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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Alice White aka Gracie in "Flamingo Road" aka Nicky in "Girls' Town" aka Marcella in "Annabel Takes a Tour" aka Dolly in "King of the Newsboys" aka Dottie Stengal in "Telephone Operator" aka Peggy Devlin in "Big City" aka Violet Wray Hornbostel in "Coronado" aka Lulu Betts [Malone] in "Sweet Music" (Died in 1983 at age 78)
[Tolo News] Two German men have gone missing in northern parts of the country for several days, officials said on Tuesday.
Stupid exoticism tourists, or stupid jihadi tourists? Either way the odds are very high they soon will be very sorry they made this choice...or dead.
Confirming Germans missing, Interior Ministry Spokesman Sediq Sediqi said: "We are aware that two Germans have gone missing somewhere between Baghlan and Parwan provinces. We are investigating the incident."
Mr Sediqi said the pair went missing two days ago.
Police chief in northern Parwan province, Sher Ahmad Maladani, told AFP that preliminary reports suggest that the two went missing in the mountains of north Salang area on Friday.
Sher Ahmad Maladani said there were no signs of turban activities in the site.
"They had not informed police about their destination, they had left their driver and had climbed the mountains," he said. "Late in the Friday, the driver informed us that the Germans had not returned from the mountains."
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Hey doltzen: that's not the safest place to wander around, Fritz.
[Tolo News] Afghan local officials said on Tuesday that 13 beturbanned goons including their commander were killed in a joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The operation was launched two days ago in Nowzad district of Helmand province to clear it of beturbanned goons in which Mullah Motasam, a bad boy commander and 12 others were killed, Dawood Ahmadi, governor's front man told TOLOnews news hound.
Thirty Afghan civilians who were kidnapped by these men have been freed in the operation, he added.
Militants have been active in some parts of Nowzad district and use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces' convoys. But civilians are often the main victims.
Afghan and NATO forces recently launched military operations in the country to clear volatiles areas of bad boys, as foreign forces have started security transition to Afghan forces.
Afghan forces have taken over security responsibility of seven areas in the first phase as planned.
On Monday a senior NATO civilian official said Afghanistan along with NATO are working on the second phase of security transition process to determine provinces for the second phase.
Appearing at a joint presser with Isaf front man, NATO's senior civilian representative front man Dominic Medley made an announcement on the second group regions that would see transition will be made either in late September or October.
Despite concerns that Afghan cops are not equipped with modern weapons, Isaf said that they are ahead of time in terms of build up and equipment programme in Afghan cops.
Isaf Spokesperson Gen. Carsten Jacobson told the conference: "We are more than ahead in the timetable for increasing Afghan national security forces, police and army and equipping them according to plan."
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Whoever drew that picture Doesn't know anything abou Guns, where's the Magazine on that Thompson?
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the magazine violated Dianne Feinstein's "Scary guns" Assault Weapons Magazine capacity rules. He has to load each cartridge by hand
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Damn, you blew my online on one of tomorrow's stories.
Screw it. I'm leaving it up.
[An Nahar] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. on Tuesday declared a two-week ceasefire in South Kordofan state which has been rocked since June by violent festivities between the Sudanese army and Nuba rebels.
"I declare a unilateral two-week ceasefire," Bashir said in a speech broadcast on state radio during his visit to Kadugli, the capital of the state of South Kordofan.
After the two-week truce "we will assess the developments on the ground as well as the reaction of the other party," he said.
South Kordofan remained under Khartoum's northern administration when South Sudan became independent last month, but violent festivities have been pitting Nuba rebels once allied to southern rebels against the Sudanese army.
It is located on the border between Sudan and the new state of South Sudan.
A report prepared jointly by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the world body's mission in Sudan details "extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detention, enforced disappearances and attacks against civilians" allegedly committed in the troubled South Kordofan state.
The report released last week covers the period between June 5 and 30.
"If substantiated (the allegations) could amount to crimes against humanity, or war crimes for which individual criminal responsibility may be sought," the report said of the incidents.
Sudan dismissed the report as being "biased."
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[Tripoli Post] The journalists' ordeal at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli is over. After being trapped in this de luxe hotel for five days, and following a statement and call from the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Frontiers demanding that they are not harmed. They have now walked free ending what some were beginning to fear was a hostage situation.
After they were allowed to get out of the hotel, CNN correspondent Matthew Chance called the experience and their confinement a "nightmare" and "very frightening". He siad the journalists had been held "by crazy gunnies" waving AL Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... flags and brandishing automatic weapons.
He said that all of the journalists were free, and none were maimed. Some even wept with relief as they got out and crammed into four cars provided by the International Committee of the Red Thingy and the BBC.
Chance went on to say that the "die-hard Al Qadaffy loyalists" who held them thought they were 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... spies. He recalled that on Tuesday one of the loyalists shouted at them: "I suppose you're happy now that they're killing Libyans."
The CNN correspondent described the Rixos Hotel as one of the last pockets of Al Qadaffy control in Libya. He described the process of going free, piling into a car with other journalists, and driving away from the hotel that had become a virtual prison.
"I can see the NTC rebels. We are nearly there!" he wrote on Twitter, followed a moment later by: "Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out!"
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Obviously no Iranians among the Daffy loyalistas. Iranians know something about holding onto valuable hostages.
[Tripoli Post] Libyan opposition forces reported fierce fighting underway in the southern Libyan city of Sabha between revolutionary fighters and forces loyal to dictator Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
Colonel Ahmad Bani, speaking for the revolutionaries, added that the city of Sabha, located nearly 600 kilometres south of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and Al Qadaffy's birthplace, will be the leader's last stronghold.
Opposition forces took control of Al Qadaffy's compound at Bab al Azziziyah in the heart of Tripoli, on Tuesday. They broke in through its western entrance. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... they have not yet succeeded in locating the embattled ruler.
Ahmad Bani also asserted that if still in Libya, Al Qadaffy is being protected by foreign mercenaries he has brought from neighbouring countries.
On another front, he said that the revolutionaries are negotiating with tribal leaders in Al Qatafi's hometown Sirte, for a peaceful handover of control over the city.
The Libyan fighters swept into the heart of Libya's capital city early on Monday and seized control of much of Tripoli without facing much resistance from regime forces.
