(KSLA) -- A Texas woman is in stable conditioning after opening a box of chocolates that was actually a bomb.
The 60 year old victim is in stable condition after surgery. The woman opened the package on Friday July 9th, and her face was pelted with nails and tacks.
Neighbors claim the package appeared as a box of chocolates left inside a gift bag. One neighbor says there was a card attached that simply said, "Thank you."
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What the media isn't telling you is that the lady who opened the chocolates is the wife of the president of one of the largest oil exploration company in the Gulf of Mexico.
More interesting story now, ain't it.
Where is the media??
Why aren't they all over this story?
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Copycat, Blazing Saddles did it first.
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Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get.
A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a group of international forces early Tuesday, killing three British troops, before fleeing, a military spokesman said. Four others were wounded.
It was the second time in eight months that an Afghan killed British troops working with local security forces. In November, an Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint also in southern Helmand province, where Tuesday's attack happened.
President Hamid Karzai quickly sent a letter of apology to the British government. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander NATO forces in Afghanistan, called for unity among international troops and the Afghan soldiers in the fight against the Taliban.
Such intentional attacks are rare, but emphasize the difficulties in rapidly expanding the Afghan forces to take over responsibility for security from international troops. Critics have said a rushed schedule aimed at allowing U.S. forces to begin drawing down by next year makes it difficult to screen out insurgent sympathizers and also to properly train up Afghan forces in military discipline.
The renegade Afghan soldier used a shoulder-mounted launcher to fire a grenade at British soldiers at around 2 a.m., Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zaher Azimi said.
The soldier escaped and is being sought, he said, adding that the motive of the attack was not yet clear. A joint coalition-Afghan team is investigating.
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that the motive of the attack was not yet clear...
Well we know for certain he was not an islamic terrorist as. "John O. Brennan, 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."
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He may have indeed been a "renegade" but there is a very, very good chance the Taliban are pulling on Afghani military uniforms and infiltrating the Afghani security forces and coalition facilities.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Three powerful bomb explosions have killed 11 people and wounded seven others in the troubled southern Afghanistan.
One bomb ripped through a minibus in Helmand province, killing five civilians and wounding another six.
The other explosion hit a tractor in Zabul province. Three people were killed and another wounded.
Also in Uruzgan, a bomb blast killed three guards of a road-building company.
The developments come as a human rights group says 2010 has been the most violent year in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion.
Of course. It's the first year we're pushing back, The same happened in Iraq during the Surge. It remains to be seen whether we can make it work in Afghanistan, but the dynamic was expected by anyone paying attention.
Afghanistan Rights Monitor says 1076 civilians were killed during the first six months of 2010. The figure shows a sharp increase from a civilian death toll of 684 for the same period in 2007. The group has also recorded 1200 violent incidents last June. This is the highest number in any single month since 2002.
June 2010 was also the deadliest month for the US-led forces in which 103 foreign troops were killed, 60 of them Americans.
Most troops there implies most casualties. This is not brain surgery, O Iran PressTV reporter.
This comes despite a massive US-led troop surge in the war-torn country. The increasing violence against civilians has undermined support for the presence of US-led forces in the country.
Or not. This, too, remains to be seen.
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1076 civilians were killed during the first six months of 2010
And at least the 11 described above for the second six months. Virtually all the civilians killed are by the Taliban - and most are not even collateral damage incurred while attempting to attack military targets.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The International Criminal Court issued a second arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for the crime of genocide, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.
Four months ago an appeals panel at the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal ruled that judges made an "error in law" when they refused last year to indict al-Bashir on international law's gravest charge.
Prosecutors then filed their case again and on Monday judges issued an arrest warrant charging al-Bashir with three counts of genocide.
Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo accuses al-Bashir of keeping 2.5 million refugees from specific ethnic groups in Darfur in camps "under genocide conditions, like a gigantic Auschwitz."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] East Africa saw the emergence of a new international terrorist group Monday, as Somalia's most dangerous al-Qaida-linked militia claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in Uganda that killed 74 people during the World Cup.
The explosions in the closing moments of Sunday's match ripped through a crowded restaurant and a rugby club in the capital Kampala.
Al-Shabaab militants in anarchic Somalia had already threatened to attack Uganda for sending peacekeeping troops to prop up its fragile, Western-backed government.
