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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Arlene Dahl aka Madelon in "Reign of Terror" aka Eileen Percy Ruby in "Three Little Words" aka Carla Göteborg in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" aka Gloria Conovan in "Scene of the Crime" aka Dorothy Lyons in "Slightly Scarlet" aka Queen Maya in "The Diamond Queen" aka Vivian Morrow in "Bengal Brigade" (age 86)
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usually don't think of Audrey and food in general
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Yeah, she was into Carbon for Breakfast or somesuch.
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Journey to the center of the earth was one of my favorites. Carla Goteborg had her English down very good. I always enjoyed her reminding Alec that he had a girlfriend back home. The actor who played Count Saknussem was memorable."I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death."
DAR ES SALAAM: Somalias President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed promised on Wednesday to rid the country of the militants who are fighting to overthrow his administration and blocking food aid to millions of people facing starvation.
Ahmed was speaking four days after Al-Shabaab pulled most of its forces out of the Somali capital amid signs of deepening rifts among its senior commanders.
As long as they are in Somali territory, even an inch, I will not rest, Ahmed told a news conference after meeting Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete in Dar es Salaam. Our determination is to clear them out, he said.
Some regional allies have criticized Ahmeds failure to quash the insurgency and push through a new constitution designed to better spread political power among the countrys powerful clans and regions.
His ability to survive, however, is a credit...
Al-Shabaab said its retreat from Mogadishu was a tactical move, raising fears it will increasingly resort to Al-Qaeda-inspired attacks such as suicide bombings and assassinations.
What they do best...
A series of military offensives against Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu this year and a drying up of taxes extorted from traders in the capital and farmers in rural areas affected by drought have deepened the divisions among the rebel commanders. By pulling out of Mogadishu, the rebels may hope to spread thin the 9,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force that is propping up Ahmeds Western-backed administration.
There is no doubt we need more troops (peacekeepers), said Ahmed.
The United Nations has authorized a task force of up to 12,000 soldiers.
When asked whether political negotiations with moderate groups within Al-Shabaab were an option, Ahmed said: Our understanding is that Al-Shabaab ... are not interested in peace, but we will pursue that path if the opportunity arises. Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst with the International Crisis Group, said Al-Shabaab was now too divided for any meaningful negotiations to take place.
Before, of course, they were too united for any meaningful negotiations to take place.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Hassan Mohamed Qalli and his colleagues gathered at Hamarweyne market in one of Mogadishu's oldest districts on Sunday afternoon. Their mission was to visit Abdulaziz district in the north-eastern portion of the city.
About 10 men started walking from Marwas mosque and headed eastwards. In less than five minutes, they were at the building of the former Commercial and Savings Bank, which is situated at the strategic junction better known as Bar Cafe' Nazionale.
As the group continued to gaze at the former Bank that was turned into military garrison by Amisom peakeepers from Uganda, they talked about their expectations when they reach the homes they abandoned two years ago.
Osman Nur, a group member said he feared his house at what is known as Campo Amhara was destroyed by the shells exchanged between the hard boyz 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... and the Amisom forces that kept tanks and other armoury around Mogadishu's old port.
"I have been reciting the Holy Koran all this time for Allah to save my house and my corner shop," said Ali Weheliye, another group member.
Only few days ago, this kind of trip to Abdulaziz district by a group made of fishermen, business people, educators and others with varying occupations was unthinkable.
The area was in the firm grip of fighters loyal to Al-Shabaab, undoubtedly the most radical movement Somalis have ever known.
In the early hours of Saturday, August 6, Al-Shabaab front man, Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, told Al-Shabaab supporters via Al-Andalus, a broadcaster run by the movement, that his movement was changing war tactics.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... Somalia's embattled government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed offered amnesty Tuesday to beturbanned fascisti in the war-torn capital as its soldiers tried to open up emergency aid access for thousands hit by famine.
Fresh gunfire was reported in Mogadishu early Tuesday after sporadic festivities between troops of the Western-backed transitional government and remnants of the Shebab rebels following their surprise pull-out on Saturday.
The government "offered a general amnesty to thug fighters remaining in Mogadishu who give themselves up and renounce violence," it said in a statement.
"We offer an amnesty -- put down your weapons and your guns, and come and join the people and your society," government front man Abdirahman Osman said.