They hope that the same could happen in Sirte hoping that they too could understand that what is happening to the country is not just historic, but for the well being of its citizens.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the sound of heavy gunfire could be heard on Wednesday coming from the area around the Rixos hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
A Rootersnews hound who was close to the hotel, said he could hear small-arms fire and the sound of anti-aircraft guns, which are used by both sides in the conflict to attack targets on the ground. A group of foreign news hounds is inside the Rixos hotel. They have been prevented from leaving by gunnies loyal to the Muammar Al Qadaffy.
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Islam has always been at war with any country having a cross on its flag.
The day after the Libyan rebels stormed into his Bab al-Azziziyah headquarters in the centre of the capital, Tripoli, and despite the fact that the days of the regime are numbered with the rebels who have been seeking his ousting for the past six months so near to achieving their goal, defeated Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy, ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... hiding for the past two months, is still defiant Defiance doesn't make you bullet-proof.
It seems that he little realises that he is no longer a leader. Skorzeny may have noticed much the same about Mussolini.
His dictatorial days are over. He cannot dictate anymore from wherever hole is tries to raise his voice. Therefore little notice was taken of his threats Wednesday or his vow to fight on "until victory or martyrdom". He is no longer in control of his troops, or Tripoli, let alone the country, Libya ... seeing as how the rebels fell into his carefully laid trap...
In the umpteenth audio address given from an unknown location
I vote for the tunnels Halliburton or some such dug for him (they do have their planning maps on file somewhere, I hope)
and broadcast on the local Al-Ouroba TV, in conjunction with Al Rai TV, Rooters and Al Jizz reported, Al Qadaffy asked: "Why are you letting them wreak havoc?" "I'm just so confused!"
Al Qadaffy, sounding subdued, and without any of his usually fiery rhetoric, said that his withdrawal from his headquarters was a "tactical move after the compound was levelled by 64 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... air strikes".
The defiant dictator, whose whereabouts remain unknown,
Yes, you said that already...
went on to say: "I have been out a bit in Tripoli discreetly, without being seen by people, and... I did not feel that Tripoli was in danger," he said.
He asked the Libyans: "Why are you letting them wreak havoc?" and called on residents of the Libyan capital and loyal rustics across his North African nation to free Tripoli from the "devils and traitors" who have overrun it. He said he would fight "the aggression with all strength until either victory or death."
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... after his remarks, Libyans were asking how could he fight his battles when he is in hiding. They added that he does not appear to have stock of the situation, and that most probably he is not able to follow the news and rests solely on what those few still around him feed him.
The government front man and secretary for information Moussa Ibrahim might be one of them. It is hard to believe that he is living the reality of the conflict when he goes on air, this time by telephone on the same medium of communication to say: Tripoli is symbolically important. We have the ability to fight for it, not only for months, but for years."
"But," he added: "Tripoli is not all of Libya. We still have tens of cities under our control, all of them are liberated cities, and all are still fighting. Our main mission now is to free Tripoli and free the whole of the country."
Ibrahim routinely talks to press in gatherings at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli. It was strange that this time he had to voice his remarks in a telephone converation without making an appearance.
For the past two months, Al Qadaffy too, addressed his supporters from state Libyan television, but to add to the regime's misery, the rebels took the channel off the air on Tuesday.
The rebels' capture of Tripoli has been achieved for a price. The three days of fighting cost them dearly. They announced that 400 of their fighters were killed, while 2,000 were maimed after fighting heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... during which, Al Qadaffy loyalists, used mortars, heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
Th rebels, constantly chanting "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is great") and on "Al-Hamdullilah," ("Thank God") managed to kill some of those who defended the compound and captured 600 pro-Al Qadaffy soldiers. They also hauled off thousands of rifles, crates of weapons and trucks with guns mounted on the back in a frenzy of looting. The rebels also seized control of the Abu Salim neighbourhood of Tripoli.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, told La Belle France 24 television that the battle would not be over until the Libyan leader himself was a prisoner
Tripoli's new rebel military chief, Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, had said late last night that a small area of the vast compound was still under the control of regime fighters and toward midnight heavy shooting could be heard across town
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On television, I saw a fire in Quadafi's compound, now Quadafi can't be found, I just wonder if he's dead, cremated and "Vanished"?
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"They also hauled off thousands of rifles, crates of weapons and trucks with guns mounted on the back in a frenzy of looting."
These go to Yemen?
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Classic manic and disappointed father.
As one who so identified with his people and country as the soverign, expect some final gesture of defiance for his children.
I expect he's had the capability to blow Tripoli for decades.
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I expect he's had the capability to blow Tripoli for decades. I am wondering if he has already installed the capacity to BLOW UP Tripoli, with all those unknown tunnels riddling the place.
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frenzy of looting? "Looting" applies to removal of items like large screen TVs. Hauling away truckloads of arms & ammo is a sensible thing for the rebels to do, especially with the continued fighting.
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Interesting that apparantly he was convinced to give up his WMD after watching Saddam pulled out of the spider hole. Guess he didn't want to be on the lam, running for his life and all that. Turned out that way anyway.
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Of course most of the dicatators out there probably did the math that he wouldn't have been attacked if he still has his WMD. So the next deal we try to make isn't gonna be very easy.
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I would like to suggest that Kadafi fancies himself to be a chess player. He may not be a good player but I don't see him hiding in a hole like Saddam.He will make the moves he chooses. He could destroy the ocean of pure water that is so precious or tourch the oil wells. I don't see him doing that. He is the leader of his people and his tribe. I do see a deal however. Years from now we may hear of him like Idi Amin. I don't believe he was as bad as that man. So he may have more options than we know of.
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Cement cocaine sub in the underground tunnel system?
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New wrinkle. Gold here Gold there. In Europe. Chavez wants his, Libya wants theirs. 50 billion here 50 billion there. I don't believe they are going to get their gold anytime soon. Sounds like a perfect storm is developing. These banks can't cough that up.
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WM-Hello!- Libyans refer to the tunnel system as the eight wonder of the world. "Cement cocaine sub in the underground tunnel system". Each city is connected. Egypt even is connected. Massive water system. Africa desperately needs this water as others do. It was all paid for without any loans. A nation of 4 million did this. This is a prize of great value. So much oil and an underground ocean of pure water that could last one thousand years even without replenishment.
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See also NEWSMAX > URBAN WARFARE [vee Gadhafi Loyalists = Troops] COULD END LIBYAN REBELS' ADVANCE.
LT obstructionisms.
