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Richard Rouget, a mercenary during two decades of bloody African conflict, is the unlikely face of the American campaign against Islamic militants in Somalia.
Mr. Rouget has commanded a group of foreign fighters during Ivory Coast's civil war, was convicted by a South African court for selling his military services and spent time in the presidential guard of the Comoros Islands. Now he works for Bancroft Global Development, an American private security company that the State Department has indirectly financed to train African troops fighting al Shabab.
The fight against the Shabab has mostly been outsourced to African soldiers and private companies. "We do not want an American footprint or boot on the ground," said Johnnie Carson, the Obama administration's top State Department official for Africa.
Yet, during the past year, the United States has quietly stepped up operations inside Somalia. The CIA, which largely finances the country's spy agency, has covertly trained Somali agents, helped build a large base at the airport in Mogadishu and carried out joint interrogations of suspected terrorists with their counterparts. The US has used strikes by armed drone aircraft to kill Shabab militants and recently approved $45 million in arms shipments to African troops fighting in Somalia.
But some American officials believe this hit-or-miss approach will not be enough to suppress the Shabab in the long run. In interviews, more than a dozen current and former United States officials and experts described a strategy in Somalia troubled by a lack of focus and internal battles over the past decade. While the United States has significantly stepped up clandestine operations in Pakistan and Yemen, American officials are deeply worried about Somalia but cannot agree on the risks versus the rewards of escalating military strikes here.
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Several United Nations and African Union officials credit the work of Bancroft with improving the fighting skills of the African troops in Somalia, who this past weekend forced Shabab militants to withdraw from Mogadishu, the capital, for the first time in years.
If they come even close to replicating the military record of African troops under white officers during the colonial era, al Shabab is finished.
[Dawn] The United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... turned up the heat on Libya, as fresh fighting erupted Wednesday along rebel lines at the oil town of Brega.
US diplomats are visiting several African countries to urge leaders to press Qadaffy to leave power immediately, officials in Washington said, while the EU slapped new economic sanctions on Qadaffy's regime.
Fresh fighting erupted Wednesday at the strategic oil town of Brega, an AFP correspondent said.
Mortar rounds and rockets struck intermittently on both sides of the front at Brega, one of the three main focuses in the Libyan conflict, with the other two at the enclave of Misrata to the east and the Nafusa Mountains to the west.
Brega is home mainly to oil facilities, refineries, ports and a residential area.
The United States and EU ratcheted up the pressure on Qadaffy, with Washington lobbying African states to give up support of the Libyan strongman, while the EU imposed new economic sanctions.
In Brussels, the European Union slapped new sanctions on the Qadaffy regime, targeting two "economic entities" linked to human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuse, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
An asset freeze and visa ban were extended to "two further entities closely linked to the perpetrators of the serious human rights abuses in Libya, given the gravity of the situation," Ashton said in a statement.
She gave no further details but a French official said on Tuesday the restrictions would target Al-Sharara, which operates in the oil sector, and an administrative organization linked to Qadaffy.
Six port authorities, 49 entities and 39 people are now subject to a freeze of their funds and financial resources in the EU, Ashton said.
In addition, the same 39 persons, which include Qadaffy and several family members, are banned from entering the EU.
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Four months of bombing didn't work---so now they try a nasty letter?
[An Nahar] Four suspected al-Qaeda members have been killed by army fire outside the southern Yemeni city of Zinjibar, most of which has fallen under the control of Islamist krazed killers, a local official said Thursday.
The suspects were killed when their positions were hit by army shells in the villages of al-Khamla and Bajdar outside Zinjibar, the capital of the lawless Abyan province, the official told Agence La Belle France Presse requesting anonymity.
Fierce festivities erupted Wednesday between the army's 25th Mechanised Brigade and Islamist bully boyz who are said to be members of the "Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law)," witnesses said.
Hundreds of gunnies belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked group took control of most of Zinjibar in late May and laid siege to base of the 25th Mechanized Brigade.
On August 1, officials claimed that 15 suspected members of al-Qaeda were killed in army raids in and around Zinjibar.
