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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Charlotte Ross aka Det. Connie McDowell (2004) in "NYPD Blue (TV Series 19932005)" aka Candy in "Drive Angry (2011)" aka Tess Mercy in "Montana Sky (TV 2007)" aka Dana Marino in "Christmas in Paradise (TV 2007)" aka Mary Ann in "Love and a .45 (1994)" aka Nora in "Moola (2007)" (age 44)
PARIS: France is suspending military operations in Afghanistan and may accelerate its planned troop withdrawal if the security situation does not improve, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday after the killing of four more French soldiers.
Sarkozy, addressing French diplomats after an Afghan security source said four soldiers had been killed and 17 wounded by an Afghan soldier in the Taghab valley of eastern Kapisa province, confirmed that the dead were French.
I have decided to send the defense minister and the head of the armed forces to Afghanistan and until then all training operations and combat help from French forces are suspended, said Sarkozy. If the security conditions are not clearly established then the question of an early return of French forces from Afghanistan will arise.
Its unacceptable that our soldiers are killed by our allies. Its a difficult decision to make, he said of the suspension of French operations.
More than 2,500 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan since the NATO-led war began in 2001, and the latest killings take the French toll to 82.
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No snark please. The French fight fiercely if they so choose and they have in this WAR. We lost a few too. It may be time to look at the weapons at our backs.
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Steve, before you accuse the French of cowardice, keep in mind that if they started shooting at their enemies here our guys would probably be caught in the crossfire.
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I have deployed three times to Afghanistan, including almost a full year working next to ANA each and every day. They are a proud people and take these kind of incidents extremely seriously.
There are three problems ---
1 Stolen ANA uniforms -which are easy to come by when you have over a 1000 soldiers defecting from the ranks every month. The old "use the uniform" trick
2.Unfortunately, the larger number of attacks have been soldiers that lose the bubble. We can really rub people the wrong way. And when their pay is on average 200 to 300 bucks a month, which some of us earn in a day or less, its easy to get, well, out of step. What is not reported is the number of attacks of ANA against their own.
3. The ANA has been forced to push its numbers at an extrem pace. In part because the West wants to say --- over to you and get out of Dodge. Result poor sreening - and where some just sign up to a room and food for the winter away from ones village, Taliban symbathizers can get recruited. No lie detector there. No written exam either as 9 out of 10 recruits cant read.
What irritates me is the French knee jerk reaction. He just placed a lot more people in danger. The Taliban arent stupid. Hey lets do this some more and more countries will leave --- lets do more the ANA on Coalition attack more -its working. I was furious when I heard his weak whining press conference statements. And the most at risk, in my view will now be his own troops. Big oops. He shoould had have his peepee slapped by other heads of state. But that will not happen. Too sensitive --- More likely behind the scene view - The French gov would like to pull troops to cut costs - and now they have an excuse -a lame one but an excuse nevertheless.
[An Nahar] South Sudan has ordered the shutdown of oil production amid a deepening row with Khartoum over pipeline fees, the government said Friday.
"The government has instructed the minister of petroleum and mining to proceed with arrangements for a complete shutdown of oil production", Minister of Information Barnaba Marial Benjamin told Agence La Belle France Presse Friday.
"The council of ministers decided today that in light of the present quantities of oil being taken by Khartoum" it would halt production, he added.
The South split from Sudan in July, taking with it 75 percent of the country's oil production of 470,000 barrels per day, but despite its oil wealth the new state lacks the infrastructure to refine and export oil.
Crucial facilities including the pipeline and Red Sea export terminal remain in Sudan, leaving the two states arguing over how much the south should pay to use the infrastructure.
The former civil war enemies -- now regional neighbors -- have exchanged repeated tit-for-tat accusations in a bitter spat during dragging oil negotiations, raising tensions between the two sides.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... Benjamin said shutting down production would not be immediate, and that South Sudanese President Salva Kiir would meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. before it was stopped.