* DRUDGEREPORT > GADDAFI VOWS TO FIGHT FOR YEARS | [Reuters] PRICE ON GADDAFI"S HEAD AS FIGHTING GOES ON.
* NTC Official = VP Abdel Hafize Ghoga = argues NO SECURITY OR SAFETY IN LIBYA [end to fighting] AS LONG AS GADDAFI REMAINS, I.E. UNTIL GADDAFI IS "CAPTURED OR KILLED".
Dozens of journalists and politicians, including around a dozen Britons, are being held hostage in Tripoli's five-star Rixos hotel by gunmen loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. The building has been the base for the pro-Gaddafi television station in the Libyan capital and it is where foreign journalists reporting the regime's activities were forced to stay. Now, however, it appears they could be used as human shields in any last-ditch defence of the building by loyalists.
There were unconfirmed reports that tunnels linked Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound to the Rixos, raising speculation that the deposed Libyan leader might be hiding close to the hostages.
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CBS News relates an account that Qadaffy had built a command center in the Rixos Hotel years ago and that it was connected to Bab al-Aziziya by a tunnel.
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BBC reports hostages were released 45 min. ago. One of the hostages mentioned that one of their former guards had been 'disarmed' and was weeping with fear.
[Tripoli Post] Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, on Tuesday recognised Libya's rebel leaders as the country's legitimate representatives and revealed it has been bankrolling the rebel leadership here over the past month. It also vowed unconditional future support and promised them an additional $200 million in aid.
The Turkish government is playing at being the open-handed Ottoman empire visiting the provinces, again.
Turkey's message wad delivered in a surprise visit Davutoglu made to the rebels and NTC headquarters in Benghazi Tuesday where he met the national Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil to mark Turkey's strongest show of support yet for the opposition forces trying to push Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... from power.
Turkey, a regional power and member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... , initially balked at the idea at the UN security council of military intervention in Libya in March. Before the outbreak of the anti-Al Qadaffy uprising in six months ago, it enjoyed warm ties with the Al Qadaffy regime with Turkish companies involved in Libyan construction projects worth billions of dollars.
Turkey made great efforts to broker a peaceful solution but failed. As such, when the revolt turned into a protracted, largely deadlocked armed conflict, Turkey switched sides and recognised the rebels who had been controlling Libya's eastern third, while Al Qadaffy clung to power in the west.
In time, as a NATO member, Turkey also began to support the alliance's air strikes against targets linked to the Al Qadaffy regime.
Davutoglu met with Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, chairman of the rebels' National Transitional Council, in a heavily guarded government building in the city of Benghazi, the rebel's main stronghold in eastern Libya.
In a joint news conference in Benghazi Tuesday with Abdul Jalil, Davutoglu said that the Turkish people, government and officials overcame bureaucracy and transferred the funds they had promised the Libyan people in cash and directly," said Mustafa Abdul-Jalil head of the rebels' National Transitional Council during a joint presser with Mr. Davutoglu.
Before the latest promise, Turkey has already granted the Libyan opposition $100 million in cash and another $100 million as "a gift" and promised an additional $200 million. Some of the money is to be used to improve the infrastructure of Benghazi and rehabilitate its airport. It is also carrying out humanitarian projects worth $100 million but declined to provide further details.
In his reply, the NTC chairman said that if it weren't for cash handouts from Turkey the rebels' governing body would have been unable to pay salaries and provide basic needs including food in August. Jokingly referring to the Turkish cash payments, Jalil said: "It's a new method for transferring money called the Turkish method."
The Turkish minister said that on Monday he had been in contact through a video teleconference with other members of the so-called Libya Contact Group, and revealed that the group, which includes the U.S. and other NATO-member countries, would convene an emergency meeting in Istanbul in the coming days.
Davutoglu said that topping the agenda would be a possible decision to release overseas assets worth tens of billions of dollars belonging to the Al Qadaffy regime to the rebel leadership. They were frozen following U.N. sanctions earlier this year.
The Turkish official praised the leadership of the NTC, saying: "We trust the virtuous leadership of Mr. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil and we stand by him and support him until the very end."
He added that NATO's operations over Libya would continue until the situation was brought under control all over the country. "We won't accept that any part of Libya be deprived of security and stability," he said.
The head of the NTC pointed out that all those who collaborated with Al Qadaffy would face trial, including himself for serving four years as justice minister before the start of the uprising in February, he said.
"I will submit myself to trial for the four years I spent as a minister with Muammar Al Qadaffy." Then pleaded with the Libyan people to show mercy and forgiveness.
Earlier, the Turkish visitor, said his country recognised the rebel leaders as the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people. "For us, the destiny of Libya is the same as the destiny of Turkey," Davutoglu said. "I expressed our solidarity and commitment."
The foreign minister said he hopes the Libya crisis can be solved peacefully this month, before the start of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan at the beginning of August.
Davutoglu's trip to Benghazi is being described as the most powerful signal that despite its long-time relations with Al Qadaffy, Turkey is throwing its weight behind the Libyan opposition.
Earlier in the conflict, Turkey had called on Al Qadaffy to withdraw from power and pave the way for "democracy and transparency."
"At the end of the day, there should be a political solution based on demands and aspirations of the Libyan people," Davutoglu said. "If there is an agreement, we will do everything for the implementation of that agreement."
Ali Al -Essawi, who serves as the rebels' foreign minister, noted that "Turkey has given us political as well as financial support and humanitarian aid."
Temel Kotil, chief executive officer of the Turkish Airlines, said his company would resume flights to Benghazi as soon as the security situation improves.
Mahmoud Jibril, one of the rebel leaders, said he would pay a two-day visit to Turkey this week to discuss the promised aid in more detail.
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[An Nahar] Former Croatian president Stipe Mesic who has close ties Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... said Tuesday that the Libyan leader told him he was ready to step down from political life if NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ended Arclight airstrikes.
"I can confirm that colonel Qadaffy is ready to retreat completely from political and public life with a firm engagement that we would impede the setting up of a multi-party system but on the condition that the NATO Arclight airstrikes cease," Mesic said in a statement quoted by Hina news agency.
The former president added that he had a "personal verbal message" from Qadaffy last week with the offer and added he told the Chinese, Russian and American ambassadors to Croatia about it on Monday.
"The authorities in Tripoli have tried to get this message out via all the available channels to countries that have played a crucial role in the organization and the operations in Libya," Mesic added in the statement.
Mesic was president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. In 2003 he made an official visit to Tripoli to negotiate Croatian companies' involvement in some infrastructure projects.
