The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.
The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.
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This "event" happened on Valentine's Day 2012, about three miles from my home in Bangkok. It was a wonderful occurrence of Karmic justice. To fully appreciate just how vigorously that justice was dispensed, here is a (warning: very graphic) video clip of Mr. Moradi shortly following his refresher lesson in the force of gravity: http://youtu.be/CMdtylfU9qo And - yes - that is a school immediately behind him. 'Kinda clever how Karma neatly removed Maradi's jeans, and hung them from a lamppost, before chopping him down to size.
This botched effort by a team of grossly inept Quds force pawns can only be likened to the adventures of "The Four Lions" - here is the famous scene of the first "martyr" cashing himself in: http://youtu.be/VCpVh8Wox1U
A MUSLIM cleric at one of Scotlands biggest mosques was arrested in a major drugs swoop.
Cops reportedly found a significant quantity of crack cocaine and cash at a property owned by the imam in Leith, Edinburgh.
Its understood the religious leader, who cannot be named, regularly leads prayers at the capitals Central Mosque. Last night one source said: Nobody had any idea. This will come as a huge shock to everyone.
We must be careful not to jump to conclusions. This comes totally out of the blue.
The arrest on Thursday came as part of Operation Amend, which saw officers seize more than £500,000 of drugs and cash in the city in two days.
Police Scotland confirmed a man had been arrested and charged in connection with alleged drug offences.
None of the mosques directors were available for comment last night.
More than 140 children have been rescued from Islamic training centers (madrassas) in the last nine months, with a majority of the children targeted because of their Christian faith. The females, accounting for nearly half of those rescued, report that they were used for forced labor and sex slavery.
New information has come to light regarding the treatment of the young girls rescued from madrassas earlier this year. "They were forcefully converted to Islam," said Akash, a contact for International Christian Concern (ICC) whose name is changed for security reasons. "The girls were made to wear veils at all times. Some girls were also forced to work as slaves in the homes of Muslim families and were only fed one time a day."
The rescued girls were told they would study at a Christian school and receive training to become beauticians. However, after completing the grueling travel from their villages to the capitol city, Dhaka, they discovered it was all a lie. "Instead of training in the Beautifying Parlor, we were forcefully sent to hotels for the sex trade," explained one of the girls.
A police commander in Tanzania says four Saudi Arabian citizens have been arrested following a bomb attack on a Catholic church.
Magesa Mulogo said Monday that the four Saudi nationals were among six people arrested.
Mulongo said two people died in Sunday's bombing of a newly opened church in the northern city of Arusha. Nearly four dozen people were wounded in the blast just before the church's inaugural Mass, which was attended by the pope's envoy to Tanzania.
Mulogo said eyewitnesses reported that the bomb was thrown from a motorcycle into the church. Mulogo said the driver of the motorcycle is among those arrested.
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Considering this is coming from one of the biggest promoters of replacing all our freedoms with government choosing what is best for us you will forgive me if I cling to my gun harder and tell him to go to hell.
Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hezbollah and nothing has happened in response.
Some experts are predicting that will continue to be the case following airstrikes near Damascus on Friday and Sunday that are widely believed to be the work of the Israel Defense Forces. According to reports, the strikes targeted shipments of long-range, Iranian-made Fateh-110 missiles capable of striking deep into Israel.
Israel hasnt commented on the strikes, but the IDF has moved two Iron Dome missile defense batteries to its northern border and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed his departure to China for several hours to convene his security cabinet. Meanwhile, Syrias foreign minister told CNN on Sunday that the strikes amounted to a declaration of war.
But such gestures, analysts say, are merely symbolic. Torn by a civil war now in its third year, the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is too beleaguered to fight back. And Hezbollah, the Lebanese party considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel, is considered too preoccupied propping up its Syrian patron to respond.
he deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.
The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound "when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, 'you can't go now, you don't have the authority to go now.' And so they missed the flight ... They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it."
No assistance arrived from the U.S. military outside of Libya during the hours that Americans were under attack or trapped inside compounds by hostile forces armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles.
Hicks told congressional investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour's flight from Libya.
A day after it launched an airstrike outside of Damascus, killing scores of Syrian soldiers, Israel sought to play down the attack as a strike against regime-ally Hezbollah, not President Bashar al-Assad.
Reuters reports that Israel has made several soothing overtures to its war-racked northern neighbor after launching airstrikes in Syria on Friday and Sunday. Tzachi Hanegbi, a confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Israeli radio on Monday that Mr. Netanyahu aimed to avoid "an increase in tension with Syria by making clear that if there is activity, it is only against Hezbollah, not against the Syrian regime."
Hezbollah, which seeks Israel's elimination, has long relied on the Assad regime to transfer weapons from Iran into its own hands. Damascus and the Lebanese Shiite militant group appear to have drawn closer together as a result of Syria's civil war, with Hezbollah fighters battling the Syrian opposition from inside the country.
Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's biggest-selling newspaper, said the Netanyahu government had informed Mr. Assad through diplomatic channels that the attacks were not attempts to affect the outcome of Syria's civil war.
Israeli officials did not immediately confirm the report, but one suggested that such indirect contacts were not required.
"Given the public remarks being made by senior Israeli figures to reassure Assad, it's pretty clear what the message is," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
And Haaretz noted that Netanyahu left as planned for a diplomatic trip to China on Sunday, which it called "part of Jerusalems effort to send a calming message to Assad."
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Netanyahu government had informed Mr. Assad through diplomatic channels that the attacks were not attempts to affect the outcome of Syria's civil war.
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The troops guarding the hezbollah missiles were probably not Assad's 'elite' soldiers but there may have been some Hezbollah troops there and maybe a few Basij.
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"may have been some Hezbollah troops there and maybe a few Basij"
And the poor babees got killed?
Awwwwwww, ain't that just too bad.
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Syria," Da Joos killed our countrymen, they must die!!"
Israel," There Iranians, not Syrians."
Syria," Oh, OK. Its all good."
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As the 2000-Year-Old Man said, Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die.
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The bigger problem is that this event should never even have happened since these brothers had been previously identified but our watchful gov't just stopped watching them.
Concern over the possibility of broader war in the Middle East grew Monday in the wake of reported airstrikes on Syrian military installations.
The reported strikes killed 42 Syrian soldiers, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday, citing medical sources. It said 100 people remained missing.
The Syrian government warned Sunday's apparent strikes -- which followed one last week attributed by Syria to Israel -- "opens the door wide for all the possibilities."
Syrian ally Iran warned of a "crushing response" while Russia called reports of Israeli involvement "very worrying."
The heightened tensions come amid questions over possible chemical weapon use in Syria and international debate over how to respond to the country's bloody civil war, in which more than 70,000 people have died in more than two years of fighting.
On Monday, a U.N. official spoke of strong suspicions that rebels, not Syrian government forces, have used chemical weapons.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > [Algemeir] ASSAD GIVES US 24 HOURS TO RESPOND TO THREATENING LETTER, warning of possible MilAction(s) agz Israel iff more Milstrikes.
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* SAME > [The Tower Mgazine] ASSAD GREENLIGHTS PALESTINIAN "OPERATIONS" AGZ ISRAEL IN GOLAN HEIGHTS, THREATENS MISSLE ATTACKS - SYRIA STATE TV.
On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.
If true that means Hilde was engaged in cover-up from almost the first minute. That would be typical of her and the others currently in charge of the administration.
That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency's counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau -- independently of Thompson -- voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.
Thompson considers himself a whistle-blower whose account was suppressed by the official investigative panel that Clinton convened to review the episode, the Accountability Review Board (ARB).
Apparently he couldn't find a microphone, a sympathetic reporter to leak to, or a TV camera last fall?
Thompson's lawyer, Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney, has further alleged that his client has been subjected to threats and intimidation by as-yet-unnamed superiors at State, in advance of his cooperation with Congress.
Sources close to the congressional investigation who have been briefed on what Thompson will testify tell Fox News the veteran counterterrorism official concluded on Sept. 11 that Clinton and Kennedy tried to cut the counterterrorism bureau out of the loop as they and other Obama administration officials weighed how to respond to -- and characterize -- the Benghazi attacks.
"You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night," the second official in State's counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in October. Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson's forthcoming testimony.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the counterterrorism officials' allegation "100 percent false." A spokesman for Clinton said tersely that the charge is not true.
"Lies! All lies!"
Documents from the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, first published in the May 13 edition of The Weekly Standard, showed that senior officials from those agencies decided within days of the attacks to delete all references to Al Qaeda's known involvement in them from "talking points" being prepared for those administration officers being sent out to discuss the attacks publicly.
Those talking points -- and indeed, the statements of all senior Obama administration officials who commented publicly on Benghazi during the early days after the attacks -- sought instead to depict the Americans' deaths as the result of a spontaneous protest that went awry. The administration later acknowledged that there had been no such protest, as evidence mounted that Al Qaeda-linked terrorists had participated in the attacks. The latter conclusion had figured prominently in the earliest CIA drafts of the talking points, but was stricken by an ad hoc group of senior officials controlling the drafting process. Among those involved in prodding the deletions, the documents published by The Weekly Standard show, was State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, who wrote at one point that the revisions were not sufficient to satisfy "my building's leadership."
By the way, the YouTube filmmaker remains in prison. Just saying...
The allegations of the two counterterrorism officials stand to return the former secretary of state to the center of the Benghazi story. Widely regarded as a leading potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Clinton has insisted she was not privy to decisions made by underlings about the inadequate security for the U.S. installations in Benghazi that were made in the run-up to the attacks.
Why would she be, she was only Secretary of State. Details are for little people...
And she has portrayed her role -- once the attacks became known in Washington -- as that of a determined fact-finder who worked with colleagues to fashion the best possible response to the crisis.
'Fashion' being the appropriate euphemism for what she did...
Clinton testified about Benghazi for the first and only time in January of this year, shortly before leaving office. She had long delayed her testimony, at first because she cited the need for the ARB to complete its report, and then because she suffered a series of untimely health problems that included acute cirrhosis a stomach virus, a concussion sustained during a fall at home, and a blood clot near her brain, from which she has since recovered. However, Clinton was never interviewed by the ARB she convened.
How unfortunate. The blood clot could have done a lot of talking...
Fox News disclosed last week that the conduct of the ARB is itself now under review by the State Department's Office of Inspector General.
Since 'internal reviews' just aren't trusted by skeptical external viewers...
The counterterrorism officials, however, concluded that Clinton and Kennedy were immediately wary of the attacks being portrayed as acts of terrorism, and accordingly worked to prevent the counterterrorism bureau from having a role in the department's early decision-making relating to them.
Also appearing before the oversight committee on Wednesday will be Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Like Thompson, Hicks is a career State Department official who considers himself a Benghazi whistle-blower.
