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I make my wife wax hers, the mustache is kinda cute though.
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I guess B's poster girl has trouble fending off the many men in her life, so she is resorting to those highly becoming glasses as well. Boyfriend must be a wuss.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Egyptian security forces rubbed out dozens of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, witnesses said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to wipe out "violence and terrorism".
Men in helmets and black police fatigues fired on crowds gathered before dawn on the fringes of a round-the-clock sit-in near a mosque in northeast Cairo, Mursi's Moslem Brüderbund movement said.
"They are not shooting to wound, they are shooting to kill," said Brotherhood front man Gehad El-Haddad. "The bullet wounds are in the head and chest."
The bloodshed, near the military parade ground where President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, has rocked a country already struggling with the transition to democracy two years after Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was swept from power.
A Moslem Brüderbund website said 120 people had been killed and some 4,500 injured. A Rootersnews hound counted 36 bodies at one morgue, while health officials said there were a further 21 corpses in two nearby hospitals.
Activists rushed blood-spattered casualties into a makeshift hospital. Some were carried in on planks or blankets. One ashen teenager was laid out on the floor, a bullet hole in his head.
Egypt's Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim accused the Brotherhood of exaggerating the corpse count for political ends. He said only 21 people had died and denied police opened fire.
Ibrahim said local residents living close to the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque vigil had clashed with protesters in the early hours after they had blocked off a major bridge road. He said that police had used teargas to try to break up the fighting.
Well over 200 people have been killed in violence since the army toppled Mursi on July 3, following huge protests against his year in power. The army denies accusations it staged a coup, saying it intervened to prevent national chaos.
SISI'S CHALLENGE
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians had poured onto the streets on Friday in response to a call by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for nationwide demonstrations to give him backing to confront the weeks-long wave of violence.
His appeal was seen as a challenge to the Brotherhood, which organized its own rallies on Friday calling for the return of Mursi, who has been held in some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location since his ousting and faces a raft of charges, including murder.
Ibrahim said Mursi was likely to be transferred shortly to the same Cairo prison where former leader Mubarak is now held.
Brotherhood leaders appealed for calm on Saturday, but activists at the Rabaa al-Adawia mosque vigil voiced fury.
"The people want the execution of Sisi," a holy man shouted to the crowd from a stage by the mosque. "The people want the execution of the butcher."
Interior Minister Ibrahim said the pro-Mursi sit-ins would "God willing, soon ... be dealt with" based on a decision by a public prosecutor, who is reviewing complaints from local residents unhappy with the huge encampment on their doorstep.
The head of the Nour Party, the second-biggest Islamist group after the Brotherhood, called for an immediate investigation into what it called a "massacre."
"There is no substitute for a political solution with the commitment of everyone to exercise restraint ... and to renounce violence in all its forms, whether verbal or physical," Younis Makhyoun said in a Facebook statement.
The Brotherhood is a highly organized movement with grassroots support throughout Egypt, making it hard to silence even if the army decides to mount a bigger crackdown.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she "deeply deplores" Saturday's deaths and urged all sides to halt the violence. There was no immediate comment from the United States, which provides Egypt with some $1.5 billion dollars of aid a year, mainly military hardware.
Washington has delayed delivery of four F-16 fighters because of the turmoil. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... officials have indicated they do not intend to cut off aid to a country seen as a vital ally and which has a peace deal with neighboring Israel.
"BULLETS WHIZZING"
Witnesses said police first fired rounds of teargas at Brotherhood protesters gathered on a boulevard leading away from the Rabaa mosque, with live shots ringing out soon afterwards.
"There were snipers on the rooftops, I could hear the bullets whizzing past me," said Ahmed el Nashar, 34, a business consultant, choking back his tears.
"Man, people were just dropping."
Dr. Ibtisam Zein, overseeing the Brotherhood morgue, said most of the dead were hit in the head, some between the eyes.
The bodies were wrapped in white sheets and laid on the floor, their names scrawled on the shrouds. A cleaner busily mopped the floor, washing away pools of blood.
