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[Tolo News] At least ten Afghan non-combatants were killed and 24 others were maimed in separate incidents in Afghanistan on Friday, local officials said.
Five Afghan non-combatants were killed when warplanes of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led troops carried out air strikes against Taliban in Pashtun-infested Logar province, provincial officials said.
Officials did not provide more details about the incident.
It comes as four other Afghan non-combatants were killed and 14 others were maimed in a kaboom in northern Faryab province, officials said.
The incident happened when a bomb that was placed in a cycle of violence went off near a mosque went kaboom! in Almar district of the province, officials in Faryab hospital said.
Local police also confirmed the incident and said they have started investigation about the blast.
One other Afghan civilian was killed in a mine blast near police headquarters of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province today, local officials said.
Officials in Herat hospital said that one Afghan civilian was killed in the blast and ten others were maimed.
Afghan police have suffered no casualties in the blast, Herat police said.
Militants use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces in the country. But the main victims are often civilians.
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From England's Daily Mail. It's a repeat of a story below, but the reason I post this story is the images that are part of the page. Go take a look. Strong stomach required for a few of them.
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Gaddafi loyalists were also targets of apparent extrajudicial killings. Those deaths have cast a dark shadow over Libya's newfound freedom and call into question whether the rebels will break with Gaddafi's blood-soaked style of governance or merely mimic it.
"In Tripoli, we are seeing the same pattern in recent days that we saw earlier in the east," said Diana Eltahawy, Libya researcher for Amnesty International. She described a record of abuse, torture and the extrajudicial killing of captured pro-Gaddafi fighters that has followed the rebels from east to west as they have taken over the country. High marks for consistency.
In the wreckage of a Tripoli fire station and field hospital on Friday, five fighters loyal to Gaddafi lay in agony and blood, apparently left to die by their vanquishers. They had been without food, water or medical attention for two days.
Rebel fighters patrolling the compound knew the men were there, but scarcely seemed to care. "We would take them to the hospital, but there are no hospitals," said Salah Mansoor, a law school graduate and shopkeeper dressed in a Liverpool soccer shirt. "There are no cars to take them," he added, as a taxi cruised by. That car doesn't count. No, not that one, either. Who knew those guys would hang on for so long?
A few minutes' drive from the fire station, at least 15 bodies, most of them Gaddafi's black African supporters, lay rotting in the sun at a traffic junction outside his Bab al-Aziziyah complex. Several of the dead wore green pieces of cloth wrapped around their wrists to signal loyalty to the Gaddafi regime. The men may have died during Tuesday's battle for Bab al-Aziziyah, and several were wearing military fatigues. But two dead men lay face down on the grass, their hands bound behind their backs with plastic cuffs. Shot trying to escape, no doubt.
The worst treatment of Gaddafi loyalists appeared to be reserved for anyone with black skin, whether they hailed from southern Libya or from other African countries. Darker-skinned prisoners were not getting the same level of medical care in a hospital in rebel-held Zawiyah as lighter-skinned Arab Libyans, Eltahawy said. At least the author named his source. He's prolly dead by now, tho...
Rebels say Gaddafi employed gunmen from sub-Saharan Africa to shore up his army against his own people, and those fighters have elicited intense enmity from Libyans. But many of the detainees in Zawiyah told Amnesty International they were merely migrant workers "taken at gunpoint from their homes, workplaces and the street on account of their skin color," Eltahawy said. Will the Libs howl in protest, wring their hands, or just not read that part?
The civilian leaders of the anti-Gaddafi uprising have publicly condemned reprisals against loyalist troops. But the officials are in the eastern city of Benghazi. Even in the east, the civilian leadership appears to have had little success in preventing fighters from carrying out revenge attacks. The reprisals could become a powerful element in persuading Gaddafi loyalists in the holdout city of Sirte to fight to the death. If the State-run TV - or the rebel radio - would tell them what happened to the others who "surrendered". Seems unlikely, doesn't it?
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Even in the east, the civilian leadership appears to have had little success in preventing fighters from carrying out revenge attacks.
Hmmm...wonder if this is what US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, meant when she said "there will be growing pains...".
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wow. A merc army used to violently control the populace faces retribution when the roles are reversed? Whoa thunk it?
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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist.
The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison by Moammar Gadhafi's regime during the height of the insurgency in Iraq, according to Noman Benotman, once a senior figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.
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I'm sure Amnesty International will be just as concerned with 'collaborators' being killed in Paleo territory or Pak territory or Afghan territory. /sarc off
Not that the French or Dutch were too upset after their liberation in WWII with capping some collaborators as well.
To paraphrase the Condottieri Carmagnola to the Swiss at Arbedo - men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it.
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I take it the MSM has no clue how the winners clean up in the final days of a civil war.
Nah. Everything is supposed to be nice and orderly, with Jimmy Carter jetting in to supervise the elections and some lefty actress there to look pretty and clueless.
A convoy of six armoured Mercedes that could be carrying high Libyan officials, even fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi, has crossed from Libya into Algeria, the official Egyptian news agency reports quoting a Libyan rebel source. The report could not immediately be confirmed from Algerian or Libyan sources.
