[VOA News] Pakistain's military festivities with Talibs have spilled over its northwest border into neighboring Afghanistan. The cross-border skirmish has left civilians, forces of Evil and military forces dead across the rugged frontier dividing the two countries.
Pak military sources say its forces repulsed a major bully boy attack Saturday morning, killing 16 hard boyz in the fighting. One soldier also died and two others were maimed.
The sources said between 150 and 200 Talibs from Afghanistan's Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... swarmed over the border in a pre-dawn strike and attacked a group of Pak military border posts at Nao Top, in Pakistain's northwest Bajur tribal district.
Bajur is directly across from Afghanistan's Kunar province.
The Pak military sources said in the fierce fighting that followed, helicopter gunships were sent in.
But Shuja ul-Mulk Jalala, governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province, said the gunships crossed into Afghan territory. He said four non-combatants were killed in the firing.
He says, the bombardment began this morning around 7:45 in the Rega area of Dangam district in Kunar province, and continued until 10:30 am. He says four non-combatants were killed and 10 others were maimed in the bombing.
Pakistain did not comment on whether its forces had crossed the border. Pak Talibs often take refuge inside Afghanistan.
Cross border bully boy attacks have led to significant tension between the neighboring countries, and emotions were high in Kabul's parliament Saturday.
Afghan Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi told his country's politicians that the army was ready to retaliate, but would not make a move without being ordered by Kabul's civilian government.
Mohammadi said President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... had called him to ask for details on the helicopter strikes.
He says, there is no doubt that last night the Taliban attacked Mighty Pak Army posts. It was the Pak Taliban on the border with Dangam.
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Why wouldn't the Afghan govies cheer that the Pak military killed their mutual enemies while in hot pursuit? It isn't like the Pak military stuck around afterwards.
[NBCNEWS] The family of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said they were overjoyed when President Barack Obama personally called them Saturday and gave them the news they were hoping desperately to hear: Their son, captured by the Taliban in 2009, was finally coming home.
"We cannot wait to wrap our arms around our only son," Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, said in a statement.
"We want to thank Bowe's many supporters in Idaho, around the nation and around the world. We thank the Amir of Qatar for his efforts," they continued. "And of course, we want to take this opportunity to thank all those in the many U.S. Government agencies who never gave up. Today, we are ecstatic!"
Bergdahl, 28, was rescued in Afghanistan at 10:30 a.m. ET -- in exchange for five prisoners who were held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center -- and is back in the hands of the U.S. military, the officials said.
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all five of the to-be-released Taliban are dangerous terrorists and two of them have been identified by the UN as wanted for war crimes against Shia in Afghanistan
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UNCONFIRMED REPORTING - from a commenter on the blog 'This Ain't Hell.'
I WAS THERE. I'm sick of all the lies. Here is the TRUTH, from someone on the ground. We were at OP Mest, Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It was a small outpost where B Co 1-501st INF (Airbone) ran operations out of, just an Infantry platoon and ANA counterparts there. The place was an Afghan graveyard. Bergdahl had been acting a little strange, telling people he wanted to "walk the earth" and kept a little journal talking about how he was meant for better things. No one thought anything about it. He was a little “out there”. Next morning he's gone. We search everywhere, and can't find him. He left his weapon, his kit, and other sensitive items. He only took some water, a compass and a knife. We find some afghan kids shortly after who saw an american walking north asking about where the taliban are. We get hits on our voice intercepter that Taliban has him, and we were close. We come to realize that the kid deserted his post, snuck out of camp and sought out Taliban… to join them. We were in a defensive position at OP Mest, where your focus is to keep people out. He knew where the blind spots were to slip out and that's what he did. It was supposed to be a 4-day mission but turned into several months of active searching. Everyone was spun up to find this guy. News outlets all over the country were putting out false information. It was hard to see, especially when we knew the truth about what happened and we lost good men trying to find him. PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl. Fighting Increased. IEDs and enemy ambushes increased. The Taliban knew that we were looking for him in high numbers and our movements were predictable. Because of Bergdahl, more men were out in danger, and more attacks on friendly camps and positions were conducted while we were out looking for him. His actions impacted the region more than anyone wants to admit. There is also no way to know what he told the Taliban: Our movements, locations, tactics, weak points on vehicles and other things for the enemy to exploit are just a few possibilities. The Government knows full well that he deserted. It looks bad and is a good propaganda piece for the Taliban. They refuse to acknowledge it. Hell they even promoted him to Sergeant which makes me sick. I feel for his family who only want their son/brother back. They don’t know the truth, or refuse to acknowledge it as well. What he did affected his family and his whole town back home, who don’t know the truth. Either way what matters is that good men died because of him. He has been lying on all those Taliban videos about everything since his “capture”. If he ever returns, he should be tried under the UCMJ for being a deserter and judged for what he did. Bergdahl is not a hero, he is not a soldier or an Infantryman. He failed his brothers. Now, sons and daughters are growing up without their fathers who died for him and he will have to face that truth someday.