In Mogadishu, the group threatened more attacks unless Uganda and Burundi withdrew their peacekeepers. "Al Shabaab was behind the two bomb blasts in Uganda," spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told reporters. "We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi: If they do not take out their AMISOM troops from Somalia, blasts will continue, and it will happen in Bujumbura too."
Al-Shabaab is fighting the Somali government and claims links with al-Qaeda.
"At one of the scenes, investigators identified a severed head of a Somali national, which we suspect could have been a suicide bomber," said army spokesman Felix Kulayigye. "We suspect it's al Shabaab because they've been promising this."
Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura said some arrests had been made, but gave no details. He said police had begun reviewing security in public places.
Burundi, which also contributes troops to the peacekeeping mission, stepped up security, said an army spokesman in the capital, Bujumbura.
The dead included one American. President Barack Obama condemned what he called cowardly attacks, and the White House said the Federal Bureau of Investigation would help in the investigation.
One bomb targeted the Ethiopian Village restaurant, a popular night-spot that was heaving with soccer fans and is frequented by foreign visitors. The second attack struck the Lugogo Rugby Club, which was also showing the match.
Coordinated attacks have been a hallmark of al Qaeda and groups linked to Osama bin Laden's militant network.
Is it time to rename Al-Shabaab as "Al Qaeda in Somalia"? This would ease those who believe we are fighting Al Qaeda instead of Islam-fascist jihadis...
Among the dead were at least 60 Ugandans, an Irish woman, and 11 Ethiopians and Eritreans. Two had not been identified.
The U.S. State Department said one American citizen was killed and five injured. The U.S. charity Invisible Children said one of its members, Nate Henn from Wilmington, Delaware, had been killed in the rugby club blast.
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[Maghrebia] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Sunday (July 11th) vowed to execute 78-year-old French hostage Michel Germaneau within 15 days, Journal Tahalil reported. AQIM demanded a ransom and the release of Salafist prisoners in return for Germaneau's life. "France will have sentenced its citizen to death" if it fails to comply, AQIM said in a statement published on Islamist websites. The elderly hostage, a retired petrol sector engineer for an Algerian company, was abducted April 21st in northern Niger along with his Algerian driver Abidine Ouaghi. The Algerian was later released in Mali.
O brave, brave Lions of Islam!
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"Hah! I blow my nose at you, sons of a silly person!"
Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda's capital, suggesting that militants had planned a third bombing during the World Cup final, officials said Tuesday. Four foreign suspects were arrested in connection with the find.
The discovery of a suicide vest in a suburb of Kampala on Monday was consistent with what was seen at the two blast sites in Kampala, said the inspector general of police, Kale Kaihura. The vest contained ball bearings, as did the bombs that exploded Sunday. Officials believe suicide bombers took part in the twin blasts during the World Cup final.
"What we found here is consistent with what we found on both scenes of crime. And so this is a very significant lead in our investigation," Kaihura said.
Four people were arrested in connection with the discovery of the unexploded vest, said Edward Ochom, the director of criminal investigations. He said the four were not Ugandan but would not say their nationalities. Kale hinted that Somali nationals could be among those arrested.
Kaihura said a Ugandan militant group the Allied Democratic Forces may also have played a role in the attack. Like al-Shabab, the ADF is primarily a Muslim radical group.
The death toll from Sunday's attack rose to 76, Kaihura said. Officials found a bomb vest, detonator, wires and ball bearings in a bag at the disco similar to a laptop computer bag, he said.
Al-Shabab, Somalia's most dangerous militant group, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Islamists are calling for Uganda to withdraw their African Union peacekeeping forces from Somalia.
A Yemeni appeals court upheld on Sunday the death sentences against four al Qaeda militants in deadly attacks that included the assault on the U.S. Embassy and the killing of two Belgian tourists in 2008, a court official said.
The four were convicted last year as part of an al Qaeda cell behind the March 2008 attack on the embassy that killed a school guard in an adjacent building. The men also were convicted of killing two Belgian women tourists in January 2008.
The official said the appeals court on Sunday overturned the death sentences of two other militants from the same cell who were convicted of attacks on police in southern Hadramut province, and sentenced them to 12 years each instead.
Yemen, an impoverished country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, has struggled to confront a growing al Qaeda presence.
The al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen got a boost in 2009 when the organization merged with the Saudi branch and dramatically increased the pace of its attacks. Militants are believed to have built up strongholds in remote parts of the country, allying with powerful tribes that resent the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Besides the cases of the six militants, the court in San'a on Sunday also upheld sentences of up to 15 years imprisonment against 10 other militants, including four Syrians and a Saudi man, for masterminding the attacks. The cell also was accused of waging successive attacks on police and oil installations.