The news agency, MENA, said six armoured Mercedes had on Friday morning entered Ghadames.
It quoted a Libyan military council source in the town on the border with Algeria. The source was quoted as saying the column had been escorted by pro-government troops until it entered Algeria. Rebels had not been able to pursue the vehicles as they lacked munitions and equipment.
"We think they (the cars) were carrying high Libyan officials, possibly Gaddafi and his sons," the source said.
Gaddafi has been on the run since the rebels took the Libyan capital Tripoli this week.
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Sounds like a deal has been struck. If this report is true the Russians were involved. Nato signed off on it of course. Then as they say "when it gets serious you have to lie". I'd bet you Obama was contacted also. Now shortly I believe some Wikileakes are to be released on correspondence with Kadafi but I may be wrong.
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Strategically, it's usually best for el dictator to be allowed to flee. It has several advantages.
First, it ends the conflict sooner instead of later. Second, el dictator won't be willing to fight to the death if he escapes trial, and is allowed some money for his retirement.
Third, he can fantasize all he wants about counterrevolution, but once out of the country, it ain't gonna happen. Fourth, once he is out of the picture, the emphasis can be on building a friendly government to replace him, hopefully not just another dictator.
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Ditto Anonymoose. He may have been a Devil, but he was one we knew and was co-operative with us. This should have been in the works before we spent a billion dollars to bomb the empty tents.
ALGIERS Algeria on Saturday formally denied that a convoy of armoured cars that could be carrying top Libyan regime officials had crossed its borders.
"This information is baseless and we deny it categorically," the foreign ministry said following a report by Egypt's official news agency.
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"Algeria on Saturday formally denied that a convoy of armoured cars that could be carrying top Libyan regime officials had crossed its borders. 'This information is baseless and we deny it categorically,' the foreign ministry said"
In other words, it's true.
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Well, it's not the most direct route to Zim-bob-we. Just keep driving.
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Daily Mail sez he was seen in Auld ZimBob on Mugabe's private jet
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Yes, Frank, the Duck has been reported as being in Gun Hill for a few days now. If so, what do Bob's Chinese masters have to say about that? ¤¤, perhaps? (I recall a Libyan/Zim oil deal going titz-up, so maybe Bob owes him).
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Anonymoose, there is one more reason to allow them to escape justice. It leaves the option open for the next guy, hopefully avoiding a full out war to dislodge them. If we insist they all go on trial we'd never get any of them to give up their countries.
ALGIERS: A bomb explosion followed by a suicide attack outside a military academy in Algeria killed at least 18 officers in training Friday, a hospital said. With at least 20 wounded, the toll was expected to rise, according to the Sidi Ghilas hospital where the victims were taken.
The attacks began Friday evening when a bomb exploded just outside a military academy in Cherchell, 110 miles (180 kilometers) west of the capital, Algiers. Soldiers dining at a restaurant which was within the base but near its perimeter raced from their tables to see what had happened, according to security officials.
As a crowd gathered, a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body drove his motorcycle at them, the officials said. The city was sealed off after the attack and the army chief of staff, Gen. Gaid Salah, arrived by helicopter shortly after to survey the scene.
Although no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, similar assaults have been blamed on Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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As the Libyan rebels continue their hunt for Moammar Gadhafi, the United States has moved to distance itself from the search for Libya's four-decade-long ruler.
"Neither the United States nor NATO is involved in this manhunt," Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, told journalists at a press conference Thursday. Sounds like they already have an idea...
[Tripoli Post] Dozens of decomposing bodies were piled up on Friday in an abandoned hospital in Tripoli, a grim testament to the chaos roiling the capital as Libyan rebels clash with forces still loyal to the dictator Muammar Al Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... , AP reports.
The four-story hospital was in the Abu Salim neighbourhood, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting this week. The facility was empty and it could not be determined when the men had been killed. The floors were covered with shattered glass and bloodstains, while medical equipment was strewn about.
One hospital room had 21 bodies lying on gurneys, while 20 others were in the hospital's courtyard next to the parking lot - all of them darker skinned than most Libyans, covered with blankets. Al Qathfi had recruited fighters from sub-Saharan Africa.
The fight in Abu Salim has been particularly bloody. Bursts of gunfire were heard coming from an area near the neighbourhood before daybreak Friday. Smoke rose from the area but a rebel at the scene early Friday told AP that the fighting in Abu Salim had ended by nightfall Thursday.
Men believed to be Al Qadaffy supporters or fighters were left moaning and calling for water at a clinic attached to a fire station in Abu-Salim. One of the maimed said he was from Niger and denied any links to Al Qadaffy. Asked why he was in Libya, he said, "I really don't know." He did not give his name.
The Libyan leader had recruited fighters from sub-Saharan Africa, and many others are in Libya as migrant workers. In the turmoil since the rebellion broke out, migrant workers from southern Africa have been harassed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... even with his regime in tatters, Al Qadaffy, hidden in some hole like a rat, keeps on trying to urge his followers to fight his war. He once again tried to rally his followers to kill the rebels who waged war for six months to bring down his 42 year-rule.
