[Quqnoos] Police has captured 1000 kg of Pakistani explosives and ammunition in Dilaram-Herat highway in the western Herat province. Police has also discovered 500 kg of materials used to produce heroin.
According to police investigation, the discovered ammunition and explosives that are brand new, were to be used for disruption of security during the upcoming parliamentary elections, said a spokesman for 606 Ansar Police Chief in the west, Abdul Rawoof Ahmadi.
According to Herat police, three suspects have been arrested for being involved in carrying the explosives and ammunitions to the province.
Afghan police has discovered Chinese, Iranian and Pakistani ammunitions and explosives being transported from across the border many times before.
Discovery of these ammunitions and explosives reveals that some of Afghanistan's neighbours do not want the country to be stabilised, and thus support the government opposition forces.
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At least 14 Afghan police personnel and a provincial official were killed in three separate insurgent attacks across northern Afghanistan, government and security officials said on Sunday.
The north has largely escaped the bulk of fighting which pits a resurgent Taliban insurgency against nearly 150,000 NATO-led foreign troops, mostly in the south. Nine police died when their remote checkpost was attacked by insurgents in the Emam Saheb district of Kunduz province on Saturday, provincial district head Ayub Aqyar said. "Dozens of Taliban overran their post," Aqyar said. A homemade bomb also killed the head of Qaleh Zaal district police in Kunduz, along with his driver, provincial spokesman Mohboobullah Saidi said. Two others were also injured in the attack. In usually peaceful Badakhshan province, five police died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kishim district, provincial police chief Aqa Noor Kintoz said. Under-trained, poorly paid and ill-equipped Afghan police have borne the brunt of increasingly frequent Taliban attacks in both urban and rural parts of the country.
Newly appointed Afghan Interior Minister General Bismillah Khan last week announced plans to step up police training as local security forces prepare to take security responsibility from US and NATO troops within four years. Kunduz, untouched by insurgents only a couple of years ago, is now experiencing attacks on an almost daily basis as insurgents push back against mostly German soldiers and the Taliban tries to prove its reach extends across the country. Saturday was a particularly bloody day, with six US soldiers killed in separate incidents and more than a dozen civilians dying, including 12 people gunned down in a bus near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan.
Officials originally said those killed in the bus accident were Pakistani travelers taking a detour through Afghanistan, but on Sunday said they were Afghans. Last week, Afghan security forces killed around 70 insurgents, injuring another 36 and detaining around 140 during operations, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zemari Bashary said on Sunday. Insurgency-related violence killed 43 civilians and injured 118 others, Bashary said. Afghan police lost 23 officers and around 70 were injured in the same period. Casualties amongst NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan hit a high in June and commanders expect violence to rise in parallel with the anti-insurgent offensive in coming months, raising questions about whether more can be done to protect troops. Separately, a NATO soldier was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the alliance said in a statement.
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Somali pirates have failed in their attempt to hijack an Iranian vessel carrying crude oil to Spain, an official from the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) says.
Two pirate boats attempted to attack the Sousangerd vessel in the Bab al-Mandeb strait in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, IRNA quoted Jamal Myahi, of the NITC, as saying on Sunday.
The swift action of the vessel's crewmembers and the presence of a military helicopter in the area resulted in the failure of the ten pirates in their hijack attempt, Myahi added.
Myahi said the 158,000-ton vessel, which had a cargo of crude oil, is now heading towards its destination in Spain.
This is the fourth unsuccessful attempt by Somali pirates on Iranian vessels this year.
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At least seven people have been killed in fighting in south Sudan's Upper Nile state when soldiers attacked a rival militia, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
A southern army unit launched an attack on Friday on gunmen accused of membership in the military wing of a breakaway political party, said Major General Kuol Diem Kuol.
"There were seven of these men killed, and 11 were captured as prisoners," said Kuol of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a former rebel group that now acts as the south's army.
"On our side three were wounded, one seriously," he said.
Kuol said the attack was launched on Friday morning against two bases in the oil-rich Upper Nile state.
"The forces are militias of Lam Akol," he added, referring to the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Democratic Change party (SPLM-DC), which split last year from the south's ruling SPLM.
Akol, a former foreign minister, was the only challenger to the south Sudan President Salva Kiir in April's elections. He has repeatedly denied accusations that his party has a military wing.
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Al-Shabab fighters kidnapped over 100 young men in Somalia on Saturday as the group begins implementing its new policy of forcibly recruiting people for its war.
The African Press Agency quoted eyewitnesses and relatives as saying that around 100 people, mainly young men, were picked up by al-Shabab fighters in order to force them to join the fighting against Somali government troops and African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.
Earlier in the week, a high-ranking al-Shabab official, Sheikh Abu Musab, called on all Somalis to join the war or face the consequences.
Al-Shabab announced earlier that every young man must fight for them at least six hours per day and those who cannot fight will be obliged to contribute money to the ongoing war against the government.
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I'm sure the US government knows where most of the units of the Al-Shabatsh$$ "army" is located. It would be a nice "morning surprise" to learn that "someone" attacked those camps one dark, moonless night with napalm and willie-pete, with multiple secondaries. That would do far more good than all the "food aid" and other "support" the West offers to Somalia.
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[Maghrebia] A Tunisian court on Saturday (July 10th) sentenced 8 men to prison for belonging to a militant Islamist cell and inciting terrorism, BBC reported. "Three youths received 12-year sentences and five men were given terms of between two and five years," defence attorney Samir Ben Amor said. Bilel Beldi, 31, and Sami Bouras, 35, who fled to Europe for political asylum, were convicted in absentia, Ben Amor said.
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At least 64 people have died in two blasts in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Some 70 others were injured by the explosions, which hit a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant as football fans watched the World Cup final.
Police were investigating whether the blasts were suicide bombings, and blamed Somalia's al-Shabab militants.
Ugandan peacekeepers operate in Mogadishu, Somalia, and al-Shabab - linked to al-Qaeda - has threatened to hit Kampala in the past.
