[AnNahar] More than 20 Afghan coppers and dozens of Taliban bully boyz were killed Friday when hundreds of fighters ambushed a police and military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
The five-hour battle in the Sherzad district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province occurred after the convoy was attacked as it returned from an operation to rescue a politician being threatened by the Taliban.
"It was an intense battle and bully boyz used heavy and light weapons to attack the convoy of our security forces in Sherzad district," Nangarhar deputy police chief Masoom Khan Hashemi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We lost 22 of our brave coppers, but the gunnies have been taught a lesson of our strength, their attack was completely repelled and 60 of their fighters were killed," Hashemi said, adding a further 16 bully boyz were killed during the rescue of the politician.
The account was confirmed by provincial front man Ahmadzia Abdulzai.
"The military and police launched a successful operation in the district killing 16 Taliban. On their way back they were ambushed in which 60 Taliban were killed. Unfortunately 22 coppers were also martyred in the fighting," he said.
The Taliban, who have been waging a bloody decade-long insurgency against the Western-backed Kabul government, claimed only five of their fighters and 84 government soldiers were killed in the battle.
With the U.S.-led coalition due to withdraw its 100,000 combat troops by the end of 2014, the Afghan police and army are increasingly taking responsibility for tackling the insurgency that erupted after the Taliban were ousted in 2001.
The Taliban bully boyz in the meantime have stepped up their attacks in areas where foreign troops have withdrawn or are in the process of withdrawing.
Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces are suffering a steep rise in casualties as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... combat mission winds down and Afghan authorities try to impose stability ahead of the presidential election due in April.
The vote, which will chose a successor to long-time leader President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , is seen as a key test of whether the U.S.-led international military intervention in Afghanistan has been a success.
The long war has become increasingly unpopular in the U.S. and other coalition countries such as Britannia and Germany, with national leaders now hoping their troops can withdraw rapidly after a credible Afghan government takes power.
"If the election goes well and produces a result that is widely accepted in the country, most other of Afghanistan's challenges are going to be satisfactorily met," U.S. special envoy James Dobbins said in Kabul on Friday.
"The election is the most important item on Afghanistan's agenda and it's the most important item on the U.S.'s agenda even though we are just observers."
Karzai, who came to power soon after the Taliban were ousted, has repeatedly said that he will leave office in line with the constitution and has vowed to work towards a fair election of a new president.
Mogadishu -- Two separate remote-detonated bombs targeted solar power street lights lined along Maka Al-Mukarama road in the capital Mogadishu early on Thursday morning, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports confirmed that the bomb explosions left two civilians wounded and destroyed two solar powered street lights.
Someone doesn't like the 21st century...
I heard a thunderous explosion that shook my shop, I went out to see the incident but I saw wounded civilian and destroyed street light, said a nearby shop keeper
This is the second bomb explosion targeting newly installed street lights which Banadir regional administration said were intended to increase public safety by hampering night assassinations and also to enable businesses to stay open late. On 15 July, similar explosions targeted solar powered street lights installed at Mogadishus 30 road.
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Animals don't like the light.
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[AnNahar] Eighteen prisoners have escaped during an attack on a Libyan police vehicle taking them back to prison from a courthouse in the capital, a police front man said on Friday.
Thursday's attack is the latest in a string of incidents plaguing Libya and comes after more than 1,200 inmates escaped during a prison riot last week in the restive eastern city of Benghazi.
Judicial police front man Ahmad Boukraa said the prisoners were being transported back to Ain Zara prison in a western suburb of 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... when gunnies attacked the police vehicle, seriously wounding two guards, Lana news agency reported.
Boukraa gave no further details.
Libya's authorities have been struggling to reestablish law and order and form a professional police and army since the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011.
On July 27, more than 1,200 inmates beat feet from Al-Kuifiya prison in Benghazi, with a security official saying most of them were common law detainees.
He said they broke out during a riot "as well as an attack from outside."
In April gunnies attacked a convoy of prisoners near Tripoli, killing a detainee and wounding others.
