[Ynet] A suicide kaboom in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz killed a district governor, his bodyguards and civilians at a mosque on Friday, government officials said. The group that included the governor of the Archi district were attending a ceremony for a tribal elder who had died the day before, the officals said.
"Officials... were attending a prayer in a mosque when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives," said Enayatullah Khaliq, a front man for the provincial governor.
HUDUR, Somalia -- Heavy fighting erupted in Bakool regional district of El-Barde of southern Somalia between Somali government forces and Al Shabaab militants on Thursday night, Garowe Online reports.
Local reports say that Al Shabaab fighters attacked the town from different directions by seizing some parts of El-Barde shortly. At least ten persons including two civilians and eight others from the opposing sides died in the battle, according to witnesses.
Witnesses also reported that Al Shabaab fighters fled the town after Ethiopian troops reinforced the Somali Federal Government forces.
The fighting lasted for more than one hour, we heard heavy gunfire and mortars hit built up areas in the town, a traditional elder said by telephone from El-Barde.
The Somali Federal Government officials in Bakool region told that the attack on El-Barde was intended to terrorize the locals. Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group controls vast vicinity in the region and government forces previously battled Al Shabaab fighters near Bakool regional capital of Hudur.
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MOGADISHU -- Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency declared that a security operation conducted inside Mogadishus Bakara market netted 27 Al Shabaab members lodging in hotels on Friday, Garowe Online reports. Spokesman for the intelligence agency told the media that they launched the operation after reports disclosed that Al Shabaab members are hiding out in Bakara hotels.
No doubt they raided all the room mini-bars...
According to the head of Federal Governments Banadir Intelligence Mohamed Adan Kofi, among the captured members was a foreigner but he declined to mention his nationality.
The operation was really successful, we captured 27 Al Shabaab members including a foreigner, said Kofi.
In addition, Kofi noted that the security forces recovered shutter guns weapons and ammunitions which were intended to destabilize Mogadishu by the 27 persons.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A Libyan military prosecutor and his brother died in a daytime boom-mobile blast Thursday (August 29th) in Benghazi, Libya Herald reported. The bomb went off as Youssef Al-Asayfer and his brother left a mosque in the Al-Laythi district.
"He joined the revolution early on and he was a good man and well respected," a senior Benghazi military official said on condition of anonymity.
Al-Asayfer was probing several cases involving officials from the Moamer Qadaffy regime, AFP reported.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two alleged al-Qaeda members in connection with the 2007 liquidation attempt on former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Thursday (August 29th). One suspect was caught while visiting his family in Baghlia, corpse-littered Boumerdes province. The other was apprehended in Theniet Nasr, Bordj Bou Arreridj wilaya.
In the 2007 terror attack, a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! on RN 5 a few seconds before the arrival of Ouyahia's convoy. The blast killed two people and injuring two others.
In other security news, a terrorist surrendered to Bouira security services after spending eight years in AQIM's El Farouk brigade.
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[Al Ahram] Six protesters have been confirmed dead after violence flared at rallies in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Giza, Zagazig and Port Said on Friday. Protests to 'reclaim legitimacy' were called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's National Coalition to Support Legitimacy.
The latest deaths on Friday occurred in the Giza district of Mohandiseen during clashes between police forces and pro-Morsi protesters. Tens were injured in the violence, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
Two other protesters were killed and 22 injured in Sharqiya's Zagazig, medical sources confirmed to Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The Muslim Brotherhood's Ikhwanonline website claims a third person was also killed during the clashes.
Conflicting reports surround how the death occured. Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported they were shot during clashes between protesters and street vendors. However, Ikhwanonline website claims they died after police and armed thugs targeted protesters and besieged those who tried to escape.
In the Suez Canal city of Port Said a protester was killed and 8 injured as fighting broke out between supporters and opponents of the ousted president in the Al-Amin district, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. It is unclear how the clashes started. Police reportedly mobilised to disperse the crowds.
Three people were reported injured in clashes between Morsi supporters and opponents in Beheira.
Violent clashes were also reported in the district of Sidi Gaber in Alexandria.
Security forces forcibly dispersed protesters in Alexandria earlier on Friday.
Police used teargas to disperse thousands of Morsi supporters in Daqahliya's Mansoura and Upper Egypt's Assiut. In both cities, gunshots were heard from the perimeters of the clashes.
Earlier in the day, security forces dispersed a smaller gathering of Morsi supporters in Mansoura and arrested 15 as they tried to escape into side streets.
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy released a statement on Wednesday saying that 30 August would be "the beginning of a civil disobedience campaign to pressure the putschists to end the coup."
