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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Adela Noriega aka Sofía Elizondo Acevedo in "Fuego En La Sangre (Fire in the blood)" aka Virginia Alfaro in "La esposa virgen (The Virgin wife)" aka Matilde Peñalver y Beristáin de Fuentes Guerra "Amor Real (Real love)" Alfonsina Valdés Rivero in "El Manantial (The spring)" aka Cristina Miranda in "El Privilegio de Amar (The Privilege of Love)" aka Lucero Sandoval in "Dulce Desafío (Sweet Challenge)" aka Lucía in "Un sábado más (One Saturday more)" (age 43)
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If they had closed captioning they'd probably have a much wider audience.
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Over the years I have never commented on the pictures, just looked on in wonder and awe but WOW, couldn't resist. Yo habla, hubba hubba.
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If they had closed captioning they'd probably have a much wider audience.
Good way to encourage bilingualism too. Seems like the broadcasters are missing out on an opportunity. Just the usual cultural chauvinism and short-sighted audience-share economics I spose.
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The Geneva Convention rules are to protect medics not merely identify them. If the enemy is targeting them, no sane army would identify them and not arm them.
Can anyone defend the current policy?
Wasn't the situation the same in Vietnam? What did we do then?
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The problem is not with the marks on the aircraft or them being armed. When any aircraft is on the ground loading casualties it is vulnerable to enemy fires. The aircraft on the ground cannot defend itself even if it is armed with the best weapons, it cant shoot on the side being loaded, cant shoot up at any angle, etc , a cover aircraft is required. If commanders decide to over task cover aircraft they are taking risks they should think twice about.
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I lost a good friend in Vietnam to this same thing. He was Air Force Para-rescue. Went into a hot zone to extract a couple of injured. Too much ground fire, the two Cobras sent to protect him were overwhelmed, and he and the crew he worked with were killed. We also lost a Cobra. Probably a deliberate trap, but it's hard to tell. The US began using more ground attack aircraft (A-1E's in Vietnam) to protect Medivac. Where are the A-10's in this situation? Or is this a case where the ROE's get in the way? I need to read Mike's dispatch.
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Why does the Geneva Convention even from into play here? The Taliban are ILLEGAL combatants.
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These medics should have nade launchers to pop smoke and explosives. Gen. Conv. only applies to nation soldiers, Taliban don't care about a Red Cross, to them it's a target and religious symbol.
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The real point is, the Army asked years ago for more aviation assets. Yon did too. Went something like: send more choppers or send more bodybags.
Every good Commander knows that CAS is one of the first things on a hot list if troopies are going to be isolated.
It does not matter what is tried, you will lose MEDIVAC and sometimes more Soldiers than you are trying to save.
Tho smoke may be a good idea, sometimes it is not possible to defend the LZ properly outside the landing area as the LZ may be too small. It's a command call.
To be honest, as was said at the high levels, you may never have enough CAS.
medics can go in unarmed with a red cross to protect them.
or medics can go in armed without a red cross and count on a 50 cal to protect them.
either way they have a tough job and should not have to get a combat medic award just for doing their job.
It should be their call in that situation. The General should respect the Corporal in this. Where in the world is the Command Sergeant Major? He should be kicking the General's ass.
Sergeant, if you are reading this, please think of your soldiers, and kick somebody in the butt. It is wrong, and you know it. As a simple civilian, I look to the Generals to take care of the war and the Sergeants to take care of the troops.
What Mr. Yon describes is just not right, and the
Secretary of Defense sitting in the Pentagon is nobody compared my First Sergeant sitting in my hooch.
[An Nahar] A jacket wallah launched Sunday a failed liquidation attempt on Afghan Interior Minister Bismullah Khan in Parwan, north of Kabul, a front man for the ministry told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"I can confirm a failed liquidation attempt on the minister, a suicide bomber was involved, no casualties," Siddiq Siddiqui said, giving no further details.
Governor of Parwan province Abdul Basir Salangi said the attack took place at 3:30pm (11:00 GMT) on the road between Sayed Khail and Gulbahar districts.