Tunisian forces launched a land and air operation on Friday against militants near the Algerian border, the military said, as Tunis battled a crisis sparked by a political slaying.
A huge operation, with ground and air units, was launched at dawn to clean up the (Chaambi) mountain area, armed forces spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni told Mosaique FM radio.
He said the assault was mounted after clashes on Thursday night between soldiers and a terrorist group.
We have not killed or arrested any terrorists to date, he said, without giving a number for the hunted militants.
A military source on the ground earlier told AFP the terrorist group is surrounded in the Mount Chaambi area where eight Tunisian soldiers were slain this week. He said helicopters had carried out air strikes.
Either they give themselves up or they will be killed, he told AFP.
He said the attack took place around 16 kilometres from the town of Kasserine, near Mount Chaambi, where the soldiers were found on Monday with their throats cut after an ambush by militants.
Mosaique FM said the raids were aimed at destroying militant hideouts. The explosions could be heard in Kasserine.
Tunisian troops have intensified their hunt for gunmen in Mount Chaambi since the spring, after several members of the security forces were killed or wounded by explosive devices.
A military source also said on Friday that a group of Salafists, a hardline branch of Sunni Islam, were arrested in a Kasserine mosque.
This weeks gruesome attack on soldiers has prompted the army in neighbouring Algeria to reinforce its presence along the border.
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Fear of terrorist attacks on Friday prompted Britain and Germany to plan closings of diplomatic outposts in Yemen as London warned its citizens to leave the country, dpa reported.
The British and German embassies are to be shuttered on Sunday and Monday. The move came as the United States issued a worldwide travel alert over terrorist threats and moved to close down 21 diplomatic posts in 17 countries on Sunday and possibly the following days.
The US cautioned its citizens worldwide of the "continued potential" for al-Qaeda and groups allied with the terrorist network to mount attacks. The main threat emanated form the Arabian Peninsula, the US State Department said.
Germany's diplomatic outposts in Yemen were to remain closed on Sunday and Monday out of security concerns, a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Berlin told dpa late Friday. He did not give further details or background.
A spokeswoman in the British Foreign Office said its embassy in the Yemen capital of Sana'a would also be closed on the two days. The official said it was a "precautionary measure."
The British Foreign Office warned British nationals to leave Yemen immediately, amid fears of escalating violence in the country. It warned that Britons who stay in Yemen would unlikely get help in being evacuated if things got worse.
The German Foreign Ministry in Berlin did not change its travel warnings for German citizens, saying security measures were always adapted to the current security situation. "We are in close contacts with our allies," the spokesman said.
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Yemeni Presidential Guards intervened in the disbanded Republican Guards holding a rally to protest the government not paying them Ramadan bonuses, Anadolu agency reported. Two Yemeni soldiers were reported dead along with 6 injured as Yemeni Presidential Guards and disbanded Republican Guards clashed in Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
Security forces told Anadolu Agency that Yemeni Presidential Guards intervened to disperse hundreds of soldiers of the Republican Guards holding a rally to protest the government not paying them Ramadan bonuses.
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At the clash that broke out during the intervention, 2 Yemeni soldiers were killed while 6 others were injured. The Presidential Guards used heavy weapons and real bullets to disperse the demonstrators, the sources said.
The Republican Guards used light weapons and fake bullets?
Yemeni Republican Guards loyal to the former President Ali Abdollah Saleh were disbanded and the soldiers of the troop began serving in other military units.
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A court in he Russian republic of Dagestan has sentenced terrorist militant Ruslan Ismailov, convicted in a deadly attack last year in the republic's capital, Makhachkala, to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony, the Investigative Committee said Friday. Investigators said Ismailov was a member of extremist group Vilayat Dagestan, from October 2010 to June 2012.
The committee's statement said Ismailov, "as a member of the criminal group, took part in committing a terrorist attack by blowing up two vehicles," adding that he also inflicted damages exceeding $600,000.
