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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kinda reminds me of the Dennis Quaid movie "The Day After Tomorrow"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/06/2014 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Birthday Gam Shot

Sylvia Syms [English][Filmography (123 Movie Credits)](age 80)



Old English Design

Time Marches On

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 01/06/2014 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, time marches on, but she still has an attractive face.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/06/2014 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  In my opinion she looks like Jackie Gleason in Drag

Posted by: Fat Bob Bonaparte1564 || 01/06/2014 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I've decided that growing old is dreadfully unfashionable but it beats the alternative.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/06/2014 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6  The older I get, the more I appreciate the children.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/06/2014 16:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow, look at them spats!!!.
Posted by: Dale || 01/06/2014 16:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Wow, look at them spats!!!.

Kept the muck, mud and horse 'hooey' from getting into your shoes during the early 'no real street pavement, drainage or sanitation' days.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/06/2014 18:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Thing, it must be the fashion.
Everyone is doing it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/06/2014 18:12 Comments || Top||

#10  No not "everyone" only the right people are doing it.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/06/2014 19:04 Comments || Top||

#11  The older you get, the older old is.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 01/06/2014 20:45 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
15 Taliban Killed in Ghazni Clash
[Tolo News] At least 15 Taliban bad boys, including key commanders Mawlawi Mohammad Nambi and Manan, were killed in shootout with Afghan cops in eastern Ghazni province late Saturday, local officials said on Sunday.

"A group of armed Taliban bully boyz attacked a police checkpoint in the Jangul area of Abband district late Saturday night. The exchange of gunfire lasted until Sunday morning..." said District Governor Allah Dad Halimi.

He added that five of those killed in the firefight were Pak nationals affiliated with Taliban.

The Afghan forces seized money, weapons, and three cycle of violences during the clash.

The Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahied confirmed the event and claimed that two Taliban bully boyz and six police were killed in the fighting.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
local officials said that there were zero police or civilian casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Hmm. Fifteen good Taliban.
Posted by: gorb || 01/06/2014 13:14 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Unknown gunmen kill Puntland forces in Bosaaso
BOSAASO -- News reports from Bosaaso suggest that At least 5 Puntland soldiers have been killed and more others wounded in Laad, 30 KM southern Bosaaso, the capital of Bari region, reports said.

Local residents told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that unidentified men armed with K47s and machine guns attacked on Puntland forces in south of Basaaso, killing five soldiers, injuring others.

“In the aftermath of the attack, the wounded soldiers were rushed to the local hospital for treatment” said a local resident who asked to be unnamed.

The attackers have managed to escape immediately from battle zone.

So far, No group or individual claimed responsibility for the ambush attack on Military bases in Laad, with Puntland officials in the town did comment on the attack.
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Shaboobs kidnap WHO official in Bay region
GAROWE, Somalia -- Gunmen from Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group Saturday abducted a Somali official working for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Bay region of southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.

The WHO official whose name was identified as Dr. Abukar Hashim was providing polio vaccine medical services in vicinity that is situated about 15 km from Bay regional district of Buur-Hakaba when the gunmen kidnapped.

Witnesses reported that Dr. Hashim was hand-picked from a group of people and immediately transported by car to Bay region town of Dinsoor under heavy security.

“Dr. Hashim has been kidnapped and we are feeling grave concern over his condition,” one of his relatives said.

WHO has been carrying out immunization campaign in the region where Al Shabaab militants still maintain presence.

On August 14, heavily armed militants belonging to Al Shabaab forced their way into offices and local hospital in Dinsoor district shortly after Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) declared its decision of closing MSF medical programs in Somalia. Dinsoor remains under the control of Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group and following "extreme abuses" by armed groups in south.
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Arabia
President Hadi says no to extradition request on Dr al- Humeiqani
[Yemen Post] Following a decision by the United States of American to label Dr Abdul Wahab Mohammed al-Humaiqani an al-Qaeda agent and subsequent calls for his extradition from Yemen, President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi has categorically rejected such hand-over.

