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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Courteney Cox aka Julia "Julie" Winston in "Masters of the Universe" aka Sara in "Cocoon: The Return" aka Lisa Roberts in "Blue Desert" aka Melissa Robinson in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" aka Gale Weathers in "Scream (1 thru 4)" aka Cybil Waingrow in "3000 Miles to Graceland" (age 47)
Killed by air raid or artillery, or both.
A martyrdom statement for Mahmoud Hamdan Nizal, who was known as Abu Dher al Urduni, was published by a member of the Shumukh al-Islam forum, which is frequented by members of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The statement was released on June 12, 2011 and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
Nizal was from the Jordanian city of Zarqa, the home town of slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Doesn't speak well of that town, does it?
According to the statement, Nizal was killed during US air and artillery strikes in the Bermel district of Paktika province "where the lions of al Qaeda were in an operation against a base belonging to the Crusaders." The date of Nizal's death was not disclosed.
Nizal was "preparing rockets to launch at the filthy base of the Crusaders" when he and his team were discovered by US troops, who launched a counterattack. Well, pre-emptive strike, more than a counterattack, but who's quibbling.
[Tolo News] A Taliban local commander was killed in Afghan police operation in western Herat province on Tuesday night, local official said.
There seems to be a good deal more of that, lately. What's different?
The operation was launched in Chesht district of Herat in which Sayed Mirza a Taliban local commander was killed, Delawar Shah Delawer, deputy police chief of Herat told TOLOnews.
After the killing of Sayed Merza 15 other Talibs laid down their arms and surrendered to government, he added.
The commander planned attack against government and targeted police check posts in the province, officials said.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the operation.
Chesht is one of the insecure districts in Herat where bully boyz have been active in some villages.
Herat is one of the seven areas that foreign forces will hand over to Afghan forces in July in the first phase of security transition.
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[Iran Press TV] Somali government troops have attacked the northern parts of the African country's capital, Mogadishu, leaving over 14 civilians dead and many more maimed.
Somali government forces backed 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... have been pounding three districts of Mogadishu with heavy artillery, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
Four children are said to be among the victims.
The attacks have forced hundreds of local residents to escape their homes.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991. The country has been struggling with violence since then.
Al-Shabaab is fighting with the UN-backed administration for control of the country. Al-Shabaab was formerly the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which controlled much of central and southern Somalia in late 2006, until the Ethiopian invasion.
Clashes between rival factions as well as famine and disease have claimed the lives of thousands over the past few years.
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[Al Jazeera] Sudan has stepped up air attacks in South Kordofan, a state on the south Sudan border, causing "huge suffering" to the civilian population and endangering emergency aid, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... between forces from the north, including both the Sudanese Armed Forces northern army - or SAF - and government-back forces,
ie. terror group proxies,
and fighters aligned to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the former southern rebel group - has raged across South Kordofan since June 5.
"We are extremely concerned about the bombing campaign, which is causing huge suffering to the civilian population and endangering humanitarian assistance," Kouider Zerrouk, a front man for the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), told the AFP news agency.
"The intensive bombing by SAF in the past week is continuing in Kadugli and Kauda, where jet fighters dropped 11 bombs at 1030 this morning, apparently targeting an airfield."
Two bombs landed very close to the UNMIS compound in Kauda, which is situated just 150 metres from the airstrip.
Intensified attacks Fears had been growing among civilians of intensified SAF air attacks on former rebel strongholds, where the indigenous Nuba peoples fought on the side of the SPLA during the devastating 1983-2005 civil war between north and south.
"We reiterate our call on the SAF, the SPLA and other gangs who are involved in this conflict to allow immediate access to humanitarian agencies, stop military attacks agianst civilians and respect and protect them in accordance with international law," Zerrouk said.
UNMIS was unable to provide details of casualties from the latest violence in South Kordofan.
Late on Monday, a Sudan rights group said that more than 65 people had been killed in air raids carried out by Antonov bombers in different locations around South Kordofan over the past nine days.
The Sudan Democracy First Group (SDGP), in a six-page report, accused the northern army of pursuing a genocidal campaign in the state, targeting the Nuba peoples and supported by the Popular Defence Forces, a feared civil war militia that now forms part of the Sudanese army.