Haddad said the Brotherhood remained committed to pursuing peaceful protests, despite Saturday's deaths - the second mass shooting of its supporters this month by security forces, who killed 53 people on July 8.
Brotherhood activists at Rabaa said they would not be cowed and warned of worse bloodshed if the security forces did not back down. "We will stay here until we die, one by one," said Ahmed Ali, 24, helping treat casualties at the field hospital.
"We have the examples of Algeria and Syria in our minds. We don't want it to become a civil war. If we take up arms it might become one. This is a religious belief."
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that's one way to deal with mass-starvation - reduce the number of seethingraging hungry mouths
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Fifty at a time isn't going to get it done. The Brüderbünd and the military will have to get into wholesale genocide to make a difference. Sadly in that part of the world it just might happen.
If it did, of course, the Joooz would try to stop it...
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welcome to justice - Moar tonight and tomorrow. By the way - your CapsLock key is broken D***F***
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GET SOME BOYS!
It's the 3rd redouix of the night of the longish knives.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Cairo's streets and squares Friday, July 26 in rival rallies shortly after deposed president Mohamed Morsi was formally charged and detained for 15 days. Tahrir Square was packed with crowds responding to Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's call for a mandate to support the military fight on "terrorists." Another huge crowd of Morsi supporters packed the streets around the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Nasser City.
Instead of directing their ire at the overthrown Muslim Brotherhood, the pro-military demonstrators shouted "Bye Bye America!" as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union.
Their rivals in a separate part of Cairo chanted "Sisi out! Morsi is president! Down with the army!"
In Alexandria, five people were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents.
The anti-American banners represented a message: No matter if President Barack Obama denies the Egyptian people US support because of the military's steps against the Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo has an option in Moscow.
Reports began appearing Friday morning on the social networks including Facebook from sources close to Putin that Moscow is considering supplying Egypt with advanced fighter bombers to replace the F-16 planes, whose delivery Obama suspended Wednesday, July 24. This was a gesture to show the US President's displeasure over Gen El-Sisi's rejection of the demand to release the ousted president and integrate the Muslim Brotherhood in the interim government.
The military gave the Muslim Brotherhood an ultimatum to endorse the new situation by Friday. The Brotherhood, whose supporters have maintained a sit-in in Nasser City for 20 days, did not respond.
The military accordingly gave the screw another turn.
A Cairo investigating judge Friday ordered deposed president Morsi detained for 15 days pending investigation into charges of plotting with the Palestinian Hamas to orchestrate a jailbreak during the 2011 revolution and conniving with Hamas in killing police officers and soldiers.
He has been held at an unknown location since the coup.
These charges carry potential death sentences.
They relate to the attack by armed men who on Aug. 5, 2012 killed 16 Egyptian border policemen in their camp in northern Sinai near Rafah. The prosecution claims to have evidence that the raid was plotted by Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to depict the Egyptian military as a spent force. That attack kicked off the current armed Salafist mutiny against Egyptian military and police targets in Sinai.
The other charge relates to the raid on Wadi Natroun prison at the tail end of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, which broke out of jail thousands of inmates including Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
According to DEBKAfile's intelligence sources, the jailbreak was executed by special networks of Hizballah and Hamas which had been planted in Cairo and Suez Canal cities for subversion and terrorism.
The radical Hamas, offspring and ally of the Egyptian Brotherhood, is now solidly in the military regime's sights as a hostile entity.
The military takeover of power in July 3 is gaining the aspect of a neo-Nasserist revolution. Many Egyptians are beginning to turn to Moscow in search of their country's primary world ally rather than Washington. They have taken note that Putin has shown himself to be the foe of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria as well as Egypt.
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When I was in, even in the Infantry, they said amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
So I have to ask: How many Port-a-Potties does it take to service one of these affairs?
Never mind.
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Well, whatever the port-a-pottie requirement was, subtract 40 former users and Morsi supporters as of this morning.
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as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union
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Matt Chris is fine, kinda rattleled by the murder of that Social Work a few weeks back, a classmate and first in family to finish college. They had to raise cash to send the body back to Savannah. Bad business.
