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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Jane Greer aka Kathie in "Out of the Past" aka Mrs. Wyler in "Against All Odds" aka Joan Graham in "The Big Steal" aka Hazel Bennet Chaney in "Man of a Thousand Faces" aka Diana Forrester in "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" aka Paula Henderson in "The Clown" aka Antoinette de Mauban in "The Prisoner of Zenda" (Died in 2001 at age age 76)
Good piece by Bill Ardolino
"[The local elders had the] same reaction they've had the other four times we've killed guys - they do their best 'disbelief' impression," And their buddy is doing is best 'Osama' impression.
One of the insurgents killed on Aug. 20 turned out to be a popular local mullah from another village a few kilometers up the road. All three dead insurgents are suspected to have been part of the same roadside bomb cell. The Americans had closed the blind spot in their reconnaissance assets.
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I truly wonder what US military sniper assets are at this point. With such a huge increase in recruitment, raw talent combined with, shall we say, extensive experience, and top notch equipment, you're going to have a lethal legion of individual killers of astounding capability.
Think of it in terms of conventional forces. A single sniper can prevent a major military movement or even a garrison, if he has complex terrain. This was why major US bases in Iraq had to have a 5 mile deep KZ surrounding them. Granted, that worked, but it is rare when anyone has that luxury.
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With such a huge increase in recruitment, raw talent combined with, shall we say, extensive experience, and top notch equipment, you're going to have a lethal legion of individual killers of astounding capability.
Isaf's Brig Gen Carsten Jacobson said Khpulwak was "holding a gadget (which could have been explosives) and reaching for something (which could have been a suicide vest switch) in his pocket" Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're not following ISAF directives for non-combatant civilians and journalists.
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I can't be as cynical about Khpulwak's death. There is no evidence he was against NATO's presence. It seems like most educated Afghan's support at least some western presence. He reacted poorly by reacting at all and died for it.
Lesson learned. Get out the news on how Afghans are supposed to act (or not react) when soldiers are storming in w/ guns drawn.
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There is no evidence he was against NATO's presence.
Sorry, EP, I gotta disagree with you on that one. He worked for the BBC. That's the modern equivalent of a Frenchman in 1940 working as a stringer for Radio Berlin.
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Ricky bin Ricardo, given the unemployment situation over there, I suspect he worked for every news organization that would hire a local with some English skills. It's my understanding that, except for regional bureau managers, locals are paid by the assignment, rather than being put on salary. I've always had the feeling, f'r instance, that most of those NPR local colour pieces are done by expat wives with literary pretensions while their husbands are working overlong at the office, again. I could, of course, be wrong.
[Tripoli Post] Bloomberg has reported that a Brazilian court blocked dividend payments from a bank indirectly controlled by the Libyan central bank to prevent the proceeds from funding supporters of ousted leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation...
The Brazilian attorney general's office, known as AGU, was granted a court injunction blocking transfers from Banco ABC Brasil SA to the Arab Banking Corp., the bank's Bahrain-based parent, according to a statement published on the agency's website. The Libyan central bank owns 59 percent of Arab Banking.
AGU said in the statement: "The embargo of assets linked to the family of Muammar Al Qadaffy and Libya's public institutions is aimed at preventing the arming of forces connected to the dictator,"
The Sao Paulo-based bank will appeal the court injunction, Investor Relations Director Sergio Lulia Jacob said. Blocking the funds wasn't necessary because Arab Banking is already complying with United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... resolutions by not sending dividends to Libya's central bank, Jacob said.
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So Brazil didn't contribute anything to the air war against Libya, but now it wants to act like it's done something so awesome by preventing Qaddafi from accessing these funds. What-ev.
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This might matter, if much of these funds was earmarked for "mercenary pay."
[An Nahar] NTC fighters claimed to have captured a key objective Thursday in their drive on Sirte, the hometown of runaway Moammar Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... , as the ex-Libyan leader dismissed as lies reports he had decamped to Niger.
At the same time, talks on a peaceful surrender of the town of Bani Walid, held by Qadaffy loyalists, have ended without success, a National Transitional Council military chief said, raising the prospects of an assault on it.
The NTC has fixed a Saturday deadline for Bani Walid and other towns loyal to Qadaffy, including Sirte and the southern desert oasis of Sabha, to surrender.
"Our men took control of the Red Valley" at 2:45 pm (1245 GMT), Mustafa Bendaraf, an NTC commander on the front line, said of the region 60 kilometers east of Sirte.
The area was one of the main lines of defense of pro-Qadaffy troops.
An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent in Umm Khunfis, some 30 kilometers away, reported hearing artillery fire in the distance.
On Wednesday, NTC forces captured the hamlet of Bou Saada, between Umm Khunfis and Sirte, and are massing in the area by the thousands as they ready for a possible assault.
An NTC commander at Rafa al-Jeibi, 150 kilometers northwest of Sirte, said: "We are awaiting the end of negotiations on Saturday. Until then, we won't move. We will defend ourselves if attacked, but that is all."
As for the talks on Bani Walid, which went on for several days, they "have stopped because there has been no result," Abdullah Abu Ussara told AFP.
"We are now waiting for instructions on our next move."
Former regime officials close to Qadaffy, including front man Moussa Ibrahim, are suspected of being holed up in Bani Walid, some 170 kilometers southeast of Tripoli.
It was hoped talks would lead to the surrender of the town, where the NTC fears civilians might be used as human shields by die-hard Qadaffy loyalists.
With remnants of Qadaffy's battered forces pinned down, Libya's new leadership and the United States urged neighboring countries to close their borders to Qadaffy stalwarts.
The former leader, whose whereabouts are unknown, remained defiant in his first address for several days, telling his countrymen: "They have nothing else to resort to apart from psychological warfare and lies."
Speaking by telephone to 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... -based Arrai Oruba television, he added: "They last said Qadaffy had been seen in a convoy heading towards Niger.
"They want to weaken our morale. Do not waste time on this weak and ignoble enemy."
