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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Stacey Dash aka Dionne in "Clueless (1995) & (TV Series 1996)" aka Amber Evans in "Mo' Money (1992)" aka Brianna in "I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)" aka Toni Briggs in "Enemy Territory (1987)" aka Pvt. Miranda Myers in "Renaissance Man (1994)" aka Alicia Saunders in "Ghost Image (2007)" aka Joy Crowley in "Wild About Harry (2009)" aka Val in "Single Ladies (TV Series 2011 )" (age 46)
H/T Diana West
Military commanders in Afghanistan have stopped making public the number of allied troops killed by Afghan soldiers and police, a measure of the trustworthiness of a force that is to take over security from U.S.-led forces.
The change in policy comes after at least three allied troops have been killed by the Afghan troops they trained in the past month and follows what appears to be the deadliest year of the war for NATO trainers at the hands of their Afghan counterparts.
The International Security Assistance Force in Kabul had responded to previous requests for details on cases where Afghan troops -- screened and trained by ISAF and Afghan officials -- have turned their weapons on NATO troops.
Navy Lt. Cdr. Brian Badura said ISAF has a new policy to release only limited information about casualties, leaving the responsibility for detail to the troops' home countries. The policy went into effect in the latter half of 2011, he said.
In 2012, Afghan security forces have killed at least one ISAF member. In the latest incident, a sudden jihadist member of the Afghan army man wearing an Afghan army uniform killed a coalition soldier, ISAF said Jan. 8. Two days later, the Pentagon said Pfc. Dustin P. Napier, 20, of London, Ky., had died from small-arms fire on Jan. 8 but released no further details.
More than a third of the attacks stemmed from sudden jihad syndrome combat stress as opposed to Taliban infiltration, an ISAF review of incidents found last year. About one-fifth of the attacks were caused by chronic jihad syndrome insurgents goading or coercing Afghan troops.
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More Socialist, Marxist style disinformation. Only it is now being implemented in the good ole United States of America. They are covering up how our sons and daughters are being killed over there under thier watch.
This is in and of itself for the the people of the United States of America to say "git-a-rope".
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It is but one more reason not to waste more blood and treasure on this hell hole. This will only continue to happen and regardless of how often it does, each occurrence points out the idiocy of our trying to drag this barbaric, tribal nation into the modern world. Aint. Gonna. Happen. Can we start leaving tomorrow?
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In all fairness, this also happened in Vietnam, with it being a high priority of the Viet Cong to recruit or coerce members of the ARVN, and infiltrate by any means.
The big difference was that they were doing so for military intelligence and sabotage reasons, which are far more dangerous than killing some privates.
By compromising ARVN and US offensive and defensive operations, they could both protect Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers and enable their attacks to be far more effective.
Those small number of ARVN units who after extensive testing were found to be secure and loyal then got a LOT more work, only exiting their bases to go on major operations where they were critical players. In turn they got the full support, good weapons, high pay, etc., and worked in relative anonymity to prevent retaliation.
They helped a lot to crush the Viet Cong, and worked under their own, far less restrictive ROE.
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The perpetrators of these killings should get the Pershing treatment - buried in pig offal in public with all media sources being used. Spread the word that this is what happens to turncoats. That may tend to reduce the desire of these idiots to infiltrate and detonate.
Oh yeah, wimps be dammed - this is war, let the dead enemy be pissed upon, and quit making such a rucus about it at home. For crying out loud, it's OK to blow the heart out these animals, but not OK to urinate on them? WTF
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Rob06, desecration of corpses is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. Having said that, I think someone here suggested, give those guys a GOMOR and a Field Grade 15 and be done with it, with which I completely agree. Not every violation is a "war crime" or a capital crime.
And not every signatory enforces it, like Afghanistan and Pakistan (yes, really), nor is there any reciprocity requirement.
[Bangla Daily Star] A suicide kaboom killed at least six people yesterday at Kandahar international airport in southern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest flashpoints in a 10-year war, police said.
The Taliban, the militia leading a 10-year insurgency against the Afghan government and tens of thousands of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops, grabbed credit.
Spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the target was "the bullet-proof vehicles of foreign forces".
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[Yemen Post] Thousands of local rustics staged on Wednesday a demonstration in protest of recent events in their town of Rada, some 260km southeast of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
The protesters shouted slogans condemning the army's week response to al-Qaeda thugs, who took control of their town with out real resistance and blaming President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... regime for what happened.
On Wednesday, tribal chiefs held Saleh's responsible for the fall of Rada into the control of terrorists, saying there was connivance between them.
Saleh has long played al-Qaeda card to convince the world that without him in the helm of Yemen, the country will turn into a failed.
Yemen-based al-Qaeda have been very active lately as it strengthened its foothold in the south provinces of the country, apparently taking advantage of the political vacuum triggered by the massive popular protests calling for putting an end to the 33-rule of Saleh.
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[Yemen Post] The US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein informed the Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi on Wednesday that Yemen's security forces cooperated with Al-Qaeda to capture Rada'a, media outlets reported on Thursday.
An Arabic-speaking daily newspaper, Akhbar Alyawm, said that Freiestein cited, in a meeting with Al-Qirbi, that Yemeni security and military forces had not taken any actions to prevent Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons from capturing Rada'a.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... special envoy to Yemen Jamal Bin Omar and the EU Delegation's Head and ambassador to Yemen Michele Cervone d'Urso met on Wednesday with Al-Qirbi following his controversial comments about the possible delay of the early presidential elections.
