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Diane McBain aka Daphne Dutton in "Surfside 6 (TV)" aka Diana St. Clair in "Spinout" aka Christine Storm in "Ice Palace" aka Alison Post in "Parrish" aka Shayne in "The Mini-Skirt Mob" aka Annie Blaine in "Thunder Alley" (age 70)
[Dawn] The Sudanese army has carried out air strikes against two villages in the troubled western Darfur region, international peacekeepers said
Violence in Darfur, scene of an insurgency pitting mostly non-Arab rebels against government troops backed by largely Arab militias, has fallen from its peak in 2003 and 2004 but a surge in attacks since December has forced tens of thousands to flee.
Qatar has hosted peace talks that have been delayed by rebel divisions and continued military operations on the ground as Khartoum has gradually reasserted control over major towns and other previously rebel-held areas.
Sudanese forces flew air strikes against Labado and Esheraya villages in southern Darfur on Sunday, the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... -African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission said.
"We are trying to find out about casualties," said a front man for UNAMID.
The Sudanese army could not be immediately reached for comment.
The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of criminal masterminding genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
The United Nations says as many as 300,000 people have died during the conflict. Khartoum puts the corpse count at 10,000.
Earlier this month, Sudan went ahead with a plan to create two additional states in Darfur, a move rebels have condemned as intended to strengthen Khartoum's control over the region.
Khartoum also plans to hold a referendum on July 1 on making Darfur a single region to upgrade its status despite rebel demands to wait until a peace deal has been signed.
Sudan's oil-producing south is due to break away from Khartoum on July 9 after its people voted overwhelmingly to secede in a January referendum, a vote promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of north-south civil war.
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[Al Jazeera] Libya's oil minister has reportedly defected and decamped to Tunisia.
Shokri Ghanem, who also chaired the National Oil Corporation, is said to be on his way to the Tunisian capital, Tunis.
Hoda Abdel Hamid, one of Al Jizz's correspondents in Libya, said a border guard confirmed the defection.
"He told us the minister had crossed into Tunisia two days ago and that he was alone, not with his family," she said.
"He mentioned he had tried to cross before but was held in Libya. We cannot confirm this."
Rebels fighting to end the 41-year-old rule of Muammar Qadaffy, Libya's embattled leader, also said they had information that Ghanem, 68, had defected.
However, The obscurantist However... rebels and Arab media reported on a previous occasion that Ghanem had stepped down, but he later re-appeared and said he was in his office and working as usual.
If confirmed, Ghanem would be the latest high profile Libyan official to leave the Qadaffy government. In March, Qadaffy's foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, defected.
Ghanem has been in charge of the oil ministry since 2006 and was previously prime minister. His oil ministry is the biggest income generater for the country. Libya has Africa's largest oil reserves, at 41.5 billion barrels.
Rebels have taken Benghazi and the oil-producing east of the North African country, their insurgency helped by a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... bombing campaign sanctioned by the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... to protect civilians.
Russia talks Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a meeting. It was to be his last... Russia hosted a representative of Qadaffy's government in its capital, Moscow, on Tuesday when it called on the Libyan government to stop using force against civilians, comply fully with UN Security Council resolutions and withdraw gangs from cities.
"The answer we heard cannot be called negative," Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said.
He said that Libya was ready to look at peace proposals based on those suggested by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and to comply with Security Council resolutions.
"The only things that our interlocutors from Tripoli noted today was the necessity of the Orcs and similar vermin accepting analogous steps and that NATO also stopped bombing," Lavrov said, adding that it remained to agree terms and a timeframe for a truce.
The talks indicate Russia's desire to act as peace maker and preserve its influence in Libya, where it has billions of dollars of arms, energy and infrastructure deals.
Russia is one of five permanent Security Council members. It abstained from voting on the resolution authorising military intervention in Libya and has accused NATO of going beyond the bounds of the resolution in its bombing.
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the NATO is a wonderful organisation
but i fear we are tarnishing it with frivolous pursuits.
do we really care how the libyan's run their affairs?
there was a revolt and we tried to help. we dithered too long and now we are involved in a stalemate
it seems we in the West are great at getting involved but terrible at getting ourselves uninvolved again
[Bangla Daily Star] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... Arclight airstrikes pounded two government buildings early Tuesday in the Libyan capital, including the interior ministry, setting them on fire and prompting a government front man to suggest the ministry was targeted because it contained files on corruption cases against senior members of the Benghazi-based rebel leadership.