Qadaffy also said NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , which has carried out daily air raids against his forces under a U.N. mandate since March 31, "will be defeated" as its "logistical capacities will not allow it" to continue.
"We are ready in Tripoli and everywhere to intensify attacks against the rats, the mercenaries, who are a pack of dogs," he said.
Since his Tripoli headquarters was overrun on August 23, Qadaffy has made several appeals for resistance in tapes aired by Arrai, which is run by former Iraqi Sunni MP Mishan al-Juburi.
Juburi, the only media personality able to contact Qadaffy after Tripoli fell, said the ex-leader and his son Seif al-Islam were still in Libya.
"He is in Libya, in very good spirits, feels strong, is not afraid, and would be happy to die fighting against the occupiers," Juburi told AFP by phone.
The NTC fears Qadaffy will try to slip over one of Libya's mostly non-existent borders, and Niger strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! he was in the country after a convoy carrying other senior ousted regime officials decamped there on Monday.
The United States said Qadaffy was not believed to be among them.
In a bid to cut off Qadaffy's potential escape routes, the NTC said it had dispatched a team to the Niger capital Niamey, and Washington said Qadaffy aides who entered Niger were being jugged.
None of those entering Niger earlier this week appeared to be on a list of persons subject to U.N. sanctions, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
"Our understanding is that the convoy included some military and bigwigs under Qadaffy's former regime," she said. "They are now being held in the capital ... and they are being monitored closely by Nigerien officials."
Also, Washington "is in contact with Mali, Mauritania, Chad and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... to emphasize the importance of respecting the U.N. Security Council resolutions and of securing their borders," Nuland said.
Niger Foreign Minister Mohammed Bazoum, speaking in Algiers, said neither Qadaffy nor any other wanted runaways had arrived in his country.
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said Libya's neighbors must arrest Qadaffy and others wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) if they cross the borders.
"If they are found outside Libya, national authorities in that country must immediately arrest them and hand them over to the ICC to face trial for these crimes," said senior Amnesty director Claudio Cordone.
In that vein, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has asked Interpol to help, his office said, by issuing a "red notice to arrest Moammar Qadaffy for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder and persecution."
As the decampedgling interim government struggles to get Libya back on its feet, the central bank governor said a sanctions-hit Qadaffy had sold 20 percent of the country's gold reserves, beginning in April.
Qassem Azzoz said Qadaffy had sold 29 tons of gold, worth more than $1 billion, to local merchants.
He also told a Tripoli news conference the bank's total assets stand at $115 billion, $90 billion of it abroad.
In other developments, the United States and the international community believe Libya's new rulers are responsible for preventing weapons proliferation in a region battling terrorism, said the top U.S. general in Africa, Carter Ham.
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Haven't found him YET?
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If they are found outside Libya, national authorities in that country must immediately arrest them and hand them over to the ICC to face trial for these crimes.
And then went on to add;
...Oh and BTW, if Omar Al-Bashir comes a knockin please immediately arrest him too.
[Al Jazeera] Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... 's loyalists have fired a number of rockets from inside one of his last strongholds, hours after a TV station aired an audio message reportedly from the deposed Libyan leader urging his fighters on.
At least 10 loud kabooms could be heard on Thursday along the desert front line at Bani Walid, a town of 100,000 people about 140km southeast of Tripoli, following early morning skirmishes in the same area.
Smoke billowed from the projectiles, said to be Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... , after they landed in Wadi Dinar, about 20km outside the town.
Thousands of fighters for Libya's new leadership have converged on Bani Walid.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has requested that Interpol issue a "red notice" to arrest Muammar Qadaffy for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder and persecution.
"Arresting Qadaffy is a matter of time," said Moreno-Ocampo, who is also requesting red notices for the arrest of Saif al-Islam Qadaffy and Abdullah Al-Senussi.
Officials have said a number of prominent regime loyalists, including Qadaffy's son and one-time heir apparent, are believed to be inside Bani Walid.
Earlier on Thursday, in a message broadcast on the Syria-based channel Al-Rai TV, Qadaffy denied rumours he had decamped Libya, vowed never to leave the land of his ancestors and exhorted followers to keep fighting.
The former Libyan leader, in power for nearly 42 years, has not been seen in public for months.
A military official in Libya's new leadership had said a day earlier that Qadaffy was cornered and would soon be captured or killed, but another senior defence official contended his whereabouts are unknown.
'Libyan land is yours'
On his first visit to Tripoli since the civil war, Mahmoud Jibril, Libya's interim government chief, warned allies who helped overthrow Muammar Qadaffy not to start "political games" against each other until Qadaffy's supporters were completely defeated.
"This is a stage where we have to unify and be together," he told a news conference on Thursday. "Once the battle is finished ... the political game can start."
Finding Qadaffy would help seal the new rulers' hold on the country, and likely trigger the collapse of the remaining regime loyalists still fighting the former rebels.
His most recent audio message encouraged Libyans to take up arms against the fighters battling his loyalists and accusing the National Transitional Council (NTC), currently running the country, of being a front for Western powers.
In his message on Thursday, Qadaffy said: "To all my beloved Libyans, the Libyan land is yours and you need to defend it against all those traitors, the dogs, those that have been in Libya and are trying to take over the land.
"They were spies for the Italians and now they are spies for La Belle France. All those germs and rats ... capture all those who are working with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and the UK to bomb our country and kill Libyans and our children."
Qadaffy also dismissed reports that he had decamped to neighbouring Niger as "psychological warfare and lies".
He said there was nothing unusual about a convoy of cars going to Niger.
"How many times do convoys transporting smugglers, traders and people cross the border every day for Sudan, Chad, Mali and Algeria," Qadaffy said.
"As if this was the first time a convoy was headed towards Niger."
High technology
The president of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... has also deined that Qadaffy is in his country.
"We don't have any information on the presence of Libyans on our territory since these events started," he said.
On the ground, Libyan fighters claimed on Wednesday to have Qadaffy surrounded within a 60km radius.
