[IranPressTV] At least one policeman and two civilians have been killed after a bomber targeted a security vehicle in Afghanistan's eastern province of Pashtun-infested Logar, local government officials say.
Pashtun-infested Logar province front man Din Mohammad Darwesh said the attack took place in the scenic provincial capital of Pul-e- Alam on Tuesday.
Sources say at least eight people were maimed in the deadly attack. The injured were transferred to a nearby hospital for necessary medical treatment.
Also on Tuesday, a US-led foreign soldier was killed in a bad boy attack in the country's troubled east.
The nationality of the slain soldier and the exact location of the attack have not been released yet. But mostly Americans are stationed in eastern parts of the war-torn country.
Since the start of 2013, more than 115 foreign soldiers have bit the dust in Afghanistan.
Despite the Afghan government's operations against Talibs and associated groups, they have still been able to spread their influence in various regions of the war-torn country.
There has been no letup in the Taliban attacks on US-led foreign troops across Afghanistan. US-led troops and Afghan forces hence are falling prey to Taliban attacks on an almost daily basis.
In late April, the Taliban announced the start of their annual "offensive" against US-led and Afghan forces, vowing a new wave of attacks across Afghanistan.
The bad boy group said it would use "every possible tactic" to inflict casualties on Afghan and US-led forces. They specifically mentioned insider and kabooms.
The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington's so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but the country is still gripped by insecurity.
Over a decade of the costly US-led war in Afghanistan has failed to end militancy in the country and the US, which has thousands of troops on the ground in Afghanistan, is now trying to sit down for talks with Talibs.
[IranPressTV] At least one person has been maimed after festivities erupted between striking security guards and oil workers at Libya's largest crude terminal.
The incident happened on Tuesday at Libya's Zueitina oil terminal, located some 870 kilometers (540 miles) east of the capital, 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... The head of Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), Edris Abokhamada, said he had contacted the Defense Ministry, calling for reinforcements to stop the festivities at the oil port, which has remained closed since July.
Protesting oil workers and striking security guards at the Zueitina oil terminal have blocked the country's major ports since late July, causing the closure of many Libyan oil fields.
The Libyan government accuses the strikers of attempting to sell crude oil on their own account.
On August 19, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan warned of using military force against security guards at the country's main ports if they sell crude oil independently.
The conflict has led to dramatic cuts in Libya's oil exports and production.
Libyan Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi said the country has lost USD 1.6 billion in oil sales since July 25, spurned by the closure of all ports except for Zawiya in the west.
Production and exports have reached their lowest levels since the fall of former dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... in 2011.
The shortfall from Libya has been a major factor in pushing up world oil prices, with a four-month high of around USD 111 a barrel.
[Ynet] According to Egyptian army's new front man Ahmed Ali, military forces enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 11 bully boys, including two Paleostinians, in Northern Sinai on Tuesday.
The arrests came one day after 25 coppers were killed and two injured in an attack in the same region. The spokesperson said on his official Facebook page that Egyptian army helicopters are circling the area in attempt to locate suspects of Monday's executions.
Follow-up from yesterday. At least this joker is properly named.
Egypts army-backed authorities detained the Muslim Brotherhoods leader on Tuesday on allegations of having incited the murder of protesters, Egyptian state television reported. It said Mohammed Badie was ordered held for 15 days to face accusations of having incited the deaths of protesters outside the Brotherhoods Cairo headquarters in late June.
The arrest of Mohammed Badie, 70, the Brotherhoods general guide, followed the bloody suppression of rallies demanding the reinstatement of Egypts ousted president Mohammed Mursi.
The Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice Party newspaper reported the movement had named Mahmoud Ezzat, an influential former deputy to Badie, as its temporary leader.
However, a spokesman for the Brotherhoods political party, Khaled Hanafi, said he could neither confirm nor deny the report. Ezzat has not appeared in public since Mursi was removed.
Badie was charged in July with incitement to murder in connection with protests before Mursis ouster and is due to stand trial on August 25 along with his two deputies. Footage shown on local media showed the bearded leader sitting grim-faced in a grey robe near a man with a rifle following his detention in Cairo in the early hours.
