Kabir Lal is an alcoholic lawyer whose life is looking as if going down the drain. One morning he sees a stunningly attractive woman on a beach and is instantly enamored by her. By chance he sees her again in a restaurant and offers to buy her a drink. In the process he learns that her name is Sonia and she is married. Unable to resist, he asks her whether she would show him her home. It marks the beginning of a passionate affair, during which Kabir is told that Sonia's husband neglects her. But Sonia cannot leave him because she cannot support herself without her husband's money. Sonia suggests murder and Kabir, blind with lust, agrees. They manage to kill Sonia's husband and make it look like an accident, but then Kabir gets to see Sonia's other side: she no longer is the passionate lover as before, but is a cool-headed mean woman now who won't let go of her wealth at any cost. Written by Soumitra
Kabir Lal is an alcoholic lawyer. One day, Kabir meets Sonia Khanna, the wife of a traveling millionaire. They embark on an affair, which leads Sonia to convince Kabir to murder her husband, Rohit Khanna. Kabir soon finds out that Sonia's motivation for the killing was to get her hands on her husband's money and property, not to run away with Kabir. The movie ends tragically. Written by gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Unemployed and idle Kabir Lal sees a beautiful lady, Sonia Kapoor and falls for her instantly. She ignores his attentions. They meet again, and she tells him that she is married, and apparently being abused and neglected by her wealthy spouse, who she cannot divorce as he is rich and wealthy, and she cannot survive on her own. She encourages Kabir to meet with her, and subsequently convinces him that they can only be together after he kills her husband. Consumed with passion and lust for Sonia, Kabir agrees to do this, not knowing that Sonia has other plans up her sleeve, not only for him, but for her spouse, and a mysterious stranger, who is unknown to Kabir. Written by rAjOo
[Dawn] At least six children and one man were killed when a bomb planted in a garbage bin went kaboom! Friday in Tirin Kot, capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, police said.
Four other children who were playing nearby were maimed, said front man Fardi Ayel.
"At around 3:00 pm today there was an kaboom in Tirin Kot city, initial information we have is that six children and one man have been killed," he said.
There was no obvious target for the bombing, although the home of a local police commander was nearby, he said.
Earlier in a day of violence in the war-weary country five NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... soldiers were killed in two roadside kaboom blasts, also in southern Afghanistan.
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[An Nahar] A U.S. Navy ship has rescued 13 Iranians held hostage by Somali pirates for weeks in the Arabian Sea, the American military said on Friday.
The rescue effort came despite days of rising tensions between Iran and the United States, with Tehran issuing threats and warning Washington not to send the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier through the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
But one of the ships accompanying the Stennis, the USS Kidd, came to the aid Thursday of Iranians on the fishing dhow Al Molai, whose captain issued a call for help saying "he was being held captive by the pirates."
The American destroyer responded to the distress call from the Iranian-flagged fishing vessel and sent in a Navy team to free the Iranian crew, the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said.
"A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure team from Kidd boarded the Al Molai and jugged 15 suspected pirates who had been holding a 13-member Iranian crew hostage for several weeks," the statement said.
"The Al Molai had been pirated and used as a 'mother ship' for pirate operations throughout the Persian Gulf, according to members of the Iranian vessel's crew," it added.
The jugged pirates -- believed to be Somalis -- were being held on the Stennis, said a Pentagon front man, Captain John Kirby.
"The Iranians and the dhow have been released and are on their way back home," Kirby told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Prior to Thursday's rescue, another Iranian vessel, a motor boat, had issued a distress call while under suspected attack from pirates. A helicopter from the USS Mobile Bay, another naval ship assigned to the Stennis carrier group, responded to the call for help, Kirby said.
But the pirates threw objects into the water and "they boarded the skiff and couldn't detain the pirates because there was no evidence," he added.
Could have made the pirates go diving for the stuff they threw overboard...
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They were captive for weeks? How'd he get to the radio?
I wonder how much trouble they'll be in when they get home.
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'Weapons Exchange' or some other mutually agreed to collusion gone sour?
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Why didn't they just climb out of the sacred well?