A northern army front man, Al-Sawarmi Khaled, denied that Khartoum's military actions were killing civilians, saying fighting was only between the army and rebels.
"There are not any victims from the civilian people," he said.
But speaking to Al Jizz on Tuesday, Tawanda Hondora, of the Africa department at Amnesia Amnesty International, the London-based human-rights monitor, said: "Civilians currently are fleeing to other areas out of South Kordofan.
"Some of them have decamped to the UN compound. Unfortunately, we have information that they are actually not safe. The UN is unable to provide them with security."
Hondora said the Sudanese armed forces have been going to the UN camps and taking people from there.
"Some of them have been shot and killed simply because they look to be Nuba, and therefore perceived to be sympathetic to the SPLA," he said.
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Lets have a NFZ---we can use the Belgian special hairdresser brigade.
Mohammed, a native of the Comoros Islands, had been on the run for more than a decade with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. Hassan said he doesn't want to spend much time wondering whether he will get that reward, which is not typically given to law enforcement agents acting in the line of duty. The U.S. does not comment on the status of reward offers. "I'm happy that I killed the troublemaker. Somalis' prayers and blessings are enough," Hassan told Ay Pee in a telephone interview. "He has caused a lot of trouble in the country."
Wednesday Egyptian police seized a large cache of weapons in the Sinai Desert near Gazoo and placed in long-term storage three Egyptians and a Paleostinian. The four are accused of being members of a ring smuggling weapons into the Gazoo Strip.
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian police in the northern Sinai said officers had placed in durance vile a ring of Paleostinian arms dealers on Wednesday who were preparing bring a shipment of automatic weapons, flak jackets and night vision goggles into Gazoo. An Egyptian fixer working alongside the three arms dealers was also jugged, director of the Sinai security forces Saleh Al-Masri told Ma'an.
The weapons - Israeli and American - were being sold to buyers in Egypt and Gazoo, Al-Masri said. According to Egyptian police, the shipment included 10 Israeli Uzi automatic weapons, 5 American M16 rifles, night-vision goggles, protection vests, and a large quantity of assorted ammunition packed in boxes.
The Egyptian city of El-Arish has, since 2006, become a hub for smugglers transporting goods into the Gazoo Strip. Tunnels were dug to supply the 1.6 million Gazoo residents with food, construction materials, farm animals and later cars and weapons, after Israel imposed its blockade on the coastal enclave.
[Al Jazeera] Egyptian police have placed in long-term storage a man who returned home after being placed in durance vile for years at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
Adel al-Gazzar told news hounds on Monday that the Americans had not sent him back to Egypt for fear that he would be tortured in his homeland.
He was placed in long-term storage upon arrival in Egypt on what his lawyers describe as "trumped-up charges".
Katie Taylor, who works for Reprieve, a legal charity based in London that represents prisoners in Guantanamo Bay,
Reprieve is associated with George Galloway. Enough said.
told Al Jizz that al-Gazzar suffered a "decade-long ordeal of torture and detention without trial".
"He arrived home to Egypt, only to face further discredited, trumped-up charges."
Al-Gazzar was sentenced in absentia in Egypt in 2001 to three years in prison for affiliation with a group called Al-Wa'ad.
Nothing to do with the fact that he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, then.
Ahmed Ghappour, al-Gazzar's lawyer in the US, said that nearly half of the defendants present at the trial were found innocent.
According to a defense lawyer...
"Such cases were often used as a tool by the Mubarak regime to silence dissent," Ghappour said.
He added that before being placed in long-term storage in Egypt, Al-Gazzar was "allowed to see his wife and four children for about an hour". This was the first time he had seen them in over ten years.
He would not have had this problem, had he become a tailor instead of a terrorist..
Katherine O'Shea, press officer for Reprieve, told Al Jizz that Al-Gazzar was taken to "the Military Prosecution to sign his sentence, and was then transferred to the Criminal Prison of Appeals in Cairo".
"This is unusual as political prisoners are usually sent to the Tora prison, which has better conditions. The Criminal Prison of Appeals is overcrowded," O'Shea said.
She said that on arrival at the prison, the security services were concerned about the conditions and decided to transfer him to be jugged in the airport.
"Adel has been told that tomorrow he will be taken to the prison authority, who will determine which prison he will be sent to serve his sentence."
