[Tolo News] Afghan security forces started a military operation against Taliban forces of Evil in the northern Baghlan province, officials say.
Local officials in the northern province of Baghlan have demanded extra troops and equipment to fight the increasing Taliban insurgency in the province.
A senior military official said more troops will be deployed to the province to maintain security, following the wipeout of Taliban from the region.
Despite the increasing lack of security in the province, the government opposition forces have lost fighting with Afghan security forces, said the Provincial Police Chief of Baghlan, Gen. Muhammad Kabir Andarabi.
"The enemies do not have the necessary ability to fight against our forces, but they sometimes cause threats on the roads," he added.
The governor of Baghlan said the province lacks sufficient ammunitions to fight against the government opposition forces, and warned that security will not be maintained in the province unless checkpoints are not established in the province's volatile areas.
"Our police forces have either Hungarian weapons or guns made in the Czech Republic, and this is incomparable with the gunnies who have machine-guns," the governor of Baghlan, Munshi Abdul Majid told TOLOnews reporter.
Local residents are concerned about the increasing insecurity in the province, and also complain about police's misbehaviour with the residents.
"When the government starts operation, it must not pull out the Army and Police forces after a few days," a resident told TOLOnews reporter.
Baghlan was one of the secure provinces of Afghanistan, but situation has been deteriorating in the province in the past two years.
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[Tolo News] Twenty Taliban hard boys were killed and dozens were wounded in operations conducted by Afghan forces in the eastern Laghman province on Tuesday
"In operations conducted in Badbakh village in Laghman, 20 bad boys were killed and numerous others were injured," the Police Chief of Laghman, Azizullah Gharanai told TOLOnews reporter.
Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahid, a front man for Taliban, told TOLOnews that they had killed 27 Afghan and foreign soldiers in these operations that were launched by foreign troops.
He added that they had jugged 13 Afghan soldiers from the battlefield, a claim denied by the provincial police chief.
"We were ambushed by the Taliban and I don't know how many of my fellow soldiers have been killed or wounded," an Afghan injured soldier who has been taken to Laghman Public hospital told TOLOnews reporter.
Afghan and foreign troops target Taliban hideouts in the country's volatile regions in an effort to wipe out bad boys.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Three women died instantly when a blast hit a group of women engaged in cleaning a road in Mogadishu.
The attack took place around mid-day on Wednesday and caused the injuries of another 12 people, seven of them being women cleaners.
The killings took place at Bondhere, particularly around a monument for the unknown soldier, one of the neighbourhoods close to Villa Somalia, the state house in Mogadishu.
Those maimed were shuttled to Madina, the main referral hospital for war casualties in the war-torn scenic city.
Mr Abdullahi Hersi Wardhere alias Istakin, the commissioner of Bondhere, the district where the bombing occurred accused al Shabaab radicals of being behind the deadly act.
He added that the government security forces apprehended and then killed a man alleged to have triggered the detonator.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] At least 21 people have been killed in fighting in south Sudan's Lakes state after rustlers attacked a cattle camp, a south Sudanese military spokesman said on Wednesday.
"The attackers killed one, and then took all the cows from the cattle camp," said Major General Kuol Diem Kuol, from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), of the incident in Yirol County. "Then those in the camp chased and fought back, killing 20 of the raiders," he said.
Clashes between ethnic groups in south Sudan erupt frequently -- often sparked by cattle rustling and disputes over natural resources -- while others are retaliation for previous attacks.
But Kuol said the attack was not due to ethnic divisions.
"These were criminal cowboys wanting to steal, and it is not a tribal issue," said Kuol, who added that SPLA forces had been sent in to secure the area.
"The situation is now under control," he said.
At least 700 people have been killed and more than 152,000 people forced from their homes in the south since January, according to UN estimates.
South Sudan is still recovering from decades of war with the north, during which about two million people were killed in a conflict fuelled by religion, ethnicity, ideology and resources, including oil.
The south is expected in January to vote in a referendum set up under a 2005 peace deal, which promised it the chance to choose independence or to remain part of a united Sudan.
Kuol also said rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) had killed a truck driver in Nzara County in Western Equatoria state on July 29.
"The rebels come across from their bases in Democratic Republic of Congo and attacked, then they returned," said Kuol.