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No evidence because it was thrown overboard? No problem, just leave their pirate buddies on board and go home. We'll see if they make it back to shore.
[An Nahar] Former Egyptian prime minister and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq was forced to flee a campaign rally after protesters threw chairs at him and demanded he leave the area, according to reports on Friday.
Shafiq, who has announced he was running for the top job, was addressing a rally in the impoverished Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba on Thursday evening when some residents began chanting for him to leave.
"Shafiq! Get out!," they shouted prompting the ex-premier and former air force commander to lose his temper, according to footage of the event posted on the Internet.
"This is not how Egypt is going to move forward," an angry Shafiq shouted back at protesters. "You will not be useful to Egypt in this way."
Minor scuffles broke out between his supporters and his foes, who threw chairs at the podium forcing Shafiq's body guards to swiftly escort him out of the area, the independent daily Al-Masry al-Youm reported.
Shafiq, the last premier to serve under ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , was sacked in February under street pressure from protesters demanding the removal of all remnants of the former regime.
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Two French hostages seized in Niger last January (2011) by al-Qaeda's North African wing (AQMI) both reportedly died of violent means. The daily, Liberation, in its Friday edition last week (December 30), cited the testimony of Mohamed al-Amine Ould Mohamedou Ould M'Balle, aka Mouawiya, provided to a French anti-terror judge in November (2011).
Mouawiya, 22, did not take part in the kidnapping or subsequent related events, but said he heard the story from Jihadist fighters who survived an attack by French special forces who had sought, unsuccessfully, to secure the freedom of the two hostages, identified as Antoine de Leocour and Vincent Delory.
According to Mouawiya, the Mali kidnappers told him that a Jihadist known as Faycal al-Jazairi had shot Leocour dead with an AK-47 assault rifle, as the hostage was hampering their escape from the attack by French commandos. Additionally, he said that Delory died in a burning 4WD vehicle, which had been hit by during the rescue attempt. Oh, well! Shit happens. At least your government made an attempt to rescue you, which is more than usually happens. Maybe if fewer Frenchmen traveled to clearly labeled dangerous places, there would be fewer failed hostage rescues. Just a thought.
[An Nahar] A purported front man for Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... on Friday grabbed credit for separate attacks on a church and Christian mourners in Nigeria that killed around 20 people.
The front man who goes by the name Abul Qaqa also said the attacks were in response to an ultimatum he issued on Sunday giving Christians three days to leave the country's mainly Moslem north.
"We are responsible for the attacks in Mubi and Gombe," the purported front man, who has claimed to be speaking on behalf of Boko Haram numerous times in the past, told journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri by phone.
"We are extending our frontiers to other places to show that the declaration of a state of emergency by the Nigerian government will not deter us ... We can really go to wherever we want to go."
He called on the federal government to release all jugged Boko Haram members as a condition for attacks to stop.
"The attacks are part of our response to the ultimatum we gave to southerners to leave the north," he said.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen fired on Christian mourners in northern Nigeria on Friday, killing 17 people in the latest attack to hit the region amid mounting fears of sectarian festivities, residents and a relief source said.
"There was an attack last night at Good Will Hotel in which five people were killed, all of them Igbos, and today, some friends and relatives of one of those killed in the attack gathered in his house to mourn his death," resident Zubairu Abdulaziz said of the incident in the northeastern town of Mubi, speaking of the Christian Igbo ethnic group.
"Unfortunately some yet to be identified gunnies arrived at the house and rubbed out 17 mourners."
Other residents gave a similar account. A rescue official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said local residents told him three people were killed on Thursday night and either 16 or 17 on Friday.
It was the latest attack in recent weeks targeting Christians in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... has been blamed for previous such attacks.
Late Thursday, gunnies opened fire on worshippers at a church on the outskirts of the city of Gombe, killing six people, including the pastor's wife.
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I read North Nigerian politicans are behind Boko Haram
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It would be so freaking easy to set up an ambush of these barbarians. Afterward, mount them on planks for pictures, like Old West gunmen, then bury them in a pit full of pig offal.
