[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 3,000 protesters erupted into the streets of the Sudanese capital on Saturday to demand for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to step down, witnesses said, after days of unrest in which dozens of people have been killed.
The protests, which are on their sixth day, were sparked by the scrapping of fuel subsidies that have turned into an expression of anti-government sentiment.
Opposition sources say more than 140 people have been killed since the unrest began on Thursday. But the official corpse count is now at 33 after four protesters were rubbed out by unidentified gunnies on Friday, Rooters news agency reported.
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[Al Ahram] Sudanese security forces in pickup trucks cornered hundreds of mourners marching after burying a slain protester and opened fire on them on Saturday, participants said. This is the latest reported violence in a week-long wave of demonstrations calling for the ouster of longtime President Omar Al-Bashir.
Three female protesters said that they were surrounded by dozens of pickup trucks and security forces in a main street in the capital Khartoum and hit with tear gas and gunfire. It was not possible to independently verify their account, but Sudanese activists say the government's poorly trained security forces have routinely used live fire against protesters, often shooting at the head and body.
The violent crackdown is propelling protests triggered by the lifting of fuel and gas subsidies into the most serious challenge to Al-Bashir's 24-year-long rule in years.
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Sudanese activists say the government's poorly trained security forces have routinely used live fire against protesters
Then it's more 'standard operating procedure' than "poorly trained", isn't it?
The suspected leader of the Nairobi mall massacre may have been trained by the British military, it was claimed yesterday.
The Muslim convert known as Omar was killed at the end of the four-day Westgate siege by police and his former comrades in the Kenyan special forces. Anti-terror officers are looking into the records of special forces soldiers who left the Kenyan army around 2005 and those who received specialist training from the British.
Omar is one of at least two Christian converts to Islam who are said to have taken part in the slaughter of as many as 130 people by the Somali-based Al Shabaab terror group.Omar is said to have left Kenya for Somalia in 2005, where initially he joined a militant Islamist group before transferring to the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab, which was formed in 2006. Channel 4 said he used to teach Al Shabaab fighters martial arts and boxing at a training camp in Somalia. They say he fell out with the leadership because they thought he lacked sufficient ambition.
A suicide bomber was killed instantly when he accidentally detonated his explosives belt in the Malian rebel bastion of Kidal on Sunday, without killing or wounding anyone else, a local government official told AFP.
Allah has spoken. He disapproves.
The incident came after militants carried out two attacks in northern Mali in less than 72 hours, marking an upsurge in violence since the breakdown of peace talks between the government and rebel groups on Thursday.
"The bomber was wearing his belt. He did something wrong, the belt exploded, and he was killed on the spot, before he could go on to commit a terrorist attack in the city," an official in the Kidal governor's office said.
"There was a big explosion that blew up part of the building the bomber was in."
[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces diffused an bomb placed under a car belonging to a police officer in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
According to eyewitnesses, an unidentified device was planted beneath the car. Bomb experts who arrived on the scene to diffuse the device said it was a primitive homemade hand grenade.
Egyptian security forces have found bombs near police and train stations in several governorates as political violence continues to grip the country since the deposal of former president Mohamed Morsi by the military on 3 July.
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I think that's likely supposed to be 'de-fused' the bomb, as opposed to slowly washing it away.
I could be wrong...
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[Al Ahram] Security forces nabbed Please don't kill me! on Saturday three accused in executing the attack on Giza's Kerdasa cop shoppe on 14 August, which resulted in the death of 11 coppers.
Those arrested included the main accused Mohamed Aly Ghozlan in addition to two of his relatives, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Suspected Islamist gunnies have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students.
The students were rubbed out as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state.
North-eastern Nigeria is under a state of emergency amid an Islamist insurgency by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... group.
Boko Haram is fighting to overthrow Nigeria's government to create an Islamic state, and has launched a number of attacks on schools.
Classrooms burned Casualty figures from the latest attack vary, but a local politician told the BBC that around 50 students had been killed.