Qadaffy and Mesic have been close for many years. In the 1970s Mesic headed a Yugoslav company which was building apartments in Libya. Mesic was also the last president of Yugoslavia before it fell apart, which had longstanding ties with Qadaffy ever since Libya and Yugoslavia were champions of the Non-aligned Movement.
Late March Mesic slammed the NATO strikes on Libya.
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Do Tripoli's underground warrens get cell service? How's Mesic talking to the fugitive?
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[Tripoli Post] Rebel fighters get inside the Bab al Azziziyah to occupy the compound after their successful attempt
After hours of fierce fighting with troops loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... , the Libyan rebels battling to force the dictator from power after close to 42 years of rule, Tuesday evening they broke through the gates of his fortified compound at Bab al-Azzizyah in Tripoli, and entered the regime's stronghold, raising the three-coloured Independence flag on the roof of the complex.
Until late in the evening, the rebels had taken at least 90 per cent of the 6km sq compound into their hands. They managed it despite the stiff resistance by the loyalist regime forces. Once inside they set the 'famous' Al Qadaffy tent on fire, and smashed some of the facilities, while a number of civilians who joined the fray looted some of the armoury.
The rebels had been awaiting this moment for hours after setting themselves the task to take over this remaining stronghold two days after entering triumphantly into the capital where they were joined by Tripoli residents who were able to vent their anger at the treatment they have been subjected to for four decades.
As fighting also continued across the capital with the sound of gunfire and occasional kabooms ringing out, many recalled the remarks of a member of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... alliance, that "it is the "final chapter" for the Al Qadaffy regime and that the "end is near".
It took the rebel fighters hours before they could break into the compound, but once the outer wall was penetrated, and despite at least two more layers of fortified walls dividing them from inside the compound, they kept on going, eventually to get access to the compound, known as the real powerhouse for the regime, that had had frequently been targeted by the alliance's warplanes since March, but was not penetrated. Yet the rebels achieved it.
As columns of grey smoke were seen billowing over the compound's area with sounds of gunfire and occasional kabooms ringing out early in the day, for the second day running, the revolutionaries also kept up their battles across the city, but their sights and ears were directed at the Bab al-Azziziyah compound in the west of the city.
For most of the day the al-Mansoura district was the focus of fierce festivities between government forces and opposition fighters, after the rebels marched into the heart of the city on Sunday. The regime's remaining forces were concentrated and holed up in a series of pockets where they still appeared to have some strength, the main one being Al Qadaffy's compound.
Inside the building, the first target for the revolutionaries was a bronze head of the Libyan leader, which they decapitated and kicked around.
Once inside the compound the rebels searched without vain for the leader. His whereabouts were still unknown, though some rebels had previously claimed he could be inside one of the underground bunkers. Others were not so sure, and failure to find Al Qadaffy gave rise to more speculations that he must have left Libya weeks ago. So the Libyan leader's whereabouts are still unknown.
There were reports of NATO planes flying very low on top of the compound. Though NATO admitted that their planes were deployed they would not confirm they had conducted any bombings
The regime's forces had reportedly defended themselves by the use of heavy artillery, including mortars and shells fired in the direction of Green Square,
At the same time that all this was taking place, the 30 foreign journalists at the Rixos Hotel, less than two kilometres away, where they have been based throughout the six-month conflict, remained holed up in the hotel. They were not allowed to venture out by their minders. At the same time Al Qadaffy supporters remained in control of the Rixos where foreign correspondents. Some described their stay as a "prison".
The story is still being unfolded, and though many of the rebel fighters, made up of normal people, one would encounter in the street, students, professional people - like engineers, medical people, a University professor and at least one lawyer - they were convinced that tonight is the night when it will be wrapped up. But it could still be a very long night.
More rebel fighters in eastern Libya advanced towards the oil terminal of Ras Lanuf after taking the coastal town of Ageila from Al Qadaffy loyalist forces.
Yet the government spokesperson, Moussa Ibrahim, keeps claiming that the regime's forces had control of at least 75 per cent of Tripoli, and repeating Seif Al Qadaffy's remarks that the people were with Al Qadaffy.
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Is Moussa Ibrahim leading the hostage-takers at the Rixos? If not, where is he?
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Ah, Fred's new article on the fighting mentions that Ibrahim has taken to briefing the hostage-journalists by conference call. And apparently they've been freed?
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A Filipino engineer was feared to have been abducted by rebel forces in Tripoli as he disappeared after they raided the headquarters of a British engineering company early Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters at a news briefing Tuesday afternoon that a group of rebels also barged into the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli and took at gun point three vehicles.
Hernandez declined to name the Filipino engineer, but identified the company he was working for as the First British Engineering Co.
He said the rebels raided a building occupied by Filipinos and other foreign nationals.
He is the caretaker of the office and until this time he is still missing. Hernandez said.
Hernandez said the information in the Filipinos reported abduction was relayed to the foreign office the Philippine labor attache in Libya who cited the statements by the engineers co-workers.
He added that the armed men also took cell phones, laptops and other valuables in the engineering companys office.
He said that later in the day, at around 10:50 in the morning, a group of rebels barged into the Philippine embassy and took the Land Cruiser of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) representative who was at the embassy at that time.
He said the armed men also tried to take two other vehicles of the embassy, but relented when told they were owned by the Philippine Embassy whose nationals have supported and helped the Libyans.
But they came back in the afternoon and took the vehicles, but did not harm anyone in the embassy, Hernandez added.
He said that the two incidents involving Filipinos have been reported to the Libyan police. I'm sure they'll get right on that.
JEDDAH: Two more Saudi terrorists militants who had gone abroad to take part in fighting in violence-hit areas have surrendered to the security authorities, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The spokesman did not identify the two terrorists militants but said they have been allowed to reunite with their families. He said the terrorists' ' surrender took place as a result of cooperation between Saudi and Pakistani security agencies.
The terrorists militants had expressed through their relatives their desire to come back to the Kingdom and surrender. "The two terrorists militants will be dealt with according to the procedures followed in similar cases," the spokesman said.
"We'll consider the initiatives taken by the terrorists militants and their relatives while looking into their cases," he said and urged the remaining wanted Saudi militants abroad to surrender.
A number of Saudi terrorists militants have surrendered to security authorities in recent months.
Earlier this month a terrorist militant named Abdul Salam Abdulaziz Al-Faraj turned himself in to authorities. Al-Faraj was on the list of most wanted militants.
