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I don't know anyone with the exception of antiWuz who disliked Mucky. He's a piece of work and has gladened many of my days by his sudden show ups in places unlikely.
I'm looking at the picture on the frontpage of the RD-S&TP again, is that Lindsay Wagners granny?
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I knew it! My Shipman detector is infallible.
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Today's dispatch from the depths of depravity...
A HUGE car bombing at a hospital killed 60 and wounded 120 in Afghanistan today, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year.
The brazen suicide attack in Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, killed women and children and was described as "unprecedented" in the history of the near-decade-long Afghan war by officials.
"As a result of this heartbreaking incident, 60 of our countrymen including children, women, youths and men ... have been martyred and 120 others including health workers have been injured," the ministry of public health said in a statement.
"This inhumane act is unprecedented in the history of the conflict in our country and targeted a place where wounds are healed and patients receive treatment."
The statement also voiced "disgust and hatred towards the perpetrators."
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I am willing to bet that:
a) Most, if not all, of the victims were Muslims
b) The perpetrator was Muslim
Yet, Muslims in the US claim that they cannot join the armed services, because they would be forced to kill Muslims.
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..."At least 20 of our countrymen have been martyred" murdered
there fixed
The Taliban denied it was behind the attack, with spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying: "We condemn this attack on a hospital ... whoever has done this wants to defame the Taliban."
yeah right
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The hospital building was destroyed and people buried under rubble. Casualties included women, children and elderly.
The Afghan health ministry said the attack was unprecedented and inhumane.
Officials blamed the Taliban, but a Taliban spokesman said the movement did not target civilians and the blast was caused by "someone with an agenda".
However, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says the Taliban is always careful to distance itself from major attacks with large numbers of civilian casualties.
Some earlier reports said 60 people had died in the attack.
An intelligence official said the vehicle had been detonated close to the hospital after police had tried to stop it, and that it was not clear what the actual target was.
Provincial official Din Mohammad Darwaish said the death toll could well increase as there were still people buried.
Soldiers have been dispatched to the scene to try to pull out those that are trapped.
A large number of people had been gathering at the clinic, in Azra district, for weekly treatment, many of them women, children and elderly people, Mr Darwaish said.
Doctors and nurses were also said to be among the dead.
Our correspondent says there has never been an attack on a hospital in Afghanistan on this scale, although last month a suicide bomber attacked the main military hospital in Kabul, killing six people.
There is almost no central government control over Azra, which is close to the Pakistan border, and insurgents and smugglers are well-established there, he adds.
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The Taliban are both enraged that their victims have medical care, and that they do not. Allah seems indifferent to their use of Korans as pillows and cow dung as poultices, and lets the djinn give them raging infections and gangrene.
Every now and then they try to raid clinics and hospitals for their antibiotics and any medical anything they can steal, and maybe butcher any medical people and their patients at the same time.
Such people as the Taliban really deserve gangrene and tetanus.
[Al Jazeera] At least two suspected al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... fighters have been maimed after a military air strike hit a convoy near the coast of southern Somalia, witnesses have said.
The Somali government has an air force? When did that happen, an where on earth are they keeping it, given all the various armed groups roaming the landscape?
The overnight strike occurred close to an al-Shabaab camp near the port town of Kismayo.
"We heard bangs of kabooms first and again after minutes, more loud blasts,'' Ali Abdinur, a resident, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency. "I don't know what happened but the place was an al-Shabaab camp.''
Hassan Yaqub, an al-Shabaab leader, confirmed the attack and said two members of the group were maimed.
"Two enemy aircraft attacked our mujahedeen fighters at a time they were conducting a security patrol near Kismayo,'' Yaqub told a local radio station.
Anyone calling themselves "mujahideen" deserves to be attacked. Preferably followed by pulverization and the bouncing of rubble.
Al-Shabaab is the former military wing of the deposed Islamic Courts Union that ruled Somalia before an Ethiopian-led invasion in 2007.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the strike, but US aircraft have attacked al-Shaboobs in Somalia before.