Now. He's a whistle-blower now. Where was he in September and October? That's the one thing that makes me hold back in endorsing these folks. Where were they when the public really needed to hear what they said, and when what they said would have made a difference. As I recall, there was an election going on then, and it would have helped the electorate to know if the administration then in charge was being truthful to them. But all three of these individuals sat on their hands despite what they knew. Why is that, and why are they coming out now?
Portions of the forthcoming testimony of Hicks -- who was one of the last people to speak to Stevens, and who upon the ambassador's death became the senior U.S. diplomat in Libya -- were made public by Rep. Issa during an appearance on the CBS News program "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
Hicks told the committee that he and his colleagues on the ground in Libya that night knew instantly that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and that he was astonished that no one drafting the administration's talking points consulted with him before finalizing them, or before U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice delivered them on the Sunday talk shows of Sept. 16.
Why didn't he speak out on Monday, September 17th?
Hicks was interviewed by the ARB but Thompson was not, sources close to the committee's investigation tell Fox News.
The internal review couldn't do quite that much review, it would have become embarrassing...
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Apparently he (Thompson) couldn't find a microphone, a sympathetic reporter to leak to, or a TV camera last fall?
Last fall he would probably have still been an active Marine and not free to leak.
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remember how they "disappeared" the survivors and injured? All unavailable for coomment and interview?
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sleeping well, you sociopathic liar, Hillary?
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"Don't believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't have been." - Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell, 7/20/93, cited in Esquire, 11/93.
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"What difference does it make".... that was 129 engine changes ago, and we had to duck sniper fire as we walked to the terminal. I need a long rest, my head hurts, I can't remember anything. All I ever wanted was a nice house on 230 acres in the Ozarks. Where are my dark glasses? Vince....Vince.... are you there ?
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This also meant that the beast was actively engaged in the deliberate placing the life of an uninvolved, innocent (at least in this) American Citizen in direct danger for a political purpose.
In other words she hid behind a 'human shield'. To me that is despicable.
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"You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night,"
I can only imagine. Too bad the fly on the wall didn't have a recording device.
I see the wagons circling to protect Hillary at all costs. Damage control at it's best.
Anxious to see these liars be thrown out of office, and Hillary be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Make an example out of her to not allow this crap and coverup to ever happen again.
I too question why these whistleblowers didn't come out soon after the attack when it would have impacted the election. Does make one wonder.
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Not an excuse, but coming out in the immediate few days after the attack in Benghazi, when who knew what and who is to be trusted was still very fluid, you have to face the fact that it was the President, and the power of the White House that any whistleblower was challenging. AT the time the odds looked even to slightly Romney and any insider would know that retribution would be swift and massive if there was any threat to the idea that foreign policy was going well, the Arab Spring was so successful, and the leadership of the administration in Libya's transformation was a joke. So I can understand the calculus of now, when lesser risks accrue, Champ and blow it off, and Hillary isn't the SecState now, might be seen as less risky. Not heroic, but survivor thinking to salvage the career and punch out as a protected whistleblower, especailly since the knives are coming out under JF'nK anyway.
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Even with the whistle blower information about what happened in the 6 hours following the attack we still can't dismiss the decisions made by the Administration - looking back we can, but in real time there are risk-reward calculations that have to be made and their decision was callous but not provably incorrect.
HOWEVER, there is no excuse for being so ill-prepared before the attack that such a calculation even had to be made, and the provable lies and cover-up that followed go beyond inexcusable into clearly criminal terrain.
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State Dept - including Hillary(2016!) were well aware of the frequent urgent requests for additional security, yet continued to strip it down. Stevens didn't even have an assigned DOS bodyguard. Wrap your mind around that?
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[Telegraph] Confirmation that Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of air strikes in Syria against consignments of missiles being shipped to Hizbollah in southern Leb has highlighted Iran's attempts to reinforce its regional allies in anticipation of military conflict with Israel.
As I revealed last month, recent intelligence reports indicate that Iran has revived its efforts to ship weapons to the radical Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in Gazoo. Following negotiations between members of the Quds force from Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Sudanese government officials and Hamas leaders earlier this year, Iran has chartered a number of Boeing 747 cargo planes to smuggle weapons to Hamas via Sudan.
Under the terms of the agreement, weapons are shipped from Tehran to the Syrian capital Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , and from Damascus they are sent to Khartoum. Then they are transported by road from Sudan to Gazoo travelling through Egypt and the Sinai Desert.
At the same time it now appears that Iran is also trying to send shipments to weapons to Hizbollah, its proxy militia in southern Leb. Hizbollah and Israel fought an inconclusive war in 2006, and with Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , a close ally of Hizbollah, involved in a desperate battle for survival, Iran is anxious to ensure that Hizbollah is fully equipped if the conflict results in renewed hostilities with Israel.
Israel and Iran have issues of their own, with the Jewish state repeatedly warning that it will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. With so much regional tension, Iran has decided that it needs to be fully prepared for conflict with Israel. And what better way to put pressure on the Jewish state than to supply Hamas and Hizbollah, Iran's allies on Israel's southern and northern borders respectively, with fresh supplies of arms.
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IIRC WND.com Artic sezzes that Iran has ordered its IRGC Quds/Qods Force to prepare a retaliatory counter-response(s) to Israel's air strikes agz Syria.
* "Sudan to Gazoo travelling through Egypt + the Sinai desert" > How does Israel + IDF/IDAF intend to deal wid Iran-supplied arms covertly coming in thru this route???
"The federal government needs to step in," said Chandler. "But I'm not sure what they're going to do or where will they go. Peter Stefan is a very respected and respectable funeral home director in Worcester. He's a good man. This can't continue. He's taking a financial loss as a result of this."
Stefan accepted Tsarnaev's body Friday after it was initially sent to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.
"We have a body for burial that has caused a lot of controversy and we can't continue to play this game," Stefan told The Herald. "Under normal circumstances, the government would say it's (the funeral parlor's) responsibility to find a place for burial, but this is not normal circumstances. This is a nightmare.
"My problem here is trying to find a gravesite," Stefan added. "A lot of people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this. I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too." Nooo. No one had to do those. They could easily have been cremated and scattered in the nearest sewer. Or beheaded to be displayed at the cities' gate. Only YOU feel the the need for a *respectful burial*. Perhaps you should re-examine your priorities.
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If you can't cremate or bury him, then sew him up a canvas sack, weight it with rocks and take him offshore and chuck him over the side. Jeeze louise, it's not a big problem.
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where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.
Each one should be immediately arrested, and held as terrorist accomplices.
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Well now, this is interesting, given the discussion yesterday regarding Mrs. Tsarnaev. Why is she MIA here? Active, willing accomplice proud of hubby for martyring himself for Allan? Or relieved she's free, without having to take any action on her own.
I suppose a cynic might pick door #3: a calculated move on the advice of her lawyer. But if she were a true-blue Islamonutter like Momma Speedbump, I would think she'd be there screaming about a proper Muslim burial anyway.
As for Mr. Stefan . . . how about your own backyard, next to Snowball I, Snowball II, and Snowball III.
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The Federal Government could quietly move in and bury the bastid in a military cemetery with an unmarked grave. They won't however. The news chatter keeps the little people gainfully distracted and occupied, whilst the scoundrels in Washington pursue their usual shenanigans.
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RandomJD has an excellent point: where is Mrs. Tsarnaev in the handling of her late husband's remains?
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Do something kind. Burn ( oh sorry 'cremate") the cadaver. You can't DO that? Its not "islamic"? Well do something "islamic to it, I am not sure what, and deliver it to his next of kin and its then THEIR problem. You can at least get another headline that his own mother doesn't want his body? That would sound nice for Islam, I think. Yes? No?
Well then, are there no Mosques out there full of Islamic charity, after all Islam is so well known for its overflowing and generous loving charity toward all. Zakat and all that. Pillars of Islam, hummahumma.
No Mosques ANYWHERE who will take the deader's corpse? There's a headline right there also. NO MOSQUE WILL TAKE HIS DEAD ISLAMIC WHACKAROONI FOR ANY REASON. or words to that effect. Should look good on Islam's resume'. They say they don't want it. Offer every Mosque in the US a chance. ANY takers? OFFer it to CAIR and see if there is another headline there?
Suggestion: wait awhile and then "lose" it. New Jersey has a lot of real estate that gets dark early. Try Massachusetts or California.( another Headline or two there) The Media can surely sell this for quite a while with any imagination at all. Off it to CNN and see what they can arrange or if they have any raffle or charity they can "involve". Someone "spiritual" with lots of eye makeup perhaps, a televangelist who ooozes charity and needs the publicity? Someone "sincere" who will tell us all to pray over it.
Is there ANYone out there who will bury this man out of the milk of human decency and caring charity? Or am I just looking at a lot of Americans who really really want him to rot in the sack?
You can at least be honest about your own true feelings.
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He had a wife and mother, send them the bill and a note saying the body will be cremated and dumped in the garbage if they dont come and get it.
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Alaska Paul has the right idea, give him the Usama Bin Ladin treatment, the Atlantic ocean is a big place. No land burial or his supporters will likely place his name on this list and there will be no end to it.
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My point above is a serious one: the body belongs to the next of kin. That's the missus. If not her, given that Mumzy and Daddzy are overseas, that means one of the uncles who is still here in the U.S.
Where are they in all this? Why haven't one of them claimed the body?
This is elemental common law. The corpse belongs to the next of kin. The funeral director makes a call -- "come and get it." Or he can ship. Whatever.
If no one claims the body then it goes into the potter's field with a numbered grave marker. Given that could be a problem for the future, perhaps a sea burial is reasonable.
But first I'd like Mrs. Katherine (Russell)Tsarnaev to state publicly that she doesn't want it.
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I agree, Dr. White - claiming the body and burial expenses are the family's responsibility. Not the taxpayers, who have been fleeced quite enough by the Tsarnaevs already.
However, there is the shrine problem. That is a potential security issue, and it's probably why he can't find a graveyard willing to accept the body. Mr. Stefan IS in a bit of a sticky wicket. Perhaps he'd be all too glad to toss the ashes, but would like some legal cover in case some relative tries to sue him.
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Sent his worthless body back to the Hell-Hole-istan from whence he came.
From 30,000 feet.
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Cremate the body and add it to the nearest stockpile of high-level nuclear waste.
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Wifey knows that hubby Tsamaev's body is a hot potato, so she is not going to touch it now. That is how deep islamic traditions go when the heat is on. Kick the coffin down the road, so to speak.
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LONDON: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday that apparent Israeli air strikes on Syria showed that peace across the whole region was under threat, and reinforced the need to lift an arms embargo on Syrian rebels. Fire going amazing well. More petrol needed however.
Hague's comments came after a senior Israeli official said that the Jewish state carried out a pre-dawn attack near Damascus on Sunday targeting Iranian missiles destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"We don't have any official confirmation but of course there have been some sources in Israel saying that this has been an Israeli airstrike - I will wait before commenting in detail on that for official confirmation," Hague told Sky News. They said they did it, but you just can't trust those Joos.