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This is easily one of the strangest stories since we started monitoring Mexican drug and criminal gang news.
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Three dead and two wounded are the toll in a shootout early Sunday morning in northern Juarez close to the Zaragona International bridge, according to the Mexican daily El Mexicano.
At the moment there are conflicting reports as to what happened. News organizations in Juarez say there was a pitched battle lasting more than 40 minutes involving Juarez police and Mexican Federal agents near the Benito Juarez police station in far northern Juarez near to the US border, while Mexican local, state and federal authorities deny any police were involved in the gun battle.
Photos released by news organizations hours after the shootout show a number of damaged vehicles and crime scenes where some of the shootings took place.
At about 0100 hrs. Sunday morning residents near the intersection of calles Zaragoza and Waterfill reported massive gunfire near the Benito Juarez police station, where a male bystander was killed. According to the report by El Mexicano walls of buildings in the area showed several bullet hits, about 22 in all.
Nearby, a man was found dead in his Nissan Maxima, having been struck twice by bullets.
The apparent impact caused an explosion which completely burned the truck. Conflicting reports say the SUV was carrying hand grenades which exploded, but apparently another report said the suspects were carrying Molotov cocktails, one of which exploded. Both suspects died at the scene.
The poor, heavily armed innocents! No doubt the Holy Virgin saw to it their souls ended up where they ought.
Sunday morning the US daily El Paso Times reported that a vehicle chase by El Paso police took place early Sunday morning, after officers observed an SUV leaving the scene of an accident. The chase ended at the Zaragoza bridge where the suspects eluded pursuit by US police by speeding into Juarez. The newspaper also reported Mexican authorities denied the Benito Juarez police station was involved.
Reports are the Border Patrol station at the Zaragoza bridge was fired on as the SUV sped into Mexico. No was reported hurt in that exchange.
News reports at the time suggested that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was called in to investigate the pursuit.
The Mexican daily Tiempo reported Sunday afternoon that the police station wasn't even attacked, posting photos provided by authorities of the building's facade on their website.
The official version from Mexican authorities is that not even the Juarez police were involved. However, witness accounts say Juarez municipal police were in fact involved.
Who are you going to believe, the authorities or your lying eyes?
According to El Mexicano, emergency calls said that gunfire was reported near the intersection of avenidas Manuel Gomez Morin and Prolongacion Jilotepec.
Reports El Mexicano ( monitoring police frequencies ): "
"Many bodies are lying on the new road, near station Benito Juarez, and wounded comrades are being moved to Star Medica".
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With the Jersey barriers forcing zig-zags, it's hard to imagine anyone speeding over the border. Are they starting to speak Urdu down there? This reads like a RAB report without the crossfire.
Twenty individuals are the toll from ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico, including four young men executed in the Jardin de Bosque district of Juarez and two abducted Monterrey, Nuevo Leon police officers found dead late Sunday night.
Six individuals were murdered Monday morning in three separate incidents in Juarez, Chihuahua, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Jesús Paz Arce de 41, was found shot to death near the intersection of calles Santos Ortiz and Luis Morada in the Oasis Revolucion district.
Four unidentified men in their 20s were shot to death near the intersection of calles Bosque de Jacaranda and Montebello in the exclusive Jardines del Bosque district. Witnesses say hooded armed suspects dismounted from a black van with the four victims with their hands bound by white plastic ties, forced them to roll their shirts over their heads and shot each in the back of the head.
The third incident took place at a downtown Juarez adult detention facility (CERESO) when an inmate, Gerardo Quiñonez Rangel, 28, was found dead in the laundry room. The victim had been beaten to death.
Witnesses say the four were riding aboard their vehicle when it was intercepted by armed suspects riding in a Dodge Neon.
An unidentified teenager was shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim was changing a tire on his vehicle when armed suspects rode up on him and began chasing him before shooting him to death. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Ramón Aranda y Oro in the Barrio Alto district of Juarez.
Two still unidentified Monterrey municipal police officers who were kidnapped Saturday night were among the five people found murdered in a van late Sunday night according to Mexican press reports.
Police in Monterrey were tipped off to the van next to a toy store on Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada in the Palomas district at about 2200 hrs. A message written on white card board warned, "This is going to happen to all those who patrol the Z."
