BTW, I like subtle, it seems similar to goulash which, while a little spicy for work, would make a great main course at home. Especially if you have the right All State policy.
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian soldiers on Thursday (September 5th) eliminated two bully boyz in a military operation in corpse-littered Boumerdes, APS reported. According to El Watan, the ANP operation followed the arrest of an armed Islamist in Baghlia a week ago, who provided information about the movement of bully boyz in the region. Four bad boyz were potted during the last two weeks in corpse-littered Boumerdes province.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The Algerian army killed two people who tried to infiltrate the country through the border with Tunisia, Tunisie Numerique reported on Thursday.
The soldiers opened fire when the trespassers refused to stop at their orders.
After arresting the others, the security services understood that the suspects were among the Tunisian inmates involved in the Gabes prison break.
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[Al Ahram] A young Saudi man was killed during a raid by security forces in the restive town of Awamiya in the eastern part of the country, a local news website reported, in a development that could further stoke tensions in the area.
Saudi police denied any connection to the death of the young man and suggested it may be crime-linked.
Occasional unrest has erupted in the eastern part of the U.S.-allied kingdom since 2011 among minority Shi'ite Moslems who complain of discrimination. 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... , the world's largest oil exporter, denies any discrimination and accuses Shi'ite-majority Iran of inciting tensions.
The website www.rasid.com quoted witnesses as saying that dozens of security vehicles blocked the roads into Awamiya on Thursday while forces raided the homes of two wanted activists on a list published by the authorities in January 2012.
"Information circulating around indicated that security forces opened fire during the raid, after which the youth Ahmed Ali al-Muslab fell," rasid said.
It quoted activists as saying that the youth was passing by the area of the raid when he was hit in the foot and back while trying to flee arrest. Activists had emailed what they said were photographs from the scene, showing walls and doors punctured by bullet holes.
A front man for Saudi police in the eastern region said the central hospital in Qatif notified police shortly after mid-day on Thursday that a dead man with gunshot wounds had been brought in by his father.
The police said the father told police afterwards that two masked men on a cycle of violence had brought the body of his son and dumped it in front of the house and fled.
"Security authorities began investigating and searching for the suspects," the police said in a statement sent to Rooters.
At least 21 people have been rubbed out in the region since early 2011, when Shi'ites there staged protests against the involvement of Saudi forces in ending demonstrations in neighboring Sunni-ruled Bahrain, which has a Shi'ite majority.
Saudi Arabia last year ordered the arrest of 23 Shi'ites in the Eastern Province, where many of the kingdom's minority Shi'ite Moslems live, saying they were responsible for unrest.
The Interior Ministry said on Thursday that one of the desperados had turned himself in to authorities. The surrender cuts the number of people still on the lam on the original list to eight.
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[Al Ahram] Scuffles erupted outside Alexandria's Al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque after noon prayers on Friday when local residents attacked dozens of supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi.
Stones were thrown back and forth between the groups, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, led by Morsi's Moslem BrĂĽderbund, called for demonstrations on Friday to press for Morsi's reinstatement and other key demands.
The alliance condemned Thursday's kaboom against Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim and reiterated its call for protests to remain peaceful.
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[Al Ahram] Clashes between protesters supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi and local residents in several locations around Egypt led to the deaths of at least two pro-Morsi protesters on Friday, as thousands of Islamists erupted into the streets in another sign of defiance.
Supporters of Morsi, who was ousted by the military amid nationwide protests in early July, held demonstrations around the country against what they describe as "a military coup" despite an ongoing crackdown on pro-Morsi protests and a wave of arrests of members of his Moslem Brüderbund.
In the Nile Delta city of Damietta, Moslem Brüderbund member Ibrahim Selim was killed after a pro-Morsi rally was attacked, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Another Morsi supporter was killed in Egypt's second largest city, Alexandria, during festivities between locals and anti-Brotherhood protesters.
Twenty-three Brotherhood supporters were placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! following the festivities in the coastal city.
Although demonstrations were held in the capital, in several Nile Delta cities, in Ismailia on the Suez Canal and in Upper Egypt's Assiut, numbers seemed to be significantly lower than previous weeks.