A Libyan government front man appealed for a ceasefire and said authorities were likely to release four foreign news hounds held in a Tripoli after they face trial in an administrative court, expected later Tuesday.
NATO has stepped up strikes on Tripoli in an apparent attempt to weaken Qadaffy's chief stronghold and potentially target the leader himself. One of the buildings hit early Tuesday was used by the Interior Ministry which is responsible for internal security.
Government escorts took news hounds from their hotel to the site of the overnight Arclight airstrikes.
Smoke and flames engulfed the top floors of the Interior Ministry building as dozens of young men, many of them armed with assault rifles, milled outside the shuttered gate early Tuesday. Some of the men carried a life-sized portrait of Qadaffy, danced before the burning building and chanted: "The revolution will continue!"
Nearby, black smoke poured out of a complex that officials said included offices used by authorities overseeing corruption cases. Soldiers collected half-burnt papers strewn amid the smashed glass and twisted metal as fire fighters sprayed water on the flames.
Moussa Ibrahim, the Libyan front man. suggested the ministry was targeted because it contained files on rebel leaders in Benghazi, the de-facto capital of the eastern half of the country, which is under opposition control.
"If they (NATO) are really interested in protecting civilians ... then we call upon them to stop and start talking to us," Ibrahim said.
After the Arclight airstrikes, sporadic gunfire could be heard near the Tripoli hotel where news hounds are staying. Police closed off a road nearby but the reason for the gunfire wasn't clear.
Libyan TV said NATO Arclight airstrikes also hit Tajoura, a neighbourhood in Tripoli, and Zawiya, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of the capital. State TV said a number of people were killed and maimed. It did not elaborate.
Earlier, at least three kabooms believed caused by NATO strikes shook windows around the Libyan capital late Monday. It was not immediately clear what was targeted, but Ibrahim said he believed the jets were aiming for Qadaffy's compound.
The international warrants could further isolate Qadaffy and his inner circle and potentially complicate the options for a negotiated settlement. But they also could harden Qadaffy's resolve to stand and fight, since the legal action has been seen in Libya as giving NATO more justification to go after him.
Because the UN Security Council ordered the ICC investigation, UN member states would be obliged to arrest him if he ventured into their territory.
In the Netherlands, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Monday he was seeking warrants against Qadaffy, his son, Seif al-Islam Qadaffy, and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi for ordering, planning and participating in illegal attacks. The younger Qadaffy has become one of the public faces of the regime through frequent interviews with the media.
Moreno-Ocampo said he had evidence that Qadaffy's forces attacked civilians in their homes, shot at demonstrators with live ammunition, shelled funeral processions and deployed snipers to kill people leaving mosques. Judges must now evaluate the evidence before deciding whether to confirm the charges and issue international arrest warrants.
In Benghazi, rebel front man Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga said the rebels welcomed the ICC case, saying however, that the opposition would like to see Qadaffy tried first in Libya, then before the world body.
Under Qadaffy's more than four decades in power, the regime "has committed many crimes against the Libyan people, and the Libyan people want to see him punished for that," Ghoga said.
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[Yemen Post] At least three people were killed, including two soldiers and another maimed in Yemen's southern province of Hadhramout.
Private sources said that suspected Al-Qaeda forces of Evil attacked a governmental patrol vehicle at a checkpoint belonging to the Central Security Unit in Mukalla, killing two soldiers and a civilian and wounding another.
Two days ago, at least one soldier was killed and several others injured in an attack believed to be conducted by suspected Al-Qaeda forces of Evil in Yemen's southern province of Abyan.
Sources said the attack took place in the city of Zenjibar at the entrance of a public market, killing one soldier and wounding others.
On the other hand, suspected Al-Qaeda forces of Evil kidnapped an officer in the city of Lawder. The officer, who is employed at the intelligence apparatus, was kidnapped by an gang in the city.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 18 protesters have been reportedly injured in southern Yemen after security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrations.
The country's Soheil television channel reported on Tuesday that 16 were maimed in Dhamar and two others in Aden.
According to the report, gunfire has been heard in the capital city of Sana'a as people continue their rallies, insisting on the ouster of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
The cities of Taizz, Ibb and Bayda were also the scene of anti-regime protests on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... Yemeni opposition leaders are expected to consider modifications to a deal proposed by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC).
The opposition had rejected an earlier draft of the deal, which would see Saleh resign a month after signing in return for immunity.
Modifications proposed by the ruling party, passed on to the opposition by diplomats, would let the ruling party appoint a unity government for the transition period until elections are held.