Back on December 18th, the US Department issued a statement against al-Humeiqani which in essence identified him as a key member of al-Qaeda. It read, "The US Department of Treasury today imposed sanctions on two al-Qaeda supporters based in Qatar and Yemen. Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nuaymi and Abdul Wahab Mohammed al-Humaiqani were named as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 ... Humaiqani was designated for providing financial support to and acting on behalf of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)."

A powerful and well-connected holy man as well as politician; he founded al-Rashad party, the political arm of the Salafi faction, a group of Sunni radicals, Dr al-Humaiqani has also worked closely with prominent NGOs and Qatar Royals.

Considered a man beyond reproach by many in Yemen, his supporters have accused the US of running a witch hunt against political Islam as to serve their agenda in the region and remove all those whom they feel could oppose their vision for Yemen.

With relations running high up in the government al-Humaiqani warned that he would not so easily submit to America's unjustified slander. And indeed, this Sunday the holy man had non-other than President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi standing up to his accusers.

In a televised statement President Hadi denounced all charges against al-Humaiqani, adding that he would not comply with Washington's extradition demand.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Houthis-Salafis armed confrontations have reached Amran
[Yemen Post] Following weeks of brutal festivities and much bloodshed, including civilians, engulfing the entire northern region should no agreement be brokered in between the warring parties.

Although the Houthis have been keen so far to play down sectarian tensions, arguing instead that their quarrel with the Salafis are purely tribal and political, the heart of the matter lies very much in the divide which exists in between Shia and Sunni Islam, and beyond that the powers which Islam's two houses represent.

Just as the Salafis (Sunni radicals) have for decades benefited from 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...
's patronage based on the fact they share similar religious agenda and belief system, the Houthis (Shia group represented and led by Abdel-Malek al-Houthi) have enjoyed strong ties with Iran and the Hezbollah, factors which now cannot be ignored when looking at the current situation.

Since the end of October, the Houthis and the Salafis have set out to destroy one another, keen on using ongoing instability and political turmoil to assert their hold over Yemen highlands and thus secure their respective faction will transition stronger into Yemen's next institutional phase. And while clashed might have started off in Dammaj, a city located in the northern province of Sa'ada, the battle has now moved to several fronts, across several provinces.

For the first time in decades, the Salafis have considerable ground to the Houthis, so much so that Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar slammed President Hadi in December for his inaction and apparent apathy.

Today, officials have confirmed that the northern province, which lies directly north of the capital, Sana'a has been turned into yet another battle ground. An official confirmed on Sunday that fighting broke out on Saturday. So far a reported 17 rustics have been killed and scores maimed.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Rebels-tribal clashes kill 23 in Yemen
Two days of clashes between rebels and tribesmen fighting alongside radicals in northern Yemen have killed at least 23 people, sources said on Sunday.

Fighting has centred for months on a mosque and a madrassa in Dammaj, which has been besieged by the rebels known as Huthis. But the conflict has spread in the northern provinces, embroiling tribes wary of the power of the Huthis, who have repeatedly been accused of receiving support from Iran. On Sunday, at least 10 people were killed in Jawf province in clashes between rebels and armed men from the Daham tribe, a tribal chief said.

Seven people were killed at Harf Sufyan, in the northern province of Amran, another tribal chief said on Sunday, while two others died in shelling of Dammaj, in Saada province, Salafist websites reported.

Four people died in fighting that took place in Jawf on Saturday, another tribal chief said.

Huthi rebels this week took over positions evacuated by gunmen in the area of Kitaf, north of Saada city, witnesses said, adding the rebels demolished the madrassa and 20 houses. The rebels have also warned border guards to evacuate the Bart Al Anan crossing point with Saudi Arabia, in Jawf, according to the head of the force, Colonel Qassem Thawaba.

The officer said he refused to leave, insisting on waiting for orders from his command.

Fighting between Huthi rebels and tribesmen, alongside fighters from the Islah Islamist party, is ongoing as well in Arhab, about 30 kilometres north of Sanaa.