Alleged Al-Qaeda terrorist operative Khaled Hadal Al-Qahtani, who figured high on a list of 47 most-wanted terrorists, surrendered in May this year to Saudi security authorities. Al-Qahtani contacted security agencies expressing his desire to return to the Kingdom and give himself up.
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[Yemen Post] Military reinforcements have been deployed to Yemen's southern Taiz province amid reports that the armed forces which defected to the month-long popular uprising planned to form a revolutionary military council.
Reinforcements including weapons and vehicles arrived at the elite republican guard camp in Al-Janad district coinciding with sending many military vehicles to the presidential palace in the province. All reinforcements came from the capital Sana'a.
Taiz has been rocked by violence after tribal fighters flooded into it to defend the popular revolution at the freedom square which was attacked and burned by the security forces.
Lately, a ceasefire agreement, signed months ago, between the authorities and the tribal fighters was activated, but violations continued by the armed and security forces.
Meantime, youth-led protesters of those who have been conducting a sit-in in downtown Taiz to call for the ouster of the regime are continuing a sit-in before the governorate compound in support of the victory of the Libyan revolutionaries. They have urged an immediate revolutionary resolution in Yemen.
When the Libyan revolutionaries took control of most parts of capital Tripoli, massive demonstrations were staged in Yemeni cities with the people saying the situation in Libya inspires them to continue their strife until the Yemeni regime was ousted.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni government officially announced the death of Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, the Chairman of the Shoura Council from wounds he received during the presidential palace bombing on June 3.
Abdul Ghani was one of the most respected officials in government and a close President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... aide. He served under President Saleh since he came to presidency in 1978.
He was involved in Yemeni politics for more than 45 years.
The Interior Ministry mourned his death and called him a martyr.
He is only the second bigwig to have been reported killed in the palace bombing. The deputy minister of endowment died last month from wound he received in the palace attack.
A famous and respected political figure, a large number of opposition officials gave condolence to his family.
Abdul Ghani died in Riyadh Monday morning.
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[Yemen Post] Arab Parliament have called on Yemen's President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... to hand power to the people who are the source of power, as it affirmed its refusal to any attempts to divide the Yemeni people and its commitment to supporting the Yemeni unity and stability, alsahwa-yemen.net reported on Tuesday.
The announcement was made at the emergency meeting of the Parliament in Egypt's capital Cairo that was dedicated to discussing the deteriorating situations in some Arab countries facing uprisings seeking the ouster of regimes.
Yemen has been gripped by six-month protests calling for the ouster of the regime, in the last few months crises have started to deepen largely affecting the national economy and livelihoods.
Saleh, convalescing in Soddy Arabia after a June liquidation attempt, is clinging to power and has recently delivered a speech in which he said urged dialogue and attacked the opposition.
In the speech, Saleh indirectly hinted at his readiness to resign as the president continues to face mounting external pressure to transfer power to his deputy and stay in Soddy Arabia
The Parliament also urged to revive and activate a GCC-brokered power transition plan to lift Yemen out of its crisis, at a time when the six-month protests calling for the ouster of the Saleh regime are continuing, with the people urging an immediate revolutionary resolution.
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[Bangla Daily Star] International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday rejected a bail petition of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee in connection with crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.
The three-judge panel headed by Justice Nizamul Huq passed the order after a defence lawyer submitted a petition to the court seeking bail for Sayedee.
The tribunal that started the proceedings around 10:30am adjourned the hearing on charge framing against Sayedee till Wednesday.
Earlier, Sayedee was taken to the tribunal from Dhaka Central Jail around 9:00am.
The court on August 18 deferred the charge framing hearing till Tuesday (August 23) following a time petition submitted by the defence lawyers.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Law enforcers incarcerated two alleged criminals with firearms after trading gunfire with a gang at Chatmohor upazila in Pabna Tuesday morning.
The arrestees are: Habibullah, 33, of Atghoria upazila and Khandaker Habib, 32, of Chatmohor upazila, reports our Pabna correspondent.
Google Maps is wonderful for this kind of thing, because one can keep zooming in until the upazilas appear. There are advantages to living in these modern times...
Acting on a tip-off
* ring, ring * Mahmudullah George the Weasel here -- Old Mahmud's grandnephew twice removed -- there's something going down here that I think you'll wanna do something about.
that a number of criminals
Miscreants, even...
were gathered at Idilpur village in Foilzana union of the upazila,
What? No secret midnight gathering of the henchmen in some proletarian spot to plot mayhem? What is the matter with these backward village people?
police conducted a raid in the area around 7:30am,
Clearly the problem is not the miscreants, but the police. Staging crossfires when the more or less law abiding citizenry are up and about is simply asking for trouble.
said Mohammad Habibul Islam, officer-in-charge of Chatmohor Police Station.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the police, the criminals opened fire on them, prompting the law enforcers to retaliate, the OC said.
They didn't want to but simple courtesy mandates a response to such an invitation.
They exchanged gunfire for nearly 30 minutes, the OC claimed.
"Sergeant Chowdhary! See that the men get some range training -- and remind them they're supposed to aim for the target!"
After the shootout, police managed to nab the two while the other gang members decamped the scene, the OC added.
...as if they had never been...
Police also recovered a shutter gun, two bullets and a machete from their possession.
At the top of the story it said "firearms," so clearly one of our miscreanting lads was shooting bullets out of the machete.
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[An Nahar] Turkish air attacks on northern Iraq have killed between 90 and 100 Kurdish rebels and injured another 80, the army said on its website on Tuesday.
The toll was the first issued by the army since it resumed a bombing campaign against bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Iraqi mountains last Wednesday after a lull of more than a year.
The renewed campaign was in response to a PKK attack that killed nine security personnel in southeast Turkey.
The army statement, which used the word "neutralized" to refer to dead rebels, stressed that the toll was provisional.
The "provisional" toll was calculated after reconnaissance flights over the targeted area.
The army warned that further air raids would be carried out if necessary.
On Monday the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said that three Kurdish separatists had been killed in Turkey's bombing campaign on their bases in northern Iraq.
A rebel front man threatened "war" in case of more strikes.
Monday's bombing came a day after an Iraqi family of seven was killed in a Turkish strike on a vehicle in Kortek, according to Jabbar Yawar, a top Iraqi Kurdish official.