"But what I can say is that these events, and many other events of recent days, do show increasing danger to the peace of that entire region from the Syria crisis just getting worse and worse."
Hague added: "Lebanon is constantly threatened by being destabilised, huge numbers of refugees are crossing the border, Jordan is under incredible strain.
"And Israel has made very clear that it will act if it believes that important weapons systems are being transferred to Hezbollah."
Hague said that "Israel will act to protect its national security, we do have to respect that." An absolute blindly flash of the obvious, but to his credit, I suppose that needed saying in England and Europe these days.
The Israeli strike on Sunday was the second on Syrian soil in three days, following an attack near Damascus airport on Friday which also struck Iranian arms destined for the Lebanese Shiite movement.
Iran condemned the strikes, which witnesses in Damascus said were like an earthquake. Which confirms that Iran got the latest [rather largish bomb] message from Israel.
The British foreign minister said the growing threat to peace in the region from the Syria crisis showed the need to increase assistance to the Syrian opposition.
He added that the "longer this goes on the stronger the case becomes for lifting the arms embargoes" against the Syrian opposition. No Bill old fellow, the "longer this goes on" the less likely these murdering bastids are to migrate to Albion.
Britain is pushing the EU to lift an arms embargo on Syria, which comes up for renewal at the end of May.
Hague meanwhile reiterated that there were "credible reports of chemical weapons being used against" the Syrian people, although he was not pressed on whether that had passed the West's "red line" for intervention. Yes, it was your own defense establishment at Wiltshire which confirmed the use of chemical weapons. I would take Porton Down as "credible" as well.
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A lot less here than meets the eye, several F-15Is (may or maybe not IAFs) were demonstrating, making noises and peacefully flying about (albeit out of town) when things got out of hand and weapons were spontaneously used in a possible attack-like situation on a possible Syrian target some what near Damascus.
Nidal was born in the Dagestani city of Buinaksk in 1992. The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta first broke the story about Nidal's ties to Tamerlane, which argued that the Dagestani militant was a key contact of the elder Tsarnaev brother during his 2012 visit to the mountainous Russian republic of Dagestan. While some newspapers and Western media have incorrectly reported that Nidal is an ethnic Chechen, he is actually from Dagestan and is half ethnic Kumyk and half Palestinian. The Kumyks--the third largest ethnic group in the republic of Dagestan--are a Turkic speaking people who are of Mongol descent.
Whatever ties existed between Tamerlan and Nidal, they did not last long. Mahmud Mansur Nidal was 19 years old when he was killed in a police operation in Makhachkala on May 19, 2012. He put up his last fight at his home, located on 1b, Yubileinaya Street in Makhachkala, which the Dagestani police surrounded on the evening of May 18. Apart from Nidal, also present in the domicile were Mansur's mother, Zarina, Mansur's spouse, Maryam (a.k.a. Anzhela) Dolgatova, with their two-month-old infant, along with their guests, Fatima Nurmagomedova and her husband, Abdurakhman Magomedov.
Following many hours of negotiations, the women and children were allowed to leave the house. Abdurakhman Magomedov also surrendered to the authorities. However, Mansur Nidal refused to surrender and fought the police forces and was subsequently killed by the security services as they stormed the building.
According to Dagestani police reports, by December 2011, Mansur Nidal was accused of being a member of the Shamilkala (a.k.a. Makhachkala) Jamaat. The police suspected Nidal of participating in several killings, bomb attacks and assaults on government forces, including an attack on a police checkpoint in Makhachakala on May 3, 2012. In that specific terrorist attack, which was carried out by suicide bombers, 13 people died and over a hundred were injured. Mansur Nidal denied his involvement in this attack to the police in the midst of their siege of his home, stating that he had been out of town that day.
Unofficial sources allege that during the special operation at Nidal's home, a crowd of 150--200 young people attempted to prevent the police from storming the building. The protesters blocked the street where the police operation was taking place. This type of behavior by civilians is quite unusual for Makhachkala. Discussions of how connection is improbable than then this conclusion:
The Moscow papers' stories about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's visit to Georgia, about his contacts with Mansur Mahmud Nidal, or even his possible contacts with the Canadian William Plotnikov are nothing more than attempts to deflect attention from what Tamerlan Tsarnaev was really doing on his last visit to Russia.
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[BETA.DAWN] Security forces captured two bad boy strongholds in Kismet Sur and Sunghar areas of Tirah valley in Khyber tribal region after successful operations were conducted in the areas , according to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) sources.
At least 16 faceless myrmidons were killed during the operation moreover scores of other faceless myrmidons fled from the area leaving behind a huge cache of arms and ammunition, which was recovered by security forces.
Two security personnel were killed and three others were maimed during the operation.
Moreover two security personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) were killed and three others were maimed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast while the unit was clearing the Esha Razmak Road, officials confirmed.
The military officials confirmed that the bomb disposal party was busy clearing the Esha-Razmak route for troops' movement when it was hit by an IED, resulting in the death of two soldiers.
The officials also confirmed that three soldiers were would in the blast who were shifted to a nearby hospital.
A search operation continued in the area.
In another incident in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... 's Mamozai area, at least six suspected faceless myrmidons were killed and five others were maimed during festivities between security forces and bad boys.
Security sources told Dawn.com that two security personnel were also injured during the skirmish.
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[KREBSONSECURITY] Organized hackers in Ukraine and Russia stole more than $1 million from a public hospital in Washington state earlier this month. The costly cyberheist was carried out with the help of nearly 100 different accomplices in the United States who were hired through work-at-home job scams run by a crime gang that has been fleecing businesses for the past five years.
Last Friday, The Wenatchatee World broke the news of the heist, which struck Chelan County Public Hospital No. 1, one of several hospitals managed by the Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth, Wash. The publication said the attack occurred on Apr. 19, and moved an estimated $1.03 million out of the hospital's payroll account into 96 different bank accounts, mostly at banks in the Midwest and East Coast.
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[An Nahar] A Katyusha rocket fired from Syrian territory landed in the middle of the Hermel town of al-Qasr in the Bekaa on Sunday, state-run National News Agency reported.
The agency did not say whether or not the shelling caused any casualties or damage.
"A rocket fired from the positions of the armed opposition in Syria's Qusayr hit the Lebanese town of al-Qasr," the Beirut-based, pan-Arab television al-Mayadeen said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... OTV said two shells fired by Syrian rebels landed in al-Qasr.
Later on Sunday, NNA said six shells fired from Syria landed on the Lebanese bank of the Grand River between the Akkar towns of al-Dabbabiyeh and al-Noura.
On April 14, two people were killed and five others were maimed when rockets fired from Syria hit al-Qasr and and the nearby town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali in the Hermel District.
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[BETA.DAWN] At least two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and 13 dacoits were killed on Sunday during an exchange of fire in the Bhag area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Bolan district, FC sources said.
According to FC sources, security personnel conducted a raid to arrest a wanted dacoit Gul Bahar in the Bhag area, adding that two of its personnel were killed when the raiding team came under fire as soon as they entered the area to arrest the suspects.
Security forces resorted to retaliatory action which was followed by a lengthy gun-battle.
Gul Bahar was also killed in the five-hour long battle between cut-throats and security forces.
Huge quantity of arms and ammunition was also recovered during the raid. FC sources said the gang was involved in different acts of kidnappings and robberies.
Security forces also placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! several members of the gang who were shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further investigations.
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Two Philippine soldiers were wounded in an attack staged by communist rebels yesterday in Mindanao.
Troops from the 57th Infantry Battalion were conducting a patrol in North Cotabato province when a landmine planted by the New People's Army (NPA) exploded at Two soldiers were injured in an attack staged by leftist rebels yesterday in restive Mindanao, an army officer said today.
Nasrullah Sema, chief of the civil military operations of the 57th Infantry Battalion, said that troops from the 57th Infantry Battalion were conducting a patrol in North Cotabato province when a landmine planted by the New People's Army (NPA) exploded at 1:15 p.m. The explosion hit the military truck and wounded two soldiers.
[CNSNEWS] President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... , speaking in Mexico City on Friday, said the United States is responsible for much of the crime and violence in Mexico because of the demand for drugs and the illegal smuggling of guns across the southern border.
He told the crowd, "We understand that the root cause of violence that's been happening here in Mexico for which so many Mexicans have suffered is the demand for illegal drugs in the United States." He later added, "We also recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States."
Obama acknowledged the illegal smuggling of guns into Mexico by American criminals, but did not mention the Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious that allowed the flow of about 2,000 U.S. guns to Mexican drug trafficking organizations. Fast and Furious began in the fall of 2009 and was halted in December 2010 after two of the weapons from the DOJ gun walking program were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
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The DoJ is a significant source of violence with firearms in Mexico.
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...were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
..not to mention probably a couple hundred Mexican nationals too.
[An Nahar] Libya's General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office.
Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries to press for officials from the strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... 's regime who hold top government jobs to be sacked welcomed the vote and lifted their siege.
State television broadcast live coverage showing 164 politicians in the 200-member GNC vote in favor of the law with just four deputies present voting against.
Under the law, all those who held key official posts from September 1, 1969 when Qadaffy took power, until the fall of his regime in October 2011 will be excluded from government, but it was not immediately clear for how long.
An earlier draft bill seen by Agence La Belle France Presse said the ban would last five years, but later GNC sources said it could be up to 10 years before it is lifted.
The proposal for the law caused a stir among Libya's political elite, as senior members of the government could be affected, including Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and GNC president Mohamed Megaryef.
Both were diplomats under Qadaffy before joining the opposition in exile.
Fifteen politicians also risk loosing their jobs once the GNC's legal commission ratifies the law, including the vice president of the national assembly Jomaa Atiga, an official said.
"It is too early to speak of excluding Mr. Megaryef. The situation will be clearer in a week or 10 days," a source close to the GNC president told AFP.
He suggested there could be some "amendments" to the law.
Megaryef, who was ambassador to India in the 1980s, was not present for the vote and sent the GNC a letter saying he would stay away to avoid "embarrassing" the politicians as they cast their ballots.
A special commission will now be set up to implement the new law which also affects former government ministers, ambassadors, security officers as well as state media officials, public university professors and union leaders.
The gunnies, many former rebels who helped topple Qadaffy, had encircled the foreign ministry for a week and the justice ministry since Tuesday to pressure the national assembly to pass the law.
They vowed to stand their ground and expand their action unless their demands were satisfied, and warned against any GNC attempt to make exceptions to allow key individuals to keep their jobs.
Vice president Salah al-Makhzum said last week that a compromise had been reached among the political blocs by adding "exceptions" in the bill in order to retain key individuals.
Before Sunday's vote the GNC, Libya's national assembly and top political body, had debated the law several times without reaching an agreement.