Huthis have been battling the central government for nearly a decade in remote Saada province, but the latest fighting between the rebels and the Salafists has given an added sectarian dimension to the clashes.
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Bangladesh
Polls end; opposition calls 48-hour hartal
[Dhaka Tribune] Before the end of its 48-hour nationwide blockade programme, opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance has called another 48-hour countrywide shutdown demanding cancelation of the "farcical polls."

Earlier, the opposition enforced a 48-hour hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
demanding cancelation of the 10th general elections and urging the people of the country to resist the polls.

"We are urging people to observe a 48-hour countrywide hartal from 6am Monday to 6am Wednesday, demanding the cancelation of this farcical polls and protesting the killing of opposition leaders and activists on the polls day. The indefinite blockade programme will continue at the same time," BNP chairperson's Adviser Osman Faruk said.

Faruk made the announcement at a presser at his residence two hours after voting ended.

The BNP leader claimed that people of the country had spontaneously boycotted the "one party polls." He also claimed that 21 opposition leaders and activists were killed in the election related violence on the polls day.

18-party alliance boycotted the 10th general elections demanding elections under a non-partisan government and also urged the people of the country to boycott and resist the polls.

Party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed's claim that people had exercised their franchise ignoring the opposition's call for boycott, was nothing but a shameless falsehood.

"People of the country have witnessed the election circus through the mass media."

"The government has no moral right to stay in power anymore as their blueprint election was foiled. Now people only want a free, neutral and acceptable election under a non-partisan government," he said in a statement.

Earlier with the voting underway, Fakhrul had claimed in a statement that the "empty" polling centres were proof that people had rejected the 10th parliamentary polls.

"People have said no to the elections. They have rejected this controversial polls with disgust," he said.

The BNP leader thanked supporters for participation in the hartal and called upon them to continue with the blockade programme in a peaceful manner.

Fakhrul criticised the role of law enforcers in "backing up the government for staging a farcical elections."

"The government that will follow this farcical elections will be completely illegal," he said.
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Violence, low turnout mark Bangla polls
[Bangla New Age] Polling in 147 constituencies for the 10th Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday was marked by death of 18 people in violence, low turnout of voters and stuffing of ballot boxes by ruling party men across the country.

A member of Ansars and 17 opposition activists were killed in Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Feni, Munshiganj, Laksmipur, Jessore, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
re, Chittagong and Gaibandha districts as violent festivities erupted across the country after opposition men tried to foil voting in the 'one-sided' polls.

The BNP-led opposition alliance demanded cancellation of Sunday's 'farcical elections' and announced a fresh round of 48-hour general strike beginning at 6:00am today along with the blockade for fresh elections.

The ruling Awami League, however, termed Sunday's election as 'victory of the people and democracy'.

Candidates in 153 constituencies had already been elected unopposed after the opposition alliance boycotted the polls.

Burning down of more than 150 polling stations by opposition activists before polling began at 8:00am Sunday, killing of an assistant presiding officer and snatching of election materials forced the Election Commission to suspend voting in around 400 centres.

Turnout of voters was relatively higher in three constituencies in Chittagong Hill Tracts where Awami League candidates had close contests with independent candidates. Mobile phone networks in the three districts were switched off on the polling day.

Both the Election Commission and the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said they were not aware of it and not certain who ordered the mobile network off. 'There was no such instruction from the commission,' said election commissioner Mohammad Shahnawaz.

Three regional political parties -- Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, United People's Democratic Front and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (MN Larma)] -- saw the move as a part of 'election engineering'.

In the capital New Age found turnout of voters in different polling stations very low till noon. Dense fog in the morning discouraged voters from turning up at the polling stations in some constituencies. The turnout

increased slowly as the day rolled on. By the afternoon people of Awami League candidates began stuffing the ballot boxes in some constituencies.

The correspondent in Pabna said Ashique Al Shams Ranjan, son of state minister for home affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku, also Awami League candidate for Pabna 1 constituency, had alone snatched and stuffed 899 ballot papers at Paikhati Shahidnagar high school in Bera. As the polling agent of independent candidate Abu Sayeed protested, Ranjan and his cohorts beat him up mercilessly.

