[Ynet] Egyptian newspaper Al-Nahar reported that Egyptian forces tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 18 hard boyz with six ticking bomb and 11 pistols.
According to the report, they were arrested upon trying to enter Cairo and Giza District with the aim to attack several Arab and foreign embassies.
One Egyptian man was killed and at least 26 were injured in clashes on Monday between supporters and opponents of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi, state television reported.
At the same time, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram's website reported three were killed in similar clashes north of Cairo.
Near Cairo's Tahrir Square, the opposing camps threw stones and shot fireworks at each other as security forces fired tear gas to try to disperse them, witnesses said.
The Monday violence took place when several hundred pro-Morsi protesters were marching toward the US Embassy to hold a demonstration against alleged American meddling in Egypt's affairs, the official said. The march passed an entrance to Tahrir Square manned by anti-Morsi protesters, and the two sides pelted each other with rocks. Gunfire was heard, but it was not clear who was firing.
Armored vehicles moved and blocked the road, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
The Muslim Brotherhood has staged daily protests across the country since Morsi was deposed on July 3, demanding his reinstatement.
Meanwhile, European Union foreign ministers are calling for the release of Morsi. The ministers called in a joint statement Monday for "the release of all political detainees, including Mohammed Morsi" and listed it among their key priorities for the new leadership in Cairo.
The 28 EU ministers insisted Egypt must quickly move to an "inclusive democratic transformation process," including elections at the earliest possible time.
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The family of ousted president Mohammed Mursi said on Monday they plan to sue Egypts army chief, General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, for having kidnapped the elected Islamist head of state.
If that's the best they can do he's toast...
Shaimaa Mohammed Mursi, the toppled presidents daughter, told a Press conference that the family were planning to take legal action in Egypt and abroad.
We are taking local and international legal measures against Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, the leader of the bloody military coup, and his putschist group, she said.
She voiced dismay at the silence of rights organisations and civil society over the crime of kidnapping the legitimate president, who was voted into office last year. The family held Sisi and his putschist group responsible for Mursis safety.
Mursi has been detained at an unknown location since his overthrow by the army on July 3 following mass protests against his presidency across the country.
Mursis son Osama told reporters the family had not heard from him since his overthrow. None of us has had any contact with our father since the afternoon of the coup on July 3, he said.
Several countries, including the United States and Germany, have called for his release, but the countrys interim authorities have rejected the calls, saying he is being held in a safe place.
Supporters of Mursi, who was ousted after a single turbulent year of rule following a presidential election, have pressed demonstrations, holding marches and protests across the country since his fall.
They pressed their demands for Mursis reinstatement on Monday.
Members of the Shura council, Egypts upper chamber, held a defiant meeting in Cairos Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque on Monday. The council was overwhelmingly dominated by Islamists under Mursis presidency, and held all legislative powers. But Egypts new authorities dissolved the council when they toppled Mursi.
Hundreds of the ousted presidents backers also marched to the public prosecutors office and the defence ministry on Monday. Rolling their eyes Chanting Sisi killer, and anti-police slogans, demonstrators grimaced fiercely hung pictures of the ousted president on the gates of the public prosecutors office.
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[AnNahar] Sunni Mohammedansnuffies and Shiite Zaidi rebels in Yemen are waging a battle for the control of mosques, in a spillover of the sectarian face-off rattling the Middle East.
The showdown was previously confined to the northern province of Saada, stronghold of Zaidi Ansarullah rebels who have since last year frequently clashed with supporters of the Sunni Islamist party Al-Islah.
Sanaa accuses Ansarullah of being backed by Shiite-majority Iran.
With the start of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan on July 10, frictions between the two sides have sharpened in the capital.
Sunni Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... have been trying to seize control of a mosque led by a Zaidi imam in Sanaa, in response to a similar move by Ansarullah supporters against another mosque led by a Sunni holy man in the capital.
This has sparked festivities in which knives were used and also a kaboom that maimed five people last week, according to witnesses and police.
And on Thursday, gunnies on a cycle of violencerubbed out two Shiites and maimed four others who were staging a sit-in protest in the capital, an Ansarullah rebel told Agence La Belle France Presse.
In a bid to ease tensions, the authorities have secured a commitment from both sides "not to use force to impose their own rites in mosques," according to Hmoud Obad, the minister of Waqf (religious endowments).
