe a battery powered electric chair set to "slow roast" is the way to go in cases like this...
Nah, nuke him from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Government says at least 35 people dead in attempted escape, but Anti-Coup Alliance says they were killed in cold blood
Egyptian police say at least 35 detained protesters have been killed while attempting to escape from a prison convoy, but the Muslim Brotherhood has alleged that their supporters were killed in cold blood and called for an international inquiry into the incident.
There were conflicting reports of how Sunday's deaths occurred. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the prisoners had taken an officer hostage and died after suffocating to death after police fired tear gas.
"Thirty-five of the prisoners died of suffocation and crowding after tear gas was used to stop their escape," the Ministry said.
Suffocation and crowding? Either they were hemmed into a really, really small piece or they were really, really stupid...
The men, believed to be supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood organisation, were killed while being transferred to Abu Zaabal prison near Cairo in a convoy of about 600 detainees, sources told Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera was told another version of events by a source who said the prisoners staged a fight and then took a police officer hostage when the van pulled over. Other police then fired into the van, killing those inside.
Tough luck for the officer taken hostage but it's one way to ensure that the perps don't get away.
The Egyptian MENA news agency said that the van transporting the men pulled over and was attacked by armed gunmen. It reported that the prisoners took a police officer hostage in an attempt to escape but were killed in a shootout, not by tear gas as claimed by the government.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Cairo, quoted a source who said the men had been arrested at the end of a siege at Cairo's Fateh mosque on Saturday. More than 200 people were said to have been arrested there on various charges including "terrorism".
In a statement on Sunday, the Anti-Coup Alliance said it had "obtained evidence of the assassination of anti-coup detainees in a truck transferring them to Abu Zaabal prison.
"They were reportedly assassinated in their truck with live ammunition and tear gas fired from windows."
No words of sympathy about the six dozen or so cops murdered by the anti-Morsi protestors...
"The murder of 35 detained anti-coup protestors affirms the intentional violence aimed at opponents of the coup, and the cold-blooded killing of which they are targets," it said in a statement in English.
At some point they'll say something that will cause me to care...
The group said it puts full criminal responsibility on leaders of the 3rd of July coup, beginning with Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, [Egypt's army chief], and Minister of Interior Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel."
In the statement, the Anti-Coup Alliance demanded "an international investigation into this horrific crime, in addition to other crimes committed by leaders of the 3rd of July coup".
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Egypt = trucks and tear gas.
Northern Alliance = shipping containers and machine guns.
Just a difference in method, tho container disposal is much more efficient.
At least 24 Egyptian policemen were killed and three were injured in a blast in northern Sinai on Monday morning, medical and security sources stated. Also
Medical sources and officials said that suspected militants killed 24 army troops in an ambush on two police minibuses close to the town of Rafah near the Gaza border. Sources said four armed men stopped the police buses and forced the passengers to get out before shooting them on the spot.
Did the police officers not have their weapons? Did they not know what was about to happen? Did not a single one of them fight for their lives?
[Al Ahram] One of the major protest marches by president Mohamed Morsi supporters has been cancelled, the Freedom and Justice Party announces on their official Twitter account.
The Roxy Square demonstration in Cairo's Heliopolis district near the presidential guard and palace was cancelled, citing security reasons.
Although social media and news channels reported that other marches were cancelled, the FJP Twitter account denied the rumours through Twitter.
Some of the Friday pro-Morsi protesters ended up in fierce festivities with both residents of the demonstration areas and with security forces.
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[Al Ahram] A policeman and one of his assailants were killed after unknown gunnies exchanged fire with security at a checkpoint on a freeway in Sharqiya, north of Cairo in the Nile Delta, during the early hours of Sunday.
Twenty others -- 18 of them police conscripts, an officer and another assailant - were maimed in the shooting, Al-Ahram Arabic news site reports.
