[Straits Times] THE founder of Aceh's separatist rebel movement died aged 85 after two weeks in an intensive care unit on Sumatra island, an official said on Thursday.
Free Aceh Movement (GAM) founder Hassan di Tiro returned to Indonesia in October 2008 after nearly nearly 30 years in exile in Sweden and a war that killed thousands of people.
'Hassan di Tiro passed away at 12.20 pm (1.20 pm Singapore time) at the age of 85 in the hospital,' Muchsalmina, spokesman for Aceh Transitional Committee (KPA) which replaced GAM, told AFP.
Di Tiro's declaration of independence from Indonesia in 1976 sparked a three-decade civil war that claimed 15,000 lives and left deeply Islamic Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, in ruins.
But it was the terrible devastation of the Asian tsunami, which killed about 170,000 people in the province, that prompted Di Tiro and other GAM leaders to agree to a 2005 autonomy pact with Indonesia.
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Whoa, first DONKEYS = EDDIE MURPHY in "SHREK", now GOAT KAMIKAZES? THe news of AQ-Talibs running low/out of SUICIDE BOMBERS must be worse than we thought iff they're now resor to blowing up TASTY CRITTERS = THEIR OWN FOUR-LEGGED WALKING FOODSTUFFIES???
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Crash & Rescue on a coffee break? The truck from the Hot Spot is almost beat to the wreck by the two trucks from the barn. 1 1/2 minutes is sloooow. Many times I watched our trucks chase accidents while they were still sliding down the runway.
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I gather that once you eject, your career is essentially over, because of the trauma to the spine. At least in peacetime. In low intensity conflict wartime, I imagine it still means that you get to know orthopedists by their first names, while waiting for the review board.
Chiropractors in Colorado, near the academy, see some flight cadets a lot, prior to their medical evaluation, because they could get washed out over even a tiny kink.
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Watch that glide angle Nigel. Don't know what the pilot was thinking coming in like that. The firefighters were damn lucky the 2 bombs and esp. the Sidewinders(?) he was carrying did not go off.
NATO and Afghan troops have killed a top Taliban commander for southern Afghanistan's largest city, NATO forces said Friday.
The allied forces had been tracking Mullah Zergay for several weeks and launched an assault to capture him at a safe house in Zhari district of Kandahar province last week, NATO said in a statement. The raid sparked a gunbattle, and Zergay was killed in the fighting along with several of his guards.
NATO called Zergay "the top Taliban commander" for the area around Kandahar city, saying he was responsible for attacks in both Argandab and Zhari districts.
Resident generally saw Zergay as one of a small group of leaders who oversaw Taliban operations in and around the city.
He was known for bomb attacks and NATO says he was "directly responsible for multiple deaths in Kandahar city alone."
The area in and around Kandahar city is the target of a summer push to squeeze the Taliban out of their strongholds in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban have launched a counter-offensive with a string of attacks on high-profile NATO installations around the country in recent weeks, and a ongoing campaign of assassinations of pro-government leaders in and around Kandahar city.
[Quqnoos] At least eight Afghan civilians have been killed in violence in the southern province of Helmand, an official said Thursday
Provincial government spokesman Daud Ahmadi said four of the civilians were killed in a crossfire between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants.
It's an Afghan thing, hanging out between two parties firing at each other, secure in the thought that Allah will protect them from flying bullets.
The other four civilians were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Nawzad district Wednesday afternoon.
The clash happened early Wednesday after militants fired on an Afghan forces patrol, sparking a gunbattle in Marjah district.
A major operation by NATO forces earlier this year was intended to wrest Marjah from insurgents and reassert government control.
Ahmadi says authorities are investigating to determine exactly how the deaths happened.
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Taliban suicide commandos on Wednesday attacked a huge gathering of Afghan leaders and notables hosted by President Hamid Karzai to seek consensus on how to end nearly nine years of war.
As Karzai addressed more than 1,600 delegates and Western diplomats at the peace jirga, rockets exploded and gunfire erupted near the huge air-conditioned tent in Kabul where the conference was taking place.