They stressed that the elections could not be delayed in any way, voicing their deep concerns about the current developments in Rada town of Baidha governorate.
Yemeni media outlets had spoke about disputes between the outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi as the former refused the involvement of the Republican Guard and Central Security in encountering the cut-thoats.
Yemeni analysts had affirmed that Saleh and his cronies planned to raise chaos and turbulence through the use of terrorist groups with the aim of impeding the GCC-brokered transfer power deal.
Yemen Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basindiwa had alleged that Saleh provided Al-Qaeda with a fertile ground to grow and expand.
"Saleh used to use Al-Qaeda to blackmail and intimidate the oil-rich neighboring GCC states, the United States and other western countries" added he.
The coalition of the main Yemeni opposition parties, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), has stated that security services that are still loyal to Saleh was responsible for insecurity occurred in Rada'a.
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ION TOPIX > FEARS OF "ARAB SPRING" BECOMING AN "ISLAMIST SPRING".
Yokay, I'll bite, WHAT PART OF "POLITICAL-LEGAL-ELECTORAL" JIHAD DID WE NOT UNDERSTAND???
[Yemen Observer] The abducted Norwegian friends' said he messaged them several times and assured he was safe. If he was safe he wouldn't be kidnapped. He means he's not dead yet.
One of his friends in Yemen said that Gurgt had messaged het on Sunday and Monday and told her he was safe and that his kidnappers have been treating him well and letting him chew Qat.
The source said that Gurgt 34, old from Norway who works for the United Nation in Yemen told her he was safe and that his kidnappers allowed him to use his mobile, though he said they took his mobile from him when he makes many calls or messages.
He said he was somewhere in Marib province but could not affirm in which part.
Yemen security source said that Gurgt is part of a team of U.N. election observers scheduled to oversee Yemen's presidential elections in February.
Gurgt was kidnapped by some tribesmen from Marib province in Yemen's capital Sana'a said security and diplomat sources on Sunday.
Yemeni security official said the U.N. worker was kidnapped from Sana'a city by armed tribesmen who transferred him to Marib province.
Marib province, 170 kilometers to the North East of Sana'a is one of the strongholds of al-Qaeda in the north of Yemen.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ford Overland Andersen said the ministry was informed the 34-year-old Norwegian man was abducted early Sunday.
"U.N. worker was taken hostage by the Abidah tribe of Marib province. They were demanding the release of a tribesman who was arrested on charges of killing four Yemeni soldiers," said the Norwegian official.
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Such stories make me once again grateful Mr. Wife turned down that opportunity to transfer us to Sana'a shortly after unification... Picturesqueness of scenery and natives only goes so far when their customs veer so far from quaintness,
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Gurgt-Oops(Well,I beg your pardon-Sheesh!)
Here's the contact info of someone who is standing by to assist you. He too, prefers all the excitement that Yemen has to offer... Trust him. He's "plugged-in" at so many levels and is lacking nothing. Good Luck my young friend!
[Bangla Daily Star] 1. Journalists and workers of different print and electronic media who have come to this press briefing at the invitation of Bangladesh Army and the army officials present- Assalamu Alaikum.
I, Brigadier General Md Masud Razzak, Director PS Directorate, and Lt Col Muhammad Sajjad Siddique, acting judge Advocate General of the Army, welcome you to today's press briefing.
2. In today's press briefing I will first read out our statement. After I conclude you may ask questions, if you have any. I hope you have got copies of my statement. To allow all to speak, an official/journalist will place one question and mention his name and the media he represents.
3. Bangladesh Army, which was born through a glorious and bloody struggle for liberation, has earned its reputation by working sincerely at home and abroad and standing by the people of all strata.
At a time when the army was working hard to reach a higher level of quality through procuring military hardware and ensuring well-disciplined training in a well-organized manner under a democratic system of governance to arrive at Forces Goal 2030, it finds itself going through another challenging chapter in the aftermath of a legacy left behind by history. We seek the help of democratic and patriotic people through you in facing this temporary challenge.
4. Recently at the instigation of some non-resident Bangladeshis some retired and serving army officers with fanatical religious views and capitalizing on others' fanaticism led a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! through their ill motivated activities to thwart the democratic system of Bangladesh by creating disorder in the army. The attempt has been foiled with the sincere attempts of the members of Bangladesh Army.
5. With the motive of creating disorder in the army a retired Lt Colonel on December 13, 2011 instigated a serving Major to join him in executing his malicious plan. The Major instantly passed on the matter through his chain of command and the retired officer was locked away under articles 2 (1) (D) (i) and 73 of the Army Act.
Another accomplice of the retired officer Major Syed Ziaul Haq on December 22, 2011 met with a serving officer and instigated him to engage in activities subversive of the state and democracy. The serving officer informed the proper authority of the matter, as a result of which the leave and transfer order of Major Zia, who had recently completed his long term training, was cancelled. He was informed over telephone on December 23, 2011 and ordered to immediately join Army headquarters Log Area in Dhaka. Major Zia, who was on leave, remained runaway and has been trying to continue "subversive" activities against the army.
Besides, on the basis of confirmed information, another serving officer of major rank was locked away on December 31, 2011 under the above mentioned articles of Army Act for instigating other in-service officers into refraining from being loyal to the government.
6. Against the backdrop of a leaking of partial information about the conspiracy to create disorder in the army and the arrest of some individuals, runaway Major Zia sent an e-mail to his acquaintances describing an imaginative and incredibly cooked up story of his so-called arrest and torture. Later, one Abu Sayeed uploaded the e-mail in a blog, "Soldier's Forum", on the social network Facebook.