Local media reports suggested hundreds had fled their homes in fear of further LRA raids.
The Ugandan-led LRA began its campaign of brutal guerrilla raids two decades ago, but has launched attacks on a vast swathe of land across several nations.
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D *** NG IT, GREAT JUMPIN' JEHOSOPHAT, Der's a' Cow, Herd Rus'lin agoin' on in the Drylands!
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How many Rantburgers recognize the old geezer in the photo? You'd have to be almost as old as HE is to remember...
Khartoum would make a great target for that small asteroid (500m diameter) that's "supposed" to hit the Earth in a few years. It'd make a big hole - which would fill up, making a huge lake - and get rid of a lot of troublemakers.
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[Maghrebia] the jailed "emir" of a Mauritanian jihadist group vowed retaliation against France and Mauritania for the military raid on an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camp in Mali, AFP reported on Tuesday (August 3rd). The July 22nd operation by Mauritanian troops and French commandos killed 7 gunnies.
"There are men who are prepared to take Dire Revenge™," El Khadim Ould Semane told ANI via telephone from the Nouakchott prison. His al-Qaeda-linked organisation, Ansar Allah El Mourabitoune vi Biladi Chinguitt, was dismantled by Mauritanian security forces in May of 2008.
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[Maghrebia] Algerian security services arrested 11 suspected members of a terror-support network in Bouira, east of Algiers, Echorouk reported on Tuesday (August 3rd). The group is accused of money laundering and providing logistical support to some 25 terrorists in Khemis, Ain Bessam and Jebaihia. According to security services, terrorists specifically recruited the men, all of whom are local merchants and tradesmen with no criminal records. They were reportedly seen as unlikely to arouse suspicion.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A group linked to al-Qaeda has claimed that a boomer from its organization was responsible for an attack on a Japanese supertanker last Wednesday near the Strait of Hormuz.
"Last Wednesday, after midnight, the martyrdom-seeking hero Ayyub al-Taishan ... blew himself up in the Japanese tanker M Star in the Strait of Hormuz between the United Arab Emirates and Oman," the Brigades of Abdullah Azzam group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website used by Boskonians.
Mitsui OSK Lines had previously reported that its tanker the M Star appeared to have been hit by a kaboom July 28 in the waterway between Iran and Oman.
The U.S. monitoring group SITE said the statement claimed the attack was carried out in the name of Omar Abdul Rahman, the Egyptian "Blind Sheikh" imprisoned in the United States for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
The attack sought "to weaken the infidel global order which is thrust unto Mohammedan lands and which loots its resources," the brigade said, according to SITE. "We delayed the publication of the statement until our heroes returned safely to their bases."
Mitsui OSK Lines officials had said crew members saw a flash and heard a kaboom in the incident shortly after midnight local time a week ago.
One crewman was slightly injured in the explosion, which caused minor damage to the ship, including an indentation several meters across in the hull, according to pictures published by state-run UAE news agency WAM.
Mitsui had dismissed reports it might have been hit by a freak wave.
The Japan-bound vessel -- crewed by 16 Filipinos and 15 Indians -- was carrying 270,000 tons of crude oil but did not suffer a spill.
One of the crew saw a flash on the horizon, while several other sailors heard a kaboom. Other crew members said that the weather was fine and there were no reports of high waves in the region.
The ship arrived under its own steam in United Arab Emirates for repairs, and an investigation into the incident was launched.
Attacks claimed by the Azzam Brigades include deadly bombings at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh in 2005 and the firing of rockets which missed two U.S. warships in Jordan's Aqaba port the same year.
A statement last year signed by the Ziad al-Jarrah division of the Azzam Brigades took credit for firing two rockets into northern Israel.
The group claimed that Wednesday's attack was a blow to the global economy and the oil market and that those who have offered other explanations for the incident, which have ranged from a freak wave to an internal explosion, are trying to cover up the operation.
The oil market ignored the incident last Wednesday, with oil prices easing in response to news that U.S. oil inventories had risen.
Traffic near the busy Strait was not disrupted and the tanker diverted to a UAE port where it is being examined.
"They could be claiming this to try to get the global spotlight to seem bigger than they really are," said Theodore Karasik, a security analyst at Dubai-based group INEGMA.
