[Jpost] Cairo court on Saturday ordered Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... released on charges of illicit gains, the second release order for him in a week, but he will remain in detention because he still faces other charges, security and court sources said.
The appeal hearing on Saturday was held in Torah prison, to where 84-year-old Mubarak was transferred from an army hospital on Wednesday after an apparent improvement in his fragile health.
Earlier this week, a judge ordered Mubarak's release on bail pending a retrial over charges of complicity in the murder of protesters in the 2011 uprising that unseated him, but court officials said he would remain in detention over graft charges.
The country's public prosecutor, appointed by new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, on Saturday filed an appeal against the second order to release Mubarak, a security source said.
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[Al Ahram] A Cairo court postponed the trial Saturday of 26 alleged Islamist hard boyz accused of planning attacks against the Egyptian state after the defendants shouted at the judge overseeing the case.
They specifically objected to court officials putting one of them in a separate cage, and called Judge Shaaban El-Shamy a corrupt figure from deposed leader Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's regime.
"There is no judgment except by God. Allah is great, Allah is great," and "You are from the corrupt era, you are from the former regime," they shouted at the judge.
Shamy ended the day's session, the first in the trial, by saying the defendants' lawyers had requested more time to prepare the case for the group, which includes two former army officers. The trial would resume 15 June, he said.
The state security prosecutor said in February that the accused men had formed an beturbanned goon organization that advocated sedition against Egypt's authorities and public sector workers.
The suspects, one of whom is Tunisian, were also charged with possession of weapons and explosives.
Only 17 of the suspects were present in court. Nine escaped arrest and are being tried in absentia.
The state news agency MENA said in February that Taha Abdel Salam, one of the two former officers, was accused of being a major recruiter for the group, and had been suspended from the army in 2002 for having links to krazed killers.
MENA said that the defendants belonged to krazed killer cells in Cairo suburbs and lived in rented apartments under false names. In October, one suspect was killed when he opened fire on security forces raiding cells in a Nasr City suburb.
Two years after the uprising that toppled Mubarak, Egypt's Islamist rulers are contending with a rise in krazed killer activity, especially in the Sinai region that borders Israel and Gazoo, while struggling to contain protests that often turn violent.
Domestic turmoil and the smuggling of weapons from Libya after the fall of dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... have created a security vacuum. In August last year, 16 Egyptian border guards were killed in Islamist krazed killer attacks in Sinai.
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[Libya Herald] Abdullah Al-Senussi, Qadaffy's cousin and former spy-chief, has still not seen a lawyer despite having spent nearly eight months in a Libyan jail, according to Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW).
"I asked for a lawyer on the second or third day after my arrival here in Libya," Senussi told HRW on the international NGO's prison visit last week, adding: "I haven't seen or spoken with a lawyer yet."
The visit to the Hadba Correction Facility 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... -- a newly-renovated jail which is holding several senior Qadaffy-era officials -- was arranged by Justice Minister Saleh Marghani. Senussi has been held there since his extradition from Mauritania in September 2012.
HRW Researcher for Libya, Hanan Salah, who made the visit, told the Libya Herald that HRW had requested a visit soon after Senussi was extradited. She said, however, that "it took some months to agree on the modalities of the visit, as we requested to see him in private without the presence of a guard."
Senussi said that he has repeatedly requested access to a lawyer in monthly judicial reviews of his detention.
Justice Minister Marghani told HRW: "Senussi has the right to a defence lawyer of his choice like any other person standing trial." He said that so far no Libyan lawyer had taken on the case.
The acting head of the Hadba facility, Mohamed Gweider, told HRW that it would probably be difficult to find a Libyan lawyer to represent Senussi. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Marghani said that Senussi could be represented by a foreign lawyer with permission to practice in Libya.
"Libya's wish to put the people they hold responsible for gross human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations on trial is fully understandable," said Middle East and North Africa director at HRW, Sarah Leah Whitson. "But to achieve true justice, they need to give Senussi the rights that the previous government denied Libyans for so long. To start with, that means making sure he can consult a lawyer."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Issuing a strong warning against the "terrorist activities" of the opposition, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday said opposition leader Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... would not be spared from legal action and the BNP-Jamaat will have to take the responsibility for violence.