The release of the images seemed designed to humiliate the Brotherhood chief, whose arrest means the groups top echelon is now behind bars, with other leaders dropping out of sight.
The Brotherhood condemned the detention of Badie, whose 38-year-old son was killed in Cairo clashes on Friday. When the hand of oppression extends to arrest this important symbol, that means the military coup has used up everything in its pocket and is readying to depart, it said. The state news agency said Badie was now in Cairos Tora prison, where other Brotherhood leaders are held.
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Y'all remember the Bush poster, "Miss me Yet?"
I'd like to see a version with Mubarak's face on it.
Not that he was a hero, but he is looking better every day.
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"When the hand of oppression extends to arrest this important symbol, that means the military coup has used up everything in its pocket and is readying to depart"
Methinks there's still something in its cartridge pouches, though.
[Ynet] Saudi border guards killed a Yemeni man and maimed another on Tuesday when they opened fire on a group of Yemeni rustics who attacked construction workers building 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... 's security fence on the border with Yemen, a tribal chief said.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry, which is responsible for border security, denied that any clash had taken place on the border with Yemen.
Counter-terrorism officials in Russia said nine suspected Islamist terrorists militants were killed in Dagestan Monday after a gunfight with police.
One of those killed is terrorist militant leader Bammatkhan Sheikhov, suspected of planning an attack on a Russian military base in 2010. In a statement Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said, "The active phase of the special operation is complete. During the fight, special forces killed nine militants, including the odious leader Bammatkhan Sheikhov."
Local media reports indicate security officers were tracking the suspects and cornered them in an apartment where the fight took place. Homes and businesses in the area were evacuated. Two police officers were wounded during the incident.
The raid continues what has been a bloody few days in the Dagestan. Six other suspected terrorists militants were killed over the weekend.
At least 32 people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday as security forces arrested 116 militants in a search operation aimed at ending the increasing violence in the country, dpa reported.
Five gunmen were killed and 116 al-Qaeda suspects were arrested in Hamrein Mountains, located south of Kirkuk city, General Abdul Ameer al-Zaidi said. Troops also confiscated weapons, cars and motorbikes and destroyed two camps that were used to train insurgents in the mountains.
Two gunmen were also killed in the northern city of Mosul while trying to plant a bomb. Moreover, four policemen were killed in a series of bombings targeting their checkpoints.
In Baquba city, five people were killed and 10 injured when a bomb went off inside a café in northern Baquba, police said. Eight others died in separate attacks.
Two people were killed and 50 injured in two consecutive car bombings in Amara city, some 400 kilometres south of Baghdad.
A double car bombing in Hilla city killed six people and injured 15. Three cars and several shops were damaged in the blasts.
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Syrian refugees continue to stream over the border into northern Iraq, where the Kurdistan regional government has put in place a daily quota of 3,000, aid agencies said on Tuesday. About 30,000 refugees, believed to be mainly Syrian Kurds, have poured into Iraq since Thursday, and up to 3,000 are lined up to cross on Tuesday, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said.
The Kurdistan regional government authorities have put a daily quota for those refugees who will be allowed in. Today they will allow 3,000 persons in, but yesterday a similar quota of 3,000 was set but at the end of the day, 5,000 refugees were allowed to cross, Jumbe Omari Jumbe of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told a news briefing in Geneva.
Asked about the reasons for the exodus, Jumbe said: There is a perception that violence will increase against (Syrian) Kurds by various armed groups including al-Nusra.
I'm wondering if the quota is lip-service -- no way the Iraqi Kurds allow their cousins to be set upon by al-Nusra.
UNHCR is aware of agreements between the border authorities on both sides, but has no specific information on numbers relating to any quotas, spokesman Dan McNorton said.
The sudden mass influx of Kurdish refugees from Syria into Iraq increases the likelihood that Iraqs Kurdish region will act to protect its kin across the border, an adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said on Monday.
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move out the wimmin, children and old guys first then ....
[Ynet] An IDF force fired toward two Paleostinians who allegedly approached the border fence near Jabaliyeh, wounding one of them. According to the IDF, the two turned back toward the Gazoo Strip after the gunfire.
Boys will be boys.
According to Paleostinian sources, the two were moderately maimed.