Anis Sharif, a front man for Tripoli's new military council, however, would not say where exactly Qadaffy had been found.
Sharif said Qadaffy had been tracked using high technology and human intelligence. "He can't get out," he said.
Qadaffy, who was removed from power in August after an uprising against his rule, is believed to be travelling in a convoy of about 10 cars and may be using a tent as shelter, Hisham Buhagiar, who is co-ordinating the NTC efforts to find the former Libyan leader, said.
"It is the tent. We know that he does not want to stay in a house, so he stays in a tent. People say the cars came, and then they made a tent," Buhagiar said, adding that his sources had not seen Qadaffy themselves.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... the anti-Qadaffy forces are still working to gain full control of the country almost three weeks after the fall of the capital, Tripoli.
Fighters have been engaged in prolonged negotiations to convince representatives from Bani Walid, about 150km southeast of Tripoli, that there would be no retributions if the town surrendered peacefully.
But the representatives, upon returning to the town to deliver the message, were fired at and forced to retreat to NTC territory on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the NTC sent an additional battalion of rebel fighters to Bani Walid, where it is preparing for a showdown with Qadaffy loyalists.
Thousands of NTC fighters have been camping outside Bani Walid, which is one of Qadaffy's last strongholds.
They have also built a field hospital and deployed 10 volunteer doctors to prepare for the possibility of a fight.
Final battles
Al Jizz's Sue Turton, reporting from near Bani Walid on Thursday, said there was an apparent escalation of violence - including "four NATO Arclight airstrikes this morning" - although NATO could not confirm this.
According to NTC officials, the surrender negotiations inside Bani Walid have stalled and the NTC has given them till Saturday before revolutionary fighters move on the town.
Our correspondent said fighters outside the city had been saying, "We must stay and wait ... until [NTC leaders] give us the go-ahead".
Abdullah Kinshil, the NTC's chief negotiator in Bani Walid, said one of Qadaffy's sons, Saif al-Islam, was seen there with supporters on Tuesday.
Fighters are also preparing to move towards Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte.
For now, talks have been stalled and they are awaiting orders to take the towns from Qadaffy loyalists.
Amid the Libyan fighters' push to gain full control of this North African country, news came on Tuesday of convoys of Qadaffy loyalists, including his security chief, fleeing across the Sahara into Niger.
The US said it believed the convoy was carrying senior members of Qadaffy's entourage, and urged Niger to detain anyone liable for prosecution for alleged crimes committed during the uprising.
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[Emirates 24/7] Former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy, ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... in a phone call a Syrian television station said was made from inside Libya, vowed on Thursday to defeat rebels who control most of the country.
He also said a Libyan military convoy that arrived in neighbouring Niger was "not the first", and gave no hint this might be a step towards him and his followers fleeing Libya.
Qadaffy, whose whereabouts are unknown, instead said in the brief live speech carried by Arrai TV that his forces would rally to defeat the rebels and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , which has attacked his military through air strikes.
"The youths are now ready to escalate the resistance against the 'rats' (rebels) in Tripoli and to finish off the mercenaries," Qadaffy said during the call, which the television station said was being made from within Libya.
"We will defeat NATO...and NATO is rejected by the Libyan people," he said.
Qadaffy said the Libyan military convoy, which French and Niger military sources said showed up in the northern Niger city of Agadez this week, was nothing exceptional.
"Columns of convoys drive into and out of Niger carrying goods and people inside and outside (of Libya) say Qadaffy is going to Niger," he said.
"This is not the first time that convoys drive in and out of Niger."
Qadaffy's front man has repeatedly said he is in Libya and remains in high spirits. Niger said he was not in the convoy.
Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has sent envoys to Niger to try to stop Qadaffy and his entourage from evading justice by fleeing across a desert frontier toward friendly African states.
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[Tripoli Post] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... secretary general Fogh Rasmussen has advised Libya's ousted leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... and his loyalists to stop trying to cling to power by force and to stop the fighting.
Speaking to journalists during a visit to Portugal's capital, Lisbon, NATO's top official said that "Al Qadaffy and the remains of his regime must realise there's nothing to be gained by more fighting".
He went on to say that Libya is turning a new page, and that the military alliance would not stand down while a threat to Libyan civilians remained.
Describing NATO's mission in Libya as "a great success," Rasmussen said the alliance had no confirmed information about possible civilian casualties.
He also that the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... would take the lead in helping Libya's peaceful transition to democracy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... with the UN mandate for the NATO campaign in Libya lapsing in a few days, on September 26, the Americans are hopeful of closure, but are also adamant that if need be, the attacks will continue until Libya is completely free and safe.
Referring to the September 26 deadline, Ivo Daalder, the US ambassador at NATO headquarters in Brussels said: "We're clearly near the end of the operation," but added: "We will maintain the operation as long as the regime or its elements continue to pose a threat to civilians."
He added, that the issue was not especially whether Al Qadaffy had been captured, killed, or removed from Libya, but whether loyalist forces were still a menace to Libyan civilians.
"It isn't clear that if he were to be taken out that the whole thing would necessarily collapse; we just don't know that. We do know that if he doesn't have the capability to pose a threat to civilians, then it doesn't really matter, Daalder said."
In another development, as part of measures to tighten security, the National Transitional Council's newly formed National Army has been appointed to protect Libya's oil installations, and is currently searching the oil complexes for weapons, ammunition or mines that may have been left behind. Only then would the workers return.
The highly sensitive location of Ras Lanuf oil complex is patrolled by some 150 soldiers, part of a brigade from the army in charge of securing Libya's oil installations. In charge of these men as chief of security is Colonel Abdul Aziz who says that some equipment and means of communications are still missing.
Aziz says that for the momemnt they are securing the entries, the exits and the ports. Of Libya's largest oil complex that is made up of an oil refinery, several chemical plants and a power plant.
Before the conflict, the complex used to produce an estimatd 220 barrels per day of crude oil.
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"Please line up for extermination in a peaceful and orderly manner".
