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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Paulette Goddard aka Fred's New Computer, Lucretia Borgia in "Bride of Vengeance" aka Lt. Joan O'Doul in "So Proudly We Hail!" aka Loxi Claiborne in "Reap the Wild Wind" aka Abigail 'Abby' Martha Hale in "Unconquered" aka Martha Pease in "On Our Merry Way" aka Anita Dixon in "Hold Back the Dawn" (Died in 1990 at age 79)
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The gorgeous and glorious Paulette was married to Erich Maria Remarque, the author of "All's Quiet on the Western Front".
I had the rare and special priviledge of meeting Herr Remarque in Switzerland shortly before his death. I was introduced to him by the inn keeper where we were both eating lunch.
It really and truly is a brillantly written book and speaks eloquently of the privation and the hardship of being a soldier in combat.
Those great gams of Paulette...wow.
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Does this mean that all the muslim terrorists who have bought farm don't get paradise and the 72 virgins? Does this mean that future dead muslim terrorists don't get paradise and the 72 virgins? Then they had better give it up.
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heh - learn to wipe your ass with toilet paper and we can talk about "civilized" you inbred fuck. Mom got the same Unibrow? So dos Uncle Achmed, Aunt Fatimah, Cousin Abdullah....
you got the short end of genetic's stick. Allah Ahkbar. At least your sister carries your Dad's genes.. directly implanted?
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Thats no surpise, given Osama's personal descriptions of Islamic History + Regional, Muslim military traditions.
Again, his son whom had escaped from the SEALS at Abbottabad is still too young, espec by MilTerr standards, to be installed as Osama's + "Core" AQ's Heir-Leader yet, + also by most MSM-Net accounts ZAWAHIRI is curren in favor of more fluidity = decentralization of AQ's ranks + leadership for time being, as a matter of post-Osama org survival.
Radical Islam's modus appears to be in ACTIVE DEFENSE MODE, i.e. initiating SELECTIVE, SUCCESSFUL OR EFFECTIVE ATTACKS WHILE IN THE PROCESS OF REBUILDING.
I would like to find out where "Crown Prince" HAMZA BIN LADEN is, espec as per CENTRAL ASIA + EAST ASIA - iff he is as dedic to the Radical Islamist cause as daddy-o Osama was, then IMO he will be angered + inspired enough to carry on the fight unto total victory [start circa Year 2018 - after]. He will still have to contend wid any and all "interim" leaders between now + then.
AGAIN, THE MOST DANGEROUS PERIOD/PHASE OF THE GWOT, FOR THE US-WORLD + RADICAL ISLAM, LIES AHEAD OF US, NOT BEHIND US - I SEE LITTLE IN OSAMA'S PASSING TO CHANGE THIS.
* MSM-NET > POST-OSAMA/ABBOTTABAD AQ + MILITANT GROUPS = DESPITE HIS NAME + IMPORTANCE, OSAMA IS JUST A MAN + LEADER AMONGST MANY, ISLAM'S FOCII IS ALLAH [God] + FAITH, SERVICE, LOYALTY THERETO, NOT PERSONAGES.
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IMO he will be angered + inspired enough to carry on the fight unto total victory [start circa Year 2018 - after]. He will still have to contend wid any and all "interim" leaders between now + then.
At the rate we've been tracking them down, young Master Hamza may have no playmates left in this particular sandbox, JosephM. They're mobbing police stations, we're hitting Number Threes with those cute little UAV missiles.
[An Nahar] A policeman and two security guards were killed Thursday in an attack on checkpoints set up to protect a road construction site in southern Afghanistan, an official said.
A group of armed cut-throats stormed three checkpoints early Thursday on a road project linking the volatile Chora district to Trinkot, the capital of Uruzgan province.
"The fighting continued for several hours. Two private security guards and one policeman were martyred and one policeman was maimed," provincial front man Milad Modaser told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The front man said a number of the attackers were killed or maimed in the fighting but could not provide an exact figure.