About 5,000 African Union troops from Uganda and Burundi are based in Mogadishu to protect the fragile interim government.
The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) force is engaged in frequent firefights with Islamist insurgents which control much of southern and central Somalia.
Obama 'deeply saddened'
The explosions, about 10km (seven miles) apart, both caused death and injury, although many more people died at the crowded rugby club.
Some 49 people died there as they watched the World Cup on a large screen, police said. Another 15 were killed at the Ethiopian Village.
"These bombs were definitely targeting World Cup crowds," Insp Gen Kale Kayihura said, warning people to stay away from large crowds in the coming days.
The explosions ripped through the venues with about 10 minutes remaining in Sunday night's match. At both scenes chairs lay overturned, with blood and pieces of flesh on the floor.
One unnamed witness told the BBC how he was caught in the rugby club blast.
"I just heard the bomb. In fact, I was blacked out, I didn't know anything. I was just down on the grass, I didn't know anything until when I gained consciousness, then I started now, crawling, coming out."
Many - if not most - of those killed and injured were foreign nationals, with both venues popular destinations for expatriates living in Kampala.
One was an American, reported to be an aid worker from California.
However, the crowd at the rugby club was usually a mix of Ugandans and foreigners, the police chief said.
There were reports that a severed head was found at one of the scenes, leading investigators to suggest that the attacks could have been the work of suicide bombers.
Insp Gen Kayihura said he believed Somalia's militant group al-Shabab could be behind Sunday evening's attacks.
In particular, the attack on the Ethiopian-owned restaurant raised suspicions of al-Shabab involvement: Addis Ababa backs Somalia's government against the rebels.
Somali militants have been involved in terror attacks across East Africa in the past, but - if proven - this would be the first time the current group has struck outside Somalia.
But the BBC's Will Ross, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, says there is no proof as yet that al-Shabab was involved. The blasts could be linked to next year's elections in Uganda, our correspondent adds.
In Mogadishu, a militant commander said he was "happy" with the attacks in Uganda.
However, Sheik Yusuf Sheik Issa refused to confirm or deny that al-Shabab was responsible.
He told the Associated Press news agency: "Uganda is one of our enemies. Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy. May Allah's anger be upon those who are against us."
At least three Americans, members of a Church group from Pennsylvania, were wounded at the Ethiopian restaurant.
One, Kris Sledge, 18, said from his hospital bed: "I remember blacking out, hearing people screaming and running."
Mr Sledge, of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, who had a bandaged leg and burns on his face, told AP: "I love the place here, but I'm wondering why this happened and who did this. At this point we're just glad to be alive."
US President Barack Obama said the explosions were "deplorable and cowardly".
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US would work with the Ugandan government "to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice".
The US embassy in Kampala has confirmed that one American was among the dead.
"The nationalities of all the fatalities will be released later," said police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba.
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This morning the news said it was Al Qaeda, although I'm not sure the pretty people reading the news actually understood that as a specific group rather than the current term for "Islamic terrorists".
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The bombers obviously suffer from poor self-esteem. What a shame NASA wasn't available to remind them of the glories of muslim science.
With the death toll heading towards 70, their "science" seems to be doing just fine. Too bad they can't find anything to do with it except kill people.
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From the First Reports Are Often Wrong File - NO Americans were killed. The women identified as an AmCit was later id'd as an Irish national. RIP to the victims.
No positive id on the headless horsemen but appear to be sub-Saharan African and Somali. Smart money is on Al-Shabab.
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At least 23 people have been killed in twin explosions in the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said.
It is not known what caused the blasts,
... perhaps a bomb? ...
More likely two bombs.
which police said went off at a rugby club and at a restaurant, as football fans watched the World Cup final.
"These bombs were definitely targeting World Cup crowds," Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura said.
Somali militants have in the past threatened to attack Kampala; Ugandan troops are deployed in Mogadishu.
Mr Kayihura said he believed Somalia's militant group al-Shabab could be behind the attack.
In the rugby club, where the biggest crowd had gathered, the explosion occurred right in the middle of the crowd. People who were seated in the outer parts of the crowd were not affected as much as those seated in the middle.
The police are saying they tried to put in place as much security as they could, but it seems clear that the police had no clue about how the bombs got in those places.
Nobody expected this to happen in a World Cup final.
Given that al-Shabab hates the Ugandans and hates soccer even more, I would have expected it ...
Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, by contrast, are reported to adore the game -- a grotesquely perverted mind in a healthy body and all that.
One would have thought that whoever did this would have waited for another time. It is just a time when people are making merry and very excited about the World Cup final, then this happens. It is quite shocking.
US President Barack Obama said the explosions were "deplorable and cowardly".
US National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement: "The president is deeply saddened by the loss of life resulting from these deplorable and cowardly attacks, and sends his condolences to the people of Uganda and the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured.
"The United States is ready to provide any assistance requested by the Ugandan government."
Police said it was possible those behind the attacks were targetting foreigners.
About 5,000 African Union troops from Uganda and Burundi are based in the Somali capital Mogadishu to protect the fragile interim government. The Amisom force is engaged in frequent firefights with Islamist insurgents which control much of southern and central Somalia
SANAA - Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Sunday for a gun and mortar attack on the southern headquarters of a Yemeni intelligence agency, saying it was revenge for a government assault on an Al Qaeda stronghold.
Firing automatic weapons and mortars, gunmen attacked the security building in Aden on June 19, killing at least 11 people. The attack was the bloodiest in Yemen since the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 that killed 17 US sailors.
This attack comes as a response to the tyrannical aggression that reached our people in Maarib province and deliberately humiliates the tribes with the pretext of fighting terrorism, a statement from Al Qaedas Yemen-based regional wing said in a statement posted on an Islamist website. Then they correctly falsely claim that they struck the fighters with painful blows, but we didnt see anything because we were hiding under our beds except the killing of camp followers women and destruction of ammo dumps mosques and the striking of barracks homes.
The June attack in Aden came a day after Al Qaeda threatened to respond to a state crackdown against it in the remote Maarib province, home to a militant stronghold in Wadi Obeida, calling on local tribesmen to take up arms against the government.
