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Now there we have some history. Highest paid child actress of her time. Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller were pen pals. She traveled among the best of the arts and society. I believe she was in a stage production of Disraeli or movie one or the other. Disraeli and Gladstone are interesting combative antagonists. Disraeli won with his purchase of the Suez Canal. Disraeli wanted expansion of the empire. Inspiring fellow.
Jill St. John aka Tiffany Case in "Diamonds Are Forever" aka Jennifer Holmes in "The Lost World" aka Ann Archer in "Tony Rome" aka Barbara Bingham in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" aka Erica Landis in "Summer Love" aka Kate Pennypacker in "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker" aka Toby Tobler in "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" aka Iris in "The Liquidator" aka Warden Fletcher in "The Concrete Jungle" (age 71)
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Very sharp lady(IQ about 160). I would say on par with Maureen O'Hara. See her fast answer to her three syllable name. Then at the end a Bob Hope joke that is repeated from a Vietnam visit.
[Dawn] A jacket wallah detonated a truck bomb near the entrance of a heavily-guarded US-run base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing two Afghan guards, officials said.
The Taliban, the main turban group leading an escalating 10-year insurgency, grabbed credit for the attack in Gardez, the capital of eastern Paktia province, which borders Pakistain.
"The bomber was in a vehicle. He tried to enter the base (but) the guards did not let him. He was frustrated and detonated at the very, very first gate," a coalition front man said.
"Two Afghan-contracted guards were killed," he said.
Earlier the Paktia provincial police chief told AFP three people, two contracted guards and a border police officer in a nearby police base had been maimed.
"A suicide bomber tried to attack the base with a truck bomb but he was encountered at the first gate by Afghan guards. He set off his bombs there," Paktia provincial police chief, Abdul Ghafar Sapai, told AFP.
He said the distance between the first barrier and the main gate was more than 100 metres.
The police chief said "good security measures", including anti-blast concrete blocks, stopped the attacker from reaching his target and causing more casualties.
The base houses small groups of troops and civilian experts who are trying to help rebuild the war-torn country and enhance security. The groups are known as Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) and are assigned across Afghanistan.
The PRTs are run by various Western nations as part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... 's US-led International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan. The Gardez PRT is run by the United States.
Isaf headquarters in Kabul could not give immediate information.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed, contacting AFP from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location by telephone, said one of their fighters drove a bomb-laden car into the entrance of the base and detonated his explosives.
Mujahed said that dozens of US and Afghan troops were killed and maimed.
The Taliban are known to make exaggerated, sometimes false, statements when it comes to deaths caused in their attacks.
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Two real martyrs. Did their job & saved their colleagues, but paid the ultimate price. We're seeing a bit more of that from the Afghans lately, I think. They need to be properly honored - are they? (Not in this article.)
[Dawn] Women and children were among the casualties on Thursday when a roadside kaboom tore through a minibus in western Afghanistan, killing 14 civilians and wounding 11 others, the government said.
The bus, packed with passengers, was travelling between the district of Obe in Herat province and the placid provincial capital, local administration front man, Moheyddin Noori, told AFP.
"Fourteen people, all civilians, were killed and 11 others are injured.
Women and children are among the casualties," he added.
The front man blamed the bombing on "the armed opposition groups" -- a reference to Taliban-led beturbanned goons.
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Now, stop for a minute and ask yourself a few questions.
It was a roadside bomb without a cell phone detonated ignition system so you dont blow up a bus loaded with Momma and the kiddies. But the Taliban are about as dumb as jocks and they dont think things through very well.
Now also suppose the Moslem jocks Dwayne and Wally ALSO happen to live around there. And all the relatives know who Dwayne and Wally are.
Now YOU think that ... all through....
""Fourteen people, all civilians, were killed and 11 others are injured." ( now...pause...just how many relatives does that all add up to?) And Moslems are a forgiving lot, we all know that.
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NATO warplanes sunk a tugboat carrying troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi away from the strategic western city of Zawiya as rebels advanced ever closer to the Libyan capital, the alliance said Friday. "run float away!"
The attack struck the tugboat Wednesday as rebels in Zawiya laid siege to Libya's last functioning oil refinery in a symbolic coup for the opposition, although government forces still hold the center. "symbolic" is for the press release. Winning counts
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Okay, but who are the rebels? Are they part of a neo-calipha movement that will export muhammadan power?
What happened to the so-called pre-emptive war doctrine? Didn't the muslim brotherhood hijack an Egyptian "unity" rally less than 2 weeks ago, and chant "we are all bin Laden?"
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#2 at this stage various MSM-Net Analysts are arguing the POTUS BAMMER ADMIN = USA is more interested in breaking long-standing Diplomatic, Ideo impasses in the ME, etc. than worrying iff follow-on or successor Muslim Govts-regimes support terror or not.
THE US IS ACTING AS IFF ITS SEEMINGLY WORSENING ECON WOES WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON ITS ABILITY TO IMPOSE ALLEGED PRO-DEMOCRATIC "REGIME CHANGE" AROUND THE WORLD ANDOR TO MIL RESIST JIHADI TERROR, INCLUD IFF THE LATTER GOES NUCLEAR.
