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Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison on August 19, 1900, in Port Huron, Michigan. Colleen's father was an irrigation engineer. She was convent-educated and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. D.W. Griffith brought her to Hollywood in 1917, returning a favor to her uncle, 'Walter C. Howey , the Chicago Examiner editor who helped him clear The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) through the censors.
She played leads in B pictures and Westerns, several opposite Tom Mix. The movie which defined her as the inventor of the "flapper" look was Flaming Youth (1923). The year that came out she married the first of her four husbands, Frank McCormick, production of head of First National Pictures, later part of Warner Brothers. By 1927 she was the top box-office attraction in America and making $12,500 a week, much of which she invested in the stock market. She wrote a book on investing and married two stockbrokers.
After she retired she traveled widely, frequently to China. At 83 she married her fourth husband. At the time of her death she was writing a novel, a Hollywood murder mystery centered around a Mae West type. On January 25, 1988, She died of an undisclosed ailment in Paso Robles, California.
[CTVNEWS.CA] Egyptian courts on Sunday heard separate court cases against former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... and top leaders of his archrival, the Moslem Brüderbund, both over allegations of killing protesters in separate instances. "Chloe!"
Egyptian media portrayed the prosecution of longtime foes as "trials of the two regimes," an attempt to show that both Islamists and secular-leaning Mubarak authoritarian regimes are alike after a July 3 military coup toppled President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood member. "Chloe! Someone's callin'!"
Weeks of mass rallies by Moslem Brüderbund supporters over Morsi's ouster have weakened over the past days as security forces have placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! many Brotherhood leaders. The military-backed government has responded by relaxing curfew hours, trying to signal a return to normality across the country. "No reply!"
Egyptian courts on Sunday heard separate court cases against former President Hosni Mubarak and top leaders of his archrival, the Moslem Brüderbund, both over allegations of killing protesters in separate instances. "Nightshade's falling
Hear him sigh..."
Egyptian media portrayed the prosecution of longtime foes as "trials of the two regimes," an attempt to show that both Islamists and secular-leaning Mubarak authoritarian regimes are alike after a July 3 military coup toppled President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood member. "Empty spaces meet his eyes
Empty arms outstretched
He's crying
Through the black of night
I've gotta go where you are"
Weeks of mass rallies by Moslem Brüderbund supporters over Morsi's ouster have weakened over the past days as security forces have detained many Brotherhood leaders. The military-backed government has responded by relaxing curfew hours, trying to signal a return to normality across the country. "If it's wrong or right
I've gotta go where you are"
"We have crossed the swamps and muddy pools, and now we are on the safe side," Ahmed el-Musalamani, a spokesman for interim-president's spokesman, said Sunday. "I roam through the dismal swamplands
Searching for you
Cause if you have lost it
Let me be there too
And through that smoking flame
I've got to go where you are
For no place can be too far
where you are
Ain't no chains can bind you
and if you live, I'll find you
Love is calling me
I've got to go where you are"
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That weird yellow commentary was there earlier. WTF? I mean WTF? I thought this was a family site.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's security forces tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday evening Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohey Hamed after he was found at an apartment in the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City.
Hamed was transferred to Tora Prison, south of Cairo, following his arrest.
Tora Prison holds several leaders of the Moslem Brüderbund who were tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... following a police crackdown on the Islamist group, whom the interim government has accused of committing "terrorist acts" against its opponents.
Hamed is a member of the Brotherhood Guidance Bureau, the highest authority in the 85-year-old group's hierarchy.
On 14 August, police forces forcibly dispersed pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza sparking deadly violence in Egypt that left hundreds dead and over a thousand injured.
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[Al Ahram] Egyptian authorities on Saturday referred 26 Moslem Brüderbund leaders to State Security Emergency Prosecution in the Delta governorate of Daqahliya.
The detainees are charged with incitement to murder and over their alleged involvement in the besieging of the governorate headquarters and security directorate building during Friday rallies supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi. Deadly festivities erupted between supporters and opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in the city of Tanta, leaving two dead and at least 25 injured.
On Saturday afternoon, prosecutors visited the site of the festivities to examine the scene and ordered forensics to review the medical reports of the two killed in Friday's violence.
A Tanta security official announced on Friday that the identity of one of those killed is still unknown. The other has been confirmed as Mohamed Abdullah, who is believed to have been a Morsi loyalist.
