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Former child-actress Pamelyn Ferdin grew up to achieve a different kind of status in the celebrity world: as a far-gone crazier-than-PETA animal rights activist.
She is president of the US branch of SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty), a celebrity-based international gang that carries on a long-running campaign of intimidation and harassment against Huntingdon Life Science, Europe's largest contract bio-research firm.
None other than the Southern Poverty Law Center has accused SHAC of "frankly terroristic tactics."
In this capacity, Ferdin has made overt threats of violence: "[P]eople, I think, are going to get hurt. There's going to be a lot of violence."
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Gabrielle Anwar can be seen tonight in the role of Fiona, the sniper-rifle wielding ex-IRA operative on Burn Notice. Burn Notice is appointment TV in our household.
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Note: This area is "controlled" by the Germans, the Jihadis say they don't patrol very much. One would guess that if the US does not go up there the situation will get worse.
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Funny moment: In Part 4 at min 3:00 the IED trigger men are arguing over which key is the D, 4 or 5. Needles to say the IED fails when the target vehicle passes. Later at min 7:15 as they retreat one of the instructors presses the 3 button and you can hear the IED go off in the background.
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I liked the "check the bomb if it works or not" mentality.
When it was said about the few hostages that they had and how they beheaded them because they wouldn't say the islamic prayer, I'm cringing and shaking my head. Fighting people with this mindset with no regard to life as they've shown, it's hard grasping this mentality.
I too liked the confusion with the what number to push for the remote.
I pray for the safety of our soldiers over there every day, my son's there now too again. Watching this video showing some of the inner thinking and walking through all of the rock and rubble of a country is very disturbing. I'm glad that I was able to see these videos, thanks.
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It is a really good insight into the hillbillies in Afghanistan. IMHO we should not attempt to extend the control of Kabul into these regions. These are 7th century throwbacks whom I will bet can't read or write. They don't want to be part of the civilized world and we really don't need them. Fall back to a safe line of defense, carpet bombs the poppy fields for three seasons, and they wont have the financing or manpower to conduct offensive operations.
[Mail and Globe] desert border with Somalia ahead of an expected offensive by government forces there that could prompt hard-line Islamist rebels to try to cross the frontier.
Al-Shabaab insurgents who declared their loyalty to al-Qaeda this week and want to impose a harsh version of sharia law on the Horn of Africa state have controlled several small towns on the Somali side of the border since late last year.
Tensions are growing in the drought-ridden region, where jobs are scarce and both of Somalia's warring factions have been trawling Kenyan villages, seeking to recruit young fighters.
"We have deployed more troops and increased patrols along the border because the threat from the other side is higher now," Winston Murungi, district commissioner of Lagdera, told Reuters in an interview near the border.
Somalia has not had an effective government in almost two decades, and the Western-backed administration of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed controls little more than a few strategic blocks in the coastal capital, Mogadishu.
Fearing the threat from weapons and narcotics traffickers, as well as the heavily armed militias allied to warlords, Kenya officially closed the 680km border back in 2007.
But it has allowed thousands of refugees from Somalia to enter and live in sprawling refugee camps at Dadaab, where there are more than 260 000 mostly Somali inhabitants. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said it had registered 2 730 refugees in January -- lower than last year's average of 5 000 a month.
But that could be about to change with the start of a long-promised offensive by Somali government forces against the al-Shabaab rebels and other Islamist insurgent groups.
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[ADN Kronos] Yemeni Shia rebels pledged on Tuesday not to attack neighbouring Saudi Arabia, a key condition demanded by the government to end its six-month military offensive. "As long as no one attacks us, we would not target any party," the office of rebel leader Abdul Malak al-Houthi said in a statement posted on the rebels' website.
It said the rebels, known also as Houthis, had already made this position clear last week when they announced a "withdrawal from Saudi territory and ending the war."
The rebel leader offered on Saturday to accept the government's five-point truce provided the government halts military attacks.
There have been reports of renewed clashes with rebels in northern Yemen, days after a ceasefire offer was turned down by the government in Sanaa.
The Yemeni army said it overran several rebel positions in the northern district of Saada where fighting has been going on for months.
A rebel ceasefire was turned down on Sunday by the government who said the rebels had not met a key condition.
