[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic faceless myrmidons have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for foreign troops, police and one of the victims said Saturday.
The Taliban confirmed they had cut off the right hand and left foot of each man but said the men were punished because they were highway robbers.
One of the victims, his right arm and left leg swathed in bloodstained bandages, was interviewed by Tolo TV from his hospital bed in the western city of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... The man aged 25, whose name was not given, said he and his lover companion had been kidnapped a few days ago by the krazed killers.
"They asked us to plant explosives in the company and said they would pay us for that, but we said no," the man told an interviewer in a shaky voice.
"Then they took us to their court and their judges ruled that a hand and a foot be cut off. We protested and said we only work to make money."
A Herat police front man said family members and residents had reported that the men were targeted because they worked for a private security company guarding supply convoys for foreign forces.
The incident happened in the Rabat-e Sangi district and the men were brought to Herat city for treatment, police front man Noor Khan Nikzad told Agence La Belle France Presse by phone.
The Taliban, in a statement on their website, said the men had confessed to "the District court of the Islamic Emirate" that they had robbed travelers on roads in the area.
At midday Thursday, it said, "in the presence of many locals, the penalty ordained by Allah and Sharia (Islamic law) was applied to the highway robbers, a decision welcomed by all Moslems of the area".
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[Jpost] Egypt's state security prosecution on Saturday ordered the detention of 7 people for 15 days on charges of belonging to the "Black Bloc," a black-clad youth group opposed to Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
Hundreds of apparent supporters of the Black Bloc Egypt emerged in January in the forefront of anti-government protests in Cairo, Alexandria and the Suez Canal cities.
Little is known about the group whose first post on its Facebook page was dated Jan. 21 this year, but it has swiftly garnered over 20,000 online followers. Its slogan is "chaos against injustice" and it says it has one enemy only - the Moslem Brüderbund group from which Morsi hails.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services dismantled an arms trafficking network in Annaba, APS reported on Thursday (April 18th). Three Algerian and two Tunisian suspects were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and scores of weapons seized during the operation in Souk Ahras.
According to Echorouk, a tip from a repentant terrorist led to the raid.
"Abou Abdellah", who surrendered to ANP troops a fortnight ago, claimed that the arms smuggled from Libya were destined for an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) support group operating near the Tunisian border.
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[An Nahar] Egyptian police made 39 arrests after festivities between Islamists and opponents that saw both sides use firearms in central Cairo, leaving more than 100 people injured, officials said on Saturday.
A judicial source said prosecutors have begun questioning the suspects, as the health ministry said Friday's violence had injured 105 people.
The festivities began after opposition activists marched on Islamists holding a rally outside the Supreme Court to demand the ouster of judges they believe are opposed to Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The violence, in which opposition activists fired birdshot rounds on Islamists and then at riot police, centered around the iconic Tahrir Square, epicenter of mass protests in early 2011 that toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... Footage posted on YouTube showed two men among the Islamist protesters also firing what appeared to be homemade guns.
Morsi's presidency has been plagued by deadly festivities between protesters and police, a revolt in Suez Canal cities, sectarian violence and a devastating economic crisis, which many fear is bringing Egypt to the brink of chaos.
The Islamists rallying on Friday were demanding an overhaul of the judiciary, which they believe is hostile to Morsi, who took office last June.
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[An Nahar] Suspected al-Qaeda beturbanned goons rubbed out a Yemeni intelligence officer overnight in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt province, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse on Saturday.
"al-Qaeda gunnies on a cycle of violence opened fire on the officer Ibrahim Bameshel as we was on his way back home, killing him immediately," the official said, adding that the assailants had fled.
al-Qaeda beturbanned goons were driven out of most of their strongholds in Yemen's south last June in an all-out offensive by government forces aided by local "resistance committees".
But local sources say jihadists from the al-Qaeda linked Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... group have started distributing posters and leaflets in several towns across the province threatening members of the security forces and urging jihad (holy war).
Some of their posters showed pictures of masked gunnies on motorbikes.