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[Al Jazeera] Bahrian's parliament has accepted the resignations of the last seven politicians of Al Wefaq, the country's largest Shia opposition party.
The resignations, approved on Tuesday, were submitted in February in protest over the government's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. The politicians acted alongside 11 other Shia opposition members of parliament whose resignations were previously accepted.
Bahrain's 40 member lower house of parliament is now left with 22 politicians and is controlled by Sunnis.
The lower house was created in 2002 under a new constitution aimed at easing Shia complaints of perceived second-class status.
There is also an upper house of parliament whose 40 members are appointed by the king.
Shias make up about 70 percent of the population in the kingdom ruled by a 200-year-old Sunni dynasty, but are largely excluded from top government and security posts.
Shias were the driving force behind protests calling for political reforms that began in February.
Bahraini authorities have been seeking to prosecute opposition leaders and other protesters perceived to be linked to festivities and protests in the Gulf Arab nation.
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[Al Jazeera] Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch, has begun the first visit to Ireland by a UK royal in a century, despite a bomb being found on a bus near Dublin, the Irish capital.
The four-day trip is intended to highlight good Anglo-Irish relations following years of animosity and peace in Northern Ireland.
Earlier on Tuesday defence forces said they had carried out a controlled kaboom on a "viable" bomb found on a bus heading for Dublin.
"It was on a bus and by the time our team was called in the bus was evacuated and parked at a bus stop," an army front man said.
"The device was made safe in situ," he added.
Andrew Simmons, Al Jizz's news hound in Dublin, said: "The [first] device was on the outskirts in the commuter belt. It was inside a luggage compartment of a bus, and that bus was headed for the capital."
"[There are] are no claims of responsibility but you can certainly say that it's highly likely that dissident Republican groups are involved in the attempts at disruption of this historic visit."
A controlled kaboom was also carried out on a second device, which turned out to be a hoax, the defence forces said.
A third device found in the Summerhill area of Dublin also turned out to be a hoax.
'Major act of symbolism'
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said the queen's visit would not be affected by the incidents, and the British foreign office and Buckingham Palace, the monarch's official residence, had said the state visit would go ahead. "The Germans didn't scare her and now she's supposed to be scared of a few vicious Micks?"
"This is an historic and symbolic visit and it is dealing with the conclusion of the past and a message for the future," Kenny told RTE state radio.
"These things happen when global personalities visit any countries ... and whether it be Ireland or other countries, adequate security arrangements are put in place."
The queen is the first British monarch to visit Ireland since its independence from the UK in 1921. It severed its last ties to the British monachy in 1948, but the north of the island remains part of the United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth II's itinerary includes a visit to Croke Park, a Gaelic sports stadium where British troops killed 14 people in 1920 during Ireland's uprising against British rule.
She will also visit the Garden of Remembrance, a central Dublin memorial that honours two centuries of Ireland's rebel dead.
"That is a major act of symbolism, a potent moment," our correspondent said.
"It's controversial, there will be Unionist politicians there and some involved in the Ulster Defence Association, which has disarmed and was part of the conflict in Northern Ireland," he added.
Her arrival also coincides with the 37th anniversary of bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, the single bloodiest day in a three-decade sectarian battle over Northern Ireland.
Thousands of police shut down key roads in the Irish capital and erected pedestrian barricades for several kilometers, while 1,000 Irish troops are on standby during the historical visit.
Tuesday's events come a day after British police said they had received a bomb threat for central London from
Irish dissident republicans.
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A total of 18 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico that included seven unidentified youths shot to death Monday night in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon.
Three unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Saturday in three separate shootings, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
A man in his 30s was shot to death near the intersection of calles Nicolas Hermosillo and Francisco Portillo in the Ladrilleros y Caleros colony. Reports say he was shot six times.
A man was shot to death at the doorway of an Oasis convenience store near the intersection of calles Garambullo and Miguel de la Madrid in the Heroes de la Revolucion colony.
A street vendor was shot to death on calles Desierto de Kavir in the Paraje de Oriente colony by armed suspects aboard a Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck. He was shot with AK-47 assault rifles.
The dismembered body of an unidentified man was found in Juarez Saturday evening. The victim was found in a Ford Explorer SUV near the intersection of calles Diamante and Cemento in the Lomas de Morelos colony, his head and hands on the front hood, and the rest of his body inside the vehicle cabin.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday morning. The victim was found wrapped in a blanket on the streets near the intersection of calles Membrila and Manuel Acuña in the Zona Centro of Juarez.