Azzam Brigades, believed to be an al-Qaeda-linked group in the Levant and Egypt, has previously taken responsibility for attacks that other groups have claimed.
Karasik noted that the timing of the claim -- a day after deadly clashes on the Israeli-Lebanese border and two days after rocket fire on Israeli and Jordanian Red Sea port thriving towns -- might be an effort to raise tensions further in the region.
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Seems to me the photo showed the hull bent inward from the waterline up. Hard to do if you are a passenger.
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Typical, "sieze the moment," since no one knows what really happened. I think it's pretty obvious though it wasn't the Al Queda schmucks.
[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday directed the prisons authority to produce detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee before it on August 10.
The order came after the hearing on a complaint case (information obtained by an investigating agency) from the prosecution that alleged that Sayedee committed war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and peace during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Sayedee is the fifth person against whom the prosecution placed allegations before the tribunal of committing offences under International Crimes Tribunal Act, 1973.
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Google Trans:
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More than 100 heavily armed suspects riding aboard a large convoy of pickup trucks invaded the tiny southern Chihuahua town of San Juanito Tuesday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports.
Wearing black uniforms and hoods, the armed group took over the town's municipal police station and disarmed the police. Reports say the gunman wore logos of "El Chapo", probably a reference to the Sinaloa drug gang.
No shootings, abductions or deaths were reported during the six hour invasion.
Reports are during the night the convoy moved on to the southern Chihuahua town of Creel about 17 kilometers south of San Juanito searching for specific individuals.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > [Mexi El Presidente]MEXICO: CARTELS MOVE BEYOND DRUGS, SEEK DOMINATION [$$$ Monopoly + even Replacement of Govt by sheer FORCE OF ARMS].
IMO I don't think El Presidente/Hefe-in-Chief C. means in just Mexico = USA???
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Nope, no problems on the Southern border. Just a bunch of benevolent peace loving migrant workers down there. The real bad guys are the racists who want to secure the border.
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I believe there was a scene in the movie Viva Villa! (1934), to the effect of "No, Poncho! Not the ants!", by an individual about to experience the quaint Mexican custom of burying someone up to their neck in an anthill. They learned the trick from the "Native Americans".
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So is Mexico in civil war yet?
Nah, no problemo. Security on the border is better than it has ever been. But global warming is a problem (sarc on). Amnesty's the problem also(continued sarc on). How to legalize all these undocumented Democratic voters. Jobs opportunities are really good right now too.
Thirteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexico, victims of ongoing drug and gang related violence which included an ongoing campaign of violence against Mexican Federal police forces in Juarez, Chihuahua, and an armed confrontation between rival gangs which took the life of a civilian near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. For a map, click here
Mexican Federal agents suffered a fifth attack since Sunday night Tuesday evening in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. Armed suspects shot at the Hotel Continental which is used as a headquarters for Mexican Federal police in Juarez at about 1700 hrs, on calle Ignacio de la Peña. One unidentified agent and one unidentified civilian female were wounded in the attack. Nearby unknown persons left "narcograffiti" warning on a wall at the Leyes de Reforma school near the intersection of calles Jesus Escobar and Division del Norte. Mexican federal agents had been under threat of further attack since last month's car bombing with repeated warnings scrawled on walls around Juarez expressing the threats.
Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday evening, say Mexican news reports. The assault took place near the intersection of calles Orquideas and Claveles in the Campesina district where armed suspects riding aboard a Ford Lobo pickup fired on two men and a woman. The trio attempted to flee aboard a Chrysler PT Cruiser but failed and died in the streets.
An unidentified woman in her 20s was found shot to death near Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The find was made on a dirt road near Rancho de Enmedio and Tabalaopa. Police think the victim was kidnapped earlier in the day from Chihuahua city.
Armed suspects riding in a convoy of more than five vehicles attacked a farmhouse using fragmentary hand grenades near northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday evening, say Mexican press accounts. Witnesses said a number of people had been hiding near the house, and when authorities arrived to investigate, seven suspects were arrested.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Wednesday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first urder took place at a traffic light at the intersection of calles Rivera Lara y Oscar Flores where a man driving a Ford Focus attempted to escape an attack by an armed suspect with a rifle. The second murder took place at a junkyard on calle Zapotecas in the Aztecas district where a man was shot in ambush.