"People have already tolerated so much. If you think that you would be spared [from legal action] after killing innocent people, coppers, rickshaw pullers and drivers, it is not correct. You [Khaleda] and your ally 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... will have to shoulder the responsibility for these violent acts," she noted.
The prime minister was addressing a mammoth rally at Comilla Zilla School ground in the afternoon.
"For what offence you [Khaleda] are killing the innocent people, coppers, rickshaw pullers and drivers by pouring petrol on them or hitting them with brickbats," questioned Hasina, also the president of Awami League.
She called upon all to put up a strong resistance against the destructive activities of the opposition.
Urging the opposition leader to stop terrorist activities, she said BNP had tried to save the killers of Bangabandhu, but could not succeed. And this time also it will not be successful to save war criminals.
Reiterating her commitment to hold the trial of war criminals, she said there is no room on this soil for the war criminals who had committed crimes against humanity. "They must be tried to free the nation from stigma," she added.
Mentioning that the opposition has been enforcing hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s to protect the war criminals, the premier urged people to remain alert so that BNP-Jamaat cannot make light of the lives of people.
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque, Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad, AL advisory council member Fakhrul Islam Munshi, its law affairs secretary Abdul Matin Khasru, Nasimul Alam Chowdhury, MP, AKM Bahauddin Bahar, MP, also spoke at the rally, chaired by AHM Mostafa Kamal, MP.
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I don't know about you, dear Reader, but it's this kind of thing that makes me awfully glad I live in a reasonably civilized part of the world, kept safe by our wonderful rough men and women in and out of uniform. Their fanatics are ever so much more fanatical than our sad little specimens.
[Bangla Daily Star] Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at, an organization based on Sunni Mohammedan ideology, yesterday in Chittagong demanded the capital punishment to "atheist bloggers" and leaders of Hefajat-e Islam.
"Atheist bloggers" are encouraging atheism through their write-ups in blogs and Hefajat leaders are defaming Islam and its Prophet (PTUI!) in their publications, it said.
At a massive rally held at Lal Dighi Maidan in the port city yesterday, the organization also announced a grand rally to be held in the capital on May 25.
Thousands of people from different upazilas and adjacent districts gathered at the venue since afternoon. The area stretched from Anderkilla to Kotwali and Jail gate to the Shaheed Minar turned into a human sea during the rally.
Hafajat is practising extremism, Islamic scholars said, adding the krazed killer group was inciting militancy in Qawmi madrasas in order to portray the country as a myrmidon one like Afghanistan before the international community.
At present, children from poor families are being given training in myrmidon activities in all Qawmi madrasas run by Hefajat, they said.
In its 12-point demand placed at the rally, Ahle Sunnat asked the government to bring all Qawmi madrasas under its authority and run them under a single madrasa education policy.
It condemned the violence carried out by the 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... and Hefajat across the country.
Hefajat's attacks on mass people and their wealth proved that it does not protect Islam. Hefajat leaders have been misleading the country's people by giving wrong interpretation of Islam, Ahle Sunnat said, adding the country and its people were not safe in their hands.
The rally was chaired by Maulana MA Matin, chief coordinator of Ahle Sunnat.
Tarikat Federation President Syed Najibul Basar Maijbandari urged the government to stop the myrmidon activities by the Qawmis, Wahabis and follower of ideologue Moududi.
Sunni Mohammedans constitute the majority of the Mohammedans in the country and they all love peace preached by Islam, he added.
At the rally, Principal Moulana Abul Farah Md Farid Uddin announced the 12-point demand and grand rallies in Narayanganj and Habiganj on May 11 and April 27.
Claiming themselves as non-political, Maulana MA Matin urged the government to stop the activities of the organizations that are involved in creating anarchy and terrorism in the country in the name of Islam.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Hefajat-e Islam on Saturday threatened to topple the government if its 13-point demand including the hanging of "atheist" bloggers would not meet by May 5.
The leaders of the so-called Islamist group issued the threat from a rally at Dak Bangla Chattar in the city of Khulna.
Thousands of leaders and activists of the organization from different districts in Khulna division attended the rally, reports our Khulna correspondent.