An unidentified man was found dead inside the trunk of a car in Juarez late Sunday night. The victim was found in a Nissan Altima sedan near the intersection of calles Emilia Perez and Los Aztecas. He was in his shirt and shorts, and had been gagged.
A butcher was shot to death at his shop in Juarez Monday. The victim was at his shop near the intersection of calles Mina and Ignacio Alatorre when armed suspects entered the Carniceria La Pasadita shop and shot and killed him, as several customers watched.
A man and a woman were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday. The victims were shot by armed suspects who were travelling aboard a Chevrolet Blazer SUV near the Chihuahua city PRI headquarters on calle Progreso in the Zona Centro.
The police chief of Altar, Sonora municipal police was shot and wounded in a traffic stop Monday. Francisco Gutierrez Moreno had stopped a Jeep SUV near the intersection of avenida Quiroz y Mora and Calle 8th when he was shot with a 9mm handgun following an argument with the driver. Reports say a GMC Yukon SUV with three Caborca municipal police officers were nearby as witnesses to the event but failed to intervene.
Seven unidentified youths were shot to death in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Monday night. The shooting took place at a shop near the intersection of calles Cantoral and Remanso in the Riberas de La Silla colony where armed suspects aboard a van fired on the group. The area is known for drug dealing and it is possible all seven were involved in drug dealing.
[Al Jazeera] Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of siege" in the Peten region along the Mexican border, where at least 27 people were killed over the weekend in an alleged narco gang massacre.
The state of emergency will allow authorities to restrict demonstrations and police to carry out raids at night, among other things, according to local media.
Colom said the order would last through to Tuesday to allow authorities to try to track down the killers, adding that police had captured a suspect and killed two others in an operation in which two coppers were maimed.
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"Guatemala must confront this aggression, which is not only in this country, but in the entire region," he said in a televised address on Monday.
Guatemalan authorities have identified 15 of 27 migrant farm workers beheaded in the weekend massacre they blamed on Mexico's Zetas narco gang.
The killings at "Los Cocos" farm in La Libertad, in the Peten region some 600km north of the capital Guatemala City, were the worst in the Central American nation's recent history.
Three children and two women were among the victims, authorities said. Among those identified, the youngest victim was 13 years old.
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[Dawn] An elderly Miami imam pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in US federal court on Monday to charges of supporting the Pak Taliban and was ordered held without bail.
The US government accuses 76-year-old Hafiz Mohammed Sher Ali Khan, four of his relatives and another person of funnelling money and providing support to the group.
He is the leader of Miami's oldest mosque.
His attorney, Khurrum Wahid, expressed concern about his client being kept in jail. "He's 76 years old and has health issues -- heart and cholesterol problems," the lawyer said.
One of Sher Ali's sons, 24-year-old Izhar Khan, also appeared in court for the first time since their indictment was unsealed. He is also a holy man at a Florida mosque.
US Magistrate Judge Barry Garber scheduled another hearing for May 23. The six defendants are all Paks, although some of them have US citizenship.
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More than 70 militants armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday.
Two members of the security forces and at least 15 insurgents were killed in a four-hour gunbattle that erupted following two successive attacks on the security post set up to defend Peshawar, the gateway to the troubled northwest region.
"They were well-armed. They had heavy weapons, rockets, mortars everything. The fighting lasted for about four and a half hours," Ejaz Khan, a city police officer, said.
The attack took place near Khyber, part of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which is regarded as a global hub of militants, including al Qaeda and the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban movements.
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I'm tempted to call this green-on-green violence, given that they agree on basic ideological and religious issues. I wonder if it's Pashtuns whaling on their Punjabi overlords. Or essentially a power struggle between like-minded factions. Or both.
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#1 Which country has more jihadis/radicals/extremist Pakistan or Afganistan? Thats the country we should be fighting! Posted by: Unump Bonaparte8194 2011-05-18 16:29
The problem is several tribes live on both sides of the border. They not only fight among themselves, they fight everybody else, too. The only viable solution would be to rip Pakistan apart, give the part on the east bank of the Indus River to India, and give the side on the left bank of the river to Afghanistan. Force half the residents of Pakistan to move to another Muslim country, preferably one in North Africa or to Indonesia. Give the Indians carte blanche to break heads wherever and whenever they think it's necessary to control the remainder. DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM MOVE TO BANGLADESH.
