[BBC.CO.UK] Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has survived a kaboom that targeted his convoy in Cairo.
Hours later, he appeared unharmed on state TV to denounce the attack as a "cowardly liquidation bid".
Security guards and a child were among the injured in the attack, which took place near his home in Nasr City.
No-one has yet grabbed credit for the attack. Moslem Brüderbund leader Amr Darrag said the group "strongly condemned" what happened.
Mr Ibrahim heads the police force, which has carried out a crackdown on Moslem Brüderbund protests in recent weeks.
Nasr City is a stronghold of the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group.
'Foiled murder bid'
The kaboom took place at about 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) as Mr Ibrahim was being driven from his home to work.
The minister told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that his convoy was targeted by a "large" bomb that might have been detonated by remote control.
Two coppers in the convoy were in a serious condition, he added, and a child had suffered a serious leg wound.
There were conflicting reports over the source of the kaboom, with state-run Mena news agency saying a booby-trapped car had detonated as the minister's convoy passed by.
State TV, however, said an bomb was thrown at the convoy from the top of a nearby building just after it left his place of residence.
Pictures uploaded to the internet by witnesses showed substantial damage to a building next to the blast.
One passer-by said the kaboom could be "heard from afar".
"As you can see, cars from the minister's convoy were destroyed and his security people took him to an armoured vehicle that transported him back to his house," he said.
The Egyptian interior ministry said an attempt to assassinate the interior minister by "terrorist groups" had been foiled, adding that his guards had confronted and killed two of the attackers.
"We are back to the terrorism of the 1980s," a ministry statement read. An investigation team has moved to the scene of the incident, it added.
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"We strongly condemn the FAILURE of this attempt."
They'd be much happier if it had succeeded.
All members of the Muzzie bruderbund should be hanged from bridges over the Suez Canal, and everyone transiting the canal given large sticks to beat the bodies with.
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Fred's stuff usually makes me set down the coffee, unplug the keyboard, and take a slow walk. Above was likely the residue of being ironic and listening to 60's hippy music channel.
[Alaska Dispatch] When agents with the Alaska Environmental mutaween Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn't quite know what to think.
Did it really take eight armed men and a squad-size display of paramilitary force to check for dirty water? Some of the miners, who run small businesses, say they felt intimidated.
Others wonder if the actions of the agents put everyone at risk. When your family business involves collecting gold far from nowhere, unusual behavior can be taken as a sign someone might be trying to stage a robbery. How is a remote placer miner to know the people in the jackets saying POLICE really are police?
Miners suggest it might have been better all around if officials had just shown up at the door -- as they used to do -- and said they wanted to check the water. Only a matter of time until one of these incidents turns into a bloodbath.
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Some of the miners, who run small businesses, say they felt intimidated.
Might have that been the point...?
re: Bloodbath - Besoeker is absolutely correct. Maybe Janet Reno can take herself away from strumming someone else's banjo and be available as a consultant....?
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I don't know the facts in this instance, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess these were not unionized miners being harassed and abused by gummint jackboots...
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Where did the EPA find authorization to wear Police jackets? Are they allowed to make arrests or just file complaints?
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I used to hunt bear and caribou out of Chicken Ak. It's a pretty remote place. The population was 7 according to the 2010 Census, but they did have a general store, a post office, a bar, a liquor store, a church, and a school, the last time I was there. They're all located in the same building if I remember correctly.
Chicken is about a six or seven hour drive (280 miles) southwest of Fairbanks, which would be the only town in the area large enough to have a SWAT team. There is a State Trooper stationed at Tok, which is about 75 miles from Chicken, but to assemble a team of eight troopers they would probably have to be flown in from Fairbanks or Anchorage.
There aren't any mines, that I know of, in the area that employs more than 5 people. You have to wonder how many thousands or tens of thousands of dollars it cost the taxpayers to have a SWAT team take a water sample.
There are a lot of grizzly bears in the area and almost eveyone you meet has a firearm of some type close at hand. But I doubt there would be a blood bath, because no matter where the police team went they would probably still have the residents far outgunned as well as outnumbered.
But you never know. They're some pretty tough, independent, and feisty people up there.
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Cops playing dress-up. Ask them to rush the real deal like Charles Whitman.... 2 cops, no armour, 1 crazy Marine with a Brain Toumor, no fucking around. Go up and do your job and if a redneck screaming at you worries you too much reconsider your line of work.
[Zero Hedge] As we asked (rhetorically, of course) and answered over 3 months ago, why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria? The answer revolves, as usually is the case in the Middle East, around a pipeline.
Here are some additional perspectives.
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe.
On the other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block the flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring higher profits for Gazprom. Lengthy article with additional links continues.
Further escalating Russia's anti-US rhetoric, President Vladimir Putin called US Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, claiming he had denied al Qaeda was fighting with the Syrian opposition, even though he was aware of the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group.
"He is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad," Putin said Wednesday, as world leaders gathered in St. Petersburg for the G20 summit.
Putin also repeated that any use of military force against Syria without UN Security Council approval would be an act of aggression.
In his testimony to a Senate panel Tuesday, Kerry denied al Qaeda and "the bad guys" were a majority of the opposition, only 15-25 percent, including al-Nusra and many other groups that are "fighting each other, even now."
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Good for Putin, Kerry is a liar, just like his maker and idol Obama, the quicker we the people get the liars out, (Preferably not just fired, but also banned from any kind of Politics.) the better.
They're hurting America, we see it but do nothing.
There ARE ways to remove bad Politicians, (No, not shoot them, Belittle them, force them, they'll go, we can't allow them to further destroy us) DO SO NOW.
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Putin also repeated that any use of military force against Syria without UN Security Council approval would be an act of aggression.
Lets be honest, a use of military force is an act of aggression with or without the UN blessing. It may or may not be justified but its certainly an aggressive act.
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Water wet. Fire burns. Got any stock tips to pass along, Vlad?
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"Putin calls John Kerry a Liar"
No, no, Vlad.
I know you speak pretty good English, but you could probably benefit from learning some American idioms (since you have to deal with these American IDIOTS).
Lying crapweasel is the phrase you're looking for.
You're welcome.
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Battle of the Pompous Assholes. Brought to you by Debka...
[An Nahar] Syria said Wednesday it had taken "every measure" to retaliate if hit by a feared U.S.-led military strike and would never give in, even if a third world war erupts.
In an exclusive interview with Agence La Belle France Presse, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad also insisted that Russia had not wavered in its support, despite comments by President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... suggesting a more conciliatory tone towards the West.
"Syria has taken every measure to retaliate against... an aggression," he said, although he refused to provide any clue as to what that might mean.
"The Syrian government will not change position even if there is World War III. No Syrian can sacrifice the independence of his country," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Muqdad warned that Syria will strike back not only at Israel, but at Jordan and Turkey if they participated alongside the U.S. in a military attack.
U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... is busy trying to convince Congress to approve a strike against the Assad regime in retaliation for a suspected deadly poison gas attack on August 21 that Washington blames on Damascus.