Spokesman for Islamist movement told Reuters that 31 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi were killed and scores were wounded by security forces during protest in Egyptian capital. A whiff of grapeshot
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Brotherhood activists at Rabaa said they would not be cowed and warned of worse bloodshed if the security forces did not back down. "We will stay here until we die, one by one," said Ahmed Ali, 24, helping treat casualties at the field hospital.
"Hokay"
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"We will stay here until we die, one by one"
Your terms are acceptable.
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die, one by one
I'm sure Egyptian military can be more efficient than that.
[BBC.CO.UK] Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are attending rival rallies, with two people killed in festivities.
In what is seen as a trial of strength, supporters of Mohammed Morsi filled the streets around a mosque in Cairo to condemn his removal by the army.
Army supporters converged on Tahrir Square, just a few miles away.
Mr Morsi is in detention, accused of conspiring with the Paleostinian bad boy group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Earlier this week, the army chief, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, urged people to take to the streets to give the military a mandate for its intervention in removing Mr Morsi and establishing an interim government.
Since Mr Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, was ousted on 3 July, dozens of people have died in festivities between his supporters and opponents. Militants have also staged deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula.
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[REUTERS] Several thousand Islamists erupted into the streets of Tunis on Friday to defend the Islamist-led government from popular demands for it to resign over the liquidation of a secular opposition politician.
As Islamists and secular opponents staged rival protests over the future of Tunisia's Ennahda government, the interior minister pointed the finger of suspicion at a hardline Islamist, saying the same gun had been used in Thursday's killing as in an liquidation earlier this year that provoked violent protests.
"The people want Ennahda again!" and "No to a coup against democracy!", the Islamists chanted, rejecting demands for a new government of national unity.
Divisions between Islamists and their secular opponents have deepened since Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled in 2011 in the first of the Arab Spring revolutions.
In the second murder of a secular politician in Tunisia this year, Mohamed Brahmi, a member of the Arab nationalist Popular Front party, was shot 14 times.
Thousands of anti-government protesters also massed in the capital on Friday, while shops and banks closed their doors and all flights in and out of the country were canceled.
"Down with the rule of the Moslem Brüderbund," the secular protesters chanted, referring to the ruling Ennahda party, which draws inspiration from the Brotherhood, a pan-Arab Islamist movement.
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou drew a direct link between the latest killing and the liquidation of the Popular Front's leader Chokri Belaid on February 6, which set off the worst violence in Tunisia since Ben Ali's downfall.
"The same 9mm automatic weapon that killed Belaid also killed Brahmi," he told a news conference, naming the main suspect as hardline Salafist Boubacar Hakim, already being sought on suspicion of smuggling weapons from Libya.
Authorities had identified 14 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... suspected of involvement in Belaid's liquidation, and most were believed to be members of the local hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia ...an Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... , he said.
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Egyptian authorities will bring "to an end soon and in a legal manner" sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi, interim Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was quoted as saying by state-run news website al-Ahram.
Ibrahim said the protests would be cleared in line with complaints filed by residents in the area, according to Reuters. Supporters of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood have been manning two main vigils in the capital for a month, demanding Mursi be reinstated after his July 3 overthrow by the army.
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Thousands of Egyptians poured into the streets nationwide on Friday to grant the armed forces a mandate to confront violence and terrorism or voice support for ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
In Cairo, thousands gathered in the iconic Tahrir Square and outside the Ittihadya presidential palace in support of the army. Meanwhile, thousands gathered in two other areas of the populous capital demanding the return to power of Mursi and denouncing his overthrow as a military coup.
Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on Wednesday on Egyptians to demonstrate nationwide to grant him the mandate to fight terrorism.
Islamist supporters of Mursi say the armys call signals an intention to crackdown on them, vowing to remain in the streets.
The army says it does not take sides and vowed to secure both rival demonstrations as long as they remain peaceful.