"It is not just closed like a door key ... it cannot be less than seven days", he said of the planned shutdown. "The council has also agreed that President Kiir will meet Omar al-Bashir at the African Union in Addis Ababa on January 27."
Oil companies in South Sudan include Nile Petroleum Corporation, wholly-owned by the Juba government, and Petrodar Operating Company, which is owned mainly by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Petronas of Malaysia, Sudapet of Sudan and SINOPEC of China.
China, which relies on South Sudan for nearly five percent of its oil, is supporting negotiations between the two sides in the Ethiopian capital.
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Do not mess this up. Had enough of Bashir you liar.
[An Nahar] Somali Islamist gunnies ambushed a convoy of government officials and journalists Friday during intense fighting in Mogadishu, killing three soldiers and an official, an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said.
"We were heading to the frontline when our convoy was ambushed by Shebab fighters, an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) struck one vehicle," the photographer said, adding that he saw four bodies.
The trip to the frontline, where government troops and African Union forces launched attacks Friday on Islamist Shebab positions, was organized by the Somali information ministry.
"Our convoy was ambushed by Shebab fighters; an RPG struck one vehicle and some government officials were killed," the photographer in the convoy said, adding the journalists beat feet unharmed.
"It was chaotic, most of the trees along the road had been felled by mortar fire and houses were damaged," he added.
"We beat feet unhurt and ran until we reached an area with AU government and troops. We got into a vehicle and returned to the city."
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... broke out at dawn as troops supported by tanks and artillery from the African Union Mission in Somalia moved into the capital's northern Heliwa and Gupta suburbs, still held by the al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.
Hardline Shebab fighters abandoned fixed positions in most of Mogadishu last August but continue to control small pockets on the outskirts.
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nice graphic, Fred
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Don't laugh Frank, my Grandmother was almost that serious when she was into her 'full contact housekeeping' mode. Nothing was safe, not even dust bunnies. Especially dust bunnies.
[VOA News] Officials say African Union and Somali government troops have seized positions from bad boy group al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... in the capital, Mogadishu.
The AU force, known as AMISOM, said Friday that it had driven al-Shaboobs from Mogadishu University and the Barakat Cemetery, areas on the city's northern outskirts.
Witnesses in the area reported hearing heavy gunfire around dawn Friday. Reports from the area say at least three government soldiers were killed when their vehicle was attacked.
Al-Shabaab abandoned most of the city in August but had held on to a few areas and has continued to carry out bombings and guerilla-style attacks in the war-torn capital.
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[Magharebia] A kidnapped Mauritanian gendarme is the latest hostage to appear in an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) video.
"We are ready to release the military prisoner on the condition that the Mauritanian regime releases two of our prisoners," AQIM said in a statement issued with the video on Friday (January 13th),
Ely Ould Moctar was kidnapped December 20th during an attack on his police barracks in the eastern Mauritanian city of Adel Bagrou, near the Malian border.
The al-Qaeda statement described the attack by saying, "With Allah's help, the Mujahedeen managed to attack the gendarmerie brigade in Adel Bagrou, and managed to seize the enemy's weapons: 11 machine guns. With Allah's help they took one gendarme hostage."
In the video released along with the statement, the Mauritanian gendarme appears handcuffed in military uniform in front of an al-Qaeda banner.
"I beg President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to intervene in my case, as he has done in the case of the Spanish Christians he exchanged for Omar Sahraoui," Ould Moctar said.
He also appealed to two Mauritanian tribes to which he is linked, begging them to work to "speed up dealings" in his case.
Ould Moktar also spoke to the Mauritanian army in the video, asking them to "put Islamic sharia law above all other laws".
"AQIM released this humiliating video to provide evidence that the hostage is alive," according to Isselmou Ould Moustapha, director of the Tahalil newspaper and a specialist in terrorist movements.
