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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lori Saunders aka Bobbie Jo Bradley in "Petticoat Junction (TV)" aka Betsy in "Dusty's Trail (TV)" aka Gloria Wellman in "So Sad About Gloria" aka Cynthia Harris in "The Young and the Restless (TV)" aka Allison Stewart in "Frasier, the Sensuous Lion" aka Millie in "Head On" aka Dorean in "Blood Bath" aka Patricia Johnson in "The Girls on the Beach" aka Mara Wade in "Mara of the Wilderness" (age 70)
An explosion outside a government complex in Mogadishu on Tuesday has killed at least 65 people and wounded 50, according to the coordinator of the capital's ambulance service.
Ali Muse said, "We have carried 65 dead bodies and 50 injured people. Some are still lying there. Most of the people have burns."
He said students, soldiers and civilians were among the dead.
An insidious and specialized type of left-wing troll who visits blogs and impersonates a conservative for the purpose of either spreading false rumors intended to sow dissension among conservative voters, or who purposely posts inflammatory and offensive comments for the purpose of discrediting the blog in question.
The term is derived from the name of the liberal musician Moby, who famously suggested in February of 2004 that left-wing activists engage in this type of subterfuge: “For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you’re an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion. Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, ‘What’s all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?’”
The strategy has been frequently attempted on conservative blogs, but has not been nearly as effective as Moby envisioned, since false rumors are easily debunked by fact-checking minions, and cartoonishly extreme commenters often get immediately identified as mobys and banned.
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Thank you, lotp. How sad for him -- how it must gall him to look in the mirror in the morning and remember that he was so quickly pegged as not smart enough to be Jewish. But perhaps it was his first outing, and so he's only just discovered this fact.
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Or a student, probably based in roundhay, leeds. Either way, he's a fine example of what is wrong with the world today
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...for the purpose of either spreading false rumors...
Interesting how so many left-wing strategies boil down to being wreckers rather than creators. The whole Alinsky/Cloward-Piven strategy is to try and break things to create dissatisfaction in order to get power.
Even more ironic is that capitalism has, at its core, a process of creative destruction where old, inefficient things get displaced by newer, more effective ones... assuming the government does not intervene to try and rig the game. See Kodak, a company that once owned the photography market, for a currently in the news example of something once thriving, but now dying and Solyndra for an example of how well the government predicts winners.
[An Nahar] Egyptian security authorities on Monday jugged a man suspected of spying for Hizbullah after he beat feet detention during the January uprising, the official MENA agency said.
Hassan al-Manakhly, one of the 22-member Hizbullah cell, was tossed in the slammer after making an appearance on a live talk show Sunday night in Cairo, MENA said.
Manakhly had been serving a 10-year jail sentence for spying for Hizbullah and "planning terrorist attacks inside Egypt".
Egyptian authorities announced on February 3 that the 22 members of the cell had beat feet from a prison during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... a week later.
Hizbullah, which has had strained ties with Egypt for decades, had praised Egyptians on their "historic victory" after Mubarak's ouster.
The Shiite group -- which opposes the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel -- sparked the ire of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in late 2008 by accusing him of complicity with Israel during the Israeli offensive in the Gazoo Strip.
Egyptian courts last year sentenced 26 people, four in absentia, for allegedly planning attacks in Egypt on behalf of Hizbullah.
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[An Nahar] Libya's post-Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... leaders have named a new Cabinet and vow to step down after the country is fully secured. Monday's announcement comes after weeks of political infighting stalled efforts to form a new government. The head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, and the de facto prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, say they'll stay in their posts until Moammar Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte is captured. But they say they have signed a pledge "not to take part in any future government in any way."
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[An Nahar] Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... 's birthplace Qasr Abu Hadi has been overrun by fighters loyal to Libya's new rulers, according to medics who visited the village Monday on the edge of the Mediterranean city of Sirte.
"Abu Hadi is completely free (of Qadaffy fighters)," said Dr. Taha Sultan at a field hospital on the eastern outskirts of Sirte.
"Our medical team came through the village and they tell us it is free," Sultan told AFP.
He added that two National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters were killed in frontline fighting in another part of eastern Sirte on Monday, and six injured.
The capture of Qasr Abu Hadi, where Qadaffy was reportedly born in a nomad tent in 1942 when it was still a tiny desert hamlet, marks a symbolic coup for the NTC as it seeks to subdue the last vestiges of support for the toppled strongman.