A US air strike killed a senior leader of the group in 2008, while a US commando raid in 2009 killed an al-Shabaab member wanted for the 2002 car booming of a Kenyan beach resort.
Somalia's fragile, UN-backed government, established in 2004, has been battling al-Shabaab who control much of the country's south and centre.
The government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu and relies on 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... peacekeeping troops to protects key government officials and installations.
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[Emirates 24/7] Muammar Qadaffy ... Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years ... is considering leaving the capital Tripoli following a blistering series of 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... air raids, a report said, as Britannia warned the "sands of time are running out" for the Libyan leader.
Libya's rebel forces meanwhile called on foreign allies to urgently provide them with weapons as NATO insisted there would be no let-up in its air war.
The Wall Street Journal Friday quoted a senior US national security official as saying American intelligence shows Qadaffy "doesn't feel safe anymore" in the capital where he has ruled for over four decades.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... officials told the paper they did not see the move as imminent and did not believe Qadaffy would leave the country, a key demand of Libyan rebels who have been battling his forces in a month-old stalemate.
Qadaffy is believed to have numerous safe houses and other facilities both within the capital and outside of it to which he might relocate.
Rebel front man Mahmud Shamam told French daily Le Figaro the forces of Evil were in indirect contact with the regime and may be prepared to allow Qadaffy to stay in Libya, but that he and his family must agree to leave power.
"Our conditions remain the same. It is totally excluded that Qadaffy or members of his family take part in a future government. We are discussing with them the mechanism for Qadaffy's departure," he said.
In the rebels' capital Benghazi, however, the National Transitional Council deputy chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga told AFP: "There is no contact, direct or indirect, with the Qadaffy regime."
A senior US commander meanwhile said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Libya's African allies had not adequately planned for the aftermath of Qadaffy's possible fall.
"We, the international community, could be in post-conflict Libya tomorrow and there isn't a plan, there is not a good plan," the senior US commander in Africa, General Carter Ham, told the Wall Street Journal.
He predicted that Qadaffy could fall quickly, and said there may be a need for substantial ground forces in the country to preserve order.
British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said on Thursday time is running out for Qadaffy after the strongman said he had his "back to the wall" but vowed to battle "to the beyond."
"Time is on our side, time is not on the side of Colonel Qadaffy who's losing his leading military commanders," Cameron told news hounds in Prague.
"The sands of time are running out for him, and so we need to be patient and persistent," he added.
Despite the intensive NATO bombing, a stalemate on the battlefield and a string of defections of regime officials and soldiers, Qadaffy remains defiant.
"We will resist and the battle will continue to the beyond, until you're wiped out. But we will not be finished," he said in an audio message on Libyan television late on Wednesday.
NATO has pledged to carry on bombing military targets in Libya despite Italian calls for a cessation, saying more civilians would die if operations were not maintained under a UN mandate to protect Libyans from the exactions of Qadaffy's regime.
"NATO will continue this mission because if we stop, countless more civilians could lose their lives," NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a video statement on the alliance's website.
He did not directly refer to Italia, whose Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Wednesday called for "an immediate humanitarian suspension of hostilities" in Libya.
Rebel colonel Ahmed Omar Bani on Thursday made a plea for foreign allies to provide the arms, training and communications systems needed to defeat Qadaffy.
"It is so urgent" he said, "we will fight, just support us, just give us the equipment."
Much of the rebels' arsenal comprises Soviet-era tanks and artillery up to 50 years old.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a ship carrying 49 people fleeing the conflict arrived at the Tunisian port of El Ketef, including 19 defecting police and soldiers, the TAP news agency said.
The developed countries took the near unprecedented step on Thursday of drawing down their oil reserves to make good the loss of Libyan supply, aiming to keep prices in check.
The International Energy Agency said that 60 million barrels would be taken from reserves over the next month to cover lost Libyan output, only the third time the 28-member group has taken such a step.
