[Tolo News] Two suicide kabooms occurred in eastern 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.. province Thursday morning. One resulted in the deaths of two Afghan National Police (ANP) officers and the other, an effort to target a member of the House of Representatives, was thwarted.
"The first jacket wallah detonated his explosives near a police check point in the Pecheragam District of Nangarhar, and as a result two ANP officers were killed," Nangarhar Police Chief Colonel Afzal Sherzad said.
"The second incident occurred when a suicide bomber was trying to make his way into Fraidoon Momand's house, a House of Representative member, but was killed before reaching his target."
The bomber who targeted the MP was noticed and fired upon by the house's security guards, so he detonated his explosives too soon to cause any casualties.
Fellow Nangarhar MP, Zabiullah Zemarai, commented on the attack, indicating his suspicion that foreign intelligence services were behind the attack.
"The foreign intelligence services of neighboring countries had a hand in this," Zemarai said. "Neighboring countries don't want peace and stability in Afghanistan."
Afghan officials have been known to launch such accusations against Pakistain, often claiming the ISI - Pak's intelligence office - of supporting and orchestrating myrmidon activities from behind the scenes in order to undermine the Karzai government and get a better foothold in Afghanistan.
Although Pakistain has denied these allegations repeatedly, most international, even Pak political and security experts have agreed that intelligence and military elements within the Pak government have aided the Taliban insurgency in the past, if not still today.
On Thursday, another suicide attack took place in the Gereshk District of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. The bomber reportedly targeted a foreign convoy, resulting in the death of a Danish citizen and injuries to two others.
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[Tolo News] President Hamid Karzai has condemned a wave of rocket attacks from over the Pakistani border into eastern Afghanistan reported in recent weeks. He said the attacks would harm relations between the two neighbors.
"In the past month, we witnessed 17 rocket attacks without any casualties," Kunar Governor Shuja Malek Jalala said. "Unfortunately, yesterday, a rocket hit a house in Sarkho District, neighbor to Bajawar District, and killed three and wounded five, including children."
The recent wave of cross-border attacks in eastern Afghanistan is nothing new though. Kunar and Nangarhar provinces have faced random artillery shelling by the Pakistani military and rocket attacks from unknown assailants for years.
"Even now, these rockets are continuously being fired, we complain every day about them and we have taken these complaints to the House of Representatives, the Senate and even the President himself," Kunar MP Haji Sakhi said.
The House of Representatives has maintained that the cross-border attacks in Kunar have been on the chamber's agenda for two years, yet still no action has been taken to address the problem.
It could be in spite of, or exactly because, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are so tense that the attacks seem to have gone unaddressed. Other than a public condemnation from Karzai like the one on Thursday, residents of the effected provinces do think enough has been done to confront the Pakistani government about the attacks.
It is well known that Islamabad has been struggling to keep militant groups and tribes in Baluchistan and the Federally Adminstered Tribal Areas at bay, with a rising number of terrorist attacks targeting Pakistani military officials and installations in recent years. The border between the two countries is about as porous as a border can be, with militants, smugglers and others traveling undocumented back and forth between the two countries daily. That environment would presumably make it particularly difficult to identify responsibility for these types of cross-border attacks, let alone prevent them.
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MOGADISHU -- A wanted Al Shabaab official Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys who has been in custody over the past six months was put under house arrest in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
Unfortunate since he could have been put under mortuary arrest...
According to independent sources, Somali Federal Government soldiers last night escorted Aweys shortly after he was released from an intelligence base as a result of lengthy discussions between Mogadishu-based government officials and Hawiye clan elders.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud previously described Aweys a stubborn person' who isn't willing to renounce violence but political analysts say the latest move succumbed him to abide by his clan elders' suggestions.
For now...
Sources within Somalia Federal Government tell Garowe Online News Agency that Aweys was relocated to a heavily fortified building in one of Mogadishu's neighborhoods: "Hassan Dahir Aweys had been in Habar-Khadijo intelligence base and now he remains under the protection of government forces," said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the news.
Speaking to the media in Mogadishu, Mohamed Osman Arus former spokesman of the defunct insurgent group Hisbul Islam said that Aweys is still in detention.
"This means he was released from custody and again placed in another detention," added Arus.
Following bitter feud and violent dispute within Al Shabaab ranks, Sheikh Aweys escaped from Barawe coastal town of Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia, after Al Shabaab chief Ahmed Godane dispatched Al Shabaab death squads to Aweys and other officials including his deputy Ibrahim Haji Jama Micad (Ibrahim Afghani), who had made allegations against Godane.
Sheikh Aweys was transported by plane from Adado district in Galgadud region of central Somalia, where he reportedly "surrendered" to Himan and Heeb local administration, which later transferred to Federal Government in Mogadishu in June 2013.
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[Shabelle] Sources in Somalia say a U.S. drone strike on Sunday nearly hit the leader of turban group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
A turban source and sources close to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... mission in Somalia tells VOA Somali service that Ahmed Abdi Godane was in the vicinity of the drone attack, which took place north of Barawe, in the Lower Shabelle region.