Senior Awami League leaders were seen stuffing boxes at the Jamia Islamia Madrassah and Orphanage centre at Dakkhin Khan under Dhaka 18 constituency. They were visibly annoyed at the presence of a newsman but polling officials requested the correspondent to stay there until the close of the polling.

At the T&T Girls College centre at Mohakhali, Awami League activists stuffed ballot boxes forcing all out of the polling booths in the afternoon.

Reports from Dinajpur said an Ansar member and two opposition men were killed and five others injured in three separate incidents of violence in Parbatipur upazila.

Ansar constable Abdul Wahed died after Jamaat-Shibir men attacked Bachhirbaniya government primary school centre around 11:00am. Ansar sources said Wahed had died of cardiac arrest after several hundred Jamaat men chased him for a kilometre.

Masud Raihan, an activist of Jatiya Ganatantrik Party, died in local hospital after being hit by a bullet in a clash with the police when opposition activists attacked Manmathpur Cooperative High School centre around 12:30pm.

Babul Hossain, a leader of Chehelgazi union BNP, was rubbed out by rivals when the opposition men attacked Nashipur primary school centre at about 1:30am.

The correspondent in Rangpur said Sirajul Islam Siraj, 24, and Hadiuzzaman Hadi, 25, activists of 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...
's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, were killed in police firing after Jamaat-Shibir men attacked Dewti School and College polling centre in Pirgachha and looted ballots and ballot boxes and set fire to the centre under Rangpur 4 constituency around 3:00am.

Pirgachha police officer-in-charge Mokbul Hossain said the police were forced to open fire on the attackers that left two dead. Leaders of the upazila unit Jamaat and Shibir declined comments on the incident.

The correspondent in Nilphamari reported that two Jamaat-Shibir activists were killed in police firing after they attacked two polling centres in Dimla and Jaldhaka upazilas and attempted to torch the centres after looting election materials.

Jamaat activist Jahangir Alam,32, a lecturer at Khalisa Chhotokhata Fazil Madrassah at Khalisa Chapani of Dimla, was killed when police opened fire on Jamaat-Shibir men who attacked Beparitala Alim Madrassah centre around 2:30am.

Dimla police acting officer-in-charge Azim Uddin said one person was killed in police firing when Jamaat-Shibir attacked the polling centre.

Jamaat man Momtaz Uddin,50, a teacher of Barabhita Dakhil Madrassah in Kishoreganj, was killed when police opened fire on Jamaat supporters after they attacked Balapara Kachari Girls High School polling centre in Koimari union under of Jaldhaka at about 10:00am.

Jaldhaka police officer-in-charge Moniruzzaman said one person had died in police firing in Koimari after Jamaat-Shibir men attacked a polling centre.

In Laksmipur, Shibir activist Mohammad Rubel was killed and two more suffered injuries as police opened fire on opposition activists after they attempted to snatch ballot boxes at Machhimpur High School centre in Ramganj upazila. Ramganj police officer-in-charge Rezaul Karim confirmed the death of Rubel.

Juba Dal leader Jamshed Alam was killed in police firing when opposition activists attacked Uttar Char Chandia primary school centre in Sonagazi of Feni around 10:30am. Chhatra Dal leader Shahidullah, who suffered injuries in the same incisent, died at hospital, said Sonagazi police chief Subhash Chandra Pal.

Kangkan Mia, 24, joint secretary of Shimulia union unit Chhatra Dal, drowned as he jumped into a ditch after being chased by police in Tongibari of Munshiganj after hurling a petrol bomb at Dakshin Kathadia-Shimulia government primary school centre around 5:50am.

The correspondent in Thakurgaon reported that three opposition activists were killed in police firing when opposition men attacked polling stations. Joynal, 30, and Harun, 40, of village Khagrabari were killed in police firing after they attacked Basudevpur Government Primary School polling centre around noon. In another incident BNP activist Abu Hanif died in a clash with Awami League supporters at Gopalpur.