But the government rejected the offer, pointing to a sixth condition stipulating a Houthi pledge not to attack Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile the governor of southern Abyan province, Ahmad al-Maisari, said that there were 100 Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in his region, among them 15 Saudis included on the most wanted list.
Al-Maisari told the Saudi journal, Okaz, that they were hidden in an isolated area where there were no roads or telecommunications networks.
He said when police move in on their hideouts, they escape individually and not in a group.
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Will Rogers: "I never met a hudna I didn't like!"
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A wanted Egyptian al Qaeda operative who helped establish the terror group in the Caucasus has been killed by Russian security forces during a clash in Dagestan.
Russia's Federal Security Service killed Mokhmad Mohamad Shabban, who is better known as Saif Islam or the Sword of Islam, and an associate during a raid yesterday in a mountainous region in the Republic of Dagestan.
"On February 2, the FSB [Federal Security Service] carried out a special operation in the district center of Botlikh, Dagestan. One of the founders of the Al Qaeda network in the North Caucasus Mokhmad Mohamad Shabban, 49, also known as "Saif Islam," and a gunman accompanying him were neutralized as they offered armed resistance,"
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"Do have some tea. Milk or sugar? And to go with it, perhaps a spot of armed resistance? Really, I made it myself just this morning, it's my mother's recipe."
Thirteen people were wounded after a man detonated a makeshift bomb made of fuel and fireworks in a shopping mall in the northern Australian city of Darwin, officials said Wednesday.
"There was an explosion... caused by a mixture of fuel and fireworks," an ambulance spokeswoman told AFP.
"Thirteen casualties were transported to Darwin Hospital with injuries ranging from minor cuts to burns and smoke inhalation," she said, adding that none of the injuries was believed to be serious.
A man who surrendered himself to officials shortly after the 11:00 am blast had been taken into custody, police said.
Media reports said the injured included a police officer who suffered smoke inhalation. Sky News cited witnesses as saying a man pushed a shopping trolley loaded with cans of fuel and fireworks into an insurance company office.
"I was shopping at Woolworths and then just started hearing all this crashing and banging, sort of like a roof was collapsing and sort of like a little explosion," witness Louisa Ainsworth told public radio.
"We just went outside and saw all the smoke and people screaming and running out of TIO (the Territory Insurance Office)."Another witness, Charmaine Burton, told the AAP newswire "There was an accelerant-type smell, like "kero," or a diesel fuel sort of smell" coming from the site.
The building, on Darwin's main street, houses an insurance company office and a major Woolworths supermarket.
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A city Department of Correction Muslim chaplain who served 14 years in prison for murder and robbery was arrested today for carrying three utility blades and a pair of scissors into a lower Manhattan jail, authorities said. The chaplain, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid, had the utility blades and scissors in his duffel bag when he arrived at the Manhattan Detention Complex in the morning, according to the city Department of Investigation.
The dangerous items were found after an X-ray machine alerted correction officers to the presence of metal in the bag, the DOI said. Authorities did not say why Abdu-Shahid was visiting the jail, commonly known as the Tombs, or why he was carrying the scissors and the rectangular blades, which were 1-and-1/2 inches long by three-quarters of an inch wide. They were for religious ceremonies?
Abdu-Shahid, 58, was arrested at the scene and charged with four counts of first-degree promoting prison contraband — a felony carrying a maximum 7-year prison term — and four counts of the same charge in the second degree, a misdemeanor. The Staten Island resident, who is married with three children, was ordered held in lieu of $30,000 bail during a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court last night, where he appeared in a long robe and navy blue skull cap.
His lawyer, James McQueeney said the blades were ‘injector razor blades from an injector razor," and that when Abdu-Shahid told that to the correction officers who stopped him, "his explanation that he didn't know there were there [in the duffel bag] was accepted."
"He was allowed into the" Tombs after the blades were confiscated," McQueeney said. "Only later were questions raised about this." Brilliant, Muldoon, you let him walk out?
Despite that claim, DOI Commissioner Rose Gil Hearn said, "This arrest demonstrates the serious consequences of bringing in contraband to the city's correctional facilities."
"Thanks to the immediate action of a DOC officer, this potentially dangerous situation was disarmed."
Correction Commissioner Dora Schriro said Abdu-Shahid was immediately suspended. And then thanks to the DOC, he walked out ...