Aside from the fact that it contained unit information, call signs, deployments, procedures, and that logbooks are classified (FOUO - at a miniumum) - and that Rantburg has this thing about publishing stuff like that - no particular reason.
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The fact they did not perform one of their ritual executions of Bergdahl and post it on the internet was a red flag for me from the beginning.
Every other soldier they captured, they eviscerated like a pig and beheaded (not that the press will ever admit their precious Taliban would do such a thing).
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Thanks MODS. When I see LLVI's posted on the UNCLAS, I start twitching a bit. Old habits, etc....
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One of a few things we agree upon, meneer. Posted by Pappy
I suspected the OPSEC clean-up was your work. I thought I heard an old Senior Chief screaming 'WTF' through my laptop right after I posted the warning.
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Papa Bergdahl is calling for more Guantanomo releases... Methinks something smells to high heaven here, and I hope some rogue CIA types dispatch those 5 'gentlemen' that the alleged president sent to Qatar For Islamic sympathizer al-Bergdahl, Jr...
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it does not get more GOP than IDAHO, face the facts much?
Dear 746, every state has its eccentrics. In some they are liberal, in others conservative, in others still they're libertarian, and on occasion they're simply delusional. I suspect this particular family falls into that last category. It being God's own backyard doesn't protect you from people like that, regardless of the general politics of the place.
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Law Broken: Congress Not Notified of Gitmo Swap Tyrants try to influence the natives that the tyrant is the only representative they need, not a House, not a Senate by doing great deeds by decree at first. And if the Democracy is crushed in favor of tyranny, all hell breaks loose on down the road once the checks and balances no longer exist. The freeing of the POW may seem like a nice thing, but it masks a greater sinister plot to indeed fundamentally change the government.
The Taliban has long demanded that the “Gitmo 5” be released in order for peace talks to begin in earnest. The Obama administration has desperately sought to engage the Taliban as American forces are drawn down in Afghanistan, but those talks have gone nowhere to this point. At first, the administration set preconditions for the talks, including that the Taliban break its relationship with al Qaeda. When it became clear that this was a non-starter, the administration decided to make the Taliban’s desired break with al Qaeda a goal, and no longer a precondition, for its diplomacy.
There is little hope that the peace talks will be more successful now. But the president seems to believe that Bergdahl’s exchange for the Gitmo 5 (who are reportedly being transferred to Qatar) may break the ice. “While we are mindful of the challenges, it is our hope Sergeant Bergdahl’s recovery could potentially open the door for broader discussions among Afghans about the future of their country by building confidence that it is possible for all sides to find common ground,” Obama said in his statement.
The Obama administration says that security measures have been put into place to make sure that the Gitmo 5 do not pose a threat to American national security. LetÂ’s hope that is true; it certainly has not been the case with many ex-Gitmo detainees in the past.
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The Obama administration says that security measures have been put into place to make sure that the Gitmo 5 do not pose a threat to American national security.
...and if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.
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Way to go, Chump, I mean Champ. Now the Taliban know all they have to do is capture US citizens and Chump, I mean Champ, will cave to their demands. Bugwit.
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Two can play that game, Deacon, though I doubt Champ understands that.
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Could be seen as: Obama Restores Afghan Taliban Government in Exile
The "Gitmo 5"
Khair Ulla Said Wali Khairkhwa
May have been directly associated with Osama bin Laden. Khairkhwa was an early member of the Taliban in 1994 and was interior minister during the Taliban's rule.