Several clashes however were reported. In the city of Alexandria four people were killed in clashes between supporters of Egypt's military and deposed President Mursis loyalists, state media reported, quoting a hospital official. Police have intervened to break up the clashes in the Mediterranean city, in which at least 86 people were injured, many with gunshot wounds, the reports said.
The health ministry said at least 54 others were wounded in clashes elsewhere in the country.
Army helicopters buzzed low over the main pro-Mursi tent vigil and over Tahrir Square where the pro-army camp is holding its demonstration.
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Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, 40, a representative of the Chabad-Lubavitch hassidic movement, was shot and seriously injured in Derbent in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Thursday. Isakov, identified as chief rabbi of Derbent by Chabad sources, was struck in the lung after being shot from behind by an unidentified assailant not far from his home. The attack took place as the rabbi left his car to enter his home.
Russian authorities believed the attack might have been motivated by the rabbi's Jewish appearance. Police said they were considering "religious motivations" but were exploring all leads. The rabbi's house had been vandalized in 2007.
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Don't know too much about these guys, but Chabad-Lubavitch is very, umm, interesting. We have a small house (schul?) up the road from us. Today being the Sabath and Lubavitchers take this very seriously they are walking to schul. They strike me as a very primitive movement with all the good and bad baggage that carries. Including do it yourself Kosher butchering and a certain standoffishness. Still I find the practioniners and the Rab to be quite friendly and good neighbors.
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Chassidism (also spelt hasidism, or some combination thereof) is a mystic movement in Judaism dating back to the 18th century in Eastern Europe, expressing worship as much in song and dance as in the classic prayers, Shipman. For whatever reason the clothing style of their males is somewhat locked into that time and place, while females dress with similar modesty to the women of other ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups. Only the Chabad sub-movement looks to the outer world of both Jews and non-Jews, establishing "Chabad Houses" all around the world to minister to whatever Jews might wander in, and it is likely those that you see -- those of the other branches seem to cluster in Brooklyn and Israel, having been wiped out in Europe by the Nazis. It was a Chabad House that the Muslem terrorists took over in Mumbai in 2008, torturing the young rabbi and his wife to death.
Shul is the Yiddish word for a synagogue. Among the Hasids, Yiddish is very definitely a living language, though non-orthodox Jews also use shul, synagogue and temple interchangeably.
The White House press secretary announced that the Obama administration will be sending two Gitmo inmates to Algeria.
"As the President has said, the United States remains determined to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. In support of those efforts, today the Department of Defense certified to Congress its intent to repatriate an additional two detainees to Algeria. We are taking this step in consultation with the Congress, and in a responsible manner that protects our national security," Carney's statement reads.
"We continue to call on Congress to join us in supporting these efforts by lifting the current restrictions that significantly limit our ability to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo, even those who have been approved for transfer."
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[USATODAY] A pair of bombs exploded in a busy market area Friday evening in northern Pakistan, tearing through crowds of shoppers grabbing last-minute items to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan and killing 23 people, a doctor said.
The blast struck a market in the town of Parachinar, which sits in the Kurram tribal area that borders Afghanistan to the west.
Dead bodies quickly overwhelmed Parachinar's hospital, as more than 100 people wounded in the blasts sought medical attention, said Dr. Zahid Hussain, who works at the hospital. Hussain said the bombs, which went off in quick succession, killed 23.
"We have no place to keep the wounded," the doctor said. "Many of them are lying on the hospital floor and on the lawn."
The two bombs ripped through the main bazaar in Parachinar when people were doing their evening shopping before the iftar meal that breaks the day of fasting during Ramadan, police spokesman Fazal Naeem Khan said.
One bomb was believed to have been planted on a motorcycle and explosives experts were examining the site Friday night, he said.
The second bomb detonated about four minutes after the first, about 400 yards away from the initial blast, government official Javed Ali said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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Twin suicide attacks rocked a busy marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 150 others, officials said, in the deadliest attack to hit the country during the holy month of Ramadan. The explosions at the bazaar in Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sent handcarts flying as shoppers bought food to open their fasts at sunset.
