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Fred - glad to see you back and hope you (and Gloria) are feeling less pain!
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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot 9/1
Yvonne De Carlo aka Lily Munster in "The Munsters" aka Sephora in "The Ten Commandments" aka Mrs. Louise Warren in "McLintock!" aka Anna in "Criss Cross" aka Princess Wah-Tah in "The Deerslayer" aka Anna Marie in "Salome Where She Danced" aka Cara de Talavera in "Song of Scheherazade" aka Gina Ferrara in "Brute Force" aka Francesca in "Slave Girl" aka Lola Montez in "Black Bart" aka Nita St. James in "The Captain's Paradise" aka Droucette in "Sea Devils" (Died in 2007 at age 84)
Shauna Sand aka Emma in "The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven" aka Mrs. Jones in "The Deviants" aka Jacuzzi Woman in "Succubus: Hell Bent" aka Playmate of the Month May 1996 aka Mrs. Lorenzo Lamas (two husbands ago)(age 41)
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Used to shoot one of those things. Like being punched, hard, in the nose all over your body.
Newton being an infidel, the equal and opposite reaction thingy is probably forbidden in certain countries.
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dosen't have a .30-06 in the rear window rack.. can't be an F-150
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I had a friend who was an army mechanic. He described what it was like to fire a 105mm recoilless rifle, and that video is what he described. He said the shock wave from the backblast was just incredible.
A recoilless rifle is s'posed to be a low trajectory weapon, an antitank weapon, not to be used in street fighting elevated but to be used once, maybe twice, if you're lucky against enemy armor
[Tripoli Post] The National Transitional Council, NTC, has confirmed that the rebels, Tuesday incarcerated the foreign minister in the deposed Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... government, Abdulati al-Obeidi at his farm in Janzour, a suburb west of Tripoli.
Al-Obeidi was considered a key figure in the Al Qadaffy regime, a senior rebel commander said. He was also involved in intensive talks with various international organizations and sometimes even with opposition figures, to try and negotiate a peaceful solution to the Liya conflict.
Without giving too much details, Mahdi Al-Harati, vice chairman of the rebel military council, told journalists in the capital, "Yes, Abdulati Al-Obeidi was incarcerated."
Al Obeidi became foreign minister following the defection a few days after the beginning of the conflict of the previous minister, Mussa Kussa on March 31. Soon after, following demonstrations that erupted in mid-February, that then escalated, many high-ranking officials turned their backs on the Al Qadaffy regime.
Despite not expressing open support to Al Qadaffy's decisions, Al-Obeidi, who had on korethan one occasion been reported as having defected, remained loyal to the regime.
Al Obeidi has long been associated with the Libyan regime. He held various top posts in the Al Qadaffy government. He was prime minister from 1977 to 1979 and Head of State from 1979 to 1981.
Al-Obeidi was one of three main negotiators in Libya's decision to denounce and drop their nuclear weapons programme. Amidst a civil war between Al Qadaffy loyalists and rebels, he has been Foreign Minister since 2011.
Rooters news agency also reported the arrst by the rebels of Abdallah al-Hijazi, a close associate of the deposed dictator, Al Qadaffy.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Muammar Qadaffy's ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... sons clashed on the airwaves Wednesday, with one offering peace and another promising a 'war of attrition' as a final battle for control of Libya's coast loomed.
The conflicting messages were the latest evidence that the fallen leader was losing his grip on what remains of his entourage after a six-month uprising left his 42-year rule of the North African nation in tatters.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... warplanes struck at loyalist troops dug in around his besieged hometown of Sirte -- his last stronghold along the heavily populated Mediterranean seaboard-- and refugees streamed out fearing a bloody showdown.
A week after they overran the capital, forcing Qadaffy into hiding, irregular troops of the new ruling council have paused in a drive to take Sirte and Qadaffy strongholds in the desert, giving Sirte's defenders until Saturday to surrender. But frontline festivities continued, as did NATO air strikes.
"We were talking about negotiations based on ending bloodshed," Qadaffy's son Saadi said on al-Arabiya television, saying he had been given his father's blessing to negotiate with the ruling National Transitional Council.
The head of Tripoli's military council, Abdul Hakim Belhadj, told Rooters he had spoken to Saadi by telephone and had promised him decent treatment if he surrenders.
