[BBC.CO.UK] The most senior woman police officer in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province has died in hospital, a day after being shot by unidentified gunnies.
Lieutenant Negar was shot in the neck near police headquarters in the quiet provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
She is the third senior policewoman to be killed in recent months. Her predecessor in Helmand, Islam Bibi, was killed on her way to work in July.
Police in Helmand face the twin threats of Taliban gunnies and drug traders.
No group has said it carried out the latest attack. A front man for the governor of Helmand described Lt Negar's assailants as "enemies of Afghanistan".
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From the sisterhood here in the "civilized" West: Crickets...
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sooo "natural causes" then?
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More like "quaint cultural customs," like fast lead poisoning...
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In south central Asia, the wimmins needs it special, as Williams Burroughs used to say...
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Pashtuks must die...at least the rooskies had the right attitude...and last news is they're moving right back in...to NUKE 'EM TIL THEY'LL GLOW!
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[Jpost] Nine Egyptian coppers were maimed Monday when a bomb detonated on a road in North Sinai, near the border with the Gazoo Strip, security sources in the country said.
The blast hit a police bus as it travelled from Rafah, a town on the Gazoo border, to el-Arish, an hour's drive away.
Islamist hard boyz expanded into a security vacuum in the region left by the downfall of ousted autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
Attacks on army and police have intensified since the military deposed Egypt's first Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, on July 3 after mass protests against his rule. Since then, more than 100 members of the security forces have been killed in Sinai.
Last week, the army stepped up a campaign to restore control in the area. An army front man said on Sunday that the heavy weapons seized from hard boyz in recent operations included anti-aircraft missiles.
[MAGHAREBIA] Car bombs in Benghazi on Monday (September 16th) targeted a lawyer and a Libyan army patrol vehicle, Libya Herald reported.
Attorney Jibril Al-Moqasbi's car "blew up in front of his house near Abu Ghoula Mosque in Benghazi's downtown Al-Birka district while he was preparing to start his day", Benghazi Joint Security Room front man Abdullah Zaidi said.
The army vehicle was struck in Benghazi's Al-Salmani Al-Sharqi district. All the passengers escaped injury.
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[Al Ahram] Security forces have tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 45 people in an operation against Islamists in a town in Upper Egypt which has witnessed numerous attacks on Christians in recent weeks.
A temporary curfew was imposed in Dalja, Minya governorate, on Monday morning as police and army, accompanied by the air force, descended on the town.
The town has witnessed arson attacks on scores of churches, Christian-owned shops, homes and monasteries, according to local activists.
The ancient Virgin Mary church and four others were torched and their medieval artefacts looted, the activists added.
Coptic Christians, who make up some 10 percent of Egypt's 84 million population, have long complained of discrimination and periodic violence by bully boys. But the number of sectarian attacks has surged since Morsi's overthrow.
According Maspero Youth Union (MYU), a Coptic rights group, at least 17 churches have been "completely devastated" in Minya province alone -- home to a large Coptic community and where Dalja is located.
Security forces fired intense volleys of bullets into the air on Monday as armoured vehicles moved into position around Dalja, 300km south of Cairo, state news agency MENA reported.
Eyewitnesses said Morsi loyalists exchanged fire with security forces, which used teargas to disperse them.
Intimidation
"Christians in Dalja were living like prisoners in their homes thanks to a campaign of intimidation by Islamists and Moslem Brüderbund sympathisers," Antwan Adel, activist and spokesperson for MYU, told Ahram Online.
"They went to Christian houses to demand money and threatened to burn them down or abduct family members if they didn't pay."
Adel cited an incident of a middle-aged Christian who was kidnapped and only set free a week later when his family paid LE80,000 to the abductors.
At least two people have been killed in Dalja by alleged Islamist bully boyz since Morsi's ouster.
Monday's security operation is the first targeting Islamists in Dalja since Morsi supporters torched a cop shoppe and drove the police from the town in late August.
The operation took place shortly after 55 public figures sent a joint letter to interim President Adly Mansour condemning recent sectarian attacks in Dalja.
At least 45 people suspected of carrying out attacks on Christians, including murder, were arrested during the operation, officials told Ahram Online.
According to Adel, 23 houses in Dalja were razed to the ground and some 18 families displaced in recent attacks.
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, among other political and religious figures backed Morsi's removal in a move that angered the Moslem Brüderbund and its Islamist allies.