In another development, African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops called today for the deployment of 3,000 more soldiers to secure war-torn Somalia's capital.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Khamis, the feared military commander and son of Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... , was shown on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Wednesday, days after rebels reported his death. Was he eating a brain?
Tripoli denied the claim at the time, but a rebel front man on Wednesday insisted that Khamis was dead. "'e's not pinin' for the fjords! 'E's passed on! This fellow is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the chair 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-DICTATOR'S KID!!"
The broadcaster showed footage of what it said was a visit on Tuesday by the uniformed 28-year-old, Qadaffy's youngest son, to a hospital to meet "victims of 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 cut of the American pants... raids." "Here... here, Khamis!... Let go!... Let go, I say!... STOP GNAWING HIS HEAD!"
The date of the recording could not be confirmed. If genuine, it would be the first time Khamis had been seen in public since Friday, when rebels said a NATO strike on the western town of Zliten killed 32 people, including Khamis. "Yes. It's him. I'd recognize that elbow anywhere!"
Qadaffy front man Mussa Ibrahim said at the time the claim was untrue, claiming it was "dirty lies to cover the murder of civilians" in Zliten.
Khamis trained at a Russian military academy and commands the eponymous and much-feared Khamis Brigade, one of the regime's toughest fighting units.
Reacting to the television report, rebel front man Abudulah Kabir said in the city of Misrata that the rebels were sure Khamis was dead.
"The military council has confirmed he has died; we are sure," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... US diplomats are visiting several African countries as part of efforts to urge leaders to press Qadaffy to leave power immediately, officials in Washington said on Tuesday.
Several African states, having benefited financially from Qadaffy's policies, have been reluctant to call for him to step down, and have criticised the NATO-led military campaign in Libya.
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[Pak Daily Times] Armed Yemeni rustics said on Wednesday they had killed a orc leader in the country's south during a campaign by tribal and government forces to retake areas seized by fighters in the crisis-ridden Arabian Peninsula state.
Seven months of protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... 33-year rule have paralysed Yemen, plunging it into a crisis that has loosened army control over swathes of the fractious, impoverished state.
Soddy Arabia and the United States have both been targeted by al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing and fear that a power vacuum in the Arab world's poorest country could present a major threat to international security. Militants who the government says belong to al Qaeda have exploited the upheaval to expand their foothold in the south, taking over at least two cities in the volatile southern province of Abyan including its capital Zinjibar.
A tribal leader in Abyan said rustics killed Yassir al-Shalily, a leader of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... (Supporters of Islamic Law) during pitched battles overnight in Mudiyah, about 130 km (80 miles) from the southern port of Aden, when Orcs and similar vermin trying to enter the city were repelled.
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[Yemen Post] A soldier was killed and another injured when gunnies attacked a group of coppers at the Police Station in the district of Khour Maksar in Yemen's southern Aden province on Tuesday.
The gunnies fired from machine guns at the coppers from inside a car and then bravely ran away, an independent source reported. It qouted security sources as denying such an attack took place near the station, though medical sources had affirmed that the body of the victim was inside hospital.
Furthermore, the website said that the attack coincided with another attack in the same district that left no casualties.
Clashes erupted following the second attack amid insecurity plaguing many southern areas, some of which have been rocked by month-long unrest.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) tossed in the clink four youths along with 172 Bangladeshi fake passports, six Indian fake passports, visa documents and passport-making equipment from a house at Khilgaon in the city early yesterday.
Rab officials claimed that the arrestees used to cheat people who wanted to go abroad. They also recovered 28 photographs of such youths who were cheated by the gang.
The arrestees are Rayhan Uddin of Brahmanbaria, Musa, Lokman and Hasif of Karnafuli of Chittagong.
Captain Abul Bashar of Rab 3 said they raided a house, owned by Nurul Alam Chowdhury, at Tilpara around 1:30am and recovered the passports and passport-making equipment. Lokman rented a flat of the apartment for making the fake passports and visa documents.
He said the gang cheated overseas job seekers by attaching fake visas and travel documents with their passports. They used to introduce themselves as brokers of the passport office.
The arrestees admitted their involvement in the crimes for years.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... another team of Rab 3 tossed in the clink six fake job providers with huge fake certificates, appointment letters, CV's of cheated sob seekers from the city's Paltan area around 12:30pm yesterday.
They are Raihan Rahman, Bashar Hossain, Khaled Noor, Islam Uddin, Amin, and Abu Hanifa.