He said the minister was not there at the time, but did not give his whereabouts, telling AFP only that: "He was in Parwan. He is safe."
"The minister's convoy had parked for prayers, a suicide kaboomer hiding under a bridge approached the convoy. The bodyguards saw him and shot him. He had a boom jacket on, but the explosives didn't explode," Salangi added.
Khan is an ethnic Tajik former anti-Soviet commander who fought the Taliban alongside Afghanistan's northern hero Ahmad Shah Masood and was appointed to the interior ministry post in June last year.
The failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! on his life is the latest in a string of violent incidents to take place in the north of the country, which over the past decade has been relatively insulated from the Taliban-led insurgency.
The minister is a member of the Jamiat-e-Islami political party that was led by the former president Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , the chief broker for peace in the Afghan war until he was killed at his home in Kabul last month.
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The attacker attempted to detonate his explosives on a convoy of cars sent in advance of the minister's vehicle, just north of Kabul, perhaps thinking the minister was inside, as he was being taken to visit the Panjshir valley, said spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui. "In Sayed Khail (a district of Parwan province) a suicide attacker runs toward this convoy, but gets shot by bodyguards before being able to detonate himself," he said. The local police chief said the bomber's body was in police custody and "we are trying to untie his explosives-filled vest from his body". That doesn't sound like a good idea.
[BBC] A grenade attack on a nightclub in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has left 14 people injured, say police.
The grenade was thrown in the club early on Monday morning - the motive was not immediately clear.
The attack comes a week after Kenya sent troops into Somalia to track down members of the jihad boy group al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... , which Nairobi blames for a series of kidnappings in recent weeks.
Al-Shabaab had threatened reprisal attacks if the troops did not leave.
The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, has denied carrying out any abductions.
Last week, Kenya announced it would carry out a major security operation in Nairobi to flush out al-Shabaab sympathisers once its Somalia operation had ended.
The AFP news agency named the club as Mwauras.
"Initial investigations show it is a grenade that was thrown inside," said Nairobi police chief Eric Mugambi, AFP reports.
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[An Nahar] Suspected Islamist Islamic fascistikidnapped two Spaniards and an Italian working at a refugee camp in western Algeria early Sunday, officials and security sources said.
A colleague of one of the Spanish hostages said over Spanish radio that "several gunshots were heard" and two people were maimed during the kidnapping from the Rabuni camp near Tindouf, mainly inhabited by Sahrawi refugees from Western Sahara who seek greater autonomy.
The information ministry of Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement said the Spanish hostage and a Sahrawi guard were maimed.
In the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse that al-Qaeda's north Africa wing was behind the kidnapping.
They "were taken hostage by elements of AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) under the authority of Moktar Bel Moktar (alias Belewar, the Algerian leader of an AQIM branch," the source said, without detailing the circumstances of the kidnapping.
The Polisario Front's envoy to Algiers told AFP he "directly accused" AQMI of carrying out the kidnapping shortly before midnight on Saturday.
Spanish media identified the Spanish hostages as Ainhoa Fernandez de Rincon and Enric Gonyalons -- who was maimed, according to Polisario.
"The kidnappers infiltrated from Malian territory ... using an all-terrain vehicle and firearms. The forces of Evil went back the way they came with the hostages," Polisario said in a statement.
The Italian foreign ministry identified the Italian as Rossella Urru, who works for the Italian Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP).
"In cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Algeria, (Rome) has immediately activated all channels useful in arriving at a positive outcome and is in contact with the relatives and with the CISP," the ministry said in a statement.
Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said his government was working with regional counterparts "with great caution (so that) the aid workers are freed as soon as possible."
A former Spanish colony, Western Sahara was annexed by Morocco in 1975.
The Polisario Front, backed by Algeria, wants a referendum under the aegis of the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... on attachment to Morocco, independence or self-determination.
Morocco has proposed broad autonomy under its illusory sovereignty and refuses to countenance any notion of independence, claiming that the Western Sahara is an historical part of its territory.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The battle to capture Kismayu started on Sunday with jets bombing several Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... bases in a final push to wipe out the turbans.