"We want to spare bloodletting, therefore negotiation and surrender is preferable," Belhadj said. "If this does not happen there is no other way except a military solution."
In a sign of turbulence within the Qadaffy clan, the former leader's better-known son Saif al-Islam hurled defiance at the NATO-backed forces and said the fight would continue.
"We must wage a campaign of attrition day and night until these lands are cleansed from these gangs and traitors," he said in a statement broadcast on the Syrian-owned Arrai satellite TV channel. "We assure people that we are standing fast and the commander is in good condition."
He said there were 20,000 loyalist soldiers ready to defend Sirte in the case of an attack.
Despite shortages and disruptions, people in Tripoli, Misrata, Benghazi and other cities erupted into the streets to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a high point of the Mohammedan calendar marking the end of the Ramadan fast. For most Libyans, it was the first Eid they could remember without Qadaffy.
Anxious to aid -- and steer -- the new rulers of the country, and to consolidate their own victory over a man who has baffled and infuriated them for decades, Western governments will hold a "Friends of Libya" meeting in Gay Paree Thursday.
The date, September 1, is laden with symbolism as the anniversary of Qadaffy's seizure of power in 1969.
Until the 69-year-old runaway is hunted down, dead or alive, the transitional council's leaders say they will not count their country's "liberation" as complete.
But though there is much talk of closing in on Qadaffy and his sons, of tempting loyalists to betray them and of tracking their communications, it is unclear where the key figures are.
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Hisham Buhagiar, a senior NTC official who is coordinating the hunt, told Rooters he believed Qadaffy was either in the Bani Walid area, southeast of Tripoli, or in Sirte, 450 km (265 miles) east of the capital.
The arrest in Tripoli Wednesday of Qadaffy's foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, as witnessed by a Rooters journalist may provide more clues.
"We trace a lot of people who are not in the first inner circle with him, but the second or third circle. We're talking to them," said Buhagiar. "They want to strike deals. Everyone who helps us is on the white list."
Britannia's ITV News reported that British special forces were helping in the hunt for Qadaffy. They believed he is still in Libya and has been denied entry to Algeria, where his wife and three of his children have taken refuge.
Troopers of the elite SAS, some working from ships off the coast, were using round-the-clock aerial surveillance to try to track him and his close supporters.
"When a target is identified, a Helicopter Assault Force moves in to capture the individual who will then be interrogated for further intelligence about Colonel Qadaffy's movements, the ITV report said.
While the threat of an Iraq-style insurgency led by those loyal to the old guard is clearly a worry to the new leaders, their international backers are also concerned that the NTC can overcome regional, ethnic and tribal differences across Libya.
There has been praise from abroad for its pledges of equality, fairness and willingness to bury past grievances, though there is also disquiet at evidence of harassment, and worse, by victorious fighters of some groups, notably black Libyans and African migrants, widely seen as allies of Qadaffy.
At Tawarga, where anti-Qadaffy forces are dug in and readying an assault on Sirte to the east, most of the residents were black African rather than Arab in origin and have recently decamped -- apparently in fear of reprisals by fighters from the city of Misrata who see Tawarga as a pro-Qadaffy town.
Also fleeing their homes were hundreds of people from towns around Sirte, who streamed through a frontline checkpoint set up by NTC forces on the coastal highway at Tawarga.
"I need to take my family where it is peaceful," said one man named Mohammed, as laden vehicles flying white flags were checked for weapons. "Here there will be a big fight."
Ali Faraj, a fighter, said he doubted people in Sirte would willingly join the revolt: "There will be a big fight for Sirte. It's a dangerous city. It's unlikely to rise up," he said.
"A lot of people there support Qadaffy. It's too close to Qadaffy and his family. It is still controlled by them."
There is no independent confirmation of conditions in Sirte, which was developed into a prosperous city of 100,000 during the 42 years Qadaffy ruled Libya. NTC officials say power and water are largely cut off and supplies are low.
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In Tripoli after dawn, worshippers packed Martyrs' Square, which was named Green Square in the Qadaffy era, chanting "Allahu Akbar (God is greatest), Libya is free."
Fighters on rooftops guarded against any attack by loyalists and sniffer dogs checked cars. Even the interim interior minister, Ahmed Darat, was searched.