Two men were found murdered in two separate crimes in Juarez Wednesday according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first man was found near then intersection of calles Libramiento Independencia and Puerto de Palos decapitated with his hands and feet bound with a message written on cardboard. The second victim was found floating in a canal near calle Ejercito Nacional and had also been bound by his hands and feet and gagged with tape.
A confrontation between armed suspects has left an unidentified man dead and another wounded near Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican press reports. The battle took place at Km Marker 13 of the Allende-Cadereyta road east of Monterrey early Wednesday morning. Competing armed groups monitoring the section of the road fired upon the van carrying the victims. The attack ceased when a Mexican Army patrol arrived on the scene. Police also recovered three stolen vehicles at the scene: a Toyota Sport Runner, a GMC Sierra pickup truck and a Ford Lobo pickup truck.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in three separate crimes in Tijuana Baja California, according to the Mexican narcocrime blog Nota Roja.
[Arab News] Two human rights groups on Tuesday accused the B.O. regime of trying block their efforts to serve as lawyers for the father of a US-born Mohammedan cleric who wants to challenge a US order to capture or kill his son.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union said they agreed to pursue the case in July at the request of the father of Anwar Al-Awlaki, a cleric born in New Mexico.
US authorities have tied Nasser Al-Awlaki's son to the failed bombing attempt of a US commercial jet on Christmas Day in 2009 and also to an Army major who went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people last year at Fort Hood in Texas.
The US Treasury Department last month blacklisted Anwar Al-Awlaki as a "specially designated global terrorist," saying he is a leader of Al-Qaeda hiding in Yemen. The administration in April authorized operations to capture or kill him.
The ACLU and CCR said that as a result of the Treasury's designation, they can no longer provide legal services to the father without permission because it would benefit his son. Despite requesting authorization, the Treasury Department has not responded, they said.
The two groups sued in US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the restriction on legal services. If they win, they plan to file suit on behalf of Al-Awlaki's father challenging the order to capture or kill the cleric.
"We don't believe we should have to play 'mother may I' with the government when we want to challenge the government's efforts to kill an American citizen outside the theater of war and without due process," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.
The Treasury Department had no immediate comment.
In its lawsuit, the groups asked for the court to block the restriction on legal services or order the Treasury Department to issue permission so they can pursue a challenge against the authorization to capture or kill him.
Without the Treasury Department's authorization, the two groups said they could face legal repercussions and prosecution if they represented the father, even if they do so for free.
While US authorities have tied Al-Awlaki to the Christmas bombing attempt and the Fort Hood shooting spree, no charges have been publicly filed against him.
White House front man Robert Gibbs deflected questions about what legal process was used to issue the order against the cleric. "There's a process in place that I'm not at liberty to discuss," he said.
"Let's not take a tourist who might visit Italy overseas and equate him with somebody who has on countless times in video pledged to uphold and support the violent and murderous theories of Al-Qaeda," Gibbs said.
A US Treasury official said last month that Al-Awlaki is the fourth person with a US passport or Social Security number to receive such a terrorist designation since the executive order was put in place during the George W. Bush administration in 2001, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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American Civil Liberties Union said they agreed to pursue the case in July at the request of the father of Anwar Al-Awlaki, a cleric born in New Mexico.
Another aclu coup.
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This is an easy to solve problem.
1) Strip al-Awlaki of his American citizenship. There is a legal procedure to do that. The rationale: he's openly consorting with a declared enemy of the U.S.
2) Charge him with treason. That follows the rationale for #1.
3) Announce that because of #1 and #2, he is now a legitimate war target.
American tourists visiting Italy can rest easy.
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#4) - Declare war on the ACLU. They ALWAYS back our enemies and attack our friends. The Anti-Christian Lawyer's Union has declared war on the American Constitution and what it represents. They should suffer the consequences. Hangin's too good for 'em - ship 'em to Yemen.
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It amazes and saddens me that we have a real 5th column of traitors in this country.
Imagine the ACLU doing this during WWII?
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It amazes and saddens me that we have a real 5th column of traitors in this country.
Imagine the ACLU doing this during WWII?
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Safwat Ghayyur, the most decorated policeman in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central, and who fought forces of Evil on the front lines as commandant of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC), was killed along with two gunnies in a suicide kaboom August 4. A total of four people were killed and nine injured in the attack that destroyed three vehicles.
