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(SomaliNet) About 2,000 youths have stormed a mosque in the restive Nigerian city of Jos. Muslim leaders eventually succeeded in calming the crowd.
At least 3,000 police officers are patrolling the streets to prevent new outbursts of violence. Reinforcements have been sent to Jos from across Nigeria. The situation is reasonably calm, even though hundreds of scared residents are still spending the night in churches, mosques and army camps.
On Friday, rioting broke out between Muslims and Christians over the results of a local election. The violence has claimed at least 200 lives in two days.
Jos is located in central Nigeria, the border region between the predominantly Muslim north and the Christian south of the country. The authorities in cities near Jos have taken additional security measures to prevent the violence spilling over.
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One of the most high-profile terrorism suspects in Britain was ordered back to jail on Tuesday after it was ruled he had breached his bail conditions.
Jordanian cleric Omar Othman, better known as Abu Qatada and who was once described as Osama bin Laden's top operative in Europe, had been accused of plotting to flee Britain. "I'm pleased that the court has agreed that Abu Qatada should have his bail revoked," said Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. "He poses a significant threat to our national security and am I pleased that he will be detained pending his deportation, which I am working hard to secure." Qatada was arrested by the British authorities in 2002 under now defunct laws which allowed foreigners suspected of involvement in terrorism to be held without charge. He was later freed on bail but was detained again in 2005 as part of a group of Arab men the government wanted to deport on national security grounds while acknowledging it did not have enough evidence to put them on trial.
However, earlier this year Qatada defeated the attempt to deport him after Appeal Court judges ruled he would not face a fair trial in his homeland and in June he was freed from prison on bail, albeit on strict conditions. These stated that he had to be confined to his home for 22 hours a day and could only leave between 10 and 11 am and 2 and 3 pm. He was also forbidden from using any mobile telephone or computer, or connecting in any way to the Internet.
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he looks like a dog that chased too many parked cars
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If we regular Folks would just Render Down every Lard Ass Islamic Guru we'd have enough FAT to burn for a 1000 years!
21 Deendar activists were convicted today by a Special court in connection with the serial bomb blasts in Churches in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa.
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The judge Shivanagoudar, pronouncing the judgement in the Parappana Agrahara Central jail here, where the Special court was located through video conference due to security reasons acquitted four others for lack of evidence. The quantum of punishment would be announced tomorrow.
The blasts had shook the state during May-July in 2000. The members of the Deendar Anjuman outfit were found guilty by the judge.
The court had tried 25 persons, who were accused in four cases of church blasts.
The then Congress Government headed by S M Krishna in Karnataka, had referred the church blast case to CoD in 2000, and the special court was set by the state government in 2005. The accused were charged under IPC section 120-B (Criminal conspiracy) and Expolsives Substances Act.
The members of the Hyderabad-based Deendar Anjuman had triggered serial bomb blasts in three churches in Bangalore, Wadi and Hubli in the state during May and June 2000. The Karnataka police, who were clueless about the persons involved in the church blasts however stumbled upon the evidence against the culprits when they were on their way to place another bomb which accidently went off in their vehicle. Two suspects were killed in the blasts and another was rescued by the police with severe burns.
The outlawed Deendar Anjuman group which had also planned to trigger bombs at the famous temple in Tirupathi, left behind leaflets of Bible Society of India to create an impression that the blast was the handiwork of Christians.
Subsequent to the blasts, the Union Government had banned the organisation, the decision of which was also upheld by a Tribunal.
Syed Zia-ul-Hassan, the prime accused and a Pakistani national was still at large and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had issued a red-corner notice against him. Hassan name also reportedly figured in the list of those most wanted by the Union Government, which was given to Pakistan by the NDA government for repartriation.
In separate incidents, the Deendar Anjuman activists also allegedly planted timer devices in a few churches in Goa and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh in May 2000.
