"The markets will continue to push oil's price higher and higher, as a simple function of dollar weakness. And the Saudis will continue to readjust their "break-even" number to account for dollar weakness. If they're not getting the price they want, they'll simply pinch the hose."
I would recommend against buying long-term fixed-dollar investments, Buffett said at a public appearance in New Delhi. If you ask me if the U.S. dollar is going to hold its purchasing power fully at the level of 2011 five years, 10 years or 20 years from now, I would tell you it will not.
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On the other hand all those Hondas, Nissens, Toyotas, etc assembled and manufactured in the US will be at world competitive prices. Then watch the world erect trade barriers [aka regulations] to Made in America so we can see the saps we've been on 'free markets'.
"Is CBS protecting the President in some way? Did the White House bring pressure to bear on CBS over the tape? Is this all much ado about nothing? CBS News decline to comment doesnt help matters much."
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Everybody with two brain cells to rub together has problems with you, you lying worthless self-centered charletan Al.
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anyone with a sense of ethics, conscience, honor, and intelligence has a problem with you, Al, you POS. Apparently for Obama, not so much. He just had two meetings and public appearances with this pomaded race-baiting lying asshat
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Al Sharpton:"Black Intellectuals Have Problems With Me"
Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh has accepted a deal negotiated by neighboring Gulf nations to step down, according to a senior Yemeni Foreign Ministry official.
Saleh and the Yemeni opposition have both agreed to the deal in principle. But Saleh hasn't yet signed the agreement, which mandates that he leave office within 30 days and provides complete immunity for him and those who served in his regime.
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1st draft of the Marilyn Monroe "7 year itch" scene. It got better
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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Simone Simon aka Marie Claudel in "Girls' Dormitory" aka Marie Armand in "Ladies in Love" aka Diane in "Seventh Heaven" aka Belle in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" aka Irena Dubrovna Reed in "Cat People & The Curse of the Cat People" (Died in 2005 at age 94)
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This is something that I have noticed for sometime.
With China and many other countries having become major players in the world theater what have they done to help the world in need. The Muslims nothing.
The same I believe can be said of our new major players. We are sending a new signal to the world - you are on your own. The generosity of our people is a sign they haven't taxed us enough to our current crop of leaders. They want your money, control and credit for everything.
I don't claim absolute certainty about what the world will be like in 2023, but I know what our governing class is telling us. At Tufts University, Nancy Pelosi urged her "Republican friends" to "take back your party, so that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors. Elections shouldn't matter as much as they do."
The last line attracted a bit of attention, but the "shared values" - i.e., the fetid bromides of conventional wisdom are worth decoding, too: "Education of our children" means more spending on an abusive and wasteful unionized educrat monopoly; "growth of our economy" means more spending on stimulus funding for community-organizer grant applications; "how we defend our country" means more spending on defense welfare for wealthy allies; "our security and civil liberties" means more spending on legions of crack TSA crotch fondlers; "how we respect our seniors" means more spending on entitlements for an ever more dependent citizenry whose sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make any sense.
Nancy Pelosi fleshed out the Obama plan: More spending. More more. Now and forever. That's what S&P understands. The road to hell is paved with stimulus funding.
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BP, you drop the term "rent-seeking" in almost every comment, as if it is the premises, the argument, and the conclusion all wrapped up in one. Could you please define it?
-- RandomJD (although I do like "Omelet, Dark Lord of the Lutherans"! LOL Fred.)
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Nancy "You got to pass it before you can read it" Pelosi. I would not vote for any Pub who would listen the likes of Pelosi. I recall Obomb stating we won the election (so we don't have to listen to the Republicans). Take no prisoners!
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BP, you drop the term "rent-seeking" in almost every comment, as if it is the premises, the argument, and the conclusion all wrapped up in one. Could you please define it?
Rent-seeking generally implies the extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity, such as by gaining control of land and other pre-existing natural resources, or by imposing burdensome regulations or other government decisions that may affect consumers or businesses.
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I think Ann called them 'Looters' in Atlas Shrugged.
Almost 1700 insurgent sympathisers have turned themselves in to authorities in southern Thailand over the past three months.
Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) secretary-general Panu Uthairat said that the center had achieved its target of having 80% of those suspected of involvement in the unrest report to authorities between January and March.
Six suspected members of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) insurgent group turned themselves in to security authorities in Yala province yesterday. They arragnged their surrender through community and religious leaders.
They to help Thai authorities restore peace in the region through a project called Klab Ban Rao Rak Ror Yoo, which means "Come back home. Love is waiting."
Awwwww.
Also yesterday, a military task force seized explosive materials and bomb-making devices in Narathiwat province.
A southern security intelligence agency warned that the Barasi Revolusi Nasional (BRN) Coordinate insurgent group had sent five teams to carry out attacks in the deep South. The teams, whose members are teenagers and are unknown to authorities, received weapons training overseas. They were trained to use heavy weapons such as RPG and M79 grenade launchers, and have been dispatched to Yala and Songkhla provinces. Authorities are on the lookout.
[Dawn] Militants beheaded a sympathiser of anti-Taliban lashkar and threw his body on the main Matani-Adezai Road on the suburbs of provincial metropolis on Thursday morning, locals and police said.
The victim was identified as Niaz Badshah of Matani village. He had been kidnapped on April 11 from Kishangarh Road. Police said that he (victim) was a welder and had a workshop at Matani Bazaar.
The villagers said that he was a sympathiser of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar, which had been fighting against Taliban since 2008. A source said that a resident of Kashangarh village had requested him to visit his residence to take proper measurement for preparation of an iron gate for him.
The welder, riding a cycle of violence, had been picked by unidentified gunnies. His cycle of violence was left abandoned on the road. However, The all-purpose However... it is yet to be ascertained as to who had asked him to visit his residence.
The source said that following his disappearance local elders held a meeting and through a unanimously adopted resolution requested Taliban to release him as he was a poor man and lone bread earner of family. But they received no positive response from the other side.
It was learnt that a letter was also placed on the body, stating that those supporting anti-Taliban groups would meet the same fate.
Dilawar Khan, the head of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar, when contacted, confirmed that Niaz Badshah was his close friend and used to visit his residence frequently. He was opposed to Taliban, he added.
"I had asked him many times to avoid speaking against Taliban and visiting my house as it was dangerous for him but he was a bold persons and never felt any fear," Mr Khan said, adding Taliban were involved in his murder.
Police said that the body was handed over to his relatives after postmortem for burial. A case against unidentified Islamic fascistiwas registered at Matani cop shoppe.
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TRENTON Derek Fenton, the New Jersey Transit employee fired for burning pages of the Quran at the site of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero will get his job back, according to a settlement obtained by The Star-Ledger. The ACLU brought a suit on behalf of Fenton. The state offered the settlement which Fenton accepted.
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Armed suspects torched three homes and five vehicles in a kidnapping and terror spree in Durango Thursday, the capital of the north central Mexican state of Durango, according to Mexican news accounts.
The first incident too place in the Residencial Santa Teresa colony, which is a gated community. A number of armed suspects threatened armed guards at the entrance to the community, who then let them in. The suspects kidnapped a unreleased number of people in a residence on Avenida Coliseo before setting it and an ATV at the site afire.
Later about ten armed suspects walked to a residence on Calle Atenguillo in the Jalisco colony, abducted ten individuals, then set the house and three vehicles on fire before leaving the area.
Finally at a residence on Calle Mimbres in the Colinas del Saltito colony, armed suspects kidnapped an unreleased number of people before setting the home and a luxury SUV parked in the garage afire.
Inside the third home police found police caps and boots.
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This is why colonias are popping up on the American side of the border as those in the ruling caste [re:purer Spanish blood] move their families into gated communities in El Norte. Having dumped their indio y mestizo population by the millions on the US in order to put off reform and revolution in the home country, it may not be a safe assumption as such troubles tend to follow.
SEOUL -- North Korea on Friday threatened to launch "unpredictable and merciless" fire against South Korea over its anti-Pyongyang leaflets, the latest warning amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to ease tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula and revive stalled talks on the North's nuclear programs.
South Korean activists and defectors frequently send hundreds of thousands of leaflets calling for a popular revolt to topple North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, which the North sees as psychological warfare against it. In a carefully orchestrated move, they floated some 200,000 leaflets on April 15 that included stories of the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East in hopes of inspiring North Koreans to eventually rise up against their longtime autocratic leader.
I can imagine that rattled a few cages...
April 15 is the birthday of North Korea's late founder Kim Il-sung, the father of the current leader, and is one of the most important holidays in the isolated country along with that of his son.
Ooooooh, that really rattled their cages...
On Friday, the North's military warned in a message to its South Korean counterpart that leafleting "is a form of psychological warfare and just a clear-cut war provocation to a warring side."
"Direct fire at the area where leaflets are let fly will be a legitimate punishment" against the violator of an armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, the North's military said in the message carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
It also warned that it will "expand the scope of direct fire ... into full-scale destruction fire at any area anytime," noting that confrontational moves from Seoul against the North "will result only in unpredictable and merciless punishment from our army."