Explosion caused on Egyptian side of border near Philadelphi Route crossing; security officials say bomber member of PRC.
A number of Egyptian soldiers were killed and injured after a jacket wallahwent kaboom!" on the Egyptian side of the border with Israel on Friday morning near the Philadelphi Route crossing.
Security officials said that the suicide bomber was thought to belong to the Popular Resistance Committees, the organization who orchestrated the terror attacks near Eilat on Thursday that left eight people dead.
On Thursday, two Egyptian security personnel were killed during an IDF raid on gunnies along the Egyptian Israeli border, an Egyptian army official told Rooters.
The army official said the men from the Central Security force were killed as the IDF chased gunnies along the border of Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba in South Sinai and Eilat.
"An IDF plane had been chasing bad turban infiltrators along the border between Taba and Eliat and one Egyptian Central Security officer and a Central Security man were caught in the line of fire," the army official said.
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interestingly, the Israelis are saying that the Egyptians provided some passive intel to the terrorists
the terrorists think the Egyptians provided some passive intel to the Israelis and that therefore, the Egyptians should die
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Lord Garth, I see you still haven't fully grasped the intricacies of the Muslim mind. The important thing about booming is the boom itself---not where it happens.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is ill and ready to hand over power to Justice Minister Mohammed al-Qamoodi. "You can't throw me out of office! I'm a sick man!"
A statement to that effect came from an anonymous source in that country's armed forces. Oh, well. If it's an anonymous source somewhere in the Libyan armed forces it must be true...
Gaddafi has also agreed to move to Venezuela together with his family. Because like clings to like...
Among conditions set forth by the Colonel is an immediate ceasefire and end to the NATO operation. And after that his hard boyz will cease fire and end operations. Trust him on that.
The Libyan president has apparently begun packing his belongings, since, according to a number of Arab media, two airbuses landed at the Tripoli airport on Wednesday - one carrying the government delegation and another one empty. The latter will presumably take Gaddafi, his family and closest associates to Venezuela. ... where he'll feel perfectly at home. What's more like Tripoli than Caracas?
Details of the Libyan leader's escape from his country were allegedly discussed the day before by Gaddafi's spokespeople and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's envoy on the Tunisian Djerba Island. Chavez himself, by the way, vows to have overcome cancer after undergoing treatment on Cuba and feels great now. Must have gone to the same doctor as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi...
At the same time, it turned out that Muammar Gaddafi's chief aide Bashir Saleh was sent to meet with British and French diplomats, in order to search for a way "to get Gaddafi and his family out of Libya." How about the traditional manner: on a plane, in the dead of night, the national treasury among their baggage? Maybe a battalion or two of true loyalists left behind to get killed covering the getaway?
Libya's domestic situation started developing at a higher pace following the beginning of talks between Tripoli and Benghazi that have been under way since Sunday, if we believe Western media reports. And when has the Western media ever been wrong?
Deciding upon the country's fate are allegedly two emissaries sent by each of the sides - Gaddafi and the Transitional National Council (TNC) recognized as Libya's one and only legitimate government by over 20 countries. At the same time, none of the parties have officially confirmed the fact that negotiations are under way, except for Abdel Ilah Al-Khatib, the special United Nations envoy to Libya, who claimed to have met with representatives of both sides.
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How long before one of the about-to-be-former underlings figures out that delivering the still-steaming head of the tyrant will make for one hell of a get-out-of-being-massacred-free card? *Signaling* that you're packing your shit seems designed to make sure that you never actually make it onto the plane.
Unless stories like this are ploys intended to shake traitors and weaklings out of the wainscotting. Maybe that explains reports of random gunbattles in the nighttime streets of Tripoli? Rolling purges playing out?
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Interesting.
Chavez dying, pulling all the gold back onshore, consolidating paper money accounts, and his oil buddy coming to town.
Is he going to give Vz to Gaddafi?
Think there will be some incoming Libyan gold on those boats?
The regime has a stockpile of about 200 Scuds, said a former Libyan army officer who spoke on background. North Korean ballistics specialists helped extend the range of the missiles from 124 miles to 185 miles in 2003, he said. 185 ± 185 miles...
The best the Third World has....and we can watch the junk fly and laugh. You dont launch them AT something specific....you do your Arab thing with a Scud. And dont expect much from the Arab thing.
How would YOU like it if Scuds were the last chance you had?
Now try and aim it and kiss you butt good bye. Well, monkey, that's how you spent your money.( PBUH ).
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This has been done before, during the first Gulf war between Iran and Iraq in 1982. Many of the Iraqi Scuds came from Libya. What the Iraqis did was reduced the warhead, this doubled the range. It also proved to be quite deadly weapon and accurate enough for cities.
Sure, won't take but a fortnight (sp?) to take them all out.
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I thought that the Scud launchers were, or could be, mobile - that is why we had such a problem in Desert Storm tracking them down. The Iraqis would shoot and scoot.
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[An Nahar] Libyan rebels pushing to cut off Tripoli claimed on Thursday to have seized a key oil refinery which is a major source of fuel for the capital.
A rebel commander said late Wednesday that his fighters had managed to "gain control of the refinery" in the town of Zawiyah, some 40 kilometers west of Tripoli.