"Don't leave Tripoli for the rats. Fight them, and kill them," Al Qadaffy said in a new audio message broadcast on Al-Ouroba TV, a Syria-based satellite station, that many in Libya cannot find an explanation as to why this communication has not as yet been jammed.
Another grim scene meanwhile was reported outside al Qadaffy's former military compound, Bab al-Azziziyah, that was captured on Tuesday. One could one see execution-style killings of civilians.
AP reported that about two dozen bodies - some with their hands bound by plastic ties and with bullet wounds to the head - lay scattered on grassy lots in an area where Qadaffy sympathisers had camped out for months. The body of a doctor, in his green hospital gown, was found dumped in the canal.
It was unclear who was responsible for the killings.
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[An Nahar] Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... killed more than 150 prisoners in a "mass murder" as they decamped the rebel takeover of Tripoli, a rebel military chief told Agence La Belle France Presse on Friday.
"There were instances of Dire Revenge™ in the last few hours before the fall of the regime," said Abdul Nagib Mlegta, head of operations for the takeover of the capital.
"In Bab al-Aziziya there was a mass murder. They killed more than 150 prisoners. The guards did it before running away. They threw hand grenades at them," he said, referring to Qadaffy's fortified headquarters.
Mlegta said his fighters had seized control of 95 percent of the capital. "There are just a few pockets of resistance," in the districts of Salah al-Din and Abu Slim, he said.
The rebel chief hoped to fully control Tripoli and capture Qadaffy within 72 hours.
Amnesia Amnesty International said earlier on Friday it had uncovered evidence that forces loyal to Qadaffy had killed "numerous" prisoners at two military camps in Tripoli.
Prisoners who managed to escape had described how pro-regime troops lobbed grenades and opened fire on detainees as they tried to flee one camp. At another, guards rubbed out five detainees held in solitary confinement.
The London-based Amnesty called on loyalist forces to halt killings of captives and urged both sides to ensure prisoners in their custody were not harmed.
Amnesty said that on Tuesday, when rebel forces stormed the Bab al-Aziziya compound, about 160 detainees tried to flee the metal hangar where they were being held at a military camp in Khilit al-Ferjan, southwest Tripoli.
Two guards told them the gates were unlocked, but as the detainees made a break for freedom, two other guards opened fire and threw five hand grenades at the group, one eyewitness told Amnesty.
The rights group, which has had a delegation in Tripoli since before the rebels launched their assault on the capital on August 20, said it was unclear how many people survived but at least 23 of the detainees beat feet.
Amnesty said the other atrocity took place on Wednesday at Qasr bin Ghashir military camp where guards loyal to Qadaffy rubbed out five detainees they were holding in solitary cells.
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[An Nahar] British warplanes bombed a bunker in Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... 's birthplace of Sirte as rebel fighters prepared Friday to launch an offensive on the town, one of the last major regime holdouts east of Tripoli.
As bully boy leaders moved into Tripoli to begin a political transition, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... called for that process to be "inclusive."
And the U.N. human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... chief warned against assassinating Qadaffy, whose whereabouts are unknown and who has a $1.7 million rebel price on his head.
"At around midnight, a formation of Tornado GR4s ... fired a salvo of Storm Shadow precision-guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker in Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte," the defense ministry said in London.
Speculation that Qadaffy might have found refuge in the town, which lies 360 kilometers east of Tripoli, has not been confirmed.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... said on Friday its planes had hit 29 armed vehicles and a "command and control node" in the vicinity of Sirte.
A NATO official in Brussels told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity that the vehicles were part of a convoy advancing toward the rebel-held port of Misrata, about 140 kilometers away.
The alliance also destroyed on Wednesday refueling vehicles for Scud missiles after the regime fired one from Sirte earlier this week.
Regime forces in Sirte have been regularly targeted since the start of the campaign, the NATO official said, but it is in sharp focus now because "it's one of the last places he (Qadaffy) has control of."
"It has always been a stronghold of the regime and now the remnants of the regime are using it to launch attacks," the official said.
"Misrata is one of those cities we have to protect ... This regime, no matter what state it's in, is still capable of killing civilians."
Diehards of Qadaffy, whose son Seif al-Islam vowed from the start that loyalists would fight "to the last bullet", are still trying to reconstitute NATO-decimated weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, the official said.
"This large convoy is a very threatening move, as threatening as launching a missile."
"This is an extremely desperate and dangerous remnant of a former regime and they are obviously desperately trying to disrupt the fact that the Libyan people have started to take responsibility for their own country."
On Thursday, the National Transitional Council (NTC) moved many of its top people from their Benghazi base, just days after rebel fighters overran Tripoli, going on to capture Qadaffy's headquarters and vast swathes of the capital.
Ali Tarhuni, a NTC official, said their leader, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, would arrive as soon as the security situation permitted.
In Geneva, the U.N. human rights chief warned against bounty hunters who may be seeking to kill Qadaffy, saying liquidations are "not within the rule of law."