Superintendent of police (SP) Cantt Peshawar, Shafiullah, was the first to confirm that Ghayyur was among those killed. He, however, said three gunnies and a driver were killed. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain has took credit, according to Taliban sources.
Eyewitnesses told Central Asia Online that Ghayyur left his office at FC headquarters around 4.30 pm and his car had just halted at a traffic signal in FC Chowk when a boomer hit his vehicle. FC soldiers started firing immediately after the blast, sending bystanders fleeing for their lives. Hundreds of shopkeepers and shoppers ran inside the Deans Trade Centre for safety. FC soldiers shut the gates of their headquarters.
"The death of Safwat Ghayyur is a great tragedy. The Boskonians have struck at a time when the people of the province are already faced with devastating floods," said Bashir Ahmad Bilor, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central's senior minister. Terrorists had targeted the officer for a long time, he said.
In fact, the last entry for him in the Rantburg seach engine was a hit list with his name on it.
He broke the network of Boskonians across Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and surrounding tribal areas while heading the Peshawarquiet city police force last year. He was the first officer who headed a civilian force to carry out operations in the tribal areas against the Boskonians.
Apart from heading the FC and the Beautiful Downtown Peshawarquiet city police, Ghayyur served as inspector general of the Gilgit -Baltistan (previously Northern Areas) police. He also served in the intelligence bureau. He was a close relative of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and former federal interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao.
"We salute the martyrdom of Safwat Ghayyur. He was a brave officer who fought against Boskonians till his death," said Iftikhar. He added that Boskonians have grown frustrated and are targeting leaders like Ghayyur, "but they cannot deter us."
"Our jihad will continue until Boskonians are eliminated. If we are required to sacrifice our own lives, we will take pride in it," said Iftikhar, whose only son was killed in a terrorist attack last month.
[Dawn] A boomer attacked a vehicle carrying the Chief of Pakistain's Frontier Constabulary in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Wednesday, killing him and two others. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain took credit for the attack.
Rescue workers frantically tried to extinguish fires that engulfed several cars in the minutes after the attack near a major market in the scenic city.
Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the Frontier Constabulary, was killed in the attack along with his driver and bodyguard, said Abdul Rahman Khan, a local police officer. The explosion also injured 14 other people, he said.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain took credit for the killing and threatened more such assassinations.
"We killed him, he was our target... all such officers who are active against us will suffer the same fate," Azam Tariq, a front man for Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain, told AFP by telephone.
"He was conducting different operations against us...one of our fidayee (suicide kaboomers) has done this job," he added.
It was unclear whether the boomer attacked on foot or was in a vehicle, said Khan.
The attack comes as the northwest, which has been plagued by violence at the hands of the Pak Taliban, is trying to get back on its feet after heavy monsoon rains a week ago triggered devastating floods that have killed 1,500 people.
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[Dawn] Indian police battled Maoist rebels who ambushed their patrol in dense jungle on Wednesday, as violence worsens in an insurgency that has seen bigger and bolder attacks on government forces this year.
Police said the security patrol came under fire from about 200 Maoists perched on a hilltop in the southern jungle of Chhattisgarh state, a rebel stronghold.
Police shot back, and a six-hour gunbattle followed, in which five Maoists were maimed, state police chief Vishwa Ranjan said.
Police had earlier said that 70 coppers had gone missing during the attack, but Ranjan said they had only temporarily lost contact with the force due to heavy rain.
"The gun fight is over and all coppers are safe," Ranjan told Rooters. "They are on (their) way back, but returning very slowly as there is a possibility of landmines or ambushes."
The ability of the rebels to take on large groups of well-armed security personnel highlights their growing military sophistication in large swathes of India, especially remote rural areas left out of the booming economy.
In the past, security forces have suffered heavy casualties in such ambushes.
In a separate attack, five people were killed when the rebels blasted a vehicle carrying security guards of a bank in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police said.
Recent attacks on police have raised questions over the security forces' capabilities to tackle the Maoists, especially during a counter-offensive by security forces this year.
In April, a similar ambush by the Maoists killed 75 coppers and a month later 35 people, including security forces, died when the rebels bombed a bus. Both attacks occurred in mineral-rich but largely poor Chhattisgarh.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers and are planning to topple the Indian state by 2050.