Mullah Mohammad Fazl
Fazl commanded the main force fighting the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001, and served as chief of army staff under the Taliban regime. He has been accused of war crimes during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s. Fazl was detained after surrendering to Abdul Rashid Dostam, the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community, in November 2001. He was wanted by the United Nations in connection with the massacre of thousands of Afghan Shiites during the Taliban's rule. "When asked about the murders, he did not express any regret,"
Mohammad Nabi Omari
He was the Taliban's chief of communications and helped al Qaeda members escape from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Abdul Haq Wasiq
Wasiq was the deputy chief of the Taliban regime's intelligence service. His cousin was head of the service. An administrative review in 2007 cited a source as saying that Wasiq was also "an al Qaeda intelligence member"...
Mullah Norullah Noori
Noori served as governor of Balkh province in the Taliban regime and played some role in coordinating the fight against the Northern Alliance.
This could also be considered an Obama slap at Karzai by releasing people who could at the very least be a Taliban government in exile. The Taliban sees them as people who can restore the Taliban in Afghanistan and aid Al Qaeda again.
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Champ needed a convenient media diversion from the VA scandal. Any event in the WH rose garden should be seen as psychological warfare and those involve as props an useful idiots.
Where is the outrage to be found from the Nazi hunters who continue their relentless searches some 70 years after the end of WWII. No defense of the Nazis intended, but the hypocrisy is obvious and palpable.
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So, a brokered trade of five killers for a dubious "prisoner of war" and a tenuous agreement that the Taliban might pick up the phone when Washington calls to beg for terms.
Y'know, the Left pilloried Nixon and Kissinger when they did something similar with the North Vietnamese.
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Interesting example of how the empty suit's security advisors cannot think in a global sense or even connect the dots on a coherent policy.
So, we are going to abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban and leave a sacrificial lamb token military force AND we are releasing their five most important Taliban leaders to go back and make Afghanistan hell on earth for our remaining forces.
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My point Pappy, as obscure as it was, is sometimes it really is worth dealing with the devil. I think in this case the devil dealt with us.
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Obama "I have a pen and a phone" did not consult Congress, did not consult our allies who fought along side the US to take these extremely dangerous terrorists out of circulation.
If America does not do something about Obama now, America will have no friends, especially if these people start striking our allies again with major 9/11 style attacks.
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Desertion aside, his personal angsts + being a US Soldier reminds me of the attributes of the future Islamic Mahdi = Hidden Imam.
The Bammer says the US can lead the world for the next 100 years, IMO presum iff it can survive the premises + perils of OWG Globalism, as opposed to indirectly mistakenly helping Radical Islam conquer the world vee Global Nuclear Jihad.
[Again, 1960s-70's = 2014 TOM CRUISE'S NEW MOVIE "EDGE OF TOMORROW" here].
Unidentified gunmen have on Friday night shot and killed Gov’t soldier in Afgoye town, 30 km away from Mogadishu, Somali capital, witness said.
An eyewitness told Shabelle Media that young men armed with pistols gunned down the soldier and was confiscated from his AK 47 after the murder. He added that the killers escaped from the crime scene. Local authority was unavailable to reach on the phone for comments on the killing against Somali soldier in the town.
The motive and identity of the murder are yet to be established. With no one claimed the responsibility for it.
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At least two people among them a soldier are known to have on Friday night died and two others were also injured in Mogadishu after car laden with explosive devices detonated at outside City Plus Hotel.
A Police Spokesman says a car bomb exploded outside the hotel, where senior security officials, including the Director of the National Intelligence and Security agency Bashir Gobe were meeting.
No one claimed responsibility for the blast but Al-Shabaab has carried out several similar complex attacks in Mogadishu, including on the city’s main court complex and attempts against the presidential palace.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The killings of at least 30 people Wednesday by Mohammedan rebels who stormed a Catholic church in the Central African Republic marked the latest escalation of religious violence gripping the conflict-torn nation.
The attack on the compound at the Church of Fatima, where hundreds of civilians sought refuge from festivities in the streets of the capital city of Bangui, was the largest blamed on Mohammedan fighters in the nation since their Seleka rebel coalition was ousted from power nearly five months ago.
The Central African Republic, which borders Congo, Cameroon and South Sudan, has been beset by decades of rebellions.
But the latest conflict, pitting the nation's minority Mohammedans against its majority Christians, has become increasingly sectarian since members of the Seleka rebel coalition looted, raped and killed Christians upon seizing control of Bangui last year.