A senior ASP Rohamat Ullah, who led the drive, said the gang used to paste posters and leaflets in different areas of the city offering jobs with attractive salary and provided address and cell numbers for contact. They made a nicely decorated office room at DIT road of Fakirapool to cheat the job seekers.
He said the gang demands money against the job at their office and after receiving the amount they threat victims not to come to the office again. Many victims earlier have lodged complaints with Rab over the issue.
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Giving the Pak fake passort industry some competition?
[An Nahar] Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said a "fightback" was underway Wednesday after four nights of violent riots as he authorized police to use water cannon for the first time in mainland Britannia.
With Britannia's worst riots in a generation spreading to the northwest city of Manchester and three people being killed while defending their community in Birmingham, central England, Cameron said there was a "sickness" in society.
He said London was quieter overnight after 16,000 police flooded the streets and vigilante groups protected stricken neighborhoods from gangs who have burned down and raided dozens of shops and homes.
"We needed a fightback and a fightback is underway," Cameron told a news conference outside 10 Downing Street after the second meeting of Britannia's COBRA security committee in as many days.
"We now have in place contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice," Cameron said, adding that police had already been authorized to use plastic baton rounds against rioters.
Water cannon have only previously been used in the troubled British province of Northern Ireland to tackle sectarian tensions between the Protestant and Roman Catholic communities.
The violence has raised questions about security ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games, and it prompted the cancellation of Wednesday's friendly between England and the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium.
Cameron's tough new line comes after he flew back from holiday in Tuscany on Tuesday to take charge of the biggest challenge to the Conservative-led coalition government since it came to power in May last year.
Police have tossed in the calaboose more than 1,100 people across the country for violence, disorder and looting since the riots erupted on Saturday in the north London district of Tottenham after police rubbed out a man.
The prime minister dismissed "phony concerns about human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... " over the issuing by police of photos of some of the suspected rioters. He also called for all those convicted over the disorder to be tossed in the calaboose.
The government has blamed "opportunistic" criminals for the unrest, but the opposition says cuts to social services and the failure to deal with underlying social problems has contributed to the riots.
Some of Britannia's most deprived areas erupted late Tuesday, with 200 rioters pelting police with missiles in Toxteth area of the northwest city of Liverpool, which was rocked by huge riots in 1981.
Elsewhere, hooded rioters set fire to buildings in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton in central England and a cop shoppe in nearby Nottingham was Molotov cocktailed. There was also trouble in the western English town of Gloucester.
The focus of Tuesday's violence was Manchester where police were driven back by gangs of hundreds of youths who covered their faces with scarves and ski masks.
Gangs set fire to a girls' fashion store and smashed the glass entrance of the Arndale Centre, Manchester's main shopping mall, allowing hundreds of youths to run off with armfuls of clothes and shoes.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan of Greater Manchester Police, who joined the force after moving to the city in 1981, called the scenes "senseless violence and senseless criminality on a scale I have never witnessed before."
In Birmingham, Britannia's second biggest city, police said they had tossed in the calaboose a man and launched a murder inquiry after an incident in which three Asian men died when they were hit by a speeding car.
Witnesses said the men who died had just come out of a mosque and were protecting their neighborhood shops after a car was set alight nearby.
"They bit the dust for other people, doing the job of the police," Mohammed Shakiel said outside the hospital where the men were taken, prompting around 200 people to gather in support.
Despite the unrest, police and cricket officials announced that the Test match between England and India, due to take place at the nearby Edgbaston ground, would go ahead as planned on Wednesday.
The only other fatality of the riots so far was a man found with a gunshot wound to the head in a car in the south London suburb of Croydon.
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The police treated this as a series of 'protests' for far too long. Probably advised by 'community experts' that the mobs were motivated by all the usual bullsh!t Liberal excuses for anti-social behaviour. What was/is actually localised anarchy and mass looting should have been dealt with using water cannon and plastic bullets from the outset.
Of course the media and the ovine members of the public have a lot to answer for, themselves, demanding infallibility from the police and shrieking "police brutality" every time a provocative protestor/wannabe rioter on other occasions has had a clip round the ear.
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I noticed elsewhere that the government demonstrated the hallmark of ineffective and corrupt governments in other times and places, by placing the rioters and criminals above honest citizens; and only reacting, and then only against the citizenry, when they try to defend themselves.