They operate from jungle bases and carry out hit-and-run attacks on police, railways and government buildings in east, central and southern India where they control vast swathes of mineral-rich land with billions of dollars in business potential.
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[Dawn] Pak police said on Wednesday they had killed a suspected terrorist and jugged another in a shootout in Islamabad.
A third suspect fled after the incident, which happened at an auto repair garage in the thriving city, police front man Muhammad Naeem said.
Officers raided a house where the three suspects lived and seized a large quantity of weapons, including automatic rifles and hand grenades, Naeem said.
"One terrorist was killed and his accomplice was jugged after a brief exchange of fire in Islamabad on Wednesday," Naeem said.
"Police officials in plain clothes tried to arrest gunnies as they entered the garage but they opened fire," he said.
Naeem said the suspects belonged to a terrorist network but declined to give further details, saying more information would be released after the suspect had been questioned.
Bombs and attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked Boskonians have hit soldiers, government officials and civilians across Pakistain since government troops besieged a radical mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.
Pakistain is under pressure from the United States to do more to tackle Islamist networks that have carved out training grounds and havens in the northwest for preparing attacks on Western troops in Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] A hand-grenade attack inside a North Nazimabad mosque during prayers on Wednesday night left five people injured as the daylong violence which included arson attacks and incidents of firing claimed at least 22 more lives, raising the corpse count to 76 in three days.
Police said at least two men in shirts and jeans and wearing helmets stopped their cycle of violence at the Sawari Masjid and Madressah Shams-ul-Uloom in Block N of North Nazimabad and one of them entered the premises.
"The Isha prayers were in progress when he hurled a hand grenade which exploded in the middle of the third row," said an official at the Taimuria police station.
"The men beat feet, leaving five people injured in the mosque. The injured were taken to the Abbassi Shaheed Hospital and their condition was said to be stable, he said.
Allama Maulana Ghulam Ahmed Siyalwi, a religious scholar and senior member of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistain (JUP), was among the injured. He is the patron-in-chief of the seminary attached to the mosque.
The JUP leadership, meanwhile, ruled out any ethnic motive behind the attack, but said they suspected it to be a message to the party which had sought intervention of the army and the chief justice for stopping the Karachi bloodshed.
"We believe that they are the same forces of Evil who have vitiated the scenic city's peace over the past three days and want to threaten the party, which only on Tuesday appealed to the army chief and the chief justice for action," said Tariq Mahbood of the JUP.
Earlier in the day, panic and fear ruled the scenic city as gunnies carried out attacks in different areas and killed 22 people. The violence, which was sparked by killing of Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Raza Haider on Monday evening, claimed 76 lives by Wednesday night.
Qasba Colony and neighbouring Orangi Town emerged as the worst-affected areas where gunnies roamed freely. Police force and Rangers were nowhere to challenge them. A front man for the Edhi Foundation said the charity's ambulance shifted more than 50 injured to different hospitals. Half of them were women and children who were hit by bullets while they were in their homes.
Similarly, there was no let-up in arson attacks. Three houses in Qasba Colony were set on fire in the early hours of the day. More than 30 shops of cellphones in Al-Falah of Saddar and a number of carpet showrooms in North Karachi met the same fate.
Nearly a dozen pushcarts parked on roadside in North Nazimabad and several shops in a shopping mall in Buffer Zone were also set ablaze.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Iraqi government has released from prison a top Saddam Hussein loyalist after he was found innocent of helping the former regime punish opponents by draining the country's fabled marshlands, a judge said Wednesday.
Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad was No. 54 out of 55 on a former U.S. military list of most-wanted Saddam officials.
Iraqi High Tribunal spokesman Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib Yaseen said al-Muhammad was recently released from a prison just outside Baghdad after being cleared of the charges in the marshlands draining case. The trial ended this week.
Al-Muhammad was a Baath Party regional command chairman and militia commander from Anbar Province. He was captured in January 2004.
He "was proven innocent because of a lack of evidence," Yaseen said.
The U.S. military said it did not have any legal authority in whether to release al-Muhammadi, and referred all questions to the Iraqi justice ministry.