[Yemen Post] At least 27 suspected AQAP forces of Evil and three soldiers were killed in the last 48 hours in festivities that has now spread to three different districts in Yemen's southern province of Abyan, a defense ministry official and security bigshots in the province confirmed.
The fiercest festivities are taking place near the governmental headquarters in Zinjibar city.
The fighting has not stopped for three days, with security officials saying that the government is seeing strong progress in its fight against terror bully boys.
Security officials confirmed that the US trained counter terror units are not involved in the fighting, making it more difficult for government forces.
A senior Defense Ministry official said that terror forces of Evil were receiving large arms shipments through the shores of Abyan.
Residents told the Yemen Post that forces of Evil were increasing in number and that a number of imported muscle can be traced on a daily basis.
Two eyewitnesses said that foreigners are also stationed in check points in parts of the province.
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[Dawn] A Pak national on Friday was sentenced to 37 months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to illegally transfer nuclear-related materials to his home country from the United States.
Nadeem Akhtar, 46, who lives in Maryland outside Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty in September and was sentenced by US Judge Frederick Motz in Baltimore to the prison term and to be followed by two years of supervised release.
He admitted that he and his conspirators used his company to obtain or attempt to get various nuclear-related devices and equipment from 2005 to 2010 and he misrepresented what they were and to whom they would be sold, the Justice Department said.
The items, which included radiation detection devices, resins for coolant water purification and calibration and switching equipment, had a value of more than $400,000.
Akhtar took direction from the owner of a trading company located in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... who had business relationships with Pak government entities, the Justice Department said.
It said Akhtar's co-conspirators included individuals in Pakistain, the United Arab Emirates and New York associated with the owner of the Pak trading company.
Washington has long been concerned with Pakistain's nuclear program, which included the development of atomic weapons and added to regional tensions with its longtime rival, India.
Akhtar is a legal permanent resident in the United States and he could face deportation after completing his sentence.
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[Dawn] Supporters of the People's Aman Committee clashed with the police during a protest rally that was making its way towards Bilawal House.
Police used tear gas shells to disperse the protestors. Many of the protestors were reportedly armed and as a result there was also an exchange of fire during the festivities.
Traffic had been jammed after the routes taken by the protestors had been blocked by containers. The protestors were trying to make their way towards Bilawal House in order to express their grievances.
A number of people were reportedly injured during the festivities. They were later taken to Civil Hospital.
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... called Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan and voiced his concern over the festivities in Bloody Karachi. He also urged him to restore order in the metropolis.
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi army and police patrols were able to arrest a gunman with his fuel tanker prepared for explosion in Kut.
That would have been a very big kaboom...
Military sources told Aswat al-Iraq that joint patrols discovered the tanker and were able to dismantle it without damages. The gunman-driver was arrested.
The fuel tanker was filled with 36,000 liters of benzene and TMT.
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OK, I've geard of TNT, wnat's TMT?
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[An Nahar] Attacks against Shiite pilgrims in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Friday killed two people, a day after Iraq suffered its worst violence in five months as it grappled with a political row that has stoked sectarian tensions.
The two bombs went kaboom! in the morning on separate bridges in the Dura neighborhood of south Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official and a doctor at Yarmuk hospital said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, both put the toll at two dead and seven maimed.
Friday's violence came a day after attacks against Shiites in Storied Baghdad and southern Iraq killed 68 people and maimed more than 100, the highest corpse count in the country since August.
The deadliest incident saw at least 45 people killed by a suicide kaboomer on the outskirts of the southern city of Nasiriyah as pilgrims were walking to the shrine city of Karbala for Arbaeen commemorations.
Arbaeen marks 40 days after the Ashura anniversary commemorating the killing of Imam Hussein, one of Shiite Islam's most revered figures, by the armies of the Caliph Yazid in 680 AD.
Five bombings also struck two Shiite neighborhoods of north Storied Baghdad, killing 23 people and wounding dozens.
The violence came amid a political crisis that erupted in Iraq last month, pitting the Shiite-led government against the main Sunni-backed political party after authorities charged Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi with running a death squad.
