he US readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the government of President Bashar Assad.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.
The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.
US officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerrys announcement.
Kerry met with Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib before the conference began.
In the latest clashes, Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen battled rebels Saturday in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, according to activists and state media in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
President Barack Obama has said he has no plans to send weapons or give lethal aid to the rebels, despite pressure from Congress and even some administration advisers.
The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old suburban Chicago man who U.S. authorities say was planning join an al-Qaida-affiliated group operating in Syria.
The FBI says Abdella Ahmad Tounisi (ab-DUH'-lah AH'-med too-NEE'-see), of Aurora, Ill., was arrested Friday night as he tried to board a flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Turkey.
Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, is charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to the criminal complaint, Tounisi carried out research online about Jabhat al-Nusrah, or Nursa Front. Nusra Front is the most effective rebel faction fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. The group is affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq.
The FBI says a bureau employee posing as a recruiter for the group exchanged emails with the suspect.
The possible link between the Boston Marathon bombings and Chechnya's struggle for independence from Russia is likely to harden Russian opposition to any outside intervention in Syria and complicate the question of whether to arm the Syrian rebels.
Russia fought two wars to put down Chechen separatists and is accused of ongoing brutality involving what it calls terrorist elements in majority-Muslim Chechnya and the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan. The experience underpins Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad in his two-year fight to put down a rebellion he calls terrorism.
With Chechnya in mind, Russia opposes U.N. Security Council action to punish Assad or support the rebels. Moscow also strongly opposes any international military action similar to the 2011 NATO no-fly zone in Libya. Russia continues to resupply Assad's army, which has fought the rebels to a deadlock in many parts of the country.
The United States is edging toward stronger backing for the Syrian rebels and hopes to win at least tacit Russian assent for measures that could end the civil war short of supplying weapons. Still, Russia is leery of any international action that legitimizes the rebels.
Secretary of State John Kerry will lobby his Russian counterpart on Syria early next week in their second meeting in three weeks. He is also meeting European and Persian Gulf partners that are much more deeply involved in Syria's civil war
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Let the Syrian rebels and Pencilneck's boyz keep slugging it out to a stalemate.
The US has enemies within and without to deal with, judging from a couple of islamic nutcases causing all the recent mayhem in Boston. We have plenty to do ourselves at home.
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The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: Terrorista #1
The students, named be neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the back which reads: F*** you, you f****** f****.
They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until last night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint.
One of their girlfriends was also arrested. All three are in their late teens or early 20s.
Their apartment was raised because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address.
MailOnline has discovered another link - Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar.
In one picture the BMW is next to another dark coloured sports car with the caption: Place your bets as if they are about to race.
A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least four people and wounding four others.
The attack took place on Saturday in Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan where the military has carried out several offensives against al-Qaeda-linked Taliban militants.
"At least four people were killed and four others were wounded in the blast outside the main gate of the hospital," Mohammad Riaz, chief doctor at the government hospital said.
"It was a female suicide bomber, about 18-20 years old. We have found her legs and head," local administration official Abdul Haseebhe said.
The dead included a security personnel, a hospital worker and two civilians, he added.
Bajaur is one of seven districts that make up Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas (FATA).
The only U.S. military team assigned to New York City to support first responders in case of a disaster will remain on duty. It was just saved on the brink of elimination.
A day after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel rescinded his decision to disband the rapid-response unit based at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn.
His abrupt change of mind was a relief to New Yorkers amid the sudden new concerns about terrorism. During testimony on Capitol Hill, Mr. Hagel announced that the Pentagon won't deactivate the 24th National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (WMD-CST).
The uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects told TODAY Saturday that he believes Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were pawns in a deadly scheme.
"I strongly believe they were just puppets and executors of something of bigger scale," Ruslan Tsarni told Savannah Guthrie.
He said Dzhokar, the younger of the brothers, was "used by his older brother. He's just another victim of his older brother. He victimized others, but he's been used by his older brother."
Doesn't change the guilt at all...
Tsarni, a Maryland resident who is the brother of the suspects' father, believes Tamerlan was radicalized by others. He noted that the suspects were in his house as children, and recalled a surprising transformation the last time he saw Tamerlan in 2009.
"There certainly were mentors,'' Tsarni said. "I was shocked when I heard his words, his phrases, when every other word he starts sticking in words of God. I question what he's doing for work, (and) he claimed he would just put everything in the will of God. It was a big concern to me. He called me 'confused' when I started explaining to him, make yourself useful to yourself and to your family and maybe you'll have extra to share with everybody else.
"It wasn't devotion, it was something, as it's called, being radicalized. Not understanding what he is talking (about). He is just using words for the sake of the words and not understanding the meaning of it.''
That's very useful as it turns out. Tamerlan didn't become a radical overnight. This took years, encouragement and constant mentoring. Who are the mentors?
The suspects' parents told NBC News they believe their sons were framed. Tsarni said a family acquaintance told him there was an outside influence on Tamerlan.
"He said there is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,'' Tsarni said. "I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.''
It's not "brainwashing" per se, and to call it that not only cheapens but also obscures the real nature of the process. Tamerlan sounds like he was susceptible due to his personality -- strong, strong-willed, stubborn, first-born. Certain individuals saw promise in him and cultivated his new beliefs.
The suspects' uncle believes the radicalization occurred in the United States, not overseas. Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year.
"It has nothing to do with Russia, (or) with Chechnya, which he had nothing to do with,'' Tsarni said. "It started here."
Bingo. Right you are, Uncle. Which Islamic Center did Tamerlan go to? Who were the elders? Who was the imam? Who was the fellow with the money and contacts back to Chechnya, Saudi Arabia and/or Egypt? Who was the frequent 'visitor' from the old country who preached?
Tsarni said he was "angry" on Friday when he told reporters outside his home the brothers were "losers." On Saturday, he told Guthrie he was grateful that Dzhokar was captured alive after the manhunt that concluded Friday night in Watertown, Mass. Tsarni also expressed his condolences to the families of the three people killed in the marathon bombing and the college police officer who was allegedly shot and killed in his cruiser by the suspects on Thursday night.
"I was relieved that he is alive,'' Tsarni said. "At least he has a chance to ask for forgiveness for those that he victimized, as well as there is a chance now for enforcement agencies to get to the bottom of it.
"For a 19-year-old kid, I do not even believe (that) he would (have) been in full comprehension of what he's been doing. For the sake of seeking forgiveness for himself, I don't know how long his life is going to be, but I know it will be way easier for him if he receives that forgiveness for those he made to suffer.''
Tell you what, Uncle: if Dzhokar spills his guts completely and totally, fingers the mentors who influenced big brother, and helps to unravel the case, AND he grovels on his knees in the courtroom, then I'll consider life without parole for him at the Supermax. But he gets one chance only so he'd better not lie or get uppity...
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make yourself useful to yourself and to your family and maybe you'll have extra to share with everybody else.
The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, but it set in motion an equally intense phase of the case that will begin with the grilling of the man who for now at least is the only surviving suspect.
An indication of the complex investigation ahead came Friday night, when an Obama administration official told NBC News that Tsarnaev would not be given a Miranda warning when he is physically able to be interrogated after receiving medical treatment.
Instead, the official said, the government will invoke a legal rule known as the "public safety exception," which will enable investigators to question Tsarnaev without first advising him of his right to remain silent and to be afforded legal counsel. The exemption can be invoked when information is needed to protect public safety. In this instance, the government believes it's vital to find out if Tsarnaev planted any other explosives before his capture or whether others might have plotted with him to do so, said the official.
The rule waiving the Miranda warning does not set a precise limit on how long a suspect can be interrogated before being advised of his rights, but it likely buys authorities no more than 48 hours.
During that time Tsarnaev, 19, will be questioned by a federal government team called the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, consisting of officials of the FBI, CIA and Defense Department. Though he will not have a lawyer present, any statements he makes during the questioning will be admissible in court.
Among the questions investigators are certain to focus on is whether he and his brother had help in plotting or carrying out the terrorist attack at the finish line of the marathon. That question took on more urgency when police in New Bedford, Mass., south of Boston, announced Friday evening that three people there had been taken into custody as part of the bombing investigation.
In addition to possible co-conspirators in the U.S., the interrogators also will want to know whether the brothers, both ethnic Chechens, received any assistance from overseas.
Even if authorities determine that the Tsarnaevs received support from an overseas terrorist organization, the Obama administration official said the government will not seek to declare him an enemy combatant and try him before a military commission, as it has done with senior al Qaeda officials captured overseas and imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Administration officials see that scenario as a non-starter, the official said, particularly given the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is an American citizen, naturalized last September.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona issued a statement late Friday urging that the administration hold Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant.
Can't we get these two to retire?
"It is absolutely vital the suspect be questioned for intelligence gathering purposes. We need to know about any possible future attacks which could take additional American lives," said the statement, posted on Graham's Facebook. "The least of our worries is a criminal trial which will likely be held years from now."
Why will it take years? My timetable is three months to question Dzhokhar, three months more holding him to make sure the info checks out and to prepare for the trial, a month for pre-trial motions, then a week for the trial. Add two weeks for appeals, a day for the appeals to be turned down, a day for him to pray, and ten minutes or so for the execution. That's 233 days and 10 minutes.
At the same time they are seeking to uncover the bombing suspects motives and determine whether they had a support network, investigators will continue to collect and analyze vast amounts of forensic evidence from crime scenes stretching across three cities.
In addition to processing evidence from the bombings, FBI technicians will analyze hundreds of hours of video camera recordings from private and public surveillance and traffic cameras as they attempt to trace the brothers movements both after the attack and before it. Investigators also will obtain and assess phone records, seeing who the brothers were in contact with in the weeks and months leading up to the attacks.
Only when they have scrutinized every bit of data, and explored every lead, will they turn over the mountain of evidence they have assembled to prosecutors. It will be up to them to decide what charges the younger Tsarnaev should face and whether to seek the federal death penalty in a state where life in prison is the maximum sentence that can be imposed.
But despite such a massive expenditure of time and technological know-how, they may never answer the most haunting question surrounding the case, as President Barack Obama noted.
Why, he asked during a brief statement on Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs arrest late Friday, did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and country resort to such violence?
