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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Constance Bennett aka Marion Kerby in "Topper" aka Laura Murdock in "The Easiest Way" aka Mary Evans "What Price Hollywood?" Lorry Evans in "Bed of Roses" aka Duchess of Florence in "The Affairs of Cellini" aka Sharon Norwood in "After Office Hours" aka Geraldine "Jerry" Kilbourne in "Merrily We Live" aka Joan Bennett's big sister Note: In recognition of her military contributions, and as the wife of Theron John Coulter, who had achieved the rank of brigadier general, she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. (Died in 1965 at age 60)
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Kenyan military planners have targeted the capture of Kismayu and two nearby secondary ports to cut off billions of shillings earned by al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... to finance their insurgency.
The imminent capture of Kismayu and the secondary ports of Marka and Baraawe will suddenly cut off money earned by al-Shabaab from port fees, illegal smuggling of sugar and other commodities to Kenya and the export of charcoal, according to a recent UN report.
It is estimated that al-Shabaab earns up to Sh5 billion ($50 million) a year in port fees and Sh6 billion ($60 million) in business taxes.
al-Shabaab also levies fees from road checkpoints, human traffickers and gun runners, according to the report.
The Kenyan troops have already captured six towns during their six-day military onslaught against the thugs, including the pirates' haven of Ras Kamboni, Dhobley, Tabda, Beles Qooqani, Oddo and Kolbio. (READ: Kenyan forces capture Shabaab's Ras Kamboni)
Possible assault
Other soldiers are massing near the Kiunga border point in the south eastern part of Kenya for a possible assault from the South.
The strategy appears to involve a two-pronged assault on Kismayu using a combined force of the Kenya Navy and the Kenya Army.
While the ground troops close in on Kismayu from the south, the Navy will attack from the North, sealing any possible exit points for both the beturbanned goons and the pirates through the Indian Ocean. (SEE IN PICTURES: Kenya army at war in Somalia)
Somali refugees, pouring into Kenya at Liboi, said they were escaping bombing raids by Kenya Air Force jets and the ground assault.
Details of how al-Shabaab have converted Kismayu and smuggling routes into lucrative money collection centres is contained in the latest UN monitoring group report on Somalia.
The report, released at the end of July, says the group generates between $35 million and $50 million per year from port revenues, of which at least $15 million is based on trade in charcoal and sugar.
This is done through a co-ordinated trading cycle built upon the export of charcoal, which in turn finances the import of sugar, much of which is subsequently smuggled across as contraband into neighbouring countries, particularly Kenya, says the report.
Fraudulent invoicing
"Shipping companies deliver sugar to Kismayu and collect charcoal for the return journeys. Bank accounts in the Gulf States where the profits of this trade are deposited can be used to launder voluntary contributions to al-Shabaab through fraudulent invoicing, overvaluing of import proceeds and undervaluing of exports," reads the report.
This trade cycle is dominated by networks of prominent Somali businessmen operating mainly between Somalia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, notably Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The viability of the Kismayu trade corridor depends in large part upon its proximity to Kenya, the remote and porous 682 km border and the profitability of the contraband trade.
Furthermore, the Monitoring Group believes that well-organised criminal networks with links to al-Shabaab are taking advantage of the porosity of the border to smuggle people, commercial goods and weapons.
al-Shabaab not only attracts their business by imposing lower rates of taxation in Kismayu than at ports controlled by the Transitional Federal Government but also actively promotes large-scale imports of sugar and exports of charcoal by offering preferential access and tax breaks to al-Shabaab affiliated businesses.
"Consequently, many Somali traders avoid Mogadishu, preferring to discharge their cargoes at Kismayu or other ports where import taxes are lower.
"For example, Mogadishu port authorities charge an import duty in the amount of $1,300 on a mid-size vehicle," reads the report.
At Kismayu al-Shabaab charges only $200. Even if e transporter then wishes to deliver the vehicle to Mogadishu, it costs another $200, including driver fees, fuel and miscellaneous expenses, to drive the car from Kismayu to Mogadishu.
"The vast majority of imports via Kismayu are not intended to serve the local population, but are destined for other parts of southern Somalia that could be equally or better served by Mogadishu or be smuggled into neighbouring countries as contraband," reads the 417-page report.