Hashemi, who is holed up in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, denies the charges, and his Iraqiya party has boycotted the cabinet and stayed away when parliament reopened on Tuesday.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and the United States have called for calm and urged dialogue, but proposed talks between Iraqi politicians to resolve the crisis have yet to take place.
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What happened to the Left's theory that it was "the U.S. presence" in Iraq that was "causing" the violence?
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I expect the Lawn Dart Mafia to throw a fit because they weren't ivited to build a 'Hornet to launch a balloon to launch a drone that launches drones' version.
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a 'Hornet to launch a balloon to launch a drone that launches drones' version.
You're thinking too small here. Picture a balloon (or maybe a giant war zeppelin!) that launches a Hornet that launches a MicroHornet that launches NanoHornet drones. Yeah, it's Hornets all the way down!
The issue is: how to insert sensors into an area of interest quickly and without drawing notice, at the least expenditure of equipment, fuel and operational interaction.
Dirigibles as platforms for the carrier drones have potential value .... they can remain airborne a whole lot longer than winged craft, can host sensor feed integration/transmission equipment and don't require the degree of manned attention that winged UAVs do.
[An Nahar] A Philippine journalist has been rubbed out in an ambush, police said Friday, the latest such attack in one of the world's most dangerous countries for the media.
Christopher Guarin was attacked late Thursday by two faceless myrmidons on a cycle of violence as the 41-year-old radio commentator and newspaper publisher was driving in the southern port of General Santos, they said.
His wife sustained a superficial wound on her arm while their nine-year-old daughter was unharmed, said police investigator Gerald Jubelag.
He said no suspects had been placed in long-term storage but authorities were looking at a possible business rivalry as a motive.
"He jumped out of the car so we will not be caught by stray bullets," said his widow Lyn Guarin.
"I saw my husband lying on the ground helpless, pleading for his life. It fell on deaf ears," she told news hounds.
Freddie Solinap, business manager of the tabloid Tatak published by Guarin, said the victim had frequently received anonymous death threats, the last one a text message on his mobile phone hours before the attack.
"If you show up at the station tonight we're going to kill you," it said.
Guarin later showed up for work and read out the death threat at his early evening talk show at dxMD station.
He had been investigated by police but cleared in the shooting death last year of the circulation manager of a rival local newspaper publisher.
Guarin was the first journalist killed in the Philippines this year, said Edwin Espejo, an official of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, which has been campaigning for greater protection for news hounds.
Nestor Burgos, head of the union, said Guarin was the seventh journalist killed since President Benigno Aquino took office in 2010 vowing to crack down on such attacks.
"This shows the Aquino administration has not really resolved this problem. Apparently, he is not doing enough. The killings are very much the same as in the previous administration," Burgos told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Media organizations and rights groups say the Philippines is one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists, with six media workers killed and another maimed last year.
A total of 148 journalists had been killed in the country since 1986, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
The deadliest year for the country's media occurred in 2009, when 32 media workers were among 57 people murdered in the south, allegedly by members of a powerful clan who wanted to eliminate a rival's political challenge.
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Excerpt: On Friday, Fazel Ur Rehman, a 28-year-old Iranian fisherman, had a warmer greeting for the carrier task force.
"It is like you were sent by God," said Mr. Rehman, huddled under a blanket in this vessel's stern. "Every night we prayed for God to rescue us. And now you are here."
[An Nahar] The United States condemned Friday's deadly suicide kaboom which left at least 26 people dead in Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , the capital of violence-wracked Syria.
"We categorically condemn this attack," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told news hounds.
While she would not say who might have been responsible, Nuland said "we do not think violence of any kind at anybody's hands is the right answer to the problems in Syria."
"The right answer is for a democratic transition of power, for Assad to step aside and for a national dialogue to begin," Nuland added.
The bombing killed 26 and maimed dozens of mostly civilians, state media said, blaming "terrorists" for the second such attack on the city in two weeks.
The bomber went kaboom!" at 10:55 am (0855 GMT) in the historic Midan quarter in a crowded area near a school, Interior Minister Lieutenant General Mohammad al-Shaar was quoted as saying by the SANA news agency.