Are you asking because you want to know the answer, Champ? Because I think you know and you really don't want to know...
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Given that this "kid" is a college student does anyone really think he doesn't know his right to a lawyer and saying nothing?
What do they do if he says "I want my lawyer and I won't say a thing till I get him."? Waterboard?
Also, since Dzhokhar returned to school Wed. after the bombing, and school is ~45 miles south of Boston, why did they go back to Boston?
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He was naturalized last September? Was the bombing in the planning stages back then - if so then I would think we would have cause to strip him of his citizenship and ship his ass to Gitmo.
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Loose wymins...and evillll Juice, of course.
Seriously, searching granny and little kids while Timur-the-lame goes to the Caucasus for 6 months. No reason to investigate that!
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That the ghost of that poor little 8 year old white boy who was blown limb from limb is being used to bludgeon this fluffy chechnyan bunny is causing untold heartburn in liberal (I repeat myself) newsrooms across Amerikka. The horror. The horror...
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Yeah, why can't they just be good Democratic voters? That's the idea!
Except, apparently, our young citizen was an Obama fan. And the ricin guy defined himself as a Democrat and a Christian. The real question is whether they actually went and voted their beliefs last November.
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Use a cheese grater diesel powered belt sander...
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I am of a mixed mind here. As revolting as the Boston bombers were/are, they are American citizens and that is supposed to guarantee certain rights under the rule of law. That 0bama is announcing that the survivor will not be Mirrandized is almost as disturbing as the administrations claims that they have the right to kill, without due process or judicial oversight, anyone, citizen or otherwise, on the sole discretion of the president or his delegate.
that vast swaths of the populace are on board with this and demanding he be water-boarded or similar is also disturbing. Are we really willing to grant such wide authority and set aside the rule of law so easily?
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How many Americans do NOT know about Miranda?
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"0bama is announcing that the survivor will not be Mirandized"
Thus deliberately guaranteeing the little bastard will have to be let go.
Can we call him a traitor NOW? >:-(
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..there's always release into the open prison environment. Lot of cons there have children with mama on the outside they care about. Just saying.
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Barbara, actually, it just means that anything he says probably won't be admissible in court. If they have enough other evidence on him - and I would guess they have - they could still convict him. In the meantime, unless he just shuts up, they may learn who trained/supported him.
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Word on CNN is he has a thoat injury and can't talk. That's convenient. Meanwhile, I expect CAIR to log a complaint that the jihadist is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,and that violates his freedom of religion rights!
The "master suite" is being phased out -- not from our homes, but from our lexicon.
A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term "master" in their floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the house....Why? In large part for exactly the reason you would think: "Master" has connotation problems, in gender (it skews toward male) and race (the slave-master).
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When they came for the master bedroom, I said nothing because I was not a realtor. When they came for the master cylinder, the situation was unstoppable.
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No, next is Master Debater defined as one who lays out the bate so well that he is universally recognized for his talent without question and has the ability to speak eloquently on any subject. Now repeat the phrase 5 times quickly: Master Debater... Master Debater...Master Debater...Master Debater... Ah!
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I think it is more over-the-top marketing than sensitivity -
The terminology has more of an upscale tone to it, particularly in some of the really large homes that truly have a large bedroom, sitting area, enormous walk-in closets, and lavish bathrooms, Block wrote in an email. Owner Suite conveys a sense of being distinguished, having made it or arrived rather than the everyday Master Bedroom.
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Naw, the Czechs are roman catholic, the Chechens are Moslem and Eastern/Russian Orthadox (now that's a toxic brew).
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Nominally Roman Catholic, according to the CIA Factbook. In real life they're about as religious as most Western Europeans, if a good deal more sensible.
Roman Catholic 10.3%, Protestant (includes Czech Brethren and Hussite) 0.8%, other and unspecified 54.6%, none 34.2% (2011 census)
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FTA: the nightmare that someone without a criminal record would be successful in attacking a city. The new normal, King says, could be terrorists attacking from within, without any increase in chatter monitored by intelligence prior to the attacks. The new threat is definitely from within, and we cant let our guard down.
That is the only part I agree with. Little or nothing of what has been so far disclosed about the Tsarnaevs leads me to think increased surveillance would have accomplished anything before the bombing. So far the duo appear to be a cross between the McVeigh/Kehoe bombers and the 9/11 hijackers.
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ABC News interviewed a college classmate of Jahar's at UMass-Dartmouth:
Andrew Glasby told ABC News that Tsarnaev lived one floor above him at the Pine Dale dormitory and he had a conversation with the alleged bomber one full day after the bombing on the campus.
"I can't believe he had the balls to come back and act like nothing happened," Glasby said.
UMass would only confirm that Tsarnaev was on the campus Wednesday, according to card swipes. Tsarnaev visited the gym and slept in his dorm room Wednesday, according to the school.
Glasby said Tsarnaev, who was often referred to as Jahar, blended right back into normal college life and was "convincing" that nothing was amiss.
"I thought as it was just regular old Jahar. We had a typical conversation, he was not startled, he was not scared, he was not anything. He was just the same old Jahar," Glasby said.
Glasby said that Tsarnaev offered to give him a lift home to Waltham, Mass., on Friday. Tsarnaev described his car as a green Honda Civic, which was the same car police initially said Tsarnaev may have been driving while at-large.
Instead, Glasby spent Friday evacuating the campus, which sits about an hour south of Boston. A screeching fire alarm woke Glasby around 10 a.m. as Blackhawk helicopters circled overhead.
"I didn't have time to grab my wallet or my phone. I only had time to grab my sweatpants and my sneakers," Glasby recounted.
"UMass Dartmouth has learned that a person being sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing has been identified as a student registered at UMass Dartmouth. The campus is closed. Individuals on campus should shelter in place unless instructed otherwise," the university posted on its website.
Glasby described Tsarnaev as an average Joe who played soccer, enjoyed FIFA soccer video games and smoked marijuana on a daily basis until this year.
"I think he told me from one of our conversations, 'Oh I don't smoke anymore,'" Glasby said.
To Glasby, Tsarnaev was a social, low-key guy with a messy dorm room and liked to listen to hip hop music.
"It really makes me wonder, the person next to you, are they really that person, acting like they are the best person but instead they are blowing up people?" Glasby said.
This event seems to be making a big impression on the current college-age generation.
Apparently Glasby recognized Jahar on the surveillance photos released by the police late Thursday afternoon, but the article didn't specify when. Glasby was seemingly taken by surprise when the campus was evacuated at 1000 on Friday.
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Once very small, the Muslim population of the U.S. increased greatly in the 20th century, with much of the growth driven by rising immigration and conversion, and a comparatively high birth rate. In 2005, more people from Islamic countries became legal permanent United States residents nearly 96,000 than in any year in the previous two decades. In 2009, more than 115,000 Muslims became legal residents of the United States.
American Muslims come from various backgrounds, and are one of the most racially diverse religious groups in the United States according to a 2009 Gallup poll. Native-born American Muslims are mainly African Americans who make up about a quarter of the total Muslim population. Many of these have converted to Islam during the last seventy years. Conversion to Islam in prison,and in large urban areas has also contributed to its growth over the years. The immigrant communities make up the majority, with mainly people of Arab and South Asian descent.
Population concentration By state According to the 2000 United States Census, the state with the largest percentage of Muslims is Michigan, with 1.2% of its population being Muslim. New Jersey has the second largest percentage with 0.9%, followed by Massachusetts with 0.8%.
48% of Arabs lived in just five states in 2000: California, New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Florida. Just three states had an Arab population of over 100,000: California, New York, and Michigan.
By city New York City had the largest number of Muslims with 69,985. In 2000, Dearborn, Michigan ranked second with 29,181, and Los Angeles ranked third with 25,673; although Paterson, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, was estimated to have become home to 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims as of 2011. Of cities with at least 100,000 people, Sterling Heights, Michigan had the highest percentage of Arabs with 4%. Warren, Michigan and Jersey City, New Jersey rank second and third with 3% of their populations. Dearborn, which had a population of 98k, had an Arab population of 30%, the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.
Mosques The number of mosques in the United States in 2011 was 2,106.
The top five states with the most amount of mosques were: 1. New York-257 2. California-246 3. Texas-166 4. Florida-118 5. Illinois-109 5. New Jersey-109
In reference to the suggestion by the Honorable Peter King for increased surveillance, I would like to suggest that Americans consider instituting a program possibly called "Adopt An Immigrant Muslim" to help shepherd and acclimate the subject to America. Communities could make an effort to further the American spirit in the new arrivals, and it would be better to institute AIM rather than take AIM at a minority community. Just my 2 cents.
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This is how Singapore manages its Muslims population.
They are incapable of managing themselves so something like this should be instituted while they are in dar al Harb.
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Nota bene: In America, according to WikiAnswers, 2/3rds of Arab-Americans are Christian.
Also, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2008 there were 2,680,000 self-identified adult Jews and 1,349,000 self-identified adult Muslims in this country, out of a total adult population of 228,182,000. Y'all can calculate the percentages, I'm sure.
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The Telegraph is too generous. The One and his DHS consider those not aligned with him and his domestic agenda to be the 'enemy'. All that other stuff is just a nuisance undeserving of his attention and scorn.
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The Telegram calls the empty suit out on this one.
Amazing we actually have some of the fawning propagandists criticizing the one (I won't capitalize that, there is only one ONE and he died for our sins two thousand years ago).
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Lulled? He campaigned on it. If barry hadn't remembered kerry's advice to check the boats and pulled #2 off of the poop deck himself, I think it would be embarassingly noteworthy.
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It is too soon to be absolutely sure the attacks were motivated by jihadist ideology
Oh yeah right. And the Feds are allocating precious resources on the possibility this may have been a Tax revolt or maybe even a Eco-terrorism. You know just to be absolutely sure. Whata Maroon.
He was actually Bangladeshi, though that detail isn't important. Let's hope there isn't much of this, and these particular miscreants are quickly caught and punished.
As Independence Day celebrations were winding down Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a guest appearance on Channel 2s left-wing satire show Eretz Nehederet. One of the final questions that the shows host Eyal Kitzis asked the premier was how he would like to be remembered after he leaves office.
Netanyahu thought a moment and said, Id like to be remembered as the leader who preserved Israels security.