"Deluded Morsi loyalists have a firm belief that Christians caused Morsi's ouster," the pastor of Minya's Mari Girgis church said on television on Monday.
In comments on its official website, the Moslem Brüderbund described the operation in Dalja as part of a clampdown on Islamists who reject the "military coup" against Egypt's first freely elected president.
Around 40 churches across Egypt have been looted and torched, and dozens of Christian-owned businesses and homes attacked, since two pro-Morsi sit-ins were cleared by police on 14 August, killing hundreds and setting in motion days of deadly violence.
The violence has heightened fears of deeper polarisation and insecurity among Christians in Egypt, a predominantly Sunni Musselmen country.
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[Jpost] Three police were killed by a jacket wallah who detonated a bomb in a car outside a cop shoppe in Russia's Chechnya region on Monday, an national anti-terrorism body said.
Five police were also maimed in the bombing, which highlights the instability in the North Caucasus as Russia prepares to hold the Winter Olympics in nearby Sochi in February.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has called for increased security in the mainly Moslem region, where snuffies are waging an insurgency to establish an Islamist state.
A regional Interior Ministry official told Russian news agency Itar-Tass that police had tried to stop the car before it reached the police compound, near the border with Ingushetia.
[Al Ahram] Spanish police on Monday enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the suspected leader of a cell linked to Al-Qaeda, which sent Death Eaters to Syria to carry out suicide kabooms, the government said.
Police seized Yassin Ahmed Laarbi in the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, on terrorism charges, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Laarbi, a Spanish national also known as Pistu, is accused of leading a group that sent about 50 Islamist Death Eaters to Syria, some of whom carried out suicide kabooms.
"He is suspected of having been the top leader of an active network that recruited and radicalised mujahedeen and deaders and sent them to terrorist groups in Syria," the statement said.
Police tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight other members of the cell in Ceuta in June but did not capture Laarbi, who wasn't at home when officers came for him during the raids.
The network, operating in Ceuta and the neighbouring Moroccan town of Fnideq, was suspected of sending dozens of Islamist krazed killers, including minors, to join "Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups operating in Syria," the ministry said at the time.
It said that some of those sent by the group carried out suicide attacks.
Laarbi himself "was a candidate to join terrorist groups in Syria," Monday's statement added.
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The President and Kerry are also sending people to fight for the jihadis in Syria. Anyone going to send them to jail for it?
[Dawn] As many as 22 students of two seminaries believed to be linked with Taliban leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by Gilgit and Challas police and shifted to an unknown place on Sunday.
Report said the students, most of them Afghan nationals, were studying at Madressah Muzaharul Aloom and Noorul Aloom Sheranwala Bagh. The seminaries were being run by Mullah Omar's teacher former MNA Maulana Qazi Hameedullah.
Gilgit police came to know that two accused involved in Gilgit incident and killing of SP Hilal Khan were present at a seminary here. A police team from Gilgit and Challas came to Gujranwala and arrested 22 students, including two wanted accused, with the help of local police and shifted them to some unknown place for interrogation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... noted religious leader Maulana Zahidul Rashidi expressed his reservations over the arrest of the students and convened a meeting of religious leaders on Monday (today).
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At dear alma mater Muzaharul Aloom
And Noorul Aloom Sheranwalakaboom,
All the tutors and pupils consume beaucoup choom.
Yes, perfumed plumes of choom fumes loom,
Subsuming the classrooms into nebulous gloom
So thick you could move it around with a broom.
When students presume to leave the womb,
They groom, assume their best costume,
Zoom laughing to embrace their doom
A hundred bloody poppies bloom
A martyrs tomb in a simoom
[Dawn] A young man was rubbed out on the Superhighway in a suspected targeted attack within the remit of the Sachal cop shoppe.
They said the victim, 40-year-old Badaruddin Dhalwani, was attacked and killed near the Pakistain Hotel. At 40, you're no longer a youth. Maybe they should say he was stricken down in his prime.
Sohrab Goth DSP Mohammed Khalid said that every Sunday the victim used to come to an apartment building of the Ismaili community on the Superhighway where he had an office called 'Choice Property'. He was leaving his office in a car for his home in Garden East on Sunday evening when suspects, also travelling in a car, shot him.
As a result of the shooting, said DSP Khalid, the victim lost control of the car which fell down into a ditch, causing his death.
He said the victim belonged to the Ismaili community.
The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. According to medico-legal officer Dr Abdul Haq, the victim sustained a single bullet wound in the chest. He said that there were also marks of injuries on his head which could have been caused when the car fell into the ditch, as stated in the police report.