The regime categorically denies any responsibility for the alleged attack in Damascus suburbs and has said it is cooperating with U.N. inspectors who are currently analyzing samples taken from the sites of the suspected incident.
Analysts fear that the conflict currently tearing Syria apart will spill over permanently into fragile, neighboring countries such as Leb, where supporters of the Damascus regime are already pitted against its opponents.
And allies Russia and Iran have warned that any military intervention would have devastating regional consequences.
But in an interview broadcast earlier Wednesday, Putin appeared to strike a more conciliatory note by saying he did not exclude agreeing to strikes if it was proven the regime had carried out the alleged gas attack.
Yet Muqdad stressed that Moscow had not wavered in its support of Damascus.
"The Russian position is unchanged; it's a responsible position of a friend that is in favor of peace," he said.
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Assad really doesn't want to end up hanging from a meathook.
Gee....kind of makes you wonder whose voices our leaders politicians a$$hats are listening to.... Don't knock it. As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too... HT: Drudge
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I'll believe it when the checks clear, you know, like John Kerry's check on the sales tax he skipped out on when he moored his yacht in Rhode Island...
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As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too...
Yes, but there were 'warrants' signed by Congress and the UN in that case.
General Officer exam on 'lawful' orders in 4,3,2...
I'm sure they'll find some who'd rather take 'orals'. As the poll on American confidence in their governmental institutions show all the other branches sky diving, I'm sure they'll find some GOs who'll be happy to take the military down with them.
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Don't knock it. As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too..
Yes, as P2K said, after the Bush administration obtained permission from both the UN and Congress. The latter meaning that the US intended to foot the bill, not hire out its military and foreign policy.
The technical questions are: Will the charges be by the hour or by the night day? Will there be additional gratuities involved and who will get them? Will there be advertising space involved? Will the administration charge extra for 'special services', such as obfuscation, deflection, and the occasional personal appearance by various political personalities?
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From Wretcherd: "One reason why Congress is vested with the power to declare war is because whoever pays the piper calls the tune. If the KSA et al. are paying the piper, they will certainly be calling the tune. For the executive branch to order a Syrian operation bankrolled by the Arabs is to effectively shift the allegiance of the executive branch from its legitimate paymaster — the American people — to a foreign one. From an intellectual and moral perspective, though probably not a legalistic one, this borders on disloyalty."
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Bush sr paid for the first gulf war largely with Arab money. Not a big deal if you ask me. Still, I'd rather the Arab nations put their planes and tanks and butts on the line instead of just writing checks and singing Onward Christian Soldiers!
Sunni, you want war you be the boots on the ground.
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Barbara,
I remember an early introduction to politics. I was about 14 and there was a book published about LBJ the title of which I think fits this current PoS PotUS to a tee...."None Dare Call it Treason".
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I suspect that announcing that "Arab countries have their checkbooks open and pens ready" was an attempt to mute concerns that any 'kinetic action' would be unaffordable.
Sounds all quite upper-crust and inside-the-loop. Sort of an Ivy-League mafia thing.
"I'll get your son out of Boston. You're welcome. No, no - I'm we can think of a suitable way to show your appreciation later".
I suspect the elites are used to this sort of thing and didn't realize how it would play outside their circle.
WASHINGTON --- A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman warned any military intervention in Syria would create a nuclear disaster.
"If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MSNR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich stated, according to Russia Today.
Lukashevich said if a military strike were launched without seeking approval from the United Nations Security Council that new suffering for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa would occur. He added that the region could be at risk of "contamination by highly enriched uranium and it would no longer be possible to account for nuclear material, its safety and control."
He urged the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to complete a risk evaluation carrying out "an analysis of the risks linked to possible American strikes on the MNSR and other facilities in Syria."
Rueters quoted an IAEA spokesperson stating the agency was aware of the statement, but is waiting for a formal request asking the agency to complete risk evaluation and that the group would consider the questions raised if a request is received.
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Well, after the kabooms comes the contaminations...
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Yk ok tvcsink verxsIIkoli ti wscikoklonov n thomohakw mizlonskil.
Rough Translation:
Ok, PROVE it wasn't one of your Tomahawk missiles that hit the bugs and gas.
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"If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MSNR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic,"
I seem to recall one of Syria's neighbors knows a thing or two about hitting reactors.
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The 1959 novel and 1960 teleplay "Alas, Babylon" spins a tale of a nuclear exchange between the old USSR & the USA, provoked by an errant air to air missile fired by a US Navy pilot - into Syria.
[Bangla Daily Star] Activists 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... and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , blasted at least seven cocktails during a chase and counter-chase with police on Elephant Road in the capital Wednesday morning.
The activists also vandalised several vehicles during the incident, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports.
Police picked up seven people from the spot.
Around 50 Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession from an alley near Bata Signal intersection around 9:25am protesting the government decision to bar war crimes convicts from being registered as voters, said Ripon Kumar Saha, a sub-inspector of New Market Police Station.
A chase and counter-chase ensued when the on-duty police personnel resisted the procession, the SI said.
The marauding activists hurled brick chips targeting the law enforcers and also blasted several bombs.
Police had to fire gunshots and teargas canisters to disperse the activists, said Yasin Araft, officer-in-charge of New Market Police Station.
No injury was reported in the chase and counter-chase.
A staff of Bata Showroom is among the detainees, Murad, a salesman of the showroom, claimed.
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[An Nahar] M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... are enforcing a curfew in areas under their control, the U.N. peacekeeping mission said Wednesday, calling the move "completely unacceptable".
MONUSCO front man Felix Basse said U.N. troops were monitoring the situation in the area of the resource-rich east of the country controlled by the rebels during the current lull in fighting.
"At the moment, it is time to consolidate the positions recovered by the army pending further actions in the future," said Basse.
"The M23, which in practice controls the territory of Rutshuru (north of Goma)," has "imposed a curfew on civilians," said the Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese officer.
He said this was "completely unacceptable" and the situation was "being monitored by U.N. troops until future action".
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[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Wednesday charged 15 suspects, seven of whom are in jug, for firing rockets at Baabda and Beirut's southern suburbs.
The seven suspects include two Lebanese and five Syrians, said the state-run National News Agency.
But NNA did not disclose the nationalities of the rest of the network's members who were charged in absentia.
The charges against the 15 suspects include forming an armed terrorist group to carry out terrorist activities, and buying explosives in addition to launching rockets toward Baabda and Beirut's southern suburbs.
If convicted, the suspects face the death penalty.
In May, a pair of rockets slammed into a car dealership and a residential building in the stronghold of Hizbullah in Beirut's southern suburbs, wounding four people.
Later in June, the so-called Ballouneh cell was involved in a failed rocket attack on Yarze and the Baabda area.
Reports had said that the members of the cell intended to target the Defense Ministry in Yarze and the presidential palace in Baabda. But one rocket hit a high-voltage power line in a nearby town and a second rocket failed to launch.
The launchpads were found in the Kesrouan town of Ballouneh.
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[Libya Herald] The desecration of graves and shrines in Mizdah on Monday night has been condemned by local council members and the Dar Al Iftaa.
