[Pak Daily Times] Taliban fighters wearing army uniforms attacked US military vehicles in a parking lot in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one policeman and torching several trucks, an official said.
The attackers detonated a boom-mobile outside the entrance to the facility at Torkham gate, a key crossing into Pakistain for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies leaving Afghanistan as the US-led coalition withdraws. "During the three-hour fight with security forces, one policeman was killed, five maimed. Several vehicles were torched," Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provincial front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told AFP. "All attackers, who had military uniforms on, were killed."
The parking lot was run by a private company and used by the US military for vehicles waiting to exit Afghanistan, he said. NATO shipments through Torkham are currently suspended after Pak activists opposed to US drone raids forcibly searched trucks and threatened drivers. A Taliban statement said their fighters had torched more than 30 US military vehicles on Wednesday. Militants on both sides of the Afghan border frequently target NATO supply lines, forcing NATO to shift towards alternative routes via Central Asian countries.
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[Egypt Independent] Fighters in Somalia rubbed out three Syrian doctors and their three Somali colleagues Wednesday as they travelled to a hospital outside the capital Mogadishu, an AFP news hound said.
Their bullet-riddled bodies were carried into Mogadishu's Medina hospital after the attack on a road leading from the capital to Afgoye, a town some 30 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the capital.
Doctors at the hospital said the foreigners killed were Syrians.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Wednesday blacklisted a shadowy al-Qaeda breakaway faction behind the bloody siege of an Algerian gas plant.
The Signatories in Blood, an armed unit founded by the one-eyed Mokhtar Belmokhtar last year when he split from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
The group, also known as the al-Mulathamun Battalion, "grabbed credit for the January 2013 attack against a gas facility near In Amenas, Algeria," the department said in a statement, adding that three Americans were among the 38 civilians killed in the siege.
The designation bar U.S. citizens and companies from having any dealings with the Algerian group.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A police officer was bumped off while trying to guard a 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... petrol station, Libya Herald reported on Tuesday (December 17th). Ahmed Hussein Ismail, said to be in his early twenties, was shot Monday during a clash with drivers. The Libyan capital saw a fuel crisis last week as protestors disrupted oil flows and insecurity forced the closure of some petrol stations.
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[Libya Herald] A severed head, said to be that of the father of a senior Saiqa Brigade officer, was found in Benghazi yesterday. Haji Attiya Al-Naaili, aged 65, the father of Salem Al-Naaili, was kidnapped some weeks ago. "Mahmoud! Look! It's a severed head!"
The gruesome discovery was made near the son's house in the city's Salem district. "Whoa! Major gruesome!"
The whereabouts of the rest of the body is unknown. "He looks kinda like you. That's not your head, is it?"
According to a Saiqa source, the head was taken to Jalaa Hospital "Name?"
"Haji Attiya Al-Naaili."
"Complaint?"
"Beheaded."
but then had to be transferred to Benghazi Medical Centre because of maintenance work at the mortuary. "This is the emergency room! He's dead! Take him to the mortuary!"
"They're doing maintenance on the mortuary!"
"Okay. Take him to examining room 5!"
It is reported that some days ago the kidnappers phoned Salem, better known as Salem Afaret, offering to release his father if he would hand himself over to them. He is alleged to have responded that he did not believe them and that if he did so, they would probably kill the both of them. "You ain't foolin' me, you know1"
It is claimed the action was in response to a threat supposedly made by Salem in a video in which reportedly said that if anyone did any harm to Benghazi he would personally behead them. That worked well, didn't it?
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[Egypt Independent] Moslem Brüderbund Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie has been imprisoned for an additional 15 days pending investigations on charges of involvement in inciting the burning of 6th of October City's police department.
The burning took place after the violent dispersal of the pro-Mohammed Morsy sit-in on 14 August. It left at least two people dead and three coppers injured.
Badie faces charges of murder and attempted murder, heading a terrorist gang aiming to disturb security and public peace, preventing state institutions and public authorities from exercising their work, attacking police facilities and trying to occupy them, inciting armed elements to kill citizens, providing ammunition and firearms and resisting authorities.
The investigations of the National Security Agency said that on 11 August, many radical Islamists held a secret meeting in one of the halls attached to Rabea al-Adaweya mosque, in which they agreed on the attacks that would be carried out if the Interior Ministry dispersed the sit-ins .