On Tuesday, rebel forces already said their fighters were in control of most of the port city.
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Now that someone has the "control" of the Oil Refinery...best check and see if the lights work and you can get the place humming again. You CAN work the lights and get the place humming again, can't you?
Good, now go outside and check the pipes. And Khadaffy's artillery...better go check and see if that is out of range too.
Will someone show Mustapha here where the Parts Warehouse is and you, you there, get Maintenance on the phone and find out where the "help" has gotten off to down at Payroll. We Do have enough experienced workers lined up, don't we? WHAT!?They ALL left for Lampedusa?
Well....hhmmmcheck around.
Busy, busy...
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[Yemen Post] Seven Al-Qaeda suspects including two Saudis were placed in durance vile by rustics in south Yemen, al-tagheer.com quoted a security source as saying.
Abdullah Nasser Al-Qadani, the security director in Abyan province where the army has been fighting Al-Qaeda cut-throats for months, said the arrests took place in the coastal Shuqra city.
The five Yemeni suspects were from Abyan, the stronghold of Al-Qaeda in the country and Marib province. Recently, the tribes joined the armed forces to fight Al-Qaeda cut-throats helping kill and arrest many thugs.
When the popular youth-led revolution started in the country months ago, Al-Qaeda or the Sharia supporters exploited the situation and took over Abyan declaring it as an Islamic emirate.
The army with support from the tribes has regained several cities from the hands of the cut-throats whose presence is increasing the western concerns about the plans of hard boyz in Yemen.
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[Yemen Post] Hundreds of pro government armed rusticserupted into the streets on Wednesday following a pro government tribal conference in the capital Sana'a.
Tens of rustics told Yemen Post that they are planning to stay in the capital until President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... comes back to Yemen from Soddy Arabia.
The tribes launched on Tuesday a massive tribal coalition, in a show of strength by Yemen's ruling General People Congress party.
At least 4000 pro government officials and rustics, including big shots, came out with a joint statement stressing that President Saleh is the legitimate ruler of Yemen and cannot be ousted only through elections.
The new pro government tribal coalition raised speculations of a possible tribal war in a country where more than six hundred have died over the last three month due to festivities.
The pro government tribes vowed to defend President Saleh under all circumstances.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's deputy information minister Abdul Janadi survived an liquidation attempt early Thursday after unknown people had thrown a bomb at his home in the capital Sana'a. Al-Janadi said the bomb went kaboom! at his car parking shortly before he came back home. "No injuries happened and the authorities are investigating the incident," he said. Assassination attempts targeting senior, security and military officials, have increased in recent years in Yemen, gripped by six-month protests and severe crises. Most incidents took place in southern regions.
President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... is currently convalescing in Soddy Arabia after he beat feet an liquidation attempt in his compound in June. The June blast burned d Saleh's body, injured 87 bigwigs and killed a dozen of his bodyguard.
Separately, the Public Electricity Corporation's office in the port city of Hodeida has that storms had led to the fall of 13 pylons in Bajil city. The pylons were of these carrying electricity from the Makha stream power station to the main conversion plant in Baji which then supplies electric power to Sana'a and Dhamar provinces.
The thunderstorms affected an area of 4 square kilometers and technical teams are now assessing damages to fix them, the office said, at a time when Yemeni cities including the capacity are experiencing long blackouts.
In Aden, massive demonstrations were organized on Thursday amid very long power outages that started on Wednesday.
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[An Nahar] Suspected al-Qaeda gunnies have seized control of the town of Shaqra in lawless Abyan province, a stronghold of the jihadist network in southern Yemen, a local official said on Thursday.
"al-Qaeda gunnies have attacked positions of armed rustics" tasked with defending the town on Wednesday, and have "managed to drive them away without any resistance," the official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Tribesmen backing government forces in the restive region had in mid-July chased the suspected al-Qaeda snuffies from Shaqra.
The town lies 35 kilometers east of Zinjibar -- the picturesque provincial capital that has been mostly under the control of suspected al-Qaeda gunnies since late May.
The snuffies tried to advance to nearby villages after taking control of Shaqra but "their advance was halted by rustics, and festivities broke out," a tribal source told AFP.
Yemeni rustics have in past weeks been locked in battle with suspected Al-Qaeda snuffies in Abyan, especially in Zinjibar.
The army has been battling the snuffies calling themselves Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), who have besieged its 25th Mechanized Brigade base in Zinjibar.
Apart from Shaqra and Zinjibar, Islamist gunnies control the village of Jaar.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The wanted head of banned bad turban outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. Moulana Yahiya, has been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock along with his two accomplices in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj early Thursday.
Rab (Rapid Action Battation) set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock the three intercepting a Kishoreganj-bound passenger bus from Sylhet, Maj Walid Hossain of legal and media wing of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) told The Daily Star.
But the Rab are working double shifts, trying to keep up with the crush of miscreants. How can they spare anyone, never mind an entire wing, just to interface with the media?
Tusk tusk, the RAB knows just how important a proper media image is. After all, they have us hooked...
Yahiya is wanted in several major bad turban attacks, including the August 21 grenade attack, Ramna Batamul blast and Kotalipara bomb planting.
