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Katharine Towne aka Sinead in "But I'm a Cheerleader" aka Monique in "The Bachelor" aka Caitlin Spencer in "What Lies Beneath" aka Chloe in "Sol Goode" aka Cynthia Jenzen in "Mulholland Dr." aka Jody in "The Anarchist Cookbook" (age 33)
Jan Mohammad Khan, former governor of southern Uruzgan province and a key ally of the embattled president, was killed in the attack.
The killing comes less than a week after the president's half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated by a close friend at his home in the southern province of Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban, on Tuesday.
"He (Khan) was very close to Karzai. He was as important as AWK (Ahmed Wali Karzai)," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Like Karzai, Khan hailed from a powerful family from the Popalzai tribe in Afghanistan's restive south.
According to the independent website afghan-bios.info, Khan's nephew runs a 3,000-strong militia in Uruzgan.
His death will further inflame the volatile politics of the southern region, where the Taliban are battling US-led troops for control of the area.
Analysts have already warned that Tuesday's killing of Wali Karzai may trigger a turf war for control of the critical southern heartland that could embolden the Taliban and reverse Nato gains.
The deaths come at a critical juncture, just days after 3,000 Canadian troops ended their combat mission in Kandahar and in the same week that Washington started troop drawdowns, a gradual process due to end in late 2014.
[Dawn] An Afghan army soldier killed at least one 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... soldier on Saturday, near the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah, due this week to be one of the first places where NATO will hand security control to Afghan forces, a senior police source said.
"The shooting happened during a joint security patrol," said the senior police detective, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating an incident in southern Afghanistan.
"An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing one service member," ISAF said in a statement.
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[Tolo News] At least two Taliban local commanders were killed in Afghan and 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... forces' operation in southern Helmand province on Thursday night, local officials said on Saturday.
The operation was launched in Musa Qala district of Helmand province and several cut-throats were also killed during the operation, officials added.
It comes as 35 other cut-throats were killed in a joint Afghan and NATO forces' operation in Argon district in eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province on Thursday, Mukhlis Afghan, a front man for Helmand governor told TOLOnews.
The operation was launched after cut-throats attacked a NATO forces' convoy in the district.
There were no Afghan, NATO and civilians casualties during the operation, officials added.
Joint operations by Afghan and NATO forces continue in some parts of the country to clear cut-throats as foreign forces are to hand over security responsiblies of seven areas in the first phase of security transition.
The transition will end by the end of 2014 when all foreign forces are expected to be withdrawn.
On Thursday the US has started drawing down troops in Afghanistan based on President Barack B.O. Obama's withdrawal plan.
About 650 US troops have left Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials have said.
These are the first US troops who headed home as the first part of the US withdrawal.
President B.O. has decided to pull out about a third of 100,000 US troops from Afghanistan during the next year.
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Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy on Saturday told those calling on him to go that he would never leave the land of his ancestors and those who have given their lives for him.
"They are asking me to leave. That's a laugh. I will never leave the land of my ancestors or the people who have sacrificed themselves for me," he said in a loudspeaker address to thousands of people in Zawiyah, some 50 kilometers west of Tripoli.
"I'm ready to sacrifice myself for my people, and I will never quit this land sprinkled with the blood of my ancestors who fought Italian and British colonialists," he said of the five-month-long revolt against his rule.
Western and regional powers met in Istanbul on Friday for the fourth gathering of the Libya contact group, which saw a fresh call on Qadaffy to go after more than four decades in power.
"These rats have taken our people hostage in Benghazi, Misrata and the western mountains, using them as human shields," Qadaffy said of beturbanned goons in the rebel capital in the east and port city in the west.
"Five million armed Libyans will march on them and liberate the occupied towns as soon as the order is given," he added.
Government forces retook Zawiyah near the border with Tunisia in March after two weeks of festivities with the rebels.