On the face of it, Netanyahus stated aspiration might seem dull. In a year hell be the longest-serving prime minister in the states history, and all he wants is to preserve our national security? Why is he aiming so low? And yet, the studio audience reacted to Netanyahus modest goal with a thunderclap of applause.
After pausing to gather his thoughts, a clearly befuddled Kitzis mumbled something along the lines of, Well, if you manage to make peace as well, we wouldnt object. The audience was silent.
The disparity between the audiences exultation and Kitziss shocked disappointment at Netanyahus answer exposed yet again the yawning gap between the mainstream Israeli view of the world, and that shared by members of our elite class.
The Israeli public gave our elites the opportunity to try out their peace fantasies in the 1990s. We gave their peace a chance and got repaid with massive terror and international isolation.
We are not interested in repeating the experience.
We will be nice to leftists, if they are polite. We might even watch their shows, if theres nothing else on or they are mildly entertaining. But we wont listen to them anymore.
This is why US President Barack Obamas visit last month had no impact on public opinion or government policy.
Obama came, hugged Netanyahu and showered us with love just like Bill Clinton did back in the roaring 90s. He praised us to high heaven and told us he has our back. And then he told us we should force our leaders to give Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to our sworn enemies even as they teach their children to aspire to kill our children.
And we smiled and wished him a pleasant flight home.
This is an excellent essay touching on many of the societal hot buttons. I couldn't think of anything that R'burgers would question when reading about the inter-locking of socialism, demographics, in'tl relations and security.
Two policemen escaped from the communist New People's Army (NPA) who abducted them less than a week ago in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, police said on Friday.
Chief Superintendent Getulio Napenas, the regional police chief, commended officers Ronald Allan Munez and Nemuel Espana for their presence of mind in taking advantage of lax security to escape.
Napenas said Munez seized the AK-47 rifle of their lone guard when he fell asleep and fired the weapon to discourage their pursuers. To further confuse the rebels, Munez and Espana decided to separate as they escaped. Munez, he said, ran directly toward the police station in the town of Loreto, Surigao del Sur and got there shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday.
Concerned residents of a village helped hide Espana who was recovered at dawn on Friday.
Heavily armed NPA insurgents nabbed the two policemen while they were returning to the Loreto police station after investigating a hacking incident in a remote village late on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, security forces engaged about 30 suspected NPA insurgents in the town of Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay province also in Mindanao on Thursday afternoon.
A police investigator was gunned down while gathering intelligence in Pattani province yesterday in what officials believe was a premeditated attack.
The shooting took place about 8 a.m. as Pol Maj Neramit Churoj was traveling alone in his car. Four men on two motorcycles approached his car and opened fire with a 9mm pistol and an M16 rifle. The policeman was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The slaying was preceded by an intelligence warning that senior police officers in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani could be targeted by terrorists insurgents. Pol Maj Neramit had previously served at the police station in that district and he regularly traveled in the area.
Meanwhile, in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district, police were alerted to a fatal shooting in front of a mosque in Ban Paseputae yesterday. When security officers arrived at the scene, they found the body of Rosa Tayae, a former village chief. He had been shot five times.
An initial investigation revealed Rosa was walking to the mosque when two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire with a .357 handgun.
In Yala province, gunmen opened fire on a military outpost in Ban Ranor about 6:50 p.m. on Thursday. Capt Annaj Ruantip, head of the the Yala No.15 special force, yesterday said an unknown number of gunmen in a rubber plantation across from the outpost sprayed bullets at the station while eight soldiers were on duty there. The gunfight lasted about ten minutes before the attackers fled the scene.
Insurgent suspect Abe Jeh-alee and eight other armed men who have previously carried out attacks in Yala could have been behind the shooting, authorities said.
[Dawn] Several Islamic fascistiwere killed when helicopter gunships pounded different areas of Darra Adamkhel near the border of Khyber Agency on Thursday, sources said.
They said that the Islamic fascistifled Khyber Agency and crossed into Darra Adamkhel after hideouts were targeted by security forces in the tribal region.
At least two helicopter gunships shelled Landikhel, Noor Badshah Kallay and Kharmatang area of Akhorwal in Darra Adamkhel for six hours when security forces felt movement of krazed killers, they added.
Sources said that ground forces also launched an operation in those areas to trace the krazed killers, who fled Akakhel area of Khyber Agency.
They said that the residents of Akakhel had burnt few houses of Islamic fascistiand their harbourers few days ago. They said that the fleeing Islamic fascistiwere trying to enter Darra Adamkhel. Some arrests were made in the ground search operation, sources said.
In Khyber Agency, four houses and two hideouts were destroyed when jetfighters pounded positions of Islamic fascistiin Bara tehsil on Thursday.
Sources said that the air sorties were conducted in Khawangi Zawa area of Akakhel early in the morning and later in the afternoon.
They said that four vacated houses were destroyed in the morning strikes while few krazed killer hideouts and a bunker were targeted in the afternoon. No casualty was reported in the air strikes as Islamic fascistihad already vacated the area.
In Mardan, police foiled a sabotage bid by defusing a 15-kilogram bomb on Thursday.
DSP Khalid Naseem told Dawn that two motorcyclists threw the bomb in front of a small restaurant, situated opposite Mardan Press Club.
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[An Nahar] Volunteers are searching for a pair of wallabies hopping through Austria -- yes, Austria.
The kangaroo-like marsupials, which are smaller than "roos" and primarily found in Australia, escaped from a farm in the Upper Austrian countryside, about 180 kilometers (about 110 miles) northwest of Vienna. Thursday was the third day of the quest to find them.
There are actually three wallabies on the loose -- owner Gabrielle Schrammel says the female has a joey in her pouch.
Austrians often express irritation at being confused for Australians while abroad, and mail meant for Australia occasionally surfaces in this central European Alpine country.
Those Vienna souvenir shops selling T-shirts with the slogan "No kangaroos in Austria" might have to start a recall campaign.
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I saw the wallabies at a place called Kinder Scout in 1978/79. One of the remotest places in England, and 40 miles north of where they are documented to live.
[An Nahar] A fatwa published this week by Morocco's higher council of religious scholars (CSO) calling for the death penalty for Mohammedans who renounce their faith has sparked fierce controversy in the country.
The scholars, who represent official Islam in Morocco, said in their edict, published in Tuesday's edition of Arabic-language daily Akhbar al-Youm, that Mohammedans who reject their faith "should be condemned to death."
The fatwa, which has provoked strong reactions, dates back to April 2012 when a legal report was being prepared by the government, but it was not published at the time, according to local media.
Mahjoub El Hiba, a senior human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... official in the government, denied in a statement to the official MAP news agency having requested any such fatwa from the council of Islamic scholars, as Akhbar al-Youm had claimed.
"What was published in the document attributed to the CSO does not concern our government and commits us to nothing," Hiba told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"I am not authorized to request advice or fatwas from the CSO. I do not have to comment on what a constitutional body like this does," he added.
The CSO is the only institution entitled to issue fatwas in Morocco.
The ministry of Islamic affairs declined to comment on the issue.
Morocco's penal code does not explicitly prohibit apostasy, which is illegal in most Mohammedan countries, and punishable by death in some states such as Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , although in practice people are rarely executed for renouncing their faith.
But Moroccan law states that "anyone attempting to undermine the faith of a Mohammedan or convert him to another religion" risks six months to three years in prison.
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[An Nahar] Ousted from their major northern strongholds by a French-led military intervention and all but defeated in their mountain hideouts, Mali's Islamist hard boyz are beginning to regroup at home and abroad.
French and African soldiers have inflicted heavy losses since launching a military operation on January 11 to block the advance of al-Qaeda-linked snuffies on the capital Bamako, with Gay Paree claiming to have killed 400 rebels.
But dozens have fled Mali over the mountains of northern Niger and Chad, passing into southern Libya and western Sudan, where they are reorganizing, military sources told Agence La Belle France Presse, while others are recuperating in Algeria.
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France + those other Nations whom had helped oust the Hard Boyz from Mali are now subject to retaliatory Terrstrikes.
[Dawn] Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said on Friday that former military dictator Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... committed serious crimes and he must be tried as per law of the country.
Addressing media persons in Quetta on Friday, Nawaz Sharif stated that Inspector General Police Islamabad should be questioned over how Pervez Musharraf managed to escape from court.
"If Musharraf is not placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! immediately it would be violation of court order", he added.
He said military dictators should be tried as a common criminal who commits any crime. "Nobody is above the law", Nawaz Sharif said.
The PML (N) chief stated that nobody should be allowed to undermine the sanctity of courts and everyone has to bow down head before court.
Regarding Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... situation, Nawaz Sharif expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the situation in Balochistan and held Pervez Musharraf responsible for the prevailing unrest in the country's resource-rich province.
He said that writ of the government should be ensured at all cost. Sharif said that if elections were not held the situation would further worsen.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A one-time front man for Malian Islamist group Ansar al-Din said Wednesday (April 17th) that he was ready to turn himself in.
Sanda Ould Bouamama told ANI that he was close to the border between Mali and Algeria and was going to surrender to Algerian authorities.
"I have walked more than 80 kilometres on foot to reach the Algerian border so that I can surrender to the Algerian army," he said. "Right now I'm close to the Algerian town of Bordj Badji Mokhtar, where I intend to turn myself in to the Algerian army."
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[An Nahar] Mortars and a bombing north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed eight people on Friday, on the eve of Iraq's first polls since U.S. troops withdrew and a day after a blast in a cafe in the capital left 27 dead.
Four mortars struck the Abu Tamur mosque in the town of Khales, which lies in restive Diyala province, as worshippers were departing following mid-day Friday prayers, a police colonel and a doctor said.
The mortars killed seven people and maimed 12 others, they said.
And in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a bombing at a Shiite mosque that also houses offices of the political movement loyal to anti-U.S. holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... killed one person and maimed 15, a Sadrist official and a medic said.
The latest attacks came after a bombing at a billiards cafe in west Storied Baghdad killed 27 people late on Thursday night, the country's deadliest single attack in a month.