They also handed out Hindu RSS leaflets outside one of the churches they bombed
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Wow! What a contrast. In the US, the mere mention of using truth serum on a terrorist would cause the ACLU's head to explode and immediate calls for the administration to be thrown out of office. Great to see that there are still countries that are willing to do what it takes to prevent future loss.
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From what I have read, "truth serum" is just a scientific way of getting you to lower your inhibitions. It's like getting drunk - you babble, but there is no guarantee that what you say will make sense.
With pliers and other instruments of torture, eventually the victim will say anything to make the pain stop.
There ARE methods to wear down someone's resistance that are not true torture, but are very effective. Sleep deprivation, and so on. Of course, we Americans aren't allowed to use them.
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They have some new drugs available that can cause one to be more trusting of an interrogator. And they can give another drug to erase the memory of the interrogation session so the subject has no idea later what they even said. But all that does nothing if he comes back with "hey, I was trippin' balls and I have no idea who was there".
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HMMMMMM, HMMMMMMM, I know or remember young[er] Mr. AZAM KASAB from somewhere in the mainland USA, BUT WHERE!
D *** NG IT, YOU JUST KNOW PAULA "BATHSHEBA/
DELILAH" ABDUL IS GOING TO WANT TO KICK HER DADDY'S COCONUTS/TROPIC PLANTS AGAIN TO GET HIM TO REMEMBER, AND WID MOM SHOWING HER WHERE TO KICK AND HOW HARD!?
Explosive devices have been found at Mumbai's main railway station, according to Indian TV reports.The station is one of the sites attacked by the militants during the three-day attacks and siege last week, Reuters said.
TV stations are reporting that the devices have been defused.
India's security status is at war level after the attacks, which killed over 170 people and left over 350 injured.
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Eight kilograms of RDX were found at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus this evening just as chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was visiting the station.
Police said the explosives, with timer-devices of the kind used by the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Kashmir, were packed in two bags, 4kg in each.
The bombs, they added, could have gone off within eight minutes and 32 seconds to a maximum of 194 days.
The bomb-disposal squad later defused the devices, kept in the stationÂ’s parcel wing, near platform number 15.
Joint commissioner of police Rakesh Maria said the RDX was part of the five bombs planted in Mumbai by the terrorists who attacked the city last week.
“The bags were found among abandoned luggage of persons who had been injured or killed in the attack on the night of November 26. The RDX was part of the five bombs planted by the terrorists. Searches are now being conducted on the (entire) station premises,” Maria said.
Deshmukh, whose resignation as chief minister has been accepted, was on a tour of the station where two terrorists had gone on a killing spree last Wednesday night. He was escorted out immediately.
Within minutes, security forces surrounded the station. Fire engines and medical teams were put on stand-by.
Before the bomb was discovered, Deshmukh met railway officials and commuters, visited the spots at the station that bore marks of last weekÂ’s attack and promised to take all the steps necessary to make the station safe.
Police said the bombs were spotted late because investigators misunderstood what Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested, told them during interrogation.
“He had said they (the 10 terrorists) had planted five bombs. Three bombs were found last Thursday, two had been placed at the Taj and another near the Oberoi. It was thought that all (bombs) had been accounted for,” Maria said.
The other two bombs were initially thought to be those that went off in two taxis, one of them in Vile Parle.
Today, Maria said the taxi bombs were meant to kill the drivers so they wouldnÂ’t tell the police about the terrorists and, therefore, not part of the five planted in the city.
K.P. Raghuvanshi, the new chief of the Maharashtra anti-terror squad, said the timer devices failed to work despite being sophisticated because of faulty assembling.
“Kasab has told us the bombs planted by the terrorists around Mumbai were assembled aboard hijacked trawler Kuber. The timing devices were like the ones commonly used by the Lashkar in Kashmir,” he added.
The pink packing material found in the Kuber was similar to that used to wrap the RDX bomb kept near the main entrance of the Taj, Raghuvanshi said, adding that the strings on the timers were also like those found on the trawler.