The Taliban were not immediately available to comment but the Islamist cut-throats have threatened to kill anyone who participates in projects connected with or funded by the international community or Afghan government.
Last month, hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a road construction site in the eastern province of Paktia, killing 36 workers and guards in one of their worst attacks in months.
There are around 130,000 international troops battling a Taliban-led insurgency after they were ousted from power by a U.S.-led invasion in late 2001.
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[An Nahar] Clashes pitting Somali government forces and their 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... allies against beturbanned fascisti for control of Mogadishu's main market left at least 17 civilians dead on Thursday, officials said.
Many of the victims died when stray artillery fire hit a bus station where people were waiting.
"At least seventeen civilian dead have been counted so far and nine of them were killed after artillery fire struck a bus station near Arafat hospital," Ali Muse, head of the Mogadishu ambulance service, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Another 46 civilians were maimed and the corpse count could rise," he said. Tension has been building around Bakara market, long a stronghold of al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels, for the past 10 days and the vast majority of traders moved their wares out several days ago.
The Shebab had been digging in trenches inside the market, while government forces and their African Union backers had taken up positions around the market.
Somali government officials confirmed the fighting and claimed they were advancing onto new positions previously held by the Shebab, but declined to give details about the casualties.
"We have beaten the enemy back and our forces are now advancing onto new positions very close to their last stronghold in Bakara. The fighting started last night and is still continuing sporadically around some positions," Somali deputy chief of staff Lieutenant-Colonel Yusuf Dhegobadan, told news hounds at the frontline.
"We took control of some key positions this morning ... and penetrated deep into their big trenches," he added.
Witnesses confirmed the civilian casualties, saying that some of those killed were struck by stray bullets that reached far beyond the contested areas.
"Stray bullets were flying over Industrial Road and many people were caught in the crossfire. There was also heavy artillery fire that was striking neighborhoods far away from the zone of the fighting," Mohamud Adan, a witness said.
"Today nearly 20 people died and there are even more maimed. It's absolutely terrible," Ibrahim Moalim Ahmed, another witness said.
The chief of staff of the African Union (AU) force AMISOM, Colonel Innocent Oula, said the government forces and their AMISOM allies were trying to avoid any festivities within the actual market, which is the Somali capital's main commercial hub.
"While our joint forces are indeed close to the market, we have left a clear route open to the faceless myrmidons to withdraw. We urge them to take advantage of this and spare the Somali people any more suffering," he said.
"What happens now is in their hands. If they refuse to leave, however, we will be left with no option other than to force them out," he said adding that "any plans to do so will be undertaken with the greatest care to ensure minimal harm and damage to lives and property."
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[Iran Press TV] A car boom has reportedly gone off outside a hotel in Libya's opposition-controlled eastern city of Benghazi.
The bomb went off in a parking lot in front of Tibesti hotel where foreign delegations are based and opposition authorities often meet, a Press TV correspondent reported late Wednesday.
According to the report, five cars were set ablaze after the blast. No casualties have been reported.
Angry crowds gathered outside the hotel and started chanting slogans against Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy. They said Qadaffy is a criminal and should leave the North African country.
People blamed the car boom on the remnants of Qadaffy's regime, saying the Libyan dictator aims to undermine the revolution and make divisions among opposition forces in the crisis-hit country.
Benghazi is Libya's second largest city where the revolution against Qadaffy started in February. The city fell into opposition control during the early days of the anti-government protests.
Opposition forces have established a provisional government named the National Transitional Council in the eastern city.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Qadaffy forces have started arming criminals and drug pushers in Zlitan, a western town near Misratah, to crush the revolution, said Mohammed, a front man for opposition forces in the town.
The Libyan government has rejected the reports, saying, "There is nothing happening to that effect in Zlitan."