The opposition men attacked over 30 polling centres in Thakurgaon1 constituency and clashed with the ruling party activists and law enforcers. At least 50 people, including police, ansar and BNP-Jamaat activists, were maimed during the violence.

In Chittagong, Shibir activist Enamul Haque, 26, of Adur Para in Lohagara, was killed when police opened fire on Jamaat men after they tried to snatch ballot boxes from Bhabanipur polling centre at about 3:30pm.

BNP activist Babul Hossain died in Rajshahi Medical College Hospital after being hit by a bullet at Ramnagar under Manda in NATOre around 11:00am. Manda police officer-in-charge Abdullahel Baqui said joint forces were forced to open fire after the opposition men attacked them with bows and arrows.

Reports from Gaibandha said Jamaat activist Shahabul, 35, was killed and 15 others were maimed after Jamaat supporters clashed with Awami League at Manmath Government Primary School centre in Bamandanga in the afternoon. Gaibandha additional police superintendent Mosharraf Hossain confirmed the death.

Jamaat activist Matiar Rahman was rubbed out as joint forces opened fire to disperse attackers at Bajitpur centre in Monirampur of Jessore and 30 more, including three presiding officers, sustained injuries in widespread violence in Monirampur that forced the Election Commission to suspend polling at 47 centres.

The correspondent in Lalmanirhat said at least 68 people, include eight police men, two presiding officers and a journalist, were maimed in attacks at different centres by opposition activists. The injured were admitted to Patgram and Hatibandha upazila health complexes, Lalmonirhat General Hospital and Rangpur Medical College Hospital. The attackers also snatched a rifle from police at Hosnabad Community Primary School centre.

The correspondent in Jhenaidah said opposition activists had snatched election materials from Dariapur government primary school polling centre in Maheshpur upazila. Police opened fire to control the situation. The attackers also cut the tendons of Mahehspur municipal unit Awami League leader Ali Nur Rahman. In retaliation, the house of Mahehspur municipal unit Jamaat amir Moqbul Hossain was torched. Maheshpur police officer-in-charge Akram Hossain confirmed the incidents.

Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Polling stations firebombed in deadly Bangladesh vote
Thousands of protestors firebombed polling stations and stole ballot papers as deadly violence flared across Bangladesh on Sunday during a walkover election boycotted by the opposition. Police said at least 11 people had been killed since late on Saturday and more than 200 polling stations were set on fire or trashed by mobs in a bid by the opposition to wreck the one-sided contest.

Two of those killed were beaten to death while guarding polling stations in northern districts which bore the brunt of the violence and are regarded as opposition strongholds.

“We’ve seen thousands of protestors attack polling booths and our personnel at a number of locations with Molotov cocktails and petrol bombs,” Syed Abu Sayem, police chief of the northern Bogra district, told AFP.

“The situation is extremely volatile,” he added after describing how thousands of ballot papers had been ceremoniously set on fire.

Most of the other victims were opposition activists who were shot by police, while a driver died of his injuries from a Molotov cocktail attack on his truck.

“We were forced to open fire after thousands of them attacked us with guns and small bombs,” said Mokbul Hossain, police chief in the northern Parbatipur town. “It was a coordinated attack. They managed to seize some ballot papers and they were also trying to steal our weapons.”

In the capital, police confirmed at least two petrol bomb attacks on Dhaka polling stations.

Tens of thousands of troops were deployed across the country after around 150 people had been killed in the build-up, but they failed to stem the bloodshed.

The ruling Awami League has correctly accused the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of orchestrating the violence, and has kept its leader under de facto house arrest.

With the opposition trying to enforce a general strike as part of a strategy to wreck the polls, officials admit turnout could be worse than the previous low of 26 percent in a rigged 1996 election. AFP correspondents said there were no queues to vote, while local television reported that only a single person voted in the first three hours at one station.

