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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Six Somali men accused of taking a French couple hostage on their yacht went on trial in Gay Paree on Tuesday in La Belle France's first prosecution of alleged Somali pirates.
They are facing charges of hijacking, kidnapping and armed robbery after they allegedly seized the yacht and its crew, Jean-Yves Delanne and his wife Bernadette, both aged 60, off the coast of Somalia in 2008.
They face life in prison if convicted.
The six, aged between 21 and 35, were captured and flown to La Belle France after French special forces stormed the yacht, the Carre d'As IV, and rescued the couple. A seventh suspect was killed in the raid.
Journalists were allowed into the court for the start of the trial but judges are expected to later close the hearings to the public because one of the suspects was a minor at the time of the crime.
The suspects had reportedly demanded a ransom of $2 million (1.5 million) for the couple's release.
Their case marks the first time La Belle France has put alleged Somali pirates on trial. Somali suspects in three other cases are currently awaiting trial.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Sunday night missile attack near Mogadishu targeted a meeting of top 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... commanders.
The whereabouts of the three remained unknown on Tuesday night amid reports that they had been killed.
"There were air strikes in Afgoye and K50, which are controlled by Al-Shabaab. The area of concentration was Afgoye where the three Al-Shabaab commanders were holding a meeting.
"We are informed that they hit their targets," said African Union Mission for Somalia deputy special representative Wafula Wamunyinyi.
Mr Wamunyinyi could not, however, confirm whether the three were killed or injured during the strikes, saying information from the ground was still scanty.
He could also not confirm whether the air strikes were carried out by the Kenyan forces or the African Union troops.
"All we know at the moment is that the allied forces hit their targets, some forces of Evil were killed and others were maimed but it is difficult to tell because the forces of Evil who control the town have blocked anybody from reaching the scene," he said.
In Nairobi, President Kibaki welcomed the support Kenya was receiving from regional governments in its drive to wipe out Al-Shabaab.
The Head of State said a stable and peaceful Somalia would create an environment conducive for development in the region. The President was officially opening a regional infrastructure conference in Nairobi.
He added: "I therefore welcome the support Kenya has obtained from both its citizens and regional governments as we embark on the operation to deal with forces of Evil based in Somalia who have sought to destabilise our economies."
East African Community members Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi are among those that have backed the joint Kenya's armed forces and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government soldiers to weed out the rag-tag militia.
Kenya also has support from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development members with Djibouti offering troops to hold areas taken over from Al-Shabaab.
The country also has backing from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the US, Japan, South Africa and Egypt among others. Media reports claimed that two Al-Shabaab commanders were killed in the Sunday raid on Afgoye.
They quoted Somali officials claiming that Sheikh Dahir Aweys and Mr Gobane were killed in a massive blast in the town located about 32 kms west of Mogadishu.
The kaboom was at a "compound" known to be used by the cut-thoats, according to Sunatimes and Mareeg Online.
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Maybe, we've been sucking up to the wrong allies for our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Kenyans certainly know how to deal with terror organizations...and have you noticed the lack of hand wringing and angst by the western media? If this had been a Brit, Frog, or US incursion into Somolia, the MSM would be having a hissy fit over dead duckies, puppies and kittens.
I say we ask Kenya to send some of their troops to Afghanistan, shut the door and look the other way...it would be interesting.
It's also interesting that the only two countries in the world with the stomach to deal with terrorism as it should be dealt with are Kenya and Sri Lanka. The western leaders are hamstrung by the ninnies in the press and the opposition at all cost mentality of election politics...even if it is a survival issue.
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have you noticed the lack of hand wringing and angst by the western media?
Well, yes. That's because there's no 'white man's guilt' (which also includes the Japanese, btw)involved.
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian security forces have jugged a member of a myrmidon Islamist group in the Sinai, bring to five the number of arrests since the group's alleged leader was caught Sunday.
Walid Suleiman Mousa, 38, from the town of el-Arish, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock on his way back from a pilgrimage to Soddy Arabia.
He was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock after four suspects, who were jugged earlier, mentioned his name to Egyptian authorities, security officials told Ma'an on Tuesday. Mousa is well-known in the el-Arish area, residents say.
Security sources say they have evidence he was involved in recent operations.