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, an Islamist coalition led by the Moslem Brüderbund against Morsi's ouster, announced it would stage demonstrations dubbed the 'Friday of Martyrs' nationwide to protest the deadly crackdown on their sit-ins last week by security forces.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Egypt witnessed a significant low pro-Morsi protester turnout in comparison to recent previous Fridays.
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[Al Ahram] State Security Prosecution ordered the detention of leading Moslem Brüderbund figures, Ahmed Abu Baraka and Mostafa El-Ghonemi, on Saturday, after charging them with "seeking foreign support" in Egypt's ongoing political battle.
Arrested in an apartment in the Sayeda Zeinab district of central Cairo on Thursday, Abu Baraka is the latest in a string of arrests of the Brotherhood's big shotship, in addition to a wave of detentions of hundreds of members this week.
He is a member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau, whose lead figure, Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei, was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Tuesday in Cairo.
El-Ghonemi, another member of the Guidance Bureau was arrested on Thursday in his apartment in Cairo's Nasr City district.
Authorities have been leading a clampdown on Islamist figures since the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi on 3 July. Clashes between Morsi's supporters and security forces have been intermittent ever since.
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[Al Ahram] The corpse count resulting from festivities in Egypt's Nile Delta city of Tanta on Friday, between supporters and opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, has risen to two as another died on Saturday from severe injuries, reported the Middle East News Agency (MENA).
The first casualty was reported on Friday.
General Hatem Othman, security director of Gharbiya governorate, where Tanta is located, said that the identity of one of those killed is still unknown. The other has been confirmed as Mohamed Abdullah , who is believed to have been a Morsi loyalist.
At least 25 were maimed when violence broke out in the city as pro-Morsi demonstrators erupted into the streets against what they describe as a 'coup' against Egypt's first democratically-elected president.
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[Al Ahram] Egyptian prosecution charged on Saturday tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... Islamist preacher and Moslem Brüderbund loyalist Safwat Hegazy with attempted murder and inciting violence at two Cairo sit-ins.
Hegazy faces several charges, including attempted murder and incitement of violence against opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi amid pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Al-Nahda Square.
He was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the vicinity of Siwa town, in Egypt's western desert, near the borders with Libya, on Wednesday.
On Saturday, prosecutors also released fresh orders to detain Hegazy for 15 days pending investigations.
Sources from the prosecution told Ahram Online that prosecutors have questioned Hegazy for inciting violence for comments he made last December.
His statements were widely interpreted as a call on Morsi supporters to confront demonstrating opponents in December 2012 in front of the presidential palace in Cairo. At least ten were killed on 5 December 2012 amid deadly festivities between pro and anti-Morsi groups.
Hegazy was also questioned for inciting Morsi supporters to march on the Elite Republican Guards headquarters in Cairo -- where the army allegedly detained Morsi -- on 8 July. Over 50 Brotherhood supporters were killed and dozens injured when the armed forces stormed the protest.
Hegazy has been one of the prominent supporters of Morsi and the Moslem Brüderbund. He was reportedly present at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in, where he made highly controversial statements about the Brotherhood's opponents.
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[Al Ahram] Violent festivities broke out between unidentified Death Eaters and army forces in Sheikh Zuwayed, North Sinai, in the early hours of Saturday.
The festivities erupted when an unidentified car fired at a security checkpoint, reported the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA).
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... in Sheikh Zuwayed itself, Death Eaters reportedly shot at army forces from inside a school building, prompting the army to surround the school.
Military armoured vehicles arrived in the area, which contains residential buildings. Houses were caught in the melee, with shots breaking a number of windows.
No official reports have given on causalities, if any.
In parallel, the army continued destroying smuggling tunnels on the Sinai/Gazoo borders, including a main underground tunnel, according to Al-Ahram Arabic website.
Egypt's Armed Forces front man Colonel Ahmed Ali said Friday that security forces killed 78 suspected hard boys, including 32 foreigners, in recent operations in Sinai. He added that 203 persons were placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
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[Al Ahram] The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) -- the Islamist umbrella group for supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi -- has announced another week of protests, dubbed "The people lead their revolution," saying the recent arrests of its leaders would not weaken the group, asserting it would continue to press its demands.
Despite the relatively low turnout in recent demonstrations, the NASL, led by the Moslem Brüderbund, called on supporters to take to the streets afresh.
More than a dozen Brotherhood and Islamist leading figures were jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! recently on various charges, including inciting violence. Hundreds of Brotherhood members and supporters were arrested nationwide.
