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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Elsa Pataky aka Elena Neves in "Fast Five" aka Maria in "Snakes on a Plane" aka Laura Olney in "Beyond Re-Animator" aka Michelle in "Where the Road Meets the Sun" aka Diana Díaz in "Di Di Hollywood" aka Ilze in "Mr. Nice" aka Evelyn in "Give 'em Hell, Malone" (age 35)
[Tolo News] Afghan local officials said on Sunday that unknown gunniesshot up a wedding party in northern Baghlan province killing two guests and wounding seven others.
Local officials said that police have started investigation to find out who attacked the ceremony.
The incident happened in Baghlan-e-Jadid district of Baghlan province last night, officials said.
It is not clear who was behind the shooting, but similar attacks have in the past been blamed on Taliban and other Islamic exemplar groups.
Militants have increased their activities in Baghlan province often carrying out attacks against Afghan police forces.
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Uh, uh, THE GUNNIES HATE CARROT = WEDDING CAKE???
[Tolo News] Unknown gunnies stormed the house of a senior aide to President Karzai, Jan Mohammad, in Kabul killing him and an Afghan MP representing Oruzgan, police officials said.
The gunnies killed Jan Mohammad Mohammadi, a senior advisor to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and former governor of Oruzgan province, along with Mohammad Hashim Watanwal, Member of Parliament representing Oruzgan province.
The incident happened in Kabul's district 3 at around 08:00 pm local time.
Afghan cops were immediately deployed to the area and festivities between the attackers and the Afghan cops continued for four hours until the siege was ended.
Unconfirmed reports said three Afghan police soldiers were maimed in the incident, but the exact number of Islamic fascistikilled is unclear.
Witnesses say the gunnies killed several of Mr Jan Mohammad's security guards before breaking into the house.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
Some of the similar recent attacks have also been claimed by the Taliban.
The attack comes as 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... has started security transition to Afghan forces amid concerns about the capabilities of the Afghan cops.
The Taliban have recently shifted tactics by targeting Afghan officials and influential leaders.
Last week Ahmad Wali Karzai, the leader of Kandahar provinvial council and the half-brother of the Afghanistan's Caped President, was rubbed out by his bodyguard and the Taliban grabbed credit.
Following the liquidation in Kandahar, the governor of Helmand province Gulab Mangal also survived an IED attack.
The Taliban continue their attacks as Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai still insists on making a peace deal with the group.
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[Tolo News] At least 13 Islamic fascistiwere killed on Sunday after 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... was called in for air support during a joint operation in eastern Nangarhar ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... province, officials said.
The firefight erupted yesterday after an unknown number of faceless myrmidons hidden in a school opened fire towards provincial government institutions in Khewa district in Bodyalia area.
After coming under attack, Afghan cops along with international troops conducted an operation to kick faceless myrmidons out of the empty school and clear the area.
The operation lasted for hours and ended before the afternoon today.
The school building was heavily bombarded by NATO air strikes so that no enemy structure is left and the school was totally destroyed, provincial government front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
Two employee of the school was also among the dead in the incident, Mr Abdulzai said.
The school was empty as students were on summer holiday.
No casualties have been reported on the security forces side.
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They're going to miss us when we're gone -- the ability to call in death from above is a game changer.
(KUNA) -- Bloody festivities in various Tunisian cities left six coppersmaimed including four who were admitted into the hospital under intensive care.
Tunisian police fired bullets into the air to disperse rioters in the capital early on Sunday and were attacked by crowds throwing molotiv cocktails in another city, in the most violent festivities yet involving bad boys.
Sunday's violence was sparked by an incident on Friday when police, trying to break up an anti-government demonstration in the centre of Tunis, fired tear gas inside a mosque, according to an Interior Ministry statement.
In the Intilaka district in the west of Tunis, about 200 youths set fire to a cop shoppe.
Police responded by firing into the air and using tear gas, while a police helicopter hovered over the district.
The ministry blamed a number of radical outsides for the riots which attempt to undermine the atmosphere of peace and stability in the country.
It added that the rioters managed to confiscate weaponry, burning down of a security center and nearby shops and cars.
Tunisians overthrew autocratic leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in a revolution in January that electrified the Arab world and inspired uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere.
Since then the caretaker authorities, who say they are committed to dismantling Ben Ali's repressive rule, have lifted a ban on Islamist parties and released hundreds of their followers from prison.
But the Islamists' resurgence has led to friction with the establishment and some who believe the Islamists are becoming too powerful and could undermine the country's secular values.
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(KUNA) -- Two suicide kabooms targeting a security office in eastern Algiers, killed four people and injured another 20 - three of them at death's door.