Later, the said officer sent out two e-mails containing imaginary and highly controversial contents styled "Mid-level Officers of Bangladesh Army are Bringing Down Changes Soon" through the internet.
On January 3, 2012, the daily Amar Desh, as part of yellow journalism and with an ill motive to spread confusion about Bangladesh Army, published the internet message of runaway Major Zia.
In a similar vein, the banned fanatic organization Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... on January 8, 2012 circulated provocative leaflets based on runaway Major Zia's internet message throughout the country.
The following day (January 9) a major political party of the country, in tandem with the cooked up, confusing propaganda, alleged that "incidents of disappearance" had been taking place in the army, a stance which gave rise to an unwarranted, provocative debate among all conscious citizens, including those in the army.
Bangladesh Army takes this opportunity to thank all responsible print and electronic media which demonstrated their sense of professionalism and responsibility by not publishing the confusing information in the greater interest of the country.
7. On the basis of elaborate information provided by the two retired officers taken under arrest and other serving officers, specific information about the involvement of some serving officers of the army in the conspiracy to overthrow the democratic system of government through using the army has been unearthed.
Some undisciplined and derailed army officers were actively involved in executing the vile conspiracy of runaway Major Zia by misusing mobile phones and the internet. A court of enquiry was constituted on December 28, 2011 to unearth elaborate information about the plot and its proceedings are on-going.
8. To execute the anti-state conspiracy by using the army runaway Major Zia on January 9 and 10, 2012 sent copies of two imaginary operation orders to different serving officers through e-mail.
Besides on January 10, 2012 runaway Major Zia, contacting some like-minded officers working in different formations or studying in different institutions over mobile phone, wanted to know about preparations for the so-called military coup as per their plan and motivated them to execute the plot.
On the same night, runaway Major Zia contacted expatriate Bangladeshi (now probably in Hong Kong) Ishraq Hossain (father: M Raquib, Deen Manzil, village; Balubhara, union: Barshail, thana and district: Naogaon) several times. During conversation they discussed the progress of the coup and the process of implementing it. Fugitive Major Zia asked him to publish news in the media at home and abroad about the army coup in Bangladesh. Ishraq directed runaway Major Zia to phone him at around 2 am on January 11 if the coup was completed by then so that he could reach Bangladesh by air in the shortest time. It is assumed that Mr Ishraq gave this instruction with the aim of taking advantage of conditions in a post-coup situation.
9. At a time when Bangladesh Army has been trying to organize itself as a force rich in quality through various reform activities under a political government established through democratic means, various evil forces have been making ill attempts to ride piggyback on the army a patriotic state force- to destroy democracy. As in the near and distant past they have used the sentiments of fanaticism, propaganda and rumours. Some individuals have been hyperactive in observing religious rituals, and, dissociated from family bonds, jobs and business, have joined these conspirators.
Newspapers with vested interests, banned religious bad boy organizations and platforms of such political parties have been used for conducting their propaganda.
In the past different evil forces banked on Bangladesh Army which grew out of victory in the Liberation War to create disorder and gain political advantage. Sometimes they succeeded and on some occasions they failed. Even so, as an organization Bangladesh Army has been carrying the burden of the disrepute such forces have earned in the past.
The professionally efficient and well disciplined members of Bangladesh Army would like to say, "We do not want to bear this liability on the shoulders of our organization."
10. It seems that the total episode is an ill attempt by some retired and serving army officers at the instigation of Bangladeshi citizens at home and abroad capitalizing on the sentiments of the fanatics. These individuals by taking all opportunities and advantages in the army and the country have been getting involved with vested interest groups and have been trying to tarnish the enviable success, development and unity of Bangladesh Army.
Some retired and serving officers involved in the conspiracy have already admitted to their involvement unhesitatingly. After enquiry stern legal action will be taken against the guilty persons.
Such vile attempts must be resisted firmly in order to uphold the hard-earned image of the army and to smoothen the path to progress.
Every army member is ever ready to make sacrifices to protect the illusory sovereignty and integrity of the motherland.
Nobody wants that any local or foreign vested interest group will realise their ill motive by banking on the sacrifices of the members of the army.
Fugitive Major Zia needs to surrender to the army immediately in order to enjoy legal protection and justice. All are requested to inform the proper authorities if they come by any information about the present whereabouts and activities of runaway Major Zia.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The army has foiled a "coup attempt to overthrow the present democratic government", a military front man said yesterday.
A band of religious fanatics, made up of mid-ranking officers and their retired colleagues, was involved in the failed putsch at the instigation of some non-resident Bangladeshis.
Possibly connected to our bosom friend and ally Pakistan?
Brigadier General Muhammad Mashud Razzaq, director of Personnel Services Directorate, made the disclosures at an unprecedented press briefing at the Army Officers Club in Dhaka cantonment.
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[An Nahar] Police in Azerbaijan have jugged two people accused of plotting attacks on prominent foreigners criminal masterminded by a man with alleged links to Iranian intelligence, officials said Thursday.
The two Azerbaijani citizens "were making preparations for the liquidation of public figures who are foreign nationals ... that is, preparing to commit a terrorist act", the national security ministry said in a statement.
It said "large amounts" of guns, ammunition and explosives were smuggled in from neighboring Iran so that the men, named as Rasim Aliyev and Ali Huseynov, could stage the planned attacks.