He added that the terror group was reportedly seeking the release of Ould Mballa and Abdellahi Ould Ahmednah, a terrorist convicted in a 2009 aid worker murder in Nouakchott. "But most of all, through this video, AQIM wanted to try to sap the morale of soldiers in the Mauritanian army," the expert said.
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[An Nahar] The Malian army has taken control of three northern towns which were attacked by Tuareg rebels, leading to two days of fierce festivities, a military source said Friday.
"The Malian army is back in control in Menaka, Tessalit and Aguelhok. Reinforcements are in place," said a military source from regional army headquarters.
The Tuareg rebels had launched an offensive to seize several towns in the desert region where the nomadic tribe seeks autonomy.
They first attacked Menaka on Tuesday, and the army bombed their positions in a day of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... which the government said left several rebels and one soldier dead.
An official at the mayor's office in Menaka said Friday the army was now in control and the Tuareg had been seen moving toward the north-west of Mali.
On Wednesday fighting broke out in the towns of Aguelhok and Tessalit.
In Aguelhok rebels clashed with the army at the entrance to the town on Thursday night, but the army was now in control, said a medical source.
The defence ministry said 45 rebels and two soldiers were killed in the fighting in Aguelhok and Tessalit.
Mali's government said the attackers are members of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) formed in late 2011, and boosted by the return of heavily armed Tuareg rebels from Libya's conflict.
The Tuareg, a nomadic community, are demanding independence for their vast desert region, the Azawad, which stretches from the west to the north of Mali.
Mali and Niger experienced uprisings as the Tuareg fought for recognition of their identity and an independent state in the 1960s, 1990s and early 2000 with a resurgence between 2006 and 2009.
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The death toll following coordinated bomb attacks and gun battles in the Nigerian city of Kano has risen to at least 162, a source at the city's main morgue has said.
A curfew was imposed on Kano in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north after it exploded into violence on Friday evening, with eight police and immigration offices or residences targeted.
The main newspaper in the north said that a purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for the violence, saying it was in response to authorities' refusal to release its members from custody.
Scores of such attacks in Nigeria's north have been blamed on Boko Haram, though Friday's would be among the group's most audacious and well-coordinated assaults.
Some 20 huge blasts could be heard in the city as a suicide bomber struck a regional police office and a car bomb rocked state police headquarters after the attacker fled and was shot dead, police sources said.
A series of explosions ripped apart police buildings around the city, which is now under a 24-hour curfew.
The Boko Haram group said they carried out the attacks, which would be their bloodiest assault to date.
The police said in a statement that four police stations around the city, the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS), as well as passport and immigration offices had been targeted.
There was also a shoot-out at the headquarters of the state police in the city's eastern district of Bompai, reports said.
Witnesses said the bomber who attacked one of the police stations pulled up outside the building on a motorbike, dismounted and ran inside holding a bag.
The wounded were reported to include foreigners from an area near the SSS headquarters, which is home to many expatriates, particularly Lebanese and Indians.
A Boko Haram spokesman, Abul Qaqa, told journalists that it had carried out the attacks because the authorities had refused to release group members arrested in Kano.
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The best response would be, before the day is over, to hang each and every one of the Boko Haram in captivity. Since that is less likely, the alternative is to ship them to the far south of the country, away from the Muslim north and their compadres.
What on earth is that thing on their heads in the picture? They look like Martians, which isn't as fearsome a concept as it used to be.
[LA Times] Nigeria's troubled north, already plagued by a rash of terrorist bombings and drive-by killings during the last year, faced a new attack Friday: multiple bombings in Kano, the region's largest city. Fighting between gunnies and security forces was also reported.
A jacket wallah struck police headquarters, causing extensive damage, authorities said. Other bombs hit the city's immigration office. Nigerian media reported another cop shoppe had been bombed. The number of casualties was not known. There were conflicting reports on the number of bombs, with accounts of between four and 20 blasts
The simultaneous bombings were typical of previous attacks by 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... , which grabbed credit for the violence Friday evening, according to a local radio station.
Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper reported fighting between police and the attackers at the immigration office in Kano, the country's second largest city after Lagos.
Rooters cited witnesses at Kano police headquarters saying the suicide bomber dismounted from a cycle of violence before running into the building holding a bag which then went kaboom!.
"We tried to stop him but he ran in forcefully with his bag. All of a sudden there was a blast. You can see for yourself the building is damaged," a policeman at scene said, according to Rooters.
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Camo mosquito net. They need ones printed with Che's visage. Or Nixon's. Tell me why...ay....
[An Nahar] Unidentified gunniesrubbed out three coppers in the center of southern Yemen's largest city, Aden, on Friday, police said.
The assailants shot up a police checkpoint before torching a police vehicle at the scene and fleeing, the source added.
While no one was immediately blamed, al-Qaeda-linked Orcs and similar vermin have carried out numerous attacks on government officials in the south.
Deadly incidents have been on the rise in recent months as Orcs and similar vermin exploit a central government weakened by months of protests against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... The group controls a number of towns in the south and is attempting to extend its influence to Aden.
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[An Nahar] The Yemeni government has tweaked a contested bill that would have granted legal immunity to aides of 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... implicated in criminal affairs, a government source said on Friday.
The new version "grants complete immunity to president Saleh" but his assistants will only benefit from "political immunity" and could eventually be held accountable for criminal or terrorist acts, the same source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The amended bill, adopted by the government on Thursday during an extraordinary meeting, also provides for the ratification of "laws on national reconciliation and transitional justice."
The government is to submit the bill to parliament on Saturday.
The original version, submitted on January 8, would have granted amnesty against prosecution to Saleh and the aides "who worked with him in all government, civil and military departments during the years of his rule."
In November, Saleh signed a Gulf-brokered deal to end the political crisis in the impoverished country, under which he handed authority to Vice President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi and the opposition formed a national unity government.
Saleh serves now as an honorary president until polls are held in February to elect Mansur, the sole candidate, as his interim successor for two years.
A bloody crackdown on anti-Saleh demonstrations since January 2011 has claimed hundreds of lives.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said earlier this month that anyone who had committed abuses during the mass protests in Yemen must not be allowed to evade justice.
The U.N. commissioner urged decision-makers in Yemen to respect the prohibition in international law against amnesties for gross human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations.
A bigwig in Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party, Sultan al-Barakani, said on Wednesday that February's vote would be held on time, amid rumors of a possible delay.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... parliament was scheduled to vote on the amended bill, and on Mansour's presidential candidacy, on Monday, he added.
Separately, Saleh could travel abroad for medical treatment in the near future for injuries suffered in a kaboom in Sanaa last June, another party source told AFP on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... "The GPC's political bureau has accepted, at Saleh's request, that he should travel abroad for treatment," the source said, without specifying the destination or date of his departure
Late last month, the veteran leader announced his intention to visit the United States "in order to create favorable conditions ... for the presidential election."
But a bigwig declared shortly afterwards that the trip was cancelled following requests from his ruling party that he remain in Yemen until after the elections.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion personnel yesterday tossed in the slammer five suspects of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh when they brought out a procession in Uttara in the capital.
*snicker* Gotcha!
The jugged suspects and two Rab personnel suffered injuries during the scuffle that ended in their arrest soon after juma prayers.
The jugged five are: Minhaj Yiamim alias Zibran, 35, Mohammad Mosaddeq, Mohammad Mosabbir, 22, Ibrahim Khalil, 18, and Fahim Afsar Bhuiyan, 20. Mosaddeq and Mosabbir are siblings and students of a private university.
Lt Col Rashidul Alam, commanding officer of Rab-1, said plainclothes Rab personnel captured the five when they brought out the procession on Road-8 in Uttara-6 after Juma prayers chanting various anti-government and anti-state slogans.
