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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Veronica Lake aka The Girl in "Sullivan's Travels" aka Ellen Graham in "This Gun for Hire" aka Joyce Harwood in "The Blue Dahlia" aka Jennifer in "I Married a Witch (Genesis of Bewitched)" aka Sally Vaughn in "I Wanted Wings" aka Lt. Olivia D'Arcy in "So Proudly We Hail!" aka Teddy Collins in "Bring on the Girls" aka Sally Martin in "Hold That Blonde" aka Susan Cleaver in "Saigon" (Died in 1973 at age 50)
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i read once that she changed her hair style because women in factories in WWII were getting injured. they had one eye covered.
her career didn't recover.
another sacrificing heroine of the greatest generation, said without sarcasm or irony
we can be the greatest generation
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I love her hair. Not the sort of thing that happens much these days.
The Taliban in Afghanistan says it has obtained a government security plan for the grand assembly of leaders, or loya jirga, which opens in Kabul this week.
The document includes what appears to be a detailed list of security arrangements for senior figures.
Afghan security officials have denied that the document is genuine.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber has been killed while attempting to attack the tented site where the 2,000 members of the loya jirga will meet.
The attacker was shot outside the tent and died after his explosives vest detonated, the BBC was told.
No-one else was killed or injured, officials said.
'False claim'
The 27-page plan published on the Taliban's website includes what appears to be a list of security arrangements for Afghan ministers and the President, Hamid Karzai.
There is a rundown of security officials with their titles and specific responsibilities and what looks like a police map, the BBC's Orla Guerin in Kabul says.
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Update Taliban spokesman 'arrested in Afghanistan'
The mouthpiece of the Taliban movement has been arrested in a military raid, Afghan officials have claimed.
A man said to be Zabiullah Mujahid, the insurgents' most prominent spokesman and arch-enemy of Nato's own communications effort, was arrested in south eastern Afghanistan, they said.
His arrest came hours after the insurgents claimed a propaganda coup by publishing an alleged top-secret security plan for this week's grand meeting of elders convened to discuss the future of America's troop presence.
Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said: "We strongly believe it's Zabiullah. Initial investigation shows he is Zabiullah Mujahid." However it was unclear who exactly had been captured, with many Afghan journalists and Nato officers believing Zabiullah Mujahid is a nom de guerre used by a shadowy network of spokesmen rather than a single figure.
Many Afghan journalists believe there are up to five different men using the same name and operating in different parts of the country.
The man was arrested in Sar Hawza district of Paktika Province before being handed over to the Afghan intelligence services.
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with many Afghan journalists and Nato officers believing Zabiullah Mujahid is a nom de guerre used by a shadowy network of spokesmen rather than a single figure.
But he has a cell phone, which our clever technical people can play with, right? We can work with that.
(AFP)-- Egyptian security officials have incarcerated a leading member of an Islamist gang suspected of being behind attacks on a pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan.
Mohammed al-Teehi of the radical Islamist group Al-Takfeer wal Hijra
According to Wikipedia, Al Takfir wal Hijra ("Excommunication and Exile") is the mocking nickname given to the radical 1960s offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jama'at al-Muslimin ("Society of Muslims"), after they were crushed by the Egyptian government for kidnapping and killing a former official in a failed attempt to get a number of arrested members released. It does not seem to be clear whether this group consists of loosely affiliated cells which have committed acts of terror as far afield as Morocco and Holland, or whether they are merely a troublesome armed group wandering the Sinai desert. What is clear is that they lost the sympathy of the Egyptian people because, cult-like, they require members to cut off all contact with their families, which apparently does not fly in Egyptian society.
was incarcerated during a sweep in the north Sinai town of El-Arish, a security official said. Teehi was the criminal mastermind of attacks on the gas pipeline and on cop shoppes and installations in North Sinai, the official charged.
On Thursday, two kabooms hit the pipeline. The pipeline, which carries gas through the Sinai and on to Jordan and Israel, had already been attacked six times since former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was toppled in February.
Egyptian authorities have on several occasions announced measures to step up protection of the pipeline and try to arrest those behind the attacks. Army experts have also located and defused a number of other devices targeting the pipeline.