In one of the incidents, a jacket wallah drove up to a security building in an explosive-strapped car, blowing himself up approximately 100m away from the office in a public square, after he was detected by security personnel.
At the arrival of ambulances and among the chaos of rushing crowds, a second suicide bomber riding a cycle of violence emerged, wearing an boom belt.
The man immediately proceeded to blow himself up on the scene after attempts failed to penetrate tight security at the targeted office's gates.
Among the four people killed were three coppers and a civilian security guard, with 10 of the 20 injured, police department employees.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb are expected to be behind the incident, although no further details on the attackers identity has been revealed.
The attack is the first since 2001, which targeted an army convoy close to the location.
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(KUNA) -- 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... warplanes in the last 24 hours destroyed one command and control building of pro-Qadaffy forces near the town of Gharyan, and one radar and one surface-to-air missile launcher near Tripoli.
A NATO statement Saturday said that in the vicinity of Brega one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one multiple rocket launcher, and seven armed vehicles were destroyed.
Moreover, in the vicinity of Dur at Turkiyah one military storage facility, and near Misrata one tank, and three armed vehicles, and near Waddan one military storage facility were also destroyed.
Since the beginning of the NATO operation in Libya on 31 March NATO planes have carried out a total of 15,308 sorties, including 5,767 strike sorties.
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All kidding aside, I remember being told in the late 80s that the Duck built/was building command bunkers all over that beknighted land for just such an emergency, and it's likely that there are a bunch we don't even know about.
Mike
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you would think with 5700 strike sorties they could have wiped out every armoured vehicle, launch weapon and most of the ppl operating those sites. Have they went back too using dumb bombs again?
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The battle for the Libyan oil town of Brega switched from the desert to intense street-to-street fighting on Sunday, as rebel forces said they punched into a residential area in the town's northeast.
Rebel forces said they had re-entered Brega but had not yet managed to wrest control of the town from Muammar Qadaffy's troops, who have held it since April.
"Some small groups have made it inside, but we do not control the whole (town) yet," said Mohammed Zawi, a front man for the rebel forces.
Mr Zawi dismissed rumours that Qadaffy troops had abandoned the town altogether.
"It is now close fighting," he said, indicating a new phase in the four-day rebel campaign.
Until now heavy artillery had set the tenor of the battle, but mortars and rockets now appear to have given way to heavy machine guns -- a more useful weapon for fighting at close quarters.
But that did little to stem the bloodshed. Some 13 rebel fighters have now been killed and almost 200 maimed since the battle for Brega began on Thursday.
Nestled on the Gulf of Sirte, Brega is made up of three areas, a residential area in the east, a major oil facility in the west and an old town in between.
A small rebel force had entered Brega from the northeast late on Friday, before pulling back for 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 strikes and for fellow fighters to the south to beat back Qadaffy's troops.
After a series of military gains were washed away by hasty and badly coordinated advances, rebel commanders said they are anxious to make sure they have a unified offensive line before pushing forward.
Taking Brega is a key strategic goal for the rebels, giving them access to one of the country's largest oil facilities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the rebels said their steady advance on Brega was slowed by the discovery of defensive trenches around the city that had been filled with flammable chemicals by retreating Qadaffy troops.
After a small rebel reconnaissance force from the north punched through to Brega late on Friday before falling back, a rebel commander said troops were now moving "slowly but surely" toward the town from the east and south as well.
"We are advancing and we are very close to Brega," said Mustafa al-Sagezli, a member of the rebel's revolutionary military council, adding that Qadaffy's troops had fallen back to positions inside the town.
But the commander said landmines and a series of booby-trapped trenches had forced them to slow the attack in order to minimise casualties.
"We know Qadaffy's forces have installed a lot of mines. They have even dug holes and trenches (filled) with some chemical liquids and oil to fire them when our forces enter Brega," he said.
It was not clear what kind of chemicals were being used, but the oil hub is home to a large petrochemical facility that produces a range of oil by-products.
Libya's largely volunteer rebel army began their push on Brega late on Thursday, hoping to oust an estimated 3,000 loyalist fighters and provide a moral boost for war-weary rebel supporters.
By Saturday morning the rebels' forward position to the north was four kilometres from the town centre, while a second unit attacking from due east of Brega faced stiffer resistance and was about 10-20 kilometres from the town.
"Most of Qadaffy's troops seem to be at the centre," said rebel military front man Mohammed Zawi. But the assault took its toll, with at least 10 dead and 172 maimed, according to medics.
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[An Nahar] Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched through the country's second city Taez on Sunday in what they called a "day of rage" against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... on the anniversary of his rise to power in 1978.