An unidentified man was found dead in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida 5th and Calle Rayon in the Nueva Aurora district at about 0310 hrs. Witnesses say armed suspects riding in a pickup truck shot the man.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Torreon Coahuila, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found at 1340 hrs. Saturday on Calzada Ãvila Camacho in the Aviation district. He had been tortured and then shot with a .223 assault rifle. At the scene was also found a Dodge Cirrus and a Toyota Camry.
Three men and a woman were murdered Saturday in Tijuana in four separate crimes, according to the Mexican daily El Sol de Tijuana. Carmen Sanchez Vargas, 49, was shot to death at her home on calle Circunvalacion in the Los Alamos district. Investigators think a lone gunman entered the home through the courtyard and shot the victim using a revolver.
Twelve bodyguards of Farc rebel leader Guillermo Saenz have died in an army attack, Colombian special forces say. Commandos launched a surprise raid on a base of the rebels' supreme commander in central Colombia's Tolima mountains at an altitude of 2,500m (8,200ft). Six soldiers were also killed.
Local media said the army was gradually closing in on the chief of Farc, which has been fighting since the 1960s.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe congratulated the special forces team for the operation, which is said to have taken place in the early hours of Sunday. Mr Uribe said: "I can confirm that one of the guerrillas killed in the operation was a woman named Magaly. She was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 soldiers and police officers."
He was referring to Magaly Grannobles - a friend of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) leader - who also commanded a rebel unit. The commander of Colombia's armed forces, Gen Freddy Padilla de Leon, described her as "an extremely dangerous criminal and a trusted confidante of the Farc leader".
Gen Padilla said the killing of the Farc bodyguards was as "a decisive move against the security apparatus that guards the leadership of the Farc".
BERLIN - Germany banned a donor organisation on Monday that has funnelled money to Hamas, saying its support for the Palestinian Islamist group meant it forfeited the right to exist.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that by supporting Hamas, the donor group the IHH (Internationale Humanitaere Hilfsorganisation) had violated a clause in the German constitution on international goodwill.
The IHH called the ban a disgrace and said it would take immediate legal action against it.
De Maiziere said the Frankfurt-based IHH abused donors good intentions to support a terrorist organisation with money supposedly donated for charitable purposes.
Organisations that directly or indirectly align themselves from German soil against Israels very right to existence have forfeited their right to form an association, de Maiziere added in a statement.
IHH chairman Mustafa "Hans" Yoldas said the ban was misanthropic and denied humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
Its macabre that the interior minister is punishing those looking after orphaned children instead of criticising the ones turning children into orphans, he said in a statement. Were firmly convinced these measures will not stand up to any court in a country under the rule of law."
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"It's macabre that the interior minister is punishing those looking after orphaned children instead of criticising the ones turning children into orphans
What's macabre is islamists turning children into bombs and corpses. What's macabre is Palestinians teaching their children that there is no higher goal in life than death. Keeping little minds focused exclusively on hatred, murder and genocide.
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When you're dealing with orphans in the Palestinian territories, it's tough to separate donor organizations from Hamas, because Hamas controls the orphanages & indoctrinates the orphans with the desire to become martyrs.
"Charities" that say they only support the "good" work in the territories can't say that with a straight face. Donor aid comes with Hamas strings.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] At least 27 police officers have been injured in Northern Ireland, including three who were hit by gunshot pellets, during an overnight riot, reports say.
Missiles were thrown and petrol bombs ignited in clashes between Catholics and Protestants ahead of the biggest day of Northern Ireland's marching season, AFP reported.
"This is utterly wrong and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms," said Chief Superintendent Mark Hamilton of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
"These officers were doing their jobs, were policing their local community and have been attacked whilst doing so."
Hamilton criticized those involved in the riots as having intentions to cause "mayhem and destruction."
Protestant Orangeman march, also called "The Twelfth," is celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland as they mark the victory of Prince Williams of Orange over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of Boyne in 1690.
Despite a 1998 peace agreement, Northern Ireland is still subject to violent outbreaks around July 12, as Catholics oppose the marches and prevent them from taking place.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A young Canadian prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has rejected a plea deal that would allow him to serve a shorter prison sentence in exchange for pleading guilty to a war crime.
Oh well, life it is ...
"I will not take any of the offers because it'll give the US government an excuse for torturing me and abusing me when I was a child," AFP quoted Omar Khadr as telling a military tribunal at the Guantanamo detention facility on Monday.