The announcement sent the price of crude plummeting ê4.39, or 4.6 percent, on Thursday in New York.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... prices rebounded in Asian trade Friday, with New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in August, rising 92 cents to ê91.94 a barrel in morning trade.
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THE Mauritanian army has "completely destroyed" an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) camp in neighbouring Mali in an assault that left four soldiers wounded, a security source said.
Friday's attack in the forest region of Wagadou in western Mali involved air strikes and was staged in the evening, the source told AFP, adding that the "terrorists" struck back with "heavy arms".
"The definitive toll on the enemy side will only be known at dawn but it will be heavy.... The tents of the camp and three vehicles have been destroyed," the source said, adding that two of the wounded soldiers were in serious condition. "Strong explosions were heard across a 20km radius, probably heavy weapons stocked in the camp." The Rebels Transitional Council in Libya will not be happy after all the trouble they had to go through to steal the weapons from The Duck in the first place. Expect a strongly worded letter from NATO to follow.
The attack took place around 5.45pm (3.45am AEST Saturday), according to the source.
Several military sources had earlier said AQIM was trying to set up a new base in the Wagadou region.
Earlier this month, Mali and Mauritania agreed to lead a joint military operation to thwart al-Qaeda's north African offshoot. The operation involves hundreds of soldiers.
AQIM members have been regularly spotted in the region, suggesting it has become a base for the group. Mali and Mauritania have previously expressed concerns about the activities of the group, along with Nigeria and Algeria.
AQIM, which has its roots in Algeria, has bases in Mali, from where it carries out armed attacks and kidnappings, particularly of Westerners, and is a party in arms and drugs trafficking.
[Al Jazeera] At least four people, including three soldiers, have been killed in violence in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, according to officials and medics.
A bomb-laden car went kaboom! at an army post killing the soldiers, a security official told AFP on Friday. The officials did not blame the attack on any party and no side has yet grabbed credit.
This attack came after Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters at a funeral in the city, killing at least one demonstrator and injuring six others, medics and witnesses said.
Thousands of anti-government protesters used the funeral to call on Yemen's longtime president, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... to step down. Saleh has been out of the country since suffering injuries in an attack earlier this month.
The funeral was being held for a man identified as Ahmed Darwish, a 25-year-old who local rights groups say died in jug last June after being locked away in connection with a suspected al-Qaeda attack on an intelligence office in Aden in which 11 people were killed.
Darwish's family had refused to bury him since his death, demanding an investigation, and his body had been stored at a government hospital in the port city until Friday.
After the shooting, the funeral procession proceeded towards the cemetery, witnesses said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients... rival crowds of pro-Saleh supporters and those opposed to his return gathered once again in Sanaa, the capital, with anti-government protesters also staging demonstrations in 16 other cities and towns.
Ameen al Himyari, a Yemeni academic, told Al Jizz that Saleh had left Yemen in political limbo by failing to transfer power to his vice-president when he left to undergo medical treatment in Soddy Arabia.
Himyari said Yemen was currently being run by Saleh's sons, the security forces and tribal elements still loyal to the government. While Saleh had lost the support of the crucial Hashed tribe, some elements within the tribe still supported him, he said.
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The officials did not blame the attack on any party and no side has yet grabbed credit.
Per Strategypage, Yemen is in the midst of a 6-sided civil war. Another reason why we should not get involved in these countries.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police tossed in the clink three suspected activists of outlawed Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir ...an international organization dedicated to reestablishment of the Caliphate. Coincidentally the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda and similar organizations... at the city's Shahi Eidgah yesterday afternoon.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station, around 3:00pm went to an abandoned house where a group of 10-15 people gathered. Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, most of them decamped.
The police could arrest Mahi Chowdhury, 20, of Tukerbazar in Sylhet sadar, Imran Hossain, 21, of Kakordi in Beanibazar upazila, and Zumman Chowdhury, 20, of the city's Kuarpar area. They all are students of class eleven of Madan Mohan College.
Some leaflets with anti-government slogans were also recovered during the raid.
A case was filed with Kotwali Police Station.