The outcome of the contest is not in doubt as voting is taking place in only 147 of the 300 parliamentary constituencies. Awami League candidates or allies have a clear run in the remaining 153.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government says it had to hold the vote after parliament’s five-year term expired.

“Yes, the festive mood is missing but this election is essential to ensure constitutional continuity,” deputy law minister Quamrul Islam told AFP.

The BNP, the largest of 21 parties who are refusing to take part, has called them a “scandalous farce”. Its leader Khaleda Zia has been confined to her home for the last week, with riot police and water cannon posted outside her Dhaka residence.

Those who did vote showed little enthusiasm.

“I don’t really want to vote as I don’t think it’s a proper election with only the ruling party candidates participating,” Anwar Hossain said outside a polling station in Dhaka’s Azimpur neighborhood. “But I am scared about what might happen if I don’t as the candidates might think I am anti-Awami League.”

Shopkeeper Niyamat Ullah said it was a pointless exercise.

“I am not going to vote,” he told AFP. “What kind of election is it when there’s only a handful of voters at the polling centre and the two candidates are from the same party?”

With the opposition charging that the election lacks credibility, analysts warn it will likely fuel violence after the bloodiest year of unrest since Bangladesh broke free from Pakistan in 1971.

Zia says any polls overseen by her arch enemy Hasina will not be fair, calling instead for them to be organised by a neutral caretaker government.
Which one can certainly find in B-Desh, no doubt at all...
A local rights group says more than 500 people have been killed since January 2013.

The main party has been banned by the courts from taking part in the election, and its leaders are either in detention or have gone into hiding.

Alarmed by the violence, the United States, European Union and Commonwealth all declined to send observers.

Bangladesh has been plagued by instability since independence, with nearly 20 coups since 1975.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democracy is un-Islamic.

Allah doesn't like Democracy.

Islam is a shut up or I will kill you religion.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 01/06/2014 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Islam is only a part of the problem in Bangla. Jamaat and its taste-alikes are allied with BNP because like clings to like. Both are murderous and dictatorial by nature. Awami League would be indistinguishable from BNP in practice if it wasn't for the name and the leadership.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  To complete the previous thought: I wonder what the Bangla word for "caudillo" is.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Democracy is un-Islamic

Bangladesh is a kleptocracy. Look it up.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/06/2014 11:01 Comments || Top||

#5  One man, one vote ==> one man less...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/06/2014 11:34 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Suicide bombers went to Volgograd via Moscow
On January 4, relatives of one of the suspects in the terrorist attack on Volgograd station, Asker Samedov, were searched in Moscow. The police are also seek his alleged accomplice in the trolleybus bombing, Magomed Isayev. They were on the Dagestani list, but not on the federal terrorist wanted list, which may have allowed them to travel safely from Moscow to Volgograd.

Samedova, the suspect's mother, told detectives that she did not know her son's whereabouts because he has been living with his relatives in Dagestan since the age of two. A DNA sample was taken from Samedov's mother.
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#1  A DNA sample was taken from Samedov's mother's brain stem.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/06/2014 21:21 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spanish Police Arrest Suspected Qaida Syria Militant
[An Nahar] Spanish police on Sunday tossed in the slammer
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a suspected member of an al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group fighting in Syria, authorities said.

The suspect Abdelwahid Sadik Mohammed, a Spaniard, "is accused of taking part in the 'holy war' in Syria", the interior ministry said in a statement.

He is suspected of "belonging to the terrorist organization the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)," a jihadist faction in Syria with roots in al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, it added.

"He is considered a risk to national security" for his links to the group, it added.

ISIL is accused of horrific abuses against other krazed killers, activists and civilians.

Police seized Mohammed at the airport in Malaga, southern Spain, where he had arrived on a flight from Istanbul.

He is from the north African Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, a government source said separately.

The statement said he had traveled in May from Morocco via Turkey to Syria, where he attended ISIL training camps.

It said he was part of a Spanish-Moroccan group suspected of sending dozens of fighters to Syria from Ceuta.