The ministry said the alleged criminal mastermind, Balagardash Dadashov, a resident of Ardabil in the Islamic republic, had "contacts with Iranian intelligence agencies".
After decades of Soviet rule, Azerbaijan emerged as one of the most secular countries in the Islamic world and has become a key supplier of oil to Europe and an ally in the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led campaign in Afghanistan.
The secular authorities led by President Ilham Aliyev have a problematic relationship with Iran, which has been accused of sponsoring Islamic cut-throats in Azerbaijan.
Up to a quarter of Iran's population are ethnic Azeris, according to some estimates, far outnumbering Azerbaijan's own population of 9.2 million.
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Gee whizzz, guys, its only the first month January of 2012, + already the annual Irano-Azeri annual barbecue is on the path towards being cancelled - AGAIN!
U.S. and Pakistani sources told Reuters that the target of the attack was Aslam Awan, a Pakistani national from Abbottabad.
The sources described Awan, who also was known by the nom-de-guerre Abdullah Khorasani, as a significant figure in the remaining core leadership of al Qaeda, which U.S. officials say has been sharply reduced by the drone campaign. Another job opening created by Obama.
Skilled applicants only. Benefits include two meetings with company lawyer for the purpose of writing will and estate planning,
The drone strike that targeted Awan was one of two such attacks last week, in what U.S. sources indicated was a resumption of the U.S. drone campaign following the eight-week pause. In the other drone strike, also in North Waziristan, a group of "foreign fighters" sympathetic to the Taliban and al Qaeda, some of Uzbek ethnicity, were targeted on January 12.
U.S. officials said they could not confirm news reports, based on claims from Pakistani sources, that Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the TTP, Pakistan's most potent domestic affiliate of the Taliban movement, was also killed in the June 12 attack. Pakistani and U.S. sources said that Mehsud was not targeted in the drone strike, and one Pakistani source said: "He is alive. Hakimullah is alive." Alive! It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!!
(KUNA) -- Indian security forces bumped off one krazed killer in the country's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmire on Thursday, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI).
The encounter took place in the state's Poonch district along the international border with Pakistain - Line of Control (LoC). Search operation is still on to trace if there were more krazed killers.
According to the report, acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel that the krazed killer was hiding in the area, the security forces launched a cordon and search operation. On being surrounded by security forces, the krazed killer opened fire on the security forces.
The security forces returned fire resulting in a fierce gunbattle between the two sides, and leading to the killing of the krazed killer. One UBGL (Underbarrel Grenade Launcher), an AK rifle and four magazines were recovered from the slain krazed killer.
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[Dawn] Two foreign nationals working for an NGO in Pakistain were kidnapped from the Qasim Bela area of Multan on Thursday, DawnNews reported.
According to security sources, the two men, one an Italian and the other a German national, were kidnapped while they were traveling from Kot Addu to Multan.
Both were working for a non-governmental group that helps flood victims in the region and were reportedly taken by gunnies.
The Italian foreign ministry on Thursday also confirmed the abduction of the Italian citizen along with another foreigner, but did not give further details on the persons' identities.
"(The foreign ministry) confirms the abduction today of an Italian citizen in Multan, in the south of Punjab province," it said. "The ministry is in permanent contact with the family of the kidnapped person." The ministry has activated its crisis unit and Minister Giulio Terzi has asked to be constantly informed of developments, the statement said.
"As already in the past in similar situations," the ministry "will be discreet and is seeking cooperation from the media in this context so as not to compromise efforts at freeing our compatriot," said the foreign ministry statement.
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[Dawn] At least three faceless myrmidons were killed when they clashed with volunteers of a peace committee in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.
Sources said that activities of banned Death Eater outfit Lashkar-iIslam and volunteers of Akkakhel Peace Committee exchanged fire when they came face to face in thearea. Three LI activists belonging to Shalobar, Zakhakhel and Malikdinkhel were killed in the clash, they added.
Peace through greater fire power -- demonstrably it works.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... Khasadar Force set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock five alleged outlaws during a crackdown in Malagori area on Wednesday.
Officials said that Lal Rehman, Karamat, Lalmat Khan, Hussain and Niaz Hussain were incarcerated from a house during a search opera-tion conducted by Khasadar Force on the orders of Political Agent Mutahir Zeb.
The crackdown was ordered after local residents complaints about an increase in criminal activities in the area. Officials said that the set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock men were involved in a number of criminal activities.
In another incident, a minor girl lost her life when she was hit by a stray bullet during exchange of fireat a jirga in Jamrud on Wednesday.
Officials said that they set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock six persons from both the sides after the incident. Both the rival groups had an old land dispute and a jirga was convened to resolve the issue.
Members of both the groups exchanged hot words and then fired at each other at the jirga, resulting in killing of a minor girl, who was hit by a stray bullet inside a house.
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[Dawn] A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for three people wanted in the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team case.
Qari Muhammad Mushtaq, Amanullah and Ubaidur Rehman are wanted in the case.
A state counsel sought more time for their arrest.
The bench accepted the plea and adjourned hearing till Feb 1 and issued fresh warrantsfor the accused.
On previous hearing, the bench had directed the Lahore police chief to arrest the accused.
The bench issued this order on a Punjab government`s petition seeking cancellation of bails earlier granted to six accused involved in attack on Sri Lanka team by the different courts.
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[Dawn] Four people, including two security officials, were maimed in a suicide kaboom in northwest Pakistain's Nowshera region on Thursday, DawnNews reported.
The blast targeted a security check post in the region's Akora Khattak area.