Thus in April 2011, Kenyan sugar sold at between Sh4,800 and Sh4,900 per 50 kg sack (approximately $58-$60), while the same amount of sugar smuggled from Kismayu sold in Garissa at between Sh4,350 and Sh4,450 (approximately $53-$55), even after a mark-up of roughly 20 per cent.
According to a senior Kenyan customs official in North Eastern Province, about 10,000 bags of smuggled sugar may be entering Kenya from Somalia on a daily basis.
The report also quotes Kenyan authorities as having discovered light weapons and ammunition concealed in some sugar consignment.
"In addition to those taxes on businesses, al-Shabaab operates a comprehensive web of mobile military checkpoints where transportation operators and passengers are all obliged to pay taxes for free passage," reads the report.
"The Monitoring Group therefore considers many of the major traders and transporters who use Kismayu to be consciously and voluntarily engaging in commercial transactions that accrue significant financial benefit to al-Shabaab," the report says.
The report names two prominent figures in the network are businessmen with historical linkages to thug Islamist groups in Somalia: Abukar Omar Adaani, 42, and Ahmed Nur Jim'aale.
Ironically, the report points a finger at the Transitional Federal Government saying it is complicit in maintaining the Kismayu trade corridor that plays such a key role in financing the al-Shabaab war effort.
Interests in Kenya
"The Monitoring Group has confirmed that most commercial motor vessels transporting goods to the port of Mogadishu discharge only part of their cargoes in order to deliver the remainder to Kismayu and collect charcoal destined to GCC countries -- with the full knowledge of the Mogadishu port authority," read the strongly worded document.
It says the manager of Mogadishu Port, Sayid Ali, is a long-time employee of Abukar Omar Adaani and represented Adaani's business interests in Kenya until accepting his current assignment.
"Several of the individuals involved are well-established businessmen and real estate investors in Kenya. An opportunistic and mutually beneficial kind of "pax commerciale" has been established between those criminal networks and al-Shabaab."
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al-Shabaab not only attracts their business by imposing lower rates of taxation in Kismayu than at ports controlled by the Transitional Federal Government but also actively promotes large-scale imports of sugar and exports of charcoal by offering preferential access and tax breaks to al-Shabaab affiliated businesses
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] African Union troops have lost 16 soldiers this week as they battle the last remnants of al Shabaab still holed up in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Six soldiers died in last Sunday's attack and 10 more on Thursday.
The Africa mission spokesperson Col Paddy Ankunda said on Friday that the mission lost 10 soldiers in Thursday's fight and two of the peacekeepers belonging to the Burundian contingency are still missing.
He, however disputed the claim by al Shabaab that it killed 70 troops on Thursday.
Soldiers photos
The militant group had posted photos of the 20 bodies it claimed were AU forces on the website of a Mogadishu radio station.
The bodies were put on display in the al-Shabaab-controlled El-Maan area, 18km from Mogadishu, but the AU has dismissed the display as propaganda.
The fighting was centered in the northwest Deynile suburb, one of the final pockets still held by the al-Qaeda linked militants in war-torn Mogadishu.
African Union troops and government forces have been pushing into remaining al-Shabaab areas in Mogadishu, after the bulk of the fighters abandoned their fixed positions in August.
Uganda's army spokesperson, Col Felix Kulayigye said bodies of the six Ugandan soldiers killed in the Sunday fight have been brought back to Uganda and handed over to their families. The AU has 9,000 soldiers in Somalia.
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GADDAFI'S daughter screamed "rats" at rebels who answered her dead father's mobile, it emerged last night. Aisha Gaddafi, 34, desperately rang her father's number after hearing reports he had been captured. "Captured? I don't believe it! Gimme dat phone!"
But she was left shocked after rebels answered the dictator's mobile phone as he lay bleeding in the hot sunshine of his home town Sirte. [RING! RING!]
"Hello? Hello?"
"Pop? Is that you?"
"Sorry. Pop [BANG!] can't come to the phone right now... [BANG!]... Can't come to the phone ever, in fact."
TV reports in Dubai and Jordan claimed Aisha, who is in hiding in Algeria, repeatedly screamed at those on the end of the line. So Gaddafi used an ordinary cellphone to communicate with his family in Algeria. Pretty careless.
Dubbed the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa, ... only homely...
lawyer Aisha -- who has Âreportedly given birth to a daughter in Algeria -- tended to stay out of politics but did appear at pro-Gaddafi rallies in Libya after the Âuprising began. She was also a UN Goodwill Ambassador ...because she oozes goodwill like a marathon runner oozes sweat... ...compared to Saif that's pro'ly true...
and part of Saddam's defense team in 2004.