"This is the most beautiful Eid and most beautiful day in 42 years," said Hatem Gureish, 31, a merchant from Tripoli.
Fatima Mustafa, 28, a pregnant woman wearing a black chador, said: "This is a day of freedom. I'm glad I haven't given birth yet so my daughter can be born into a free Libya."
Libyans who revolted against Qadaffy in February needed NATO air power to help them win, but, given their country's unhappy colonial history, they remain wary of foreign meddling.
Their interim leaders, trying to heal a nation scarred by Qadaffy's cruelly eccentric ways, may want United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... help in setting up a new police force, but see no role for international peacekeepers or observers, a UN official said.
The NTC, keen to assert its grip and relieve hardship after six months of war, won a $1.55 billion cash injection when Britannia's air force flew in new dinar banknotes to Benghazi. They had been printed in Britannia but then held there by UN sanctions imposed on Qadaffy's government.
La Belle France, which with Britannia took a lead role in backing the revolt and will host Thursday's conference, has asked the committee to unfreeze some $2 billion of Libyan assets in La Belle France, a French government source said.
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When a target is identified, a Helicopter Assault Force moves in to capture the individual...
Not that it ever really matterd but is NATO still claiming they're operating under the original NFZ mandate or have they officially moved onto a new "phase"? I mean streching the definition of "command and control nodes" is one thing but this kinda takes it to the next level - does it not?
[Dawn] Russia on Thursday officially recognised Libya's rebels as the governing authority in the country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"The Russian Federation recognises Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) as the ruling authority and notes its reform programme that includes the development of a new constitution, holding general elections and forming the government," it said.
"Our country has established and continued diplomatic relations with Libya since September 4, 1955 without a break, no matter what government holds power in Tripoli," it said.
"We act on the premise that the agreements and other mutual obligations formerly reached between Russia and Libya remain in effect in the relationship between the two countries and will be honoured."
Russia's recognition of the interim NTC comes well after similar moves by the United States and a dozen other countries. It also comes on the same day as La Belle France hosts a "friends of Libya" conference in Gay Paree to help Libya rebuild.
Moscow abstained from the UN resolution on a no fly zone in Libya, effectively allowing the Western military action against the regime of Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... to go ahead.
But it then appeared increasingly disgruntled with the magnitude of the campaign and repeatedly angrily accused the West of siding with the rebels in a civil war.
However analysts have warned its companies now risk losing billions of dollars in arms and energy contracts in the new Libya after the rebels said they would favour those states who offered them full support in the conflict.
Russia announced the day earlier that President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy for Africa Mikhail Margelov will attend the conference in Gay Paree, after the foreign ministry last week denied ever having received an invitation.
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[Yemen Post] Suspected al-Qaeda cut-throats are now planning to takeover another southern province after controlling Abyan province.
Local security officials in Lahj province said that a large number of al-Qaeda cut-throats have entered the province coming from neighboring Abyan.
The official said that tens of unknown people who are suspected to be cut-throats have been walking in the streets on Howtah, the capital of Lahj, since last Friday.
"We have not been given orders by the government to arrest any suspects, but the Interior Ministry is focusing on this issue with great concern," said the official.
Residents are on high alert fearing that the government is planning to evacuate its thousands of troops like it did in Abyan and force the province to fall in the hands of Death Eaters.
In June, festivities took place between government forces and suspected cut-throats belonging to the turbanAnsar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... group.
Majority of Lahj residents joined the Yemeni revolution demanding the ousting of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... 's regime.
It is also the backbone of the Southern Movement, which is calling for southern separation from northern Yemen.
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Another Govt who use AlQ for extortion from the West
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[Yemen Post] Military commander colonel Hameed Qushaibi beat feet for the second time this month an liquidation attempt on his life in Amran province, 70 km north of the capital Sana'a, opposition media reported.
Qushaibi is one of the first military leaders to defect from the government and is working on having Amran province fall in the hands of revolutionists.
Opposition parties in Yemen condemned the attack on Qushaibi and called on the international community to stand firm against the Saleh regime and its attempts to kill those who oppose it.
Tribal coalitions in Yemen also condemned the attack on the colonel.