Badie denied all charges against him and described the National Security investigations as "fabricated." He demanded an investigation into the killing of his son Ammar in the Ramsis Street events and the burning of his house by unknown assailants in Beni Suef.
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[Pak Daily Times] A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced eight students from the ruling party to death for the brutal murder of a young Hindu that was captured live on television in the capital.
The special fast-track court found the Awami League (AL) activists guilty of chasing down Biswajit Das, 24, and hacking him with machetes while police stood by, in a crime that shocked the nation after its airing on TV.
A further 13 activists from the AL's student wing were sentenced to life in prison for murdering Das, whom prosecutors said they mistook for a supporter of opposition strikes that took place last December.
Prosecutor S.M Rafiqul Islam confirmed eight students were handed a death sentence while "13 were given life in prison."
Only eight of the accused were present in the packed court to hear judge A.B.M Nizamul Huq read out the verdict. The rest, including two of those handed the death penalty, are still on the run and were tried in absentia.
The victim's elder brother Uttam Das said the family was happy with the verdict and called for the executions to be swiftly carried out.
"We have got the justice and now we want quick execution of these criminals," Das said.
The trial was a major test for the secular AL amid allegations at the time that police, who are closely linked with the AL government, tried to cover up the identities of the activists.
The sentences are likely to boost the AL's popularity among the minority Hindu community ahead of January 5 general elections. Hindus make up around 10 percent of Bangladesh's 153 million people and traditionally form a key AL support base.
The AL students chased down Das after a small bomb went kaboom! outside a state-run university, where they attended, during the strikes which they opposed.
The mob suspected Das of planting the bomb, mistaking him for a protester from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the trial heard.
Defence lawyer Mizanur Rahman Molla said he would appeal the conviction in a higher court.
The verdicts came as the impoverished country reels from political turmoil ahead of the polls, with the main opposition and its allies boycotting the vote and holding deadly strikes and street protests.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Stray incidents of violence marked the second day of the 72-hour blockade yesterday as opposition men went kaboom! crude bombs and carried out arson attacks and vandalism across the country.
Officials of the law enforcement agencies tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at least 57 men from different places, including Narayanganj, Feni, Lalmonirhat and Bogra districts for their alleged involvement in anarchy.
A bus helper sustained burn injuries when myrmidons set fire to his vehicle in Teknaf early yesterday. The victim, Khairul Bashar, was asleep inside the parked bus when it was torched.
He was rushed to Teknaf Upazila Health Complex. Bashar was released at about 7:00am after receiving treatment, reports our local correspondent.
Amid the ongoing political turmoil, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan yesterday said the government would ensure the security of buses plying all highways from tomorrow.
The minister came up with the announcement after a meeting with representatives of law enforcement agencies and bus owners and workers' associations.
He assured bus owners that the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) along with highway police would escort a group of 30 to 40 buses to their destinations, sources at the meeting said.
In the capital, blockaders blasted homemade bombs in Gabtoli, Karwan Bazar, Mohammadpur, Green Road, Jatrabari, Adabar and Gulshan areas, according to locals.
Six people from Green Road and Jatrabari were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with shrapnel wounds. A taxi was torched at Kawla near Shahjalal International Airport last night.
During a raid at Mohammadpur's Sat Masjid Housing, Rab-2 allegedly seized 10 crude bombs from the possession of Anwaruzzaman Anwar, joint convener of BNP's Mohanagar committee.
Many shops were seen open and the number of vehicles plying the roads in the capital was higher in comparison with previous days of blockade.
On Tuesday night, the joint forces conducted special drives in Feni and held 34 Jamaat-Shibir men from Pathanbari in the town and Fazilpur area of Sadar upazila.
In Bogra, 10 blockaders were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! during the joint forces' drives in different areas of the district.
In Lalmonirhat, members of the joint forces arrested nine Jamaat-Shibir activists, including four women, from Kafir Bazar in Patgram upazila for their alleged involvement in violence and acts of sabotage during hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s and blockades.
A Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL) leader was allegedly beaten by Jamaat men in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna yesterday.
In Chittagong, blockaders set fire to five covered vans on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Panthichila and Fakirhat areas of Sitakunda upazila between 11:00 pm and 4:00 am yesterday.
Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a flash procession in Khatiber Bari area and hurled two crude bombs targeting a police van. Police detained an alleged Shibir activist, Forkan, in this connection.
