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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/30/2013 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  That's a GAMWICH.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/30/2013 11:29 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Benghazi Council official assaulted by thugs
[Libya Herald] The secretary to Benghazi Local Council, Mahmoud Subaihi, was attacked and beaten up by gunnies yesterday, Thursday,

"He was attacked while in his office", Benghazi Local Council member Sadiq Al-Zlitini, told the Libya Herald today.

The young men, dressed in military uniform, had come to the Council building demanding payment for working as guards at a number of public buildings in the city and helping direct traffic. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
they are volunteers, said Zlitini, who is in charge of port and transport affairs on the council.

Subaihi fled the building, but the men followed him. He got to his car but some got in as well, assaulted him and stole some of his possessions.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Dozens of Islamists protest demanding purge of Egypt's media
[Al Ahram] On Friday, dozens of Islamist protesters gathered at Egyptian Media Production City, a media complex on the outskirts of Cairo, to once again demand the "purging of biased Egyptian media."
Whoa! Dozens!
A number of security vehicles were deployed around the complex.

At a similar protest on Monday, several media figures were assaulted by protesters at the entrance to the area.

The Monday protest were initially called for by several Islamist groups on Saturday due to what they described as biased coverage of the festivities at the Moslem Brüderbund headquarters in Cairo's Mokattam district on Friday 22 March.

Around 200 people were maimed in nationwide festivities last Friday between supporters and opponents of the Moslem Brüderbund.

In December, following an appeal by influential Salafist politician Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi staged an almost week-long sit-in outside the media complex to demand a "purge" of media elements "who are misleading the public and inciting violence."

Most private Egyptian television and radio stations air their programmes from the complex in Sixth October City, a satellite city on the outskirts of Cairo.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists

#1  They should be so lucky. Try finding a non-LGBT venue on American teevee. There seems to be no end to the influx of sodomite sitcoms.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2013 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Noam Chomsky must be so proud.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/30/2013 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Try finding a non-LGBT venue on American teevee.

It's a way of sticking it to the 'straights', meneer.

Still, it's preferable to what the Islamists would bring.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 14:14 Comments || Top||


Activists clash with unknown assailants in Cairo's Tahrir Square
[Al Ahram] Clashes on Thursday evening between activists holding a sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir Square and unknown assailants reached Talaat Harb Street, which is located adjacent to the flashpoint square.

The festivities come one day after the square was raided by police.

The two sides threw stones at one another, as local shopkeepers hastily closed their stores.

Earlier on Thursday, tensions were aggravated when shop owners from a nearby mall attacked the sit-in and burnt tents erected in the middle of the square, Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website reported.

On Wednesday, 53 activists were placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
when security forces raided the square and removed barriers that had obstructed traffic. Activists returned shortly afterward and again closed the square off to traffic.

Anti-government activists have held an on-again, off again sit-in in Tahrir Square since 22 November, when President Mohamed Morsi issued a presidential decree that temporarily shielded his decisions from judicial oversight.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


FJP office in Beheira torched
[Al Ahram] Unknown assailants have torched an office of the Freedom and Justice Party - the political arm of the Moslem Brüderbund - in the governorate of Beheira.

The office was located in the town of Badr in the govrnorate. The assailants reportedly threw petrol on the building before setting it on fire.

Nabil El Sharkawy, the secretary-general of the FJP in Badr said that security forces have begun investigating the incident.

During recent months many brotherhood headquarters have been attacked across the country. Last Friday, a protest was held in front of the brotherhood's main headquarters in the Cairo suburb of Mukattam which led to festivities with brotherhood supporters. Police prevented the protesters from reaching the headquarters.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Freedom and Justice Party - the political arm of the Moslem Brüderbund

Sort of like Sinn Fein, only without the dreary Marxist cant and the Saturday night drinking binges.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 14:16 Comments || Top||

#2  For me there is a lesson to the Moslem National Socialist Party, if you wouldn't ban alcohol and premarital sex, the young bloods would be out carousing, getting laid, and drinking instead of plotting and scheming.

Nothing wrong a little consistent female companionship that has only two legs and doesn't go BAaaaah, wouldn't cure with most of these lads.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/30/2013 20:15 Comments || Top||


Police vehicles torched during anti-Morsi rallies in Egypt's Mahalla
[Al Ahram] Tens of protesters in Egypt's industrial city of Mahalla torched a police vehicle on Friday, during demonstrations against president Mohamed Morsi.