"Around 20 to 25 Tahrir men brought out the procession and we could capture five of them. The rest decamped," said Rashidul, adding, "Rab took position in the mosque area acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel."
Lt Col Rashidul Alam said, "Baitun Nur Jame Mosque was being used as a meeting point of Hizb ut-Tahrir for a long time and we are investigating whether the mosque authorities were involved in Hizb ut-Tahrir."
Talking to The Daily Star, Mohammad Shamsul Islam, general secretary of the mosque committee, denied allegations of their involvement and said they did not know the youths who were tossed in the slammer.
Talking to The Daily Star all the five jugged youths said that they believe in the ideology of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Arrestee Mosabbir said, "Being a Moslem, I believe that the present government and the policies of the government do not follow the Islamic ethics and therefore we all support Hizb ut-Tahrir activities."
Commander M Sohail, director of Legal and Media wing of Rab, said injured Maj Moshtaque, who led the drive, was admitted to Combined Military Hospital while Corporal Idris Ali was given first aid.
Our staff correspondent in Chittagong reports: Around 15 Hizb ut-Tahrir men held a quick meeting in front of Anderkilla Shahi Jame Mosque soon after the Jum'a prayers. They had distributed leaflets urging people to resist the "anti-Islamic" government.
SM Tanvir Arafat, assistant commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (Detective Branch), said police could not identify the Hizb ut-Tahrir men as they were posing as devotees at Jum'a prayers. Spider senses tingling at the proximity of police, they left their banner behind and disappeared among the devotees.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist political party founded in Jerusalem in 1953. It started its activities in Bangladesh in 2000. Bangladesh banned the organization in 2009.
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Not one round of bullet, or stutter gun! Why it's as if the RAB knew they could take these posers without a crossfire. But then again, maybe a 'procession without a permit' is not up to the standards of rewuiring a crossfire.
And the good Dr. Quincy is not needed, even for a paper cut. Could this be a calm before a (jail break attempt) storm?
[An Nahar] Turkish officials said Friday a remote-control bomb kaboom has killed one person and injured 25 others in southeast Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, citing authorities.
A hand-made bomb, comprising five kilograms of TNT explosives, was set of in the center of the city of Hakkari on Thursday afternoon, as a police car was passing by, police told state-run Anatolia.
The bomb was placed in the trunk of a car, they said.
The provincial governor of Hakkari, Muammer Turker, earlier said 13 people, including three coppers, were maimed in a blast.
One of the injured, Zeki Yesil, a university student, died at hospital after the blast, Anatolia said. The injured included four coppers, it added.
Kurdish rebels on Friday denied any link with the bombing.
"Our forces have no connection to the kaboom that killed one Kurdish youngster in Hakkari city centre ... Considering current winter conditions, it can be seen that it is not possible for our guerillas to take action in that region," the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said in a statement, carried by pro-Kurdish news agency Firat.
Governor Turker earlier on Friday pointed a finger at PKK for the bombing.
Hakkari province is close to the Iraqi border in southeast Turkey, where the majority of the population is Kurdish.
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Hakimullah Mehsud, the top bully boy commander of defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), is still alive and safe in some unknown location of North Wazoo, independent sources told DawnNews on Friday. They're always alive and safe somewhere in North Wazoo until they start to stink. On the other hand they're always wondering on the radio whether somebody or other was zapped in the last drone appearance.
"Hakimullah is well and safe in North Waziristan... the news related to his killing in the drone attack carried out by the US military is incorrect," an official source told this news hound.
The claim was also verified from at least two other independent sources.
The sources claimed that Hakimullah has taken a number of measures to ensure his safety and secrecy, and that he had stopped using electronic communication equipment, such as wireless sets, for the same reason.
Almost a week ago, reports quoting unknown sources mentioned intercepted radio communications between Talibs detailing how Hakimullah was killed.