In a newspaper interview last year, she said: "I would say that now the future of Libya is very promising, bright and optimistic." ...which was correct, just not the way she thought...
Libya's National Transitional Council wants her extradited but Algeria has yet to recognise the new government.
MISRATA, Libya: Muammar Qaddafi's blood-streaked body was on display in a commercial freezer
Sensible, these Libyans, the desert is hot even in October...
at a shopping center Friday as Libyan authorities argued about what to do with his remains and questions deepened over official accounts of the longtime dictator's death. New video emerged of his violent, chaotic last moments, showing fighters beating him as they drag him away.
For the first time in a while, a thug gets the same treatment he meted out to his people...
Was Ceaucescu the last one? His countrymen were a tad annoyed with him at the end, as I recall...
In Misrata, residents crowded into long lines to get a chance to view the body of Qaddafi, which was laid out on a mattress on the floor of an emptied-out vegetable and onions freezer at a local shopping center. The body had apparently been stowed in the freezer in an attempt to keep it fresh out of the public eye, but once the location was known, that intention was swept away in the overwhelming desire of residents to see the man they so deeply despised. "Tickets! Getcher tickets! See the dead oppressor of da masses! Only five dinars!"
Men, women and children filed in to take their picture with the body. "Smile, little Mahmoud!"
"Mom! He smells funny!"
The site's guards had even organized separate visiting hours for families and single men. "You there! Get back in line!"
"Hah! The dictator's dead! Youse can't oppress me!"
[THUMP!]
"No, but that guy can!"
"Daddy! Oh, I'm so embarrassed!"
"We want to see the dog," some chanted. "Who do we wanna see?
"We wanna see the Dead Schnauzer of North Africa!
"When do we wanna see him?
"We wanna see him now!
"Why do we wanna see him now?
"Because he'll be rotten by tomorrow!"
"Ahmed!"
"Yes, Effendi?"
"More ice for the dictator's bier!"
Qaddafi's 69-year-old body was stripped to the waist, his torso and arms streaked with dried blood. Bullet wounds in the chest, abdomen and left side of the head were visible.
Most definitely dead...
When the light shines right through like that they're dead."
The bloody siege of Misrata over the summer instilled a particularly virulent hatred of Qaddafi there -- a hatred now mixed with pride because he was captured and killed by fighters from the city. "We dunnit!
"We dunnit!
"We really, really dunnit!
"Yay! Boo! Who's Number One?
"Mi-i-i-i-israta!""
New video posted on Facebook showed revolutionary fighters dragging a confused-looking Qaddafi up the hill to their vehicles after his capture and less than an hour before he was killed. The young men scream "Moammar, you dog!" as their former leader wipes at blood covering the left side of his head, neck and left shoulder.
Qaddafi gestures to the young men to be patient, and says "What's going on?" as he wipes fresh blood from his temple and glances at his palm. A young fighter later is shown carrying a boot and screaming, "This is Moammar's shoe! This is Moammar's shoe! Victory! Victory!"
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His name was Ozymandias, Duck of Death, King of Kings...:
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Are they selling him by the pound or by the ounce?
I'll take two pounds of hair and three inches of one leg.
You should rush right home and freeze that, he's been dead three days and he won't keep.
Poor Muammar's dead, he's looking oh so peaceful and serene, He looks like he's asleep, It's a shame that he won't keep, but it's summer and they're almost out of ice....Poooor Muammar
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Oh...yeah. He's over there between the bacon and the Schweddy Balls. Ya can't miss him...
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That sounds like that scene in Unforgiven when they displayed Morgan Freeman's character's dead body outside of a saloon. Is Clint Eastwood about to blast his way through Misrata?
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[An Nahar] A video that went viral on Friday on social networking websites showed a bloodied Moammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... begging the new regime fighters for mercy after his capture.
Qadaffy was later declared dead by the National Transitional Council, Libya's new rulers.
Another video on Thursday showed the former dictator, his face half-covered in blood, being dragged towards a vehicle by a crowd, delirious with excitement.
Those at the front, pushed and shook him, pulled him by the hair, hit him until he disappeared from the screens amid a crackle of gunfire.