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[Dawn] A rebel front man in Zlitan, one of only three towns separating Misrata from Tripoli, said Qadaffy was arming criminals to crush a rebellion against his rule there.
The front man, Mohammed, said forces loyal to the Libyan leader were recruiting criminals whose task was to arrest anyone suspected of being a rebel and to intimidate residents.
"They filled it with drug pushers, criminals and other crooks," Mohammed said by telephone. "They gave them automatic weapons and hand grenades to oppress the residents."
In response to the allegations, an official for the Qadaffy government told Rooters: "These reports are completely false. There is nothing happening to that effect in Zlitan.... We are surprised by the lack of verification in such reports."
Speaking from Nalut in the Western Mountains, rebel front man Kalefa said by telephone that revolutionary forces there had taken over the Shakshuk area near the city of Jadu after fighting in the early hours of Wednesday.
Shakshuk represents a major advance for the rebels because it is well north of their usual positions and deep inside territory controlled by pro-Qadaffy forces.
Qadaffy says his forces are fighting armed criminal gangs and al Qaeda hard boyz and says the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... intervention is an act of colonial aggression aimed at grabbing Libya's oil reserves.
His government says NATO's bombing campaign has killed 718 Libyan civilians and maimed 4,067, 433 of them seriously.
NATO has denied killing large numbers of civilians, and foreign news hounds in Tripoli have not been shown evidence of large numbers of civilian casualties.
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[Dawn] Libya's top oil official became the latest leading figure to desert Muammar Qadaffy on Wednesday, complaining of "unbearable" violence and adding political momentum to a revolt against the leader's long rule.
In rebel-held eastern Libya, an kaboom damaged a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Benghazi, wounding one person, and police said rebel authorities believed the kaboom might be linked to Qadaffy agents still operating in the east.
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the rebel National Transitional Council in Benghazi, told Rooters the kaboom outside Tibesti hotel was believed to have been caused by a hand grenade thrown in a "desperate attempt" by Qadaffy's loyalist to sow terror.
Explosions were also heard in central Tripoli in the early hours of Thursday morning. Aircraft could be heard flying overhead but no further information was immediately available.
The defection by National Oil Corp head Shokri Ghanem, who is also a former prime minister, came two days after the defections of eight army officers including five generals and those in earlier weeks of senior diplomats and former ministers.
"I left the country and decided also to leave my job and to join the choice of Libyan youth to create a modern constitutional state respecting human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... and building a better future for all Libyans," he said.
Speaking at a news conference in Rome organised by the Libyan ambassador, who has also defected, Ghanem said he had left his job because of the "unbearable" violence in Libya.
"I have been working in Libya for so many years believing that we can make a lot of reform from within. Unfortunately this became not possible, especially now, when we see the spilling of blood every day in Libya, our best youth and our best men getting killed."
Ghanem, who is one of the most senior Libyan officials to have defected, said he still saw some possibility of a peaceful settlement to decide the fate of Qadaffy 's 41-year-old rule. But he added that the last time he saw Qadaffy was "months ago".
"In recent days and weeks, we have seen an acceleration in the number of defections from the Qadaffy regime as it realises that the regime has no legitimacy, no credibility and no future," rebel front man Ghoga said in a statment.
Ghanem, whose whereabouts had been unknown for several days, also said oil production in Libya is coming to a halt because of the international embargo.
Now in its fourth month, the Libyan conflict is deadlocked, with rebels unable to break out of their strongholds and advance towards Tripoli, where Qadaffy appears to be firmly entrenched.
Rebels control the east of Libya around Benghazi, the third-biggest city Misrata, and a mountain range stretching from the town of Zintan, 150 km (95 miles) south of Tripoli, towards the border with Tunisia.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Qadaffy made it clear he would not step down, dashing hopes of a negotiated end to the fighting.
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President Ali Abdullah was slightly wounded when shells struck his palace in Sanaa on Friday, a Western diplomat said, as Yemen slid toward civil war. "Behold, a god who bleeds!"