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This fellow is easy to underestimate. This has gone on how long?. He will do as he chooses. When they have removed him what a mess will follow. The Arab has learned there is no honor in this kind of war. He bides his time. The Russians Chinese, and Iranians, and Turks are happy to sell arms. This is a major drain on the west which they are happy to see. When this is over the west gets what out of it?. Iran now comes to mind. Look who is President and who he is compared to. Jimmy Carter deja vu.
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Hello there S -" He's most definitely not an Arab Dale". I took him to be Arab. His location and his ways. Perhaps he has more of a history that I am unaware of. His antics are well know. The female body guards, the outfits, the Bedouin tents. In your opinion and I'm not saying you are wrong do you put him as North African.
[Al Jazeera] A Libyan medical official says 10 opposition fighters have been killed and 172 more maimed in an attack on a strategic eastern oil town controlled by forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy, the Libyan leader.
Mohammed Idris said on Saturday that fighters entered the frontline town of Brega the night before and that government shelling and land mines killed the men.
He also said opposition forces had captured four government soldiers.
Brega, nestled at the southeastern tip of the Gulf of Sirte, has changed hands multiple times during Libya's civil war, which soon will enter its fifth month.
It was unclear whether any other government troops were killed and whether the fighting had advanced the opposition frontline.
"We are told that the bulk of the opposition fighters are some 20km outside of Brega, kept at bay with Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... fired by Qadaffy's fighters," Al Jizz's Anita McNaught, reporting from rebel-held Benghazi, said.
Brega's vast oil refinery and storage facilities could provide fuel and a much-needed income stream for the rebels.
A victory would also provide a major boost for rebel morale, which has been sagging amid months of stalemate.
Heavy festivities also broke out on Saturday at the frontline in the Western Mountains town of Bir Ghanam.
Anti-Qadaffy fighters hold the high ground on the outskirts of the town, their closest position to Tripoli, just 80km away.
But the civil war has fallen into a stalemate, with the opposition forces unable to make significant advances, even while 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... bombs Qadaffy's troops under a UN mandate to protect civilians.
Qadaffy's speech
The battles in Brega and in Bir Ghanam took place on a day Libyan state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed Qadaffy addressing over phone a crowd in Az Zawiyah, in the country's northwest.
"I will die for my people, I will never leave my people. If you allow me to lead the fight, I will lead the fight and die for my country," he was heard saying.
"We need to go to Benghazi and Misrata to liberate it. The people are calling me, saying 'come and help us'. Families are telling us 'we are being used as human shields in Misrata, women are getting killed'.
"The Libyan people will die for its oil. We will not leave our oil for these gangs."
Qadaffy described the opposition as worthless traitors and rejected suggestions that he was about to leave the country.
"They said Qadaffy will go to Honolulu," he said. "This is funny: to leave the graves of my forefathers and my people? Are you serious?"
Loyalist positions
Earlier, Mohammed Zawi, an opposition military front man, told the AFP news agency that a light mobile force had breached loyalist positions around Brega late on Friday, before pulling back.
A group of about 50 reconnaissance troops entered the town from the north, then pulled back four kilometres before midnight, Zawi said.
The probing raid on the frontline between the east and the mainly government-held west came about 32 hours after the opposition command launched a three-pronged attack against Qadaffy's forces, who were thought to have numbered about 3,000.
While the rebels' forward position to the north was four kilometres from the town centre, a second unit attacking from due east of Brega faced stiffer resistance.
"Most of Qadaffy's troops seem to be at the centre," Zawi said.
Rebels were trying to dispose of more than 150 landmines already found outside the town, to make way for heavy artillery.
Detailing sorties carried out on Friday, NATO said key hits by its aircraft around Brega included one tank, a multiple rocket launcher, five armoured vehicles and seven armed vehicles.
In raids near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, aircraft took out a radar facility and a surface-to-air missile launcher, it said.
Contact Group boost
Libya's opposition received a boost on Friday from Istanbul, Turkey, where more than 30 nations - including the US - recognised their National Transitional Council (NTC).
The Contact Group on Libya recognised the NTC as "the legitimate governing authority in Libya" until an interim government is formed.