According to political analyst Amr El-Shobaky, the Moslem Brüderbund and their allies are constrained by the arrests of key leaders.
"The Brotherhood's strong organizational skills are contingent on blind obedience to their leaders. With their leadership behind bars they cannot deploy their supporters effectively," El-Shobaky told Ahram Online.
Those behind bars include Morsi himself, held incommunicado since his ouster, the group's spiritual leader Mohamed Badie, and second-in-command Khairat El-Shater. All are facing related charges of inciting violence.
The crackdown comes after a violent dispersal of pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on 14 August which left hundreds of protesters dead and sparked days of intense violence nationwide.
Since then, intermittent festivities have taken place between Morsi supporters, anti-Brotherhood civilians and security forces. A number of coppers and members of the security forces have also been killed in the festivities.
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[An Nahar] Suspected al-Qaeda gunniesrubbed out a Yemeni intelligence officer on Friday in the southeastern city of Hadramawt, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse, in the second shooting in as many days.
"Two men on a cycle of violenceshot up intelligence officer Omar Mahfudh, killing him on the spot as he emerged from al-Qatn mosque," the source said, adding al-Qaeda was behind the shooting.
On Thursday night retired army colonel Abdel Magid Abdullah, 70, was killed in similar circumstances by gunnies who fled on a cycle of violence in Huta, capital of the southern province of Lahj.
The shootings are the latest in a wave of almost daily attacks blamed on al-Qaeda in recent weeks against army and intelligence officers in southern Yemen.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Two men were killed and as many as 30 homes have been torched by armed suspects in Sinaloa state Wednesday, according to several Mexican news accounts.
An APRO wire dispatch published on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily said that homes in Choix municipality, specifically in ejido El Corral Quemado were attacked by an unknown number of local gunmen, said by Sinaloa state authorities to be members of local organized crime groups.
A separate account published on the website of Milenio news daily said that a total of 14 homes, all of them abandoned, were destroyed by fire set by local criminals. The homes had been abandoned in reaction of threats by organized crime groups in the area, or were unoccupied as residents went to work in the fields. Some residents were out tending livestock when they watched their homes destroyed first by small arms fire then by deliberately being set afire.
A separate news report posted on the website of El Debate news daily said that the number of residences destroyed was 15. However, a police source quoted by the newspaper said that 13 homes were torched and two vehicles were destroyed by fire.
At least one unarmed civilian, a farmer was shot to death in Choix municipality, according to another news report posted on El Debate.
Armed suspects traveling in the area aboard vehicle have been attacking civilians from the east, or Chihuahua side of Choix municipality. The armed suspects who killed Berrelleza Renteria drove on to the villages Saucillo and Las Punta, firing into homes in which women and children has taken refuge. The news report did not say if anyone was hurt in the subsequent incident.
Yet another news account in El Debate said that Mexican Army units near Urique in far western Chihuahua exchanged gunfire with armed suspects, who were presumably moving into Chihuahua state from Choix. One unidentified armed suspect was killed by army counterfire. The article does not specify a date, but the news report was posted early Saturday morning, meaning the incident possibly took place some time on Friday.
Thursday a total of 13 security patrols were dispatched to the area, including 50 Sinaloa state police agents, presumably mixed federal and Sinaloa state elements. If those patrols penetrated into Choix, attempts by armed suspects to filter back into Chihuahua would explain Mexican Army units fighting them in Urique.
Photographs posted on El Debate indicate that Mexican Army units are included in those patrols.
Choix municipality was the focal point of some of the worst intergang fighting between groups sympathetic to the Sinaloa cartel and groups aligned with the Beltran-Leyva Organization, including Los Zetas and Juarez cartels in the summer of 2012. At that time, Choix was considered to be Beltran-Leyva territory, but now the area is in some dispute.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. His latest work of non-fiction, The Wounded Eagle: Volume 2 went on sale September 1st at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.
[An Nahar] The U.S. Treasury blacklisted Friday a key Iranian businessman and five others whom it said were trying to help Iran circumvent international sanctions to export oil.