"That applies to Qadaffy as well as everybody else," said front man Rupert Colville in a response to a question about th reward for Qadaffy, dead or alive.
Colville said the "best solution" would be to capture Qadaffy alive and follow through on an International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) arrest warrant for suspected crimes against humanity.
A senior African Union official said that with the conflict about to end, the body should support efforts for an inclusive transition in Libya.
"Now more than ever, we have to make efforts to ensure an inclusive and consensual transition to lead us to elections that will allow the Libyan people to freely choose their leaders," AU Commission chief Jean Ping said at the start of a meeting in Addis Ababa.
With fighting continuing in a conflict that the NTC chief says has killed more than 20,000 people, the horror of the situation was highlighted on Friday at a hospital in Tripoli.
Eighty putrefying corpses were found of people, apparently patients who had died for lack of treatment because doctors had decamped for fear of the pro-Qadaffy snipers in the neighborhood.
The whereabouts of Qadaffy remain unknown despite an intensive search by rebel forces, and on Thursday he broadcast a new audio message calling on the populace to take up arms.
"We must resist these enemy rats, who will be defeated thanks to the armed struggle," he said.
The rebels are intent on finding Qadaffy so they can proclaim final victory in an uprising that began six months ago and was all but crushed by government forces before NATO warplanes gave crucial air support.
As the rebels worked to consolidate their gains politically, they were still desperately in need of funding.
NTC number two Mahmoud Jibril said in Istanbul on Friday that it was essential that the West release all of Libya's frozen assets.
"There will be high expectations after the collapse of the regime. The frozen assets must be released for the success of the new government to be established after the Qadaffy regime," he told a presser.
"Salaries of civil servants need to be paid. The life needs to continue on its normal course," Jibril said, a day after senior diplomats of the Libya Contact Group met in Istanbul and agreed to speed up release of some $2.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets by the middle of next week.
At the same time, the U.N. Security Council released $1.5 billion of seized Libyan assets to be used for emergency aid. "The money will be moving within days," a U.S. diplomat said.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned that funds being released should not end up in the hands of Qadaffy loyalists.
And a boat carrying aid supplies and 50 humanitarian workers was leaving for Tripoli on Friday to evacuate more migrants, the International Organization for Migration said.
On Thursday, the agency managed to evacuate 263 migrants from Tripoli on a first ship, despite fighting in the area.
Bangladeshis, Chinese, Filipinos, Indians and Egyptians are expected to be among evacuees in the second operation.
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A UK- based website aligned to the MDC is reporting that ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is now a guest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare. The website quotes the MDC Veterans Activists Association as having have called on Zimbabweans to storm the house in the Gunhill suburb of Harare to effect a mass citizens' arrest.
Eyewitness reports say riot police have taken over Africa Unity Square in a strong show of force. It is unclear whether this is related to widespread rumours sweeping the capital about Gaddafi's presence.
The VAA claims Gaddafi staged a nocturnal entry into Zimbabwe aboard a Zimbabwe Air force jet that landed at Suri-Suri Airbase in Chegutu at 01:07am on Wednesday morning.
"He was quickly whisked to a sprawling mansion in Harare's Gunhill suburb under the cover of darkness with members of MDC VAA in a secret pursuit. We kept a hawk's eye on the house since Wednesday until this morning (Friday)," says their statement.
Observers here believe this is highly unlikely, as the military base is a no-go area and casual observers cannot possibly see what goes on there.
Furthermore, the VAA's statement that they saw "heavily armed female blonde body guards of Libyan origin patrolling around the house where the former despot is holed up" stretched the imagination a little too far.
The group, which claims to have video footage, has not yet released it. Our requests to VAA for further evidence have thus far gone unanswered. More later.
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He's in Hot Springs holding a summit with Elvis!
[An Nahar] Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took part in anti-regime protests across the country on Friday, as thousands of embattled President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... 's supporters rallied in the capital.
In Sanaa, anti-Saleh protesters joined Mohammedan weekly prayers at Sitin Street and called for an end to the rule of Saleh who has been recovering in Soddy Arabia since a kaboom in early June.
"O Allah, as you bestowed victory upon our brothers in Libya, bless us with victory," said the imam who led prayers.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters also gathered in Taez, Yemen's second largest city and a protest hotspot. Other demonstrations were held in al-Bayda, Hudayda and other towns, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... thousands of Saleh loyalists rallied at Sanaa's Sabin Square in support of the president, calling for his return to the impoverished nation which has been the scene of deadly protests since January.
Saleh vowed earlier this month to return to Yemen.
Despite his absence, Saleh has not transferred power to his Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, and his family members who lead strong army and security forces appear to be running Yemen.
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(KUNA) -- A terrorism suspect, who alleges he was abused by British and American interrogators, lost a bid to pursue legal action against the British Government, a court ruled here Friday.
Omar Awadh Omar, who has been charged with offences relating to the July 2010 World Cup bombings in Kampala, Uganda, had his application for a judicial review rejected by a High Court judge in London.
The Kenyan citizen, described as a "well-known human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist" in East Africa, alleges he was abused by officials after being "illegally rendered" to Uganda last September.