Earlier, NTC fighter Ali Awaz said Qadaffy's remaining forces around Qasr Abu Hadi were putting up a desperate bid for survival.
"They are fighting for their lives. They are not fighting for any system or any goal now," he said.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen linked to al-Qaeda on Monday killed four soldiers in southern Yemen, a medic said, a day after at least 25 troops died in an air strike by government forces and other gunbattles.
Another four soldiers who were maimed in the latest festivities in the city of Zinjibar were in "serious condition," said the medic at a military hospital in Aden.
A local official said street shootouts were ongoing in the city, which is partly held by beturbanned goons, mainly in the neighborhood of Bajidar.
On Sunday, security officials said that at least 25 soldiers were killed in a "friendly fire" incident and festivities with the Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons.
The officials said some of the soldiers were killed in the strike by Yemen's air force in Zinjibar, although this was denied by an unnamed military official cited by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Hundreds of Death Eaters from the Qaeda-linked Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law) group overran Zinjibar in May, and it has been the scene of fierce fighting ever since.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, has taken advantage of nearly nine months of sweeping unrest against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... to bolster its presence in the restive south and east Yemen, launching regular attacks.
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These yemeni soldiers were muslims, and so probably terrorists, else they could become terrorists. All muslims are terrorists.
So it is good that they have been killed but it is not enough.
[Dawn] A Bahraini special court on Monday placed in durance vile 36 Shia's for up to 25 years each in three separate cases linked to pro-reform protests in the Gulf kingdom, a military prosecutor said.
The rulings came only hours after a civil court date was set for a group of medics who were handed lengthy jail terms last week for their roles in the month-long protests, leading to international condemnation of Bahrain.
In Monday's decision, 14 Shia's were sentenced to life, or 25 years in prison, after being convicted of beating to death a Pak with a "terrorist" intent and gathering for riots, the prosecutor Yusof Fleifel said.
Fifteen were sentenced to 15 years in jail for attempting to murder military personnel and taking part in protests and vandalism at Manama's Bahrain University, Fleifel said, quoted by BNA state news agency.
The third case involved seven students, six of them placed in durance vile 15 years, while another was sentenced to 18 years, over charges including the attempted murder of several people at the university.
The students had been charged with "holding people hostage in building S20 and setting it on fire with the aim of killing those in the upper floor" in addition to damaging the building and stealing computers, BNA said.
The students were collectively fined 349,300 Bahraini dinars (dollar 926,377), it added.
Matar Matar, a former opposition MP, said those convicted of killing of the Pak had confessed under torture and that the evidence against them was weak.
"Their lawyers had asked for a medical committee to check them for marks of torture, but their request was turned down," Matar told AFP, adding the defendants had said they only took part in a public gathering.
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[Yemen Post] As the U.S government is relishing its victory over al-Qaeda with the alleged death of several of the group's top leaders, amongst whom well-known holy man and criminal mastermind in al-Qaeda in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, al-Awlaki is was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He is was an Islamic holy man who is was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He is was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... the terror group has announced that the allegations were false and that al-Awlaki was still very alive.
Only a few days, the Yemeni and American government bi-laterally announced to the world that they had killed U.S most wanted terrorist in an Arclight airstrike in al-Jawf province in Yemen, north of its capital Sana'a.
Allegedly, al-Awlaki was traveling in a 3 car-convoy when he was struck from the air, leaving him and 3 of his lover companions dead.
Soon after the announcement of al-Awlaki's death, U.S intelligence officials declared that they believed the bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri and Samir Khan, the group' English magazine co-editor, had as well been killed in the attack.
As is happens, al-Qaeda in Yemen is now claiming that both al-Awlaki and al-Asiri are still alive and were in fact nowhere near the kaboom.
Since the Yemeni government claimed once already having successfully eliminated the infamous holy man, to be later proven wrong when the man issued a televised statement, doubt has been cast upon the veracity of the American-Yemeni's declarations of victory.
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Still alive in the same sense Achmed the Dead Terrorist is still alive, or alive in the sense Jimmy Carter is still alive? Cause those are two different things.
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[Yemen Post] Friday in Yemen marked another day of protests for hundreds of thousands of protesters in the capital, Sana'a and across the country. As in the previous weeks, the Opposition's Imams delivered a heart ranching speech, denouncing the many crimes and short-comings of the regime, urging people to stand strong in the face of difficulty as victory was close at hands.