Disquiet grew on Friday over how Qadaffy met his end after being taken alive.
In Geneva, the U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. chief called for an investigation into the way the ousted Libyan leader was killed, saying that "the two videos ... taken together are very disturbing."
"On the issue of Qadaffy's death yesterday, the circumstances are still unclear," Navi Pillay's front man Rupert Colville said.
"There are four or five different versions of how he died.
"There should be some kind of investigation given what we saw yesterday."
A senior National Transitional Council official said: "No instructions were given to kill Qadaffy, and we do not believe our revolutionaries intentionally killed him."
But he acknowledged: "There have been rumors flying around since the killing of Qadaffy, after images were released, claiming that our revolutionaries slaughtered him."
He added: "I deny that we gave orders to kill Qadaffy."
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I am sure that Qadaffy's end came about with the same respect for life and respect for rights that Qadaffy showed to the Lybya's people and the victims of the Lockerbie bombing.
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Hmmmm...Which is more fitting? Begging for mercy and being shot in the gut, going straight to Saddam?
Or being roughed-up a bit, then locked away in your own prison until Saddam comes a-calling?
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Duck of death meets death of duck.
What happened to him was expected and excusable. He deserved that specific ending.
OTOH, Hillary's flippant comment was totally lacking the gravitas expected from the US Sec State. The general rule is when lefties get violent (which doesn't take much), they have few inhibitions and tend to get giddy.
[Tripoli Post] Reports from Misrata, Libya say that a few hours after the death of the former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy, ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... his second son Seif al-Islam has also been killed.
Seif is reported to have been surrounded by the rebels during the early hours of Thursday afternoon near the city of Sirte.
The reports indicate that Seif was maimed in the leg and was later taken to a hospital in Misrata. He is reported to have died soon after..
If the death of Seif is confirmed, together with the death of the other son, Muatassim earlier on, the most military active elements of the Al Qadaffy family and regime have been eliminated. Unfortunately you'll have to round up the grandkids as well...
This will bring more confidence to the Libyan people and brushes away the fear of a return of the Al Qadaffy's.
Another son of the former leader, Saadi is in Niger, where he has now reportedly been joined by Al Qadaffy's intelligence chief Abdulla Al-Senussi, who is wantd by the ICC for crimes against humanity. The other sons, Mihammed and Hannibal are in Algeria together with Al Qadaffy's second wife Safiya and his daughter Ayesha.
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[An Nahar] Amnesia Amnesty International on Friday urged the new Libyan authorities to carry out a "full, independent and impartial investigation" into how Moammar Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly come to them... died.
The group said that if he was deliberately killed in captivity it would constitute a war crime.
Video of Qadaffy's capture appears to show he was alive when he was captured by troops from the National Transitional Council (NTC) in his home town of Sirte on Thursday.
"If Colonel Qadaffy was killed after his capture, it would constitute a war crime and those responsible should be brought to justice," said Claudio Cordone, senior director at Amnesia Amnesty International.
"Investigating whether or not his death was a war crime might be unpopular. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the NTC must apply the same standards to all, affording justice even to those who categorically denied it to others."
Amnesty said that if Qadaffy had been brought to trial, it "would have finally given his numerous victims answers as to why they were targeted and an opportunity for justice and reparations."
The group said that if the NTC was unable to guarantee an independent and impartial investigation, the investigation should be conducted by bodies such as the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) or U.N. rights mechanisms.
Amnesty has repeatedly called on all sides in Libya's conflict to respect international humanitarian law and has implored the NTC to protect captured pro-Qadaffy forces from Dire Revenge™ attacks.
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"We'll take it under advisement. Hold your collective breath in the meantime."
Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jabril on the coroner's report
Jibril, speaking by telephone from Libya, also read from what he said is the coroner's report on Gadhafi's death.
"The [fatal] shot was in his head," Jibril read. Reeeeeaaalllyy? The head shot was fatal? Thanks Dr. Quincy!
"He was shot also in his right arm. ... When he came out [from hiding] he was safe. [But] the intensity of the fire" led to Gadhafi's death. As Coroner, I thoroughly examined him
And he's not only merely dead,
He's really most sincerely dead!