Omar, whose trial is due to start in Uganda on September 5, had launched proceedings seeking disclosure of information from the UK Government to "assist" his criminal defence "by demonstrating that he was unlawfully rendered, tortured and is innocent of all charges." But the judge ruled that his case for disclosure was "unarguable." However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he announced that he would not yet make his order "final", giving Omar's lawyers the opportunity to return to court to make a new application if fresh evidence emerges at the start of his trial.
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I remember this guy. He was the one what got turned into a newt.
The death toll is Thursday's assault on a Monterrey, Nuevo Leon casino was revised downward Friday by one to 52 dead, as the Procuradora General Republica (PGR), the Mexican national attorney general's office has offered a reward of MP $30 million (USD $2,404,077.00) for information leading to the capture of the suspects involved in Thursday's massacre, according to Mexican news accounts.
News reports and unofficial accounts now say that the Casino Royale was under threat by both the Los Zetas and Gulf Cartels to pay extortion money. No official reports have been released confirming whether the attack was a Los Zetas attack.
The Gulf Cartel demanded and was receiving MP $50,000 (USD $4006.79) a week while a local Los Zetas group failed to receive its extortion payment said to be MP $130,000 (USD $10,417.67) a week. The failure was the likely trigger for the attack.
According to animalpolitico.com in a Radio Formula radio interview with Denise Maerker, Mexican criminal group expert Eduardo Guerrero said that the Casino Royale was attacked with firearms back in January, 2010 when an assassination attempt was made on the lives of two Juarez Cartel bosses who were in the casino at the time. The revelation did not detail if the casino itself was the target or if the cartel bosses were the putative target.
Thursday's attack took less than three minutes and involved at least six suspects and three vehicles. In a news conference Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo de la Cruz released the casino's close circuit video of the attack. See here.
A late report by El Diario de Coauila said that the Mini Cooper used in the attack was found Friday afternoon in the Buenos Aires colony of Monterrey. It had been previously reported as stolen.
Earlier statements by unidentified officials said that no shots were fired in the attack. Officials have confirmed that more closed circuit video was being examined for forensic purposes. A report published in El Diario de Coahuila said that firearms were found inside the building after the attack, although no detail were released as to the type and quantity.
The revelation does not square with earlier statements,and indicates that other armed individuals were in the casino when it was attacked. It is hard to believe that the attackers actually left weapons inside the casino.
In related news, close to 1,000 Mexican military troops were ordered into the city to provide security and to fight crime.
A U.S. teen from Pakistan is in secret custody, accused of helping recruit terrorists for the woman known as "Jihad Jane," a person close to the boy's family said Friday.
Charges filed last month accuse the 17-year-old of helping Colleen LaRose in her alleged efforts to incite an Islamic holy war. Prosecutors have said LaRose was a convert to Islam who wrote of being driven by an urge to help suffering Muslims.
The teen came to the U.S. four years ago and has lived with his strict, education-minded family in suburban Baltimore. He is the rare juvenile to be charged or detained in federal custody.
According to both sources, he met LaRose in a chat room when he was about 15 and later agreed to help her raise money and recruits for the jihadist cause.
[Dawn] A US teen from Pakistain is in secret US custody, accused of trying to help recruit gun-hung tough guys for a woman known as "Jihad Jane," according to a source close to the family.
Charges filed last month accuse the 17-year-old of helping Colleen LaRose in her alleged efforts to incite an Islamic holy war.
The high school graduate had accepted a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, according to the source.
Now, the teen is in jug at a youth facility in Berks County, Pa. He could have his case moved to adult court when he turns 18 next month.
A law-enforcement source confirmed the details to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren't authorized to speak publicly about the case.
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Blew a full ride to Johns Hopkins? Obviously being allegedly bright doesn't preclude being a brainwashed mooselimb whackjob...
Al-Rahman was a Libyan national who was considered Al Qaeda's operational leader before rising to the No. 2 spot following Usama bin Laden's death in May.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says al-Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan. That's the same day a US drone strike in Waziristan.
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"Atiyah's death is a tremendous loss for al Qaeda, because (Ayman al-Zawahri) was relying heavily on him to help guide and run the organization, especially since Bin Laden's death," the official said. Zawahri replaced bin Laden as the leader of al Qaeda after bin Laden was killed, also in Pakistan.
"The trove of materials from Bin Laden's compound showed clearly that Atiyah was deeply involved in directing al Qaeda's operations even before the raid. He had multiple responsibilities in the organization and will be very difficult to replace," the U.S. official said.
Hundreds of terrorists militants crossed the Afghan border Saturday and attacked three checkpoints in northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 people including 10 paramilitary soldiers and two policemen.
The terrorists militants took over a local village after attacking the security checkpoints in Chitral district, said a local police official. Pakistani forces responded to the raid and killed nine terrorists insurgents. But fighting is ongoing, and Pakistani troops have requested helicopter gunships.
[Dawn] A powerful Death Eater group has admitted that one of its own members killed a veteran separatist in Indian-administered Kashmire, a report released Friday said.
