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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Tami Erin aka Pippi Longstocking in "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" aka Flower Girl in "The Little Rose" aka 1960's Operator in "Disconnect" aka Pasta Bear Wife in "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special (TV movie)" (age 37)
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Now there's a healthy young lady. Now a days she would be classified as overweight. Yea, the bike picture. I don't know about the leg muscle tone thing but they look go to me.
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It's late so I wish to sneak this in. This artist has so many videos on you tube you just can't see them all. She looks the picture of health. Her body fat is net to nothing. When I first saw this video it had a surreal quality about it. One poster said after her performance she attempted suicide.
[Dawn] Six Afghan coppers and a civilian were killed when their car drove over a landmine in the restive southern province of Uruzgan late Wednesday, an official said.
"The coppers were en route to their checkpoint from a village in Chora district when their vehicle rolled on a landmine," said district police chief Mohammad Gul.
"It killed all six as well as a civilian crossing the area," he added.
The Taliban were not immediately available to comment but roadside kabooms are one of the most popular weapons in their decade-long insurgency against the Western-backed Afghan government.
The dead coppers belonged to a local village force, trained for three weeks and then paid to keep Talibs out of their areas.
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[An Nahar] Canada ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on Thursday, closing the curtain after nine years and the death of 157 men, saying it was "extremely proud" of gains made against the Taliban.
The departure of nearly 3,000 troops, who took on some of the heaviest fighting in the southern province of Kandahar, comes as Western forces begin to announce gradual drawdowns of troops ahead of a full withdrawal in 2014.
After spending more than $11 billion dollars on the war and with popular support sapped at home, most of the nearly 3,000 Canadian soldiers, based mainly in the dangerous battleground of Kandahar, have packed up and gone home.
A change of command ceremony was held at Kandahar airfield to mark the formal end of combat operations, although hundreds of other troops are being sent to work in a training role in the Afghan capital.
Afghan, Canadian and American national anthems were played to a small group of soldiers from each country, before commanders addressed the crowd and formally handed control of the mission to the United States.
"Over the years Canadians, both military and civilian, have made the ultimate sacrifice," Brigadier General Dean Milner, head of the Canadian combat mission, said in his speech to the assembled troops.
"All of these comrades would be proud to know of your accomplishments."
"Although there is still work to do, (we) are extremely proud of what has been accomplished."
Canadian soldiers first deployed to Afghanistan in early 2002, several months after a U.S.-led invasion of the country to oust the Taliban in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
In recent weeks they have been completing their final patrols, packing up dusty outposts and gathering at the giant Kandahar airfield military base to debrief before starting to catch their flights home.
Britannia is among other countries to have also announced partial troop withdrawals after nearly a decade of war, but the Canadians were the first major troop contributor to start sending forces home this year.
On Tuesday, Canada handed control of their last district to U.S. forces in a flag-lowering ceremony, a key symbolic step in the drawdown process, although the Americans had been in place for weeks.
Last month, U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama announced that he would withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, while La Belle France and Belgium have joined Britannia in stating that they will soon bring some soldiers home.
All foreign combat forces are due to leave by the end of 2014 and hand security to Afghan forces.
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I know it's just before the rollover, but I want to say, thank you, neighbors, for continuing to punch well above your weight.
Dozens of al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighter have reportedly been killed after the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles to target their bases in southern Somalia.
The US drone attacks were carried out late on Wednesday in Dhoobley and Afmadow towns located near Kismayo, capital of the lower Juba region and a port city located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, said Somalia's Deputy Defense Minister Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, quoted in a report by a Press TV correspondent.
The fresh US drone strike comes as the Americans carried out another drone attack in Somalia two weeks ago, The Washington Post reported.
The drone strike reportedly targeted two high-ranking members of al-Shabaab jihad boy group that allegedly had "direct ties" to what the US describes as 'anti-American holy man' Anwar Al Awlaki, a US-born citizen of Yemeni descent who is on the CIA's list of 'suspected terrorists' and reportedly hiding in Yemen.
In October 2009, al-Shaboobs claimed they had shot down a US drone aircraft flying over Kismayo, a port town located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Drone attacks in Somalia make the lawless state the sixth country where the US military has used remote-controlled aircraft to conduct such lethal strikes.
The United States has now employed drones in Afghanistan, Pakistain, Libya, Iraq and Yemen to launch aerial bombings.