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An interesting factoid...
the SPG, which protects the Indian PM and the Gandhi family, has a larger budget than the NSG, which protects other politicians and when released temporarily from that duty, is available to rescue hostages.
The NSG is far more capable than the Mumbai police.
The only reason this bomb was found was that the Chief Minister of Maharastra state was visiting the station and the NSG bodyguards brought their sniffer dogs.
Thousands of people have been using the station in the past few days and this bomb could have exploded at any time had it been armed properly.
The rage of Indian citizens against their politicians and especially the Congress party will only grow stronger.
The Indian PM Manmohan Singh is finished politically. Not even military retaliation against Pakistan can save him and his party. They will be thrown out of office at the next elections.
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Two policemen were injured when a suspected extremist opened fire while they were trying to arrest a former activist of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) on Wednesday.
The incident took place around 1 pm in Santosh Nagar area in the city when policemen were trying to arrest Vikaruddin outside a telephone booth. Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao said that one of the two people accompanying Vikaruddin opened fire from his weapon when policemen tried to arrest him. "They opened three rounds injuring head constable Guru Rama Raju and escaped after throwing their weapon," he said. Another head constable sustained injuries in the scuffle. Both the policemen were shifted to a hospital.
The Police Commissioner said that Vikaruddin, a resident of Malakpet area in the city, is a former activist of the SIMI and the Daragah Jihad-e-Shahadat (DJS), a city-based rightwing organisation which trains Muslim youths in self-defence. Imagine how many trigger happy bodyguards he'd have if he were a current activist! Interesting use of the word "rightwing" as well.
He clarified that there was no connection with last week's terror attacks in Mumbai. Police sounded a high alert after the incident and stepped up patrolling and checking of vehicles.
Brazilian authorities on Tuesday gave approval for the sale of 100 missiles to Pakistan which can be used in air-to-surface attacks on radar tracking instalations, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said.
The MAR-1 medium-range missiles made by the Brazilian firm Mectron are tactical anti-radiation weapons whose existence was kept under wraps for many years, according to Jane's Information Group.
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Been reading too many Iran threads. Mistook Iran for Pakistan. And yes, there isn't a spit's worth of difference between the two.
/Good night John Boy.
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He dismissed suggestions that the transaction might be questioned in light of last week's Islamist extremist massacre perpetrated in Mumbai, India, which some Indian officials suspected was launched from within Pakistan.
"Brazil negotiates with Pakistan, not with Pakistani terrorists," he said. "To cancel this deal would be to attribute terrorist activities to the Pakistani government."
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Is that the same Pakistan what's been begging IMF for a loan?
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Is that the same Pakistan what's been begging IMF for a loan?
Well, the Paks were just taking a note from all the bailout applicants in Washington, except a missile purchase is their version of Year End Bonuses for their executives.
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Not that I'm in any way approving of this, but $108 million in military aid is probably a drop in the bucket compared to what we've poured into that rat hole.
Six Taliban were killed and several others injured in security forces' operation in several areas of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday. Locals said troops targeted Kosar, Bai Cheena, Jannat Shah and Charmang areas of Khar tehsil with artillery.
The six Taliban were killed in the operation in Bai Cheena, they said. The troops continued to advance into various areas of Khar and Nawagai, which were earlier under the Taliban control, the locals said. Officials said several areas in Nawagai were now under the army's control.
One Taliban and a security official were killed as the Taliban attacked a security forces convoy in Kabal teshil of Swat. The Taliban attacked the convoy in Dewlai area of Kabal. The Swat Media Centre confirmed the killings in the exchange of fire. Following the clash, the security forces targeted suspected Taliban hideouts with artillery. A mortar shell accidentally hit a house killing a child and a man, while two women were injured. The troops imposed unannounced curfew in Dewlai area and launched a search operation.