Ismailov initially resisted detention but later agreed to cooperate with officials. He was found guilty of participation in a criminal group and committing an act of terrorism. In addition to his prison sentence, he was fined $3,000.
Last year, Russian media reported that the country's National Anti-Terrorism Committee killed the organizer of the Makhachkala attack, identified as Gussein Mamayevas, well as another terrorist militant linked to it.
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court has issued black warrants for the execution of two activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... in a doctor's murder case, it emerged on Thursday.
Attaullah alias Qasim and Mohammad Azam alias Sharif were sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in July 2004 after finding them guilty of killing Dr Ali Raza Peerani on sectarian grounds in June 2001 in Soldier Bazaar.
The court directed the jail authorities at the central prison in Sukkar to hang Attaullah and Azam, one on Aug 20 and the other on Aug 21.
Earlier, the jail authorities informed the ATC-III that the last stay order issued by the president in the case had expired on June 30 and since then they had not received any further order to delay the execution and asked the court to issue fresh back warrants for the convicts.
The ATC-III issued black warrants for the condemned prisoners directing the authorities to carry out the hangings under the supervision of area magistrates after fulfilling legal formalities.
The court had issued black warrants for the two convicts several times in the past, but their hangings were repeatedly deferred after the presidency issued stay orders as during the term of the previous government of the Pakistain Peoples Party only one execution was carried out and it was that of an army solider, who had been sentenced to death by a military court for killing a colleague. The PPP government had placed a moratorium on executions in 2008.
After the capital punishment handed down by the trial court, the superior judiciary upheld the death sentence of both convicts while their mercy petitions were also turned down by the president.
The prosecution said that Dr Peerani came out of his clinic in Soldier Bazaar and was about to leave in his car when two motorcyclists opened fire on him, wounding him critically.
He was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival. Two dispensers at the clinic who had witnessed the scene identified the two LJ men in court as killers.
The police tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! them on June 29, 2002 within the jurisdiction of the Defence cop shoppe in three cases of unlicensed weapons and during initial interrogations, they disclosed their involvement in the present case, it added.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done under Section 302 (punishment for premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-terrorism Act at the Soldier Bazaar cop shoppe.
Both convicts with several other prisoners have recently been shifted from the central prison of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to Sukkar and other prisons of the province apparently because of security concerns.
The same court had issued black warrants for the execution of two other condemned prisoners, Behram Khan and Shafqat Hussain, a few days ago and fixed Aug 21 and 22 for their execution.
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[Dawn] A police sub-inspector, a head constable and a senior 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... worker were among the five people rubbed out in the city on Thursday, police and party sources said.
Korangi Industrial Area police said SI Ashfaq Ahmed, 49, was posted at the SP-Landhi office located at Drigh Road. He left his home in Landhi's D-4 Area in his car. When he reached near the Brooks roundabout, two men riding a cycle of violence intercepted him.
The police said initially a scuffle broke out between them and the officer hit one of the suspects with his own helmet. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the suspect's other accomplice opened fire on the police officer. SI Ahmed, father of five, sustained three bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim!
"The murder appears to be a assassination," said KIA police officer Omer Hayat. He said if it were a robbery attempt, the suspects would have taken away Rs85,000 and two cellphones of the police officer.
In another incident, a head constable was rubbed out and an assistant sub-inspector maimed in an attack on a police van in Sohrab Goth, officials said.
They said HC Muhammad Qasim Korai, 44, and ASI Muhammad Pervez, 40, were patrolling in a mobile van in Aqa Khel Basti near Ahsanabad when two gunnies on a cycle of violence rode in front of the van, opened fire on both police officials sitting in the front seat and fled.
HC Korai was hit by two bullets in the chest and face and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival. ASI Pervez was shifted to the PN Shifa hospital for treatment.
The police said only the two officials were travelling in the mobile van.
Mr Korai, originally hailing from Moro taluka, lived in Khamiso Goth here. Mr Pervez, belonging to Hazara division, lived in Faqira Goth.