The bill proved particularly controversial with the National Forces Alliance, the liberal coalition that dominated elections in July, who feared it was aimed at their leader Mahmoud Jibril who headed an economic council under Qadaffy.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... had warned the GNC against a hasty vote.
"The GNC should not allow itself to be railroaded into making very bad laws because groups of gunnies are demanding it," Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at HRW, said in a statement on Saturday.
"Libya's long-term prospects for peace and security will be seriously diminished if the congress agrees to nod through this law."
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[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] According to Wolf, a whistleblower at NASA informed him about Jiang's dodgy behavior and said he was concerned that the doctor was carrying "source code for high tech imaging technology," that could be used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to develop drones and advanced aerospace projects. Jiang had taken the hard drive with him on a previous visit home in violation of security policy, Wolf claimed.
The congressman also accused the space agency of bending the rules by hiring "certain foreign nationals of concern," and demanded to know how many other Chinese boffins NASA was employing. Wolf called for an independent investigatory panel to review the situation, an immediate block on the new hiring of foreign nationals, and a thorough investigation of any foreigners working at the agency, with full prosecution of any security offenses.
But Jiang was exonerated in a hearing on Thursday. "None of the computer media that Jiang attempted to bring to the PRC on March 16, 2013, contained classified information, export controlled information, or NASA proprietary information," according to the statement of facts filed in Jiang's case, Bloomberg reports.
A gentleman's private collection
The contents of the laptop and hard drive he was trying to conceal turned out to be nothing more than pirated films and "sexually explicit images." He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of violating NASA's administrative rules, but this was dismissed on the proviso that he leave the country within 48 hours.
"Dr. Jiang is relieved this ordeal is over," said his lawyer, Fernando Groene. "Although he was accused in arena of public opinion and in the halls of Congress, once due process was given he was cleared of any and all allegations that he was a spy."
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[An Nahar] Two Islamists accused of killing 500 people during Algeria's civil war, including the rape and murder of 60 women, were sentenced to death on Sunday, Agence La Belle France Press reported.
The judge sentenced Djilali Kouri, 32, and Antar Ali, 35, to death for "founding and running a terrorist group that killed and spread terror among the population and that murdered hundreds of civilians and soldiers" between 1996 and 2004.
Kouri and Ali admitted having killed members of the security forces in the civil war, but denied raping and killing civilians.
"Kouri has already been sentenced to death for some of the charges against him, but sought acquittal on the other counts," said Brahim Behloul, the court-appointed lawyer for both accused.
"Antar Ali asked to be considered under the Civil Concord law," said Behloul, referring to a law adopted by referendum in 1999 to encourage thousands of Islamists to surrender in exchange for a pardon.
The law offers amnesty to Islamist fighters who do not have blood on their hands.
"I did not commit massacres, I was fighting the authorities. I'm not a terrorist, I am myself a victim," he told the court.
Ali and Kouri told Sherlocks they were part of a group of Islamist fighters in the Chlef region during the civil war, and took part in operations in other areas.
The Algerian press has reported that the pair confessed to killing soldiers and members of auxiliary units in northern Algeria, as well as taking part in the rape and murder of scores of women.
While they admitted in court killing members of the security forces, they denied involvement in the rape and murder of civilians.
"I admit having participated in the killing of five soldiers and five municipal guards, but I did not massacre civilians and rape women," Kouri told the court.
Ali also said that he had "taken part in ambushes against the military," but denied playing a role in the massacre of civilians.
"I did not commit massacres, I was fighting the authorities. I'm not a terrorist, I am myself a victim," he told the court.
As the verdict was read out, a mother of one of the victims stood up and shouted "Long live Algeria! Long live justice!"
While Algerian courts still hand down the death penalty, it is no longer applied under a moratorium adopted in 1993.
Originally the trial had been set for April 1, but Antar Ali rejected the court-appointed lawyer to defend him, causing a postponement.
The civil war, which broke out after the government annulled an election won by the Islamic Salvation Front, killed around 200,000 people according to official estimates.
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"I am myself a victim"
he should've been kicked and whipped to death on the spot just for saying that
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Funny, Bill Ayers made just that argument in his keynote address at Kent State.
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels have taken control of large parts of the Minnigh military airport in northern Syria, where a regime commander was killed on Saturday, a watchdog group said on Sunday.
"General Ali Mahmoud was killed on Saturday with two of his bodyguards, and the rebels have taken control of a large part of the airport but fighting is continuing," Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Since the beginning of this year, rebel fighters have been trying to seize a string of northern airports, including Aleppo international airport, and the Jarrah, Kwiyres, Minnigh and Nayrab military fields.
They took Jarrah military airport on February 12.
Elsewhere, the Observatory reported regime air raids on the Jubar neighborhood of the capital Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... and against the rebel-held town of Raqa.
There were also sporadic air raids targeting orchards south of Banias, where the bodies of 62 people were found on Saturday after an assault by government forces.
The opposition has said the growing number of reported killings in Syria raises the specter of a campaign of "ethnic cleansing".
In southern Daraa province, meanwhile, the Observatory reported festivities between rebels and Syrian troops trying to reopen a highway.
In central Homs, along the Lebanese border, fighting continued between regime forces and rebels as the army tries to gain control of the key town of Qusayr.
Violence throughout Syria on Sunday left at least 35 people dead, according to an initial toll from the Observatory.
It said at least 148 people were killed on Saturday -- 40 civilians, 74 rebels and 34 soldiers.
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Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his republic is safer than the United Kingdom in response to the British Foreign Office's warning against travel to the North Caucasus.
His Twitter account said, "England's Foreign Office warns against visits to the North Caucasus. I am stating with entire responsibility that it is safer in Chechnya than in England! Welcome!"
On Friday, Britain's Foreign Office issued a warning against trips to Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and some area of the Stavropol region. The list also included North Ossetia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
[Dawn] Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmed confirmed on Sunday that the police report over the seizure 90,000 fake ballot papers in Lower Dir was received by the Election Commission of Pakistain.Police had earlier claimed the recovery of 90,000 ballot papers from a vehicle in Chakdara area of Lower Dir on Sunday.
DIG Malakand range Obaidullah Khan told Dawn.com that the police team recovered and confiscated the National Assembly ballot papers during the search of a vehicle and that the papers were not carrying the seal of the Election Commission of Pakistain and appeared to be fake.
Two persons were also taken into custody and were booked under sections 419, 420 , 468 and 471 of the PPC. The fake ballot papers were meant for NA-34 constituency of Lower Dir.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Ishtiaq Ahmed hailing the police team that had recovered the fake ballot papers said that the preparation and transportation of the ballot papers was being carried out under the Army's supervision to minimise risk of ballots leakage and fake voting.He added that the use of fake ballot papers was curtailed and those who were using them should no longer dream of applying them to use.
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For a second there, I thought there was an error in the headline, Lower DIR abbreviation for Detroit popped into my head. Maybe this is where the democrats get their training. Another startling idea was that the papers did not carry the seal of the Election Commission of Pakistain,(spelling is incorrect) so I thought, you know seals are very heavy and big animals plus they are messy. Likely the papers would be covered in Paki stain in no time perhaps therefore making them valid in Pakistain.
[Dawn] A judicial magistrate on Saturday remanded four suspected hard boyz of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain in police custody till May 6 in cases relating to possession of illicit weapons and explosives.
The CID police claimed to have tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Farhad Khan aka Hamza, Zafar Hussain, Rafiq Ahmed and Mohammed Ilyas aka Siddiqullah after a shootout in Ittehad Town on May 3. They also claimed to have seized arms and explosives from their custody.
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MUMBAI: The Western Naval command headquarters has alerted the city police about the threat of a bomb attack on the US consulate here on July 21. The intelligence was shared with reference to an anonymous letter received by the consulate-general and American Centre in Kolkata, threatening to attack both places.
A copy of the single-page letter was passed on by Sanjay Kumar, command intelligence officer, western naval command. The letter has 'Al-Jihad' written on top, much like a logo or the name of an organization. It said US consulate officials are the targets and told the Americans to vacate the consulates. It also said, "We shall carry out blasts in public places and railway stations of Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai in July this year."
It was unclear when the US consulate received the letter and why July 21 was chosen. Al-Jihad is not known to intelligence agencies but they are taking the threat seriously as terror outfits are known to hide under various names. The input has been shared with the Intelligence Bureau headquarters and its wings in Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai.
The state anti-terrorism squad (ATS) also issued a terror alert, saying the Indian Mujahideen (IM) could target several places to avenge the conviction of and death penalty for its operative, Himayat Mirza Baig, in the German Bakery bomb blast case.
Amitesh Kumar, deputy inspector general of police, ATS, in a two-page alert stated, "In view of the death penalty to Himayat Baig in the German Bakery bomb blast case and the recent blast in Bangalore, retaliation cannot be ruled out. IM can possibly launch a fresh terror strike."
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[Dawn] The simmering tension between supposed political rivals in the Landhi area took an ugly turn on Saturday when a man was rubbed out and four other persons were maimed, police and party sources said.
Clashes between the two rival groups started on Friday when the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-H) chief tried to launch an electoral campaign there and continued into the second day, causing suspension of commercial activities in certain parts of Landhi.
It prompted the law-enforcement agencies to start a 'search operation' there to calm the situation.
"Yes, there was tension in the locality but murder and injuries took place in localities different from the ones where the festivities occurred," said SSP-East Imran Shaukat.
He said the most disturbed areas of Landhi were 80 and 81, where firing was resorted to by the groups but the killing took place in the 5-C area of Landhi, which was far away from the place of violence. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... he said four persons sustained bullet wounds in different areas.
"The police moved into the area to carry out a search operation in which 'several persons' were placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for interrogation," said the SSP. He said he believed that the situation was controlled after the operation.
The Landhi police said that nine persons were detained and TT pistols were seized from them.
Landhi-DSP Muhammad Ahmed Beg told Dawn that the two political rivals, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and the MQM-H, started firing in the area, increasing fear among the residents.
He said he believed that one person was killed and another maimed in 'crossfire'.
The maimed were rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where Fahim, 35, son of Muhammad Shafiq, died while Faisal Mehmood was admitted for treatment.
The DSP claimed that the victims were passersby.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... MQM-H spokesperson Khalid Hameed said that Fahim was a member of their party's Korangi sector committee. He accused the police of playing a partisan role in Landhi.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement candidate from NA-255 Asif Hasnain alleged that the Rangers were not providing equal opportunities to every candidate to run their election campaigns. "On the pretext of providing security to Afaq Ahmed, the Rangers and police are backing beturbanned goons who had attacked, ransacked and torched my election office yesterday and today. They are harassing our voters by their so-called house-to-house search operations. It is their responsibility to restore peace but they are allowing beturbanned goons to cause a breakdown of law and order. I have informed the returning officer of every detail. We are not being allowed to run our election campaign."