The politician said two vanloads of bodies had been taken to a hospital in Yobe's state capital, Damaturu.
A witness quoted by Rooters news agency counted 40 bodies at the hospital, mostly those of young men believed to be students.
College provost Molima Idi Mato, speaking to News Agency that Dare Not be Named, also said the number of dead could be as high as 50, adding that security forces were still recovering the bodies and that about 1,000 students had fled the campus.
A Nigerian military source told AP that soldiers had collected 42 bodies.
The gunnies also set fire to classrooms, a military front man in Yobe state, Lazarus Eli, told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
The college is in the rural Gujba district.
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Our college students are at risk too - but of binge drinking, not Islamic psychopaths. How many of these Loco Bokos are there, anyway? At this point I recommend tracking them back to their lair and nuking 'em from orbit.
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Don't be so sure Glenmore. The next terror attack in USA (one practically invited by recent actions of the current admin.) could be against one of your colleges.
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Obama Regime security is not interested in protecting the natives or the US military.
North Africa is where this regime allowed Seals, CIA, and US Diplomats to be slaughtered, along with dozens of Fort Hood Solders (warnings were overly abundant), Washington DC Naval personal (warnings were overly abundant), civilians at the Boston Marathon (warnings were overly abundant)...
[An Nahar] Gunmen severely maimed an army colonel from Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi's extended family in the restive south on Saturday in an attack blamed by a security official on al-Qaeda.
"Colonel Ali Nasser Dambur was hit by four bullets fired by one of two people on a cycle of violence in Seyun" in Hadramawt province, the official said.
He said the officer was hit in the head and chest and was evacuated by helicopter to the capital Sanaa, adding that the attack bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.
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[CNN] At least 40 people were killed and about 100 were maimed after a bomb went kaboom! at a bazaar 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. , officials at a Pak hospital said.
A car carrying 220 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives detonated in the city's historic Qissa Khawani bazaar, destroying at least 10 shops, several vehicles and leaving a huge crater, said Shafqat Malik, chief of the bomb disposal unit.
The Pak Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban, condemned the attack and denied any involvement.
Qissa Khawani bazaar, or the "storytellers' market," was the site of a bloody massacre in April 1930 when British soldiers fired on peaceful demonstrators, killing hundreds. At the time, Pakistain was part of India -- and India was under British rule.
Alamzeb Khan was working at a nearby tea stall when he felt the earth shake. The impact of the blast knocked him to the ground.
"When I got up, everything was on fire. Women and children were burning in (a) Suzuki pickup, and a number of vehicles were destroyed, besides the shops (that) were also on fire," Khan said.
The corpse count is expected to rise, as most of the maimed are critically injured, said Dr. Arshad Javed, chief executive of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
Already, people are sharing stories of incredible loss. One family traveled to Peshawar to attend a wedding. Now they're planning a mass funeral. In all, the family lost eighteen members in the attack, including children.
A gruesome week
Peshawar, the capital of Pakistain's volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, has endured a violent week.
On Monday, 81 people were killed in a suicide kaboom at a Protestant church in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the Christian community in Pakistain.
A splinter group of the Pak Taliban grabbed credit, saying the attack was in response to U.S. drone strikes in tribal areas.
And on Friday, at least 17 people were killed and more than 30 others maimed in an kaboom that destroyed a bus carrying government employees.
Sikander Khan Sherpao, senior minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, suggested the attack had been carried out by forces wanting to sabotage recent efforts by the national government to pursue peace talks with the Pak Taliban.
No group immediately grabbed credit for Sunday's attack at the bazaar. The Pak Taliban decried the loss of innocent life but at the same time struck a defiant note. "We are targeting the government machinery and the law enforcement agencies but not general public," said front man Shaidullah Shaid.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is rife with Islamic gunnies and has been the site of festivities between Pak security forces and krazed killers.