Al-Gazzar says he went to Pakistain in 2000 to preach Islam,
What, they don't have enough Islam in Pakistain?
and signed up with the Red Islamic Thingy to go into Afghanistan to help refugees. Within two hours of crossing the border to a refugee camp, the area was hit by a US Arclight airstrike.
His leg was injured in the Arclight airstrike and he was treated in a Pak hospital. He says he was sold to the US military for a bounty and transferred to a US prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Al-Gazzar was reportedly tortured for eleven days before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay. He had received no medical attention during his time in Kandahar, and as a result, his leg had to be amputated.
Cleared for release by US authorities, it was deemed unsafe for him to return to Egypt and he had to wait eight years for a third country to accept him.
So he wasn't exactly a salt of the earth type. And why, if we had tortured him at Gitmo, would we give a rat's hind end about whether the Egyptians did the same?
Released from Guantanamo in 2010, he was transferred to Slovakia where he was imprisoned in an immigration detention centre for more than six months.
He was released after going on a hunger strike to protest against the manner in which he was being held.
Soft Euros...
Katie Taylor said that Reprieve was calling for Al-Gazzar to be allowed "to rejoin his beloved family and to build a new life in the new Egypt".
"What kind of 'Arab Spring' is it when the Egyptian military compounds the mistakes of America's 'War of Terror'?"
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"What kind of 'Arab Spring' is it when the Egyptian military compounds the mistakes of America's 'War of Terror'?"
It's an Arab spring. Enjoy the irony.
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[Pak Daily Times] Libyan rebels faced new obstacles in their campaign to march on Tripoli after shelling from Muammar Qadaffy's forces damaged an oil refinery in the bully boy stronghold of Misrata, disrupting fuel supply lines. A photographer in Misrata joined rebel units as they pushed their front several kilometres west on Monday to the outskirts of Zlitan, a town controlled by Qadaffy's forces. Any fighting over Zlitan would bring the rebellion closer to the capital Tripoli, the Libyan leader's stronghold which lies 200 kilometres west of Misrata. A doctor in a field hospital to the west of Libya's third largest city said two rebels had been killed and a dozen maimed after the two sides traded heavy artillery fire. Rebels from Misrata say tribal sensitivities prevent them from attacking Zlitan, and they are instead waiting for local inhabitants to rise up. Late on Monday, six rockets hit generators at the refinery near Misrata port leaving them heavily damaged. An engineer on site said it was unclear how long it would take to repair. 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... said it struck an armoured vehicle armed with anti-aircraft guns east of Tripoli on Tuesday as well as a multiple rocket launcher and another anti-aircraft system. A NATO statement said the alliance also struck an armed pickup truck, a tank, a multiple rocket launcher and an armoured vehicle in Misrata on Monday night. "These types of equipment have been used to indiscriminately target the civilian population throughout Libya," the commander of the NATO mission, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said.
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[Al Jazeera] Pro-democracy fighters have made fresh advances in both the east and the west of Libya, gaining ground against forces loyal to the Libyan leader, Muammar Qadaffy, reports say.
During 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... air raids after a quiet day in the capital, a loud blast rocked eastern Tripoli on Tuesday night, as plumes of smoke and a fire lit up the sky.
In the west of the country, the fighters managed to to force government troops into retreat from the town of Kikla, about 150km southwest of the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday, news agencies said.
And in the east, they launched more attacks against Qadaffy forces near the oil town of Brega, where fighting on Monday killed at least 25 fighters and maimed dozens more.
The maimed were transferred to a hospital in Ajdabiya, 160km south of Benghazi, the de facto capital of the rebels who have been fighting to overthrow Qadaffy since mid-February.
The rebels have spent months trying to seize the strategic oil hub of Brega, which would open the road to Sirte, the Libyan leader's home town, and from there to Tripoli.
Strategic town
Brega boasts an important oil refinery which, once operational, could supply the east of the country with much-needed fuel to produce electricity.
Youssef Boudlal, a Rooters photographer, said that pro-Qadaffy forces had retreated to positions about 9km from the town of Kikla.
The rebels were in control of the town and were setting up defensive positions in case of a counterattack, Boudlal said.
The push by the rebels came as the US House of Representatives voted to stop funding military operations in Libya.