The arrestees will be produced before the Judicial Magistrate's Court today, said police sources.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Durango, click here. To read the latest Rantburg story on the Durango mass graves, click here.
Excavations continue in Durango, Durango as an eighth gravesite was discovered and 10 more bodies were uncovered according to Mexican news accounts.
Newly appointed Durango state attorney general Alejandro Valadez Moreno said the new count is from bone fragments found in April which included nine separate individuals.
The 10th individual was found in the village of Los Herrera in adjacent Santiago Papasquiaro municipality, but had not been counted in the Durango mass graves until Friday.
A government official says at least 15 Islamist militants have been killed in a shootout between the supporters of two Pakistani Taliban commanders near the Afghan border.
The official, Mir Alam, says several insurgents were also wounded during Saturday's gunbattle in the Orakzai tribal region. He said it was unclear what sparked the shootout. Drugs, baby. Always is. Might start out ideological but it ends up drug dealing. The ideology is purely for recruitment purposes.
However, such clashes are common in Orakzai where an unspecified number of insurgents and their commanders have been hiding after fleeing a military operation in nearby regions in recent years.
Pakistan's army declared a victory in Orakzai last year but violence has continued.
Two militants attacked a police station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, fighting gunbattles before blowing themselves up during a five-hour standoff that killed at least 10 officers, authorities said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack that involved a female suicide bomber, saying it was partly in revenge for the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Similar recent attacks have underscored the vulnerability of Pakistan's security establishment, which is reeling from humiliation following the unilateral U.S. raid.
After the militants entered the police station in Kolachi, TV footage showed black-clad security squads armed with rifles scrambling into positions around the facility. Three explosions rocked the scene in quick succession, setting off plumes of smoke into the sky.
At least 10 police officers died, while five others were wounded during the siege, regional police chief Imtiaz Shah said.
"Our people are being killed inside," said police constable Jan Mohammad, who emerged from the station bleeding after he managed to escape and was quickly taken away by rescue teams.
Intelligence officials said early on that between seven and 20 attackers were involved. But toward the end of the operation, as security teams canvassed the building for leftover bombs or booby traps, police official Salahuddin Khan said investigators believed that only two, possibly three, attackers staged the assault.
[Dawn] A government administrator says Pak fighter jets have bombed suspected Death Eater hideouts in a northwestern region near the Afghan border, killing at least 10 alleged turbans.
Javed Khan says the Arclight airstrikes Friday hit two areas of the Kurram tribal region based on intelligence reports about the presence of Death Eaters.
Pakistain's army has waged multiple offensives in various parts of Pakistain's lawless tribal belt in order to force out al-Qaeda and Pak Taliban fighters.
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[Dawn] Police said they defused a bomb left in a makeshift mosque inside a hospital compound in the country's biggest city of Bloody Karachi, fearing it could have detonated during Friday prayers.
The police found a bag in a tented mosque in the residential colony of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with the live bomb inside.
"Some witnesses informed the police about a suspicious looking bag, which some unknown men had abandoned in the mosque," Iqbal Mehmood, a senior police official, told news hounds.
Speaking to media representatives, the official said that more than 20 kilograms of kaboom, including two detonators, was hidden inside a sack and was planted at the location.
He added the bomb was similar to the ones used in the naval bus attacks earlier this year.
Another police official said on condition of anonymity that it was a remote-controlled bomb and that police feared it could have been detonated during the main Friday prayers in the afternoon.
Mr Mehmood said security was being tightened around places of worship and the city had been put on high alert. Moreover, search operations were being conducted at mosques and imambargahs across the city.
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[Dawn] A former leader of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal was bumped off in Jaffarabad district and the body of a missing leader of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad was found in Bolan district on Thursday.
Police said Mir Rustam Khan Marri was standing outside his home in Dera Allahyar area of Jaffarabad when gunnies, riding a cycle of violence, opened fire on him. He received several bullets and was struck down in his prime.