The Baluchis will give the Pashtuns so much trouble neither side will be able to concentrate on anyone else, and the Hindus will actually overrun and out-produce the Punjabis and Sindhis left behind. The rest of Afghanistan can modernize, Afghanistan will have access to the Arabian Sea, and the mineral wealth of the enlarged country will provide a decent standard of living for everyone. Modern agricultural methods and decent flood control will gradually win over the remaining muslims, but it'll take a hundred years or so. In the meantime, Uncle Sugar can reduce foreign aid, withdraw its army, and reduce the hemorrhaging the current situation is causing.
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DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM MOVE TO BANGLADESH.
Given the fun the Bangladeshis are having with the Pakistan-lovers who acted out in 1971, letting any Pakistanis go east would be sending them straight to the gallows.
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I see nothing wrong with shoot-on-sight orders where the human crap stain target liked to be photographed with a kalash. However, on behalf of Razorback pigs, I protest his sea burial. The porcine lobby went hungry because of that.
[Dawn] Pak security forces Tuesday foiled a major suicide kaboom when they killed five Islamic fascistiequipped with boom jackets, three of them women, in a firefight, officials said. ... the Pashtun Wimmin's Detonator Corps...
The incident took place near a security post outside the southwestern city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
"The Islamic fascistiarmed with guns and bombs were travelling in a car, police intercepted them but they tried to flee, triggering an exchange of fire. All five attackers have been killed," city police chief Daud Junejo said.
The group threw hand grenades at the checkpost in Quetta's Kharotabad neighbourhood and opened fire on the troops inside, he said, adding that it was not their planned target and they had been travelling on the airport road.
"The troops retaliated and killed all of them," he said. "No security official was hurt, it's all ok, it's over now."
Colonel Faisal Shehzad, a paramilitary Frontier Corps officer said it appeared the Islamic fascistiwere killed before they could reach their objective.
"They were looking for a major target, but we foiled their attempt," he said.
The attackers wore boom jackets, he said, adding that the women could be Chechen and an investigation had been ordered.
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[Dawn] Pak security forces have tossed in the slammer senior Al-Qaeda operative Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, in the southern port city of Bloody Karachi, the military said Tuesday.
"According to preliminary investigations, Al Makki is a Yemeni national and has been working directly under Al-Qaeda leaders along Pak-Afghan borders," the military's media wing said.
"The arrest of Al Makki is a major development in unravelling the Al-Qaeda network operating in the region," it said.
The arrest follows a US covert operation in the garrison city of Abbottabad near Islamabad on May 2 that killed Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden, ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... and comes a day after US senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden... visited Pakistain to smooth a damaging row caused by the raid. ... and brought up the subject of money...
Pakistain's civilian and military leaders were left angry and embarrassed after the unilateral US assault that killed the Al-Qaeda chief, who had been living, possibly for years, two hours drive from the capital.
The raid rocked the country's powerful security establishment, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden in a suburban house in Abbottabad.
Al Makki is apparently not on the list of internationally most wanted Al-Qaeda operatives but the military's statement mentioned his network was operating in the region.
His arrest came a day after a Soddy Arabian diplomat was killed in a hail of bullets on his way to the Saudi consulate in Bloody Karachi.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. blamed Al-Qaeda for the attack which was the second on Saudi interests in Pakistain's biggest city in less than a week, media reports said.
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[Dawn] The corpse count from a double suicide kaboom targeting a police training centre in northwest Pakistain has risen to 98, police said on Tuesday.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban said they carried out Friday's attack on the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) police training centre in Shabqadar town in Dire Revenge™ for the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who had a brief but splitting headache... earlier this month.
"The corpse count has now risen to 98," Beautiful Downtown Peshawar city police chief Liaqat Ali Khan told AFP.
He said 81 people were killed on the spot while the others had died in hospital since the attack, which also maimed around 140 people.
Khan said that 43 injured people were still receiving treatment in hospital. The previous corpse count was given as 89.
Pakistain's civilian and military leaders were left angry and embarrassed over a unilateral US raid on May 2 that found and killed the al Qaeda chief who had been living, possibly for years, two hours' drive from the capital.
There has been little public protest in support of bin Laden in a country where more people have been killed in kabooms in the past four years than the nearly 3,000 who died in al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 strikes on the US.
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BHO would likely endorse a little hammer-and-anvil cruch with the Pak "ally," if only to maintain his post OBL head shot, 11point bump in the polls.
[Dawn] Two children were killed and four persons injured in separate incidents of violence in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... and Kurram agencies while a school was blown up by unidentified persons in Bajaur tribal region on Monday.
