[Al Ahram] Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday into a university campus where female students were protesting, the university head said on the eighth day of demonstrations sparked by rising fuel prices.
Between 150 and 200 Ahfad University for Women students were demonstrating "against the government and things like that," university president Gasim Badri told AFP.
He said police did not enter the campus in Khartoum's twin city Omdurman but fired tear gas from outside.
There were no injuries and the demonstration had already finished, Badri said.
Late Sunday about 1,000 people marched in Khartoum calling for the government's overthrow after a ceremony mourning those bumped off last week during fuel price protests, witnesses said.
The rally began in the wealthy Mansheeya neighbourhood, which was home to Salah Mudathir, 28, a pharmacologist rubbed out during a protest on Friday.
"Freedom! Freedom!" they shouted, according to the witnesses.
"A million Salah for a new dawn!" they called in a reference to the dead man.
They also demanded the fall of the regime, echoing calls made by demonstrators during the Arab Spring revolts of 2011 which toppled a succession of veteran regional leaders.
Authorities say 33 people have died since petrol and diesel prices jumped one week ago, sparking the worst protests in the history of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's two-decade rule.
Activists and international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups say at least 50 people have been bumped off, most of them in the greater Khartoum area.
The real toll is difficult to determine but "could be as much as 200," a foreign diplomat told AFP Sunday on condition of anonymity.
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[Shabelle] The authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... said its forces fought against Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... fighters in Galgala mountains near Bossaso on Sunday.
The battle begun on Sunday morning after the Puntland forces launched raid on terrorist bases in the mountainous area, about 45 km southwest of Bosasso ...Puntland's major (maybe only) port, population about 250,000, most of them shady characters who hang around waterfront dives and carry knives and brass knuckles... town which is the region's port hub.
Puntland security officer in Sugure area, Colonel Jama Sicid said the forces attempted to launch a security operation in the area but the faceless myrmidons fired mortars against the security forces. At least one myrmidon were confirmed dead as the officer said they have destroyed terrorist cells in the area.
There were no independent sources in the area to confirm the claim.
Meanwhile Al-Shabaab media wing reported the battle but did not give any details.
Puntland security forces have been fighting against Al-Shabaab militia in Galgala area since 2010 when the region's forces launched heavy assault against the terrorists. In 2011 Puntland president said his forces completely defeated Al-Shabaab in Galgala and his forces took over the area but since then the faceless myrmidons were still able to attack the security forces bases and the main towns.
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[Al Ahram] Unidentified gunnies shot at the car transporting the General Bishop of Upper Egypt's Minya governorate on Monday, reported Ahram's Arabic website.
Bishop Makarious' car was shot at while on its way to one of the churches of Abu Qurqas. The Bishop and the driver were both unharmed after the driver managed to speed away to escape the shooting.
In August, sixteen rights groups issued a joint statement expressing "grave concern regarding the increasing sectarian violence which has targeted Christians and their churches since the June 30 uprising," which ousted president Morsi.
While there have been many attacks against churches reported since Morsi's removal from power on 3 July, the most comprehensive wave of attacks was triggered by the dispersal of two main pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza on 14 August, with many of the attacks occurring in Minya in Upper Egypt, where almost 50 percent of the population is Coptic Christian.
The Egyptian Center for Public Policy Studies (ECPPS) stated that in the wave of sectarian violence in August, 28 churches and monasteries were attacked in the governorates of Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut and Sohag, as well as five Christian associations in Minya and Fayoum. Additionally, attacks on Coptic property were estimated to have damaged 122 shops, 51 houses and five schools, according to the NGO's September report.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's Suez military court sentenced on Monday Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammed Mongey to ten years of imprisonment on charges of inciting violence and vandalising military property in August.
Egypt's interim government has launched a crackdown on the 85-year-old Islamist group following the popularly-backed military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... -- who hails from the Brotherhood -- in July.
Hundreds of the group's leaders and members have been nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! since Morsi's ouster.
The arrest campaign widened after 14 August, when security forces forcibly dispersed the two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo and Giza, leaving hundreds dead and over a thousand injured.
Many of the incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Moslem Brüderbund leaders and members face charges of inciting violence during festivities that took place in the months leading up to Morsi's ouster.
Controversial exceptions allowing military trials for civilians have remained a topic of debate during the transitional period.
Earlier in September, a Suez military court handed down a life sentence to a Moslem Brüderbund member and sentenced 50 others to jail on charges of attacking military soldiers.
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Military rule is the best kind one of these countries can have.
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A total of 73 migrants were released from captivity by a Policia Federal road patrol Monday, according to Mexican news accounts.
An El Universal wire dispatch posted on the website of Milenio news daily said that a Policia Federal road patrol had observed two individuals in a Ford Grand Marquis on Calle Cerro San Miguel, and gave chase until they arrived at a residence in Las Fuentes colony.