But as the North's news agency issued the warning, South Korean activists floated some 300,000 leaflets near the eastern land border with North Korea. Lee Min-bok, who organized the campaign, said he will continue to send leaflets, saying the North's threat is an indication that leaflets are having an impact on North Koreans.
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If the Norks do launch artillery at the ROK the smart move would be to immediately launch counter battery fire. I doubt that the Norks are prepared to up the ante and it would alter the Norks political calculations of the possible costs of provoking the south in the future.
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The Norks have a lot of guns in bunkers to menace SKor. Using 155mm artillery with accurate fires would need one round per bunker, which just takes too long.
One solution would be a peculiarity: heavy, medium range bombers capable of dropping dozens of independently GPS targeted Small Diameter Bombs that can penetrate 5-8 feet of reinforced concrete.
The bombers themselves would be fairly low tech, and would drop their bombs from far outside any SAM range, probably three dozen bombs per aircraft. Just a dozen such aircraft would neutralize most of the Norks offensive artillery capabilities within a few minutes.
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If the Norks are crazy enough to do it, they probably could hurt the people launching the balloons. Those folks should take reasonable precautions to operate quickly, launch at different times, from different places, and get away quickly.
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CHINA'S CPC + PLA are prob quietly thanking the GOD OF EARTHQUAKES for 03/11 + Japan's ongoing FUKUSHIMA CRISIS, as the scenario is there that they could takeover Japan + recover Okinawa, Taiwan etc. islands in due time widout need of waging any major Regional War.
RADICAL ISLAM HAS ITS POTENTIAL JASMINE-INDUCED PROTO-CALIPHATE; CHINA MAY YET HAVE ITS FUTURE PROVINCE OR VASSAL STATE FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOVEREIGN JAPAN.
* CHIN BLOGGERS = China wid its 1.4 - 2.6 Bilyuhn population can afford to lose some to Japan-based radiation poisoning iff it means taking over Japan + rolling back US power.
A United flight had to return to the Denver International Airport gate Thursday night because of three suspicious passengers on board. The flight was United Flight 593 to Orange County.
According to reports, Denver Police boarded the plane after it returned to the gate and arrested four people. Everyone was taken off the plane for a security sweep.
According to the Transportation Security Administration, the four suspects were questioned in the terminal and were released. Witnesses described the suspects as middle aged. Two are Caucasian and two are of Middle-Eastern descent.
It is unknown at this time why the people were deemed "suspicious."
[Yemen Post] At least four elite republican guard forces were killed and four rustics in an attack on a military complex in Mareb according to tribal leaders. The tribal leader said that the attackers were not Al-Qaeda members but had links to Al-Qaeda bad turbans.
According to eyewitnesses, six governmental tanks were destroyed, three completley, when fierce festivities took place between rustics and govenrmental forces. The festivities took place near the Sana'a-Mareb road as rustics succseeded in taking four tanks and ammunition from elite republican guard forces.
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Recent weeks have seen a spate of reports about mobile phone use in North Korea, but exactly how many users there are seems difficult to establish.
The reclusive country opened a mobile communications network back in 1998, and the number of users surged from just 3,000 in 2002 to 30,000 in 2004. And it began to grow seriously in 2008 when Egypt's Orascom Telecom and North Korea's Choson Posts and Telecomm Corporation established CHEO Technology, offering a third-generation WCDMA-based mobile phone service called Koryolink.
According to global telecom market researcher Ovum, there are between 400,000 to 450,000 mobile phone users in North Korea. The first handsets that sold in the North were Motorola and Nokia models, but according to Kim Heung-kwang of defector group North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, handsets were later made in China on a consignment basis and misleadingly labeled as made in North Korea.
Orascom has the monopoly in North Korea until 2012. "Orascom faithfully toes the line on what the North Korean regime wants. Since they would not do anything that could create a systemic crisis, North Korea chose Orascom," said Angel Dobardziev of Ovum. "The profitability of [its] North Korea operation is exceedingly high." He added when the contract expires next year, competitors may enter the country and erode profitability.
The mobile phone penetration rate in North Korea is only about 1.3 percent, far lower than South Korea's 103.9 percent, but the average usage time amounts to 300 minutes, more or less the level of South Korea's. Hwang Sung-jin of the Korea Information Society Development Institute, said this is because of brisk usage among high-ranking North Korean officials.
North Korea prohibits international mobile calls. "It has recently become sensitive about the spread of mobile phones, taking steps to block people from bringing in the devices," said Suk Ho-ick of KT, the chairman of the IT Unification Forum.
When it comes to fixed-line communications, most of the networks are based in Pyongyang and other major cities and used mainly by the privileged, while people in rural areas still use manual connection services through operators.
A closed Internet service began in North Korea in 1999 through the Kwangmyong internal network, and around 50,000 people are believed to be using the service.
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The Pres of Iran has been at odds with the Supreme Leader of Iran many times before. This time it is a personnel issue. A lackey of the Supreme leader, one Ayatollah Heidar Moslehi is the minister of the Interior (and thus in charge of the secret police, the double secret police, etc.). Ahmadinejad doesn't like him and wanted him gone.
For now Khamenei has won but Ahmadinejad will try to slowly squeeze Moslehi out of the loop. If he succeeds relatively quickly, the victor will be Ahmadinejad. Of course if he succeeds too quickly it will tick of Khamenei.
Since about 2007, Iran has always been two or three nasty disputes shy of a 'night of long knives'. Who knows.
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[Yemen Post] At least fiveYemeni elite republican guards soldiers were killed and several others injured in an attack by gunnies Thursday morning in Irr Mountain, Yafe'e, Lahj province, south of Yemen, a security official in Lahj confirmed.
According to eyewitnesses in Yafe'e, the attack was planned by Taher Tammah, head of a notorious southern rebel group calling itself "Sro Himyar Bridigade". Two of the attackers were killed in the attack and at least 4 injured according to the security official in Lahj province. The offcial saidthe number of causalties could increase due to a number of the injured being at death's door.
"Sro Himyar Bridigade" is the only southern rebel group, and came to fame after admitting of standing behind the killing and kidnapping of numeours southeren security personnels. Last year, the bridigade announced responsibility for the killing of at least 10 security forces.
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[Dawn] Rebels have battled Moammar Gadhafi's troops for control of central Misrata, driving dozens of snipers from tall buildings in hours of urban warfare and gaining a tactical advantage in the only major city held by the opposition in western Libya, witnesses said.
Also on Thursday, the Libyan government ramped up its rhetoric against NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... , warning that "it will be hell" for the alliance if it sends in ground troops, even though Perfidious Albion's prime minister said the Western nations were not moving toward such a deployment.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said President Barack B.O. Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya. The drones allow for low-level precision attacks and are uniquely suited for urban areas such as Misrata, where NATO airpower has been unable to protect civilians when Gadhafi's forces are operating inside the city.
Elsewhere, rebels captured Thursday a Libyan border crossing into Tunisia, forcing government soldiers to flee over the frontier and possibly opening a new channel for opposition forces in Gadhafi's bastion in western part of the country.
At least seven people were killed in Thursday's fighting for the main Misrata thoroughfare of Tripoli Street, bringing to 20 the number slain in three days in Libya's third-largest city.
Misrata has been besieged by government forces for nearly two months, with human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups estimating hundreds of people killed. Tripoli Street is the site where two Western photojournalists were killed Wednesday as the rebels tried to dislodge the snipers loyal to Gadhafi perched on rooftops.
The street, which stretches from the heart of Misrata to a major highway southwest of the city of 300,000 people, has become a front line for the rebels and Gadhafi's forces.
The rebels took over several buildings along parts of the street, enabling them to cut off supplies to a Gadhafi unit and dozens of rooftop snipers who have terrorized civilians and kept them trapped in their homes, said a doctor who identified himself only as Ayman for fear of retaliation.
"This battle cost us lots of blood and deaders," the doctor said.
Residents celebrated and chanted "God is great" after the snipers left a battle-scarred insurance building that is the highest point in central Misrata, according to a witness who identified himself only as Sohaib.
"Thanks to God, the snipers decamped, leaving nothing behind at the insurance building after they were cut off from supplies, ammunition, food and water, for days," added another resident, Abdel Salam.
He called it a major victory because the structure gave the pro-Gadhafi forces a commanding view of the city.
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[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of Tunisian colonists have assembled in Rome's main train station waiting for trains to the French border - some of the thousands believed to be on the move towards La Belle France.
"Every day there are hundreds more arriving," said Dorsaf Yacoubi, 18, an Italian student volunteer of Tunisian origin who handed out ready-meals to the migrants from the back of a van as passing tourists and police watched on Thursday.
Numbers at Termini station shifted during the day as the Tunisians arrived on some trains and left on others but there were around 200 at lunchtime.