Also, a member of anti-Taliban peace committee was rubbed out by Death Eaters in Frontier Region of Kohat.
Locals said that three children were playing in the empty house of Shah Nawaz in Wali Kor area of tehsil Safi in Mohmand Agency when one of them stepped on a landmine, planted by suspected Death Eaters there.
The landmine went kaboom! with a huge bang, killing two of the children. The killed children were identified as Luqman son of Yar Syed and Adil son of Gulab. The third child identified as Lal son of Mumtaz sustained injuries in the blast. The injured was shifted to Peshawar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... the body of Pashto poet Mohammad Nazir Mohmand was found in Khwaizai area of the tribal region on Monday.
The poet was kidnapped by unidentified persons from Peshawar a couple of days ago. The dear departed was a renowned poet of Mohmand Agency and had three poetry books to his credit.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... three persons, including a woman, were maimed when Death Eaters attacked Shalowzan and Khaiwas villages with heavy weapons in Kurram tribal region on Monday.
The attackers fired rockets, mortar shells and other heavy weapons from their hideouts Tangi and Nari areas at both the villages in upper Kurram. Three people, including a woman, received injuries in the attack. The volunteers of Turi tribe and local people also retaliated. Both the sides continued to trade fire till late night.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... a government-run school was blown up in Mamond area of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central in the small hours of Monday.
Locals said unidentified Death Eaters planted improvised bomb (IED) at government primary school for boys in Gari Yagal area on the night between Sunday and Monday. The device went off with a bang and destroyed the school building, they added. The officials of political administration also confirmed the report, saying involvement of Death Eaters in the incident could not be ruled out.
Locals said that the school was destroyed despite presence of several checkpots in the surrounding areas. The number of destroyed schools in Bajaur Agency has reached to 106.
Security forces started search operation after the incident. The watchman of the school was also tossed in the clink for interrogation.
In the Frontier Region of Kohat, Death Eaters killed a member a peace committee in Jawak village for raising voice against them on Monday.
Militants claimed that they killed Ghani, who had attended a jirga the other day and condemned rocket attacks on Ara Khel village. The local elder, Shafaris Khan also confirmed the incident by telephone.
The jirga members and armed lashkar of FR Kohat had been warned several times in the past against supporting security forces. Talibs had enforced their own style of Sahria in FR Kohat three years ago and awarded punishments to people but local rustics vehemently opposed them.
Security forces and tribal volunteers had tossed in the clink two alleged jacket wallahs in FR Kohat last week. The alleged bombers were sent to target the offices of the jirga, locals said.
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i wonder if any qurans were destroyed? maybe that is only a problem if the hated kafir does it.
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court here on Monday issued non-bailable arrest warrants of 15 prosecution witnesses, mostly coppers, as they did not turn up in eight cases against chief of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), ...Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Pak turban group whose objective is to enforce their definition of Sharia law in Pakistain whether anybody wants it or not. It was founded by Sufi Muhammad in 1992, and was banned by President Musharraf in January, 2002 after Sufi dispatched several thousand yokels to Afghanistan to fight the infidel and ended up with most of them killed or captured and held for ransom. In 2007 TNSM took over Swat, which shows how well the banning worked. TNSM is the Pony League of Islamic militancy.. Maulana Sufi Muhammad and several others. "Youse got nuttin' on me, coppers! Da witnesses is all dead!"
It is learnt that the court presided over by Asim Imam, a judge of the ATC at Swat, also ordered to attach salaries of the serving coppers for their failure to appear as witnesses. The court fixed May 23 for the next hearing.
Due to security reasons, the judge has been conducting trial in different cases against Maulana Sufi Mohammad and scores of his associates inside the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Central Prison. These cases were mostly registered in cop shoppes of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and Lower Dir districts over 15 years ago.
Advocate Adil Majeed appeared for Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who had earlier declined to engage a counsel following which the court ordered that counsel should be arranged for him on state expense.
It is learnt that at the very outset of the proceedings, the court was informed that the prosecution witnesses including DSP Sanober Khan, sub-inspector Sher Gul, Alamzeb Khan and others did not turn up. The court took exception to it and issued their arrest warrants.
The court was informed that some of these witnesses had already been retired from police service.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... in a bail petition of a senior member of TNSM, Maulana Khalid, the court ordered production of his medical report. The petitioner has requested for on bail on medical grounds as he claimed to be suffering from different ailments.