This comes as government media outlets rejected Qushaibi's liquidation claims and stressed that residents in his area are against him due to his oppression.
The outlets said that Qushaibi continuously attacks innocent civilians and that people were expected to go against him and seek Dire Revenge™.
They insisted that such claims by the opposition are efforts to damage the government's reputation and fabrications.
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[Al Jazeera] Sources tell Al Jizz that at least 20 al-Qaeda suspects have been killed in US air attacks and festivities with Yemeni soldiers in the southern province of Abyan.
A military official confirmed on Thursday the deaths of the al-Qaeda-linked fighters, but refused to comment on whether there was any US involvement.
The air raids freed a Yemeni military unit besieged in Abyan for several weeks by al-Qaeda groups.
A medical official said four Yemeni military officers were also killed in festivities on Wednesday and Thursday.
The official said Yemeni troops had pushed back al-Qaeda groups from an area about 8km outside the southern city of Zinjibar.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the press.
Yemen has repeatedly said its forces are making gains against groups who are suspected of ties to al Qaeda and have taken over two large cities in Abyan, a flashpoint province.
But the army has yet to regain control since the region was plunged into almost daily violence some months ago, bloodshed that has driven away some 90,000 residents.
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 government has lost control of some parts of the south amid rising political turmoil, as mass protests demanding an end to his 33-year rule.
The US and neighbouring oil giant Soddy Arabia fear that spreading chaos in Yemen is giving the branch of al-Qaeda entrenched there more room to operate.
Saleh's opponents accuse his government of exaggerating the al-Qaeda threat in Yemen and even encouraging gangs in order to pressure Riyadh and Washington to back his continued rule.
Saleh is still recovering in Soddy Arabia from severe wounds during a June kaboom but has vowed to return to Yemen, a course of action Washington has advised him not to pursue.
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It was Thursday and warm in Rangpur. My partner and I were working the informant office out of the Gangachara upazila precinct...
[Bangla Daily Star] Unknown criminals slaughtered two sources of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur in the early hours of Thursday.
Poor Mahmoud the Weasel and his nephew Mahmudullah Bilal. They had a long and prosperous run, put the boys through public schools and gave the girls piano lessons, but now it's caught up with them.
Locals put barricades on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway for an hour beginning from at about 12noon, protesting the killings, report our Rangpur correspondent.
Abdus Salam and Mominul Islam were Rab sources, said Altaf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Rangpur Kotwali Police Station.
They came out of their houses at Uttam Hazir Hat in the upazila around 9:00pm Wednesday and since then they remained missing, the OC said.
Locals informed police after finding the bodies of Salam and Mominul lying in a pool of blood beside the highway around 10:00am Thursday, he added.
Missing no longer. Let us pause for a moment in respect, for they did much to reduce the criminality plaguing Bangladeshi society. May the miscreants who did it soon have their well-deserved encounter with the local branch of the Rab.
The reason behind the killings was not known immediately.
But we can guess.
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hmmmm any thoughts on how this will end? Several 4am shootouts?
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At a guess, yes. I doubt the RAB hard boys will take this lying down, all their sources would dry up.
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'Crossfire' stocks skyrocket. But can the amazing RAB make sure that they 'encounter' the truely guilty parties? Or will this be an excuse to clean up lingering items on the 'to-do' list?
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The real reason they got away with it (for now) was that they knew that the RAB doesn't work daytime hours, so they were fairly certain they could snuff Mahmoud and Bilally boy. payback may be, as they say, a biatch.
[An Nahar] Two blasts and a shooting in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region killed four people and injured five, officials said Thursday.
The local police chief in Baksan, a town in Kabardino-Balkaria, died when person or persons unknown attacked his car on Wednesday evening.
"50-year-old colonel Muaed Sizhazhev was killed when unidentified gunnies opened fire on his car at 21:20 (17:30GMT)," said a spokeswoman in the regional interior ministry.
Sizhazhev headed the Baksan district police operations department. He was coming home in his work car and was struck down in his prime.
In a Dagestani town of Khasavyurt, a blast killed a lieutenant colonel with the FSB security service, reports said. "An explosive detonated as the FSB officer passed it in his jeep," a front man for the regional investigative committee told RIA Novosti.
The officer's family was also in the car, and his four female family members have been hospitalized, the report said.