According to PM Jibril, Gadhafi "did not show any resistance" at first. But as "freedom fighters" were taking him into custody, "he came under crossfire from both sides." Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP Marxist-Leninist) Lal Pataka faction fugitive Moammar "The Rat" Khadaffy was killed in a crossfire between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) National Transition Council (NTC) and his cohorts at Ramarama Thandarpara area in Bagmara upazila of Sirte early Thursday.
As the NTC fighters challenged his group at a mango orchard at Sirte, they shot fire on the NTC personnel triggering the gunfight.
Gadhafi was not executed by the fighters who captured him, Jibril told Robert. After the gunfight the cohorts of Khadaffy managed to flee away, while the RAB NTC members assisted by locals discovered Khadaffy lying on the ground with fatal wounds. As he was rushed to local hospital, the doctors declared him dead.
Some of what Jibril said does not quite line up with the report from freelance journalist Marine Olivesi, who has seen Gadhafi's body and told NPR earlier that it appeared he had been shot several times in the chest. RAB NTC members recovered a 7.65mm pistol, a shutter gun, four rounds of bullet, the keys to a 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, and some PBCP leaflets from the spot. Bravo! Bravo! Author! Author!
[An Nahar] The U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution calling on Yemen's President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... to immediately sign a deal under which he would quit.
The resolution, unanimously agreed by the 15 members, "strongly condemns" deadly government attacks on demonstrators and backs a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) peace plan under which Saleh would end his 33 years in power.
Several hundred people have been killed since protests against Saleh erupted in January.
The Security Council's strongest pronouncement yet on the Yemen crisis called on Saleh to keep a promise to immediately sign the GCC plan and for a peaceful power transition "without further delay".
Saleh has said he agrees to the plan by the six Gulf states but has refused to sign it or implement any of its provisions.
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman, who was outside the Security Council for the vote, called for greater international pressure on Saleh, saying the resolution should have been tougher.
"This is not sufficient. They have to discuss the ousting of Saleh and how he has to be handed over to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... ," Karman said.
"We feel that the resolution did not address the issue of accountability and amnesty," she added, again rejecting any suggestion of an amnesty for Saleh.
"We reject any killing. We just want a fair trial for him. The revolution people will take Saleh in a peaceful manner. Saleh and his children will receive a fair trial," Karman told news hounds.
The Security Council went from the vote to consultations on events in Libya, including the killing of ousted strongman Moammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years... Diplomats said the death of Qadaffy and uprisings in other Arab nations could put more pressure on the Yemeni leader. But there was no threat of sanctions in the resolution drawn up by Britannia.
Russia and China this month vetoed a proposed resolution which spoke of possible measures against Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... and have strongly condemned the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strikes in Libya.
But the Yemen resolution orders a report on events in the country within 30 days, and Britannia's U.N. ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said the council could come back to the Yemen crisis.
Lyall Grant said the resolution includes some "tough messages" for Saleh.
The unanimous vote "reflects the very deep international concern about the deteriorating political, humanitarian, security and economic situation in Yemen," he said.
The resolution "strongly condemns the continued human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations by the Yemeni authorities, such as the excessive use of force against peaceful protestors."
It demands that "all sides" reject the use of violence for political goals and says that all those responsible for violence, human rights violations and abuses "should be held accountable."
The council has so far agreed only two statements, which have lesser diplomatic weight than a resolution, on Yemen.
Saleh's refusal to hand over power since his return from medical treatment in Soddy Arabia and growing fears about the rising influence of al-Qaeda have heightened international concern about the country.
After 33 years in power, Saleh is refusing to step down unless his arch rivals, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and tribal leader Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, who are currently battling his troops in Sanaa, also step aside.
The capital is now divided between the three while al-Qaeda controls many provinces.
Rapid Action Battalion(Rab) at Laksmichhari of Khagrachhari district early yesterday.
Let's hope the reporter didn't misspell any of that, or we'll never find it in the map...
It's about 30 kilomters north of Chittagong. Just take Bangladesh Route 160 until it cutoffs to Route 162. Can't miss it.
Oh c'mon, there can't possibly be 162 routes in all of B'desh...
The dear departed was identified as Sumati Ranjan Chakma, 24,
One of the 1% -- you can tell because he had three names.
of Kayang Ghat in Mohalchhari upazila.
Finally the upazila, without which no encounter is complete!
Acting on a tip-off,
*Ring, ring*.
"Mahmoudullah Siddique the Weasel here. Listen carefully, I will say this only once."
a team of Rab raided a house at Jurgachhari village where Sumati along with his 10 to 12 accomplices gathered to plan some criminal activities, Rab sources said.