The migrants were given free train tickets by officials to take them to Ventimiglia - the Italian town on the border with La Belle France that has been at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Italia and La Belle France in recent days.
Not all have tickets however.
"It's not the police that stop them. When they take trains, ticket inspectors come and because they don't have a ticket, they call the police," Saidi Maha, volunteer at Termini Station, told Al Jizz.
La Belle France has accused Italia of abusing Europe's visa-free border agreement Schengen by issuing temporary residence permits and travel documents to the migrants knowing that the French-speaking Tunisians are headed for La Belle France.
The free tickets are being provided by Italia's civil protection agency.
"Whenever homeless immigrants arrive at the station, they have to be taken immediately out of Rome," Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno said earlier.
"We will ensure that Rome doesn't become the end point of an uncontrolled wave of migration," he said.
More than 20,000 Tunisian migrants have arrived on Italian shores from Tunisia, complaining that the uprising that toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January has failed to bring economic progress to their homeland.
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The migrants were given free train tickets by officials to take them to Ventimiglia - the Italian town on the border with France
Hmmm. That is what used to be called a casus belli.
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Army forces managed on Friday to arrest Islamic State of Iraqi emir in Falluja and three of his aides, a security source said.
Army forces arrested Abu Adel, the emir of the Islamic State of Iraq in Falluja, and three of his aides after receiving inellegence information on their presence in separate areas in the city, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The forces seized also a big weapons depot in a wanted mans house in al-Jaghiefi neighborhood, where they found 11 sticky bombs, explosive belts, light weapons and amounts of TNT and C4, he added.
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TRIPOLI - Libya's army may quit fighting in Misrata because of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... Arclight airstrikes and allow local tribes instead to lead the fight against rebels, the deputy foreign minister said on Friday.
"Now there is an ultimatum before the Libyan army. If they can't resolve the problem in Misrata then the people from the region... will move in," Khaled Kaim told news hounds. "The situation in Misrata will be eased, will be dealt with by the tribes around Misrata and the rest of Misrata's people and not by the Libyan army," he said.
"The tactic of the army is to have a surgical solution but with the Arclight airstrikes it doesn't work."
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A rebel spokesman in Misrata, Abdelsalam, said pro-Gadhafi tribes were in a minority in the area: There are two small pro-Gadhafi settlements outside Misrata. They make less than one percent of the population of Misrata and the surrounding area.
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At last. We are now in a new phase. This was supposed to be how things should get resolved.
This is the Arab way. Ancient Tribe blood lines are the only solution in an area that clings to the old ways. Eternal blood feuds and tribal control are the only course in this troubled world. No talk of the western worlds freedom fighters. Now the Tribal leaders will direct the future course of events. Then oil and water will mix again in the most barren of lands.
[Maghrebia] Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) established a new base in Mali, close to the border with Mauritania, Journal Tahalil reported on Thursday (April 21st). According to AFP, AQIM fighters were seen east of the Malian city of Nara, in the Wagadou forest. Security sources in Mali said that the camp would likely be used for launching terror attacks in Mauritania.
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[An Nahar] More than 70 people were killed by security forces during massive demonstrations on Friday across Syria, in one of the bloodiest days since pro-democracy protests erupted in mid-March, according to activists and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups.
"The Syrian security forces committed massacres in several towns and regions today, so far killing 72 people and wounding hundreds," said the London-based Syrian Human Rights Committee in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
Several Syrian rights activists also published provisional lists recording the deaths of more than 70 people across the country on Friday.
Facebook page The Syrian Revolution 2011 also reported that at least 70 protesters were killed in the demos, identifying 60 victims in the following areas: "Ezreh (Ihsan al-Halqi, Anwar al-Obeid, Nizar Suleiman, Taher Hariri, Sufian Hariri, Sufian Suleiman, Adel al-Tawfiq, Ibrahim al-Qallab, Bilal al-Shouha, Hussein Diab, Abdul Ghaffar Shehadeh, Qassem Assaad, Mohammed al-Jarad, Mohammed Ziab)
"Hirak (Osama al-Hiraki), al-Maadamiyah (Abdul Menem Qarqoura, Mazen Qarqoura, Ahmed al-Sheikh, Suleiman Ibrahim, Ahmed al-Ghandour, Mahmoud Maatouq, Ahmed Maatouq, Diaa Hazzaa, Iyad Sawwan), Douma (Khaldoun al-Droubi, Mohammed al-Saour, Mohammed al-Deirawani, Salim al-Qallaa, Abdullah al-Qallaa, Baraza (Kamal Barakat)
"Al-Hajar al-Asswad (Mohammed al-Hamzat, Yaman al-Agha, Mohammed Raad, Mohammed al-Agha, Issa al-Bahtari), Zamalka (Wael Oryeti, Ahmed al-Mamlouk, Ezzeddine al-Naddaf, Ahmed Jebara, Mohammed al-Fattal), Harasta (Ali Darwish, Mohammed Dakhilallah, Khaled Hammad)
"Jobar (Omar al-Homsi), Homs (Fawwaz al-Haraki, Mutaz Rouba, Jaddou al-Omar, Ammar al-Salman, Ramez Anas, Sami Hasan, Mohammed al-Sheikh, Mohammed al-Kahil, Mahmoud al-Jouri, Abdul Rahman al-Qadi, Mohammed al-Mohammed, Radwan Lalou, Salem Bakkour, Alaa Orabi, a member of Harfoush family, a member of al-Tawil family."
Earlier, witnesses and activists reported at least 38 people killed in one of the bloodiest days since pro-democracy protests erupted in Syria in mid-March.
Dozens of people were also maimed when security forces opened fire with live rounds to disperse protesters who erupted into the streets in several cities in response to calls for "Good Friday" rallies, they said.
Ammar Qurabi, chairman of the Syrian National Human Rights Organization, spoke to AFP of "49 deaths and 20 people reported missing."
Rights activists and groups reported 15 killed at Ezreh in Daraa province south of the capital, hub of the anti-regime protests that erupted on March 15. They also reported 15 killed in the city of Homs in central Syria.
They said another 30 people were killed in areas near Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and said the rest of the victims were killed in other towns.
The official SANA news agency spoke of "eight dead and 20 maimed including members of the security forces in an attack by armed criminals in Ezreh," and "two coppers killed and 11 maimed in Homs and Damascus by gangs."
The protests come despite decrees on Thursday by President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... scrapping nearly five decades of draconian emergency rule and abolishing state security courts that operated outside the normal judicial system to try people seen challenging the regime.
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[Al Jazeera] Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed with gunfire and artillery shells, shattering a two-month lull in long-standing tensions over their disputed border.
The fighting broke out near Ta Muean Tom temple on the border in Pa Nom Dong Rak district of Thailand's Surin province on Friday.
Three Thai soldiers were killed, and 13 maimed, in the clash, Lieutenant-Colonel Siriya Khuangsirikul, a Thai military spokeswoman, said.
Lieutenant-General Chhum Socheat, a Cambodian defence ministry front man, said that three of his country's soldiers had been killed in the clash, and several others were maimed.
Both sides accused each other of firing first in festivities about 100km southwest of Preah Vihear temple, which is claimed by both Southeast Asian nations and saw an armed stand-off in February.
"There was gunfire coming from Cambodia's side," Yutthana Viriyakitti, deputy governor of the northeastern Thai province of Surin, told the Rooters news agency.
Socheat said that both sides used rocket launchers, machine guns and rifles in the clash.
"Cambodian soldiers fired with assault rifles at Thailand first and now they started to shell us with artillery and we took appropriate retaliation," General Prawit Wongsuwon, the Thai defence minister, told the AFP news agency.
Phay Siphan, a Cambodian government front man, termed the clash an "invasion" of Cambodian territory by Thailand.
Serm Chainarong, the governor of Surin, said authorities there were preparing to evacuate about 5,000 people.
Pich Sokhin, the governor of Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province, said festivities erupted at around 06:30am (11:30 GMT) in areas around the Ta Moan and Ta Krabei temples, and that the Thais had started firing first.
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Bad idea for Cambos to try effin' with the Thais, unless they're looking to get their asses handed to them.
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Goodness knows that neither country has any other problems and nothing better to do...
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The Thai ruling caste is trying to play the nationalist card to divert attention that they are running things without the real consent of the government. It's just that the Thai ruling caste is in a better position than the Argies were with the Brits a couple years back as far as someone to pick on.
[Maghrebia] The partial collapse of a Fez mosque on Thursday (April 21st) left three dead and two seriously injured, MAP reported. Rescue operations are under way in an effort to find other victims buried under the rubble. The Bab Essifer mosque closed for restoration last year, as part of Morocco's 245 million-euro plan to demolish or repair 10,000 mosques nationwide. The initiative followed the 2010 Meknes mosque minaret collapse that killed 41 worshippers.
Clearly, closing the Bab Essifer mosque was a good idea.