Egypt's interior ministry announced ahead of Friday's protests that it would use live ammunition against protesters in "legitimate self defence."
The statement comes amid an ongoing crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters after security forces forcibly dispersed two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on 14 August, which left hundreds dead and over a thousand injured.
Since then, security forces have arrested hundreds of the group's leaders and members. Senior Brotherhood officials are facing incitement charges.
Police have also announced they will prevent the establishment of fresh sit-ins.
Morsi supporters have been demonstrating for almost two months against the army's overthrow of Mohamed Morsi on 3 July following mass protests against his rule. Turnout on Friday by protesters was larger than protests the previous week, but still smaller than some analysts had anticipated.
A sweeping crackdown on Brotherhood leaders has seen most key figures arrested in recent weeks, impacting the group's ability to organise.
The interim government has accused Morsi supporters of committing "terrorist acts" against its opponents.
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A sweeping crackdown on Brotherhood leaders has seen most key figures arrested in recent weeks, impacting the group's ability to organise.
The efficiency of the Army 'coup' almost makes one think Morse/MB was 'allowed' to win the election just so the Army could know who its key opposition was.
[Al Ahram] A policeman and a civilian were rubbed out in a drive-by shooting in Cairo's Heliopolis district early on Friday, Egyptian state TV reported.
Unknown assailants in two private cars opened fire indiscriminateatly at a police unit in El-Nozha neighborhood. Another policeman was injured in the attack.
It was the second such attack in the capital in recent days. On Wednesday, unknown assailants shot up an army/security checkpoint from a rooftop in Giza's Mohandessin district. At least three suspects were tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! after the attack in which no deaths were reported.
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[Al Ahram] Police have stormed the offices of Al Jazeera in Giza, after hours the authorities banned its Mubasher Misr channel from working in Egypt.
The Qatari-owned news channel's offices in Agouza, Dokki and Imbaba were raided on Friday morning.
On Thursday, the Egyptian government banned Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr from working in Egypt because it does not hold the requisite permits. It was also accused of spreading lies and rumours damaging to national security.
Some observers have criticised the channel for being biased towards the Moslem Brüderbund.
The office of Al-Mayadeen channel was also raided. The channel was founded and is owned by Tunisian-Lebanese talk show host Ghassan Bin Jiddo.
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[Al Ahram] Security forces engaged in a firefight with unknown gunnies in Giza's Mohandiseen near on Friday evening after the curfew began at 7pm.
A security source told Al-Ahram's Arabic site the exchange started when the assailants opened fire on police forces, who retaliated immediately. No injuries or deaths were reported.
What means that neither side can shoot straight...
The fight erupted a few hours after other festivities had taken place nearby in the same area of Mohandiseen, leaving at least three dead.
The festivities took place between protesters supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi and police forces in the area.
At least six protesters have been confirmed dead in festivities with security forces on Friday in Giza, Zagazig and Port Said.
Nationwide protests to "reclaim legitimacy" were organised by the Moslem Brüderbund's National Coalition to Support Legitimacy.
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[Al Ahram] A drone strike Friday killed an Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, a tribal source said, the latest in a string of attacks on what is considered the bad boy group's most dangerous network.
The source told AFP the early morning strike on a vehicle travelling in Manasseh village in the southern province of Bayda killed Qaeed al-Dhahab and two other men.
Witnesses confirmed the death of Dhahab, a military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who had previously fought with the group in Iraq.
He was the brother of Tarek al-Dhahab, an AQAP leader who in January 2012 with other Death Eaters briefly overran the town of Radah in Bayda province before being killed.
Some 10 drone strikes since July 28 in eastern, southern and southeastern Yemen have killed more than 40 people. They are thought to be carried by the United States, the only country in the region to have drones.
Earlie this month, Yemen said it had foiled an AQAP plot to storm a Canadian-run oil facility at Mina al-Dhaba on the Arabian Sea coast.
The United States had closed some two dozen embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa since August 4 after reported intelligence intercepts from Al-Qaeda suggested an attack was imminent.
Other foreign missions in Sanaa were also closed briefly over the alleged plot, which AQAP has denied as "nonsense and propaganda".
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A total of eight inmates at a prison in Tamaulipas state were killed in a brawl Wednesday, according to an official government news announcement.
A news release posted on the website of Tamaulipas state government said that the fight took place at the Centro de Ejecucion de Sanciones (CEDES) in Nuevo Laredo at around 1800 hrs in the observation area of the prison. The victims were stabbed with homemade stabbing weapons.