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[Iran Press TV] Dozens of al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighter have reportedly been killed after the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles to target their bases in southern Somalia.
The US drone attacks were carried out late on Wednesday in Dhoobley and Afmadow towns located near Kismayo, capital of the lower Juba region and a port city located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, said Somalia's Deputy Defense Minister Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, quoted in a report by a Press TV correspondent.
The fresh US drone strike comes as the Americans carried out another drone attack in Somalia two weeks ago, The Washington Post reported.
The drone strike reportedly targeted two high-ranking members of al-Shabaab jihad boy group that allegedly had "direct ties" to what the US describes as 'anti-American holy man' Anwar Al Awlaki, a US-born citizen of Yemeni descent who is on the CIA's list of 'suspected terrorists' and reportedly hiding in Yemen.
In October 2009, al-Shaboobs claimed they had shot down a US drone aircraft flying over Kismayo, a port town located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Drone attacks in Somalia make the lawless state the sixth country where the US military has used remote-controlled aircraft to conduct such lethal strikes.
The United States has now employed drones in Afghanistan, Pakistain, Libya, Iraq and Yemen to launch aerial bombings.
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Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world.
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[Yemen Post] Government media outlets announced that security forces succeeded in killing Waleed Osairi, one of the number three's most wanted al-Qaeda suspects in Wednesday night festivities in Abyan province.
Osairi was on the Yemeni and Saudi most wanted terror list. He was considered one of the leading al-Qaeda field commanders.
The Defense Ministry has not yet commented on the death of Osairi.
Clashes in Abyan have been ongoing for the last 40 days as Islamic Death Eaters still control large areas of the province. More than 150 government soldiers have been killed in the ongoing festivities.
At least 40,000 Abyan residents decamped the province to neighboring Aden escaping death.
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Waleed Osairi
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[Al Jazeera] Yemeni television is airing a recorded speech by President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
Saleh has not appeared in public after he was maimed in a kaboom at his palace last month.
He has been in neighbouring Soddy Arabia since then undergoing treatment.
Saleh has been hanging on to power despite international pressure and six months of protests against his 33-year old rule.
The speech was recorded in Riyadh.
Late last month, Deputy Information Minister Abdo al-Janadi told AFP news agency that a team from Yemeni television had headed to Riyadh to interview Saleh and that it would be aired after June 30.
"In this interview, Saleh will address the Yemeni people to reassure them about his health," Janadi said.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Durango state, click here.
Six of seven individuals kidnapped Wednesday in San Dimas municipality in Durango were found shot to death in two separate locations, according to Mexican press accounts.
Armando Villanueva Nuñez, Jesús Eloy Ayon Perez, 16, and Hipolito Ayon Perez, 35, were found in El Patillo which is an area directly adjacent to the village of El Muerto in San Dimas. Reports say about 20 armed suspects came to El Muerto, took their victims then murdered them shortly afterwards.
All three victims lived and were born in El Muerto.
The suspect then drove to Carbonera, and abducted four individuals.
San Dimas municipality has been the location of violence a few weeks ago.
In late April, 2011, four men were found bound and gagged and shot to death in the village of Flechas.
Three weeks before that, several homes in the village of El Zapote de Buena Vista were torched by armed suspects. To see Rantburg reports on violence in far western Durango click here and follow the links.
Native Americans comprise the great majority of those who live in the Mexican Sierra Madres, many of them descendants of the Aztecs.
Drug cartels, such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel all operate drug growing and drug laboratories in the western Sierras, and treat the inhabitants as serfs. The criminal gangs use threats and intimidation to get rural communities to grow drugs for sale.
(KUNA) -- A Spanish national wanted in connection with an alleged attempt to kill his country's king was arrested today in an armed swoop in Cambridge, southern England, police said Thursday.
A European arrest warrant was issued for Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui over an attempted assassination in 1997.
Scotland Yard and Cambridgeshire Police said they raided a property in the university city this morning following an "intelligence-led" operation.
Arronategui, 44, believed to be a member of Basque separatist group Eta, is due to appear before City of Westminster magistrates this afternoon for an extradition hearing.
Spanish authorities believe he attempted to assassinate King Juan Carlos in October 1997 before fleeing the country.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said his arrest warrant states he is wanted for a string of offences, including participation in an armed gang, attempted assassination of the king, terrorism resulting in death, possession of weapons and theft.