Al Qaeda put the death toll in the attack at 24, higher than that given by the government, and accused those killed of involvement in what it described as oppression designed to please Washington.
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SANAA - Yemeni authorities have arrested eight suspected al Qaeda militants, including a Saudi fugitive, accused of plotting attacks on security installations, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
The Saoodi was the brains of the group, the rest were cannon-fodder ...
The arrests of the eight came days after two suspected members of the same al Qaeda cell were detained following a house raid in the remote Hadramout province that sparked clashes in which three soldiers were killed.
Two al Qaeda elements were arrested during a raid on a house where cell members were hiding, and eight others were caught in the following days, the ministry said in its online newspaper.
A security official said the group arrested in Hadramout was accused of preparing attacks on security and other vital installations in eastern province, but did not identify specific targets.
The defence ministry identified the Saudi who was arrested as Abdullah Faraj Mohamed Mahmoud al-Jawbar, who is on a list of 85 Saudis wanted by Riyadh. It added that authorities had found a suicide bomb belt during the house raid a week ago.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detained adviser of banned Hizb-ut Tahrir Bangladesh Prof Syed Golam Maola yesterday told interrogators that their link with Jamaat-e-Islami was established when the immediate past caretaker government approved the National Women Development Policy in 2008.
Speaking anonymously, a top detective claimed the connection between Jamaat and Tahrir was strengthened after the ruling Awami League assumed power.
Quoting Maola, the interrogator from Detective Branch said Jamaat Publicity Secretary Tasneem Alam coordinated their first meeting in 2008 to discuss a joint campaign against the National Women Development Policy.
He added that the most recent meeting was coordinated by Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman.
"At that meeting they discussed how to work jointly against the government as it has put both the sides in trouble," said the detective.
The interrogator went on to say that Hizb-ut Tahrir leaders also directed their followers to continue their activities keeping a close relation with Jamaat.
Four Hizb-ut members who were arrested in Kalabagan in the capital on July 9 also made similar statements.
"We brought the four face to face with Maola and quizzed them about their connection with Jamaat. They admitted that their leaders had recently instructed them to work keeping a close contact with Jamaat," the DB official claimed.
The four workers who studied in Chittagong also admitted to being involved with pro-Jamaat student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir. They said they used to attend Shibir processions.
One of the four detained Hizb-ut-Tahrir workers is Sheikh Omar Sharif who joined the judicial service as a magistrate in 2008 but resigned in August last year, the DB official added.
The other three are Sheikh Nasir Uddin Majumder, Rakib Uddin Ahmed, an IT specialist, and Noor Mohammad.
Contacted, Tasneem Alam said he has no connection with Hizb-ut Tahrir. "I have never seen Golam Maola except on TV after his arrest," he told The Daily Star.
He also denied Jamaat's connection with Hizb-ut Tahrir, saying no question should arise about providing fund to the organisation by Jamaat.
Asked about the four detained Tahrir activists' involvement with Shibir, he said he does not know anything about that.
The DB official said Golam Maola has the realisation that the organisation should face the government ban through legal process instead of its current protest movement.
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[Bangla Daily Star] etained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee was shown arrested yesterday in connection with a case for attempt to kill late Prof Humayun Azad in February 2002.
Third Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hossain passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector Mostafizur Rahman, also the investigating officer of the case, submitted a petition showing Sayedee arrested in the case.
The investigating officer also prayed for a seven-day remand to interrogate him.
The court fixed July 15 for hearing on the remand prayer, and directed the jail authorities to produce him before it on the scheduled date.
Earlier on June 30, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, along with Jamaat-e Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, were shown arrested in a slew of cases including four in connection with war crimes, and also remanded for 16 days each.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday announced fresh agitation programmes from tomorrow demanding release of its top three and other leaders and activists.
Acting secretary general of the party ATM Azharul Islam announced the series of programmes at a press conference at its central office.
The programmes include rallies and demonstrations across the country from tomorrow to Thursday (July 13-15) to protest 'oppression' by the Awami League government.
He also demanded unconditional release of party leaders and workers, including Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid.
The party will also hold rallies across the country on July 19 protesting the arrests and repression.
It will hold view exchange meetings with people of different professions from July 20 to 26 to build up public opinion against "fascist and failed" government.
Replying to a question whether BNP supports the programmes, Jamaat assistant secretary general Kader Mollah said they hope to get its support to their programmes.
About a report on Jamaat leaders' confession about their links with militants, he said the report was part of propaganda, they did not know whether the Jamaat leaders have confessed it or not.
In reply to a question why they were bringing out surprise processions despite having "public support", Jamaat's acting secretary general Azhar said many people did not attend the programmes fearing police actions.
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[Bangla Daily Star] For the first time in the country's history, a court yesterday sent the officer-in-charge and 10 other policemen of Singra Police Station to jail on charge of killing a youth in "crossfire". You mean "crossfires" aren't real? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
Please to note. The ones doing this "crossfire" were policemen, and not the famed officers of the Rab. And so this is no reflection on what the Rab men do so successfully on many moonless nights, when we must all be amazed that only the very guilty are hit during the crossfires, but not the miscreants' fellows or the retired informant, Mahmoud the Weasel.
The Court of the District and Sessions Judge, Natore gave the order six days after a High Court bench slammed the law enforcers for custodial deaths. The HC bench on July 5 observed that such incidents must not recur, saying law enforcers have no right to kill anyone in custody, not even someone accused of murder. Rights activists and lawyers welcomed the Natore court order and considered it a "sincere move to stop extrajudicial killings".
District and Sessions Judge Abdul Majid passed the order after rejecting the bail prayers of the then OC Abu Bakar, two sub-inspectors, an assistant sub-inspector and seven constables.
Earlier on August 27 last year, Rajab Ali of Singra upazila filed a complaint with the Court of Additional Chief Magistrate, Natore accusing the police of picking up his son Ansar Ali from his house and killing him in the name of crossfire.