A top Rab official identified the two others as Mohammad Bahauddin, 22, and Yar Mohammad, 50.
Describing the operation, a Rab official, seeking anonymity, said the elite force had a tip-off that the trio were heading towards Kishoreganj in a passenger bus that left Sylhet the same night.
Accordingly, they intercepted several buses at Durjoy intersection in Bhairab and found them in a bus around 2:15am.
The Rab official said they had recovered some training manuals of the outfit and books on jihad from their possessions.
Yahiya fought in Afghanistan and also against Myanmar forces for the Arakan Mohammedans.
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Well, the 3% of the muhammadan horde who are "ismaelis" are required to believe that the other 97% of self-proclaimed believers in the arabist-cult, are apostates ("murtadis"). Ergo: their cult theaters (aka: mas-jids or prostration places or mosques) are not muhammadan.
For those idiots who believe that the cult is based on "peace," would do well to learn that cult "prophecy" (read: pure fabrications) calls for the extermination of all "disbelievers" and "apostates" at the "end of days" (qiyamah). If shiites win, 85% of the claimed "slaves-of-allah" would meet the sword.
Whatever you call the meccan-savages, objectively they are the worst of humanity. If there end-game is eradication, then we need to play by their rules.
Muhammadanism is a mutal-genocide society. Rick Perry shouldn't be bending over for that horde. (otherwise he is adapting to Real-Politick in other areas, so don't write him off).
Ramadan's submission fasts are really sombre interludes to what the period is really all about: preparations for the 2 "Eid" celebrations for the Badr-Massacre of "disbelievers" within the false-prophets own families. When BHO bit into that lamb at iftar, he would have known that the animal's throat was cut - leaving the creature to bleed to death in agony - as a symbol of the horde's slaughter of 300,000,000 innocent Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, etc over 1400 years.
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If the so called moderate or regular joe muslims don't want this, they better go after the jihadis and take them out. Nobody else will do it for them. I hate to see the loss of life, but it is up to the victims if they want to be victims.
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Integrate the suicide bomber curriculum OR ELSE!
[Dawn] The miners, who had been kidnapped from Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel, were released by their captors after 67 days.
The political administration, soon after kidnapping of 16 miners, had declared that they were not being kept in Darra Adamkhel. It had also constituted a jirga to negotiate a deal with the kidnappers for safe release of kidnapped miners.
Officials were tight-lipped about disclosing the contents of the agreement between the jirga of mine owners and the abductors that led to release of the kidnapped miners.
Reliable sources confided to Dawn that 12 of the miners were released in Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel while four of them would be freed from Khyber Agency on Wednesday. "The release was made possible through a deal reached between the local commander of Taliban and mine owners," they said.
Officials said that 12 miners had reached their homes in Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... while remaining four would be sent to their homes soon after their release.
The rustics believed that the victims were kidnapped by Taliban and taken to Khyber Agency.
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[Dawn] According to government sources, security forces killed six forces of Evil on Thursday in the ongoing operation in central Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , DawnNews reported.
Two security personnel were also injured in the clash that took place in the Gwaki area of central Kurram.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... five other security personnel were maimed when a landmine went kaboom! near their vehicle in the Manato area of the tribal region.
The ongoing operation against forces of Evil continues in the tribal region, while security forces claim to have cleared out several areas of Islamic exemplars.
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A BOMB went kaboom! in a Pak mosque during the main Friday prayers, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100 others in the north-western tribal district of Khyber.
The bomb went kaboom! as hundreds of people packed into the mosque in the town of Jamrud, 16 miles (25km) from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main city in the north-west where most of the violence in Pakistain is concentrated.
"More than (40) people have been killed and at least 100 were maimed. Our initial report said it was a suicide kaboom," Mutahar Zeb, the top administrative official of the semi-autonomous district, said.
[Dawn] Violence between ethnic groups and criminal gangs killed at least 25 people in Pakistain's financial capital of Bloody Karachi as the government again struggled for solutions to the unrest, DawnNews reported.
A former MP for the ruling Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP), Waja Karimdad, was among those killed in the fresh wave of violence in Bloody Karachi, where hundreds of additional police and paramilitary troops were deployed last month.
Spiralling unrest is a major source of concern in Pakistain's biggest city, which is used by 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 cut of the American pants... to ship the bulk of its supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan and which accounts for around a fifth of the country's GDP.
Independent economist A.B. Shahid estimated that 20 per cent of the city's business was shut down Thursday with markets closed in southern neighbourhoods to protest against extortion money demanded by criminal gangs.
"The corpse count in the violence since yesterday morning has gone up to 39,"city police chief Saud Mirza told AFP, adding that "the situation is getting better" after more police were deployed in the affected areas.
Slum compounds in the Lyari area were spattered with blood, pock marked by bullets and damaged by grenade attacks that killed residents and left widows crying and beating their chests outside their homes.
The federal and the provincial governments have been at a loss on how to quell the unrest, which this year has been at its deadliest in 16 years.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... again dispatched Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. to Bloody Karachi and called for "immediate and across the board action against the criminals who were playing with the peace of the metropolis".