The Moslem Brüderbund has called on people to "take to the streets against the coup" peacefully, and to "innovate peaceful measures" to pressure the country's interim leadership.
It added in a statement Friday that its "revolution against the coup should not subside."
It also condemned the media, saying it is biased against the group, portraying a false image about their demonstrations by claiming that they instigate violence on the street.
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one of the interesting things here is that AlNour, the salafist Islamic party, while running hot and cold in terms of cooperation with the military, has consistently refused to support the Mohammedan broderbund despite what must have been many entreaties
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Al Nour has read the hieroglyphics on the wall...
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Al Nour has its own agenda. The Moslem Brüderbund doesn't figure positively into it.
Dozens of suspected Boko Haram militants in Magumeri forest, Borno state, north east Nigeria, have turned to human eaters after being stranded for days without food or water.
It's starting to look like it goes with the religion...
With the region, as well. Remember Idi Amin Dada's culinary propensities?
He was civilized. He still used a fork...
He ate at his own dining table. These vicious idiots have got themselves lost in the woods. They probably don't use their finger bowls, either.
Magumeri forest is about 150 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital.
The incredible story was related by Malam Momodu Bukar, who claimed to be part of the insurgency group.
"Yeah I wuz. Not no more."
He told newsmen on Saturday in Maiduguri that he fled the camp at the forest on Thursday when it became obvious that he was going to be eaten.
"Hokay! Looks like Malam has drawn the short straw!"
"I thank God that I escaped because I would have been slaughtered by now to provide meal for my colleagues at the camp," Bukar said.
The militant was captured by a Youth Vigilante Group, popularly known as the civilian JTF at Baga Road motor park, Maiduguri, on Friday.
"Stick 'em up!"
"They're already up! I surrender!"
He said the militants had been in the forest since May, when they were dislodged from Marte, Marte Local Government Area, by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) after the declaration of the State of Emergency.
"Hey! I left my spare socks back there!"
"Forget the socks! Just keep runnin'!"
"Our group, consisting of about 300 well armed combatants, headed for Magumeri on the orders of the sect leader, Abubakar Shekau, shortly before the military took over Marte Camp.
Before or after Shekau was killed?
"We have been lost wandering in the forest. We have exhausted our food and water supply, and so, everybody became hungry," Bukar said.
And no Mickey-D's in a national forest, either...
No snakes. No lizards. No rodents or any other mammals. No birds of any sort. No large insects. No edible plants. No streams. No fish...
He also said that they lost contact with Shekau due to the closure of GSM services by the Defence Headquarters.
Ahah. Neither before nor after, but during.
"It all started last Monday when three of the combatants in camp died of acute hunger, and it became obvious that all of us will die if action was not taken. The leader of the group, Abu Omar, directed that a non combatant member be slaughtered to provide meal for the rest.
"Mmmm! I get the toes!"
"Who the hell eats toes?"
"The meat provided meal for the combatant for just two days
"Ummm... You got any of those toes left?"
and another person was killed in the same manner
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
on Wednesday. So, it became certain that I might be the next person since I am also useless a non combatant member."
You weren't useless, you were medium-rare...
Bukar said he escaped after volunteering to help search for drinking water for the group in a nearby village.
"Hey! Where'd our dinner go?"
"I left the camp on Thursday evening after agreeing to fetch water from the village. After leaving the camp, I started running
"Sockless feet, don't fail me now!"
until I arrived at Magumeri town, so, I slept in the motor park before boarding a vehicle to Maiduguri with the little money on me." he said.
-"You goin' to Maiduguri?"
"Yeah."
"Can I come, too? I got five bucks, almost!"
"That ain't much money."
"I got more comin' from Sani Abacha's kid. I'll give you a million when I get it!"
"Sounds good. Hop in."
Bukar said that he was apprehended immediately he arrived at the motor park in Maiduguri by the youth vigilante group.
"Maiduguri! Safe at last!"
"Stick 'em up!"
"[VROOM!] Don't forget my million, kid!"
Commenting, an official of the vigilante group, Mallam Ajid Asheik, said the suspect would be handed to the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) for investigation.
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an official of the vigilante group, Mallam Ajid Asheik, said the suspect would be handed to the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Dinner Orders (ORDO) "for investigation...."
"and fattening up. Then we eat him"
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[WORLD.TIME] A blast hit a bus carrying air force personnel down a main street in Yemen's capital on Sunday, killing three, officials said.