[An Nahar] The Bahraini judiciary on Sunday linked an alleged busted "terrorist" cell to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a day after announcing the arrest of five Bahrainis planning attacks in the Arab kingdom.
The five men are accused of belonging to a "terrorist group" with ties to the intelligence services of a foreign state, a judiciary front man said, quoted by state news agency BNA.
He said the five were to be "sent to Iran to receive military training," notably with the elite but accident-prone
Revolutionary Guards.
On Saturday, the interior ministry said a cell had been broken up that was planning to attack the ministry, the Saudi embassy in Riyadh and the causeway which links the archipelago state to Soddy Arabia.
Citing alleged confessions from the suspects, the judiciary front man said the cell had been set up by two men he named as Abdul Raouf al-Shaieb and Ali Mashaima, living abroad, through contacts with the five accused.
"They coordinated with military structures abroad, including the Revolutionary Guards ... in Iran to train the recruits of the group in handling arms and explosives," he said, without giving further details of the two alleged criminal masterminds.
The front man said the plan was launched by sending cell members in small groups to Iran, but it was unclear if those tossed in the clink had been the first earmarked for an Iranian trip.
Four members of the cell were jugged in Qatar and turned over to Manama, according to the interior ministry, which said the fifth Bahraini was tossed in the clink inside the country.
The four tossed in the clink in Qatar had been traveling by car from Soddy Arabia.
Authorities seized "documents and a computer containing information of a security nature (and) details on certain vital sites," as well as dollars and Iranian rials," an interior ministry front man said.
"They then confessed that they had left Bahrain illegally at the instigation of others," planning to travel on to Iran via Qatar and Syria, to form an "organization to commit armed terrorist acts in Bahrain," he added.
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[Dawn] An operation launched in Jhelum against snuffies responsible for the killings of intelligence officials, came to an end of Sunday, DawnNews reported.
Sources told DawnNews that members from the banned bad turban organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... kidnapped five intelligence officials two days ago. Security forces had then launched an operation in the Pir Chumbal area.
The intelligence officials were killed when troops mounted a secret undercover operation after receiving information about the presence of suspected Islamic fascistiin the area.
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[Dawn] Six people were killed and four maimed when a bomb planted in a donkey cart went kaboom! in a remote town in the tribal Khyber Agency Sunday, officials said.
A donkey cart carrying sand was left unattended in the market area of Mastak town near the Afghan border, they said.
"The explosives concealed in the sand loaded onto the cart exploded with the help of a remote controlled device," local administration official Syed Ahmed Jan told AFP by telephone.
Another bigwig Mutahir Zaib confirmed the incident and the casualties. He said the injured were out of danger.
No group has grabbed credit.
At least 12 people were killed in two separate Death Eater attacks in the troubled Khyber district on Saturday.
Some 18,000 people decamped their homes in Khyber last month amid fears of a fresh onslaught of fighting between the army and Islamic fascistitied to the Pak Taliban.
Pakistain's army has previously launched a series of offensives targeting the the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), a Taliban-allied Death Eater group waging a local insurgency.
Pakistain's seven tribal districts near the Afghan border are rife with a homegrown insurgency and are strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
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[Dawn] Security forces on Sunday clamped curfew on various parts of North Wazoo border region for an indefinite period, DawnNews reported. Whoa! Deadly!
Acording to sources, the main road connecting Miramshah to Bannu district has been blocked for all kinds of traffic.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... beturbanned goons bombed a convoy of security forces with a remote-controlled device, although no casualties were reported in the attack.
Earlier, top beturbanned goon 'commander' in North Waziristan Hafiz Gul Bahadur ... a member of the Maddakhel clan of the Uthmanzai Wazirs. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the JUI-F political party. Upon the formation of the TTP in December 2007 he was the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo. He has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with Mehsud and is now just another al-Qaeda pawn in Haqqani Country.... had announced he was abandoning peace talks with the government in protest of a recent bombing in Miramshah.
Moreover, the beturbanned goon leader had threatened to carry out retaliatory activities if security forces continued with their 'punitive' actions.
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[Dawn] The fate of 26 labourers, kidnapped by cut-throats from Kalakhel coalmines of Khyber Agency few weeks ago, hangs in the balance as their captors have refused to release them even if ransom is paid, according to sources.