Moulana Shoukat Ahmad Shah, a respected holy man and staunch pro-independence supporter, was assassinated on April 8 in a kaboom in Srinagar, as he entered a mosque.
Militant groups had earlier blamed the daylight murder on Indian security agencies who they accused of seeking to "sabotage the freedom struggle of Kashmiris".
But an "internal probe" by the anti-India Death Eater group Lashkar-i-Taiba (LT) said that one of its own members, Javed Munshi, was responsible for the killing.
"At first instance, we thought Indian agencies and troops had martyred him (Shah) to weaken the (separatist) movement," said the LT report, handed to senior Kashmire separatists by the group on Thursday.
"One thing we never thought was that our own (man) killed Moulana," it said.
Munshi and his alleged accomplices have already been incarcerated by Indian police on charges of murdering Shah.
Separatist leaders from various Kashmiri groups, who had formed a panel to probe Shah's death, gave the LT report to the media on Friday.
It marked the first time since the start of the insurgency in 1989 that any Death Eater group has released a report into the killing of a high-profile Kashmiri.
The report said Munshi believed that all Kashmire separatist leaders were working closely with Indian authorities and did not merit LT's support.
It also said Munshi was a "double agent" and suggested he had helped the Indian army in its separatist fight.
The report noted that Munshi had been freed from jail twice by the Indian police despite recovering deadly RDX explosives from him.
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Pakistan wants Kashmir under their control but Kashmir wants independence from Pakistan and India
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[Dawn] A search operation started by law enforcement agencies against criminals entered its third day as a dozen more suspects were taken into custody from different areas of Bloody Karachi on Thursday night, DawnNews reported.
Police and Rangers personnel conducted an hour-long operation in Korangi's Bilal Colony and nabbed around a dozen suspects. Raids were also carried out in the Pak Colony neighbourhood.
Earlier today, a body trussed-up in gunny bag was found dumped in the area of Kharadar.
The unidentified body was later shifted to the Civil Hospital. Four people, including a lawyer, were killed during last two days.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. visited Bilal Colony and told media representatives that the operation would continue until the arrest of the last hit man or extortionist in the bustling provincial capital.
He further stated that the government was well aware of the problems being faced by Bloody Karachi's business community.
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[Dawn] At least 12 people, including some army and air force personnel, were killed and 17 injured when a powerful kaboom hit a hotel in Risalpur cantonment on Thursday.
Nowshera district police chief Mohammad Hussain said a bomb placed on a bicycle exploded by remote control at about 8.30pm when people had gathered outside the Decent Hotel near the busy Risalpur Chowk after Iftar. He said six of the injured were at death's door.
Those killed included Habibullah, Abdul Latif, Mohammad Usman, Abdul Hafeez, Hasham, Nazim, Shahbaz, Asif and Latifullah.
Police said six of the injured had been taken to the Combined Military Hospital in Risalpur, six to the District Headquarters Hospital in Nowshera and five to the Mardan Complex Hospital.
Witnesses said a teenager had parked the bicycle at the hotel and left a few minutes before the kaboom.
A large number of people were busy shopping for Eid in the market at the time.
Bomb Disposal Squad personnel said 8kgs of explosives had been used in the blast.
The front portion of the hotel was destroyed and a couple of adjoining shops were damaged.
Local people said military personnel from the Risalpur garrison usually visited the hotel after Iftar.
AFP adds: Hayatullah Khan, a police officer who was at the scene, told AFP that the dead included two army and one air force personnel.
"A woman and a child were also killed in the attack," he said.
TV channels aired footage showing the debris of the hotel and nearby shops destroyed in the blast. Blood could be seen scattered at the hotel's front along with damaged wooden chairs.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... condemned the attack and reiterated the government's resolve to stamp out militancy and terrorism from the country. "Those playing with the lives of innocent people have no religion and no faith, they are following their own nefarious designs," he said in a statement.
More than 4,550 people have been killed in suicide kabooms and bomb kabooms in the country over the past four years.
Last week, 51 people were killed when a jacket wallahwent kaboom!" at a crowded mosque in Khyber Agency.
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[Dawn] Suspected faceless myrmidons blew up a government school for girls in Razaar tehsil of the district here on Thursday, police said.
They said that faceless myrmidons planted two bombs at Government Primary School Khalil for Girls, located in the densely populated area of tehsil Bazaar. The devices went off at 2:30am, destroying four classrooms and boundary wall of the school, they said.
The residents of the area said that they heard huge blasts when they woke up for Sehri. The blasts were so powerful that they were heard in far away areas, they said.
"All the four classrooms of the school can no longer be used by the students. The school will open soon after Eidul Fitr. We will make temporary arrangements for the students," said an official of education department.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, a blast caused damages to the building of district and sessions court at Sher Shah Suri Road near central jail on Thursday morning.
An official of East Cantonment cop shoppe said that the blast took place at 5:15am and damaged walls of two rooms, computer, telephone and television sets in the court offices.
He said that the blast occurred early in the morning when the offices were closed so it caused no loss of life. The officials of Bomb Disposal Unit said that they had thoroughly checked the area but could not get any proof of use of kaboom in the blast.