Earlier this month, Pak officials announced plans to pursue peace talks with Talibs and withdraw troops from parts of the volatile northwestern region, which borders Afghanistan
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at least their sovereignty is intact
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[Dawn] At least three security forces' personnel were killed and two others injured during a clash with myrmidons in the Panjgur area of 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... on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Khan Wasey, the FC Spokesman, said forces of Evil attacked a security forces' vehicle which was on routine patrol in the Paroom area of Panjgur district in Balochistan. Subsequently, three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and two others were left maimed. Moreover, six assailants were killed during retaliatory firing. "Both sides used heavy weapons during the armed clash," Wasey added.
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[Al Ahram] Violence that included attacks on security forces and their families killed 11 people in Iraq on Saturday, officials said.
In Tarmiyah, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , hard boyz blew up four houses belonging to police and soldiers while people slept inside. Four people were killed, among them a soldier, and 15 maimed.
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[An Nahar] A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel overnight, the army said on Saturday, but no casualties or damage were reported.
A tweet from the official military account said the rocket struck open ground near the port city of Ashkelon just northeast of the Islamist Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave.
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[Dawn] Philippine officials said Saturday they believed that all hostages held by Musselmengunnies during a nearly three-week battle in a city in the south of the country were now free.
A total of 195 hostages had either escaped, been rescued or released by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) gunnies who entered Zamboanga, according to the latest military tally.
"The indications are that they are no longer holding any hostages," military front man Brigadier-General Domingo Tutaan told news hounds in Manila.
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[India Express] A Syrian government air raid struck a high school in a rebel-held city in the country's north today, killing at least 12 people, most of them students, activists said. What a hell of a choice: to be ruled by Pencilneck or to be ruled by Islamic cannibals.
The Arclight airstrike took place in the city of Raqqa, which is located on the Euphrates River and is the only bustling provincial capital under rebel control in Syria's civil war, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Right said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's regime has relied heavily on its air force to strike opposition-held areas, including Raqqa.
The attack appeared to hit the yard in front of the school early Sunday morning, which is the first day of the work week at public schools in Syria.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said at least eight of the dead were students, and that the corpse count is likely to rise because many of the maimed are at death's door.
Amateur videos posted online showed at least nine bodies, some of them missing limbs, lying on pockmarked-pavement strewn with rubble. At least four of the bodies appeared to be of young people. Another video shows pools of blood on the ground and a concrete-block wall destroyed in the bombing.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the events depicted.
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luckily no wymyns or girls were hit. Not allowed in schools, ya know?
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This whole conflict is basically lawful evil vs. chaotic evil, if you ask me.
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The rebels had specifically avoided using the school as a military barracks, armory and ammo dump, so this is clear evidence that Assad is Hitler, Stalin, Attila the Hun and Kim Jong-un rolled into one.
[Al Ahram] The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.
The major powers overcame a prolonged deadlock to approve the first council resolution on the conflict, which is now 30 months old with more than 100,000 dead.
UN leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who called the resolution "the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time," said he hopes to convene a peace conference in mid-November.
Resolution 2118, the result of bruising negotiations between the United States and Russia, gives international binding force to a plan drawn up by the two to eliminate Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's chemical arms.
The plan calls for Syria's estimated 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons to be put under international control by mid-2014.
International experts are expected to start work in Syria to meet the tight deadline next week. Britannia and China offered to finance to the disarmament operation.
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And if Syria doesn't do it, the UN will ...
Answer: send a VERY strongly worded memo demanding that Syria comply.
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[Al Ahram] Two faceless myrmidons of the powerful Shiite Hezbollah movement were killed on Saturday in a firefight with members of a Sunni clan in eastern Leb, a security official told AFP.
"Members of the Shiah (Sunni Mohammedan) family shot up a Hezbollah checkpoint in the centre of Baalbek, provoking faceless myrmidons to return fire," the official said.
"The incident let to festivities that killed two Hezbollah members and maimed five people," the official added.
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Five people were killed on Saturday after clashes broke out between Hizbullah members and al-Shiyyah clan in the Bekaa city of Baalbek.