Officials said suicide bombers wearing explosive-packed vests and dressed in women's burqas targeted the event, which was being protected by 12,000 security personnel, but that the attack was unsuccessful.
"The area is under our control now and is cleared," Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP. "Two attackers aged between 17 and 20 years had managed to come to the area using burqas and had entered a house under construction," he said, adding that a third would-be suicide attacker was taken into custody. At least five explosions, believed to be caused by rockets, interrupted the opening of the three-day jirga that Karzai hopes will achieve a consensus within the disparate country on how to end war with the Taliban.
The militia -- which is opposed to peace talks until all foreign troops have left Afghanistan -- claimed that it had dispatched four suicide bombers, who were armed with guns and rockets and threatening the jirga from a nearby rooftop. Karzai left the event on schedule after his address, travelling in his customary armoured convoy.
Delegates took a scheduled break for his departure, but did not return to their seats for about three hours, with some taking refuge beneath trees from the rocket attacks.
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Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a Panama-flagged cargo ship, with Pakistanis on board, and in a separate incident the crew of a captured Libyan vessel regained control of it, killing some pirates, the EU's anti-piracy taskforce said.
EU NAVFOR said a US warship had seen at least one person with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on board the MV QSM Dubai after it was raided in the Gulf of Aden. It said the crew were from Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Ghana.
The 15,220-deadweight tonne vessel was seized inside the internationally recommended transit corridor and had come from Brazil. It was not immediately clear what cargo the MV QSM Dubai was carrying.
Somali pirates have continued their hijackings, making tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, despite an international flotilla of warships patrolling the waters off the lawless Horn of Africa nation that link Europe with Africa and Asia.
Typically the pirates anchor the vessels off their land-based havens until a ransom is paid, at which point the vessel along with its crew and cargo is released.
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The crew of a Libyan-owned merchant ship seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have reportedly recaptured the vessel. Some pirates are believed to have been killed during the incident, said the European anti-piracy naval force operating off the coast of Somalia.
One of the crew on the merchant vessel MV Rim was seriously injured, said the EU force, Navfor.
An EU warship - the SPS Victoria - had been sent to the Gulf of Aden to give medical assistance to crew members of the MV Rim, said a Navfor statement. It said there had been "confusing reports" that the ship had been reboarded by pirates. But once a helicopter from the warship reached the scene of the incident, it was "quickly established that the crew were in control of the vessel".
"There were, however, pirates in the vicinity who were attempting to impede the EU operation," added the statement.
The MV Rim - which has a mainly Syrian crew of 10 - was hijacked in February by pirates who demanded $3m in ransom for their safe return. After it was captured, correspondents say that the pirates took the vessel to an area off the town of Laasgoray, on the border between Somalia's breakaway regions of Somaliland and Puntland.
The crew turned the tables on their captors as the ship was south-east of Garacad, off Somalia's northern coastline, Navfor said.
Meanwhile, another vessel has been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
Pirates seized the 15,000-tonne Panama-flagged ship, MV QSM Dubai, in the Gulf of Aden in the early hours of Wednesday. The vessel has a crew of 24 made up of Ghanaian, Egyptian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals.
An American warship reported seeing at least one pirate on board the hijacked vessel armed with a rocket-propelled grenade.
A separate EU statement said the hijacking of the MV QSM Dubai had been confirmed by a maritime patrol aircraft. The ship had been hijacked in the "internationally recommended transit corridor" in the gulf, added the statement.
Somali pirates have become a hazard for shipping in the region, with vessels mostly held for ransom payments - which are often paid.
Figures released by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show that pirate attacks around the world fell by 34% in the first quarter of 2010 compared to a year ago - because of the continued presence of foreign navies in the Gulf of Aden. The IMB logged a total of 67 incidents from January to March 2010 compared to 102 incidents in the first three months of 2009.
Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, heading to and from the Suez Canal.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] At least 17 civilians were killed Thursday when government forces backed by the firepower of African Union peacekeepers launched coordinated attacks against Islamic insurgent strongholds in the Somali capital, officials said. Among the dead are six women and a family of five whose home was smashed by shelling, said Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service. He said at least 61 other civilians were wounded in the heavy shelling and gunbattles that started early Thursday in northern Mogadishu.