Fierce fighting engulfed the Yemeni capital, where residents cowered in their homes and explosions rocked the city.
The senior diplomat in Sanaa said the prime minister, his deputy, the parliament speaker and other senior aides had been wounded in the attack. Four guards were reported killed.
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Wotta shame.
More popcorn, anyone?
Mike
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It gets worse. Apparently government forces surrounded protestors camped in the main square in Taiz at 3am, dowsed the tents using water cannon filled with gasoline, and lit the encampment on fire. Snipers ringing the square shot anyone trying to escape the flames. People of all ages, hundreds dead.
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Until one's been kidnapped, one hasn't experienced the real Yemen -- everyone knows that. Should they survive the experience, think of the hit they'll be at dinner parties.
[Al Jazeera] Bahraini troops have attacked anti-government protesters in several villages near the capital Manama, witnesses say.
Despite the lifting of martial law on Wednesday, regime forces fired tear gas on protesters who had poured into the streets to stage protest rallies in villages around Manama, including Diraz, Bani Jamrah and Karzakan, according to witnesses.
"Protests are to be in main streets and squares ... the movement must return to important places ahead of the imminent return, God willing, to Martyr's Square"
One activist reported a heavy security presence in Bani Jamrah and said about 30 women had gathered in front of his house, but security forces used batons and tear gas to disperse them.
"With the end of the emergency situation, the security would not be here but they still are," said Ali Zirazdi, a 30 year-old man, who said police had fired tear gas after a few hundred people gathered in the predominantly Shia village of Diraz.
"The security presence is even stronger and their approach now is as soon as they hear of any protest in advance, they come down to stop it from happening," Zirazdi added.
Opposition activists in Bahrain called for a "fresh wave" of anti-government protest rallies across the country on Wednesday, as a state of emergency imposed during a March crackdown on protesters has ended.
"Protests are to be in main streets and squares ... the movement must return to important places ahead of the imminent return, God willing, to Martyr's Square," said a post on "February 14 Revolution Youth Coalition" Facebook page, referring to the site of the demolished Pearl Square, which was the focal point of anti-government demonstrations from February until being destroyed during the government crackdown in March.
Bahraini activists say their protest campaign will continue until the nation's demands are met.
Amnesia Amnesty International, the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... group, had called on Manama to allow the planned protest rallies to go ahead and stop using violence against peaceful protesters.
Law lifting 'insincere'
The unrest comes despite the lifting of an emergency law, a step the authorities hope will help to restore normality in the kingdom rocked by political upheaval following anti-government protests.
Nabeel Rajab, the vice president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, told Al Jizz the government was not sincere in its lifting of the emergency law.
"I think we are going to see more protests in the coming days. The lifting [of the] state [of] emergency it was more to attract the Formula One ... which was going to act as an indicator if Bahrain has come to normal or not," he said.
"The Bahraini government is desperately trying to send out the message that everything is back to normal, but it is not. Today Bahrainis are gathered again, protesting on the streets of all the villages, more than 40 different protests all around Bahrain ... all of them were attacked from the moment they started and many people were maimed by live ammunition, rubber bullets or tear gas."
Bahrain imposed emergency rule in mid-March, giving the military powers to suppress demonstrations led by the country's Shia majority against the minority Sunni rulers. The protesters were inspired to rise up by other revolutions sweeping Arab nations around the Middle East and North Africa.
With the end of martial law, tanks and soldiers withdrew from the centre of Manama, the capital, but numerous police checkpoints remained around the city.
The move came a day after King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Isa al-Khalifa offered a national dialogue with opposition figures on reforms.
"The end of the national security law and announcement of dialogue are both positive. It will be a shame if anyone is negative about it," Jamal Fakhro, a Bahraini politician, said.
At least 30 people were killed, since the protests for more rights and greater freedoms, began in February in the island nation, which hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet.