Demonstrators assembled on Taez's main arterial road, chanting anti-Saleh slogans and waving black flags to mourn the embattled president's 33-year rule, the rally's organizers said.
Protesters called for the resignation of Saleh, who has been in Soddy Arabia for the past six weeks receiving treatment for wounds sustained in a June 3 kaboom at his presidential compound in Sanaa.
Three soldiers and seven non-combatants were killed in Taez on Friday as supporters of the regime clashed with its opponents, leaving at least 37 other Yemenis injured.
Demonstrations have been more violent in Taez than in the capital, 270 kilometers to the northeast.
Saleh appeared on television on July 7 for the first time since the attack, heavily bandaged, and called for dialogue in Yemen without specifying when he would return.
Deputy Information Minister Abdo al-Janadi said on Saturday that Saleh would return to Yemen "soon," again without specifying a time scale.
Since Saleh left for Soddy Arabia, his duties have been assumed by Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, but he has not been designated the de facto head of state.
Opposition activists, meanwhile, have called for the creation of an interim "presidential council" including a former premier to run Yemen.
Saleh has faced protests calling for him to stand down since January. Bloody crackdowns on demonstrators by his security forces have drawn international condemnation, including from key ally Washington.
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Meanwhile, Harry Potter + the Deathly Hallows II fans, oer in the other side of the Peninsula ...
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > DEFENSE MINISTER HAILS IRANIAN NAVAL PRESENCE IN RED SEA AS A "GREAT MOVE", ee a "significant step" towards building Iran's [environmental] security structure for the entire Region.
D *** NG IT, CALL ME WEIRD BUT I DON'T THINK TEHRAN IS TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING + CLIMATE CHANGE [GWCC]!
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US MILITARY BASES IN SIGHTS OF IRGC ARTILLERY.
BGEN Abolgasem Farootan, whom also warns that the US WILL SUFFER "MASSIVE LOSSES" LIKE IRAQ DID [Ground forces, Econ?] DURING 1980-1988 IRAQ-IRAN WAR IFF THE US EVER ATTEMPTS TO INVADE IRAN.
On a separate note, it isn't clear in the Artic iff the BGEN is referring to LRBMS [Guided], TUBE, LR/XLR UNGUIDED ROCKETS, or MIX???
HEZBOLLAH in LEBANON, vee transfer of SYRIAN SCUDS???
[An Nahar] Bahrain's main Shiite opposition bloc, Al-Wefaq, said on Sunday it was pulling out of a "national dialogue" with the government on political reform because the initiative was not serious.
Khalil al-Marzouk, who led the bloc's delegation to the talks, told Agence La Belle France Presse that Al-Wefaq had decided to pull out and the decision would be confirmed on Monday by its Shoura (consultative) council, or leadership.
"We have tried but without success to make it a serious dialogue," the Wefaq official said, adding that the bloc would not take part in a session of the dialogue later on Sunday.
Since the July 2 launch of the national dialogue, aimed at political reforms after Shiite-led protests were crushed in a bloody crackdown in March, Al-Wefaq has called for a government led by a parliamentary majority.
Al-Wefaq has stressed it is not calling for the fall of the regime in Shiite-majority Bahrain, which is ruled by the Sunni Mohammedan al-Khalifa dynasty.
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Three armed suspects died in a shootout in southern Monterrey early Sunday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
Reports say the gun battle was between two competing criminal gangs. Assault rifles and 40mm grenades were used in the battle.
The shooting started about 0200 hrs in the Tanques de Guadalupe colony. Shooting subsided for a brief time and then started up again and lasted nearly 45 minutes. The gun battle spread to Canteras and Sierra Ventana colonies.
The shooting ended as a Mexican Army unit entered the area. None of the participants were found, but an abandoned blood stained vehicle was reportedly found.
The report of three dead were unconfirmed.
In other related news, three individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence in and around Monterrey.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Santiago. The victim was at his residence in the Maestro colony when armed suspects shot their way in. AR-15 rifles were used in the shooting.
Two unidentified men were found beheaded in the Independencia colony of northern Monterrey Saturday. The victims were found in an abandoned residence near the intersection of calles Lago de Patzcuaro and Zarco.
Two Russian policemen were killed and seven others injured on Monday in a blast in the wooded mountains of Chechnya.
The incident occurred in the Chechnyan republic's Vedono region, which has been the scene of battles between local security forces and Islamist gunmen in recent days.
Gunmen have gunned down a village leader in the Dagestan region of Russia, police said Sunday.
The killers, still unidentified, targeted Kaflan Kadyrov, head of the village of Gedzhukh late on Saturday. Kadyrov, who was in his mid-30s, suffered multiple wounds and was taken to a hospital where he died.