In Barisal, myrmidons set fire to a goods-laden truck on the Dhaka-Barisal highway at Kashipur around 2:00am.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Shibir activists yesterday cut the tendons of both legs and the left hand of a Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader in Rajshahi city.
The victim, Shimul Ahmed Duke, 20, is a joint convener of Motihar thana unit BCL, the pro-Awami League student body.
Duke, a second-year student of Agrani School and College, was first taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and then referred to Dhaka.
Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station, said some seven activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , with firearms and sharp weapons waylaid Duke near Rajshahi University Fine Arts Institute around 11:30am.
Duke was going to his college by rickshaw with the president of the college unit, Shibir Raju Ahmed, his classmate and friend.
The attackers, some covering their faces, stabbed Duke severely in his legs, arms and back, leaving him critically injured.
As local shopkeeper Rentu came forward to save him, the Shibir men brandished a pistol and bravely ran away, said Duke's uncle Jahangir Alam.
Locals rescued Duke and whisked him off to the RMCH where he underwent two hours of surgery.
Tendons of both his legs and left hand were chopped at three or four places, and Duke also was stabbed in his back, said Prof BK Dam, head of the RMCH orthopaedic surgery department.
Duke needs immediate vascular surgery as his veins were damaged at many places and so he was referred to Dhaka, he added.
After the attack, Raju went into hiding. Family members of Duke alleged that Raju was behind the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... police tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! two Shibir activists for their alleged involvement in the attack, said Ziaur.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion members nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a BNP leader at Shatmashjid Road in the capital and seized 10 crude bombs from his possession today.
In a drive, members of the elite force arrested Anwaruzzaman Anwar, a joint-convener of Dhaka city unit BNP and also a former ward councillor from the area, around 2:30pm, Major Azad, an official with Rab-2, told The Daily Star.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A union-level leader of Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... was hacked to death in Raipur upazila of Laxmipur last night.
Kiron Hossain Pathan, 30, was Jubo League organising secretary of Char Mohona union unit in Raipur upazila, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
Police claimed that Kiron was killed over a land dispute while local leaders of Awami League and its youth organization, Jubo League, blamed Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... men for the murder.
Kiron was struck down in his prime when a gang of criminals allegedly led by his uncle Dulal Pathan hacked him in front of his residence at Char Mohona around 9:30pm, Rupak Kumar Saha, officer-in-charge of Raipur Police Station, said.
The OC said there was a longstanding conflict between Dulal and Kiron's father Mansur Pathan over a land dispute.
Earlier in the day, both the family locked into a quarrel over the matter. As a sequel to the incident, Kiron was hacked to death, the OC said quoting the family members.
Holding Jamaat-Shibir men responsible for the killing, M Alauddin, AL president of district unit, and AKM Salahuddin Tipu, joint convener of district Jubo League, demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the culprits.
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[An Nahar] One of the alleged 9/11 conspirators was removed from court at Guantanamo Bay for the fourth time in two days after calling the prison's commander "a war criminal" Wednesday.
Yemeni suspect Ramzi Binalshibh was initially escorted out of a pre-trial hearing at the U.S. naval base in Cuba seconds after an impromptu speech in which he said the authorities had done nothing to stop sounds that he has heard in his cell.
"I have to leave. I asked you to stop these vibrations. I don't want to stay here as long as there is torture there," Binalshibh, who had already been ejected twice from the court on Tuesday, told military Judge James Pohl.
The latest hearing for Binalshibh and four other men accused of planning the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York in 2001 is being screened for news hounds at the Fort Meade military base in Maryland, via closed-circuit feed.
"If there is no power to stop this you should resign," Binalshibh said, referring to loud banging noises that he contends are preventing him from sleeping at night.
His defense team on Tuesday suggested that prison guards may be responsible for the noises, an allegation the judge said had neither been proven nor unproven.
Judge Pohl warned Binalshibh that his actions were disrupting Wednesday's proceedings and that he would be removed if he did not stop talking, but he continued.
"This is my life, this is torture. You have to stop this," Binalshibh said as he was removed from the court at the start of the morning session.
He returned to the hearing following the lunch break but spoke out again several minutes later while Colonel John Bogdan, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Detention, was giving evidence.
"Sorry, I have to leave. The guy next to you is a war criminal," Binalshibh told Judge Pohl, referring to Bogdan in the dock.