But was it a suitably proletarian hovel or a mansion built with ill-gotten gains? Inquiring minds want to know!
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, the criminals opened fire on the elite force, prompting them to fire back that triggered a shootout, said Lt Col Zulfikar, commanding officer of Rab-7.
After an hour-long shootout, the bullet-hit body of Sumati was found lying on the ground while all of his accomplices except Laksmi Ranjan Chakma, 18, managed to flee the spot, he said.
Where's Laksmi?
I thought he was with you!
Crap! He went to the meeting.
That dumbass!
Laksmi was taken into Rab custody. He will be handed over to police after filing of a case, Lt Col Zulfikar added.
After which he'll have a 3 am 'encounter' in a banana grove somewhere off route, um, 1...
At least 35 rounds of bullet were traded during the shootout.
Rab members recovered three rifles, one AK 47, two pistols, 42 bullets, some sharp knives from the house.
All to be cleaned to a polish by the new recruit, and returned to their velvet lined boxes in the evidence vault, ready for their next encounter.
Kamrul Hassan, officer-in-charge of Laksmichhari Police Station, confirmed the incident saying that police recovered the dead body and sent it to Khagrachhari Adhunik Sadar Hospital morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.
"He's dead, Jim."
"But you haven't even looked at the body, Dr. Quincy!"
"When the Rab send them, they're always dead, Jim. Put him in the refrigerator, we've got dengue fever and polio victims piling up in the front room."
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Dunno if the writer realizes that with 16 shooters firing at one another, each shooter would have to fire at least one round every 30 minutes to last the whole hour.
[Dawn] The Pakistain Army has established checkposts along Pak-Afghan border in Dir to prevent intrusion by the Orcs and similar vermin into the country and it has completed the search operation in Barawal tehsil and adjacent areas, Operation Commander Dir Brigadier Saqib Rashid said on Friday.
Talking to APP, Brig Saqib Rashid said 172 people, including security personnel, had died and 478 maimed during incidents of insurgency while 70 bad boyz were potted and hundreds of suspected persons were locked away during the operation. Heavy weapons were also seized by the forces he said and added that Barawal Tehsil had been cleared of jihad boys.
Terrorists, he said, had damaged about 200 schools and set many mosques ablaze in the area.
He regretted that the forces of Evil had even burnt 840 copies of the Holy Koran. Oh, noze! Not 840 copies of the Holy Koran!
But burning the Koran is one of the accepted ways of disposing of old copies, along with burial and, if I recall correctly, throwing in a river. Given the paucity of Pakistani funding for education, the odds are high all the textbooks were distinctly on the geriatric side.
Brig Saqib highly commended the role of local people and peace committees (Lashkars) for extending complete support to the forces during their operations. Peace committees had been formed in all areas of Barawal that will keep vigil eye on any suspicious activity, he added.
He said that 10 units of Pakistain Army were deployed in Barawal Tehsil while security arrangements along the border with Afghanistan had been further strengthened.
He said that the army had started rehabilitation activities in the area. Work on seven schools and many mosques was near completion. Likewise, Pakistain Army was also busy in rehabilitation of roads, infrastructure and other recreational places.
Brig Saqib further said the provincial government had been consulted on the rehabilitation and development work, which would soon start its part of development work.
He said the elders of local Lashkars had pledged to purge the anti-state elements out of their areas and were standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Pakistain Army.
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[Dawn] Police seized a big cache of arms and ammunition which was being smuggled in a truck to down country from Darra Adamkhel and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock two smugglers here on Thursday.
According to Riaz Shaheed cop shoppe officials, the smugglers disclosed during interrogation that they had been carrying weapons to Bloody Karachi via Lakki Marwat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... for several years.
They said that the truck (GLT-3053) had crossed into Kohat district from the famous gun-manufacturing tribal area of Darra Adamkhel when on a search at the toll plaza on Indus Highway the police found heavy quantity of automatic arms and spare parts, which were hidden it its secret spaces.
The seizure included 11 Kalashnikovs, 52 pistols, 5,207 cartridges, 74 chargers and dozens of rifles, butts and other spare parts used in the reassembling of different new and repair of old guns.