We can confirm the death of 41 people in the twin blasts. More than 150 others have been injured in the attack, doctor Sabir Hussein, head of the main public hospital in the town told AFP. We have sent 20 critically wounded people to major hospitals in Peshawar and Kohat to save their lives."
Parachinar administration officials said both blasts were carried out by suicide bombers.
There were two blasts in the main bazaar of Parachinar. These were carried out by two suicide bombers who walked into the crowded market, Riaz Mehsud, a senior administration official, told AFP.
Mehsud said the market was packed with people and that handcarts were sent flying after the blasts, which also damaged up to 15 shops and two cars.
We found many body parts, including parts of the suicide bombers. There was blood and human flesh at the blasts site, he said.
The bombers struck in a largely Shia area but officials said they could not immediately identify the victims.
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Two teachers were killed and three other people, including another teacher and two policemen, were wounded when a bomb exploded in Narathiwat province Wednesday.
A seven-member police patrol was escorting another car carrying three teachers. A bomb planted by the roadside was detonated remotely as the convoy passed by. The car with the teachers inside skidded off the road into a ditch about 100 meters from where the bomb exploded.
Two female teachers were killed and a male teacher, who was the driver, was seriously wounded. Police said Mr Apichart, the wounded teacher, stepped on the accelerator after the blast and lost control of the car, which plunged into the ditch, killing his two passengers.
Meanwhile, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha blamed terrorists insurgents for using violence as a bargaining tool to force the government to meet their demands. Gen Prayuth Wednesday said the southern unrest remains unsolved because insurgents want to use violence as a tool to bargain with the government to accept their demands.
[GOOGLE] At least 150 Syrian regime forces have been killed in Khan al-Assal, a town in Aleppo province at the centre of an alleged chemical weapons strike this year, monitors said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that at least 10 people were reported killed on Friday in regime shelling of the northwestern province of Idlib.
The deaths in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria, came as the regime tried to recapture the town, which fell to rebel fighters on Monday.
More than 50 of those killed were executed by rebels after the town fell, with the rest having died in fighting, the Observatory said, adding that 30 of the dead were officers.
Rebels had for months tried to take Khan al-Assal, a strategically located town in the west of Aleppo province. They finally seized the town on Monday but fighting raged on its edges the next day, said the Observatory.
Amateur video filmed by rebels and distributed by the Observatory showed the bodies of dozens of regime forces in a building that had been the site of a battle.
The mainstream rebel Ninth Division claimed its fighters took Khan al-Assal. But footage distributed by the Britannia-based Observatory said jihadists including Al-Nusra Front were behind the takeover.
Fierce fighting raged in March in Khan al-Assal during eight days in which 200 rebels and government forces were killed.
Both sides have traded accusations that chemical weapons were used in Khan al-Assal and killed around 30 people, according to a toll released that month by the Observatory and the regime.
During a visit to Damascus by two UN envoys earlier this week, Syrian authorities reiterated their demand that the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... focus on investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal.
Khan al-Assal's fall from regime control has complicated any effort to send in inspectors to visit the site.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Observatory reported 10 people killed and several others maimed in regime shelling of the Idlib village of Basamis on Friday.
Syria opposition activists also held small anti-regime protests in several towns across the country.
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Really a suburb of Alleppo, but controls the roads south.
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The rebels [who dine on the internal organs of their enemy] execute 50. Saves a lot on chow and the medical supplies provided by the west. Important to use those humanitariansupplies sparingly.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Egyptian security forces 
Egyptian authorities will bring "to an end soon and in a legal manner" sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammad Mursi, interim Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was quoted as saying by state-run news website al-Ahram.
Thousands of Egyptians poured into the streets nationwide on Friday to grant the armed forces a mandate to confront violence and terrorism or voice support for ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
The White House press secretary announced that the Obama administration will be sending two Gitmo inmates to Algeria.
[USATODAY] A pair of bombs exploded in a busy market area Friday evening in northern Pakistan, tearing through crowds of shoppers grabbing last-minute items to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan and killing 23 people, a doctor said.