Aamir Shah, the former security guard of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and a senior leader of the ruling PPP, was gunned down, triggering a fresh wave of violence in Pakistan's financial capital.
42-year-old Shah, who headed the Peoples Unity Union of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), was killed by attackers on motorcycles who opened fire at his white Toyota Corolla near Kamran Chowrangi in the troubled Gulistan-e- Jauhar area yesterday.
Shah, who started his political career with the Peoples' Youth Wing (of the PPP), was Bhutto's security guard when she returned to Pakistan in October 2007 to contest the general elections in the country.
The killing of the senior PPP activist sparked a fresh wave of violence in Pakistan's biggest city, claiming as many as 11 lives over the last 24 hours and leaving scores wounded.
The domestic and international operations of Pakistan's national carrier were also badly hit after employees went on a snap strike to protest and mourn the killing of Shah.
Shah, who succumbed to his injuries in a private hospital, was among the party's senior activists and he had served at many different posts in his 18 years with the party.
Witnesses said the gunmen intercepted Shah's car before shooting the PPP leader and his friend Mairaj Khalid Jagirani.
Karachi chief of police Saud Mirza said the assailants probably targeted the men shortly after they finished filling up fuel near Kamran Chowrangi.
He said it was too early to say anything about the motive behind the attack as the investigation was underway and details were being gathered.
As the news of the incident spread, agitated PPP workers reached the hospital seeking the arrest of the people responsible. "We shall have Dire Revenge!"
The fresh wave of violence began after two days of calm in the metropolis.
Let that be a lesson unto you, dear Reader. It is ever unwise to threaten one's wife.
AHMEDABAD: A squabbling couple has led the Ahmedabad police to a man who was making crude bombs and planned to use them to create panic in the city. The officials have recovered eight bombs and two country-made pistols from Shahzad Ismail Rangrez, 31, a resident of Shah-e-Alam area.
*sigh*. Yet another Quaker miscreant, acting out that whole pacifism thingy.
Shahzad was arrested after his wife Reshma called up the police control room at 3 am on Sunday, informing the officials that her husband was making crude bombs and had threatened to blow her up if she quarrelled with him.
Apart from Shahzad, investigators also arrested Yusuf Rangrez, 34, and one more person late on Sunday night. According to officials, one of the weapons found from Shahzad belonged to Yusuf.
The police, already on high alert after the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, rushed to the spot and seized one crude bomb and the pistols with cartridges from Shahzad's house. His interrogation led to the other bombs hidden near Chandola lake. "The crude bombs were packed in a plastic bag and kept near a heap of garbage. These explosives are not more than six months old. They were defused after an hour-long operation," said a police officer.
Director general of police (DGP) Chitranjan Singh has ordered a probe into the incident and the investigation has been to given to state anti-terrorists squad (ATS). ATS chief Ashish Bhatia said that the officials will question the three arrested persons. "The prime accused is a habitual offender under arms act. We will soon question him," he said.
"Cpl. Mukkerji, fetch the pliers and the Number Seven mustache wax! It's going to get hot and heavy tonight."
Police sources claimed the bombs were meant to create panic during the Jagannath Rath Yatra earlier this month, but Shahzad developed cold feet because of the heavy police deployment.
A wise decision. But then he quarreled with his wife, and it was all for naught.
K D Suvera, assistant commissioner of police, said, "We can't deny or refute the claim that he was planning disruptive activities.
"In fact, we can say nothing, but we will say it at great length."
Danilimda police records show Rangrez was arrested with illegal arms earlier as well. He was also sent to prison under Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA)," he said.
Shahzad had also been questioned by the police in connection with murder of a head constable Vinay Yadav near LG Hospital in Maninagar area in October 2007.
Clearly one of Ahmedabad's fine, upstanding citizens.
(KUNA) -- In rare revelations, a Pak Federal Minister on Sunday said that the country's volatile city Bloody Karachi was being supplied weapons arms from Israel.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. talking to newsmen in Bloody Karachi the country's largest commercial city, said that "weapons seized in Bloody Karachi are Israel-made." He said that "weapons from Israel are being supplied to Bloody Karachi." The Minister said that about 225 suspects have been placed in long-term storage in different raids in the city. Minister Malik in the past had been accusing foreign forces for creating disturbance in the city.
Bloody Karachi recently saw two consecutive waves of violence that killed more than 50 innocent people and maimed dozens others. A heavy damage was caused to the public property and the transportation system has been badly hit.
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Is it the police who have those super-duper Israeli weapons, bought for them by the government, which wants them to face violent anarchy properly armed, or is it the miscreants who add to their murderous perfidy by trafficking with those said to be most hated of Allah?