MQM man rubbed out
A Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker was bumped off in Korangi, police said.
They said Wali Muhammad aka Bhola, 32, son of Nabi Bakhsh, was standing in front of his home in Sector 32/2 when gunnies opened fire on him. He received a single bullet on the head and was taken to the JPMC, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! .
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[An Nahar] British actress Keira Knightley married singer James Righton in a discreet ceremony in the southern French village of Mazan on Saturday, according to the mayor. They left James' name out of the headline, so I guess he's not very important.
Mayor Aime Navello told Agence La Belle France Presse the small civil ceremony was attended by "about 15 people", mostly family.
The parents of the 28-year-old actress, known for her role in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, own a house in Mazan, a town of about 5,000 people near the medieval town of Avignon in Provence. Her husband is part of the band The Klaxons. That sounds pretty melodious.
Knightley is also known for her roles in "Love Actually" (2003), "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), "The Duchess" (2008) and "Anna Karenina" (2012). I thought Greta Garbo was in Anna Karenina?
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One man was wounded in a firefight between the security detail of Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and alleged thugs Sunday but the security service said the incident was not political in nature.
Do they not know how ineffectual and useless the man is?
Bodyguards opened fire at a car carrying five people that had cut into the official convoy as it crossed the capital's October 6 bridge across the Nile. The fire was returned from the car before the driver and the passengers were arrested.
A security official said the suspects claimed they had been unaware of Qandil's presence in the motorcade and had not shot at his car.
The injured man was an unsuspecting motorist.
Egyptian media reported in February that protesters threw stones and bottles at the prime minister's motorcade as he tried to enter Cairo's Tahrir Square after overnight clashes nearby and at the presidential palace. His office said in a statement later, without elaborating, that he had been "confronted by youths and troublemakers".
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Bodyguards opened fire at a car carrying five people that had cut into the official convoy
Reminiscent of our Channel 2, News Atlanta reporting.
[Al Ahram] A boom-mobile hit a convoy of cars carrying Qatari officials through the centre of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least eight Somalis, officials said.
The visiting delegation of Qataris, who were travelling in the Somali interior minister's bullet-proof vehicle, were "safe", a security officer said, without going into further detail. The minister was not in the car at the time.
No one immediately grabbed credit for the blast but it bore the hallmarks of Al Qaeda-linked rebels who have kept up a campaign of guerrilla-style attacks since the army and peacekeepers pushed them out of bases in the city.
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[BETA.DAWN] Sanaullah Haq, the Pak prisoner who was attacked in an India prison in Jammu last week, is brain dead doctors of the PGI Chandigarh said on Sunday, DawnNews reported.
Moreover the Pak High Commissioner was allowed to visit the Haq in Chandigarh, according to Indian media channels.
Doctors at PGI Chandigarh issued the latest report over the condition of Sanaullah Haq according to which the attacked prisoner was in a brain-dead state.
The report was reportedly signed by DR SN Mathu Raya and other doctors of the team tending to the Pak prisoner.
Sanaullah Haq, who was convicted of involvement in separatist activities in the disputed area of Kashmire, was attacked in an Indian prison by a court-martialled Indian soldier in retaliation to a similar incident in a Pak prison where some prisoners attacked Sarabjit Singh, who was a deathrow prisoner in Pakistain convicted for terrorism charges related to bombing in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... that had killed 14 people.
Sarabjit later died at a hospital in Lahore.
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One could make the argument that he has always been brain dead.
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Although Joan has a classic 'deer in the headlights'/come hither look is see no thrill, nor chill in Adrianne Palicki, she is perfect for a Monday morning read/view.
[Dawn] Suspected cut-throats blew up Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... election office and three shops at two different places in the suburbs of the provincial metropolis on Saturday.
According to an official of Mathra cop shoppe, an improvised bomb was planted near the PTI election office located at Pejagi Road, which went off early in the morning.
The official said that usually police pass through the area in the morning, but this morning police changed the routine and escaped the attack. He said that it seemed that terrorists' target was the PTI election office. The election office was shut and there was no one there at the time of the blast.
"The blast took place at about 6:00am and that is why the people remained safe," the official said and added that about two kilogramme of explosives packed in a canister had been used in the blast.
Also, three shops were blown up at Zwera Bazaar near Sherikera. A source in the area said that two huge blasts took place at about 1:30am on Saturday, but the people could not move towards the blast sites due to fear of attack by gunnies. "We visited the bazaar in the morning and saw that three shops were completely destroyed and some others partially damaged," the source said. He said that the area was located very close to the Frontier Region Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. where police's role was next to nil. He said that people knew about those involved in such sabotage acts because they frequently threatened them through telephone calls, but none of them could dare to open mouth against the terrorists.
In Kalaya, a motorcade of brother of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... candidate Raj Mohammad was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb at Uthmankhel area.
The motorcade was going to Ferozkhel from Ondkhel Chon Jana for election campaign when the roadside kaboomwent kaboom! at Otmankhel. As a result, several vehicles were partially damaged. However, ars longa, vita brevis... no casualty was reported.
The Orakzai Levies and security personnel reached the site of occurrence soon after the attack and started search operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... 12 more cut-throats were killed as jet fighters again pounded their hideouts in Upper Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Saturday.
The jets targeted beturbanned goon positions with bombing at Shin Qamar and Asmat Garhi areas in their stronghold of Dabori. The security forces claimed that five hideouts were destroyed and 12 cut-throats were killed and seven injured. The security forces also claimed that 92 per cent tribal area had been cleared of beturbanned goons.
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[BETA.DAWN] At least four people were killed when hard boyz attacked the convoy of independent candidate Sardar Sarfaraz Domki in Sibi area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Sunday evening, police said.
Police said independent candidate for PB-21 Sardar Sarfaraz Domki and Dostain Domki candidate for NA265 were on a campaign rally in Karak area of Sibi when their convoy came under attack.
Police said one of the assailants was killed and another was injured.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... three security guards of Domki were killed. Police said the injured were shifted to civil hospital Sibi for medical treatment.
In another incident, hard boyz hurled a hand grenade at the office of Jamaatul Ulema-e-Islam (Ideological) in Deba area of Quetta.
Police said two people were maimed in the attack, the assailants however managed to escape.
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[Dawn] MAKE no mistake, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... is poised on a knife edge, and the May 11 polls are critical to how the insurgency in the province plays out. Allegations have risen to a crescendo that security forces are responding with brute force against those suspected of separatist sympathies. Hundreds of Baloch are missing while around 150 have fallen victim to a 'kill and dump' policy. Of late, the bodies of the missing have been turning up in areas of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... close to the border with Balochistan. On Thursday, yet another missing activist, Naseebullah Baloch, was found dead in the city, reportedly the 13th such case since March.
With the situation careering towards a point of no return, the only light at the end of the tunnel seems to be the participation in the coming elections of moderate nationalist parties such as the BNP-M and National Party, which boycotted the 2008 elections. The hope is that if these parties succeed in winning a place in the assemblies, they would be more representative of Baloch aspirations and thus in a better position to combate separatist tendencies. Continued excesses against the Baloch will only weaken their attempts and cause further divisions between the proponents of democracy and those who believe that only by taking up arms can the province's many grievances be redressed. While the Supreme Court has been active on the missing persons issue and has probed the alleged role played by intelligence agencies and the FC in the disappearances, far more needs to be done. That the ruinous 'kill and dump' tactic continues to be practised at this extremely sensitive juncture indicates there are quarters that will go to any length to sabotage a political solution to Balochistan's grievances.
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[An Nahar] North Korea demanded Sunday that South Korea drop all "military provocations" if it wants to revive a jointly-run business estate which has suspended operations amid high military tensions on the peninsula.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex, opened just north of the tense border in 2004 as a rare symbol of cooperation, has fallen victim to the escalating stand-off. If South Korea reopens Kaesong they need their national head examined.
Pyongyang, accusing Seoul of sparking the military tension, banned entry to the estate by South Koreans and pulled out all its 53,000 workers early last month, rejecting repeated calls by the South for talks.
Seoul last week withdrew all its nationals from Kaesong. A final group of seven returned Friday night after the South had sent cars loaded with $13 million in cash to the estate to cover unpaid wages and taxes.
The North's National Defense Commission, its most powerful body, on Sunday again blamed the South for the suspension. If the South was truly worried about Kaesong's future, it "should take measures of stopping all the hostile acts and military provocations, the source of the prevailing situation", said a front man for the commission, which is chaired by leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-Un.
The front man's statement, on the Korean-language service of the official KCNA news agency, cited anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border in balloons by conservative activists and defectors.
It also cited the South's preparations for an annual military exercise with its US ally scheduled for August.
"These are parts of confrontational actions and war practice taken by the enemy government when it is rambling that it wants to normalize the Kaesong complex," the front man said.
Scrapping hostile acts and provocations would be a "way for re-opening the traffic, re-linking the communication line and putting (Kaesong) on a normal operation", the front man said.
The statement on the English-language version of KCNA did not specifically mention the leaflet launches or the planned exercise.
Previously Kaesong -- where 53,000 North Koreans worked at factories for some 120 South Korean firms -- had remained largely immune to strains in relations. While neither side has gone so far as to declare a permanent shutdown, experts say the next step could be for the South to cut electricity to the estate.
The cross-border leaflets typically contain messages criticizing the Kim dynasty that has ruled the North with an iron fist for more than six decades.
Amid high tensions across the border, South Korean police on Saturday stopped a planned launch of such leaflets, sparking an angry protest from activists.
The North's statement on Korean-language KCNA described the police action as "at least a bit fortunate" but said "malicious" groups plan further launches.
Tension has been high since the impoverished but nuclear-armed North issued blistering threats of missile and nuclear attacks on the South and the United States. The threats followed tougher U.N. sanctions for its third nuclear test in February, and US-South Korean joint military drills.
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So when there is another incident created by the Norks, SKor will again have bring loads of money to pay the kidnappers. Chalk up Kaesong as a bad idea, SKor.
One time, shame on you, twice shame on me.
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New Conditions Set by North Korea for Reviving Kaesong Industrial Complex
And ignored as "Flapping Mouth" by the world.
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Have the South Koreans quit laughing long enough to comment or did they hyperventilate and faint?
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[Al Ahram] Hundreds of thousands of hardline Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital.
Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged", activists from Hefajat-e-Islam marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities and towns.
Police officials told AFP that about 200,000 people had marched to central Dhaka, where fierce festivities erupted between thousands of rock-throwing protesters and security officials, with police beating back demonstrators with batons.
"At least 100,000 protesters" blocked the road at Tongi town, which connects Dhaka with the northern region, local police chief Ismail Hossain told AFP.
Witnesses said rioting broke out after police tried to intercept stick-wielding protesters, most travelling from remote villages, in front of the country's largest mosque. Trouble then spread to central districts of Dhaka.