U.S. commanders have repeatedly expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that the jihadists have been taking advantage of a protracted power vacuum in Sanaa to expand their operations.
Since January, protesters have been demanding the ouster of veteran President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , who has been in Soddy Arabia since early June being treated for wounds sustained in a kaboom at his Sanaa palace.
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All aboard! All aboard for a sea burial, please.
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[Yemen Post] A week before the council is declared, Deputy Information Abdul Janadi said on Wednesday that the announcement of the Joint Meeting Parties to form a national council was a call for war and canceling the revolution of September 26 and October 14 as well as the achievements since the reunification in 1990.
In a presser in Sana'a, Al-Janadia also said that the JMP move is a rebellion against all constitutional institutions, the army and the people, as he made clear that the council will be a coup against the constitutional legitimacy.
The parties which will form this council will make themselves not the people the higher authority in the country and this is very dangerous because it might lead to a war with the constitutional institutions, he said.
He warned of what it was said to be the Day of the Largest March on August 17 or 18, the day the council is formed, accusing the JMP of threatening to break in, loot, kill and destroy the remaining constitutional legitimacy.
Affirming that the regime is ready to hand power in peaceful ways, Al-Janadi said the GCC-brokered power transition deal is still the ground for any national dialogue in Yemen.
President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... does not refuse to sign this deal, rather he is interested in the approval of all to its implementation mechanisms and removing the ambiguity in some terms, he said.
Furthermore, he accused the Islah Party of involvement in violence, road closures and depriving the people from basic services, as urged foreign missions in the country to call for good and stop and Yemen's sisters and friends to be impartial mediators.
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[Yemen Post] A Gulf diplomat said on Wednesday that the matter of power transfer in Yemen gains the support of all the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council including Soddy Arabia and that any amendments to the GCC-brokered deal over that had been rejected by the countries.
In a statement to the Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper, the diplomat said, "coordination among the GCC countries, the U.S. and the EU are continuing on the base of an immediate power transition as the only way out of the Yemeni crisis either according to the GCC plan or the UN initiative".
The newspaper quoted the diplomat as saying that President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... , convalescing in Riyadh after nine surgeries for burns suffered in an liquidation attempt in June, had written the White House to inform the U.S. administration of his clear approval to transfer powers to his deputy.
Saleh's letter included that he had decided not to return home, amid reports about mounting pressure on him to sign the GCC plan and warnings not to come back to his country gripped by persistent unrest and associated severe crises, the paper said.
Meantime, Yemeni officials have confirmed that Saleh will return after finishing recuperation amid warnings of local analysts who said that Saleh's return will explode the situation and might drive the country to civil war.
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[Yemen Post] Fierce festivities erupted between the elite republican guard and revolutionaries in Yemen's southern province Taiz on Wednesday, though the governor Hamoud Al-Soufi said a ceasefire agreement had been signed to contain the situation.
Al-tagheer.com reported that the confrontations erupted after military reinforcements deployed to Street 60th including tanks in what appeared to be in conflict with the ceasefire terms.
The ceasefire agreement called for withdrawing all armed forces from the streets.
The website also said that security director Abdullah Qairan and commander of the elite republican guard Murad Al-Awbaly, blamed for inflaming violence in Taiz, rejected to sign the ceasefire after the signing of the representatives of the JMP and revolutionaries.
The people have called for firing Qairan and Al-Awbaly for their involvement in war, and Taiz has been in sporadic battles since the forces broke into the freedom square and burned more than 100 antigovernment protesters including 13 handicapped people.
The ceasefire was first signed in May, but it collapsed days after its signing with both sides trading accusations over breaches.
Yemen has been gripped by six-month unrest that has largely affected the people's livelihoods and paralyzed key sectors, triggering grave concerns about the country's future.
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[Emirates 24/7] Yemen's embattled president is now objecting to key points of a US-backed deal that calls for him to step down in return for immunity from prosecution, a member of his ruling party said Thursday.