A senior Somali military official claimed victory and said government forces will hold on to the areas they captured Thursday.
"We have driven insurgents from a large swath of the capital and we will not withdraw from those conquered areas like we used to do before," said Gen. Ali Araye, the infantry commander. He also said there will be further offensives against the insurgents. Araye, however, said this is not the start of the government's long-awaited offensive to drive out Islamic insurgents from Mogadishu.
Al-Shabab spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage denied that his group's militiamen were defeated during Thursday's attack.
Instead, he said, they had inflicted casualties on government forces, but he did not give any figures. Araye declined to comment on casualties.
The government's offensive against the insurgents has been repeatedly delayed since the beginning of the year.
According to some officials the delays have been partly due to the Somali army's lack of equipment, training and a reliable system to pay its soldiers.
Since early last year government forces have been on the defensive, losing huge portions of Mogadishu to the powerful insurgent groups who have even come within striking distance of the presidential palace. But government forces now appear determined to beat back militants. On Thursday they succeeded in routing insurgents from several of their northern Mogadishu strongholds, said resident Hassan Abdullahi.
Thursday's shelling disrupted businesses in the city's largest trading center, Bakara market. Some of the shelling, mainly fired from government positions and African Union bases, randomly hit southern and northern parts of the war-scared city, Muse said.
The market is usually bustling with business despite tensions in the capital. The area it is in, however, is controlled by al-Shabab and its allied group, Hizbul Islam.
Over the past three years the market has seen near-daily shelling between militants, and the AU and Somali soldiers.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two people on charge of providing shelter to the members of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Bangladesh early yesterday.
A Rab team arrested the two--Mohiuddin Ahmed and his brother Salahuddin Ahmed--from Ashulia Bypile Bus stand on the outskirts of capital around 5:30am.
Rab members were on a hunt for them after the elite force arrested Pakistani national Rezwan Ahmed with three locals busting Mohiuddin's apartment near Science Laboratory crossings on February 28, Rab officials said.
The elite force also arrested another local in this connection near the footbridge in front of New Market on the same day.
The four locals were Nannu Mian alias Belal Mandol alias Billal, Abu Naser Munshi, Imad Uddin alias Munna, and Sadeque Hossain alias Khoka.
Following the arrests, Rab disclosed that Rezwan was coordinating the activities of JeM in Bangladesh and the four locals were his associates.
"Mohiuddin and Salahuddin gave shelter to the Pakistani militants and provided support to recruit locals and arrange their training," Rab's legal and media wing director Commander Mohammad Sohail said at a news briefing yesterday.
Rab sources said Mohiuddin, now president of Borkuna union (Hajiganj in Chandpur) unit BNP, was earlier involved with Jamaat-e-Islami while Salahuddin, a former Chhatra Shibir member, is now a Jamaat supporter.
Rab officials however said they are investigating whether JeM had any link with the two political parties through Mohiuddin and Salahuddin.
Commander Sohail also said Mohiuddin's rented apartment at Sukannya Tower in the city and his village home at Borkuna of Hajiganj in Chandpur were used as shelters for foreign militants and for this, Mohiuddin received huge amount of money.
Mohiuddin and his brother also helped Pakistani militants preparing fake Bangladeshi passports.
"From information, we have come to know that Mohiuddin has seven to eight shops, fisheries and agro-based businesses in which we have found links of investment by the militants," Sohail told the briefing held at the Rab headquarters in Uttara.
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Thirteen people died in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico, including a prison riot which killed three, and three minor children who may have been accidentally killed by the Mexican Army.
The riot was a battle between rival prison gangs, the Mexicles and the Aztecas.
Reports were that inmates at the CERESO prison at San Guillermo in Juarez were armed with assault rifles and had body armor, and had done most of the shooting, and were the only targets in the violence. The violence was centered around Tower Eight. Authorities gained final control of the prison around 1530 hrs today.