[Ynet] Riots erupt as soldiers from haredi battalion enter refugee camp to arrest top Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terrorist who was released by Israel a few months ago
A young Paleostinian was killed and two IDF soldiers were lightly injured overnight Tuesday during riots that erupted in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin.
According to the Paleostinians, Majd Lahlouh was killed after he was shot in the chest during festivities with Israeli soldiers. They said two other residents were maimed.
The incident began at 3 am when soldiers from the haredi battalion Netzah Yehuda entered the refugee camp to arrest a wanted Paleostinian who was released from an Israeli prison just a few months ago. According to the Paleostinians, the wanted man is Basam a-Asadi, a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist.
The IDF said that during a search of his home, residents shot up the soldiers and hurled Molotov cocktails in their direction. The Paleostinians claim the locals threw rocks at the ultra-Orthodox troops. The festivities continued for a few hours, and the injured Paleostinians were evacuated to a local hospital.
A-Sadi and another Paleostinian were eventually nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and taken in for questioning.
The West Bank has been relatively calm this summer, although in early July a 19-year-old Paleostinian was killed by IDF fire during a riot that broke out in the south Mount Hebron area.
In March a Paleostinian was killed and two others were maimed - one of them seriously -- during festivities with IDF soldiers in the Al-Fawar refugee camp south of Hebron. The Paleostinians said the Paleostinian was killed by IDF fire. The incident took place one week before US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... arrived in the region.
[OMANTRIBUNE] Syrian forces attacked rebel positions in the eastern city of Deir Al Zor on Tuesday, days after a rebel advance threatened to bring the whole city under the control of rebel forces, reports said.
The provincial capital on the banks of the Euphrates, 430 km northeast of Damascus, anchors a vast, arid oil-producing region bordering Iraq. Half of it fell to rebels a year ago but Assads forces have held out in several districts in the west of the city and in the airport to the east.
A rebel coalition led by a Qatari-backed force and the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front captured the western Al Hawiqa district last week, seizing army and security compounds as well as Assads ruling Baath Party headquarters.
The army hit rebel forces in Hawiqa district on Tuesday with tanks and multiple rocket launchers, and also battled them in territory separating Hawiqa from the district of Joura, sources said.
An opposition source said rebel strength had been boosted by the arrival of 20 anti-aircraft missiles that came through Turkey for the Ahfad Al Rasul Brigade, a Qatari-backed unit of the rebel Supreme Military Council, which played a major role in the capture of Hawiqa.
"They probably used 2-3 missiles in Hawiqa and have the rest," he said. Separately, a leading diplomat from the US State Department and the US ambassador to Syria will meet with a Russia delegation in The Hague next week to discuss plans for a peace conference to end the civil war in Syria, a spokeswoman for the State Department said late on Monday. The United Nations said that UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will not take part in crunch talks next week between Russian and US officials on Syria peace conference. In Riydah, the Gulf Cooperation Council has criticised Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for threatening to send more fighters to neighbouring Syria.
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Sky News puts the number at 1300 now.
A Damascus opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday 494 people had been killed in a gas attack and shelling by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... forces on Wednesday, citing data from medical centers in the Syrian capital.
Syria has denied reports of chemical weapons being used in Damascus.
The Damascus Media Office said in a statement 150 bodies were counted in Hammouriya, 100 in Kfar Batna, 67 in Saqba, 61 in Douma, 76 in Mouadamiya and 40 bodies were collected from Irbib.
"The attack began at around 3.00 am. Huge numbers of civilians were subjected to the gases. The numbers continued to increase rapidly as they suffocated to death, with lack of necessary medical supplies to save them," the statement said.
If confirmed, the attack would be by far the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war.
Rooters was not able to verify the accounts independently and they were denied by Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, which said they were disseminated deliberately to distract a team of United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago.
The UN team is in Syria investigating allegations that both rebels and army forces used poison gas in the past, one of the main disputes in international diplomacy over Syria.
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You think I am stupid for posting the obvious. You find my posting the obvious offensive to your tasteful PC standards.
NOBODY is ever going to do SQUAT about Syria. NOBODY has the balls for ANY reason to help the Syrians . NOBODY really cares. Essentially the Syrians are a bunch of nobodys in Booga booga.