The draining of marshlands illustrated Saddam's ruthlessness in pursuing opponents. A Sunni Muslim, Saddam built a massive network of dams and earthen walls to dry the marshes to punish Shiite rebels who hid there after staging an uprising against his regime. By the time Saddam was overthrown in 2003, the marshes had shrunk by 90 percent from their size in the 1970s.
Another among the 32 defendants tried for the draining of marshlands was Mizban Khudr Hadi. Also a former Baath party regional commander and No. 23 on the most-wanted list, Hadi was convicted and sentenced to death in the case. He was earlier also convicted in a separate case, on charges of helping to plan the forced displacement of Kurds from northeastern Iraq.
Others on the most-wanted list tried for the marshlands included former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie, the No. 27 on the list, and Aziz Saleh al-Numan, the list's No. 8, who chaired the Baath party in Baghdad. Al-Taie was sentenced to 15 years in prison and al-Numan was handed seven years behind bars.
Al-Muhammad was the only one to be freed of the 32 defendants tried in the marshlands case. Sentences for many of the rest ranged from seven years to death by execution -- although charges against some were dropped because they are being tried in unrelated cases. And others already have been executed, also in other cases.
For thousands of years, wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq's south boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish, and are said to have played an important role in the development of an agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilization to new heights.
Some biblical scholars identified the vast marshes as the site of the fabled Garden of Eden. But after the 1991 Gulf War, the marshes became a casualty of Iraq's religiously based politics.
An $11 million U.N. project removed some of the barriers and helped restore more than half of the original marshlands by 2006.
Since his release, hundreds of people have been visiting al-Muhammadi in his house in Saqlawiyah, 45 miles (75 kilometers) west of Baghdad, said a security official in the nearby city of Fallujah. Police are guarding his house, said the official.
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guess we know who will be in charge after eb=nough of ourt troops get out,
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[Ma'an] Monday's deadly rocket attack on Jordan and Israel was launched by a Palestinian faction with the help of Egyptian operatives, security officials in the Sinai believe.
An Egyptian security source told Ma'an that the faction launched seven Grad-grade rockets toward the Red Sea resort cities of Eilat and Aqaba.
Government officials said Wednesday that the explosives were loaded onto two vehicles and launched from the Egyptian town of Taba. One of the rockets, the source added, landed on the Egyptian side of the border near a building block containing security offices in Taba.
Following the launch, the vehicles returned to the Egyptian side of Rafah and disappeared, the source added.
The security source said intelligence officials were aware that factions had come to poses weapons with an 18-kilometer range at least four months ago.
As early as June, the official said, top-level security meetings were held in Cairo, where the possibility of a Palestinian cell in the northern Sinai was addressed, "but did not go anywhere."
The revelations stand in contrast to Egypt's initial denials.
On Monday, security officials told Ma'an that Egyptian forces carried out extensive searches in Taba, which also borders Eilat, finding no suspicious activity or "extremist operatives."
Cairo backtracked Wednesday, however, telling the official Egyptian newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday that Palestinian factions were behind the launch of five projectiles from the Sinai. The report quoted a security source saying Monday's attack was carried out by Palestinian factions controlled by Hamas in Gaza.
The newspaper quoted a source saying "Egypt will not accept in any way its lands being used by any party to harm Egyptian interests" and confirmed that despite earlier denials, evidence indicated that the rockets were launched from the Egyptian peninsula.
The projectiles landed on both sides of the Red Sea, in the Israeli town of Eilat and in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, where one Jordanian man was killed and several others were reported injured.
An Israeli report said two of the projectiles, originally said to have landed in the Red Sea, landed in the salt flats area near the town.
Speaking at a news conference in Eilat, Southern District Police Commander Yohanan Danino told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth that recent events had placed the southern resort town on the list of areas threatened by terror.
The Egyptian news site Al-Youm As-Subeh quoted another security source who accused the Palestinian political party Hamas of involvement in the incident, adding that "members of the movement had recently infiltrated through the tunnels to fire the rockets."
The source went on to accuse Hamas of wishing to divert attention to Egypt and "raise doubts" about it to the international community.
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If accurate, then I guess Egypt is starting to suffer from a lack of cohesion. Kind of like the Lebanese army.
One police officer was killed in the jihad violence-plagued southern border province of Pattani while patrolling in Nong Chik district Wednesday night.