Militants had demanded Rs1.5 million for release of the kidnapped workers and the local committee had agreed to pay the amount but later the kidnappers refused to release the labourers so the money was not paid, a tribal elder told Dawn .
"Militants have threatened to kill the kidnapped labourers if government initiates any operation against them in the region," he added.
The tribal elder, pleading anonymity, said that they were worried about the safety of the labourers. He said that that about 34 persons working in the coalmines and repairing a road in the area were kidnapped but later eight of them were released.
He said that the contractors had contact numbers of the families of labourers but they had also left the area owing to threats from bad boys.
Most of the kidnapped labourers belong to different parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , particularly Shangla, Kohat and Swat. Some of them are also residents of Punjab province.
The tribal elder said that the relatives of kidnapped persons also attempted to get them released but failed to do so. He said that the ransom money had been arranged through donations from the owners of the coalmines and truckers as Rs1,000 were charged from each dumper and truck daily.
"We have also been forced to close down the coalmines," he said and added that owing to closure of work they faced huge financial losses. He said that 30 coalmines out of 50 were functional but cut-throats forced them to stop work there.
The elder said that cut-throats had asked tribal people to stop helping political administration against criminals and anti-social elements but the latter continued to cooperate with authorities to improve law and order situation in the region.
It infuriated cut-throats and they turned against tribal people, he added.
He said that local people had formed groups for investment in the mines and each group spent about Rs2 million but now the cut-throats had forced them to stop the work without any reason.
"We have not formed any peace body in the area but a committee has been active for many years to arrest criminals wanted by political administration to avoid action under the law of collective responsibility," he added.
A worker of a local NGO also told Dawn that Kalakhel people faced wrath of cut-throats for no fault of theirs. "The school children of our village were targeted on Indus Highway in September this year but the government did not take any practical step to ensure protection to us," he said.
He said that situation in the area was so tense that they did not like to talk to journalists for fear of reprisal by bad boys. He also recalled targeting of two passenger vehicles of the area at Matani Bazaar this year.
He said that after the blasts majority of people preferred to use cycle of violences for transportation instead of public transport vehicles.
"We demand of the government to provide permanent protection to people so that they can resume work in the coalmines as temporary deployment of security forces is not in the interests of the people," he said.
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[Dawn] Six persons were killed when two rival groups of bully boyz clashed in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency while security forces demolished five bases of a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization in Bara on Saturday, sources said.
They said that a mortar shell, fired during the clash of orc groups, fell on the house of Meera Jan, resulting in killing of six members of his family including children and women. At least six more persons were also injured in the incident.
Sources said that the incident occurred when two rival orc groups targeted each other positions with heavy weapons in Sipah area of Tirah valley.
The area is under the control of Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... -led Lashkar-i-Islam. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... its authority is said to be challenged by the rival Ansaarul Islam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... security forces razed to ground at least six hideouts of Lashkar-i-Islam in Dro Adda locality of Akkakhel area in Bara on Saturday during a search operation.
Officials said that security forces initiated the operation after bully boyz killed at least four volunteers of a pro-government peace committee in the area on Thursday.
They said that houses of two important LI commanders -- Mehboob Khan and Said Alam -- were among the demolished buildings.
Security forces imposed an indefinite curfew in the area before the start of the operation and claimed to have placed in durance vile at least 30 suspected bully boyz before their hideouts were demolished.
Forces also claimed to have impounded three cycle of violences and seized arms and ammunition during the search operation.
In Malakdin Khel area, a woman, who was critically injured in a mortar attack, succumbed to her injuries on Saturday. The incident took place on Thursday when forces pounded orc hideouts with heavy artillery firing in the area. The dear departed woman was wife of Sher Haider.
Security forces had earlier ordered all the families in Malakdin Khel and Sipah localities to vacate their houses to avoid losses. Nearly 3,500 families have so far moved out of the area since then.
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A lotta Wally's getting themselves arrested in Iraq these last couple of days...
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: The so-called Qaeda Iraqi Islamic State organization Wali (Governor)of southern Baghdad was arrested today in a security operation north of Ramadi, Anbar police sources said here today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the operation contained exchange of fire that led to hitting Mushtaq Mehdi Hamza, Wali of southern Baghdad, and then arresting him with his assistance. Mehdi was responsible for many terrorist acts in Kerbela, Babil and Anbar province, the source added.