Air force front man Col. Mahdi al-Aidarous said 23 more were maimed, including five at death's door with amputated arms or legs.
He said the bus was heading to air force headquarters when the blast went off. He said it most likely originated from inside the vehicle, but the official SABA news agency quoted later an air force statement as saying that an bomb was stuck under the bus.
Private TV stations showed a damaged bus with blown-out windows and doors stained with blood, as security troops collected evidence that included two pieces of human flesh.
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A man was arrested in New York Citys international airport with uranium destined for Iran hidden in the soles of his shoes, the US Justice Department said. Patrick Campbell, 33, who was arrested on Wednesday as he arrived at the John F Kennedy airport from Paris, is accused of trying to act as an intermediary to sell Iran 1,000 tons of purified uranium, in violation of US law.
The Sierra Leone-based Campbell had been under surveillance since May 2012, when he responded to an ad on the site Alibaba.com by someone looking to buy uranium 308, or yellow cake. The buyer was actually an undercover US immigration officer.
Asked to supply 1,000 tons of uranium disguised with other types of ore to escape detection Campbell promised to ship the product, disguised as chromite, from Sierra Leone to the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.
In the course of numerous conversations over telephone, Skype and email, Campbell claimed to be linked to a company that sold uranium, gold, diamonds, and chromite at the border of Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the indictment.
In order to be used as a nuclear fuel, purified uranium must be enriched.
Campbell was arrested in New York on his way to Florida, where he planned to show his contact some uranium samples.
The samples, wrapped in plastic bags, had been hidden in the soles of a pair of shoes in his luggage, the indictment said.
Investigators also found contact information for the sale and delivery of the uranium on a USB key.
Accused of violating US law concerning transactions with Iran, Campbell could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.
The case was transferred to a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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"We're representing the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Regime. Could you come to Florida and show us a sample? Yes, Florida, US. Hokay, see you at the Waffle House"
"what an idiot...he fell for it"
Snark of the day #3.
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Merely a variation of the good ole 419 letter scams and "Red Mercury" solicitations. I certainly hope the FBI doesn't try to use this as a terrorism interdiction stat...but you know they will.
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Hot Foot.
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Never heard of uranium 308, but they are talking about yellowcake, which is uranium oxide, or U3O8, so that is where the name must come from.
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I'm sure Mr. Campbell's feet are now parasite-free, though.
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[Dawn] Two persons were bumped off and a teenager was injured when gunnies attacked a seminary in the Khana locality of the capital city on Friday night.
Police said two motorcyclists raided Jamia Madinatul Uloom located along the Expressway and opened fire. As a result, three persons suffered injuries.
The injured were taken to hospital where two of them - Qari Arif, 22, and Darvesh, 30, - were pronounced dead.
The third injured, Shakirullah, 14, was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition.
According to the police, the victims were sitting in front of the seminary when they came under attack.
Sources in the police said the seminary had been receiving threats for the last a couple of days and the madressah administration had sought police protection.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police cover was not provided.
The sources expressed ignorance about the individuals or group behind the threats.
A senior officer, however, said there was a possibility that a bad turban outfit might be behind the attack. It seems to be an act of terrorism, he added.
After the attack on the seminary, the capital police took over half an hour to locate the scene of the crime and then raised the issue of jurisdiction with its Rawalpindi counterpart.
Later, the Shahzad Town police accepted that the incident had occurred in its limits.
Due to the jurisdiction issue, the police failed to alert its patrolling and picket staff to intercept the gunnies who escaped after committing the crime.
Late in the night, students from other seminaries in the twin cities gathered at Jamia Madinatul Uloom and staged a protest demonstration against the attack.
They blockade both the lanes of the Expressway and pelted vehicles with stones.
Policemen, including their senior officers, left the scene instead of asking the students to remain peaceful.
As a result, the students moved towards the Expressway. The participants of the protest were also moving towards Faizabad when this report was filed at about 11pm
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... police force, including anti-riot units and commandos along with armed personnel carriers, were called to the spot.
In another incident, a minor boy was rubbed out and his father injured at F-8/2.
Police said Mir Waiz, 30, was intercepted by gunnies near his house when he was taking his two-and-a-half-year-old son to a market.
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[Dawn] A curfew was imposed in Punjab's Bhakkar district for an indefinite period following Friday's clash between members of two religious sects there left five people dead and eight others injured.
The curfew came into effect at 10 am on Saturday and additional police forces and Rangers were deployed in sensitive areas of the district to address any untoward situation.