Police sources said the bomber let 'er rip during a routine security search at the check post.
Security forces retaliated which led to the killing of krazed killer commander Jannat Gul. Moreover, two gunnies were also tossed in the slammer.
A suicide jacket was also recovered from the tossed in the slammer individuals.
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[Iran Press TV] Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has locked away an al-Iraqiya bloc's politician for funding Islamic fascistiwhile terror-linked Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi remains runaway in the semi-autonomous north.
Riyadh al-Adhadh, the deputy chief of Storied Baghdad provincial council, was locked away on Wednesday in connection with funding terrorist elements, a Storied Baghdad security official said Thursday on condition of anonymity.
"An krazed killer group confessed that he is funding them and giving them orders," the source noted.
Adhadh is a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), part of the al-Iraqiya coalition to which Hashemi belongs.
The IIP confirmed the detention of the party member, but attacked the arrest as "an unprecedented escalation" and called for Adhadh to be freed.
Al-Iraqiya, which ran a neck-and-neck competition with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... State of Law alliance in Iraq's 2010 parliamentary elections, has largely boycotted parliament and cabinet in response to the arrest warrants issued against its members.
On Tuesday, Iraq's cabinet criticized al-Iraqiya's boycotting ministers, decreeing they could not run their ministries as long as they are staying away from its meetings.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... Vice President Hashemi, who is charged with running death squads, has been holed up the Kurdistan region while the regional Kurd officials have so far ignored Storied Baghdad's calls to hand him over.
Iraq's political standoff spread to the country's ties with Turkey after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with Maliki on January 10, where he expressed "concern" over the political situation in Iraq and called for an end to "sectarian and ethnic polarization" in Iraq.
The remarks infuriated officials in Storied Baghdad, but drew appreciation from Hashemi, who said he felt "indebted" to the Turkish premier for supporting him.
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[Iran Press TV] Iraq has approved the death penalty for 11 men convicted two years ago of involvement in devastating kabooms against two ministries in 2009.
"The presidency approved the decision to carry out the death penalty for the 11 responsible for the attacks," an official in Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office said on Thursday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , explained that the final approval to execute the convicts, including al-Qaeda thugs, took two years due to a lengthy appeals process.
On August 19, 2009 an embarrassing security breach led to devastating attacks outside the ministries of finance and foreign affairs in Storied Baghdad. ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... The "Black Wednesday" truck bomb kabooms left 106 people dead and some 600 more maimed.
Among those convicted for the 2009 carnage was Salim Abed Jassim, who confessed to have received funding for the attacks from Brigadier General Nabil Abdul Rahman, a senior army officer during the rule of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
Also sentenced to death were Ishaq Mohammed Abbas, an al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, and his brother Mustapha.
The brothers had once been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock but were later released from Camp Bucca, a now closed US-run detention center in the southern city of Basra.
The death sentence comes as runaway Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, being charged with running a death squad, remains holed up in the autonomous Kurdish region.
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki has demanded that President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... to hand Hashemi over to the Iraqi judiciary in the capital Storied Baghdad.
Hashemi denies terror charges against him and claims the judiciary in Storied Baghdad is "not free."
"It would not be right to be tried in Storied Baghdad and I do not suppose a fair decision would be given in the capital," Hashemi said on Tuesday.
Maliki earlier rejected a call by the al-Iraqiya party to transfer the trial of Hashemi to the northern city of Kirkuk as "a serious threat to the independence of the juridical system."
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Now that the hincty US has gone, the Shiites are commencing to capture, try and execute recalcitrant Sunnis they have long known were terrorists, but only faced prison before, because the Sunnis in government would block their executions.
After the first few hundred are strung up, the rest will start to behave better, at least is the theory.
[Iran Press TV] A rocket attack has targeted the Turkish Embassy compound in the Iraqi capital, Storied Baghdad. ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... striking its perimeter without causing any injuries.
The incident occurred on Wednesday when at least two rockets were fired from a vehicle at the embassy in Waziriyah, in northern Storied Baghdad and outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, an Iraqi security official said.
"There were two Katyusha rockets. The first one hit the embassy blast wall, and the second one hit the second floor of an adjacent bank," the official said.
He said there were no casualties, and that the authorities claimed to have found the vehicle from which the mortar was fired.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... a source at the Turkish Embassy said at least three rockets had been fired at the compound, but only one hit an outside wall without causing injuries.
Anatolia news agency said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is currently in Brussels, telephoned Ankara's envoy Yunus Demirer to inquire about the incident.
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Iran has embassies too ....
Don't throw rocks if you live in a glass house.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli army on Thursday tossed in the slammer the Paleostinian parliamentary speaker, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, member Aziz Dweik ...Dweik has been associated with The Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas since as early as 1992.... , in the West Bank, a senior colleague told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Dweik was jugged by soldiers at a checkpoint in Jabaa, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, as he was traveling to Hebron in the southern West Bank, the leader of the cabinet, Bahaa Youssef, told AFP.
Last May, Dweik was held at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank along with three other Hamas parliamentarians. One of them, Nizar Ramadan, was jugged while the others were allowed to proceed.
Some 20 of Hamas' 74 MPs in the 132-member Paleostinian legislative council are currently being held by Israel. Most of them, including two former ministers, have been tossed in the slammer in the West Bank since October 2010.
Almost all of the officials were among 64 Hamas parliamentarians and government members previously tossed in the slammer by Israel after the seizure of one of its soldiers, Gild Shalit, in June 2006 near the Islamist-ruled Gazoo Strip.