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[Al Jizz] Opponents and supporters of the Yemeni president have flooded the streets of Sanaa, the capital, and the southern city of Taiz to stage rival demonstrations.
Friday's rallies took place as President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... gave a guarded welcome to a Gulf Arab plan for a three-month transition of power, delivered to him the day before.
He told supporters in Sanaa that any arrangements had to be "within the framework of the Yemen constitution" - language which could mask objections to the plan. He also vowed to "confront challenge with challenge", but without bloodshed.
"Guns can be used today but you cannot use them to rule tomorrow. We reject war," he said.
Protesters demanding that Saleh quit dubbed the day "Last Chance Friday", while pro-government demonstrators called it "Reconciliation Friday".
The weekly day of communal prayers for Mohammedans has in recent weeks become an occasion for rival political rallies.
In his address to his supporters, broadcast live on Yemeni state television, Saleh said: "We are keen to maintain the unity of the people and to avoid bloodshed ... and we will face them (anti-government protesters) without weapons.
"We need to make sure that we are rejecting bloodshed."
Framework of constitution
Saleh said that his government "welcom[ed]" the GCC's initiative, and that it would deal with it with "positively ... within the framework of the Yemeni constitution".
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Saleh's opponents erupted into the streets in central Sanaa to demand his immediate resignation.
Army and police personnel were deployed in force to prevent any festivities between the two demonstrations, each of which attracted thousands of supporters at squares just a few kilometres apart.
Thousands more anti-government demonstrators took part in the rally in Taiz, an opposition stronghold.
Amen al-Basha, the chairperson of the Arab Sisters Forum for Human Rights and a pro-democracy activist, told Al Jizz that Saleh's "regime has lost the trust [of Yemenis]".
"It is the desire of the people, it is the will of the people, for Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down immediately," she said.
Pro-democracy protesters would not accept any plan that did not include this provision, she said.
Parliamentary opposition groups and Saleh's government have been mulling over the GCC plan under which Saleh would step down 30 days after the formation of a national unity government, but protesters in Sanaa say they reject such a plan.
"Neighbouring countries; no negotiations, no dialogue," read posters carried by anti-government demonstrators, apparently referring to the GCC plan, under which Saleh would transfer powers to Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, the country's vice-president.
The Peaceful Youth Revolt, a group that has helped organise protests against Saleh's government, issued a statement rejecting the GCC initiative, saying "it does not include Saleh's immediate ouster", and "provides safeguards to him, his family and aides who are all killers".
Confrontations have raged on between security forces and anti-Saleh protesters in recent days, with medics and witnesses reporting that eight people have been rubbed out since Tuesday, including a passer-by and a policeman.
GCC proposal
The plan formulated by Gulf Arab mediators calling for a three-month transition that would end with a presidential election was made public on Thursday by a government official.
According to the plan, a unity government led by the opposition would work to organise presidential elections within two months of Saleh's resignation. Saleh's term runs until 2013.
The GCC proposed "the formation of a national unity government with 50 per cent held by the ruling party, 40 per cent by the opposition and 10 per cent by other parties," an official said, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
A day earlier, Saleh said he would "resist" calls to resign and would abide by the constitution in any transfer of power.
Addressing a women's group in Sanaa on Wednesday, he reiterated he would relinquish power only through elections.
"We will continue to resist ... undaunted and committed to constitutional legitimacy, while rejecting the plots and coups," Saba news agency quoted Saleh as saying.
"Let those who want to attain power rely on the ballot box. Change can only come about through elections and within the framework of constitutional legitimacy."
Munir al-Mawri, a Yemeni-American journalist, told Al Jizz that "Saleh will practically be unable to rule Yemen without the support of the GCC".
"He can try to buy time but he knows very well that he is losing and that he should leave as soon as possible," he said.
"He is concerned about the consequences after he leaves. He knows how many crimes he has committed in his country, especially after killing so many protesters. By asking for guarantees for not being prosecuted, he is admitting that he committed crimes."
Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, has faced protests since late January calling for his departure that have cost more than 130 lives.
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[An Nahar] Embattled U.S. Senator John Ensign announced Thursday he will resign in May after getting embroiled in a sex and corruption scandal that saw him become the subject of an ethics probe.
"It is with tremendous sadness that I officially hand over the Senate seat that I have held for eleven years," the Nevada Republican said in a statement.
"I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly," he said.
"(But) I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings or especially public hearings."
The 53-year-old politician cited the ongoing investigation into his handling of an affair with former aide Cynthia Hampton, whose husband Doug had been Ensign's administrative assistant.
He said the investigation had caused "simply too great" an emotional cost to him and his family.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic former Senate majority leader ... , a Nevada Democrat, said he "appreciated John's partnership in working with me to address our state's needs," calling Ensign a "strong advocate for Nevada."
"I know this is a difficult time for the family and I wish them all well as they work through it," he added.
Ensign's resignation, which will be effective on May 3, comes just a month and a half after he announced he would not seek reelection in 2012, saying "there are consequences to sin."
The Senate Ethics Committee is investigating claims that Ensign violated ethics rules and federal law after his affair.
Ensign acknowledged the affair in 2009, after Doug Hampton threatened to go public. The senator later confessed that his parents had paid the Hamptons $96,000 after he dismissed the couple from his payroll.
Ensign called the money a gift and the Hamptons called it severance pay. Critics say the money is an improper campaign contribution to Ensign by his parents.
A federal grand jury has meanwhile indicted Doug Hampton for violating a law forbidding congressional staff members from lobbying politicians until at least one year after they have left their Capitol Hill jobs.
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We all knew Ted Kennedy and John Ensign is no Ted Kennedy. /sarc off
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he should resign, but don't expect Democrats to meet this standard. Nevada's GOP Guv can appoint Rep. Dean Heller to the seat and hold it til the 2012 election as an incumbent. Win-win
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AH HA, never said Democrat in the posting.
Still anither place the MSM did NOT tell us the Dems fucked up.
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Power corrupts. It doesn't discriminate based upon "R"or "D". It helps if people aren't corrupt before they're elected, but don't bet on it being the final word.
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Ensign was a pretty good senator IMO. Not perfect, but good. I voted for him twice. I hope he goes "into the wilderness" for a while, finds his bearings, and comes back to politics.
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I'll bet a dollar to a dog turd that her political-class husband blackmailed Ensign, the ethics committee found out, and now Ensign is having to hightail it out of there.
[Ma'an] The body of a Jordanian charged with murdering an Italian activist left Gazoo on Friday through the Erez crossing on Israel's border, officials said.
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinated with the Gazoo government to return Abdul-Rahman Al-Breizat's body to Jordan via Israel, sources in the Paleostinian liaison office told Ma'an.
Al-Breizat died Tuesday during a raid on a building in the Gazoo Strip suspected of housing the killers of Vittorio Arrigoni.
The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run interior ministry said that Al-Breizat shot himself during the raid, after throwing a grenade at two others also suspected of killing Arrigoni.
Al-Breizat's father said Hamas killed his son.
"It does not make sense that he killed himself. Islam forbids that. They killed him," Mohammad Al-Breizat said Tuesday in Amman.
"My son used to read the Koran, pray and fast Ramadan. We do not know what to do now. If we are officially informed of his death, the family will meet to decide," he told the Agence La Belle France-Presse news agency.
Arrigoni was found hanged in a northern Gazoo home on April 15, hours after he was kidnapped by a group demanding the release of Salafi prisoners. The group posted a video online Thursday saying Arrigoni would be executed if the prisoners were not released within 30 hours.
It was unclear why they killed their hostage before the expiry of the deadline.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 1,000 protesters have taken to the streets in Oman's southern port city of Salalah in one of the biggest pro-reform demonstrations since scattered unrest began in the Gulf Arab sultanate two months ago.
The protesters assembled in a car park across the street from the governor's office on Friday, where a preacher led mid-day prayers and led them on a march across the city.
"The Omani people are not afraid of protesting for as long as it takes for reform, [but] first and foremost is to get government officials, who have been embezzling funds for years, to stand trial," Amer Hargan, the leader, told the crowd.
The crowd marched through the streets after his sermon.
The Rooters news agency put the number of protesters present at around 3,000 while the AFP news agency said the it was closer to 1,000 people.
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the who has ruled Oman for 40 years, promised a $2.6bn spending package last Sunday after nearly two months of demonstrations all over the country.
Omani demonstrators have focused their demands on better wages, jobs and an end to corruption. Many are angered by the state's perceived unwillingness to prosecute ministers sacked for corruption in response to demonstrations in February.
They are also impatient to see more employment opportunities, after Qaboos vowed last month to create 50,000 jobs.
Small-scale unrest
Unrest in Oman has been on a relatively small scale, with dozens of protesters camping out in tents near the quasi-parliament, the Shura council, in the capital Muscat. A sit-in that had lasted for weeks in the industrial town of Sohar, the epicentre of Oman's protest movement, was suppressed when security forces cleared road blocks and placed in durance vile hundreds for alleged acts of vandalism.