Police and army officers come under frequent attack, with authorities blaming al-Qaeda for the assaults usually carried out by gunnies on unregistered motorbikes.
In a bid to clamp down on the increasing number of such attacks, authorities earlier this year launched a campaign ordering unlicensed bikes off the streets.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 17 Hefajat-e Islam activists from Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Saturday while they were gathering to commence their journey to join a scheduled rally of the organization in Khulna. The arrest was made on charge of their alleged involved with the incident of assault on police in March, reported our Satkhira correspondent quoting Sanjay Kundu, a sub-inspector of Shyamnagar Police Station.
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The alleged Boston Marathon bomber may have tried to kill himself rather than surrender after he was cornered by police - but failed in his suicide attempt, it has been revealed.
A new report says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shoved his pistol in his own mouth and pulled the trigger as SWAT officers and federal agents closed in on the boat where he was hiding in Friday night. However, instead of killing him, the bullet simply passed through his neck. Dumbass. Next time point it up.
Authorities have said they cannot question him because of a throat wound. He remains in 'very serious' condition at a Boston hospital.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino revealed on Sunday that federal agents may never be able to interview Tsarnaev. Menino didn't elaborate on his comment and it is unknown whether the gunshot also caused brain damage.
The new twist in the story of Tsarnaev's dramatic capture comes as the Boston police commissioner warns that he and his brother Tamerlan were plotting more bomb attacks on the city and they were caught just in time. Authorities insisted that the pair were working alone.
Ed Davis said the bombers were flushed out of hiding when the FBI released close-up surveillance video of their faces and asked for the public's help in tracking them down.
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Boston police commissioner warns that he and his brother Tamerlan were plotting more bomb attacks on the city and they were caught just in time. Authorities insisted that the pair were working alone.
Bombs were said to be found in their apartment, but not according to this article: Photos From The Suspects' Apartment
There is no trace of any bomb making equipment or ingredients, not a trace. So where did they make the bombs?
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So where did they make the bombs? Storage units can be rented for a few bucks a month, and they are all over country. Amateur bomb factories and meth labs have this in common.
[SUNTIMES] An 18-year-old from Aurora who was incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! at O'Hare Airport planned to travel to war-torn Syria and hoped to join a "jihadist bad boy" group tied to al-Qaeda, federal authorities said Saturday.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, who was linked to a man charged with trying to bomb a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... bar last year, was arrested before boarding the plane.
Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody without incident late Friday by the Chicago FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. He had gone through airport security, headed for a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, according to the FBI, which said Tounisi hoped to join Jabhat al-Nusrah, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group fighting Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime in a civil war.
Tounisi was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
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An uptick in FBI interest in jihadists, followed by incarcerations? How interesting.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist "sleeper cell" linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.
Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.
More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar's dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.
A source close to the investigation said: "We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.
"They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come."
A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators was yesterday flown to a Boston hospital to grill maimed Dzhokhar, 19, about the secret group. The University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a shootout with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead.
Dzhokhar is said to have run his brother over as he escaped in a stolen car while Tamerlan lay handcuffed on the ground. They were carrying six bombs with them at the time, three of which went kaboom!, as well as a handgun and rifle. The devices were thought to be pipe bombs.
Last night Dzhokhar -- badly maimed but alive -- lay handcuffed to his hospital bed under armed guard. The other three arrested in the port of New Bedford are also believed to be of college age.
Dzhokhar even went to a college party two days after the bombs wreaked havoc at the finish line. According to fellow students, he "looked relaxed" as he joined in a party at the campus on Wednesday night.
Hours later he was involved in the shootout which saw his brother killed.
Investigators have begun piecing together how the "well-mannered" brothers of Chechen origin were radicalised. Neighbours of the family said older brother Tamerlan had recently become obsessed with Islam. He mysteriously left the US in January last year to spend six months in Russia. Yesterday senior FBI counter-terrorism official Kevin Brock said: "It's a key thread for Sherlocks."
It also emerged the Bureau interviewed Tamerlan two years ago, at the request of the Russian government, but could not establish that he had ties to terrorist radicals.