A blast killed another two people in Ingushetia early Thursday, regional officials said. The kaboom occurred in a residential house on the outskirts of regional capital Nazran.
"Two people died, one is injured," a source in the regional interior ministry told Agence La Belle France Presse declining to be named. "According to preliminary findings it was an bomb."
The Kremlin has been fighting bully boyz in the North Caucasus since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, waging two wars against separatists there.
Although the second war ended in 2000, the unrest has increasingly been spreading across the Caucasus, with nearly daily attacks targeting security officials, religious leaders, and civilians.
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Officials in Ankara said it was also suspending all remaining military agreements with Israel.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said some of the report's findings, leaked to the New York Times, were unacceptable. The publication of the UN report has been delayed several times to encourage reconciliation between Israel and Turkey, but that has not happened. The New York Times says that while Israel feels vindicated by the report, Turkey is upset with the conclusion on the legal status of Israel's naval blockade.
Guess the bribes and cozy, confidential dinners didn't pay out as planned. How humiliating for Turkey, whose former BFF Israel is now getting close to Greece and Cyprus... and has been close to the Kurds of Iraq for a while.
[Dawn] Seven passengers were killed in lower Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Thursday when unidentified gunnies opened fire on their vehicle, government sources told DawnNews.
According to the sources, the passenger vehicle was traveling from the Alizai area to Parachinar when the armed assailants opened fire, killing four people on the spot and severely wounding four others.
Moreover, three of the four maimed people later died at at the Agency Headquarter Hospital while the fourth was said to be at death's door.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... local rustics were reported to have engaged the fleeing attackers in a gun-battle.
Six out of the seven people who bit the dust in the incident belonged to the same family.
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[Dawn] Indian forces fired across the de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmire early on Wednesday, killing three Pak soldiers, the Mighty Pak Army said on Thursday.
It said Indian forces opened "unprovoked" fire across the so-called Line of Control (LoC) -- which divides Kashmire between India and Pakistain -- in Neelam valley.
"The soldiers were moving from one post to another when they came under fire. Three soldiers were killed," military front man Major Gen. Athar Abbas said.
Pak forces returned fire in retaliation and the incident was raised with local Indian commanders, he said.
A front man for the Indian army in Kashmire gave a different account.
"They opened fire first and we retaliated...In the morning again they started firing mortars again and we retaliated and the exchange of fire continued," Lt. Col. J.S. Brar told Rooters.
The incident underlined the fragility of ties between the countries that have fought three wars since 1947.
There were frequent exchanges of fire between the two forces before the neighbours agreed to a ceasefire across the dividing line there in 2003. They continue to exchange sporadic fire.
The latest incident is unlikely to have any impact on renewed efforts by the two countries to improve their ties.
India and Pakistain in February resumed a formal grinding of the peace processor broken off after the 2008 attack on Indian's financial capital of Mumbai blamed on Pakistain-based Death Eaters, which killed 166 people.
Meeting in the Indian capital of New Delhi in July, foreign ministers of the two countries hailed a new era in ties, and agreed to fight militancy and boost trade and travel.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Army claimed that it had cleared a major part of the Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal area of hard boyz and the operation being conducted in the region would be completed in a few days, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt Gen Asif Yasin Malik said that the army had reclaimed 80 to 85 per cent area of the Mohmand Agency.
He said that the army was clearing the region of land mines so that internally displaced people (IDPs) belonging to Mohmand can return to the area and remain safe.
Mr Malik informed journalists that 72 soldiers, including three officers, had embraced martyrdom during the operation.
He said that the large number of IDPs belonging to the tribal region had returned to their homes and others would come back soon.
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[An Nahar] Fourteen prisoners charged with "terrorism" beat feet from a prison in the north Iraq city of djinn-infested Mosul on Thursday, a police officer said, in the latest jailbreak in Iraq.
"Thirty-five prisoners tried to escape from a prison in al-Faisaliyah" in central djinn-infested Mosul, said Colonel Mohammed al-Jaburi, of the Nineveh province police. Security forces "placed in durance vile 21 of them, but 14 others were able to escape from the prison," Jaburi said.
All 35 were charged with terrorism-related offences, he said, adding that an open-ended curfew was instituted in djinn-infested Mosul around 8:00 am (05:00 GMT) on Thursday due to the jailbreak.