It was, however, not immediately clear whether the fighter jets that bombed Al-Shabaab's Congo military base north of the port city early on Sunday belonged to Kenya or other allied forces helping in the fight against the turbans.
Under aerial attacks
"It is confirmed that Kismayu has been under aerial attacks, but it is not our troops, it must be one of our allies," military front man Emmanuel Chirchir said.
Kenyan commanders were mobilising their troops in readiness for what is expected to be a fierce battle to capture the town of Afmadow, a strategic transit point for goods illegally trafficked through Kismayu.
Kismayu is Al-Shabaab's nerve centre for operations and its main source of funding and its capture and that of Afmadow will significantly weaken the turbans.
Maj Chirchir said that Lt-Col Jeff Nyaga, who is commanding the Kenyan forces, had reinforced his troops in readiness for what is expected to be a fierce battle to capture Afmadow following reports that Al-Shabaab had dug in to defend the town.
"The commander, Lt-Col Jeff Nyaga, has made adjustment on his troops on ground to occupy a vantage point as Al-Shabaab prepares to fight on this front. Al-Shabaab (is) believed to be heavily regrouping in Bula Haji and moving towards Afmadow," Maj Chirchir said in a statement.
He reported that the rains had subsided, creating good conditions for Kenyan troops to manoeuvre while the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) fighters were already positioned at Hayo ready to join the Kenyan troops in the push to capture Afmadow.
A French naval gunship patrolling Somali waters also bombarded the town of Kuday, south of Kismayu, as the battle to decimate the Death Eaters gained momentum.
It was not immediately clear how many Death Eaters could have been killed or maimed during the attack in Kuday with the French Navy promising to give damage assessment as soon as possible.
The Kenyan troops and their allies from TFG have already occupied the town of Oddo, which they captured on Friday and were said to be advancing towards Burgavo town in their march to Afmadow and Kismayu.
Nearer to the Indian Ocean coast, Kenya is advancing to Kismayu in its effort to isolate the rebel fighters.
On Saturday, the military said it had moved beyond Oddo and had launched an air strike on Munarani, hitting an Al-Shabaab command centre.
Foreign media reports quoted residents saying convoys of armoured vehicles and trucks carrying weaponry, food supplies and tents were seen leaving four military camps in Isiolo on Friday and heading towards the border.
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A grenade was tossed into a disco in the center of Kenya's capital Nairobi early Monday injuring 14 people, central Nairobi police chief Eric Mugambi said. He said, "Initial investigations show it is a grenade that was thrown inside (the disco). Fourteen people have been injured."
The US embassy in Nairobi warned on Saturday of an "imminent threat" of attacks possibly targeting foreigners, a week after Kenyan forces went into Somalia to hunt down Shebab fighters. The embassy cited "credible information of an imminent threat of terrorist attacks directed at prominent Kenyan facilities and areas where foreigners are known to congregate, such as malls and night clubs."
Kenyan police have not immediately linked the attack to these threats.
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Five unidentified armed suspects were killed and another four were arrested in three separate shootings in Reynosa and Matamoros, Tamaulipas Saturday, according to Mexican news accounts.
A Mexican Army detachment including a helicopter was on patrol in Reynosa when the ground unit came under small arms fire by an known number of armed suspects. Army return fire killed five. Reports say the corpses were evacuated by the suspects, which is a tactic used by Los Zetas.
Seized following the encounter were 15 rifles, three handguns, three grenades, 152 weapons magazines, 4,164 rounds of ammunition and four vehicles.
A second encounter in Reynosa yielded four detainees. Material seized included four assault rifles, 23 weapons magazines, 622 rounds of ammunition and a tanker with 15,000 liters of fuel.
In a third encounter an army patrol in the Victoria colony of Matamoros came under small arms fire from an armed group firing from a residence. The suspects who fired on soldiers apparently fled the area shortly afterwards leaving 483 marijuana plants of various stages of growth.
is expected to testify in the trial of accused homegrown terrorist Tarek Mehanna today in Boston. He is expected to describe how he, Mehanna and a third man embarked for Yemen in 2004 to be trained for jihad and enlist as terrorists to slaughter American troops in Iraq.