Counter-terror detectives supported by local officers were searching a home and two business addresses in Cambridge.
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American officials say they are nearly certain a top al-Qaeda terrorist was killed in a Pakistan drone strike, but his death has been reported in error before.
An unnamed senior official said he is "99 percent sure" a June attack got Ilyas Kashmiri, but "the folks that make that determination aren't ready to say so definitively." Where's the severed head?
Kashmiri is, or was, a top al-Qaeda figure and ran the Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami. In early June, Kashmiri's group said he had been killed in a nighttime drone strike on a convoy in South Wazoo. Pakistani officials said nine had died but did not identify Kashmiri among them.
Kashmiri was a veteran jihadi who fought in Kashmir and against the Soviets in Afghanistan, but later fell out with his Pakistani military patrons and was nabbed in a bid to assassinate Pervez Musharraf in 2003. He has been called the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, and is suspected of sending operatives into Europe to plot similar crimes there.
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HMMMMM, HMMMMM, wel-l-l, I was going to go wid a mighty "Probably", but methinks instead I'll go with a mighty "Absolutely positively categorically undeniably ...@etc. MAYBE"!
Security forces were ordered to shoot gunmen on sight Friday in Pakistan's largest city, after three days of violence that killed at least 61 people and prompted political leaders to call for a day of mourning that shut businesses and kept public traffic off the roads.
This week's violent spate in Karachi was among the worst this year for a city that has long been a hotbed of ethnic, sectarian and political tensions. At least 34 people died on Thursday alone, when gunmen strafed buses and went on shooting sprees in several neighborhoods.
Police have yet to determine the motive for the killings, but the order to shoot suspects on sight reflected the authorities' desperation to bring the spiralling violence under control.
Sharjeel Memon, the Sindh province information minister, confirmed the latest death tolls and the security order, saying it was aimed at "any armed miscreant" encountered by police, Rangers and other security troops expected to be deployed in the city.
Memon said at least 70 people were wounded in Thursday's violence.
Karachi is a port city of 18 million people that lies on the Arabian Sea. On Friday, the city's most powerful political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, called for a "day of mourning." That prompted shutdowns across much of the city, with roads and commercial areas largely deserted.
However, occasional gunshots could still be heard in some areas.
[Dawn] One of Pakistain's most notorious Taliban radio voices is back on the air after the army raided his stronghold last year and drove him across the border into Afghanistan.
The resurgence of Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, also one of the Pak Taliban's top commanders, illustrates the resilience of Orcs and similar vermin fighting to topple the US-allied Pak government and the growing problem of sanctuaries in eastern Afghanistan that allow fighters to elude the army's grasp.
"We will return and enforce the golden system of Islam," Mohammed said in a recent radio broadcast from his new base in Afghanistan. "All of those who have turned their backs on us, like we are gone for good, should seek forgiveness from Allah."
Militants and their supporters in Pakistain have long used illegal FM radio stations to spread their message and incite violence against the government. The tactic is hard to counter because the equipment needed is cheap and easily transportable.
Mohammed was one of the most prominent cut-thoat radio personalities before the army invaded his enclave early last year in the Bajur tribal area, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of the Pak capital of Islamabad.
Many of the Orcs and similar vermin in Bajur, including Mohammed, simply slipped across the border into Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral... , an area of Afghanistan where the US has largely withdrawn its troops.
Kunar has turned into a staging ground for large-scale attacks inside Pakistain, according to the Mighty Pak Army.
The most recent such assault in Bajur occurred Monday when around 60 Pak Talibs sent by Mohammed stormed a paramilitary checkpoint, killing one soldier and wounding three others, said local officials.
Mohammed grabbed credit for the attack, as well a similar one by at least 100 Orcs and similar vermin on several border villages in Bajur in mid-June that killed at least five people.
"Our fighters carried out these two attacks from Afghanistan, and we will launch more such attacks inside Afghanistan and in Pakistain," said Mohammed over the Voice of Sharia radio in his measured, matter-of-fact style.
His on-air reply after the June attack: "Don't dare stand in the way of those who are following the path of God."
Radio is the main connection to the outside world for most rustics in Bajur and other areas along the Afghan-Pakistain border because they can't afford satellite television dishes, and the infrastructure needed for cable TV is usually nonexistent.