The Contact Group, which includes regional players as well as countries participating in the NATO-led air war, "encouraged" its members, in a final statement issued after the meeting in Istanbul, to release funds to the cash-strapped rebel administration.
It urged countries which have frozen Libyan assets under UN sanctions "to open credit lines to the NTC corresponding to 10 to 20 per cent of the frozen assets by accepting them as collateral".
Farhat Bengdara, Libya's former central bank governor, said on Saturday in Istanbul that a newly formed association of Libyan bankers was preparing recommendations to support the NTC in raising finance.
Bengdara, who defected in March, said the unofficial International Association of Libyan Bankers would offer support to the NTC in restructuring the Libyan banking sector.
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State television like in the United States of America except we have makeup on ours and high cut skirts!
[An Nahar] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... who has been receiving treatment for blast wounds in Soddy Arabia since early June, will return "soon," deputy information minister Abdo al-Janadi said Saturday.
"The president is in good health. He will return to Yemen soon, but is awaiting the decision of his doctors," Janadi told a news conference, without specifying a date for Saleh's return. We still haven't heard from the doctors. I'm wondering if Dr. Quincy is in the break room sucking down a cup of joe, waiting for his pager to sound off.
Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, was maimed in a kaboom on his palace in Sanaa on June 3, and was admitted to hospital in Soddy Arabia the following day. Demonstrators have since January been calling for him to quit office.
He appeared on television on July 7 for the first time since the attack, covered in bandages.
Three days later, he was shown on television receiving John Brennan, U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser. Saleh was in better shape than in his earlier appearance, although burns were still visible on his face.
The White House said that Brennan had called on Saleh during the meeting to sign a Gulf-sponsored transition plan that would see him cede power within 30 days in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
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[Al Jazeera] A coalition of protest groups in Yemen has announced the formation of a transitional presidential council it says will prepare to run the country when President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... is fully and finally toppled.
The council "is charged with leading the country during a transition period not to exceed nine months and with forming a government of technocrats," Tawakul Karman, one of the leaders of the protest movement against Saleh, said on Saturday.
Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, was maimed in a kaboom on his palace in Sanaa on June 3, and was admitted to hospital in Soddy Arabia the following day.
Protesters have since January been calling for him to quit office.
The council will also announce a 501-member "national assembly" that will draft a new constitution, and seeks to "protect the unity of the country before it completely collapses", Karman said.
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The council consists of 17 Yemeni figures of different political affiliation from both inside Yemen and abroad.
They include Ali Nasser Mohammed, the ex-president of formerly independent South Yemen; a former prime minister, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas; and Abdullah al-Hakimi, an exiled long-time opponent of Saleh.
The new body highlights the gap between Yemen's protesters and Yemen's official opposition parties, who protesters say were late in joining the anti-government rallies inspired by those in Tunisia and Egypt.
Many protesters have criticised the parties for seeking to negotiate Saleh's exit instead of trying to bring down his entire government.
Abdu al-Janadi, a front man for Saleh's government who is also Yemen's deputy information minister, said the move "pours gas on the fire".
He said that Saleh is "the legal, democratically elected president, and an alternative will only come though elections, not through an illegal coup".
Opposition party officials declined to comment.
Al-Janadi also said that Saleh, who is currently receiving treatment for blast wounds, will return home "soon" from Soddy Arabia.
"The president is in good health. He will return to Yemen soon, but is awaiting the decision of his doctors," he said without specifying a date.
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[Al Jazeera] A court has charged 14 suspected al-Qaeda operatives for allegedly planning to attack the US embassy in the Turkish capital.
The court in Ankara formally pressed charges against the suspects late on Friday. Another suspect was released, though may later also face trial.
The suspects were captured just days before the arrival of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ... , the US secretary of state, who is in Istanbul for talks with the Libya Contact Group and a meeting on religious tolerance.
The state-run Anatolia news agency said on Saturday that a key suspect had carried out surveillance around the US embassy in Ankara and at some other foreign missions, including taking photos.