Graves and shrines in the Jabal Nafusa town of Mizdah were desecrated and vandalised on Monday night by unknown persons, the chairman of Mizdah Local Council, Abdulhakim Badran, told the Libya Herald.
"One of the graves belonged a Libyan Sufi, Sheikh Badawi, whom Mizdah locals revere," he said, adding that Mizdah locals were extremely upset by the incident.
"The vandalised graves were exhumed and the remains have been moved to a neighbouring cemetery," said Badran. He added that a search for the culprits was now underway.
Office director for the Grand Mufti's office (Dar Al Iftaa), Issam Najjar, told the Libya Herald that it considered "the attack on graves in Mizdah carried out by some groups" to be unlawful in Islamic law. He added that the Dar Al Iftaa expressed deep concern about these acts.
There was spate of attacks on Sufi shrines in number of Libyan towns and cities by gangs in 2012. These included the attempted destruction of the Abdussalam Lasmar shrine in Zliten and graves beside the Sahaba Mosque in Derna. Last month, the ancient Shuwarif shrine in the Souk Al-Juma cemetery of the same name, was utterly destroyed by vandals using heavy equipment.
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MOGADISHU -- A string of blasts rocked Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
The first explosion was reported from an area near Aden Adde International Airport after armoured troop carriers transporting Somali police forces waded into a minefield. Witnesses said, volleys of gunfire followed the blast as nearby Somali government forces cordoned off the vicinity.
Residents also reported the occurrence of five blasts in several districts. According to witnesses unidentified militiamen hurdled grenade into the residency of Somali Police Chief Gen. Sacid whose home is situated at a distance of few KMs from Sayidka junction.
Bulo Hubey neighborhood, Bakara Market, KPP and Hawlwadag jucntions also witnesses similar explosions.
Nobody claimed the responsibility for the apparently coordinated explosions but Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group previously carried out numerous terror attacks including coordinated assassinations, military-style ambushes and car bomb explosions.
Immediate casualties were not reported.
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[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Wednesday ordered parliament to create a new seat for the tiny Hindu and Sikh minority after MPs snubbed their demand for separate representation.
There are an estimated 4,000 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan. The community complain of discrimination, abuse and prejudice in the ultra-conservative Mohammedan country.
Their request for a seat in the 249-member lower house was included in an election bill, passed in July after the clause was scrapped on the grounds that the community was so small.
Members of the minority then threatened to migrate en masse and Karzai stepped in Wednesday with his decree.
Under the Afghan constitution, the president has the power to issue legislative decrees when parliament is in recess but it must be approved by MPs to pass into law.
If parliament approves the new seat, it would be contested at Afghanistan's next parliamentary elections in 2015 and raise to 250 the number of representatives in the lower house.
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The community complain of discrimination, abuse and prejudice in the ultra-conservative Mohammedan country. Those infidels should be grateful they still have their heads.
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I'm not sure its a great idea because these folks are likely unhinged to still be living in Afghanistan in this day and age. Of course in the Islamic world I guess that is a prerequisite.
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If parliament approves the new seat, it would be contested at Afghanistan's next parliamentary elections in 2015 and raise to 250 the number of representatives in the lower house.
That might depend on what the Taliban have to say about it.
A suspected bomber was killed after an improvised bomb he was transporting exploded in Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines.
Policemen inspecting the site recovered an improvised bomb assembled from a 60mm mortar and rigged to a detonator and a cell phone, not far from the dead manÂ’s decapitated body in Labangan town. The bomb was found at a rice paddy near the highway late Tuesday and safely disrupted.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman, said, “The identity of the man is still unknown and police are investigating this case."
It was not immediately known whether the man, whose head and arms were blown off, was a member of a rebel or terrorist group. His body was clad in black shirt and a pair of black and green tactical shooter pants.
[Libya Herald] It is reported that Anoud Senussi has been released by her kidnappers in the last few hours.
The daughter of former Qadaffy spy chief Abdullah Senussi was kidnapped on Monday after being released from the jail where she had served a ten-month prison term for entering Libya on a false passport.
Contrary to rumours that a large ransom demand had been issued, the Libya Herald has been told by sources close to the Ministry of Justice that no money was involved in her release, which was apparently managed peacefully with the assistance of former revolutionaries.
The kidnapping was the result of a breakdown in communication between the Ministry of Justice and other security forces, the source said. Senussi's release had been carefully planned but, when the day came, a degree of mismanagement meant that things went awry.
She is now understood to be with her family in the south of Libya.
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If Palestinians are involved, how can it be otherwise?
[An Nahar] Middle East peace talks have so far proved "futile," a senior Paleostinian official said on Wednesday, calling for greater U.S. participation in talks.
"Until now there has been no progress," the Paleostine Liberation Organization's Yasser Abed Rabbo ... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... told Voice of Paleostine radio, after several weeks of meetings between Israeli and Paleostinian negotiators.
"Despite our decision to take part in talks, we're now seeing what we expected -- that there is little hope for their progress, in fact that hope is non-existent and negotiations are futile," he said.
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[Dawn] Eight people, including a policeman, were bumped off in targeted attacks in the city on Tuesday, police said.
They said that Assistant Sub-Inspector Shamshad Malik, 37, was going somewhere on his cycle of violence to collect 'some information' when armed riders targeted him in Orangi-5 near the National Bank of Pakistain. He sustained two bullet wounds in the head and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! He was posted at the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe in the intelligence wing. The victim, father of five, was living in the Pakistain Bazaar police quarters.
Orangi Town SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said that it appeared that it was part of ongoing assassinations of coppers.
Two killed in 'sectarian' attacks
A young man was rubbed out in the Gurumandir area on Tuesday evening in what police described as an attack possibly on sectarian grounds, police said.
They said that Qari Siraj Jamrud, 31, was going somewhere on a bicycle when two armed motorcyclists targeted him on Bahadur Yar Jang Road and fled. He sustained three bullet wounds and died.
Soldier Bazaar SHO Raheem Shah said that the victim was a Moazzin in Mehtab Shah mosque. He said that the victim might have been killed due to sectarian reasons. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police were investigating the case, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... another man was bumped off near the 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... central prison within the jurisdiction of the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe on Tuesday evening.
They said that Rehan Yusuf, 40, was travelling in his car when gunnies riding a cycle of violence attacked him in Usmania Colony.
He sustained multiple bullet wounds and died.
The victim, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block-10, was a religious figure and his murder might be an outcome of sectarianism or some personal enmity, said Jamshed Quarters SHO Humayun Khan. He said the assailants were chasing the victim.
Scrap dealer rubbed out
A junk dealer was rubbed out in a Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality within the jurisdiction of the Mobina Town cop shoppe on Tuesday.
Police said that Syed Ejaz Shah was sitting at his shop in New Dhoraji Colony when four men riding two cycle of violences targeted him and rode away.
Nadra employee killed
A man was rubbed out in the Sachal area. Police said that Zaheer Hussain, 45, was bumped off on University Road near Jauhar Complex.
The victim was a driver in the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra). The motive for the killing could not be ascertained immediately.