Rustam Marri had started his politics from the platform of BNP-Mengal, but has not been in active politics for the past couple of years. "The cause of the killing could not be ascertained," police said, adding that an investigation had been launched.
No one has grabbed credit for killing the BNP-Mengal leader.
The body of Shafi Baloch, a leader of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad who had been missing for the past one week, was found in Bibi Nani area of Bolan district.
Levies personnel rushed to the area after being informed by local people about the presence of a dead body. They took the body into custody and later shifted it to a hospital.
Sources said Shafi Baloch had been taken away by unknown gunnies from a bus in Mastung area.
The body was later handed over to relatives after completing legal formalities.
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[Dawn] The transporters of Kalakhel area in the Frontier Region of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar have stopped plying their vehicles on Matani-Adezai Road for the last over a week owing to fear of kabooms and killings of villagers in passenger vans.
In the prevailing situation transporters could not take a risk to put their lives and vehicles in danger, said a driver. "Two vehicles were blown up in the first week of June but the owners have not been compensated so far," he told Dawn .
The driver said that people of the area didn`t visit other localities unnecessarily owing to insecurity. At least 11 persons were killed and more than 12 injured in two recent blasts, he said, adding most of the victims belonged to Kalakhel area.
The transporters said that people of the area were not faced with any threat before forming peace bodies against Death Eaters. "But now everyone is feeling insecure," they added.
They said that in the past about 30 pick-ups used to make double trips on the road on daily basis. "Now, all of a sudden all of them have been parked. It has also led to severe shortage of various daily use items in the area," they added.
Khana Dost, an elder of the area, said that people couldn`t avoid going to bazaars and Peshawar city in connection with their routine work otherwise they would have preferred to remain indoors.
"Now the people of Matani are not ready to provide parking lot to our vehicles owing to security reasons," he said and added that traders of Matani had asked their drivers to avoid parking vehicles in the bazaar.
Mr Dost said that blasts had also destroyed several shops in the bazaar. "The population of Kalakhel is about 16,000. About 50 per cent of Kalakhel residents have bought cycle of violences and other vehicles to avoid travelling in public transport," he added.
He said that upper Kalakhel was close to Khyber Agency while the lower area was situated near FR Kohat. The people, he said, were peaceful but in the existing situation they were forced to leave the area or make efforts for restoration of peace.
The elder said that residents of Kalakhel could go to Peshawar via Speena Thana but that route was very lengthy. The Adezai-Matani Road was shortest for them so majority of people preferred to come to Matani for buying daily use items, he said.
The deputy head of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar, Fazal Malik, when contacted, said that owing to suspension of Kalakel transport the people of Adezai were also facing serious problems as 50 per cent residents of the area were dependent on public transport vehicles of Kalakhel.
"Our people have already sold their vehicles owing to fear of blasts. Now suspension of Kalakhel transport has added to miseries of our people, particularly students, businessmen and government employees," he said.
Mr Malik demanded of the government to take concrete steps to protect public transport vehicles as mostly poor people were travelling in them.
The officials of Matani cop shoppe also confirmed reports about suspension of Kalakhel transport, saying law enforcers were ready to protect passenger vehicles at the bus stand but they should also remain vigilant to note movement of Taliban.
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AMMAN - Syrian troops gathered near the Turkish border, witnesses said on Thursday, raising tensions with Ankara as President Bashar Al Assad increases the use of military force against a three-month-old popular revolt.
Turkey said the two countries' foreign ministers had consulted by telephone, and Syria's ambassador to Ankara was later summoned to the foreign ministry, demonstrating further how disturbed Turkey is over events in its southeast neighbour.
Witnesses said hundreds of terrified refugees crossed into Turkey to escape an army assault. Syrian troops stormed the village of Managh, 15 km (9 miles) south of the border and just north of the commercial hub of Aleppo, according to residents.
A Turkish Red Crescent official told reporters about 600 Syrians had crossed the border on Thursday morning.