No festivities took place during the escape, he said.
An interior ministry official confirmed that 35 prisoners had attempted to escape in djinn-infested Mosul, but that 21 of them were apprehended.
Jailbreaks and prison unrest are relatively common in Iraq.
Officials said on August 6 that four prisoners and a guard were killed in festivities at a prison in the central Iraqi city of Hilla, during which eight inmates beat feet.
Six Iraqi police and 11 inmates were killed in a Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... jail mutiny in May, while 12 suspected al-Qaeda members beat feet from prison in the southern city of Basra in mid-January. At least two of the Basra escapees have been recaptured.
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I think it would be a great idea to electronically tag all such prisoners with passive devices, that if activated, would broadcast their location to anyone listening with 50 miles.
LONDON - Pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the world-famous Proms concerts in London on Thursday, forcing the BBC to cut short a radio broadcast of the performance.
The orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta, had just begun playing at the Royal Albert Hall when a group of protesters in the stalls stood up, started singing and held up towels bearing letters that spelled "Palestine", a BBC spokeswoman said.
The orchestra continued playing but the BBC decided to take the performance off Radio 3, a national radio station broadcasting it live, because the music could not be heard properly, she said.
BBC television said it was the first time Radio 3 had had to interrupt a broadcast of the Proms, a summer-long festival of music, because of a protest. It said other audience members at the sold-out performance booed the protesters.
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I still think my solution is best. Put the troublemakers in individual, soundproofed cells for 72 to 96 hours, 3 or 4 days, and twice a day give them food on a paper plate to eat with their fingers. If they have cell phones, leave them on to run their batteries down.
Then, without comment, release them in a staggered fashion between 2 and 4 am.
Then, if they get any form of public welfare, dock them a week for the cost of their incarceration.
[An Nahar] Israel has relocked away a top leader of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in the West Bank, just weeks after releasing him from jail, the Israeli military and Hamas sources said Thursday.
Hassan Yusef was jugged on Wednesday night as he tried to cross a checkpoint between the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus, a Hamas source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Israeli military confirmed it had jugged Yusef, who was released from prison in early August after serving a six-year term for "membership of a terrorist organization," but declined to give any additional details. "Hey, we know you! Hassan, isn't it? Why don't you come with us?"
Yusef was freed on August 4 as part of a mass release of Israeli and Paleostinian prisoners due to overcrowding. He had six weeks left of his sentence.
Last March, Yusef disowned his son after he admitted to having spied on Hamas for Israel and played a major role in the arrest of senior myrmidons.
Mosab Hassan Yusef, 32, said he was a top informer for Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency and was known by the codename "The Green Prince."
He converted to Christianity 10 years ago and now lives in Caliphornia.
He reportedly worked for the Shin Bet at the height of the second Paleostinian intifada, or uprising, which began in 2000, when Hamas carried out dozens of suicide kabooms and Israel waged all-out war on the Islamist movement.
Hamas has said the elder Yusef worked entirely in the public political wing of the movement. He was elected to the Paleostinian parliament in 2006, while in Israeli custody.
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Mosab Hassan Yusef
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A village defense volunteer was shot dead in front of his home in Yala province on Friday morning. Nurudin Panawan, 32, was sitting outside his house at around 7 a.m. when a terrorist man emerged from a nearby rubber plantation, quietly walked up to him and shot him twice at close range. The terrorist attacker then ran away fled. Nurudin was hit in his head and body and taken to Yaha hospital where he was pronounced dead.
[An Nahar] Security forces managed Wednesday to locate Syrian nationals Mohammed Ayman Bashir Ammar and Nour Jamil al-Hajj Qaddoura in the northern Bekaa town of Hawrtaala, after they were kidnapped five days ago on the Barelias-Bekaa highway.
A statement issued by the General Directorate of General Security said that "after search and investigations, a General Security unit managed to locate the two abductees, who were handed over to the relevant judicial authorities in order to unveil the case's circumstances."
Security forces are tracking down the kidnapers, the statement said.
Sources told Al-Jadeed television that the two Syrians were found "in the northern Bekaa town of Hawrtaala and they were kidnapped for financial reasons rather than political ones."