[Straits Times] AN INDIAN man died of a brain haemorrhage on Sunday after being questioned by Mumbai police over the recent kabooms, officials said, denying family accusations that he had been mistreated.
Faiz Usmani was taken to hospital by police when he complained of feeling unwell due to hypertension. Usmani was not a suspect in the Mumbai blasts but was quizzed due to his connections with alleged Indian Islamist Death Eaters.
'We hardly questioned him for an hour. There is no question of torture, we just asked him a few questions,' Mumbai police front man Nisar Tamboli told the NDTV news channel.
'He was on medication and had not taken his medicines for three to four days.' But Usmani's son told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency that the police 'are to blame for his death'.
'My father was picked up for questioning and pressurised during interrogation,' he said.
Ryan Kumar, a doctor at the Lokmanya Tilak hospital in Mumbai, told NDTV that Usmani died of a brain haemorrhage, adding that 'this usually happens when an otherwise normal person is subjected to a shock or mental disturbance'.
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[Dawn] Tribal rebels have kidnapped five government officials in southwestern Pakistain to demand an end to military operations in the area, officials said Sunday.
The kidnapping took place early Sunday in Sorange district, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of the oil-rich but impoverished and restive province of Balochistan.
The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army grabbed credit, saying the kidnapping was in retaliation for fresh military operations against the Baloch population in the Kohlu district.
"Five officials of Pakistain Mineral Development Corporation including its Project Director were kidnapped by armed persons from their residential colony,"provincial home secretary Zafarullah Baloch told AFP.
The officials have been taken to an unknown place and teams have been sent to search for them, Baloch said.
Local government officials also confirmed the incident and quoting witnesses said more than two dozen armed hard boyz on three vehicles came and surrounded the Pakistain Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) residential colony.
The rebels captured the five officials at gunpoint and also took away two government vehicles, the officials said.
Baloch Liberation Army front man Meerak Baloch, speaking by satellite phone to newspaper offices in Quetta, grabbed credit for the abduction.
"The abduction of government officials is the reaction of newly launched military operation in Kohlu and Chamalung areas and all will be executed one by one if PMDC does not close down its operation in the area," the front man said.
Balochistan has seen an upswing in violence recently, suffering from a separatist insurgency, sectarian violence and Talibs.
Hundreds of people have died since rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
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[Dawn] At least two persons were burnt to death and seven others injured when people tried to extinguish fire caused by attack on an oil tanker, supplying fuel to 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 in Afghanistan, on Jamrud Road here on Saturday evening, police and hospital sources said.
Hayatabad police said that the tanker had just reached Karkhano Markets when it caught fire as a result of a huge blast. They said that it seemed to be the handiwork of bully boys.
The sources said that the fire from the oil tanker destroyed about 15 shops and cabins. They said that firefighters, people of the nearby localities and traders were trying to put out the fire till late in the night.
Sources at the Lady Reading Hospital said that they had received two bodies, including one of a 10-year-old boy, and seven injured. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... they could not confirm their identity.
The police said that it seemed that the tanker had been blown up by planting a magnet bomb to it. Further investigations are underway, they said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...
security forces destroyed three hideouts of faceless myrmidons in Bara while a commander of a banned bully boy organization was killed in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Officials in Landi Kotal said that during a search operation in Baz Garha locality of Bara the security forces dynamited three hideouts of Lashkar-i-Islam and tossed in the calaboose two of its supporters. Local sources said that a number of suspected faceless myrmidons managed to break the security cordon and decamped to other localities. They said that a vehicle was also damaged during exchange of firing.
It was also learnt that Fazal Hadi, commander and bodyguard of LI chief Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... , was killed by the Zakhakhel lashkar in Nari Baba area of Tirah valley. Sources said that fighting between the two rival groups had intensified during the last few days in which a number of gunnies from both sides had been killed.
In Mann Talab area of Akkakhel, activists of LI killed a volunteer of local peace committee by tying his body to a vehicle and dragging it. Later, the two groups exchanged intense gunfire.
In another incident, myrmidon blew up the remaining portion of a government high school in Atari village of Qambarkhel on Saturday. They had destroyed the middle and high sections of the school only two weeks ago by planting explosives inside the two buildings.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... according to our Ghalanai correspondent, pamphlets describing former vice chief of Tehrik-i-Taliban Maulvi Faqir Mohammad as agent of anti-Pakistain forces were distributed among peace committees of Bajaur and 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 Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal agencies.
The pamphlets in Urdu and Pashto on separate papers carry the title "public notice" and read: "Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is a notorious and immoral bargainer of conscience by character. He is enemy of humanity and playing in hands of those powers who want to destroy our motherland. The number one in these anti-Pakistain forces is Raw of India."