Earlier this week Oman announced pardons for 234 people placed in durance vile during protests, but did not say when they were freed.
Gulf Arab oil producers, keen to prevent popular uprisings from taking hold in their region, launched a $20bn aid package for protest-hit Bahrain and Oman last month. That job-generating measure, which will give $10bn to each country to upgrade housing and infrastructure over 10 years, was more than had been expected.
Qaboos has offered a series of job reforms, including a monthly allowance for the unemployed and pay rises for civil servants.
But in Salalah, protesters said the wage increase to 200 rials ($520) a month from 140 rials ($366) was not enough.
"I got a job last week in the private sector, but it is only 200 rials and that is not enough to look after myself.
The government needs to double the minimum wage," Ali al-Mahrati, protester, said.
Qaboos promised in March to cede some legislative powers to the partially elected Oman Council, an advisory body. This means that only the sultan and his cabinet can legislate, but a transfer of powers has yet to be announced.
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SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il paid an inspection visit to a shipyard in the country's northeast region, the North's state media reported on Saturday, mentioning the shipyard's existence for the first time.
Kim "provided field guidance to the Rajin Shipyard" in the North's northeastern port of Rajin, accompanied by top military leaders, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
It was the first time that the North's tightly controlled media reported the name of the shipyard and Kim's visit there. Known as one of three major shipyards in North Korea, the Rajin Shipyard is believed to have built warships and submarines, according to sources in Seoul.
During the visit, Kim underlined "the need for the shipyard to continue waging a dynamic struggle to build more cargo ships," the KCNA said. "It is of very weighty importance for our country surrounded by seas on its three sides to massively build various types of fishing boats as well as large cargo ships," Kim said in the report.
And mini-subs...
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[Straits Times] THE plotters of a foiled Easter church bombing in Indonesia had planned to film the attack for broadcast, police said on Friday, with the nation on its highest level of alert.
Anti-terror police tossed in the clink 19 terror suspects and defused five bombs around the church, on the outskirts of Jakarta, on Thursday. Some of the devices had been positioned on a nearby empty plot where a gas pipe runs underground.
'They had prepared to shoot the bombing of the church and broadcast it.
That was their plan,' said national police front man Anton Bachrul Alam.
He said the police tossed in the clink the criminal mastermind of the planned church attack in Aceh after he decamped Jakarta.
'This is a new cell. The criminal mastermind had planned to activate the bombs on Friday using timers,' Mr Alam said.
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Three UNWRA workers were maimed Friday morning after a projectile fired from the Gazoo Strip into Israel landed near the Karni border crossing and hit a UN building.
Paleostinians reported three injured from alleged IDF tank fire in the Sajaiye neighborhood east of Gazoo City, according to a report by the Ma'an news agency.
The IDF denied the report, saying that it was not operating in the area and that the three UN workers were maimed due to an erroneously fired mortar or rocket.
[An Nahar] An Inerga-type rocket-propelled grenade hit the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen on Thursday night, causing material damage and "terrorizing" residents, As Safir daily reported.
The rocket landed near Café Omran that lies behind the Harakat al-Shabaab field around 11:00 pm, the newspaper said.
The incident took place on the eve of a demonstration that Hizb Ut-Tahrir is planning to hold in the northern port city against the Assad regime in Syria.
The army threw a tight security dragnet in the area of the attack and launched an investigation.
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[Iran Press TV] Saudi-backed Bahraini troops have opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the village of Karzakan, injuring at least one protester.
Witnesses say the maimed protester was taken away by security forces, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Hundreds of anti-regime demonstrators also poured into the streets in the northwestern Bahraini village of Diraz on 'Qur'an Friday,' condemning the government's brutal crackdown on protesters.
Following the protest rally, security forces backed by military tanks and bulldozers rolled into the village. Diraz residents say authorities are planning to destroy village's mosques.
Since the beginning of anti-regime protests in Bahrain, authorities have reportedly demolished nearly 30 mosques across the Persian Gulf state.
Some of the mosques were located in Karzakan, Salmabad, Bu Quwah, and A'ali.
Also on Friday, Saudi-backed Bahraini troops entered Sitra and Malikiyah to prevent anti-government protest rallies.
The recent protests in Bahrain come while pro-government media is trying to show that the anti-government demonstrations have ended and that life has returned to normal.
According to state media, the Bahraini king has ordered compensation be paid to soldiers and security staff maimed in protests, including housing and other benefits for their families.
Dozens of protesters have been killed and scores have been injured since the uprising began in Bahrain in mid-February.
Protesters are demanding an end to the rule of the Al Khalifa dynasty.
Protesters say they will continue their street demonstrations until their demands for freedom, constitutional monarchy as well as a proportional voice in the government are met.
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[Iran Press TV] Senior Iranian holy man Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi-Amoli has expressed concern over the crimes committed by Saudi-backed forces against the Bahrainis, declaring Saudi and Bahraini rulers infidels.
"This bitter report that your presented is concerning for us ," Fars News Agency quoted Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli as saying in meeting with a number of Bahraini holy mans who produced pictures documenting the desecration of mosques and the Holy Qur'an by Saudi and Bahraini forces.
Saudi mercenaries and troops were deployed in Bahrain on March 13 to help Bahraini security forces quash protests demanding the ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family from the Persian Gulf island nation.
Shortly after the invasion, videos and pictures surfaced indicating the extent of brutality used in the crackdowns of anti-regime demonstrators. They also showed attacks on civilian homes and holy sites in a number of villages.
"Al Khalifa and Al Saud, [Libyan dictator Muammar] Qadaffy, Zionists, and Americans are neither Shia nor Sunni. One who sets fire to the Qur'an is not a Mohammedan, but a slave to the arrogant, Zionists and the US," Ayatollah Amoli stated, ruling out allegations that the violence was fueled by sectarian differences.
"They are not even Wahhabis, because they at least believe in the Qur'an," the holy man pointed out.
He further called for Islamic zeal among Mohammedans across the world apart from prayers, patience and perseverance and urged Mohammedan officials to voice their protest in meeting with Bahraini diplomats and officials.
"The infidelity of Al Khalifa and Al Saud is verified, for beside destroying mosques and mourning sites, they did not even stop at the Holy Qur'an and burned [copies] of this divine book," Ayatollah Amoli underscored.
The influential Shia holy man described secularism a "unilateral ceasefire" and the curse of Mohammedan nations where the government prevents religious rule under the pretext of separation of politics and religion, but moves against religious communities and the followers of different faiths at whim.
"It is necessary for all Mohammedans in the world to support the oppressed people of Bahrain," he said, condemning Riyadh for backing Al Khalifa by its invasion of Bahrain, and the US for intervening through the establishment of military bases in the country.
Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli further extended his sympathy with the families of those killed in crackdowns in Bahrain and prayed for the release of those tossed in the calaboose following their participation in protests.
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I do believe the turbaned one is saying, "Let's get it on." Hey, Sauds, Khalifas, you gonna take that from some backwater Shite mushrik?
[An Nahar] Jordan has jugged 136 people on "terrorism" charges a week after scores were hurt when Islamist Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... protesters clashed with police in the northern city of Zarqa, a police front man said on Friday.
"The involvement of 136 people brought before the prosecutor of the State Security Court for terrorism and unrest has been proven, and it was decided to detain them," front man Mohammad Khatib said, quoted by Petra news agency.
Khatib spoke of the "the involvement of 100 other people on the run who will be referred to the attorney general of state security once they are tossed in the slammer."
The Salafists, who espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam, clashed with security forces during a demonstration in Zarqa, northeast of Amman, on April 15, leaving 91 people maimed.
An investigation showed the demonstrators had carried out the attack armed with "sharp weapons including swords, axes, daggers, sticks and iron bars," said Khatib.
They "caused damage to public and private property... caused trouble... by beating and stabbing a number of citizens and members of security forces," he said.
The front man said the accused forced shops to close and took control of the Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque in Zarqa "causing fear and frightening the faithful."
Unlike other protests calling for reform that have rocked Jordan in recent weeks, the Salafist demonstrators have been demanding the release of 90 Islamist prisoners.
Among those they want freed is Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi, the one-time mentor of slain al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who hailed from Zarqa.
The Salafists, who seek a return to practices common in the early days of Islam, have been protesting for several weeks, also staging demonstrations in the capital.
Jordanian Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit has accused the Islamists of belonging to an armed organization, and said his government would take a tough line against them.
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(Ma'an) -- Three Paleostinians were maimed Friday by an kaboom east of Gazoo City, medics said. Ouch! My feet!
Paleostinian medics said three factory workers sustained multiple injuries in Ash-Shuja'iyeh and were transferred to the Ash-Shifa Hospital.
Gazoo emergency services front man Adham Abu Selmiya blamed Israeli tank fire.
However, The ever-popular However... an Israeli army front man said there was no military activity in the area at all on Friday. Israeli sources said the blast was likely caused by mortars fired by Paleostinian faceless myrmidons trying to target Israel.