"Additional steps up to and including dismissal will be pursued consistent with the findings of" DOI, said Schriro, whom sources added has ordered "a thorough review of his hiring."
"I commend our officers whose diligence prevented contraband from entering the jail. They are representative of our workforce, whose commitment to excellence keeps our city safe," Shriro said.
Abdu-Shahid was hired as a Muslim imam chaplain by the DOC three years ago tomorrow, and has a salary of $49,471 annually. So Christians can't call God 'Allah' in Indonesia, but we call a Muslim holy man a chaplain ...
State Corrections Department records show that he entered state prison in September 1979 to begin serving a sentence of 15-years-to-life for a second-degree murder and a first-degree robbery committed in Manhattan. He was paroled in August 1993, and finished his parole in August 2001. Wonder where he found religion ... The Post also has learned that his criminal record includes an arrest for sexual assault in Queens, but that case later was dismissed. Abdu-Shahid's lawyer, McQueeney, said, "He's been out of prison since the early '90s. He's completely reformed." Clearly. Hence the blades ...
Abdu-Shahid's boss — head chaplain Umar Abdul-Jalil — himself was hired by the DOC despite having done a 14-year stint in prison for drug dealing. So they got more than one Muslim 'chaplain' ...
Abdul-Jalil who also is a Muslim imam, last year was stripped of two weeks vacation as punishment for signing off on a plan by Tombs chaplain Rabbi Leib Glanz to allow a bar mitzvah party for the son of an inmate in that jail. After The Post uncovered the bar mitzvah — which included catered food, a live band, and scores of non-inmate guests, Abdul-Jalil among them — the politically connected Glanz resigned as chaplain, as did Correction security chief Peter Curcio.
In addition to the party, Glanz had also routinely arranged other preferential treatment for Jewish inmates at the Tombs, including allowing them nearly unfettered use of his office and phone, and bringing them food from the outside, The Post disclosed. A DOI probe into Glanz's conduct has dragged on for months, with no official result. I can't wait to hear what the Baptist and Wiccan 'chaplains' have been up to ...
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his last name was shahid which means witness
will he testify at a trial?
(yeah it also means 'martyr' )
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"Additional steps up to and including dismissal will be pursued...
You'd think a 14-year sentence for murder and robbery, along with a dropped sexual assault charge would have been enough to disqualify the Imam from the hiring process. And his boss with a 14-year drug sentence behind him. But no. it must be a prerequisite for muslim "chaplains".
I guess one can only work for the DOC if one has an impressive criminal record.
And in typical muslim logic, the article becomes all about the jews by the end of it. Maybe the box cutters were for the bris.
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A chaplain is typically a priest, pastor, ordained deacon, rabbi, imam or other member of the clergy. What I can't understand is WHY a Convicted Felon is working for the Department of Corrections.
The deaths of three American soldiers in a roadside bombing Wednesday drew unwanted attention to a U.S. program of training local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda – a mission that is little-publicized because of opposition here to U.S. troops on Pakistani soil.
The killings were the first known U.S. military fatalities in nearly three years in Pakistan's Afghan border region, where militants are being pummeled by U.S. missile strikes and struggling to regroup after the loss of a key stronghold in a recent Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three girls at a nearby school and a Pakistani paramilitary soldier traveling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with about 100 other people, mostly students at the school.
The U.S. special envoy to Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, said it did not appear that the Americans were directly targeted by the blast, which he said was caused by a roadside bomb.
However, witnesses said the vehicle carrying the Americans took the brunt of the explosion, indicating it may have been directed at the Americans. That would raise the specter of a militant informant close to the training mission.
Lower Dir is a base for militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban. The Pakistani army claimed to have retaken the area in an offensive last June that also cleared insurgents from the nearby Swat Valley.
The American special operations soldiers were part of a small group training members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, the U.S. Embassy said. The mission is trying to strengthen the ability of the corps to fight militants.
Pakistan doesn't allow U.S. combat troops on its territory, so training local security forces is key to denying militants a sanctuary from which to attack U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
In Washington, meanwhile, a senior intelligence official said that U.S. authorities now believe that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died after a missile attack last month.