The police said that two smugglers identified as Mohammad Raza and Allah Bux, belonging to Lakki Marwat district, had been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock. They said that the weapons were recovered from the truck following a tip-off. The police have started further investigation after registering a case against the two alleged smugglers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the cantonment police set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock an auto thief in a raid here at Dhoda town and recovered a cycle of violence from him on Thursday.
The police was informed that a cycle of violence (KT-3962) had been lifted from the Railways colony. The police team later set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock the alleged thief, identified as Shakir, in Dhoda village and recovered the cycle of violence. According to police, Shakir had also changed the number of the cycle of violence.
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[Dawn] Militants on Thursday killed Captain Abdul Qadir Khan and two military personnel in an attack on a Frontier Crops convoy in the Shalobar area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.
Captain Abdul Qadir Khan, who was the younger brother of Dawn's Mardan correspondent Jamal Hoti, left behind a widow and a son.
According to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations, snuffies ambushed a convoy of FC personnel during a search operation at Shalaobar area of Bara.
Captain Khan fought bravely along with his soldiers and repulsed the attack and caused heavy losses to the snuffies but was killed along with two other personnel.
The statement said the captain was born on April 14, 1982. He got commission in the army in 2003 and served in various stations.
After being posted to Frontier Corps in 2010, he took active part in various operations against orcs. An extremely daring and selfless officer, he would always be seen at the forefront of action, the statement said.
The snuffies had also attacked a convoy of security forces in Akkakhel area of Khyber tribal region on Monday last. Nine soldiers had been killed in the attack, after which security forces intensified action against orcs. Several hideouts of snuffies had been destroyed by security forces in the area in retaliatory action.
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The Philippine military has begun a full offensive against Muslim rebels early Saturday, forcing thousands of people to flee.
Von Al Haq, spokesman for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said their forces under the 113th Base Command BIAF-MILF were having early morning prayers at their camp when mortar shells rained on their position. A heavy exchange of gun fire between the two forces was reported following the government's artillery strikes.
Al Haq warned that the green light given by President Benigno Aquino to his military commanders to carry out a full offensive against them might lead to all-out war.
On Friday afternoon, he said fighter planes dropped bombs on their position on the outskirts of Labatan around 3 p.m.. The air offensive lasted for an hour, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. Al Haq said, "The military's artillery attacks are going on. This is not good ingredients for the peace talks. We are worried that it may end up in full blown war."
Citing standing orders to their men on the ground to remain in a defensive posture, the rebel official said they could not stop their fighters on Mindanao from staging sympathy attacks against government troops. He said, "We have no redeployment of troops to Zamboanga Sibugay but if the situation there gets worse, it's another story."
President Aquino, while ruling out pursuit operations in the province of Basilan where 19 soldiers have been killed by MILF rebels, gave the nod to offensive operations in Zamboanga Sibugay. Aquino said the military is pursuing lawless elements and that the provincial government has passed a resolution asking the military to pursue "wanted criminals."
Over 3,000 families from the towns of Payao and Alicia have been evacuated to safer ground after the government began air strikes on Friday afternoon.
On Thursday night, seven government troops, were killed and eight others injured in simultaneous attacks staged by the rebels. The rebels acknowleged the attacks but justified it as retaliation.
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"Might lead to all-out war" - IOW, the Jihad that Malay-Indonesian Radical Islamists were planning to wage any times now in the Philippines anyway, + SE Asia after.
A rubber-wood trader was killed in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province on Thursday morning. Daruslan Baka, 27, was driving his pickup truck on a rural road when a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle shot at him with an 11 mm pistol. The attackers then fled. Daruslan was hit four times in the back and died on the spot.
Pol Lt Ukrish Sangkamanee, duty officer at the Rueso police station, blamed separatist terrorists militants.
[Emirates 24/7] Inspired by the scenes of euphoria in Libya, Syrian protesters poured into the streets Friday and shouted that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime will be the next to unravel now that ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... is dead.
The Syrian uprising has proved remarkably resilient over the past seven months, but it has shown some signs of stalling in recent weeks as the government continues a bloody crackdown that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 3,000 people.
Syrian security forces fired on protesters Friday, killing at least four, activists said.
Although the mass demonstrations in Syria have shaken one of the most authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, the opposition has made no major gains in recent months, it holds no territory and has no clear leadership.
Now the armed uprising in Libya that drove Qadaffy from power -- albeit with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... air support -- appears to have breathed new life into the Syrian revolt.