Rangers detain 14 suspects
The Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! 14 suspects on Sunday while conducting raids in different areas of the city, said a Rangers spokesperson.He said that the held suspects included 'hit mans and extortionists belonging to police groups 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.... gang-war'. They were detained after raids were conducted at 100 Quarters in Korangi, Mujtaba Town, Johar Mor, Surjani Town and Yousuf Goth.
Police detain 117 suspects
The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police in separate raids detained 117 suspects, including an alleged hit man. The rest of the suspects were detained on charges of being absconders, narcotics peddlers and robbers.
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Ismaelites are the Hassanins(assassins), the followers og Hassan Ibn Al Sabbah, the old man of the Alamut mountain who conducted a reign of terror in the whole medieval Middle East by murdering the Caliphs by suicidal killers...the precursors of Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brothers...The whole movement, the Nazirites originated in Al Ahzar University of Cairo...
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[Al Ahram] Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Monday as an army official escaped an liquidation attempt, the latest in a surge of unrest that has left more than 4,200 dead this year.
The attacks were the latest in months of unrelenting bloodshed, the country's worst since 2008.
Monday's blasts and shootings mostly struck areas north of the capital and came a day after nationwide attacks which killed 60 people.
In the deadliest new attack, a roadside kabooming targeting an army patrol in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul killed four soldiers, an army first lieutenant and a doctor said.
Also in djinn-infested Mosul, a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at an army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding 10 others, among them the provincial army intelligence chief Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, officials said.
Separate shootings in the city left two others dead.
In Muqdadiyah, a town north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , forces of Evil stormed a Shiite shrine and captured a family inside. They separated two of them, a father and a son, and killed them before bombing the shrine, security and medical sources said.
Both the victims were employees of the shrine.
And in the predominantly-Shiite southern port city of Basra, gunnies killed two Sunnis in separate attacks, security sources said, prompting a senior Sunni leader to suspend prayers until further notice.
"All prayers will be suspended to preserve the worshippers' lives until security has been provided for them," Abdulkarim al-Khazraji, head of the Basra offices of a foundation charged with running Sunni places of worship, told AFP.
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The Philippine military launched air strikes against Muslim insurgents as President Benigno Aquino sought to bring an end to a standoff that has killed 87 people and complicated efforts to bring peace to the south.
About an hour before helicopters fired three rockets on rebel positions in the city of Zamboanga, military spokesman Brigadier General Domingo Tutaan said, We are gaining ground as far as our calibrated response is concerned.
Seventy-one Moro National Liberation Front fighters have died in the fighting, and 64 have surrendered or been captured, according to military spokesman Major Angelo Guzman. More than 67,000 people have fled their homes with militants still holding 94 hostages, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on its website.
Nine policemen and soldiers and seven villagers have been killed in fighting that started Sept. 9 when troops blocked insurgents from hoisting their flag at Zamboangas city hall. Aquino warned last week he would use the full force of the state if needed to protect civilians. He remains in the city.
The militants torched hundreds of homes and a team of prosecutors is preparing charges against some of them, said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. Twenty houses were destroyed and five partially damaged, the disaster monitoring agency said.
* SAME > PHILIPPINES: APPROXIMATELY 60,000 FLEE ZAMBOANGA FIGHTING BETWEEN REBELS + ARMY.
E.g Libya + Egypt + now Syria, IMO again the greater threat to lasting Mindanao peace will stem from hardline, non-PHIL foreign Islamist-JIhadists Militant groups coming + setting up in Mindanao agz all comers, non-Muslims as well as Islamic "moderates/secularists", where the locals may find themselves seriously outgunned, out-funded, + outnumbered.
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In Nov 2001 Nur and his idiots had an uprising. The govt. Shut it down but Zamboanga got shot up pretty bad. Nur was released, I believe, and now they are back at it. They should have killed him when they had the chance. What I don't get is why the MNLF is using the MILF for the fighting. If they are back as one Zamboanga is in for some very bad times, the MILF is very capable of taking it to Southcom.
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two Filipino aviators = pair of pliars
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Only thing I can figure is MILF elements teamed up with the MNLF because the former are either unhappy with what they get out of the peace deal for various reasons or the Indo-Malay jihadis see a chance to throw a wrench in the works. And yes - a combined force would be problematic for SOUTHCOM.