Three women were killed and a child injured when security forces pounded suspected Taliban hideouts in Chamar Kand area of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency. The artillery shell hit on the house of Bakht Jamal. Security forces pounded Taliban hideouts in Bhaidaag, Ghalanai and Mamadgut areas of Safi and Pindyali tehsils. No Taliban casualties were reported.
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Ghalanai
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The Taliban have killed a Frontier Corps (FC) official who had been in their captivity for the last few days, officials in Orakzai Agency said on Tuesday. The agency's political administration officials told Daily Times that they found the body of FC Lance Naik Hadi Gul in a sack in Sunpag area of upper Orakzai tehsil. They said Gul was abducted a few days ago and the Taliban left his body in the mountains after slaughtering him. Meanwhile, clashes between Shia and Sunni tribes in the agency erupted after a dispute over a girl. One tribesman was injured in the clash between Bar Muhammad Khel (Shia) and Utman Khel (Sunni) tribes, the political administration said.
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Isn't that a violation of the Geneva Conventions?
Law enforcement agencies, including police and Rangers, for the first time, set foot in the Afghan Camp and conducted a door-to-door search operation.
The operation was carried out on the fourth day of unrest in the city, which has claimed at least 48 lives and wounded hundreds. The police and Rangers apprehended 24 alleged criminals and recovered ammunition.
The joint operation lasted for two-and-a-half hours in the area also known as the Kochi Camp and has a population of 1,500 people. "We entered the Afghan Camp for the first time ever," Gulshan Town SP Sohail Zafar Chatta told Daily Times.
"All the arrested men are professional criminals and their arrests were made according to the lists maintained by the intelligence and law enforcement agencies," Chatta said. "These men always disturbed the law and order situation at Super Highway after any incident in the city. They have even been involved in various cases including police encounters, robberies, highway robberies and snatchings to name a few," he added. He said the operation would continue today (Wednesday).
Police claimed to have arrested as many as five high profile criminals but their names were not disclosed.
The families of those arrested claim the men were tortured by the police.
Four killed: Reuters quoted Karachi police chief Waseem Ahmed as saying four people were killed in different incidents in the early hours of Tuesday but the city had been mostly calm since then.
"There has been no major incident since the morning," Ahmed told Reuters.
After the three days of mayhem in Karachi, life returned to normalcy in the city on Tuesday, although people living in sensitive and affected areas, where the law and order situation was extremely deteriorated during riots, passed the day in a state of fear.
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Is this their gesture of good faith to the Indians over the Bombay massacre?
Pakistan: At least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded on Monday after a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car in a restive northwestern Pakistan valley, officials said. The bombing took place at a security checkpoint in the town of Mingora in the scenic Swat Valley, which has been rocked by a violent campaign to impose a strict version of Islamic law.
"Ten people were killed and 50 others were injured in the suicide blast at the checkpost," a security official told AFP. He added that all of those who died were civilians and a lone security official was among the wounded. "The attacker was trying to approach the checkpost after bypassing the queue but his car exploded on the way," the official said.
The chief of a local government hospital, Lal Noor, said nine bodies were brought in along with the 50 who were wounded and one of the wounded died at hospital.
Gunfights were also reported in several other parts of Swat Valley, the official said. A soldier and a militant were killed at Qambar village near Mingora in a gunfight when militants tried to get 17 of their men released from security forces who had been arrested on Monday, he said.
Separately, one militant was killed and several others were injured in a clash with troops outside Mingora, a security official said. He added that authorities on Monday imposed a curfew in Mingora which was lifted in the afternoon and that troops had launched a search operation for militants in the area.
The mountainous, snow-capped Swat region is renowned for its ancient Buddhist relics and once attracted large numbers of foreign and local tourists with Pakistan's only ski resort. But since last year it has been beset by violence blamed on pro-Taliban militants. The region has been turned into a battleground since hard-line cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who has links to Pakistan's Taliban movement, launched a violent campaign for the introduction of Sharia law in the valley.