Dubbed the Friday of "Victory for our Yemen and our Syria" protesters marched along the capital main avenue, facing the potential threat of snipers at every corner, street or rooftop.
In pure "Arab spring" style, the regime organized its own rally of supporters, however not managing to gather more than a few thousand people.
This Friday was quite significant for the Opposition as its weekly "show of force" came a day only after president Saleh announced in an interview to the Washington Post that he would not be stepping down.
As far as the embattled dictator is concerned, the idea of having its fiercest opponent competing in the next presidential elections is not fathomable. He clearly stated that as long as defected General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and the al-Ahmar clan was allowed to remain in Yemen, free to pursue their political ambitions he would remain president of the Republic of Yemen.
"If we transfer power and they are there, this will mean that we have given into a coup," he said. "If we transfer power, and they are in their positions, and they are still decision-makers, this will be very dangerous. This will lead to civil war."
President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... seems to be thinking that the General and the Sheikh could drag Yemen into a bloody civil war when he could prevent it.
Since the National Yemeni Council for the Revolution has several al-Ahmar members sitting on its board and that Mohsen is also a member, the regime might be having difficulties honoring its promises of negotiations with the Opposition.
As it happened one cannot always chose its opponents.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday framed 20 specific charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971.
The charge framing represents a watershed in the country's history as it marks the beginning of the war crimes tribunal's first trial since its formation on March 25 last year.
Sayedee, aged 71, sat in the dock throughout the 80-minitue proceedings. He pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." after the court read out the charges.
The charges include murdering civilians; collaborating with the Pak occupation army to kill and torture unarmed people, loot valuables and torch houses and other properties; persecuting people on religious and political grounds; and committing atrocities on the Hindu community.
According to those, Sayedee was directly involved in abduction, confinement and raping of some girls. He raped a Hindu girl on several occasions. He also forced some Hindus to convert to Islam, an act the court considers a crime against humanity.
He perpetrated the offences in Pirojpur between March 25 and December 16, 1971, sometimes as part of a group of individuals and sometimes as a member of Shanti (peace) Committee. He often led teams of razakars (collaborators).
After the war started, Peace Committee and Razakar Bahini were formed to collaborate with the Pakistain occupation forces.
The 20 charges against Sayedee, Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer, cover crimes against humanity; genocide; attempt, abetment or conspiracy to commit any such crimes; and complicity in or failure to prevent of commission of any such crimes, according to different subsections of section 3(2) of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973.
The offences carry a maximum sentence of death.
One of the charges cites Sayedee's involvement in killing three Bangalee government officials in the then sub-division of Pirojpur and throwing their bodies in the Baleshwar river.
Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, father of famed writer Humayun Ahmed and noted educationalist-writer Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, was among the three. He was a police officer.
The other two were Saif Mizanur Rahman and Abdur Razzak, deputy magistrate and sub-divisional officer (in charge).
The prosecution pressed 31 specific charges against Sayedee on July 11. Three days later, the tribunal took the charges into cognisance. Last month, it heard arguments from the prosecution and the defence.
Tribunal Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq along with its two other members--Justice ATM Fazlul Kabir and AKM Zaheer Ahmed-- started the proceedings at 10:30am yesterday.
Though charge framing was the only item on the day's agenda, the tribunal issued a show-cause notice against national daily New Age for publishing an article, which it said was contemptuous and written with the intention of blemishing the tribunal's image.
Passing the order on charge framing, the court gave an introduction to the case, first in its history. It also introduced itself and explained the context of crimes it is dealing with.
Besides, the tribunal narrated a brief history of the partition of India in 1947, Bangladesh's liberation in 1971, formulation of International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, and formation of the tribunal in 2010.
After reading out the charges in English, the presiding judge asked Sayedee if he was guilty or not.
At that point, Sayedee's counsel Tajul Islam said the charges should be read out in Bangla too so that his client can understand those properly before pleading guilty or not guilty.
He repeatedly demanded the court allow Sayedee to consult with his lawyers before pleading anything.
In reply, Justice Md Nizamul Huq asked Tajul not to say anything that might taint his own image. The judge then directed the police to bring Sayedee to the front dock.
At that time, Tajul hurriedly walked towards Sayedee and whispered something in his ears.