The victims were identified as Vicente Hernandez Cervantes, Hector Gabino Cruz, Eduardo Cortes Fernando, Rogelio Valero Quiroz, José Garcia Najera, Alfonso Navarro Morato, Manuel Ruiz Martinez and Pablo Luna Domingo. All had been admitted to the prison less than 24 hours before the fight. The victims had been detained August 15th in Zaragoza colony in Nuevo Laredo for a variety of offenses.
The press release said that five inmates, identified as Lorenzo Quiroz Acosta, Luis Alberto Corral Soto, Hector Torres Ortega, Mario Alberto Gil Ibarra, Pablo Garza Carranza and Gilberto Lopez had admitted their roles in the deaths of the inmates.
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A total of five individuals have been killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in southern Chihuahua after a city mayor imposed a curfew in his city to discourage travel in the region at night, according to Mexican news accounts.
Two men were found dead on a road in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality Wednesday, according to a news report which appeared in the online edition of Tiempo news daily.
The victims were found near Alto de Pilares near the Guadalupe y Calvo to El Vergal road, shot to death and in an advanced state of decomposition.
One victim was identified as Victor Manuel Gutierrez Villar, 17.
Meanwhile in Batopilas municipality a man in his 30s was found shot to death in an arroyo, according to a separate news report in Tiempo.
José Valentin Avitia Lopez was found Tuesday evening near the village of Rodeo, apparently shot with an AK-47 rifle.
Another attack took place in Parral Wednesday evening when two individuals were shot in Che Guevara, according to a news report which appeared on the website of El Diario de Juarez.
Wilfrido Revuela Espinoza, 40, died while on his way to medical attention, while Gloria Bustillos Maria Payan, 30, was wounded in the attack.
Further west in Guachoochi municipality a man was found stabbed to death, according to a news report in the online edition of El Sol de Parral.
Mateo Perez Guevara, 43, was found near the village of Santa Anita by local residents.
Mexican Army and Chihuahua state police have been combining resources in the region to conduct checkpoints along roads in Guadalupe y Calvo and in El Vergel municipalities, roads considered to be high value commercial routes, according to a news report in El Sol de Parral.
The area of operation is expected to include much of southern Chihuahua including the Durango-Chihuahua borderlands.
The report tracks an announcement earlier in the week by Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado or attorney general southern delegate Jesus Chavez.
Chavez said that the region was being reinforced as a response to increased violence between local rival drug and criminal gangs which operate in southern Chihuahua.
The violence in southern Chihuahua including in Guadalupe y Calvo and in Ciudad Jimenez prompted the mayor of Ciudad Jimenez to discourage travel at night in his city, according to a news report in El Diario de Chihuahua news daily.
Marcos Chavez said in the report that his police are closing down bars and "asking" people to go home, effectively imposing a curfew in Ciudad Jimenez. His reason is the recent death of a local criminal jefe, Uriel Canton AKA El Doctor, last week.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
The seven individuals apprehended for trespassing at the Quabbin Water Reserve in Belchertown, Massachusetts, just after midnight May 14, 2013 are part of an "on-going criminal matter," according to the Massachusetts State Police.
In response to a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request for names, addresses, court dates, and charges filed against the seven individuals, the Office of Chief Legal Council for the Massachusetts State Police cited several state statutes exempting the release of information requested.
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[Dawn] Member of the National Assembly, Awami Moslem League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's car was hit by a falling stray bullet late on Thursday night, said the police rejecting the MNA's claim of being attacked.
The stray bullet, falling from the sky, was at terminal end of its trajectory at a low velocity and came at a vertical angle, police investigation revealed on Friday.
That kind of thing is clearly Allah's will, which is why the people, in a pious desire to aid him who they worship, send so many bullets randomly upward for his pleasure. Really, it's not merely about the gun sex.
The bullet partially pierced the top sheet of the car's trunk and got stuck there, said a blurb issued by the police.
The stray bullet, falling from the sky, was at terminal end of its trajectory at a low velocity and came at a vertical angle, police investigation revealed on Friday.
"Preliminary investigation by police has been conducted under the supervision of SSP, SP City and ASP City Islamabad."
Quoting the application submitted at Aabpara Police Station by Sheikh Rashid, police said that he was proceeding to his house located in Rawalpindi in his Toyota Corolla car after attending a TV programme.
Rashid stated in his application that he was fired upon but he remained safe when he reached near Zero Point on the highway at around 10 pm on August 29. The driver disembarked and checked the vehicle and found a bullet in the car's trunk.
On the complaint of Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, First Information Report (FIR) was registered at Aabpara Police Station on Thursday night.
The MNA had informed the media about the incident prior to reporting it to the police, said the blurb. Police were investigating the incident from all angles, it added.