His testimony could prove key in a federal case Mehanna's defense team calls an affront to the First Amendment, with its heavy reliance on Mehanna's possession of Islamist literature and viewpoints. The evidence list also includes personal emails and passports
A multiplicity? How many countries has the gentleman passports for, and were any stamped "Made in Pakistan" in invisible ink?
that are likely to be used to show that Mehanna tried to act on his beliefs.
Jury selection begins today in U.S. District Court. Attorneys indicated in documents filed Friday with Judge George A. O'Toole Jr.
The witness list remained secret last night, but prosecutors disclosed in a recent filing that one witness -- the person referred to as "K" in Mehanna's 2010 superseding indictment -- will testify that he, Mehanna and fugitive co-defendant Ahmad Abousamra flew to the UAE in 2004 in a botched attempt to enroll in a terrorist training camp in Yemen. Mehanna and Abousamra, believed to be in Syria, are charged with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda and to kill Americans in a foreign country
Mehanna, 29, claims he went to Yemen while on break from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy to further his studies of the Arab language.
A Berlitz course being impractical...
Prosecutors assured O'Toole they have plenty of evidence in Mehanna's online chats, emails and radical library that "demonstrate his intent."
Mehanna's backers are calling for a mobilization in his support outside the courthouse Thursday morning, being told by O'Toole that outbursts and "Free Tarek" paraphernalia will not be tolerated inside. The Rev. Jason Lydon of the Unitarian Community Church of Boston, who has corresponded with Mehanna in prison, said there will not be outbursts or demonstrations in court.
Lydon said, "He is a gentle, loving, compassionate man, who wishes to teach his faith. I'm really hopeful the jury will see he did nothing wrong, and Tarek will come back to the community."
There is no doubt about what Wasim Ahmed Malik was doing when five kg of plastic explosives packed in a briefcase went off outside the Delhi High Court on September 7; closed circuit cameras recorded him at a cash machine in Jammu, 583 km away, where computers logged him checking his balance.
Though he was nowhere near the site of the blast, which killed 15 persons, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) believes Malik to be at the center of a complex plot, which linked Islamist radicals at a medical college in Bangladesh, teenagers in the mountain town of Kishtwar and jihadis from the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad.
Investigators believe that they have assembled a picture of the man they call "Dr. Jihad" from interviews with his friends at the Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Key among them was Ashraful Haq, a Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates-educated student Islamist, who was an ideological mentor for young people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Haq is linked to Islami Chhatra Shibir, a Jamaat-e-Islami-linked student group.
According to NIA sources, Malik idolized Afzal Guru, a doctor sentenced to death for his role in the December, 2001 attack on Indian Parliament. "He told other students that he planned to dedicate his life to jihad after graduating in 2014," an NIA source said. NIA investigators found no reason, though, to believe anyone at the medical college had a role in Malik's alleged operation.
Malik's family had sent him to Bangladesh to avoid just the kind of influences that swirled around the hostels at the medical college.
In 2005, when he was only 15, he was detained for several days by the police in connection with the arrest of Salim Wani, an alleged Jaish-e-Muhammad operative accused of harboring a Pakistani terrorist arrested in Jammu. Malik was not charged. A friend of his father told The Hindu, "The family was very worried about Wasim, so (they) packed him off to what they thought was a safe distance from Jammu and Kashmir as soon as possible."
The NIA claims that Malik came to his idea of carrying out a major terrorist act in India as a result of the conversations at Sylhet. In September, he flew home and held the meetings where the bombings were finally planned. Malik is said to have met his brother and an old school friend to persuade them to target the court in Delhi to protest Afzal Guru's conviction.
Last year, Malik's younger brother, Junaid Akram Malik, ran away from home to join a local Hizb-ul-Mujahideen cell. The NIA alleges that both men became disillusioned with the organisation's local leader, Jehangir Saroori -- an experienced operative who had survived two decades of the insurgency by avoiding killings.
