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Report: 400 arrested in Egyptian operation in Sinai
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Katie Featherston[Filmography](age 31)



Morpheus Design
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#2  She's got piggy slippers!
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#3  If you look closely, she's got freckles, too.
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#4  All that and she loves Texas!
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Afghanistan
Roadside Bomb Kills Three Farah Policemen
[TOLONEWS] Local officials of western Farah province said that Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander, Malam Jan, and two fellow coppers were killed by a roadside kaboom on Friday afternoon in Bala Boluk district of the province.

Three other coppers were maimed by the blast.

The incident took place in the Bala Boluk district when the coppers were on a patrol and their vehicle struck a roadside kaboom, said Abdul Rahman Zhwandon, a Provincial Police Chief Spokesman.

The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital for emergency care.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Al-Shabab claims deadly Somalia bombing
[Shabelle] The armed group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people outside a restaurant popular with Ethiopian and Somali troops in the town of Baladweyne in central Somalia.

“Our main target was Ethiopian and Djibouti troops who invaded our country. They were sitting there,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab’s military operation spokesman, said on Saturday.

He put the death toll from the attack at 25, including troops from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.


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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Suicide bomber kills dozens in Beledweyne town
[Shabelle] news just in from Beledweyne the headquarter town of Hiran region report that a jacket wallah has killed 12 people and injured more than 33 people outside a popular restaurant.

The restaurant was popular with government officials and Æthiopian troops who used to dean and rest during their resting hours.

Government troops and AMISOM troops have closed all roads leading to the site where the kaboom occurred as the rescue mission continues.

Those injured were taken to Beledweyne hospital where they are currently receiving medical attention.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Report: 400 arrested in Egyptian operation in Sinai
[Ynet] Arab-language Sky News has quoted an Egyptian security official as claiming that some 400 people were incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in recent weeks as part of the second phase of the army's operation in Sinai. Out of the 400, at least 100 are Paleostinians, which according to the official, are affiliated with Sinai-based terror groups.

In addition, the source said that the army succeeded in destroying 97% of the tunnels connecting Gazoo to Sinai.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/20/2013 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Out of the 400, at least 100 are Paleostinians

Wonder what Nasser would say?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2013 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Having lived in Egypt under Nasser I can tell you that he would not permit Palestinians to live in Egypt (unless of course the bribe were sweet enough).
Posted by: Spigum Tojo8813 || 10/20/2013 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  succeeded in destroying 97% of the tunnels
Known tunnels?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/20/2013 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Known tunnels?

I would say that's a given.

Knowing the Egyptians, they probably know the existence of about nearly all of the Paleo tunnels built.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/20/2013 8:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Out of the 400, at least 100 are Paleostinians

the other 300 are lying
Posted by: Frank G || 10/20/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||


Car bomb near Egypt army intelligence building wounds six
[Al Ahram] At least five soldiers and a man whose occupation is yet to be revealed were maimed on Saturday when a boom-mobile went kaboom! near an army intelligence building in Ismailia, northeast of Cairo, security sources and state media said.

The sources said another undetonated boom-mobile was found while security personnel were sweeping the area. The force of the blast caused part of the military intelligence building's wall to collapse, one of the sources said.

Army recruit Abdel-Salam El-Sayed, 24, suffered a 3-cm wound to the head, while Mohammed Saber, a 21-year-old soldier, sustained a back injury and a 6-cm wound to the head.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


New attack in Sirte
[Libya Herald] A member of the Zawia Martyrs Brigade based in Sirte was maimed today when a bomb blew up under his car in the town's Buhadi area. According to Colonel Salah Buhulaiga, the commander of the brigade, Yusuf Lahsuni is in "an unstable" condition in hospital.

Buhulaiga's was himself the long distance victim of an attack earlier this week when a bomb was thrown at his home in Benghazi.

It is not known if that incident and today's attack are linked to the death in Sirte a week ago of a member of the Petroleum Facilities Guard under the command of Ibrahim Jadhran or to the fast developing conflict in Benghazi between local tribes and Islamists.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Benghazi tense as Shield commander's home torched following Barghathi's assassination
[Libya Herald] The family home of Wissam Ben Hamid in the Benghazi suburb of Kuwafiyah was attacked and set on fire this afternoon by members of the Barghathi tribe who accused him of responsibility for the liquidation this morning of Colonel Ahmed Mustafa Al-Barghathi, head of Libya's Military Police.

"Four or five carloads of men came to Wissam's house," said an associate of Ben Hamid. "They fired RPGs and then they escaped. But pictures were taken and it is known who they are."

It was then widely reported on social media sites that the attackers planned to move on to the homes of four other military commanders in the city­: Ahmed Bukhattalah, Libya Shield commander Ismail Salabi, Ziad Belam, head of the Omar Mukhtar Brigade, and Bukah Laraibi who commands the brigade which protects the Kuwafiyah prison. All are regarded as Islamist.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "To the mattresses, boys!"
Posted by: Pappy || 10/20/2013 8:45 Comments || Top||


Thuwar leader murdered near Emsalata: report
[Libya Herald] The former commander of the thuwar in Al Amamira, near Emsalata some 140 kilometres east of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, was reportedly rubbed out yesterday, Friday. Muftah Grimazi was driving with his cousin Rifat Grimazi when their car was attacked, sources in Khoms told the Libya Herald. In the subsequent shootout both men were hit, as were two of the assailants.