Egyptian authorities on Monday jugged two alleged members of the same group. Abdul Kareem Mohammad Ahmad, 42, and Ahmad Salem Mahmoud Awad, 33, are also from el-Arish.
They are said to be member of the Jihadists and Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s movement, whose leader Muhammad Eid Musleh Hamad -- also known as Muhammad al-Teehi -- was jugged on Sunday, Egyptian officials said.
Security officials told Ma'an that Egyptian police were sweeping the Sinai Peninsula to arrest myrmidons, adding that the detainees have been sent to Cairo for interrogation.
Al-Teehi is accused of planning an attack in southern Israel in August which killed eight Israelis, as well as a number of attacks in the Sinai Desert, a Ma'an correspondent reported earlier.
Israel blamed the attack in Eilat on the Gazoo-based Popular Resistance Committees and struck southern Gazoo within hours killing five PRC forces of Evil and a two-year-old child. The strike sparked four days of intense cross border violence that killed 15 Paleostinians and maimed dozens more.
In September, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that an unreleased army investigation revealed the Eilat attacks were carried out by a group of Egyptians operating in Sinai.
The Jihadists and Takfiris movement is also suspected of involvement in a series of pipeline bombings in Sinai which have cut off the supply of gas to Jordan and Israel, the official MENA agency reported.
[Tripoli Post] Members of what is being described as a new Libyan army have managed to settle a four-day feud between gunnies from the city of Zawiyah and the nearby tribal area of Warshefana, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a bigwig in Libya's National Transitional Council has said.
It is the first time that this new group of soldiers wearing uniforms have been deployed to settle a feud between rival militia that has reportedly had claimed at least 13 lives. They served as a buffer between gunnies to end the fighting, the most sustained since the end of the eight-month long conflict that ousted the former Al Qadaffy ... who is now deader than a rock... regime.
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga has been report4d saying that members of the national army took up positions between Zawiyah and the Warshefana lands, where armed forces fired rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns at each other that left several houses damaged.
The new army manned checkpoints and searched cars for weapons. "Members of the national army are now in control of the base, which was a source of conflict," Ghoga said.
It is not yet clear what sparked the violence with both sides blaming each other including that some of the Warshefana residents had ties to the old regime. It appeared to be a fight for control of a former major military base.
Ghoga told AP that the units deployed on Monday were forerunners, and that a full army would be formed only after a new government is announced next Sunday. The government is scheduled to run Libya for eight months until elections for a national assembly.
Ghoga added that former anti-Al Qadaffy fighters will then have the choice either to join the security forces or return to civilian life. Several NTC fighters who fought to topple the former regime remain armed, and there has been growing concern about the lack of control over all the weapons.
Brigadier General Abdel Salam al-Hasi, commander of the new forces, told AP that fighters deciding to join the army would first have to undergo training. "Everyone will have to obey the legitimacy of our army," he said, adding that the security force is growing in numbers.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A bomb targeting a police vehicle in a governor's motorcade and two other blasts rocked the volatile Nigerian city of Maiduguri, but no casualties were reported, police and residents said Tuesday.
The blast involving the motorcade of Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima occurred Monday when suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... threw a bomb at the police vehicle on the road from the Maiduguri airport.
The governor was returning from the capital Abuja and was being welcomed by supporters along the airport road following his victory in a legal challenge to his election win in April.
"There was a blast targeted at one of our vehicles, but it did not hit its target," Borno state police commissioner Simeon Midenda told AFP. "It was a mild kaboom. Nobody was killed or injured."
Midenda said a second kaboom targeted a military checkpoint around the Abbaganaram area of the city Monday evening.
"The assailants detonated a bomb by the roadside around 7:30 pm in order to attract the attention of JTF (military Joint Task Force)," he said.
"When the JTF heard the blast, they went to the scene and the Boko Haram members started firing indiscriminately and the JTF members fired back. At the end of the day, the assailants decamped."
Residents also told AFP a third kaboom also occurred at Zajeri, a suburb of the city.
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[Yemen Post] The Yemeni Defense minister just reported that al-Houthis fighters, a Shia led militia who renounced the government back in 2004 and claim to want to restore the ancestral rule of the Imams over its territories, clashed with al-Islah bully boyz in al-Jawf province.