The pamphlet further said that "Maulvi Faqir Mohammad had joined hands with the forces working against the interests of Pakistain. The people, who are patriotic sons of this soil and took oath of defending the motherland, should line up against the forces represented by Maulvi Faqir."
The people were urged to be aware of Faqir`s conspiracy and join hands with the intelligence agencies to dislodge agents of anti-Pakistain forces. It was stated that elimination of Faqir and his associates had become essential now.
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[Dawn] Fear returned to parts of Bloody Karachi on Saturday when in one district an armed attack on a Kutchhi Rabta Committee (KRC) rally left more than half a dozen people maimed and in another ambush on a car of the Pakistain People`s Party (PPP) leader left him dead along with his aide, police and party sources said.
The news of attacks in a Mauripur area of district south and Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of district east sowed fear and panic in the neighbouring areas as traders closed down businesses and road traffic turned thin.
The police authorities stayed helpless in one case amid frequent gunfire in Lyari and old city areas and in the other remained clueless about those involved in the deadly attack on the PPP leader`s car.
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of people, including women and kiddies, emerged on Mauripur Road and started to march towards the CM`s House to lodge protest against lawlessness in Lyari. Shortly afterwards the rally came under a gun attack.
The community-based KRC, which had organised the rally, said residents of Khadda Market and Moosa Lane had become fed up with the frequent breakdown of law and order in their localities.
The area police said that heavy firing from an `unknown direction` left eight people, including a woman, maimed. The victims were shifted to the civil hospital for treatment, the officials said.
"Initially a few shots were fired but we suspect firing intensified after someone tried to retaliate," said SP Pervez Bhatti of the Lyari Town.
"Definitely it caused panic and fear as there were hundreds of people there but timely action from the police backed by Rangers averted a major damage."
He said eight people suffered gunshot wounds but none of them was in life-threatening.
The police later identified a few spots from where the gunnies had fired, he said, but no arrest had been made so far.
The attack initially forced the demonstrators to run for safety. But the demonstrators reappeared on the main road and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the government and senior members of the Sindh cabinet.
"Entire Lyari and old city areas have been handed over to criminal gangs, who have financial and moral support of people at key positions in the government," said a front man for the KRC.
"Our houses have been taken over and hundreds of families of Moosa Lane, Khadda Market and Kharadar areas have been forced to stay at their relatives` places in Keamari and Malir areas."
The situation deteriorated further when gunnies struck in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and killed Ahmer Anwar, president of Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) labour union and senior leader of the PPP.
An area police official said armed riders intercepted the car of Mr Anwar, better known as Amir Shah, near Munawwar Chowrangi and fired multiple shots.
"Amir Shah was sitting along Khalid Jakhrani, who was driving the car when it was attacked. Both sustained multiple bullet wounds and were rushed to a nearby private hospital," he said. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... he added, "the victims were later moved to another hospital on Stadium Road, where they died during treatment."
He said the two victims received bullets in the upper torso fired from 9mm pistol from a close range. The police had found nine spent bullet casings from the crime-scene, he added.
Shortly afterwards, gunfire caused traders to pull down shutters.
Waqar Mehdi, adviser to the chief minister, said that 42-year-old Amir Shah was also former president of People`s Youth Forum and currently looking after the PIA labour union.
"We don`t see any personal enmity behind the deadly attack. Both victims were senior party members and there is no reason other than their political association behind their killings," he added.
Teenagers` bodies found
The bodies of two teenage friends were found in gunny bags near Timber Market on Saturday, police said.
"Both victims looked young and were probably killed a couple hours before their bodies were found," said an official at the Napier cop shoppe.
The bodies bearing gunshot wounds and torture marks were shifted to the civil hospital where they were identified as 18-year-old Tabrez Ayub and his 19-year-old classmate, Feroze Akbar. "The victims were residents of Metroville in the SITE area and had visited a market in Kharadar on Friday evening," said DSP Murtaza Shah. "We believe they were kidnapped from the market before being tortured and killed."
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A security source in Ninewa province said today that a man and a woman were killed in bomb blast mid of Mosul.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb exploded in Cornish street, mid of the city, which led to their death. The explosion resulted in material losses, as the police sources reported.
Mosul, the center of the province, lies 11,655 km west of San Francisco 405 km north of the capital, Baghdad.
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(KUNA) -- An improvised cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! and killed on Saturday six Iraqi civilians in the city of Karbala and injured 27 others, mostly visitors to the city, while security forces said an improvised car went kaboom! in Al-Hendiya area late last night killing six and injuring 30 others.