The rally stretched nearly one kilometre area from the stage at Dak Bangla Chattar to Powerhouse intersection in the city.
The public meeting started around 10:00am with recitation from the Holy Koran, presided over by Hazrat Mawlana Mostak Ahmed, ameer of Khulna district unit of Hefajat.
Addressing the rally, Mufti Rezaul Karim, a member of Khulna district unit of Hefajat, demanded capital punishment to journalist Shahriar Kabir, Prof Muntasir Mamun and Shahbagh Gonojagoron Mancha front man Imran H Sarker along with the "atheist" bloggers.
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance expressed solidarity with the rally. Doctors' Association of Bangladesh (DAB) provided medical assistance to the participants of the rally.
Different organizations distributed dry food and water among participants from pickup vans in several points at the rally.
Abul Kalam Azad, an assistant commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP), told The Daily Star that 2,500 law enforcers were deployed to maintain security of the rally.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Eminent civil society members yesterday demanded that Jamaat-Shibir be banned as terrorist organizations for their orchestrated atrocities across the country, including violence on minorities.
Bangladesh Rukhe Darao, a platform for civil society members, highlighted the need to reach out to ordinary citizens and make them part of the movement to establish a secular and democratic Bangladesh.
The leaders of the platform articulated their five-point demand at a national convention in the capital's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
They also demanded that the government expedite the war crimes trial, resist communal violence and stand by its victims, take the country forward with the spirit of the Liberation War and allow free thinking, resist attempts to turn the country into a Taliban-style state and uphold women's rights.
"We believe in the freedom of expression," said Dr Sarwar Ali, vice-president of Chhayanaut, while reading out a statement.
"But Jamaat and Shibir have proved through their actions that they are terrorist organizations that manipulate religion and oppose the constitution. As such, they should immediately be banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009."
The platform will submit to the prime minister a memorandum with its demands, participate in progressive movements, including the Gonojagoron Mancha, and organise citizens' rallies in each district in future, Sarwar said.
Dr Anisuzzaman, professor emeritus of Dhaka University, urged people to boycott and resist anti-Liberation War organizations that have grown in power since 1975.
Rights activist Sultana Kamal said, "There is no force that can defeat the spirit of the war -- the spirit of human emancipation."
Educationist Prof Serajul Islam Choudhury said, "Successive governments have failed to uphold secularism as a basic constitutional principle and do away with Islam as the state religion."
Different governments and foreign backers have been funding madrasa education, he said. Similar support was given to bad boy group al-Qaeda to oust the then communist regime of Soviet Union, he added.
Writer Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said he was shocked to see former Awami League politician Shamim Osman, Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... Chairman HM Ershad and prominent BNP leaders express their solidarity with Hefajat-e Islam activists.
Meeting each of Hefajat's demands would push the country back by 100 years, he added.
To win votes in the next general election, the government must not delay the trial of the war criminals, economist Prof MM Akash observed.
Chhayanaut president Sanjida Khatun, cultural activists Kamal Lohani and Ramendu Majumdar, lawyer Shahdeen Malik, rights activist Rana Dasgupta and Gonojagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker also spoke among others at the event.
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Moreover, Vilayat Dagestan says that if the US government is "really interested in discovering the true organizers of the explosions in Boston, without being complicit in a Russian show, they should focus on the involvement of the Russian special services in the event."
A Rooski connection? But Putin deplored it. or was that deployed it?
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[ONLINE.WSJ] Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing case shifted their focus Saturday to hunting for a motive and preparing charges after apprehending a 19-year-old college student Friday night. What part of "Die, infidels! Die!" didn't they understand?
The charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remained hospitalized with severe injuries, could be filed this weekend but might take longer as law-enforcement officials continue investigating numerous scene of the crimes in and around Boston. Investigators were also eager to talk to Mr. Tsarnaev, who was listed at death's door after being badly injured early Friday morning in a firefight with coppers that left his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead.
Investigators have alleged that the two brothers carried out the marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 175 on Monday.
Authorities gave no indication as to what motivated the brothers. Their family roots stretch to the Russian republic of Chechnya, which has been a wellspring of terrorism over the years.