The Treasury identified a Seyed Seyyedi, the director of Sima General Trading, as a key player in the network that includes Greek shipowner Dimitris Cambis, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Naftiran Intertrade Company Sarl (NICO).
Seyyedi, it said, controls a number of companies in the United Arab Emirates that have been "used by him to assist NICO and NICO front companies, such as Sima General Trading, in its sanctions evasion schemes."
The others blacklisted, four Iranians and one Iran-born British citizen who work for NICO and NIOC-linked firms, were named as helping Tehran in its efforts to beat sanctions.
"In its efforts to evade sanctions, the government of Iran relies on front companies, financial institutions and businessmen willing to engage in deceptive transactions to conceal the direct involvement of the Iranian government and its instrumentalities," the Treasury said in a statement.
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[Dawn] A drone strike in the North Wazoo tribal region in the early hours of Friday killed a senior commander of the Haqqani network, intelligence officials said.
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, blacklisted as a terrorist by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and United States, was among six fighters killed in a drone strike in a Haqqani stronghold area of North Waziristan agency. Zadran was wanted for kidnappings and sending hundreds of imported muscle into Afghanistan.
The United States has blamed the Haqqani network, a faction of the Taliban waging a 12-year insurgency in Afghanistan, for a series of high-profile attacks in recent years.
Two announcements made by mosque loudspeaker in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town in North Waziristan, said his funeral would take place at 3pm on Friday.
Two Pak intelligence officials, who spoke to news agency AFP on condition of anonymity, confirmed his death and said an Arab fighter was also among the dead.
Pak officials said the US drone fired two missiles, destroying a compound overnight in Dargah Mandi, a Haqqani stronghold about 10 kilometres from Miranshah.
Earlier reports had suggested six suspected forces of Evil were killed and three others maimed in the missile strike in the remote semiautonomous tribal area. Reports now confirm Zadran was among the dead.
In 2011, the US State Department described Zardan as shadow governor of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , one of the most volatile Afghan provinces on the Pak border and as a lieutenant of Haqqani leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.
It alleged Zadran led fighters in attacks across southeastern Afghanistan, and was believed to have planned and coordinated the movement of hundreds of imported muscle into Afghanistan.
He was also connected to roadside kaboomings and was believed to have orchestrated the kidnappings of Afghans and foreigners in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
Pakistain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack, calling it a violation of the country's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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[Dawn] At least eight unidentified people were killed late Friday night when unknown gunnies attacked their vehicles in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the capital of troubled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province bordering Afghanistan, said a police official.
SHO Badaber Police Station, Abidur Rehman told Dawn.com the incident took place near Gulzar Chowk in Peshawar's Matni area -- a buffer zone between lovely provincial capital and lawless tribal region of Dara Adamkhel.
"At least eight people are killed and number of others are inured," said Rehman. He said vehicles travelling to southern districts including a 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... -bound Bus on Kohat Road were the apparent target of the attackers.
The dead bodies and injured were being shifted to Leady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
Police and other law enforcement forces have cordoned off the area and a search operation to arrest the myrmidons was underway.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... local residents reportedly came out on the street and exchanged fire with the attackers alongside security forces. The clash lasted for an hour at least.
The motive and the perpetrators of the attack were not immediately known.
Earlier in the day, at least five people were maimed when a cycle of violence packed with explosives detonated inside the Hashtnagri cop shoppe, located in the centre of the city.
More than 40,000 Pak people have been killed in attacks by al Qaeda and Taliban-led hard boyz in the last decade.
Washington considers the tribal belt as the main hub of Taliban and al Qaeda hard boyz plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.
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[Ynet] Police incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a man walking by the US embassy in Tel Aviv as he was carrying a bag that the embassy's security personnel found suspicious. Police bomb squad was called in to the scene to examine the bag.
[Ynet] Police enter Temple Mount in Jerusalem after stones thrown at them at end of Friday prayers. Wednesday similar incident took place as tensions run high
For the second time in a week, police forces have broken into the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem in wake of stone throwing by Mohammedan worshipers.
The police used stun grenades to take control of the area and the stone throwing ceased. No injuries were reported.