Witnesses say that after passionate pleas from Malik, the men made contact with a jihadi who was willing to take aggressive action -- Ghulam Sarwar, a Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba agent who lived undercover in Rajouri district, using illegally acquired documents to run a truck and taxi business.
NIA investigators admit that only the interrogation of the fugitives will reveal who supplied the explosive, who conducted reconnaissance, or who planted the device. Evidence exists to show where the suitcase, which contained the improvised explosive device, was bought -- but not who purchased it.
Malik's family contends their son is being framed by two teenaged witnesses desperate to secure a deal with prosecutors. In the weeks to come, the rival claims will be tested -- a test that will rely, in no small part, on the NIA's ability to find the three fugitive terrorists linked to Malik.
[Dawn] Pakistain on Sunday forced an Indian army helicopter to land for having violated its airspace, but later allowed the four officers on board and the helicopter to return after interrogating the officers for a couple of hours, military sources said.
They said a lieutenant colonel, two majors and a junior commissioned officer (JCO) were on board the Lama helicopter belonging to the Aviation Corps of the Indian army. The helicopter was deep inside Pak territory when it was intercepted and forced to land in the Olding-Kargil ... three months of unprovoked Pak aggression, over 4000 dead Paks, another victory for India ... sector near the Line of Control (LoC).
(Rooters news agency quoted Pakistain military front manMajor General Athar Abbas ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... as saying: "The helicopter and four officers on board returned around 5.30pm (1230 GMT) after a contact between the director-general military operations of the two countries."
The Indian defence ministry said the helicopter had returned to Kargil in Indian-ruled Kashmire. "The issue has been resolved," the ministry's front man, Sitanshu Kar, said.
Indian officials said the helicopter had strayed into Pak territory because of bad weather.
"The swift release of the helicopter shows both countries do not want to derail the grinding of the peace processor. Otherwise it could have turned into a major crisis," security analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi said.)
"The helicopter was some 20 kilometres inside Pakistain's territory when it was intercepted and forced to land near Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, at about 1pm," an official of the Pakistain Air Force (PAF) said.
During the interrogation, the crew members said the helicopter had strayed because of bad weather and no deliberate attempt had been made to intrude the airspace.
Though Indian planes have violated Pakistain's airspace in the past as well, it was perhaps for the first time that a chopper was forced to land. It was also the first violation of the country's airspace by India, after the May 2 raid by US Navy Seals in Abbottabad which led to the killing of Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who can now be reached at RFD Boneyard... . The incident took place at a time when relations between the two South Asian neighbours have seen an improvement in recent months.
Sources said India had been immediately informed about the incident and an investigation was under way to see if it was a mistake or a deliberate attempt to test Pakistain's defence capabilities.
An official said on the condition of anonymity that in normal circumstances, crew members of a hostile country were not freed in hours, but it had been done to give benefit of doubt because Pakistain did not want to vitiate the atmosphere and derail the composite dialogue process.
The sources said a PAF plane scrambled immediately after spotting the helicopter and at the same time the Air Defence, through its communication system, warned those on board that they would come under fire if they tried to escape.
Directors General Military Operations of the two countries established contact during which the Indian side said it had violated the airspace by mistake.
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We'll have a barrel of fun
On Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 20 Palestinians, including 6 children and 3 women, were injured due to shooting in celebration of the release of Palestinian prisoners. These incidents constitute a form of misuse of weapons and assaults on the rule of law prevailing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Which are neither law abiding or occupied, but we digress...
According to information available to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), on Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11 Palestinians, including 4 children and two women, were admitted into Shifa Hospital as they were injured by bullets and shrapnel during celebrations of the release of prisoners: Well, how do ya know they did it? Maybe it wuz da jooos?