The leader of a drug cartel faction were busted in Parral, Chihuahua Wednesday, according to Mexican news reports.
Isidro Rubio Ibarra, alias Mi Niño, was arrested while driving a stolen white Jeep Cherokee by elements of SecretarÃa de la Defensa Nacional ( SEDENA ). Also seized were eight kilos of marijuana, one AK47, one .40 caliber pistol and more than 8,000 pesos.
Rubio Ibarra headed the group "Gente Nueva", which worked for "Chapo" Guzmän".
Four unidentified students were massacred in a park late Wednesday night in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to La Polaka, the Juarez, Mexico news daily. An armed suspect fired a weapon in the Unidad Emiliano Zapata park on Soriana San Lorenzo street where several students had congregated. Several more students were wounded in the attack.
An unidentified woman dressed as a business executive, was found shot to death in Juarez early Thursday morning. The corpse was found near the intersection of Monterrey and Acapulco streets in the Melchor Ocampo district of Juarez.
The woman was shot four times, twice in the head. Investigators said she was about 25 years old.
An unidentified man in his 30s was found shot to death Thursday morning in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found behind the library near the intersection of Arroyo de las VÃboras and Begonias streets in the Felipe Ãngeles district. Investigators said he was shot with a 9mm weapon.
Two unidentified men were killed in separate incidents in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. A man was performing minor maintenance on his Cadillac near the intersection of CapulÃn and Zaragoza streets when he was shot several timer point blank in the head by a man riding in a green colored vehicle.
Another man, a mechanic by trade, was walking to his home for lunch on Juan de la Barrera street in the Melchor Ocampo district of Juarez when he was shot by a man riding aboard an SUV. His corpse was covered with a multicolored blanket.
Three minors were shot to death by elements of the Mexican Army on a highway in Tamaulipas, say Mexican news reports. Daniel Hernändez, 13, a student of Secundaria Mujica; Cesar Alejandro Cuellar, 15, and Eduardo Cuellar, 17 were shot as they rode in a Dodge Ram pickup truck on the Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo highway.
The students were from Estación Anzalduaz, a farming community in the Gustavo DÃaz Ordaz municipality in Tamaulipas. Authorities announced they were investigating why the shooting took place and if more than just the three were in the truck when it was attacked.
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And when the Meskins get over here, they either drive to slow so they won't get caught or they get drunk and loose way too much of their inhibitions. It's "mucho loco on el streetes."
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A good Friend of Unfair Park, through a friend of a friend of a friend, just shot us this extraordinary video captured early yesterday morning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Took place at the north toll plaza, which served as a launching ramp for one drunk driver trying to exit the airport in a hurry. DFW spokesman David Magana confirms: "The driver was, as you might guess, suspected of inebriation and investigated for such and arrested for such."
We also have fiery post-crash pics after the jump -- because after the driver went all General Lee, she got out and made a call on her cell, at which point the vehicle went boom. Hard to believe the "driver only suffered minor injuries," as Magana puts it. Oh -- and the toll-booth operator wasn't injured at all.
Update at 11:37 a.m. Thursday: The driver's name is Yasmine Villasana.
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...do not attempt this at home. Done by a non-professional driver on a closed course. May result in voiding insurance in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Minnesota.
Blasts and shooting on Friday killed at least four people in Russia's North Caucasus where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist jihad insurgency, Russian media reported.
In the town of Malgobek in Ingushetia, a police officer was killed and 10 people were injured when a blast struck as policemen attended the scene of another bomb that had earlier ripped through a store injuring a further three, a police spokesman told Reuters.
In a separate incident, a female kiosk seller was gunned down in Malgobek by unidentified gunmen, Interfax reported, citing an unnamed source. Kiosk sellers have been targeted in the past for selling alcohol by Islamist militants wanting to enforce sharia law in Ingushetia.
In nearby Dagestan, a witness who did not wish to be identified told Reuters that a gunman killed a spiritual leader by opening fire outside a mosque in a village, injuring one other person. Interfax reported that another shooting killed the district chief in Dagestan's Magaramkent region, about 167 km (103 miles) southeast of the regional capital Makhachkala, as he was driving in his car.