"This government does not have faith in Allah. This is an atheist government, we will not allow them to live in Bangladesh. Mohammedans are brothers, we must protect Islam," one protester, filmed by AFP, was seen chanting.
Police fired rubber bullets from armoured vehicles at protesters, who went on the rampage, torching a police office, scores of vehicles and shops, attacking government offices and beating coppers.
Dozens of small bombs went kaboom!, leaving smoke hanging in the air around the mosque.
One policeman suffered serious head injuries after he was beaten by protesters, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
Of the dead at least three were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, police inspector Mozammel Haq told AFP, adding almost 100 more had been injured.
M. Adnan, an emergency doctor at the private Islami Bank Hospital, told AFP one protester died and nearly 300 protesters were treated in its two branches.
A senior police officer who declined to be named told AFP between "150,000 and 200,000 demonstrators" marched to Motijheel, Dhaka's main commercial district, where they continued to rally until 10:00 pm (1600GMT).
Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka police, Sheikh Nazmul Alam, said police fired rubber bullets to disperse unruly demonstrators.
The protest was staged as the country was recovering from its worst industrial disaster, which saw at least 620 people killed when a factory building collapsed just outside the capital on April 24.
Hefajat, a newly created radical Islamist group, is demanding the death penalty for all those who defame Islam.
It said it staged the mass protest to push a 13-point list of demands, which also include a ban on men and women mixing freely together and the restoration of pledges to Allah in the constitution.
Hefajat leaders have threatened to launch a campaign to oust the government unless their demands are met.
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fatality count up to 10 as of mid day local time
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[The Hindu] The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans, an openly gay Tory MP, was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the weekend over allegations of rape and sexual assault brought by two men he described as his "friends".
He was released on bail after being questioned all day on Saturday about the alleged offences which, according to the police, took place between July 2009 and March this year.
The arrest of the 55-year-old popular and high profile politician, who has been an MP for more than two decades and has held senior positions in the party, stunned Westminster with his colleagues saying they were "shell-shocked".
Mr. Evans came out as "gay" three years ago saying he was "tired of living a lie".
In a brief statement to news hounds outside his picturesque constituency cottage in the village of Pendleton, Lancashire, Mr. Evans described the allegations as "completely false" and said he had "socialised" with one of the complainants as recently as last week.
"Yesterday I was interviewed by the police concerning two complaints - one of which dates back four years, made by two people who are well-known to each other, and who until yesterday I regarded as friends. The complaints are completely false and I cannot understand why they have been made, especially as I have
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[WEEKLYSTANDARD] President Barack Obama got ahead of himself and his advisers when he said that Syria using chemical weapons would cross a "red line," the New York Times reports.
"How can we attack another country unless it's in self-defense and with no Security Council resolution?" an unnamed Obama administration official tells the paper. "If he drops sarin on his own people, what's that got to do with us?"
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Not exactly the OBAMA DOCTRINE, now is it???
Iff China goes to war agz Japan andor ASEAN, etal. what does that have to do us either!?
Unless, you know, its an election year, or my poll numbers are down, or unemployment is up. Oh yeah, if biden headlines the news. Waffles, waffles are good.
*I'm all for the chicken orgy in syria, but when topper harley draws a line then backs down it is face losing and will bear appropriate fruit. Like eight months ago.
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I can only speculate, but I have nothing concrete on the administration's motives regarding WMD in Syria. Linking their decision not to act on an alleged absence of WMD in Iraq is both cunning and devious, particularly to those who assisted with the location and destruction of Saddam's WMD.
If I find the foto of Champ and Vlad winking and nodding over a beer.... I'll be sure to post it.
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If that idiot advisor to Obambi would read the fine print in the treaties most of the civilized world signed about banning chemical and biological weapons, use of chemical weapons by any country is a cause for concern.
how come the liberals are so cold blooded and unconcerned about chemical weapons and so concerned about a shooting at a MacDonalds'
Makes you wonder if it is moral nihilism or just plan stupidity.
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You know Bill, those two conditions are not mutually exclusive.
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"Makes you wonder if it is moral nihilism or just plan stupidity."
Silly Bill. What's to wonder?
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Yeah, I guess moral nihilism and stupidity are not mutually exclusive and I agree we probably don't have a dog in that fight, other than to hope the frolic depletes their resources in manpower and explosives for a long time.
Pass the pop corn.
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Extra butter with that, Bill?
Luckily I got a new boxcar-load in this weekend, in anticipation of the festivities. ;-p
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[An Nahar] Acting defense minister Saadun al-Dulaimi on Sunday accused Turkey of controlling Sunni anti-government protests in Shiite-majority Iraq, saying the demonstrations are a haven for "bully boyz and killers."
"There are foreign agendas controlling these sites," Dulaimi said of the protests.
"It is like Anbar, or djinn-infested Mosul or Samarra are part of the Ottoman Empire," he said, referring to Sunni areas in Iraq.
Areas of what is now Iraq were part of the Ottoman Empire, which was governed from Istanbul in what is now Turkey, before the empire's dissolution after World War I.
Ties between Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and Ankara have been strained by issues including Turkey hosting Tareq al-Hashemi, Iraq's runaway former vice president who has been sentenced to death on charges including murder.
Dulaimi also had harsh words for the protesters themselves.
"Shame... on those sites that are opening their doors to Istanbul or any other country," he said.
"Protest sites have become a safe haven for bully boyz and killers and those who call for strife, sectarianism and hate."
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[CNSNEWS] To reduce the growing prison population and escalating prison costs, the U.S Bureau of Prisons says it is now revising its "compassionate release" rules so more ailing and aging inmates can be freed.
A report from the Justice Department's inspector general says the revised rules will expand the compassionate release program by making inmates with a life expectancy of up to 18 months eligible for consideration (versus the current 12 months).
The revised rules also will explain what level of functioning is "extraordinary and compelling" enough for inmates to be considered for release.
The OIG report notes that the Justice Department's FY 2013 budget request identified $3.2 million in savings to be achieved by expanding the BOP's compassionate release program.
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The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. At year-end 2009, it was 743 adults incarcerated per 100,000 population.
It is costing a lot of money to keep them in jail. A better solution is to experiment with other forms of penalties like fines, home arrest and internal exile.
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home arrest and internal exile
They can't leave their bodies?
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Shouldn't release the low level offenders, but permanently remove the high end offenders to make room. You know a lot of the low level will be politicians. Of course they want a precedent. Cost per day for Supermax vs cost per day for trustee level. A nation that yawns to the butchery of a Gosnell, should have no problem with removing real threats to its citizens and society.
Prisons, where in the most secure police state government has to offer, there are still assaults, murders and rapes...just no freedoms.
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A recent article quoted a prison psychologist as saying 1/4 of the prisoners in medium security prisons are sociopaths.
Given the percent of social predators that will be released, we should be concerned about who is being "compassionate" here.
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It's a good thing we have laws against released or probationary felons being able to have guns, or else all these new gun control laws restricting the law abiding citizens would really hurt.
[Dawn] THERE are still no signs of Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... , the new star who was to shine on Pakistain's political horizon. Reports say he is going to give this election a miss, a decision which leaves the PPP to fend for itself, without a leader at the helm. It is not difficult to sympathise with the young man given the predicament he is in. Undoubtedly, for some politicians right now, campaigning during these elections is synonymous with putting their lives on the line. It was pretty much the same point which clinched the issue in favour of the presidency when, in the past, various minds debated among themselves which office Mr Asif Ali Zardari should keep: the party's or the president's? The argument was that someone who is at high risk when he is in public is best left alone in the President House. Similarly, reservations were expressed when the Bhutto scion was being thrust into the PPP's top slot. But that was then. A coronation has since taken place and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as PPP chief should be leading the party. That he has not done so should be an issue of considerable concern to the party and its supporters.
Unfortunately, for the party, no politician of stature appears ready to lead the poll campaign. These include the two former prime ministers, one of whom is campaigning for himself, the other for his family. It is ironic that a party that has governed the country four times should be seeing such a crisis of leadership. Other parties, like the ANP, too have been warned against electioneering but they are trying to stay in the race by making brave, if selective, appearances. True, given the scale of violence in the run-up to the polls, those who are staying away can hardly be advised to throw all caution to the winds and take the plunge. But when the democratic project itself is endangered, surely a more courageous stance from those who believe in it can be expected.
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[An Nahar] Israeli strikes on Syrian military sites have opened the door "to all possibilities" and made the situation in the region "more dangerous," Syria's government said on Sunday.
"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic confirms that this aggression opens the door wide to all possibilities," the cabinet said in a statement read at a news conference by Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi.
"The international community should know that the complex situation in the region has become more dangerous after this aggression," the statement added.
Syria "has not just a right but a duty to protect the homeland and the state and the people from any attack, whether internal or external, by all ways and means and capabilities available," it said.
The comments came after the cabinet held an emergency meeting to discuss what the foreign ministry described as at least three Israeli strikes on Syrian military sites overnight.
In letters to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council, the foreign ministry accused Israel of coordinating with "terrorist groups" including the al-Nusra Front rebel group that has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.
A senior Israeli source said the attacks early on Sunday hit Iranian weapons destined for Leb's Hizbullah.
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Debka is quoting RT "Russia Today claimed that an Israeli rocket strike Sunday caused heavy Syrian casualties â according to rumors, at least 300 members of the Syrian Armyâs 501st Unit dead and hundreds filling four Damascus hospitals. debkafile: If this is confirmed, then the unit which operates the chemical weapon facility at the Barzeh district north of Damascus at the foot of Mt. Qassioun was hit. Israelâs security cabinet holds emergency session."
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The same Russian source reported that Syrian security forces cordoned off the sites of the explosions against entry. Residents reported after the blasts that the ground moved with the force of a 4 magnitude earthquake.
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"Force of a 4-Magnitude earthquake" > TECTONIC/EARTHQUAKE BOMB???
[Dawn] HE received 17 bullets where only one or two would have sufficed. But the bad boys, calling themselves the Mujahideen-e-Islami, who killed Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali succeeded in conveying their message loud and clear -- they can strike at will, wherever and whenever they wished, irrespective of consequences and 'collateral damage' -- in this case a pedestrian. The FIA's prosecutor general was investigating many high-profile cases, including Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... 's liquidation and the Mumbai case, and had gathered valuable information. He had been receiving threats possibly because of his efficiency that had led to the conviction of many bully boyz and ordinary criminals. On Friday, he was scheduled to submit a charge-sheet against Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... in the Benazir case and was on the way to FIA headquarters when gunnies, whose exact number has not been determined, shot up his car while it was negotiating a U-turn.
This paper has been repeatedly emphasising the need for providing adequate protection to prosecutors, witnesses and judges because they receive threats and often fall victim to violence perpetrated by bully boyz and criminal gangs. In Chaudhry Zulfiqar's case, the liquidation took place at a stone's throw from the FIA building. This shows both the daredevilry of the bully boyz and the inadequacy of the protection provided to a senior FIA official. The world over prosecutors, witnesses and judges operate in an atmosphere of peace. Where the law and order situation is precarious, the state makes special efforts to give security to all. In many South American countries with a high crime rate, governments have drawn up comprehensive plans to give a sense of security to judges and prosecutors.