Seeing this, Justice Nizamul Huq said: "Tajul sahib, this is not fair. Now he [Sayedee] is talking to the tribunal."
After the court read out the charges in Bangla, Sayedee said he had understood the charges when those were read out in English. He also asked for the court's permission to consult with his lawyer.
The judge told him there was no scope for him to consult with his lawyer at that stage, and that he was supposed to plead guilty or not.
In response, the Jamaat leader said he wanted to say something before pleading anything.
After the court gave him the permission, Sayedee gave a 15-minute speech, reciting verses from the Koran.
He claimed he is a "victim of lies and political vengeance" of the government.
Complaining that a prosecutor mispronounced his name, Sayedee told the tribunal chairman: "As you've recently performed hajj, I expect you to ask the prosecutor about it."
He then went on to explain the value of judges to Allah.
He said there have been no complaints against him in the years following the Liberation War. But when he became a member of Majlish-e-Sura of Jamaat in 1980, he started being referred to as a former member of Shanti Bahini and razakar.
"Let me say this in clear terms, I'm not a razakar. Indian razakars call me a razakar," Sayedee said, adding that he never worked against humanity and that he rather spoke for humanity in many countries.
"Every line, word and sentence in the investigation report is a lie," he told the court. "I was never a razakar or Al-badar. Those who prepared this false [report] have no fear of Allah."
He said the entire proceedings and the case against him are stage-managed. He claimed he was never part of any of the activities mentioned in the charges and he never held any meeting with the Mighty Pak Army for even a minute.
He appealed to the court for exemption from the "false accusations".
"I'm an innocent man," he said, "Allah's curse will befall them who have isolated me from the people and humiliated me."
Terming his accusers "dictators", he said he would wait to see Allah's gazab (wrath of god) and lanat (curse) come down on them.
Tribunal Member AKM Zaheer Ahmed then told Sayedee that framing charges does not mean he will be punished. He also explained the process of holding the trial.
The court has set October 30 as the date for opening statement of prosecution and examination of prosecution witnesses.
"The proceedings shall take place every workday until further order," it said.
Sayedee's counsel Tajul Islam sought three months' time for preparations to defend his client. The court, however, did not respond to his prayer.
According to the tribunal's rules of procedure, the accused will get three weeks for preparing his defence if he pleads not guilty.
The International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, allows a convicted person to appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against his conviction and sentence.
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The US is weak. It couldn't even finish off cuba and has had to live with its enemy just miles from its coast.
You must exterminate your enemies before they kill you. You must kill them all including their children else they breed and replenish. You probably need an organised program of extermination - drones are not the answer.
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I would do what Kennedy did, (well, in this instance)blockade the island until the hezbullies are evicted.
That's if our President had any ...um...er... balls
Cuban Missile crises redux
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"Hezbollah operates almost like a Mafia family in Northern Mexico, often demanding protection money and "taxes" from local inhabitants." She also noted that lately gang tattoos of many prisoners in Arizona jails are written in Farsi.
The tagging on the underbelly of the Southwest planes was deemed to not be Arabic but it looked like Farsi to me. The 'sword' in the lettering was very much like the Iranian Bank logo in the Fox special last weekend. Following all the links in the article is alarming--Roger Noriega, W's ambassador, even warns that Congress isn't up to speed with all the Hezbollah cells already in place.
Gunmen opened fire on a bus in south-west Pakistan, killing 13 people and wounding six others. Four gunmen on motorbikes, armed with automatic weapons, opened fire on the bus near the city of Quetta, near the borders of Iran and Afghanistan.
Most of the victims were Shiite Muslims of Hazara ethnicity and were traveling to a fruit and vegetable market in nearby Hazara Ganji.
Local police official Hamid Shakeel said, "Four gunmen riding two motorcycles opened fire on a bus in the outskirts of Quetta. The death toll has risen to 13. Two of the injured who were in critical condition died in hospital. Now 12 Shiite Muslims and one Pashtun have been killed in the attack."
Television footage showed the bus engulfed in flames, with passengers' luggage seen scattered around the site.
Police sealed off the site of the attack as 400 outraged Hazaras demonstrated outside the Bolan Medical Complex where the injured were taken.
[Dawn] Five alleged hit mans were tossed in the clink on Monday from Baldia Town and Pak Colony areas in Bloody Karachi by the Sindh police's Crime Investigation Department (CID), DawnNews reported.