The march was part of a nationwide call to protests the recent summoning of several activists by the prosecutor-general.

Members of the Moslem Brüderbund in Mahalla for their part have formed human chain around the building where the headquarter is located in, for fear of any potential assaults.

Last Friday's the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party office was attacked with Molotov cocktails that set the building alight.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Hundreds rally against Egypt's prosecutor general
[Straits Times] Hundreds of Egyptian protesters rallied in Cairo demanding the ouster of the nation's embattled prosecutor general after a court ruled that his appointment by President Mohammed Mursi was illegal.

The protesters, clapping and beating drums, sealed off the office of Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah with locks and chains and displayed a sign that read: "Leave. Enough."

The protesters also were upset about arrest warrants Mr Abdullah issued this week against five of Egypt's most prominent freedom fighters, alleging that they used social media to instigate fierce festivities a week earlier near the headquarters of Mursi's group, the Moslem Brüderbund.

Mr Abdullah issued the warrants a day after the president delivered an angry speech vowing to take action against opposition.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
New Hind helicopters for the Nigerian war on terror.
Nice to see what our 2012, $617.4 million in US Foreign Aid to Nigeria is purchasing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2013 08:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can only contribute that in the game Steel Panthers, these are good bang for the buck and sure beats rolling up in pick'em up trucks. I also understand that in the real world helicopters require a certain level of ground support logistics and skill to ensure nothing flys apart in flight and the pilots have the know how.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2013 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep we give them $617 million and send in a lot of sincere liberals community organizers to help spend it and the Nigerians go to the Soviets and buy some weaponry to kill the Islamic revolutionaries.

Heaven forbid we would do anything to kill a poor misguided Islamic kid all we have to do is get them to understand and to like us and jihad would go away...that narrative does not play in Peoria with the locals who have to put up with the violence. So they go buy weapons that shoot real bullets and go hunting.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/30/2013 12:48 Comments || Top||

#3  See - one can buy combat helicopters during a sequester.

flying and maintaining them are another thing...
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 14:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The Hind is a pretty machine to have if the goal is to suppress murderous terrorist thugs who skulk about in the bush and stage ambushes against decent people. It's cheaper and easier to maintain than a Blackhawk or a Huey. You can get parts. I'll bet that Hind maintenance is easier to teach to the Nigerian air force (army?) ground crews.

I really don't care what machines the Nigerian armed forces use so long as they beat down the terrorists, make the country safe for ordinary people, and remember their boundaries.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/30/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Definition of a helicopter: 50,000 parts flying in loose formation.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/30/2013 16:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Definition of a helicopter: 50,000 parts flying in loose formation.

They don't so much 'fly', rather they beat the air into submission.

Then there's always the 'Jesus Nut'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/30/2013 20:55 Comments || Top||

#7  You can get parts. I'll bet that Hind maintenance is easier to teach to the Nigerian air force (army?) ground crews.

You might want to check out how they do with airplanes.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/30/2013 21:17 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Bangladesh clashes leave 5 dead
[Pak Daily Times] Clashes in Bangladesh between police and supporters of the country's biggest Islamic party left five dead on Friday during protests linked to ongoing war crimes trials, police and media said.

Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
activists have been staging countrywide strikes and rallies for months to protest against the trials which have placed nearly their entire party leadership in the dock.

Friday's first incident occurred when politicians entered a village in northwestern Chapainawabganj district to arrest party activists accused of torching a power plant in such a protest last month.

About 6,000 villagers gathered to try and prevent the arrests, leading police to open fire.

"We at first used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the mob, but they attacked us with hand bombs, sticks and bricks, forcing us to open fire," deputy district police chief Motiur Rahman told AFP.

"We have heard the news of three men killed, but we have not seen any dead bodies," he said.

Local media reports quoted villagers saying three Jamaat supporters were killed, two on the spot and one on the way to hospital.

In a separate but similar wave of protests in northwestern Sirajganj district, two Jamaat supporters died after being hit with bullets, local police chief Shamsul Huq told AFP.

Police officers went to arrest an activist also accused of violence last month while protesting against the war crimes trial, but they too faced defiance from several thousand villagers.

"They hurled handmade bombs and fired at us. We also retaliated with gun fire," Huq said.

With the latest deaths, 94 people have now been killed in festivities linked to the trials since the war crimes court handed down the first of its verdicts in January. Two Jamaat leaders have already been convicted by the tribunal, which critics accuse of trumping up charges in a bid by the government to settle political scores, rather than deliver justice.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  ... arrest party activists accused of torching a power plant in such a protest last month. About 6,000 villagers gathered to try and prevent the arrests, leading police to open fire.