The Moslem Brüderbund, which accused Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime of orchestrating the December 23 twin suicide kabooms in Damascus that killed 44, leveled a similar charge over Friday's bombing.
"We hold the regime, its agents and its gangs, fully responsible for this crime," the Brotherhood said in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
Syrian state media have circulated gruesome images of rescuers gathering body parts and placing them in plastic bags, in an area where damaged cars and buses were splattered with blood.
Angry residents shouted and denounced the bombing as the work of "terrorists."
The December 23 bombings sparked claims and counter-claims over the perpetrator, with the authorities blaming al-Qaeda and the opposition accusing the regime.
Friday saw similar counter-accusations, with the ruling Baath party calling the attacks "a terrorist act that is a part of the plot hatched against Syria," in a statement broadcast on public television.
The plot, it said, "coincides with the statements made by opposition groups and by French and American officials."
But the Brotherhood swiftly called for an international and Arab probe, claiming the attack benefited the regime.
"The killings in Syria will continue and the Syrian regime will keep hiding behind al-Qaeda and the hard boyz ... unless someone confronts the regime and takes it to account for its crimes," said the Brotherhood.
"They are the only ones who have the tools and are capable of doing it," it said.
Leb's Hizbullah accused the "terrorist" United States of being behind the bombing.
"This terrorist crime targeting the heart of the Syrian capital is the second installment of a plan by the evil force, the United States, to punish Syria for standing by the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... against the Zionist enemy," a statement by the group said.
It said the bombings aimed to compensate for Washington's "humiliating withdrawal" from Iraq.
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I think Ms. Nuland and her foggy bottom ninny friends need to check the TV. The situation in Syria is a bit beyound the democratic process stage. This is a civil war and the US needs to quit tut tutting the violence and get out in front of this thing or the entire ME is going to go up in flames.
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This is a civil war and the US needs to quit tut tutting the violence and get out in front of this thing...
Except THAT kind of leadership means you cannot lead from behind, and this admin sucks at that, much less any fascimile of the real thing, Bill.
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This is a civil war and the US needs to quit tut tutting the violence and get out in front of this thing or the entire ME is going to go up in flames.
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Nuland is a prior Dem US Civil Service appointee who is now an embedded mole and perennial "progressive" agitator. I cannot begin to tell you all just how many of her ilk are spinning propaganda and spoiling our expectations for the future. They're as stupid as the day is long; yet they easily manage to eat OUR lunch and steal OUR Joy.
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[An Nahar] 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... mission sent to monitor unrest in Syria is unable to do its job properly, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Friday.
"We support the vaporous Arab League which has sent observers to Syria but this mission is not at present able to do its job properly," Juppe said on the second day of a visit to Tunisia.
He condemned the "savage and brutal repression" by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime against demonstrations which has left more than 5,000 people dead.
He also expressed regret that Russian opposition had prevented further action against 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... by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
A team of Arab League observers has been in Syria since December 26 trying to assess whether Assad's regime is complying with a peace accord aimed at ending its deadly crackdown on dissent.
But critics say it has been completely outmaneuvered by the government and failed to make any progress towards stemming nearly 10 months of bloodshed.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah on Friday accused the United States of being behind a bombing 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... which official Syrian media said killed 25 people and maimed dozens more, describing Washington as a "terrorist."
"This terrorist crime targeting the heart of the Syrian capital is the second installment of a plan by the evil force, the United States, to punish Syria for standing by the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... against the Zionist enemy," a statement by the group said.
It said the bombings aimed to compensate for Washington's "humiliating withdrawal" from Iraq.
Hizbullah also blamed the United States for twin bombings which left more than 40 people dead in Damascus on December 23. Syrian officials blamed al-Qaeda.
Friday's kaboom struck in a heavily populated neighborhood near a school in the historic Midan quarter of the city. Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said the blast was the work of a jacket wallah.
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... estimates that more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since the crisis erupted last March.
Iran- and Syria-backed Hizbullah has staunchly stood by the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... throughout the crisis.