Monday's motion still requires senate approval, but it shows a growing disapproval of US involvement in Libya.
A number of members of congress have expressed their dissatisfaction at Barack B.O. Obama's decision to go ahead with operations in Libya in March and to continue without congressional authorisation.
According to US law, the president must seek congressional authorisation to send US troops into combat and must withdraw the forces within 60 days if congress has not authorised the military action.
Shock for White House Al Jizz Patty Culhane, reporting from Manchester in New Hampshire state, said: "This is going to be a bit of a shock for B.O. regime as the vote was so overwhelmingly against allowing him to use the fund in Libya."
The vote came came as Libyan troops fired several grad rockets from positions controlled by Qadaffy over the border into Tunisia, witnesses said.
No damage was done, but it could escalate tensions between the neighbours.
"At least five rockets fell on Tunisian soil today in the Mrabeh. It was a heavy bombardment from Qadaffy's side of the mountains," Mohammed Nagez, a local trader, said.
Al Jizz's James Bays, reporting from the western town of Jadu, said that rebel fighters were in high spirits as they edged forward.
"We were in Zintan and it was clear, as we wandered around the town a few hours ago, that rebel fighters had taken over," our correspondent said.
Government forces posted a few miles east of Zintan fired Grad and Katyusha rockets at the town.
Battles were also being fought in the Berber mountains southwest of Tripoli, in nearby Yafran, and at Dafnia near Misrata, rebel sources said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... NATO has continued with air attacks in Tripoli to put pressure on Qadaffy. On Tuesday, it targeted the area near his compound in Tripoli.
A column of grey smoke could be seen rising from the area around Qadaffy's Bab al-Aziziya compound before dawn on Tuesday.
Libyan officials didn't immediately comment on the strike.
The latest bombing comes hours after a number of foreign anti-war activists appeared onstage at the compound.
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SANAA, Yemen — Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in nearly every major city of the country on Tuesday, demanding trial for the family and close aides of the ailing president.
They were the largest protests since President Ali Abdullah Saleh went abroad for medical treatment for injuries suffered in an attack on his compound. Some of SalehÂ’s family and closest aides remained behind, and Yemen remains locked in a power struggle between the presidentÂ’s allies and tribesmen demanding an end to the regimeÂ’s nearly 33-year rule.
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of young people crowded outside the home of acting president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who assumed power when Saleh left. The crowd vowed to stay outside Hadi’s home — which is protected by special forces led by Saleh’s son — until their demands were met.
Many in SalehÂ’s inner circle remain in positions of power, including his son Ahmed, who commands the special forces and YemenÂ’s Republican Guard. Hadi role in the power struggle is unclear, but he has met with the opposition, suggesting heÂ’s willing to exercise some constitutional authority.
Some in the crowd of young people said Hadi “shoulders the legal and ethical responsibility of any crimes that might be committed by Saleh’s sons or the regime’s remnants.” They said they would not negotiate with anyone in the regime.
There were similar demonstrations in Hadramawt, Hodeida, Ibb, Damar and Saada.
In Taiz, YemenÂ’s second-largest city and the site of major protests, demonstrators clashed with Republican Guard units guarding the cityÂ’s presidential palace and several ambulances were seen rushing to the area. There were no official casualty reports.
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ABU DHABI: A blogger, a university lecturer and three others denied charges on Tuesday of insulting the United Arab EmiratesÂ’ rulers.
The five men appearing at an Abu Dhabi court are accused of “acts that threaten state security and public order,” and “insulting the president, vice president and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi,” the state news agency said in April.
One defendant is blogger and rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, from Ras Al-Khaimah, among of the UAEÂ’s poorer emirates. He had joined a petition demanding wider political representation and legislative powers for the parliament-style Federal National Council (FNC).
Another is Nasser bin Ghaith, a lecturer at the Abu Dhabi branch of France’s Sorbonne University. He published an online article on Mansoor’s forum, “UAE Hewar,” accusing Arab governments of avoiding political reform.
They and the three other alleged regime critics — Fahad Salim Al-Shehhi, a friend of Mansoor also involved with the forum, and Hassan Ali Al-Khamis and Ahmed Abdul-Khaleq — entered not-guilty pleas, their lawyers said outside the court.