The clash between workers of the Ahle Sunnat Waljamaat (ASWJ) and members of the Shia community happened after a protest rally by the ASWJ against the police's failure to apprehend those behind the killing of a shopkeeper.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also took notice of the clash on Friday and condemning the incident, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Musselmeneen declared three days of mourning.
Pakistain has experienced worsening sectarian violence in recent years. The clash in Bhakkar came on the same day as two people were killed on the outskirts of Islamabad when gunnies on a cycle of violence opened fire outside a Sunni seminary.
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[Dawn] Two workers of the Pakistain Peoples Party were rubbed out in what police described as an act of assassination in an Orangi Town locality on Friday evening, police said.
They said that Mohammad Naseem, 48, and Farman aka Khurram were sitting at Essa Hotel in Orangi Town's Sector-9-E when two armed motorcyclists targeted them and rode away.
The maimed were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced them dead.
SSP-West Asif Ejaz Sheikh said that the victims were activists of the PPP and it appeared to be a case of assassination.
Orangi Town SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said that victim Naseem was the president of the UC-11 of the PPP's organizational structure.
He said both the victims had actively worked in the Thursday by-election on a provincial assembly seat (PS-95) in the area.
Three found rubbed out in Mochko
Bodies of three young men, stuffed in gunny bags, were found in the Mochko area on Friday morning, police said.
They said that the victims were shot multiple times and the bodies bore torture marks.
The police said that the bodies were found along the Northern Bypass near the Naval Colony Bridge.
They were identified as Abdul Razzak, 35, Aslam Murad and Irfan Ali.
Mochko SHO Liaquat Ali said that the victims were kidnapped, tortured and rubbed out before their bodies were dumped in the area.
He said Mr Razzak was an employee of the 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... Electric Supply Company. All the three victims were resident of Saeedabad.
Mr Razzak's family told the police that they would lodge an FIR after his burial.
SSP-West Asif Ejaz Sheikh told Dawn that the motive for the triple murder could not be ascertained immediately.
He said one of the victims was badly tortured and all of them were shot three times each.
School principal**** killed in Orangi
The principal of a private school was bumped off in Orangi Town on Friday.
Police said that Abdul Mateen, 62, was walking to his school in Aligarh Colony from his Frontier Colony house when two armed motorcyclists fired at him and escaped.
The maimed was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! The area SHO claimed that the murder could be the outcome of some personal enmity.
Killing in PIB Colony
A suspected drug peddler was rubbed out in PIB Colony on Friday.
Police said Ghulam Sabir alias Pappu Pathan, 28, was targeted outside his residence in Liaquat Basti. He sustained multiple bullet wounds and died before any medical aid could be provided to him.
The police claimed that the victim was a drug peddler and had been tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! many times in the recent past.
Tortured to death
The body of a unidentified young man was found in the Napier area.
Police said that the man, who was in his early-20s, was found murdered on Siddiq Wahab Road.
The body bore torture marks. It was shifted to the Edhi morgue for identification.
Youth maimed in 'sectarian' attack dies
A young man who had been maimed critically in an armed attack in North Nazimabad recently died on Friday, police and family sources said.
They said that Abbas Arif, 25, was targeted by armed riders near the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium when he was travelling in a car on Tuesday. He sustained a single bullet to the head and was admitted to a private hospital where he died on Friday.
They added that he was studying business administration and also worked in a private firm.
SSP-Central Amir Farooqi told Dawn that initially the police attributed the attack to extortion as a chit demanding protection money was found in his pocket.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... he said it emerged later that the owner of the factory had got the extortion chit around three months ago.
The SSP said that now Sherlocks were focusing whether the attack was motivated by sectarian reasons.
He said the victim lived in an area where sectarian snuffies had some influence.
He said that a passer-by woman had witnessed the incident and the police were trying to locate her.
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[Dawn] Armed hard boyz killed four people including two police officials in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's volatile Kech and Sibi districts and torched two oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in Khuzdar on Saturday, police said.
Muhammad Tariq, a levies official told Dawn.com that armed motorcyclists shot up a car in Tump tehsil of Kech district. He said two persons inside the car were dead on the spot. He said the myrmidons kidnapped the third person along with them.
Tariq said the assailants drove off the scene after the attack. "The incident appears to be an act of assassination," he said.
The levies force reached the spot as investigation into the incident went underway.
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[Dawn] A front man for the main Taliban group in Pakistain claimed Saturday that the head of the Punjabi Taliban faction has been stripped of his leadership for welcoming the government's peace talk offer.