Thousands of Pakistanis have staged rallies against the conviction of the Pakistani scientist found guilty of trying to kill American servicemen in Afghanistan. Protests were held on Thursday in several cities in Pakistan, where many believe that Aafia Siddiqui is innocent.
The neuroscientist, branded "Lady Qaeda" by some in the US press, disappeared for five years before her arrest in Afghanistan in 2008. She was convicted in a New York court on Wednesday.
Siddiqui's relatives condemned the verdict, with Fauzia Siddiqui, her sister, saying the verdict had "rejuvenated" the family. "And we're proud to be related to her," she said, speaking from the Pakistani city of Karachi. "America's justice system, the establishment, the war on terror, the fraud of the war on terror, all of those things have shown their own ugly faces."
The AFP news agency quoted Ismat Siddiqui, Aafia's mother, who lives in Karachi, as saying the family had been braced for the verdict but would continue to work for her release. "I did not expect anything better from an American court. We were ready for the shock and will continue our struggle to get her released," she was quoted as saying.
Government 'dismayed'
Pakistan's government has expressed "dismay" over the verdict, vowing to consult her family and lawyers on how to secure her release.
Abdul Basit, a foreign ministry spokesman, said the government would do its best to secure Siddiqui's release. "The ultimate objective is to get her back to Pakistan and we would do everything possible and we'll apply all possible tools in this regard," he said.
Kamal Hyde, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, said that as far as public opinion is concerned, the verdict is definitely not in favour of the Americans.
"There is also disappointment with the [Pakistani] government for failing to find a diplomatic way out and getting Aafia Siddiqui back home, because they feel she was innocent."
Siddiqui, who was arrested in 2008, was accused of grabbing a US serviceman's rifle and opening fire on her American interrogators, who returned fire. While none of the US agents or personnel were injured, Siddiqui was shot in the incident. Before her arrest, Siddiqui had been missing for five years, during which time her family alleges she was held at the US military's Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
Both the US and the Pakistani authorities deny that Siddiqui was in custody before her arrest in 2008 in the town of Ghazni. Hyder said: "Many hundreds of people have disappeared from Pakistan - they're still not accounted for - and now that Dr Aafia's case has come up, that's likely to be a rallying point for the anti-American sentiment."
Trial 'flawed'
Cageprisoners, a UK-based rights group, rejected the verdict, citing the fact that evidence about Siddiqui's whereabouts prior to her arrest had been disallowed from the trial. "The case of Aafia Siddiqui carries great significance in terms of the ability of the Obama administration to administer justice," Asim Qureshi, a spokesman for the group, said, referring to the administration of Barack Obama, the US president. "Already we have seen a blanket refusal to look at the facts of her detention prior to 2008, this verdict will only confirm what many already believe, that it is impossible for Muslim terrorism suspects to receive a fair trial in the US."
At the time of her arrest Siddiqui was allegedly carrying containers of chemicals and notes referring to mass-casualty attacks and New York landmarks.
But she was not charged in connection with those materials and the charges she was convicted of made no mention of terrorism.
During the trial, Linda Moreno, Siddiqui's defence lawyer, argued that there was no evidence the rifle Siddiqui was accused of taking had ever been fired, since no bullets, shell casings or bullet debris were recovered and no bullet holes detected. Moreno also said the testimony of the government's six eyewitnesses contradicted one another.
Siddiqui faces up to life in prison when she is sentenced on May 6. Her lawyers have said they intend to appeal the verdict.
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Gee. Some burqa went berserk. They grabbed her. What's so hard? It's not like we had to go out on the street and grab the first thing that fit the description of a covered BBQ.
[Dawn] A senior government functionary has told DawnNews on condition of anonymity that Hakeemullah Mehsud may have survived a drone strike.
The official also maintained that another Taliban leader, Qari Hussain, may also be alive.
The government has not officially confirmed the speculations about his death.
The controversy was going on since the January 26th drone attack in the tribal areas whether Hakimullah Mehsud is alive or not. Initially Taliban had claimed that Hakimullah is alive however the government and the military officials were giving mixed statements about the fate of Hakimullah Mehsud.
This article starring:
Hakeemullah Mehsud
Qari Hussain
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[Dawn] The Sindh Government on Wednesday authorised Rangers to maintain law and order across Karachi.
Earlier a notification said that Rangers were given special powers in the limits of 26 police stations in the city.