1.'Awni Zuhair Salah, 24, from al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, seriously injured by a bullet to the head;
2) 'Alaa' Abu Salem, 14, injured by shrapnel to the left shoulder;
3) Hilal Samara, 24, injured by shrapnel to the hands;
4) 'Abdul Rahman Sa'id Silmi, 28, injured by shrapnel to the right shoulder;
5) Sahar Mohammed 'Amara, 41, injured by shrapnel to the right shoulder;
6) Saifuallah Fares Salama, 5, injured by shrapnel to the thigh;
7) Mohammed Khalifa, 24, injured by shrapnel to the right hand;
8) Shahd Nahidh Abu al-Kas, 7, injured by a bullet to the neck;
9) Karam Mahmoud Hammouda, 19, injured by shrapnel to the right hand;
10) Einas Ahmed Shahin, 23, injured by shrapnel to the shoulder; and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver...
11) Rimas Hassan al-Jadba, 2, injured by shrapnel to the hand.
In Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, 3 Palestinians, including a child, were injured due to shooting in celebration of the release of prisoners:
1) Nader Hassan Abu Khousa, 24, seriously injured by a bullet to the neck;
2) 'Ata Mohammed Khalil, 28, injured by a bullet to the right thigh; and Kam Fong as Chin Ho...
3) Du'a' Wa'el Enmash, 2, injured by a bullet to the right foot. Yes! I knew there'd be at least one in there...
In the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, 6 Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were injured due to shooting in celebration of the release of prisoners:
1) Ibrahim 'Awad Qishta, 21, injured by a bullet to the right shoulder;
2) Ghadeer Suleiman al-Nahhal, 17, injured by a bullet to the face;
3) Mohammed Mohammed Salha, 21, injured by a bullet to the left leg;
4) Tariq Ibrahim al-Masri, 34, injured by a bullet to the left leg;
5) Rasga Sameer Kabaja, 27, injured by a bullet to the head; and James Arness as Matt Dillon...
6) Khaled Hamdan al-Buhdari, 33, injured by a bullet to the back, and was transferred to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for additional medical treatment. Ah. Must've been a big shot...
PCHR is concerned over casualties resulting from the use of weapons in celebrations, which constitutes a form of misuse of weapons and assaults on the rule of law. Really. We are. We're serious, guys. STOP LAUGHING AT US!
PCHR calls upon the government in Gaza and its security services to search for the perpetrators of such incidents and bring them before justice, and to take necessary measures to ensure the non-recurrence of such incidents. If the Israelis know they can cause this much carnage, they'll start letting these guys out every weekend. The sensible ones have been emigrating for two full generations, so the question must be asked: genetics or environment?
Suspected Muslim terrorists insurgents have killed at least seven people in back-to-back shooting and bomb attacks in southern Thailand.
On Sunday evening an unknown number of terrorists gunmen dressed as women, traveling in three pick-up trucks, opened fire on a checkpoint in the main town of Narathiwat province killing two rangers.
Shortly afterwards a bomb was detonated at a nearby supermarket, followed by a second bomb at another supermarket about 300 metrers away, causing fires that spread through shophouses and took three hours to extinguish.
Police said they found two charred bodies of the male owner and a female teacher in the first shop, while a young boy and his parents were found dead in the second. Another seven people were burned in the attacks, all of which happened within the space of half an hour.
[An Nahar] Syrian Kurds held a protest outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut's Hamra thoroughfare on Sunday while a group of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's The Scourge of Hama... supporters demonstrated in the same location.
Security forces deployed in the area to prevent any clash and set up a human barricade between the two sides.
Last week, a Syrian Kurd opposition member was injured in a clash between protestors and the Syrian embassy's security guards in Hamra, An Nahar daily reported.
Kurd activist Kadar Saleh Beeri told the newspaper that he was beaten by members of the embassy guards after he was returning from a demonstration held by around 50 Kurds outside the premises of the mission.
Four men holding sticks and guns "assaulted us" as protestors were dispersed and were returning from the protest, he said.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... is seeking Africa's support to overcome mounting pressure against his regime.
President Assad sent his deputy foreign minister Dr Fayssal Mikdad to Africa Union headquarters in Addis Ababa over the weekend to deliver a message to AU commission chief, Dr Jean Ping.