In Pakistain, however, because of the absence of such measures, the rate of conviction is extremely low, perhaps 5pc. While witnesses are sometimes bribed, quite often they change their story because of threats from bully boyz and criminals.
It is true that the law enforcement apparatus has been overstretched, especially now when the country is in the midst of an election. But the state must revisit and overhaul the security cases involving hardened criminals and motivated bully boyz who have no qualms about shedding blood. The FIA official's killing also shows the failure of the intelligence system. The bully boyz are way ahead of the state, for they knew Chaudhry Zulfiqar's routine and took precise aim when the car had slowed down to make a U-turn. Can the state be as thorough in its ways? Do the plethora of intelligence agencies we have know who these 'Mujahideen-e-Islami' are?
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JAMES CARVILLE: I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician Ive seen in the last 30 years. I further think that hes going to run for president and he is going to create something. Im not sitting here saying hes going to win, and I think Senator DeMint is right. Ive listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina. He touches every button, and this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead. And he is going to be something to watch.
And a lot of Republicans feel this way, George, and you hear this a lot: "If we only got someone who was articulate and was for what we were for, we would win elections. And we get these John McCains and these Mitt Romneys and these squishy guys that cant do anything." Well, theres one thing this guy is not - he aint squishy, not in the least.
As the conversation continued and others on the panel said that other conservatives such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will likely also run in 2016, Carville added:
CARVILLE: Ted Cruz is going to eat their lunch. That guy, Im telling you, he will out debate. I am just saying, he is a talent. Im not rooting. Im really sincere here. We watch him, he does things, I mean when he started talking about William Travis in South Carolina and the Alamo, this is a guy, and you go, "This guy is something." Now I dont agree with him. I think hes out there. But Im telling you, hes more talented than all of these other guys.
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Scooters youre dead wrong on that. Rubio is the amnesty guy. Cruz is not. Please don't spread false information.
the firebrand Texas conservative is launching a carefully calibrated critique of the bill, calling for a focus on consensus items like border security and changes to current law that would help legal immigrants enter the country more quickly all the while attacking the proposed pathway to citizenship for those living here illegally.
Q: But you and Marco Rubio part ways on a pathway to citizenship.
A: I have serious concerns about any legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally. I think doing so is inconsistent with the rule of law and is profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who have followed the rules and waited in line for years and sometimes decades to come here legally.
Additionally, I think if President Obama and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid insist upon a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally, that will make it far more likely that the whole immigration reform will collapse, and I think that would be very, very unfortunate.
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Besoeker, Carville's always been an operative before he's a partisan. He's not a weather vane like Morris, mind you, but his praise of Cruz sounds technical in nature, not ideological.
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[An Nahar] An Æthiopian peacekeeper was killed and two maimed in an ambush on a convoy in which a top tribal leader was killed in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said late Saturday.
U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said he "strongly condemns" the killings, but called for efforts to prevent an escalation between the rival countries.
A U.N. peacekeeping convoy was stopped and attacked by Arab Miseriya rustics in Abyei on Saturday, U.N. officials said. Kual Deng Majok, paramount leader of the rival Ngok Dinka tribe, was in the convoy and was killed.
Ban said in a statement that two peacekeepers from the U.N. Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) were seriously maimed.
UNISFA is made up of Æthiopian peacekeepers and was created in a bid to halt tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, who have disputed Abyei ever since they split in July 2011. The Miseriya are close to Sudan while the Ngok Dinka are allied to South Sudan.
"The secretary general strongly condemns the killing of the Ngok Dinka paramount chief" and the UNISFA peacekeeper "in an attack by a Misseriya assailant on a UNISFA convoy," said a statement released by the U.N.
He expressed "deepest condolences" to the Ngok Dinka tribe and the Æthiopian government.
Ban "urges the governments of Sudan and South Sudan and the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities to remain calm and avoid any escalation of this unfortunate event," the statement added.
He added that it was "crucially important" to set up joint government and policing arrangements as Sudan and South Sudan agreed in 2011.
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[An Nahar] Egypt on Sunday condemned Israeli air strikes on Syria, with the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... also demanding that the U.N. Security Council act to stop what it called Israeli "attacks" against the war-torn country.
The Egyptian presidency said in a statement the air strikes "violated international law and principles that will further complicate the situation." The raids reportedly targeted rockets destined for Leb's Hizbullah.
The Arab League, which like Egypt sides with rebels against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , demanded the Security Council "act immediately to end Israeli attacks on Syria," which it called a "dangerous violation of an Arab state's illusory sovereignty."
The presidency in Cairo affirmed "its extreme opposition" to the Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on rebel-held areas, but accused Israel of "exploiting its internal conflict."
A senior Israeli source said an overnight aerial assault hit Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah, which is closely allied to the Syrian regime.
A diplomatic source in Beirut told Agence La Belle France Presse three sites were targeted -- a military facility, a nearby weapons depot and an anti-aircraft unit in Sabura, west of the capital 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...
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NEW DELHI: After a tense face-off for a couple of weeks, Chinese troops have decided to withdraw from Indian territory in Depsang plains in northern Ladakh. This will pave the way for foreign minister Salman Khurshid's visit to Beijing on May 9 and the Chinese premier's India visit on May 20.
While the official line is that both armies have withdrawn to their previous positions, its unclear why the Indian army would have to move back since it is very much within Indian territory. In fact, in his statement to a parliament committee, the ministry of defence had clarified that Chinese troops had come 19km inside Indian territory.
Both sides held the fourth and fifth flag meetings between local commanders over the weekend, amid the faint possibility of a resolution to the continuing troop standoff in the Depsang Bulge area in the coming days, which would make it possible for the visit to go on. The first three flag meetings, on April 18, 23 and 30, at Spanggur Gap between the Daulat Beg Oldi and Chushul sectors had failed to break the deadlock.
It is unclear whether India made any concessions to the Chinese or whether the withdrawal was unconditional. The Indian government had been reluctant to take a strong line with the Chinese for what was a national security scare. It is only under intense public and political pressure that the UPA government finally took a hard line.
The Chinese had been insisting that India dismantle its security and monitoring posts built in Chumar and other areas. India had resisted this because Chumar is considered to have strategic significance, particularly since Indian soldiers can monitor troop movements across the Line of Actual Control from there.
Before the news of the troops withdrawing was announced, some sources had said India might agree to remove some of the structures as "a face saver" to enable the Chinese troops to withdraw to their pre-April 15 positions. Analysts said if the Indian government had indeed agreed to make a deal with the Chinese, this kind of incursion would be repeated over and over again.
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See BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph India] INDIA'S [2 ea. = Forward ABS] AIRSTRIPS BOTHERED CHINESE INTRUDERS.
D *** NG IT, CLOSE 'EM BOTH DOWN [or else?], DEMANDS CHINA.
* SAME > [Times of India] "QUID PRO QUO" BEHIND SUDDEN INDIA-CHINA DE-ESCALATION?
Khurshid's a'vistin, gotta save face - China also demanded their troops will leave only iff Indjuh's boyz leave first???
* SAME > UAV IMAGES SHOW CHINESE TROOPS INTRUDING INTO INDIA.
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Same pattern as in NORK? They push and then demand concessions as a condition for withdrawal and/or postponement of missle/nuke test. The likes of Kerry, Kurshid and Chamberlain grant the concessions for peace in our time.
[MEDIAITE] South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick I don't want to buy the black vote. I just want to rent it for a day Harpootlian ...once and present chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Harpootlian is the man who, when he lost to a Publican in 1994, said The people have spoken. The bastards... is getting some heat today for a comment he made about that state's Republican governor at Friday night's Jefferson-Jackson dinner, shortly before Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... took the stage. Harpootlian's comment came during his introduction of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen. "In about 18 months from now," he said, "hopefully he'll have sent Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... back to wherever the hell she came from."
The comment drew cheers and laughs from the audience in attendance, but Harpootlian is now facing harsh criticism, given Governor Nikki Haley's Indian heritage.
"Unfortunately, this seems to be a trend coming from the South Carolina Democratic Party," Haley front man Rob Godfrey said in a statement. "Fortunately, the people of South Carolina are better than Harpootlian and his ilk, and we have faith that they will see right through their consistent attempts to play to the lowest common denominator."
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Harpootlian = Armenian - Buddy take you own advise ! Pack up the Harpootlian family and take'm back to Armenia or issue a sincere apology to Nikki Haley for your remark about her Indian heritage. Your remarks show you have saw dust for brains, Dick.
A little Donk history [which they hide like Lefty academics hide the fact that the National Socialists Workers Party were Socialist] -
the Democrats:
Supported slavery in 6 platforms from 1840-1860.
Opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution that successively wiped out slavery and gave both legal rights and voting rights to black Americans.
Supported segregation actively or by silence in 20 platforms from 1868-1948.
Opposed anti-lynching laws, specifically supported by the GOP in four platforms between 1912 and 1928.
Opposed the GOP-sponsored Civil Rights Acts of 1866, which focused on legal equality for blacks.
Opposed the GOP on giving voting rights to blacks in the District of Columbia in 1867. The legislation was passed over the Democrats objection.
Nominated an 1868 presidential ticket of New York Governor Horatio Seymour and ex-Missouri Congressman Francis Blair. The Democrats pledged they would declare the Civil Rights laws passed by the GOP null and void and would refuse to enforce them. They lost to Ulysses Grant.
Opposed the Enforcement Acts, three laws passed by the GOP between 1870 and 1871 targeting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and making it a federal crime to block the right of blacks to vote, hold office, serve on juries and have equal protection of the laws with whites.
Opposed the GOP Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination of blacks in public accommodations.
Used the Ku Klux Klan as what Columbia University historian Eric Foner calls a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party. Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Treleases description of the Klan as the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. Nor is there mention of the infamous 1924 Democratic Convention the Klanbake as it is known to history because hundreds of the delegates were Klan members. The Klan-written platform mixed the traditional Democratic message of progressivism and racism in the Klan-written platform.
Repealed the Civil Rights laws enacted by GOP Congresses and presidents, already damaged by the Supreme Court. When Democrats gained control of both Congress and the White House in 1892, the Democrats President Grover Cleveland signed the repeal on February 8, 1894.
With the special election between Mark Sanford and Stephen Colbert's sister for the SC1 Congressional seat coming up on Tuesday, state Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian promised to send Sanford back to the plantation. A Democratic fundraiser was held Friday night which Joe Biden headlined. At the party, Dick promised to send Sanford back to the plantation.
Were not the fools you think we are, Harpootlian said, and were gonna send Mark Sanford back to the plantation, or Argentina or wherever the hell he hangs out.