"I think the blast took place due to gas filled inside a sewerage line along the railways track," said an official.
In Charsadda, an electricity tower was partially damaged in a blast at Pakistain Korona area on early Thursday morning.
Police said that unidentified persons planted explosives with the tower that went off early on Thursday morning. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the blast didn`t affect power supply.
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(KUNA) -- Police in Pakistain's capital Friday claimed arresting three would-be jacket wallahs and recovered suicide jackets and arms from their possession.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Law-Enforcement Agencies (LEA) conducted a raid on a hotel in Abbpara area of the city, police sources told KUNA. They said three would-be suicide bombers were tossed in the slammer.
Sources said that suicide jackets, heavy weapons and thousands of US dollars and local currency notes were also recovered from their possession.
Sources said further that the bombers were planning to carry out terrorist activity in the capital on the occasion of 27th Ramadan.
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Pick a name out of the Peshawar phonebook, and you will find a terrorist.
[Dawn] Two men were tossed in the calaboose at Bloody Karachi airport a few days ago in connection with the killing of MQM leader Imran Farooq in London in September last year.
The suspects are said to be affiliated to a political party.
Officials privy to details told this correspondent that the tossed in the calaboose men had travelled to UK on student visa, stabbed Dr Farooq to death and then flown to Sri Lanka.
They were apprehended soon after they came out of the airport in Bloody Karachi after having travelled from Colombo.
It is learnt that they were tossed in the calaboose on a tip from British intelligence and other sources.
Their names have not been disclosed but the sources said that the president, prime minister and security establishment had been informed about the matter.
The sources said the arrests were made by personnel of the country`s elite intelligence agency with the help of photographs and videos provided by the British authorities.
The tossed in the calaboose persons have been kept in Bloody Karachi and investigation is in progress.
The accused had flown to London in August 2010 and the murder took place on September 16.
London`s Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard had launched an investigation and tossed in the calaboose a suspect who was released later for lack of evidence.
Dr Farooq had co-founded the All Pakistain Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO), the parent organization of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , with Altaf Hussain. He was deputy convener of the party, technically next to the MQM chief.
But he left the party in 2009 after developing differences over organizational matters.
The arrest of the suspected killers is considered to be a major breakthrough in the case.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will agree to let Egypt deploy thousands of troops in the Sinai to tighten security after a deadly border attack by gunmen that strained relations between the two countries, the Economist reported on Friday.
Their 1979 peace treaty allows only a small presence of lightly armed Egyptian border guards in a demilitarized Sinai and also curbs Israeli deployment on its side of the frontier.
The Economist reported that Barak said Israel would also allow Egyptian helicopters and armored vehicles into Sinai but no tanks other than one battalion already stationed there.
This is a mistake. How quickly could the Egyptians put the new troops on a war footing? One of the pillars of success in the Camp David Accords is to keep the Egyptian military far enough away from Israel that any mobilization can be spotted well in advance of an attack.
Officials in the Israeli Defense Ministry and prime ministers office refused to comment on the report by the London-based weekly news magazine.
The killing last week of eight Israelis near the southern seaside resort of Eilat by militants whom Israel said infiltrated from the Gaza Strip via the Sinai stoked Israeli fears of Cairo losing its grip on the sprawling desert peninsula since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in February.
With Israels agreement to temporary reinforcements, Egypt had already beefed up its forces in the Sinai and had been waging an offensive against militants in the area before the cross-border assault.
Baraks latest reported comments appeared to go a step further, suggesting open-ended deployment.
An Egyptian intelligence official told Reuters that Israel had been more responsive recently to Cairos demands for increasing its troops at the Sinai border, after rejecting such requests in the past.
Following recent violence at the border, Israel has become more understanding of the security situation we are dealing with in Sinai, the official said speaking on condition of anonymity. He added that Israel and Egypt have been holding discussions on altering security arrangements in Sinai and Egypt boosting the number of its troops there.
Five Egyptian security men were killed in clashes between Israeli troops and the gunmen, seven of whom were killed. Israel has offered to conduct a joint investigation into the deaths of the Egyptians in the incident, which triggered anti-Israeli protests in Cairo.
In an interview with CNN, Barak was cautious about the effect a bolstered Egyptian military presence would have on securing Sinai. I am not very optimistic that it will all change in a matter of weeks, Barak said.
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I hope Tel Aviv = ISRAELI GOVT, IDF remember that IRAN has directly + indirectly stated or inferred that it not afraid to engage in any PREEMPTIVE MIL OR PROXY FIRST STRIKE AGZ THE US-ISRAEL IFF NEED BE, to include so-called
"decapitation strike" agz the White House + Congress, aka US NCA + Political-Mil Leadership.
The US feared a Soviet decap strike during the Cold War, + will do so again as Iran + Radical Islam steadily NUCLEARIZES IN A POST-"ARAB SPRING/JASMINE" PERIOD OF POOR US-GLOBAL ECONOMY OF UNCERTAIN DURATION.
POST-ARAB SPRING/JASMINE ISRAEL = 1948? versus 1956 Suez Crisis, PART II???