"An exchange of fire occurred between armed men in al-Qalaa market in Baalbek, using light arms," the army command said in a communique.
The statement added that three people were killed and other were injured in the clashes.
"An army unit swiftly deployed in the area and raided suspicious locations," the army added. ... Raided -- an interesting word used here..... we got shootn' and the army is raiding..... Typical reporting from a Journalism 101 student.... and he isn't even American...
Later on Saturday, the army issued another statement confirming that the troops continued their deployment in the Bekaa city, and have adopted intensified security measures to restore security and stability in Baalbek.
The communique revealed that a soldier was gravely injured while at his home in the city.
"Several fugitives were arrested in the raids staged by the troops," the statement pointed out, warning that all gunmen and armed presence will be "strictly prosecuted."
"The Army Command urges the residents of the city and its prominent figures to exercise self-restraint and cooperate with the measures adopted by the military institution to avoid an escalation." ... at least they admit to "special favors"... and its prominent figures -- hummm.... wondering, how to determine if I'm a prominent figure?
The state-run National News Agency reported that Ali Sami al-Masri, who was riding a motorcycle in the market, was killed in the clashes.
Two of the wounded people were identified as Ahmed Toufiq Hassan (hand wound), Mohammed al-Shiyyah (chest wound), Yasser Saeed, Abdul Nasser Jary (head wound), and Ali Mahmoud Wehbe.
Several shops were set ablaze in the area. ...and Islam allows no insurance claims.... good luck, guys
LBCI television said that Hizbullah member Imad Ballouq was killed in the clash, while the National News Agency identified the other victims as Hisham Wehbe and Ali Mustapha al-Rifai, who is a vegetable vendor. ... Ah, not the veggie guy?
Later, the news agency reported that Mohammed Ali Soleh was killed by sniper gunfire in the renewal of clashes, bringing the death toll to five.
The unrest broke out when youths from the Shiyyah clan opened fire at Hizbullah members in the market, reported NNA.
The party members fired back, resulting in the ensuing clashes. Rather than Midnight Games of Basketball, these "youths" follow Chicago example of "firing back."
NNA said Saturday's attack was in retaliation to a shooting between the two sides in the Baalbek market on Wednesday.
The bloodshed is the worst sectarian violence to hit Baalbek, and it was the second clash in the city since Wednesday involving Hizbullah and Sunni gunmen.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the clashes on Wednesday and Saturday, but both happened at a checkpoint manned by Hizbullah.
Hizbullah members took to the streets of Baalbek after the clashes, an Agence France Presse correspondent said, adding that five Sunni-owned shops were torched by unknown arsonists.
A security official said the three-hour firefight also spread close to the ancient Roman archaeological site.
Hizboullah has set up checkpoints in the Baalbek region after deadly bombings tore through its main southern Beirut stronghold in July and August.
Fifty people were wounded in the first attack and 27 killed in the second.
[An Nahar] Two people were maimed 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... when unknown assailants hurled a bomb at a shop on Saturday evening.
"Two people were maimed when a bomb was hurled at al-Aqqad cycle of violence shop in Tripoli's Miatayn street," the state-run National News Agency reported, adding that the maimed were transferred to the city's hospitals for treatment.
NNA pointed out that security forces have cordoned off the area and opened an investigation in the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... another bomb was hurled in Tripoli's Syria street, according to the NNA.
The same source said also that heavy gunfire was heard in al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in the northern city.
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officials say the attacks, which breached an unclassified computer network, were done by hackers working directly for the Iranian government or for a group acting with governmental approval. They said that they do not believe that any data of significant importance was stolen. Iranian attacks typically focus on American banks and energy companies.
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The Navy suspended #2 t StratCom--hopefully it was an insignificant breach!
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A suicide bomber was killed instantly when he accidentally detonated his explosives belt in the Malian rebel bastion of Kidal on Sunday, without killing or wounding anyone else, a local government official told AFP.
[Al Ahram] Security forces 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