The Pentagon on Wednesday said its analysts are still assessing the results of what a front man called "a coordinated operation" in southern Somalia.
The Somali turban source says Godane is alive, although it is not clear whether the al-Shabaab leader was injured.
A senior aide of Godane's, Ahmed Abdulkadir -- known as "Iskudhuuq -- was killed along with his driver Sunday when their car was hit by a missile.
The sources in Somalia say Godane and Iskudhuuq may have had a meeting right before the attack, and that Godane was supposed to travel in the car that was targeted.
They say al-Shabaab has since detained several people in Barawe on suspicion of spying.
On Monday, U.S. Defense Department front man Colonel Steve Warren confirmed the drone attack but offered few details.
The U.S. military has repeatedly used drone strikes to target al-Shabaab leaders in Somalia. In October, a U.S. drone hit a vehicle carrying senior members of the al-Qaeda-linked group, killing its top explosives expert.
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[Shabelle] news reports from Janale district confirm that a heavy fighting broke up between 2 clan militias who have recently been fighting each other.
The fighting broke up when one wing of the two militias fighting started firing at their opponents resulting in a heavy fighting.
At least 1 person has been confirmed dead and 2 others injured between the inter clan fighting.
The last time two clans fought each other in janale district was at the end of last year (2013) and this may be a set back to the local administration of the region and the Somali Federal Government
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[Shabelle] Kenyan police are questioning nine suspects involved in a fake passport and visa cartel after being tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! with 68 forged documents in Nairobi late on Wednesday.
Head of Special Crimes Prevention Unit Noah Katumo told journalists in Nairobi on Thursday that the suspects including a police officer and a Kenya Airways staffer were found with 29 fake passports and 39 visa seals found on them in a security operation in Nairobi
"We are questioning the nine suspects whom were arrested on Wednesday with fake passport and visa documents. We do not know how many people have managed to pass the airport using these fake documents but we are trying to establish. It seems to be a serious cartel," Katumo said on Thursday.
He cautioned the people behind the racket of dire consequences, saying using or printing a fake passport is a threat to national and international security.
According to Katumo, the suspects include two Æthiopians, two Somalis and two Bangladesh nationals, adding that the Kenya Airways staffer is believed to have been helping other suspects with fake papers to pass through the airport.
Police involved in the operation said the foreigners arrested in Ngara residential estate were headed for Mozambique, South Africa and Angola and later in Europe using the fake papers.
The fake visa documents are for European countries, the officers said. The operation also recovered laptops, printers and laminating machines from the house in Ngara.
Katumo said they are looking for an official at the immigration department after he was mentioned in the cartel and investigations. He said security operations on the other missing and wanted persons are ongoing.
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Nice work inspector Katumo. Too bad you could not have begun this effort back in 1961.
MOGADISHU -- At least 7 persons including 2 civilians were killed during renewed clashes on Wednesday in Lower Shabelle region south of Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.
The fighting erupted in Wanlaweyn district after some government troops "attempted to disarm" another group of government troops. At least 15 people were also killed during the armed confrontation. Wanlaweyn residents said heavy gunfire could be heard across town and government sources said military officers were en route to Wanlaweyn to calm tensions among government troops.
Since 2012, Somali government troops deployed in Lower Shabelle region have fought each other along clan lines, while Barawe coastal town in Lower Shabelle region remains the largest stronghold of Al Shabaab militants in southern Somalia.
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[Egypt Independent] Army forces in North Sinai Governorate destroyed two cars that were prepared for a bombing in the towns of Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed, the armed forces spokesperson Ahmed Mohammed Ali said Thursday.
The security forces in North Sinai received information on Thursday morning stating that Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a terrorist group that has planned a recent spate of boom-mobileings against army and police forces, had also planned an attack in the cities of Sheikh Zuwayed and Arish.
Ali said the armed forces reponded to the intelligence and combed the areas, when a red car happened to be moving quickly toward the security forces, upon which the forces fired at it, causing a huge blast as the car contained a large quantity of explosives.
He pointed out that forces also spotted a private car parking on one side of the road near one of the camps in the city of Arish. The forces handled the car remotely, causing an kaboom as the car contained explosives as well, according to Ali.
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[Libya Herald] A pilot who was receiving treatment for injuries following an liquidation attempt on Monday has died of his wounds.
A source at Benghazi's Al-Jala Hospital told the Libya Herald that Flight Lieutenant Abdurrahim Sulaiman Al-Jelali, who was shot three days ago, died of complications following surgery at the hospital.
Jelali was attacked by gunnies in front of his house in the city's Ras Abeida district. He was hit in the shoulder, stomach and chest and then rushed to hospital. He was 57 years old.
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[Libya Herald] Sebha airport has now been secured by Zintani revolutionaries, working with members of the local 6th brigade.
General Manager of Sebha airport, Mohammed Owheda told the Libya Herald that the airport staff had met with the forces and discussed ways to keep the airport and surrounding area secured.
"It is a matter of days before we begin to resume flights to and from Sebha airport," said Owheda.
Head of Sebha local council, Ayoub Alzaroug said that the situation in Sebha was gradually returning to normal, although sporadic gunfire could still be heard.