Reuters reporters in Turkey saw half a dozen Syrian soldiers enter a previously unoccupied building on a hill overlooking the border, opposite the Turkish village of Guvecci and hoist a Syrian flag where a Turkish flag had been. They left shortly before noon. Within an hour four busloads of troops arrived, along with a pickup truck mounted with a machinegun.
Turkey's 2nd Army Commander visited the Guvecci border post to take stock of the new troop deployments. "They (Syrian troops) have never been this close before," said Reuters Television journalist Omer Berberoglu. "But they didn't come down to where the refugees were."
Protests have grown in northern areas bordering Turkey following military assaults on towns and villages in the Jisr Al Shughour region of Idlib province to the west of Aleppo that had sent more than 10,000 people fleeing across Syria's 840-km (520-mile) border with Turkey.
Soldiers and secret police backed by armoured vehicles set up road blocks on Wednesday along the main road from Aleppo to Turkey, a major route for container traffic from Europe to the Middle East. They arrested dozens of people in the Heitan area north of Aleppo, residents said.
Central neighbourhoods of Aleppo, a largely Sunni city, have been mostly free of protests, in part due to a heavy security presence and a continuing alliance between Sunni business families and Syria's ruling Alawite hierarchy.
A senior Turkish official said on Sunday that Assad had less than a week to start implementing long-promised political reforms before foreign intervention began, without elaborating.
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Come on boyz! Come on! Lean in, pull out the Kemalist Thought Clubs and remind the Syrians who's damn who.
Get out of the sickman-box and listen to your hegemonic roots.
[An Nahar] Government Commissioner to the Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr on Friday charged seven people with engaging in a deadly shootout in the northern port city of Tripoli a week earlier.
Saqr Saqr charged the seven suspects with forming armed gangs, exchanging gunfire with unlicensed arms, and killing a soldier and several civilians.
If convicted, they could face the death penalty.
Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... daily reported earlier in the week that people affiliated with the deputy head of the Arab Democratic Party, Rifaat Eid, were behind the festivities between Sunnis and Alawites that left seven people dead.
The newspaper said there is "tangible proof" that a group of men affiliated with Eid were behind the eruption of violence between Tripoli's districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh that is mainly Sunni close to former Premier Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. and Jabal Mohsen whose residents are Alawites allied with Hizbullah and Syria.
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[Al Jazeera] Hezbullies leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...Hezbollah's secretary general, who managed to accidentally start a war with Israel in 2006, dragging the rest of Lebanon into it with him. After being soundly thrashed he declared a famous Arab victory and the rubes, being rubes, still believe him... says the group has captured three spies among its members, two of whom were recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The spies, one of whom was recruited five months ago, did not pose a serious threat to the movement or its military capabilities, Nasrallah said in a televised speech on Friday.
"None of these three cases are within the first line of senior leadership. They were not in positions of sensitive responsibility ... it is impossible to touch the military and security infrastructure of the resistance and its ability to confront," he said.
But a front man for the US embassy in Beirut told the AFP news agency that the charges were "empty accusations".
"There is no substance to his accusation," the front man said. "It appears as if Nasrallah was addressing internal problems within Hezbullies with which we have nothing to do."
Nasrallah said the CIA agents who hired the spies had diplomatic protection from the US embassy in Beirut and accused the CIA of recruiting the spies on behalf of Israel.
It is highly unusual for Hezbullies to acknowledge that it has been infiltrated.
"Israel retained the services of the CIA in its attempt to penetrate Hezbullies. [...] Two cases of recruitment were done by the CIA and a third one either by the CIA, European intelligence or Mossad.
"The Israelis failed to penetrate the structure of Hezbullies so they have turned to the CIA for help," he said.
"We are fortified against any penetration or infiltration by Israel. We have in place a very effective and powerful anti-spying apparatus.
"To all our people I say, deal with the families of the culprits with mercy; not to fall under the brunt of the psychological war waged by our enemy."
Yigal Palmor, a front man for the Israeli foreign ministry, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency he "would not dignify" the accusations with a comment.
Hezbullies fought an inconclusive 34-day war with Israel in 2006 in which at least 1,200 Lebanese and 158 Israelis were killed.