After hearing, the court instituted a judicial enquiry under judicial magistrate Mahmudul Hasan. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Natore Mohammad Akhteruzzaman on May 10 issued arrest warrants against the 12 policemen and seven others in this connection.
After the judiciary enquiry into the death of Ansar Ali, Mahmudul Hasan in his report said ASI Jasim Uddin filed a murder case on July 23, 2008. Jasim in that case stated that a band of robbers including Ansar Ali opened fire on a police patrol team in Kakian forest, prompting the law enforcers to retaliate. Ansar was killed in "crossfire" during the shootout, the police claimed. "..and his cadre escaped into the forest leaving not a trace."
The enquiry report says Ansar was actually killed in police custody and his body was dumped in the Kakian forest. Yeah, that's pretty much how we figured it happens
The thing is, the Rab take their crossfire victims to Dr. Jekyll or one of his highly qualified colleagues for confirmation of the cause of death, so comforting to the grieving mother. Perhaps the police should keep their own surgeon on staff for such eventualities.
Magistrate Mohammad Akhteruzzaman had issued the arrest warrants after reviewing the report. The accused had earlier appealed to the High Court for bail and were ordered to surrender before the lower court.
"It is a good example of steps against the extrajudicial killings," rights activist Sultana Kamal told The Daily Star. "Now the important thing is how transparently the government deals with the charge," she added.
President of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh Advocate Manzill Murshid said, "This is for the very first time that a court sent law enforcers to jail in a crossfire case." He observed the recent HC directives and observations against extrajudicial killings have made a great impact on every sector including the lower courts. Following the Natore court order, the family of the victims of extrajudicial killings will be encouraged to take legal steps against the law enforcers involved in such incidents, Manzill added.
The other cops accused in the case are SIs Prodyut Kar and Liakat Ali, ASI Jasim Uddin, constables Asir Uddin, Ansar Hossain, Abul Kassem, Anwar Hossain, Mofiz Uddin, Hafizur Rahman and Adhir Chandra. We'll see if they really mean this crackdown when they bring up the RAB on charges.
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Ah, so now the cops can start taking them to trial again, where an ineffective justice system will just release them back onto the streets. Great!
RIO DE JANEIRO An Air France passenger jet from Rio to Paris that made an emergency landing in northeastern Brazil due to a bomb threat is scheduled to take off again Sunday night after no explosive was found on board, a company spokesman said.
The delay in the planes departure from the northeastern city of Recife is necessary because regulations require that the crew receive a certain amount of rest, an Air France spokesman in Brazil said.
Solange Argenta, a spokeswoman with the Brazilian governments airport authority, Infraero, said Sunday that the inspection of the plane had ended but officials were still examining baggage. She said this would not be completed until midafternoon. If nothing suspicious is found, the flight will take off as planned a few hours later, Argenta said.
All 405 passengers and 18 crew members were safely evacuated from Air France Flight 443 on Saturday night, said Infraero spokesman Jorge Andrade.
The bomb threat was phoned in to Rios international airport by a female voice about 30 minutes after the plane took off, the Air France spokesman said. The control tower contacted the jet and the decision was made to land in Recife, he said.
In Paris, Air France spokesman Jerome NGuyen confirmed a full inspection of the plane had been completed and nothing suspicious had been found. Passengers were taken to nearby hotels until the plane could take off again.
Flight 443 was on the same route as an Air France jet that crashed in June 2009 off Brazils northeastern coast, killing all 228 on board. While no definite cause has been determined in the crash, authorities have repeatedly ruled out foul play.
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It has to do with soccer, right?
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Elements of the Mexican Army engaged in a firefight with armed suspects in northern Guerrero with a toll of five dead, according to Mexican press accounts.
The battle took place Saturday morning when the Mexican Army entered the municipality (county) of San Miguel Totolapan in the Sierra de la Tierra Caliente.
The Army had received reports of armed civilians in the area and began searching homes in the area. Reports are that armed suspects fired on the Army, so the Army returned fire killing five unidentified armed suspects.
The Army found four AK-47 assault rifle and an AR-15 assault rifle with each corpse. All the victims were in their 20s. The Army also seized about 800 rifle cartridges.
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Elements of the Mexican Navy arrested leader of the cartel "La Barbie" in a small beach community near Acapulco, according to Mexican press reports.
Tavira Gamaliel Aguirre, alias "El Guero Huetamo, alleged leader of drug cartel of Edgar Valdez Villarreal AKA "La Barbie" was arrested along with three alleged associates in Granjas del Märquez de Acapulco, where the Navy was conducting patrols.
The navy had previously received reports of armed civilians and others acting suspiciously in the area. Just prior to the arrest elements of the Navy had observed two armed suspects riding in a car that arrived at a house.
Arrested inside the house in addition to Aguirre were: Hermilo Aguirre Flores, 35, Antonia Aguirre Flores, 33, and Jaqueline Nava Jennyfet Soberanis, 23.
The Navy also seized six rifles, a grenade launcher tube, five pistols, eight grenades, 41 magazines for various weapons, four 100 round disc magazines, 2,025 cartridges of various useful calibres, 10 grams of cocaine, 50 grams of marijuana and more than 140,000 pesos.
The Barbie cartel is formerly part of the Leyva-Beltran cartel.
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Nuevo Leon Agencia Estatal Investigadora (AEI) agents fought a gun battle with a criminal gang in the streets of Monterrey Saturday, killing three, according to Mexican press accounts.
The first battle took place near the intersection of Calle Padre Mier between calles 5th and 15 de Mayo in central Monterrey when AEI agents began pursuit of gang of suspected robbers riding in a Honda Odyssey on calle Pino Suärez.
AEI agents were involved in an ongoing investigation of a series of robberies of gas stations and banks and carjackings in Monterrey. Agents had information that the suspects resided in Reynosa, Nuevo Leon and McAllen Texas, then "commuted" to Monterrey to commit crimes before returning home.
Armed suspects fired at the agents during the pursuit, so agents returned fire. One civilian, Manuel de Jesus Saldaña, was hit by the crossfire while taking off work to buy a refreshment.