Mohammed and his associates transmit for two and a half hours every day beginning at 8 p.m., although sometimes the broadcast is overpowered by a station run by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, said Gul Ahmed Jan, the owner of a grocery store near Khar, the main town in Bajur.
Mohammed gives half-hour sermons three times per week in which he encourages locals to participate in jihad, or holy war, and warns them against cooperating with Pak authorities.
"This war is between Islam and infidels, and every Mohammedan is duty-bound to take part," said Mohammed on his show "The Leader Says."
His brother, Gul Mohammed, who claims to have been tortured by Pakistain's security forces, often rails against alleged mistreatment of rustics by the Mighty Pak Army and Frontier Corps.
The station also plays songs praising jacket wallahs, even though some radical Islamists, including the Afghan Taliban, have denounced music of any kind.
"Look, the lucky guy is on the way to heaven," said one song. "Young man, how great you are."
Militants from the 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... Valley in nearby Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province are often invited to participate as guest speakers. Their leader, Mullah Fazlullah, was Pakistain's most active Taliban radio personality before the army invaded Swat in 2009, earning him the nickname "Mullah Radio."
He is also believed to be in Kunar, according to the Mighty Pak Army and Bajur residents, but he hasn't resurfaced on the radio.
The Mighty Pak Army has complained that US and Afghan forces have done nothing to address the growing number of Orcs and similar vermin who have holed up in Kunar after fleeing military operations on the Pakistain side of the border.
The US withdrew many of its troops from Kunar in the past year so it could focus on more populated areas that it deems more strategic.
"There is no effort to act against these strongholds or sanctuaries," said Pakistain army front manMajor General Athar Abbas ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... . "Many terrorist leaders are gathered there, and there is no pressure on them to leave."
The army claims that groups of up to 300 Orcs and similar vermin have staged at least five cross-border attacks in the last month, killing 55 paramilitary soldiers and tribal police.
A senior Western intelligence official, however, expressed doubt about Pakistain's figures and whether all the attacks came from bases in Afghanistan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence matters.
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94 days, still waiting for my Glow-in-the-Dark Crescent. Crazy Mullah Water Chrystals not as advertised either
"...Hey, it's Manic Maulvi here on 1040 AM in beautiful Bajur, not quite eight o'clock on a rainy Friday morning! We're gonna have a traffic update in just a couple, along with a current list of madrasssa closings, till then stay with us, and remember -
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We pull out of one province and they slide back in....
[Dawn] The wave of 'ethnic violence' thon the lamly affected Orangi Town on Tuesday spread to other parts of the city on Wednesday, when the most gruesome incident of the day took place early in the morning in Gulshan-i-Iqbal where five men were found rubbed out in a minibus.
The minibus, of route D7, was found parked in Block 1 of Gulshan-i-Iqbal containing the five bodies, which the police shifted in a single ambulance to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
The bodies were later identified as those of minibus driver Wali Mehsud, Ghulam Jan, Ahmed Jan and Niaz Jan.
A front man for the Awami National Party said that the latter three were relatives. They hailed from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central and lived in Landhi.
The fifth victim was later identified as Liaquat Baloch, a resident of Gulberg. His body was found stuffed in a gunny bag, police said.
They said the four men were shot in the head by person or persons unknown, while Liaquat Baloch had strangulation marks.
Quoting the conductor of the minibus, who had jumped off the minibus and decamped to safety, SSP Niaz Ahmed Khosa told Dawn that the minibus had started its journey at Sohrab Goth for Landhi.
When it reached near the Fazal Flour Mill on Rashid Minhas Road, suspects riding two cycle of violences stopped and boarded the bus and held the passengers at gunpoint.
The ill-fated minibus was caught on CCTV cameras at three spots when it was travelling in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The footage showed two motorcyclists tailing the minibus, a police brass hat told Dawn.
In Gulshan Block 1, two men stopped a van of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal cop shoppe and informed the police that they had heard shots being fired inside the minibus as it passed by.
Subsequently, the police van drove in the direction and soon found the minibus dripping with blood.
The spot where the minibus was abandoned was also covered in the CCTV footage obtained by the police in which three suspects could be seen coming out of the minibus and running to the two cycle of violences, the police said.
"The minibus stopped at the spot at 5.57am and within a few seconds the three suspects disembarked it and beat feet. Two minutes later the police van reached the scene," said SSP Khosa.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the body found stuffed in the gunny bag remained a mystery. Police collected seven spent bullet casings of 9mm and .30-bore pistols in the minibus.