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"None of these three cases are within the first line of senior leadership."
[Al Jazeera] Security forces opened fire as thousands of anti-government protesters took to Syria's streets in a weekly ritual of defiance and demands for Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... ousting.
Activists said at least 15 people were killed and many more injured in demonstrations following Friday prayers.
People had barely come out of Ibn Affan Mosque in the 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... suburb of Al Qusweh, chanting for a toppling of the regime when security forces, apparently without warning, opened fire on the crowd killing, six people and wounding 15, Mohammed Suliman, a human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activist, told Al Jizz.
Suliman said that ambulances drove the maimed to the headquarters of the military secret service, rather than the hospital.
"We have protested peacefully in Al Qusweh for three months and now we are being accused of having gangsters among us - but we have none.
"We don't regard the president as legitimate," said Suliman, rejecting a speech made by Assad on Monday in which he announced a general amnesty for those involved in protests.
"His speech didn't make any sense. He gave his speech on Monday and today we witnessed many killed - the only speech now that will make any sense is his resignation speech."
Al Jizz is unable to verify reports from Syria because of restrictions on reporting in the country.
More deaths occurred in the central city of Homs, according to Omar Idilbi of the Local Co-ordination Committees which track the Syrian protests.
"Our revolution is strong! Assad has lost legitimacy!" protesters chanted in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, according to video posted on YouTube.
Around 5,000 people were demonstrating in Zabadani despite a heavy security presence, an activist told Al Jizz. The protesters were singing the Syrian national anthem and calling for the toppling of the regime.
The military crackdown, which activists say has killed 1,400 people, has failed to silence a pro-democracy movement that has now lasted more than 100 days.
In northern Syria, activists said at least 15,000 people held a protest on the highway linking the country's two main cities, Damascus and 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...
'Strong security presence'
Thousands marched in Amouda and Qamishli in the northeast and in other provinces, Mustafa Osso, a Syria-based human rights activist, said.
Dissidents reported a strong security presence in many locations. In Homs, all roads leading to the city centre were reported blocked.
Protesters in Damascus also carried a banner that read, "Oh germs and rats of the world, unite," taking up terms used by Assad, who likened some of Syria's troubles to a "germ" to be fought off, and Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy, ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... who described his country's protesters as rats.
The Syrian government blames foreign conspirators and thugs for the unrest, but protesters deny any foreign influence in their movement.
The protests, which have occurred every Friday after weekly Mohammedan prayers, come as Syrian refugees stream across the border into Turkey to escape a military sweep in Syria's northwest.
More than 1,500 Syrian refugees crossed into neighbouring Turkey on Thursday alone, boosting the number sheltered in Turkey to more than 11,700.
New sanctions
International condemnation of Syria's government has been mounting steadily in recent weeks.
The European Union on Friday extended sanctions against those supporting the government crackdown, including three members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... , the US secretary of state, on Thursday warned Damascus to pull its troops back from the Turkish border, where concerns grew of possible confrontations with Turkish troops.
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Anticipating an exodus from Syria's second city, Aleppo, Turkish officials were setting up a sixth camp with up to 800 tents near a border crossing.
Turkish foreign minister Davutoglu told news hounds on Friday he had conveyed Turkey's "concerns and thoughts" about the situation at the border in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart.
He said he would continue to talk to Syrian officials to ensure that "reforms and peace are brought about as soon as possible".
"We hope that Syria is successful in renewing itself in a stable manner and comes out of the situation stronger. We will do all that we can to help," he said.
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Bashir, my man! Give five!
(Throughout all my service in Intifada, I dreamed of getting them right outside the Mosque after Friday session of incitement).
Yeah, I know it is probably Alawites killing Sunnis, who regard each other as infidels. but if we sent troops into Syria, Muslims in the US would probably refuse to go because they might be "forced" to kill other Muslims (Sunni, Alawite, Salafist, Shiite, it doesn't matter - we aren't supposed to kill them. That's other Muslims' job.)
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