[An Nahar] The governor of Sudan's troubled North Darfur state has survived an ambush after visiting a town briefly seized by rebels, a source familiar with the incident said Sunday.
"He's OK," the source told Agence La Belle France Presse after the Saturday attack against North Darfur governor Osman Kbir, which was the latest sign of instability in the region.
It came while he was returning to the state capital El Fasher after assessing the situation in Mellit town, more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) north, said the source, who asked for anonymity.
There was no indication of who carried out the ambush.
The state-linked Sudanese Media Center (SMC) reported that Kbir, accompanied by a legislative and security delegation, had visited the area but the report made no mention of an attack.
SMC is close to Sudan's security apparatus.
The official SUNA news agency on Saturday quoted Kbir as saying Mellit was "fully under control of the armed forces" after the attack by krazed killers.
Minni Minnawi, who heads a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, told AFP on Thursday that his forces had captured the town.
It was the fourth major outbreak of violence in Darfur since late February, with rebels attacking an area in the southeast and another uprising erupting in the far west, where local sources said militia loyal to Musa Hilal took control of Saraf Omra town.
Even before the Mellit incident, about 115,000 people had been displaced by violence in North Darfur and in South Darfur, according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... .
International peacekeepers said "a number of military and civilian casualties" were reported after last week's attack against a Sudanese military base in Mellit.
According to the source familiar with the incident there were "heavy losses" among paramilitary forces, but he did not have an exact number.
Minnawi claimed to have killed several dozen government troops but Governor Kbir said it was the rebels who suffered heavy casualties.
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... -United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which has a base outside Mellit, said it treated several victims, one of whom died from injuries.
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Lots of fighting in Baladweyne. Almost as if it is important...
According to locals living within the territory, there were intense clashes in some of the neighborhoods in the Baladweyne city of the Hiiraan region.
The fight was provoked after Al-Shabaab fighters stimulated the attack and it was reported that the clashes went on for at least a few hours.
The battle occurred in the Guufaale and Janta Kunisho territories, although up until now there have been no specifications on the number of casualties. We were unable to establish contact with officials from the Hiiraan Regional Administration to enquire further details on the scale of the attacks.
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[Egypt Independent] Hundreds of pro-Moslem Brüderbund students at Al-Azhar University and Ain Shams University rallied on campus Sunday, the second day of the second semester.
Students at Ain Shams University raised images of fellow students who have been detained or killed during the first semester. They chanted "Down with the military rule," "The police are thugs," and "We will not die before our due time, we will not live as slaves in our country."
Some students stormed the main gate of the university and launched fire works to join students protesting on campus. The students flew the Paleostinian flag on faculty buildings and chanted in solidarity with Gazoo. They also burned the Israeli and Russian flags.
The security personnel had closed the main gate upon the order of the university's president who ordered to prevent marches going into or out of the university. Five CSF vehicles and three armored vehicles were stationed at Ain Shams University's main gate.
Al-Azhar students also staged many marches on campus. They chanted anti-military and anti-police slogans and denounced the return of police to campus. They also raised images for their detained colleagues. Al-Azhar students raised a banner that read, "The second Al-Azhar students uprising."
Quarrels occurred between protesting students and the administrative security personnel. The security can now enter the campuses upon the order of university presidents, according to a protocol agreed on between the Interior and Higher Education ministeries.
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[Egypt Independent] The South Giza prosecutor ordered investigations into an incident where a street cleaner found six sophisticated bombs near a primary school in al-Talbiya district and another case where four bombs were placed near a power plant in Omraniya district.
According to initial investigations, school children were targeted in both incidents. Two suspects were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... by residents and handed over to police for allegedly being seen while placing the bombs near the power plant. The two are currently being interrogated.
Investigation reports showed that the street cleaner found the six bombs lying next to the school wall. Detectives, accompanied by explosive experts, arrived at the school and defused the bombs, in addition to the four other explosives that they found near a power plant while combing the surrounding area.
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If that street cleaner isn't a drinking man, he ought to start.
And he ought to have a substantial raise to help him along.
Ten bombs...kids.
I regret my dismissive use of the worst obscenities, since there are none left to me for serious use.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Disputes between ethnic groups have left at least 100 villagers dead in Nigeria's central Kaduna state, officials say.