Killing in Pak Colony
A young man was rubbed out in Pak Colony, police said on Tuesday.
They said gunnies entered a house in Sindhi Mohalla of Jehanabad and killed, Zahid Brohi, 25. The victim was a donkey cart rider.
Pak Colony SHO Bilal Raza suspected some personal enmity behind the murder.
Septuagenarian rubbed out in SITE
An elderly man was bumped off in SITE on Tuesday.
Police said that Mohammed Tahir, 72, was rubbed out by three men riding a cycle of violence near Zia Morr in SITE.
Area SHO Tufail Ahmed said that the victim's son told the police that someone had invited him for a meeting. He said personal enmity appeared the likely motive for the killing.
Man killed in Garden
A young man was killed in the Garden area. Police said gunnies brought the young man near Kashti Chowk and killed him there. His identity could not be ascertained immediately.
'Militants' killed in encounter
Two suspected gunnies were killed in a police encounter near Kunwari Colony on Tuesday.
Pirabad SHO Abdul Moid said two suspects, aged between 25 and 30, were killed in a shootout between police and gunnies in the area.
Their identity could not be ascertained till late in the night. The police claimed to have seized two TT pistols and as many hand grenades from them. The area SHO believed that the gunnies were involved in the killing of Sub-Inspector Piyaro Khan, who was targeted near Banaras on Monday night.
Robbers kill man
Robbers rubbed out a man and maimed another one upon resistance in an Orangi Town locality on Tuesday, according to the Pirabad police.
They said that four gunnies intercepted a Shahzore truck near Metro Cinema and fired at driver Ayaz and Naeem when they offered resistance. The police said maimed Ayaz drove the vehicle to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he died during treatment.
Driver killed while resisting robbery bid
Armed robbers killed a young man in Clifton on Tuesday.
The Boat Basin police said that Abdul Hameed, 30, a driver by profession, was intercepted by the robbers near Dr Ziauddin Hospital and when he offered resistance they fired at him and fled. The police said that the victim had gone there to pick up a son of his employer.ts from 'a woman of an institution'. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he did not name the woman or her organization.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the fight to Al-Shabab militants in the field.
Sure Ban, whatever we don't send to Syria, Libya, Pakistain, Afghanistan, Iraq or Egypt we'll send to Mogadishu. We'll get right on that...
The U.N. chief called on U.N. members, including African countries not yet involved, to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force with attack helicopters, armored troop carries and other support to root out the al-Qaida-allied Al-Shabab.
"The political, security and development gains made so far in Somalia are still reversible," Ban said in a report to the Security Council. The al-Qaida-allied terrorist group Al-Shabab "continues to undermine security throughout the country, including in Mogadishu."
"Allowing Al-Shabab to continue its training and conduct terrorist activities from bases in Somalia will not only undermine peace in Somalia, but also that of the wider region," he said.
The AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia — known as AMISOM — is endorsed by the U.N. Security Council and is meant to pave the way for an eventual U.N. peacekeeping force. It is led by Ugandan officers, and also has large Kenya and Burundi contingents. It has more than 17,000 troops.
The United Nations has especially been stung since Al-Shabab attacked the U.N. compound in Mogadishu on June 19, killing a U.N. Development Program staffer, thee U.N. contractors, four Somali guards and at least six Somali bystanders. It was the first direct attack on a U.N. building in Somalia since 2008.
Since then, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of Somalia, citing increasing dangers there. Al-Shabab militants still control much of the country's south.
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TUCUMCARI, N.M. - Most Presidential libraries are constructed after the President completes his term. However, according to KOAT-ABC, a New Mexico man has determined the location for President Obama's library and has marked it with a sign that is sparking controversy in one small town. If I recall correctly, somebody did the same with G.W. Bush. I think most people's reaction was "well, that's pretty stupid." Sophomoric remains sophomoric, regardless of who does it.
The sign rests on top of an outhouse. It reads: Obama's Presidential Library.
Some in town view the sign as bad taste while others are supportive. Personally I think the sign belongs above the remains of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi myself - or at least the 'Hillary Secretary of State Library' sign. But that is my opinion.
One man told a local reporter that folks are treating it as a tourist destination and that it is frequently photographed. Now all he needs is a life-sized Obama placecard to stand outside it.
The man responsible for the sign would not reveal his name nor would he give any information as to his motivation but did say the following: "It's like watching TV. If you don't like what the hell you're watching, turn the channel. Sadly I'm sure the NSA and IRS are fully aware who the poor magnificent bastard is...
I'm not even certain he even deserves that level of respect, but that's my opinion." I think the outhouse deserves a little more respect myself. At least it serves a useful function.
He added "...and fortunately, that's one thing they haven't taken away from us ... is our right to our opinion," For now...
"Go up and down the streets....., look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
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Sophomoric remains sophomoric, regardless of who does it.
Yes, but can the symbolism really be sophomoric if it represents a fundamental underlying truth?
[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda's leaders have set up cells of engineers to try to shoot down, disable or hijack U.S. drones, The Washington Post reported late Tuesday citing top-secret U.S. intelligence documents.
The al-Qaeda leadership is "hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses against the terrorist network," the Post said online.
"Although there is no evidence that al-Qaeda has forced a drone crash or successfully interfered with flight operations, U.S. intelligence officials have closely tracked the group's persistent efforts to develop a counterdrone strategy since 2010," the report said, citing the secret documents.
The al-Qaeda commanders are keen to achieve "a technological breakthrough (that) could curb the U.S. drone campaign, which has killed an estimated 3,000 people over the past decade," the Post reported.
Drone strikes have forced al-Qaeda operatives to limit their movements in Pakistain, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and other places.
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[An Nahar] The United States announced on Wednesday that it is ready to respond to any possible attack launched by Hizbullah as a retaliation to the anticipated U.S.-led operation against the Syrian regime.
"Our Navy is ready to respond to any retaliatory attack by Hizbullah," U.S. army chief General Martin Dempsey said during a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party."
"There are conventional risks of retaliation, plus asymmetric attacks via Hizbullah. Even cyber attacks."
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Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party."
I hope those words don't come back in a week to bite you in the ass.
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So I guess Dempsey musta got his "mind right"? 6/18/13
Flash-forward to this past Wednesday. At a principals meeting in the White House situation room, Secretary of State John Kerry began arguing, vociferously, for immediate U.S. airstrikes against airfields under the control of Bashar al-AssadÂ’s Syrian regime -- specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces.
It was at this point that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the usually mild-mannered Army General Martin Dempsey, spoke up, loudly. According to several sources, Dempsey threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didnÂ’t fully grasp the complexity of such an operation.
Dempsey informed Kerry that the Air Force could not simply drop a few bombs, or fire a few missiles, at targets inside Syria: To be safe, the U.S. would have to neutralize SyriaÂ’s integrated air-defense system, an operation that would require 700 or more sorties. At a time when the U.S. military is exhausted, and when sequestration is ripping into the Pentagon budget, Dempsey is said to have argued that a demand by the State Department for precipitous military action in a murky civil war wasnÂ’t welcome.