These cases were mostly registered under section 302 (murder), 120-A (criminal conspiracy), 120-B (punishment for criminal conspiracy), 186 (obstructing public servant from doing his job) and some other sections of Pakistain Penal Code.
Some of these cases were registered in 1994 when the tehrik had stepped up its movement for the enforcement of Sharia in Malakand Division. During the same period thousands of activists had blocked the Peshawar-Swat highway at Malakand Top for several days.
Later, its armed supporters had occupied several government installations in Swat.
To dislodge them from those installations the then government of Pakistain People`s Party had launched an operation.
One of the cases was registered at Mingora cop shoppe pertaining to the killing of PPP MPA Badiuz Zaman at a hotel in Swat allegedly by TNSM activists.
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[Dawn] Police have announced arrest of a suspected beturbanned goon allegedly involved in attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009.
District Police Officer Tassaduq Hiyat on Monday told a presser that Adnan Khosa alias Arshad alias Sajjad with code name `Cchotu` who was involved in attack on Sri Lankan cricketers.
He said Adnan was tossed in the clink in connection with a bank robbery in Taunsa and later turned out to be involved in attack on Sri Lankan cricketers.
The DPO said the police were looking for one of the bank robbers who managed to escape on Saturday immediately after committing the robbery.
He told journalists, Adnan whose name was on `Red book`, a list of high-value beturbanned goons, was nabbed on a tip-off in the jurisdiction of Raitra cop shoppe.
Adnan, a resident of Chah Fateh Hilal, Azamat Town, DG Khan, was wanted by police in a case registered in Gulberg cop shoppe under sections 109/395/427/186/353/324/302, 3/4 of the Explosives Act, and 7ATA following the assault on Sri Lankans, he added.
Mr Hiyat said Adnan was an operative of defunct Lashkar-i-Jhangvi`s Amjad Farooqi group that committed robberies to finance its terror plans.
He said The bank robbery plan was hatched in Miram Shah by a beturbanned goon, Saif Ullahh, who assigned the task to Adnan, Nuaman, Yousif and Umer. Talking to Dawn, Adnan`s father, Qari Arshad said his son had been studying at a madressah, Farooq-i-Azam at Shah Saddar Din from where he went missing along with a fellow student, Zubair.
Qari said soon after the attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore, law-enforcement agencies had picked him and his elder brother but they were later released. He said later he went to Dubai as following his detention he was sacked from his teaching job.
He claimed Adnan, who had three younger brothers, had no contact with his family for the at least last three years.
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[Dawn] An alleged killer of former advocate general of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... was brought to Pakistain from Oman on Monday evening, ending a little more than yearlong manhunt, police said.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Bani Amin told Dawn that Roohullah was incarcerated in Oman some days back with the help of Interpol and an Omani law enforcement agency for his alleged involvement in the killing of Mohammad Sardar Khan on February 3 last year in Islamabad.
He was brought to the capital in a PK-620 flight, which landed at the airport around 6:50pm. A police team headed by DIG Amin shifted him to Shalimar cop shoppe amid tight security.
On February 3 last year five people, including a woman, requested a meeting with Sardar Khan for discussing a case when he was at the house of his daughter in Park Avenue in F-11. At Ibne Seena Road in G-11/2, they killed him and beat feet.
The accused plotted the murder after Sardar Khan turned down offer of money for losing a land grabbing case he was fighting for Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) against Roohullah in the Peshawar High Court. The 168-kanal prized land worth billion of rupees is in five different localities of Peshawar, including Hayatabad and Saddar.
As the Supreme Court had taken suo motu notice of the killing, the probe turned into an international manhunt as the alleged killer beat feet to Peshawar, Afghanistan, Dubai and Muscat.
According to DIG, Roohullah was incarcerated in Dubai in January this year by the immigration staff, but he managed to get a case of "cheque dishonour" registered against himself. This helped Roohullah avoid extradition to Pakistain. In April this year, the DIG said, the accused obtained bail from the local courts in Dubai and beat feet to Muscat.
As he left Dubai, the capital police with the help of Interpol started tracking him. Two weeks ago Roohullah`s mobile IEMI number revealed he was in Oman. Armed with red warrant, and with the help of Interpol and Omani enforcement agency, a two-member capital police team incarcerated Roohullah.
The accused had travelled to Afghanistan on forged documents shortly after the killing last year. Later he moved to Dubai on a fake passport of his cousin Fazal Ahmed. After his escape to Dubai, the police declared him a proclaimed offender and seized his property and bank account.