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[An Nahar] Security forces set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock on Friday the kingpin of the network accused of planting bombs in the southern city of Sidon.
MTV reported that Ahmed Antar, who is accused of leading a gang behind the planting of bombs in Sidon, was jugged by the ISF Intelligence Bureau.
On Thursday, ISF's information branch jugged Khaled Abdul Razzaq for allegedly planting a bomb in the parking lot of a building in Sidon.
The army detonated a bomb the bomb Wednesday overnight.
A citizen informed the security forces of a suspected device found around 11:00 pm in the parking lot of Hijazi Center in Sidon's Quds Square. The parking space lies near the building where Sheikh Maher Hammoud resides.
The bomb weighed around 1 kg wired to a cell phone primed to detonate the device, the army said in a statement on Thursday.
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[An Nahar] Syrian activists on Friday erupted into the streets across the country in a bid to "internationalize" their cause after the rebel Free Syrian Army urged 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... to admit its observer mission is a failure and to turn to the United Nations. ...a formerly good idea gone bad... But there has been no let-up in security force fire against demonstrators, with at least 35 people rubbed out on Friday, according to the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground.
The LCC said security forces rubbed out 14 civilians in the countryside around Damascus, ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... five civilians and three army deserters in the flashpoint central province of Homs, nine civilians in the central province of Hama, three in the northwestern province of Idlib and one in the southern province of Daraa.
In Homs, a 36-year-old was killed by a security force bullet while sitting on his balcony, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Protests were also reported in Syria's second city 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... and third city Homs, in the port city of Latakia, and in Douma on the northern outskirts of the capital.
Two loud blasts shook the eastern oil hub of Deir al-Zour, where protests were also held, the Observatory said.
A team of Arab League observers has been in Syria since December 26 trying to assess whether Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... regime is complying with a peace accord aimed at ending its deadly crackdown on dissent.
The "Syrian Revolution 2011" group, one of the driving forces on the Internet behind the uprising, called on Facebook for demonstrations on Friday to urge the "internationalization of our cause."
The appeal for people to take to the streets following the main weekly Mohammedan prayers came ahead of an Arab League meeting Sunday to discuss the mission which has come in for scathing criticism this week.
The head of the rebel Free Syrian Army has called on the vaporous Arab League to admit the mission has been a failure and urged the bloc to seek U.N. help to end the bloodshed.
Colonel Riad al-Asaad, in a telephone interview with Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday, said: "We hope they will announce that their mission was a failure.
"We call on the Arab League to step aside and let the United Nations take over responsibility as it is more apt to find solutions."
Asaad charged that the government was misleading the monitors and using all means to circumvent the deal it signed with the League.
"Authorities, for example, transferred prison inmates to army barracks where the observers are not allowed according to the protocol," said the dissident colonel.
"Military vehicles are painted blue and identified as 'anti-terrorist police' to make believe that it's the police" who are battling what the regime calls "armed gangs".
"We, and all the Syrian people, want the United Nations to step in because the Arabs are not capable of taking any real decisions when it comes to Syria," said Asaad.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, who heads an Arab League task force on Syria, has admitted "mistakes" in its almost two-week old mission.
Sheikh Hamad discussed the deadly crackdown with U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... in New York on Wednesday.
A U.N. front man said Ban and the sheikh "discussed practical measures by which the United Nations could support the observer mission of the Arab League in Syria."
But the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA quoted Hamad as saying he was seeking U.N. "technical help," "because this is the first time the Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes."
The United Nations said that U.N. human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... experts could train the Arab monitors.
"This is something that is under discussion with the League of Arab states for the moment," said U.N. front man Martin Nesirky.
Syrian opposition groups have criticized the monitors and accused the authorities of keeping them under too tight a rein.
The LCC have labeled the mission "unprofessional" and said Assad's regime was finding it easy to deceive the observers.
"Soldiers wear police uniforms, drive repainted military vehicles and change the names of places, but this does not mean the army withdrew from cities and streets, or that the regime is applying the provisions of the Arab protocol," they said.
The LCC say at least 390 people have been killed since the observers began their mission. The U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed in the crisis since March.
