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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Dorothy Provine aka Emmeline Marcus-Finch, wife of J. Russell Finch in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" aka Emmy Lou Raven in "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" aka Minerva Bissell in "Good Neighbor Sam" (age 76)
Once he had the insect on the ground with his foot on the insects throat, the insect was 'under control' and killing him constituted murder and a war crime. Or at least that's how some weenies will see it.
[Tolo News] At least 13 Afghan non-combatants were killed on Wednesday morning in a cycle of violence bomb kaboom in eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said.
The incident happened at 9:50 am local time while an bomb that was attached to a cycle of violencewent kaboom! killing 13 civilians, Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement.
Most of the victims are children, added the statement.
Improvised Explosive Devices are usually planted by hard boyz to target Afghan and foreign soldiers in the country.
Paktika is a province bordering Pakistain, where bully boyz are active in some villages usually targeting Afghan police check posts.
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[Tolo News] At least 12 Taliban mine makers were killed in northern Faryab province on Tuesday night while they were making mines, provincial officials said.
"At least 12 cut-throats were killed including two Taliban capos in a mine blast in Ghormach district of Faryab and six others were maimed in the blast," Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a front man for 303 Pamir Zone told TOLOnews on Wednesday.
The incident happened while they were making mines in a house, he added.
Insurgents use improvised bombs to target Afghan and foreign forces in the country and most of the victims are often civilians.
Militants are active in most villages in this province and Afghan forces have increased their military operations to wipe them out.
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[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai Wednesday strongly condemned the acid attack on leading Afghan journalist, Razaq Mamoon, and ordered security institutions to seriously work to identify those behind the incident.
Razaq Mamoon, the attacked journalist and author, put the blame on Iran in organising the acid attack against him.
Mr Mamoon in his latest book, "Pharaoh's Footprint", has strongly criticised violations committed by Iran in Afghanistan. It is said that Iran has previously summoned the publisher of the book.
"This has certainly been organised by Iran. Iran's government is a complete terroristic regime," said Mamoon while in bed at the Afghan military hospital in Wazir Akbar Khan.
Head of the Ministry of Interior's Criminal Investigation Department, Mohammad Zaher, said that an unknown attacker sprayed acid on Razaq Mamoon's face at 06:30pm yesterday and he was subsequently rushed to the hospital.
Police has already started investigation about the incident.
It is not yet clear what person or group has carried out the attack.
The doctor said Mamoon's face has been affected but his eyes were ok because he was wearing glasses.
Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Mobarez Rashedi, condemned the attack and hope those responsible for the attack will be jugged.
"I hope the police succeeds in tracking the attackers, so that our journalists do not lose morale and the freedom of expression graph in our country does not move in the negative line," said Mr Rashedi.
Some Afghan journalists expressed concerned and described the attack as a warning for Afghan journalists.
"This once again shows that journalistic and media activity is a dangerous task in Afghanistan," Fahim Dashty, an Afghan journalist, said.
The Afghan journalists and those defending freedom of expression have always been faced with threats in Afghanistan.
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do they sell acid by bulk in Islamic grocery stores? In the "facial/skincare" aisles? WTF?
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Just don't air drop baking soda on them, or it will make global warming worse.
[Asharq al-Aswat] The once sleepy south Sudan town of Juba that hopes to become the world's newest national capital opted 97.5 percent for independence, preliminary results from a landmark vote showed Wednesday.
There were 211,018 votes cast for independence for the mainly Christian, African region against just 3,650 for continued unity with the mainly Arab, Mohammedan north, the head of Juba county referendum sub-committee, Timon Wani, announced to applause and cheers.
Full preliminary results from some of the south's 10 states showed landslides for secession as high as 99 percent.
In Lakes state, centred on the town of Rumbek which served as rebel headquarters during the 1983-2005 civil war with the north, 298,216 of the 300,444 votes cast were for independence, 99.924 percent of the total.
Just 227 were for continued unity with the north -- 0.076 percent of the total -- with the balance made up of blank or invalid ballots.