The suspects apparently abandoned their vehicle a block away and fled in different directions,one of them entering a hospital being chased by additional state police agents who had just arrived to reinfoce the pursuit. He was taken down and held to the floor by one of the agents.
Two other suspects escaped, one of them in the Temple of San Jose, on calle 15 de Mayo, and the other ducking in the buildings of the Universidad Regiomontana.
A few moments later, state police found the hideout of the gang in a four star hotel, the Hotel Antares on Avenida Constitución and Calle Venustiano Carranza, where the gang had apparently rented a four room block on two different floors.
For two hours, authorities cordoned off the area around the hotel before attempting an assault on the third and fifth floors
The agents were greeted with fragmentary hand grenades attacks and AK-47 fire when they attempted their assault on the two rooms held by the suspects. The firefight lasted several minutes. One state police agent was hit by gunfire.
At the conclusion of the firefight, two suspects were killed, two were wounded and four were arrested. Police agents seized six fragmentary grenades, six AK-47 assault rifles with 27 magazines, two AR-15 assault rifles with nine magazines, one .40 caliber pistol, one .45 caliber pistol, three 9mm pistols, 33 other magazines for various pistols and five late model stolen vehicles.
Statistical note: The count is of those described in his compilation. The total for northern Mexico is about 21 people killed. Fourteen Dead in Northern Mexico
Fourteen people were murdered in gang and drug related violence in northern Mexican states, including a Sonora PEI agent and six people massacred late Saturday night at a house party in Juarez.
An unidentified man shot to death and his female companion was wounded in Juarez Saturday evening, say Mexican press reports. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Fernando de la Fuente and Yepomera in the Hacienda las Torres district. The couple were riding a Ford Explorer when they were shot.
Armed suspects intercepted an armored truck on a highway near Chihuahua city Friday night getting away with about $431,000 in cash and securities. The armor truck was owned by the SEPSA compamy.
The attack took place on the 94 Km. Marker of the Chihuahua-Parral highway at about 2000 hrs. Armed suspects riding aboard a Nissan Altima rode up to the vehicle and opened fire forcing the vehicle to a halt. While the guards took refuge in the cab of the vehicle, the suspects cleared the truck of cash and documents, all the while with the guards calling for help over radio.
At the scene investigators found 38 spent cartridge casings for AK-47, eight for AR-15 rifles, plus three casings for a .308 armor piecing round and two for a 12 gauge shotgun.
Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third wounded in an attack in Juarez Sunday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Sierra Madre del Sur and Oscar Flores after two people were picked up from the bus station. The attack forced the Chevrolet to crash.
Eleven people were murdered in six separate incidents late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. One person was shot to death on calle Ejido in the Melchor Ocampo district.
One was shot to death each near the intersections of calles Ponciano Arriaga and Limon, calles Oscar Flores and Montes Urales, calles Durango and Henequen, and one in the Valle de Juärez district.
A house party near the intersection of calles Papaya and Avena was interrupted when an armed suspect burst inside and shot six people to death.
Investigators found several spent cartridge casings for AK-47 assault rifles at the scene.
Serrano's death is the second shooting in two days a PEI agent and the second death of a PEI agent in four days. In total, five municipal and state police have been shot since June 22nd.
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In a speech that also severed the Obama administration from President George W. Bush's "war on terror," Mr. Brennan also said: "The president's strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is not terror because terror is a state of mind and, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself of one's community."
Who writes this stuff? Seinfeld? "Yes, general. It's a war about nothing."
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President Obama's chief national security adviser for counterterrorism, delivered a major policy address on defining the enemy. He laid out the White House policy of detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists, be it al Qaeda, the Taliban or any other group.
This is weazel-worded, mealy-mouthed, and chicken-sh*tted PC. But then again, we have the first black-muslim president or is it just muslim president? This does nothing to win the war if you can't tell people who your enemy is. The American people are very aware of who our enemy is despite what donk Washington politicians say.
In order to defeat this kind of enemy, they need to be crushed. Patton-style. Terrorists are their only weapon, as formidable as it is despicable. They will persist until the terrorists are uprooted, sprayed with Roundup, burned and burned again. Then and only then will they be away from our throats and back at our feet until the next time because Islam is the soil for this ideology, not terrorism.
Hussein, if you want to go after the root cause of terrorism, go after Islam.
Until we make that decision, we have to continually beat down the terrorists and their enablers and whatever else feeds them.
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detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists. The man in the oval office is Muslim. That is why he changed his name from Barry to Barack Hussein.
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The war on terror(ism) was a massive hint that the war in Iraq was about denying the Islamists a tactic, i.e. uscking them into a war against conventional military forces abroad, rather than fighting a police action in our countries.
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This is a war of ideology. If we don't even recognizing the enemies ideology how can we defeat it?
We should have branded the enemies ideology. Islamic Fascism, Fascist Islam, Imperialist Islam, anti-Western Islam, Intolerant Islam, pretty much any adjective that describes the enemy and is difficult for people to support.
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rjschwarz, early on it was called Islamo-fascism. But all sorts of people had fits that Islam was being named and shamed. Hence the "War on Terrorism", which didn't mention the religion of the terrorists... and President Bush's insistence that Islam is a religion of peace, when he saw all the evidence to the contrary.
In Indian-held Kashmir, authorities have banned the beaming of Pakistani channels in north Kashmir and directed the cable operators in Baramulla and Sopore to block five Pakistani news channels and a religious channel with immediate effect. According to a report by the Kashmir Media Service, Bobby Singh who runs the cable operation in north Kashmir said that the Baramulla district magistrate directed cable operators on Friday evening to stop beaming the Pakistani state-run TV channel, and four private TV channels. "The authorities have also directed us to block a Pakistani religious channel," he added. "The authorities have given no reason for banning the Pakistani channels," he added. Baramulla Deputy Commissioner Bashir Ahmed Butt confirmed imposition of the ban.