The family of the murdered driver said Wali Mehsud, 26, had married about six months back.
In other incidents of violence, the body of a young man bearing a gunshot wound was found within the remit of the Mauripur cop shoppe. The police said the victim was later identified as Nasir Khan, an ANP activist. The victim was a resident of Rasheedabad.
Police said that later when the body was taken to his home in Rasheedabad, people in Baldia resorted to indiscriminate firing in the area that resulted in the death of Salman Sheikh, a factory worker who was going for lunch. The incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the Site-B cop shoppe.
His body was taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities.
In the Mohammedanabad area of Orangi Town, Sharafat was killed and two others were maimed when gunnies opened fire on them.
A front man for the ANP claimed that Sharafat was a party worker. His body was taken to the Qatar Hospital in Orangi Town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... two persons maimed in Orangi Town on Tuesday died in the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Wednesday, hospital sources said.
They were identified as Jahan Bibi, who was brought from Qasba 2½, and Rameez.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Naresh Kumar, 23, was killed by person or persons unknown riding cycle of violences within the remit of the Napier cop shoppe.
The victim was a resident of Murad Memon Goth and had come to Lyari to attend a family gathering, the police said.
Similarly, also in the early hours of Wednesday, another young man, Sha'aban, was rubbed out in Khadda Market. The victim was a resident of Nayabad.
On Wednesday, two men were targeted in a different incident in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and North Nazimabad, police said.
In the first incident, Haji Abdussalman, 25, was targeted by gunnies riding a cycle of violence near the Dhaka Sweets shop in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The victim was rushed to a private hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival. The police said a pistol was found in the possession of the dead.
In North Nazimabad, a man was killed within the remit of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jahan cop shoppe.
The North Nazimabad SP said Asghar Khan, 40, was on the rooftop of his house when he was hit by a bullet. Police said he did not have any political affiliation.
However, we can't all be heroes Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... a front man for the ANP said that Asghar Khan, son of Umar Khattab, was the vice president of its Ward UC-2.
Orangi Town SP Khurram Waris said that 12 suspects were placed in durance vile in different parts of the town and weapons were seized from them.
As many as 10 people were killed and dozens others were maimed in violence on Tuesday.
As firing continued and tension prevailed on a second day of violence, residents of Qasba Colony, Kati Pahari and other parts of Orangi Town remained confined to their homes and ran short of basic commodities of daily use.
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[Dawn] At least 47 people have been killed in Bloody Karachi in the past 36 hours, DawnNews reported.
The fresh wave of violence in the city began on Tuesday. Ten people were killed on that day and another 19 people, including five passengers of a minibus, were killed on Wednesday.
The violence which broke out in Orangi Town spread to Lyari, Baldia Town, Site and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas.
Police said that gunnies hijacked the minibus from Rashid Minhas Road and shot the five passengers, three of them relatives, in the head. The assailants managed to escape after dumping the vehicle in the Ziaul Haq Colony in Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
In a few hours after Wednesday midnight, at least five people were killed in different parts of the city.
A front man for the Awami National Party claimed that at least two of its workers were killed and seven maimed in incidents of firing on Wednesday.
Although the government claimed to have sent further reinforcements of police and Rangers to the affected areas, law-enforcement personnel failed to quell the violence.
Police claimed it locked away over 100 individuals suspected of being involved in the violence.
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At least 60 pro-Palestinian activists taken from EasyJet, Alitalia flights for police interrogation; 6 Israeli left-wing activists arrested after causing disturbance at airport; undercover agents, police deployed at B-G airport.
Police diverted two passenger aircraft that landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday, detaining at least 60 suspected pro-Palestinian activists for questioning. Some 20 activists in that group were denied entry.
The flights, one EasyJet from Geneva and one Alitalia, were diverted to Terminal 1, where police combed passengers for pro-Palestinian activists expected to attempt entry into the country as part of the "Air Flotilla," Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Police believed a bulk of foreign pro-Palestinian activists were on those jets.
After police finished checking the flights, passengers not connected to the groups of activists were ferried back to Terminal 3. The suspected activists were taken to a separate area of the airport for questioning. The activists involved represented a number of different countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Undercover agents and police continue to be deployed at Ben-Gurion Airport as more "air flotilla" participants were expected to arrive.