That is, they see the threat to themselves and their power by an empowered citizenry far greater than from mobs of criminals victimizing the public. So they take immediate steps to prevent the citizenry from defending themselves.
This is the second step of the birth of a vigilante movement. The third step with be a political effort against the weak and pro-criminal government, but it is likely to fail because such a government is ironically very talented at keeping power.
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That is, they see the threat to themselves and their power by an empowered citizenry far greater than from mobs of criminals victimizing the public.
You got it. That's why local/state/national governments go after those who protect themselves or turn to vigilantism. The common crooks are not perceived as a threat to the state's power where as the act of the citizen is an alarm that signals that the very legitimacy of the state is in question. Now I do use the term 'perceived' specifically because in the end the crooks can achieve power that competes or eclipses that of the state as we witness in Mexico. The ruling caste is just too wrapped up in its own self congratulatory behavior to notice till its too late.
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I view the situation more pragmatically: Before the american experiment, the goal of all forms of government was self-preservation. If catching criminals and executing justice was the way for governments to survive their citizens, they would do that. Governments engage in war because the winners of the war depose the leadership of the vanquished government.
The key to understanding what's happening is to see that both criminals and governments derive wealth from the same source: citizens weaker than they are. Criminals won't go after governments: too many guns. The example of Kennesaw, Georgia, shows that criminals won't burgle if the chances of being confronted by an armed citized supported by their local government are high (a situation that creates a "herd effect" that benefits liberals who mis-identify the origin of the effect). Armed citizens are a threat to criminal government as well as to criminals.
The concept of a criminal government being illegitimate and thus worthy of replacement is the core idea behind the Declaration of Independence: the Constitution is merely the *blueprint* for a government that the same people who wrote the Declaration hoped would not become criminal, and all departures from the processes and procedures outlined therein, either by utter disregard or creative "interpretation" as a "living document", are the root cause of our present troubles.
What is really holding back the american people is the simple fact that a good fraction, if not the simple majority, are Christians who take seriously the Pauline injunction to submit to human government. However, the key assumption underlying Paul's injunction was that the government's key function was to punish evil-doers, the funding of which by taxes Paul saw as a necessity. Liberal Churches and Christians see their mission as pushing Romans 12 as an absolute when Democrats are in power, while dismissing it for the sake of "higher principles" when Democrats are not in power. In doing so, they hope to stifle and suppress any motions toward reform outside of processes that they control. The dismissal of the Black Panther voter intimidation case is proof that they are not adverse to THEIR people pursuing "reform" by processes outside of the bounds of law.
What my fellow conservative Christians need to see is that Paul's injunction applies to them only when the government punishes evil-doers. When the government goes criminal, then the thrust of Paul's argument fails and the injunction evaporates.
I recommend Asa Mahan's "Oppression through Ignorance" to my fellow Christian Rantburgers as the source that started this chain of thought. However, I want to emphasize that the ideas I am advocating are strictly strategic: while helping us see the legitimacy of rebellion against, and the overthrow of, criminal government, such a realization does not help us at a tactical level in bestowing upon us a plan for actually succeeding. A victim of a bully certainly knows he is being oppressed, but that mere knowledge does not confer any extra benefits that would enable that victim to overcome the bully. The Second Amendment confers the right to bear arms, but does not bestow actual weaponry, nor the cool heads necessary to wield them wisely.
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Sorry, but a long time coming and will be a long time running. Same will happen here if the free cheese stops. Like Cameron, the "Food Stamp" president will do little to stop it.
With a turnout like this, odds of rioters even trying it on drop to near zero. It's more likely that the police will call on them to disperse and leave their temple unguarded, because guarding it "is provocative" to the rioters.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A US drone strike killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistans North Waziristan region on Wednesday, officials said, just days after Pakistan called for clear terms of engagement in the US-Pakistan relationship.
Among those targeted in the attack on a house 3 km east of the main town of Miranshah were members of the Haqqani network responsible for the worsening insurgency in eastern Afghanistan, and foreign militants.
The dead included local Taleban as well as some Arabs and Uzbek nationals, an intelligence official in North Waziristan said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
It was the largest strike since July 12, when US drones killed 48 suspected militants in North Waziristan.
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Initial reports said five militants were killed in the attack but officials said the toll had gone up to 21 after more bodies were found from the rubble of the house.