The latest deaths bring to 118 the number of people killed since Sunday, an average of around 20 per day, according to Agence La Belle France Presse figures.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the latest attacks, but Sunni forces of Evil linked to al-Qaeda frequently carry out bombings in both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods across Iraq, in a bid to undermine confidence in the government and security forces.
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They need to develop a touch more subtlety in their election stealing before they can fully advance into the modern world.
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] A family from La Belle France who were kidnapped in Cameroon and held in Nigeria for two months by suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamist faceless myrmidons have been released, but French president François Hollande has denied that a ransom had been paid.
Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, an expat employee of the French gas group GDF Suez, based in the Cameroon capital, his four children, aged between four and 12, as well as his wife and brother, were on holiday near the Waza national park in the far north of Cameroon in February when they were seized by men on cycle of violences armed with Kalashnikov rifles.
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Police in Calgary dismissed accusations that a local Muslim group was guilty of anti-Semitic hate crimes.
Bnai Brith Canada said earlier this week that two anti-Semitic articles posted on the website for the Muslim Council of Calgary could cause violent hostility toward Jews and possibly amounted to a hate crime. The charges were dropped by Calgary police.
Calgary police hate crimes coordinator Eric Levesque said, The Jewish and Muslim communities in Calgary have a very good relationship. I dont know what Bnai Briths motivations are.
Levesque said that although the material might be offensive, it did not reach a criminal level.
The articles in question accused Jews of debauchery and immorality and of deviating from the Torah when it came to Israel. One of the articles quoted The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, citing a Jewish plot to destroy religion. That post was removed earlier this week.
[An Nahar] U.N.-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... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday urged the Security Council to come together on Syria, venting frustration with all sides while denying rumors he plans to resign.
Brahimi told the 15-member council that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... is "not in a mood for dialogue" and that the only hope for stemming the violence is if the council agrees unanimously on a plan of action, diplomats told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Security Council has been divided about how to proceed on Syria, which has been wracked by fighting since March 2011, with Russia and China repeatedly blocking efforts by the West to step up pressure on Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... "I have probably said practically the same thing I said every time," Brahimi told news hounds later.
"The situation is extremely bad and we need action from the Security Council," he said, as he expressed frustration not only with the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , but with the Syrian regime and opposition rebels.
"I indicated the opposition and the government have got to accept to come to negotiations and both sides have got to accept that these negotiations are necessary," Brahimi said.
He added that the recent pledge of loyalty to al-Qaeda by an increasingly powerful Syrian rebel group, the Al-Nusra Front, would not affect his mandate.
"The way to protect Syria from extremism is once again to solve the problem," Brahimi said. "The only way is to bring this war to an end."
The veteran Algerian diplomat has made little progress in the seven months since he was appointed to try to mediate an end to the Syrian conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and seen hundreds of thousands flee.
But Brahimi appeared irritated as he brushed aside talk of resignation.
"I have not resigned," Brahimi told news hounds.
"Every day I wake up, I think I should resign, but I have not so far," he said, adding that "there is no foundation" to the rumors.
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From the Daily Mail. Substantial number of pics at the website.
The devastated family of the wife of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev say 'our hearts are sickened' by the terror and tragedy the young Chechen unleashed on America.
Tsarnaev has a three-year-old daughter called Zahara with Katherine Russell, 24, who converted to Islam for her husband, MailOnline can reveal.
You think she'll remain Muslim, given the circumstances?
According to Muslims, she doesn't have a choice...
You think any of them will go anywhere near her hereafter, given the likelihood of concentrated FBI attention to follow?
And tonight, Katherine's parents, Judith and Warren issued an emotional statement following the terror attack that left three dead and 176 injured, saying: 'Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child.
'We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot's Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev
'Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.'
The statement was read by Mrs Russell and when asked how her daughter was getting on, she shook her head and said: 'There's nothing for me to say'.
The 26-year-old Chechen -- who was shot dead by cops last night -- was regularly seen at his wife's family home in Rhode Island. And neighbours today spoke of their shock at waking up to see Katherine's home being raided by the FBI and cops before dawn this morning.
At 5pm today, Katherine was driven back to the house by a relative and flanked by two SUVs being driven by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Shielding her face, the young mother, wearing a dark-coloured top and sporting mousy blonde hair, was driven into the garage.
One of the Homeland security cars remained parked by the house. And asked if Katherine had been questioned, the agents refused to comment, but confirmed: 'We are keeping an eye on the house'
One neighbour told how Katherine - who also uses the last name Tsarnaeva - converted to Islam shortly after starting school at Suffolk University in Boston, saying she believed the couple were married. Speaking from the quiet suburb, the neighbour said: 'I knew Katherine was married and she had converted to Islam.
'She went away to college about three or four years ago and I saw her a year later and she was dressed in the Islamic style. Her hair was covered and she was wearing very baggy, flowy clothing.'
The neighbour said: 'I saw Katherine with a man and I assumed this was her partner. They came up most weekends and had Massachusetts licence plates on their car, so I thought they lived in Boston and came home at the weekends to see her family.
'They were always together and had a little girl, who must be about three now.'
However, the neighbour said the last time she saw the man, matching the pictures of Tsarnaev, was a year ago, adding: 'She moved back home and was living at home with the baby.'
So perhaps the marriage was a little strained. I think we all know about what happened here: Tamerlan perhaps found true love but perhaps (instead) found a woman who believed him, a woman he used to get cover, citizenship and the ability to move around in our society. It's happened elsewhere and it happens here.
Tamerlan got his American citizenship on September 11, 2012. He traveled to Russia last year and returned to the U.S. six months later, government officials told The Associated Press today.
'I never saw him again, I thought maybe he's gone away or he's busy with school,' said the neighbour.
It was, the neighbour, admitted, nevertheless a shock when she woke early to see police cars and FBI agents outside the family's house. She said: 'They were there when I woke up early, there was one state patrol car and someone who came out wearing a padded vest with FBI on it.
'With all the activity, I put it together, but I thought this can't be. But then I thought 'well she did make this conversion...I thought Katherine may be friends with one of the brothers, I never thought it was her husband.'
Katherine, who has two younger sisters Anna and Becca, grew up with parents Judith and Warren in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, before moving to Boston for college. Neighbours said that Warren works as a physician, while Judith is a nurse.
Paula Gillette, 59, a mother-of-one who lives over the road from the Russells, said: 'Before Katherine went to Suffolk she wore normal clothes like jeans, t-shirts and skirts but when she came back she was wearing a white headscarf. I don't think her family are religious.
'I have no idea what she is going to tell her kid. How can you tell them? How can you explain it?
'Who knows if she knew anything about what he was doing? We just don't know'.
Meanwhile, the brothers' aunt Maret Tsarnaeva was insistent as she told reporters in Toronto today that her nephew was in love with his wife and daughter.
'He has a wife in Boston and from a Christian family, so you can't tie it to religion,' she said:
Except that the wife converted to Islam for him. Obviously his religion mattered that much to him....
'At that age all they want is love, so he found his love, he married, he had a daughter, and he was very happy about his daughter.'
However, she admitted Tamerlan 'seemingly did not find himself yet in America, because it's not easy.'
She said her brother Anzor Tsarnaev had high expecations for his sons, especially Tamerlan, and was upset when he found out Tamerlan had dropped out of university.
Tamerlan wasn't a devout practicing Muslim,' but just recently, maybe two years ago, he started praying five times a day," she said.
Tsarnaeva said her brother's family came to the United States in 2002 after she helped them apply for refugee status. She said the family also has two sisters who live in Boston.
The older of the two Chechen brothers accused in the Boston marathon bombings once dreamed of representing the US as a boxer, but over the past year, he had turned to radical Islam and got on the path of Jihad.
Sounds like more than a year...
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Temperature affects how much sperm a man makes, so there's been speculation that the freedom offered by a kilt can increase production. Turns out that that at least could be right: a new metastudy says wearing a kilt "likely produces an ideal physiological scrotal environment, which in turn helps maintain normal scrotal temperature, which is known to be beneficial for robust spermatogenesis and good sperm quality." Wonder who funded this study.
The study (PDF), published in the Scottish Medical Journal, reviewed the literature on the link between scrotal temperature and reproduction. We know sperm fares better in lower temperatures, and some researchers have suggested that restrictive clothing could negatively affect sperm production. Enter: the kilt, which author Erwin J.O. Kompanje describes thusly: "The Scottish kilt is a male garment that resembles (but is not!) a knee-length, pleated skirt." A kilt is very comfortable to wear and nothing ever gets caught in a zipper.
The author hypothesizes that, based on past findings about temperature and sperm production, a kilt, specifically one worn in the undergarment-free "regimental" style, would be an ideal environment for sperm production. Boys gotta have room.
Kompanje searched through related research, focusing on statistics in Scotland and noting along the way that 70 percent of kilt-wearers choose to go regimental. Kilts (at least in Scotland or other countries where they're more commonly worn) might also be psychologically valuable, increasing feelings of masculinity when worn. Kompanje goes so far as to write that a downturn in Scottish fertility is correlated with the frequency of kilts being worn, although he admits it's still somewhat speculative until a randomized trial happens.
Gentlemen, put on your kilts for science.
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pretty obviously hipster skinny jeans affect testosterone. Go to a mall and take a look and tell me I'm wrong
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , Pakistain's former military ruler, is expected to spend the weekend in police custody after being tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and told he must face charges that he illegally imprisoned judges during his last year in power.
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[Dawn] A toy bomb went kaboom! in the Shewai village of Buner District on Friday killing two children and a woman after the rocket-like shell they were playing with went kaboom!.
Nawagai police confirmed that three people including a 10-year-old girl, a six-year-old boy and the children's aunt died when the bomb they had found in a field went kaboom!.
The aunt of the ill-fated children had gone to deliver food and refreshments to the male members of the family working in fields near the village.
The SHO of Nawagai cop shoppe, Muhammad Shah Khan confirmed that they had lodged an FIR on the report and are investigating.
Khan said that the children had found the toy-like bomb, which appeared to be either a mortar or an RPG shell and were removing mud from it when it went kaboom!.
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[Al Ahram] Ahram Online captures footage of two men on side of Islamist protesters using firearms against unknown opponents as festivities break out near Cairo's High Court
Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court.
The demonstration was called for by the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist forces.