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[Libya Herald] Clashes have been reported in several areas of Benghazi, following the kidnapping this afternoon of the son of the city's Special Forces Commander, Wanis Bukhmada.
Ali Wanis Bukhmada was snatched outside Benghazi University. A witness told the Libya Herald that when Bukhmada tried to resist the assailants, it appeared that he was injured by a gun shot. He was then forced into a white Toyota vehicle and driven away.
When news of the kidnapping spread, the 17th February Brigade, which has its headquarters near the university, apparently stationed troops on the street outside. Members of the Special Forces are reported to have gone to the headquarters, demanding to be allowed to search the camp for Bukhmada. When they were refused entry, fighting broke out.
Further festivities have been reported in the Gwarsha district, on the western outskirts of Benghazi, where Ansar Al-Sharia has control of a checkpoint. This checkpoint was apparently destroyed this evening by members of the Special Forces, although this has yet to be confirmed.
There are also unconfirmed reports that, when Bukhmada was kidnapped, a friend was also taken. This friend was apparently then released and was able to inform the Special Forces of the kidnappers' demands. It is thought that these may involve the release of some prisoners.
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[An Nahar] Fighters from the Central African Republic's Seleka rebel group violently seized a town north of the capital Thursday, sending terrorized civilians fleeing, according to military and diplomatic sources.
A paramilitary police source told Agence La Belle France Presse a convoy of about 50 vehicles loaded with Seleka fighters surrounded Sibut on Wednesday night, committing atrocities against the population of the town about 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Bangui.
The mostly Mohammedan fighters, reported to have been speaking only in Arabic, took full control of the town on Thursday.
A diplomatic source said the fighters, involved in weeks of horrific violence between Mohammedans and the Christian majority, were "regrouping" in the town.
It was not clear where the Seleka fighters had come from, but it was unlikely to be from Bangui, where the presence of the convoy would have been detected along the main road by French and African troops stationed in the capital.
La Belle France has a 1,600-strong peacekeeping force in its former colony, but none in Sibut. And a contingent of Gabonese troops from the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -led peacekeeping mission MISCA has withdrawn from the town, both sources said.
"The MISCA contingent drew back," said the diplomatic source.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... a source at the mission said it was "aware of nothing" to do with the attack.
The paramilitary police source said the rebel convoy was headed by Mamadou Rakis, former deputy police chief under Michel Djotodia, the Seleka leader who installed himself as president in a March 2013 coup.
Djotodia was pressured to resign after failing to rein in atrocities by his former fighters, which led to the emergence of Christian vigilante groups known as "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) who carried out retaliatory attacks against Mohammedans.
The resulting cycle of religious killings has stunned the international community, and new interim leaders have yet to bring it under control.
Faced with the ongoing violence, United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Thursday made a passionate plea on a visit to Germany for more peacekeepers to be sent to the Central African Republic to stem the bloodshed.
"I would really hope that the international community takes decisive and prompt action," said Ban in Berlin.
"There are mass atrocities, extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detentions and arrests, sexual violence and the drafting of children for military purposes, so this is a very dangerous situation."
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... he praised a decision by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to send in 500 troops to join the French force and 5,500 MISCA soldiers.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported Thursday that a spike in fighting in the interior of the country was worsening an already critical humanitarian situation.
Several towns have simply been deserted, such as the north-western town of Bozaranga, which is "a ghost town, empty, destroyed, pillaged. It is terrifying," said MSF coordinator Delphine Shedorge.
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[An Nahar] Two soldiers were among four people killed on Thursday when the army clashed with separatists in Daleh in south Yemen, sources on both sides said.
"Southern Movement activists ambushed an army vehicle at dawn with automatic fire, killing two soldiers," a military source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Two attackers were killed and seven more maimed in a subsequent firefight, he added.
An activist with the Southern Movement confirmed the clash, saying the attackers belonged to the Death Eater Southern Resistance group.
South Yemen was independent between the end of British colonial rule in 1967 and its union with the north in 1990.
A secession attempt four years later sparked a brief civil war that ended with northern forces taking over the south.
"Two fighters with the Southern Resistance were killed and three were maimed" in Thursday's exchange of fire with the soldiers, the activist added.
Tensions are high in Daleh province since tank fire killed 19 mourners at a funeral tent in the town of the same name on December 27, with snuffies staging several attacks.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Aghast at the verdict in the 10-truck arms haul cases, 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... yesterday said the judgement is part of the "government's conspiracy to eliminate patriotic politicians from the country."
The BNP said it will give a reaction on the verdict later, while the ruling Awami League expressed satisfaction over the judgement.
Rejecting the verdict, Jamaat acting ameer Maqbul Ahmed in a statement said party Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami ...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them... was handed death penalty in "staged managed and false cases as part of the government's plan to kill him."
The Jamaat, a key ally of the BNP, vowed to counter the government's conspiracy legally and politically.
Talking to The Daily Star, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said he will later give the party's reaction on the verdict after having consultations with BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... .
Now in Thakurgaon, Fakhrul refused to make any immediate comment on the judgement.