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told state-run National News Agency: "We're searching the (northern Bekaa) town of Brital for the abductors of the two Syrians and the freed pair will be handed over to General Security for repatriation."
The two were kidnapped by three gunnies on Friday after crossing the Syrian border into the Bekaa Valley.
The gunnies, in a Hyundai four-wheeler with tinted glass windows, intercepted a Jaguar in Barelias in central Bekaa and kidnapped the duo.
The Lebanese driver of the Jaguar, however, was not kidnapped and a bag containing $5,000 was not seized either, media reports said. The driver, Khalil Saleh al-Agha, was questioned by police.
Security forces are also interrogating the family members of Ammar and Qaddoura.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat has reported that the two Syrians were regular travelers to Leb before they were kidnapped. Qaddoura has a furniture company in Leb and Ammar works as an accountant in the firm, it said.
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[An Nahar] Two non-combatants were killed Thursday as Syrian security forces moved into a district of the central city of Homs and a village in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britannia-based rights group said one death occurred in the Homs district of al-Nazihin, while shots were heard in Bab Sbaa and other areas of the volatile city.
The observatory also reported "one dead and five maimed in an assault by the army and security forces on the village of Al-Rama" in Idlib region.
It added that a girl of 10 had died of wounds received late Wednesday during shooting near police headquarters at Deir al-Zour in the east as she was travelling in a taxi with her family.
It said the security forces acted after mass demonstrations against 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 late Wednesday in numerous districts on Homs, including Bayyada, al-Hamra, Bab Dreib and Bab Sbaa.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... says that more than 2,200 people have been killed since the beginning of near-daily popular protests against Assad's regime in mid-March.
At Zabadani, 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , six people were placed in long-term storage by security forces who carried out searches, the Observatory added.
The Damascus suburb of Douma was cut off Thursday during the burial of a man rubbed out at a checkpoint on Monday, it said.
The head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights, Abdel Karim Rihawi, said dozens of people had been placed in long-term storage Wednesday at Qadam and Qabun in the Damascus region, and at Zabadani.
Other arrests occurred at Jizeh in the southern region of Daraa, at Hama in the center and at al-Jura and Quriyya, near Deir al-Zour.
Rihawi said demonstrations had taken place in the Damascus districts of Midan, Douma, Barzeh, Qadam and Qabun, as well as the towns of Harasta, Saqba, Hammuriyye, Keswa, Damir and Zabadani.
Other protests were held in Homs, Hama and Latakia in the west, at Idlib in the northwest, Daraa, Qamishli in the northeast and at Deir al-Zour.
Assad's regime has defied western sanctions and blames "armed terrorist gangs" for the violence.
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[Dawn] Syrian troops backed by tanks raided houses in the city of Hama on Wednesday, searching for activists behind five months of protest against 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... , residents said.
The raids took place a day after security forces killed at least four people among crowds of demonstrators pouring out of mosques in Syria after marking the end of Ramadan, the Mohammedan holy month in which Assad intensified a crackdown on protests.
Troops swept through several cities in Ramadan, killing scores of people and triggering Western sanctions and Arab criticism, without crushing the unrest in which the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... says 2,000 civilians have been killed.
The protesters have also failed to unseat Assad, but they have been encouraged by the fall of Libya's Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... and rising international pressure on Syria, including a planned European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... embargo on the oil industry, which would disrupt vital inflows of foreign currency at Assad's disposal.
US President Barack B.O. Obama's administration, which has already imposed sanctions on Syria's oil industry and a state-owned bank, froze the US assets of Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem and two other Syrian officials on Tuesday.
Hama has seen some of the biggest protests against 41 years of Assad family rule and was the first city assaulted during Ramadan. Authorities said the army withdrew by mid-August, but residents reported a significant military presence on Wednesday.
"Several light tanks and dozens of buses parked at al-Hadid bridge at the eastern entrance of Hama. Hundreds of troops then went on foot into al-Qusour and Hamidiya neighbourhoods. The sound of gunfire is being heard," Abdelrahman, a local activist, told Rooters by phone.
"These neighbourhoods have been among the most active in staging protests," he added.
Another resident said Toyota pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns and buses full of troops also assembled overnight near al-Dahiriya district at the northern entrance of Hama, 205 km (130 miles) north of the capital 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...