Bahrain invited 1,500 troops from a Saudi-led Gulf force to help suppress the unrest when emergency rule was imposed.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda took control of a seaport in Abyan province where faceless myrmidons consolidated control over some cities in the past days, a local official said on Thursday.
The Maqateen seaport is an old harbor located in east coastal city of Shoqra.
Many people were killed and injured this week in the festivities between the army and armed Islamists who took over Abyan's capital Zunjbar last week and on Wednesday announced Azzan city in Shabwa as an Islamic emirate.
Thousands of families have decamped the province as Arclight airstrikes and battles against faceless myrmidons continued over the last few days.
Meantime, the Air Force fighters are bombing a position of Al-Qaeda near Al-Wadhe'a district in an attempt to block terrorist supplies and reinforcements coming from Aden and Lahj provinces.
Separately, festivities erupted today between gunnies and the elite republican guard in Taiz province after the security forces dispersed a massive demonstration.
No details were revealed about the confrontations that came after removing the month-long sit square in down Taiz by the security forces and scattering the hundreds of thousands of the antigovernment protesters.
Dozens were killed and more than a thousand injured when the forces broke into the square, burned tents and fired live bullets on the protesters demanding an immediate ouster of the regime.
In Sana'a, thousands of rustics were said to have been blocked from entering the capital.
The rustics are believe to be supporters of Sadeq Al-Ahmer, the sheikh of the most powerful tribal coalition in the country, Hashid, and whose supporters have been fighting the army in downtown the Secretariat Capital.
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[Yemen Post] The army has recovered the office of the Local Administration Ministry in Al-Hasaba, Sana'a, as fierce confrontations continued between the forces and tribal fighters loyal to Sadeq Al-Ahmer, the sheikh of Hashid, the News Yemen reported on Wednesday.
Al-Ahmer's supporters took over the office and other public offices last week and at the end of the week a truce ended the deadly festivities and they returned some offices.
Houthi rebels fought for Al-Ahmer and the bodies of some of them were found inside the office, the website reported.
This week, the shortly-lived truce collapsed, with the battles resuming in the district and nearby areas and the tribal fighters retaking over more offices.
Meantime, antiterrorism and central security forces with support from pro-regime tribal fighters are fighting Al-Ahmer's loyalists as the government said it is determined to remove the tribal saboteurs.
Also, sporadic exchanges of gunfire were heard near the square of change outside Sana'a University on Wednesday, where tens of thousands of people have been conducting a sit-in to call for the departure of the regime.
Eyewitnesses said forces in plainclothes were firing inside populous areas near the square to terrify the people, but there were not casualties.
Huge kabooms have been heard in the capital over the last two days as reports said almost 40 people were killed in the festivities between the army and Al-Ahmer's supporters.
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Somalia MKII here we come.
And on both sides of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean approaches.
Britain's spy agencies have a new message for terrorists: make cupcakes, not war.
Intelligence agents managed to hack into the extremist Inspire magazine, replacing its bombmaking instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
It's the first time the agents sabotaged the English-language magazine linked to U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist accused in several recent terror plots.
The quarterly online magazine, which is sent to websites and email addresses as a pdf file, had offered an original page titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom" in one of its editions last year. The magazine's pages were corrupted, however, and the instructions replaced with the cupcake recipe.
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So when we find a big cupcake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles, and a detonator sticking out of it, we'll know somebody's been reading the magazine.
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Obviously they've never had any of my wife's cupcakes from a couple of years back.
[Dawn] Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pak checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 28 security officials and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months.
Forty-five hard boyz were also killed in the ensuing clash, a DawnNews report said.
A senior police official told AFP that 500 myrmidons, including Afghan Taliban from across the border and Pak Taliban, took part in the attack which began before dawn on Wednesday and continued more than 24 hours later.