Meanwhile, six left-wing Israeli activists were arrested after causing a disturbance in the arrivals area at Terminal Three police added. "Five males and one female are being questioned," Rosenfeld said. The activists held up signs inside the terminal saying "Welcome to Palestine." Several of them were taken outside by police where they were arrested and attacked by bystanders.
Earlier Friday, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said that even though hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists taking part in the "air flotilla" were prevented from entering Israel, "the wave was still ahead of us," adding that in the coming hours approximately 100 activists are expected to land in Israel. "We're not taking any chances," the minister said.
Ahronovitch made the comments during an assessment held at Ben Gurion Airport on Friday morning together with police Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino and other senior police officials. During the meeting, the latest security preparedness was discussed, and the minister heard that all security agencies were able to "significantly minimize" attempts by hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists abroad from reaching Israel, by preventing them from boarding at their point of origin, the Public Ministry said in a statement.
"At the same time, police preparations at Ben Gurion Airport is creating deterrence," the statement added. "The presence of undercover and overt forces at the airport has prevented many who sought to disturb public order from heading [to Israel]," the statement added.
Police are also mobilized at the Temple Mount and along the green line to prevent any disturbances.
There are a number of flights scheduled to arrive this afternoon that immigration authorities will pay special attention to, the Police spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.
Around 200 foreign activists are believed to have been banned from boarding flights bound for Israel in various European airports. The Interior Ministry told foreign airlines on Thursday they were required under Israeli law to remove "pro-Palestinian radicals" from flights bound for Israel.
Also speaking at the airport on Friday, Interior Minister Eli Yishai commented that the "Immigration department is doing a good job. They prevented a few illegal activists from entering." He added that "we have a list of some people who are planning to hold illegal demonstrations around the country."
At Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, fifty pro-Palestinian activists arrived at the Lufthansa terminal hoping to board a flight to Israel, and then refused to leave the terminal after they were blocked from boarding the plane, Israel Radio reported.
Olivia Zemour, leader of the EuroPalestine organization that is arranging the "air flotilla," said that the blacklist includes names of 347 activists. "Charles de Gaulle Airport is under Israeli occupation. We are peaceful people and have no interest in causing disorder at Ben Gurion Airport," Zemour was quoted by Israel Radio as saying.
In Geneva, EasyJet also refused to let 30 acitivists on board a flight to Israel.
Around 200 pro-Palestinian activists were denied entry to Israel or were prevented from boarding flights to the country as part of an "aerial flotilla," Israel Radio reported on Friday.
Fifty pro-Palestinian activists on Friday morning arrived at the Lufthansa terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport hoping to board a flight to Israel, and then refused to leave the terminal after they were denied from boarding the plane, Israel Radio reported. The German airline refused to all them to board the flight to Israel via Frankfurt after the activists' names appeared on a blacklist submitted by Israeli authorities.
Olivia Zemour, leader of the EuroPalestine organization that is arranging the "aerial flotilla," said that the blacklist includes the names of 347 activists.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police at Ben Gurion airport deported two American women Friday morning, as airlines across Europe barred 300 passengers on an Israeli blacklist from flying, prompting demonstrations in Paris and Geneva airports. Barred passengers were camped out in the Paris airport, and French authorities were holding three in detention, a French activist told Ma'an.
Organizers of the "Welcome to Palestine" campaign, which some have described as the "flytilla," say 600 or so activists booked to fly in on Friday to visit Palestinian families and have "totally peaceful intentions." Activists told Ma'an that "at least 40" people had successfully boarded planes in Europe to participate in a week of activities in the West Bank, including theater trips and tree-planting.
Golly. Forty boardings out of six hundred attempts. If any of them get out of Ben Gurion airport, that will be infinitely more effective than the flotilla effort.
Israel's main airport was swarmed by police Thursday night, as well as an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs delegation set to welcome "real tourists" with flowers.
"Israel has given airlines a list of 342 unwanted people, warning them that they will be immediately turned back at the expense of the companies," Israeli immigration spokeswoman Sabine Hadad told AFP.
Two Americans who arrived in Ben Gurion Friday morning were returned to their departure point of Athens, due to their "intention to create provocations and disrupt the peace," Israeli police said. A French activist with the 'EuroPalestine' group told Ma'an that Mohammad Al-Amir, Petseyana Leddis and Adrian Rue, who were planning to travel to Ben Gurion airport, had been detained in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport.