Africa Union spokesperson Nouredin Mezni said the Syrian envoy explained the current situation in the country to African Union officials and asked for solidarity to defend the interest of Syrian people.
"Syria delegation has requested AU's diplomatic support in the international stage and at the UN," Mr Nouredin said.
"We also discussed some issues of common interest between AU and Syria" he added.
Dr Mikdad said his country become a victim of some international media campaign against its image.
The minister explained the ongoing political reforms in Syria to respond to the demands of Syrian people.
Dr Fayssal stressed the importance of solidarity between the Arab and African peoples to overcome the challenges they face.
AU commission chief Jean Ping on his part underlined the need for the reforms Syria has started implementing in response to its people's desire, and noted that this is the only way to preserve Syria's stability.
Syria is one of the Arab countries has an observer status at the African Union.
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Make haste! Make haste!
I have no time to waste:
There are shrines I should be sacking,
Ribs I should be cracking,
Eyes to gouge and booty to divide!
[An Nahar] Syria's under-fire president Sunday appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime, as security forces reportedly killed two more civilians.
State television said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... named new governors for the northwestern province of Idlib and for 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... governorate, both of which have seen massive anti-regime demonstrations over the past seven months.
Assad has sacked several governors since the wave of protests erupted in mid-March, including the Hama governor who was dismissed in July after a record 500,000 protesters rallied there against the regime.
Yasser Salman el-Shufi was named as Idlib's new governor while Makhlouf Makhlouf was appointed governor for the Damascus province.
Activists meanwhile called for fresh protests on Sunday under the slogan: "It's your turn" -- a reference to Assad -- hoping to force him out of power in the way Libyans ended the rule of Moammar Qadaffy ... who is now cavorting happily with Himmler and Heydrich... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a funeral for two civilians rubbed out at dawn quickly turned into an anti-regime rally in the flashpoint province of Hama.
Angry mourners in the Hama village of Al-Madiq "demanded the fall of the regime," the Britannia-based group said in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse in Nicosia.
Hama's history is steeped in blood. An estimated 20,000 people were killed there in 1982 when the army put down an Islamist revolt against the rule of Assad's late father, Hafez al-Assad.
Meanwhile troops backed by security forces raided on Sunday the villages of Dael and Ibtaa in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests, to end a strike by residents.
"The military forces removed barricades set up by the residents in Dael and Ibtaa," the Observatory said, adding that the strike had been launched four days earlier.
Pro-democracy activists called for more anti-regime demonstrations on Sunday against Assad's regime, comparing him to Libya's Qadaffy, who was killed Thursday.
"It's your turn. We do the same with criminals," said a message posted on the Facebook page of the Syrian Revolution 2011 under pictures of Assad and Qadaffy.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces reportedly killed three more civilians on Sunday as troops raided villages in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests.
Activists had called for fresh protests on Sunday under the slogan: "It's your turn" -- a reference to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... -- hoping to force him out of power in the way Libyans ended the rule of Moammar Qadaffy ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a funeral for two civilians rubbed out at dawn quickly turned into an anti-regime rally in the flashpoint province of Hama.
Angry mourners in the Hama village of Al-Madiq "demanded the fall of the regime," the Britannia-based group said in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
Hama's history is steeped in blood. An estimated 20,000 people were killed there in 1982 when the army put down an Islamist revolt against the rule of Assad's late father, Hafez al-Assad.
A third civilian was killed when security forces manning a checkpoint in Mayadeen near the eastern city of Deir al-Zour opened fire, and two others were seriously maimed, the Observatory said.
Also on Sunday, troops backed by security forces raided the villages of Dael and Ibtaa in the southern province of Daraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests, to end a strike by residents.
"The military forces removed barricades set up by the residents in Dael and Ibraa," the Observatory said, adding that the strike had been launched four days earlier.
The freedom fighters who called for more anti-regime demonstrations on Sunday compared Assad him to Libya's Qadaffy, who was killed Thursday.
"It's your turn. We do the same with criminals," said a message posted on the Facebook page of the Syrian Revolution 2011 under pictures of Assad and Qadaffy.
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