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[An Nahar] Russia and Egypt called for a ceasefire in Syria "as quickly as possible", President Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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... said Friday, after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi.
"Russia and Egypt support a ceasefire in Syria as soon as possible and the launch of negotiations," between the regime and rebels, the Russian president said following the meeting in the black city resort of Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be held.
The two leaders said they wanted Syria to find its own solution to the crisis, now in its third year, without "external intrusion".
Along with China, Russia is the only world power to have stayed allied with the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , vetoing three rounds of U.N. Security Council resolutions against his government.
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A nice background piece on the lads and their family, and why the American uncle thinks they're losers. And because it's the Wall Street Journal there is also video, a slide show, graphics, and comments somewhat more thoughtful than found at the New York Times. Not behind the paywall.
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An attempted kidnapping of a municipal president by at least 20 armed suspects in a tiny central Zacatecas municipality has left two municipal police agents, one Policia Federal (PF) operator and one security agent for Ferremex railroad dead, according to Mexican news accounts and an anonymous correspondent for Borderlandbeat.com.
According to a news account published on the website of Zacatecas En Linea news daily, the incident took place in Canitas de Felipe Pescador Wednesday afternoon as armed suspects travelling aboard several trucks attacked the town.
"There was an attempt to kill or kidnap Oswaldo Sabag Hamadan...over 20 vehicles of sicarios (gunmen)," according to the correspondent.
The firefight lasted for hours, say some press accounts.
A PF detachment was apparently in the municipality when the assault began but was reportedly too small to deal with such a massive attack, and had to call in and wait for reinforcements, according to press accounts. The PF detachment had been assigned to guard a freight train as it passed through Canitas de Felipe Pescador, which was the stated reason for their presence.
Several armed suspects were shot and killed during the firefight, but their bodies were removed by their comrades in arms, a common tactic among drug gangs involved in shootouts. Going by descriptions in Mexican press, the armed group which attempted to kidnap Sabag Hamadan had apparently badly miscalculated the strength of local and federal security in the town.
Last August Sabag Hamadani was involved in another security incident which sparked fears of a kidnapping.
According to a news account published on the website of Pagina 24, Sabag Hamadani and his family had closed their residence -- which is less than five blocks from Zona Centro -- and had cut off utilities, all apparently without telling anyone.
At the time, Zacatecas Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general Arturo Nahle Garcia said Sabag Hamadani had not been kidnapped but did not elaborate.
It was not until a month later that Sabag Hamadani reemerged in an announcement by Zacatecas state top police official Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), Jesus Pinto Ortiz, according to a separate news account featured in Zacatecas en Linea played down the disappearance saying Sabag Hamadani "comes and goes as he likes."
The news account quoted Senor Pinto Ortiz as saying Canitas de Felipe Pescador is a "hot spot" for criminal groups.
Wednesday's incident seems to indicate that Sabag Hamadani is a target of one group or another, either Los Zetas or the Sinaloa cartel and their allies. The Gulf Cartel is also known to operate in the area and the massive influx of vehicles with armed suspects travelling in the open en convoy in large groups is a Sinaloa cartel tactic in this area of Mexico.
According to the anonymous correspondent talking about about last August's disappearance: "...supposedly he went into hiding due to threats from organized crime, he had a reputation of working for the zetas and this was roughly a month before El Taliban´s arrest so I figure El Taliban had already switched sides at that point and that´s where the threats and hiding came from."
Another kidnapping incident was resolved last week, this time involving a candidate of the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico (PVEM) for Canitas de Felipe Pescador municipal president Jaimie Rincon, according to press accounts.
Two weeks ago Rincon was kidnapped by armed suspects travelling aboard five vehicles at around 0400 hrs April 2nd at his home in La Seccion del Ferrocarril, according to a news account posted on the website of ZTR Zacatecas. Reportedly no ransom had been made nor had any denunciation of the crime took place at the Zacatecas PGJE or with the national Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR).
A week ago, April 13 Rincon was released, beaten and dumped alive near a cemetery in Villa de Cos municipality.
Since his release nothing has been said about the incident.
Zacatecas is one of several states undergoing primary midterm elections for local deputies and municipal presidents, due to take place next July.
Rincon has been kidnapped three times before. He had also run for election for president of a local ejido, and a local livestock trade group.
In national politics, the PVEM is often closely allied with the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), now holding the national presidency in the person of Enrique Pena Nieto.
Said the correspondent: "I have no clue if Jaime Rincon, the precandidate from PVEM, had any link with any of the cartels or if Oswaldo was behind Jaime´s kidnapping, it just called my attention 2 kidnappings of politicians, or one plus a failed attempt, in a town so small, I don´t believe in coincidences of this magnitude."
BorderlandBeat.com reporter Chivis Martinez contributed to this story.
Special thanks to the BorderlandBeat anonymous correspondent for the data and insights into the incidents.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
[Al Ahram] Hardline Islamists threw stones and bottles at young women in a student hostel in Tunis to stop them staging a performance of dance and music, witnesses said on Thursday, in another blow to secular freedoms in the country that spawned the Arab Spring.
Since secular dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fell two years ago in the first of multiple revolts across the Arab world, moderate Islamists have won election and radical Moslems have targeted symbols of a hitherto mainly secular society.
Female university students housed at the Bardo district hostel in the capital were just starting a weekly show of dance and music on Wednesday evening when dozens of hardline Salafists
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[THEHILL] The bombings in Boston have only strengthened President B.O.'s resolve to strengthen international cooperation against terrorism, 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... said Friday.
"For this entire week, we've been in a direct confrontation with evil," Kerry said. "President B.O. has made this a critical component of his foreign policy, and obviously this just emphasizes that."
Kerry, a former senator of Massachusetts, made the remarks in a presser alongside Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade after their bilateral meeting at the State Department. Kerry said cross-border security was a topic of discussion following reports that the two suspects in the attack were Chechen immigrants.
"This underscores the importance of all of us maintaining vigilance and cooperating together internationally," Kerry said. "That's part of what we're talking about here. Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable, and we need to continue to fight against it in the way that we are. It strengthens, actually, my resolve and my sense that we're on the right track, but there's more we can do and we're going to continue to do it."
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Careful, John. You're getting awfully close to the old George Bush Axis of Evil talk. Are you really prepared to make a moral judgment?
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The bombings in Boston have only strengthened President B.O.'s resolve to strengthen international cooperation against terrorism
Not his responsibility, but more appropriately a shared responsibility. Cognitive deflection at war with his advanced cognitive dissonance? I recommend more dagga weed.
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Actually I think Kerry wouldn't mind comparison's to W at this point as they could spin it around the "caught them within a week" angle while W had to wait for Obama to come and catch the villains despite his tough talk.
Besides, the left allows their own a lot of lee-way in hypocracy.
[Al Ahram] A video showing members of the group which clashed with the Islamist protesters on Friday using firearms
A video captured by Ahram's Arabic news website shows members of the group which clashed with the Islamist protesters on Friday using firearms.
Clashes broke out between Islamist protesters and unknown opponents near Cairo's High Court on Friday, leaving dozens injured.
Thousands of Islamist protesters were holding a rally before the High Court in downtown Cairo to demand the "purge of Egypt's judiciary" when festivities erupted.
Another video, captured by Ahram Online, showed of two men on the Islamists side using firearms.
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Apparently, Ahram Online doesnt agree with the AP stylebook (or CAIR for that matter) that the term 'Islamist' is an ill-defined pejorative.
[Dawn] General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was shifted to the police headquarters in Islamabad from his farmhouse residence at Chak Shahzad on Friday, hours after the former military ruler surrendered himself to the authorities in the judges' detention case.
He surrendered himself earlier today before appearing in the court of judicial magistrate Raja Abbas Shah in Islamabad.
The judge issued an order for a two-day-long transit remand of Musharraf. The order also added clause 780-A pertaining to terrorism in the list of charges against the former army strongman.
During the hearing, petitioner's counsel, Advocate Mohammad Bilal Mughal, requested the court for a 15-day-long physical remand of the former president, whereas Musharraf's lawyer, Qamar Afzal, asked for a judicial remand for his client.
The court observed that the list of charges against Musharraf in the judges' detention case entailed terrorism clauses which was why bail could not be granted to the retired general without him surrendering to authorities.
Moreover, police told the court that Musharraf's life was in danger which was why his farmhouse residence needed to be declared a sub-jail.
Subsequently, the court added clause 780-A to the list of charges against Musharraf and ordered a two-day-long transit remand for the former president. An official at the court confirmed the order.
Musharraf will now appear before a special anti-terrorist court on April 21.
A front man for Musharraf's All Pakistain Moslem League (APML) party said: "General Musharraf has been sent on a two-day judicial remand and he will stay at his farmhouse."
APML front man Muhammad Amjad said the magistrate had ordered Musharraf to appear before an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi after two days.
"Musharraf himself surrendered before the court Friday morning," Amjad said, denying media reports that he had been jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! prior to going to court.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The investigation agency's probe into war crimes committed allegedly by Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader AKM Yusuf, historically known as the founder of the Razakar force, is almost done and it is planning to submit a report this week.
Agency officials said they found evidence of Yusuf's "involvement" in genocide, murders, arson, looting, forced religious conversion of people and deportation during the Liberation War in 1971.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Thirteen more people were tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! from three upazilas of Chittagong yesterday in connection with the April 11 attack on an Awami League procession that killed three people at Bhujpur in Fatikchhari upazila.
Police arrested them after conducting raids in Fatikchhari, Raozan and Hathazari from Thursday night to early yesterday, said Kabir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bhujpur Police Station.
With the arrest, 86 people have so far been held for their alleged involvement in the attack.
Of the arrestees, 73 have been remanded for different periods.
On April 11, Jamaat-Shibir activists with Hefajat men attacked the law enforcers and an anti-hartal motor procession of the AL in Kazirhat Bazar of Bhujpur. It left three AL men killed and more than 100 injured.
The following day, police filed a case against some 5,000 people, including 100 named, with Bhujpur Police Station on charges of attacking law enforcers and obstructing them from performing their duties during the attack.
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Long piece at Boston.com on the two young men, how they lived, and reactions from people who knew them.