Ah yes, the young lion cub of the Khadr family. His father called on the great Emir Osama bin Laden when they lived in Afghanistan, and young Omar played with the bin Laden boys. Later he was fostered with another emir, which didn't turn out as well as his fond papa hoped.
Khadr confirmed that US officials have offered him a plea deal. According to the deal, if he pleads guilty to committing a war crime, he will receive a five-year prison sentence instead of the 30 years he faces.
Khadr, the last Westerner at Guantanamo, has dismissed his defense team for the third time and says he will not attend the proceedings.
"It's going to be the same thing with lawyers or without lawyers. It's gonna be a life sentence," Khadr said.
We live in hope ...
Khadr, who is now 23 years old, was 15 when US forces in Afghanistan took him prisoner in 2002. He was later charged with war crimes based on the allegation that he threw a grenade that killed a US soldier.
Fifteen is old enough to know that a grenade goes kaboom when you throw it ...
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[Dawn] Pakistan's political heartland has ordered a crackdown on militants after a series of devastating attacks and accusations of links to banned groups, officials said Monday. Nothing to get excited about. These "crackdowns" usually last about two weeks. The Lahore High Court then lets everybody go for lack of evidence.
New Delhi and Washington have long demanded that Pakistan root out extremist militant groups that use its soil to launch attacks across the country, as well as in neighbouring Afghanistan and India. New Delhi and Washington will still be demanding the same thing when the Last Trumpet parps.
But the details and scope of the apparent crackdown - which comes just days before Pakistan is due to host India's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna for talks in Islamabad - were unclear. Pakistain is usually pretty hazy when it comes to details. They not too distinct when it comes to the Big Picture, either.
"The government has ordered a policy of zero tolerance against all these groups. There are at least 2,000 to 2,200 activists of banned outfits being closely monitored in Punjab," police official Akram Naeem Bharoka told AFP. "Oh, they're being monitored, are they?"
"Oh, yasss! Closely monitored!"
"We have very clear instructions from the government that no outlawed organisation should be allowed to continue their activities in any part of the province," Bharoka said. "Certainly not! They're outlawed, after all."
Asked how many people had been arrested and offices targeted, the senior official in Punjab police said only that figures were being compiled. "It's a lot, though."
Police confirmed raids and arrests of militants from extremist Sunni Muslim group Sipah-e-Sihaba Pakistan (SSP) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity seen as a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba group India blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. "We have arrested at least eight people belonging to different banned organisations," Lahore city police chief Aslam Tareen told AFP. "These organisations have been involved in distributing hate material and promoting sectarianism," he said. The government ordered police to curb the activities of these groups, he added.
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[Dawn] A minor bomb blast in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on Monday injured three people, including a minister in the local government and a journalist, an official said.
The blast occurred outside the home of the Minister for Institutional Finance, Stamp and Judicial Tax in the Uttar Pradesh government, Nand Gopal Nandi, at about 11:45 am (0615 GMT).
"Preliminary reports have confirmed that the blast was triggered by a crude bomb on a bike parked beside the road," district magistrate Sanjay Prasad said from Allahabad, 200 kilometres (124 miles) from state capital Lucknow.
He said the three wounded men had been hospitalised but was unable to give details of their injuries.
The journalist was working for the national daily newspaper The Indian Express.
Local television reports claimed that Nandi was critically injured.
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[Dawn] A government official says a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops in northwestern Pakistan, killing one soldier.
Local administrator Jehanzeb Khan says Monday's attack in Sanghar village in the Orakzai tribal area also wounded four other troops in the vehicle.
The Pakistani military declared victory in Orakzai in June after pounding Taliban militants in the area for months with airstrikes and artillery. But militant attacks and military operations in the area have continued.
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AHMEDABAD - Two activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were arrested here on the eve of Gujarats popular annual Hindu religious procession.
Following a tip-off, police nabbed Abdul Wali and Shamim Saiyed while they were riding a motorcycle in a congested locality where the Rath yatra is scheduled to halt for a while during its 14-km journey through narrow lanes and bylanes of the old city on Tuesday. A revolver, an airgun and 20 live bullets were recovered from the duo who have been working in a cloth shop here for the past seven months.
Director-General of Police Shabbir Khandwawala told Khaleej Times that Wali hailing from Patna in Bihar was an accused in the conspiracy to blow up Howrah bridge in Kolkata and had several cases registered against him for anti-social activities.