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It is terrible how these people suffer. What on earth is the UN going to do about this ?
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But its nice to read the paper and articles and know that I don't have to do a darn thing about it. And the prospect of the Middle Eastern Peace Process fills me with hope, hope that one day we middle American peace!
/Sarc
Im so optimistic, since the death toll has dropped so much.
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We have Middle American peace peace process where Iowans and Mississippians and New Yorkers and Los Angelenos just get along! And then the Middle East will just copy us and get they'll get along with one another, too.
/sarc
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(Ma'an) -- The Egyptian government will apply new procedures at the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gazoo border to ease travel for residents of the besieged coastal enclave, officials said Thursday.
During a meeting in Cairo, Baha Ad-Dusuqi, head of Paleostinian affairs in the Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informed Gazoo government front man Taher An-Nunu that new measures would be in place at the terminal soon.
[Al Jazeera] At least 10 Pak security forces personnel were killed when hundreds of fighters crossed the border with Afghanistan into Pakistain at Lower Dir early Thursday morning, security forces said on Friday.
Returning home after a hard day of jihading. It's worse than a factory job, it is indeed.
The influx resulted in a major clash, Hyder reported, and the security forces called in helicopter gunships and fighter-bomber aircraft for air support.
An official said that the dead included Frontier Corps soldiers and police officials.
The fighters entered Pakistain from the Afghan border province of Kunar, and the clash took place in the Khankai area of Lower Dir.
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A total of 35 individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states, including five men shot to death in the Cerro de la Cruz colony in Chihuahua, Chihuahua.
A woman in Juarez Achilles, Chihuahua was run over and killed by a prison guard Tuesday. Maria de Jesus del Socorro Nieto Sapien was attempting to enter the Juarez Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) for visiting hours when she was hit by a minivan driven by Andres Adame Villa on Calle Barranco Azul. Adame Villa was arrested at the scene.
A Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death by his wife in a domestic dispute in Chihuahua, Chihuahua early Tuesday morning. Cesar Guevara was arguing with his unidentified wife when she grabbed the gun, put it to his head and fired. The shooting took place at the couple's residence near the intersection of calles Lopez Mateos and 15th in the Villa Juarez colony.
One man was shot to death and two others were wounded in a shooting in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday. The victims were travelling aboard their Dodge Neon when they were fired on by armed suspects aboard a van, and initiated a pursuit, which ended near the intersection of avenidas Niños Heroes and Colon. Jaime Gilberto Valencia died just after reaching a medical clinic, while the other two unidentified men were treated at local clinics.
A prison break ended with one unidentified prison guard shot to death and four others wounded in Juarez Wednesday. The Ford Econoline van used to transport the prisoners from the CERESO in Juarez to a Chihuahua state operated facility in the south came under gunfire in an ambush near the intersection of calles Tecnologico and Oscar Flores in the Granjas colony, and was forced off the road. Yahir Martinez died a short time later while receiving medical attention. Three prisoners escaped with the shooters.
A man was shot to death and immolated in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday. Pedro Acosta Holguin, 60, was found near the intersection of calles 63rd and Aldama in the Popular colony.
An unidentified suspected carjacker was shot to death by municipal police in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday. The suspect was aboard a vehicle he and two other accomplices had stolen minutes before they were intercepted by Chihuahua municipal police near the intersection of calles Yucatan and Vialidad de Sacramento. The two other suspects escaped aboard a Nissan sedan.
An unidentified woman was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday. Reports say armed suspects aboard a Nissan Altima and two other SUVs fired on the victim near the intersection of calles 55th and Degollado in the Tiradores colony.
Five unidentified individuals were shot to death in four separate incidents in Juarez Wednesday evening, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
A man was shot on Calle Granja.
Two individuals were shot to death near the intersection of Ruanda and Gambia in the Infonavit Oasis colony.
One man was shot to death near the intersection of calles Eje Vial and Granjas.
One man was shot to death near the corner of calles Toronja Roja and Sorgo.
Three unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday. The victims were at a residence near the intersection of calles Rio Aros and Gonzalez Cossio in the Paseo Vallarta colony when armed suspects travelling aboard a three vehicle convoy fired on them. Reports say 60 spent cartridge casings from AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles were found at the scene.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate incidents in Juarez Thursday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
A man was shot to death near the intersection of calles Antimonio and Maria Martinez.
A man was shot to death in the Mexico 68 colony near railroad tracks.
Two unidentified individuals were shot to death and three others were wounded in a shooting in Juarez Thursday. Armed suspects came to a location on Periferico la Juventud and shot the five in the street.
A Juarez municipal police officer was shot to death Friday. Lozano Salas was aboard his GMC Tahoe SUV near the intersection of calles Platino and Carranza in the Aldama colony when he was attacked by armed suspects who were travelling in vehicles.
An unidentified man was found beaten and stabbed to death near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victim had been dumped near Cuervos de Pericos on the Chihuahua-Juarez highway. Cuervos de Pericos is a known dumping ground for murders in the area.
Five unidentified men were shot to death at a residence in Juarez Friday. The victims were in a garage at a home near the intersection of calles 66 and Ochoa in the Rosario colony when armed suspects aboard exited two pickup trucks and began firing. Reports say AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles were used in the shooting.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in northern Chihuahua city Friday. The victim was found on Avenida Veneceramos where it intersects with an arroyo. Four 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Five unidentified individuals were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victims were at a residence on Calle Ochoa in the Cerro de la Cruz colony when they were attacked by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles.
Two unidentified men said to be mechanics were shot to death in a remote area on the Casa Grandes highway near Juarez Friday. The victims were in a workshop on calle Hortensia Licon in the Villa Esperanza colony when they were shot.
A man was shot to death in San Carlos Nuevo Guyamas, Sonora Thursday night. Fermin Lara Lopez, 34, was with friends near the intersection of Bulevar Beltrones and Calle Satelite when armed suspects riding aboard a Volkswagen Jetta shot and killed him.
A Mexican Army unit in Juarez found and arrested two men said to be shooters in Wednesday's prison break. The suspects were found aboard a sean two kilometers from the scene of the break on avenida Las Granjas Poniente in the Santa Elena colony.
Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... , one of the strongest proponents in the US congress of American military intervention in Libya, has called on Washington to recognise Libyan rebels' transitional council as the true voice of the Libyan people and transfer frozen assets to them.
McCain also called for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... to step up its air campaign and said Western allies should provide rebels with training, weapons and command-and-control activities to help overthrow Muammar Qadaffy, Libya's longtime leader.
"I would encourage every nation, especially the United States, to recognise the transitional national council as the legitimate voice of the Libyan people," McCain said, speaking to news hounds in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Friday.
"They have earned this right and Qadaffy has forfeited it by waging war on his own people."
McCain, believed to be the most senior Western politician, and the first from the United States, to visit Benghazi since the conflict broke out in late February, made the trip to Libya on his own.
An aide said he met rebel leaders including finance chief Ali Tarhouni and armed forces head Abdel Fattah Younes.
McCain also said he was worried the battle between Qadaffy's troops and rebel forces was reaching a stalemate that could "open the door to radical Islamic fundamentalism".
Rebels 'my heroes'
The US senator's arrival came close on the heels of the US president approving the use of armed drones in Libya against ground forces for the first time since America handed over the military operation to NATO.
Al Jizz's Mike Hanna, reporting from Benghazi, says broader recognition "gives the transitional council a legal standing which it does not at the moment enjoy" along with "extra finance" and "greater political authenticity within Libya itself".
"If the council is recognised as the authentic voice of the Libyan people, then they could receive those funds that have been frozen abroad from the Qadaffy regime," he said.
McCain also denied concerns about the possibility of myrmidon or al-Qaeda elements fighting alongside the pro-democracy forces, telling Al Jizz "they [opposition fighters] are my heroes".
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They have some footage showing these 'Heroes' taking care of a prisoner over at Weasel Zippers.
they give him the Nick Berg treatment while the crowd goes apeshit complete with a surge to the front and chants of 'allan snackbar'
go home John. you have used up the goodwill and respect that your service entitled you to and have become a national embarrassment.
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Media Whore Reassures Obama Voters They Made the Right Choice
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"go home John. you have used up the goodwill and respect that your service entitled you to and have become a national embarrassment."
Yup, could not even make a stand up challenge to obama. He ran a dirty campaign in his home state, he just gets worse and worse. I am sick of him personally.
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Please retire and go out to pasture, John. The country thanks you for your service and is now finding out you are a grade "A" dipshit too. Please just go away.
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Attention 'Ho. When I saw on the ballot our choices for President, and the Alaska choices for Senator, I just knew that were in trouble. You want a graveyard spiral into the ground or do you want to auger in? Those were my thoughts.
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[Arab News] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... on Friday rejected a GCC proposal that he step down within 30 days from the date of his acceptance of the deal.
Speaking at a rally of his supporters, Saleh said he would accept the GCC proposal only if it is within Yemen's constitutional framework. Under the constitution, Saleh's term as president ends in 2013.