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ION MEMRI.ORG > AHMADINEJAD THREATENS RUSSIA, RECIEVES RUSSIAN RESPONSE. Moud warns that Russ nuclear stance risks placing it on Iran's list of State Enemies, whereas Russia = Medvedev PDeniably warns Moud that Russ isn't afraid of taking unilater milaction agz Iran iff Moud + Mullahs go too far.
MEDEVEDV TO MOUD > YOOKAY FINE, MOSCOW WILL SSSSSSSHHHHHHH JUST GO TSARIST/JOZEF STALINIST ON YOUR BUTT.
Several members of the Russian security service were killed while attempting to detain a rebel group linked to the Moscow metro bombings, an official said Wednesday.
"Literally yesterday we carried out a special operation in Dagestan. Unfortunately as a result of the special operation, FSB troops were killed, some were wounded," said the head of the FSB security service, Alexander Bortnikov."We were working against the band that is linked to the explosions in the Moscow metro," said Bortnikov, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two suicide bombings in the Moscow metro on March 29 killed 40 and wounded more than 100. One FSB officer and one guide died from gunshot wounds, while another FSB officer and a guide were hospitalised after the incident, investigators said in a statement, adding that the operation aimed to track down and arrest armed groups.
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A powerful North Korean official has suddenly died in mysterious circumstances. North Korea on Wednesday evening announced the death in a car accident of Ri Je-gang (80), the first deputy director of the Workers Party's Organization and Guidance Department.
Took a drive into the mountains, did he ...
Wow this cannoli is tasty...nom nom nom
Ri worked at the powerful department directly supervised by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il for 37 years. He was apparently deeply involved in establishing the succession for Kim's son Jong-un. Kim Jong-un's mother, the late Ko Yong-hee, reportedly asked him to make sure that one of her sons, Jong-chol or Jong-un, succeeds their father. Ko died in 2004.
Senior positions in the party, the government, and the military were more or less in Ri's gift.
Experts say there is something fishy about the sudden death of this eminence grise. It is possible that Ri was killed while driving his own car drunk after participating in one of Kim Jong-il's secret parties, which happened to Kim Yong-sun, a party secretary in charge of South Korean affairs, in 2003 at the age of 69. But chances are slim that the octogenarian Ri drove himself.
But experts say the timing of his death is peculiar, coming as it did hard on the heels of the dismissal on May 14 of Kim Il-chol, the minister of the people's armed forces, for reasons of old age, also at the age of 80. Ri Yong-chol (81), another senior deputy director of the Organization and Guidance Department who had supported Ko Young-hee alongside Ri Je-gang, died of a reported heart attack in April.
A North Korean source said, "In the 1970s, Kim Chang-bong, the then minister of national defense, died in a car accident after he opposed Kim Jong-il's succession to power. We suspect that Ri's death was also related to an internal power struggle, although there is no evidence yet to support the speculation."
Ri had apparently been on bad terms with his rival Jang Song-taek, Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law and administration director of the North Korean Workers Party, after he tried to purge Jang in 2004.
The deaths of elderly senior officials have been coming thick and fast of late. Kim Jung-rin (87), a party secretary, and Ri Jong-bu, an artillery commander, also died recently.
Could just be because of old age ...
A South Korean security official said, "It's possible that there'll be a massive restructuring in the North." Pyongyang has already announced an extraordinary session of the Supreme People's Assembly on June 7.
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Why don't you see the obvious reason, it is the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!
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This is Kim Jong Il clearing the deck for his kid.
Federal authorities arrested and filed terror-related charges against an American man who they say received advice from radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and attempted to provide money and materials to an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen.
Barry Walter Bujol, 29 years old, was arrested Sunday in a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting after he used fake documents supplied by an undercover informant to board a ship in Houston he thought was bound for the Middle East, the Justice Department said Thursday. Joseph Varela, a lawyer for Mr. Bujol, said he intended to plead not guilty.