In Western Bahr al-Ghazal state, centred on one of the south's three big cities Wau, 153,839 of the 162,594 votes cast were for secession, 94.6 percent of the total. There were just 7,237 votes for continued union with the north.
In Unity state, the south's main oil-producing area, with 472,000 votes so far collated, organisers reported more than 471,000 votes for independence and just 91 for unity.
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Obviously Dale Carnegie's works have had no impact on Islam.
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[Ennahar] The former number two of the Islamic Front of Salvation (FIS, dissolved) Ali Belhadj was indicted Wednesday in Algiers for endangering the security of the state" and inciting to armed rebellion", according to sources close to the matter.
Mr. Belhadj, who was heard by a judge of the court of Bab El Oued, was jugged by police in the district of Algiers during the riots between 6 and 9 January. Belhadj refused to answer questions from the magistrate and dismissed the two charges, the source said.
The riots that hit the whole country have made five deaths and over 800 maimed.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Interior Ministry website said that Yemeni security apparatus foiled an attempt to kidnap at least four Czech tourists in Haima, Sana'a province.
The website quoted local sources as saying that three gunnies tried to kidnap the four Czech's before they were stopped by security authorities..
An exchange of gunfire between coppers and rustics took place in Haima district after four patrol escorts pursed the kidnappers, who finally left their car and bravely ran away.
Sources said that two soldiers were maimed, and a child during the festivities.
Ministry website mentioned that General Rashad Al-Masri, the Interior Minister, ordered to honor the soldiers who foiled the attempt of kidnap.
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It was a bad pun when Martina Navratilova first used it. It hasn't improved.
[Yemen Post] A Yemeni court specialized in the cases of terrorism and state security, sentenced Yemeni journalist and Al-Qaeda expert Abdul Elah Haidar, to five years in jail, and his friend, Abdel Karim Al-Shami to two years.
The verdict included also, putting Haidar under police surveillance for two years after his release from prison.
Haidar rejected the verdict, and described the court as a military trail in which he said that it followed the political security, and the national security apparatus.
The Yemeni journalist said he would not appeal against the court decision since he did not feel such an appeal would be handled fairly.
The prosecution claims that journalist Abdul Elah Haidar over the last three years participated in an armed illegal gang and is working for Al-Qaeda.
The prosecutor also said that Haidar used to publish false statements through numerous media outlets in order to promote Al-Qaeda. They claim that he is damaging public interest and harming public peace.
Other accusations against Haidar were that he commonly worked as a media officer for holy man of Anwar Al-Awlaki.
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Don't really know what to make of this. Two more similar explosions took place in Nuevo Leon Wednesday, well to the north, both of which also used fireworks as the explosive. The car bombs in Juarez this past summer and others in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas used Tovex, which is a commercial dynamite used by mining companies in northern Mexico and by PEMEX, the Mexican state owned petroleum enterprise. For a map, click here
A car packed with fireworks exploded in Villahermosa, Tabasco Wednesday morning, according to Mexican press accounts.
The 1973 Datsun sedan was destroyed by the blast which killed its two occupants and wounded two others. The vehicle had license tags from Chiapas, a southern state which borders Guatamala.
The explosion took place near the intersection of calles Carmelo Gomez and Octavio Camera. Two nearby vehicles were damaged.
Reports do not say the vehicle was a car bomb, however. A total of 63 fireworks were found at the scene, but reports do not say what type or condition.
Assaults on Mexican security forces in Monterrey continued into its second week including two Guadalupe auxiliary police oficers killed in an ambush Wednesday morning.
A Mexican Army unit arrested an alleged kidnapper and released a kidnap victim held in San Nicholas de la Garza last Monday evening. The operation which included security forces from both Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, took place in the Constituyentes de Queretaro colony. Soldiers also secured three rifles, a handgun, 26 magazines, ammunition, and a vehicle.