This 'feel good' sentence appeared further down in the article. Seeing the words 'militants', 'more bodies' and 'rubble' together like that just starts your day off right.
[Pak Daily Times] Two bullet-riddled dead bodies were found in Dashti Bazaar area of Turbat city, district headquarters of Kech, on Wednesday, police said. Some passersby spotted the bodies and informed the police. Police personnel rushed to the spot and shifted the corpses to the District Headquarters Hospital, police constable Siraj said and added that they belonged to Kandkot area of Sindh. They were identified as Ghulam Yasin and Abdul Razzaq. Both of them were construction workers, sources in police said. According to another source, so far no one has grabbed credit for the double murder.
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[Pak Daily Times] A Pak convicted of murder and waging war against India for an attack at New Delhi's historic Red Fort in December 2000 lost his appeal against execution in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The court refused to quash the death penalty handed down to Mohammed Arif, who used the alias Ashfaq, for his role in the gun attack that killed three people at the 17th century tourist attraction. "The death sentence has been confirmed," Justice VS Sirpurkar and Justice TS Thakur said. Ashfaq and five other gunnies sneaked into the Red Fort late on December 22, 2000, and opened fire, killing a soldier, an army barber and a civilian working for the military.
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So India and Japan, who knew?
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"Hang 'im high, boys"
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It seems the Indian President will turn down the clemency plea of Afzal Guru as well.
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India's president has rejected mercy pleas from three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, paving the way for their execution, an official told AFP on Thursday.
The appeal, sent to President Pratibha Patil by the men -- Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, all known by single names -- was their last hope of escaping the hangman's noose.
All three belonged to Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militant group, which was accused of plotting the May 21, 1991 murder of Gandhi by a female suicide bomber.
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"India's president has rejected mercy pleas from three men convicted of the 1991 assassination of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi"
Those clowns showed no mercy - why should anyone else?
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[Dawn] Five forces of Evil were killed and two others received injuries in a roadside kaboom in Mamozai area of Orakzai tribal agency on Tuesday.
Sources said that a vehicle, carrying Taliban from Arghunjo village to Jabba in Mamozai, a stronghold of Death Eaters, was hit by a landmine planted by unidentified persons in Adokhel area. The landmine went kaboom! with a bang, killing five Taliban, they said. Two forces of Evil were maimed in the blast.
The killed forces of Evil were identified as commander Bakhtullah, commander Mirdad Khan, Kazim Khan, Ghulam Sarwar and Hafiz Mirwais. The injured were identified as Isa Khan and Noor Din. Armed forces of Evil cordoned off the area soon after the incident, sources said.
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They lost their mines (forgot where they planted them)?
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Or else there's some retaliation going on for the murder of some arbitrarily labeled "US spy" relatives of the bomb-planters, who are getting some semi-randomly-directed-payback? Who knows. For all we know, the guy driving the truck raped somebody's nephew.
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[Pak Daily Times] Five more people, including one each of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) and Pakistain People's Party (PPP) activists, bit the dust in ongoing wave of murders in the metropolis on Wednesday. According to police and eyewitnesses, an activist of MQM was rubbed out near Dhobi Ghat within the jurisdiction of Pak Colony cop shoppe.
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[Dawn] In pre-dawn raids, police backed by Rangers rounded up 90 suspects allegedly involved in the recent spate of violence and killings mainly in eastern parts of the city, officials said on Tuesday.
The authorities claimed the recovery of arms from the suspects' possession but they did not offer anything in evidence to corroborate such claims neither did they disclose the political association of the suspects.
The police action sowed anger in a few localities where residents, particularly the family members of the jugged suspects, erupted into the streets and laid siege to a cop shoppe.
"We have jugged a total of 90 suspects," said DIG East Akram Naeem Barokha. "We have also recovered arms from their possession. They are still being interrogated and a few of them, if found innocent, are expected to be released but most suspects would face due action."
He said the raids were conducted in affected pockets of Malir, Landhi 89, Surjani Town, Ayub Goth and Lasi Goth, as well as in Rabia City and Faraz Apartment situated in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
The police action began after an armed clash at the Rabia City left two people dead and five others maimed on Monday.
In the Malir area, residents in large numbers staged a protest demonstration against the action by the law-enforcers.
After an hour-long 'search operation' in localities neighboring Jafar-i-Tayyar Housing Society and Lasi Goth, dozens of men, women and kiddies appeared on the National Highway and blocked it for some time.