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Fighter jets and helicopter gunships bombed various areas of Upper Orakzai Agency on Sunday, killing 22 Taliban and injuring 10.
Sources said fighter jets shelled Taliban hideouts at 9am in Qaum Sok, Balyana and Tor Smit, killing 10 Taliban and injuring another four.
Again at 11am, helicopter gunships bombed Taliban hideouts in Mazeed Garhi, Tor Kantri and Sra Mela areas in Upper Orakzai killing 12 Taliban and injuring six.
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The security forces have arrested at least 53 suspects, including the former chief of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), during the ongoing crackdown against banned organisations in Southern Punjab, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to sources, police arrested former SSP chief Tanveer and 19 other suspects of the same outfit from Khanewal. Police also apprehended 20 suspects from Multan, 12 from Vehari, six from Bahawalpur and five suspects from Bahawalnagar, the channel reported.
In a statement issued from Islamabad, SSP chief Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi condemned the arrests, claiming that police had arrested about 170 people belonging to his organisation so far. The crackdown in Southern Punjab was launched to please the US authorities, the channel quoted Ludhianvi as saying.
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Intelligence agencies have revealed that there has been a worrying increase in the activities of banned religious and militant organisations in the province, some of whom have been functioning under new names and have been found to be distributing hate literature, daily Aaj Kal reported on Sunday. According to the agencies' report, jihadi organisations have continued functioning in Hafizabad district, Gujrat, Pakpattan, Attock, Mianwali, Khanewal, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Bahawalpur, DG Khan and Rahim Yar Khan.
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Security forces have apprehended about seven key terrorist commanders and some 225 other suspects from different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including provincial capital Peshawar, Nowshera and Sarband, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to the police, the raids were carried out in different parts of Peshawar city on a tip-off from law enforcement agencies. Officials from the security forces, the Frontier Constabulary and Elite Force, jointly carried out a search operation against terrorists and were provided assistance by the Nowshera police. The forces have confiscated ammunition in the Ziarat Kaka Sahib area of Nowshera, and from Ghari Atta, Ghari Qamaruddin, Bahadur Kalay, Landi Arbab, Mushtaq Abad, Charkha Khel, Bhana Mari and Bhad Beer. The police have captured seven terrorist commanders along with 29 other terrorist suspects from the Bandbasti area adjoining Khyber Agency, and recovered five-kilogramme bombs, 14 rifles, 20 pistols and seven Kalashnikovs, the channel said.
The police said that two arrested Taliban commanders were identified as Huzaifa Mehsud and Abu Abbas who hail from the Waziristan Agency. The Taliban commanders have been moved to an undisclosed location for investigation. The arrested militant commanders were wanted for having carried out explosions in schools and on a police checkpost in Nowshehra.
A key Taliban commander, however, escaped during the hunt. The troops demolished the houses of the leaders of militant organisations during the operation, the channel reported.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were wounded in a blast from a hand-grenade hurled at the police by unidentified gunmen who later escaped in central Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source in Ninewa said.
Gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police checkpoint on Ghazi street, central Mosul, from a commercial street thronging with pedestrians, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The explosion left two civilians injured, he added.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A wanted person blew himself up on Sunday after being holed up by the police, leaving a cop wounded southwest of Mosul, according to a security source.
The police chased a wanted man in the village of Tal al-Sheier, southwest of Mosul. Holed up, the gunman detonated his explosive vest, leaving a policeman wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news ageny.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi security forces captured the mufti of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and an aide of his in the capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to al-Iraqiya TV.
The self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, announced to have been formed in October 2006, is composed of seven armed organizations, including the Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
On April 19, the AQI leaders Abu Ayub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as well as other key members were announced dead during a security raid conducted in al-Tharthar area of al-Anbar province.
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A security force confiscated two precious Rolls Royce vehicles owned by Uday, the son of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a house north of al-Kut city on Sunday, a local security source in Wassit said.
"A security force raided a house in al-Zubaydiya area, (75 km) north of Kut, and confiscated two cars used to be owned by Uday Saddam Hussein," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The two Rolls Royce vehicles, $250,000 each, had been stolen during the chaos that swept Iraq right after the former regime was unseated in 2003," he added, not giving further details.
I'd eventually turn them back in but I would have been awfully tempted to take a joyride or two ...
Uday, born on June 18, 1964, was known for his flair for collecting fancy and unusual vehicles. He was known to have had a fleet of them.
Uday, Saddam's elder son, was killed along with his younger brother Qusay and his nephew Mostafa, by U.S. security forces after a brief violent gunfight in Mosul city on July 23, 2003. He ranked third on the U.S. pack of cards of wanted figures of the former regime.
It's been 2,568 days since Uday was last capable of raping an innocent Iraqi woman. Let us thank the U.S. Army for making it so.
He had led a division named Fedayeen Saddam, founded by his father, which was notorious for its brutal practices. He also chaired the Iraqi Olympic Committee (IOC) and occupied the post of chairman of the Iraqi press syndicate for several years.
Uday produced the newspaper Babel and a local Iraqi TV channel called "Al-shabab TV". He was briefly married to the daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Dori, who was Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, but later divorced her.
She's lucky to be alive ...
Uday is known to have used a body double named Latif Yahia. Yahia attended the same school as Uday when they were children (from approximately age 12 onwards) and it is alleged that he was forcibly recruited and 'groomed' as Uday's double around the same time.
It is also claimed that, as he grew older, Yahia underwent extensive plastic surgery to enhance his resemblance to Uday. After surviving eleven assassination attempts targeted at Uday, Yahia successfully fled Iraq in December 1991.
Yahia wrote a book detailing his life and the life he lived as Uday's body double in his book The Devil's Double. Bearing the same name, a movie is being filmed in Malta. Yahia's story never received much widespread media coverage until after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
This article starring:
Izzat Ibrahim al-Dori
Uday Saddam Hussein
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I'd eventually turn them back in but I would have been awfully tempted to take a joyride or two ...
"Hey, Steve. Nice wheels. Did you get a raise or something?"