According to the notification by the Home Department, all permissions regarding carrying arms have been suspended. The notification said that no interference will be acceptable in this regard.
The notification also stated that this decision was taken in the wake of recent incidents of terrorism and target killing in Karachi where there was imminent danger to public security.
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Rangers? RANGERS!
Wait! NO, these are pakistan police!.
OH. Whew. OK, I thought they were Rangers.
[Dawn] Two security officials were seriously injured in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in Nala area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, on Wednesday.
According to FC officials, a security forces convoy was patrolling during a search operation against militants when a planted bomb exploded.
The injured were shifted to CMH Peshawar.
After the explosion security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
A curfew was imposed in Bara tehsil while security forces continue to pound militants' hideouts.
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Wednesday that killed three American soldiers, a spokesman for the network claimed in a telephone call to Daily Times. "We claim responsibility for the blast," said TTP spokesman Azam Tariq, calling from an undisclosed location. According to the AFP news agency, the spokesman has also alleged that the dead Americans belonged to the private security company Blackwater Worldwide. "We have warned we will take revenge and today we have avenged the deaths of innocent people," said Tariq in reference to an October 28, 2009, attack that killed 125 people in Peshawar.
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Were they lucky, or did they have inside information?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Around 500 candidates barred from Iraq's March 7 general election for alleged links to executed dictator Saddam Hussein were told Wednesday they can stand after all, paving the way towards a smooth vote.
The blacklist sparked tensions between the country's Shiite majority and its Sunni Arab former elite, alarming the White House and the United Nations who both expressed concerns about the election's credibility in recent weeks.
However, a senior election official told AFP the barred candidates, who include people accused of membership of Saddam's outlawed Baath party, can take part in the vote, subject to a post-ballot appeals procedure.
"The appeals panel decided to allow the banned candidates to participate in the next election and decided to postpone looking into the case until after the election," Hamdiya al-Husseini, a member of the Independent High Electoral Commission, said.
"The appeal court will look at their file after the election," and if they find them to have links to Saddam's outlawed Baath party, "they will be eliminated," she said.
The blacklist was compiled last month by The Justice and Accountability Commission, an integrity and accountability committee responsible for ensuring that individuals from the former regime do not take part.
It is headed by Ali al-Allami, an ally of Ahmed Chalabi, a key U.S. ally when he spearheaded the case for war against Saddam, which was launched on the grounds that the dictator had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.
"I cannot do anything but accept the decision," Allami told AFP following Husseini's comments.
Chalabi, who has close ties to Iran, was appointed deputy prime minister after the invasion but intelligence he provided in support of those claims in the run-up to war later turned out to be flawed and he subsequently fell out of favor with Washington.
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Aw, poor Tom Ricks will be so disappointed. He won't be able to continue telling people about how the surge "failed" to result in an improved Iraqi political situation, and that Iraq is just one match stick away from the explosion of all out civil war.
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[Ma'an] A man was killed during a resistance mission conducted by the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the militant wing of the Hamas party, the group announced Wednesday.
Notice how carefully it's not said who killed the gentleman, or where, or under what circumstances. Which leads me to think no Israelis were involved, and quite possibly no Egyptians, as well. An angry husband, perhaps?
A statement, brigades leaders identified the slain man as Abu Dajana Abdul Rahman from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza.
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ISRAEL FORUM > US INTELLIGENCE DISCOVERS 5000 HIZBALLAH TRAINED TO SEIZE GALILEE TOWNS.
[Ma'an] A smuggling tunnel underneath the Egypt-Rafah border collapsed killing a young man from Jabaliya on Wednesday, bringing to three the number of tunnel-related deaths already in 2010.
Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency service in Gaza Strip hospitals, identified the young man as 21-year-old Mahrous An-Nathir. He was evacuated to Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah where he was pronounced dead.
According to medics, the tunnel was in the Al-Qassas area west of the Salah Ad-Din Gate.
The death is the second in a week, following the electrocution of 23-year-old Ashraf Al-Attar o Saturday.
In 2009, 139 young men were killed during their work in the tunnels.
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[Ma'an] Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on at least two targets in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, witnesses said and the Israeli military confirmed.