An indictment unsealed Thursday in Houston federal court charged Mr. Bujol with aggravated identity theft and attempting to provide material support for the terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which was behind the Christmas Day airline bombing plot. Prosecutors don't allege that Mr. Bujol was associated with any specific plots to attack people or property.
A federal law enforcement official said Mr. Bujol came to the attention of FBI agents beginning in 2008, but didn't specify how. The official said agents found Mr. Bujol was communicating with Mr. Awlaki over a period of several months during the summer of 2008, using Internet email accounts at a library at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Mr. Bujol sought advice, including on how begin a jihadi website that couldn't be traced, the official said. Mr. Awlaki responded to his queries, including providing a document titled "42 Ways of Supporting Jihad," the official said.
In a statement, the Justice Department alleged that the FBI informant supplied Mr. Bujol with money and materials including prepaid telephone calling cards, global positioning system equipment and U.S. military publications related to weapons systems. Mr. Bujol had agreed to bring the supplies to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in the Middle East, according to the Justice statement.
Mr. Bujol made a brief appearance in court Thursday where he was informed of the charges and a judge on June 8 is set to hear U.S. prosecutors' request to hold Mr. Bujol without bond pending trial.
The federal law enforcement official said that in recent months federal investigators used various methods to stop Mr. Bujol when he attempted to leave the U.S., at times with his wife, to go to Yemen. In February 2009, he was detained at the Houston airport and agents used an outstanding traffic warrant to prevent him from boarding a flight, the official said. A month later, he tried to cross into Canada near Detroit, and Canadian authorities denied him permission to enter, the official said. A week later he was stopped in New Jersey for driving on a suspended license, and he told police he was heading to John F. Kennedy International Airport to fly to Egypt, the official said.
A MySpace page for a 29-year-old Abu Najya Barry Bujol, one of the pseudonyms U.S. prosecutors allege Mr. Bujol used, contains a January 2008 poem that reads in part: "Islam is just / A Muslim breaks laws / Islam is clear / A Muslim makes it vague... So if you think you know Islam / from a Muslim you saw one day / Don't act until you know / what Islam has to say."
[Geo News] One bandit was killed while four policemen sustained injuries in exchange of firing and hand grenade attack during bank robbery in the limits of Pirabad Police Station at Ali Garh area in Orangi town on Thursday. The sources said the deceased was a dacoit. The robbers attacked police with hand grenade, injuring four cops. The fire caught the motorbikes parked nearby. The injured were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Dacoits belonged to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, SSP Raja Umar Khatab told Geo News.
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Banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has allegedly threatened to kill the medical superintendent (MS) of the Sindh Government Hospital Saudabad, Khokhrapar in a suicide attack.
The panicked hospital administration said it received the letter on Wednesday accusing the hospital of religious discrimination.
Malir City Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Imdad Solangi confirmed that the hospital has received the letter warning the administration against religious and sectarian discrimination.
"The countdown starts. We will soon blow you up in a suicide attack," the letter says.
The police said they were not treating the threat lightly, but there is a possibility that the letter is fake, DSP Solangi added.
He said the prevailing situation demanded to take each and everything seriously, adding he would look after the hospital personally to make sure nothing untoward happened.
The police have meanwhile adopted stringent security measures at the hospital.
A few days ago, militants attacked two Ahmedis' religious facilities killing more than ninety people.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The number of casualties from Thursday's earlier car bomb attack that targeted several stores selling liquor in Sinjar district rose to four deaths and 14 wounded, according to the Sinjar Public Hospital director.
The final count of casualties from a car bomb blast that targeted some stores selling liquor in Tal Qasab, southern Sinjar, rose to four deaths and 14 wounded,' Dr. Kifah Mohammed Jassem told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Two of the wounded were in a critical condition and were referred to the Duhuk Hospital in the Iraqi Kurdistan region,' he added.
The explosive vehicle attack went off near a liquor store in the predominantly religious minority Yazidi area of Tal Qasab, south of Sinjar district, (120 km) west of Mosul, leaving two, one of them an interpreter for the U.S. forces, killed and 10 others, wounded,' a security source had said.