Shalit was freed on October 18 in a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas.
The first stage of the deal in October saw 477 Paleostinians, including hundreds serving life for killing Israelis, released.
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A state employee was gunned down on a local road in Pattani's Kapho district this afternoon. He was a state employee, identified as Vorasit Phuenpha.
Eyewitnesses told police at around 1 p.m. the man was traveling on a motorcycle and was attacked by two men on another motorcyle and shot three times by the pillion rider with a pistol.
At about 2:30 p.m., a bomb exploded at a parking lot for motorcycles in front of Pattana Islam School in Muang district of Pattani, damaging three motorcycles but causing no casualties. Mustopa Matrudin, a teacher at the school and the owner of one of the damaged motorcycles, told police that some people saw two young men arrive on a motorcycle, put an object under his vehicle's seat and take off before the bomb went off.
A widow was gunned down Friday while reading the Koran at a graveyard in Pattani province district where her husband's remains are buried.
Jaesong Salae, 49, the widow of a school janitor who was gunned down earlier by presumed terrorists insurgents, was shot once in the temple as she was at prayer by a gunman using a pistol. Mrs Jaesong was paying her respects to her husband, who was killed earlier in the jihad insurgency by unidentified assailants.
Police say that after Mrs Jaesong's husband was shot, she was hired by a local military unit and that she cooperated with the authorities. Her work may have dissatisfied the presumed insurgents, which led to her killing, investigators speculated.
Ya think?
The Southern Border Police Operation Center earlier reported, as of the end of 2011, the death toll from unrest in southern Thailand has reached 5,243. Nearly nine thousand persons were injured in 12,604 terrorist insurgent attacks since Jan 2004
So his name isn't 'Lars' or 'Sven' or even 'Eric'...
accused of planning a terror attack in Bangkok last week has professed his innocence, claiming he was set up by the Mossad. Hussein Atris, 47, told Aftonbladet, "I'm 100 percent innocent."
"Wudn't me."
Atris was arrested last Thursday at the airport in Bangkok as he was about to get on a flight back to his home in Lebanon. Atris was later formally charged with illegal explosives possession after Thai police said they found large amounts of ammonium nitrate and fertilizer in a storage facility rented by Atris on the outskirts of Bangkok.
"I was just growing opium poppies, honest."
Atris, who moved to Sweden in 1989 and took Swedish citizenship in 1994, claims he was framed. He said, "A lot of the material police found in my storage facility had been placed there, most likely by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad."
"It wuz dem Joooz!!"
Atris misses his family in Lebanon, where he has lived since moving back from Sweden in 2005 after a decade working as a hair dresser in Gothenburg.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"It was that bastard Zohan Dvir! He always hated me after I criticised his bleaching technique."
He claims he has nothing to do with the suspicions against him saying, "This is a plot; I'm only involved in regular business activities."
"Lies! All lies!"
Atris believes the Mossad singled him out because he is a Shiite who lives in an neighborhood outside of Beirut where support for Hezbollah is strong. Though he denies being a member of Hezbollah, he does own up to having "left-leaning" sympathies.
There's a profound admission. The Left and Hezbollah? Don't anyone tell the Huffington Post...
He told Aftonbladet, "I voted for the Social Democrats when I lived in Sweden. That may have made me look suspicious in the eyes of the Mossad. They had an eye on me."
About half of all Israelis vote left of the Social Democrats back home...
Atris explained that, at the time of his arrest, he was in Thailand to check on how some storage facilities he had rented near Bangkok had fared following flooding in the area late last year.
"You know, to store all the opium."
"We bought goods in Asia and exported them to other countries, including Lebanon. It was fans, copy paper, ice packs used for pain relief," said Atris, describing an import-export business he started with a friend in Lebanon three years ago.
Thai police say the storage container contained bomb making material, including plenty of ammonia and fertilizer. Atris explained, "The [ice packs] contain ammonia. It's as simple as that. We've never traded in fertilizer. It must have been placed in our storage facility by someone, probably the Mossad."
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Israel is a small country and the Mossad is a small intelligence service. So they have the time and resources to spend on framing this Schmuck? Please.
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You've gotta admire the Arab mindset. The self-centered belief and perpetually imagined innocence exceeds the skills of even our most ridiculous politicians.
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Hey, we were on vacation. And bored...
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[An Nahar] Syria has lost more than $2 billion in revenues since September 1 as a result of European and U.S. bans on importing its oil, Oil Minister Sufian Allaw said on Thursday.
"We have suffered important losses as a result of our inability to export crude oil and petroleum products," Allaw told a news conference in Damascus. ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... "The shortfall and losses from September 1 until now add up to more than $2 billion," he said.
"The oil embargo has caused a drop in production of 150,000 barrels, or $15 million, a day," he said.
The United States has banned the importation of Syrian-origin petroleum and petroleum products. It also prohibits U.S. nationals, wherever they are, from engaging in any transactions or dealings in or related to Syrian-origin oil.
Sanctions were slapped on five Syrian government companies -- General Petroleum Corp, Syrian Co for Oil Transport, Syrian Gas Co, Syrian Petroleum Co and Sytrol.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has a ban on imports of Syrian crude, along with that of oil and gas equipment.
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Waitaminute! Syria has oil?
As soon as NATO-O find out, they'll be protecting civilians there.
Airpower - kinetic diplomacy.