The incident occurred in the Kaura district in the south of the state where heavily gunnies entered three villages and started the attack.
It is not clear who was behind the attacks, but residents blame members of the mainly Mohammedan Fulani tribe, reports BBC Online.
Central Nigeria has often witnessed violence stemming from disputes over land and religion.
Thousands of people have been killed in recent years in violence blamed on semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen attacking Christian farmers.
A member of Kaduna's state assembly, Yakubu Bitiyong, visited the scene of the most recent attacks, which took place on Friday night.
Most of those killed in the villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, had been so badly burned they could not be identified, he told the BBC. Houses were destroyed by fire and food supplies looted.
Mr Bitiyong said two of the attackers were also killed and their bodies taken away by police, who have sent in reinforcements.
The unrest is not connected with the continuing Islamist insurgency carried out by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... group, which wants to impose Sharia law in the north.
The attacks in Kaduna came only a day after reports emerged of 69 people being killed over several days in northern Katsina state when dozens of gunnies arrived in villages on cycle of violences.
Violence in that area has also been blamed on Fulani attacking local farmers from the Mohammedan Hausa ethnic group, rather than the Christian community.
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[An Nahar] Three suspected al-Qaeda members, among them a Saudi, were killed Sunday when a boom-mobile they were preparing went kaboom! in Yemen's south, tribal and security sources said.
The angels in Hell are capering with glee. They have special treats for such as these.
Two other alleged members of the turban network were "seriously maimed" and a nearby house was "partially destroyed," a tribal source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The blast took place in the town of Habban in the al-Qaeda stronghold of Shabwa, the sources said.
"These are probably al-Qaeda members who were preparing to use the car to carry out a criminal attack against the army and security forces," a security official said.
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A total of three armed suspects were killed in two separate incidents in Tamaulipas state since Thursday, and a Mexican federal police official was assassinated, according to official Mexican government news accounts.
According to a new release posted on the Tamaulipas state government website, last Friday night a Mexican Army road patrol intercepted a convoy of at least two vehicles in ejido El Olivo near Recinto Ferial in Matamoros municipality. The suspects in the vehicles fired on the army patrol. Return fire by soldiers hit and killed two.
As others in the convoy escaped, both of the dead were left on the roadway. The report said the men who were killed were both in their 20s. Soldiers seized one AK-47 rifle, weapons magazines and ammunition, and one Chevrolet Malibu sedan.
Meanwhile in Reynosa municipality, one armed suspect was killed in an apparent traffic stop attempt by a Mexican Army road patrol.
The incident took place at around 1200 hrs near the intersection of Bulevar Tiburcio Garza Zamora and Calle San Luis in Rodríguez colony. The army patrol attempted the stop, but were instead fired on by the driver, said to be in his 20s, who was aboard a Chevrolet Tornado pickup truck.
Soldiers seized one AR-15 rifle in the aftermath, as well as the vehicle.
The day before in Gonzalez municipality, an unidentified Policia Federal Preventativa inspector was shot and killed at 1015 hrs near the intersection of Avenida Insurgentes and Calle Honduras in Aviacion de Villa Manuel colony.
Suspects aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck are suspected in the attack.
Secretario de Seguridad Publica del Estado resigns
According to a news release on the Tamaulipas state website, Tamaulipas' Secretario de Seguridad Publica del Estado (SSPE) resigned his position after 36 months in office.
Lomeli Martinez was said to have personal reasons for his resignation. The website report notes that Lomeli Martinez oversaw the certification of police in the state, the worst record in Mexico at only 43 percent of police certified to work as police as of last fall. At the time, police certifications were due to be complete, but Mexico's national Chamber of Deputies extended the deadline another year, the third extension in four years.
Replacing Lomeli Martinez is Brigade General Arturo Gutierrez Garcia. He was formerly chief of staff of the Mexican IV Military Region, based in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon between 2012 and 2013. Searches of government websites yield little in the way of former commands for the general, although Mexican civilian press says he has extensive field experience.
The Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), controlling agency for the Mexican Army indicates that General Gutierrez Garcia served as military attache to Honduras a few years ago.
It must be noted that Lomeli Martinez, himself a former Mexican Army first captain, became SSPE just as the mass graves in San Fernando were being discovered. The total dead found was 193, the worst in the Mexican Drug War.