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[Dawn] A sub-inspector who is said to have played an active role during the 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... operation of the 1990s and was currently investigating terrorism and sectarian cases was on Thursday bumped off in Orangi Town.
More than 150 coppers who took part in the 1990s 'Bloody Karachi operation' have been killed one by one over two decades in different parts of the city, according to a list complied by the Sindh police authorities in October 2011 in pursuance of an order of the Supreme Court.
The police said Sub-Inspector Asghar Ali Tarar, 50, posted at the Special Investigation Unit of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), was targeted by two gunnies riding a cycle of violence in Orangi Town's Sector 10 within the remit of the Mominabad cop shoppe.
The incident occurred near Hyderi Imambargah where the sub-inspector, who was in a private car, was intercepted by the armed riders. They fired multiple shots at him and beat feet.
A five-year-old boy, Hamza Adnan, who was passing through the area, was also maimed in the firing.
SI Tarrar suffered seven gunshot wounds in the chest and another in the head.
Both persons were rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the policeman was pronounced dead on arrival and the young boy was admitted for treatment.
Police Sherlocks later found several spent bullet casings of a 9mm pistol at the crime-scene.
DSP Tariq Malick of Orangi Town said that SI Tarar was a resident of Fareed Colony, Orangi Town.
The victim had five children, he added.
During the Bloody Karachi operation, Tarar was associated with then inspector Haji Nadeem, who served as an SHO during the 1990s operation and is now a DSP.
Until recently he was working at the Crime Investigation Department of the police.
Currently posted in the SIU, Saddar, SI Tarar was said to be investigating cases of terrorism and sectarian killing that took place in the city.
"He was investigating all kind of cases, including sectarian ones," said SP Raja Umar Khattab while speaking to Dawn.
"He was a brave officer and had joined SIU in 2007."
It is worth noting that several assassinations have been carried out in recent months in the Orangi Town and Paposhnagar areas of district west.
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On Saturday, security forces said that they had captured an Al-Qaeda-linked Muslim terrorist militant in the southern Philippines. Sonny Bakim Barahim, also known as Abu Ismael, a member of Abu Sayyaf, was arrested by government troops in the city of Isabela in Basilan province. Barahim is wanted for his role in a series of abductions in the region.
[An Nahar] Thailand charged another Lebanese Hizbullah suspect identified as James Sammy Paolo, who is an alleged accomplice of Hussein Atris, for planning to carry out a terrorist activity.
The Criminal Court in Thailand issued on Thursday an arrest warrant against Paolo, 40, who will face the same charges as Atris, of possessing forbidden chemical substances.
Thailand Police Chief Gen. Priewpan Damapong said that the sketch of Paolo was given from a description by Atris.
Paolo was Atris' housemate at the warehouse in Samut Sakhon, on the western outskirts of Bangkok, where police seized 4,000 kilograms of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate, according to media reports published on Friday.
Bangkok Post said that police are trying to determine whether Paolo is still in Thailand and have contacted Interpol in their efforts to track him down.
Priewpan told the daily that both men are accused of violating the Military Supply Act by possessing ammonium nitrate without permission.
"Atris and Paolo were planning to send the chemicals to another country and had rented 10 containers from the Transport Co.," Priewpan said.
Atris denied he is a member of Hizbullah consequently Thai police can only press a criminal charge against him where he could face up to five years in prison.
The U.S. Embassy had issued an "emergency message" last Friday warning of a possible terror threat against Americans in Bangkok, and Israel warned its citizens as well.
Thai authorities were caught off-guard by the U.S. announcement, hastily revealing they had jugged a Swedish national of Lebanese origin with alleged links to Hizbullah and that intelligence indicated a plot could be carried out between Jan. 13 and 15.
Details of the alleged plot remained hazy due to conflicting accounts from Thai officials, some of whom said that Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.
In Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Linn Duvhammar confirmed Atris has dual citizenship and said the Swedish embassy is helping him find a lawyer. He moved to Sweden in 1991 and spent 2006-09 in Leb before returning.