This was despite his worrying Russian-language YouTube page featuring links to beturbanned goon Islamic sites and others since taken down by YouTube.
One link showed an hour-long speech by an Islamic teacher called Shaykh Feiz Mohammed, while other videos are labled "Terrorists" and "Islam".
The radical holy man, with links to beturbanned goon British Moslems, encouraged his followers to become deaders for Islam. He said: "Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid."
Yesterday the brothers' mother Zubeidat, speaking from her home in Russia, added further intrigue to her sons' murky past when she claimed the boys had been framed by the FBI over the two bombs last Monday that left three dead and 178 injured.
She claimed the FBI had been keeping watch on her eldest boy for up to five years. She said: "They knew what my son was doing. They knew what sites on the internet he was going to.
"They were telling me that he was really an beturbanned goon leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these beturbanned goon sites. They were controlling him."
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A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators
I have something of an idea about how I would like to ask questions of this fellow, but I'm something of a Neanderthal.
I understand there are more revealing techniques.
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Lord Garth: They are saying that those two men were part of the three questioned earlier in the week. Also that they're being deported on immigration charges.
Though it's interesting to note a consular vehicles picked up two women from the same apartment complex. We may not be looking at a terrorist cell so much as "Cheerleading" cell. Only the Tsarnaev brothers took it farther than anyone else in the group thought about doing.
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"Only the Tsarnaev brothers took it farther than anyone else in the group thought about doing."
Or had the guts/stupidity to do, Charles.
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If the FBI investigators are allowed to do their work, we may get somewhere. However, there are high level administrators up the food chain that may not want the investigations to follow all leads. Just sayin'
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"there are high level administrators up the food chain that may not want the investigations to follow allany leads"
FTFY, AP.
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Or put his gun in his mouth, pulled the trigger... and missed his brain
Which rather reinforces the "no one gets taken alive" order.
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The 12 angry men are the reason I didn't much care for the "mission accomplished" press conference after Joker Tsarnaev's arrest. Still a lot more work to be done.
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See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FEIZ MOHAMMAD: RADICAL MUSLIM PREACHER [Lebanese-Australian] WHOM INSPIRED BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER TAMERLAN TSARNAEV - IB TIMES UK.
Tamerlan whom argued wid a friend that ..
* SAME > BIBLE A "COPY" OF THE QURAN [+ used by the US to invade foreign = Muslim? countries], BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT TAMERLAN TOLD NEIGHBORS - THE TIMES OF INDIA.
VERSUS
* SAME > BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS' AUNT SAYS SHE'S BEEN THREATENED, by unknown Personages for claiming that her two Nephews were "framed" for the Boston Marathon booms.
* SAME > HACKERS HIJACK CBS ["60 Minutes" TV Show] TO CLAIM OBAMA INVOLVEMENT IN BOSTON BOMBINGS | [The News Informer] HACKTIVISTS [Syrian Electronic Army] EXPOSE MEDIAS REFUSAL TO REPORT ON PRIVATE MILITARY OPERATIVES [present] AT BOSTON BOMBINGS.
[Dawn] Three people were maimed when a huge blast took place near Adezai village on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Friday.
An official of Mattani cop shoppe said suspected gunnies had planted an improvised bomb in the fields and blasted it by remote control.
The injured were Jaffar Khan, Fazal Ameen and Ameen Khan, all from Adezai village.
The official said the bomb was packed in a ghee canister and weighed around five kilogrammes.
He said soon after the blast, personnel of the bomb disposal unit showed up and combed rest of the area for bombs.
When contacted, chief of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar Fazal Malik said a group of youths used to sit under the shade of a fig tree and hard boyz had tried to kill them but they were lucky enough to survive the attempt of their life.
He said in the prevailing situation, no one's life was safe as gunnies were frequently issuing threats to local residents.
Also in the day, a constable was injured when suspected gunnies attacked an Aziz Market police checkpost in a Peshawar area bordering Khyber Agency.
A police official said the injured policeman, Izat Khan, was on duty when he was shot at from the nearby tribal region.