Both cousins were rushed to hospital in Emsalata but Muftah died later, the source said. Rifat's condition is reported as stable.

One of the injured assailants was taken to at Khoms hospital. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
according to the source, when police arrived to arrest him, he was no longer there. He had apparently been spirited out of the hospital by a group that had accompanied him there. The police did, though, arrest two men suspected of being involved in smuggling him out. The source said they had been transferred to Emsalata cop shoppe.

The killing is believed to be the first of its kind in Al-Amamira.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Libya Shield commander denies murder, vows revenge for torched family home
[Libya Herald] The commander of the Libya Shield No. 1 Battalion, Wissam Ben Hamid, spent almost two hours taking part in a TV phone-in this evening, denying that he was in any way connected with the murder earlier in the day of the Chief of Libya's Military Police, Colonel Ahmed Mustafa Al-Barghathi. He also vowed to target the people who had burnt down his family home in Benghazi this afternoon.
Dire Revenge®. It's a requirement.
Appearing in a 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...
studio for the Alaseema channel's "Seventh Question" show, Ben Hamid was clearly angry at highly critical comments from some of the callers, one of whom vowed to kill him if he returned to Benghazi.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Tunisia Says 9 'Terrorists' Killed, 2 Tonnes of Explosives Seized
[An Nahar] Tunisian security forces killed nine "terrorists" and seized two tonnes of explosives Saturday in a military operation near where two coppers were killed two days earlier, the defense ministry said.

The nine were killed in the Mount Taouyer area of the Beja region, some 70 kilometers (40 miles) west of Tunis, front man Taoufik Rahmouni was quoted as saying by the official TAP news agency.

Another ministry front man had earlier said troops had captured one member of the group during the operation to hunt down a cell of some 20 suspected jihadists blamed for the killing of the coppers.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Britain
UK Muslims named as terror targets
[Shabelle] Scotland Yard is investigating a video apparently made by Somali bad turban group al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
after British Mohammedans who have spoken out against extremism were named as targets.
The hour-long film, narrated by an unidentified man with a British accent, reportedly praises acts of Islamist terrorism and starts by hailing the killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south east London.

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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Europe
Belgium Charges Teen for Islamist Group Membership
[An Nahar] Belgium on Saturday charged an 18-year-old for belonging to a radical Islamist group one day after he returned from an eight-month trip to Syria, the federal prosecutor said.

Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian citizen, was charged by a judge in Antwerp following police questioning, and subsequently remanded in jug, the prosecutor said, according to the Belga local news agency.

Bontinck, who was raised in a Catholic family and converted to radical Islam, left Belgium in February, telling his parents he was going on holiday in the Netherlands when he was actually bound for Syria.

The young man's father, a former Belgian military officer, went twice to Syria in search of his son but failed both times to find him.

Around twenty coppers tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
Bontinck on Friday night when he turned up at his mother's house.

Prosecutors accuse Bontinck of being a member of the radical Islamist group Sharia4Belgium, believed by Belgian authorities to be one of the country's main recruiters of volunteer fighters.

In interviews with Belgian media, Bontinck denied joining the fighting in Syria and said he transported medicine. He added he would continue living in Antwerp, "according to the holy tradition of the Prophet."

This article starring:
Sharia4Belgium
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  Belgium Charges Teen for Islamist Group Membership

I know that the Euros are hard-up for cash, but this?
Posted by: Pappy || 10/20/2013 20:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Might not be a bad deal if you get a t-shirt and a Secret Decoder Ring.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2013 22:17 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan says civilian killed by Indian firing near Sialkot
[Dawn] Pakistain accused Indian troops of killing a civilian and wounding two others in "unprovoked firing" across the border Saturday as New Delhi voiced "grave concern" about the new military flare-up in disputed Kashmire.

In Islamabad, a Pak military official said a civilian was killed and two others injured by "unprovoked firing of heavy weapons including mortars by Indian Border Security Forces" near the city of Sialkot in Punjab province.

On Thursday, Pakistain accused India of killing a paramilitary soldier in "unprovoked firing" across the border in the same region.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Car bomb kills 3 in Iraqi capital
[Al Ahram] Iraqi authorities say a car bomb that exploded on a commercial street in northern Baghdad killed three people. Police officials say 11 others were wounded in the Saturday morning blast in the capital's Qahira neighborhood. Shops and cars were damaged.

Health officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release the information to reporters.

Violence in Iraq escalated sharply in late April following a deadly crackdown by security forces on a camp for Sunni protesters in the northern town of Hawija. At least 365 people have died in attacks so far this month, according to an Associated Press count.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria snipers targeted pregnant women, says British surgeon
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian snipers targeted pregnant women on more than one occasion, a British surgeon said Saturday after returning from a five-week stint in the conflict zone.