Mohammedan civilians then became targets of attacks by armed Christians, who wrested control of the capital from the Seleka coalition.
Some observers said the attack Wednesday was an indication that the religious conflict has devolved into a full-blown civil war.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said attacks on houses of worship are rare in Bangui, where Catholic churches have served as sanctuaries for Christian and Mohammedan civilians over the past year.
Fears escalated Wednesday that the attack would spark Christian reprisals.
The majority of Bangui's Mohammedans fled the city earlier this year, and the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... described the exodus as ethnic cleansing.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... amid news that Christian militia fighters were putting up road blockades around Bangui, Cameron Thomas, the regional manager for Africa at International Christian Concern, suggested this is not likely the end of Mohammedan-on-Christian violence in the Central African Republic.
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Breakout the cruciform swords, the Knights Templar are back.
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Breakout the cruciform swords, the Knights Templar are back.
Notice how this is a Bilder-Burger Weekend?
wink, wink, nod, nod.
Also BilderBurger would be one damn fine name for a fast (albeit expensive)food place.
Humm..... jingles... we need them Zeno Awake!
You Will Have It Our Way
There Will Be Fries With That
Drive ahead, your order has already been placed.
Pull forward to the Grassy Knoll
40% off if you pay with gold
Are you a Mason?
Do you know Muck4Doo?
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Whilst recently pondering the need for scooping up dog pooies in the back 40, I stumbled figuratively upon the etymology of Muck4doo. Stepped right innit, I did. Twas a load off me mind.
[An Nahar] Suspected al-Qaeda gunnies riding on the back of a cycle of violencerubbed out a Yemeni intelligence officer in the south of the country on Saturday, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The colonel was in his car at a market in Taben, a town in the southern Lahij province, when one of the two attackers shot up him from a Kalashnikov, the official said.
The officer was killed on the spot and the attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, said the source blaming al-Qaeda for the killing.
A cheap form of transport frequently replacing taxis in the impoverished country, motorbikes have become a tool for hit-and-run shootings that have killed dozens of officials in recent years.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seen by Washington as the network's deadliest franchise, has been blamed for most of the motorbike attacks on the security forces despite never claiming them.
In December, Yemen enforced a temporary ban on motorbikes in the capital to prevent attacks as the politicians engaged in a national dialogue talks.
On Wednesday, Yemeni police potted two al-Qaeda suspects who were allegedly involved in a series of hit-and-run attacks against security personnel in the capital.
The next day, however, a gunman riding on the back of a motorbike rubbed out a Yemeni intelligence officer and his son in the southeastern city of Mukalla in broad daylight.
Al-Qaeda exploited the 11-month-long 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of longtime strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... to seize large swathes of southern and eastern Yemen.
The army recaptured several major towns in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwa provinces further west in 2012 but has struggled to reassert control in rural areas despite recruiting militia allies among the local tribes.
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[BBC] Police at Heathrow Airport have tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... a 19-year-old man suspected of terror offences, the Met has said.
He was detained by counter-terror SO15 officers on suspicion of "preparing for acts of terrorism". A front man said the arrest was "Syria-related".
The force said it had searched an address in Camden, north London, but that the arrest was "not in response to any immediate risk or threat".
The teenager is being held in jug at a south London cop shoppe.
In a separate incident at the airport, the Met said officers from the same unit arrested a 20-year-old who they believe sent "money/property overseas for the purposes of assisting terrorism in Syria".
The British national was arrested as he entered the UK and is also being detained in south London.
Both suspects were held under the Terrorism Act 2006.
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[TIME] A Frenchielocked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over killings at a Belgian Jewish museum had traveled to Syria and grabbed credit for the shootings in a video, prosecutors said Sunday.
Fears have been mounting in European countries that the hundreds of European forces of Evil who are joining the fight in Syria 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... could stage attacks when they get home.
Police in the southeastern French city of Marseille arrested the suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, on Friday after he arrived on a bus from Amsterdam, Gay Paree Prosecutor Francois Molins told news hounds. The suspect had an automatic weapon like that used in the Brussels attack, and ballistics analyses were under way to determine if it is the same weapon, Molins said.