The official said President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... spoke during a meeting with his top party officials in the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he is recuperating from severe burns and other wounds sustained in a June attack on his compound in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.
The remarks reflect yet another stalling maneuver by Saleh, who has clung to power in the face of nearly six months of street protests demanding his ouster and a deteriorating economic and security situation in Yemen.
Yemen's uprising was inspired by the revolts that swept across other parts of the Arab world this year. The protests have often turned violent, with Saleh's security forces using deadly force against the protesters.
Saleh was rushed to Soddy Arabia in June for emergency medical treatment. Since he left, the country has been in limbo, with both the protesters demands and the question of who will succeed Saleh unresolved.
The power transfer deal, proposed by a Saudi-led group of Arab Gulf nations, envisages Saleh stepping down and handing power to his deputy, who would rule during until presidential and parliamentary elections take place.
The Yemeni official who attended Thursday's meeting told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named after returning back to Sanaa that Saleh is now demanding that the deal spell out the "mechanism of implementation" of the power transfer.
"This doesn't means rejecting the initiative," the official quoted Saleh as saying. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.
It remained unclear what Saleh meant by "mechanism of implementation."
The Yemeni opposition accuses Saleh of being deliberately vague and trying to buy more time while the country sinks into more uncertainty and chaos.
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"...In ten seconds, one of two things is going to be on this piece of paper: your signature or your brains."
THAT'S the offer they need to make him.
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Russian forces in the Dagestan region killed seven suspected terrorists rebels, including a top leader, Russia's anti-terror committee said Thursday.
One of those killed during the operation conducted on Wednesday and Thursday in Makhachkala was Abdullah Magomedaliev, the committee said, according to Russian news sources. The thug gunman was described as "the leader of a battalion specialised in spectacular attacks against the security forces."
"Magomedaliev trained a suicide bomber and planned the the suicide attack against interior ministry base in Bouinaksk that killed 56 troops in September 2010," said the committee. Reports at the time of the attack had indicated a much lower death toll.
The committee alleged that "through his foreign network, Magomedaliev had contacts with the Georgian special service, who supported his terrorist activities." Russia and Georgia regularly trade accusations of interference in each other's security affairs.
[Emirates 24/7] A female suicide kaboomer and a handcart bomb targeted Pak police on Thursday. Six people died in the first deadly attacks to hit the northwest during Ramadan, officials said.
The city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, where the unrest took place, is on the frontline of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistain's lawless tribal belt that Washington calls the global headquarters of Al Qaeda.
It was only the third time police have confirmed a woman suicide attacker in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million where Taliban and Al Qaeda linked bombers have killed 4,500 people since 2007, destabilising the government.
Dozens were maimed in Thursday's attacks, carried out several hours apart in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar, a teeming city of 2.5 million, targeting first a police van and secondly a police checkpost.
"This was a female jacket wallah aged around 17 or 18 who threw a hand grenade on the police checkpost, 20 metres away from the site of the first blast, and then blew herself up," police official Shafqat Malik told AFP.
"Her vest did not explode completely. She was killed and another woman was also killed and three copperswere maimed," Malik said.
He said 16 people were admitted with injuries after the second blast, including a 10-year-old boy.
Police official Imtiaz Shah confirmed that the other woman was a passer by and had no connection to the woman, believed to have been around 17 years old.
Police said four officers and a child were killed earlier when a bomb hidden in a handcart on the roadside, tore through a passing police van carrying 20 personnel at 7:10 am.
18 other people were maimed, said police official Muhammad Faisal.
Shattered glass, human flesh, blood and police uniforms littered the area after the bomb went of.
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Were they all Moslems? yeah?
Noam Chomsky should be informed at once !. He will have the answer.
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A series of lethal roadside bombings targeting police and civilians ripped through a bustling Iraqi neighborhood late Thursday and killed at least five people. The blasts occured in the Askan neighborhood of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar. A 5-year-old boy was among the dead and at least 23 others were injured. Police said one of the bombs was planted outside the house of a counter-terrorism officer, and two of his family members were among those wounded.