The Turkish army specified that 14 installations, eight depots of foodstuffs, one of munitions, nine anti-aircraft guns, 18 caves and 79 ammunition caches were hit during its operations, stressing that meticulous planning was used to avoid areas of civilian population.
Early Tuesday, in a separate incident, a group of rebels attacked a police post in Ergani, in southeast Turkey, killing one soldier and injuring three others, a local security source said.
The army estimates that around 2,000 Kurdish rebels are holed up in the zone in northern Iraq which is administered by Iraqi Kurds.
The Turkish military launched a first wave of kabooms on August 17 against PKK targets in Iraq after rebels killed nine members of a military unit in Cukurca, southeast Turkey.
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The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, took up arms in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed about 45,000 lives.
As well as its air strikes, the Turkish army has carried out several land incursions into northern Iraq in recent years in order to strike at the rebels there.
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[Dawn] Seven people were killed and three others injured when a US drone targeted a house and a vehicle near Mirali in North Wazoo on Monday.
Three cut-throats and four rustics from the same family died in the attack in Mirkhunkhel area.
Official sources said that two missiles hit the vehicle and the house, owned by a primitive Gul Sawab.
The names of the dear departed could not be ascertained. AFP earlier quoted an unnamed security official as saying the unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at the vehicle and killed at least three cut-throats in the strike".
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[Dawn] Unidentified armed persons rubbed out two hard boyz while two rustics were killed when their house was hit by a stray mortar shell in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday.
Sources said that bullet-riddled bodies of two hard boyz affiliated with Lashkar-i-Islam were found in a deserted place in Akakhel area on Monday morning. No body has grabbed credit for their killing.
All sorts of Special Forces ghosting through that part of the world, practicing their mad skilz..
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[Dawn] The Bloody Karachi police on Tuesday stated that the four hit mans tossed in the calaboose from North Nazimabad have confessed to kidnapping and killing 13 people from Lyari in one month, DawnNews reported.
SSP North, Naeem Sheikh and SSP Central and SSP South held a news conference and presented the four alleged hit mans in front of the media. They said that the killers, who had been tossed in the calaboose from the Pahari Ganj area, belonged to the Akram Baloch group, which is involved in the Lyari gang war.
The criminals said that they had dumped the 13 bodies in various areas of the city.
According to the police, raids are being conducted in search of the group's leader Akram Baloch.
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[Dawn] Pak politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls Tuesday for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilising Bloody Karachi, where more than 100 have been killed in a week.
"We demand the armed forces take over the city, restore law and order and ensure safety to innocent people's lives," Khalid Tawab, vice president of the Federation of Pakistain Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), told AFP.
"Business activity has been disrupted because of incessant killing. People don't want to go to market because of risks to life," he said.
Ethnic and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 101 people in the last week, the latest bout in the worst criminal and ethnic violence to hit Pakistain's largest city and financial capital for 16 years.
"At least nine people were killed since Monday evening, so far 101 people have been killed since Wednesday morning," a security bigshot told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.
Security officials said they had found the bodies of victims who had been kidnapped and tortured, stuffed into sacks and thrown on the streets with notes warning of more violence.
Two bodies trussed up in gunny bags, bearing torture marks and gun shots, were found dumped in Pak Colony and at Orangi Town's Qasba Mor on Tuesday.
Separately, a resident of the Marwari Lane was kidnapped, shot at, and thrown in the Lyari river. He was shifted to the Civil Hospital subsequently.
In another incident, two people were maimed when their car came under attack by unknown gunnies in the city's Gulastan-i-Johar area.
A government official working in the health department confirmed the casualties.
On Tuesday, markets were closed, streets deserted and attendance at offices thin after the MQM called for a "day of mourning" against the killings.
The associations of transporters, wholesale and retail markets and fuel stations on Monday evening announced one by one that they would stay away from regular business on Tuesday, blaming police and security administration for failing to protect their businesses in such a situation.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Monday flew to Bloody Karachi and asked the provincial government to restore peace as quickly as possible.
Sharjeel Memon, Sindh provincial information minister, said a "surgical operation" was planned to end the violence.
The main ruling Pakistain People's Party (PPP), which was elected in 2008 after nine years of military rule, insists that civilian authorities are capable of controlling the situation.
But members of other political parties are increasingly calling for army intervention, a sensitive issue in a country that has been ruled for more than half its existence by the military.
"We want to see law and order in Bloody Karachi improve. Anyone, including the army, who can get results and improve the situation should take control," Wasay Jaleel, a front man for MQM, told AFP.
"We demand the army across the board to restore peace here," ANP's provincial chief Shahi Syed told AFP on Tuesday.
People on the streets also expressed dissatisfaction with the ability of the police and the paramilitaries, technically answerable to the interior ministry, to control the situation.
"The armed forces should be deployed in Bloody Karachi, because police and paramilitaries have failed to save our lives," said Khalid Ali, 45, a shopkeeper in the main downtown market area that has seen some violence.
"We feel no enthusiasm for the coming Eid (religious festival). Please, soldiers take the city in their hands and return smiles to our children," Noshaba Hameed, 37, a schoolteacher, told AFP by telephone from the east.
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RANIA, Iraq: Turkeys military said on Tuesday it had killed up to 100 Kurdish rebels in six days of air and artillery strikes on northern Iraq, but Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas disputed the toll and launched more attacks inside Turkey.
Turkeys strikes are the first in the mountains of northern Iraq in more than a year and are meant as retaliation for an escalation of guerilla attacks after the collapse of efforts to negotiate a settlement to the 27-year-old conflict.
A Turkish military statement said warplanes had struck 132 targets of the PKK, which uses the region as a base to launch attacks on Turkey in its fight for Kurdish self-rule.
According to initial information 90-100 terrorists were rendered ineffective, according to the General Staff, using an expression referring to the killing of militants. The air and ground operations will continue, the military added.
The military said definite figures on PKK casualties were not available, but it had information that more than 80 militants were also wounded in the operations, which hit 73 shelters, eight stores and nine anti-aircraft positions.
But seven Iraqi civilians were also killed on Sunday in a Turkish air strike, Iraqi Kurdish officials and witnesses said, the first civilians killed since the raids began last Wednesday.
PKK official Rozh Willat said the Turkish military figures were wrong. The casualty figures could not be independently confirmed.
Both Iraqs central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Arbil have condemned the shelling.
The Turkish government and military say the air strikes are to deny rebels a haven there from which to attack Turkey.