His predecessor, Brigadier General Ubaldo Ayala Tinoco, resigned his position after only 107 days in the wake of the discovery of the immensity of the mass murders in San Fernando municipality.
Command Shuffling in Northeast Mexico
Both of the two command units covering Tamaulipas have undergone changes of command since last December, 2013. Every November, the SEDENA comes out with its latest promotions of flag officers, and sometimes with it new commanders are reassigned. The Mexican Army likes its commanders to have extensive experience in the field, and so commanders tend to stay in place, so that they may train new subordinates. Normal command shuffling takes place in June, but sometimes they are known to take place directly after the promotions lists come out.
Th IV Military Region, which includes Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and San Luis Potosi states, recently experienced a change of command as General de Division Tomas Jaime Aguirre Cervantes took command of the region last December, according to data supplied by Milenio news daily.
General Aguirre Cervantes has extensive command experience, having commanded several military zones including the 11th, 33rd and 40th Zones. He has taught at Mexico's Escuela Superior de Guerra and was commandant of Heroico Colegio Militar. His other assignments include work in intelligence and in counterintelligence.
He replaces General Noe Sandoval Alcazar, who took an administrative job for SEDENA in Mexico City.
Meanwhile the 8th Military Zone, a subordinate unit to the IV Military Region, experienced a change of command as General de Brigada Pedro Felipe Gurrola Ramirez took command, replacing General de Brigada Miguel Gustavo Gonzalez Cruz, according to a news report in El Manana news daily.
General Gurrola Ramirez is a special forces soldier with command experience in Culican in Sinaloa state and in Chiapas state.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[An Nahar] Heavily-armed forces of Evil attacked the home of an anti-Qaeda militiaman north of Storied Baghdad Sunday, killing and decapitating his wife and two sons and killing another person in a brutal pre-dawn assault.
The militia leader, Abu Salim, was not in the house at the time of the attack, which involved more than a dozen vehicles and fighters armed with heavy machine guns and other weapons and also left two of his young sons maimed.
Fighters attacked the militia leader's house in Jilam, a suburb of the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra, at around midnight on Saturday, and killed Abu Salim's wife, two sons and another woman, a police colonel and another officer said.
They then decapitated his wife and two sons, and set off explosives around the house, injuring two other sons, aged four and five.
Policemen at a nearby checkpoint attempted to repel the assault, the officers said, but were unsuccessful and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when they ran out of ammunition and reinforcements that they had radioed for failed to arrive.
Abu Salim is the leader in Jilam of the Sahwa, or Awakening, a collection of mostly-Sunni tribal militias that from late-2006 onwards sided with U.S. forces against their co-religionists in al-Qaeda, helping turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency.
But as a result, they are regarded by Sunni forces of Evil as traitors, and are regularly targeted in attacks.
In the Storied Baghdad area on Sunday, meanwhile, a bombing and two shootings killed three people, security and medical officials said.
The latest bloodshed came a day after five boom-mobiles were set off in commercial areas of the Iraqi capital, killing 15 people and wounding more than 50 others.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the bloodshed, but Sunni myrmidons, including those linked to 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... jihadist group, are often blamed for carrying out coordinated mass-casualty bombings.
Iraq is grappling with its worst prolonged period of violence since it emerged from a bloody sectarian war that left tens of thousands dead in 2006-07.
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[An Nahar] The army opened fire on Sunday at a vehicle in the outskirts of Arsal after it refused to comply with the orders of the checkpoint, the state-run National News Agency reported.
According to NNA, an army checkpoint in al-Reyan valley on the outskirts of the eastern border town shot up the pick-up truck after people in it refused to follow their requests.
The news agency said that the pick-up was hit with several shots.
Later on Sunday, the army tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a group of Syrians who had arms and ammunition in their possession in the Arsal region, according to NNA.
They were referred to the relevant judicial authorities, NNA said.
It was not immediately clear whether the agency was referring to the same incident.
Syrian troops had seized on Sunday full control of the rebel bastion Yabrud in the strategic Qalamun region near the Lebanese border.
Media reports said that gunnies from Yabrud fled into neighboring Leb, in particular the town of Arsal.