He added that all of the casualties in the blast were Yazidis.
Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds and most live near Mosul, with smaller communities in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Syria, and Turkey. They number around 800,000 individuals in total, but estimates of their population size vary, partially due to the Yazidi tradition of secrecy about their religious beliefs.
Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, is inhabited by Yazidis, a religious minority whose followers are generally situated in northern Iraq. Some 350,000 Yazidis live in villages around Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad.
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Hardline Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir had a direct line to al-Qa'ida around the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US because his son was working in the organisation's propaganda department. The revelation was made by the chief of Indonesia's counter-terrorism taskforce, an outfit known as Detachment 88, as expectations mounted that Bashir could soon be arrested over a terror cell uncovered this year in Aceh province.
Bashir's youngest son, Abdul Rohim, was already known to have spent several years in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the late 1990s engaging in jihad-related activities.
Bashir was closely linked to the 2002 Bali bombings, including a conviction for criminal conspiracy, although that was later overturned on constitutional grounds. Rohim is part of his father's operation at the al-Mukmin school in Solo, Central Java, where Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Ali Imron were students.
Brigadier General Tito Karnavian, the head of Detachment 88, has revealed that Rohim, now aged in his early 30s, had lived with September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and was an active member of al-Qa'ida around the time of the US attacks. "Abdul Rohim is a real part of al-Qa'ida because he was staying with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Kandahar, being staff of media, of propaganda, of al-Qa'ida," the anti-terror chief said.
While Rohim's role as a point man between al-Qa'ida and Southeast Asian-based terror groups such as his father's Jemaah Islamiah has been established, the revelation that he was working directly for Osama bin Laden's group as a propagandist is new. It comes as police interrogate members of Bashir's current organisation. Jemaah Anshorut Tawhid, over the preacher's alleged involvement in the recent Aceh terror plot.
A male school teacher was shot dead in Pattani's Khok Pho district on Thursday afternoon, police said. Pol Lt-Col Kitti Waeyuso, deputy chief of Khok Pho district police, said Boonnam Yodnui, 41, a teacher at Ban Tha Khlong School, was shot three times in the body with a .38 handgun on Khok Pho-Thepha road while returning home on a motorcycle along with other teachers on five other motorcycles.
Two men, suspected to be terrorists insurgents, chased Boonnam on another motorcycle, and the pillion rider opened fire at him at a point-blank range. The shooting took place in front of the other teachers. He was seriously wounded and died at Khok Pho Hospital.
[Straits Times] MILITARY officials say troops have clashed with about 20 communist rebels in the northern Philippines, killing three guerrillas and capturing three others, including one wounded.
The country's communist insurgency, one of Asia's longest-running, has raged on despite a deadline by outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for the military to crush the rebels by the end of her term on June 30.
Army spokesman Maj Ronald Jess Alcudia says a soldier was wounded in the fighting that broke out before dawn Thursday in Batangas province's Taysan township, 90km south of Manila. Several firearms also were recovered.
He says troops responded to a tipoff from civilians that rebels were in the village of Mabayabas.
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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.
The crew of a Libyan-owned merchant ship seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have reportedly recaptured the vessel. Some pirates are believed to have been killed during the incident, said the European anti-piracy naval force operating off the coast of Somalia.
A powerful North Korean official has suddenly died in mysterious circumstances. North Korea on Wednesday evening announced the death in a car accident of 
Federal authorities arrested and filed terror-related charges against an American man who they say received advice from radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and attempted to provide money and materials to an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. 
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The number of casualties from Thursday's earlier car bomb attack that targeted several stores selling liquor in Sinjar district rose to four deaths and 14 wounded, according to the Sinjar Public Hospital director.
A male school teacher was shot dead in Pattani's Khok Pho district on Thursday afternoon, police said. Pol Lt-Col Kitti Waeyuso, deputy chief of Khok Pho district police, said Boonnam Yodnui, 41, a teacher at Ban Tha Khlong School, was shot three times in the body with a .38 handgun on Khok Pho-Thepha road while returning home on a motorcycle along with other teachers on five other motorcycles.