Ramadi, center of Anbar province, lies 120 km west of the capital, Baghdad.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Anti-terrorism squad arrested today the so-called Qaeda Iraqi Islamic State Wali of Diala was arrested, who is man number two in Qaeda organization in Iraq.
The security operation took place west of Baqouba city. Security sources told Aswat al-Iraq that two cars were found ready for explosion, in addition weapons equipped with silencers. The source added that the operation was made in cooperation with central anti-terrorism department.
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[An Nahar] Twenty people, including 13 Iranian pilgrims, were maimed in kabooms in Iraq on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, while bully boyz launched rocket and kabooms on U.S. forces.
A roadside kaboom targeting a bus carrying pilgrims maimed 15 people, among them 13 Iranians, in the Kadhmiyah area of north Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , the official said.
And two other roadside kabooms maimed five more people in Taji, 25 kilometers north of the capital, the official added.
The U.S. military said four Katyusha rockets targeted its Forward Operating Base Warrior in the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. "There were no damage or casualties," a military spokeswoman said by email.
And on Saturday evening, a roadside kaboom targeted a U.S. convoy in the Taji area, without causing casualties or damage, the military said.
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A senior police officer on Monday announced that they would search firearms and weapons concealed by recently-arrested members of a terror cell in a forested area around a state university.
The search followed the police's finding of several firearms - assault rifles, pistol and live bullets - in the forest located in the University of Indonesia's premises. The weapons belonged to accomplices of a terror cell arrested by the police on Saturday.
M Taufik, Public Information officer at the national police headquarters said, "We plan to undertake further search in the forest after the findings. Further investigation against those involved in the case is underway at the moment, including the possibilities of UI students involvement in the case."
On Saturday, police raided several places in Tangerang, Banten province, believed to be the hideouts of accomplices of the Abu Omar terror cell. During the crack down, police arrested four members of the terror cell, shot one of them as he tried to fire an M16 at them.
Police learned that the Abu Omar terror cell is the terror group that tried to set a bomb in Singapore embassy here. Their leader Abu Omar was arrested in East Kalimantan three months ago. Police said that their weapons were supplied by Islamists in the southern Philippines.
A rubber tapper was gunned down on Monday morning at a plantation in Narathiwat province. Rusdi Hajiloh, 30, was shot three times when he arrived at the rubber plantation near Luka Hulu village on a motorcycle. The terrorists assailants, who were hiding in the plantation, opened fire at the man on his arrival.
RIYADH: Protesters stormed the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey in Damascus late Saturday after the Arab League voted to suspend Syrias membership over its failure to honor a deal to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protests.
Residents in Syria said crowds armed with sticks and knives attacked the Saudi Arabian Embassy compound in Damascus, breaking windows and ransacking some areas within, a report of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.
They said hundreds of men shouting slogans in support of President Bashar Assad beat a guard and broke into the Saudi Embassy in Abu Rummaneh, three blocks away from Assads offices in one of the most heavily policed areas of the capital.
Earlier, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the building and showered it with rocks.
The Kingdom on Sunday condemned the attack.
The Syrian forces did not carry out the necessary measures to stop the demonstrators, a foreign ministry official was quoted as saying by SPA.
The Saudi government strongly condemns this incident and holds the Syrian authorities responsible for the security and protection of all Saudi interests in Syria, said the unnamed official.
The Kingdom recalled its Syrian ambassador on August 8 and announced the move was in protest over the governments repression of demonstrators.
Separately, demonstrators protested outside the Qatari Embassy in Damascus and in other cities over the Arab League decision. Several hundred people gathered outside the embassy, making faces waving Syrian flags and having gun sex brandishing photos of President Bashar Assad, chanting slogans in support of him.
Some of them forced open the gate and made their way to the top of the building, where they removed the Qatari flag and put up a Syrian one, as embassy security personnel fired tear gas.
Also Saturday evening, a crowd of around a thousand attacked the Turkish Embassy in Damascus, throwing stones and bottles before Syrian police intervened to break up the protest, Turkeys state-run Anatolian news agency said on Sunday. Attacks were also staged against Turkeys consulate in Aleppo and its honorary consulate in Latakia, the agency reported Turkish embassy officials in Damascus as saying.