Then they turned to the Malir City cop shoppe, situated along the highway, and staged a sit-in there. They also hurled stones at moving vehicles and police vans. The protesters later dispersed after intervention of senior police authorities and the community elders.
"We have assured them that if anyone was found innocent, he would be back home as soon as possible. In such a situation, we expect cooperation from all segments of society and that was what we tried to convey to the area people," DIG Barokha said.In pre-dawn raids, police backed by Rangers rounded up 90 suspects allegedly involved in the recent spate of violence and killings mainly in eastern parts of the city, officials said on Tuesday.
The authorities claimed the recovery of arms from the suspects' possession but they did not offer anything in evidence to corroborate such claims neither did they disclose the political association of the suspects.
The police action sowed anger in a few localities where residents, particularly the family members of the jugged suspects, erupted into the streets and laid siege to a cop shoppe.
"We have jugged a total of 90 suspects," said DIG East Akram Naeem Barokha. "We have also recovered arms from their possession. They are still being interrogated and a few of them, if found innocent, are expected to be released but most suspects would face due action."
He said the raids were conducted in affected pockets of Malir, Landhi 89, Surjani Town, Ayub Goth and Lasi Goth, as well as in Rabia City and Faraz Apartment situated in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
The police action began after an armed clash at the Rabia City left two people dead and five others maimed on Monday.
In the Malir area, residents in large numbers staged a protest demonstration against the action by the law-enforcers.
After an hour-long 'search operation' in localities neighboring Jafar-i-Tayyar Housing Society and Lasi Goth, dozens of men, women and kiddies appeared on the National Highway and blocked it for some time.
Then they turned to the Malir City cop shoppe, situated along the highway, and staged a sit-in there. They also hurled stones at moving vehicles and police vans. The protesters later dispersed after intervention of senior police authorities and the community elders.
"We have assured them that if anyone was found innocent, he would be back home as soon as possible. In such a situation, we expect cooperation from all segments of society and that was what we tried to convey to the area people," DIG Barokha said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain is preparing to fly to Indonesia an alleged criminal mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings months after his arrest from Abbottabad, officials said on Wednesday.
"We have to eventually hand over (Umar) Patek to the Indonesians and practically speaking, it can happen any time. But it is up to the Indonesians to intimate to us when they will take him back," a security official said.
Pakistain confirmed in March the arrest of the most-wanted Death Eater in Southeast Asia.
"The Indonesian authorities sought time to repatriate Patek as they were occupied in other cases back home," the Pak security official said.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said last week that the alleged coordinator of the 2002 Bali bombings, in which more than 200 people were killed, would be extradited to Indonesia "soon rather than later".
Born in 1970, Patek is a suspected member of the al Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). In addition to the Bali bombings, he is also suspected of involvement in a series of deadly attacks targeting Christians and Westerners in Indonesia dating back to 1999.
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[Pak Daily Times] Five labourers were maimed when armed motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at a rice godown in Mawach Goth within the jurisdiction of Mauripur cop shoppe here on Wednesday.
The incident caused panic and fear in the locality. A heavy contingent of law enforcers as well as bomb disposal squad rushed to the scene and collected evidences. Police officials said that two gunnies riding a cycle of violence hurled a hand grenade at the godown that injured Arshad Niazi, Hazoor Bakhsh, Mukhtiar, Abdul Ghaffar and Shabbir. The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi.
Police officials said that Lyari gangsters had demanded extortion from the godown owner but on his refusal, they attacked his godown.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: The Director of Azadi Police of northern Iraqs oil-rich city of Kirkuk has escaped an assassination attempt by an explosive charge against his motorcade in the city early on Wednesday, according to a Joint Coordination Centers source in Kirkuk.
An explosive charge blew off early in the day against the motorcade of Kirkuks Azadi Police Director, Beston Mohammed Qafary, while on his way for work, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He said the explosion had caused material damage for the motorcades two vehicles, but did not cause any human losses.
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[Al Jazeera] Bashar Jaafari, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... says the country's illusory sovereignty "is a red line that must not be crossed".
"We know our commitments, our obligations but at the same time we know what are our rights. And our rights do not stem from any political pressure. They stem from our own political will," he said after sessions at the United Nations Security Council in New York.