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Some have said that we would remove Turkey from NATO. Why not just remove ourselves??
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In the past five days, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the injuries of eight persons, including two children and three women, due to the explosions of home-made rockets in populated areas across the Gaza Strip. More setbacks for the Gaza space program...
The injury of one of the women was described as serious. PCHR calls upon concerned authorities to investigate these incidents, to take necessary measures to ensure the non-recurrence of such incidents and to provide protection to civilians. C'mon, guys. It's Ramadan...
The latest incident took place at approximately 01:40 on Monday, 22 August 2011, when a home-made rocket landed onto the roof of a 3-storey house belonging to Sobhi Ibrahim Shakhsa, 53, where three families live, in al-Tawaheen area in al-Shuja'ya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. As the result of the rocket's explosion, three sons of Shakhsa were shocked and were transported to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. BOOOOM!
Woah! Sorry about that! Remember, it's for the Resistance!
Besides, the rocket made a hole in the roof, falling part of the southern wall of the house and damaging the water network and doors. In his testimony to a PCHR field worker, Shakhsa said that the Explosives Police arrived at the scene and collected the rocket's shrapnel, but the civil police did not come to investigate the incident. Who's gonna fix that!
Take it up with Mutual of Gaza. Good day to you, sir...
Earlier, at approximately 20:00 on Sunday, 21 August 2011, another home-made rocket hit the western side of the house of Mas'oud Ibrahim al-Sheikh, 53, near Dar al-Arqam School in al-Toffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. As a result, his son Ra'ed Mas'oud al-Sheikh, 8, was moderately wounded by shrapnel to the head, and his daughter Samar Mas'oud al-Sheikh, 28, was seriously wounded by shrapnel to the pelvis and back, and consequently, was admitted into the intensive care unit at Shifa Hospital. BOOOM!
Woah! Sorry about that! Remember, it's for the Resistance!
At approximately 20:45 on Saturday, 20 August 2011, Sa'd Bakr al-Salhi, 16, from Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip and Naheda Hashem Salem, 53, were evacuated to Shifa Hospital, as the former was wounded by shrapnel to the right hand and the latter was wounded by shrapnel throughout the body. Medical sources described their wounds between light to moderate. The two persons were wounded due to the explosion of a home-made rocket while exiting from Sa'eed Murad Mosque near al-Helou Hall, southeast of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip. Good sermon, don't you think, Sa'd?
Yes, it was, Nahe....BOOOOM!
At approximately 03:00 on Friday, 19 August 2011, Mohammed Yusef al-Najjar Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah received Abdul Sattar Selmi Abu Snaima, 21, from al-Shouka village, east of Rafah, as he was wounded by shrapnel throughout the body. Medical sources described his wound as moderate. According to Palestinian police sources, Abu Snaima had been wounded when a home-made rocket landed in front of his house, which is located near al-Shouka clinic. Ah, a nice Friday afternoon smok...BOOOM!
PCHR in concerned over increasing casualties resulting from explosions of home-made weapons. PCHR calls upon concerned authorities to investigate these incidents, to take necessary measures to ensure the non-recurrence of such incidents and to provide protection to civilians. By Allah, you idiots are more dangerous than the Jooooos!
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Of course, it is still the Juices fault. After all, if there were no Juices, the Palestinians wouldn't have to fire rockets at them, so no women, children and baby ducks would get hurt.
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The Islamic Jihad operative who was killed by an Israel Air Force strike early on Wednesday morning funded the multi-stage Eilat terror attack in which eight Israelis were killed last week, Israel Radio reported.
He was also responsible for funding an additional terror attack being planned against Israel, according to the report.
Palestinian news agency Ma'an said that the man killed was Ismail al-Asmar, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigade, the Islamic Jihad's military wing.
They have anything that is anything other than a military wing?
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft opened fire on the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday killing a member of Islamic Jihad's military wing, medical and security officials said.
The strike in the Tal As-Sultan area killed Ismail Al-Asmar, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigades, and injured one other person, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya.
The strike came as an Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire appeared to be holding, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along the border overnight. Although four rockets were fired into southern Israel in the following hours of the agreement, Israel did not respond, with the press assessing it was unlikely to harm the truce. Tell that to the dead guy...
Israeli airstrikes have killed 15 Palestinians, 12 of whom the military says were militants, and more than 50 people were wounded since Thursday. Among those killed was PRC chief Kamal al-Nayrab.
(KUNA) -- The Paleostinian government in Gazoo Strip, headed by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, announced Monday it had formed a declaration for a ceasefire that Paleostinian smaller factions in Gazoo could follow.
The document calls on smaller Paleostinian factions in Gazoo along with Israel to adhere to a ceasefire, Hamas spokesperson, Taher Al-Nono told a presser.
"The government (in Gazoo) appreciates the commitment of Paleostinian factions to their responsibilities in defending the Paleostinian people and obstructing the occupier and its aggressive goals.
"Hamas bears responsibility for maintaining the ceasefire to regain rights off of the occupiers," he said.
He also hailed the UN, 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... , the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and Egypt on their efforts on the Middle East issue. Peace in our lunchtime...
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A military ranger was killed and 14 other people, including a monk, were injured in two separate bomb attacks in Yala and Pattani provinces yesterday.
The first attack took place in Yala's Muang district when two rangers - Jenkawi Kanchanaprom, 24, and Nisai Chalit, 24 - left their base to conduct a routine patrol. The home-made bomb, hidden under a roadside bridge, blew up when the two rangers arrived in the area. Jenkawi died instantly while Mr Nisai was seriously wounded. The blast left a small hole in the road and scattered metal shards around the area.
Police blamed terrorists separatists for the attack.
In nearby Pattani province, a Buddhist monk, three women and nine soldiers, were injured when a bomb exploded in Muang district yesterday morning. Two of the nine soldiers were seriously wounded.
The bomb went off in Pattani province as a team of soldiers was escorting Buddhist monks during their morning alms collection. The bomb was hidden inside a cooking gas container on a pushcart parked on a footpath. It was triggered by remote control.
Pvt Sathit Chanlao, 22, and Pvt Khaokhom Paipod, 22 were seriously injured in the blast which also slightly wounded the other soldiers, a 21-year-old monk and the three women.
The explosion badly damaged a military pickup truck. The impact of the blast shattered the glass doors and windows of about 20 houses along the roads and damaged three motorcycles parked nearby.