[Voice of America] Yemen's governing party has agreed on a proposal that, if adopted, would give President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... more time to relinquish power.
The General People's Congress has held a series of meetings this week to consider a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plan that calls for Saleh to hand over power to a deputy and allow a coalition to form a national unity government.
The six-nation GCC initially proposed its plan in April in an effort to end months of anti-government protests in Yemen. Saleh has agreed to the proposal three times, but each time has backed out before the deal could be signed.
In August, the president told ruling party members he was willing to consider the plan. The same month, opposition activists announced they had elected a 143-member "national council" that would explore ways to replace Saleh and enact political reforms.
Saleh remains in Soddy Arabia, recovering from injuries sustained during a June attack on his presidential compound in Sana'a.
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A total of as many as eight armed suspects and two Mexican Federal agents were killed in a gun battle in Zacatecas Thursday morning, according to mMexican news accounts.
Reports are Mexican Policia Federal (PF) agents raided a safe house in the Villanueva municipality in the early morning hours which sparked the gunfight.
El Diario de Coahuila published a report suggesting a prior operation Wednesday in Luis Moya municipality on the southern border with Aguascaliente state may have led PF forces to the safe house. Luis Moya is about 50 kilometers southwest of Villanueva.
Two Policia Federal agents were killed in the Villanueva gunfight and another five were wounded and evacuated by helicopter to Zacatecas. An undetermined number of armed suspects were wounded as well and probably escaped capture.
Latest reports say roads leading into Villanueva were blocked by Mexican security forces including Zacatecas state police agents. Agents were stopping and searching all vehicles entering and leaving the area. Security forces out of Aguascaliete had also blocked major arteries leading from Zacatecas into Aguascaliete.
Attorney General of Zacatecas, Arturo Nahle Garcia, dismissed reports that one of the three PF helicopters used in the operations were fired on and forced down.
A subsequent report in El Sol de Zacatecas reported that two Polica Federal agents were kidnapped by armed suspects in Luis Moya Wednesday night during a firefight, and were still missing. It is possible the raid in Villanueva may have been a rescue operation that failed. Reports were that a column of Zacatecas state police agents were spotted heading east out of the capital.
[Dawn] A militant group has released a new video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a US group that monitors militant organisations said this week.
The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China's western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have received training from al-Qaeda.
Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs who say an influx of China's majority Han to the region has led to their marginalisation. The region erupted in violence two years ago with ethnic riots in which at least 197 people were killed.
Since then security in the region has been stepped up, but that wasn't enough to prevent attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July that left dozens dead.
The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader, Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.
Ben Venzke, of Washington-based IntelCenter, another agency that monitors militant groups, said the group, which threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics in 2008, should be monitored closely and taken seriously.
"Their profile has been heightened since threats made during the Olympics and videos have shown us that they have even received recognition from senior al-Qaeda leaders recognising their presence in China," Venzke said.
"TIP is a very real jihadist group and their threats should be taken seriously. In addition to being active in China, we also have seen videos of them conducting operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan," he said.
The video shows a brief biography and footage of what it says is Memtieli Tiliwaldi, who was shot by police during the attacks, playfully wrestling with other fighters in a TIP training camp.
In the video, their leader Damla speaks in the Turkic language of the Uighurs, who have with a long history of tense relations with the central government.
Uighur activists and security analysts blame the violence on economic marginalisation and restrictions on Uighur culture and the Muslim religion that are breeding frustration and anger among young Uighurs.
China's leaders say all ethnic groups are treated equally and point to the billions of dollars in investment that has modernised Xinjiang, a strategically vital region with significant oil and gas deposits.
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Proof positive that many of the bad guys are just dumber than an empty box of rocks. Stepping on a dragon's tail is never a good idea. They succeed against the West only because our civilization is losing the confidence to defend itself, and is riddled throughout with collaborators who seek its destruction. OTOH, can't remember the last time I heard about Chinese government actions being hampered by a fifth-column media or by the Chinese Civil Liberties Union.
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I'm pretty sure China does not subscribe the the Human Rights Watch newsletter.
[Dawn] A South Korean appeals court Thursday upheld a life sentence on a Somali pirate convicted of hijacking a South Korean-operated ship in the Arabian Sea and trying to murder the captain.
The high court in the southern port of Busan confirmed the sentence passed in late May on Mahomed Araye after the 23-year-old had appealed.
Prosecutors had sought the death sentence for Araye for shooting and seriously injuring Captain Seok Hae-Kyun of the chemical carrier Samho Jewelry with an AK rifle.
He was one of five pirates captured during a dramatic January 21 raid by South Korean navy commandos to rescue the ship. Eight other pirates were killed. The five were brought to Busan, the ship's home, for trial.
All 21 crew -- eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 from Myanmar -- were freed unhurt apart from Captain Seok, 58, who is still recovering in hospital after multiple operations.
The court Thursday also upheld sentences of 13 to 15 years on three other pirates.
But it reduced the sentence on Abdulahi Husseen Maxamuud to 12 years from 15, saying he showed "great remorse and admitted all charges".
The judges also took into account the fact that the 20-year-old had treated South Korean sailors well while they were held hostage, a court official told AFP.
The high-profile trial was the first attempt by South Korea, a major maritime nation, to punish foreign pirates. Investigators say some of the pirates involved in the January raid had taken part in the hijacking last year of a South Korean supertanker operated by the same firm as the Samho Jewelry. The 300,000-tonne Samho Dream and its 24 crew were released after a reported dollar 9 million ransom payment was made.
This article starring:
Mahomed Araye
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South Korea has a separate prison for foreign prisoners who are not Americans. Most prisoners are Chinese and Mongolian, about 9 of them to a 3m x 3m cell. Their rations are different from native Korean prisoners, and are mostly toast, milk and processed sliced cheese, and potatoes.
[An Nahar] German police on Thursday jugged a Lebanese-German and a Gazook suspected of obtaining potential ingredients for a bomb and searched an Islamic center where the pair had spent time.