Officials with knowledge of the meeting say that Kerry gave as good as he got, and that the discussion didnÂ’t reach aneurysm-producing levels. But it was, in diplomatic parlance, a full and frank vetting of the profound differences between State and Defense on Syria. Dempsey was adamant: Without much of an entrance strategy, without anything resembling an exit strategy, and without even a clear-eyed understanding of the consequences of an American airstrike, the Pentagon would be extremely reluctant to get behind KerryÂ’s plan.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] David Cameron and Barack Obama will not hold a formal meeting at a summit in Russia this week, in what some people suggested was a snub because of the Prime Minister's handling of the Syrian crisis.
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[FOXNEWS] Former Syrian Defense Minister General Ali Habib has defected the country and is now in Turkey, Free Syrian Army front man Fahd Al-Masri told Fox News.
Ali Habib crossed the border from Syria last night, Rooters reports, but Syrian State TV claims he is still in his home in Syria.
Al-Masri told Fox News that Ali Habib is with Turkish officials and is in the process of making contact with Syrian opposition figures within Turkey.
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... made mention of the defection during a House committee hearing on Wednesday as the U.S. mulls a possible military strike on Syria.
"Just today before coming in here, I read an e-mail to me about a general, the minister of defense, former minister or assistant minister, I forget which, who has just defected and is now in Turkey," Kerry said. "And there are other defections that we are hearing about... because of the potential that we might take action."
Ali Habib left his defense minister post in 2011 after reportedly complaining about civilian attacks coordinated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Supressor of the Damascenes... regime.
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[An Nahar] South Korea's spy agency Wednesday placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a leftist politician accused of plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea after parliament voted to approve his arrest.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) took United Progressive Party (UPP) politician Lee Seok-Ki away from his office in parliament after a confrontation with his supporters.
Scuffles erupted as UPP members blocked dozens of NIS agents at the office door.
Police eventually stepped in to end the noisy stand-off which lasted for nearly one hour. Television showed Lee surrendering and walking out.
Some exhausted UPP members fell to the ground or screamed as the NIS agents escorted Lee out.
"I came here of my own will to avoid festivities," Lee told news hounds after he was taken to a court at Suwon just south of Seoul.
He will be held at the court, which had issued a warrant for his detention, pending his formal arrest by state prosecutors.
Rival political parties earlier joined forces to approve Lee's arrest on sedition charges. Without such a vote, politicians cannot be detained while the legislature is in session.
Some 258 politicians voted for the arrest while 14 objected.
Hundreds of police, including riot officers carrying shields, had stood guard outside the National Assembly as the vote was under way, with riot vans blocking roads and a water cannon atop an armored vehicle.
About 200 UPP members had staged a sit-down protest outside the assembly building, chanting slogans accusing the spy agency of fabricating the charges.
Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn told politicians that in May Lee -- believing war with the North to be imminent -- told his secretive leftist group to prepare for attacks on South Korea's communication lines and railways.
Lee replied that he was the victim of a "savage and irrational witch hunt" led by the country's secret police and fanned by the conservative news media.
"They may jail me for a while but steps towards independence, peace and democracy will never falter," Lee told parliament.
The ruling conservative government had sought to arrest Lee, and the left-leaning main opposition Democratic Party supported the move.
"We'll never tolerate anyone who is willing to fight on the side of the enemy in the event of a war," said Democratic Party chief Kim Han-Gil.
The spy agency last week raided the UPP's offices and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! three of Lee's supporters on charges of seeking to instigate an armed insurrection in support of North Korea.
Lee had described those charges as "sheer fabrication" and an attempt by the agency to "block progressive and democratic forces".
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[An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Wednesday urged Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... to prioritize the protection of rights, following his re-election in a disputed vote.
"President Mugabe should seize this opportunity to set Zim-bob-we on a path that respects rights and the democratic process," HRW's director for southern Africa Tiseke Kasambala said in a statement.
"Placing human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... at the top of the agenda would send a clear message that Zim-bob-we is committed to honoring its human rights obligations."
The global rights body has long expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at Zim-bob-we's poor record for human rights.
It called on Mugabe's new administration "to embrace a new, positive rights-respecting approach to governing".
On July 31, Mugabe extended his 33-year rule after winning the general election with 61 percent of the vote. Morgan Tsvangirai, his former prime minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, won 34 percent.
The controversial vote was endorsed by the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC) bloc and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... but rejected by Tsangirai who denounced it as a sham.
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Shouldn't HRW be working up the fund appeal letter with all of Obama's war crimes already touted? Oh, wait, that might get a call from the IRS and they'd have to reveal their donor list. Never mind.
In Europe he would most definitely have been a community organizer for the Social Democrats, just because there's more power there than in the Communists or the Greens. Same reason he's a member of the Democratic Party here instead of the Communists or the Greens. But in Europe they never would have let him be prime minister, though they might have let him be president in one of the royalty-free states. Something to ponder, that is.
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This is boilerplate for the NPR-listening left.
On a scale of 1-10, arbitrarily redfine the center as being 3 rather than 5 That way you can tell yourself and anyone else who cares that your position at 2 is only slightly left of center and that someone who is in the middle at 5 is a far right extremist. Framing the issue Alinsky/Lakoff style.
I actually had a former friend tell me that Rush Limbaugh was much, much farther from the center of American politics in his direction than NPR was in its direction. Delusional bubble thinking.
It's people like that, along with union and public sector thugs, who are running the government right now.
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He seems to be the most self obsessed POTUS I can remember.
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George Carlin said: "By definition, half the population is below average intelligence." Why should the below-average-intelligence cohort be expected to accurately identify where they are on the spectrum, including politically?
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Who gives a rat's ass what he would be in EUrope? It's what he is in the US that matters. Leave it to a delusional American leftist to define things in EUropean terms.
[Al Ahram] Five Saudis accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda and of plotting attacks went on trial Wednesday in a Yemeni court set up for terrorism cases, the official Saba news agency reported.
The five men face charges of plotting "in association with an gang belonging to Al-Qaeda to carry out criminal acts against members of the armed and security forces in Yemen," Saba said.
They are also on trial for "forging identity documents to obtain passports that enable them to visit Sudan and then Syria," where foreign Islamists have joined rebel forces, a judicial source said.
All five defendants have pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not! the source told AFP.
The next hearing is to take place on 11 September.
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[Libya Herald] Anoud Senussi was not kidnapped on Monday, a Sebah Congressman claimed this evening, but was taken by an SSC unit, anxious that she was not being properly protected.
Congressman Abdul Hadi Ahmed Ashrief told the Libya Herald that the 20-year old was taken from a three-vehicle Judicial Police convoy by men from the First Special Unit of the SSC, for her own protection.
It was thought, said Ashrief, that that a group, which he did not name, would seek to grab her on the way to the airport, her original destination. From there she had been due the fly to Sebha. However Ashrief explained, she was taken instead by the SSC unit to "a very safe place" in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , where she has been kept ever since.
Ashrief said that he had visited Anoud at her Tripoli location and she had told him that she was very happy and had been well-treated, both while she was in prison and in the hands of the SSC unit.