I'd cut off the village power. Permanently. Fence it in and don't let them out. You want to live like primitive Mohammadan savages? Have at it.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2013 9:51 Comments || Top||


Attack On School: 4 BNP men arrested
[Bangla Daily Star] Four BNP men were nabbed
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
yesterday on charges of attacking a primary school and beating up its teachers and students for keeping the school open during hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
hours on Thursday.

The arrestees are Harunur Rashid, 46, a local BNP activist, Jubo Dal activists Motalib Hossain, 29, and Jahangir Alam, 27, and Chhatra Dal activist Ashiquzzaman, 20.

On Thursday morning, a procession led by Khuniyagachh union BNP President Aminul Islam stormed and vandalised Khuniyagachh government primary school. The hartal supporters also beat up at least 60 students of class-II and class-III and three teachers, including Headmaster Abdul Hai and two female teachers.

The four arrestees are among the accused in the case filed with Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station for attacking the school.

Contacted, Abdul Hai, headmaster of the school, said he and seven other teachers of the school were afraid they might come under attack anytime.

"If we don't get security from the police or local administration, it will be very tough for us to continue working here," he added.

Jamir Uddin, officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station, said police were kept on alert to fend off any untoward incident.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
at a presser yesterday afternoon, Lalmonirhat BNP denied that its activists attacked the school and beat up teachers and students.

BNP district unit President Asadul Habib Dulu claimed that local Awami League activists and some teachers did it all and pinned the blame on BNP for tarnishing the opposition party's image.

On the other hand, Lalmonirhat AL General Secretary Motiar Rahman alleged that local BNP men attacked the school and beat up its teachers and students on orders from Dulu.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Terrorism bid foiled
[Pak Daily Times] Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Thursday foiled a terrorist attempt and defused a 5-kg bomb placed beneath a bridge on Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
(DIK) road here. According to details, local police was informed about bomb in Ranwal village, some three kilometers away off the city. SHO Ameer Abdullah along with others reached on the spot and recovered the bomb and summoned the BDS at the site. D.I Khan-Tank road remained block for two hours till BDS issued clearance.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Forces kill 12 militants in Orakzai Agency
[Pak Daily Times] At least twelve Death Eaters have been killed during operation by the security forces in Mamoonzai area of Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
on Friday. According to media reports, the Death Eaters have been killed in shelling by jet fighters of security forces in Mamoonzai area. Three turbans' hideouts have also been destroyed in the shelling.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


12 killed in Peshawar suicide attack on FC
[Pak Daily Times] At least 12 people, including four security personnel, were killed and 35 others injured in a suicide kaboom targeting paramilitary Frontier Constabulary Commandant Abdul Majeed Khan few steps off a military-manned check-post near the US consulate on Friday morning, officials said.

Majeed survived the attack as he was riding in a bullet-proof vehicle.

"I was the target," a private TV channel quoted the commandant as saying.

The bomber, who witnesses said was on foot, went kaboom! close to the commandant's vehicle on Fakhre Alam Road, officials said, adding Majeed was on his way to the office when his vehicle was targeted.

Sifwat Ghayur, former FC commandant, was killed in a suicide attack just outside the FC headquarters in cantonment area on August 4, 2010. SP Mohammad Faisal told news hounds that 10 kilograms of explosives were used in the attack on the FC commandant, who is assisting the KP police in fighting militancy on border between Khyber tribal region and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.

A statement from Lady Reading Hospital said it received two bodies while four expired moments after they were brought to the hospital for treatment.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
police said 12 persons, including two FC and as many army personnel manning the check-post, were killed in the blast. The military did not confirm loss of two soldiers.

The blast damaged two cycle of violences and four cars, including Marwat's vehicle. Splashes of blood lay on the ground and an AFP news hound saw a pair of legs, presumed to be that of the bomber. Umar Din, 21, a rickshaw driver, said the force of the kaboom flipped his rickshaw onto the ground.

"I came out and saw my passenger bleeding," he told AFP. "I picked up the passenger on my shoulder and ran to a safer place, it was horrible, people were bleeding and crying," he added.

Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Ehsanullah Ehsan made phone calls to media offices in Peshawar to accept responsibility for the attack. "We targeted the FC (commandant) for operations against the Taliban and tribal people."