Spanish police said last year they had arrested several members of that group, which they believe sent some forces of Evil to Syria to carry out suicide kabooms.

They arrested the leader of that group, Spanish national Yassin Ahmed Laarbi, in September after seizing eight other members in June.

EU governments say hundreds of young Europeans are believed to be fighting alongside rebels in Syria against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Home Front: WoT
Third death reported from Minneapolis apartment blast
[Shabelle] A third person has died from an kaboom and fire at a Minneapolis apartment building on New Year's Day that also left at least 13 others injured, medical examiners said on Saturday.

The latest victim was Abdiqani Adan, 29, who died in a hospital from injuries sustained in the incident, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office said in a statement.

Investigators have been looking into a gas leak as a possible cause for the blast and fire that destroyed the three-story building with a ground-floor grocery store and 10 apartments. The building was located in a community of mainly Somali immigrants.

The roof and upper floors of the 1886 building collapsed, leaving unstable ice-caked exterior walls and rubble.

Demolition of the building was completed on Friday and fire officials believe that everyone who was in the building has been accounted for, the department said in a statement.

The cause of the blast remains undetermined.
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#1  The cause of the blast remains undetermined

I'm going with 'jihadi boot camp' myself.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/06/2014 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  But... The fire was halal...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/06/2014 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The cause of the blast remains undetermined

And any inconvenient evidence has been destroyed.
Posted by: KBK || 01/06/2014 18:26 Comments || Top||

#4  "The building was located in a community of mainly Somali immigrants."

Maybe red and green are different in Somalia?
Posted by: Barbara || 01/06/2014 18:51 Comments || Top||


Iraq
At Least 15 Dead as Series of Bombings Rock Baghdad
[An Nahar] A series of bombings killed at least 15 people in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Sunday, officials said, as hard boyz held a major city and part of another west of the Iraqi capital.

The three boom-mobiles and one roadside kaboom, which hit three separate areas of Storied Baghdad, also maimed at least 40 people, the officials said.

The bombings come as hard boyz hold the city of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
just 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Storied Baghdad, as well as parts of Ramadi, farther west.

Anbar has in recent days seen the worst violence to hit the province in years, killing over 160 people on Friday and Saturday alone.
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Iraq officials: fighting with Al Qaeda kills 34
Officials in Iraq’s western Anbar province said fighting between the army and Al Qaeda militants has killed 34 people.

They say the Sunday violence around provincial capital Ramadi left at least 22 soldiers and 12 civilians dead, as well as an unknown number of militants. They also said that 58 people had been wounded in the combat.
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Lebanese anti-Syria figures threatened
[Al Ahram] Several prominent Lebanese politicians and media figures opposed to Syria's regime and its ally Hezbollah have been threatened, the official National News Agency reported on Sunday.

The report comes less than a fortnight after a boom-mobileing in central Beirut killed eight people including anti-Syria former finance minister and member of the March 14 coalition Mohammad Shatah.

The NNA said Sethrida Geagea, a Christian member of parliament, March 14 member and wife of Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
chief Samir Geagea
... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
, had a series of threats sent to her mobile phone.

"At 5:00 pm (1500 GMT) on January 4, Sethrida Geagea MP started receiving calls on her mobile phone from several local, international and hidden numbers," the agency said, quoting the politician's media office.

A statement said Geagea's colleagues answered the calls, and heard "personal threats against her life, insults and obscenities".

More such calls came on Sunday, the NNA said.

The threats were reported to the security forces, whom Geagea's office said should "take the necessary measures" to identify the callers.

A string of other personalities have received similar threats, the statement said.

They include former interior minister Ahmad Fatfat, outspoken TV presenter Nadim Koteich and liquidation attempt survivor and journalist May Chidiac.

All are seen as high-profile opponents of Syrian 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...
's regime and its powerful Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.

The Shiite movement has sent thousands of fighters into Syria to help Assad's troops in their bid to crush the revolt that erupted nearly three years ago.

Reports have also emerged that Sunni politician Khaled Daher, a fierce critic of the Damascus regime, has also received threats against his life.