[An Nahar] A member of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' armed wing was killed Thursday in a "mysterious kaboom" in the southern Gazoo town of Rafah, the group and Paleostinian medical sources said.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades announced the death in a statement, naming the Islamic exemplar as 20-year-old Ali Nayef al-Haj.
"Ali Nayef al-Haj of Yebna refugee camp was martyred on Thursday in an accidental internal kaboom," the group said.
Paging Mutual of Gaza, Mutual of Gaza to the white courtesy phone.
The group gave no additional details, but it also made no accusations that Israel was involved in the death.
Adham Abu Selmiya, a front man for the Hamas-run medical services in the Gazoo Strip, said only that "a citizen was killed in a mysterious kaboom," adding that the man's body arrived at the Abu Yusef al-Najjar hospital "in tatters."
Militants in the Gazoo Strip have regularly been injured or even killed while handling kabooms.
Separately Thursday morning, the Israeli military said two mortar shells were fired from the Gazoo Strip into Israel.
They landed in the southern Eshkol region without causing damage or injuries, a military front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
In the last week, six projectiles have been fired into Israel from the Paleostinian territory, and July saw a rise in rocket and mortar shell fire from Gazoo.
The uptick comes after several months of calm following a flare-up in April when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager.
Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Paleostinians in the deadliest violence since Israel's devastating 22-day assault on Gazoo in December 2008-January 2009.
The violence raised fears of another offensive, but on April 10 the Islamist movement Hamas which rules the Paleostinian territory announced a return to the truce which ended Israel's Operation Cast Lead.
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Specifically targeted wherever possible, of course, but random for anybody who just makes noise with their mouth too often.
Get a list of addresses and then put together some teams, hire out what you cant do yourselves.
OH, and as long as you are in there, snuff the dog too.
the trouble with most of the violence is that our response is too gentle and measured....what we need is a LOT more cowbell.
How come Noam Chomsky is still able to go and hug Nasrallah?
Remember Muganiyah??...he was turned into a crispy critter and flipped all the way across the parking lot with the dashboard and the steering column between his flaming ears.
We need Noam to be found a week or so after he was buried in cement with an apple in his mouth. But we dont do that sort of thing because we are so "decent"? You are going to lose the war because you were named Dwayne, Eaglescout.
Let Britain arrest them and use water cannon. We need something more final...and quiet. Cyanide liquor and let them loot every bottle. Who did it? Big mystery. Strap one with twenty TNT and shove an Ecstasy Pill in her mouth and push her into the crowd. Detonate it with her own cellphone.
They can Bring down the Capitalist Pig State and wonder how such a bad thing can happen to yobs so young. Kent State was an atrocity, right? And it was an accident? yeah?
If you can get it for free and laugh at the Judge....hey, go for it.
Kill the rich and throw stones at the Police, they won't do nuthin'. STUDY fear.....and read Ghenghis Khan. You could send a Virgin with a pot of gold on her head from one end of the empire to the other and no one would touch her.
Just think about:" No better Friend, no worse an Enemy." Real real quiet and No prisoners.
How do you fight? Marquis of Queensbury? ...and if the Media complains , set a few up, and surprise them. About 20 journalists in Iraq had ''Accidents" and never came home. Never happened, right?
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Accidental internal kaboom, eh? Could be red wire/green wire. Or the Djinn of Electrostatic Discharge. Or maybe juice-tainted electronics. Hey, wouldn't it be funny if the Djinn of ESD was actually a Mossad agent? How shocking!
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Assad's only allies are in Iran and South Lebanon. Sunni Arabs have Syria in their sights.
The IDF had 45 of their top tanks either destroyed of damaged during the last invasion. With Syria out of the way, the only thing they will send in will be carpet bombs and heavy artillery shells. As ye sow...
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Assad's only allies are in Iran and South Lebanon. Sunni Arabs have Syria in their sights.
You left out Iraq, which does have a Shia majority. Would Iraqi Shias be thrilled to see Syrian Sunnis thumped - something they can't do in Iraq because GI's in-country? I wouldn't bet against it, given that the Alawite faith is basically a Shia heresy.