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I fired a bullet into the sky,
It came back down, Allah knows why;
For marksmanship is just a game,
And it's impious to take aim.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmad is a liar,
To say he was receiving fire;
For who has sight so strong and straight,
That it can decipher the wish of Fate?
I hear it hit Sheikh Rashid's trunk;
I guess the aim of Allah stunk.
Next shot, should Allah intercede,
Will find its way to the heart of Rashid.
[Ynet] An IDF force opened fire toward two suspects riding dune-buggies who entered a restricted zone near the Egyptian border, from the direction of the Sinai Peninsula. After ignoring the force's call to halt, the soldiers opened fire, wounding the two.
One suspect died later from his wounds and the second was taken for medical treatment in Israel. The IDF is investigating the event.
[Ynet] An explosive charge was activated against an IDF force on patrol near the border in the southern Gazoo Strip. No one was injured and no damage caused.
[Al Ahram] Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defence system in Tel Aviv on Friday, as the United States weighed military strikes on neighbouring Syria, local media said. Army radio said that a battery of the mobile system was set up during the morning in the greater Tel Aviv area.
News website Ynet said that unlike last November when the interceptor missiles brought down rockets fired from Gazoo, to the south, this time they were pointing north, toward Syria.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel had deployed its Iron Dome system to meet its current security needs.
He did not specify where, but media reported earlier in the week that the military was moving two of its short-range Iron Dome batteries and one battery of the mid-range Patriot missile to northern Israel.
"We have decided to deploy Iron Dome and other interceptors," Netanyahu said Thursday night in a statement as he went into security talks at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv.
"We are not involved in the war in Syria. But I repeat: if anyone tries to harm Israeli citizens, the Israeli army will respond with force," Netanyahu said in other remarks broadcast by Israeli television.
There are fears that if the United States and its allies launch military strikes on Syria, forces of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... or its Lebanese Hezbollah proxies could retaliate against next-door Israel, Washington's key ally in the region.
A poll published by Maariv newspaper on Friday showed 77 percent of respondents saying that if Washington decides not to strike Assad's regime Israel should not take unilateral military action.
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Security has been beefed up in Narathiwat province after officials were tipped off that two suspected terrorists insurgents planned attacks in the area. Intelligence reports were received that Muhamakosapi Loma and Paosee Dueramae had devised a plan to bomb and ambush troops attached to Narathiwat Special Taskforce 30. There are five arrest warrants out for the two men are wanted on security charges.
The ambush been planned for today to mark Malaysia's day of independence. The planned assault was intended as a response to security forces having arrested or killed several suspected terrorists insurgents.
Meanwhile, Thailand's National Security Council chief Paradorn Pattanatabut said yesterday he had contacted Malaysian officials to ask Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) representative Hassan Taib to formally submit the group's five demands. The controversial demands include the release of detained terror insurgent suspects and revocation of arrest warrants for those still at large, and the state's recognition of the BRN as a liberation movement rather than a separatist group.
Paradorn said the demands will be reviewed to see if the Thai government can agree to any of them. Officials are waiting for the BRN's response before fixing the date for the next round of peace talks next month, he said.
[Al Ahram] Fierce fighting raged Friday in a town near the Syrian capital that a UN team visited this week to probe deadly gas attacks that allegedly took place there, monitors said.
"Violent fighting is pitting regular armed forces against rebels on the northern and western fronts of Moadamiyet al-Sham," the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"The army is trying to advance into the town," it said, adding that an air raid and a surface-to-surface missile launched by the army had targeted the area southwest of Damascus.
Moadamiyet al-Sham is one of the places allegedly hit by chemical attacks on August 21 that the opposition say killed hundreds, and UN inspectors who are currently probing if the incident actually took place visited the town on Monday.
According to the Observatory, the town was hit by more than 10 air raids and hundreds of missiles and rockets on the day of the alleged gas attack.
Western states blame the regime of Bashir al-Assad for the attack, which also allegedly hit the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, but his government strenuously denies any involvement.
The army has for months been trying to take Moadamiyet al-Sham and Daraya -- another Damascus suburb -- back from the rebels, without success.
According to Damascus-based anti-regime activist Ibrahim Shaiban, these two rebel strongholds have been "intensely" bombed since Thursday.
"Regime forces have also dispatched men and tanks as back-up," he said.
On Thursday, eight people -- including at least one woman and a child -- died in Moadamiyet al-Sham bombings, and one person was killed in Daraya.
A top security official in Damascus said the army was "in permanent confrontation with terrorist groups who are in Moadamiyet, and have been for a long time."