As far as MNLF - my guess is that Nur ran through his money and is back for another settlement. A bandit lord needs money to keep his followers happy. There's is a possibility that he'd team up with the MILF, but that might be tantamount to suicide for Nur.
[An Nahar] Tensions were high in the Bekaa city of Zahle on Sunday after members of Hizbullah attempted to expand the party's telecommunications network in the area, reported various media outlets on Monday.
On Sunday, armed members of the party deployed along the highway extending between the city's industrial zone to the Mar Charbel church in an attempt to expand the network.
Residents of the city protested against its actions and temporarily blocked the road in the area.
The army soon intervened and set up checkpoints in the industrial zone and security forces deployed patrols in the city, which led to Hizbullah's withdrawal from the area.
Soon after however, some 15 party gunnies in a white van returned to the vicinity of the Mar Charbel church.
The locals were aware of the actions and promptly staged a sit-in in front of the church.
They were joined by the head of the Zahle parliamentary bloc MP Tony Abou Khater and politicians Joseph al-Maalouf and Elie Marouni.
The residents then blocked a lane of the highway leading to the industrial zone in the city.
Voice of Leb radio (100.5) reported on Monday that four Hizbullah members were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for their actions in Zahle.
Marouni later told al-Joumhouria daily Monday that the situation in the city could have escalated had the security forces not intervened.
He revealed that six Hizbullah members were arrested over the incident.
"Along with the residents, we will not lay this matter to rest because the statelet of Hizbullah will not be allowed to pass through Zahle," he remarked.
"The party will not be allowed to impose its ways and schemes on us," he declared.
Moreover, he revealed: "We will develop the manner in which we will confront any suspicious action the party takes in Zahle."
He credited the security forces for the decisive manner in which they contained the situation and prevented the party from carrying out its actions.
A security source later denied to al-Joumhouria that members of Hizbullah were arrested over the Zahle incident, explaining that a dispute broke out between them and security forces as the former were repairing a malfunction in the party's telecommunications network in the area.
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Now, that would be Christian Maronites trowing their lot with the Al Qaeda Obamunists versus Hizb terror?
This will not end well...
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[REUTERS] Turkey said its warplanes shot down a Syrian helicopter on Monday after it crossed into Turkish airspace and the government warned it had taken all necessary measures to defend itself against any further such violations.
Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets along the border between its southern Hatay province and Syria after warning the Mi-17 helicopter it was approaching Turkish airspace shortly before 14:30 (1130 GMT), the military said in a statement.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said a warplane shot down the helicopter after it ventured up to 2 km into Turkey near the border town of Yayladagi. "It was repeatedly warned by our air defense elements," he said.
It came down in a ball of flames inside Syrian territory after being hit, amateur video footage showed.
"Turkey will definitely not allow any violation of its borders ... We will defend our borders and our people's security to the end," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told news hounds in Gay Paree.
"No one will have the nerve to violate Turkey's borders in any way again," he said after a meeting to discuss Syria with U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , British Foreign Secretary William Hague and their French counterpart Laurent Fabius.
He said details of the incident would be provided to U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... and the U.N. Security Council and fellow members of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... military alliance.
It was reported that the pilots of the fighter managed to eject, but they were shot down by members of the Free Syrian Army.
It was reported that the fighter fell 400 meters from the Yayladag region of Hatay province.
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Last two paragraphs kinda confusing, likely it's me. The idea of ejecting out of a helicopter give me the willies, in the aqua velva, razor blade sense of willies.
[CNN] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... team investigating a chemical weapons attack last month in Syria has found that sarin was used.
"In particular, the environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected provide clear and convincing evidence that surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in Ein Tarma, Moadamiyah and Amalaka in the Ghouta area of Damascus," a 38-page report says.
Chemical weapons "were used on a relatively large scale," U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said in a briefing to the U.N. Security Council.
It's "the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them in Halabja in 1988," Ban said.
"This is a war crime and a grave violation of the1925 Protocol and other rules of customary international law. I trust all can join me in condemning this despicable crime. The international community has a responsibility to hold the perpetrators accountable and to ensure that chemical weapons never re-emerge as an instrument of warfare."
The U.N. team's mandate did not include assigning blame for the attack. Ban would not speculate on who may be responsible.
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[Al Ahram] Security forces have 
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[Dawn] A young man was 
[REUTERS] Turkey said its warplanes shot down a Syrian helicopter on Monday after it crossed into Turkish airspace and the government warned it had taken all necessary measures to defend itself against any further such violations.
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