SSP CID Choudhary Aslam stated that the tossed in the clink men are named Imran alias Billa, Ali Akbar alias Shahid, Mohammad Abid alias Mota, Ali Ahmed alias Ganja and Imran alias Fakhi. Aslam stated that the men belong to two different political groups.
The police said that the men have been accused of killing seventeen people, out of which six were killed in Organi Town.
A rifle, along with five TT pistols was also recovered from the tossed in the clink men.
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[Dawn] Four shops were destroyed and five others damaged partially in a blast at Kumbar Maidan Bazaar here on Sunday, police said.
Before the blast, bully boyz attacked a temporary checkpoint of police at Kumbar early in the morning. Exchange of fire between the attackers and law enforcers continued for some time, sources said. However, ars longa, vita brevis... there was no report of casualties in the attack. "The attackers then went kaboom! a bomb, planted already at the local market, and destroyed four shops of computers and cellular phone sets completely," sources said.
They said that five adjacent shops were also damaged partially in the blast. The law enforcers soon cordoned off the area after the incident and started search operation but no arrest was made till filing of this report.
The destroyed shops were owned by Samiullah, Ghulam Rahman, Inam Khan and Akbar Khan. The incident spread a wave of fear in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last... a former Death Eater commander, who was injured in an attack by unidentified persons in Warr Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central the other day, pegged out in a hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Sunday.
Sources said that the former commander, Shah Faisal Khan, had renounced militancy and severed relations with the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain recently.
He had laid down arms and surrendered to the security forces unconditionally.Sources said that Shah Faisal was meeting some guests in his hujra in Dabbar area of Warr Mamond when unidentified persons attacked him. He was maimed in the attack.
He had been shifted to the agency headquarters hospital in Khar and was later shifted to Peshawar in precarious condition. Nobody has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
Sources said that Shah Faisal worked as a senior commander of Taliban in Bajaur Agency for three years.
Political authorities said that he had been involved in attacks on tribal lashkars and peace committees, kidnappings for ransom and killings of tribal elders in Bajaur Agency.
Sources said that he had renounced militancy after developing differences with Taliban leadership in the agency.
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[Dawn] Armed forces of Evil on Monday stormed a police headquarters in a western Iraqi town before taking hostage bigwigs and coppers, security officials said.
At least two kabooms preceded the attack on the Al-Baghdadi police headquarters, which is in a compound that also houses the office of the town's mayor, according to the officials.
One official said the blasts were caused by roadside kabooms while another said they were suicide kabooms.
A police official in the quiet provincial capital Ramadi said the gunnies had taken hostage the police chief and mayor of Al-Baghdadi, about 150 kilometres northwest of the Iraqi capital in Anbar province.
But two other officials, a police officer in the nearby town of Haditha and an interior ministry official, only said several coppers were being held, without providing any more details.
All three officials said there were casualties from the attack, but it was unclear how many as the gunnies were in control of the complex.
Security reinforcements were being dispatched to the town.
Anbar was a key bad boy base in the years after the US-led invasion of 2003, but since 2006 local tribes have sided with the American military and day-to-day violence has dropped dramatically.
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Might wanna increase the security at the police stations? Just sayin...
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A bomb went off yesterday in the heart of the town of Pattani, moments after a military patrol tank traveled past the scene. Witnesses said the explosion took place near the To Ayo Muslim cemetary. The Muslim graveyard's concrete fence was damaged by the explosion, but nobody was hurt.
Police, who rushed to the scene, found a 15-kilogram fire extinguisher, electrical cords, flashlight batteries, a radio circuit board and pieces of the bomb. Investigators suspect that the bomb had targeted the tank, which at that time had six newly recruited soldiers on board.
Police believe Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) militants might have been behind the explosion because they had been involved in previous violent incidents in the same area.
Police said three people were gunned down and two homes were badly damaged by arsonists before the bombing. Police and soldiers joined forces to track down those behind the bombing, but have made no arrests.
In related news, a squad of police officers and soldiers in Yala province inspected a section of railway yesterday morning after getting information that there was a suspicious stone pile on the track. Investigators said they found a large hole near the track and assailants had possibly been preparing to dig the hole to bury a bomb and detonate it because they knew that a train passes through the section every morning.
[Bangla Daily Star] An American woman kidnapped in a lawless part of the Philippines walked free after nearly 12 weeks in captivity, but she was forced to leave behind her son and nephew, authorities said yesterday.
Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, her 14-year-old son and her Filipino teenage nephew were kidnapped on July 12 on a resort island off Zamboanga city, close to other southern islands where a range of Islamist snuffies are based.
Lunsmann's ordeal ended on Sunday night after the kidnappers took her by boat from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location to a wharf on nearby Basilan island, and ordered her to walk into a town, local officials and the military said.
"The victim looked haggard and tired. She had lost weight and is a little weak," said police physician Superintendent Dexter Bubuli, who met Lunsmann, 41, hours after she was airlifted to a military camp in Zamboanga.
"She looked very traumatised by what had happened."
Celso Lobregat, mayor of Zamboanga city, said Lunsmann's son and nephew remained in captivity and negotiations for their release were continuing.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
In a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."
If you do, I can guarantee that is the last thing your regime will ever do. Israel will turn your shit hole into Swiss cheese.
[An Nahar] The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday moved to block the sale of telecommunications equipment to Syria, the latest in a series of sanctions aimed at isolating Bashir al-Assad's regime.
According to a Treasury document signed on Monday, U.S. firms will now be barred from selling the Syrian government, or anyone in the country, telecoms equipment or technology, "including satellite or terrestrial network connectivity."
Washington has slapped sanctions on a series of top Syrian government officials amid a deadly crackdown on protestors across the country.
On August 17 President Barack B.O. Obama signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against the Syrian regime because of what the White House termed a "continuing escalation of violence against the people of Syria."
The sanctions froze all Syrian government property in the United States and banned U.S. citizens from doing new business with the country, or importing petroleum products.
Speaking in Tel Aviv on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said it was "a matter of time" before the Syrian regime headed al-Assad is ousted from power by the uprising.
According to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , the crackdown has killed at least 2,700 people.
Throughout the crackdown, Syrian state-backed television channels have broadcast pro-government accounts of events in the country.
Syrian news networks have also been used to broadcast messages from Libya's Moammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... and the remnants of his regime.
The order was signed by Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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Isn't Syria designated a terrorist state?
Why are we selling them this type of stuff in the first place?
[An Nahar] A U.N. building at the Gefinor Center in Clemenceau on Monday was evacuated after hand-written pamphlets warned of bombs in the building were thrown, National News Agency reported.
The U.N. media official Bahaa Elkoussy said to NNA that "an unknown person entered the U.N. building Monday afternoon in order to transfer a box to the health center and threw leaflets which were handwritten in red saying "there is a bomb."
The U.N. security evacuated the building and an explosives expert came, but no explosives were found.
The security forces have identified the person who threw the leaflets and are currently in his pursuit.
Earlier, security measures have been taken to protect the U.N. building in downtown Beirut, ESCWA, after the international organization has been targeted in many countries, recently in Abuja.
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Syrian troops going house to house have jugged more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting since the country's uprising began six months ago, an activist said Monday.
Also, a member of Syria's outgoing parliament dismissed a broad-based national council set up by the opposition, saying it will not be able to overthrow 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. Khaled Abboud told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that those who announced the formation of the council in Istanbul a day earlier are "deluding themselves."
Syrian dissidents met in Istanbul Sunday and formally established a national council designed to overthrow Assad's regime, which they accused of pushing the country to the brink of civil war.
The council appeared to be the most serious step yet to unify a deeply fragmented dissident movement.
Abboud dismissed the opposition move, saying: "It's a dream that will never come true."
In the rebellious central town of al-Rastan, which the government retook on Saturday, an activist told The AP by telephone that security forces have jugged more than 3,000 residents since Saturday.
He said the detainees were being held at a cement factory, as well as some schools and the Sports Club, a massive four-story compound.
"Ten of my relatives have been jugged," said the activist, who asked that he be identified by his first name, Hassan. He said was he speaking from hiding in al-Rastan.
"The situation in the town is miserable," he said, adding that the town of some 70,000 people was heavily bombed for five days starting Tuesday when the army launched an offensive.
Syrian activists say the fighting in al-Rastan pitted the Syrian military against hundreds of army defectors who sided with the anti-regime protesters, who are calling for Assad's ouster.
The festivities in Rastan were among the worst the country has seen since the uprising began in mid-March.
Hassan said that as of Sunday, the regime brought into al-Rastan thousands of workers to clean up the streets and rebuild damaged areas in what appeared to be an attempt to cover the damage caused by intense shelling.