A senior investigator, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said that the cut-throats had prior information about the commandant's route and the time. "We cannot rule out the possibility of inside job," the investigator told Daily Times.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  how's that Sovereign Land Of The Pure™ thang going?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2013 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice 'Frontier Constabulary', and not "Pakistan Army'.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 19:18 Comments || Top||

#3  so they see attrition among the B Team as advantageous? Typical Pak short-term view
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2013 19:23 Comments || Top||

#4  No, it's just that the B-team are the only ones available. The vaunted Pak military never seems to be around to leash their pets, unless the thugs begin to embarrass them in the press. And anyway the military prefers their camps on the eastern end of the Land of the Pure, where they can make fearsome faces at their neighbors and fire the random covering rounds.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 23:53 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi cities hit by wave of mosque bombings
[Al Jizz] A series of boom-mobiles near Shia Mohammedan mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers have killed at least 18 people.

The blasts on Friday, which also maimed more than 100 people, struck within an hour of each other in the Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
neighbourhoods of Binook, Qahira, Zafraniyah and Jihad, as well as in an area of the northern city of Kirkuk.

No group immediately claimed the attacks, but Sunni Mohammedan fighters linked to the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda frequently target Shia Mohammedans whom they regard as apostates and supporters of Nouri al-Maliki's government.
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....

Four boom-mobiles went off near Shia mosques across the Iraqi capital, leaving at least 14 people dead and 35 maimed, security and medical officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
... for fear of being murdered...

And in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
which lies 240km north of Storied Baghdad, four people died and 71 were maimed by another boom-mobile targeting a Shia mosque, Sadiq Omar Rasul, the provincial health chief, said.

Also among the maimed was Mohsen al-Battat, a representative of Iraq's most revered Shia religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, who had been leading the prayers.

Hospital sources have told Al Jizz that Battat is not considered critically maimed.

In Storied Baghdad's Qahira neighbourhood, an AFP news agency news hound described seeing pools of blood on the ground with massive damage to nearby cars, houses and shops.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  Iraqi cities hit by wave of mosque bombings

About damn time, Payback hurts.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/30/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Lets see, blow up Sunni mosques on alternate tuesdays and thursdays.

Blow up Shia mosques on alternate Mondays and Wednesdays.


Yep right on schedule.

Let's see now, have we got any agreement on whether Ali is succeed Mohammed or whether his General Achmed is to succeed him. It's taken a long time to settle that. Ali was killed in 824. A 1200 year argument over something that is a complete fait accompli is a classic paradigm for why Moslem countries are so backward...keep looking back and keep fighting over the succession to Mohammed and you're still a bunch of ignorant nomads when the oil and the money runs out.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 03/30/2013 12:53 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Thai army captain killed, 14 troops wounded in southern Thailand
An army captain was killed and 14 soldiers injured in an ambush that led to a gunfight late yesterday afternoon in Narathiwat's Rueso district. The ambush was one of several attacks that took place yesterday. They came a day after government negotiators, led by National Security Council (NSC) chief Paradorn Pattanatabut, met terrorist insurgent representatives in Kuala Lumpur for an initial round of peace talks.

A number of attackers detonated a 25-kg roadside bomb when an army patrol in a pickup truck passed it on a local road. The terrorists militants then opened fire on the truck, triggering a gunfight. The attackers fled when a back-up unit arrived at the scene.

The ambush left Capt Siwat Sripujyo, the commander of the patrol, dead and 14 other members of his unit wounded. One of the injured soldiers managed to radio for assistance as the assailants emerged from nearby trees and started firing at them. The gunfight lasted about 10 minutes before the terrorists militants fled.

Security officials suspect the ambush was the work of terrorist insurgent groups seeking to undermine peace talk efforts.

Meanwhile, Lt Gen Paradorn said yesterday terrorist insurgent leaders have a month to prove to the government they can control terrorist militants by ordering them to stop shooting civilians. The government would like the six representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) to demonstrate that they can control their operatives in the southern provinces.

In other southern violence, Abdulloh Paokoh, 42, was shot in the head and stomach as he was driving his motorcycle to a local mosque in Panare district of Pattani province yesterday. A pillion rider on another motorcycle fired at him.

Another volunteer, Anant Kamol, was wounded by a roadside bomb while accompanying police and district officials to join marines to hunt suspected terrorist militants in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat.

Also in Narathiwat, a roadside bomb went off in the morning on the Narathiwat-Pattani road while eight police officers were traveling in a patrol vehicle. No one was hurt.