Pol L/Cpl Chatchai Khetjamnong, 31, was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with unidentified assailants while he and other seven police officers in a patrol unit were on duty to provide security in the area.
An unidentified number of the suspected terrorists insurgents, armed with M16 and AK47 assault rifles, fired on a police pickup and two motorcycles carrying the police officers, followed by an extended exchange of gunfire between the security detail and its attackers.
[Straits Times] THAI police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man linked to the 'Red Shirt' opposition movement in connection with a grenade blast in Bangkok last week.
Sorathien Singkanya, 23, had confessed that the grenade belonged to him but denied planting it himself, Police Major General Wichai Sangprapai said.
The blast on a road in Bangkok on July 30 seriously wounded a scrap scavenger.
Police said Sorathien was in possession of two grenades and five firecrackers when he was detained in the capital. He is also accused of being involved in more than a dozen other violent incidents.
Two months of mass protests by the Red Shirts in the capital from mid-March triggered clashes between demonstrators and troops that left about 90 people dead - mostly civilians - and nearly 1,900 injured.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli troops on Wednesday uprooted trees along the border with Lebanon where deadly clashes had erupted the previous day when the Jewish state tried to carry out the same operation, an AFP correspondent witnessed.
The troops were seen using a crane that reached over a fence in a disputed border area near the village of Adaysseh and uprooting trees that were then thrown inside Israeli territory.
The same operation on Tuesday sparked a deadly border battle that killed two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist as well as a senior Israeli officer.
The Israelis apparently proceeded with the operation as the trees blocked their view into Lebanon.
Following reports that Israeli troops are redeploying along the border after deadly clashes, a Lebanese army spokesman earlier said that Lebanon stands ready to retaliate in the event of any new "aggression."
"The answer will be the same in the event of any aggression along the border," the spokesman, who requested anonymity, said. "Any aggression against Lebanon will have serious consequences."
"We have been told that they are going to try and uproot the tree again today," he said.
The Israeli army radio reported that Israeli troops were redeploying to the site of the gunbattle along the Lebanese border.
It said an important security cordon and armored vehicles were deployed around the site.
In a diplomatic boost for Israel, the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Israeli soldiers were inside Israeli territory when the border clashes erupted.
"UNIFIL established ... that the trees being cut by the Israeli army are located south of the Blue Line on the Israeli side," said a statement quoting UNIFIL military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Naresh Bhatt.
He was referring to a border line drawn by the United Nations between Israel and Lebanon after an Israeli military withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.
Israel claims its troops were fired upon while conducting maintenance work along the border on Tuesday, while Lebanon said its troops opened fire after an Israel patrol crossed the border fence.
Both sides blamed each other for the skirmish which killed two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer.
The United States and the United Nations urged both sides to show restraint.
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So removing trees is aggression? Posted by: gorb
Gorb, anything that makes it harder for Lebanon to attack Israel is "aggression" by definition.
The next "northern border" of Israel will be the Litani, if Lebanon doesn't curb Hezbollocks. Of course, Lebanon CAN'T, so it loses. Too bad, so sad. If there IS another Lebanon/Israel war, both Beirut and Damascus may end up glowing at night. I think the Israelis are getting tired of this sh$$.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Lebanese authorities have detained a senior member of a Christian party allied with the Shiite Hezbollah on suspicion of spying for Israel, a source close to the party told AFP on Wednesday.
"Fayez Karam of (retired) General Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement is being held for questioning for his possible involvement in espionage" on behalf of Israel, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Karam was a general in the Lebanese army during the country's 1975-1990 civil war but quit the military after Aoun, who was army chief and who fought Syrian troops near the end of the war, went into exile in France.
Aoun returned to Lebanon in 2005, one month after Syria withdrew its troops following a 29-year presence.
In a controversial move in 2006, he entered an alliance with the Iran- and Syria-backed Hezbollah. He also caused a stir by visiting Damascus and Tehran.
More than 70 people have been arrested on suspicion of spying for the Israeli Mossad since April 2009, when the government launched a nationwide crackdown on alleged rings. The arrests include members of the security forces and telecom employees.
Three men have since been sentenced to death, including one found guilty of aiding Israel during its devastating 2006 war with Hezbollah.
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Good lord, another one! Is there so much as a single Lebanese not spying for Israel?
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