A homemade explosive device placed aboard a vehicle detonated Monday night in San Nicholas de la Garza. No one was wounded in the explosion and no damage was reported. The Volkswagen Jetta was parked outside the facilities of the Centro de Desarrollo and Comunicacion (CEDECO) when it exploded at about 2100 hrs. Individuals in the CEDECO building were evacuated temporarily as police used dogs to search the area for other explosive devices.
A car bomb detonated at a police facility in Linares municipality Wednesday wounding one police officer. The Nissan Sentra used in the attack was lightly damaged in the attack, and like the bomb in San Nicholas, the vehicle was not damaged by fire. At first Nuevo Leon police officials dismissed the possibility that either bombing was a car bomb, however, later investigations suggested otherwise. Although officials did not release information on the explosive used, fireworks or hand grenades are suggested as the most likely explosive used.
A police substation in Florida colony was attacked with small arms fire Tuesday night wounding one unidentified police officer. Armed suspects aboard a Nissan Murano drove up to the station and crashed into a police vehicle, firing into and damaging it. The suspects then fired on officers, wounding one, before fleeing he scene.
Two Guadalupe auxiliary police officers were shot to death in an ambush Wednesday morning. Andres Felipe Mejia Quintanar, 55, and Maria del Carmen Soto Garcia, 32 were assaulted by armed suspects aboard a Chevrolet Avalanche and another SUV near the intersection of avenidas Benito Juarez and Segunda. Both officers died at the scene. Reports suggest assault rifles were used in the attack.
Four suspected criminal gang members died in a pursuit and firefight with a Mexican Army unit Wednesday in Guadalupe. The military detachment was sent to the Villa Alegre colony to investigate reports of armed suspects in the area. The subsequent chase went through Vaquerias colony and ended in Xochimilco colony. Following the shootout, soldiers found two dead suspects aboard a Jeep SUV and two more aboard another vehicle.
A Nuevo Leon Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) team is investigating a wine cellar in General Bravo they say may have been used to dispose of dead bodies. Reports suggest no specific body parts have been found, but tissue and blood has been found at the scene.
On April 10, 2009, a Tunisian suicide bomber drove a dump truck through an Iraqi police checkpoint and detonated a bomb that killed five American soldiers and left a crater 18-metres deep.
In Edmonton on Wednesday, RCMP officers arrested a 38-year-old Alberta man for his alleged role in the multinational terrorist group that carried out the bombing at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq.
Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa was taken into custody without incident at about 9 a.m. at the request of U.S. authorities. The Canadian of Iraqi origin was expected to make a court appearance in Edmonton on Thursday.
Almost nothing is revealed about Mr. Muhammad Isa in the 25-page criminal complaint unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, but he discusses his motives in a 2010 phone conversation intercepted by police.
Our motive should always be doing good for others. But if we see harm coming from someone, we warn them, and if they dont listen, we kill them. Islam came for the good of humanity. So if someone doesnt like good, we fight them, like those dog Americans.
The arrest followed a joint FBI-RCMP investigation into a Tunisian foreign-fighter facilitation network that sent Tunisians to Iraq through Libya to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. and coalition forces.
Tipped off by the FBI, the RCMP counter-terrorism unit in Edmonton conducted an intensive investigation, said Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud, who heads the National Security Criminal Investigations section.
Basically we went full out to assist them, he said.
The U.S. wants Canada to extradite Mr. Muhammad Isa, also known as Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, to New York to stand trial on charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy.
According to the FBI complaint, Mr. Muhammad Isa not only provided support to the group, he encouraged his sister to die while carrying out an attack against Americans and discussed his desire to travel to Iraq to conduct a suicide attack.
He informed his mother in November 2009, that his greatest wish was to die a martyr and be greeted by 70 virgins in paradise, reads the Justice Department press release. In a conversation with an Iraq-based leader of the terrorist network in January 2010, the defendant volunteered to travel to Iraq, take up arms against the Americans, and subsequently conduct a suicide mission.