It said police have seized 700kg of chemicals along with bomb-making instructions, assault rifles, ammunition and maps of Ankara.
Police captured the suspects after tracking one of them for six months.
One suspect was captured less than a week ago on a street in Sincan, a town on the outskirts of the capital where he is believed to have received weapons training. The others were rounded up on Tuesday.
Attacks in Turkey
Turkish media have speculated that homegrown operatives affiliated with al-Qaeda are preparing to avenge the May 2 killing of al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up... in Pakistain by US forces.
Al-Qaeda's interpretation of Islam receives little public backing in Turkey, a predominantly Mohammedan but officially secular country. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... al-Qaeda and other similar groups have been active in Turkey before.
In June, police tossed in the calaboose 10 suspected al-Qaeda operatives in the southern Turkish city of Adana, which is home to the Incirlik Air Base used by the US to transfer noncombat supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Authorities have said fighters tied to al-Qaeda planned to attack Incirlik in the past but were deterred by high security.
Turkish authorities have said dozens of Turks have received training in Afghanistan.
In 2008, an attack blamed on al-Qaeda-affiliated operatives outside the US consulate in Istanbul left three assailants and three coppers dead.
In 2003, homegrown fighters tied to al-Qaeda attacked the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues in Istanbul, killing 58 people.
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Bihar Police arrested suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) operative Riyaul Sarkar in connection with the Mumbai terror assault in the Kishanganj district of Bihar on Sunday.
The arrest is part of a nation-wide crackdown on suspected HuJI and Indian Mujahideen agents. A team of Maharashtra police is also camping in Ahmedabad to question some Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested in connection with the Ahmedabad attacks of 2008, including Danish Riaz.
At the same time, in Mumbai, the Maharashtra ATS is very close to finishing the sketch of one of the suspects and is viewing CCTV footage with the help of eyewitnesses.
Prabhakar Bagrao, a policeman who is accused of ignoring a tip-off by a Kurla resident about a terror plot has been suspended for dereliction of duty.
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Helloo Moonbeam!. Oh, That place is kinda remote. South of Nepal and west of Bangladesh. District seems to have great promise for development, schools and such. They export several items, ginger, garlic, jute, and several other items. I'd bet it's the money drawing the trouble.
[Dawn] At least eight security personnel and 15 forces of Evil were killed in fierce festivities in Chamalang area of Kohlu district on Thursday night and Friday.
According to sources, 12 copperswere maimed in the festivities which continued till late Friday night. Two 'commanders' were reported to be among the dead thugs.
But a Frontier Corps (FC) front man disputed the casualty figure and said: "Four of our soldiers and eight forces of Evil have been killed." He said the assailants had attacked FC personnel whom were on duty in the area and firing continued till evening.
A front man for the banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed that BLA forces of Evil had carried out the attack.
The sources said the festivities began when gunnies attacked an FC convoy in Shanwari top area on Thursday evening, killing one man and injuring two others.
FC troops deployed in the area rushed to the place and four forces of Evil were killed in festivities during the night.
After the arrival of reinforcements, FC personnel launched a search for thugs, leading to more festivities. "Gun-battles continued on Friday.
Twenty-three people, eight coppers among them, have been killed over the past 24 hours," the sources said.
They said five FC personnel injured on Thursday night and seven on Friday had been taken to the Combined Military Hospital in Loralai.
"Clashes are continuing in Qila Waliyat, Gagal, Sargar, Chanda and Shanwari top," the sources said late in the night.
Five of the FC men killed were identified as Ghulam Mohammad, Kashif, Faisal Tufail, Ahmed Nawaz and Rehmatullah.
The forces of Evil killed included Din Mohammad, Nawab Khan and Mohammad Nawaz.
Militants claimed that security forces were using helicopter gunships and heavy weapons.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... official sources said helicopters had been sent for taking the injured and the bodies of FC men to Loralai.