Officials said the hard boyz targeted the Shaltalu checkpoint, surrounded by mountains and forest in the northwestern district of Upper Dir, about six kilometres from the border with Afghanistan's Kunar province. ... which is right down the road from Chitral... The Pak military sent reinforcements to the police checkpost, deploying helicopter gunships in a bid to quell the attack in an area accessible on the ground only by foot.
"We have regained control of most of the area but fighting is still going on in some parts near the checkpost, which was attacked by around 500 Pak and Afghan Taliban," regional police chief Qazi Jamilur Rehman told AFP.
He said 34 people were killed in the attack, including 28 coppers and six civilians, among them two women and two children, who died when mortar rounds struck nearby houses. He had earlier put the corpse count at 28.
"Twelve houses were hit by mortar shelling. Militants are now on the run and we are confident to be in control of the entire area by this evening," he said.
Rehman said more than 20 police were maimed, but he had no information on casualties among the Taliban. By early afternoon, residents and a local official said thuds of gunfire could be heard intermittently in the area.
"Frontier Corps (paramilitary) troops, army helicopters and artillery and police personnel are taking part in the operation," said Rehman.
An Afghan police official in Kunar told AFP he was aware that the Taliban or other faceless myrmidons had launched attacks "on the other side of the border" and said they had no connection to Afghan government security forces.
Upper Dir is part of Pakistain's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province and borders the region where the military waged a major offensive to put down a local Taliban insurgency in Lower Dir, Buner and Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... in 2009.
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And Pakistan helped create the Taliban in order to have a client state in Afghanistan. Now look what it's got them. A Frankenstein's monster.
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[Dawn] Four more youngsters were killed in separate incidents in the Lyari area on Wednesday bringing the corpse count to 10 in three days of violence in the strife-hit neighbourbood, police said.
Although guns fell silent by Tuesday evening following intense firing and armed festivities between two rival ethnic communities in Lyari, violence returned to the locality within hours and a teenage boy was rubbed out in the early hours of Wednesday.
"The first incident was reported near the Slaughter House within the remit of the Kalri cop shoppe," said Lyari Town SP Javed Baloch. "The victim was identified as 19-year-old Muhammad Adnan and apparently he fell victim to intense firing in the area.
He suffered a bullet wound in the chest. He was resident of the same area." Later, a 28-year-old man was killed in similar fashion in Khadda Market.
Police said that victim Imran, an electrician by profession, sustained a fatal bullet wound in the abdomen near Malbari Hotel. He was a resident of Street 2 in the same area.
"Although the motive behind his killing is not yet clear, we believe he fell victim to the firing going on in the area for the last two days. He had nothing to do with any group," said an official at the Baghdadi cop shoppe.
An area trader was also found rubbed out in Khadda Market.
The police said 40-year-old Hamid Panwhar was hit by three bullets fired from a very close range. The body was found lying abandoned near Memon Society Anjuman Hall.
"The victim was the resident of the same area and had a toys shop," said the Storied Baghdadi cop shoppe official. "Initial findings suggest that he was kidnapped first and then murdered. The family denied he had any personal enmity, so the motive behind the killing could not be ascertained immediately."
A few hours later, the body of a youngster stuffed in a gunny bag was found along Syed Mehmood Shah Road within the remit of the Napier cop shoppe.
"The body was found near Noorani Masjid. Clad in blue shalwar-kameez, the body bore severe torture marks, but there was no gunshot wound," said a police official.
Fear and tension prevailed in parts of Lyari for the last couple of days. Though the police claimed that it had taken `strong measures` to deal with criminals and maintain law and order in the area, peace remained elusive in the densely populated town.
"A police team that had gone to Daryaabad near Niazi Chowk to carry out a raid on a criminal`s hideout came under attack today," said the Lyari SP. "One of our mobile vans got damaged in the attack and the suspects managed to escape. However, The emphatic However... we have seized arms and a couple of cycle of violences from there."