But the charges do not suggest that he ever made it to Iraq. Instead he allegedly supported the group from Canada. Even if I cant work over there, I can work here, he allegedly told the leader of the group. I can get some business going here to benefit us.
The criminal complaint alleges that four prospective suicide bombers left Tunisia in 2008. Mr. Muhammad Isa allegedly advised a fifth Tunisian seeking to join them to: Do not forget to keep reading Koran and repeat the famous prayers on the way until you meet with God. But the man was arrested as he tried to leave Tunisia.
The groups first attack was the March 31, 2009 suicide bombing of a police complex in Mosul, Iraq. Seven Iraqis were killed and 17 injured. Ten days later, another of the Tunisian bombers struck a U.S. convoy. Five American troops died.
Todays arrest demonstrates that we have not forgotten that sacrifice and will continue to use every available means to bring to justice all those who are responsible, said U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.
Mr. Muhammad Isa faces a possible life sentence.
There was never any direct threat to Canadians, Assistant Comm. Michaud said. Its a threat. It speaks to the different types of issues that we need to deal with. We have talked a lot in the past around radicalization and the threat here in Canada. This is a demonstration around Canadians helping or wanting to do bad stuff abroad, so its a different twist to our normal narrative.
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hopefully his life sentence is short as he gets his in prison. A shiv in the shower seems appropriate
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A 60 foot deep crater?
That is about twice the size of the 2,000 lb Mark-84 GP bomb, which leaves a 36 foot deep crater, dropped from considerable altitude and penetrating before detonation.
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But the charges do not suggest that he ever made it to Iraq. Instead he allegedly supported the group from Canada. "Even if I can't work over there, I can work here," he allegedly told the leader of the group. "I can get some business going here to benefit us."
On April 10, 2009, a Tunisian suicide bomber drove a dump truck through an Iraqi police checkpoint and detonated a bomb that killed five American soldiers and left a crater 18-metres deep.
In Edmonton on Wednesday, RCMP officers arrested a 38-year-old Alberta man for his alleged role in the multinational terrorist group that carried out the bombing at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq.
Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa was taken into custody without incident at about 9 a.m. at the request of U.S. authorities. The Canadian of Iraqi origin was expected to make a court appearance in Edmonton on Thursday.
Almost nothing is revealed about Mr. Muhammad Isa in the 25-page criminal complaint unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, but he discusses his motives in a 2010 phone conversation intercepted by police.
Our motive should always be doing good for others. But if we see harm coming from someone, we warn them, and if they dont listen, we kill them. Islam came for the good of humanity. So if someone doesnt like good, we fight them, like those dog Americans.
The arrest followed a joint FBI-RCMP investigation into a Tunisian foreign-fighter facilitation network that sent Tunisians to Iraq through Libya to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. and coalition forces.
Tipped off by the FBI, the RCMP counter-terrorism unit in Edmonton conducted an intensive investigation, said Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud, who heads the National Security Criminal Investigations section.
Basically we went full out to assist them, he said.
The U.S. wants Canada to extradite Mr. Muhammad Isa, also known as Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, to New York to stand trial on charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy.
According to the FBI complaint, Mr. Muhammad Isa not only provided support to the group, he encouraged his sister to die while carrying out an attack against Americans and discussed his desire to travel to Iraq to conduct a suicide attack.
He informed his mother in November 2009, that his greatest wish was to die a martyr and be greeted by 70 virgins in paradise, reads the Justice Department press release. In a conversation with an Iraq-based leader of the terrorist network in January 2010, the defendant volunteered to travel to Iraq, take up arms against the Americans, and subsequently conduct a suicide mission.
But the charges do not suggest that he ever made it to Iraq. Instead he allegedly supported the group from Canada. Even if I cant work over there, I can work here, he allegedly told the leader of the group. I can get some business going here to benefit us.
The criminal complaint alleges that four prospective suicide bombers left Tunisia in 2008. Mr. Muhammad Isa allegedly advised a fifth Tunisian seeking to join them to: Do not forget to keep reading Koran and repeat the famous prayers on the way until you meet with God. But the man was arrested as he tried to leave Tunisia.