DIG-East Captain Tahir Naveed said the police were investigating about the possible motive and identity of the suspects involved in the incident. He said the condition of the maimed ASI was out of danger.
The SP in charge of Gadap, Mohammad Khalid Khan, told Dawn that Aqa Khel rustics hailing from Afghanistan were known as sympathisers of the Taliban had often attacked police in the area.
A senior worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was rubbed out in Jodia Bazaar and two passersby, including a boy, were killed in the subsequent violence, the Kharadar police said. Four passersby also received bullet injuries in the violence, said Kharadar SHO Azam Khan.
"Shakeel aka Shikku was allegedly targeted by Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangsters," said the SDPO of Kharadar, Iftikhar Lodhi.
"The victim lived in Dubai and had come here around a week ago after the death of his father, Israr," Lodhi said. "Shakeel was distributing chits for Fitra at his late father's office on the ground floor of Hasan Centre in Jodia Bazaar when gunnies who came on foot attacked and killed him."
The police officer said that friends who took Shakeel to a hospital in a trader's hi-roof van allegedly resorted to firing ostensibly to force closure of the bazaar and clear the way for them in the densely populated locality.
As a result, a donkey-cart rider sustained a bullet wound in his neck.
Mr Lodhi said Shakeel was a unit-in-charge of the MQM in Jodia Bazaar.
The SHO said that following the killing, gunnies resorted to firing in Jodia Bazaar and Boulton Market, resulting in bullet wounds to six passersby. The maimed were taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , where one of them, identified as Sohail Amin, died. The SHO said Amin has gone to the bazaar to make some purchases. He said a 16-year-old Afghan boy also died in the firing. The boy's identity could not be ascertained immediately. The maimed persons were identified as Shoaib, Waqar, Shahid and Hameed.
"There was a political rivalry between the MQM and the banned Peoples Amn Committee in the area," said the Kharadar SHO. Besides, PAC men and Shakeel had fought over some personal matter last year, added Azam Khan.An MQM spokesperson said that 10 to 12 suspects resorted to indiscriminate firing, resulting in the instant death of Shakeel, MQM's joint unit chief of the Ranchhore Line sector's unit 3-B, while another MQM activist, Shoaib, was maimed.
The spokesperson said the suspects also fired and killed a party supporter in Kharadar.
He said that during the previous 24 hours their five workers and supporters were killed in Ranchhore Line, Jodia Bazaar, New Karachi and Gulistan-e-Jauhar. "It shows that the MQM workers are being targeted under an organised plan," said the spokesperson. The party urged the interior minister, Sindh governor and chief minister to take notice of the killings.MQM chief Altaf Hussain condemned Shakeel's killing.
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A photograph of two Malaysian cousins kidnapped by Filipino gunmen in Lahad Datu in November has surfaced, raising hopes that the two hostages are still alive. A photograph of Chong Wei Fei and Chong Wei Jie was delivered by a contact to the press via email on Thursday. In the photograph, the two Chongs are seeing holding up a sign saying "March 7, 2013" as the kidnappers have guns trained on them.
A source said, "The two hostages are asking why nobody has come to help release them. They are suffering from diabetes and hypertension." According to the source, the hostages have been regularly moved from one hideout to another on Jolo island, in the southern Philippines since their abduction more than eight months ago.
Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib recently said that police knew both abductees were alive and wanted to re-establish contact that was disrupted in the wake of the Sulu armed group intrusion in February. Saying that it was vital to re-establish communications with the abductors, he said they were waiting for their next demand.
It is believed that the gunmen had agreed on a price as ransom prior to the Sulu incursion but negotiations were abandoned when Malaysian troops launched a massive operation to flush out the Sulu armed group from Sabah soil.
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Three of Thailand's southernmost provinces were hit by coordinated arson and bombing attacks on Friday, killing one security officer. The country's top security agency and the Thai army said they suspect that Muslim rebel group, the Barisan Revolusi National independence movement, was behind the attacks, despite efforts by Thai authorities to get it to agree to a halt to violence during the month of Ramadan.