"The people want the execution of the president," a YouTube video showed dozens of protesters chanting in Hamidiya after night prayers, shortly before the raid on the district.
Most foreign media were expelled from Syria after the uprising began in March, making it hard to verify reports.
Hama was scene of a 1982 massacre by the military, sent by Assad's father Hafez al-Assad to crush an Islamist uprising.
Assad, from Syria's minority Alawite sect, has repeatedly said force is necessary to defeat what he calls a foreign plot to divide Syria, which is majority Sunni Mohammedan. Authorities blame gangs for the violence and say more than 500 soldiers and police have been killed.
Activists from Syria's Kurdish minority will hold a conference in Sweden on Sept. 3 to unify efforts against Assad, organisers said.
Massoud Akko, a Kurdish writer who lives in Norway, criticised major parties representing the Kurds, who number an estimated one million out of Syria's 20 million population.
"Kurdish politicians cannot keep issuing timid statements about the need for reform and stopping the repression as our Arab brethren keep getting massacred," he said.
Most Kurdish party chiefs say they do not want a repetition of a 2004 Kurdish revolt that Assad's forces crushed.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in Britannia, said on Wednesday that 360 civilians had been killed during Ramadan and 113 members of the army and security forces.
State television aired an audio recording on Tuesday of what it said were two hard boyz who revealed "a full agenda of provocation and targeting police and army camps and terrorising peaceful citizens in the name of freedom and non-violence".
In the northwestern province of Idlib on the border with Turkey, troops rubbed out one villager, Hazem al-Shihadi, at a checkpoint overnight near the town of Kfaruma where army defections have increased, activists said.
Around 7,000 Syrian refugees, most of whom had decamped army assaults on their towns and villages in Idlib, are housed in six camps across the border in Turkey, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network said in a statement.
Syrian authorities have said that most of refugees who decamped to Turkey, which put their number in excess of 10,000, had returned to their homes in Idlib after troops "cleansed" a main town in the province of "armed terrorist groups".
Residents and activists have reported a rising number of defections among Syrian armed forces, which are drawn mostly from the Sunni majority, but are dominated by Alawite officers effectively under the command of Assad's younger brother Maher.
They say most of the defectors have decamped to Turkey or taken refuge in their home towns and villages, provoking raids by pro-Assad forces, and in some instances, armed festivities.
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[An Nahar] The attorney general of the central Syrian province of Hama said he has resigned to protest hundreds of killings and thousands of arrests by President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-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, after the state agency said the official was kidnapped.
"I, the attorney general of the province of Hama, Mohammed Adnan al-Bakkour, announce my resignation from the regime of Assad and his band," he said in a video posted on YouTube late Wednesday.
He said he took the decision after hundreds of tossed in the slammer peaceful demonstrators were killed by the authorities and buried in mass graves, and 10,000 were locked away arbitrarily.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says that more than 2,200 people have been killed since the beginning of near-daily popular protests against Assad's regime in mid-March.
But the official SANA news agency, which reported Monday that Bakkour had been kidnapped en route to work, quoted officials as saying his statement had been made under duress.
It quoted Hama governor, Anas Naeem, as saying that "Bakkour was forced by his captors to give false information... showing the liquidation of citizens in Hama in the context of a media campaign against Syria."
It quoted another official as saying that Bakkour's words "were extracted under armed threat," calling them "pure lies fabricated by armed terrorist gangs involved in his abduction."
SANA reported Monday that Bakkour had been kidnapped on the way to work, together with his driver and bodyguard.
In his video statement, Bakkour said he resigned after witnessing several crimes committed by the regime.
He cited a July 31 killing of 72 prisoners, including peaceful demonstrators and activists, at Hama's central prison.
He added he was forced to issue a report saying that more than 420 people buried in mass graves by security forces and regime militias had been killed by armed gangs.
Bakkour also cited the deaths of about 320 people under torture at cop shoppes, "the arbitrary arrest of about 10,000 people," and the demolition of homes by the army while occupants were still inside.
In the latest violence, Syrian security forces made arrests and deployed tanks Wednesday at the end of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan, during which 473 people were killed, activists said.
Western powers have turned up the heat on Syria's regime, slapping sanctions and saying Assad must resign.
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