When the forces exited towards the Mugrabi Gate to deal with additional disquiet, stone throwing resumed. The forces then reentered the area, emptied it from worshipers and dispersed the stone throwers. Some 15 people were tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Police also stormed the Temple Mount on Wednesday morning, following stone throwing at visitors and coppers by masked men on the scene. Security forces under District Commander Yossi Pariente dispersed the stone throwers.
Police said they did not to use riot control measures and that there were no reported injuries. The stone throwers fled into mosques and security forces remain in the courtyard.
At the same time, on the road to Jerusalem, police stopped dozens of buses carrying Arab worshipers who were on their way to the Temple Mount. Police turned them around, believing their intention was to cause disturbances at the location.
In recent weeks, tension has risen following calls from radical Arab elements to "to protect the Temple Mount from Jewish visitors" and not allow them to go up the mountain. On Tuesday, Jerusalem district police arrested the head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, on suspicion of incitement in a speech last week in Kfar Kara in Wadi Ara.
It is suspected that Salah accused Israel of responsibility for the fire at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and said that "the Israeli occupation" is working to burn the Arab world and Egypt. Following the hearing held yesterday in Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, Salah was banned from entering the city for 180 days.
He was ordered to maintain a distance of 30 km from the capital, and to leave a deposit of NIS 50,000. Salah refused the conditions and will be brought before the court Wednesday for a continuance of the hearing.
[Al Ahram] Israeli police fired stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, arresting 15 of them, police said. Howling mob erupts from mosque, fling rocks at cops. Cops react. Damn those Zionists.
"Several hundred Palestinian youths demonstrated after Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa compound, and threw stones at Israeli security forces," spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
"The police stormed the compound and dispersed the stone-throwers using stun grenades.
"One policeman was injured and 15 of the protesters were arrested," she told AFP.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels who seized an entry to a Christian town north of Damascus this week have now withdrawn to protect religious and archaeological sites there, an opposition statement said.
"Free Syrian Army (FSA) units on Wednesday destroyed posts at Maalula and Jabadine held by the army on the Damascus-Homs road after fierce festivities with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's forces and auxiliaries," the Syrian National Coalition said overnight.
"The FSA was stationed for several hours in the vicinity, but did not attack any church or convent," the statement added.
The Coalition stressed its "commitment to protect all Syrians, no matter what their religion, race, confession or political belief, and its constant concern to preserve Syria's human and religious heritage by every means possible".
On Wednesday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said jihadist fighters of the al-Nusra Front seized a military post at Maalula after a suicide kaboom.
It said regime warplanes later launched three air raids on the checkpoint taken by the Islamists.
A video posted on the Internet by rebels showed fighters speaking into walkie-talkies as the voiceover said: "holy shit! Allahu akbar (God is greatest), liberation of the Maalula checkpoint."
The Observatory, which relies on a community of activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground for its information, said the assault began when a vehicle driven by a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the checkpoint.
A resident of Maalula, a picturesque town 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Damascus that sits nestled under a large cliff, told AFP the Al-Nusra Front assault began at 0300 GMT on Wednesday.
Speaking by phone from the Mar Takla Greek Orthodox monastery, the woman -- who asked not to be named -- said the rebels used shells and anti-aircraft machineguns, adding that some projectiles had hit the town center.
"It's the first time that we've been attacked," she said.
Maalula is a symbol of the Christian presence in Syria, and many of its inhabitants speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ that only small, scattered communities around the world still use today.
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[An Nahar] Syrian armed forces launched a massive operation on Friday to secure a strategic military airport near Damascus ahead of possible U.S.-led military strikes, a monitoring group said.
Troops bombarded rebel positions in Moadamiyet al-Sham, a town southwest of Damascus near Mazzeh airport, one of the country's key air bases, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said: "The regime is trying to seize control of Moadamiyet al-Sham before a probable Western strike, because the town commands access to Mazzeh airport."
The base is guarded by the army's elite Fourth Armored Division -- a unit led by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's brother Maher -- which is responsible for security in and around Damascus.