Chatah's death on December 27 was the latest in a string of nine high-profile liquidations of Syria critics that began in February 2005 with former prime minister Rafiq Hariri's murder.

Syria and Hezbollah have systematically denied any links to the attacks.

An international tribunal tasked with investigating Hariri's liquidation is due to start trying five Hezbollah members in absentia from January 16.

Syria dominated Leb for nearly 30 years until the international outcry over Hariri's killing forced Assad's troops out.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
Damascus still exerts influence over Leb through its allies.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


ISIL Jihadists Kill at Least 50 Rebels in North Syria
[An Nahar] Jihadists killed at least 50 rival rebels Sunday in a new front in Syria's brutal war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, citing turbans and medics.

The rebels were killed in fighting, boom-mobileings and also summary executions by forces loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

ISIL, an al-Qaeda affiliate, moved into Syria in late spring last year amid the armed uprising against 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...
.

The latest deaths come a third day into fighting that began when rebels, including Islamists, attacked checkpoints and bases manned by ISIL, which is accused of horrific abuses in areas where its fighters operate.

ISIL has also been accused of seeking hegemony by taking key roads and checkpoints from its rivals, and some Assad opponents have even accused it of serving regime interests.

At least nine ISIL fighters were also killed on Sunday, the Britannia-based Observatory said.

Most of the non-ISIL fatalities were in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, where the fighting has been focused since Friday.

Among the dead were "seven who were summarily executed by ISIL" in Harem in Idlib.

Clashes also erupted in Raqa and Hama provinces on Sunday, in a sign the fighting was spreading beyond the northern provinces.

Scores of fighters on both sides have been killed in the past three days, according to the Observatory.

"The rebels have made significant gains (since Friday) in the west of Aleppo province, in the north of Idlib, and east of Maaret al-Numan (Idlib)," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

The Observatory also said ISIL fighters were laying down their arms and withdrawing from some areas including Daret Izza, without giving further details.

In Atareb, also in Aleppo province, rebels raised the green, white, black and red flag of the opposition, and brought down the flag flown by ISIL.

The Islamic Front, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Army of Mujahideen -- rebel alliances -- are all battling ISIL.

"What's happening is that the ranks of the revolution are being cleaned up," said a member of the Islamic Front, a huge rebel alliance grouping thousands of fighters, speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.

On Saturday, ISIL distributed an audio statement warning the rebels to stop pressuring the jihadists, or they would withdraw from the front lines in Aleppo city and let in Assad's forces.

ISIL also accused its rivals of waging a "media war" against it, and of "stabbing (it) in the back."

Protesters, meanwhile, erupted into the streets of Aleppo and Raqa for a third consecutive day chanting slogans against ISIL, activists said.

Activists are calling for countrywide protests next Friday under the slogan: "Day of rage against al-Qaeda and Assad".

The slogan echoes the spirit characteristic of the pro-democracy protests that began in March 2011 before becoming a bloody civil war.

In a separate development, 10 regime troops were rubbed out by al-Nusra Front, another jihadist group, days after being captured in Aleppo's Kindi hospital, which the army had turned into a base.

In a reflection of the complexities of Syria's war, al-Nusra has also been involved in some of the fighting against ISIL, despite both groups having their roots in al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Army Consolidates Presence in al-Souairi after Jinbeen Family Member Succumbs to Injuries
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army consolidated its presence in the eastern village of al-Souairi on Sunday after a man, who was injured in festivities with a rival family last month, succumbed to his wounds.
"Rosebud!'
The state-run National News Agency said the army's measures in and around the West Bekaa village were aimed at confronting any possible renewal of fighting after Faraj Jinbeen's death on Sunday morning.

Faraj was maimed on the first day of gunbattles between the members of Jinbeen and Shouman families.

The two-day festivities, which broke out after a personal argument, left six dead and several others maimed.

But the army contained the incidents to prevent a sectarian conflict.

The Shoumans are Shiites while members of the Jinbeen family are Sunni.
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