The Pakistani military said in February this year that there remained 400 hardcore militants hiding in Swat and vowed it would not end its offensive in the area until all of them were cleared. However, militant attacks targeting security and government officials, girls' schools and shops have increased in the area over the course of the year.
Elsewhere in the border areas, Pakistani jets and artillery killed 15 militants in operations on Monday, an official. The clashes took place in several areas of the Bajaur tribal region where troops have been engaged in fierce fighting with rebels since the launch of an army operation in August.
"Pakistani artillery backed by tanks and fighter jets pounded underground bunkers and other hideouts of rebels, killing 15 militants during the last 24 hours," local administration official, Mohammad Jamil told AFP. He said that six militants were killed and three others wounded in artillery fire on Monday in the Nawagai area while nine rebels were killed after fighter jets bombarded their hideouts in Mamoun on Sunday.
Jamil added that a woman was also killed when a mortar fired by troops hit her house in Mamoun area on Sunday.
Islamabad says the Bajaur operation is proof that it is committed to crushing insurgents.
Pakistani military recently said that more than 1,500 rebels have been killed while hundreds more militants have been captured since August.
Also on Monday, Taliban militants destroyed a dozen trucks in the Pakistani city of Peshawar containing supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing two people in the process, police said. The attack took place early in the morning at a terminal in the northwestern city where trucks carrying supplies for the NATO forces are parked at night.
"Two people were killed and 12 trucks loaded with goods for NATO forces were burnt to ashes after Taliban fired three rockets at the terminal," area police official Zahoor Khan told AFP. Two armored personnel carriers, a crane and several goods containers were also burned, he said, and added that first Taliban men fired rockets and then a group of militants came and started fires at the terminal.
Pakistan last month barred delivery of sealed containers and oil tankers through the Khyber Pass for a week after Taliban in the rugged lawless area hijacked 15 trucks destined for Afghanistan and looted the vehicles, including two armored vehicles.
Pakistan's military chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, vowed last month to keep NATO's supply line to Afghanistan open and reaffirmed support for the alliance's mission there during a visit to the Brussels headquarters of the force.
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A 2-year-old survived an attack that took the lives of his parents, thanks to a quick-thinking nanny who grabbed the boy and dashed past gunmen to safety. Sandra Samuel and Moshe Holtzberg were the only ones to survive a siege on Mumbai's Chabad House last week.
It could be called one the miracles of last week's tragedy in Mumbai, India. Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg and nanny Sandra Samuel were the only ones to make it out of the Chabad House alive after gunmen stormed the house, killing Chabad House directors Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, and four others.
Rivka Holtzberg, who arrived in Mumbai with her husband five years ago to serve the city's small Jewish community, was pregnant, her father said at her funeral Tuesday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
Those at the Chabad House were among 179 people killed last week when gunmen targeted several sites across Mumbai, including two luxury hotels, a train station and a hospital.
As the siege at the Chabad House began, Samuel heard the commotion, locked the doors and hid in a room. "She heard Mrs. Holtzberg -- Rivka -- screaming, 'Sandra, Sandra, help, Sandra,' " said Robert Katz, executive vice president of the Israeli organization Migdal Ohr.
The gunmen reportedly went door-to-door, searching for targets. Samuel unlocked her door and dared the gunmen to stop her, according to Katz. She then ran upstairs to find the Holtzbergs shot dead, lying on the ground with their son crying over them. "She literally picked him up and made a dash for the exits, almost daring the terrorists to shoot a woman carrying a baby," Katz said.
The two arrived in Israel early Tuesday on a flight with the boy's maternal grandparents and the bodies of his parents. "Moshe, you have no living mother and father. ... Today you become the child of all Israel," Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a Chabad official from New York, said in a short ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
The return of the bodies was delayed until authorities removed hand grenades from the bodies, left there by the attackers, Katz said.