A crowd of some 100 men rallied to denounce the defendants.
“We are all Khalifa,” they chanted, referring to UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, head of the Nahyan family that also rules Abu Dhabi.
“It was a shock. We did not expect that there are people in the country who will betray the state,” said Khalifa al Qubaisi, a member of the UAE national Judo team, who joined the protest.
“We were insulted when (Mansour) said the people who live in the country are getting paid by the government to remain silent,” said fellow demonstrator Al-Fandi Al-Mazrouei, an economics student.
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[Iran Press TV] Opposition groups in Bahrain say hundreds of people are put on trial in the country, but the ruling regime claims that it has begun trials for 22 people over their role in anti-regime demonstrations.
The defendants faced charges ranging from calling for regime change, spreading photos to hurt the country's reputation, and carrying swords.
Activists also said on Tuesday that Bahrain's Polytechnic University has dismissed around 47 students over political statements they had posted on Twitter and Facebook.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a number of defendants alleged they have been tortured in detention and forced to sign confessions.
Anti-regime activist Jaber Ibrahim al-Alawiat, who was "severely tortured" by Bahraini forces while in detention, died a day after he was released, witnesses said.
Thousands of anti-government protesters have been staging demonstrations in Bahrain since February, demanding ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family following its brutal crackdown on popular protests.
On March 14, Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed troops to the kingdom to help Bahraini forces to suppress the nationwide protests.
Scores of people have been killed and many more incarcerated in the Saudi-backed crackdown on protests in Bahrain -- a longtime ally of the US and home to a huge military base of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A schoolboy was killed when a stray bullet from a shootout between Rapid Action Battalion and drug peddlers hit him at Boubazar of Fatullah in Narayanganj last night, police said.
Said so casually that it must be on the map, somewhere. If you find it, let us know.
His brother Sohag and a friend Badal also suffered bullet injuries.
Deceased Shuvo was a class-X student of Pagla High School.
Not a madrassah, so his family can afford state school fees, not to mention keeping a son out of the work force through his teen years.
Injured 10-year-old Sohag was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
May the child heal well and quickly, not ending up in the tender care of Dr. Quincy and his assistant, Jim.
Officer-in-Charge Ainul Haq of Fatullah Police Station told The Daily Star that a Rab team raided Boubazar around 9:20pm.
This is why crossfires and such are conducted at three in the morning, when all good citizens are snug in their beds, unlikely to be caught by stray bullets in the street. Are the Rab working double shifts again or did they happen across the drug peddlers while picking up chai and spiced nuts for the crew at the station house?
The team engaged in a shootout with the drug peddlers.
Shuvo was struck down in his prime being hit in the chin and his brother received a bullet in the leg, Ainul Haq said. Their home is close to the spot.
Shuvo's body was sent to a Narayanganj hospital.
"Paging Dr. Quincy. Dr. Quincy to the white courtesy phone."
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... mother of the two Rahima Begum told news agency UNB that Shuvo and Sohag were returning home along with Badal after buying chanachur from a shop.
She heard gunfire and rushed out looking for her sons. But to her astonishment she saw her two sons and Badal lying in a poll of blood on the road, the news agency said.
Mothers never expect to see that.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Captain Nazmul, who led the Rab team, told The Daily Star that they fired a single shot during the drive.
A single shot, in a shootout? That seems a bit... frugal.
"The drug peddlers assaulted two of our team members, Lance Corporal Jakir and Sergeant Shafiq," he said, adding that the two were sent to a hospital in Dhaka for treatment.
It seems the men had stubbed their toes. They'll be fine. But the drug peddlers disappeared from the scene as if they'd never been. So much easier to to when uninjured because the authorities only fired a single shot between them.
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North Korea exported ballistic missiles on more than 500 occasions between 1987 and 2009, according to a report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. The figure was cited by Jonathan Pollack, a Northeast Asia expert at the conservative Brookings Institution, at a seminar hosted by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
A total of 420 cases of ballistic missiles export were reported between 1987 and 1993, 30 cases between 1994 and 2000, and 60 from 2001 to 2009. Pollack said North Korea exported missiles to Syria, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Libya, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
He said North Korea is an important source of the missile trade, because it acquires technology from various sources, develops its own missiles, and exports them to other nations. He called it the most important supplier of ballistic missiles for Iran and Syria. The North is also suspected of selling missiles to Burma.