He is also accused of sending youth from Jalgaon in Maharashtra for training in Pakistan. He had been a top officer-bearer of SIMI previously and was actively involved in its activities, the police chief said.
Saiyed, who originally hails from Azamgadh in Uttar Pradesh, is also wanted for crimes committed in West Bengal.
Meanwhile, the entire 65,000-strong police force has been kept on its toes for Tuesdays procession here as well as 85 other similar religious marches to be held in other cities of Gujarat.
About 18,000 policemen will be on duty in the city where the yatra passes through a number of communally-sensitive areas which have witnessed Hindu-Muslim clashes in the past.
The state government has also asked for 20 companies of central paramilitary forces and five companies of State Reserved Police each from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded Monday in a bomb blast in west of Baghdad, according to a police source.
An improvised explosive device went off on Monday (July 12) targeting a military vehicle in al-Nasr Wal Salam region in Abu Ghrieb district, west of Baghdad, injuring three Iraqi soldiers and damaging the vehicle, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Security forces sealed off the whole region and started a wide-scale searching campaign, he added.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi military force stormed the Mosul university on Monday and searched students and professors, according to a police source.
A force from the 2nd division of the Iraqi army stormed on Monday afternoon (July 12) the Mosul university and sealed off all roads leading to it, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, pointing out that the force searched students and professors. He did not give more details.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Two Iranian infiltrators were arrested on Monday in northeast of Baaquba, according to a security source.
Security forces arrested on Monday (July 12) two Iranian persons in Imam Wies region in Khanaqin, northeast of Baaquba, for entering the country illegally, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
They are suspected for smuggling drugs as an amount of drugs were found in their possession, he added.
That doesn't mean they were smugglers, that's just an excuse ...
Baaquba, the capital of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
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Lost hikers, no doubt.
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Even if they're employed by al-Quds or some other Iranian military organization, if they're smuggling large amounts of hard drugs, they won't be distinguishable from members of a criminal smuggling gang for long. Look at the Mexicans & the Zetas. Third-World military discipline breaks down fast in the presence of loose cash, illegal drugs, and covert conditions.
I have to wonder how much of this sort of thing has already happened within the Iranian military, and just how hollowed out they are by it.
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getting caught smuggling drugs in Iran will get you a death penalty. Our Iranian "friends" should have no problem with milking these criminals for info then executing them, correct?
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[Ma'an] A PLC member in Gaza and an Israeli MK reported Tuesday afternoon that warships had surrounded a Libyan aid ship 100 kilometers off the Gaza coast.
A military spokesman said he could not confirm the reports, made to Ma'an from Jamal Al-Khudari in Gaza and MK Ahmad Tibi in Jerusalem.
Tibi and Al-Khudari, who are both reportedly in touch with the ship's organizers, said the crews were determined to continue to their destination, the Gaza City Port.
Al-Khudari said he believed Israeli warnings were serious, noting the similarity of the Israeli actions to the 31 May attack on a ship from the Freedom Flotilla, when commandos belayed on board and shot nine passengers in order to commandeer the vessel. A recent military investigation into the incident found no fault with the actions.
Shortly after noon, the Israeli military made radio contact the ship which left the Greek port of Athens on Saturday under a Moldovan flag.
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Short arm inspection on the poop deck in 10 minutes...
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) The captain of a Gaza-bound Libyan aid ship on Tuesday rejected an Israeli demand that it dock instead in Egypt, the mission organizers said, setting course for a new confrontation over Israel's naval blockade.
Six weeks after it drew world outcry by killing nine Turks in the botched boarding of another ship that tried to reach the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory, Israel vowed to turn away or seize the cargo vessel Amalthea -- renamed "Hope" by activists.
A charity chaired by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, said in a statement an Israeli warship was near the Moldovan-flagged Amalthea, which left Greece on Saturday for what would normally be a three-day voyage to Gaza.
In response to the Israeli order to head for the Egyptian port of El Arish, "the captain of the Libyan ship and the head of the foundation team on board reaffirmed that the ship's destination is Gaza and no other place," the charity said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that a "process of identification and communication" with the vessel, some 100 miles from the Gaza coast, had begun but said the ship had not been boarded.
"The Israeli navy has launched preparations and activity to stop the Libyan ship," she said.