The army has been unsuccessfully trying for months to take Moadamiyet al-Sham back from the rebels.
Western leaders accuse the Assad regime of unleashing chemical attacks on August 21 east and southwest of Damascus, including in Moadamiyet al-Sham, that killed hundreds.
U.S. President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... has been trying to secure international support for a punitive strike on regime targets and will seek congressional approval for such action next week.
The Syrian government denies using chemical weapons, blaming instead rebels trying to topple the regime of using the poisonous agents.
The Britannia-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground for its reports, said at least four surface-to-surface missiles fired by regime forces struck Moadamiyet al-Sham Friday.
Rebels and troops also clashed in the area as Assad's forces tried to rout the myrmidons, it added.
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Iran is enduring economic sanctions designed to slow the country's nuclear weapons program,
... which has thus far been a resounding failure, but do go on...
but President Obama's team thought the regime might abandon dictator Bashar Assad over his use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.
This is mind-numbingly, double-face palm stupid.
Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hoped that a team of UN investigators -- many of whom, presumably, have a longstanding relationship with Iranian leaders -- could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States.
Ms. Powers has never spent a day in the real world in her entire life. She's a child of privilege, an adult of leisure, an academic, a government "elite" who's never once had to face the consequences of the many bad decisions she's made and bad advice she's given out.
"We worked with the UN to create a group of inspectors and then worked for more than six months to get them access to the country on the logic that perhaps the presence of an investigative team in the country might deter future attacks," Power said at the Center for American Progress as she made the case for intervening in Syria.
"Or, if not, at a minimum, we thought perhaps a shared evidentiary base could convince Russia or Iran -- itself a victim of Saddam Hussein's monstrous chemical weapons attacks in 1987-1988 -- to cast loose a regime that was gassing it's people," she said.
Samantha: let me clue you in. Syria and Iran are allies. That means they're sticking together. That means Iran won't throw Syria over unless it's in their best interests to do so, and you haven't made that case.
Rather than "cast loose" Assad after the latest chemical weapons attack, as the Obama team hoped, "Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has warned the Obama administration against any proposed military strike on Syria," as the International Business Times reports.
Neither Russia nor Iran will cast loose Syria. They can't and keep any credibility. As it turns out, credibility is something Ms. Powers has never experienced.
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Good grief. I'm more convinced than ever that liberalism is a form of mental illness: there is definitely something wrong with these people, as if they are really little children in adult bodies.
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Liberals think with emotion not tempered or cross checked with logic (or facts). Thus they believe in things that feel good at the time and are not necessarily good for in the long run or in the big picture of things.
Hence the contradictions. They in their ignorance will get a lot of people killed when they are in positions of authority.
Dangerous fools.
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[Dawn] The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential American diplomats and the families of staffers at the US Embassy in Beirut to leave Lebanon immediately due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria. This would likely be in response to Iranian threats to rape and murder Americans.
The department also authorised the voluntary departure of diplomats and families at the US Consulate in Adana, Turkey, which is the closest American diplomatic post to Syria in Turkey.
In a new travel warning for Lebanon, the department said it had instructed nonessential staffers to leave Beirut and urged private American citizens to depart the country "due to threats to US mission facilities and personnel."
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#1
Perhaps "nonessentials" should be ordered out of the White House.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MAGHAREBIA] The Algerian army killed two people who tried to infiltrate the country through the border with Tunisia, Tunisie Numerique reported on Thursday.
[Al Ahram] A young Saudi man was killed during a raid by security forces in the restive town of Awamiya in the eastern part of the country, a local news website reported, in a development that could further stoke tensions in the area.
[Al Ahram] Scuffles erupted outside Alexandria's Al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque after noon prayers on Friday when local residents attacked dozens of supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi.
"Two men on a 
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[Ynet] 50 Paleostinians hurled stones and 
[Ynet] Police enter Temple Mount in Jerusalem after stones thrown at them at end of Friday prayers. Wednesday similar incident took place as tensions run high
[Al Ahram] Israeli police fired stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, arresting 15 of them, police said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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Iran is enduring economic sanctions designed to slow the country's nuclear weapons program, 