Binalshibh, whose lawyers insist he is mentally fit, was escorted out of court by two guards and taken to the courtroom's holding cell. A request that he be allowed to return to Camp Seven, where he is normally held, was refused by the judge.
Binalshibh's alleged crimes include helping the hijackers find flight schools in the United States and of financing the airliner plot. He and his fellow accused are eventually expected to go on trial in 2015.
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We are making the Vibrations and the Sounds In His Cell. Soon, soon, Age of Aquariums will be upon you.
[Pak Daily Times] A Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? student was charged with making a false claim that bombs had been placed at up to four buildings on the school's campus in a bid to get out of taking a final exam, US prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The prestigious Ivy League school a day earlier had evacuated four buildings from its centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after receiving emails that US prosecutors said on Tuesday had been sent by the 20-year-old student, Eldo Kim.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation tracked Kim down at his dorm where, after being read his Miranda rights, the student "stated that he authored the bomb threat emails ... he was motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam," according to prosecutors.
Kim is due in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to face one charge of making a hoax bomb report. If convicted he faces up to five years in prison, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine. The emails sent to the Harvard University Police Department, two university officials and the Harvard Crimson student newspaper said that "shrapnel bombs" had been placed in two of four named halls, which included classroom buildings and a dorm.
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[Pak Daily Times] MIRANSHAH: At least five soldiers were killed and 34 members of security forces maimed when a jacket wallah rammed a boom-mobile into a military checkpoint in the tribal areas Wednesday, officials said.
The attack came in the Mir Ali area of 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 the North Wazoo tribal region. Ansarul Mujahideen, a little-known bully boy group linked to the Tehrik Taliban Pakistain faction claimed the responsibility hours after the attack. "It is Dire Revenge™ for the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud by a US drone," Abu Baseer, a purported front man of the group told AFP by telephone. "We will continue such attacks in future as drones continue to kill our people," he said.
A security bigshot told AFP that "a truck laden with explosives was rammed into the checkpoint when security officials were offering evening prayers". As a result, "five soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom)", the official said. "The checkpoint has been completely destroyed and 34 injured security personnel have also been recovered," he said, revising an earlier toll of 4 people dead and 25 injured.
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[Pak Daily Times] GILGIT: Mobile phone services were suspended in Gilgit early on Wednesday morning after the corpse count from incidents of violence reached three. Panic has gripped the area since Monday because of the killings. The residents of the area are also facing trouble in accessing Internet. Deputy Commissioner Shahbaz Tahir said the security forces were working on a plan to curb violence and the suspension of mobile services was part of the plan. He did not disclose any further details of the plan. Tahir said the authorities were taking action against troublemakers and the writ of the government would soon be restored in the area.
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[Pak Daily Times] A primitive carrying water for the levies force was injured in a kaboom in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... .
Officials said the incident took place in the mountainous area of Charramang.
They said Aqeel Khan routinely provided water to the levies post from a nearby place. A roadside kaboom planted by unidentified myrmidons went off near him. As a result, he was injured and taken to hospital.
Tribesmen and volunteers of the Village Defence Committee immediately rushed to the spot and started a search operation in the area.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: A woman was killed and her daughter-in-law injured when a low-intensity kaboom took place near Imambargah ...since they're religiously correct™, Shia Moslems in Pakistain can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... at Khalid Bin Waleed Road, Ferozabad on Wednesday.
The incident took place when a bag having toys went kaboom! near the Imambargah at Khalid Bin Waleed Road, and was heard by many from distance. Following the kaboom, an extra contingent of law enforcers and rescue teams reached the site.
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! 25 suspects during the continuing drive against criminal elements in the city on Wednesday. Rangers said they held about 19 hardened criminals including Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangsters and hit mans affiliated with a political party, during targeted raids conducted in Dawood Chowrangi--Landhi, Abidabad--Baldia Town, Old Golimar, KPT flats, Bhempura, Haroon Royal City--Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Liaquatabad, Jahanabad, Medina Colony--Baldia Town, Banaras, Muhammadpur -- Orangi areas last night. Snap checking was carried out at Pakistain Chowk and weapons were also seized from the suspects. Separately, Shershah police caught two street criminals after an encounter near Pankha Hotel. Two TT pistols were recovered from the possession of suspects, Shahrukh Khan and Abid Ali. Police in several cases wanted both. Similarly, law enforcement agencies held a suspect affiliated with a political party during a raid conducted near Two-Minute Chowrangi, North 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... . The suspect was shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for further interrogation. Likewise, City Court police nabbed three suspects involved in street crimes, robbery and other offences. They were identified as Sarwar, Najib and Essa and weapons were also found from their possession.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Wednesday blacklisted Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. top member Osamah al-Shihabi as a "global terrorist."