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[Egypt Independent] Syrian forces in Yabroud were in the final stages on Sunday of clearing out rebels holed up there for months and had begun dismantling roadside kabooms laid by the Death Eaters, a military source told Rooters.
Capturing Yabroud, the last major rebel bastion near the Lebanese border north of Damascus, would help 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... secure the land route linking his Mediterranean coastal stronghold with the capital Damascus, and choke off a cross-border rebel supply line from Leb.
The source said most of the snuffies had pulled out of Yabroud around dawn, a day after pro-government forces had entered eastern districts of the town and captured several strategic hilltops.
A fighter in Yabroud from the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria, confirmed to Rooters the rebels had decided to pull out and said they were heading towards nearby villages including Hosh Arab, Rankos and Fleita.
He said they did not plan to withdraw across the Lebanese border to Arsal, a crossing point 20 km (13 miles) to the northwest which rebels and refugees have used regularly.
The government has been making incremental gains along the land route as well as around Damascus and Aleppo in the past months, regaining the initiative in a conflict entering its fourth year.
More than 140,000 people have been killed in the increasingly sectarian civil war, which began with mass street protests against Assad but turned into an armed insurgency after a violent security crackdown on demonstrators.
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[An Nahar] A suicide car kaboom killed four people and maimed several others late Sunday in the Bekaa town of al-Nabi Othman, state-run National News Agency reported.
"Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... members knew he was about to carry out the attack, and tried to stop the vehicle. That was when the attacker detonated the vehicle," a Lebanese security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The deaders Abdul Rahman al-Qadi who hails from al-Ain and Khalil Khalil who hails from al-Fakiha detected a suspicious Grand Cherokee, so they chased it and asked its driver to stop, which prompted him to blow it up," NNA said.
The kaboom killed al-Qadi, Khalil as well as al-Nabi Othman residents Wahida Nazha and Ali Hussein Nazha and left several people maimed, the agency added.
A group calling itself the Baalbek Ahrar al-Sunna Brigade grabbed credit on Twitter for the bombing.
"Prepare for the transfer of the battle of Yabrud into Lebanese territory," it said.
For its part, al-Nusra Front in Lebgrabbed credit for the attack on Twitter, describing it as "a quick response to Iran party's bluster following its extortion of the town of Yabrud."
The attack comes hours after the Syrian army backed by Hizbullah fighters captured Yabrud, a former rebel bastion in Syria near the Lebanese border.
Hizbullah and Lebanese security forces have said many of the boom-mobiles used in previous suicide boom-mobileings originated in Yabrud.
The Lebanese Red Thingy said the attack took place near a gas station.
A witness told LBCI TV said "the jacket wallah blew up the bomb-laden car which came from Wadi Rafeq (in Arsal's outskirts) when he was detected by members of a local party."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... al-Jadeed television said Hizbullah's top official in the town of al-Ain A. Q. was killed in the bombing.
Hizbullah-dominated areas in eastern Leb and Beirut's southern suburbs have suffered a series of deadly attacks, many of them suicide car blasts, since the group acknowledged sending fighters into Syria.
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[An Nahar] Syrian warplanes carried out several Arclight airstrikes on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal as media reports said that gunnies from the rebel bastion of Yabrud fled to the area after the Syrian army seized full control of the town.
The Syrian Arclight airstrike targeted the outskirts of Arsal's mountainous regions.
"Syrian warplanes waged several strikes on Arsal's outskirts, targeting gunnies fleeing from the frontiers of al-Aqaba and Rantous towards Arsal, leaving several of them dead or maimed," Leb's National News Agency reported.
Earlier, LBCI TV said Syrian aircraft carried out two raids on the al-Maslaha area in Arsal's peripheries.
Opposition sources said civilians and activists in the town of Yabrud had fled overnight into neighboring Leb.
And Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said the army was targeting "groups of terrorists" fleeing Yabrud between the village of Fleita in Syria and the town of Arsal.
Arsal municipal chief Ali al-Hujairi denied that gunnies from the Yabrud area entered the border town.
LBCI reported that more than 1,000 gunnies headed to the outskirts of the Bekaa town of Arsal as the Lebanese army took extra measures to prevent gunnies from entering the area.
The Lebanese army also closed the Arsal-Labweh road.