A South Korean government official said, "We believe that North Korea has earned a huge amount of money from exporting missiles, with scud missiles costing at least US$1 million each."
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WANA: Missile strikes by U.S. drone aircraft killed 10 people in South Waziristan on Wednesday, intelligence officials said, in an operation bound to deepen tensions in the region. Deep tensions - sounds like they need a good massage... deep tissue massage...Hellfire massage?
"There was a huge blast and we can see smoke rising from the compound," said a witness in Wana, South Waziristan's main town.
Seven people were killed in the compound, a local intelligence official said. Missiles targeted a vehicle also killed three others. Now stop arresting our friends who helped us get Binny, Pakistan!
WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. It goes on from there, nothing more that we don't already know, except
For now, at least, America's relationship with Pakistan keeps getting tripped up. When he visited Pakistan, Mr. Panetta offered evidence of collusion between Pakistani security officials and the militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.
American officials said Mr. Panetta presented satellite photographs of two bomb-making factories that American spies several weeks ago had asked the ISI to raid. When Pakistani troops showed up days later, the militants were gone, causing American officials to question whether the militants had been warned by someone on the Pakistani side.
Shortly after the failed raids, the Defense Department put a hold on a $300 million payment reimbursing Pakistan for the cost of deploying more than 100,000 troops along the border with Afghanistan, two officials said. The Pentagon declined to comment on the payment, except to say it was "continuing to process several claims."
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At least the Govt realise the problem is not in Afghanistan but next door!
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Don't they mean alleged informants?
How do we know it's not some dude with a lovely wife coveted by some ISI Major?
Radio said one was the owner of the house the CIA used to spy on Binny. I'm sure the CIA advertised their identiy AND their mission to the owner. It's probably on all the Pak application to rent forms - "Are you a CIA Tool? Yes? No? Not Sure? Circle one."
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The US skunked them so bad by nailing binny while he was under their protection, that they have to take revenge against *somebody*.
But that hypersensitivity is useful. For example, before if we knew that an ISI chieftain was dirty, and we told the Pakis, they would just shrug. But now, if we "inform" them that *we* know he's dirty, it will be like announcing we are planning to 'hit' him like binny. He'll run for the hills, or better yet, try to trade us his confederates in exchange for *not* putting a cap in him.
[Dawn] The elders of Safi tribe of 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... Agency have expressed grave concern over detention of 170 notables of the region by political administration for not raising armed lashkars against faceless myrmidons in their respective areas.
The notables had been jugged for no fault of theirs, members of Mohmand Safi Jirga Jangrez Khan Mohmand, Samiullah Afridi and Fata Lawyers Forum president Ijaz Mohmand told a presser here on Monday.
One of the side effects of collective responsibility is that the heads of the community heads are at risk when the higher powers-that-be are displeased.
"The political administration had convened a meeting of elders on May 2 at Ghalanai to direct them to form anti-Taliban lashkar. But the elders were sent behind the bars when they refused to do so," they said.
The rustics, they said, were forced to obey the orders of administration. They said that administration demolished the houses of those, who didn't obey its orders.
Mr Ijaz said that the political administration was openly misusing its powers as people were tortured under Frontier Crimes Regulation but they had no right to move a court.
The detention of tribal elders, he said, was clear violation of basic human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , creating unrest among people.
He said that rustics were rendering sacrifices in war against terrorism but the administration was not ready to appreciate them. He demanded amendments in FCR and extension of Political Parties Act to Fata to ease miseries of tribal people.
Mr Ijaz appealed to President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and Governor Barrister Masood Kausar to take notice of illegal detention of 170 innocent tribal elders and order their immediate release.
He also demanded of Human Rights Commission of Pakistain and other rights organisations to take notice of injustices with tribal people by the political administration.
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[Dawn] A fresh wave of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions has killed at least 15 people in Bloody Karachi, DawnNews reported, adding that incidents of firing continued in the city on Tuesday.
Two people were maimed in an incident of firing in the city's Liaquat National Hospital.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... AFP quoted officials as saying that at least 12 people were killed in the city overnight.