Malik drew widespread ridicule last month when he blamed 70 per cent of the violence on angry wives and girlfriends, remarks that he quickly denied.
"Show no leniency to these elements who are there to ruin the city life," the prime minister said, following talks with provincial and MQM officials, but stopped short of announcing any specific policies.
Bloody Karachi, a city of 18 million and the economic powerhouse of the country, has seen its population explode since independence in 1947.
Its neighbourhoods have been swollen by a huge influx of migrants from across the country, but particularly the deprived, Pashtun northwest, looking for jobs and more recently to escape Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence.
Most of the killings have been reported in the southern Lyari neighbourhood, a PPP stronghold infested by powerful criminal gangs.
"The situation is still very tense in Lyari and other areas of southern Bloody Karachi with sporadic gunfire being echoed around these neighbourhoods," a security bigshot told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He blamed criminal gangs for the fresh outbreak of violence and said more paramilitary rangers and police had been deployed to the troubled areas.
Bloody Karachi's worst-affected areas are impoverished and heavily populated neighbourhoods where most of the criminal gangs are believed to be hiding.
Victims and their families said many of those hurt were innocent bystanders.
"Children were playing in the compound on Wednesday night when two men opened fire on them, killing my nephew Dheeraj, a young girl called Usha and an 80-year old resident," said Kheraj Das.
"We are poor people, we don't belong to any political party. I am at a loss to understand why we were attacked and why our innocent children were killed."
The body of 28-year-old Muhammad Shahnawaz, bearing signs of torture, was dumped in the market area of the neighbourhood on Wednesday, but his brother said he had no grievance with anyone, nor any political affiliations.
"Shahnawaz went for dinner with his four friends, who were also kidnapped. Their bodies were also found from nearby areas", Muhammad Imtiaz told AFP.
"Why was my innocent brother killed and his three small children deprived of their father?" he asked, tears rolling down his cheeks.
Muhammad Hussain, 30, a resident of impoverished Kharadar neighbourhood, was shot and maimed in the stomach.
He said gunnies had burst into a restaurant where he was breaking his Ramadan fast and opened fire indiscriminately.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said 800 people have been killed in Bloody Karachi so far this year, compared with 748 in 2010.
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Pakistan is a disaster. Let India invade & mop them up.
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India doesn't want them, in fact India loathes them, that's why they were cut off from India years ago.
You didn't know they WERE Indians?
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ISTANBUL - Turkish warplanes struck 28 Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Thursday in a second day of Arclight airstrikes before returning to base safely, military headquarters said in a statement on Friday.
It said Turkish artillery also hit 96 targets in the region during the operation, which was conducted against the background of a surge in Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) jihad boy activity.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi Army force has detained 4 persons, suspected to have killed a soldier and wounded 3 others in west Mosul on Thursday, a Ninewa security source reported.
An Iraqi Army force has arrested 4 persons in west Mosul, suspected with having been behind an attack, launched by a group of armed men against Iraqi Army men in Mosuls al-Harmat area, the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and 3 others injured early on Thursday by a group of armed men, who opened fire on a civilian car that carried them in al-Harmat area, west of Mosul.
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We see stories of arrests from time to time, but I can't even remember the last one about a trial, conviction, or sentence (at least in Iraq there aren't a lot about escapes.) Do they get released? Bailed out & walk away? Rot in jail for years awaiting trial? Suffer liver failure?
"There is no longer any truce with the enemy," Hamas announced on radio; Three rockets explode in Eshkol Regional council, no injuries reported; seven injured by Grad rocket that explodes in Ashdod yeshiva.
Hamas announced early on Saturday they were no longer committed to a more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a war in early 2009. The statement was broadcast over a Hamas radio station in Gaza after Israel pounded coastal Gaza for two days with air strikes in response to rocket salvoes and attacks on Thursday that killed eight Israelis.
"There is no longer any truce with the enemy," the statement said in a move seen as paving the way for Hamas to escalate the violence with Israel.
The IAF launched an airstrike late Friday night against a terrorist cell in the central Gaza Strip after the cell fired a rocket into Israeli territory, the IDF Spokesman's Office said in a statement. A direct hit was identified in the strike, the statement added.
Minutes earlier, the Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip toward Ashkelon. Earlier, three rockets exploded in the Eshkol Regional council Friday night over a period of several hours. No injuries or damages were reported. In the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, an explosion occurred near a local kibbutz Friday evening. Local officials said a Kassam rocket landed in an open area. No injuries or damages were reported. An hour earlier, two rockets fired from Gaza fell in northern Lachish not far from Kiryat Malachi. No injuries were reported although the explosion sparked a fire, which spread to an empty building. The building was lightly damaged before firefighters put out the fire.
Police have asked members of the public in the affected areas to follow instructions from the home front command.
One person was seriously injured and another moderately injured after a Grad rocket fired from Gaza landed in the courtyard of a yeshiva in Ashdod on Friday morning. Four other people were treated for shock following the attack. All were taken to Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. An additional Grad that failed to explode subsequently fell in the area and was neutralized by the bomb squad.
Light damage was caused to the building as a result of the rocket fire.
The rocket attack came less than a day after a three-stage terror attack near Eilat killed eight people.