Israeli troops arrested on Monday six Palestinians during raids in two West Bank cities, security sources reported. The Israeli forces raided Hebron and Jenin, arresting six people after meticulous house search operations, Palestinian police told Xinhua.
A spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed the arrests, saying the Palestinians were wanted by Israeli security forces.
Meanwhile, In the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Israeli army vehicles advanced into Khan Yonis, south of the strip, and destroyed farms near the security fence separating Gaza and Israel, witnesses said.
A Libyan aid ship stayed on course for the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday despite Israeli warnings that it will be intercepted at sea, said an organiser on board the boat.
"We are heading for Gaza. We will not change direction," Mashallah Zwei, a representative of the Gaddafi Foundation, a Libyan charity, told.
Zwei insisted the foundation was not seeking "a confrontation or a provocation," when asked about the risks of a repeat of an Israeli naval raid on an aid flotilla on May 31 that killed nine Turks.
"For the time being our only thought is delivering the aid to Gaza," he said. "We are supported by the international community, who, we hope, will help us reach our goal." Zwei said the boat was currently "close to Crete" and would likely reach Gaza in about two days.
Israel earlier on Sunday vowed to prevent the Libyan ship from running its blockade of the Palestinian territory. "Israel will not let the boat reach Gaza," minister without portfolio Yossi Peled told Israel's public radio a day after the 92-metre (302-foot) freighter set sail from the Greek port of Lavrio, south of Athens.
Allowing boats to reach Hamas-run Gaza without being checked would have "very serious consequences" for Israel's security, he said.
Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the attempt to reach Gaza, which has been subjected to an Israeli naval blockade for the past four years, was an "unnecessary provocation."
The ship's agent and the Greek foreign ministry had on Saturday assured Israel that the Moldova-flagged vessel, chartered by the charity run by the son of Libyan leader Mouammar Gaddafi, Saif-ul-Islam, was heading for the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
Over the last few days, Israel's top diplomat Avigdor Lieberman has been talking with his counterparts in Greece and Moldova in a bid to encourage the ship to call off its mission, a statement from his office said.
"The foreign ministry believes that due to these talks, the ship will not reach Gaza," it said.
The Libyan mission comes six weeks after a disastrous Israeli naval raid on another aid flotilla, which left nine Turkish nationals dead and provoked a major diplomatic crisis with Ankara.
Global pressure over the incident has since forced Israel to significantly change its policy on Gaza, and now it only prevents the import of arms and goods that could be used to build weapons or fortifications.
Israel had even approached UN chief Ban Ki-moon with a request asking the international community "to exert its influence on the government of Libya" to prevent the ship from going to Gaza, media reports said.
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Want to put the fear of G-d into these clowns?
Have one or two of these babies hovering nearby:
These things want to kill you. The pilots are there just to hold them back.
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hey fagotts this site is so crappy that as no visitors !!!!
what only 20 old fart idians and 4 chickenshit jews as a readers? runtburg owner you are pathetic and irrelevant!
what are you dreaming ,to be the drudge fart report? sorry dude but you are not!!
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Hey, ranter. Why don't you go get yourself a girlfriend or a goat or something so you don't have to entertain yourself in this manner.
Israel on Sunday vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts to divert it to Egypt.
Israel will not let the boat reach Gaza, minister without portfolio Yossi Peled told Israels public radio a day after the 92-metre (302-foot) freighter Amalthea set sail from the Greek port of Lavrio, south of Athens.
Allowing vessels to reach the Hamas-run Gaza Strip without being checked would have very serious consequences for Israels security, he said.
There was confusion over the ships destination on Sunday with organisers saying it was staying the course for Gaza, despite diplomatic reassurances from Greece that it was headed for the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
We are heading for Gaza. We will not change direction, Mashallah Zwei, a representative of the Kadhafi Foundation, a Libyan charity, told AFP by satellite phone from on board the Amalthea. He insisted the foundation was not seeking a confrontation or a provocation, when asked about the risks of a repeat of an Israeli naval raid on an aid flotilla on May 31 that killed nine Turks.
Zwei said the ship was currently close to Crete and would likely reach Gaza in about two days.
Israels Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the attempt to reach Gaza, which has been subjected to an Israeli naval blockade for the past four years, was an unnecessary provocation.
The goods can be transferred to the Gaza Strip through Ashdod port after being checked, a statement from his office said late on Saturday. However, we will not allow the entry of arms, weapons or anything which will support fighting into Gaza. We recommend that the organisers either let the ship be escorted by navy vessels to Ashdod port (in southern Israel) or that is sails directly to the port of El-Arish in Egypt.
Baraks office had earlier said the defence minister spoke with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and asked if Egypt would agree to accept the boat at the port of El-Arish.
It was not immediately clear if Egypt had acceded to Baraks request but the ships agent and the Greek foreign ministry had on Saturday assured Israel that the Moldova-flagged vessel, chartered by a charity linked to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, was heading for El-Arish.
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Be a real shame if the vessel mysteriously explodes. Or sinks with all hands.
Either way, it will be a shame. A real bummer. Yep.
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My thoughts exactly, Scooter. With the inshallah maintenance they have in most Muslim countries, and all the reefs and other underwater hazards near Gaza, it just could happen.
A fire could break out in the engine room, or something could rip the bottom of the ship out. Happens all the time.
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The Greek downward spiral continues...
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Kim Il Jong would know how to handle this. Juche for the Jews.
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The IDF Navy may, if the ship approaches Gaza, disable the propeller this time. In retrospect, this should arguably have been done with the Mavi Marmara ship.
A ship as big as the Amalthea will then take several days to be towed to port.
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Maybe it's time to stop playing Muzzi/Tranzi game.
[Straits Times] MUSLIM separatist organisations confirmed yesterday they unilaterally suspended organised attacks against government security forces for the past month in three districts of Narathiwat province in southern Thailand.
The unilateral cease-fire - billed as a confidence-building measure - was implemented in Rangae, Yingor and Choh I-Rong districts from June 10 until yesterday. "The aim of this limited cease-fire was two-fold: to indicate the movement's sincerity in wanting to hold a dialogue on the political future of the southern provinces, and at the same time to demonstrate the movement's command and control in the area," according to a statement sent to The Nation by the Patani Malay Liberation Movement.