"In Yemen, there are no mosques for Zaidis and others for Sunnis. People have lived and prayed together for centuries, but the political polarization taking place threatens to divide them," he told AFP.
The rebels, who belong to the Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam, are mainly concentrated in the north and make up 25 percent of Yemen's Sunni-majority population estimated at 25 million.
The Zaidi rebels, also known as Huthis after their late leader Abdel Malek al-Huthi, rose up in 2004 against the government of ex-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... , accusing it of marginalizing them politically and economically.
Thousands of people were killed in the uprising before a ceasefire was agreed in February 2010.
But their frustration was compounded by the rise to power for the first time in Yemen's history of a Sunni president, according to a participant in an ongoing national dialogue.
Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi replaced Saleh, who is Zaidi, in February 2012, under a U.N.- and Gulf-brokered power transfer deal which led to the former strongman's resignation following 11 months of mass protests against his rule.
Despite reservations about the deal, the Zaidis are taking part in the national dialogue launched in March to draft a constitution and prepare for elections.
The participant at the dialogue, who requested anonymity, said the rebels are "trying to strengthen their growing political role by achieving a stronger presence in the mosques," warning that "sectarian tensions will intensify."
But a representative of Ansarullah at the talks, Abdelkarim al-Jadhban, holds Al-Islah, which is close to the Moslem Brüderbund, and its Salafist allies backed by 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... responsible for the sectarian tensions.
"The Moslem Brüderbund and the Salafists want to take control of all mosques," including those in Saada, "where they have their own places of worship as well as the biggest centre for terrorism in Dammaj," he told AFP.
Zaidi rebels in late 2011 laid siege to Dar al-Hadith, an Islamic institution that trains Sunni preachers and believes in the strictest and most draconian interpretations of Islam, in Dammaj near Saada.
The action sparked months of festivities that left dozens killed in the area, where the government's control is weak.
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A Salafist delegate to the national dialogue, Mohammed Shibiba, accused the Zaidis of being tools in the hands of Iran and likened them to Leb's Shiite bad boy movement Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah is present in Yemen under the name of Ansarullah. They are backed by Iran which is trying to dominate Yemen," he said, charging that the Zaidis "receive military training" in the mountains.
Sanaa in January said a ship transporting 40 tonnes of weapons from Iran and destined for the Iranian catspaws had been intercepted in the Gulf of Oman. Tehran denied the charge.
Yemeni analyst Fares al-Saqqaf insists that "Zaidis and Sunnis have coexisted peacefully for centuries, but the danger lies in the emergence of political Shiism based on the Iranian model."
"This is something Yemenis will never accept," he said.
In an effort to expand its regional influence, Iran is accused of inflaming sectarian tensions which have turned bloody in Iraq and threaten other countries such as Leb, Syria, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
[AnNahar] Bahrain's prosecutor on Monday charged three men incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in connection with a boom-mobileing outside a Sunni mosque with forming a "terror" group, the official BNA news agency reported.
Police chief Tariq al-Hasan named the suspects as Hasan al-Madhum, 25, Ali Ashoor, 34, and Abbas Zuhair, 32, and said that other suspects were on the run.
Public prosecutor Abdulrahman al-Sayyed said in a statement carried by BNA that he charged the men with forming an illegal group that "used terror among its means."
Authorities said on Sunday that three suspects were arrested over the "terrorist" blast outside Sheikh Isa bin Salman mosque in the Sunni Rifaa area, south of the capital.
The royal court is situated in the same area where the bomb, made from two gas cylinders, went kaboom! late on Wednesday without causing casualties.
The kaboom drew condemnation from the authorities in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, as well as from the Shiite-led opposition.
The latest bombing came amid an escalation in attacks on police in Shiite villages, using homemade bombs and petrol bombs, according to authorities.
Protests remain frequent in Shiite villages despite the March 2011 crackdown.
At least 80 people have been killed in Bahrain since the protests erupted, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.
[AnNahar] Dutch authorities have tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 19-year-old woman suspected of recruiting jihadists to fight alongside radical Mohammedan rebels in Syria, a prosecution spokeswoman said on Monday.
Want to bet her name isn't Maartje?