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Haven't heard any reports of suicide bombings agz security forces or gov buildings. Where are they all? Is suicide operations only OK agz Muslim Regimes that have Western Support ie Kabul, Baghdad, Peshawer. Why no suicide attacks in Dammascus, Tripoli or Saana?
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Why no suicide attacks in Dammascus, Tripoli or Saana?
Uncle Sam is preventing collective punishment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pakistan's government can't quite figure out whether it's for the terrorists or against them. Public opinion supports the terrorists, so even even if the government wished to carry out collective punishment, the response could be outright civil war. Assad hasn't quite gone Saddam on the rebels, but I suspect they don't doubt his resolve. If push comes to shove, Assad could conceivably go after their extended families.
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The headline's a little hysterical. If Assad had really left Hama in ruins, the death toll would be in the tens of thousands, not a couple of hundred. The PLA killed thousands in Tiananmen Square without leaving anything in ruins.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Syrian forces killed five people Thursday as they stormed another two towns in pursuit of anti-regime protesters, defying Western calls for action after a "chilling" UN Security Council briefing.
The killings occurred soon after columns of tanks entered the town of Qusayr in the central province of Homs early on Thursday, sending residents fleeing, rights activist there said.
"Residents decamped into the fields and all communications have been cut with the town," one activist told AFP in Nicosia, adding that security forces had later killed at least five residents and maimed 10.
"The security forces opened fire on residents who tried to flee to the Al-Basateen district, killing at least five" he said.
Another activist confirmed the corpse count but said 16 people had been maimed, adding that the army "has closed entrances to the town," while security forces were conducting arrests, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Tanks, troop carriers and buses transporting security force members also sped into the town of Saraqeb in the northwestern Idlib province bordering Turkey soon after dawn Thursday, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
"Shooting was heard soon afterwards," it said, adding that security were "raiding homes and making arrests, rounding up more than 100 people, including 35 children."
"Army troops are smashing the doors of shops owned by activists in search of them, and they have cut off electricity in the town," where anti-regime protests have been held nightly, said the Observatory.
On Wednesday, security forces rubbed out 18 people in the Baba Amro neighbourhood of the city of Homs with more than 100 maimed "some at death's door," according to the Observatory.
It said residents were fleeing for safety while heavy machine-gun fire rattled Baba Amro well into Thursday morning.
The group also reported that security forces tossed in the calaboose 27 activists Wednesday in the town of Salamiyeh and nearby villages, and in the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, including prominent dissident Hassan Zahra.
Zahra, 67, has been jugged several times in the past weeks accused of organising demonstrations, the Observatory said, adding that he suffers from asthma, high blood pressure and emphysema.
The latest assaults come after UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco briefed the Security Council Wednesday about events in Syria in the week since the council called for an "immediate" halt to the violence.
Taranco, who spoke behind closed doors, was quoted as saying there had been no letup in the deaths of protesters while UN officials had met Syrian diplomats to try to get accurate information.
His briefing was "depressing and chilling," Britannia's deputy UN ambassador Philip Parham said.
Western envoys said the Security Council would have to consider "further action" if events did not improve, and it pressed for a new report next week.
Ignoring the international outrage, 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... pledged this week a relentless battle against "terrorist groups" 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... says is fomenting a popular uprising across Syria.
Rights group say more than 2,000 people have been killed in the crackdown on the protest movement, which first erupted in mid-March with calls for reform before demanding the fall of the regime over its bloody repression.
The mounting corpse count has infuriated Western powers, prompting the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States to impose sanctions on Syrian officials as well as individuals and business they say are involved in the crackdown.
Oil kingpin Soddy Arabia last week recalled its ambassador from Syria, and two other members of the energy-rich Gulf Cooperation Council, Kuwait and Bahrain, have followed suit.
Egypt, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , and the top Sunni Mohammedan authority, Al-Azhar, have also called for an immediate end to the violence and late Wednesday Morocco added his voice to those pleading for an end to the bloodshed.