The arrests came three days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and followed a weekend statement by the interior minister that threats to Germany remained "real and intensive."
They also came ahead of a planned visit to Berlin by Pope Benedict XVI later this month.
The suspects, a 24-year-old German of Lebanese descent and a 28-year-old from Gazoo, were jugged by officers in their Berlin apartments that were then searched for evidence, Berlin police front man Thomas Neuendorf said.
The men, who were not otherwise identified, are suspected of planning "a violent criminal act," and police had watched them for several months, Neuendorf said.
Unlike Britannia or the United States, Germany does not have a state of alert, but maintains security through increased measures often not immediately visible to the public.
The Islamic center being searched was located in the heavily immigrant Wedding neighborhood. Some 10 police vans were seen around a building in a formerly industrial area. A sign on the building read "Ar-Rahman Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center for Religious Enlightenment."
"They are searching for chemical substances that can be used to make an bomb," Neuendorf said.
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany's top security official, told the Passauer Neue Presse agency over the weekend that authorities "work intensively" to prevent attacks. German officials say they have thwarted several attacks since the 2001 assault that killed thousands in the U.S.
A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office said it had launched a probe against the men on "suspicion of preparing a major violent crime against the state."
Authorities say they had acquired several coolants and an acid normally used in farming with the aim of building an explosive, the daily Berliner Morgenpost reported.
The suspects regularly attended the mosque in Wedding and occasionally spent the night there, the newspaper said, adding that the probe began when the companies where the chemicals were ordered reported the suspicious purchases to police.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Indian federal Sherlocks examined yesterday two unverified claims by thug groups that they were behind a deadly kaboom at New Delhi's High Court that left 12 people dead.
One emailed claim purportedly sent from Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. ), a Pakistain-based Islamist thug group, was traced to an Internet cafe in Kishtwar, a town in the volatile Mohammedan-majority region of Indian Kashmire.
Local police told AFP that two brothers who owned the cafe and one employee were taken in for questioning, but no formal arrests had been made.
A separate email sent to media organizations yesterday said the bomb was the work of the home-grown Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... outfit and threatened another attack on a shopping mall next week.
Neither claim was confirmed by police as genuine, but Internal Security Secretary UK Bansal said intelligence agencies were "seriously examining" both mails.
Wednesday's powerful blast destroyed a crowd of litigants queuing to enter the court complex in the heart of the Indian capital, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 80.
It was the latest in a long list of bombings in Indian cities and prompted searching questions in the national media about the authorities' inability to prevent such attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Police separately released sketches of two suspects seen at the site of the blast.
"We have some leads but it is too early to say which group is behind it," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told news hounds on his plane as he returned late Wednesday from an official visit to Bangladesh.
"There are obviously unresolved problems and weaknesses in our system and the cut-throats are taking advantage of that," Singh said. "We must work hard to plug those weaknesses," he added.
With some experts suggesting the May attack had been a dry run for Wednesday's blast, a number of editorials in the national press questioned why security at the court had not been effectively tightened.
"With cars spilling out of the car park and no security check worth its name installed, it was a veritable invitation for anyone seeking to perpetrate violence," said the Hindustan Times.
Highlighting the fact that no blast case in the last two years has been solved, The Times of India said it was "truly shocking" that the court could have been successfully targeted twice in such a brief space of time.
"This speaks of an extraordinarily lax security culture," the Times said.
Home Minister P Chidambaram held a high-level meeting yesterday at which National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon was also present to take stock of the situation.
The United States, La Belle France, Britannia and Pakistain all condemned the bombing, with Washington describing it as "cowardly".
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IIRC TOPIX, INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [New]WIKILEAKS: US FEARED [Afghan = AFPAK]MILITANT GROUPS WILL FLEE [escape] INTO INDIA, + TURN IT INTO A GIANT AFGHANISTAN.
More specifically, a NATO-VS-MILITANTS CONTESTED "AFGHANISTAN" ALREADY ARMED WID NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
I more inclined to favor say "PAKISTAN II", only Hindu + bigger.
[Dawn] The Pak Taliban who are holding more than 20 young rustics hostage in an area straddling the border with Afghanistan have demanded the release of scores of prisoners and an end to tribal elders' support of offensives against them.
The teenage rustics from Pakistain's northwestern Bajaur tribal region were kidnapped by the snuffies last week while they were on an outing in Afghanistan's border province of Kunar on the Mohammedan festival of Eid.
"If the Pakistain government and the tribal elders don't respond to our demands, we will not free the boys," Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban capo in Bajaur, told a group of news hounds who were taken to a border hideout on Tuesday.
Four of the 23 prisoners who were between the age of 15 to 21 were shown to news hounds during the visit to the area between Marah Warah district in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral... and the Bajaur tribal region.
More then 30 snuffies armed with heavy and light guns accompanied the Taliban capo and the young prisoners who were crying.
Dadullah demanded the release of prisoners including women and kiddiesjugged in jails in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main city in the Pak northwest and Bajaur region.
He also demanded that the government provide compensation for the houses destroyed in Pak military operations in Bajaur.
He said Taliban's shura will decide the fate of the prisoners if there was no response from the authorities or the tribal elders.
Under centuries-old tribal customs, rustics living along the frontier can freely move across the border.
A Pak military front man said last week that 40 young rustics were kidnapped. He said 10 of the boys were released while 30 were still in jug.
They belonged to the ethnic Pashtun Mamoun tribe, which is opposed to al Qaeda and the Taliban and has raised militias to fight them.
Bajaur has long been an infiltration route for snuffies entering Afghanistan to fight US-led forces there.
Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Wednesday asked the head of the Kunar provincial council and the elders of the area to help secure the release of the boys.
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i demand every paki piece of shit just kill themself, problem solved
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[Dawn] A Pak soldier was killed by shots fired by Indian forces across the disputed Himalayan border in Kashmire, the Pakistain army said on Thursday.