Rangae district office was hit by two grenades from an M79 launcher on Thursday night. No one was wounded.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/30/2013 05:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebels 'seize' key town near Jordan
[Al Jizz] Syrian rebels have seized an important town on a main highway between Damascus
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
and the south in Daraa province on the border with Jordan, a UK-based watchdog says.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that 10 civilians, including a child, were killed in fighting for Dael, the latest to be seized by the rebels over the past 24 hours.

"Rebels seized control of Dael after destroying the three army checkpoints at the entrances to the town," SOHR said. "The town is located on a main road linking Daraa to Damascus."

At least 15 rebels and a media activist working with the rebels were also killed, along with 12 loyalist troops, SOHR added.

"Large swathes of Daraa [province] are now under rebel control. Their advance in the south is escalating," Rami Abdel Rahman, SOHR's director, told the AFP news agency.

"The rebels are inching closer to the placid provincial capital, and several towns and villages are now out of army hands. Daraa city is cut off almost completely from Damascus."

Alarm in parliament

The capture of Dael came a day after a loyalist MP from the province raised the alarm in parliament.

Walid al-Zohbi said the rebels were advancing "in all towns and villages in Daraa province, which is torn from east to west after the army withdrew from many positions".

"They may have pulled out for tactical reasons, we don't know. But at any rate, Orcs and similar vermin from Al-Nusra Front have taken their place," he added of a group with roots in Iraq which is blacklisted by Washington as a "terrorist" organization.

In-depth coverage of escalating violence across Syria
On Sunday, SOHR reported that the rebels had seized a swathe of land stretching 25km east to west along the Jordanian border to the sensitive ceasefire line between Syria and Israel.

On the outskirts of Damascus, new violence erupted in several districts including Qaboon and Yarmuk, SOHR said.

It came after at least 15 people - 14 students and a child - were killed in a mortar attack on Damascus University on Thursday, SOHR and state media reported.

They were among at least 150 people killed nationwide - 52 civilians, 61 rebels and 37 soldiers, according to SOHR figures.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  I'll wager the MB have big plans for the Hashemite Kingdom once Pencil Neck is gone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2013 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Iraq is next. With plenty of weaponry courtinesy of the Sauds.

Iran's counter play has to be Kuwait or possibly Oman.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/30/2013 5:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll wager the MB have big plans for the Hashemite Kingdom once Pencil Neck is gone.

Along the lines of

1) Take over a bit of the Arab Ummah
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x) Rule the world for Allah's glory, surrounded by eternal virgins, boys with faces like pearls, kaffirs to do the work, and plenty to eat for all of the Master Religion.

Of course, there may be a bit of societal meltdown during the intermediate stages, but that can't be helped. Sacrifices must be made for the greater good, shoulder to shoulder, all that kind of thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/30/2013 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll wager the MB have big plans for the Hashemite Kingdom once Pencil Neck is gone

When reports that USMC F/A-18s have been pulled out of Jordan start coming in, you can figure that's the White House's green-light.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 14:22 Comments || Top||

#5 

Wait until Iran REALLY get involved...Arabs are nothing but idiots...the pasdarans will roll them over...Iraq will last less than a week. All with Russia and China's support...

Better get the popcorn, this a dark and stormy night coming for Obama and his cohort of idiots!
Lots of Hussein's "Ambassadors" will get a broom up their butt!
Posted by: Pliny the Cheap6130 || 03/30/2013 18:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Sekret Agent BlogMan strikes again.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/30/2013 18:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Wait until Iran REALLY get involved...Arabs are nothing but idiots...the pasdarans will roll them over...Iraq will last less than a week. All with Russia and China's support...

Uh, huh. The differences between our fantasies of world domination is that I know that mine are fantasies.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/30/2013 19:28 Comments || Top||


Prominent Tripoli Fighter Wounded in Assassination Bid
[An Nahar] Amer Arish, the so-called "commander of al-Beddawi frontier" in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, was maimed on Friday in a failed liquidation attempt.

Person or persons unknown opened fire and hurled a hand grenade on Arish outside his shop in al-Beddawi, state-run National News Agency reported.

The man was rushed to hospital after he was maimed in the attack, NNA said.

Around seven people were killed and 30 others maimed in festivities that erupted on March 20 between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.

Tripoli has been witnessing deadly festivities between supporters and opponents of the Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
regime for several years now.

The majority of Bab al-Tabbaneh residents are Sunni and back the revolution against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, while Jabal Mohsen's residents are mainly Alawites from Assad's sect.
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