Two suspects were detained at the scene and were identified as Santiago Betancourt Mora, 43, and Daniel Martinez Gonzalez, 25. A third detained suspect, Cristian Josue Galvan Hernandez, 18, was allegedly a lookout for the crew, colloquially known as a halcon.
Elements of the PF patrol heard calls for help from inside the residence. Inside they found 73 migrants. The migrants told PF police they were being held for ransom at the residence by criminal suspects.
Of the 73 released, 37 were Mexican, consisting of 32 men and five woman. A total of 36 were Honduran, consisting of nine men and ten women. A total of 14 were Guatemalan, consisting of 12 men and two women. Three of the rescued were Salvadoran. Additionally, six children were among the released.
The victims had been kidnapped from bus stations and bus stops, and were held for ransom between four days and four months prior to the rescue.
Police also seized 687 rounds of ammunition, a fragmentary hand grenade, six weapons magazines and marijuana weighing a total of 9.912 kilograms.
Local criminal gangs on the northern border of Mexico look for migrants attempting to cross into the US, kidnap them and hold them as they attempt to contact relatives back home for ransom.
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Security forces in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria say they have killed two suspected members of the Islamic insurgency. The Russian National Counterterrorism Committee said on September 30 that the two men killed in a shoot-out in the Baksan district late the day before were members of the so-called Imarat Kavkaz (Caucasus Emirate) terrorist organization.
[Al Ahram] A Gay Paree court Monday sentenced eight members of an Islamist bad turban group to prison, giving the Indian-born criminal mastermind Mohammed Niaz Abdul Raseed eight years.
The group was accused of recruiting French citizens for training at bad turban camps in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The suspects had been tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! and convicted for membership of a criminal gang and for plotting terror strikes.
Two Frenchies -- Charaf-Din Aberouz and Saad Rajraji -- were described as Raseed's "lieutenants" and sentenced to five years each.
Aberouz was arrested on January 25, 2011 along with Pak-born French national Zohab Ifzal at Pakistain's Lahore airport, where an Al-Qaeda operative was supposed to meet and take them to a training camp.
The shortest sentence was 18 months, for one of the eight who was still on the lam and sentenced in absentia.
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[Dawn] A US-led drone strike in North Wazoo tribal region's Datta Khel area on Monday killed two persons and injured another, DawnNews reported.
Pakistain's Ministry of Foreign Affiars condemned the US drone strike that took place in North Waziristan today on 30 September 2013 and said in a statement that these unilateral strikes were a violation of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Pakistain has repeatedly emphasised the importance of bringing an immediate end to drone strikes.
The Government of Pakistain has consistently maintained that drone strikes are counter-productive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and humanitarian implications. Such strikes also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations, the statement added
These drone strikes have a negative impact on the mutual desire of both countries to forge a cordial and cooperative relationship and to ensure peace and stability in the region.
The drone fired two missiles at a house situated in Mohammad Khel village of Datta Khel tehsil in North Waziristan tribal region.
The number of casualties was expected to rise.
This was the second attack in the region in as many days
The target of the drone strike was a suspected Death Eater compound and the three persons killed were alleged Death Eaters, officials told AFP.
"A US drone fired two missiles on a Death Eater compound, killing three rebels," a security bigshot told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The identities of the victims could not be ascertained till the filing of this report as access to media and journalists is restricted in the area.
This was the second attack in the region in as many days.
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[Dawn] The convoy 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... Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch came under rocket attack in the province's earthquake-struck Awaran district early on Monday morning.
There were no injuries reported in the incident.
The chief minister was on his way to a camp office in Awaran district, which was set up to carry out relief work in the quake-hit region when a rocket fired by unknown gunnies landed at a distance from the convoy.
Dr Malik Baloch was accompanied by several provincial secretaries at the time of the attack.
A heavy contingent of security personnel reached the site of the attack and cordoned off the area following the incident.
Monday's incident was the fifth attack to take place during the relief activities being carried out in the earthquake-hit region and came days after similar attacks on two military helicopters carrying relief goods in Awaran and previously on a helicopter carrying chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Major General Alam Saeed in the same district.
Awaran is considered one of the most sensitive and troubled districts of Balochistan and is also the hometown of Baloch guerrila commander, Dr Allah Nazar Baloch and Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch has already made an appeal to Dr Allah Nazar to cooperate with aid agencies in order to provide support to earthquake survivors.
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[Al Ahram] Twelve boom-mobiles, mainly targeting Shia-majority areas of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... province, killed at least 47 people and maimed more than 140 on Monday, security and medical officials said.