"There was an unprovoked firing by Indian soldiers in the Keil sector of Neelam valley (in Kashmire) on Tuesday night," a Pak military front man said. One Pak soldier died, he said.
Three Pak soldiers were killed in a cross-border shooting in the same region of disputed Kashmire last week, though the incidents are unlikely to stop efforts by the two sides in recent months to improve ties.
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good. afew 100,000 more would be better
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[Dawn] Indian police jugged for questioning three people on Thursday, including the owner of an Internet cafe in Indian-administered Kashmire over an email allegedly claiming responsibility for a deadly bombing of the New Delhi High Court, police said.
A powerful bomb hidden in a briefcase outside the High Court killed at least 11 people on Wednesday.
Senior coppers told Rooters said they had jugged the owner of an Internet cafe in the Kishtwar region of Kashmire where they suspect the email was sent from early on Wednesday.
Indian authorities are investigating a claim of responsibility allegedly made in the email by the Harkatul Jihad Islami thug group, an al Qaeda affiliate. It has grabbed credit for attacks in India in the past.
Several groups have been fighting against Indian rule of the disputed region of Kashmire.
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[Dawn] The administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Bloody Karachi on Wednesday released two suspects in the police bus attack case and directed the city police chief to hold an inquiry against the SHO of the Zaman Town cop shoppe for lodging a fake FIR.
The police claimed that the two suspects -- Abdul Hakeem and Atif alias Asif -- were apprehended at the scene of the crime and weapons were found in their possession. They were in police custody on physical remand since Aug 22.
On Wednesday, the police produced the suspects before the administrative judge of the ATCs, Justice Maqbool Baqar of the Sindh High Court, in his chamber.
Later, Special Public Prosecutor Arshad Iqbal Cheema told news hounds that a lawyer along with some family members of suspect Atif had earlier submitted some documents of a private hospital in court stating that the suspect was under treatment at a hospital when the incident took place. The court handed over the documents to the investigation officer of the case, Inspector Sohail Ahmed Khan of the Saudabad cop shoppe, and directed him to verify them, he added.
He said on Wednesday the IO submitted a report under Section 169 (release of accused when evidence deficient) of the criminal procedure code in court stating that the documents were found to be authentic as the suspect was in the operating theatre of the Chiniot Hospital at Korangi 31/2 when the incident took place. Besides, he stated, during the investigation no solid evidence was found against the suspect, and therefor he be released.
Subsequently, said the prosecutor, the court summoned Sub-Inspector Hanif Abbasi of the Zaman Town cop shoppe who had authored the FIR and memos of the arrest and recovery. The SI appeared in court on Wednesday and deposed that he was not on duty on the night of the incident and the following morning the SHO called and asked him to reach the cop shoppe.
The prosecutor said that the SI told the court that when he reached the cop shoppe he saw that the FIR was ready, the memos were prepared and the suspects along with the recovered weapons were also present.
According to Mr Cheema, the SI informed the court that he was forced to sign the FIR and documents and he did the same to save his job.
After hearing the statement of the SI, the administrative judge, while accepting the IO's report, ordered the release of suspect Atif.
The court also ordered the police to release the other suspect, Abdul Hakeem, in the light of the statement of the SI, the prosecutor said.
The court also ordered the city police chief to conduct an inquiry against SHO Syed Shakil Ali of the Zaman Town cop shoppe for lodging a fake FIR, preparing false memos and framing the suspects in the present case, the prosecutor concluded.
According to the prosecution, at least four people, including three coppers, were killed and 30 others maimed when a group of 15 to 20 armed motorcyclists opened fire on a bus carrying dozens of coppers on the night of Aug 19 at Charka Goth in Korangi.
Furqan, Sagheer Ahmed, Aqeel, Zahid alias Tailor, Tanveer, Saleem and Nadeem were the absconding accused in the case, while another suspect was killed in the retaliatory fire, it added.
A case (FIR 434/2011) was registered under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempted murder), 302 (premeditated murder), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Zaman Town cop shoppe.
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi military force has discovered 4 rocket and ammunition dumps in southern Iraqs Wassit Province on Thursday, a security source reported.
An Iraqi Army Force from the Armys 8th Division has implemented an inspection process in Sewaira township, 135 km to the north of Kut, the center of Wassit Province on Thursday, where it discovered 4 rocket and ammunition dumps, hidden in an agricultural land, the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He said that the process took place, according to intelligence information, and the contents of the discovered dumps were moved to the position of one of the Divisions brigade, in order to dismantle them by anti-explosives experts.
Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the south of Baghdad.
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Yesterday, Riadh al-Masri, from Khan Yunis, was killed on the ground of a familial dispute, Even the al-Masri's hate the friggin al-Masri's...
and a child, Ibrahim Salman, was killed last week as a result of the explosion of a bomb. These two incidents are part of the security chaos, misuse of weapons and attacks on the rule of law plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Which really aren't occupied any more, but we digress...
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 08:30 on Saturday, 03 September 2011, a car driven by a number of persons, including armed ones, You can't drive! Youze gotta hold the gun!
I can drive and hold the gun!
No, you can't!
Yes, I can!
Hey, I wanna drive too!
All right! We'll all drive!
And hold the guns too?
Get in the car!
stopped a Mercedes car driven by Riadh Awad al-Masri near the European Gaza Hospital, south of Khan Yunis. The persons in the first car stepped down, crushed the windows of al-Masri's car, pulled him out of his car and fired at him injuring him in the thigh. Hi, Uncle Riadh. How are you? BANG!
They then attacked him by sharp tools and sticks and escaped. Hey, we got guns. Why don't we just shoot him again?
No. That's...just what they'll expect us to do.
An ambulance arrived at the scene after a call received from one of the locals who heard the gunfire. The ambulance transferred al-Masri to the nearby European Gaza Hospital. Medical sources described al-Masri's wounds as serious. Yeah, they're pretty serious.
He was pronounced dead at approximately 18:00. See. I told ya. Dr. Quincy O Omniscient Narrator, how do you do it?!?