The congressman said that she would not be travelling to Sebha, but "within two days"would be going to either Mauritania or Egypt, where she would be joining her mother. He added that in Tripoli she was currently with two aunts and a sister.
Ashrief did not reveal when his visit had taken place and said that there were no pictures of the encounter, because Anoud had said that she did not wish to be photographed.
The threats made by members of the Magraha tribe to which Anoud belongs, to cut completely the flow of water from the western branch of the Man-Made River to western Libya, were made, said Ashrief, because the rustics did not understand that she had not been kidnapped.
"They didn't know she had been taken by good people, " he explained, " that's why they were protesting and about to cut the water".
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"We had to kidnap her to keep her safe from kidnappers."
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A total of four armed suspects were killed in encounters with Mexican security forces in Tamaulipas state Tuesday night, according to official news releases.
A news release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state government said one encounter took place in the border municipality of Matamoros at around 1825 hrs near Ejido Morelos, where a Mexican Army unit observed and traded gunfire with occupants of a convoy.
One armed suspect was killed and six others were detained at the scene. An undisclosed number of rifles, ammunition and weapons magazines were seized as well as three vehicles, described in the news release as trucks or SUVs. The news release hinted that more than three vehicles and seven armed suspects were in the convoy when it initially encountered the army patrol.
A second encounter took place in Nuevo Laredo municipality at around 2330 hrs near the intersection of Bulevar Colosio and Calle Gonzalez in Viveros colony.
Armed suspects traveling aboard a Lincoln LS exchanged gunfire with a Mexican Army unit, according to the news release, to avoid arrest. Army return fire killed three suspects. Soldiers at the scene seized four rifles, 28 weapons magazines and a quantity of AK-47 ammunition.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale September 1st at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.
[Washington Post] Al-Qaeda-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new festivities erupted near the capital, Damascus -- part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.
As the world focused on possible U.S. military action against Syria, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel in the village of Maaloula and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
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The Assad Govt will stand up for the Christians more than the Sunni Jihadis will Mr Obama
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The Assad Govt will stand up for the Christians more than the Sunni Jihadis will Mr Obama
BAIDOA, Somalia -- Malaq Yusuf Ali Sheikh, a well known traditional elder has been shot dead in Bay regional capital of Baidoa on Tuesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say that terrorists gunmen attacked Ali as he left a mosque in Baidoa's Sigale neighborhood where he offered evening prayers. Unidentified terrorists gunmen shot him in chest and fledran away escaped from the scene of crime after shooting, according to witnesses.
Late Ali who is aged 70 took part many mediation processes of resolving inter-clan conflicts in Bay and Bakool regions, sources said.
AMISOM and Somali government forces are co-located in Bay region after Ethiopian troops vacated military bases in Baidoa in July.
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[An Nahar] After his release from detention on Wednesday, Sheikh Hashem Minkara announced that Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib, the first suspect tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! over the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... blasts, has retracted all his confessions, calling for a dialogue conference with Salafist holy man Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi.
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[Libya Herald] A retired colonel escaped with minor injuries when a car-bomb went kaboom! beneath his vehicle today in the eastern town of Ajdabiya.
Farag Abu-Halfaya, a former member of the Intelligence Department in Kufra, was driving home after paying his respects at a funeral in the north of the town. The explosives, which had been planted under his car, detonated when he reached the bridge in the east of the town.
Abu-Halfaya suffered minor injuries in the kaboom and was taken to a nearby hospital. An investigation into the attack has been launched.
Today's car-bomb was the latest in a string of attempted liquidations and murders targeting military personnel in the east of the country. Two days ago, a retired Special Forces sergeant escaped when his unoccupied vehicle went kaboom! outside his home in Benghazi. The previous day, Special Forces Colonel Alaa Al-Fitouri died from injuries caused by a car-bomb, also in Benghazi.
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[An Nahar] A jihadist group on Wednesday poured scorn on the Egyptian military's claims of victories in the restive Sinai peninsula where the army said it launched deadly air strikes on myrmidons.
The fiercely anti-Israeli group al-Salafiya al-Jihadiya, in a statement posted on Islamist forums, condemned "the state media and the army as liars" who "celebrate ... fake victories in the Sinai."
On Tuesday, the military launched what security sources said was its "biggest" air assault on Sinai where the army has been battling a semi-insurgency since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi's ouster on July 3.
The strikes near the Rafah crossing into Gazoo targeted snuffies using the area bordering the Paleostinian territory as a hideout, the sources said.
They said eight snuffies were killed and 15 maimed in the bombing of several villages.
The jihadist group denied the claims.
"The operation has seen innocents being tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and presented as fighters," the group said.
"They film the bombing of homes and present them as dens of fighters and openly lie about the deaths of large numbers of" myrmidons, it added.
The security sources said the air assault also targeted weapons depots and explosives, apart from snuffies hiding in villages.
In the northern Sinai on Wednesday, a policeman was killed and eight others were maimed when gunnies fired rockets at a police bus in El-Arish, near the Gazoo border, a security source said.
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Next time, use napalm. Fewer complaints, and it does a very thorough job. No need for a funeral afterwards, either.
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[Dawn] A senior Pakistain navy officer was rubbed out and his Swedish wife maimed in Pakistain's port city 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... on Wednesday, police said.
The couple were shot on a busy thoroughfare near the National Stadium.
Two gunnies riding a cycle of violence intercepted Captain Nadeem's vehicle and opened fire, killing him on the spot, a local police official told AFP.
Nadeem's wife sustained a bullet injury in the attack and has been taken to a naval hospital, he added.
Nadeem taught at the Karachi campus of the National University of Sciences and Technology.
A naval intelligence official also confirmed the killing.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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[Dawn] Armed persons rubbed out a member of Tablighee Jamaat and injured three others inside a mosque in Bahrain tehsil of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... district on Monday night.
Police said that four assailants entered a mosque in Gatt Sar area of Bahrain and opened firing on the preachers after Esha prayer. They said that Mian Jan was killed on the spot while three other preachers identified as Abdullah, Bakht Omar and Juma Gul sustained injuries in the attack.
The dead and injured were shifted to civil hospital in Madyan. The assailants managed to escape after the incident.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Momin, Noor Wahib, Hazrat Hussain and Muqadar and started investigation.
In North Wazoo Agency, a convoy of security forces narrowly escaped a roadside blast, which led to imposition of curfew in the tribal region on Tuesday.
The convoy was targeted with a remote controlled bomb on main Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... -Dattakhel Road. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... no loss of life or property was reported in the blast. The security forces defused another remote controlled bomb on the same road. The security forces and political administration set a 24-hour deadline to the tribal people to hand over the accused to them or face stern action under territorial responsibility clause of FCR.
The political administration has also imposed curfew for indefinite period soon after the roadside blast in the area. The educational institutions, government offices and bazaars remained closed owing to imposition of curfew.
Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded on Bannu-Miranshah Road, causing hardships to passengers. The traders also suffered losses as their vehicles loaded with fruits and vegetables were stuck in the traffic jam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... electricity remained suspended to the entire South Waziristan Agency on the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday after Bakakhel rustics of Frontier Region of Bannu put chains on the main transmission line.
The residents of South Wazristan complained that political administration of FR Bannu and police authorities were not taking action against Bakakhel rustics.
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A Russian man was convicted of "public justification of terrorism" through postings on a social networking website, prosecutors in Moscow said Wednesday.
Murat Sarbashev from St. Petersburg posted on his web page a video of an Islamist militant, advocating violence against ethic Russians and calling for an independent Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus region.
After getting negative feedback, Sarbashev responded with an online "public justification of terrorism (and) a statement deeming the ideology and practice of terrorism right and worthy of support and imitation," according to prosecutors.
Three big prestige projects launched by new leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un are bleeding North Korea dry, exacerbating hardships and squeezing their pockets, according to a South Korean government official.
That's before the cognac, gifts for party officials and wifey's wardrobe...
They are the construction of a ski resort, an equestrian club in Pyongyang and the attempt to turn empty plots of barren land into lawns.
Now that last one makes sense: you can eat grass in North Korea. Of course you could eat horses. Keep them off the lawn and it's a two-course meal.
The official said the regime is forcing North Korean diplomats and workers overseas to remit US$300 each to Pyongyang for the construction of the ski resort. It has also told Chongryon, a large pro-Pyongyang Korean organization in Japan, to raise funds. People are being "encouraged" to send gifts to soldiers working on the ski resort, and they have little choice but to comply.
The regime is also pressing many people into labor at the equestrian club and diverting resources that could be better spent elsewhere. It sent senior party officials overseas to sign a deal to buy racehorses worth hundreds of millions of won.
And they'd better win or else...
Last year, Pudgy Kim began a nationwide greening campaign, causing a vast acreage of sod to be laid over barren lots.
The North has established a national "lawn research center" and overseas missions have been told to send grass seeds home. It has urged residents to lay sod over any empty plots in schools and villages.
The source said, "With no sufficient financial resources, the regime is trying to complete Suet Face's Kim Jong-un's signature projects by certain deadlines and people are getting more and more restive."
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[Washington Post] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution Wednesday granting President B.O.limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Acting hours after Obama, during a visit to Sweden, said the credibility of Congress and the international community was also at stake, the committee voted 10 to 7, with one member voting "present," to approve using force against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... . The resolution now goes to the full Senate. The House is separately considering a similar resolution.
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An easy decision for those who have never picked up the tab, the cost means nothing.
#3
I keep hearing on the radio that House Members believe their constituents are overwhelmingly against another "war", but maybe not against a ... what was it called? - somekinda 'kinetic' action? You know, the Libya 'not-quite-a-war' deal.
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I believe most Americans are sophisticated enough to recognize acts of war. The legal parsing and addition of qualifying 'terms of reference' are simply methods used to confuse opinion and devalue intent.
If without warning or invitation, a Russian carrier battle group and five destroyers began steaming toward Virginia Beach, I doubt few would question the obvious intent.
#5
Fast forward 2.5 years to a hypothetical campaign speech:
"If I am elected the first woman president, I will work diligently with our regional partners to end our senseless involvement in the Syrian-Lebanon-Libyan conflict, and bring our people home".
#6
Please communicate your position clearly to whichever jackass represents you using this link.
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Sorry, did something wrong with my previous post and the hyperlink didn't show up. Here's the link to contact your local jackass.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
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My wife and I walked into our Senator's office this morning and laid it out: instruct the President to put together a coalition, then, with that in hand, make a limited, punitive strike. None of the groups fighting in Syria are aligned with US interests.
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... on Tuesday (September 3rd) asked the army to step up efforts to secure the border, four days after authorities thwarted an attempt by a terror cell to infiltrate a district in Batna.
Army Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah briefed the president Tuesday on prevailing conditions in the country and along the border.
That came after Algerian security forces on Friday killed one terrorist and tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! two more during an operation in Batna. Another terrorist turned himself in after the intervention forces besieged him at a building where he took a family hostage. A fourth terrorist reportedly escaped.
When the myrmidon took the family hostage, armed services cordoned off the area, deployed snipers on rooftops and avoided a direct confrontation with him for fear of the family members' lives. The terrorist tried to escape before he was surrounded by security forces, prompting him to turn himself in without resistance amid applause by curious citizens who gathered at the scene and expressed their relief over the operation.
The Aurès Mountains in the province are a stronghold for terrorist groups. The province has witnessed several terrorist operations, including an liquidation attempt against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika six years ago. A terrorist group active in the region also carried out an operation in 2003 in which more than 45 soldiers were killed.
The new attack was part of al-Qaeda's attempts to disrupt the security cordon imposed on the border and its main strongholds. Since Ramadan, the province has seen an escalation of movements by terrorist groups who set up fake security checkpoints on some paths and intimidated citizens.
Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia said that the Batna operation was "an isolated act" carried out by a terrorist group. On the side-lines of the inauguration of the autumn session of the parliament, Ould Kablia said that the security agencies managed to thwart a terrorist group's plan to attack the province. He noted that the operation took place based on information provided by citizens from Batna.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... Ould Kablia denied any relation between the terrorists' attempt to infiltrate Batna province, located in eastern Algeria, and the security events along the Tunisian-Algerian border.
"The Batna operation carries a lot of indications," military expert Taher Ben Thamer commented. "The first indication is about al-Qaeda's attempt to move its operations from the mountains to urban areas and cities for several factors, including ease of finding accessible targets, especially security personnel, and also the possibility of hiding among citizens."
He added, "Some snuffies rented and bought real estate in major cities taking advantage of ransom money and money obtained by extorting citizens. They can use these houses to hide and plan terrorist operations inside cities."
The military expert said the terrorists' move from the mountains to the cities was in part due to the success of security forces in the groups' traditional strongholds.
"Many of the areas where the snuffies are based, whether in desert or Kabylie, are under siege by security forces and it's impossible for the snuffies to move freely," Ben Thamer said.
Algeria's el-Bilad daily reported that security agencies found a message with one of the snuffies purportedly sent by al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) chief Abdalmalek Droukdel, (alias Abou Moussaab Abdelouadoud) to emirs. The message reportedly ordered brigade chiefs to step up terrorist operations within urban areas and to focus on recruiting new young members for the gangs.
Directly after the operation, the security agencies beefed up security measures in some provinces by increasing checkpoints and security barriers, imposing strict controls and launching large-scale combing operations in the mountains.
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[An Nahar] An international political grouping headed by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... came out against military action in Syria Wednesday, as the U.S. sought allies for strikes following alleged chemical attacks.
"There is no military solution to this conflict," said The Elders, a group founded by former South African president Nelson Mandela.
"Therefore every effort must be made to stop further bloodshed and to re-energize the political process to put an end to the conflict that has devastated and brutalized Syria," the group said in a statement.
U.S. President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... is seeking global backing for punitive strikes against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
Obama has deferred military action pending Congressional approval at a vote scheduled for September 9. Meanwhile French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... has vowed to "punish" Assad, while Syrian ally Russia has attacked the idea of military strikes.