The police squad was attacked while stationed on a road leading to Sharqiya's city of Zagazig to launch a crackdown operation on faceless myrmidons in the Abu Kabir village.
Egypt has been convulsing in violent turmoil over the past four days since a deadly police raid on protest camps by loyalists of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi left more than 600 killed Wednesday.
Separately, in the Sinai Peninsula city of Al-Arish close to the Israeli border, a policeman was killed and four others injured when unknown gunniesshot up a checkpoint on the international Al-Arish airport road Saturday night. Hours earlier, another policeman was rubbed out in a separate attack on a police club in the city.
The city has seen a spike in violence with almost daily attacks by hard boy Islamist on security and army checkpoints since the ouster the Brotherhood-fielded president was deposed on 3 July.
Tens of army and security personnel were killed in drive-by shootings and rocket attacks. Egypt's army said it had killed at least 60 faceless myrmidons in crackdown operations in the deserted peninsula in the month since Morsi's overthrow.
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[Al Ahram] Some 42 Moslem Brüderbund leaders were tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Sunday morning, according to Brotherhood sources.
Golly. It's starting to feel like the old days.
From those, 34 were arrested in Alexandria and eight from the governorate of Gharbiya.
According to the Moslem Brüderbund office in Alexandria, state security forces along with special forces stormed the homes of 34 members of the Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).
Anes El-Kady, the Brotherhood's Alexandria spokesperson, said that Medhat El-Haddad, the head of the group's Alexandria office, was among those arrested.
Security forces also stormed the homes of Mohamed Nameer, head of the FJP Alexandria office, Atef Abu El-Eid, secretary general of the FJP in the city, and Taher Abdel Mohsen, a Shura Council MP and leading FJP member.
El-Kady condemned the raids saying they signal a return to the old regime where security forces would make "dawn visits" to arrest opposition members.
"These arrests will not terrorise us," El-Kady said. "We will continue protesting peacefully," he added.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry confirmed reports of deaths during what it said was an escape attempt by placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Moslem Brüderbund elements, saying 36 people had been killed.
In a statement released on Sunday night, the ministry said that the detainees had been killed by asphyxiation due to teargas and "crowding."
Egyptian security forces had said earlier on Sunday that they had aborted an escape attempt by over 600 detained supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi at Abu Zaabal prison north of Cairo on Sunday.
Egypt's state news agency MENA reported that an gang attacked the Abu Zaabal prison while a vehicle transferring some of the detained Moslem Brüderbund supporters was arriving in an attempt to free them and other prisoners, but security forces were able to protect the vehicle.
The report had said that some of the perpetrators were shot and some of the prisoners inside the vehicle suffocated from teargas fired at the scene and were being treated.
On Saturday, Egypt's interior ministry announced it had locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 1,004 Moslem Brüderbund "elements" on Friday, when large demonstrations were held demanding Morsi's return to power and condemning the violent dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins on Wednesday.
Official health ministry figures say the corpse count has reached at least 800 deaths since Wednesday's dispersals.
The interior ministry has started a wave of arrests of prominent Islamist figures in several governorates, including Cairo, Alexandria and Suez.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry has banned the formation of informal security committees set up by Egyptians during the current unrest to protect their neighbourhoods, reported Ahram's Arabic news website.
The decision was taken to protect citizens from illegal practices sometimes committed by the committees. The ministry also urged Egyptians to observe the nighttime curfew, in effect since the police dispersed Moslem Brüderbund-led sit-ins on Wednesday.
Cases of theft by popular committees have been reported since Wednesday, when the violent crackdown on the sit-ins led to nationwide festivities between police and supporters of ousted Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi.
Egypt's anti-Morsi Rebel movement had called on Egyptians to form the committees last week. The call was aired on Egyptian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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To their modest credit, the Associated Press actually reports the story in its gruesome details. We had a very short version of this yesterday but you might not have clicked through. It's sad, and gory, and serves as a warning to anyone who thinks that "dialog" between the Brüderbünd and the Egyptian army will solve the problem. Those who call for the army to be 'moderate' are really calling for the MB to be given back the keys to power. This article demonstrates the logical outcome of such a move.