The groups first attack was the March 31, 2009 suicide bombing of a police complex in Mosul, Iraq. Seven Iraqis were killed and 17 injured. Ten days later, another of the Tunisian bombers struck a U.S. convoy. Five American troops died.
Todays arrest demonstrates that we have not forgotten that sacrifice and will continue to use every available means to bring to justice all those who are responsible, said U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.
Mr. Muhammad Isa faces a possible life sentence.
There was never any direct threat to Canadians, Assistant Comm. Michaud said. Its a threat. It speaks to the different types of issues that we need to deal with. We have talked a lot in the past around radicalization and the threat here in Canada. This is a demonstration around Canadians helping or wanting to do bad stuff abroad, so its a different twist to our normal narrative.
[Tolo News] One person was killed and 11 others were hurt in an kaboom near a school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Wednesday, local media sources say.
The bomb was placed in a horse cart and blew up when near a school building in Sadar neighbourhood in Peshawar city, officials said.
The bomb was placed in a horse cart and blew up when near a school building in Sadar neighbourhood in Peshawar city, officials said.
"A passer-by was killed and 11 others were maimed in the blast," a senior Pak police official said.
Wounded left by the blast were immediately taken to a nearby hospital.
This is the second kaboom in Pakistain in the whole week so far.
Pakistain has recently been the scene of a series of kabooms which have led to the death of scores of people.
In another kaboom earlier this week which happened in a bus, around 15 people were left dead and dozens of others were hurt.
It was not clear then whether it was a suicide kaboom or an kaboom of a bomb attached to the bus.
Taliban are mostly account responsible for such sort of attacks, mostly because of their opposition with Pakistain's central government.
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bomb was placed in a horse cart
Sure hope they didn't leave the horse attached to the cart.
[Geo TV] Police have raided the house of Nabil Gabol, leader of Pakistain People's Party and former state minister of Bloody Karachi Ports and Shipping, Geo News reported Wednesday. "Come out witcher hands up, Nabil! We gotcha surrounded!"
"Youse can't talk to me like dat! I'm a high-ranking government official! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]"
"Former high-ranking government official. Now you're just a party plonker, so I can talk to you as I please!"
Talking to Geo News, Nabil Gabol said the police raided my house in a fashion similar to that of a commando action. "Raids are being conducted in a bid to take me into custody," he added. "But dey got nuttin' on me, see? Da witnesses are all dead!" However, The infamous However... CCPO Bloody Karachi Fayyaz Leghari denied Nabil Gabol's claim of a police raid on the latter's house, saying no such raid was conducted. "Wudn't us."
Nabil Gabol said police had taken into custody Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! his 12 security guards along with their weapons during the raid at his house located at Khayaban-e-Ittehad in Defence area. Just keep yer hands where we can see 'em, all 12 of yez!
Nabil Gabol had earlier today resigned from the post of state minister for Ports and Shipping. Dat does it! I quit!
He said he was present in Bloody Karachi but he could not come out in the open. "Ma! They're comin' for me, ma!"
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ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraq Kurdistan Region's security agency, or asayesh, seized a large arms cache belonging to the Ansar al-Islam group in the outskirts of Arbil province and arrested a member of the group, according to a statement by the agency.
"The asayesh anti-terrorism department seized a cache containing weapons belonging to terrorists of the Ansar al-Islam (Supporters of Islam) group and arrested one of its members," read the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The explosives had been brought from outside the Iraq Kurdistan Region and were carried gradually into Arbil, it added.
The weapons and explosives included artillery, RPG and mortar shells, explosive materials, improvised explosive devices, explosive belts and medium and small weapons, it read.
Asayesh or asayish (Kurdish for security) is a Kurdish organization, created in September 1993.
What did they do between 1993 and the invasion in 2003?
Fought amongst themselves. National pastime in that part of the world...