"Israel is dictating laws to France by barring its people from traveling," she said.
No, Israel just refuses to allow them to land there. They can travel anywhere else in the world that's willing to welcome them.
She added that the group of 300 activists are waiting "paralyzed" at the airport having being blocked from travel. "We are a very peaceful movement," she insisted.
A peaceful movement supporting containing a scattering of practicing terrorists supporting a government of genocidal terrorists, but don't let's think about that.
At Roissy airport in France, at least nine activists were prevented from boarding a flight of Hungarian carrier Malev to Tel Aviv via Budapest. Another group of French citizens were turned back at Geneva airport and were gathering to protest the ban, activists said. Israeli immigration authorities said on Friday that 180 blacklisted passengers have been turned away by airlines.
In a statement, the organizers of the "flytilla" campaign condemned the Israeli pressure on airlines and threatened legal action. "We call on all airline companies not to accept such provocative, blackmailing, and illegal actions by the Israeli government," it said.
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Several of them (Israelis)were taken outside by police where they were arrested and attacked by bystanders.
NOBODY NEEDED A BEATING MORE THAN THESE PEOPLE!
(KUNA) -- Israeli forces broke into the eastern outskirts of Absan town in south Gazoo Strip on Thursday, supported by tanks and bulldozers.
Paleostinian sources told KUNA four tanks and three army bulldozers went into the town's Faraheen area, near the Gazoo-Israeli borders. This took place amid heavy firing that targeted Paleostinians' homes and property, forcing the residents to leave their farms in fear for their lives.
The bulldozers then destroyed the farmlands, they added, and the town is still in the grips of great tension.
The Israeli Army carries out such incursion almost daily aiming to expand what is known as the buffer-zone, tight control over which is maintained by Israel.
The forces had Tuesday raided Al-Masdar town in central Gazoo, killing two Paleostinians and injuring a third, hours before another raid on Gazoo, which left another Paleostinian injured.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davey was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... Radio Israel today reported that two Israeli soldiers were maimed this morning when an army unit came under attack. The unit was stationed in the area near the Israeli-Gazook border.
"Two Paleostinians fired an anti-shield missile on the army unit, which left two soldiers injured. One of the soldiers sustained mild injury," the radio said.
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Perhaps "anti-shield" means armor piercing. Non-professionals might think of an RPG in those terms.
They may not know how the thin "cone shaped" part of the RPG round collapses to make a compact surface while the blast of the round which is only pencil thick but very intense, pierces through armor in a small extremely hot impact on a small area. Inside the armored vehicle its like the finger of God at that point.
Like an ice pick with a lightening bolt on it.
A person who still thinks like a civilian might call it an "anti-shield" round.
I doubt it was anything other than an RPG, they are common enough among these people. They wouldnt have Tank shredders like Depleted Uranium or other armor effective weapons.
Its hard to feel sorry for Palestinians, they are such stupid slow learners. They just have to kick a Jew and then they cry like a weeping fag when they get kicked back.
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DeMedici -
"..Inside the armored vehicle its like the finger of God at that point. Like an ice pick with a lightening bolt on it..."
Credit where credit is due, that is some nice imagery.
Mike
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As of a few minutes ago, there was nothing in Haaretz or the JPost about this.
It is possible that this is just some Paleos trying to appear to be important.
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As of a few minutes ago, there was nothing in Haaretz or the JPost about this.
Nor anything in the Palestinian newspaper Ma'an.. Forty-eight hour rule on this one, ladies and gentlemen,
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Goodness, g(r)omgoru. They do define reality differently than does the rest of the universe -- I saw that article and didn't realize the connection.
[An Nahar] Around 100 families have decamped Syria's central city of Hama fearing a military crackdown on massive protests against the 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... , a rights group said on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that about 1,000 people in total had left Hama, where it said Syrian troops had killed 23 civilians since Tuesday.
U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said the killings must stop.
"In Syria meanwhile, the killing continues. This must stop," Ban said in Geneva.
"I call on the Syrian leadership to deliver on its commitments and to allow our U.N. humanitarian assessment team and the human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... fact-finding mission mandated by the Human Rights Council in.
"It's time to see progress here. We cannot go on like this."
The crowds leaving Hama were headed for Salamiyah, some 30 kilometers from Hama which is around 210 kilometers north of the capital 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... .
Syrian authorities have been trying to quell protests in Hama, traditionally a center of opposition to central government, and had positioned tanks on the main entrances to the city except in the north.