The bloodshed has not dented the determination of protest organisers.
Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind the protests, said in a message Thursday posted on the Internet: "We only kneel before God."
It also urged Syrians to pursue anti-regime rallies throughout the holy Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan which started August 1, saying "every day in Ramadan is a Friday."
Friday -- the weekly day of rest when key Mohammedan prayers are held -- has become a focal point of anti-regime protests in Syria, with hundreds of thousands pouring on to the streets each week to demonstrate.
On Wednesday, Assad admitted his security forces had made "some mistakes" in battling protests, during talks in Damascus with the deputy foreign ministers of Brazil, India and South Africa, India's UN mission reported.
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Eye Doctor restaurant owner in Afghanistan who cares both useless only difference the kidz outside the belt way put one of them into power and he is screwing all of them!
[An Nahar] Two people were killed when a bomb they were reportedly trying to plant under the parked vehicle of a Lebanese judge in a parking lot in Antelias mistakenly went off, the Lebanese Red Thingy said Thursday.
The men were identified as Hassan Nayef Nassar and Ihsan Ali Diya, who died after he was taken to hospital.
Several people were also injured, the reports said. A witness told Agence La Belle France Presse he saw rescuers carrying a man whose arm and leg had been torn off in the kaboom.
The vehicle that the two assailants were reportedly trying to booby trap is a Nissan Murano registered to State Shura Council Judge Albert Serhan - license plate number 29592- and is driven by his son and engineer Alain.
"My son is an engineer and he parks his car in that lot, along with his colleagues, near their office," the judge told AFP by telephone.
"I have never been threatened nor does anyone in my family dabble in politics," he added.
Alain Sarhan told OTV that he saw two corpses on the ground near his car after he heard the blast.
A credit card that belongs to Nassar was found at the scene of the kaboom.
The National News Agency said the two assailants arrived at the area in a BMW X5 holding plate number 278458 and is registered in Diya's name.
Army and security forces immediately rushed to the site, cordoned off the area and brought in sniffer dogs.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the two victims had been seated in a car in the parking lot, adding that one of them was the owner of the vehicle.
The blast sowed panic and raised fears of a repeat of the wave of deadly car booms between 2004 and 2008 that targeted anti-Syrian journalists and politicians.
But Charbel downplayed the likelihood of an act of terror and said the bomb had been the work of amateurs.
"Our investigation so far does not point to an act of sabotage," he told news hounds.
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a bomb they were reportedly trying to plant mistakenly went off
Seems to be a lot of that going on today. Getting hard to find good teachers?
[An Nahar] The joint U.N. and international Sherlocks commission informed former ministers Elias Murr and Marwan Hamadeh and ex-LBCI anchorwoman May Chidiac that two of the Hizbullah suspects accused of being involved in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri are also involved in their liquidation attempts, revealed widely informed sources to the Central News Agency on Thursday.
The commission also informed them that these same two suspects are also involved in the liquidation of former Lebanese Communist Party leader George Hawi, who was killed in a kaboom planted in his car on June 21, 2005.
It added that the international judiciary has now taken over Murr, Hamadeh, and Chidiac's cases, informing them that they should prepare themselves to appear in court at the Special Tribunal for Leb, said the sources.
Furthermore, an indictment in their cases, as well as Hawi's, will be releases soon.
It will also be accompanied by arrest warrants against a number of suspects.
Earlier on Thursday, a delegation from the joint U.N. and international Sherlocks commission held talks with Murr, Hamadeh, and Chidiac on the investigations and their findings.
On June 28, the first phase in the indictment in the 2005 liquidation of former Premier Hariri was released along with arrest warrants against four Hizbullah members.
Leb had 30 days to apprehend the suspects, but it failed to do so.
Hizbullah has repeatedly announced that it will not cooperate with the STL, deeming it an American and Israeli product.
The Central News Agency added that the details of the first indictment may be released to the public in a few weeks.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Richard Rouget, a mercenary during two decades of bloody African conflict, is the unlikely face of the American campaign against 
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