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....How about they were insane, vicious, intolerant and ungrateful monsters?
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Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston, which runs the mosque, said Tsarnaev told the speaker, You are a kafir [an unbeliever], and said he was contaminating peoples minds and was a hypocrite.
Vali said, The congregation then said, You are the hypocrite. The congregation shouted him out of the mosque.
Later, a respected volunteer talked with Tsarnaev and told him he needed to decide whether to stay and not shout out or stop coming to the congregation.
Vali said it was the second time that Tsarnaev had made an outburst during one of the speakers sermons.
There was nothing about it that would suggest that he would kill a person, said Vali.
He said such an outburst is unusual in the mosque but not unheard-of.
He was just expressing his opinion about his belief and it wasnt seen as something that would rise to the level of alerting authorities, Vali said.
Tsarnaevs earlier outburst had come in November. He had started attending the mosque occasionally about a year ago, Vali said.
[FOXNEWS] Investigators are exploring potential links between Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an bad boy group known as the Caucasus Emirate, sources tell Fox News.
The purported leader of the separatist and Islamic bad boy group is Doku Count Doku Umarov ... Self-styled first emir of the Caucasus Emirate. Count Doku has announced that his forces will not target civilians, but qualified that statement by saying there aren't any civilians in Russia... , a Chechen Islamic jihad boy in Russia whose ordering of numerous attacks on civilians has earned him the nickname Russia's the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer exists... . The U.N.'s Al Qaeda sanctions committee has also cited Umarov for his alleged connections with Al Qaeda and other bad boy groups.
The investigation is based on the contents of Tsarnaev's YouTube channel and his trip to Russia in the first half of 2012, which included stops in Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... and Chechnya.
Sources tell Fox that videos deleted from his YouTube account include a "terrorist playlist" and links to Vilayat Dagestan, which is associated with Caucasus Emirate.
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love the sword-thru-the-head graphic. Russia's OBL Steve Martin
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[CNN] Federal terrorism charges against Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev could be filed soon, even as he remains hospitalized, a Justice Department official told CNN on Saturday. The 19-year-old could also face murder charges at the state level.
At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Tsarnaev was at death's door while being held in federal custody, federal prosecutors were formulating the charges.
The development came amid questions as to what's next for the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... said he's keenly interested in answers.
"There are still many unanswered questions," Obama said Friday night. "Why did these young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive any help? The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers."
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Are bummer and his ilk REALLY this stupid "Why did these young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? , or are they just playing their left-wing nihilist games in refusing to name Islam?
[Jpost] Russia asked FBI to investigate Boston bomb suspect in 2011
Russia asked the FBI to investigate Boston Marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, a US law enforcement source told Rooters on Saturday.
The FBI said on Friday that its interview of Tsarnaev, following a tip from a foreign government two years ago, and checks of travel records, Internet activity and personal associations, "did not find any terrorism activity" at that time.
Tsarnaev, 26, was killed on Thursday in a shootout with police and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday after daylong manhunt.
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Most professional, biometrically advanced law enforcement agency and intelligence apparatus in the world solicits the assistance of the American people in identifying fotos of suspects [residing in proximity of blast], ....whom they have met repeatedly thanks to counter-terrorism tipper and dossier from the second most advanced counter-terrorism agency and intelligence apparatus in the world.
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I hear you, Besoeker, but there may have been other motives by the FBI for releasing the photos publicly that had nothing to do with simply identifying the brothers. I could speculate on what they were, but I won't since I'm sure you and everybody else could make guesses as good as mine.
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If the pics were to goad them to break cover, electronically as well as physically, they didn't have eyes on them. The car alerts suggest maybe tags but the arrests elsewhere preceeding #2s arrest tell me it was to get people they reached out to for exfil or instructions/resupply.
Interesting how the lone wolf meme is gone when you face this much public awareness. The whole radicalization dynamic is on display. Coming to a Mosque near you perhaps. Those Mentors are everywhere thanks to the KSA and the seed money for new Mosques.