Glenn Reynolds at the Instapundit noted yesterday, concerning the media's reporting on Egypt, that "...if they reported accurately, Americans might get angry, and that's not allowed unless it's at Republicans." This article from the AP seems almost straight-up in its reporting. Perhaps someone at AP is waking up?
CAIRO (AP) -- After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.
In the four days since security forces cleared two sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority. The campaign of intimidation appears to be a warning to Christians outside Cairo to stand down from political activism.
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I showed this article to my Sweetheart. She said, "Why hasn't this been on the news"?
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"Why hasn't this been on the news"?
The narrative... plain and simple.
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As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves along with threats for failure to comply.
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris car burnings, etc.). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam Mohammed cartoons).
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning.
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.
100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" the Islamic House of Peace theres supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim.
CIA
McCain and Jerusalem labored under imprisonment. Jerusalem was warned, 70 years later they went into exile for 2000 years. McCain is now warned. 70 years from now the world will...
[Dawn] Police claimed to have foiled a sabotage attempt and defused an improvised bomb planted near a mosque in Hayatabad here on Saturday.
An official of Hayatabad cop shoppe said that unidentified persons had planted an bomb packed in a hotpot near Zarghoni Masjid but police timely averted the attempt.
"We got information about presence of a suspicious hotpot. We immediately called personnel of bomb disposal unit and they successfully defused the device," he said.
The official said that actual target of the forces of Evil was not known but it was placed along a main road where anyone could easily be targeted by detonating it through a remote control. A case against unidentified persons, he said, was registered.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... police are yet to get any clue to the killers of Awami National Party leader Najma Haneef, who was rubbed out inside her residence in Phase-I of Hayatabad late on Friday night.
Sabir Khan, an investigation officer, said that the woman received a single bullet in his head that caused her death before being shifted to a hospital.
The accused, he said, entered her residence through the main gate and other family members of the woman were also present but police were yet to record their statements.
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[Dawn] Police claimed to have killed a Death Eater during an encounter here on Saturday.
They said that the Death Eater was involved in Friday's attack on the van of Parmuli cop shoppe.
An assistant sub-inspector, a constable and a prisoner were killed while three coppers got injuries when bully boyz attacked police van near Shewa graveyard on Friday.
Police soon after the incident constituted three teams and launched in the area. Police claimed that identity of the other attackers was established and soon they would be placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
DPO Dr Mian Mohammad Saeed told Dawn that one of the attackers identified as Saeed Akhtar was killed in the encounter. The accused, a resident of Shewa village, was wanted by police in various other cases of heinous nature, he added.
The DPO said Saeed Akhtar was traced in the same area where the police van was attacked. He added that a Kalashnikov and three hand grenades were recovered from his possession.
He said that search for remaining accused was underway.
He added that the attackers in the area usually retreated to Karamar Mountain.
He said that they were involved in diffident illegal activities in both Swabi and Mardan districts. Police of Swabi and Mardan districts were coordinating with each other in action against them, the official said.
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[Dawn] A young activist of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... was bumped off in a targeted attack in Liaquatabad on Saturday, police and party sources said.
They said gunnies targeted 28-year-old Salman Ayub when he was standing outside his home near Nayab Masjid in Liaquatabad No 1. He was hit by three bullets and was struck down in his prime. "The assailants used 9mm pistol in the attack," said an official at the Super Market cop shoppe. Police could not immediately establish motive for the murder.
A front man for the ASWJ said the victim was an active member of the party and was killed "only for his association with the ASWJ".
"Salman had been associated with the ASWJ for years and was regarded as an honest man in the area. His murder is not only an attempt to harass our workers but also part of a preplanned attempt to target them," he said.