An Iraqi police source told KUNA that the cycle of violencekaboom happened in Al-Mulhaq area south of Karbala city, adding that the bomb targeted a group of visitors to the city and those injured were transferred to nearby Al-Husain hospital.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Karbala chairman of the provincial council Mohammad Al-Mosawi said that the vehicle kaboom killed and injured around 36 people.
A parked vehicle exploded in Al-Hindiya street killing six and injuring 30 others, Al-Moswai told KUNA.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... three other visitors were killed and 20 were maimed in double bombings in the city.
Based on the recent bombing attacks, Karbala provincial council called for closing down all vehicle entrance to the city until visiting period is over.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi ministry of National Reconciliation Affairs said on Saturday that an ganghanded over their weapons to the government, amid conciliation efforts by the country.
Large quantities of weapons from various factions have been handed over to provincial authorities in Basra, a statement by the ministry quoted the Minister of National Reconciliation Affairs Dr. Amer Al-Khuzaie as saying.
The statement did not specify the exact amount nor the type of weapons which were handed over, but noted that the weapons included medium to light types of weapons.
The statement did not also name which group or faction the weapons came from, but noted that the handing over operation was attended by various security representatives in Basra province.
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(KUNA) -- Seven Paleostinians injured including four children by Israeli shellings that targeted Beit Hanoun in north Gazoo strip, Sunday morning.
Media spokesperson of the higher emergency and ambulance committee in the Gazoo Strip Adham Abu Salmiya told Kuwait News Agency the Israeli artillery stationed on the border with the Gazoo Strip bombarded houses east of the town of Beit Hanoun, which led to the injury of Paleostinian civilians, all from one family.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the Israeli Army front man said that armed Paleostinians fired three missiles from the strip towards Al-Nukb area at southern Israel.
The missiles resulted in no casualities, he said.
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[An Nahar] The kidnappers of an American woman, her son and Filipino nephew in the southern Philippines have telephoned their family by phone demanding a ransom, officials said Sunday.
At least 14 gunnies seized Philippine-born U.S. citizen Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, her 14-year-old son and 19-year-old nephew Tuesday from a relative's house they were visiting in a village near southern Zamboanga City. They were taken away at gunpoint on board a motor boat, officials said.
Kidnappings for ransom have long been a problem in the impoverished region and are blamed mostly on the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... , a group also notorious for beheadings and bombings.
U.S.-backed offensives have weakened the group, which is blacklisted by Washington as a terrorist organization, but it remains a key security threat.
Asked about the reported ransom, Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat said without elaborating that U.S. authorities have told Philippine officials the kidnappers called the captives' family and demanded money.
Lobregat declined to disclose other details, including if the kidnappers identified their group or if they allowed the captives to talk to their family.
"There was a call to the family, and a demand was made," Lobregat said.
Regional police commander Felicisimo Khu Jr. said Sherlocks were aware of the ransom demand.
Lunsmann, a 41-year-old veterinarian who lives in Virginia, was born to a Mohammedan family in a village not far from where she and her son were vacationing with relatives when they were snatched, Khu said.
She was adopted by an American couple as a child and grew up in the United States. She has visited her Philippine home province at least five times before the kidnappings, Khu said.
Khu said authorities suspect the captives were being held in the island province of Basilan across a strait from Zamboanga City by cut-throats under Abu Sayyaf commanders Nurhassan Jamiri and Puruji Indama, who have been blamed for past kidnappings and beheadings.
The captives could also be in nearby Zamboanga Sibugay province, where the actual kidnappers, believed to be former Mohammedan rebels from another group, are based. The kidnappers reportedly turned over their captives to the Abu Sayyaf, Khu said, citing intelligence.
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At least 30 people were killed in overnight fighting between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, activists said Monday. The clashes erupted in the central city of Homs after two or three supporters of Assad were kidnapped and killed by anonymous gunmen, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. Some say the bodies were dismembered before being returned.
On Sunday night, supporters of Bashar, who is facing unprecedented protests, held a massive rally in Damascus to mark the 11th anniversary of his rule.
Meanwhile, Qatar has indefinitely closed is embassy in Damascus after pro-government Syrians attacked the building housing it, a Syrian newspaper reported Monday. Last week, government supporters threw stones, eggs and tomatoes at the Qatari embassy in protest against the Doha-based news broadcaster Al Jazeera's coverage of the unrest in the country. No casualties were reported.
For a different selection of details, see also this Jerusalem Post article
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See also PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > DEADLY SHIA VERSUS SUNNI CLASHES IN HOMS.
* ION MEMRI.ORG > JIHADI SITE CALL ON MUJAHIDEEN IN SYRIA TO BE PATIENT, NOT TO CARRY OUT MILITARY OPERATIONS.
and
* WAFF > SEVERAL KILLED IN CHINA POLICE STATION ATTACK IN STATE BORDERING PAKISTAN [Hotan, Xinjiang].