"The woman was arrested and has been remanded for two weeks while an investigation is underway," Nicolette Stoel, spokeswoman for the Public Prosecutor's office in The Hague, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
There is growing concern in the Netherlands about young Dutch Mohammedans being enlisted to fight in Syria, with a British study in April saying at least 107 Dutch citizens were fighting Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's forces in the war-torn country.
Police arrested the woman in Zoetermeer, a small city just east of The Hague, on Wednesday after families filed complaints with the authorities that their relatives had gone to fight in Syria.
"In some of the complaints people who are allegedly enlisting fighters are named," Stoel said.
The young woman will remain behind bars for a fortnight before a judge must decide whether the case against her can go ahead.
"At this stage she is only allowed contact with her lawyer," Stoel said.
"In the meantime, a broader investigation into the recruitment by radical Mohammedans of young people to fight in Syria is underway. First and foremost we have to ensure their safety as they want to travel to a dangerous area," she added.
Public prosecutors have said that while authorities cannot stop would-be jihadists from leaving the country, they can combat recruitment, which is against the law and carries a sentence of up to four years in jail or a fine of 78,000 euros ($102,000).
Stoel declined to comment further on the case.
Amsterdam-based lawyer Bart Nooitgedagt, who represents other Dutch citizens accused of allegedly recruiting jihadists to fight in Syria, told AFP that such cases are difficult to prove.
"You have to have somebody who has returned from Syria saying: 'I have been recruited.' There must be objective evidence to support such a claim, like tapped telephone conversations or emails to prove that the person was recruited," he told AFP.
"Relatives simply filing complaints is not enough," he said.
Nooitgedagt said that as far as he could recall, there have been no successful prosecutions yet for jihadist recruitment in the Netherlands.
As many as 600 Europeans may have joined rebel forces in Syria since early 2011, according to research published in April by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at King's College London.
It was estimated that 134 fighters from Britannia have headed to Syria, along with up to 107 from the Netherlands, 92 from La Belle France and 85 from Belgium.
Others came from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria and Kosovo.
In November last year, Dutch police arrested three would-be jihadists who were about to leave the Netherlands.
They confiscated knives, a sword and a cross-bow, as well as packed backpacks, farewell letters and a large quantity of jihadist literature.
KOHAT: At least three people two women and a kid were injured in a hand grenade attack in Kohat, officials said on Monday. According to police, some unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at a house in Taugh area near Kohat, injuring the threee. Rescue teams shifted the injured to hospital while police launched a search operation.
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QUETTA: At least three bullet-riddled bodies were found from Sui, Dera Bugti, on Monday. According to the sources some people spotted the bodies near mountains in Sui and informed the police. Police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. The bodies were taken to the Civil Hospital Dera Bugti. They were identified as those of Ameer Hamza, Khawand Bakash and Abdul Gaffar.
According to the hospital sources they were shot in the head and chest. The victims had went missing a month ago from Dera Murad Jamali, sources said.
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QUETTA: At least two persons were killed and several others injured in an IED blast near Custom House in the border town of Chaman, on Monday. According to details, a man whose body was blown up into pieces in the explosion was apparently planting a bomb close to a mosque adjacent to the Immigration and Custom offices at the Pak-Afghan border when it went off. As a result one person was killed while four others received injuries. The injured were taken to the district headquarter hospital where one of them succumbed to his injuries.
When contacted, Killa Abdullah Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Ibrahim Baloch said the civil administration was yet to investigate and confirm whether the person whose body was badly damaged was a saboteur or a passerby.
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QUETTA: Gunmen killed two people from the Shia Hazara community when they opened fire Monday on a taxi in Quetta, which has been gripped by a wave of sectarian bloodshed, police said.
The attack was mounted on the busy Shahrah-e-Iqbal. The driver and a passenger boarding taxi cab, both were Shia. They died after unidentified gunmen fired at their car, Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official in Quetta, told AFP of the attack in that city.
He said the two attackers were waiting for the taxi to arrive at the busy avenue and escaped on a motorbike after spraying bullets at the vehicle. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant group officially banned by the government in 2002, usually claims responsibility for such attacks.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces locked down areas around the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and another high-security detention facility on Baghdads outskirts Monday to hunt for escaped inmates and militants after daring insurgent assaults set hundreds of detainees free.