The Arabic-language news channel Al Jazeera said Israel had given the Amalthea until midnight (2100 GMT) to change tack or face possible boarding. But an Israeli military spokesman denied there had been such an ultimatum.
An Israeli source briefed on the exchange at sea said the captain had "voiced interest" in rerouting to El Arish. That could not be independently confirmed.
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It is so aggravating that the Israelis don't just simply disable these ships. Then the simple proposition is either they have to ask for assistance, and are given a tow to a proper port, or they don't, and drift away.
All they need are a couple of buoys with cable between them. Once tangled in propeller, that propeller is useless.
You get your serious navy types, and they probably have whole books dedicated to how to stop ships at sea.
Hell, just figure out where their engine is, and put a few .50 cal AP rounds through the hull.
Either a poor choice of words or a poor choice of tactics. Maybe both.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli authorities have given a Gaza-bound Libyan aid ship an ultimatum of midnight on Tuesday to change course, in a radio contact with the vessel, an organizer of the mission on board said.
"Israeli authorities have given us until midnight tonight to change course and head to the (Egyptian) port of El-Arish, otherwise they are threatening to intercept the boat with their navy," Mashallah Zwei said.
Zwei, a member of the Gaddafi Foundation charity which organized the shipment, told AFP by satellite phone that the Israelis were told the request would be "studied before a response is given."
The latest attempt to run Israel's naval blockade on Gaza comes six weeks after a deadly Israeli naval raid in which nine Turkish activists were killed.
However, in response to the Israeli order to head for El Arish, "the captain of the Libyan ship and the head of the foundation team on board reaffirmed that the ship's destination is Gaza and no other place," the charity said in a statement.
"The Israelis contacted us and threatened to send their warships to intercept the boat and escort it toward the (Israeli) port of Ashdod if we do not change course," Zwei said earlier.
"We explained to the Israeli authorities that our original destination was Gaza and that we are not here for a provocation," said Zwei, whose foundation is run by Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam.
"We also specified that we are transporting only foodstuffs and medicines and we asked them to let us discharge our cargo in Gaza," he said.
In Israel, a military spokesman said it has "begun preparations" to prevent the ship from reaching the Gaza Strip in defiance of a naval blockade on the Palestinian territory.
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Either a poor choice of words or a poor choice of tactics.
As much as I despise these zealots, I'm hoping for the latter.
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Here we go again... I wouldn't be suprised if it gets boarded and sweeped, then let through if the cargo is legit.. Good pr on world scene for Israelis , although only lvl headed folk will think so
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Sink it. If Israel doesn't, this sh$$ will continue until either Israel is broke, or someone succeeds and they lose. Blowing it out of the water sends a very clear message that you won't put up with this nonsense any longer, and will react with force to ANY incursion. Sane people will take note and stop: insane people deserve what they get. Islam is insanity cubed.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A military probe has found Israel's armed forces committed serious errors in preparing and carrying out the deadly boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, media reported on Monday.
The 150-page Eiland Commission report presented to Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gaby Ashkenazi on Sunday said mistakes were committed at all levels of command, from top officers to commandos, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported.
The investigators said the navy failed to sufficiently consider the possibility the troops could encounter violent resistance during the May 31 operation.
They won't make that mistake again ...
Video footage showed the commandos being beaten as they boarded the Turkish Mavi Marmara ferry, which led a six-ship flotilla seeking to bust Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Some of the commandos, the military said at the time, were armed with paintball guns -- but also carried pistols -- in anticipation of only light resistance.
However Israeli troops killed nine Turkish activists, prompting worldwide outrage and severely straining ties with Ankara, once Israel's closest Muslim ally.
The findings, to be formally released on Monday, said the clashes occurred partly because the navy had failed to deploy enough forces on the deck of the Mavi Marmara. They also said the military failed to coordinate sufficiently with intelligence agencies in preparing for the raid, and that some of the information used was faulty, media said.
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The findings, to be formally released on Monday, said the clashes occurred partly because the navy had failed to deploy enough forces on the deck of the Mavi Marmara.
So that's the best Iran can do to find fault with how the Israelis handled to boarding.
"It's the Jooooos fault because they didn't come in with overwhelming force! The poor muslims had no choice but to attack after preparing for it for weeks!"
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In a briefing to reporters, Eiland, a former head of the IDFs Planning Division and the National Security Council, said that he did not find any negligence in the planning and implementation of the operation. He also made it clear that there was a difference between operational failures and operational mistakes and that he had only found mistakes, not failures.
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