A very different piece than the one from the WSJ, and therefore provides a completely different set of useful information. The two together provide a nice example of the different ways good reporters exercise their craft.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Almost two years after the Arab Spring carried Islamist parties to power, despair has replaced optimism.
Good.
The murder of Tunisian secular opposition figure Chokri Belaid in February may have been a turning point for the region. His liquidation plunged Tunisia into its worst political crisis since the revolution, sparked nationwide protests and forced the Islamist government to concede some of the control won in the country's first elections.
Then his death had a purpose. No doubt he is enjoying that fact from the startlement of Paradise.
Despite the Ennahda Movement's effort to appease the population, concern over the turban threat has only grown since the killing of the secular politician. Students were attacked for performing internet dance craze "Harlem Shake" and on April 10th, salafists tried to kill a Nabeul headmaster for refusing entry to a student in niqab.
Golly, that sounds an awful lot like the population is right to be concerned.
[An Nahar] Global hopes that democracy could replace dictatorships in Arab Spring nations risk being crushed by repressive regimes, the United States warned Friday in its annual human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. report.
"The hope of the early days of the Arab Awakening has run up against the harsh realities of incomplete and contested transitions," the State Department said in its assessment of the global situation of human rights in 2012.
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The "Arab Spring" isn't just one set of conditions in one country. While Islamists have pushed to the fore in the countries who've tossed their old (literally) dictators, the results haven't been uniform.
Morocco: Islamists in parliament, king remains in power. When Islamists push, liberals shove back. I wish we had better press coverage, because it's an interesting process.
Mauretania: Ould Whatsisname out, cracking down on Qaeda stomping back and forth across its burnin' sands. Who ever heard of the place a few years ago?
Mali: Half the country stolen away by Tuaregs, who then had their ill-gotten gains hijacked by AQIM. La Belle France steps in and chases them out in approximately no time flat.
Algeria: Same old regime in power, but AQIM (ex-GSPC) no longer controls territory.
Tunisia: Islamist Ennahda government, Salafists acting up sufficiently for most people to be sick of Islamism.
Libya: Qadaffy & Sons gone, slowly emerging from a state of anarchy. Benghazi's a problem center, as are a few revanchist tribal areas, but Tripoli's going about the process of turning into an actual country.
Egypt: Mubarak gone, Moslem Brüderbund in power, large segments of the population already sick of them. Sinai's a problem area because of Qaeda infiltration.
Yemen: Saleh's out of power, his influence (and relatives) slowly being discarded. Qaeda took Zinjibar and most of Abyan, plus lots of other territory in the south while Saleh was being dumped--he helped them do it, so he could have a threat to point to--and then when Saleh was out the Yemeni army tossed Qaeda with relative ease. Houthis present a problem because they're Iranian catspaws, and the southern independence movement presents a problem because it's genuine.
Bahrain: Shiites gripe against Sunni king with Iranian support. Low-grade fire that'll likely burn out with time and moderation from the regime.
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As one can see from Fred's most excellent synopsis, the whole problem with the ME is the Juices. (yeah, that's snarkasm)
Actually, despite all the turmoil, I read this as a net positive. Egypt, for example, is going to crash hard, but the people will realize the Mozzie Bruders are just the same old thugs in a new package. It will eventually become tiresome. How long is eventually? Ah, there's the rub!
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You mean the food riots turned out to be just....food riots?
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Sorta No Mo... the food riots had the underlying cause in Climate Change. The US took all the Egyptians maize and turned it into cheap motion lotion for our SUVs. It was BusHilters idea. If the 1% had paid their fair share (1%) well things might have been different.
[An Nahar] Russia on Friday called the deployment of U.S. troops in Jordan over the Syria crisis an unconstructive step that threatens to expand the conflict as the kingdom's Islamist opposition said Amman's government should review its decision.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel revealed Wednesday that 150 U.S. military specialists had been deployed in Jordan since last year and that he had ordered the army to bolster the mission by bringing the total American presence to more than 200 troops.
Russian foreign ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich said such a move ran counter to internationally-agreed principles for ending the crisis through negotiations.
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OTOH see RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOURCE: JORDAN ASKED US FOR MISSLE DEFENSE PROTECTION } [Washington Times] US TO DEPLOY PATRIOT MISSLE BATTERIES ON JORDAN-SYRIA BORDER.
IIUC, the new troops are an adjunct or complement to the Patriots.
[An Nahar] The United States unveiled plans Friday to sell $10 billion worth of advanced missiles and aircraft to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in a bid to counter the threat posed by Iran.
Certainly the taxes on those sales will help the American budget deficit... and unlike Egypt, these countries can afford it.
It was highly unusual for the Pentagon to announce an arms deal covering three countries and the move seemed to be designed to send a warning to Iran that Washington's partners in the region were beefing up their military power.
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[An Nahar] Leaders of Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, met in Qatar on Friday amid renewed impetus for a unity government after the resignation of prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , a Paleostinian official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Newly re-elected Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal chaired the meeting in his base in exile in Qatar, which was also attended by Hamas leaders from Gazoo including its prime minister Ismail Haniya.
Momentum has built for reconciliation between Hamas and the Fatah movement of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... since the resignation of Fayyad, a U.S.-trained economist whose appointment as premier was never recognized by the Islamists.
"The meeting began on Thursday and will continue until Saturday," the official said, requesting anonymity.
Hamas leaders will discuss "Paleostinian reconciliation, developments in the Paleostinian arena following Fayyad's resignation, as well as ways of pressing Israel to release Paleostinian prisoners," the official said.
The Islamists never recognized Fayyad's appointment to replace Haniya after their seizure of Gazoo in bloody street battles in 2007 that effectively divided the Paleostinian territories in two, with Abbas' writ confined to the West Bank.
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[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is hoping to wean placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! al-Qaeda cut-throats off religious extremism with counseling, spa treatments and plenty of exercise at a luxury rehabilitation center in Riyadh.
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Good behavior could earn them a two-day break with their wives.
The FBI is really good at running down accomplices and enablers when they're allowed to do their work...
The search for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings and anybody else who may have been involved hit New Bedford, Mass. Friday evening.
After local and state police and FBI agents allegedly searched Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs UMass Dartmouth dorm room, authorities swarmed to the Rockdale West apartment complex in New Bedfords West End. Three people were arrested on scene, and are allegedly friends of the second suspect.
New Bedford Police say the three people in custody are being questioned by the FBI. Police say Tsarnaev spent a substantial amount of time at the Carriage Drive apartment.
One neighbor says he had a friendly relationship with Tsarnaev, and the three that were arrested share the same cell phone bill with the bombing suspect.
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[An Nahar] A German police bomb squad Friday destroyed a letter containing an explosive substance that was sent to the Berlin residence of President Joachim Gauck, his office and security sources said.
Gauck, whose post as head of state is largely ceremonial, was not at the Bellevue Palace residence at the time, and no staff were endangered, an office spokeswoman said.
The suspect letter was discovered in routine mail screening and destroyed in a controlled kaboom in a remote part of the grounds of the palace in Berlin, said Gauck's office.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion personnel on Friday recovered fire arms, ammunitions and bombs from Harinakunda upazila in Jhenidah.
Acting on a tip-off, a contingent of the elite force raided Dakhalpur bazar area in the upazila at around 6:00am, said Captain Ashraf Ali, Rab-6 camp commander.
They recovered a shotgun, a pistol, seven rounds of fresh ammunitions and seven bombs, reports our Jhenidah correspondent quoting the Rab official.
New writer opts for efficiency. I miss the old days.
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WATERTOWN A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night.
After a nearly two-hour standoff in a Watertown neighborhood, Tsarnaev was taken from the scene by ambulance to a local hospital.
The standoff began just before 7 p.m., minutes after Massachusetts State Police announced that they had completed their door-to-door search in Watertown without locating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
WBZ-TVs Jim Armstrong was in the area of Franklin Street when he heard what he described as 15-20 seconds of rapid gunfire. He was forced to take cover, and was quickly moved back to safety by police.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino confirmed to WBZ-TV that police had surrounded the bombing suspect inside a boat in the backyard of a home on Franklin Street. Sources say that a resident called police to report finding blood by the boat. WBZ NewsRadio 1030 reported that authorities were able to confirm there was a person inside by using a thermal camera from a helicopter.
On the ground, Armstrong described a flurry of police activity that erupted moments after police wrapped up a press conference in which they lifted a day-long lockdown in Watertown, Boston and several surrounding communities. Police were seen carrying small children to safety. Because the lockdown had been lifted, there were people out on the streets when the gunfire started.
Additional loud bangs were heard around 7:50 p.m. approximately one hour after the first gunshots were heard in the neighborhood.
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Some were theorizing it was a police trick, to lure him out - declaring the area "cleared". The WaPo said a homeowner (apparently came out after the all clear) discovered blood on his boat and peeked inside to find the seriously wounded suspect. Police then tried to stir him with a flash-bang, but still got no response.
All the shooting? Where was Fearless Fosdick? Who missed looking inside the boat?
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Firstly, I certainly applaud the work of Local Law Enforcement. Don't wish to sound like an armchair quarterback however, some very interesting Rules of Engagement (ROE) appeared to be in play when compared to what was mandated in Iraq and AFG. If they had PI [positive ID] and returned fire, there were some very poorly placed shots. Might [might] be something to look in to in the After Action Report and Lessons Learned session. Just saying.
At this juncture, I am more interested in the financials, communications, potential network, and the tools used. Weapons, fuses, explosives, detonators, fone circuit boards, and training. I hope we learn more about these aspects and they don't somehow go behind the Benghazi 'Green Door'.
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Agree on that one. As ugly and awful as Beslan was in Russia, such an act would very much tear at our own social fabric.
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"They" missed looking in the boat cause the boat was outside the cordon.
What I want to know is why he returned to Watertown (probably has to do with his brother) since he was in Dartmouth ~60 miles south on Wed. after the bombs went off.
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Cowardly and errible as it was, we should be thankful hostages were not taken and that it was not another Beslan school massacre.
Overheard on the internet:
I watched the day-long coverage of the Boston bombers on Fox and CNN.