The EU will wave its arms and weep. All the EUroweenis are prancers. But they won't DO anything. The United States is run by a Wussy with a mouth and a suit. They sure won't do anything. The whole world goes quack quack quack. And I don't see any money in helping Syria so go say your payers in Las Vegas. Russia is only in it to get some coin for supplying the big nosed Moslem clowns with ammo.
Everybody is going to stand around and watch and pick their noses. The Syrians are not WORTH squat to anybody. Why even act like we care? Admit it, you wouldn't die for Syria would you? All it is is "news".
I am just telling you the truth. There isn't anything nuanced about it. The Syrians and Syria are just another Middle Eastern craphole. You find that untrue? It IS true.
LET them die. They aren't really worth any effort. And besides Obama wouldn't fight for his own mother let alone Syria and neither would YOU.
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Can't disagree much with Threater this time. I can be even more cynical and callous, and suggest that since both Pencilneck and the opposition suck, and to roughly the same extent, we should quietly help out whichever side is losing at any given time, and pass the popcorn bowl. The bad side to that plan is that most of those being harmed are bystanders not interested in the fight.
#4
Heard some speculation after Gulf I about the Gulf War Syndrome.
Thinking was it resulted from a marginal exposure to nerve agents.
Problem is, our policy was that use of nerve agents justified everything in response up to nukes.
We didn't nuke anybody, which means our threat is baseless, which can't be acknowledged. So the point was to insist the GWS was the result of something else.
Not a doctor, so the huge variation in the symptoms of GWS doesn't look as if it came from the same cause.
Nevertheless, a threat not acted upon becomes useless and the other side knows it.
Because the other side knows it.
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It remains a case of Evil versus Evil: Fascism versus Salafism. You simply can't root for either side.
From a point of view of national interest the best you can do is make sure neither side wins or loses. But it's sure hard on the inhabitants, most of whom are mostly harmless. And it's hard on the original rebels, probably the majority of whom just wanted to dump Pencilneck.
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You find my posting the obvious offensive to your tasteful PC standards
No, I find your posting offensive due to your lousy prose.
I've seen better writing on the instructions that came with my 'made in China' iron.
#7
That said, Syria is a no-win. The window of opportunity was 17 to 20 months ago, when the rebel factions could be identified.
What resulted instead was dithering by a White House team that found itself surprised by Libya's after-effects, paralyzed by consequentialism, and wary of political blowback from getting involved, however peripherally, in another Middle East conflict.
There's there's the Klingon mission list that was overloaded with things not-to-do, a DoD wondering how to both do what it's told and pay for it all, and a State Department trying hard to look busy doing the the 'peace talk shuffle' for the Paleos and the Israelis.
Add in the Arab propensity for screwing up, and you have what you have.
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My vote is to continue doing what we are doing. i.e. stay the hell out of the conflict. As CJCS Dempsey says here the rebels won't support American interests.
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consequentialism,ve
Ahhh, the hubris of the elites canonized. The consequentialists rule the DoS and has caused many of the current crop of problems.
The consequentialist is much like a global-warmenist. They both think that they can understand all the nuances of a chaotic system with uncountable (and unknowable) variables and create a model that will predict down to the tenth of a degree what the consequences of a given decision will be.
Yet after decades of failed prognostication they continue to believe, again like warmentists, that their predictions were perfect but something unexpected arose.
The hubris is still intact. They never learn. The unexpected is the way of the world!! It's those damn unknown-unknowns again!! Therefore you can only judge virtue on the specific act AND how robust that act is when the unknowns become known.
Anyone who disagrees with these elitests and doesn't bow to their self-defined perfection are attacked as denialists, rascits, RWNJ, ignorant and worse.
We need to understand our own needs and desires in any situation and make our decisions based on what will be both ethical and effective in the short term. The long term is unknowable.
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Debka on this with an invasion spin of US trained rebels from Jordan
Syrian opposition activists report between 200 and 650 dead and hundreds more wounded in a poison gas strike by Bashar Assads forces on rebel-held areas of eastern Damascus. They claim nerve gas canisters were dropped by Syrian Air Force fighter planes which were seen flying over the area after the attack, the most extensive reported till now. Their claim has not been verified. The regime denied the accusation, saying there was no truth whatsoever in reports that chemical gas was used near Damascus, and maintaining over state television that the Syrian army was conducting a conventional attack on rebel positions south and east of Damascus.