Al-Masri's son, Awad, stated to a PCHR fieldworker that they know the perpetrators and that this attack was on the ground of a previous familial dispute. Look how dey massacred my fadda! We'll take care of dis...
Sources of the Palestinian police reported that the police arrived at the scene and that the police were searching for some suspected persons. Anybody look suspicious, Mahmoud?
You're kidding, right?
In another incident, an explosion rocked Heker al-Jame' area in the south of Deir al-Balah at approximately 00:20 on Sunday, 04 September 2011. Later, it was found out that the explosion was caused by an explosive device planted under a blue Subaru car belonging to Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Bashir near Bashir's house. Hey, Ibrahim? Ain't that your car that just blew up?
The car was totally destroyed and heavy damage was caused to Bashir's house. A number of nearby houses were also lightly damaged. Hey, Ibrahim. I know it's a bad time, but look what it did to my siding.
Take it up with Mutual of Gaza!
In a third incident, on Tuesday, 30 August 2011, medical sources at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City announced the death of Ibrahim Mohammed Salman, 6, from Deir al-Balah, of wounds he had sustained in the face and the chest when a bomb exploded as he was playing with fire near his house. Fatima! How many times have I told you! Never let Ibrahim play with fire near my bombs! But nooooooooo...
PCHR is extremely concerned over the continued falling of victims by misuse of weapons which is part of the state of security chaos plaguing the OPT, and calls upon the office of the Public Prosecutor to open investigations into the death of al-Masri and to bring perpetrators before justice. Mahmoud! Round up the usual suspects!
PCHR also calls upon competent authorities to take necessary measures to ensure non-recurrence of attacks leading to deaths due to the misuse of weapons. Competent? You saying we aren't? Whaddya, being a wiseguy?
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A member of Islamic Jihad's military wing was killed late Wednesday in an explosion west of Deir Al-Balah, medics said, in what militants described as an airstrike but Israel's army denied. Ah. Methinks it's Ye Olde Work Accident...
Al-Quds Brigades spokesman Abu Ahmad said an airstrike on a car west of Deir Al-Balah killed Remah Fayez Al-Husseni, 28, a member of the group from Shati refugee camp. Yeah, an...airstrike! On a...car! That's the ticket!
Abu Ahmad said Israel was trying to "incite the resistance" to respond. Oh yeah? We'll show those lous...BOOM!
But Israeli military officials denied any involvement in the militant's death. "We had no operations in the Gaza Strip tonight," said Lt.-Col. Avital Leibovich, an army spokeswoman. An airstrike is "not the kind of thing you can hide," she added. Nope, wudn't us. If it was, believe me, we'd let you know. It's the 'zoom' before the 'kaboom'...
"This is not the first time we have seen an internal 'work incident' there." ...and it won't be the last. OMG, they really do call them that. I thought it was just a little Rantburg joke. Ironic snark is international, dear. Yes, Grasshopper, they really are work incidents...
Medics said Al-Husseni's body arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital after the blast. ...and his arms sure would've been tired. If he had any. Or was alive...
On Tuesday, a member of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees died and three others were injured in an Israeli airstrike near Khan Younis, medics said. The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement that Khaled Samhud, 23, the leader of the artillery unit in the brigades, died after an attack targeting members of the group. By Allah, take that, you filthy Zio...BOOM!
The first story was posted yesterday, but this one has a little more detail and has two more stories attached.
A ranger was gunned down in an ambush while driving three other rangers back to their camp in Narathiwat province.
Cpl Yongyuth Sutjarit, 45, was driving a pickup truck with three rangers riding in the back when they were attacked. Two men on a motorcycle opened fire at the truck and a bullet hit the corporal in the head. The truck swerved off the road and ran into a ditch.
The other rangers were not hurt. They jumped from the truck and returned fire in a five-minute exchange.
In Songkhla province, a teenager and a boy were found with an ammunition cache on Wednesday night. Police raided a worker's shelter and found a youth aged 16, and a boy aged 10 guarding the ammunition, which included two magazines for an M16, and four machetes. The pair admitted they were hired to guard the weapons.
In Yala province, police suspect a network controlled by Sofwan Sama, a local terror rebel leader, was behind the murder of school teacher, Kanit Lamnui, 38, who was killed on Tuesday. Kanit was gunned down and his body found burned in Yala province.
[An Nahar] A number of Lebanese activists, journalists, intellectuals and politicians on Thursday staged a sit-in at the Samir Qassir Square in downtown Beirut in support for "the freedom and dignity of the Syrian people."
Simultaneously, a group of supporters of Syrian 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... , who belong to a number of Lebanese political parties, gathered outside the Beirut Municipality in the center of the capital, carrying Syrian flags and pictures of Assad and shouting slogans in support of the Syrian leader and his regime, state-run National News Agency reported.
Security forces deployed in the area prevented any clash between the rival rallies.
Speaking on behalf of the organizers of the pro-Syrian uprising rally, activist Saleh al-Mashnouq said: "We reject that Leb, the representative of Lebanese and Arabs at the U.N., be a real partner in the attack against the Syrian people."
"Leb should rather be in its normal position, alongside the majority of Lebanese and Arab people who are opposed to the crimes against humanity being committed. A camp for Syrian refugees must also be set up in Leb, where they would feel secure and be treated according to the standards of human dignity," Mashnouq added.
"We declare our full support for the demands of the Syrians who are seeking international protection for civilians by all means possible. We call on all the Arab leaders to take a historic decision and achieve this Syrian demand, and we also urge all human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... organizations concerned to stand by these refugees," he went on to say.
Present at the rally were MPs Khaled al-Daher, Marwan Hamade, Ahmed Fatfat and Khaled Zahraman; ex-education minister Hassan Mneimneh; ex-MPs Fares Soaid and Elias Atallah; Democratic Renewal Movement secretary Antoine Haddad; National Bloc chief Carlos Edde; and members of the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... general-secretariat.