Three Palestinians were reportedly wounded and three others reported missing shortly after six separate strikes, which targeted the Yasser Arafat International Airport in Dahaniya and a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Israeli forces launched the strikes "in response for the attempted naval attacks in southern Israel and recent rocket attacks," an Israeli military spokesman said in a statement over the phone. The official added that the army confirmed direct hits on both targets, which he alleged included a tunnel used for smuggling weapons and a "terror tunnel" on the border meant for carrying out attacks in Israel.
"The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for maintaining the calm in the communities in southern Israel and will respond to any attempts to disrupt the calm," the spokesman told Ma'an.
A homemade projectile landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel on Tuesday afternoon, Israeli media reported. Residents heard a loud blast at around 3pm and a Color Red siren was sounded, the Hebrew-language daily daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. No damage or injuries were reported.
On Monday, two explosive devices were reportedly found on separate beaches in southern Israel. Israeli security sources linked the discoveries to an announcement by a coalition of Palestinian operatives who told Ma'an they launched eight shells at the port of Ashkelon between 29-30 January.
That attack was said to be in response to the assassinations of three prominent Fatah operatives in Nablus in late December, which Israel said was in retaliation for the shooting death of a West Bank settler leader.
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Yasser Arafat International Airport
ha ha ha hee hee....stop it - you're killing me
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran successfully fired on Wednesday a home-built satellite rocket, Kavoshgar 3, carrying an "experimental capsule," state-owned al-Alam television reported, giving no further details.
The move, a part of celebrations marking the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Islamic revolution, may worry Western powers who fear Tehran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems.
Western nations are concerned that the long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit can also be used to launch warheads, although Iran says it has no plans to do so.
TV reports showed footage of a rocket blasting off from a launch-pad.
Iranian media said earlier the Islamic Republic would on Wednesday unveil three new satellites and another satellite carrier, named Simorgh.
Exactly one year ago, Iran launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time. It has said the launch of the Omid satellite was for peaceful telecommunications and research purposes.
Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, says its nuclear program is solely to generate electricity, and Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran was ready to send its enriched uranium abroad in exchange for nuclear fuel.
In December, Iran said it test-fired a long-range, upgraded Sejil 2 missile. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the time said the launch was of serious concern to the international community and underlined the case for tougher sanctions.
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Why nuclear bombs and missile systems?
A nice strong orbital EMP would probably kill more people when their Priuses couldn't deliver kids to school.
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TOPIX > [2010-2020] NUCLEAR MISSLE THREATS TO US MOUNT.
* SAME > US PENTAGON CONFRONTS RUSSIA IN THE BALTIC SEA [Polish PATRIOTS, Naval BMD]. Response by Russ Navy.
* SAME > US INTELLIGENCE CHIEF BLAIR: CAUCASUS MOST LIKELY FLASHPOINT IN EURASIA + US INTEL [Blair]: BALKANS THREATEN EUROPEAN STABILITY [BOSNIA's Croat, Muslim, + Serb factions].
* SAME > WAR IS POSSIBLE | CHANGES IN GEOPOL ORDER, SUPPORT OF IRAN, TURKEY [+ even RUSSIA] SHIFTS ADVANTAGE TO AZERBAIJAN OVER ARMENIA.
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The Pentagon-USDOD believes that NORTH KOREA will dev a NUKE-TIPPED MISSLE sometime widin this decade, which by extension is broadly the same as saying that ISLAMIST IRAN will also, be it indigenous andor foreign-developed [read, PAKISTAN, World Black Markets, etc. sources].
IMO THE REAL GEOPOL DANGER stems from POST-2012 NUCLEAR ISLAMIST-, OTHER MILITANCY-TERRORISM, notsomuch post-2012 NUC IRAN. Newly nuclear Iran, etc. will prefer to stay on the ASYMMETRIC GEOPOL MIL DEFENSIVE despite any rants to the contrary, + let the NUC MILTERR GROUPS do all the Nukin' + a'Warrin' agz ISRAEL + [econ bankrupt?]US-WEST.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Dawn] A senior government functionary has told DawnNews on condition of anonymity that 
[Ma'an] A smuggling tunnel underneath the Egypt-Rafah border collapsed killing a young man from Jabaliya on Wednesday, bringing to three the number of tunnel-related deaths already in 2010. 
[Ma'an] Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on at least two targets in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, witnesses said and the Israeli military confirmed. 