Shahidullah Shahid, front man for the Hakimullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), said Saturday that the Taliban central shura (council) had taken 'serious notice' of Asmatullah Muawiya's recent statement as he was not authorised to respond to the government's offer for talks.
"The Taliban decision making body met under Commander Hakimullah Mehsud and decided that Asmatullah Muawiya has no relation with the TTP," Shahid told news agency AFP.
"He is respectable for us, but he has no relation with the TTP. The decision about the new head of TTP's Punjab chapter will be taken in next meeting of our decision makers," he said.
Shahid claimed that the council has removed Asmatullah Muawiya from the leadership of the Punjabi Talibs, and that the TTP leadership will later issue their stance on the offer of peace talks.
Muawiya responded to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the Taliban shura did not have the capacity to remove him because the Punjabi Taliban is a separate group. He said his group has its own decision-making body to decide leadership and other matters.
Last week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had offered dialogue to "those elements which unfortunately have taken the course of extremism".
On Thursday, Muawiya said Sharif had demonstrated political maturity by reiterating his offer to hold negotiations. Muawiya had said bully boyz in Pakistain should respond positively if the government is serious about resolving the conflict.
Muawiya, who heads the Taliban's faction of fighters from Punjab province, was previously known to be a principal ally of the TTP, an umbrella group of radical religious bully boyz fighting the Pak government.
The latest development shows signs of growing divisions between Taliban groups over the issue of holding negotiatians with Sharif's government, which swept to power in the May 11 general elections.
But TTP distanced itself from Muawiya's comments and said that the commander has no further role in the outfit.
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ION Maulana Asmatullah Muawiya, see also BHARAT RAKSHAK + ATLAS SHRUGGED [08/24/2013] > PAKISTAN: JIHAD COMMANDER URGES MUSLIM YOUTHS TO REPEAT BENGHAZI - "JUST AS THEY ASSAULTED + DESTROYED THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, ATTACK THE EMBASSIES OF EUROPE [around the World].
* Also from ATLAS SHRUGGED > BURMESE JIHADI GROUP URGES MUSLIMS TO WAGE JIHAD AGZ [main] GOVT. + BUDDHIST INHABITANTS.
* SAME > [JihadWatch = Washington Free Beacon] CLOSE TO 80% [77%] OF ALL TERROR PLOTS ARE JIHAD.
Why would NATO move without a UN mandate, when said mandate would provide Raison d'être for military action from a "justifiability marshaled" International CommunityTM?
Maybe some NATO heavyweights know (desired) action on the part of the UN shall not be forthcoming?
Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before that killed at least 47 people in the northern city of Tripoli, the state news agency said.
The National News Agency identified the suspect as Sheik Ahmad Al Ghareeb, and said police took him into custody at his home in the Miniyeh region outside Tripoli. It said Al Ghareeb, who has ties to a Sunni organisation that enjoys good relations with Lebanons powerful Shia Hezbollah militant group, appears in surveillance video at the site of one of the explosions.
He's pro'ly not feeling so good right now...
The coordinated explosions on Friday outside two mosques in Tripoli, a predominantly Sunni city, raised already simmering sectarian tensions in fragile Lebanon, heightening fears the country could be slipping into a cycle of revenge attacks between its Sunni and Shia communities. For many Lebanese, the bombings also were seen as the latest evidence that Syrias bloody civil war with its dark sectarian overtones is increasingly drawing in its smaller neighbour.
Lebanese police officials said on Saturday that 47 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in the attack. Some 300 people were still in the hospital a day after the attack, 65 of them in critical condition, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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Al Ghareeb, who has ties to a Sunni organisation that enjoys good relations with Lebanon's powerful Shia Hezbollah militant group
[OMANOBSERVER] Around 3,600 patients displaying "neurotoxic symptoms" flooded into three Syrian hospitals on the day of alleged chemical weapons attacks, and 355 of them died, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said. The victims all arrived within less than three hours of each other, and MSF director of operations Bart Janssens said the pattern of events and the reported symptoms "strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent". "Medical staff working in these facilities provided detailed information to MSF doctors regarding large numbers of patients arriving with symptoms including convulsions, excess saliva, pinpoint pupils, blurred vision and respiratory distress," he said. Syrian opposition groups have accused President Bashar al Assad's forces of launching massive chemical attacks near Damascus on August 21 and killing as many as 1,300 people.