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[An Nahar] The head of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's heavily criticized observer mission to Syria was due in Cairo on Thursday to report on its first month of operations amid growing frustration at its failure to staunch 10 months of bloodshed.
The pan-Arab bloc's deputy leader, Ahmed Ben Helli, said the "decisive" report would evaluate the Syrian government's cooperation with the mission, while noting the observers' difficulty in gaining access to hot spots.
"We are at a turning point, as the Arab observer mission's report will be presented on Thursday, marking a month since the protocol was signed," Ben Helli told Qatari state media late on Wednesday.
"The report will be decisive," Ben Helli added.
Arab foreign ministers will hear the mission's report at a meeting on Sunday at which they will decide whether to seek Syria's agreement to extend it for a second month.
The first month expired on Thursday but the two sides agreed that the mission could continue until Sunday's meeting.
The League's Syria operations chief, Adnan Khodeir, said mission leader General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi was expected at the League's headquarters in Cairo at around 6:30 pm (1630 GMT).
He would then hand over the report to League chief Nabil al-Arabi, either later Thursday or early Friday, ahead of meetings of Arab ministers on Saturday and Sunday.
Qatar, whose Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani chairs the vaporous Arab League panel on Syria which meets on Saturday, has been pressing for the observer mission to be given teeth through the deployment of Arab peacekeeping troops.
The Qatari proposal is not formally on the agenda of Sunday's foreign ministers' meeting to discuss the mission's future but could be discussed, Khodeir said.
"Any country that wishes can bring up the issue," he said, referring to the call by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to send Arab troops to Syria, which Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... has flatly rejected.
"What we are talking about now at the Arab League is whether there will be a new approach concerning the observer mission," he told news hounds on Wednesday.
Arabi has also said the idea could come up for debate.
As activists reported another nine deaths at the hands of the Syrian security forces on Thursday, a coalition of some 140 Arab human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups demanded the withdrawal of the League's "flawed" mission and called for U.N. intervention.
Among the dead, were four leading freedom fighters who had gone into hiding and were killed in an ambush in Idlib province in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Arab mission, which currently numbers about 165 monitors, has been in Syria since December 26 to oversee an Arab road map under which Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's government agreed to end violence.
"No observers have been able to do their job: instead, the mission legitimizes the Syrian regime," said Radwan Ziadeh, head of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, in the rights groups' joint statement.
Former observer Anouar Malek, who resigned in protest over the mission's credibility and aims, echoed Ziadeh's criticism.
"I was threatened with death for doing my job as I watched people being killed, beaten up and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by police, soldiers and militiamen. The Syrian regime is plainly defying the Arab League," he said.
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... estimates that the unrest in Syria between the security forces and freedom fighters has left more than 5,400 people dead since it first erupted in March, with 400 killed since the observers' deployment.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said it was clear that the observer mission was "in difficulty" and not being allowed to work.
"Syria is not respecting the undertaking it gave to the Arab League to withdraw its troops to barracks," he said, adding that the observers' report should be submitted to the U.N. Security Council for further action.
But a tough Security Council resolution on Syria has been blocked by veto-wielding permanent members Russia and China, which defended the Arab mission on Wednesday.
"Since the Arab League observer mission began, the violence in Syria has not completely ended, but the security situation of major areas has improved," said Chinese foreign ministry front man Liu Weimin.
This "shows the mission is effective," he added.
For its part, Moscow has warned against Western calls for punitive measures against Damascus, insisting the Syrian opposition is as much to blame for the violence as the regime.
That has caused growing frustration among Western governments.
Germany's U.N. envoy Peter Wittig said the Security Council "did not live up to its responsibilities" in face of the vetoing by Moscow and Beijing last October of a European-drafted resolution that would have threatened Damascus with "targeted measures."
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[An Nahar] Australia urged Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... to step down on Thursday and said he should be tried before the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... for "atrocities" against his people.
"Our view in Australia is that Assad must go," Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd told news hounds at the French foreign ministry in Gay Paree, at a joint appearance with his counterpart Alain Juppe.
"Our view in Australia is in fact his case is worthy of referral to the International Criminal Court, given the level of atrocities we have seen. As we speak, further atrocities are being committed," he said.
Juppe said that 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 to Syria, where Assad's forces are putting down a pro-democracy street revolt and clashing with armed rebels, was "in difficulty" and not being allowed to work.
"Syria is not respecting the undertaking it gave to the vaporous Arab League to withdraw its troops to barracks," he said, saying a report from the observers should be submitted to the U.N. Security Council for further action.
A popular revolt against Assad's authoritarian rule erupted in Syria in March in the wake of similar uprisings across the Arab world. It has descended into violence as the regime cracks down and rebel groups emerge.
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[An Nahar] Alawite intellectuals denounced on Thursday what they said are efforts by the Syrian government and parts of the opposition to link their sect to the regime, warning against the consequences of casting a popular uprising for civil rights in a sectarian light.
The group, which includes writers and journalists, denounced the "government's efforts to link the Alawite community and religious minorities to the regime by manipulating the security situation and the media."
A statement also criticized "the behavior and declarations of certain opposition parties to paint our uprising in a sectarian light, which has been and remains a movement for dignity and civil rights."
It accused the sectarian opposition of being "the other face of the oppressive regime," which has been battling an uprising since March.
The Alawite community, a Shiite sect including 12 percent of the population, including Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , is predominantly based in the central cities of Homs and Hama. It is a majority in the coastal cities of Tartus and Latakia.