Ammar Qurabi, head of the National Organization for Human Rights, said on Wednesday there had been a worsening of the security situation with the "pursuit of search operations, liquidations and arrests in this city."
Hama has been a symbolic city of opposition since the 1982 crackdown on a revolt by the banned Moslem Brüderbund against then-president Hafez al-Assad, father of the present leader. Some 20,000 people were killed in the revolt.
The newspaper Al-Watan, which is close to the regime, said on Thursday that the situation in Hama was calm and that barricades erected in the streets by protesters had been dismantled.
It reported that the authorities had told demonstrators to avoid any confrontations and clear the streets so residents could go to work and to avoid what it called a "last resort" military operation.
According to Al-Watan, the protesters were calling for the former governor to be reinstated, for jugged demonstrators to be freed, for a pledge that the security forces would not intervene and for a guarantee of freedom to demonstrate.
Last Friday, an anti-regime rally brought out half a million people in Hama, according to freedom fighters. The security services did not intervene and the city's governor was fired the next day by presidential decree.
Human rights activists said on Thursday that anti-regime demonstrations took place overnight in several towns in response to a number of pro-regime rallies held on Wednesday.
The activists said thousands demonstrated in the northwest town of Idlib, at Harasta in the southwest and near the southern town of Daraa, while hundreds of protesters rallied in Saqba, a Damascus suburb.
The army on Thursday slapped a curfew on Jebel Zawiya in the Idlib region, a focal point of the military sweep in which 300 people have been jugged in the past two days, the Syrian Observatory said.
"The unannounced curfew imposed on the villages of Nasfara, Kfar Awaid, Kfar Ruma and Kfar Nubol prevented residents from meeting their needs," said activist Rami Abdul Rahman.
"It also prevented farmers from doing their daily work," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients... residents of Hama and the central city of Homs staged a general strike ahead of Friday demonstrations, which activists have called under the theme of "no dialogue" with the regime, Abdul Rahman said.
"Dialogue makes no sense if security forces do not pull out of the streets and the regime does not stop its violence against citizens," lawyer Anwar al-Bunni told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Rights groups say that more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and 10,000 people tossed in the calaboose by security forces since mid-March.
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Rights groups say that more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and 10,000 people tossed in the calaboose by security forces since mid-March
All in all, about like a regular week in Pakistan.
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Pencil necks Daddy snuffed"Some 20,000 people were killed in the Hama." And that was old Dad.
Nobody stopped him then and nobody, certainly Ban ki Moon or the French arent going to do a thing NOW. The United States and everybody else, will allow Syria to bleed itself white and Hizbullah can try to suck on on the pus after that.
Why should anyone "help" Syria? Turkey which might be the most close or sympathetic has little motivation. And Iran bathes in local feces anyway, so why bother complaining about how they smell? They will smell the same no matter what happens.
So just allow Syria to kill its own, they are all the sort of people who would kill a Jew or spit on an American anyway even if they are "victims" of their own nasty basic Syrian values.
Do you have any reason to love Syria...or Syrians? Do you have lots of Syrian friends you care deeply for, close to your family, say?No? Well, there you have it. Sell Assad some ammunition and make a little on the side. Tastes just like chicken.
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Gee, did he stomp his feet and threaten to hold his breath?
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Look at the bigger picture, mojo. The big international event, one that the entire tranzy dog pack international community was preparing for, was supposed to be the flotilla II incident (anybody doubts that one would've been manufactured no matter what?). Only one problem, Bibi managed to pull a hat out of a rabbit. So poor (not "Monkey's bun", bad grom!) Ban is a bit confused & lost right now.
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[An Nahar] Canada ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on Thursday, closing the curtain after nine years and the death of 157 men, saying it was "extremely proud" of gains made against the Taliban.
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(KUNA) -- A Spanish national wanted in connection with an alleged attempt to kill his country's king was arrested today in an armed swoop in Cambridge, southern England, police said Thursday.
American officials say they are nearly certain a top al-Qaeda terrorist was killed in a Pakistan drone strike, but his death has been reported in error before.
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Earlier Friday, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said that even though hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists taking part in the "air flotilla" were prevented from entering Israel, "the wave was still ahead of us," adding that in the coming hours approximately 100 activists are expected to land in Israel. "We're not taking any chances," the minister said.
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