He also denounced the opposition. "We strongly reject all plots against freedom, democracy and political pluralism. They (the opposition) want to grab power via coups." he said. "You have to remain firm before the renegade and cowardly elements. We will confront (their) challenge with challenge."
Saleh said he is determined not to fire the first bullet. "We will not cause bloodshed. We will confront them with all means without causing bloodshed."
The official media put the number of Saleh's supporters, who gathered near the presidential palace on the "Friday of Reconciliation," to over 100,000.
In an apparent attempt to parade their huge turnout and mount pressure on Saleh's regime, the youth-led street protesters moved their protests' epicenter to Al-Sitteen Street in the capital where thousands of people converged Friday. The crowd rejected any initiative that grants Saleh and his family immunity, and called for his immediate and unconditioned departure.
The pro-democracy protesters said that the narrow streets at Taghyir Square could not show their real strength. The rally was escorted by soldiers loyal to Gen. Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmer, who has defected to the cause of the opposition.
In the city of Taiz, anti-Saleh protesters staged a huge demonstration and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against Saleh's regime and rejected any compromise. Similar protests were organized in cities of Mukalla, Ibb and Maren.
In a separate development, at least 11 soldiers were killed Friday when beturbanned goons raided a military checkpoint in the province of Mareb, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a local journalist told Arab News.
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[Al Jazeera] A roadside kaboom has killed five border coppers in southern Afghanistan amid a surge in violence in the country.
Officials said on Friday that the coppers were hit when a mine blew up their vehicle in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar province, late on Thursday.
The AFP news agency said the Taliban had grabbed credit via a text message for the Spin Boldak blast.
Also on Thursday, one NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... soldier was killed in the east and a nephew of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , the founder of Hizb-i-Islami, died in Wardak province.
Habibullah Shoab Hekmatyar, a 17-year-old former student in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Pakistain, had joined the fight against international forces in Wardak.
Harun Zarghun, a front man for Hizb-i-Islami, said the nephew was killed in a coalition Arclight airstrike along with one of his colleagues in Nirkh district, Zarghun said.
NATO confirmed that there was a coalition Arclight airstrike Thursday in Nirkh, but could not confirm if Hekmatyar's nephew was among four who were killed.
The attack in Spin Boldak is the latest in a wave of attacks against Afghanistan's police and army in the run-up to the start of the transition from foreign to Afghan security control in July.
On the Pak side of the border, two Pak coppers were reportedly killed when hundreds of armed fighters came across from Afghanistan's Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral... .
In Khost, another province that borders Pakistain, three Afghan men who were part of a civilian police force guarding a road construction project were killed on Thursday in Spera district, the AP news agency reported an official as saying.
The men, who were part of the so-called Afghan Public Protection Force, opened fire as a NATO helicopter passed overhead.
Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, a Khost police chief, said the men were killed by NATO forces, but the alliance has not yet commented on the incident.
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[Iran Press TV] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... President Blaise Compaore has declared himself the new defense minister days after protests and soldiers' mutiny led to violence in the West African country.
"The president (of Burkina Faso), commander in chief of the army, has assumed the function of defense and veterans minister," AFP quoted a government decree read on state television on Thursday.
Compaore has appointed a journalist, Luc Adolphe Tiao, as the country's new prime minister. Tiao has never had government experience.
The new head of the armed forces general staff, General Honore Nabere Traore, has said the country has found "adequate responses" to the demands of mutineers and that "the crises are heading toward a solution."
Chaos erupted in Burkina Faso last week when soldiers, including members of the presidential guard, mutinied over pay and bonuses. They fired shots in the air, looted shops and attacked people's cars.
Disturbances spread later when tens of thousands of people marched in the capital Ouagadougou, protesting against high living costs.
Outraged students attacked public places and set the headquarters of the ruling party on fire, reports said.
Since then, the president has sacked his government, ordered bonus payments to soldiers and replaced his army chief, all in an effort to quell the unrest.
Burkina Faso ranks 161 out of the 169 countries on the UN's Human Development Index which is a composite measure of quality of life.
In Burkina Faso, where economy depends heavily on agriculture, especially cotton, about half of the 16 million population live on less than 1,000 CFA francs (1.52 Euros) a day.
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A US drone strike targeting Taliban in northwest Pakistain killed 23 people including three civilians on Friday, officials said, after 16 security forces died in an cut-thoat attack.
It was the first missile strike to hit North Wazoo tribal district since a diplomatic furore erupted between Pakistain and the United States over a drone attack on March 17, which killed 39 people including civilians.
The pilotless aircraft targeted two compounds in Spinwam, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
"The drones launched two successive attacks. In the first strike they fired two missiles and in the second they released three more," a military official in the area said.
Military officials in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar said the corpse count had risen from 20 to 23, with two women and one boy among the dead, although that could not be independently verified.
Another official said the rest of the dead were cut-thoats, but there was no report of any high value target and their nationalities were unknown.
"The missiles hit a house and a nearby guest house in Hasan Khel town in Spinwam area," another official said, adding that the two buildings belong to a primitive supporter of local Taliban leader Gul Bahadur.
Local security and administration officials in Miranshah gave a higher toll of 25 dead, including three women and four children.
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Israel and American military bases in the Middle East are all within the range of Iranian missiles, says the commander of the Islamic theocracy Guards Corps (IRGC).
"Although we are capable of increasing the range of our missiles, we don't think it would be necessary because today our extra-regional enemy -- the Zionist regime of [Israel] -- is within the range of our missiles," Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying on Friday.
"As for the American forces -- if they were to back Israeli threats -- they would be closer to us than them (the Israeli) and [therefore,] they would be within the range of our firepower as well," the IRGC commander added.
Brigadier General Jafari's comments come while Israel has on numerous occasions threatened to attack Iran and target its peaceful nuclear facilities.
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and has attained self-sufficiency in essential military equipment and systems.
On April 16, Iran announced that it has successfully test-fired another air-defense missile system dubbed Sayyad-2 (Hunter II).
The newly tested system is an upgraded version of the Sayyad-1 system with higher precision, range and defensive power and will be unveiled in the near future.
In January, Iran successfully test-fired mid-range, surface-to-air Hawk missile and the Iranian Defense Ministry delivered new cruise missile systems to the Navy.
The systems, designed and manufactured by Iranian experts, are capable of spotting and destroying different targets at sea.
The Navy has successfully test-fired a range of powerful missiles mounted with laser technology, which display high precision and have a range of 45 km (28 miles) to 300 km (186 miles).
Tehran has repeatedly assured that its military might poses no threat to other countries, saying its defense doctrine is based on deterrence.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A curfew imposed on the city of Mosul was lifted on Friday, according to a source form the Ninewa Operations Command.
The NOC lifted at 05:00 p.m. a curfew that was imposed on Mosul since the midnight of Thursday (April 21), the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Mosul, the capital city of the unrest-hit province of Ninewa, 405 km north of Baghdad, has witnessed two weeks of protests in which hundreds took part, particularly tribesmen, in addition to groups coming from other provinces like al-Anbar.
The NOC had announced a curfew after clans protesting at al-Ahrar square, central Mosul, said they would start a strike. The protesters called for an end to corruption, release of detainees and no extension of U.S. forces missions in Iraq.
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A senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Friday that U.S. military personnel have left a southern base said to be a key hub for American drone operations in the country's northwestern tribal areas.
Once things are a bit more stable in Afghanistan, they'll be able to hang out there, right?
It is the Shamsi Air Base in Pakistan's Balochistan Province, from which drones are said to take off and where they are refueled for operations against Islamic militants.
The development comes amid a public furor over American drone attacks, which have killed civilians.
A suspected U.S. drone strike Friday in the Pakistani tribal region killed 25 people, including eight civilians and 17 militants, a Pakistani intelligence source said. This came after another strike on March 17 killed 44 people, most of them civilians.
Yet a U.S. official disputed the Pakistani contention that civilians died in Friday's drone strike. "There is no evidence to support that claim whatsoever," the U.S. official said.
Another senior Pakistani intelligence official, who did not want to be identified discussing a sensitive issue, confirmed that the Americans had been using the base as a center of operations for launching drone strikes. He was not able to confirm the Americans had left.
While the first official was able to confirm that American personnel were no longer operating out of the base, he could not say whether they had left voluntarily or at the request of the Pakistani government.
[An Nahar] Israeli intelligence sources revealed what they said were the names of top Hizbullah members who were part of a network operating abroad to carry out "terrorist operations."
Israel Radio said on Friday that Talal Hmeih heads the Hizbullah network as Imad Mughniyeh's successor. It said Ahmed al-Faed his main assistant, decamped to Jordan 10 years ago after trying to target Israel with a Katyusha missile.
Explosives detonation engineer operating abroad is Ali Najem-Eddine, who was responsible for planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan in 2008, the report remarked.