"At least 12 people were killed in assassinations, which started Monday evening and lasted late in the night," Sindh's home ministry front man Sharfuddin Memon told AFP.
Memon said police and paramilitary troops were stepping up patrols in the troubled western and central neighbourhoods to avert further violence.
Among the dead was an MQM activist in Aligarh Bazaar area and local lawyer Zia Alam, a member of the Pakistain People's Party (PPP).
In 2010, political violence in Bloody Karachi was the deadliest for years, dominated by flare ups in August after an MQM politician was rubbed out and in October on the eve of the election for his successor.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistain says 748 people -- 447 political activists and the rest innocent citizens -- were killed in targeted shootings last year. Targeted killings in 2009 claimed 272 lives.
Bloody Karachi is also plagued by ethnic and sectarian killings, crime and kidnappings.
The Wild East, as others have profoundly observed.
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[Dawn] At least eight doctors were maimed when police opened fire on their procession in Quetta on Tuesday, DawnNews reported. The doctors were marching toward the Chief Minister's residence.
One of the maimed doctors was at death's door.
At least 50 doctors were also jugged after police baton-charged and shelled the participants of the march.
The doctors in Balochistan have been on strike for the past couple of weeks to press the government to accept their demands. They want their salary and perks to be at par with those of doctors in the other provinces.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A military source said today that a car bomb was captured and successfully dismantled north of Mosul city.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that a unit from the Second Division, stationed in Mosul, captured the car which was directed against the Establishments Protection Headquarters. The dismantling was completed without any casualties.
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If the car bomb was directed at the Establishments (Facilities) Protection headquarters, one would hope that it was successfully dismantled, naturally. It would be a shame to have your #1 priority to be to protect facilities and then get a car with a bomb driven into your facility.
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[Arab News] Indonesian police said Tuesday they have incarcerated a suspected terrorist sought since 2002 for his role in the Bali bombing that killed 202 people.
National police front man Brig. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said that Heru Kuncoro was captured on June 9 in Pekalongan, a town in central Java.
He is among the 16 people incarcerated in recent days on suspicion of plotting cyanide attacks against police. Extremists in Indonesia have increasingly targeted police in the past year or so as an ongoing security crackdown has disrupted terrorists' ability to launch large-scale attacks.
One of those incarcerated in the cyanide raids, Budi Untung Wisesa, died during interrogation and police said an autopsy showed he died from a heart attack. Local media quoted relatives saying they had found a wound on Wisesa's head. Police say Kuncoro was a controller who purchased electronic equipment for the 2002 bombing on the tourist island that killed mainly foreigners.
He decamped to the Philippines in 2003 with Dulmatin, an alleged criminal mastermind of the Bali bombing who was killed in an Indonesian police raid last year.
The pair teamed up with Umar Patek, another Bali bombing suspect, to run a jihadi training camp in the southern Philippines. Patek was incarcerated in Pakistain in January.
Two of the incarcerated men, identified only as Faisal and Juarni, were believed to be couriers for Dulmatin and Patek and helped to smuggle weapons from the Philippines to Indonesia, Alam said.
He said the two were involved in terrorist attacks against police in Palu last month and an April suicide kaboom in Cirebon in West Java that maimed 30 in a mosque packed with police.
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[An Nahar] A man who identified himself as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Syrian army has told Agence La Belle France Presse that he had seen "Iranian and Hizbullah snipers" in 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.
"I remember well in Damascus, in the Saqba district, I saw people demonstrating" and "with my own eyes I saw snipers positioned on upper floors, Iranian and Hizbullah snipers who fired on the crowd," Hussein Harmoush told AFP, when asked about the presence of Iranian soldiers or Hizbullah warriors fighting alongside the Syrian army, as recently reported by many witnesses.
Now wearing civilian clothes but displaying his military ID card, the lieutenant colonel said he took advantage of a furlough to flee Damascus on Thursday towards the Turkish village of Guvecci near the border with Syria, where his family is sheltering.
He said he defected because of "attacks on innocent civilians, carrying nothing in their hands except an olive branch" -- rejecting any notion of an armed uprising.
On Friday, Hizbullah strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! media reports accusing the Shiite party of being involved in the ongoing festivities in Syria, describing them as "rumors aimed at inciting sectarian tensions."