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The elder Tsarnaev was a non-US person who was tipped off to the US by a highly reliable foreign intelligence and law enforcement entity. There are well established, multi-agency protocols with the US Intelligence and Federal Law Enforcement community for meeting with foreign persons of interest or leads. Those protocols include but are not limited to the following:
a. Coordinated, time-phased authorizations for initial meets and contacts.
b. Detailed requests for long-term assessment or future exploitation.
c. Shared reporting and record keeping.
d. Coordinated methodologies for transfer or termination of contacts and assessments.
If the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev was met by US Law Enforcement, not once but multiple times, where are (a.) thru (d.) ?
If the Tamerlan Tsarnaev project or file was terminated, why was it terminated ?
If the Tamerlan Tsarnaev project or file was NOT terminated and remained active until last week, who was responsible project or investigating officer and what was being reporting or assessed ?
Lastly, was the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev an unwitting Law Enforcement or Intelligence source. A source and project that went terribly or "tragically" wrong. At a minimum, this was NOT an intelligence success story. Just how unsuccessful remains to be determined.
[An Nahar] Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his dying brother to escape a gunbattle with police, the police chief of the town where the manhunt ended said Saturday.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev also hurled a pressure cooker bomb, like one used in the marathon attack, at officers chasing them in the early hours of Friday, Watertown's police chief Edward Devau told CNN.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout while his brother, 19, eluded capture until late Friday, when he was found hiding in a boat in Watertown.
Devau told how Dzhokhar ran over his brother, dragging the body down the street as he beat feet from police, who had trapped the older brother.
The suspects were involved in the killing of a police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then stole a Mercedes, sparking a chase to Watertown, in the Boston suburbs, according to the police account.
Devau said two off-duty police were helping four officers who confronted the brothers in the overnight shootout.
"We estimate that over 200 shots were fired over a five-to-10 minute period," Devau said, adding that the brothers also hurled a pressure cooker bomb and other homemade explosives.
"We found a pressure cooker embedded in a car down the street" after it caused "a major kaboom during this shootout," Devau said.
Two homemade grenades went kaboom! and two others failed to go off. Another device was found in an abandoned car, he said.
Devau told how Tamerlan Tsarnaev suddenly emerged "and just starts walking down the street shooting at our coppers trying to get closer."
When the suspected bomber ran out of ammunition, two or three police overpowered him and were trying to handcuff him when the other brother drove the carjacked black Mercedes at them, said the police chief.
"One of them yells 'look out," said Devau. "They dive out of the way and he runs over his brother and drags him a short distance down the street."
Doctors officially pronounced Tamerlan dead at the hospital, where his brother is now being treated.
Dzhokhar drove off amid more gunfire, but two or three streets down, "he dumps the car and runs into the darkness in the streets. Then we lost contact with him," said Devau.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was eventually cornered, maimed and hiding in a boat that was being stored in someone's backyard. Devau said that the suspect made no statement at the scene.
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.. also hurled a pressure cooker bomb..
I don't think they need to worry about Miranda. If the AG can't make this stick with with all the physical evidence they have, he/she needs to be fired and replaced before the rituals begin.
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It tickles my fancy that he was taken to Beth Israel hospital for treatment.
Bet that gets his little islamonazi panties in a twist.
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P2K, if it's the Mass AG he'll walk easy-peasy. Martha Coakley (yes I'm a Masshole) is the most partisan, flaming liberal, incompetent hack it is possible to imagine.
[Dawn] Former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was shifted back to his farmhouse residence in Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad hours after the anti-terrorist court in Islamabad ordered a 14-day-long judicial remand for the former military strongman in the judges' detention case. Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi of the anti-terrorist court issued the order which makes it imperative for Musharraf to re-appear in court on May 4.
Soon after the court's order, local authorities declared his farmhouse residence a sub-jail and Musharraf was moved there hours after being taken to the police headquarters in the wake of the ruling.
During the hearing of the case at the ATC established yesterday, the police had requested the judge to order a judicial remand for the former president. Whereas, the petitioner's counsel, Ashraf Gujjar, had requested the court to order a physical remand of the retired general.
Gujjar had also objected to the fact that Musharraf was brought to the court with heavy security.
Moreover, Musharraf's lawyers have been seeking bail for their client which was cancelled by the Islamabad High Court earlier this week.