When one Fox host described the culprits as punks, former-senator and current current Fox commentator Scott Brown said, Not punkscowards. Cowards. What is this need to describe terrorists as cowards? Is it supposed to make them feel inadequate? Call them savages, called them maniacal killers; no need to call them cowards. At the same time, the newscasters talk about how Boston residents were terrorized and living in fear for the past few days. Were they really? I think its unseemly to be terrorized by any problem a sidearm should be able to handle. If Bostonians were terrorized, I would apply the term cowards to them.
I'm inclined to agree. Anyone who's willing to take on the entire law enforcement and military infrastructure of the country - which numbers over a million paid and trained full-time professionals equipped with the latest that our hundred-billion dollar a year procurement budget can buy - by perpetrating these acts can't be described as a coward. If that infrastructure did not exist, and the attackers were doing this at will, sure.
A United Nations anti-racism committee has accused Germany of breaking an international agreement by allowing the controversial ex-politician Thilo Sarrazin to spread inflammatory ideas about Muslims with impunity.
Four years after the former central banker triggered a public outcry with his book Deutschland schafft sich ab - Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen (Germany does away with itself - How we're putting our country at jeopardy), Sarrazin's opinions have been officially recognised as racist by the UN.
The UN charges that Germany broke an international anti-racism accord by ignoring Sarrazin's anti-Turkish and anti-Muslim statements. At the time, many had defended Sarrazin's right to express his opinions.
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ISLAM in its existing definition has no place in Europe or America. Until Muslims cease their mission to introduce further Islamic conditions upon us then Muslims shall be deemed fully accountable. It is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
[An Nahar] Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as president of Venezuela on Friday, taking the oath of office in the memory of the late Hugo Chavez to cheers in the National Assembly.
"I swear it before the eternal memory of the supreme commander," he said after being read the oath by National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello.
Cheers broke out in the packed assembly as the presidential sash was placed over the 50-year-old Maduro, who was elected president Sunday in snap elections to replace Chavez, who died of cancer on March 5 after 14 years in power.
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The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him.
As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage.
Both Tsarnaev brothers were legal permanent residents of the U.S. There is no evidence so far that either brother received any tactical training.
CBS News correspondent John Miller reports it is likely Russia asked to have the elder Tsarnaev vetted because of suspected ties to Chechen extremists.
The FBI is likely to have run a background check, running his name through all the relevant databases, including those of other agencies, checking on his communications and all of his overseas travel. Miller reports that culminated in a sit-down interview where they probably asked him a lot of questions about his life, his contacts, his surroundings. All of this was then written in a report and sent it to the requesting government.
This is an issue they've had in the past. They interviewed Carlos Bledsoe in Little Rock, Ark., before he shot up an Army recruiting station in 2009. They were also looking into Major Hasan Nadal before the Fort Hood shootings. However, the FBI has maintained in those incidents that they took all the steps they were asked to and were allowed to under the law.
Although the FBI initially denied contacting Tsarnaev, the brothers' mother said they had in an interview with Russia Today. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said her son got involved in "religious politics" about five years ago, and never told her he was involved in "jihad."
In other words, it's the typical progression of a young man who decides to become a jihadi. It didn't happen overnight, in a week or a month. Step by step he made decisions and thought thoughts that brought him to the Marathon with a backpack bomb. So the questions are --
1) who were the people who aided him in this conversation and conversion? We know, know, that he didn't get there on his own.
2) who financed the latest steps? Who got him to plant the bombs?
He didn't do this on his own.
She insisted the FBI "knew what he was doing on Skype" and that they counseled him "every step of the way."
Tsarnaeva, who is a U.S. citizen currently in Russia, told Russia Today the FBI had called her with concerns about her elder son, although she did not specify when exactly she was contacted.
"They used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me ... they were telling me that he was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him," Tsarnaeva said. "They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites... they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step...and now they say that this is a terrorist act!"
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If INS Agent Brian A. Terry were alive today, he might have an interesting comment or two.
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SO let me get this straight. If a non-citizen is referred to the FBI/DHS by a foreign intelligence service, and the standard for denial to retain green card status after six months out of the country, when the subject is a known Muslim, Chechen jihadi-condoning individual, must be incriminating evidence?
Jesus Mary and Joseph, how f'ing stupid a nation have we become?
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File under investigations right next to Muslims studying at flight schools prior to 9/11. No one got fired on ignoring that one either. Has 'making an example to encourage others' been forgotten in human behavior modification? Kimmel and Short could not be reached for comment.
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"They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites... they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step...and now they say that this is a terrorist act!"
If true, appears to be an amazing similarity between Nadal Hasan and the older Tsarnaev. Was Tsarnaev an unwitting source gone bad? Lots of questions here.
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I hope the Congress demands to look at the Tsarnaev file. Look at the last date of contact. Last US contact with foreign intelligence ref the subject. Agent assessments on subject, recommendations, etc.
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From the above Debka article: An elite American college in Cambridge admitted younger brother Dzhokhar and granted him a $2,500 scholarship, without subjecting him to the exceptionally stiff standard conditions of admission.
The city of Cambridge was the source of the scholarship. UMass-Dartmouth is not an 'elite American college". I'm sure UMass has admission qualifications, really doubt they are 'exceptionally stiff.'
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The city of Cambridge was the source of the scholarship. UMass-Dartmouth is not an 'elite American college". I'm sure UMass has admission qualifications, really doubt they are 'exceptionally stiff.'
Debka's almost up there with the BBC, or the NYT when it comes to the Midwest.
There are very well established protocols [Laws] for US Intelligence or law enforcement contact with Non-US Persons. How many times and on what dates did the Bureau [or anyone else] meet with Tsarvaev? Reports on each personal meet [PM] with Non-US Persons are maintained? Outstanding issues? Recommendations? Contact terminations, etc?
If Tsarnaev was of no interest to the Bureau or US Intelligence, why not ?
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From #4 Proc wrote "Kimmel and Short could not be reached for comment. " For the first fifteen seconds I was trying to recall the movie starring Jimmy Kimmel and Martin Short.
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I'm not discounting Debka either. This type of story is closer to their editorial objective; it would make sense that they'd do a more thorough 'journalistic' job, like quoting people.
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I didn't think the Midwest started in Cambridge these days; I thought you had to go all the way to the Hudson.
Just ask Maureen Dowd. The Midwest starts on the western side of the Hudson River just across from Manhattan.
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Don't know about the rest of the article but U-Mass Dartmouth is that "safe" school that you apply to cause you have to get in somewhere (first hand experience of youngest son).
Sounds like they conflated the UKs Cambridge with Dartmouth in New Hampshire.
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Here is where it gets really troubling. Tamerlan is inerviewed two years ago at the request of the SVR/FSB and we can assume that they cite Chechen/Jihadi connections. We can assume that State was the conduit or was copied a result of the field interview/EC by the field agent/JTTF member. One must assume in the filing of the interview report and followup investigation that produced no "incriminating evidence" that there were words for the cross reference/grographic search criteria that included Boston, redicalized, Chechen,foreign government referral, etc. Two years later, boom, with a signature explosive that in the initial 24 hour period gives a signature of the kind of device favored by jihadi groups, Islamists, foreign trained radicals. So the FBI and the entire federal government commits thousands of agents/analysts/investigators searching every conceivable database, and they get bupkiss about this kid? I've done a few linak analysis/analyst notebook/EC searches, and this is beyond understanding. They don't go loooking for the host of people who fit those criteria and come up with these mutts? It requires a photo plea to the public to get movement? Something is not adding up. And, what about the Mosque, its links to other Mosques, and the suddenly deported person of interest Al-Haribi ($) whose family is deep in AQ support and was also a student in the Boston area. an now we find the Chechen Emirate in Tamerlan past and its link to AQ. Does anyone else smell the whiff of overripe seafood? Please........
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I believe that Massachusetts only has a rear plate, like PA, NC, SC, GA and FL.
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First, there are clear shots of that plate elsewhere. It says terrorista. Second, MA requires legal plates front and rear. These guys are pretty bold and confident, aren't they.
[Dawn] After it failed to reach a seat adjustment agreement either with the PML-N or the PTI, political observers are increasingly asking how the JI will perform on May 11.
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[Dawn] Taliban beturbanned goons killed 13 local coppers while they were sleeping on Friday, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said.
The coppers were rubbed out in the Andar district of Ghazni province, said district governor Mohammad Qasim Desiwal.
"They were asleep when their checkpoint came under attack by the Taliban and were killed by AK-47 fire," Desiwal told AFP.
Provincial governor Mosa Khan Akbarzada confirmed the corpse count and said a delegation had been sent to the district to investigate.
The victims were members of the 18,000-strong Afghan Local Police, a village-level force formed in 2010 to provide security in areas where the better-trained national police and army are scarce.
Afghan troops and police are increasingly on the front line against the krazed killers, and suffering heavier casualties, as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... combat troops prepare to withdraw by the end of next year.
The bodies of four Afghan regular soldiers were found on Wednesday with their throats slit in Jawzjan, a day after they were kidnapped by the Taliban along the road to the northern province.
The Taliban have been waging an insurgency against the Afghan government since they were toppled from power by a US-led invasion in 2001.
Attacks traditionally intensify in spring after the harsh winter recedes.
A total of 23 people were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday, including the four soldiers and two local employees of the Red Islamic Thingy medical charity.
Gherardo Pontrandolfi, head of the International Committee of the Red Thingy delegation in Kabul, said those killings would make it even harder to reach people in need.
"In many areas people cannot reach hospitals or clinics safely. And the end of winter is likely to bring renewed fighting, making the problem worse," Pontrandolfi said in a statement on Thursday.
Separately, the interior ministry in Kabul said on Friday that police have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! five Taliban beturbanned goons who were planning suicide kabooms on civilians in the capital and in another city later this month.
The four men and one woman were placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Thursday and police seized four suicide bomb vests and C-4 explosives along with other weapons, the ministry said.
"They were trained outside Afghanistan's borders and have confessed their crime," ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference.
He said the five Afghans were linked to the Taliban and the Haqqani network and were arrested "as they were preparing to launch a coordinated attack on civilian facilities on April 27-28" in Kabul and Jalalabad.
April 28, Victory Day, is a public holiday marking the mujahideen's overthrow in 1992 of the Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah.
The Haqqani network, a faction of the Taliban, was founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a mujahideen leader against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s who is now based with his family in Pakistain.