"Lately, some Arab and Israeli media outlets and a number of websites have been circulating rumors accusing Hizbullah of being involved in the military confrontations taking place in some Syrian regions," said Hizbullah in a statement.
Those media outlets, according to the statement, have also reported that Hizbullah members were killed in festivities between Syrian security forces and protesters.
The party accused certain media outlets of "fabricating names of alleged (Hizbullah) deaders."
It said the aforementioned media reports were "part of the same conspiracy targeting Syria and the resistance movements" in the region.
Harmoush said he had no doubt that in all the places he was sent the protesters were totally unarmed.
"The army received the order to prevent demonstrations at all costs and to silence the people. They ordered us to open fire on people if the protests continued," he said.
"I did not accept the orders. But I saw what some soldiers did. I saw tanks fire on cities, I saw artillery being fired, helicopters firing with automatic weapons."
"The Syrian army is killing civilians, chasing people out of their homes. ... Villages are emptied, the inhabitants chased to the border and to other countries," he said.
Harmoush hopes he can persuade other officers to follow his example.
"Some people have come into contact with me, and God willing they will desert," he said.
The decision is not easy, however, because of the fear of reprisals. "Many officers and soldiers want to defect but they don't because they are afraid of being killed -- them and their families," Harmoush said.
He added that an intelligence agent's wife was raped after he refused to kill civilians.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian security forces are reportedly widening an operation in the north of the country aimed at cracking down on anti-government protests amid reports of defections from the army's ranks.
Troops pushed towards the town of Maarat al-Numaan after detaining hundreds of people in a sweep through villages near Jisr al-Shughur, the Rooters news agency reported on Tuesday, citing residents who decamped the area.
Refugees have poured across the Syrian border into neighbouring Turkey to escape the government's operation in Jisr al-Shughur, the site of a military takeover on Sunday.
More than 8,000 Syrians have so far crossed the border with Turkey to escape the violence, and an estimated 10,000 more are waiting for the opportunity to cross.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said army units fought "gangs" on Sunday, but residents and activists said troops had clashed with mutinous soldiers defending the town alongside residents.
"Army divisions entered Jisr al-Shughur and purged the state hospital of gangs," the television channel said. "Two members of the armed organisations were killed, large numbers of them jugged, and lethal weapons in their possession were seized."
'Soldiers uneasy'
Discussing the reported divisions within the Syrian army on Tuesday, Anas al-Abdah, chairman of the opposition group, Movement for Justice and Development, told Al Jizz: "Many in the Syrian army feel uneasy about the systematic policy of targeting civilians and attacking peaceful demonstrators that is being imposed on them by the political and military leadership.
"Many defected from the army in order to protect the civilians. This happened previously in Daraa and Homs, and now, more evidently, it is happening in Jisr al-Shughur.
Al-Abdah said that almost a week ago, military officers began to notice that people from a paramilitary militia called Shabiha, which is alleged to be working with the Syrian security forces, had started wearing military uniform.
"This caused huge resentment within the army because these paramilitary militias were committing atrocities against civilians," he said.
"We have strong evidence that indicates that the state security branch in Jisr al-Shughur defected from the main branch in 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... and they were severe festivities between the state security and the military intelligence in Jisr.
"This in itself is a very worrying development for the Syrian regime."
Al Jizz's Anita McNaught, in Guvecci on the Turkey-Syria border, spoke to Syrian refugees inside the camp in Turkey on Monday.
One of them said he saw two military helicopters hovering over Jisr al-Shughur and heard reports of indiscriminate shooting.
Another Syrian gave this account after Al Jizz smuggled a camera into the refugee camp: "We were besieged in Jisr yesterday.
"We couldn't leave. They shot at everyone, I was shot in the chest, My cousin, who was with me, died.
"They cut our electricity and water. We were left with nothing, that is why we came to the Turkey border."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Qadaffy's forces damaged an oil refinery in the
SANAA, Yemen — Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in nearly every major city of the country on Tuesday, demanding trial for the family and close aides of the ailing president.
North Korea exported ballistic missiles on more than 500 occasions between 1987 and 2009, according to a report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. The figure was cited by Jonathan Pollack, a Northeast Asia expert at the conservative Brookings Institution, at a seminar hosted by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.
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[Dawn] At least eight doctors 