"The Department of State has designated Fatah al-Islam (FAI) associate Osamah Amin al-Shihabi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under section 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets faceless myrmidons and those providing support to faceless myrmidons or acts of terrorism," it said in a statement.
"Al-Shihabi is an associate of FAI, a Lebanese-based hard boy group formed in 2006, whose ultimate goal is the institution of Islamist sharia law in the Paleostinian refugee camps and the destruction of Israel, and at times has played a key leadership role in the organization," the State Department added.
Shihabi is wanted by Lebanese authorities on multiple arrest warrants. He has been described as the "emir of Fatah al-Islam" in the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp.
According to media reports, the hard boy shuttles between Ein el-Hellhole and Syria.
In Its statement, the State Department said "he has also recently been appointed head of Syria-based al-Nusra Front's Paleostinian wing in Leb."
Al-Nusra Front was formed by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in late 2011 as a proxy for AQI's activities in Syria. On December 11, 2012, the State Department blacklisted al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization.
The consequences of Wednesday's designation include a prohibition against U.S. persons engaging in transactions with al-Shihabi, and "the freezing of all property and interests in property of al-Shihabi that are in the United States, or come within the United States or the possession or control of U.S. persons."
In August 2011, Shihabi was appointed as the "emir" of Fatah al-Islam in Leb, succeeding Abdul Rahman Awad, who was killed in an army ambush in the Bekaa in 2010.
The Nahr al-Bared Paleostinian refugee camp in northern Leb was almost totally destroyed during a months-long conflict between the Lebanese army and the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam in 2007.
The fighting killed some 400 people, including 168 soldiers. Some Islamist leaders escaped despite the army siege of the camp.
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[An Nahar] Regime warplanes pounded Syria's second city Aleppo for a fourth straight day Wednesday in air raids that have killed at least 135 people, many of them children, a monitor said.
The attacks focused on rebel-held areas of eastern and northern Aleppo, once the country's commercial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Sunday's first day of the raids produced the highest daily toll with 76 dead in six neighborhoods, among them 28 children, the Britannia-based watchdog said.
Monday saw 20 dead including four children, and eight children were among 39 killed on Tuesday, said the Observatory which relies on a network of sources on the ground for its information.
It did not say whether or not any of those killed included rebels battling the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... .
Many of the fatalities were caused by so-called "barrel bombs" packed with explosives and dropped from both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
An estimated 126,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war, which erupted after a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests first held in March 2011.
Doctors without Borders (MSF) reported more than 100 people killed by barrel bombs from helicopters, and already stretched hospitals overflowing with maimed.
Activists and the Observatory accuse Assad's forces of using barrels stuffed with concrete and TNT to cause the maximum number of casualties and damage.
A Syrian security source has denied that barrel bombs are used against what the regime calls "terrorists".
But another has said the military prefers such weapons instead of missiles because they are cheaper.
Most of the areas being targeted are in the east of the city and near regime-controlled parts of Aleppo province, one of the front lines in the conflict.
The opposition National Coalition has said the "systematic raids on Aleppo demonstrate the regime's rejection of a political solution".
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[Pak Daily Times] Three Iranian military personnel were killed in south-east Iran early on Wednesday when the vehicle they were travelling in was struck by a roadside kaboom, Iranian media said.
The reported killings - near to where the borders of Iran, Pakistain and Afghanistan meet - come at a time of heightened tension in the region as separatist Sunni Islamist bully boyz step up attacks on officially Shi'ite Iran.
Heavily-armed drug smugglers are also active in the region.
The three men were part of an engineering division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) working on construction projects near the city of Saravan, Tasnim news agency quoted an unnamed provincial official as saying.
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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
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.
[An Nahar] One of the alleged 9/11 conspirators was removed from court at Guantanamo Bay for the fourth time in two days after calling the prison's commander "a war criminal" Wednesday.
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...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Law enforcers claimed to have 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