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Yeah, well, I think we're washing the cat that day. Sorry.
As far as I'm concerned, Syria can drop dead and rot.
[Al Jazeera] Syrian forces have killed at least 28 people in a massive tank-backed raid on the central city of Homs, rights activists say, while Syria's strongest ally Iran made a surprising call for 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... to end the violent crackdown.
Wednesday's security operation came after 2,000 people had taken to the streets of the city a day earlier, activists said.
Most of the killings occurred in old neighbourhoods of Homs, situated on the main northern highway 165km from 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 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based independent Syrian rights group, said.
"Military reinforcements including 20 truckloads of soldiers entered the city," it said, opening "intense gunfire in the market and governorate headquarters".
The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), which organises the anti-regime protests on the ground, said the corpse count continues to increase in Homs, where communications and internet services was cut in many neighbourhoods on Wednesday.
At least two people were killed in raids and attacks on Idlib province's Sarmeen, and one other in the northern city of Hama, the LCC said.
State-run news agency SANA reported that a "terrorist group" kidnapped two Baath party officials in the town of Rastan, near Homs, on Wednesday.
"That may be the reason behind the intense raids in Homs," Al Jizz's Omar al-Saleh reported from neighbouring Jordan. The Syrian government bans international journalists from entering the country.
Activists and residents said heavy machine-gun fire was heard in the Bab Dreib and Bostan Diwan neighbourhoods of Homs on Tuesday night after the protesters had set out for the area from Bab Tadmor.
Visit postponed
The security operations came just hours after Syria requested Nabil Elaraby, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... secretary-general, to delay his visit to Damascus, "due to circumstances beyond our control", SANA said late on Tuesday.
League officials said Elaraby will now visit Syria on Saturday.
Elaraby had been commissioned by the 22-member bloc to travel on Wednesday with a 13-point document outlining proposals to end the government's bloody crackdown on dissent and push Syria to launch reforms.
According to a copy of the document, he was to propose that Assad hold elections in three years, move towards a pluralistic government and immediately halt the crackdown on anti-government protesters.
The initiative, agreed at an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo last month, calls for a "clear declaration of principles by Assad specifying commitment to reforms he made in past speeches".
The initiative angered Syria which said it contained "unacceptable and biased language".
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[An Nahar] Syria, accused by La Belle France of "crimes against humanity," on Thursday sent its security forces storming into a northwestern village where they killed three military defectors, rights activists said.
"A force comprising seven armored vehicles and 10 jeeps stormed the village of Ibleen in Jabal Al-Zawiyah (region) in search of people wanted by the security services," the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.
"Heavy gunfire was heard as the forces stormed the village," the Observatory said in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse in Cyprus.
The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, later told AFP the killings occurred during a raid on the house in Ibleen of a brother of one of defectors, Hussein Harmouche.
Two other deserters were nabbed, Abdel Rahman said, reached by telephone from Nicosia.
Harmouche, an officer, announced his defection in a June video widely distributed on the Internet and broadcast on Arab satellite channels, giving as the reason his refusal "to fire on unarmed civilians."
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... says 2,200 people have been killed, most of them civilians, since democracy protests flared in Syria in mid-March.
The assault on Ibleen comes a day after regime forces, according to an updated toll by rights activists, killed another 31 people, 29 of them in a tank-backed raid on the flashpoint central city of Homs.
The brutal crackdown on protesters has been widely condemned by world powers, some of which have slapped sanctions on 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... regime.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe pulled no punches during talks on Wednesday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
"The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity," Juppe said.
"The way it (the Syrian regime) suppressed the popular protests is unacceptable," he said, expressing hope that Russia would change its stance and back U.N. condemnation of the crackdown.
The Syrian authorities, he said, should be sent "a powerful signal that such actions cannot continue."
But Lavrov gave no signs of being ready to ease a Russian position that last week saw Moscow lash the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for imposing a crippling oil embargo on Syria.
"We are convinced that the essential thing is to start dialogue at the talks table," Lavrov said.
"We consider that inciting certain forces within the opposition to boycott the invitation to dialogue is a dangerous path and risks a repetition of the Libyan scenario, which neither Russia nor La Belle France wants."
Russia has staunchly opposed attempts by Western governments to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution targeting 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... and has circulated an alternative draft calling for him to implement reforms.
European Union nations are considering fresh sanctions against Syria, a diplomatic source who asked not to be identified said in Brussels.
"There is preliminary political agreement" between EU nations on slapping a ban on oil-sector related investment as part of a seventh round of sanctions against the Assad regime, the source said.
The head of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , Nabil al-Arabi, is due in Damascus on Saturday after a planned visit on Wednesday was postponed.
Damascus had postponed the trip at the 11th-hour "due to circumstances beyond our control."
Arabi has been commissioned by the 22-member Cairo-based pan-Arab organization to travel to Damascus with a 13-point document outlining proposals to end the bloody crackdown on dissent and push Syria to launch reforms.
According to a copy of the document seen by AFP, Arabi is to propose that Assad hold elections in three years, move towards a pluralistic government and immediately halt the crackdown.
The initiative, agreed by Arab foreign ministers last month, angered Syria which said it contained "unacceptable and biased language."
Syria's regime, which has promised to launch a wide range of reforms to appease protesters, blames the unrest on foreign-backed "armed terrorist gangs."
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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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International Criminal Court
Qadaffy,
[Dawn] A South Korean appeals court Thursday upheld a life sentence on a Somali pirate convicted of hijacking a South Korean-operated ship in the Arabian Sea and trying to murder the captain.
Over a dozen suspects were 
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi military force has discovered 4 rocket and ammunition dumps in southern Iraqs Wassit Province on Thursday, a security source reported.
Yesterday, Riadh al-Masri, from Khan Yunis, was killed on the ground of a familial dispute, 
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A member of Islamic Jihad's military wing was killed late Wednesday in an explosion west of Deir Al-Balah, medics said, in what militants described as an airstrike but Israel's army denied.
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