He said the policeman had suffered bullet injury and was under treatment.
The official said police returned fire but attackers fled towards the tribal area.
He said gunnies had attacked the checkpost several times this year.
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[Dawn] Four men, said to be supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , were bumped off after being kidnapped from the 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.... area on Friday, police said.
They said that three of the victims were cousins and meat merchants. The fourth one was a rickshaw driver.
Two meat merchants and the rickshaw driver were rubbed out in Shershah area, while the perforated carcass of third meat merchant was found in the Pak Colony area.
The slain men were MQM supporters and one of them was a brother of a senior activist of MQM's Lyari sector.
The killing came on a day when the MQM was observing a day of mourning against the frequent killing of its party workers and supporters in the city.
The police said that the three meat sellers -- Naveed Akhtar, Shakil Ahmed, and Abdul Khaliq, -- had gone to a slaughterhouse in Meera Naka to buy meat in a rickshaw driven by Nadim Ahmed on Friday morning.
They said that when they were returning home, unidentified gunnies kidnapped them.
Later, the gunnies brought three of the four men to a narrow lane at Akbar Road near Shershah's Pankha Hotel, forced them to stand and fired at them targeting their heads. The gunnies escaped after shooting. The victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Shershah SHO Khan Mohammad Sheikh said that the three victims were identified as Naveed Akhtar, 20, Shakil Ahmed, 30 and Nadeem Ahmed, 25.
Later in the day, the body of the fourth victim, Abdul Khaliq, 40, was found in a rickshaw in the Mewashah graveyard within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe.
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[Dawn] Two people died and 25 others were maimed on Friday when rockets hit the election rally of an independent candidate in Wana, the main town of the South Wazoo tribal region.
The public meeting organised by the supporters of Naseerulah Wazir, who is running for NA 41, in Mughul Khel Maidan near the scouts camp was about to start when five rockets were fired by unidentified people at around 10.30am. Two rockets hit the venue of the rally, killing two people and injuring 25 others.
The rest of the rockets landed in the nearby fields.
The dead were identified as Munawar Khan and Mohammad Nawaz. Eight of the injured were said to be at death's door.
Naseerulah Wazir has a strong position in the constituency as compared to the candidates of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... and Awami National Party.
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[Dawn] At least four people were killed Saturday when a female jacket wallah detonated her explosives outside a hospital in Khar, the main town in the restive Bajaur tribal region.
Local administration official Asad Sarwar confirmed the attacker was woman.
"The woman, in her early 20s, blew up her explosives as she walked to the main entrance of the hospital. Authorities have found the attackers head and legs and are conducting a detailed investigation," said Sarwar, an assistant political agent in the tribal region.
Officials said the bomber apparently targeted coppers guarding the hospital.
Hospital officials said four other people were also injured in the bombing.
Agency health officer, Mohd Riaz, said the dead included one security personnel and two civilians, while one of the dead was a hospital worker.
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[An Nahar] Five shells from Syrian territories landed on Saturday in Lebanese villages along the northeastern border with Syria.
Two shells targeted Sahlat al-Mayy region on the outskirts of the town of al-Qasr in northeast of the Hermel district.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the shelling only caused material damage.
Later, a third shell landed in the center of al-Qasr village, damaging a house, without causing any casualties.
The NNA said that the military cordoned off the area and prevented people from gathering.
Two other shells hit al-Hermel village, the news agency reported.
The two-year long violence in Syria has increasingly spilled over into Leb, with cross-border shelling in the north and east.
On Wednesday, Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali denied that caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour had handed him a letter of protest over the recent cross-border attacks, playing down an attempt to file a complaint with the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... Top Lebanese leader had decided on Monday to submit to the vaporous Arab League a letter of protest condemning the spillover of fire from Syria onto Leb.
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[An Nahar] A Hizbullah member was killed in the ongoing battles in the neighboring country Syria, media reports said on Saturday.
According to MTV, Mohammed Asaad died recently in the festivities in Syria as European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign ministers are set to discuss on Monday fears over Hizbullah's involvement in the battles.