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[An Nahar] Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun said Friday that Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... recent remarks that the Syrian opposition had presented its credentials to the West were "inappropriate coming from the leader of a resistance movement and a spiritual figure."
In an interview on Al-Arabiya television, Ghalioun added: "Neighboring Leb is a real brother of Syria and it is more than a neighbor."
"When Syria transits from an oppressive regime to another that does not kill the Lebanese, it will have different relations with Leb, relations of cooperation and consultation, and we won't interfere in the Lebanese affairs," Ghalioun stressed.
In December, Nasrallah said: "The so-called Syrian National Council, formed in Istanbul, and its leader Burhan Ghalioun ... are trying to present their credentials to the United States and Israel."
His comments came after Ghalioun was quoted as saying a Syria run by the country's main opposition group, the SNC, would cut military ties to Iran, Hizbullah and the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
"Breaking the exceptional relationship means breaking the strategic, military alliance," he was quoted as saying. "After the fall of the Syrian regime, (Hizbullah) won't be the same."
But in the interview on Al-Arabiya on Friday, Ghalioun stressed that Hizbullah would change its policy "after the fall of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad." Trampler of Homs... "That does not mean that I support severing ties with Hizbullah," he added.
Addressing the Syrian situations, Ghalioun said: "Syria will be a sovereign, independent and immune country and it will not accept submission and it will not abandon the (occupied) Golan" Heights -- captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
"It will rather defend it with all means, including military ones," he vowed.
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[An Nahar] A suicide kaboom hit Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... on Friday, killing 25 and wounding dozens of mostly civilians, state media said, blaming "terrorists" for the second such attack on the Syrian capital in two weeks.
But Syria's opposition Moslem Brüderbund called for an international and Arab probe into the bombing, saying it was an act benefitting the regime.
"The killings in Syria will continue and the Syrian regime will keep hiding behind al-Qaeda and the Islamic fascisti... unless someone confronts the regime and takes it to account for its crimes," said the Brotherhood.
State television said the "powerful kaboom" struck in the historic Midan quarter in the heart of the capital.
The attack, which took place in a heavily populated neighborhood near a school, killed 25 people and maimed 45 others, the television said, adding the casualties were mostly civilians and also some security personnel.
It showed gruesome footage of rescuers gathering body parts in the streets and placing them in plastic trash bags, in an area where damaged cars and buses could be seen splattered with blood.
Angry residents were at the scene shouting and denouncing the bombing as the work of "terrorists".
The banned Brotherhood, in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse, charged the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Suppressor of the Damascenes... , which has been facing daily protests since mid-March, orchestrated the bombing.
It said the "regime, its agents, its gangs and its shabiha (militias) are the only ones to benefit from this kaboom."
"They are the only ones who have the tools and are capable of doing it," said the statement.
"We in the Moslem Brüderbund in Syria call for an international probe and an Arab probe into this kaboom before the criminal hides the evidence of his crime," it said.
"We hold the regime, its agents and its gangs fully responsible for this crime ... they are legally responsible for every drop of blood that falls in Syria," added the Brotherhood.
The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition activist group which has organized anti-regime protests since March, said in a statement sent to Agence La Belle France Presse that another kaboom was heard in the Damascus suburb of Tal.
And the official SANA news agency reported that a "terrorist group" had blown up an oil pipeline between the central city of Hama and Idlib in the northwest.
The powerful December 23 bombings sparked a swirl of claims and counter-claims over who was responsible, with the authorities saying they were likely the work of al-Qaeda and the opposition pointing the finger at the regime.
The latest attack came ahead of mass protests called by freedom fighters to demand an 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... observer mission, in Syria for two weeks, admit its failure to stem nearly 10 months of bloodshed and hand over to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... The privately-owned Dunia television channel, which is close to the authorities, said that an observer team went to the scene of the bombing but made no comments to journalists at the scene.
The Arab League observer mission has been in Syria since December 26 trying to assess whether President Bashir al-Assad's regime is complying with a peace accord aimed at ending its deadly crackdown on dissent.
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