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I doubt this is "war footing". I accept the analysis that it is an effort to keep miscreants from attacking Israel and though not reported, I believe rogue elements of the military were operating outside of their official capacity in allowing weapons trafficking through the Sinai.
Yes, assume the worst, but also know that there is still commo between Egypt proper and Israel over last weeks events which could have brought the region to the brink.
If, IF this is an offensive maneuver, it will be an easy kill for the IDF.
It is a political endeavor to shelter both governments for the recent cross border actions.
(KUNA) -- Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) organization, vowed to retaliate against what it deemed an liquidation of two of its members by Israel in northern Gazoo, earlier on Thursday.
"We are undergoing an open war with the Zionist enemy. We have accepted the challenge and are ready for any aggression the enemy might think of carrying out against our people in Gazoo," read a statement on the armed movement's website. Uh-oh. If I'm a local, I'd call Mutual of Gaza and update my home insurance...
The Paleostinian movement also expressed disdain at the calls for a ceasefire between both sides.
The statement warned that the region targeted by the movement would widen, if Israel does not halt its attacks.
Earlier, two Paleostinian men were killed when an Israeli drone attacked them in an area in northwestern Gazoo.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Israel said it was attacked by a surge of rockets coming from Gazoo, targeting several towns and areas in southern Israel.
According to Israeli radio, a miniature ministerial council, tasked with security and political, had met to discuss the latest developments in the bordering region with Gazoo.
The council, headed by President Benjamin Netanyahu, said it would be adamantly tackling executors of the rocket attacks on its lands, while showing the highest levels of self restraint at the current stage.
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One "gazan" head per rocket is a fine exchange.
A village defense volunteer in Yala province was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Raman district on Saturday morning. Witnesses said that the victim, Suklan Etae, 24, was driving his motorcycle to visit his relatives when gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle fired at him. The attackers then fled the scene. Suklan was hit three times and died at the scene.
[An Nahar] Security sources killed six people when they opened fire on demonstrations across Syria on the last Friday of Ramadan, as tens of thousands of protesters flooded the country's streets vowing to bring down 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 regime despite deadly crackdowns.
Protesters erupted into the streets in response to calls by The Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook group which urged rallies under the banner of "Friday of patience and determination."
"We will not rest until the fall of the regime," said the message.
Syrian forces killed three protesters in the eastern protest hub of Deir al-Zour, one in the 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... neighborhood of al-Qaboun, one in the Idlib province town of Maarat al-Numan and another in the southern town of Nawa, the Facebook group reported.
The group identified the victims as Merhi Hassan al-Hammoud, Odai al-Bahloul, Bassel Mohammed Najib al-Abdullah, Jadou Abu al-Sill, Ali Ramadan and Nasr al-Bedewi.
Thousands of people demonstrated in the flashpoint central city of Homs, emerging in several neighborhoods of the industrial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The protesters chanted: "Bashar we don't love you, even if you turn night into day," "We are men of freedom."
Security forces broke up a demonstration in Deir al-Zour, one of the hubs of the protest movement that was launched in mid-March, the rights group said.
Protests also took place in al-Bukamal, a town on the border with Iraq, in the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Kiswah, in Hirak in the south and in the mostly Kurdish-populated city of Qamishli in the northeast, said Omar Idilbi, a front man for the Local Coordination Committees group.
The LCC has people on the ground across Syria and is involved in organizing protests against the Assad regime.
For its part, The Syrian Revolution 2011 group reported demonstrations in the Damascus flashpoint neighborhoods of al-Midan and al-Qadam.
Abdul Karim Rihawi, the head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights who had been tossed in the clink earlier this month, said thousands protested in the Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , Syria's second city, in Damascus and in Idlib, in the northwest.
Rights activists said at least 25 people were shot and maimed nationwide, including five people in Deir al-Zour, six in al-Qusair near Homs and four in the city itself, among them a father and his four-year-old daughter. People were also injured in Damascus suburbs.
The official SANA news agency said armed masked men attacked security forces in Deir al-Zour wounding three but were later killed in an exchange of fire.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Gaddafi loyalists were also targets of apparent extrajudicial killings. Those deaths have cast a dark shadow over Libya's newfound freedom and call into question whether the rebels will break with Gaddafi's blood-soaked style of governance or merely mimic it.
ALGIERS: A bomb explosion followed by a suicide attack outside a military academy in Algeria killed at least 18 officers in training Friday, a hospital said. With at least 20 wounded, the toll was expected to rise, according to the Sidi Ghilas hospital where the victims were taken.
As the Libyan rebels continue their hunt for Moammar Gadhafi, the United States has moved to distance itself from the search for Libya's four-decade-long ruler.
International Criminal Court
A UK- based website aligned to the MDC is reporting that ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is now a guest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare. The website quotes the MDC Veterans Activists Association as having have called on Zimbabweans to storm the house in the Gunhill suburb of Harare to effect a mass citizens' arrest.
A search operation started by law enforcement agencies against criminals entered its third day as a dozen more suspects were taken into custody from different areas of 
President-for-Life Bashir 