He said the law and order started deteriorating in the area after the killing of a senior member of the Kachchi Rabta Committee. However, The flatulent However... he maintained that not all the incidents were related to ethnic rivalry.
"We are sure that all the killings are not inter-linked. Personal enmities and other matters could not be ruled out in such cases," the SP said.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Air Force (PAF) Chaklala Airbase and Benazir Bhutto airport were put on high alert on Tuesday night after an intelligence agency warned that Orcs and similar vermin might target them, official sources said here on Wednesday.
A senior police official confirmed that high alert was declared in the wake of a tip-off from an intelligence agency that Orcs and similar vermin might strike PAF Airbase on Tuesday night. He added: "The security clampdown came as the intelligence sounded a severe warning to the authorities concerned to remain vigilant at the airport."
Security around sensitive government installations and foreign missions had already been stepped up across the country after the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who can now be reached at RFD Boneyard... by US forces in Abbottabad and terrorist attack on the PNS Mehran in Bloody Karachi.
According to the sources, the police had already intimated to the authorities at the PAF base that three major `loopholes` in the security of the base had been spotted that might be used by terrorists.
The senior police official said: "Yes, the police had intimated the authorities concerned about the `loopholes` in the security at the PAF base and on the other sides of the runways and expressed concern over taking the security issue lightly." However, The journalistic equivalent of the teenager's whateverHowever... he refused to give details.
On Tuesday night, after the threat was received, the Elite Force commandoes, local police, military police and intelligence officials were deployed at the Chaklala base in addition to launching police patrolling and surveillance in the sensitive areas.
The senior police official requesting not to be named said: "The security alert remained till Wednesday morning to ensure that the airport and other important installations were safe. However, The contradictory However... nobody was jugged."
Police stopped motorists and searched cars on roads that ran beneath the airport`s flight path and keeping a vigil on passersby. Though the use of military police to assist the local police and Elite Force commandoes was not unusual, motorists and passersby were stunned on seeing the presence of such a large number of police and elite commandoes along with the military police.
A `hydraulic road blocker`, designed to prevent unauthorised vehicles from entering the building, has been installed at the entrance of the Airport Security Force (ASF) camp located in the western side of the airport.
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[An Nahar] Syrian opposition groups meeting in Turkey were drafting a joint declaration Thursday on how to support the revolt against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime, organizers said.
The declaration was expected to be issued Thursday evening or Friday morning at the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, where the dissidents have been meeting since Wednesday.
Some 300 Syrian activists, mostly exiles, representing a broad spectrum of political forces opposed to Assad's regime, are attending the talks, the largest gathering of the opposition so far.
Organizers have said their purpose is to draw up a "roadmap" for a peaceful and democratic transition in Syria.
They have set up several committees to coordinate anti-regime action, notably to explore ways of supporting protesters in Syria, both in financial and logistic terms, in areas such as legal assistance and strengthening Internet media backing the revolt.
The participants, among them members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund, have snubbed a general amnesty for political prisoners, decreed by Assad Tuesday, as a belated and inadequate move.
About 50 regime supporters demonstrated near the conference venue Thursday, brandishing posters of the Syrian president and chanting in English "We love Bashar."
"These are people on the payroll of the United States and Israel, they have no right to represent the Syrian people," one of the demonstrators, Nidal Said, said of the opposition activists.
Turkish riot police, deployed in numbers in the area, kept the demonstrators away from the hotel where the conference was held.
More than 1,100 civilians have been killed and at least 10,000 placed in long-term storage in a brutal crackdown on almost daily anti-regime demonstrations in Syria since March 15, rights organizations say.
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[Dawn] Syrian forces killed 41 civilians in an effort to crush pro-democracy protests, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... lawyer said on Wednesday, as opposition leaders met in Turkey to plot the downfall of Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad. One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... Lawyer Razan Zaitouna told Rooters by telephone from Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... the 41 dead in Rastan included a four-year-old girl killed as government forces shelled the central town on Tuesday.Five of them were buried in Rastan on Wednesday, she said.