It is referred to as "intelligence agency", "security force", "security service", "security police", "secret service", "secret police", or just "Kurdish police." It is related to Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
It acts under the command of the Kurdish National Assembly and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces arrested seven wanted persons in two raids in southwestern Kirkuk on Thursday, according to a source from the citys Joint Coordination Center (JCC).
A force from Emergency Police Command, under the direct supervision of the Kirkuk Police Department, raided the area of 1 Huzayran, southwestern Kirkuk, and captured four wanted men and seized two Kalashnikov assault rifles and two magazines, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi army force raided the villages of Shalikh, Tuwayliea and al-Musatfa, in al-Riad district, (45 km) southwest of Kirkuk, arresting three wanted persons in accordance with Articles 4 of the law on terrorism and 421 on Kidnapping and were remanded under investigative custody.
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[Emirates 24/7] A jacket wallah rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into a security headquarters on Wednesday, killing 13 people in the second major attack against Iraqi forces in as many days.
A second suicide kaboom in a nearby town killed two others and maimed a top provincial official, shattering a relative calm in Iraq following the formation of a new government by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last month.
"We have so far received 13 bodies, and are treating 64 maimed," Firaz al-Dulaimi, a doctor at Baquba hospital, said, referring to the first attack on Wednesday morning in the Diyala lovely provincial capital.
The 10:00 am (0700 GMT) bomb in the middle of Baquba, a restive ethnically mixed city north of Storied Baghdad, targeted an office of the Force Protection Service, the agency responsible for securing the country's government buildings.
About 90 minutes later in the nearby town of Ghalbiyah, a jacket wallah blew up his explosives-filled car in the midst of a crowd of Shiite pilgrims, killing two people and wounding 16, an official in the provincial security command said.
Among the maimed were Diyala deputy governor Sadiq al-Husseini and three of his bodyguards.
Husseini was visiting with worshippers as they gathered ahead of commemorations for Arbaeen, which marks 40 days since the anniversary of the death of the revered seventh century Shiite Imam Hussein.
Baquba, and Diyala province, was an Al-Qaeda stronghold as recently as 2008. While violence has dropped off dramatically both in Diyala and nationwide since then, the province remains one of Iraq's least secure.
The attacks came a day after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives-packed vest in the middle of a crowd of police recruits in the central city of Tikrit, killing 50 people and wounding up to 150.
It was the deadliest attack to hit Iraq in more than two months, and the first major strike since Maliki named a new cabinet on December 21, ending nine months of stalemate after March elections.
Tikrit's police chief Colonel Ibrahim al-Juburi and the head of the city's emergency response squad Brigadier General Mohammed Majeed were fired in the aftermath of the blast.
Maliki condemned the Tikrit attack, saying "terrorists" had once again targeted the innocent.
"Once again the hard boyz returned to their usual tactics of killing the innocent and targeting the brave young people who wanted to serve their country and defend it," he said in a statement Tuesday evening.
"We will follow the case closely until we find who is responsible, and the reasons that let this tragic catastrophe happen."
Violence across Iraq has declined substantially since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common.
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More on a bold attack against a Thai army post reported here yesterday. The article posted then said that six soldiers had been killed, but all sources now say that there were four deaths.
Four soldiers were killed and 14 others injured when suspected separatist jihadis rebels invaded a Thai Army base in Narathiwat province.
In a well-organized attack, around 40 gunmen raided the base in Rangae district late Wednesday as the soldiers were getting ready for dinner.
"The insurgents took the camp by surprise because everyone was getting ready for dinner," said reports. They gunned down soldiers, blew up bombs, set buildings on fire and took more than 50 rifles and about 5,000 rounds.
Roadside bombings and drive-by shootings are regular occurances in southern Thailand but Wednesday's attack was unusually well organized as they stormed the base from the front and rear at once.
The Thai army says at least 30 insurgents were involved in the attack. It is being compared to a January 2004 raid on an army base that set off the current spate of violence in southrn Thailand.