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[Dawn] Dozens of armed bully boyz ransacked at least 11 government schools in Shalobar area of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Friday and took with them furniture, doors and other articles in their vehicles.
Confirming the incidents of vandalism, administration officials said that this time the bully boyz had changed their modus operandi by taking along furniture and other paraphernalia instead of destroying the school buildings. The local administration has since long shifted their offices from Bara.
They said that the ransacked schools in Shalobar included the girls primary schools in Shah Hussain Kalay, Bahar Gul Kalay, Haji Qadeer Kalay, Azam Khan Kalay, Qowat Khan Kalay, Afsar Jan Kalay, Qismat Khan Kalay, Mashumano Adeera and Jani Khel, and boys primary schools in Khan Kalim Kalay in Sur Kas and Haji Meena Dar Kalay in Mohammedan Dhand.
Local residents said that bully boyz who came in double cabin pickup vehicles in large numbers used heavy hammers to pull out doors and windows of all these schools and took them in their vehicles along with furniture and other office items. They even took along bricks of the destroyed portions of the schools.
They said that the bully boyz continued uprooting whatever part of these schools they could for several hours in a daylight despite curfew imposed in the area. The residents said that bully boyz told them that the schools have been vandalised as a punishment for their assistance with the security forces.
The collective looting of 11 schools happened within 24 hours of the destruction of four government schools in Akkakhel area of Bara.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... a government school was blown up by suspected bully boyz in Swabi district on Friday morning.
Officials said that the blast had dealt extensive damage to the school building and it could not be used now. "The windows, fans and furniture of the school were completely destroyed while the walls of classrooms had developed big cracks," they said.
Police said that unknown myrmidons had planted an bomb at the building of government high school for boys in Marghuz area of Swabi which went kaboom! with a big bang. The bully boyz had earlier targeted primary schools constructed by donors in Razaar tehsil. No casualty occurred as the educational institutions were closed for the summer vacations.
Zaida police SHO Maluk Shah said that following the incident they had tossed in the clink three watchmen for questioning. They will be freed after the necessary investigation, he said.
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In the United States the teachers are more civil they are just not going to teach hand writing anymore.
[Dawn] The corpse count from this week's bombings in Mumbai rose to 19 as Mumbai police continued Saturday to systematically sift through the evidence gathered from the site of the three blasts.
A police official said teams of Sherlocks had fanned out to at least three different cities in the country to probe the existence of terrorist outfits that may have links to the bombings.
The corpse count in the blasts climbed to 19 when two injured men pegged out, another police official said Saturday.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
More than 100 people were still in hospitals in Mumbai being treated for wounds sustained when the bombs went off Wednesday evening.
No group has grabbed credit for the bombings, and Sherlocks have not named any suspects.
The teams of Sherlocks were questioning suspected members of krazed killer organizations in the southern cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad and the eastern city of Ranchi, one of the police officials said.
Investigators say the attack bore the hallmarks of the Indian Mujahideen, A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... a krazed killer group linked to Lashkar-i-Taiba that has claimed past terrorist attacks that used similar explosives.
The blasts were the deadliest terrorist attack in Mumbai since a 2008 siege in which 166 people were killed in an assault that lasted three days.
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[Dawn] A government official says gunnies have killed ten bus passengers in an ambush in northwest Pakistain.
The official Mohammed Ali said three people were also injured in Saturday's attack in the Upper Kurram ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... region bordering Afghanistan.
He said the dead and injured had been transported to a hospital.
Ali says it's not immediately clear who were behind the attack and an investigation is under way.
Kurram has witnessed scores of such attacks and kidnappings for ransom in the past several years.
The military has launched offensives against Talibs there, but violence has continued.
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[An Nahar] Four coppers suspected of attacking journalists at a demonstration in the Jordanian capital were locked away on Saturday, officials said.
"So far, four coppers suspected of being linked to the attacks on journalists have been locked away," said a statement from the criminal investigation department received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
At least 17 people, including journalists and coppers, were maimed on Friday when police tried to stop festivities between pro-reform demonstrators and government supporters in central Amman.