Last week, in two separate incidents, nine people -- including teachers and state employees -- were killed in bombings and drive-by shootings. During the past two days alone, there were 13 attacks that killed 3 soldiers and wounded 20 other people.
In Friday's incidents, 13 attacks, including arson and bombings, occured in the provinces of Yala, Pattani and Songkla. In addition to the security officer killed, four people were wounded.
The first attack was around 3 a.m. Friday in Yala province when terrorists insurgents set fire to factories, rubber plants and a transmission tower. In Yaha district, a bomb was detonated as rangers were on patrol, killing the lead officer.
In Pattani province, fires were set at a motorcycle distribution company, a convenience store next to a police station and a clothing store. Two people were wounded from the fires and about 60 motorcycles were damaged. The attacks also spilled over to nearby Songkla province, where a furniture warehouse and some village homes were burned.
[AnNahar] The Army Intelligence tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! on Friday Ibrahim Khanjar, who is involved in opening fire at an army patrol last week in the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar and killing a soldier and injuring another.
Khanjar is also accused of the abduction of the seven Estonians and killing of army intelligence Maj. Abdo Jasser, his lover companion First Sgt. Ziad al-Mais and another soldier in Majdal Anjar in 2011.
Last week, 20-year-old soldier Charbel Hatem was killed and Paul Ashqouti was injured after their patrol was targeted with gunshots during a raid in Majdal Anjar to apprehend Wissam Khanjar.
A communique issued by the army pointed out that the patrol enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! "one of the most runaways in the country."
The seven Estonians were freed in July 2011, almost four months after being kidnapped by gunnies as they entered the country on a bicycle tour from neighboring Syria.
Their release took place amid unclear circumstances.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said on Friday that a rocket attack near the presidential palace will not intimidate or make him change his convictions regardless of the party behind it.
Keep rejecting the intimidation, Mike, but get someone else to start your car...
Suleiman issued the statement hours after two rockets struck near the presidential compound in Baabda, southeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It was the second time in two months that rockets have been fired in the area amid tensions related to the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Repeated rocket messages, regardless of the sender or the target ... cannot alter national principles or convictions that are expressed freely and sincerely, the president said in the statement issued by his office.
The statement did not say whom officials believed were behind the attack Thursday night. The assault came the same day that Suleiman gave a speech criticising the involvement of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Syrias conflict in supporting forces loyal to embattled President Bashar Al Assad. In his speech marking Army Day on Thursday, Suleiman suggested Hezbollahs weapons be folded into that of the national Lebanese army. The president said that resistance weapons have trespassed the Lebanese border, in a reference to Hezbollah.
The rare criticism by Suleiman, a Maronite Catholic, angered Hezbollah and its allies. A pro-Hezbollah newspaper put a picture of Suleiman on its front page Friday with a bold-headlined single word: Irhal, Arabic for leave.
It was not clear who fired the two rockets near the presidential compound.
No earthly idea, nope, nope...
Scores of troops and policemen scoured the perimeter around the presidential palace on Friday in search of clues. A Lebanese army statement said one of the rockets struck the front yard of a private villa, while the other hit in Yarzeh district near the palace. There were no casualties.
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[BUSINESSINSIDER] The State Department has issued a worldwide travel alert because of the threat of terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations, it said Friday.
The State Department cited the potential for terrorist attacks in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.
"Current information suggests that al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," the department said in a statement.
The department said that the alert does not expire until Aug. 31.
On Thursday, the State Department said it would close at least 18 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and surrounding areas because of the threats.
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Happy Birthday Obama, what a present....I thought Al-Qaida was on the run
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Looking at the map, appears the US Embassy of one tiny little country in the region was excluded from closure.
Israel is not on the list. Is this because the nasty ole Jooooos won't put up with the AQ and terrorist bullshi* and stand firmly in support of their allies, even the odious and despicable Soetoro ?
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Tunisian forces launched a land and air operation on Friday against militants near the Algerian border, the military said, as Tunis battled a crisis sparked by a political slaying.
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