The Elders, which includes former U.S. president Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... , archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson, condemned the August 21 gas attack in a Damascus suburb as "inhumane and criminal".
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[Dawn] When Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... assured all segments of society on Tuesday that peace would be brought back to 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... , many were not ready to buy his words as history has made them sceptical. Despite seriousness showed by the federal government, the people in Karachi wonder what lies ahead for them, with threats ranging from militancy to murders and street crimes to kidnapping for ransom tormenting them they face daily.
Experts concur that all the stakeholders responsible for making Karachi a peaceful city have systematically sowed violence in the metropolis over the years.
Take political parties for instance. It is no secret that all of them have Death Eater wings. 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... , which claims to enjoy the electoral mandate of the city, has a blood-drenched history and a known violent track record.
The PPP has links with the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee (PAC), accused of running an extortion racket across the city.
Take law enforcement agencies. The police are corrupt and politicised. But paramilitary Rangers are fast learning the ropes from police.
Political observers wonder under what policy Rangers have evicted gangsters belonging to the Awami National Party, particularly after the May 11 elections, in a few city localities like Gulistan-e-Jauhar and replaced them with those of the PAC.
Political observers, rights activists and security experts agree on one point: time is running out. With over 1,890 people having already been killed in targeted attacks in the first eight months of the year across Karachi, they suggest an even-handed action against every individual and group involved in crimes.
Apart from politically motivated killings, deadly attacks carried out for sectarian reasons have seen a surge, with banned outfits such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, as well as Shia groups, undertaking tit-for-tat killings. So there can be no two opinions about the need for ending the spiral of violence in Karachi.
"This time it (the government) looks quite serious," said Zohra Yusuf of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain. "But it's a little difficult to express hope at this point of time about the outcome of any government action. We monitored such situation in the past and definitely continue it when the government comes up with a plan about Karachi."
She came up with a spontaneous response when asked about the reasons behind Karachi's situation, accusing three major parties -- MQM, PPP and ANP -- of leading the city to anarchy.
Ms Yusuf said she had no doubt about the dismal performance of police and Rangers as corruption had badly affected the performance of the former while the latter never considered themselves accountable for any wrongdoing.
Dr Jafar Ahmad, of the Pakistain Study Centre at the University of Karachi, in his 'objective analysis' found the political parties both victims as well as responsible for the current state of Karachi. But he was not fully satisfied with the federal government's fresh initiative.
"I don't see it very much effective or I am not very much hopeful of a positive outcome," he said, adding: "Karachi has become a national issue but you hardly find the first line of leadership of the parties discussing that crisis. The way it's being handled doesn't give the impression of a national issue and, secondly, political parties are responsible for this state but they never own it. They will definitely make a hue and cry if any action is taken against them."
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well drat. And here I was hoping for a link to some insightful article by VDH or Wretchard commenting on Congress...
[Dawn] The alleged criminal mastermind of a plot to carry out a suicide kaboom in the capital beat feet from his Rawalpindi hideout, sources told Dawn on Tuesday. Outsmarted them, did he? Well, I guess that's why they call 'em masterminds.
Islamabad police on Saturday had claimed to have seized a car laden with 170kg of explosives brought from the tribal areas to hit key installations in the city.
According to sources, the police were tipped off that the criminal mastermind of the terror plot was hiding in Gulshan Dadan locality of Rawalpindi. In response, the Crime Investigation Department raided the locality.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when the police team arrived at the place, the accused had already slipped away.
He was said to be affiliated with Punjabi Taliban.
The police picked a man from the place on suspicion of his link with the criminal mastermind and brought him to Islamabad.
Besides, the police also rounded up four other suspects from the twin cities.
During interrogation of the suspects, it transpired that the accused had planned to hit high-profile targets in the red zone.
The jacket wallah, who was to drive the car bomb, was about to reach Islamabad from Wazoo when the vehicle was tracked down in the city, the sources said.
They also said it was yet to be established which outfit - Punjabi Taliban or Mullah Nazir group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TPP) - was behind the plot.
Scores of messages were retrieved from a laptop recovered from the vehicle.
"The messages were in code words but majority of them have been decoded," they added.
The messages contained details of meetings held between the accused persons. There were also mentions of the meeting points, including worship places.
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[BBC.CO.UK] President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... has said the credibility of the US, its Congress and the international community is on the line over their response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons.
Speaking in Sweden, he said the world should stick to its own "red line" against the use of chemical weapons.
Mr Obama is trying to build support in the US for punitive military action against the Syrian government.
Congress will vote next week on whether to support his plans.
La Belle France - whose government has strongly advocated intervention - held an extraordinary debate on Wednesday in the National Assembly, though MPs will not vote on the matter as the president can mobilise the military without their backing.
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#2
Well he almost has to say that - he doesn't have any of his own anymore and he's squandering ours by insulting our allies and comforting our enemies.
#10
Not that dogma drenched Marxist give a damn about real history, but the 'world' signed up for the Kellogg-Briand Pact which outlawed war during the 1920, a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". How'd that all work out, say between 1931 to 1945?
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Mufti Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani, a leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team, on a two-day remand in a case filed over an attempt to kill blogger Asif Muhiuddin in January this year.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Nibaron Chandra Burman, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Rahmani before it with a 10-day remand prayer.
Rahmani's name was not included in the First Information Report (FIR), but he was shown tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in the case on August 13.
In the night of January 13, myrmidons attacked Asif with knives in Uttara of the capital, leaving him seriously injured. He underwent treatment at a hospital for a month.
Rahmani, 43, was also shown arrested in blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar killing case on August 15.
Earlier on August 11, police arrested him with 30 other alleged forces of Evil when the group was holding a "secret meeting" at a house in Barguna town.
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[Dawn] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced Wednesday that the paramilitary Rangers force would start a targeted operation against criminal gangs and forces of Evil 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... in the next "one to two days".
A committee led by the provincial chief minister would "manage, administer and control" the operation, he said, however he emphasised on calling it a targeted action or "exercise" rather than an operation.
The interior minister, flanked by Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad and Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, was speaking to media representatives following a special session of the federal cabinet in Karachi chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to formulate a strategy to restore peace in the lovely provincial capital.
Earlier during the cabinet session, the prime minister had also stressed on calling it a "concerted campaign" against lawlessness and terrorism in the city rather than an operation.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[Bangla Daily Star] Activists of 
A suspected bomber was killed after an improvised bomb he was transporting exploded in Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines. 
Yasser Abed Rabbo
[Dawn] Eight people, including a policeman, were 
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the fight to Al-Shabab militants in the field.
Secretary of State 
[An Nahar] South Korea's spy agency Wednesday 
[Washington Post] Al-Qaeda-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new 
[Libya Herald] A retired colonel escaped with minor injuries when a car-bomb 
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A Russian man was convicted of "public justification of terrorism" through postings on a social networking website, prosecutors in Moscow said Wednesday.
Three big prestige projects launched by new leader 
limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.
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...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
Jimmy Carter
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