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[An Nahar] 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... on Sunday called for an urgent Arab summit to address the crisis in Syria, a day after 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... suspended the country's membership over its failure to implement a plan to end bloodshed.
"Syria demands an emergency Arab summit to address the crisis and its negative consequences in the Arab world," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
SANA reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the vaporous Arab League said Sunday it is studying measures to protect civilians in Syria after suspending the country's membership over its failure to implement a deal to end bloodshed.
"The Arab League is studying mechanisms it could implement to protect civilians in Syria," the League's secretary general, Nabil al-Arabi, told news hounds in the Libyan capital, without going into details.
Arabi hailed the League's decision to suspend Syria on Saturday as "historic" and said the regional bloc called for the "international protection" of civilians in Syria as the organization did not have the means to act alone.
"There is nothing wrong with going to the U.N. Security Council because it is the only organization able to impose" such measures, he added.
The League said the suspension would remain in place until Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... implements an Arab deal to end violence against protesters, and called for economic and political sanctions and transition talks with the opposition.
The eight-month crackdown on dissent and related violence in Syria has left more than 3,500 people dead, the majority of them civilians, according to U.N. figures.
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"There is nothing wrong with going to the U.N. Security Council because it is the only organization able to impose" such measures, he added.
Nabil's trust in the UN makes me all warm and fuzzy like a pink bunny
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"arab" = either one of the original savage horde from The Hijaz, who seeks world domination, or the spawn of distant rape victims of the horde, and whose ancestors were intimidated into an "arab" identity.
Are Hong Kong Chinese the "English"? Hell no. We shouldn't be recognizing the politically motivated claims of wild animals who have slaughtered over 300,000,000 non muslims in the last 1400 years.
[An Nahar] The Israeli army is conducting intense training over a possible strike against Iran, which may possibly lead to a war with Hizbullah, reported the Jerusalem Post on Saturday.
The training comes at a time when the media spotlight has focused on a possible war between Iran and the Jewish state over the former's nuclear ambitions.
A war against Iran also entails preparing for a war with Iran's close ally Hizbullah, added the Israeli newspaper.
The army is focusing on achieving a victory against the party should a war erupt with it, it said.
A high-ranking army officer stressed that the army is working on being as prepared as possible should a war break out, said Jerusalem Post.
On Tuesday, a U.N. report said there was "credible" evidence suggesting Iran's atomic program was being used to research putting nuclear warheads in ballistic missiles.
Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... warned on Friday that "a war against Iran and Syria will not remain limited to Iran and Syria," and that it would rather spread to the entire region.
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Nasrallah will go down history as the schmuck who sacrificed lebanon for his megalomaniac political dreams.
I hope he gets personally terminated when the festivities begin.
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Israel Preparing for War against Hizbullah or Iran
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Israeli DM Elud Barak] "NOT EVEN 500 ISRAELIS WILL BE KILLED".
ARTIC > BARAK = believes that, despite on-going media rhetoric, Israel will NOT launch any milstrike agz Iran in the near-term ALBEIT HE ALSO DOES BELIEVE THAT THE PROVERBIAL
"LAST/FINAL CHANCE" IS HERE FOR ANY PEACEFUL OR DIPLOMATIC/NEGOTIATED RESOLUTION TO THE PROB OF IRAN'S NUCPROGS, i.e. short-of-war for the World to stop Iran, + by extension Pro-Violence Radical Militants-Terrorists, from dev or acquiring NucWeaps.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS/TOPIX > REPORT: KUWAIT READY FOR [US, Israeli] MILITARY STRIKE AGZ IRAN.
HHHHMMM, yet Kuwait also repor claims there is no agreement wid the US to take in up to 4000 US Troops in the wake of the US-NATO pullout from Iraq.
Which is interesting because IMO Kuwait clearly is expecting Iran to attack it in retaliation for any US, Israeli strike agz its NucProgs -"DESERT STORM II", SAVE THIS TIME AGZ THE IRANIANS NOT SADDAM???
BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR + Bahrain are repor meeting wid KSA + other GCC Nations to discuss security agz Iran + how the GCC should respond iff-n-when a US, Israel milstrike does indeed occur.