Leading the efforts to provide Moshe with shelter and support is his great-uncle, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, founder of Migdal Ohr, Israel's largest youth village. It provides more than 6,500 "orphaned, impoverished, underprivileged and new immigrant children" with homes and education. "Who could have ever predicted that someone who has dedicated his whole life to caring for orphans and children at risk would now be faced with having to care for his own grand-nephew and would need to help bury his own niece and nephew?" Katz asked.
Grossman also secured a one-year visa in Israel for Samuel to assist in caring for the boy as he transitions to his new life, Katz said in a statement on Migdal Ohr's Web site.
The Holtzbergs were laid to rest Tuesday in a service that drew thousands of mourners and emissaries from the ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement to the Israeli village of Kfar Chabad, a village of 900 families just outside Tel Aviv.
Including the Holtzbergs, four Israelis, an American Jew and a Mexican woman were gunned down last week in the attack on Mumbai's Chabad House, a Jewish center where the couple ministered to people from the community and welcomed them to pray, eat kosher food or celebrate Jewish holidays.
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I would be the last one to defend the terrrists,but I would like to know if there is any evidence that they spared little Moshe's life?
WASHINGTON: The terrorist massacre in Mumbai was plotted in Pakistan and was executed by Pakistanis, Indian and US officials now agree. The big question now: How culpable are the Pakistani government and its military and intelligence agency, and how can the answer be handled either way it turns out?
That's the tricky issue facing New Delhi and Washington as they put together pieces of the terrorist jigsaw to claimed 170-plus lives, including nearly 40 Muslims and nationals from 10 countries.
US advice to India: wait and see how Pakistani government cooperates in the investigation before any punitive action. US directive to Islamabad: prove your protestations of innocence and non-complicity at the official level, with a full and transparent cooperation in the face of overwhelming evidence that the footprints of the terror attack lead back to Pakistan.
This is the gist of the exchanges between the three countries. On Tuesday, Washington broadly accepted India's contention, based on evidence now shared with US law enforcement and intelligence agencies that the terror trail led to Pakistan. The preponderance of proof include detailed confessions by the one surviving terrorist, GPS tracks, e-mail and electronic tracks, telephone intercepts, and ordnance and forensic evidence, among other things.
US acceptance of India's case -- dismissed out-of-hand as knee-jerk, premature etc -- was signaled by an unnamed senior American official who was quoted by Reuters as saying ''There are a lot of reasons to think it might be a group, partially or wholly a group, that is located on Pakistan's territory.''
The official, accompanying Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her trip to the sub-continent, also said Islamabad had accepted the ''possibility that there might be people located on Pakistani territory,'' involved in the attack and had promised to cooperate in the investigation.
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Generally speaking, I think Condi's record with Muslim countries speaks for itself, and will transcend to a Hillary-led State.
Pakistan can ignore the US, placate the Indians and simply wait and see if BHO was born with a pair good for more than spawning...
Aswat al-Iraq: At least five people were killed and 25 others were wounded in a car bomb explosion in Talafar, a military source said on Tuesday. "A car rigged with explosives went off at 4:30 p.m. near a police checkpoint in Saraya region in Talafar district, killing five, including a cop, and injuring 25," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
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Aswat al-Iraq: The chief of the Kirkuk police issued an order to form an investigative committee to investigate the killing of 12 persons in the province, expressing condemnation of the incident. "General Jamal Taher gave an order to form an investigative committee to examine this brutal crime which left 12 people dead," a source from the Kirkuk operations command told Aswat al-Iraq.
The commander of the province's suburbs and districts police had said on Monday that police forces found 12 unknown corpses in a village in southern Kirkuk.
"The corpses were found in Qara-Hassan village, 25 km south of Kirkuk city," Brigadier Sarhad Qadir said. "The corpses were burnt, and bore signs of gunshots that were estimated to have been inflicted four days ago," he said.