The carefully orchestrated late-night attacks killed dozens Sunday, including at least 25 members of the Iraqi security forces. Insurgents fired dozens of mortar shells and detonated suicide and car bombs, drawing Iraqi forces into firefights that lasted more than an hour.
The prisons in Abu Ghraib and Taji house thousands of prisoners, including convicted al-Qaida militants. Exactly one year ago, al-Qaidas Iraq arm launched a campaign called Breaking the Walls that made freeing its imprisoned members a top priority.
Several officials, including lawmakers on parliaments security and defense committee, said more than 500 inmates managed to escape from Abu Ghraib. There were no immediate reports of escapes from Taji.
Authorities imposed curfews around both prisons as manhunts got under way. Guards at Taji appeared visibly on edge Monday, with rifles at the ready and wary police warning motorists not to idle even briefly nearby.
This big security failure shows that the top security commanders have failed to sort out any solutions for the ongoing security deterioration, said Shawan Mohammed Taha, one of the lawmakers who confirmed the escapes. The terrorists, not the security forces, are now taking the initiative.
Another lawmaker, Hakim al-Zamili, said many of the escaped inmates had been captured or killed by Monday afternoon. He said authorities believe the attack on Taji was a distraction, and that Abu Ghraib was the main target.
So many prisoners were able to get away from Abu Ghraib because they were in the prison yard for the communal iftar meal that ends the daylong fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, said a senior intelligence official and two other government officials.
They also confirmed the number of escaped inmates and said an investigation has now been launched into who ordered the open-air Ramadan feast. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
A preliminary investigation suggests the insurgents had inside help, said the Interior Ministry.
No, really? I think we've seen this movie before too...
As battles at the prisons raged between gunmen and guards, rioting inmates set fire to blankets and furniture, police said. Army helicopters were called in to help thwart the attacks, according to the Interior Ministry.
Did one of the helicopters land in the prison yard in the confusion, pick up Mr. Big, and fly away to be reported to be 'shot down' later?
Police reported 15 soldiers and 13 others wounded in the Taji attack, along with six militants. Ten policemen were killed and 19 others were wounded in Abu Ghraib, and also four militants, according to police and hospital officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity because they werent authorized to release the information.
A total of 21 prisoners were killed and another 25 wounded during the attacks, according to Justice Ministry spokesman Wissam al-Firaiji.
Jailbreaks are relatively common in Iraq.
A dozen prisoners, including al-Qaida-linked death row inmates, escaped from the Taji prison in January after seizing guards weapons. And in September, scores more inmates got away following clashes at a prison in Saddam Husseins hometown of Tikrit that left 12 people dead.
Still, the scale of this weeks attacks was significant and appears to have been an operation long in the planning by al-Qaida, said Charles Lister, an analyst at IHS Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Center.
Releasing ordinary prisoners will help gain the group the image of a Sunni armed force representing Sunnis in a Shiite-governed state. Releasing militants will clearly provide a huge boost in morale, particularly if they include senior commanders, Lister said. Depending on actual numbers, this could well boost (the groups) operations in Iraq but also feasibly in Syria.
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Nobody escaped while Sergeant Charles Graner and SPC Lynndie England were there. Everyone was kept on a short leash with their street clothing hidden away. The modeling of ladies undies, photo sessions, and barking dogs kept the detainee's minds occupied. For their racist acts, they both served time at the DB in Leavenworth. Six years for Graner and two years for England as I recall. I believe the moonbat general officer in charge of the facility was reprimanded and quietly retired. Nothing like blaming the enlisted man. Absent proper supervision, he'll usually arrive at his own sometimes crude, but effective solutions.
Difficult to believe all of that unpleasantness was over ten years ago now.
[AlJazeera] Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars raid prisons, as attacks elsewhere kill 13.
Armed gunnies have launched an attack on the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, hitting the facility with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, officials say. Twelve people were killed in the attacks.
The attackers hit the facility on the western outskirts of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... late on Sunday night, as well as another prison in Taji, north of the capital.
The interior ministry said soldiers, police and attack helicopters had been dispatched to the prison to end the fighting and rioting by prisoners.
Three soldiers and a police officer were killed at Abu Ghraib, along with three of the attackers; while at Taji prison, five people were killed, including two soldiers and an inmate.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reported from Storied Baghdad, said the attacks appeared to have been staged in an attempt to free prisoners.