The text urges "Alawite Syrians, religious and ethnic minorities afraid of the consequences of a possible fall of the regime, to participate in efforts to overturn the oppressive government and participate in the construction of a new Syrian republic based on the rule of law and citizenship."
It also calls on the Syrian army to "no longer obey orders to kill peaceful demonstrators," stressing that the "cruel repression organized by the regime's cronies, regardless of their religious or ethnic affiliation," represents a criminal act.
The signatories include Ruba Hassan, Rasha Omran, Rula Assad, Rosa Yassine Hassan, Firas Saad, Louise Abdul Karim Ali, Hassan al-Khatib, Khawla Dounia, Samar Yazbek and Yamen Hussein.
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[An Nahar] Syrian state news agency SANA on Thursday quoted Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... as rejecting any foreign intervention.
"The Syrian people are attached to their unity and Arab identity despite all the difficulties, and understand the breadth of the plots against their security and cohesion," he was quoted as telling a group of people opposed to outside intervention.
Assad stressed that the Syrian people "are capable of overcoming the current situations and building a strong, immune Syria. "
The embattled president noted that "the support of the Arab peoples and the nationalist forces that are attached to their Arab identity strengthens Syria's immunity and its faith in the future. "
In a televised speech lasting nearly two hours on January 10, Assad vowed to crush "terrorism" with an iron fist and accused outsiders of trying to destabilize his country.
That prompted opposition movements to accuse him of pushing Syria towards civil war and world powers to accuse him of trying to shift the blame for the 10 months of bloodletting in the protests against his regime.
The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... says that 5,400 people have been killed by forces loyal to the Assad regime since protests erupted in March.
Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... routinely blames the violence in Syria on "gangs" and "terrorists" backed by foreign powers pursuing an agenda of regime change.
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"[The Syrian people] are capable of overcoming the current situations and building a strong, immune Syria."
I sure hope so. It starts with pencilneck exiting tits up.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... called on Hizbullah to negotiate with political parties in Leb to reach a "historical settlement" over its arms and all the controversial issues amid the developments in the region.
"It may seem a hard step but it's courageous and necessary... The sooner the better because changes (in the region) will decrease the value of its (Hizbullah's) weapons... Until it becomes a burden on it," Geagea said in remarks published in As Safir newspaper on Thursday.
Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... reiterated in his last speech that his group, the only party that did not disarm after the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, would never give up its weapons.
Hizbullah's arsenal has been at the center of the National Dialogue, stalled since 2010 because of bickering between rival parties.
Asked about the cabinet, Geagea described it as a "bizarre government."
Concerning the expected return of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. , Geagea said it would be "near," noting that preparations are underway.
He revealed that the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition is preparing a comprehensive strategy to deal with the upcoming stage.
Geagea considered that the situation in Syria will head towards more complications and escalations, confirming that the collapse of the regime is "inevitable and a matter of time, not more."
"The regime of (Syrian President) Bashir al-Assad can no longer go on... it lost the local, Arab and international legitimacy," he noted.
Geagea refused to announce his position over Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa al-Thani's proposed to send in Arab troops to quell the unrest in Syria.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Thursday killed at least 24 people across the country, including four leading freedom fighters, as dissident soldiers killed a general in the flashpoint central city of Hama, activists and a rights group said.
"The number of deaders has risen to 24," the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist network spurring protests on the ground, said on its Facebook page.
The LCC also said that dissident soldiers killed a general after refusing his order to fire on civilians in Hama, a hotbed of opposition against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. The Scourge of Hama... "A military intelligence general, Adel Mustafa, was killed by soldiers who refused to fire against civilians in the Bab Qebli neighborhood," said the LCC.
Likewise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based watchdog, reported the death of a general in Hama, noting that a lieutenant was also killed in the central city. It said he was killed by deserters.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , demonstrations disintegrated into festivities pitting students against pro-regime militias -- locally known as shabiha -- in the university's science faculty.
Earlier on Thursday, security forces killed four leading freedom fighters in an ambush in northwestern Idlib province, the Observatory said.
The activists, who had gone into hiding with armed opponents of the Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... government, were rubbed out in the Zawiya hills close to the border with Turkey, the Britannia-based watchdog said, without immediately releasing their names.
Elsewhere, one civilian was killed and seven others maimed during shelling of Bab Houd, a neighborhood of the flashpoint central city of Homs, said the Observatory.
In the eastern protest hub of Deir al-Zour, the body of a young man placed in long-term storage after being shot during an anti-regime protest was found.
Government troops shot and maimed a soldier who tried to defect at a security checkpoint in Dael, in the restive southern province of Daraa, said the watchdog.
The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have been killed since March.
The Assad regime has waged a fierce crackdown on dissent since protests erupted in mid-March, dispatching troops and militias to protest hotbeds in a bid to silence the opposition.
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Waxing a general seems to be "upping the ante", no?
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Sounds like it was a rather extreme example of what they call a "preference cascade", Bobby. Kind of like what happened to Ceaușescu, except with a military platoon turning their guns on the commendant instead of a once-placid "organized crowd" listening to Fearless Leader suddenly turning into a lynch mob out to hang the tyrant with little advance notice.
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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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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
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[Bangla Daily Star] The army has foiled a "coup attempt to overthrow the present democratic government", a military 
Two foreign nationals working for an NGO in Pakistain were kidnapped from the Qasim Bela area of Multan on Thursday, DawnNews reported.
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[An Nahar] Syria has lost more than $2 billion in revenues since September 1 as a result of European and U.S. bans on importing its oil, Oil Minister Sufian Allaw said on Thursday.
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