He added that food stuffs also were brought into the town.
Syria's state-media said troops took control of al-Rastan after hunting down "armed terrorists" holed up inside. But the fighting there highlighted the increasingly militarized nature of an uprising started months ago by peaceful protesters.
The uprising began in mid-March amid a wave of anti-government protests in the Arab world that have so far toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Assad has reacted with deadly force that the U.N. estimates has left some 2,700 people dead.
Also Monday, funeral processions were held for the 21-year-old son of Syria's top Sunni Mohammedanholy man who was killed a day earlier in an ambush in a restive northern area.
The holy man, Grand Mufti Ahmed Badreddine Hassoun, who is considered a close supporter of Assad's regime, told hundreds of people attending the funeral at a mosque in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... that the country's opposition should stop working against Syria from abroad.
"Come and say whatever you want here and if anyone rejects I will be with you in the opposition," said Hassoun, his voice shaking, in an apparent reference to steps taken by Assad to allow the formation of political parties and promises of free elections. "You want freedom, you want justice then come here and build it with us in Syria."
Hassoun, who has echoed Syria's regime claims that the unrest in the country is the result of a foreign conspiracy, blamed fatwas or religious edicts by holy mans living abroad for the death of his son. He did not name the holy mans or say where they were based.
"My brothers who were misguided and carried arms, you should have assassinated me because some holy mans issued such fatwas. Why did you kill a young man who did nothing and harmed no one," Hassoun, holding back his tears, said in a sermon aired on Syrian TV stations.
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[al-Arabiya] A son of Syria's Grand Mufti, Shiekh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, has been rubbed out near Ibla University on the Idleb-Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... highway, Syria's official news agency, SANA reported.
Earlier, a relative of the grand mufti told Al Arabiya that Saria Hassoun, 22, was hit by two bullets, one to his chest and another to his stomach, and that he was taken to Idleb National Hospital.
Hassoun was shot outside the university while he was talking to a professor, who was also killed in the ambush, the relative said.
The official news agency confirmed that an "armed terrorist group killed Professor of History at Aleppo University Dr. Mohammad al-Omar while he was on his way to the university. Dr. al-Omar was accompanied by Saria Hassoun." SANA also reported that gunnies in Homs killed the chairman of thoracic surgery at Homs National Hospital, Dr. Hassan Eid, on Sept. 25, an engineer, Aws Abdel Karim Khalil, a nuclear engineering specialist and charge d'affaires at al-Baath University, on Sept. 28, and the deputy dean of the architecture faculty, Mohammad Ali Aqil on Sept. 26.
Armed dissidents have targeted a series of suspected regime informers in several cities in an outburst of violence.
After more than six months of peaceful demonstrations against the rule of Bashir al-Assad, Syria appears to be going down the path of civil war.
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A top Yemeni official says al Qaeda's chief bomb maker in Yemen was not killed in the U.S. drone strike on a convoy two days ago.
U.S. intelligence officials had said that bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri may have been killed.
But on Sunday a Yemeni official said Al-Asiri was not among those who died in the drone attack Really? Prove it. Produce him with a copy of today's NYT, and please provide GPS coordinates.
that killed U.S.-born jihadist holy manAnwar al-Awlaki. ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, al-Awlaki is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He is an Islamic holy man who is a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He is the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... Al-Asiri has been linked to the bomb that authorities allege a Nigerian man tried to detonate aboard a Detroit-bound plane in 2009. The Yemeni official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
In addition to al-Awlaki, another American-born member of al Qaeda died in the strike Friday: Samir Khan, the co-editor of an online English-language magazine that had urged American Mohammedans to carry out attacks.
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Greater question: Burried as sea? What if UBL "wasn't killed" and is now resting comfortably in Mecca with his young wife and son. Interesting is it not, how we seem to recently be enjoying great success at killing off a number of the top AQ leadership.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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An explosion outside a government complex in Mogadishu on Tuesday has killed at least 65 people and wounded 50, according to the coordinator of the capital's ambulance service. 
Friday in Yemen marked another day of protests for hundreds of thousands of protesters in the capital, Sana'a and across the country. As in the previous weeks, the Opposition's Imams delivered a heart ranching speech, denouncing the many crimes and short-comings of the regime, urging people to stand strong in the face of difficulty as victory was close at hands.
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday framed 20 specific charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
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