The Syrian government has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! those allegations, but has yet to accede to demands that UN inspectors already in the country be allowed to visit the sites of the alleged attacks. There has been no independent verification of the number of dead, and the medical humanitarian organization is the first independent source to report such a high toll from the alleged attacks. MSF provides drugs, medical equipment and technical support to the three hospitals near Damascus. "MSF can neither scientifically confirm the cause of these symptoms nor establish who is responsible for the attack," said Janssens. "However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the events -- characterised by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers -- strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent."
MSF said patients had been treated using atropine, a drug it had supplied and which is used to treat neurotoxic symptoms. It has sent another 7,000 vials of the drug to facilities in the area and said it is making treatment of neurotoxic symptoms part of all its Syria programmes. General director Christopher Stokes called for independent Sherlocks to be given immediate access. "This latest attack and subsequent massive medical need come on top of an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, characterised by extreme violence, displacement, and deliberate destruction of medical facilities," he said. "In the case of such extreme violations of humanitarian law, humanitarian assistance cannot respond effectively and becomes meaningless itself."
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OK, MSF is a vaguely reputable organization so we have some confirmation the event actually occurred and wasn't just a massive fauxtography project. That leaves us with Who Dunnit? Maybe I'm cynical, but seems to me the rebels have the most to gain here.
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I'll have to confer with TW, but I believe we can safely rule out the saucisson sec.
Champ could have been an instant hero, had he shipped the rebels a few thousand atropine injectors. Of course one must then assume he would have actually known what a "neurotoxin" and atropine actually are.
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I'm still skeptical. Looks like a 10% mortality rate. Mil grade VX/GB dispersed to an unprotected population - much higher death rate IMNSHO. Looks to be a G series non-persistent agent. Even with NAAKs, unless you get to them quickly, it does not end well.
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We start with "1300 dead of nerve gas". Go to "3,600 showed 'neurotoxic symptoms'". End with "told you to boil the water!"?
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...I'm with Bangkok Billy and Grom - the numbers just don't add up for what they should be for an honest-to-God chemical attack against unprotected people. Of course, that leaves us with a bunch of other Clancy-grade horrors:
A) Does this mean that whoever fired the damn things had no idea what they were doing?
B) Is it possible that whoever made the stuff didn't know what they were doing?
C) Could the chemicals used have been diluted to spread out a limited supply?
D) Were the chemicals used bought by whoever used them from a Completely And Utterly Reliable Third Party Who Is Known For Their Quality And Workmanship?
I've got a whole bunch more, but I don't want to use up too much bandwidth.
Mike
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Still believe that Jabhat al-Nusra (or some other fun-luvin' Al-Q or worse group) is responsible for this as a way to put international heat on the regime.
Based on Srs. Billy & Kozlowski's comments, kind of more inclined in that direction.
Especially with the Ruskis involved and controlling the WMD capability of Assad's forces. Had they been involved as they were with Sadaam, it would have worked a tad better.
Next up, blame the Juice.
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The agreement to allow U.N. access came Sunday during a meeting in Damascus between the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, and the U.N.s top disarmament official, Angela Kane, the government said.
In a statement, the Syrian foreign minister said his government was ready to cooperate with the U.N. to expose the false allegations of the terrorist groups accusing the Syrian forces of using chemical weapons. Syrian authorities routinely refer to armed rebels as terrorists.
Syrian motives aside, I can't see the Russians getting too excited about permitting UN inspections, had the Syrian Army or Air Force been involved.
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Still believe that Jabhat al-Nusra (or some other fun-luvin' Al-Q or worse group) is responsible for this as a way to put international heat on the regime
There's a strong case to be made for that.
Al Qaeda has long been developing a chemical warfare program.
There are a significant number of Syrian rebels, besides al-Nusra, allied with AlQ.
Arab groups have long situated weapons and weapons facilities among the population.
Besides their use as shields, Arab groups have also used the population as props, like in Gaza and Egypt.
The question remains whether the release was a result from battle damage, an industrial accident, or a deliberate release.
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My guess is that the Syrian government shelled the rebels, whose hoard of chemical weapons was placed among the civilian population either to shield them from attack or in hopes that an artillery attack would result in significant civilian casualties.