Jaafari sparked diplomatic fury by comparing the deadly unrest to the riots in Britannia adding that anti-government groups have killed 500 Syrian security forces.
At least 1,700 civilians have been killed since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March, rights groups say.
He also reprimanded European envoys for allegedly misleading news hounds with false figures and information about Syria.
"They tried to manipulate the truth and to hide important facts and elements related to the so-called situation in Syria," said Jaafari, back in New York from meetings with Assad government officials in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... .
'Ludicrous comparison'
Britannia's UN representative dismissed Jaafari's "ludicrous" comparison between the handling of the worst British riots in a generation and the killing of protesters on the streets of Syrian cities.
"In the United Kingdom, you have a situation where the government is taking measured, proportionate, legal, transparent steps to ensure the rule of law for its citizens," he said.
"In Syria, you have a situation where thousands of unarmed civilians are being attacked and many of them killed. That comparison made by the Syrian ambassador is ludicrous."
Jafaari also protested western descriptions of Assad's government as a "regime".
"I would not describe the government of Britannia as 'regime, I would not describe the chancellor of Germany as regime, I would not say the government of (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy is a regime," he said.
"Our president is democratically elected, equal to Sarkozy, (US President Barack) Obama and the German Chancellor (Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... )."
Mistakes made
The ambassador's comments came after 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... admitted that "some mistakes" had been made by security forces, in a meeting with a delegation from UN Security Council members Brazil, India and South Africa (IBSA).
Envoys from the three countries met in Damascus on Wednesday and held talks with the president and his foreign minister, Walid al-Muallem.
In a statement after the meeting, the IBSA said Syria had detailed three categories of opposition: the economically disadvantaged sections; intellectuals and academics and gangs.
Al-Assad reassured the delegation that reforms were coming; that elections would be held before the year's end and that the constitution was open to amendment if needed.
US pressure
With the situation growing bleaker in the country, the international community has stepped up pressure on Assad.
The United States called for greater international pressure on Al-Assad ahead of the meeting in New York.
But the Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, expressed doubt that the Security Council would agree on a resolution threatening sanctions against Assad for his crackdown on opposition protests.
"From the United States' point of view we are going to continue and intensify our pressure both through our national actions, in additional sanctions, as well as coordinated efforts with other partners here in New York and around the world," Rice told news hounds.
"In the view of the United States, he has [Al-Assad] lost his legitimacy to rule and Syria would be a better place without him," the ambassador added.
"We are looking to the future and looking to lend support to the people of Syria who have the same aspirations for freedom and democracy that we have seen in so many other parts of the world," she said.
The US Department of Treasury issued sanctions on the commercial bank of Syria, and its Leb-based subsidiary, as well as Syriatel, the largest mobile phone operator.
Morocco has also expressed deep concern over the brutal crackdown on protesters and called for an "inclusive" dialogue to end the crisis.
"The kingdom of Morocco, which has traditionally refrained from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, expresses today its strong worries and deep concern over the sad events rocking Syria," the foreign ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, European members of the Security Council threatened Syria that it could face tougher UN action if it continued a bloody crackdown on protesters, while Russia urged Damascus to implement promised reforms as soon as possible.
But diplomatic measures appear to have done little to stall the fighting on the ground.
Tanks return
Syrian tanks stormed two northwestern towns near the border with Turkey, expanding its military offensive to crush protests, local residents said, a day after Ankara pressed Damascus to end killings of civilians.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said at least one woman was killed and 13 people injured on Wednesday when 12 tanks and armoured vehicles, entered the towns of Taftanaz and Sermin, around 30km from the border with Turkey.
In Homs at least 16 people have been killed by security forces, reports from activists said.
Omer Onhon, the Turkish ambassador, visited Hama on Wednesday and said that tanks were moving out of the city ten days after the army stormed in.
Forty personnel carriers decked with Syrian flags rolled out of Hama with soldiers chanting slogans praising embattled Assad, said a journalist from the AFP news agency who visited the city on a tour organised by the authorities.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... witnesses told Al Jizz that after Onhon's visit to Hama, where he was told military operations had ended, Syrian army forces moved back into the town.
Turkish efforts
Syrian troops also seized control of the eastern flashpoint city of Deir ez-Zor on Wednesday following intense shelling and gunfire, an activist said. The city has been under attack by Assad's forces for four days.