The suspect's was wrapped up in a white sheet scrawled with the name of 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... , an bully boy group fighting in Syria, Molins said. He said the suspect had spent about a year in Syria.
At a separate and nearly simultaneous news conference in Brussels, Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said the suspect had tried to film the killings on May 24, but his camera failed. A video found after his arrest shows his weapons and clothes, and includes his voice claiming responsibility for the attack, Van Leeuw said.
Belgian police carried out raids in case in the Courtrai region of Belgium on Sunday morning, where the suspect is believed to have spent time, and are questioning two people there, Van Leeuw said.
"The new elements in this investigation draw attention once more to the problem of the 'returnees' --in other words the people going to Syria to participate in combat and return afterward to our country," he said. "All European countries are confronted at this moment with this problem."
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...The suspect, 29-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche from Roubaix in the north of France, was active with jihadists in Syria in 2013, according to a source close to the investigation.
[NBCNEWS] A hand grenade found in a carry-on bag at Los Angeles International Airport prompted officials to delay five flights and disrupt travel plans for some 800 passengers for a couple of hours, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
Officials nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! one person in relation to the incident, according to a TSA statement on Friday. It was not immediately clear when the incident occurred.
"The Terminal 1 checkpoint was closed while the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team transported the grenade to an offsite location to be disrupted," the statement added. "Five flights were delayed 2 hours, 19 minutes, affecting 800 passengers."
"We continue to find inert hand grenades and other weaponry on a weekly basis," according to the TSA. "Please keep in mind that if an item looks like a real bomb, grenade, mine, etc., it is prohibited."
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[DAWN] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A police constable rubbed out a rickshaw driver after an argument over wrong parking of the three-wheeler in front of the Dera two cop shoppe here on Friday.
Allah Noor, resident of Mandi Town, in his FIR lodged with the police, said his son, Safirullah, was rubbed out by constable Shahidullah outside the Dera cop shoppe building.
When contacted, Dera town police officials said the driver was stopped from parking his rickshaw near the entrance of the cop shoppe but he refused leading to an argument between him and a constable on duty.
They said that the constable shot up the rickshaw driver, killing him on the spot.
The constable was tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! soon after the incident and a case was registered against him, said the officials.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... the police defused a bomb outside the residence of a private TV channel news hound in a busy locality of Dera city on Friday.
The police were informed that a suspicious box was lying outside the residence of Nadeem Qureshi in Mohallah Kiri Alizai. The police along with the bomb disposal squad personnel reached the spot and recovered an improvised bomb weighing about three kilograms.
The device was later defused by the bomb disposal experts. The police registered case and began investigation.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The principal of a private school was rubbed out in Nazimabad soon after he came out of the school to offer Friday prayers, according to officials.
Syed Farhan Shah, 45, had just sat in his car near Shalimar Park in Nazimabad-III when two suspects on a cycle of violence, already waiting there, opened fire on him, said Nazimabad SHO Ejaz Lodhi.
He was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival. He sustained five bullet wounds on different parts of his body, said additional police surgeon Dr Abdul Haq.
The victim was the principal of London Grammar School in the same locality. He was a religious person and might have been killed on sectarian grounds, said Ejaz Lodhi.
Two bodies found
Two young men were found rubbed out in the Manghopir area on Friday, police said.
They added that the bullet-riddled bodies were found near Ijtimahgah. Circumstantial evidence suggested that they were kidnapped elsewhere and later killed there as the Sherlocks found 14 empty casings of 9mm pistol at the scene of the crime. The victims were in their mid-20s. The bodies were taken to the ASH, where a hospital official said they appeared to be brothers.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Four people were maimed in an kaboom early Saturday in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Baldia Town, DawnNews reported.
The blast took place near the Muhammad Khan Police checkpost.
Police said kaboom was planted in a donkey-cart.
No loss of life was reported in the blast, police added.
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Police said kaboom was planted in a donkey-cart.
What happened to the donkey? No loss of life so he escaped one might assume. But wait a minute, assuming makes an ass out of u and; never mind.
[DAWN] At least 16 snuffies were killed on Saturday as security forces backed by gunship helicopters thwarted a cross border myrmidon attack on a checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border in the Bajaur tribal region.
Military officials said that a large number of snuffies from across the border attacked a Pak post situated on Nao Top early in the morning.