He demanded that the government form a special investigation team to probe killings of the party workers.
Later, the victim's funeral prayers were held at Liaqutabad Dak-khana, which were attended by party leaders, workers and a large number of area people.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... in Lyari, a body with a gunshot wound to the head was found in a street called Ruee Wali Gali within the jurisdiction of the Kalakot cop shoppe in the Lea Market area, said police.
"The victim was identified as Muhammad Sadiq, 45, who was better known as Chand Bhai in Nanak Wara where he lived," said SHO Saleem Marwar.
"He left home in the morning and ended up dead with a single bullet through the head. He was a former member 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... ," said the SHO.
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[Dawn] Armed forces of Evil killed two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and injured another one in Sariab road area of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Sunday evening, police said.
Shabeer Ahmed, a police official told Dawn.com that two armed forces of Evil shot up the checkpost of FC in Sariab road area of Quetta.
He said one FC personnel was killed on the spot, whereas another succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital.
Ahmed said one attacker was also killed when FC personnel retaliated after the attack. He said another attacker was locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! alive in an injured condition and was shifted to an unknown location for interrogation.
Police and FC personnel were quick to reach the scene and the area was subsequently cordoned off. Security was tightened on Sariab road as an investigation into the incident is now underway.
The injured FC personnel was rushed to combined military hospital for medical treatment. Senior doctors were called on emergency basis to provide timely treatment to the injured soldier.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Ahmed suspects Baloch separatists were behind the attack.
Sariab road is considered to be one of the sensitive areas of Quetta city. Targeted killings and bombings in the area is order of the day.
Apart from police, FC personnel have also been deployed on the road to maintain order.
This incident has occured two days after forces of Evil attacked Jaffar Express and killed four passengers in Mach area of the troubled Bolan district.
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[Al Ahram] Attacks in Iraq killed at least eight people including an anti-Al-Qaeda militia leader on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence plaguing the country.
Security forces have in recent weeks carried out some of their biggest operations since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces, but analysts and diplomats say authorities have not addressed root causes of the unrest.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has nevertheless vowed to press on with the campaign in a bid to combat Iraq's worst violence since 2008.
Two roadside kabooms targeted a bus stop and a supermarket in two separate areas of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing at least four people and wounding 13, most of them government employees.
And the body of a local council member who was kidnapped the day before was found south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a disputed northern city.
He was shot in the head and his body bore signs of torture.
Also on Sunday, gunnies on a cycle of violence killed the leader of a local Sahwa, or anti-Al-Qaeda, militia and his three-year-old niece and maimed his 10-year-old nephew near Kirkuk.
Sunni gunnies consider the Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal militias which joined forces with the United States from late 2006, to be traitors and frequently attack them.
And in Muqdadiyah, north of Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom killed a teacher while he was driving.
The teacher, a Sunni Arab, had fled a Shia-majority area of Muqdadiyah in 2006 and returned just two months ago.
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[Bangkok Post] Police have rounded up four alleged members of an terrorist insurgent group believed responsible for an attack which killed four police officers in Narathiwat province on Friday.
The terrorist insurgent group is allegedly headed by Abdul Roheng Da-eso, alias Pele. Investigators had concluded that insurgents under Pele's command had carried out the attack in Rueso district. Security cameras have captured images of those involved.
The attack was carried out about 6 p.m. on Friday in front of Rueso kindergarten. At least seven terrorists insurgents on three motorcycles rode up behind the four policemen, who were on patrol in tambon Rueso.
One of the terrorists insurgents then threw a grenade at the police truck, while others sprayed the vehicle with M16 rifle fire. The grenade and the gunfire forced the vehicle into a ditch. Two of the gunmen then walked up to the wrecked vehicle and gunned the policemen down at close range. The attackers also stole two AK rifles and one pistol from the slain officers.