The UN team is currently on the final leg of its Syria probe, and on Friday was heading to a military hospital in a Damascus neighbourhood, another security official said.
They are due to leave Syria by Saturday morning, and will report straight back to UN head the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... .
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[Al Ahram] Five people, including a Syrian army captain, were charged on Friday over deadly attacks in the northern Lebanese port 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... a week ago, a judicial source said.
Two Lebanese religious figures were also charged over the twin boom-mobiles outside Sunni mosques on August 23, which killed 45 people in the bloodiest attack since Leb's 15-year civil war ended.
Out of the accused, two Syrians -- including a Captain Mohammed Ali -- are charged with "having placed the two boom-mobiles which killed people", said the source, who declined to be named.
Neither of the two are currently in Leb, but if convicted, they face the death sentence.
The three others are Lebanese.
Sheikh Hashem Minkara, the head of al-Tawhid -- a Sunni organization close to the Syrian regime -- is accused of having known about a "terrorist project and not having alerted authorities." He faces three years in jail.
His deputy Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib and a journalist who had previously done some freelance work for al-Manar, the television channel of the Shiite Hezbollah movement, are charged with having been "part of a terrorist cell that placed... boom-mobiles which went kaboom!" in front of the mosques.
The twin attacks -- which also maimed hundreds -- came just one week after a blast destroyed a densely populated Shiite area of Beirut, killing dozens.
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[STREAM.WSJ] Shortly before the U.S. disclosed intelligence purporting to show Syria's government used chemical weapons last week, Turkey published details which Ankara said left "no doubt" that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces were responsible for a poison gas attack that killed hundreds of people in a Damascus suburb.
The attack was carried out from two separate locations and involved 15 to 20 chemical warheads. The warheads were fired by the 155th Missile Brigade in Qutayfa, 35 km north of Damascus and the 4th Armored Division in Qasyoun Mountain
The news item was released on Turkey's state news agency, Anadolu, shortly after foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference that Turkey had proof of Damascus' culpability. The report, which read like a diplomatic cable and could not be independently verified, detailed the precise time, location and weapons used in the attack, as well as the Syrian brigade which launched it.
According to the report, which you can read here, the attack was carried out from two separate locations and involved 15 to 20 chemical warheads. The warheads were fired by the 155th Missile Brigade in Qutayfa, 35 km north of Damascus and the 4th Armored Division in Qasyoun Mountain, also north of the capital, the news item said.
"From our point of view, totally based on our national intelligence and assessments by our national experts ... there is no doubt that the regime is responsible," Davutoglu told reporters in Ankara, shortly before the disclosure.
The report came as Washington planned to release an unclassified version of its intelligence assessment of the chemical weapons attack, according to U.S. officials. The push for a quick international strike to punish Syria for what the U.S. said was a chemical-weapons attack appeared in disarray on Thursday, after British lawmakers defeated a government motion in support of military action.
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Well then, Turkey has a large army and is sitting right on the border why don't they just march in and take over? I'm sure they could get their friends in Jordan and SA to join in the party.
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Because wars are expensive and it costs them nothing if Uncle Sam does it for them. Ideally, the US should help the ummah cleanse non-Sunni infidels from this world, but since you gotta start somewhere, Syria's not a bad place to begin.
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Turkey has a large army and is sitting right on the border why don't they just march in and take over?
Turkey's competent senior and mid-level officers are sitting in jail, AlanC . The ones left behind primarily had to satisfy Erdogan's Islamists that they are true believers.
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[Al Ahram] Six protesters have been confirmed dead after violence flared at rallies in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Giza, Zagazig and Port Said on Friday. Protests to 'reclaim legitimacy' were called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's National Coalition to Support Legitimacy.
In the Suez Canal city of Port Said a protester was killed and 8 injured as fighting broke out between supporters and opponents of the ousted president in the Al-Amin district, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. It is unclear how the clashes started. Police reportedly mobilised to disperse the crowds.
[Al Ahram] Police have stormed the offices of Al Jazeera in Giza, after hours the authorities banned its Mubasher Misr channel from working in Egypt.
[Al Ahram] A drone strike Friday killed an Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, a tribal source said, the latest in a string of attacks on what is considered the
[Al Ahram] Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defence system in Tel Aviv on Friday, as the United States weighed military strikes on neighbouring Syria, local media said. Army radio said that a battery of the mobile system was set up during the morning in the greater Tel Aviv area.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Al Ahram] Fierce fighting raged Friday in a town near the Syrian capital that a UN team visited this week to probe deadly gas attacks that allegedly took place there, monitors said.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