Soon after Sardar Khan`s killing, the police had incarcerated Safiullah who told them that apart from him, Roohullah, Waqif Khan, Rubina SLearned Elders of Islamn and Iftikhar Ahmed were present at the time of killing the advocate general. Afterwards, Rubina was also murdered.
Police teams raided different areas in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and other districts as cases were registered against the relatives and friends who sheltered the alleged killers in their homes. As police teams were sent to other parts of the country, Iftikhar, a close aide of Roohullah, was incarcerated from Bloody Karachi.
Early this year when the Supreme Court was informed about the "arrest" of Roohullah in Dubai, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chuadhry had appreciated the efforts of police.
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[Dawn] Syrian authorities on Tuesday denied the existence of a mass grave in the southern town of Daraa, which the army had raided to put down anti-regime protests, while acknowledging that the bodies of five people had been found in the flashpoint town. "Faked! The pictures are fake! Those ain't dead guys! Those are zombies!"
"This information is totally false," an interior ministry official told the state news agency, referring to reports about the mass grave.
"These reports are part of a campaign of incitement and lies against Syria," the official added.
The SANA agency, quoting a local official in Daraa, said five bodies had been discovered in the town on Sunday and that the local attorney general had launched a probe.
It did not specify how the bodies were found or how the victims died.
But rights activist Ammar Qurabi maintained his account of the existence of a mass grave in Daraa, at the heart of protests roiling the country for two months and virtually shut off from the outside world.
Qurabi, head of the National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria, said the mass grave he spoke about on Monday had nothing to do with the five bodies discovered by authorities.
"Two mass graves were found on Sunday in close proximity of each other," Qurabi told AFP by telephone. "One contained 24 corpses and the other seven corpses, including the five mentioned by authorities as well as an unidentified woman and her child." He identified the five victims as Abdel Razzaq Abazid and his four sons, in their 20s and 40s.
Qurabi said his organisation was not accusing any party for the killings and urged authorities to launch a probe.
Rami Abdel Rahman, of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, challenged Qurabi's account and insisted that only one mass grave existed, containing the bodies of Abazid and his sons.
"The five went missing from Daraa on April 25, as they were fleeing the army assault on the town for fear of arrest," Rahman said by telephone.
"Family members were informed last Sunday by local residents of a foul smell emanating from a hilltop some 150 metres (yards) from his home," he added. "They discovered the bodies and alerted authorities." Rahman also urged authorities to set up an investigative commission.
Syria has been roiled by unprecedented protests for two months that have threatened the authoritarian regime of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
More than 850 people, including women and kiddies, have been killed in the unrest and at least 8,000 incarcerated, according to rights groups.
The authoritarian regime has blamed the violence on "armed terrorist gangs" backed by Islamists and foreign agitators.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian security agents have violently dispersed university students protesting against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... in the country's second-largest city Aleppo, ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... a human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activist has said.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency quoted Mustafa Osso as saying that dozens were maimed after the protesting students were attacked with batons on Tuesday.
He said many of the students were chased into their dormitories and badly beaten. The university has seen several anti-regime demonstrations in the past weeks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Syrian activists used Facebook to call for a general strike throughout Syria on Wednesday to protest the security crackdown on anti-government protesters.
One of the protesters' main Facebook pages, The Syrian Revolution 2011, had a picture of a child saying "father, your participation in the strike is a guarantee for my future".
Osso said security forces with clubs also dispersed a rally on Monday of about 3,000 in the central city of Homs.
On Monday night, thousands of demonstrators marched through the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... suburb of Saqba at the funeral of Ahmad Ataya, who died of wounds inflicted when security forces fired at a pro-democracy rally in the capital last month.
It was the biggest protest in the Damascus outskirts since a security crackdown began three weeks ago.
There were also protests in the southern city of Deraa and in other towns across the country.
On Tuesday, Syrian tanks moved into a southern city of Nawa, near Deraa, after encircling it for the past three weeks, activists told the Rooters news agency.
Rights activist Osso also told the AP there was little news from the western town of Tel Kelakh, a town of about 70,000, which has been under siege by security forces since Thursday. He said residents of nearby areas were still hearing cracks of gunfire but it was not clear whether there were injuries.
At least 16 people - eight of them members of the same family - have been killed in recent days in Tel Kelakh, witnesses and activists said.
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[Al Jazeera] Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch, has begun the first visit to Ireland by a UK royal in a century, despite a bomb being found on a bus near Dublin, the Irish capital.
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