Qadir also said that "policemen found today a weapons cache, which contains 200 mortar shells near Hussar village in Shuwan district in north of Kirkuk."
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Aswat al-Iraq: The Multi-National Forces arrested six suspected al-Qaeda gunmen during operations in central and northern Iraq, the MNF said in a statement on Tuesday.
"A coalition force arrested two people in Baiji district, north of Tikrit, suspected of being al-Qaeda gunmen," said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq. "Another suspected al-Qaeda gunman was arrested in al-Shurqat in south of Mosul," it added. "Three suspected were detained in al-Rashied neighborhood in Baghdad," it also said.
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The U.S. military in Iraq captured four suspected members of an Iranian-backed insurgent network called Kataib Hezbollah on Monday, it said. "Kataib Hezbollah is assessed to be a surrogate of Iran. Its members are believed to be responsible for recent attacks against Iraqi citizens and coalition forces," the U.S. military said.
Accusations
American troops caught 33 Iranian-sponsored criminals in the last month, the military said. It was not clear whether Monday's detentions were included in that figure. The United States accuses Iran of arming, funding and training militias that attack U.S. and Iraq security forces.
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An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death on Tuesday for crushing a Shiite revolt after the 1991 Gulf War.
It was the second death sentence to be handed down against Ali Hassan al-Majeed, who earned his nickname for his role in using poison gas against Kurdish villages. He was first condemned to be hanged last year for the killing of tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, but that sentence was held up by political wrangling.
Judge Mohammad al-Uraibi also sentenced a former top Baath party official, Abdul Ghani Abdul Ghafour, to hang for his involvement in the crackdown on Shiites in the south, and 10 others to sentences ranging from 15 years to life in prison. The judge said the court had decided to execute Majeed "by hanging for committing wilful killings and crimes against humanity".
The court, the Iraqi High Tribunal, was set up to try former members of Saddam's government and was the same one that sentenced the former president to death. Saddam was executed in December 2006 after being convicted of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt.
Majeed's reputation for ruthless use of force to crush opponents won him widespread notoriety during Saddam's rule and led many Iraqis to fear him even more than the leader himself. Saddam's execution sparked anger among minority Sunni Arabs, who were outraged by a video showing the ousted leader being taunted by official observers of the governing coalition in the moments before he was hanged.
His half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was executed two weeks later in a botched hanging that ripped off his head. Two other members of the former government have also been executed. Also currently on trial is former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, who is facing charges over the execution of dozens of merchants accused of breaking state price controls in 1992.
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Anger among the Sunni minority was anything but widespread, and the official observers of SH's execution did not taunt him.
There's no such thing as a botched execution, if the guy ends up dead. Barzan's indecorous little ending probably resulted from the hangman's failure to take the prisoner's serious medical problems into account - these probably weakened his frame enough that an excessive drop distance was used.
Other than that, no errors here.
Oh, and the bad guys are all getting what they deserve. And not from a mob. And with evidence and documentation and the right to defend themselves. And ..... oh, is it time to apologize to Europe and the rest of the world for annihilating that odious regime? I forget the schedule for that.
It emerged on Tuesday that Qassem Suleimani, a senior Iranian military official, commanded a Hezbollah drill south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon roughly two weeks ago.
Suleimani is the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and is considered an emissary between Iran and Hezbollah.
Israeli government radio broadcasts operating in southern Lebanon reported in Arabic on the drill for the benefit of its southern Lebanese target audience.
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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.
One of the most high-profile terrorism suspects in Britain was ordered back to jail on Tuesday after it was ruled he had breached his bail conditions. 
Two policemen were injured when a suspected extremist opened fire while they were trying to arrest a former activist of the banned 
Six Taliban were killed and several others injured in security forces' operation in several areas of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday. Locals said troops targeted 
An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death on Tuesday for crushing a Shiite revolt after the 1991 Gulf War. 