Police used batons to break up the festivities outside city hall, beating and injuring nine journalists who were wearing orange vests marked "Press."
The injured included an AFP photographer.
Saturday's statement said CID chief "General Hussein Majali has formed a committee of inquiry into the attacks on the journalists who were simply doing their jobs."
Majali's department said on Saturday it would "announce the results of the investigation within the next 72 hours and refer to the courts those who have a case to answer."
Since January, Jordan has faced a protest movement demanding political and economic reforms and an end to corruption.
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On Sunday, suspected Muslim terrorists separatists gunned down three rubber farmers who were trading at their farm in Yala province. A police officer said, "The three men were all Muslim. They all died at the scene," without giving further details.
Last Monday, a rubber tapper and his wife were gunned down by suspected terrorists militants in the region and four bombs wounded 12 people. Some analysts called this a warning signal to the incoming government after a general election on July 3. However, even before the election, there had been a rise in the number and scale of attacks in southern Thailand.
[An Nahar] The seven Estonians who were kidnapped in Leb for four months revealed that they were held captive in Leb and Syria, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
They told Agence La Belle France Presse during a presser in the Estonian capital Tallinn: "We were held in three different secret locations by the eight terrorists, in both Leb and Syria. The big advantage was we were together, and that unity gave us the strength to believe we would see a happy end."
Madis Paluoja, Jaan Jagomagi, Kalev Kaosaar, Martin Metspalu, Andre Pukk, Priit Raistik and August Tillo were kidnapped on March 23 soon after arriving in Leb from Syria.
They said during the presser that they felt that they were being followed soon after arriving in Leb on board their bicycles.
When they were a short distance from Zahle, two cars hit two of the cyclists, while a third was hit repeatedly by the car door, reported As Safir.
The armed assailants then ordered them to get into a van that soon arrived at the scene, continued the Estonians.
In the van, they were stripped of their mobile phones, except for Paluoja who was tempted to send a message to his wife informing her of their ordeal, but he opted against it.
He estimated that they were kept in a hideout in Leb and another in Syria, noting that the kidnappers managed to cross between the two countries undetected by the authorities.
He added that all seven of them were never separated, saying that it was likely because the abductors did not have enough secure hideouts to keep them in.
During the second week of the abduction, Jagomagi stated that the kidnappers aggressively ordered them to verify media reports that four of the Estonians were Jews or from Denmark, homeland of a cartoonist who sparked Mohammedan ire in 2005 for a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
The men said that they were kept in a modest hideout, but they never felt hungry.
At one point, they were kept in a warehouse with a metal door and a window with very little sunlight coming through.
The kidnappers allowed them to occasionally open the window, they continued.
Paluoja stated that the captives did not speak to each other when the kidnappers performed their daily prayers, stressing that they were not prevented from speaking, but they felt that they should act as guests.
Jagomagi revealed that the captors were very religious and had urged them to convert to Islam.
They only received word that they will be freed only hours before their release at dawn on Thursday.
The Estonians said that they were transported to the area of Sahel al-Taybeh from Syria where they were given a mobile phone and an Estonian number, which they were ordered to dial at dawn.
The abductors then left them in the isolated location.
The negotiations that led to their release remain shrouded in mystery, reported An Nahar.
Estonia turned to fellow European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... members and 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... allies, notably La Belle France, for help because the former Soviet-ruled nation of 1.3 million has only a small diplomatic presence in the Middle East.
So far 14 individuals have been charged with being involved in the abduction, five of whom are still on the lam, said the daily.
The freed men appeared to be in good health.
Asked if they had been well-treated, Paet responded: "There is nothing human about being taken hostage".
The abductors -- believed to be a previously unknown group called Haraket Al-Nahda Wal-Islah (Movement for Renewal and Reform) -- had reportedly demanded a ransom.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Qadaffy on Saturday told those calling on him to go that he would never leave the land of his ancestors and those who have given their lives for him.
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