Hizbullah has announced several burials in past months, without elaborating on the circumstances of its members' deaths.
The opposition March 14 camp and Syrian rebels have repeatedly accused Hizbullah of aiding the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... militarily.
Syria's conflict that erupted in March 2011, is believed to have killed more than 70,000 people.
On Monday, Syria's main opposition National Coalition called on Leb to control its frontiers, after rebels said they fired across the border in retaliation against Hizbullah.
The party has systematically denied sending fighters into Syria, although its leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... acknowledged in October 2012 that party members had fought Syrian rebels but said they were acting as individuals and not under the group's direction.
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Roach Motel.
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I'm waiting (with baited breath) for the Iranian & Iraqui Shiites to form a pincer movement to clean out the anti-pencilneck forces.
When it looks like the Shiia are about to win, then what do the Jordanians, Turks and Saudis do?
[An Nahar] Ten copperswere maimed in a clash with demonstrators in the Syrian refugee camp of Zaatari in northern Jordan, a security official said on Saturday.
The source, declining to be named, said two of the coppers were at death's door after the clash on Friday night.
Violence broke out as 100 refugees held a protest against living conditions in Zaatari, home to more than 160,000 Syrians who have fled the bloodshed in their country, and a ban on leaving the desert camp near the border with Syria.
Jordan says it is hosting more than 500,000 Syrian refugees and the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aim of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... High Commissioner expects the number to soar to 1.2 million by the end of this year -- equivalent to a fifth of the kingdom's population.
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when you're a refugee, you shouldn't be an asshole about your conditions. If I were Jordan, I'd smite them hard and throw em back to Syria
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[An Nahar] At least 69 people, many of them rebels, have been killed in a four-day battle pitting Syrian faceless myrmidons against government forces in Jdaidet al-Fadl near Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... , a monitoring group said on Saturday.
"Regime troops are trying to seize total control of the town of Jdaidet al-Fadl" southwest of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Sixty-nine people were killed in violence raging there over the past four days," added the Britannia-based watchdog, citing activists on the ground, who said many were killed in shelling and also in summary executions by the army.
Violence also raged in Sunni areas of the nearby majority Christian town of Jdaidet Artuz.
The two towns are near Daraya, the scene of fierce fighting for several months.
"Daraya was subjected to tank and rocket fire, and fresh festivities broke out in the morning on the southern and western fronts," the town's opposition local council said in a statement.
It added that regime troops had deployed reinforcements including "30 tanks and military vehicles" to the town.
Since last year, the army has tried to root out rebels positioned southwest and east of Damascus, in a bid to secure the capital.
Elsewhere, a woman and three children were killed in army shelling of Kharita town in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, said the Observatory.
And in the central province of Homs, regime troops took control of Radwaniyeh village near the flashpoint rebel town of Qusayr, said the group.
Fierce firefights between faceless myrmidons and regime troops, pro-regime hard boyz and fighters loyal to Leb's Hizbullah were also reported in several areas around Qusayr near the border with Leb, it added.
Saturday's violence comes a day after at least 157 people were killed across Syria, said the Observatory, breaking the toll down to 75 civilians, 44 rebels and 38 soldiers.
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Looks like Pencilneck has turned a corner. Time to divert aid back to the other evil-dooers.
[Jpost] Salafist tough guys are clashing with rustics in eastern Syria as struggles over the region's oil facilities break out in the power vacuum left by civil war, activists said on Saturday.
One dispute over a stolen oil truck in the town of Masrib in the province of Deir Zor, which borders Iraq, set off a battle between rustics and fighters from the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked rebel group, which left 37 killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The fighting, which started in late March and lasted 10 days, was part of a new pattern of conflict between tribal groups and the Nusra Front, said a report from the Observatory, a British-based group which opposes Syria's government and draws information from a network of activists in the country.
As the civil war between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's forces and different rebel groups enters its third year, secondary conflicts are emerging over influence and resources such as oil. More than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict so far, according to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships....
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