BNP LEADERS REACT
Talking to The Daily Star, BNP Vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman said it was their government that had hauled the arms cache, filed cases and placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! many people in connection with the incident.
"But the present government has used the cases to harass our leaders and the verdict has been delivered accordingly," he mentioned.
BNP chairperson's adviser Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government has "politicised" everything, including the judiciary. "Therefore, people have little confidence in the judgment in these sensitive cases," he added.
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With the verdict in the 10-truck arms haul case, rule of law has been established in the country, Law Minister Anisul Huq said yesterday.
"After this, one will dread to commit a similar crime in future," he told news hounds at his secretariat office after a Chittagong court pronounced the verdict in the sensational cases.
The special court handed death penalties to 14 people, including Jamaat chief and former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami and ex-state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, for smuggling firearms.
The verdict, said Anisul, reflects the government's pledge to uphold rule of law in the country.
Asked whether the previous BNP-Jamaat government deserves credit for the arms haul during its tenure, he said the crime was committed by the top level officials of the then government. "The weapons were enough to set up a mini cantonment," he mentioned.
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said the verdict has proved that law takes its own course and crime ultimately brings its punishment.
"It's a message to international arms syndicates that Bangladesh is not a place to smuggle arms through," she told The Daily Star at her secretariat office.
Asked whether the verdict will boost Bangladesh's ties with India further, the minister said the government has done its job.
On handing death penalty to 14 accused by the court, Matia, also Awami League presidium member, said the judge has delivered the judgement considering the merit of the cases.
The government, she added, did not interference in the court's verdict. The convicts will have the right to appeal against the sentencing in the higher court.
BNP-JAMAAT STAGE PROTESTS
BNP and Jamaat activists brought out processions in Rajshahi and Netrakona yesterday to protest the verdict in the 10-truck arms haul cases, report our correspondents.
In Rajshahi, two photojournalists and three pedestrians received splinter injuries when activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... blasted a cocktail from a procession.
BNP of Madan upazila in Netrakona brought out a procession protesting the death penalty to Lutfozzaman Babar. The former state minister for home is from the upazila.
Local BNP unit also called 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 ... in the upazila from this morning protesting the judgement.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three people, including a local BNP leader, were killed in "shootouts" between their cohorts and law enforcers in Noakhali, Sirajganj and Feni yesterday.
With them the number of extrajudicial killings in this month comes to 20. At least nine were killed while they were in jug of law enforcers. Police versions of the "shootouts" were found to be more or less similar.
Extrajudicial killings should be stopped immediately, said Sultana Kamal, executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra, a rights body that provides legal aid.
"If they are really accused [of crimes], they should be punished through a proper judicial process," she said, adding such extrajudicial killings should not be allowed in any democratic country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... expressing concern over the recent spate of extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... called for an independent investigation into the incidents.
Yesterday, Towhidul Islam, 42, former joint convener of Sonaimuri upazila BNP unit in Noakhali, was killed in an exchange of shots between his associates and police at Medipur village in the upazila.
Anisur Rahman, superintendent of police (SP) of the district, said the law enforcers took Towhidul to his home at the village to recover firearms around 4:00am.
As they were returning from the place, associates of Towhidul started firing on the law enforcers prompting them to retaliate. [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]that triggered a 30-minute "shootout", he said.
Police fired 40 bullets from their shotguns. Towhidul, son of Nurul Islam Master of Bhandragaon village, was caught in the line of fire and sustained bullet injuries.
He was rushed to Noakhali Medical College Hospital where he departed this vale of tears while undergoing treatment, the SP said.
Earlier, he was detained at Dhaka and taken to Noakhali on Wednesday night, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
The law enforcers recovered a pipe gun and six bullets from the house of Towhidul, who was a listed criminal and an accused in several cases filed with local cop shoppe.
In Sirajganj town, Mohammad Bablu, 32, son of Abdul Wahab of Baoitara village in the district, was killed in a "shootout" between his associates and Rapid Action Battalion members early yesterday.
Ashok Pal, commanding officer of Rab-12, said a team conducted a raid at Katoada in China project area around 1:00am following a tip-off that a gang of robbers were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night there.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elite force members, the gang opened fire on them, forcing the Rab to retaliate with bullets, he said.
Bablu was caught in the line of fire during the 20-minute "shootout" and was struck down in his prime, he said, adding that his gang members managed to flee.
The Rab team recovered a light gun, a revolver, four homemade bombs and some sharp weapons from the spot, reports our Pabna correspondent.
Bablu was a listed criminal and an accused in eight cases including Awami League leader Saiful Islam murder case, Rab said.
In Sadar upazila of Feni, Golam Sarwar, 28, senior vice-president of Jubo Dal unit of Fazilpur Union, was killed in a "shootout" between his associates and law enforcers yesterday afternoon.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Rab conducted a raid at Laskar Taluk in Uttar Fazilpur village around 4:00pm to arrest Sarwar.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, Sarwar and his associates opened fire on them. The joint team retaliated with bullets.
Sarwar was caught in the line of fire during the "shootout" and was struck down in his prime, said Md Shamsul Alam, assistant superintendent of police of Feni.