"[Abu Ghraib prison] is now home to several high-ranking al-Qaeda prisoners, as is the prison in Taji," she said.
Series of bombings
The Islamic State of Iraq, the umbrella group for al-Qaeda in Iraq, has launched several similar raids in the past, aimed at freeing comrades being held in Iraqi prisons.
Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Storied Baghdad
Elsewhere in Iraq on Sunday, bombings and shootings killed at least 13 people, as the corpse count from a co-ordinated wave of late-night boom-mobileings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, authorities said.
The kabooms and prison raids were the latest in a relentless surge in bloodshed that has rocked Iraq since the start of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan on July 10.
The deadliest of Sunday's attacks came in the afternoon, when gunnies attacked a checkpoint manned by the Kurdish security forces known as Peshmerga near Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing five Peshmerga fighters.
The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290km north of Storied Baghdad.
During Ramadan, streets are often filled with people out shopping and relaxing in cafes in the evenings, suggesting the attackers aimed to hit as many civilians as possible.
As the scale of the carnage from earlier bombings became clearer on Sunday, police reported that a total of 11 boom-mobiles went off in Storied Baghdad late on Saturday.
More than 2,700 people have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of 2013, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.
"The number of escaped inmates has reached 500, most of them were convicted senior members of al Qaeda and had received death sentences," Hakim Al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defense committee in parliament, told Rooters.
"The security forces tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! some of them, but the rest are still free."
One security official told Rooters on condition of anonymity: "It's obviously a terrorist attack carried out by al Qaeda to free convicted Death Eaters with al Qaeda."
A simultaneous attack on another prison, in Taji, around 20 km (12 miles) north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , followed a similar pattern, but guards managed to prevent any inmates escaping. Sixteen soldiers and six forces of Evil were killed.
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A lesson to our Iraqi friends - if you hand out a death sentence, execute it carry it out. Don't feed and care for them on death row while the bad guys plan to bust 'em out.
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[AnNahar] Syria's rebels on Monday seized the strategic town of Khan al-Assal, a regime bastion in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
They also took two villages located southeast of Aleppo, as they advanced towards cutting off the army's supply route to Syria's second city.
Khan al-Assal was the last regime bastion in the west of Aleppo province, which lies on the Turkish border, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The town lies on a road linking the province to the western part of Aleppo city where rebels have stepped up their bids to break a year-long stalemate and take control of areas still in regime hands.
Large swathes of northern and eastern Syria are in rebel control, while much of central and southern Syria is squarely held by regime forces.
"Opposition fighters have taken control of the town of Khan al-Assal, which is strategically located in the west of Aleppo province," said the Britannia-based Observatory.
The rebel Ninth Division, which is deployed in the western part of Aleppo city, also announced it had captured Khan al-Assal in an online video.
"We the leadership of the Ninth Division announce that the town of Khan al-Assal has been completely liberated," a rebel commander said in a video posted on YouTube.
The Observatory said festivities also raged on the southern outskirts of Khan al-Assal.
The rebels had tried for several months to advance on Khan al-Assal.
The town's biggest battle took place in March, when the rebels took control of the police academy and temporarily seized several other positions.
The eight-day battle killed 200 rebels and government forces.
Both sides also traded accusations that chemical weapons were used in Khan al-Assal and killed around 30 people, according to toll released in March by the Observatory and the regime.
The rebels also seized on Monday the villages of Obeida and Hajireh southeast of Aleppo city, the Observatory said.
The takeover comes amid a rebel attempt to cut off the army's main supply route linking Hama in central Syria to Aleppo in the north.
Meanwhile in Damascus, the loyalist air force staged two strikes against the eastern district of Jobar, home to sizeable pockets of resistance to the army, the Observatory said.
It also reported violence in southern Damascus and said the entrance to the Yarmuk Paleostinian camp had been closed, a day after an army assault on rebel positions in the district.
Monday's violence comes a day after at least 232 people were killed across Syria, said the Observatory, adding the toll was one of the highest in the 28-month conflict.
Some 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's war since the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... erupted in March 2011, according to Observatory figures.
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One Egyptian man was killed and at least 26 were injured in clashes on Monday between supporters and opponents of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi, state television reported.
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[AnNahar] Syria's rebels on Monday seized the strategic town of Khan al-Assal, a regime bastion in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