DEBKAfile reports exclusively that Assad is acting to counter the first organized incursion of US-trained Syrian rebels from Jordan into southern Syria. The first group of 250 rebels, trained in special operations tactics by US and Jordanian instructors, entered Syria Saturday, Aug. 17, armed with weapons of Russian provenance supplied by the US and Saudi Arabia.
They are fighting under US and Jordanian commanders based in the Hashemite Kingdom.
A second group of 300 fighters crossed into Syria from Jordan Monday.
They are linking up with local rebel groups chosen from amongst those with no ties with the jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra (Al Qaeda in Syria).
According to our military sources, the rebel units are advancing at speed along the Syrian-Israeli border. They have forced the Syrian brigades posted there into retreating from positions inside a strip of 1-25 kilometers from the border, and captured the villages of Raihaniya, Breiqa and Beer Ajam.
This tactic has moved the Syrian army back from the area opposite the Israeli Golan, and started marking out a buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces in the Horan province.
DEBKAs military sources report that additional Syrian rebel forces are standing ready in Jordan to cross into Syria. The incoming forces will then start extending the nascent buffer zone northward towards Deraa (fountainhead of the Syrian uprising in 2011) and east toward Jabal Druze.
This Jordan-based rebel offensive was launched shortly after Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, visited US forces in Jordan and inaugurated the underground US war room near Amman for commanding the operation in Syria.
Syrian ruler Bashar Assad has more than once declared that if the Syrian capital Damascus came under threat, he would resort to chemical warfare and the entire Middle East including Israel would go up in flames. For now, his army is fighting to keep the rebels from taking control of southern Syria.
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As related to Gen. Dempsey's remarks, see also CHINESE DEFENSE > US MISSLE ATTACK ON SYRIA RULED OUT FOR FEAR OF REBEL BACKLASH, i.e. agz US Milstrikes on a Muslim country, symbol of malleged new US interventionism, + collateral casualties among civilians.
* ASSOCIATED PRESS > TOP US GENERAL SAYS [Obama Admin believes] SYRIAN REBELS WON'T BACK US INTERESTS, REJECTS [Full or Limited] MILITARY INTERVENTION.
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* TOPIX > [Various] REPORTED SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK TESTS US HOPES TO AVOID WAR.
* SAME > [USA Today] SYRIA ATTACK PROMPTS CALL FOR US ACTION.
IMO this is another major "red line" for POTUS Bammer affecting US credibility in the Muslim World + beyond.
THE "LAST ONE"???
Iff Baby Assad did indeed conduct this chemical attack, to which BTW Assad's Govt. is formally or officially denying as we speak, then BABY ASSAD HAS SYMBOLICALLY SLAPPED THE BAMMER + "OBAMA DOCTRINE" HARD ACROSS THE FACE WID HIS ALAWITE GAUNTLET - iff it was the Rebs or Foreign MilTerrs, IT IS CLEAR THE BAMMER = USA HAS NO POWER OR INFLUENCE AMONGST THE ANTI-ASSAD OPPOSITION.
The question now is iff the Bammer will take action this time, or once again ignore + set aside; + iff he does take action to what degree AS THE BAMMER = USA HAVE A HELLUVA LOT OF DIPLOMATIC OR CREDIBILITY DAMAGE TO REPAIR, MOST OF IT DUE TO THE BAMMER'S OWN DOING OR MORE ACCURATELY THE LACK OF SAME.
[IranPressTV] Syrian army has taken back most of the coastal province of Latakia, killing scores of foreign-backed bully boys.
On Tuesday, the army regained control of almost all parts of the northern countryside of the Latakia city.
A large number of gunnies fighting against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... were reportedly killed in the operation.
Government troops have also secured the areas they had occupied a couple of weeks ago.
Military officials say they are now getting closer to the Salma village, which is the last bastion of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... forces of Evil in the region.
The Latakia Province has been the scene of fierce fighting between the two sides in recent days.
On Monday, the Syrian army recaptured the villages of Hambousheyah, al-Ballouta and Sheikh Nabhan in the province.