[An Nahar] Fierce fighting raged in Latakia province on Syria's coastline on Sunday, as the army pushed an advance and killed a jihadist leader, a monitoring group said.
The regime deployed massive reinforcements to fight rebels in Latakia, which has strategic and symbolic significance because it is the ancestral home of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's clan.
Rebels positioned in remote enclaves of Latakia's mountains launched the "battle for the liberation of the Syrian coast" about two weeks ago. Poorly equipped local fighters allied themselves with the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), despite a history of poor relations.
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army sent "massive reinforcements" to Latakia to fight the rebels and "bombed rebel areas heavily."
State television said the army has reclaimed rebel positions in the province, including Kharata, Janzuriyeh, Baluta, Baruda and Hambushiyeh.
But according to Abdel Rahman, "the army has only been able to secure the outskirts of some villages. The battles are ongoing and they are fierce."
"Scores of foreign (jihadist) fighters are being killed in the Latakia fighting," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Among them was a Libyan emir or local leader of ISIS, said the Observatory.
"Confirmed reports emerged of the killing of a Libyan ISIS emir while fighting in Jamusiyeh village," said the Britannia-based monitoring group.
The Syrian air force also struck several rebel positions across the country, it added. Among its targets were the Jabal al-Arbaeen area of the northwestern province of Idlib, Daraya and Zabadani near Damascus, and Deir Ezzor city in the east of Syria and a rebel area nearby. It also struck a rebel area in Homs province, said the Observatory.
Syria's war has killed more than 100,000 people in 29 months, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
On Saturday alone, at least 124 people were killed across Syria, the Observatory reported.
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[An Nahar] At least three people enjugged Please don't kill me! by the General Security Directorate confessed that they were planning to detonate a booby-trapped car found in Naameh neighborhood in South of Leb in another location.
Information obtained by Naharnet on Sunday showed that the confessions of the car-bombing ring helped the security agencies seize the car parked in Naameh neighborhood.
The members of the network revealed that the car, which was rigged with explosives, was set to be detonated in another area.
Saturday afternoon security agencies seized a car filled with 250 kilograms of explosives near the municipality building in Naameh.
The Audi car carrying fake license plate numbers contained five barrels of TNT, kaboom, fuses and detonators were found in the car along with a device to remotely detonated it.
The Lebanese army and Internal Security Forces swiftly cordoned off the area.
The state-run National News Agency later reported that the gang, which is formed of four members, confessed that they belong to a network which was planning to detonate several cars across Leb.
Later on Sunday, the ISF announced that among the seized material from the car bomb were "five kilograms of an unknown explosive substance" and that a lab test was underway.
In the evening, the army encircled the al-Zaatari and al-Mrah neighborhoods in the town of Haret al-Naameh and started searching the house of the detainee Mohammed al-Ahmed and the houses he used to visit, NNA said.
Troops were also inspecting cars parked in the area in search for explosives, the agency added.
Earlier, al-Jadeed television said the army raided the house of al-Ahmed's wife in Haret al-Naameh and that a search was ongoing for "a quantity of explosives placed in another car."
LBCI television said the army was inspecting cars parked near "a building owned by the detainee Mohammed al-Ahmed."
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[Al Ahram] Five rockets landed in and around the eastern Lebanese town of Hermel, a Hezbollah stronghold, on Sunday, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Two rockets landed in the town of Hermel, in an area between the Mabarrat teaching association and the Masharia al-Qaa area, causing no casualties," the source said.
"Another three rockets have landed now on the outskirts of Hermel," he added.
It was not immediately clear whether the rockets were launched from inside Leb or from across the border in strife-torn Syria, said the source.
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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.
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Somali Federal Government in Mogadishu is planning to free wanted Al Shabaab official Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who has been in custody for the past two months according to independent sources, Garowe Online reports.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry confirmed reports of deaths during what it said was an escape attempt by 
[Bangkok Post] Police have rounded up four alleged members of an 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