Earlier on Friday, at least 10 rockets were fired at various targets in the South including Ashkelon and Beersheba.
All of the rockets landed in open territory and no injuries or damage were reported.
IAF aircraft struck seven Hamas security installations in Gaza early Friday morning, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for the attacks on Thursday.
Gaza residents said three compounds controlled by Hamas were hit in the overnight raids. Medical officials said a 13-year-old boy in a nearby building was killed and 17 people were wounded.
Defense sources said the attackers infiltrated from Gaza via Egypt's Sinai desert, despite stepped up efforts by Egyptian security forces in recent days to rein in Palestinian terrorists.
"If anyone thinks the State of Israel will resign itself to this, they are wrong," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in a brief television address about the most deadly attack in Israel since 2008.
The IDF said seven gunmen were killed in southern Israel, including two who blew themselves up in suicide attacks on one of the buses and in a confrontation with soldiers.
Egyptian soldiers apparently shot dead two gunmen, the military said.
"There is no longer any truce with the enemy," Hamas announced on radio; Three rockets explode in Eshkol Regional council, no injuries reported; seven injured by Grad rocket that explodes in Ashdod yeshiva.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, announced early on Saturday they were no longer committed to a more than two-year de facto truce with Israel since the end of a war in early 2009. The statement was broadcast over a Hamas radio station in Gazoo after Israel pounded coastal Gazoo for two days with air strikes in response to rocket salvoes and attacks on Thursday that killed eight Israelis.
"There is no longer any truce with the enemy," the statement said in a move seen as paving the way for Hamas to escalate the violence with Israel.
The IAF launched an Arclight airstrike late Friday night against a terrorist cell in the central Gazoo Strip after the cell fired a rocket into Israeli territory, the IDF Spokesman's Office said in a statement. A direct hit was identified in the strike, the statement added.
Minutes earlier, the Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a rocket fired from the Gazoo Strip toward Ashkelon. Earlier, three rockets went kaboom! in the Eshkol Regional council Friday night over a period of several hours. No injuries or damages were reported. In the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, an kaboom occurred near a local kibbutz Friday evening. Local officials said a Kassam rocket landed in an open area. No injuries or damages were reported. An hour earlier, two rockets fired from Gazoo fell in northern Lachish not far from Kiryat Malachi. No injuries were reported although the kaboom sparked a fire, which spread to an empty building. The building was lightly damaged before firefighters put out the fire.
Police have asked members of the public in the affected areas to follow instructions from the home front command.
One person was maimed and another moderately injured after a Grad rocket fired from Gazoo landed in the courtyard of a yeshiva in Ashdod on Friday morning. Four other people were treated for shock following the attack. All were taken to Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. An additional Grad that failed to explode subsequently fell in the area and was neutralized by the bomb squad.
Light damage was caused to the building as a result of the rocket fire.
The rocket attack came less than a day after a three-stage terror attack near Eilat killed eight people.
Earlier on Friday, at least 10 rockets were fired at various targets in the South including Ashkelon and Beersheba.
All of the rockets landed in open territory and no injuries or damage were reported.
IAF aircraft struck seven Hamas security installations in Gazoo early Friday morning, killing at least one Paleostinian, in further retaliation for the attacks on Thursday.
Gazoo residents said three compounds controlled by Hamas were hit in the overnight raids. Medical officials said a 13-year-old boy in a nearby building was killed and 17 people were maimed.
Defense sources said the attackers infiltrated from Gazoo via Egypt's Sinai desert, despite stepped up efforts by Egyptian security forces in recent days to rein in Paleostinian terrorists.
"If anyone thinks the State of Israel will resign itself to this, they are wrong," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in a brief television address about the most deadly attack in Israel since 2008.
The IDF said seven gunnies were killed in southern Israel, including two who blew themselves up in suicide kabooms on one of the buses and in a confrontation with soldiers.
Egyptian soldiers apparently rubbed out two gunnies, the military said.
Egypt protested to Israel on Friday over the death of three members of its security forces near their border and demanded an investigation into the killings, the army said. Told ye it was way too sophisticated for Paleosimians.
1 moderately injured, 4 treated for shock; light damage caused to Yeshiva building; at least 10 other rockets land in South; fire comes after IDF strikes 7 Gaza targets following Eilat attacks. Time to bail Assad out
GAZA - Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died.
Gaza residents said three compounds controlled by the Hamas Islamist group that rules the enclave were hit in the overnight raids. Medical officials said a 13-year-old boy in a nearby building was killed and 17 people were wounded. There was no immediate word on casualties among militants.
The series of assaults by gunmen on a desert road north of Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday drew Israeli accusations that Egypt's new rulers were losing their grip on the porous frontier. Israel said the attackers infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip via Egypt's Sinai desert, despite stepped up efforts by Egyptian security forces in recent days to rein in Palestinian and Islamist radicals.
"If anyone thinks the State of Israel will resign itself to this, they are wrong," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a brief television address about the most deadly attack in Israel since 2008.
Israeli military commanders said six civilians and two soldiers were killed in attacks on two buses, a car and an army vehicle. Another 25 people were wounded.
The military said seven gunmen were killed in southern Israel, including two who blew themselves up in suicide attacks on one of the buses and in a confrontation with soldiers.