Panitan Wattanayagorn, a government spokesman said, "We actually had some warning relating to the latest incident in Narathiwat a few days ago but the area is very difficult to control. It remains one of the strongholds of the militant groups. We issued [a] warning to those officers in the area a few days ago to warn them that they will be a possible target but sadly they were not able to defend themselves."
Intelligence sources said the attackers also hit reinforcements coming to help, which indicated it was a well-planned operation.
Col. Parinya Chaidilok, spokesman of the 4th Division of Internal Security Operation Command, said the military had been tipped off about a possible attack on Thai military posts.
"But we are surprised that they launched their attack at our permanent camp instead of small temporary posts," he said.
[Straits Times] A FORMER Indonesian police officer who claimed to be affiliated to Al-Qaeda was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Wednesday for supplying weapons to Islamist bad boys.
Mohammed Sofyan Tsauri, 34, sold 24 firearms including AK-47s and M-16 assault rifles to snuffies linked to a training camp discovered last February in Aceh province, judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court near Jakarta.
'He sold them for 325 million rupiah (S$46,000) and reaped a profit of 28.1 million rupiah from the sale,' he said.
What happened to the money?
'His actions put his life and that of others in danger and he also stirred anxiety in the community.' Tsauri's sentence was lower than the 15 years sought by prosecutors as he had been polite in court, had never been convicted and had served in the police force, Mr Santiarto said.
Otherwise known as Abu Ayyash, he was jugged last year as part of a sweep of Islamists loyal to terror criminal mastermind Dulmatin, one of the architects of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
Dulmatin was killed by police last March.
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[Arab News] Soddy Arabia has abandoned efforts to mediate in Leb's political crisis, Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Wednesday.
"A pox on all your houses! Not to mention fooey!!"
In an interview Wednesday with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV, Prince Saud said King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has decided he is "withdrawing his hand" from Leb. Prince Saud was speaking in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheik, where he is attending an Arab League summit.
Prince Saud noted that King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had been in contact "with commitment to end the whole Leb problem."
"When that did not happen, the Custodian of the Holy Mosques said he was withdrawing his hand" from the effort, he said. Prince Saud described the situation in Leb as "dangerous" and expressed fears of division in the multi-confessional nation.
"It's dangerous, particularly if it reaches separatism or the division of Leb. This would mean the end of Leb as a model of peaceful coexistence between religions and ethnicities and different factions," he said.
Leb is enduring a political crisis stemming from a United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society court investigating the liquidation of a former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
As a quiet show of force by the thug group Hezbullies rattled nerves amid fears it would react violently if accused, the UN tribunal investigating the liquidation warned on Tuesday against speculating about the sealed indictment.
The Hezbullies, which denies any role in 2005 killing, forced the collapse of Leb's Western-backed government last week in a dispute over the court.
Many fear the political crisis could lead to street protests and violence that have been the scourge of this tiny Arab country of 4 million people for years, including a devastating 1975-1990 civil war and sectarian battles between Sunnis and Shiites in 2008.
Early Tuesday, Hezbullies supporters wearing black and clutching hand-held radios quietly gathered around Beirut -- an innocuous yet threatening display by the country's most powerful armed force. Many parents picked up their children from school as word spread of the gatherings.
Education Minister Hassan Mneimneh said the situation in the capital had "returned to normal" by late morning as the Hezbullies supporters dispersed.
"Tomorrow will be a normal school day," Mneimneh said in a television interview.
The court is widely expected to accuse members of Hezbullies of being involved in Hariri's killing, something the thug group has insisted it will not accept. The Iran- and Syria-sponsored group says the tribunal is a conspiracy by Israel and the United States.
The indictment released Tuesday is the latest turn in a deepening crisis in Leb. Last week, ministers from Hezbullies and their allies walked out of the Cabinet when Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- the son of the slain leader -- refused to renounce the tribunal.
The move brought down the unity government and further polarized the country's rival factions: Hezbullies with its patrons in Syria and Iran on one side, and Hariri's Western-backed bloc on the other.