Pak troops responding to the attack repulsed it.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... gunship helicopters were also sent as reinforcement.
During the shootout and Arclight airstrikes, one soldier died and two were critically injured.
The government had recently closed all illegal entry points on the border with Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Asif Yaseen Malik had said.
Today's action came a day after the Shura Mujahideen Wazoo group, led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. , in North Waziristan asked local residents to move to safe locations close to the Afghan border to avoid being caught in crossfire in the event of a military operation in the area.
A pamphlet issued by the group alleged that the government had practically revoked an agreement with them without making any announcement to the effect, by attacking 'innocent people' and destroying property.
"We continued to tolerate this repression but now it has exceeded limits," the pamphlet had alleged.
The pamphlet was distributed after the group met in the wake of air strikes and ground search in Machis Camp near Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... bazaar and Mirali during which, according to the government, over 70 snuffies were killed.
Residents claim that more than 100 people have been killed, many of them civilians.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Rana Jamil Hasan was kidnapped on Saturday from an area in the country's central Punjab province, DawnNews reported.
Police said Hasan was kidnapped from an area near Pindi Bhattian in Punjab.
Police has launched an investigation into the abduction of Hasan who was elected to the Punjab Assembly from PP-174.
The MPA was on his way to Islamabad along with members of his family when the kidnapping took place.
The kidnappers have demanded five crore rupees as ransom for Hasan's recovery.
They have also threatened the MPA's family with serious consequences in case the payment is not made to the group within two days' time.
It was not clear who was behind the kidnapping of the PML-N MPA who was not flanked by any security detail at the time of the abduction.
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[An Nahar] Clashes erupted between Iraqi troops and anti-government fighters on the outskirts of Fallujah on Saturday, as the bad boy-held city's main hospital said 366 people had been killed in the months-long conflict.
The latest unrest comes after security forces pressed an apparently unsuccessful assault into the city, which is west of Storied Baghdad and has been out of government control since the beginning of the year.
Clashes on the city's northern fringes, in the region of Saqlawiya, broke out earlier on Saturday between Iraqi security forces and anti-government fighters, a tribal leader told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
"With aerial cover, they tried to enter Fallujah from the Saqlawiya area," he said.
"The military operation was confronted by rebels this afternoon, and the festivities continued for three hours," he said, adding firefights were ongoing in the area.
"There are killed and maimed on both sides, and there are casualties among the civilians," he added.
Ahmed Shami, a doctor at the city's main hospital, said two people were killed and 18 others maimed in the festivities, but did not know which side the casualties were on.
Earlier, Shami said 366 people have been killed and 1,493 maimed in the Fallujah area since unrest broke out in the surrounding Anbar province in late December. He said most of the casualties were civilians who had caught in the army's shelling of the city.
Security forces have shelled Fallujah repeatedly for months.
They say they are targeting bad boy hideouts, but rights groups and residents say civilians bear the brunt of the bombardments.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... alleged on Tuesday that the authorities have likely violated the laws of war by targeting Fallujah hospital in their conflict with turbans in the city.
The crisis in the desert province of Anbar, which borders Syria, began in late December when security forces dismantled a longstanding protest camp maintained by the province's mainly Sunni Arab population to vent grievances against the government.
Militants subsequently seized parts of the scenic provincial capital Ramadi and all 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... the first time anti-government forces have exercised such open control in major cities since the peak of the deadly violence that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
They have held all of Fallujah since, and protracted battles have continued for Ramadi.
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[Ynet] Sirens blared across several towns in the Golan region early Saturday morning - assumed by Israeli officials to be a result of battles in Syria near the Israeli border. The IDF immediately began investigations to determine if any rockets fell in Israeli territory.
Ynet readers reported hearing several kabooms. The Golan Regional Council reported that after a short while they were told it was safe to return to normal activities.
Three shophouses were destroyed in a fire yesterday which police believe was triggered by a terrorist militant bomb attack. More than 10 fire trucks were deployed to fight the blaze, which quickly consumed the old wooden structures. Fire crews took two hours to contain the blaze, and damage was still being assessed as of press time.
One of the razed shophouses was a grocery store. The owner told police he had been sleeping upstairs when he was woken by what sounded like two loud explosions coming from the ground floor of his shop. Fire soon began to spread through his and the adjacent shophouses, forcing his family to evacuate.