Haqqani is close to Al-Qaeda and his fighters are active across east and southeastern Afghanistan and in Kabul.
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[An Nahar] The adviser of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati denied on Friday that three hand grenades found in the northern town of Qalamoun were placed to target Miqati.
In remarks to Voice of Leb radio (100.5), Fares Gemayel denied the report published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday.
State commissioner to the military court Judge Saqr Saqr tasked on Friday the military intelligence to investigate the details of the incident as the military command said in a communique that the grenades were placed in a plastic container.
An Nahar said that the grenades found on the side of the highway in Qalamoun were aimed at targeting Miqati's convoy while on his way back to Beirut from the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
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[Dawn] Nearly half a dozen people, including a worker 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 killed in separate incidents of firing in the city on Thursday, police and party sources said.
The MQM worker was rubbed out in Mehmoodabad, the area police said.
They added that gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on Mohammad Faisal Khan at his stationery shop in Mehmoodabad No 2 and sped away.
The victim was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where he was admitted in a critical condition, the police said.
"The patient had been brought with a gunshot wound in the head. His condition was very critical and he was put on a ventilator, but he died in the evening," said Dr Seemin Jamali, official in charge of accidents and emergency ward of the JPMC.Following the incident, tension gripped the locality leading to immediate closure of shops and markets.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, meanwhile, condemned the killing of Mohammad Faisal, Mehmoodabad Sector UC-5 joint sector in charge of the party's organizational structure. The MQM coordination committee announced a day of mourning over the incident.
'Sectarian' attack
A man was rubbed out in what police suspected to be a sectarian attack in Malir late Thursday night.
The police said gunnies riding a cycle of violence fired at Syed Hasnain Mehdi at a roadside tea stall in Urdu Nagar, Malir.
The victim was struck down in his prime, the police said, adding that the body was shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.
"A patient was brought with a gunshot wound in the head," said a senior doctor at the JPMC.
Three found rubbed out in Kharadar
The bodies of three young men stuffed in gunny bags were found in the old city area of Kharadar on Thursday morning, police said.
They added that all the three victims were employees at a fisheries unit and had gone missing on April 16 on their way back home from work.
The families had lodged a missing report about the youngsters at the Docks cop shoppe, the police said.
The bodies of two victims stuffed in a gunny bag were spotted in a street near Sarafa Bazaar, said the officials. They added that the victims were later identified as 25-year-old Mustafa aka Bengali and 18-year-old Shahbaz.
The police said that just two streets from the scene of the crime, another body stuffed in a gunny bag was found.
The bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital 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... where the third victim was later identified as Yasin, a resident of Juna Market, Nishtar Road, said the police.
They said that Yasin and Mustafa were cousins.
The police Sherlocks were not sure about the motive for the murders.
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[An Nahar] 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... on Friday refused to speculate on the implications of the reported Chechen roots of two brothers believed to have carried out the Boston bombings.
"I think it's fair to say that for this entire week we've been in pretty direct confrontation with evil," Kerry said after talks with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade.
He was speaking as thousands of heavily armed police staged a house-to-house hunt for a teenager suspected of carrying out the Boston marathon bombings, hours after his brother was killed in a shootout.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan were said to be of Chechen origin but were legal residents of the United States.
Kerry, who for almost three decades served as the senator for Massachusetts and has long ties to the Boston Marathon, said people should not jump to conclusions until Sherlocks complete their probe into Monday's attack.
"I'm not going to get into speculation, I'm not going to deal with a hypothetical," the top U.S. diplomat insisted, when asked about the suspects' ties to Chechnya, a mainly Moslem Russian republic in the Northern Caucasus.
"The one thing I will say is: terror is terror. And this underscores the importance of all of us maintaining vigilance and cooperating together internationally.
"Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."
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This vain, foppish, silly man would be amusing to laugh at as he postures, utterly incapable of noting amidst his preening that he has nothing of substance to say. Sadly, he is the Secretary of State, and does not see how sad that is for the Republic.
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But his fellow travelers couldn't slow down to blame Tucson on Palin, or other acts on the Tea Party, or Sandy Hook on the NRA.
aristagogue - those who gain power or prestige by playing upon the vanity, prejudices and insecurities of those who see themselves as our best and brightest, or who wish to be so seen by others.
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Rico, bring me the Tsarnaev file. Rossman, bring the car around.
You can bet there were more than a few Oh f**k moments in Washington when the Bureau 'ran the traps' and discovered they had actually received a tip on this fellow from foreign intelligence and had actually interviewed him as well.
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"Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."
Jeez, like in...Benghazi?
God, he's such a despicable piece of shit...
[Al Ahram] A car sought by Connecticut State Police and believed to be occupied by a possible suspect linked to the Boston Marathon bombing has been located in the Boston area, a police front man said on Friday.
Connecticut police declined to comment further.
The car was described as a gray Honda CRV with Massachusetts license plates.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Friday placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three operatives of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir with some leaflets which they were distributing to the devotees at Azad Mosque in city's Gulshan.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, said they first caught Isa Khan, 24, red handed while he was distributing the leaflets just before starting the Juma prayer at noon in the mosque.
Isa Khan's two other cohorts--Delwar Hossain, 25, and Nayem Abdulla, 24, who beat feet from the scene--were arrested from the city's Niketon areas little later, he added.
Isa Khan completed graduation last year from North South University, Nayem is a student of Dhaka International University while Delwar is a higher secondary level student under Open University, police said.
The OC said the statements of the recovered leaflets urged army to come foreword in 'rescuing' the nation from the alleged 'grip' of both ruling Awami League and BNP.
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[An Nahar] U.N. human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... chief Navi Pillay on Friday slammed a new wave of executions in Iraq, saying the country's justice system was seriously flawed.
Pillay issued a sharply-worded statement a day after Iraq put 21 men to death for terrorist offenses, bringing to 50 the number of executions Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has carried out so far this year, despite widespread calls for a moratorium.
"Executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse," said Pillay, pointing to reports that a further 150 people could be executed in coming days.
"The criminal justice system in Iraq is still not functioning adequately, with numerous convictions based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, a weak judiciary and trial proceedings that fall short of international standards," she said.
"The application of the death penalty in these circumstances is unconscionable, as any miscarriage of justice as a result of capital punishment cannot be undone," she added.
A total of 1,400 people are believed to be currently on death row in Iraq, and 129 people were executed in 2012 alone, Pillay's office said.
Her front man Rupert Colville said it was not clear why the number of executions in Iraq was spiking.
"There were years where there were hardly any or no executions, three or four years ago," Colville told news hounds.
"Obviously, Iraq is suffering still from many acts of terrorism, many bombs, atrocities continue to take place there, but that doesn't warrant executions on this kind of scale, or executions at all, necessarily," he said.
"It's extremely deplorable, and depressing, that this kind of conveyer belt of executions continues," he added.
Iraq says that it only executes individuals convicted under its 2005 anti-terrorism law who have committed terrorist acts or other serious crimes against civilians.
Pillay said the law was too broad in scope.
"I am the first to argue there must never be impunity for serious crimes. But at least if someone is jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for life, and it is subsequently discovered there was a miscarriage of justice, he or she can be released and compensated," she added.
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hey, Navi, why don't you issue these statements while walking in Baghdad? Spend some time in the streets, walk with the common fodder, ditch the armored limo and security?
Or, you could just STFU, while they remove the tumors
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Frank,
My sentiments exactly.
Where was this impotent clown when the Iranians were killing Iraqis by the thousands with their car bombs and support for AQI?
Where was this idiot when they tried the chemical attack in Amman, potentially killing thousands in and around the Hyatt?
Amazing, the jihadis blow up crowds, kidnap, rape and murder tourists, and plot to kill thousands of people indiscriminately and the UN sits on their hands, but if someone gives the jihadis the consequences of their irrational behavior, the tut tutting and the concerns start.
And of course, we have Amnesty International that would say a word when when a terrorist kills dozens in a pizza parlor gasping in mock indignation when the US sticks a guys head in a bucket of water to get some information.
Screw them all.
Bring back the enhanced interrogations and lets get on with it.
We are, as Allan West says in a war of cultures and a religious war. Islam has declared war on the rest of the world and we have to make a response.
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[An Nahar] At least 82 people were hurt on Friday after Egyptian opposition activists marched on thousands of Islamists rallying outside the Supreme Court in central Cairo demanding judicial reform, an official said.
The fighting took place in Abdel Moneim Square and on the October 6 Bridge that passes over it after crossing the Nile River. Islamists on the bridge threw rocks at Islamic fascistibelow, including masked members of the so-called Black Bloc.
An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said some of the Black Bloc members fired birdshot at people on the bridge, wounding two of them.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni security officials confirmed on Thursday that an American-led drone strike aimed at one al-Qaeda' stronghold south of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killed five alleged terror jihad boys.
The drone missiles hit four terror suspects as they were traveling in the desert area of Wussab al-Ali, about 140 Km south of Sana'a, in the province of Dhamar said a local official, adding that a second strike aimed directly at a house killed a fifth suspect, Hamed Radman, a man who has been identified by the American intelligence services as a jihadist.
Eye witnesses spoke of tunneling smoke rising above the hit area.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The "master suite" is being phased out -- not from our homes, but from our lexicon.
Two policemen escaped from the communist New People's Army (NPA) who abducted them less than a week ago in Surigao del Sur province in Mindanao, police said on Friday.
[An Nahar] Volunteers are searching for a pair of wallabies hopping through Austria -- yes, Austria.
Nawaz Sharif
Moqtada 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Pervez 
...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[THEHILL] The bombings in Boston have only strengthened 
[An Nahar] Global hopes that democracy could replace dictatorships in Arab Spring nations risk being crushed by repressive regimes, the United States warned Friday in its annual 
WATERTOWN A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night.
A United Nations anti-racism committee has accused Germany of breaking an international agreement by allowing the controversial ex-politician Thilo Sarrazin to spread inflammatory ideas about Muslims with impunity.
Najib Miqati
[Dawn] Nearly half a dozen people, including a worker of the 
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
[Yemen Post] Yemeni security officials confirmed on Thursday that an American-led drone strike aimed at one al-Qaeda' stronghold south of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killed five alleged terror