"They are shooting anything that moves," the activist said, speaking to the AP news agency by telephone on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
In the town of Albukamal, located in the province of Deir ez-Zor, the security forces and members of the Shabiha gang carried out a campaign of mass arrests early Wednesday morning, detaining at least 35 people, Avaaz, an international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organization, said.
Syrian troops also launched another operation in three suburbs of the capital Damascus, the London-based SOHR said.
Earlier this week, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, urged Assad to end the killings, while US officials said the B.O. regime was preparing to explicitly demand his departure.
Assad has largely shrugged off the pressure.
Syria's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... said he told Davutoglu the government will relentlessly fight "terrorist groups" - a term Syrian authorities often use for government opponents even though most of those killed are said to be unarmed, peaceful protesters.
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Mistakes were made.....
4K dead
But not in Ohio
4K dead
But not in Ohio
/Crossme Steal & Mash
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(KUNA) -- Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu here Tuesday, said his country would not back down from pursuing "armed terrorist groups" to restore security and stability.
Al-Assad, according to state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... (SANA), said the Syrian government was determined to continue the process of comprehensive reforms.
Al-Assad briefed Davutoglu about the situations in some Syrian cities and how "some armed terrorist groups are killing civilians security forces and terrorizing the people." Davutoglu said Turkey was keen on security and stability of Syria.
He noted that the developments in Syria were internal affairs, echoing remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Syrian Presidential front man Buthaina Shaaban had earlier rejected intervention in Syria's internal affairs from any regional or international power.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces rubbed out 16 people in the protest hub of Homs on Wednesday, activists said.
Security forces "fired indiscriminately on residents of the Baba Amro neighborhood, killing 11 people," an activist told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from the central city.
The toll was later raised to 16, and at least another 20 maimed.
"Some bodies are lying in the sun and people cannot remove them because of the shooting," one activist said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... an AFP correspondent on a government-sponsored tour said dozens of military vehicles crammed with soldiers streamed out of Hama to which residents were trickling back.
"The army units have gone back to their barracks after having accomplished their mission, and residents, happy to be rid of the armed gangs who tried to sow discord among the population, have returned home," a high-ranking officer said.
That was confirmed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who sent to Hama his ambassador to witness the pullout.
"Our ambassador went to Hama and said that the tanks, security forces had started to leave Hama. This is highly important to show that our initiatives had positive results," Erdogan said in Ankara.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said "the critical thing is that Syria should be open to the world for the developments to be followed. The most important tool to end the speculations and debate is free media access."
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... a military source said troops were also pulling out of one town in the province of Idlib bordering Turkey.
The operation aimed "to hunt down saboteurs and gangs at the request of Idlib's residents" and troops are now "returning to their barracks, after achieving their mission," the source said.
The AFP journalist said she saw dozens of soldiers stream out of Ariha in the south of Idlib province.
But rights activist Rami Abdul Rahman of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops were conducting a vast operation in the Idlib town of Sermin, where a woman was killed.
"A woman was killed and three other people were maimed in the city of Sermin, where Syrian forces launched a broad military campaign on Wednesday morning," he told AFP.
Explosions and heavy gunfire also echoed in the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor and residents were fearing a new military operations in the city where the army killed 42 people on Sunday and 17 on Tuesday, said Abdul Rahman.
The authorities have blamed "outlaws," "saboteurs" and "armed terrorist groups" for the violence that has swept Syria since mid-March, while world powers have accused Syria of violently repressing pro-democracy protests.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A US drone strike killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistans North Waziristan region on Wednesday, officials said, just days after Pakistan called for clear terms of engagement in the US-Pakistan relationship.
Two bullet-riddled dead bodies were found in Dashti Bazaar area of Turbat city, district headquarters of Kech, on Wednesday, police said. Some passersby spotted the bodies and informed the police. Police personnel rushed to the spot and shifted the corpses to the District Headquarters Hospital, police constable Siraj said and added that they belonged to Kandkot area of Sindh. They were identified as Ghulam Yasin and Abdul Razzaq. Both of them were construction workers, sources in police said. According to another source, so far no one has 
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: The Director of Azadi Police of northern Iraqs oil-rich city of Kirkuk has escaped an assassination attempt by an explosive charge against his motorcade in the city early on Wednesday, according to a Joint Coordination Centers source in Kirkuk.
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, during a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu here Tuesday, said his country would not back down from pursuing "armed terrorist groups" to restore security and stability.