The blasts are the latest in a string of sectarian attacks in central Iraq that have raised the spectre of a return to the all-out Sunni-Shia conflict that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.
The bombs hit nine different areas, six of them Shia-majority, one confessionally mixed and two Sunni-majority.
The deadliest attacks hit Kadhimiyah, a mainly Shia area of north Storied Baghdad, where two boom-mobiles killed at least nine people and maimed at least 19.
In Storied Baghdad Jadida, a bomb went kaboom! in a car park, burning vehicles, destroying a fence and shattering the windows of nearby shops and a women's clinic, an AFP journalist reported.
Security forces deployed to the area, closing off streets and using sniffer dogs to search for more bombs.
Central Iraq has seen a series of sectarian attacks in recent days.
On Sunday, a jacket wallah attacked mourners at a Shia mosque south of Storied Baghdad, collapsing the roof and killing 47 people.
On Friday, bombs went kaboom! near two Sunni mosques in Storied Baghdad as worshippers left after prayers, killing six people.
Another bombing targeted Sunni mourners in Storied Baghdad on 23 September, killing 15 people, while an attack on a Sunni funeral killed 12 the day before.
Bombings targeting Shia mourners killed 73 people in Storied Baghdad on 21 September, and two blasts at a Sunni mosque north of the capital killed 18 a day before that.
The UN refugee agency has said it is "increasingly concerned about the situation in Iraq, where recent waves of sectarian violence threaten to spark new internal displacement of Iraqis fleeing bombings and other attacks."
It said that about 5,000 Iraqis had already been displaced in 2013, joining more than 1.13 million who fled or were forced out of their homes in past years.
Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from its brutal sectarian conflict.
Diplomats and analysts say the Shia-led government's failure to address the grievances of the Sunni Arab minority, who complain of political exclusion and abuses by security forces, has driven the spike in violence.
The authorities have made some concessions aimed at placating anti-government protesters and Sunnis in general, such as freeing prisoners and raising the salaries of Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda gunnies, but underlying issues have yet to be addressed.
The civil war in neighbouring Syria has also fuelled sectarian tensions in Iraq.
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[An Nahar] Israeli soldiers shot and "hit" two Paleostinians as they tried to cut through the security fence separating Israel from the Gazoo Strip on Monday, an Israeli army front man said.
But it was not immediately clear if the Paleostinians were maimed or killed in the shooting near the Beit Hanun area of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo Strip, the Israeli official added.
Soldiers had shot up the Paleostinians when they approached the fence and "hit" them when they began to cut the metal barrier.
Paleostinian security sources said ambulances rushed to the area in the Beit Hanun district of Gazoo, but were unable to give further details.
The sources said that the Israeli army had also fired a shell at the district.
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A man wanted in connection with a deadly train bombing in Narathiwat province last year was killed during a raid by security forces in Rueso district yesterday.
Combined units raided a house in Bucho Bongo village about 1:25 a.m. They were acting on a report that Abdulloh Buraheng was hiding there. Abdulloh was suspected of being involved in the bombing of the Yala-Sungai Kolok train on Nov 18 last year. The blast caused the train to derail, killing defense volunteer Panakorn Chumkaew and seriously injuring 16 other passengers.
Security forces surrounded the house and ordered Abdulloh to surrender. The suspect refused and opened fire on the officers, who then responded. Abdulloh was shot four times and died at the scene.
Pol Sub Lt Pisith Chatwatanathada said 18 terrorists militants were involved in the train bombing and warrants had been issued for four of them: Abdulloh, Mayuding Haji Sani, Maroning Buraheng and Abdulloh Maero.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promno said yesterday that security agencies will finalize the government's position on the Barisan Revolusi Nasional separatist group's five demands for ongoing peace talks in the deep South within two weeks.
[An Nahar] Unrest erupted 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... on Monday evening as grenades went kaboom! in several neighborhoods and liquor stores were torched in the el-Mina area.
"Two people were maimed as gunshots fired from al-Qobbeh targeted Jabal Mohsen," OTV said.
Quoting the Arab Democratic Party, the main political and armed force in Jabal Mohsen, LBCI television said the civilian Jamil Jammas and army Lieutenant Ali al-Osta were maimed when gunfire targeted the al-Amerkan area.
In a separate incident, a clash erupted on Minot Street in Tripoli's el-Mina after two liquor stores were stormed and vandalized, according to al-Jadeed television.
Three liquor stores were later torched in the area, al-Jadeed said.
The TV network also reported that the sounds of kabooms were heard in Tripoli's al-Mitain Street, el-Mina, Bab al-Tabbaneh and Syria Street.
State-run National News Agency said unknown individuals tossed a stun grenade on Syria Street near the Starco area. The grenade did not cause any casualties or damage and army troops scrambled to the scene, NNA added.
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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
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