"The Syrian troops eradicated the gunnies who [had] infiltrated into these villages and committed crimes of slaughtering, looting and assaulting the local residents," said a Syrian military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
On August 17, the Syrian army restored security in the villages of Shakouhi and Abu-Makkah in the northern countryside of Latakia.
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. According to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , more than 100,000 people have been killed and millions of others displaced in the violence.
According to reports, Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, 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 Turkey -- are supporting the gunnies operating inside Syria.
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[IranPressTV] Security forces in Leb have tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three men suspected of planning a massive boom-mobile in southern Beirut, following the recent deadly bombing that left 27 people dead.
The General Security agency said in a statement late on Monday that a Lebanese national and two Paleostinians were locked away Please don't kill me! , adding they were accused of "setting up a terrorist group and conducting activities that affect security on Lebanese territory."
"They were preparing to stage an attack using an Audi car containing 250 kg (550 pounds) of explosives," the statement also said.
The car was found in the Naameh area in southern part of the capital only two days after a boom-mobile rocked the Zahiyeh suburb, between Bir el-Abed and Rweiss neighborhoods, south of Beirut. The area is regarded as a bastion of Hezbollah resistance movement.
On August 16, the Lebanese government said that the army has identified a network of suspected people trying to carry out bombings in southern Beirut.
Hezbollah's Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has blamed Israeli-backed Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... bad boy groups for the deadly blast.
Addressing thousands of Hezbollah supporters on the occasion of the end of the group's 33-day 2006 war with Israel in the southern village of Aita al-Shaab, Nasrallah said on August 16 that according to investigations carried out by the resistance movement, Takfiri groups are behind the recent deadly attacks in Leb.
He added that those carrying out the attacks were not Israeli spies, but stressed that it is clear that US and Israeli intelligence agencies have infiltrated into these Takfiri groups and are using them to achieve their own goals.
[AnNahar] The spillover in the Golan from the conflict in Syria has intensified in recent days, posing a threat to U.N. peacekeepers on the scene, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.
The Syrian army and opposition rebels have engaged in "intense shelling and heavy festivities" since August 17 in a U.N.-patrolled zone that separates Israel and Syria, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, assistant secretary-general for political affairs, said.
No casualties have been reported so far, but the fighting has intensified near two U.N. positions, forcing peacekeepers to take shelter, he said.
The U.N. Disengagement Observer Force "observed the continued presence of roadblocks with improvised bombs in the vicinity of U.N. positions which affects the freedom of movement of UNDOF personnel," he said.
"Incidents of threatening behavior against UNDOF personnel from armed members of the opposition were also reported," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Israeli forces returned fire Saturday after Syrian shells fell on a part of the Golan occupied by Israeli troops.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , Ron Prosor, protested against the shelling in a letter to the U.N. Security Council, warning "these sorts of provocations will not be tolerated."
UNDOF has been monitoring the ceasefire between Israel and Syria since 1974.
The situation in the Golan has been tense since the start of the conflict in Syria more than two years ago.
Israel, which is technically at war with Syria, captured 1,200 square kilometers (463 square miles) of the Golan Heights during the Six Day War in 1967, and then annexed it, an action never recognized by the international community.
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The spillover in the Golan from the conflict in Syria has intensified in recent days, posing a threat to U.N. peacekeepers on the scene, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday
[Ynet] Activists say Kurdish militias and al-Qaeda-linked rebel factions are engaged in fierce festivities in northeastern Syria.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting Tuesday between Kurdish gunnies and rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is taking place in three villages near the town of Ras al-Ayn in Hassakeh province.
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See also WAFF > [Al-Jazeera] WAR IN SYRIA INSPIRES KURDISH UNITY. NORTHERN SYRIA SEES BATTLES BETWEEN KURDS + AL-QAEDA-INSPIRED GROUPS AS KURDS PREPARE FOR ELECTIONS + AUTONOMY.
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* SAME > [Hurriyet Daily News] TURKEY: KING ABDULLUAH OF SAUDI ARABIA SHOULD RESIGN, for the KSA's + GCC States role in the overthrow of newly elected Egyptian + MusBro leader Morsi.
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