Also on Friday, the former president was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in the judges' detention case and was shifted to the Police Line Headquarters from his Chak Shahzad farmhouse. A local court in Islamabad had moreover granted two days' transit custody of the retired general to the police and had directed them to produce him before the "court of competent jurisdiction/Anti Terrorism Court on or before April 21, 2013".
The general who is the first former army chief and head of state to be arrested is being kept at the Officers' Mess and given the suite of Inspector General of Police.
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Seriously? Dude, you can't even defend Karachi... from the inside. But y'all do march pretty.
[Dawn] Without explicitly naming India or any other nation, Army chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... said Saturday that Pakistain has acted with restraint despite some "very belligerent statements."
"We have exercised restraint in the face of some very belligerent statements in recent months," said the top Pak general. "Let it suffice to say that Pakistain is fully capable of responding effectively to any threat. Despite our current focus on internal security, we remain fully prepared to defeat an external direct threat."
The Army chief was addressing the passing-out parade of the 127th PMA Long Course, 46th Integrated Course and 1st Mujahid Course at the Pakistain Military Academy, Kakul, as the chief guest.
"In our short history, we have overcome many a challenges that would have overwhelmed lesser nations," said Gen Kayani.
"I am sure we can do it again. We are going through difficult times, but so has every other successful nation at some time in their history," he added.
"The Pak Army is fully committed to the cause and as always standing with the nation. I assure you that we will succeed if we remain committed to the basis for creation of Pakistain and remain steadfast as a nation."
"Let me remind you that Pakistain was created in the name of Islam and Islam can never ever be taken out of Pakistain," he said.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... General Kayani said Islam should always remain a unifying force. He assured that regardless of odds, Pakistain Army will keep on doing its best towards common dream for a truly Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain envisioned by the Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal.
Speaking about peace in the region he said: "Pakistain is a peace loving country. Our quest for peace is essentially based on a genuine desire to improve our lot and that of our future generations. Let no one see it as a weakness.
"Let there be no doubt that with a strong Pak Army and the nation standing behind it united, no harm can ever come to Pakistain, Inshallah."
A large number of senior serving and retired armed forces officers, parents of cadets, foreign diplomats and relatives of graduating cadets witnessed the spectacular parade.
He congratulated all the graduating cadets on successful completion of their basic military training, including those from our brotherly Islamic countries of Paleostine, Sudan and Turkmenistan.
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Quite interesting, since the only "threat" they appear to face is internal.
[Dawn] Alleging that a conspiracy is being hatched to stop the party from taking part in the general elections, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... on Friday made it clear that it will not boycott the general elections come what may.
Speaking at a presser held at the MQM headquarters, senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar said that frequent killings of party workers and supporters, siege and search operations of 'peaceful Mohajir localities' by the police and Rangers and arrest and torture of innocent people were part of a conspiracy to force the MQM to boycott the general elections.
He said that four MQM sympathisers -- Shakil Ahmed, his cousins Abdul Khaliq and Naveed Ahmed and a rickshaw driver Nadeem Bahadur -- were kidnapped, tortured and killed by armed terrorists, who threw their bodies in Shershah and Mewashah graveyard on Friday.
He said that the four slain men attended the inauguration ceremony of the central election office of the MQM for NA-249 on Thursday.
He said that the killing of MQM office-bearers, workers and supporters by armed hard boyz had become a routine feature in the city. "The political and religious parties of Pakistain are busy in their election campaigns and the MQM is busy in burying its leaders, workers and sympathisers."
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[Dawn] Iraqis voted on Saturday in the country's first polls since US troops departed, a key test of its stability in the face of a spike in attacks that has claimed more than 100 lives.
But the credibility of the provincial elections has come into question, with attacks on candidates leaving 14 dead and a third of Iraq's provinces -- all of them mainly Sunni Arab or Kurdish -- not even voting due to security concerns and political disputes.
The elections for provincial councils, responsible for naming governors who lead local reconstruction, administration and finances, are seen as a key gauge of parties' popularity ahead of general elections next year.
"Security is the most important problem that all of them should be working for -- without this, life would be so difficult," university student Abdulsahib Ali Abdulsahib, 22, told AFP at a polling station in central Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... after voting began at about 7:00 am.