[Ynet] Revolutionary Guard commander reportedly killed in fighting near Shiite shrine; funeral to be held Sunday.
A commander from Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran's insistence it is not fighting alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces.
Reports that Abdollah Eskandari died while "defending" a Shiite shrine emerged earlier this week but neither the elite military unit nor Iran's foreign ministry have passed comment.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the Fars news agency reported that a funeral service would be held for the commander Sunday in the city of Shiraz.
Eskandari was formerly a commander of the Guards' ground forces and also headed a state-run charity in southern Iran that helps war veterans and families of fallen soldiers.
Neither the circumstances of his killing nor details about his role in the Syrian civil war - where Iran has staunchly backed the Assad regime - have been officially confirmed.
Since the conflict's outbreak in March 2011, Iran has provided Damascus with intelligence, material and military advisers.
But Iran insists it has never sent combat troops to Syria, rejecting such claims made by mostly Sunni rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.
Despite the denials, Iranian media occasionally reports the deaths of Iranian volunteer fighters killed in Syria.
Among them was Guards commander Mohammad Jamali Paqale who was killed in November while "defending" the Shiite holy site of Zeinab shrine in Damascus.
Iran is backing Assad to win a third seven-year term in a Tuesday election that rebels, their Western and Arab backers and critics are dismissing as a farce.
The poll will only be held in government-controlled areas inside Syria and not in large swathes of territory that are in rebel hands.
"This election will strengthen the legitimacy of the Bashir al-Assad government," Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said Friday.
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I am sure the religious minorities will want Assad in charge over a Sunni Govt.
Sunnis seems to be less tolerant of other religions than Shia imho.
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A commander from Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran's insistence it is not fighting alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir "Pencilneck" al-Assad
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No surprise here, as the Globies + aligned are not ready to publicly admit that Iran is a OWG Co-Superpower, + that the Obama-the-Poor-Pro-US-Nationalist-but-Helluva-Outstanding-Anti-US -Globalist is covertly helping Iran not only keep its NucProgs but also to eventually acquire potent NucWeaps.
All things equal, the issue of "Iran" is a "gateway", i.e. its notsomuch a Rising or Nuclear Iran per se but all the other Muslim Nations, etal. that now desire their own Nuclear Arsenals, to includ those whom sponsor the Hard Boyz + the latter's Soon-to-be-Nukulaar Global Jihad + Insurgency.
[An Nahar] Two people were injured at dawn on Saturday when a bomb placed inside a car exploded in the border town of Arsal. We seen dis commercial.
"An improvised explosive device (IED) placed inside a gray Kia Cerato car detonated in Arsal," the military institution said in a communique, noting that the vehicle carried a foreign license plate.
The statement added that the explosion "resulted in the injury of two people who were transferred to a hospital" for treatment.
An army force and a military expert rushed to the scene to inspect the car, and estimated that the IED contained 2 kilograms of explosive material, it said.
Earlier in the day, MTV said that the explosion, the causes of which were unknown, only resulted in material damage.
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) meanwhile said that a Lebanese woman from the Rayed family and a Syrian Iyyad al-Dibbeh were wounded in the explosion.
The power of the blast caused the grey Kia vehicle, carrying a Syrian license plate, to break in half.
The explosion took place at around 1:30 am near al-Hakim Restaurant near Arsal's main square, said VDL (93.3).
Arsal municipal chief Ali al-Hujairi later told LBCI television that the blast took place during an individual dispute in the town.
He added that no one was injured in the attack.
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Lolz, Fred
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[VOA News] Syrian activists say rebels have blown up a tunnel they filled with explosives in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 20 pro-government fighters.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast took place near the Zahrawi market in Old Aleppo.
Syria's largest rebel alliance, the Islamic Front, grabbed credit for the attack. In a tweet, the group claimed it killed 40 government forces with the kaboom.
The group also posted a video on Twitter that it said was of the blast. It shows a huge kaboom throwing a massive cloud of debris into the air.
Rebels have recently been using tunnels to plant explosives beneath army positions.
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[An Nahar] Clashes erupted between Iraqi troops and anti-government fighters on the outskirts of Fallujah on Saturday, as the
Hamas announced on Sunday that differences with Fatah over the formation of a unity government have still not been resolved.
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