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Assad possible reason to use Chemical Weapons
It is effectively a giant "fuck you" to the international community. Assad is confident, maybe overconfident. He recaptured quasyar and is doing well in Homs. At this point it is doubtful that the rebels can prevail, even with US support. His allies are firmly standing by him, and provide a steady stream of material and "moral support" in the form of public statements of support (if the number of Russia today posts on worldnews is any indication, it's working). The US's international reputation is at a low right now, with the spying scandal and events in turkey and Egypt. Assad, abd by extension Russia china and Iran, know that a Syrian intervention is extremely unpopular in the us, and so the cw attack is a way to "call the US's bluff", so to speak, whike getting a military advantage. If Obama goes back on his word here, the US's reputation abroad will be further damaged, and American allies and potential allies may start to doubt America's commitment to their protection.
Best not try using an antagonizing name or your remark, no matter how brilliant you think it is will be scrubbed.
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...start? Why do you think the Japanese are building aircraft carriers escort vessels? They know.
[An Nahar] Sporadic gunfire was heard on Saturday in the northern city 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... as gunnies erected checkpoints and began inspecting the ids of passersby, a day after two deadly blasts that targeted the city.
The calm in the city was violated by intermittent gunfire, in particular, in Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood and the area surrounding it, the state-run National news agency reported.
On Friday, powerful boom-mobiles went kaboom! outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, killing at least 45 people and wounding hundreds.
The first bomb struck in the city center at the al-Salam mosque as worshipers were still inside.
The second kaboom struck just minutes later outside al-Taqwa mosque, about two kilometers away, near the port.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) reported that fire erupted in a car on Friday over night in the city near al-Mallouleh bridge after unknown assailants shot up it.
Several media outlets also reported that gunnies established checkpoints across the city and began inspecting ids of passersby and vehicles.
Al-Jadeed channel reported that the Lebanese army cordoned off Abou Ali roundabout in Tripoli after information obtained on a suspicious car.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... the residents of the neighborhoods surrounding al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques and civil defense teams began removing the mess caused by the blasts amid heavy army and security forces deployment.
Some residents used shovels and brooms to clean up shards of glass and shrapnel that littered the pavement in front of nearby shops.
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gunnies erected checkpoints and began inspecting the ids of passersby
big believers in Freud, are they?
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[An Nahar] The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... over links to Friday's blasts that rocked the northern city and seized arms from his residence, the state-run National news agency reported Saturday.
According to the NNA, a surveillance camera spotted in the area near the kaboom that took place near al-Salam mosque.
The Intelligence Bureau raided al-Gharib's house in Minyeh neighborhood in Tripoli and seized machineguns and grenades.
On Friday, powerful boom-mobiles went kaboom! outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, killing at least 45 people and wounding hundreds.
The first bomb struck in the city center at the al-Salam mosque as worshipers were still inside.
The second kaboom struck just minutes later outside al-Taqwa mosque, about two kilometers away, near the port.
Earlier on Saturday, al-Akhbar newspaper reported that al-Gharib was detained over links to the blasts.
According to the report, Gharib was detained after security agencies seized at his residence military maps for the city of Tripoli and explosives.
The newspaper said that Gharib was moved to the ISF intelligence Bureau center in Beirut.
Gharib, according to the report, was tasked by head of the Islamic Unification Movement Sheikh Hashem Minqara to follow up with the Syrian regime the latest developments.
The movement denounced Gharib's arrest, expressing fear that the accusations were fabricated against him.
Sources told the newspaper that the seized arms in Gharib's house were an individual pistol in addition to two hand grenades.
On Wednesday, army chief General Jean Qahwaji had said his forces were fighting a "total war" against terrorism whose aim is "to provoke sectarian strife" in the country.
The army had been pursuing a "terrorist cell that prepares boom-mobiles and sends them to residential neighborhoods," he said, adding that this action aimed at provoking sectarian strife.
A Lebanese and two Paleostinians suspected of preparing a car kaboom were locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! days after the latest blast in Beirut, the General Security agency said.
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[OMANOBSERVER] Around 3,600 patients displaying "neurotoxic symptoms" flooded into three Syrian hospitals on the day of alleged chemical weapons attacks, and 355 of them died, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said. The victims all arrived within less than three hours of each other, and MSF director of operations Bart Janssens said the pattern of events and the reported symptoms "strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent". "Medical staff working in these facilities provided detailed information to MSF doctors regarding large numbers of patients arriving with symptoms including convulsions, excess saliva, pinpoint pupils, blurred vision and respiratory distress," he said. Syrian opposition groups have accused President Bashar al Assad's forces of launching massive chemical attacks near Damascus on August 21 and killing as many as 1,300 people.
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