Egyptian soldiers apparently shot dead two gunmen, the military said.
Hours later, Israel struck in the Gaza Strip against the Popular Resistance Committees, an armed faction that often operates independently of Hamas. The Israeli military said the PRC was behind the border attacks.
The PRC said its commander, Kamal al-Nairab, his deputy, Immad Hammad, and three other members were killed in Thursday's air strike on a home in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. The faction vowed "double" revenge against Israel for the attack, which local Palestinians said also killed a nine-year-old son of the owner of the house.
"The people who gave the order to murder our people and hid in Gaza are no longer among the living," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on television. "I set a principle: when someone harms the citizens of Israel, we react immediately and with force."
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GAZA CITY (Maan) -- An Israeli airstrike killed six Palestinians Thursday evening in southern Gaza, medics said, hours after a series of attacks left seven Israelis dead near Eilat.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said the airstrikes targeted a house in Rafah.
A Ma'an correspondent said the home belonged to Popular Resistance Committees official Khaled Shaath, who was killed instantly. His two-year-old son Malek later died of injuries sustained in the strike.
The PRC confirmed the deaths in a statement posted to its website.
An Israeli military source told Ma'an that operations were underway in southern Gaza following a series of attacks in the south of Israel, whose leadership has blamed Gaza.
Ismail Radwan, a senior Hamas leader, condemned the "massacre in Rafah" and told Ma'an that "this crime wont stop the resistance and wont stop all Palestinians." He added that Hamas was taking every relevant action following Israel's threats. Under the beds, boys!
Earlier, the interior ministry in Gaza said Egyptian authorities have closed the Rafah crossing amid the sharp increase in violence in Gaza and southern Israel.
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"Ismail Radwan, a senior Hamas leader, condemned the "massacre in Rafah" and told Ma'an that "this crime won't stop the resistance and won't stop all Palestinians." He added that Hamas was taking every relevant action following Israel's threats."
Actually, its a blessing from God when you have enemies who drool and are this stupid. Hunting pigs is a sport of sorts, you have to take the risk of going into dense brush after something which has a brain maybe a third or less of your own... and you can usually smell them before you see them. Plus you get to eat them after you kill them.
Although no one wants to eat a fried and butchered Palestinian. (For yea Allah is wise and beneficent.)
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MANILA, Philippines: A renegade commander said Thursday he has split from the Philippines largest Muslim rebel group and formed a new group with hundreds of fighters to wage a war for a separate homeland.
Ameril Umbra Kato said in a cellphone interview from his jungle hide-out in southern Maguindanao province that he would not return to the main Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which has threatened to expel him after he led a mutiny in December.
Kato denied allegations by Philippine security officials that he has links with Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the countrys volatile south and was involved in deadly bombings and terrorist attacks.
He said his new group would be known as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Front (BIFF). Its guerrilla wing, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, was organized in January, a month after he broke off from the main Muslim guerrilla force over differences with insurgent leaders.
This is the true jihad, the true revolution, Kato said.
Kato, who has about 200 to 300 fighters according to his former comrades, did not give details about his combat force or say what next steps he would take.
Kato, who is in his late 60s, said he left because his former group chose to waste time by deciding to negotiate with the government for expanded autonomy instead of waging a battle for an independent Muslim homeland that would liberate minority Muslims from crushing poverty and neglect.
Weve been going around and around wasting money and look where the peace talks have brought us, Kato said. The roots of the conflict have not been solved.
The infighting within the main 11,000-strong rebel force underscores the complexity of the Muslim unrest that has claimed more than 120,000 lives and stunted growth in the impoverished but resource-rich south of the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines.
The main guerrilla force currently led by Murad Ebrahim split in 1978 from the former Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which dropped its secessionist bid for autonomy and signed a landmark peace accord with Manila in 1996. Murads group dropped its bid for independence last year but demanded a more powerful type of autonomy with greater control over wider territory.
Murads group said Kato, who used to head one of its largest and most battle-tested commands, resigned last December, citing his age and poor health. But Kato then formed a breakaway group and accused Murads group of betraying the Muslim cause by going for autonomy instead of independence.
They did that without consulting the Muslims. They cheated, Kato said.
Philippine officials have expressed concern over the infighting, which they say casts doubts about the main rebel groups ability to enforce any future accord in peace talks brokered by Malaysia.
Philippine security officials have accused Kato in the past of providing refuge to members of the Southeast Asian militant network Jemaah Islamiyah, the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group and Filipino militants like Usman Basit who have been sought by US and Philippine authorities in connection with deadly bomb attacks.
They have stained my names with all these allegations of bombing malls and bus terminals, Kato said. These are all big sins and un-Islamic. I have no contact with Al-Qaeda.
Who are the real terrorists? he asked. They are government troops who drop bombs anywhere even if there are civilians.
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Is this similar to a Stalin vs Trotsky spat?
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BIFF? Like the guy in the Back to the Future movies?
[An Nahar] Syria's 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... told U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Wednesday that military operations against protest towns have "stopped," a U.N. front man said, amid new reports of killings and mass arrests.