Voters were searched twice before being allowed to enter, and security forces had a heavy presence in the area. Only pre-approved vehicles were allowed on the streets, largely deserted except for police and soldiers.
Security measures were tough elsewhere in the country, but were tightest in Storied Baghdad.
Despite the restrictions, bully boyz were still able to carry out attacks, though casualties were limited.
Overall, nine mortar rounds, one roadside kabooming and three stun grenades, all outside Storied Baghdad, left a civilian and a policeman maimed, officials said.
Every Iraqi who votes "is saying to the enemies of the political process that we are not going back," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
after casting his ballot at the Rasheed Hotel in Storied Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone.
"I say to all those who are afraid for the future of Iraq and afraid of a return of violence and dictatorship that we will fight by casting ballots," Maliki said.
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[Jpost] US Defense Secretary to meet with Defense Minister Ya'alon to conclude sale of V-22 Osprey aircraft and other armaments; defense leaders to discuss Iranian nuclear program and Syrian instability.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will land in Israel on Sunday on a visit which is expected to see the finalization of an arms deal that will enable Israel to improve its long-range strike, aerial patrol and troop transport capabilities.
During the visit, Hagel will meet with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and conclude the sale of V-22 Osprey aircraft, refueling tankers, advanced radars for fighter jets and anti-air defense missiles.
Israel Air Force pilots have begun training on the tili-rotor V-22 aircraft, which uses rotors to take off and land vertically before flying on missions as an airplane. It can match the speed of a Hercules and refuel from it during sorties. The V-22 will improve the IAF's aerial patrol capabilities, and can also transport troops a considerable distance.
Israel will also purchase the KC-135 military refueling plane, which will form a substantial addition to the IAF's current fleet of modified Boeing 707 refueling aircraft, of which the air force is believed to have around 10.
The arms deal is part of a wider $10 billion package involving US sales to Israel, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , and the United Arab Emirates, designed to provide Washington's allies in the region with enhanced military capabilities against Iran. The UAE will take stock of 25 F-16 Desert Falcon jets worth nearly $5b.
"This not only sustains but augments Israel's qualitative military edge in the region," Rooters quoted a US official as saying. "This package is a significant advance for Israel...
This is about giving all three partners in the region added capacity to address key threats that they may face down the road."
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... cited a US official as saying that the package was aimed at helping "Israel deal with various security challenges -- but devised so it would not be viewed as an American endorsement of accelerated planning by Israel to strike alone at Tehran's suspected nuclear facilities."
The arms deal will not be the only topic of talks between Ya'alon and Hagel, an Israeli defense source told The Jerusalem Post. The Iranian nuclear program and ongoing Syrian instability will demand the attention of both defense leaders.
Last week, the Pentagon announced it was sending 200 American soldiers to Jordan, adding that the deployment could end up being part of a larger movement of 20,000 soldiers to secure loose chemical weapons. The US is reluctant to get involved in Syria, but is preparing for the eventuality nevertheless.
The 200 soldiers, from the 1st Armored Division, "will establish a small headquarters near Jordan's border with Syria to help deliver humanitarian supplies for a growing flood of refugees and to plan for possible military operations, including a rapid buildup of American forces if the White House decides intervention is necessary, senior US officials said," according to The Los Angeles Times.
Last week, Ya'alon used an Independence Day speech to warn that Israel had to prepare for the possibility of defending itself against Iran on its own. Israel should not lead the campaign against Iran, but it is the first target of the ayatollah regime, Ya'alon said, citing threats by Iranian rulers.
"The world must lead the campaign against Iran, but Israel must prepare for the possibility that it will have to defend itself with its own powers," he warned.
[Iran Press TV] Tunisia's senior holy man, Othman Battikh, has described calls for jihad against the government in Syria a "huge mistake" that is not permitted under Islam.
The Mufti of Tunisia said during a presser on Friday that a "Moslem mustn't fight a Moslem" under any pretext.
Battikh stressed that those who went to fight in Syria under the banner of Jihad were "fooled and have been brainwashed."
His remarks came at a time many of Tunisian youths are being recruited by terrorist networks to go to Syria and fight against the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... The Tunisian holy man also said he considered what has become known as "sex jihad" a form of prostitution and adultery.