The PMLM is a joint working group made up of members from the Patani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) and representatives from the Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Coordinate (BRN-C). Pulo and BRN emerged in the late 1960s but collapsed in the late 1980s following a blanket amnesty that crippled their armed resistance.
PMLM spokesman Kasturi Mahkota, who is also vice president of Pulo, said the "modalities of the suspension of hostilities covered only organised attacks on the security forces and attacks on government targets". A senior Thai Army officer in Narathiwat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the unilateral cease-fire but was quick to point out a violation on June 18 in Cho I-Rong when a police car was hit by a roadside bomb attack.
There were three other point-blank shootings against government security forces as well, but it is understood these weren't seen as "organised attacks", as described in the PMLM statement. A Thai government source said Army chief General Anupong Paochinda, was aware of the militants' unilateral move and had observed it with keen interest.
The unilateral suspension of hostilities was the first of its kind in the wave of violence that erupted a decade ago but was not officially recognised until January 2004 when scores of militants raided an Army base and made off with more than 300 weapons. More than 4,000 people have been killed from insurgency-related violence since January 2004.
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An English-language al Qaeda magazine in its first issue ran an article it said was penned by US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calling for the execution of anyone who commits blasphemy.
"The proper solution to this growing campaign of" blasphemy is "the execution of those involved," reads the article in web magazine Inspire, in a text provided by the US monitoring service SITE on Sunday.
The article singles out Seattle-based cartoonist Molly Norris, who satirically proposed to make a blasphemous page on a social networking website, although Islam bans the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous.
"A cartoonist out of Seattle, Washington, named Molly Norris started" the Facebook page, the article attributed to the radical Yemeni cleric says.
"She should be taken as a prime target of assassination, along with others who participated in her campaign," he added.
"The large number of participants makes it easier for us because there are many targets to choose from," reads the article in the magazine of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.
The killings should not, however, be limited to participants on the Facebook page, the article says.
"Because (participants) are practising a 'right' that is defended by the law, they have the backing of the entire Western political system. This would make... attacking any Western target legal from an Islamic viewpoint."
"We will fight" against blasphemers, the article says. "We will instigate, we will bomb, and we will assassinate, and may our mothers be bereaved of us if we do not rise in... defence."
SITE said the magazine was released by Al-Fajr Media Centre, an Internet distribution network for extremist groups.
The release "comes amongst several communiques posted by Al-Fajr for AQAP, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and the Islamic State of Iraq, indicating that it is an authentic publication," SITE said.
Awlaki, now based in Yemen, rose to prominence last year after it emerged he had communicated by email with Major Nidal Hasan, a US army psychiatrist accused of opening fire on colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13.
The imam has also been linked to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight with explosives in his underwear on December 25.
A US official said in April that US President Barack Obama's administration had authorised the targeted killing of Awlaki, after American intelligence agencies concluded the cleric was directly involved in anti-US plots.
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I thought that killings blasphemers is what the US Military is doing. I guess blaspheming is in the eye of the beholder.
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Well, I guess we are all blasphemers in the eyes of AQ. But on the other hand, why don't they just blow it out of their collective arses. Strangers are noticed around here and the neighbors act accordingly. One never knows who is armed (some with carry permits and probably a far larger number without carry permits)--this tends to keep the crime rate low.
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At least 14 Afghan police personnel and a provincial official were killed in three separate insurgent attacks across northern Afghanistan, government and security officials said on Sunday.
Somali pirates have failed in their attempt to hijack an Iranian vessel carrying crude oil to Spain, an official from the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) says.
At least seven people have been killed in fighting in south Sudan's Upper Nile state when soldiers attacked a rival militia, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday announced fresh agitation programmes from tomorrow demanding release of its top three and other leaders and activists.
[Bangla Daily Star] For the first time in the country's history, a court yesterday sent the officer-in-charge and 10 other policemen of Singra Police Station to jail on charge of killing a youth in "crossfire".
In Indian-held Kashmir, authorities have banned the beaming of Pakistani channels in north Kashmir and directed the cable operators in Baramulla and Sopore to block five Pakistani news channels and a religious channel with immediate effect. According to a report by the Kashmir Media Service, Bobby Singh who runs the cable operation in north Kashmir said that the Baramulla district magistrate directed cable operators on Friday evening to stop beaming the Pakistani state-run TV channel, and four private TV channels. "The authorities have also directed us to block a Pakistani religious channel," he added. "The authorities have given no reason for banning the Pakistani channels," he added. Baramulla Deputy Commissioner Bashir Ahmed Butt confirmed imposition of the ban.
Fighter jets and helicopter gunships bombed various areas of Upper Orakzai Agency on Sunday, killing 22 Taliban and injuring 10. 
The security forces have arrested at least 53 suspects, including the former chief of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), during the ongoing crackdown against banned organisations in Southern Punjab, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
Intelligence agencies have revealed that there has been a worrying increase in the activities of banned religious and militant organisations in the province, some of whom have been functioning under new names and have been found to be distributing hate literature, daily Aaj Kal reported on Sunday. According to the agencies' report, jihadi organisations have continued functioning in Hafizabad district, Gujrat, Pakpattan, Attock, Mianwali, Khanewal, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Bahawalpur, DG Khan and Rahim Yar Khan.
Security forces have apprehended about seven key terrorist commanders and some 225 other suspects from different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including provincial capital Peshawar, Nowshera and Sarband, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were wounded in a blast from a hand-grenade hurled at the police by unidentified gunmen who later escaped in central Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source in Ninewa said.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi security forces captured the mufti of the so-called 
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: A security force confiscated two precious Rolls Royce vehicles owned by Uday, the son of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a house north of al-Kut city on Sunday, a local security source in Wassit said.
An English-language al Qaeda magazine in its first issue ran an article it said was penned by US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calling for the execution of anyone who commits blasphemy.