Ban spoke to Assad by telephone ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria when, diplomats said, the U.N. human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... chief is expected to call for the international war crimes court to investigate Assad's deadly crackdown.
There is mounting international concern over the military assault on pro-democracy protests said to have left about 2,000 civilian dead in the past five months.
Ban, one of the few international leaders to have got through to Assad in recent weeks, "expressed alarm at the latest reports of continued widespread violations of human rights and excessive use of force by Syrian security forces against civilians across Syria," deputy U.N. front man Farhan Haq said.
The statement highlighted the town of Lattakia, where several thousand Paleostinian refugees are said to have decamped their camps.
Ban "emphasized that all military operations and mass arrests must cease immediately. President Assad said that the military and police operations had stopped," the statement declared.
There was no immediate sign from the ground of an end to hostilities between the government and opposition.
Security forces killed at least 10 people and made sweeping arrests again on Wednesday as the telephone talks went ahead, activists said.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Assad "enumerated the reforms he will undertake in the next few months" including constitutional change and elections. The front man said Ban emphasized these must go ahead "without further military intervention."
Assad has promised reforms but western governments say there are few signs of them being carried out.
"The secretary general reiterated his calls for an independent investigation into all reported killings and acts of violence, and for free access by the media." Ban called on Syria to give full cooperation to the U.N. human rights inquiry in Syria, the front man said.
Ban also demanded that Assad launch "a credible and peaceful process of reform."
Assad reportedly agreed to receive a U.N. humanitarian mission which Ban said must "be provided with independent and unhindered access to all areas." Assad only promised "access to different sites in Syria," the front man said.
U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay and humanitarian chief Valerie Amos are to give details of the latest events in the strife-torn country at a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday.
Pillay will say there is "evidence that Syria has committed grave violations of international human rights law," said one diplomat with knowledge of the report.
Pillay wants "a thorough, appropriate, international investigation" of the crackdown, the diplomat told Agence La Belle France Presse, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered....
The U.N. rights official "is likely to suggest that the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... would be appropriate," confirmed another diplomatic source.
The U.N. human rights department "is expected to conclude that the allegations are so serious, and credible, that national level investigation conducted by the Syrians will be insufficient," added the source.
Only the Security Council can refer the Syria case to the ICC, which is based in The Hague.
The council has already referred Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule... and Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. to the ICC. Both are now on the court's wanted list.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and United States have stepped up pressure on Assad's government with mounting sanctions moves. The Western powers face opposition in the Security Council to new sanctions, namely from Russia, China and emerging powers Brazil, India and South Africa.
The U.N. Security Council meeting starts at 19:00 GMT and will almost certainly be behind closed doors.
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SO, the military assaults have ended? isn't that fabulous. NOW, try and get the worms all back in the can....
Better hurry...
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[An Nahar] The Tunisian government has recalled its ambassador in Syria for "consultations", the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
"Given the dangerous situation in Syria, the Tunisian government has decided to recall its ambassador in 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... for consultations," the official TAP news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
However the ambassador, Mohamed Laouiti, when contacted by Agence La Belle France Presse, said he had "received nothing official on the subject".
On August 7 Arab heavyweight Soddy Arabia recalled its ambassador to Damascus.
The next day fellow Gulf Arab states Kuwait and Bahrain followed suit.
Rights groups say Syria's crackdown on protestors has killed 1,827 civilians since mid-March, while Damascus says 416 security force members have also died fighting "armed terrorists".
Diplomats told AFP Wednesday that Arab and European countries, along with the United States, will ask the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... ' top human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... body to hold a special session on the situation in Syria.
Since the start of the trouble Tunisia has remained largely silent on the matter. However last week Tunis called for an end to the violence and for "serious dialogue" in the country.
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[An Nahar] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, and William Tell... has decided to recall its ambassador to 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... for consultations in protest at Syria's crackdown on protestors, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
"The unacceptable behavior of the Syrian security service has led the foreign ministry to recall the ambassador from his post in Damascus for consultations in Bern," the ministry said in a statement.
The foreign ministry said that it had already "made a number of public appeals to the Syrian authorities to respect fundamental rights", adding that it "particularly deplores the large numbers of dead and maimed and offers its sincerest condolences to the victims' families and loved ones".
The statement also called 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... regime to end repression immediately, halt the use of torture as well as respect freedom of opinion and for people to hold gatherings.
The announcement of the ambassador's recall comes only a day after Switzerland widened sanctions against Assad's regime, adding 12 individuals to a list of key players under financial embargo and travel restriction.
Bern had already blocked assets worth 27 million francs ($34 million, 23.6 million euros) belonging to Assad and 22 other individuals.
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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.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is ill and ready to hand over power to Justice Minister Mohammed al-Qamoodi. 
The miners, who had been kidnapped from Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel, were released by their captors after 67 days.
Kurram Agency
[Dawn] Violence between ethnic groups and criminal gangs killed at least 25 people in Pakistain's financial capital of 
GAZA - Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died.
GAZA CITY (Maan) -- An Israeli airstrike killed six Palestinians Thursday evening in southern Gaza, medics said, hours after a series of attacks left seven Israelis dead near Eilat.
President-for-Life Bashir 
International Criminal Court
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