Dick is on a roll on 05/04/2013 he attacked Mark Sanford.
Were not the fools you think we are,
No Harpootlian you are serious village idiot, and you represent Democrats... well!/?
[Dawn] At least three persons were maimed in a hand-grenade attack on Sunday near an election office of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) in Fazalabad area of Takht Bhai tehsil near Mardan.
Rescue and officials reached the site of attack.
Police sources told Dawn.com that unknown cycle of violence-riding attackers lobbed a hand-grenade near the election office of the PTI where the party's candidate from NA-10, Rehmanullah, was holding a corner meeting and that the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.
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[Dawn] Sherakot police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified robbers who injured a constable and snatched a wireless set, a weapon and cash from two coppers on Friday night.
ASI Khalid of Sherakot investigation wing, who lodged an FIR with the police, stated he was going to conduct a raid along with constable Arshad when they confronted 10 robbers. The robbers held them hostage near Darbar Sadiq Sayen and snatched valuables. They also injured constable Arshad on resistance.
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[KREBSONSECURITY] A 24-year-old Algerian man tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Thailand earlier this year on suspicion of co-developing and selling the infamous SpyEye banking trojan was extradited this week to the United States, where he faces criminal charges for allegedly hijacking bank accounts at more than 200 financial institutions.
Hamza Bendelladj, who authorities say used the nickname "Bx1″ online, is accused of operating a botnet powered by SpyEye, a complex banking trojan that he also allegedly sold and helped develop. Bendelladj was arraigned on May 2, 2013 in Atlanta, where he is accused of leasing a server from a local Internet company to help manage his SpyEye botnet.
A redacted copy of the indictment (PDF) against Bendelladj was unsealed this week; the document says Bendelladj developed and customized components of SpyEye that helped customers steal online banking credentials and funds from specific banks.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian National Coalition opposition group on Sunday condemned Israeli strikes inside Syria, saying the Jewish state had "taken advantage" of the ongoing conflict.
"The Syrian Coalition condemns the Israeli attacks," it said in a statement.
It accused the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... of complicity, saying it was responsible "for weakening the Syrian army by exhausting its forces in a losing battle against the Syrian people."
The umbrella opposition group said the timing of the strikes was "suspicious" because it could draw attention away from at least two reported incidents of mass killings by regime troops in Syria this week.
"It is not unlikely that as a result of these attacks, and world distraction, more crimes will be committed," it said.
"The Syrian Coalition deeply regrets the deafening silence and powerlessness of the international community in the face of such grievous violations of international laws, continued by the Assad regime and taken advantage of by Israel in order to fulfill clear objectives."
Syria's government said on Sunday that Israel targeted three military sites near Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... , while a senior Israeli source said the attacks hit weapons destined for Leb's Hizbullah.
Earlier, the rebel Free Syrian Army reacted cautiously to news of the strikes, which followed an earlier reported Israeli attack on Syrian sites early on Friday.
"Of course the Free Syrian Army and any Syrian is bothered that their country is being bombed, but Syria is being bombed every day by Bashir al-Assad, and by Israel," FSA media and political coordinator Louay Muqdad told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We wonder why there are so many missiles and military installations around Damascus when they should be close to the ceasefire line with Israel on the Golan Heights," he added.
"For us, the operations that we carry out every day are not related to Israeli attacks or anything else, and we will continue to fight until the fall of Assad," he said.
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For a fasinating account of what has happened please read this article
[An Nahar] At least 30 people were maimed including three seriously in an kaboom Sunday at a church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.
"There have been 30 people maimed, three in a serious condition, and one person has been jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! ," said regional police chief Liberatus Sabas.
It was not immediately clear what caused the kaboom.
"This is a sad day, our security forces are mobilized, and the culprits will be arrested and brought to justice," said Arusha's commissioner Magesa Mulongo.
"For the time being we don't know if it is a bomb," he added.
The blast took place outside a Roman Catholic church in Arusha, a town popular with tourists visiting the nearby Serengeti national park and snowcapped Mount Kilimanjaro.
[BETA.DAWN] A complete shutdown was observed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and other cities of Sindh on Sunday (today) following a call to observe a 'day of mourning' by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) over twin kabooms outside their election office in Azizabad on Saturday which killed three people and injured 40 others, DawnNews reported.
A bomb planted near a park where the MQM had set up its election office for its unit in Karachi's Azizabad (Federal B. Area Block 8) went off around 9pm on Saturday.
The blast caused panic and fear in the densely populated and highly guarded neighbourhood as a number of MQM activists, volunteers, personnel of law enforcement agencies and media crew rushed to the place.
About 20 minutes later, another kaboom took place at almost the same place which was crowded by the party's activists, volunteers and security personnel. Police said apparently the MQM election office was the target.
"Both bombs were detonated either by remote control or a timer device," Karachi Central SSP Amir Farooqi said."The first attack appears to have been a trap to draw people to the place before the second kaboom. Tight security and surveillance prevented any major damage."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... the Pak Taliban have grabbed credit of the attack. Speaking to Dawn.com via telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Ehsanullah Ehsan said the target was MQM and both bombings were carried out through planted devices.
The MQM, however, has vowed to not bow down to the terrorists. Speaking to DawnNews, the party's leader, Haider Abbas Rizvi said that MQM has been targeted by forces which do not wish to see it coming into power. "We will continue with our election campaign and no one can deter us from our fundamental right of partaking in polls," he said.
"It's sheer brutality," MQM chief Altaf Hussain said. "Our morale is high and we will not surrender to the evil forces of extremism and terror. It's so unfortunate that despite consistent attacks, no credible move has been witnessed against cut-throats from the government, administration and security forces."
The outlawed TTP has vowed to target the secular political parties of the country, naming Pakistain People's Party (PPP), Awami National Party (ANP) and MQM in the run up to the coming general elections.
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[Al Ahram] FBI Investigators say they are convinced that the Chechen brothers lifted their bomb designs from Internet postings by Islamic militants, though they substituted some components, and made the lethal devices at home
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they substituted some components
Like a pot instead of a pipe?
Sounds like they had some help from a kitchen anarchist.
[Dawn] Pakistan has demanded from India the release of 47 Pakistani prisoners who have completed their prison terms and are languishing in various Indians prisons.
"47 Pakistani prisoners in various prisons have completed their sentence and they should be released immediately" Pakistan' envoy to India Salman Bashir wrote in a letter addressed to Indian foreign secretary.
The letter has been handed over to top officials at Indian Ministry of External Affairs by Pakistan's deputy High Commissioner Abdul Rehman Nizamani, spokesman for Pakistan High Commission in India Manzoor Ali Memon told Dawn.com.
The letter has been written following attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah in Jammu jail, in which he suffered severe injuries and is currently in Chandigarh Hospital in a critical condition.
Sanaullah has been attacked in reaction to the fatal attack on Indian death-row prisoner Sarabajit Singh at Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore last week.
In the letter Pakistan also demanded a thorough probe into attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah at Jammu prison and called for stern punishment against the attacker.
The letter also demanded that Indian government should immediately take appropriate steps for the security of Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails.
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[Dawn] At least seven people were injured when militants attacked the offices of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and National Party in Balochistan on Sunday, police said.Police official Imran Baloch, told Dawn.com militants lobbed a hand grenade in the office of PML-N leader General (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch in Kharan town of Balochistan.Baloch said five PML-N workers were injured in the attack. The blast also damaged the electoral office of PML-N.
Militants also targeted the electoral office of National Party Mach town of Balochistan. Police said militants hurled a hand grenade at the NP office.They confirmed that three workers were injured in the attack. The attackers in both incidents managed to escape.
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[An Nahar] Algerian police beat tens of young people with batons as they protested outside parliament on Sunday about a lack of job security, and tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! several, an opposition MP said.
"This morning, almost 200 young people gathered peacefully outside parliament to make MPs aware of their difficult situation. Police beat them with their batons and arrested seven of them," said Ahmed Betatache, head of the opposition Socialist Forces Front (FFS).
"I was beaten by the coppers even though they know who I am," he added. Betatache had gone along with another MP from his party to talk to the protesters.
"It is ironic that at the very same time, a debate about press freedom was taking place in parliament," he said.
The young protesters, who work on pre-employment contracts, were "demanding their integration to stop this slavery," Betatache told Agence La Belle France Presse.
These insecure jobs do not even pay the minimum wage of around 180 euros ($240) per month, and do not guarantee future work.
The FFS in a statement sent to AFP condemned "this savage repression" of the young demonstrators, as well as "the attack on the head of its parliamentary grouping, in violation of his political immunity".
Algeria is plagued by high youth unemployment affecting 21.5 percent of those under 35, according to estimates from state agencies and the International Monetary Fund. Nationwide unemployment stands at 10 percent.
But those in work are also dissatisfied with their situation, and private and public sector health workers began a series of actions on Sunday to call for better working conditions.
The situation is worse in the south, an underdeveloped but hydrocarbons-rich region flooded by job seekers from the north.
Health workers have held sit-ins and demonstrations in Algiers' Mustapha-Pacha hospital center, the most important in the country, and accused authorities of being deaf to their "legitimate demands".
For several weeks, Algeria has been hit by strikes not only in the health sector, but also among education and transport workers.
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"I went down to the demonstration
to get my fair share of abuse"
Two soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an ambush by terrorists militants in Narathiwat's Rueso district on Sunday morning.
It happened at 11:20 a.m. on a village road as infantry soldiers were traveling in a patrol vehicle. Terrorists militants hiding on the side of the road detonated the bomb and opened fire. An exchange of gunfire followed. Two soldiers were killed, and three other soldiers were injured.
Authorities are leaning more toward zero tolerance of teenagers who fling around online threats about acts of violence or terrorism. As a result, what might have once merited a slap on the wrist may today result in criminal charges.
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.
More than 140 children have been rescued from Islamic training centers (madrassas) in the last nine months, with a majority of the children targeted because of their Christian faith. The females, accounting for nearly half of those rescued, report that they were used for forced labor and sex slavery.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Orakzai Agency
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] According to Wolf, a whistleblower at NASA informed him about Jiang's dodgy behavior and said he was concerned that the doctor was carrying "source code for high tech imaging technology," that could be used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to develop drones and advanced aerospace projects. Jiang had taken the hard drive with him on a previous visit home in violation of security policy, Wolf claimed.
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels have taken control of large parts of the Minnigh military airport in northern Syria, where a regime commander was killed on Saturday, a watchdog group said on Sunday.
Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his republic is safer than the United Kingdom in response to the British Foreign Office's warning against travel to the North Caucasus.
[An Nahar] British actress Keira Knightley married singer James Righton in a discreet ceremony in the southern French village of Mazan on Saturday, according to the mayor.
North Korea
Pervez 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Dawn] Sherakot police have 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] At least 30 people 