Syrian troops had seized on Sunday full control of the rebel bastion Yabrud in the strategic Qalamun region near the Lebanese border.
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[An Nahar] Armed festivities renewed on Sunday afternoon in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , shattering a cautious calm that had engulfed the city since dawn, as a number of MPs, Mohammedanholy mans and figures called for a ceasefire and rejected attacks on the army.
"Clashes have escalated between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen and the army is shooting at the sources of gunfire," al-Jadeed television reported in the evening.
"Three shells fell on the vegetable market-Omari Street frontier in Tripoli amid heavy gunfire," it said.
In the afternoon, Voice of Leb radio (100.5) said "festivities have renewed in Baal al-Darawish and Bab al-Tabbaneh."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife...... Tripoli's leaders and figures held a meeting at MP Mohammed Kabbara's residence and issued a statement stressing "the need to seek pacification, act wisely and exert efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire."
They said a truce would "deprive those plotting against the city of a chance to drag it into a meaningless battle that is not in anyone's interest."
The meeting was attended by Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MPs Kabbara, Samir al-Jisr, Moein al-Merehbi and Khaled al-Daher; Mohammedanholy mans Salem al-Rafehi, Zakaria al-Masri, Nabil Rahim and Khaled al-Sayyed; and the Jamaa Islamiya's political official in the North Hasan Khayyal.
"Entire Tripoli wants to live under the authority of the state, safely and securely, but there must be justice, fairness and balance among everyone, and it rejects that the city's sons be dragged into a confrontation with the army and security forces," the conferees said.
They also stressed "the need to restore confidence between the city's sons and military and security institutions, topped by the Lebanese Army, and to conduct the necessary investigations into reports about summary executions of a number of desperados," urging security forces to "reevaluate the taken measures and not to use excessive force."
The conferees condemned "any attack on the Lebanese Army," underlining that "restoring confidence in security forces would reflect positively on Tripoli and its security and stability."
The politicians and leaders also called for "bringing to justice all the security violators and outlaws, starting with those involved in carrying out the terrorist bombings that targeted al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques."
They revealed that "after the cabinet wins the vote of confidence, a Tripoli delegation will visit the three presidents and relevant officials to put them in the picture of the events."
Earlier on Sunday, a soldier was killed in a grenade attack on the army in Tripoli, raising to 13 the corpse count from the latest round of festivities between the rival districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
The army command said in a communique issued on Sunday that a "grenade attack on an army personnel carrier in al-Mallouleh area at 9:30 p.m. killed a soldier."
The statement stressed that the army is still responding to the sources of fire in the northern city.
Battles subsided on Sunday at dawn after a rough night in the city despite intermittent sniper gunshots operating around Syria street, which separates the Alawite enclave of Jabal Mohsen from the Sunni district of Bab al-Tabbaneh.
President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... expressed regret on Sunday over the victims of the festivities in Tripoli.
He stressed "on the importance of being aware amid this critical stage that Leb and the Lebanese should be dissociated from its negative repercussions."
Suleiman reiterated calls from "consensus and dialogue... to surpass this stage safely."
The state-run National News Agency reported that the festivities injured around 57 people.
Bab al-Tabbaneh residents staged demonstrations on Saturday night to protest the ongoing situation in the city.
The latest fighting broke out on Thursday after a Sunni man was killed by unknown gunnies on a cycle of violence in central Tripoli.
But tensions between the districts have run high for decades, only increasing with the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in March 2011, where Alawite Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... faces a Sunni-dominated uprising.
The Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood backs the revolt, while residents in Jabal Mohsen support the Syrian regime.
The army has deployed in the city, arresting several people overnight and responding to sources of fire.
The violence between two districts of the city caused local schools to close and cut traffic flow in the city to a trickle.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Egypt Independent] The South Giza prosecutor ordered investigations into an incident where a street cleaner found six sophisticated bombs near a primary school in al-Talbiya district and another case where four bombs were placed near a power plant in Omraniya district.
[An Nahar] Three suspected al-Qaeda members, among them a Saudi, were killed Sunday when a 
[Egypt Independent] Syrian forces in Yabroud were in the final stages on Sunday of clearing out rebels holed up there for months and had begun dismantling 
[An Nahar] Armed 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