[An Nahar] Two Kuwaitis have been tossed in the slammer in Abadan, southwest Iran, on suspicion of spying and illegal entry, a television channel reported on Sunday.
"Two Kuwaitis have been tossed in the slammer in possession of spying materials," said a local official in the town, Bahram Ilkhaszadeh, quoted by Iran's Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Alam.
An MP for Abadan, Abdollah Kaabi, also quoted by Al-Alam, said the pair were "tossed in the slammer two days ago and they entered Iran illegally," without giving other details.
Ties between the two Gulf neighbors were strained after a Kuwaiti court in March sentenced three people to death and two others to life in prison after convicting them of being members of an Iranian spy ring.
The case led to a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats but ambassadors and diplomats returned to the two capitals following a visit to Kuwait City by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on May 11.
Kuwait and the other Sunni-ruled Arab monarchies of the Gulf have repeatedly accused mainly Shiite Iran of meddling in their internal affairs and of inciting Shiite-led protests which rocked Bahrain earlier this year.
Manama crushed the pro-democracy protests in mid-March with the help of troops from other Arab states in the region, prompting condemnation by Iran.
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[An Nahar] La Belle France on Sunday condemned protesters' attacks on diplomatic missions in Syria and has summoned the Syrian ambassador, the foreign ministry said.
"These attacks are an attempt to intimidate the international community after 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... 's courageous decision because of ongoing repression in Syria," a ministry statement said after the pan-Arab body suspended Syria.
"La Belle France condemns with the greatest firmness the unacceptable attacks on its diplomatic and consular interests in Syria," it said.
A diplomat in Gay Paree who asked not to be named said: "People came in front of our missions and tried to get in but didn't succeed. There was some material damage, windows broken, plaques damaged, flags taken."
La Belle France has taken the lead at the U.N. Security Council in recent months to try to obtain strong condemnation of the repression in Syria.
The foreign ministry said it "particularly condemns the destruction of the Soddy Arabian embassy in 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... and expresses its solidarity with the kingdom of Soddy Arabia as it does with all targeted countries."
Angry demonstrators on Saturday sacked the Saudi embassy in Damascus after the vaporous Arab League suspended Syria over the regime's failure to honor a deal to end a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
Demonstrators also protested outside the embassy of Qatar, which currently holds the Arab League's rotating presidency, and attacked other diplomatic missions in Damascus and in the northern cities of Latakia and 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... , notably Turkey's.
"Attempted attacks on La Belle France's honorary consulate in Latakia and the detached chancery in Aleppo by organized groups of demonstrators to which security forces did not react are unacceptable," the foreign ministry said.
"Syria's ambassador to La Belle France (Lamia Shakkour) is summoned to the foreign ministry for a reminder of Syria's international obligations.
"The Syrian regime is held entirely responsible for these excesses and will have to give an explanation."
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It's high time to evacuate all embassies and diplomatic staff out of Syria.
This is especially called for in view of the imminent attack on Iran which may give Pencilneck a pretext to attack Israel after which all hell breaks loose in Damascus.
OTOH it may also be a good time to replace the diplomatic staff with some Navy Seals......
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Sunday pressed a crackdown on dissent, killing nine people in the central cities of Homs and Hama and the northwestern province of Idlib, rights activists said, adding two soldiers were killed in an ambush.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network spurring protests on the ground, reported a higher toll, saying 17 civilians were rubbed out, among them nine in Hama.
"Security forces opened fire killing four people in Hama," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an email received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
In the central city of Homs, snipers killed one person on Cairo Street early in the morning, said the Observatory, which reported a similar incident in the same place the previous day.
And in Idlib's countryside, a civilian hailing from the town of Sarjeh was rubbed out at the hands of pro-regime soldiers, the Observatory added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... engineering students were maimed by a "round of mortar" fire which hit their faculty building in Baath University, also in Homs, the same source added.
And two citizens, one in Homs and the other in Hama, died from gunshot wounds suffered the previous day.
Gunmen believed to be defectors ambushed and killed two soldiers patrolling town of Qusayr, near Homs, the Observatory said.
The deaths come one day after 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... decided to suspend Syria from the pan-Arab body as punishment for its brutal crackdown on dissent which has left more than 3,500 Syrians dead, according to U.N. figures.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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