He said 16 Tunisian girls have been so far deceived and sent to Syria to take part in the so-called sex or marriage jihad, adding this is a moral depravity.
Syria has been gripped by a deadly unrest since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of government forces, have been killed in the violence.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the Islamic fascistiare foreign nationals.
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[An Nahar] Syria's opposition on Saturday called on international supporters to carry out "surgical strikes" on positions used by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's regime to fire missiles on civilians.
Voicing frustration at the lack of a strong international response to Syria's crisis, the Syrian National Coalition urged Western and Arab countries gathered for a "Friends of Syria" meeting to take immediate action.
"It is the moral imperative of the international community, led by the Friends of Syria, to take specific, precise and immediate action to protect Syrian civilians from the use of ballistic missiles and chemical weapons," the Coalition said in a statement.
It called for "surgical strikes of launching locations by unmanned aerial vehicles".
The 11-nation core group of the Friends of Syria -- including the United States, European nations and Arab countries -- was holding talks and meeting with the opposition in Istanbul late Saturday.
Washington is expected to announce more support for the opposition after the talks, including for the first time provisions of non-offensive military equipment, but not the arms the rebels are demanding.
Yaser Tabbara, a front man for the opposition's interim prime minister Ghassan Hitto, said new pledges of aid were not enough.
"Assad is firing missiles against densely populated areas... without consequences. Throwing money at the problem won't solve it," he said.
The Coalition statement also called for the enforcement of a no-fly zone along Syria's northern and southern borders, an international fund to support the opposition and a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the use of "ballistic and chemical weapons against civilians".
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[An Nahar] A meeting was held recently between Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Central News Agency reported on Saturday.
According to the news agency, Nasrallah held talks with senior Iranian officials during his visit to Tehran, where he met with Khamenei.
It pointed out that the "secret" visit was held two weeks ago.
Sources rejected in comments to the news agency to reveal the nature of the meetings held by Nasrallah or the details of his visit.
The news agency also reported that Nasrallah will have a televised appearance on May 9 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Hizbullah's al-Nour radio station.
Nasrallah's last televised speech was on February 27 to deny rumors that he had been transferred to Iran for treatment after falling ill.
Iran, Syria and their ally Hizullah are considered as the "axis of resistance" in the region.
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[An Nahar] Syria's main opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that Russia was "out of step" with history for backing Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime and was isolating itself on the international scene.
"Russia is keeping up a foreign policy that only looks at things from a narrow military perspective, and which does not understand the profound historic changes caused by the Arab Spring," the Coalition said.
Its statement came three days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Friends of Syria grouping of countries opposed to Assad's rule that was to meet on Saturday in Istanbul was undermining dialogue.
"The fact that Russia is opposed to the Syrians' aspirations for freedom and democracy ... once again proves that the Russian administration is out of step with history," the Coalition said.
"While Russia isolates itself from the Friends of Syria, which brings together more than 100 countries... it is isolating itself from the international community and opposing values of freedom, justice, equality and fundamental human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... Moscow is one of Assad's few remaining backers. It frequently provides the regime with military and other assistance, though it says it opposes foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Along with China, Russia has blocked several U.N. Security Council draft resolutions threatening sanctions against Assad's regime.
Meeting in Istanbul, the Friends of Syria group will reiterate its support for the opposition, which has called for direct military support. The West fears that weapons could land in the hands of faceless myrmidons if they armed the rebels.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
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[ONLINE.WSJ] Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing case shifted their focus Saturday to hunting for a motive and preparing charges after apprehending a 19-year-old college student Friday night.
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[CNN] Federal terrorism charges against Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev could be filed soon, even as he remains hospitalized, a Justice Department official told CNN on Saturday. The 19-year-old could also face murder charges at the state level.
[Jpost] Russia asked FBI to investigate Boston bomb suspect in 2011 
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[Dawn] Alleging that a conspiracy is being hatched to stop the party from taking part in the general elections, the 
[Dawn] Iraqis voted on Saturday in the country's first polls since US troops departed, a key test of its stability in the face of a spike in attacks that has claimed more than 100 lives.
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