Duvhammar said the man was carrying a valid Swedish passport when he was locked away, as well as an old one that had been stained.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Friday killed 13 people across the country, activists said, as pressure mounted on 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 seek U.N. intervention in the face of growing frustration that the bloc's hard-won observer mission in Syria has failed to staunch 10 months of killing.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... thousands of people poured out of mosques after Friday prayers to call for the ouster of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's The Scourge of Hama... regime, after choosing "Prisoners of the Revolution" as the slogan for this week's main protests.
They are demanding that the government deliver on its promise to the vaporous Arab League to release tens of thousands of people tossed in the calaboose since protests first erupted in March.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces rubbed out six people in the northwestern province of Idlib, three in the eastern protest hub of Deir al-Zour, two in the central opposition bastion Homs, one in the southern province of Daraa and another in the restive central province of Hama.
As protests began in 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... in the north, the coastal Latakia and Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces were out in force.
The Britannia-based group said there were festivities in Aleppo between security forces and dissidents and that demonstrators in Idlib had been fired on.
The widely criticized League mission hangs in the balance as its head, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, prepares to report to Arab foreign ministers, who will decide on Sunday whether to extend it for a second month.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said there was no sign of any let-up in the regime's crackdown despite the observers' presence, with activists reporting 506 civilians killed and another 490 jugged since the monitors deployed on December 26.
The head of the opposition Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun, headed to Cairo to lobby the Arab ministers to refer the observer mission's findings to the U.N. Security Council for tough action.
Ghalioun planned to "ask the head of the Arab League and Arab foreign ministers to transfer the file on Syria to the U.N. Security Council with a view to securing a decision to establish a buffer zone and a no-fly zone" in Syria, an SNC statement said.
The group, which has been strongly critical of the observer mission, said it would demand that Dabi pull no punches in his findings on the Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... regime's compliance with the Arab League agreement.
"The SNC delegation will insist that the report contain a clear text concerning the 'genocide' and 'war crimes' carried out by the (Syrian) regime against unarmed civilians," the statement said.
And HRW said "the Arab League should publicly recognize that Syria has not respected the League's plan and work with the Security Council to increase pressure on the authorities and effectively curtail the use of fire power."
The League's panel on Syria is to meet on Saturday ahead of the foreign ministers' meeting.
Its chair, Qatar, has called for Arab peacekeeping troops to be deployed in Syria, drawing a furious rejection from the Syrian government.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the Qatari proposal was not feasible.
"In the present regional context we are not working towards such a scenario," he said in an interview published on Friday by the regional daily Ouest-La Belle France.
"On the contrary, we are talking to the opposition," he added.
But President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... insisted that La Belle France -- the former colonial power in Syria -- would not stand silently by in the face of a crackdown that the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... estimates has killed more than 5,400 people since last March, 400 of them since the observers deployed.
"We cannot accept the ferocious repression by the Syrian leadership of its people, a repression that has led the entire country into chaos, and a chaos that will help gunnies of all kinds," he said.
Ahmad el-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Moslem learning urged "Arab rulers to take the necessary measures to halt bloodshed in Syria," the state news agency MENA quoted him as saying on Friday.
A tough Security Council resolution on Syria has been blocked by veto-wielding permanent members China and Russia. Moscow insists the opposition is as much to blame for the violence as the regime.
Syria's Oil Minister Sufian Allaw acknowledged on Thursday that unilateral sanctions imposed on his government by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States were having a significant economic impact.
"We have suffered important losses as a result of our inability to export crude oil and petroleum products," Allaw told a Damascus news conference, putting the losses from September 1 at more than $2 billion.
Sanctions have also pushed the Syrian pound to record lows, and central bank governor Adib Malayeh has said Damascus will introduce a managed float of the currency next week, effectively devaluing it, the Financial Times reported.
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