A pipe gun and a light gun were recovered from the spot, reports a correspondent from Feni. Sarwar was a listed criminal and an accused in several cases including robbery and extortion, police said.
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[NY Times] The leader of the main Islamist opposition party was among 14 people convicted and sentenced to death on Thursday for smuggling weapons to a rebel group in India nearly a decade ago. In April 2004, security officials seized more than 4,000 firearms, ammunition and other military equipment from fishing boats. According to case documents, the shipments were meant for Indian snuffies in Assam State, who signed a truce with the Indian government in 2011. Among those sentenced to death were Matiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the main Islamist opposition party, 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... , two former intelligence officials and a former cabinet official.
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A Mexican Army rifle unit arrived in Parral in southern Chihuahua state Thursday totaling 100 effectives, according to Mexican news reports.
According to a news report posted on the website of El Diario de Juarez, the unit arrived in 21 vehicles at the base of the 76 Infantry Battalion, part of the 42nd Military Zone.
The reinforcement comes on the heels of a violent week in Parral and nearby municipalities which saw 12 deaths in one week, and other violent incidents.
Meanwhile in the capital Chihuahua city, Chihuahua state governor Cesar Duarte lamented the spike in violence saying that those who commit violent acts will go to prison. Gov. Duarte came into office in late 2010 promising to crack down on the crime of kidnapping by having that state impose life sentences.
However, since the start of the Pena administration less than 15 months ago kidnapping has spiked, so much so that the Mexican federal Secretaria de Gobernacion or interior ministry has launched a new program intended to stem the crime.
Kidnapping is an especially critical issue in remote regions of southern Chihuahua. Kidnappings are routinely used by local criminal gangs to impress shooters into their ranks.
An initiative early last year by the new Mexican federal government was to provide additional funds to municipalities for crime prevention among Mexican youths, but very little has been mentioned of the program since it was announced.
Mexican Army deployments have changed since the start of the new federal government last year. Whereas in past years, army units were routinely rotated in and out of areas, incidents in Michoacan appears to be straining military resources.
A Milenio news report Thursday hinted that a number of military units based in Tamaulipas have been retasked to Michoacan, leaving paramilitary units such as the Policia Federal to take up the slack.
Starting with a promise of moving Mexico's military forces from the streets "back to barracks" early last year, no question a change has occurred whereby that goal has been rendered inoperative as security conditions have worsened nationwide.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Ranturg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
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It's good to see you back on the beat after, I assume, finalizing the next volume of your series on Mexico, badanov. When will it be available for sale at Amazon and the other usual sources?
The final volume on the Wounded Eagle series will be available for download Sunday February 2nd, 2014 on Smashwords the same day and Amazon a day or two later.
Volume 4, which includes every story in 2012 on the Mexican Drug War, will be available for free download.
A total of five unidentified individuals were killed in two separate incidents with Mexican federal security forces in Tamaulipas state since last Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
A new release published on the official state government website said that four unidentified armed suspects were killed in Mier municipality Tuesday after they encountered a Mexican security detachment. The incident took place near the Las Morenas break on Kilometer 108 on the Mier to Nueva Ciudad Guerrero road.
A total of six rifles, 96 weapons magazines and 2,486 rounds of ammunition were seized in the aftermath.
In a separate encounter, one unidentified armed suspect was killed last Sunday in San Fernando municipality, according to another Tamaulipas state government news release.
The incident took place at the break near Rancho El Angel on the San Fernando to Reynosa highway. A Mexican naval infantry unit attempted a traffic stop of several vehicles, but instead exchanged gunfire with a number of armed suspects traveling in a convoy.
An unknown number of suspects escaped the encounter, abandoning their vehicles at the scene including one Dodge Dakota pickup truck, one Chevrolet Tahoe SUV and one Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck.
The armed suspect who died was said to be in his 20s.
Marines seized three rifles, 23 weapons magazines, an undisclosed amount of ammunition and a bag of poncha-llantas, used to puncture vehicle tires.
In a separate news account posted on the website of Milenio news daily, federal security forces have temporarily left Ciudad Valles to reinforce security on other areas of Tamaulipas state.
The news report quoted a spokesman for the Grupo de Coordinacion Operativa Huasteca, Gilberto Almendarez Marín saying that federal security forces including part of a permanent Policia Federal detachment in the municipality has been sent to Ciudad Mante, Tampico, Huasteca and other areas of Tamaulipas. According to the report a number of federal security elements have been retasked from Tamaulipas to Michoacan.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Ranturg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
[Egypt Independent] Russia has identified two jacket wallahs responsible for attacks that killed 34 people in the city of Volgograd last month and locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! two suspected accomplices in violence-torn Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... province, officials said on Thursday.
So further arrests can be expectedly shortly?
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the bombers, whose attack raised fears of further violence before the Sochi Winter Olympics next week, were members of a krazed killer group in Dagestan in the restive North Caucasus.
A bombing at the railway station in Volgograd on December 29 was followed a day later by a blast that ripped apart a trolleybus in the city 700 km (400 miles) northeast of Sochi, where the Olympics start on February 7.