Syrian forces also killed nine civilians on Tuesday in the town of Hirak, rights campaigner Ammar Qurabi said on Wednesday.
The nine, among them three doctors, one dentist and an 11-year-old girl, were killed by snipers and during the storming of houses in Hirak, where tanks had deployed this week, Qurabi, who heads the Syrian Human Rights Organisation, told Rooters.
Rights groups say 1,000 civilians have been killed as Assad seeks to crush a revolt which has turned into the gravest challenge to his 11-year rule. The severity of the crackdown has provoked international condemnation and sanctions.
"The revolution inside Syria has declared 'the people want the overthrow of the regime'. We echo it. The price of the blood being shed can only be freedom," Abdelrazzaq Eid, a senior figure in the Damascus Declaration umbrella opposition group, told a conference in the Turkish coastal city of Antalya.
The gathering is the first official meeting of activists and opposition figures in exile since protests erupted 10 weeks ago in Deraa, a poor, agricultural city in southern Syria.
"The dictatorship has presented nothing to show a modicum of good intentions. It has lost any legitimacy by firing at and killing its own people," Eid said, to the applause of delegates.
Syrian authorities blame gangs, backed by Islamists and foreign agitators, for the unrest and say more than 120 police and soldiers have been killed.
The meeting in Turkey brought together a broad spectrum of opposition figures driven abroad over the last 30 years, from Islamists crushed in the 1980s, to fleeing Christians.
A regional Middle East player, Assad has sought since succeeding his father in 2000 to maintain Syria as an ally of Iran and supporter of myrmidon groups Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbullies while seeking better ties with the West and peace with Israel.
But Assad's handling of the protests has triggered US and EU sanctions on members of the ruling hierarchy, including himself, after four years of detente with the West. Syria's backer Turkey has also begun to criticise Assad.
"Sacrifices"
Delegates in Turkey said an ultra-loyalist army controlled by Assad's brother Maher, and a security apparatus which has suppressed dissent for decades, were preventing Damascus and Syria's biggest city Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... from joining the demonstrations.
But they said international pressure and a series of gruesome killings have turned Syrian public opinion against the 45-year-old leader, pointing to a slow but steady expansion of demonstrations, despite an intensified military crackdown.
"I am afraid there will be more sacrifices before Assad goes, but this is the nature of revolutions," said Naim al-Salamat, a researcher who lives in Ireland.
Thirteen-year-old Hamza al-Khatib has become a potent symbol to protesters after video of his bloodied corpse was posted on the Internet. Activists say he was tortured and killed by security forces. Syrian authorities deny he was tortured and say he was killed when armed gangs shot at government forces.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Timothy Pickering ... said she was "very concerned" about Khatib's case.
"I think what that symbolises for many Syrians is the total collapse of any effort by the Syrian government to work with and listen to their own people," Clinton told a news conference.
"I can only hope that this child did not die in vain."
Assad has issued decrees aimed at appeasing public grievances. Opposition leaders say they would not change the nature of a repressive political system in which arbitrary arrests, beatings and torture of political detainees are common.
State news agency SANA said on Wednesday Assad ordered the formation of a committee tasked with setting the framework for a national dialogue.
On Tuesday he announced an amnesty for political prisoners, but rights campaigners said the decree had numerous exceptions, specifying reduced sentences for many cases rather than release.
La Belle France said the amnesty had come too late.
"The Syrian authorities' change of direction will have to be much clearer and more ambitious than a simple amnesty," La Belle France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told La Belle France Culture radio.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Qadaffy was arming criminals to crush a rebellion against his rule there.
Qadaffy on Wednesday, complaining of "unbearable" violence and adding political momentum to a revolt against the leader's long rule.
cycle of violence
President-for-Life Bashir 
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Hillary Clinton