According to an interview with The Times newspaper David Nott, who spent five weeks volunteering at a Syrian hospital, said he treated more than half a dozen shot pregnant women on one day in a Syrian city.

He did not identify the city for security reasons but said that he regularly treated gunshot wounds that indicated that bored snipers were targeting particular parts of civilians' bodies in a bid to entertain themselves, reported Agence La Belle France-Presse.

"One day it would be shots to the groin. The next, it would only be the left chest," he told the newspaper.

"From the first patients that came in in the morning, you could almost tell what you would see for the rest of the day. It was a game."

On one day, two consecutive gunshot patients were heavily pregnant women, both of whom lost their babies.

"The women were all shot through the uterus, so that must have been where they were aiming for," he told The Times.

"I can't even begin to tell you how awful it was. Usually, civilians are caught in the crossfire. This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this. This was deliberate. It was hell beyond hell."

Nott is a prominent surgeon in the UK who counts former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an ex-patient and has volunteered as an emergency surgeon in warzones for 20 years.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Helloooo, Muslims!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2013 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Nott is a prominent surgeon in the UK who counts former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an ex-patient and has volunteered as an emergency surgeon in warzones for 20 years.

His work has probably gone unnoticed by the Nobel committee.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/20/2013 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  gone unnoticed by the Nobel committee.

If you are referring to the Nobel Peace Prize, he is probably disqualified on the grounds of having actually done something.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2013 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  "If you are referring to the Nobel Peace Prize, he is probably disqualified on the grounds of having actually done something."

Steve nails it.
Posted by: Barbara || 10/20/2013 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, there are a few Peace Prize winners who probably deserved it - even if they didn't actually promote international peace. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) and Norman Borlaug spring to mind. Mother Teresa is well known. "All" Norman Borlaug did was to start the "Green Revolution", which only saved a BILLION lives.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/20/2013 15:15 Comments || Top||

#6  "which only saved a BILLION lives"

But they were all brown lives, Rambler, so that doesn't really count. /channelling lefties

The lefties think we need fewer people, not more. I'm surprised Borlaug got any award from EUropeans. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 10/20/2013 19:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Rambler makes a good point. There *are* people like Norman Borlaug (1970) who actually did something to make the world a better place. Sadly, they have been overshadowed lately by a much larger list of villains and mooks: The EU, Obama, Gore, El Baradei, Carter, Anan, Arafat...
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2013 22:16 Comments || Top||


Deadly Blast near Syrian Capital
[An Nahar] A suicide boom-mobileing outside a pro-regime suburb of Damascus and fighting that followed killed 16 Syrian soldiers Saturday, as the U.N.-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
envoy began a push for peace talks.

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
the United States said children were starving to death in besieged residential areas of the capital and demanded the regime allow aid convoys in.

State media blamed the early-morning blast at the entrance to the mixed Christian-Druze suburb of Jaramana on "terrorists," the regime term for rebels.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a jacket wallah from the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front detonated an explosives-packed car at the checkpoint between Jaramana and rebel-held Mleha.

Heavy fighting
... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy...
followed, with rebel mortar fire hitting Jaramana, said the Britannia-based Observatory, which relies on activists and medics on the ground.

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the southeastern suburb is a key pro-regime area and will be exposed if the rebels overrun the checkpoint.

He said they had almost seized it in he fighting, but that government aircraft had launched four strikes to try to force them back.

One resident said the intensity of fighting was "unprecedented" since the conflict erupted in March 2011.

"It is very violent; we can hear automatic weapons fire, mortar rounds, bombardments," he told AFP by telephone.

The conflict, which erupted after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
launched a bloody crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired democracy protests, is believed to have killed more than 115,000 people.

Millions more have been forced to flee the country and hundreds of thousands are trapped by the fighting.

Washington condemned the regime's relentless siege of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta and Moadamiyet al-Sham on the capital's outskirts.

There were "unprecedented reports of children dying of malnutrition-related causes in areas that are only a few miles from Bashir al-Assad's palace in Damascus," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  "Pro-regime suburb" sickening how these Christians refuse martyrdoom..
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2013 2:00 Comments || Top||


Syria Peace Envoy Begins Tour as Dozens Die in Aleppo
U.S. ISSUES STRONGLY WORDED STATEMENT
[An Nahar] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported dozens of deaths in the northern province of Aleppo Friday, including 12 Kurds killed by regime shelling in the town of Tal-Aran, where nine people were killed on Thursday.

The town lies on a strategic route between Aleppo city and Sfeirah, a town under rebel control near a military base where the regime is believed to store some of its chemical arsenal.

Elsewhere in the province, the Observatory said at least 20 regime troops and seven rebels were killed after opposition forces attacked an air defense base southwest of Aleppo city.

The plight of civilians in the war-torn country prompted a strongly worded statement from the United States, calling on the Syrian regime to give access to humanitarian aid convoys, and warning against further massacres.
Posted by: Fred || 10/20/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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Sat 2013-10-19
  18 Palestinians Charged in Leb Terrorist Plot
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  At Least 60 Killed, Hundreds Wounded in Iraq Bombs
Thu 2013-10-17
  Logar Governor Killed By Blast in Mosque
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