The blasts were the deadliest attacks in Russia outside the North Caucasus, the cradle of an Islamist insurgency whose leader has urged fighters to prevent the Olympics going ahead, since a bomber killed 37 people at a Moscow airport in 2011.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee identified the bombers as Asker Samedov and Suleiman Magomedov, called them members of the "Buinaksk Terrorist Group", and said it had known their names for some time.
Buinaksk is a city in Dagestan.
Two brothers suspected of helping send the bombers to Volgograd were detained in Dagestan on Wednesday, the committee also said. It identified them as Magomednabi and Tagir Batirov and said the investigation was continuing.
A video posted on the Internet last week by a group identifying itself as Vilayat Dagestan featured what it said were the Volgograd bombers donning boom belts and warning President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to expect a "present" at the Olympics. The video named the men only as Suleiman and Abdulrakhman.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: A bomb destroyed a pickup truck at a petrol pump in Nasirabad district on Thursday, killing one person and wounding 12 others, police said.
The kaboom took place in the Nasirabad district 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... province, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) southwest of the main city of Quetta.
The province borders Iran and Afghanistan and is rife with separatist and Islamist gunnies and plagued by sectarian bloodshed.
"A pickup was waiting in a queue for its turn to fill petrol at a pump when suddenly a bomb went kaboom! in it," local police official Jan Muhammad told AFP.
"There is at least one death and 12 injured, six of whom are at death's door," Muhammad added.
It was not clear why the truck was carrying a bomb and no group has come forward to claim responsibility.
Worker of PKMAP killed in city
Unknown gunniesbumped off a worker of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) on the bypass road area of Killa Abdullah district on Thursday.
According to Levies' personnel, Bakht Muhammad, along with his colleague, was on his way to home on a cycle of violence when some armed assailants opened fire on them and fled from the scene.
As a result, Bakht Muhammad was struck down in his prime while his friend remained safe.
The body was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities.
The reason of the killing could not be ascertained so far.
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[An Nahar] Iraqi forces ended a hostage-taking at a Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... government building killing four hard boyz on Thursday, as nationwide violence took January's corpse count past 900 with elections looming.
The brazen assault on a building in the northeast of the capital came as security forces grapple with intensifying violence and an extended standoff with anti-government fighters in the western province of Anbar.
It is likely to raise fresh concerns about the capabilities of Iraq's security forces amid fears the April 30 general election could be partially delayed, as was the case for provincial elections in April 2013.
Six hard boyz wearing boom jackets initially attempted to storm the building, which houses offices of a state-owned firm, by blowing up a minibus rigged with explosives at the main gate, police at the scene said.
When the kaboom did not go off, one of the attackers went kaboom! to clear the way for his fellow hard boys, followed by a second bomber who set off his vest at an inner gate.
The four remaining fighters then took hostages in the building for several hours before they were eventually killed by security forces, interior ministry front man Brigadier General Saad Maan said.
At least two people were killed in the attack overall -- a policeman at the main gate and an employee responsible for monitoring security cameras in the main building, Maan said. Eight more were maimed.
A police colonel and an interior ministry official confirmed the account and the toll.
"At the time of the attack, the employees in the building behaved very wisely and shut all their doors," Maan told Agence La Belle France Presse. "They kept all the employees inside.
"The whole operation is now finished, everything is under control."
The blood of the first guard killed in the initial suicide kaboom, as well as pieces of the attacker's flesh and parts of his boom jacket, were still visible on the ground when AFP journalists arrived at the scene after the hostages were freed.
Mobile phone footage shown to AFP by coppers indicated the inside of the building was badly damaged by firefights and kabooms.
Security forces had sealed off the surrounding area, which is home to other government offices, including the transport ministry and a human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ministry building.
Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, three bombings near markets and a restaurant in the Shiite-majority neighborhoods of Kasra, Shaab and Talbiyah killed 10 people and maimed 32, officials said.
They struck hours after boom-mobiles destroyed Storied Baghdad Jadidah, Shuala and Talbiyah, which are predominantly Shiite, leaving nine people dead on Wednesday evening.
Attacks on Wednesday also hit the capital's outskirts, as well as the northern cities of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Tuz Khurmatu, killing seven others.
Violence has killed at least 917 people in Iraq this month, more than three times the toll for January 2013, according to an AFP tally based on reports from security and medical officials.
No group grabbed credit for the ministry assault and the bombings, but Sunni hard boyz affiliated with the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) have mounted similar attacks in Storied Baghdad.
On Wednesday, Iraqi officials published a rare photograph purportedly of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the first of its kind released by an official source.
The black and white picture, which provides a rare glimpse of the hard boy commander accused of ordering the killings of countless Iraqis, shows a balding man with a beard wearing a suit and tie.
The latest bloodletting comes as security forces are locked in battles with hard boys, some of them affiliated with ISIL, in Anbar, a mostly Sunni Arab desert region west of Storied Baghdad that shares a border with Syria.