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA TELLS US: PAKISTAN IS OUR "ISRAEL".
Iff this were the late 1970's-1980's, I'd argue its prob more correct for Beijing to say Pakistan is "our [Soviet] Afghanistan", i.e. a strategic corridor to get close to post-Shah Iran + Iranian oilfields, the maelstorm + Air-Sea routes of the Persian Gulf + Arabian Sea, + of course to outflank India.
[An Nahar] The Syrian army on Sunday set its sights on the town of Zabadani near the Leb border as it pressed ahead in its campaign to overcome an anti-regime revolt, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist said.
In the east, on the frontier with Iraq, security forces were also reported to be preparing to intervene in al-Bukamal after one man was reported killed there on Saturday.
"Security forces today penetrated Zabadani," 50 kilometers northwest of 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... , said Abdul Karim Rihawi, who heads the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights. "They searched houses and locked away more than 50 people."
Zabadani has seen several protests since demonstrations 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... erupted in mid-March.
Rihawi said soldiers also entered the central city of Homs, 160 kilometers north of the capital.
"Four tanks and a troop transport took up position in Dawar al-Khalidiya" in the city, he said. "Residents organized a huge demonstration to protest against their presence."
On Saturday, Homs was the scene of festivities between regime supporters and the opposition.
Official media on Sunday reported an "explosive" situation in the eastern border town of al-Bukamal.
"The situation in al-Bukamal is explosive, so the army is preparing to intervene," said the pro-government daily Al-Watan.
"The authorities fear an armed revolt in this border town where (insurgents) can easily find logistical and political support."
One civilian was killed in the area on Saturday when security forces opened fire to break up an anti-regime demonstration, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the official SANA news agency spoke of "armed terrorist gangs who stormed a government building and seized the weapons stored there," adding that three security personnel were killed and two kidnapped in the attack.
Since the anti-regime protests began, Damascus has consistently blamed the violence on foreign interference and "gangs" seeking to "sow chaos."
Activists say the protesters are peaceful and that the fierce government crackdown has left more than 1,400 civilians dead and thousands of others behind bars.
Al-Watan said the "situation was back to normal" in the central city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-government protests earlier this month.
"The efforts the new governor of Hama has made with civic leaders have borne fruit. The state of civil disobedience which lasted 13 days is over," according to Al-Watan.
"With the help of residents, officials have started to remove the roadblocks erected on major thoroughfares."
Hama residents had raised barricades to prevent a military operation against the city, where memories of a 1982 crackdown against Islamists that left 20,000 people dead remain fresh.
Activists say security forces have killed least 25 civilians in the flashpoint city since July 5, when Damascus sent in tanks in response to an anti-regime demonstration that drew half a million people.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... security forces on Sunday relocked away Ali Abdullah, a key opposition figure who had been freed under a general amnesty in May, the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights said.
Abdullah was picked up during a "vast campaign of arrests" focused on Qatana, a town just west of Damascus.
One of the 12 signatories of the 2005 "Damascus Declaration" which called for Syria to move towards democracy, Abdullah had been released under a general amnesty Assad declared in May.
The 61-year-old author, who had served a sentence of two and a half years from December 2007 for "undermining the image of the state" and "spreading false news," had originally been set to be released in June 2010.
But he remained in jug to face a new trial over comments he had made while in prison on Syrian-Lebanese relations, and on alleged electoral fraud in Iran's 2009 election.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Damascus was set later on Sunday for a music festival marking the 11th anniversary of Assad taking the oath of office as president.
He succeeded his father, Hafez, who died on June 10, 2000, after ruling the country with an iron grip for three decades.
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(KUNA) -- Bloody 
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The battle for the Libyan oil town of Brega switched from the desert to intense street-to-street fighting on Sunday, as rebel forces said they punched into a residential area in the town's northeast.
(KUNA) -- In rare revelations, a Pak Federal Minister on Sunday said that the country's volatile city 
[Straits Times] AN INDIAN man died of a brain haemorrhage on Sunday after being questioned by Mumbai police over the recent 
Tribal rebels have kidnapped five government officials in southwestern Pakistain to demand an end to military operations in the area, officials said Sunday.
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(KUNA) -- Seven Paleostinians injured including four children by Israeli shellings that targeted Beit Hanoun in north 
At least 30 people were killed in overnight fighting between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, activists said Monday. The clashes erupted in the central city of Homs after two or three supporters of Assad were kidnapped and killed by anonymous gunmen, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. Some say the bodies were dismembered before being returned.
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