The network list includes Malek Obeid, allegedly an explosives and detonation devices expert, who participated in the preparation and installation of an improvised bomb that detonated in the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992.
Israeli intelligence sources confirm that Najem-Eddine and Obeid are considered high-ranking explosives engineers and potential threats to Israeli targets, the radio said.
Naiem Hreis is designated to recruit agents for Hizbullah all over the world and has the Brazilian nationality. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... Mohammed Taher Oglo is responsible for recruiting agents in Turkey, the report said.
The Israeli radio said that the network operates directly under the supervision of Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and provides frequent reports to the Iranian National Guard.
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[Dawn] Pakistain security forces targeted cut-thoat hideouts in the Tirah valley of Khyber Agency with gunship helicopters on Friday, killing eight snuffies and injuring 11, DawnNews reported.
According to government sources three cut-thoat hideouts were wiped out during the shelling.
Sources said that the action was taken after conflict between two religious groups had escalated in the region, which had resulted in the death of at least 30 people.
The gunship helicopters targeted different cut-thoat hideouts in the Tirah Valley.
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Clearly their betters haven't yet told them that fences don't work. Just throw the border wide open and don't worry 'bout who comes through...
The Bulgarian Cabinet ratified plans to build a 210-kilometer fence along the border it shares with Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reported Thursday.
The Bulgarian government said that the fence aims to restrict the movement of cattle between the two countries, helping to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
A Bulgarian minister said it was "extremely wrong" to compare the fence with the Berlin Wall, adding that the fence serves to purpose of solely limiting animal passage between the two countries.
Nothing to do with keeping stray Turks or those from further east or south from accidentally wandering across the border.
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Exploding cow pies. It's the methane build-up, y'know...
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Its about time - I'm tired of all these critters straying into my garden, eating the cabbage, beans, corn, rice and messing all over the place..... not to mention the smell of these flatulent beasts. Where is the Border Patrol when you need them?
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Oh .... this is Bulgaria and Turkey .... never mind
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How bad was it to risk your life in relatively small wooden boats on a great ocean without keen knowledge of hurricanes, ice flows, and unkempt brigands, not to mention really unfriendly locals? Seems a whole lot of people played that game a couple of hundred years ago.
[Ma'an] President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... warned Thursday that there could be serious ramifications if the UN rejected recognition of a Paleostinian state in September.
The president told La Belle France 24 that rejecting Paleostinian statehood could be a dangerous move, and that he did not want a third Paleostinian uprising to erupt, in an interview broadcast Thursday.
Abbas' comments were made during a visit to Gay Paree, where the president sought the advice of his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... on the Paleostinian Authority's bid to seek recognition of its statehood.
A source in the presidential office told Rooters that Sarkozy had given Abbas his "clear support" for efforts to create a state.
French ambassador Gerard Araud told the UN Security Council that La Belle France was considering recognition of the state of Paleostine as an option to relaunch the Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor.
US President Barack B.O. Obama last year set a target of September 2011 for an accord to set up a Paleostinian state. But talks between the rivals ended within weeks after Israel refused to extend a moratorium on illegal settlement building.
If peace efforts remain deadlocked, Abbas has said he will in September seek recognition at the UN General Assembly for an independent state.
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The death toll in the mass grave site in San Fernando, Tamauliaps reached 177 Friday as 32 more bodies were exhumed, according to Mexican press accounts.
Based on the number of complaints received to date, the death toll could well climb to more than 200 by next week.
News reports now say that many of the victims already recovered may be murders unrelated to the late March serial bus hijackings and massacres in San Fernando. Forensics have indicated some of the victims may have been killed as far back as last October, 2010.
Reports also say that many people are now coming forward with complaints on missing persons. The Tamaulipas attorney general's office has received 85 calls, 237 complains or denunciations, and 280 individuals have provided DNA samples. The office has opened a separate office to handle queries regarding the mass murder.
Although the reason for the serial bus hijackings in late March remains shrouded in mystery, an unsigned, uncredited report released by the Mexican drug war news blog Blog Del Narco, suggests the hijackings were part of a recruitment drive by Los Zetas in the area.
The report describes in vivid detail how passengers were separated, abused and ultimately murdered save for a small number of men who were then told they were part of the Los Zetas.
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The report describes in vivid detail how passengers were separated, abused and ultimately murdered save for a small number of men who were then told they were part of the Los Zetas.
You can take an Aztec out of Tenochtitlan, but you can't take Tenochtitlan out of the Aztec.
Actually, it reminds me of a thread in the novel Lucifer's Hammer but without the cannibalism. Of course, reports are not delving into particulars yet.
ISLAMABADMissiles fired by a CIA drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region killed at least 26 people in the latest in a series of strikes that have inflamed tensions between the U.S and Pakistan.
The pilotless predator drone operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency fired at least 10 missiles at a mud-brick compound in a predawn attack Friday, a Pakistani intelligence official said.
At least three women were among the dead. The identities of other victims weren't known.
A local tribal elder said the compound was used by suspected militants. "The entire compound was turned into rubble. Some women and children were also believed to have been killed in the strike," Mehboob Jan said.
Meantime, hundreds of militants attacked a Pakistani security post along the Afghan border, killing at least 14 army soldiers. The attack in the remote lower Dir district underscored the growing strength of the militants despite a military offensive against them.
[Straits Times] TERROR suspects placed in durance vile on Thursday led police to five massive bombs buried beneath a gas pipeline near a church just outside Indonesia's capital, officials said.
Mr Djoko Suyanto, a security minister, said he believed Islamic snuffies had been plotting an attack ahead of Easter celebrations. The US embassy urged Americans to be vigilant. The explosives, safely defused at the scene, had been set to detonate by cell phone at around 9am on Friday.
'The army and police are under high alert,' Mr Suyanto told news hounds, adding that troops would be deployed at churches and other strategic locations. 'We want to guarantee safety.'
Indonesia, the world's most populous Mohammedan nation, has been battling snuffies since 2002 when Al-Qaeda-linked snuffies attacked two nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists. Several attacks since then targeted glitzy hotels, restaurants and an embassy, killing another 60. Hundreds of suspects have been placed in durance vile, convicted and nabbed.
National Police Chief Gen Timur Pradopo said the 19 suspects were placed in durance vile on Thursday, including six accused in a series of mail bombs sent last month to liberal Mohammedan activists and a former anti-terror chief. Several people were maimed in the parcel bombings, none seriously.
The placed in durance vile men eventually led police to the gas pipeline 100m from a Catholic church large enough to hold 3,000 people in Serpong, Gen Pradopo said. They discovered five bombs that together weighed 150kg and were rigged to be detonated by cell phone, according to Nardi Atmaja, a church official at the scene.
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[Dawn] Pak officials say hundreds of cut-throats attacked a checkpoint in a northwest district along the Afghan border overnight, killing 14 security forces.
Officials from the police, government and intelligence agencies said the fighting was still ongoing Friday morning. They did not know how many cut-throats died in the festivities in the Khankai area of Lower Dir.
Lower Dir lies just outside Pakistain's tribal regions, where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have proliferated. The army has carried out operations against cut-throats there and in the tribal areas.
The four officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Army officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Malawi Government has given the British High Commissioner in that country, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, three days to leave after allegedly describing President Bingu wa Mutharika as a dictator.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said the British acting permanent under-secretary, Geoffrey Adams, on Tuesday summoned the Malawi charge d'affaires in London and conveyed the foreign secretary's concern over the planned move.
Political tension
The matter arose following the discovery of a leaked diplomatic telegram sent from the British High Commission in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, to London, in which Cochrane-Dyet spoke on Mutharika's leadership, thereby raising fears that political tension are likely to rise in 2014 after he steps down.
President Mutharika, however, praised the British Government for its "steadfast" support of the former colony.
In a statement for the birthday on Thursday of Queen Elizabeth II, Mutharika said he hoped their diplomatic relationship would endure.
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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.
Yemen's President
Almost 1700 insurgent sympathisers have turned themselves in to authorities in southern Thailand over the past three months.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of reports about mobile phone use in North Korea, but exactly how many users there are seems difficult to establish.
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Army forces managed on Friday to arrest Islamic State of Iraqi emir in Falluja and three of his aides, a security source said.
[Maghrebia] The partial collapse of a Fez mosque on Thursday (April 21st) left three dead and two seriously injured, MAP reported. Rescue operations are under way in an effort to find other victims buried under the rubble. The Bab Essifer mosque closed for restoration last year, as part of Morocco's 245 million-euro plan to demolish or repair 10,000 mosques nationwide. The initiative followed the 2010 Meknes mosque minaret collapse that killed 41 worshippers.
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SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il paid an inspection visit to a shipyard in the country's northeast region, the North's state media reported on Saturday, mentioning the shipyard's existence for the first time.
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A US drone strike targeting Taliban in northwest Pakistain killed 23 people including three civilians on Friday, officials said, after 16 security forces died in an
[Dawn] Pakistain security forces targeted