It is the first time hard boyz have exercised such open control in Iraqi cities since the peak of violence that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
The standoff has prompted more than 140,000 people to flee their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said, describing it as the worst displacement in Iraq since the peak of sectarian conflict in 2006-2008.
Washington has provided Storied Baghdad with weaponry to help it combat hard boyz and also plans to sell it 24 Apache attack helicopters.
But diplomats and analysts say the Shiite-led government must do more to reach out to the disaffected Sunni Arab minority in order to undercut support for militancy.
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[REUTERS] Six jacket wallahs burst into an Iraqi ministry building, took hostages and killed at least 24 people including themselves on Thursday before security forces regained control, security officials said.
The brazen attack on the building belonging to the Ministry of Transportation in northeast Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... coincided with a month-long standoff between the Iraqi army and anti-government fighters in the western province of Anbar.
No group grabbed credit but suicide kabooms in Iraq are the trademark of al-Qaeda linked groups. State buildings are a target for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) and its allies that have been regaining momentum in a campaign to destabilize the Shi'ite Moslem-led government.
A senior security source said the six gunnies took a number of hostages, most of them members of the Facilities Protection Service, and killed nine of them inside the building, which was used to receive visiting delegations.
Four bombers detonated their explosives vests during the assault, a fifth was rubbed out by security forces and the last died shortly after being shot, according to security officials.
"The level of security measures in the building was less than normal because it is a service building and not a sensitive site," another security bigshot told Rooters on condition of anonymity.
A further 50 people were maimed in the attack. An Interior Ministry statement gave out a lower corpse count - eight, including the six suicide bombers.
Security officials blamed ISIL for the attack and said they expected more in Storied Baghdad in the coming days to distract the security forces and reduce pressure on their gunnies in the Anbar cities of Falluja and eastern Ramadi.
The Sunni Moslem ISIL, backed by tribal fighters who resent the government, seized control of the two cities in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, bordering Syria, on January 1. Iraqi government forces have since surrounded Falluja.
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[An Nahar] A rocket fired from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo Strip Thursday night hit an open area in southern Israel without causing any damage or injuries, the army and police said.
The "rocket... hit southern Israel in an open area south of (the town) Netivot," a statement said
A police spokeswoman told Agence La Belle France Presse there was no damage or injuries.
Recently, tensions have risen in and around Gazoo after a year of relative calm, with six Paleostinians and an Israeli killed since December 20 and myrmidon rocket fire sparking retaliatory air strikes.
On January 22, the army killed two Paleostinians, one of them identified by Israel as a myrmidon from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... who the army said was behind recent rocket attacks.
Hamas recently confirmed it had deployed forces in Gazoo to "preserve the truce" with Israel, brokered by Egypt, which ended the last major confrontation in November 2012.
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[An Nahar] Three Syrian nationals, who are allegedly affiliated in al-Nusra Front, have been tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in the north of the Bekaa.
According to the state-run National News Agency, the three men entered Leb illegally to the Bekaa border town of Arsal via Qalamoun.
The cellphones in possession of the three men contained pictures showing them holding flags of al-Nusra Front, confirming their affiliation with the group.
The three suspects were identified as Moustapha Mohammed Sfarji, 34, Ziad Kheirallah Melhem, 26, and Bassam Ahmed Hamsho, 22.
Sfarji had also in his possession two cellphone, four international SIM cards and five memory cards.
The Military prosecutor ordered their referral to the military police in Ablah.
Al-Nusra Front warned that all areas where Hizbullah operates are "legitimate targets", telling Sunnis to avoid them.
It claimed a recent car kaboom in Beirut's southern suburbs that killed four people.
It was the sixth in a string of attacks targeting areas dominated by Hizbullah since the group acknowledged sending fighters into Syria to support Assad's forces.
Al-Nusra Front in Leb -- believed to be the local franchise of Syria's al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel movement -- had previously grabbed credit for a boom-mobileing in Hermel in eastern Leb, which killed three people.
They warned that attacks on Hizbullah-controlled areas will continue until Leb releases Sunni Islamist prisoners and it withdraws its fighters from Syria.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese Army on Thursday intercepted a car loaded with arms and ammunition, which was trying to enter the Bekaa border town of Arsal.
OTV said two Lebanese men were inside the car, identifying them as "Ahmed al-Fahel from al-Qubayyat and Hasan Mohammed from Akroum" in Akkar.
Army troops seized the car in the Wadi Hmayyed area on Arsal's outskirts. Al-Mayadeen television said the vehicle came from the Syrian town of Yabrud, a stronghold for rebel and jihadist groups.
Earlier media reports had claimed that the two detainees were Syrian.
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[An Nahar] The Army Command announced on Thursday that detained holy man Sheikh Omar al-Atrash had confessed during investigations to taking part in plans to carry out car kabooms in Leb.
It said in a statement that he confessed to transporting explosives-laden cars to Beirut.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr later charged Atrash and 12 Lebanese and Syrian suspects with belonging to al-Qaeda and the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... and of committing terrorist acts.
Atrash confessed that he was transporting the booby-trapped vehicles to a Syrian national called Abou Khaled who in turn was planning to hand them to a terrorist called Naim Abbas in cooperation with a man identified as Omar Saleh.