The US has called Hezbullies's walkout a transparent effort to subvert justice.
Canadian prosecutor Daniel Bellemare said in a video statement Tuesday that the confidential indictment was an important moment for the people of Leb, the international community and "for those who believe in international justice." The contents of the draft indictment may not become public for weeks as Belgian judge Daniel Fransen decides whether there is enough evidence for a trial.
Bellemare urged the Lebanese people not to speculate about the contents of the indictment as Fransen may still reject it or demand more evidence.
The court's registrar, Herman von Hebel, said Fransen's review of evidence contained in "thousands of pages" of documents and DVDs submitted with the indictment would likely take at least six to 10 weeks.
"Towards September, October, if things go well we may see the start of a trial with or without an accused," Von Hebel said. The tribunal is unusual among international courts in that it can stage trials in absentia if suspects cannot be jugged.
"We know for sure it is not easy to get accused persons jugged," Von Hebel told news hounds at the court.
Like other international courts, the Hariri tribunal has no police force and has to rely on national authorities to carry out arrests. Hezbullies has vowed it would never hand anyone over.
Lengthy negotiations lie ahead between Leb's factions as they attempt to build a new government. On Tuesday, Turkey's foreign minister was in Beirut in a coordinated visit with Qatar's prime minister to discuss the political crisis in Leb.
According to Leb's power-sharing system, the president must be a Christian Maronite, the prime minister a Sunni and the parliament speaker a Shiite. Each faith makes up about a third of Leb's population of 4 million.
Hariri, a Sunni, is staying on as a caretaker prime minister as a new government is formed.
In a sign of just how high tensions are running, Wiam Wahhab, a pro-Syrian politician, warned security troops not to use force against demonstrators or they will face the same fate as Tunisia's former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was deposed last week.
"Security forces should know that wounding or killing any person will make their stations unsafe," Wahhab said in an interview with local television station Al-Jadeed. "Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, with all his security agencies, was not able to protect himself."
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Yeah, well... You knew it was not going anywhere the first two times you tried. Heztubbies already claimed that land for the Kahmeni and his pet Mahdi that will never pop up from the well.
Better luck with Nigeria for you kingdom klansmen.
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AFP) -- The tribunal set up to try the killers of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri insisted Tuesday on keeping its first indictment under wraps as fears of violence rose on the streets of Beirut.
The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon warned that speculation on the indictment which he submitted on Monday and is widely believed to implicate Hezbollah, would be "counter-productive".
"This is the first step in our collective quest to end impunity in Lebanon," prosecutor Daniel Bellemare said in a recorded message as soldiers deployed in Beirut amid soaring tension.
Dozens of unarmed men gathered in several neighborhoods in mainly Muslim west Beirut early on Tuesday in a show of force that prompted panicked parents to pull their children from classes and some schools to shut down for the day.
A heavy army presence could be seen by midday in response.
"The gatherings may signal preparations to mobilize in relation to the indictments handed down," a security official told AFP.
In expectation of being named in the indictment, Hezbollah warned on Sunday it would "defend" itself and branded the tribunal, based in Leidschendam near The Hague for security reasons, a tool of the United States and Israel. The powerful Shiite grouping, which enjoys the backing of Iran and Syria, withdrew from the Lebanese cabinet with its allies last Wednesday, prompting the collapse of the unity government led by Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the murdered former premier.
Bellemare insisted he would not reveal the charges or the names of those listed in the indictment in connection with the massive car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others on the Beirut seafront six years ago.
Registrar Herman von Hebel added that a trial could start by September or October "if things go well", regardless of whether an arrest has been made. The tribunal's rules allow for suspects to be tried in their absence. They can be arrested even after their conviction.
Bellemare stressed that justice could not be rushed, and that any evidence presented to the court had to be "credible and compelling.I have made it clear from the start that I would act independently and that I would be driven by the evidence alone," he said, thanking his team for hard work under "challenging circumstances" and "many attacks against the tribunal."
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