"Qadaffy is gone, your turn is coming, Bashar," protesters shouted on Friday in the central city of Hama, long a hotbed of resistance to the regime.
Qadaffy's death Thursday, after he was dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, begging for his life, decisively ends the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into an international pariah and his own personal fiefdom.
"Our souls, our blood we sacrifice for you, Libya!" Syrian protesters chanted Friday.
In many ways, the Syrian uprising has taken cues from the Libyans recently.
Syria's opposition formed a national council like the Libyans' National Transitional Council, hoping they could form a united front against Assad that Syrians and the international community could rally behind.
And with the successes of armed Libyan revolutionaries present in their minds, many Syrian protesters say they are starting to see the limits of a peaceful movement, particularly when compared to the armed uprising in Libya.
Some Syrians are now calling on protesters to take up arms and inviting foreign military action, hoisting signs that say "Where is NATO?" and urging the world to come to Syria's aid.
For the most part, Syrian opposition leaders have opposed foreign intervention.
There is no central call to arms by the opposition, in part because there is no clear leadership in the movement.
The Syrian opposition is disparate and fragmented, with various parties vying for power as they seek an end to more than 40 years of iron rule by Assad and his late father, Hafez.
There have been some festivities in border regions between Syrian forces and apparent defectors from the military, but they have not been widespread.
Still, the growing signs of armed resistance may accelerate the cycle of violence gripping the country by giving the government a pretext to use even greater firepower against its opponents. Authorities have already used tanks, snipers and gangster-like gunnies known as "shabiha" who operate as hired guns for the regime.
The regime has sealed off the country and prevented independent media coverage, making it difficult to verify events on the ground.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed 18 civilians on Friday, 15 of them in the flashpoint central city of Homs, where the death of Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring...... galvanized mass protests, rights activists said.
"Fifteen people were killed in Homs," which has been at the heart of military operations this week, Rami Abdul Rahman of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Mass demonstrations, called in celebration of the dramatic end of Libya's Qadaffy and in the hope that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... will be the next to fall, spread across the central city, the Observatory said.
The toll in Homs included two killed by security forces manning a checkpoint at Bab al-Sibaa, the focal point of raids ahead of midday Friday prayers, and 13 others killed in "different neighborhoods."
"Security forces opened heavy machinegun fire against a demonstration in the (Homs) neighborhoods of Jeb al-Jandaly and Bab Amr," wounding 19 and killing one person there, the Observatory added.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network spurring protests on the ground, said security forces imposed a curfew and closed all the mosques of Qusayr, a restive town in Homs province near the border with Leb.
The main weekly Mohammedan prayers have become a springboard for anti-regime rallies, with thousands pouring out of mosques each week to join in, despite the strong likelihood of brutal action by the security forces.
One civilian died when security forces opened fire on a funeral procession in the southern Daraa region, cradle of the protest movement against Assad's regime, Abdul Rahman said.
In the central province of Hama, a historic hotbed of dissent, two non-combatants were killed by sniper fire, the Observatory said.
Syrian troops were deployed in the outskirts of 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... raising new checkpoints and positioning snipers on the rooftops of Saqba, a protest hub near the capital, the LCC said.
Assad has been faced with a people's revolt since March 15, which has been harshly repressed, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people, mostly civilians, according to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Pro-democracy activists on Friday hailed the "great victory" of the Libyan revolution after Qadaffy was captured and killed in his hometown and final bastion Sirte, and warned Assad's turn would come next.
"The great victory of the third Arab revolution sends a clear message to the region's tyrants: military and security options fail when confronted with the will of people calling for liberty, justice and equality," the LCC said.
"Your turn has come Doctor (Assad)," protesters wrote on their Facebook page, Syrian Revolution 2011.
"Give whatever delay you want, our revolution will vanquish, we will continue to call with all our voice to bring down the regime and to tell the world that the Syrian people will not surrender," it added.
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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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GADDAFI'S daughter screamed "rats" at rebels who answered her dead father's mobile, it emerged last night. Aisha Gaddafi, 34, desperately rang her father's number after hearing reports he had been captured.
International Criminal Court
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Rapid Action Battalion(Rab) at Laksmichhari of Khagrachhari district early yesterday.
[Dawn] The Pakistain Army has established checkposts along Pak-Afghan border in Dir to prevent intrusion by the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