A villager was killed in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province on Wednesday morning. The victim, Ammalee Abdulloh, 47, was riding his motorbike back home on a bypass road when a gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle shot at him three times. The attackers then fled. Ammalee fell from his bike and died at the scene.
[An Nahar] Syrian dissidents gathered in Istanbul on Tuesday set up a broad-based "national council" to coordinate their campaign to topple 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... , an activist said.
The panel was formed after four days of discussions in the Turkish metropolis, the Syrian opponents told a presser.
"We have given deaders and some of us are injured ... With all these efforts and sacrifices, as a result of this responsibility, a sense of unity has been formed," activist Ahmad Ramadan said.
"The council will convene in about two weeks to elect the chair and secretary ... When it convenes it will adopt its bylaws," added Louay Safi, a U.S.-based political scientist.
The dissidents declined to give out the names of council members and said the body, which brings together all opposition groups both from inside and outside Syria, will elect them after its first meeting.
"Coming together of all groups is a must despite all dangers. This delegation will bring different groups together," said Halis Halihi.
U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday told 2,200 people had been killed since the mass protests in Syria began in mid-March.
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Not to quibble, but don't you have to actually be *in* that nation to be a National Council? 'Cause otherwise, you're just a Bunch of Guys.
[Dawn] Syrian security forces killed at least seven people in a flashpoint central city following a visit by members of a UN humanitarian team, activists said Tuesday.
The United Nation's top human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... body, meanwhile, voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to demand that Syria end its bloody crackdown and cooperate with an international probe into possible crimes against humanity.
The UN has said the overall corpse count from 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... 's crackdown on dissent has reached 2,200.
Seven people died on Monday, four of them when troops opened fire to disperse anti-government protesters in Homs. The protesters had gathered in the city's main square ahead of the arrival of a UN humanitarian team.
Amateur videos posted by activists online showed crowds of people thronging several cars with the blue UN flag, flashing banners that read: "SOS" and "We will never stop until we get our freedom."
The protesters chanted for freedom and the downfall of the regime.
Syria granted a UN team permission to visit some of the centers of the protests and crackdown to assess humanitarian needs, but activists and a Western diplomat have accused the regime of trying to scrub away signs of the crackdown.
Residents and activists said it was quiet until the team left, after which troops opened fire to disperse the protest, killing four people. Three more were killed by gunnies elsewhere in Homs, which has become a hotbed of dissent against Assad.
In New York, UN deputy front man Farhan Haq later told news hounds that "a protest situation developed" in Homs, adding the mission was advised to leave for security reasons.
"The mission did not come under fire," he said.
The Local Coordination Committees and the London-based Observatory for Human Rights also reported that security forces stormed several villages in the southern and northern parts of the country, arresting scores on Tuesday.
Assad, who has tried in vain to crush the 5-month-old revolt, appears increasingly out of touch as he refuses to acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of people demanding his ouster, analysts say.
Instead, he blames the unrest on Islamic Death Eaters and thugs.
In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council voted 33-4 on Tuesday to condemn the violence by Syrian authorities and to dispatch a human rights team to probe alleged atrocities since March.
The remaining countries on the 47-nation council abstained or were absent. China and Russia said they opposed the measure as unnecessary intervention.
Syrian Ambassador Fayssal al-Hamwi called the move "100 per cent political."
UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Monday criticized Assad for failing to halt a military crackdown on dissent despite a pledge he made to him by phone on Wednesday that all military and security operations would end.
"It is troubling that he has not kept his word," the UN chief told news hounds in New York.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay demanded Syria immediately halt its crackdown and told members of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that "the scale and nature of these acts may amount to crimes against humanity."
She said some 2,200 people have died as a result of the government crackdown, with 350 reportedly killed since the start of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan in early August.
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Uh, uh, YOOHOO, UNITED NATIONS, WINK WINK???
gut nuthin.
FYI FOX NEWS AM > repors that the UN is slapping sanctions agz Baby Assad + Regime due to, among other, Assad's employment of armed elements of the NON-SYRIAN, IRANIAN "QUDS/QODS FORCE" TO VIOLENTLY HELP SUPPRESS THE PROTESTORS.
A research center near Tripoli stocks uranium and other material that could be used to make a nuclear "dirty bomb" and Libya's rebels will need to secure it, a former senior UN inspector said on Wednesday. I'm sure they will
Seeking to mend ties with the West, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi agreed in 2003 to abandon efforts to acquire nuclear, chemical and biological weapons -- a move that brought him in from the cold and helped end decades of isolation. And signed his death warrant
Immediately after 9/11 Gaddafi was scared of the West. When it became obvious that this fear was baseless Gaddafi emulated the Norks.
He took what was his according to the agreements but he ignored his own obligations.
And why shouldn't he? Gaddafi openly sided with the Iraqi insurgency by allowing his own daughter to participate in Saddam's defense, and this act of defiance was not rebuked by the Bush administration in any way.
After 2001 Gaddafi was a rational actor, cautiously and carefully probing for Western weaknesses. And provocative weakness he found, unfortunately.
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I reckon just about any hospital would have enough material to make a nuclear *dirty* bomb.
Yes. If something like the therapeutic radiation source that caused the Goiania accident was dispersed over a wider area by conventional explosives that would qualify as a "dirty bomb."
I'm worried about actual nuclear weapons material or blueprints that Gaddafi might have 'forgotten' to surrender to the US per his rehabilitation agreement.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Afghan local officials said on Tuesday that 13 
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Qadaffy
Qadaffy
JEDDAH: Two more Saudi 
International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday rejected a bail petition of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee in connection with crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.
Seven people were killed and three others injured when a US drone targeted a house and a vehicle near Mirali in North 
The 
Pak politicians, industrialists and citizens stepped up calls Tuesday for the army to intervene to quell violence destabilising 
In the past five days, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the injuries of eight persons, including two children and three women, due to the explosions of home-made rockets in populated areas across the Gaza Strip. 
The Islamic Jihad operative who was killed by an Israel Air Force strike early on Wednesday morning funded the multi-stage Eilat terror attack in which eight Israelis were killed last week, Israel Radio reported.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft opened fire on the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday killing a member of Islamic Jihad's military wing, medical and security officials said.
(KUNA) -- The Paleostinian government in 
A military ranger was killed and 14 other people, including a monk, were injured in two separate bomb attacks in Yala and Pattani provinces yesterday.
President-for-Life Bashir 
President-for-Life Bashir 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