The holy man also transported boom belts, hand grenades, and different ammunition.
In addition, he transported in one of the vehicles two jacket wallahs equipped with boom belts.
The bombers were killed at the Ouwwali and Majdelyoun army checkpoints on undisclosed dates.
Atrash confessed that he had transported suicide bombers from different Arab nationalities to Syria.
They were handed over to the Nusra Front group in Syria, said the Army Command statement.
Moreover, the holy man transported from Syria four rockets that were fired from al-Hosh region towards Israel on August 22, 2013.
He had received four new rockets, from a man called Ahmed Taha, a few days before his arrest.
The Army Intelligence added that further investigations will be held with Atrash in order to uncover all other operations that the group he belongs to had carried out.
The holy man was tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! last week.
Media reports had linked him to boom-mobileings that had taken place in recent months in Dahieh, Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Al-Nusra Front in Leb -- believed to be the local branch of Syria's Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist rebel movement -- had recently warned that attacks on Hizbullah-controlled areas will continue until Leb releases Sunni Islamist prisoners and the party withdraws from Syria.
Al-Nusra Front in Leb warned Sunnis against "approaching or residing in or near (Hizbullah's) bases, and (to) avoid gathering around its meeting points."
The war in Syria has inflamed sectarian tensions in Leb, with Hizbullah backing Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime and many Sunnis supporting the rebellion against him.
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A food convoy gained entry on Thursday to Syrias besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, where dozens have died from shortages of food and medicines, the UN and Syrian state media said. UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness said 600 food parcels had been delivered to the camp south of Damascus by 1pm (1100 GMT).
He said there had been chaotic scenes as the food was distributed, the first to be delivered to the camp since January 21, when UNRWA took in 138 food parcels.
Of course it was chaotic. We're talking Palestinians here...
Syrias state news agency SANA also reported the aid distribution.
New food aid has entered Yarmuk camp, with the application of a peaceful, popular initiative supported by the Syrian government to alleviate the suffering of the residents surrounded in the camp, taken hostage by armed terrorist groups, it said.
Gunness said UNRWA hoped further convoys would swiftly follow as tens of thousands of civilians were in need.
We are encouraged by the delivery of this aid and the cooperation of the parties on the ground, he said. We hope to continue and increase substantially the amount of aid being delivered because the numbers of those needing assistance is in the tens of thousands, including 18,000 Palestinians, among them women and children.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 86 people have died in Yarmuk in recent months from starvation or lack of medical care. The camp is largely in the hands of rebel forces, and has been surrounded by a tight army siege since June, making it nearly impossible for food and medicines to enter or for residents to leave.
Residents have spoken of eating grass, cats and dogs in a bid to stay alive.
The camp began as a home for Palestinian refugees, but long ago evolved into a bustling district housing some 150,000 Palestinians, as well as many Syrians. But now just an estimated 18,000 Palestinians remain in the camp, much of which has been destroyed in fighting.
How many of the 18 thousand are gunnies and hard boyz?
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THink of the hilarity if the next food aid were to be air dropped by a low and slow 130; once the pallets hit and split, the race would be on.
[SMH.AU] Syrian government forces using bulldozers and explosives razed thousands of homes in rebel areas of the country - an area equivalent to about 200 soccer fields, according to a report by Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... .
Many of the demolished buildings were apartment blocks several stories high, some with as many as eight levels, covering a total area of at least 145 hectares, the New York-based organization said in a report today titled Razed to the Ground: Syria's Unlawful Neighborhood Demolitions. Satellite photos released by the organization showed inhabited areas in Damascus and Hama reduced to rubble, some in the space of a month.
"In some areas, the entire neighbourhood has been flattened, it disappeared as if it never even existed," Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in an interview. The destruction is not a consequence of fighting, "We can tell from the satellite imagery that it is systematic and complete," he said.
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The D9 solution. Once again shown to be effective against terrorism.
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.
MOGADISHU -- A wanted Al Shabaab official Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys who has been in custody over the past six months was put under house arrest in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, Garowe Online reports.
Shabelle] Kenyan police are questioning nine suspects involved in a fake passport and visa cartel after being 
OGADISHU -- At least 7 persons including 2 civilians were killed during renewed clashes on Wednesday in Lower Shabelle region south of Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.
[Egypt Independent] Army forces in North Sinai Governorate destroyed two cars that were prepared for a bombing in the towns of Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed, the armed forces spokesperson Ahmed Mohammed Ali said Thursday.
[Libya Herald] A pilot who was receiving treatment for injuries following an 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[NY Times] The leader of the main Islamist opposition party was among 14 people convicted and sentenced to death on Thursday for smuggling weapons to a rebel group in India nearly a decade ago. In April 2004, security officials seized more than 4,000 firearms, ammunition and other military equipment from fishing boats. According to case documents, the shipments were meant for Indian 
A Mexican Army rifle unit arrived in Parral in southern Chihuahua state Thursday totaling 100 effectives, according to Mexican news reports.
[Egypt Independent] Russia has identified two 
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
The D9 solution. Once again shown to be effective against terrorism. 