Since the state institutions meltdown, the group has grown bolder in its advances, using the power vacuum left by the political crisis and popular uprising as it knows that the government forces are concentrating their attention elsewhere.
About a week ago, residents in Hajjah province north-west of Sana', the capital warned that the sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians were seizing towns and villages, making their way towards the seaport of Midi to secure an opening towards the red Sea and ferry military equipment from outside Yemen.
Al-Houthis which stronghold is situated in Sa'ada, a northern Yemeni province which shares borders with the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia, are now fighting off rustics loyal to al-Islah as they are seen to be their ideological nemesis. Al-Islah is a pro-Sunni Islamic political party with little tolerance to the Shia belief system, since they viewed as flawed.
"Ten people from the opposition Islamic Islah Party and Shiite Houthi rebels were killed and several others injured in festivities that erupted after Houthis found out a member of the Islah Party wearing an boom belt and killed him before he attempted to blow himself up during Houthis' annual religious festival of Eid al-Ghadeer in al-Mutoon district in Al-Jawf," said the ministry in a statement posted on its website.
Despite having agreed to a truce a while back as both al-Islah and al-Houthis were working at toppling President, recent weeks saw a resurgence in armed festivities.
Interestingly, al-Houthis' media office is denying the allegation in block, arguing that they had uncovered a jacket wallah plot targeting their supporters in al-Mutoon district.
"An unidentified person tried to join a procession of Houthi supporters en route to celebrate the day of al-Ghadeer festival, and when the procession's escorts intercepted him, they found a wire of an boom belt concealed with him," read a blurb. The added that they believed the attack was commandeered by the American.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... said Monday he will quit for "sure" after the government agrees with the opposition on a mechanism for implementing a power transfer plan.
In an interview with the French broadcaster La Belle France24, Saleh, who has been clinging to power for 33 years, said "sure, sure," when asked if he intends on stepping down.
"When the Gulf initiative is agreed upon and signed and when a time frame is set for its implementation, and elections take place, the president will leave," Saleh said, adding the whole process would take about 90 days.
"He who holds on to power is crazy," President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... said. His remarks came as the UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, called on Monday for a rapid transfer of power in the unrest-swept country, following talks with dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.
"The time has come to speed up change in Yemen and begin a power transfer," Benomar told news hounds.
The UN backs a Gulf plan under which Saleh would hand power over to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, in return for immunity from prosecution for himself and members of his family.
Saleh has welcomed but has yet to sign the Gulf plan. On Monday he told La Belle France24 he has "never refused to sign it" but wanted to "read it and work on a mechanism" to implement it.
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[Dawn] Police said they placed in durance vile four men Tuesday in the central English city of Birmingham as part of an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation that has uncovered an alleged suicide kaboom plot.
The men, three aged 19 and one 24, were jugged under counter-terror laws in the Sparkhill area on suspicion of fundraising for terrorist purposes and of travelling to Pakistain to undertake terrorist training.
"Today's arrests were pre-planned and not made in response to any immediate threat to public safety. Officers were unarmed," said a statement from West Midlands Police.
They are the latest arrests in a counter-terror investigation in Britannia's second biggest city which was launched in September.
Police say eight people have so far been charged as part of the probe, with seven remanded in jug after appearing in court in London.
Three men were charged with "planning a bombing campaign" and "stating an intention to be a jacket wallah".
Other charges the suspects faced included collecting money for terrorism, travelling to Pakistain for training in bomb making and making a "martyrdom"film.
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Brith born pakis choose jihad over jobs!
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As many as 20 armed suspects were killed by Mexican security forces near the city of Fresnillo, Zacatecas in a series of firefights Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican news accounts.
A large convoy of armed suspects was spotted from the air by helicopter and were tracked to a point where Mexican security forces comprising Mexican Army, Naval Infantry and Policia Federal operatives were able to engage them.
Reports say 20 armed suspects were killed and another 20 were arrested. A complete summary available in Thursday's Rantburg.
The gunfights were part of a larger operation, one part of which was launched after two Mexican business journalists were kidnapped Monday.
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Something bigger than a late night crossfire out behind the upazilla. From this distance, it is hard to tell of the Mexican govt. making progress or even holding it's own.
(Rooters) - Colombia's FARC guerrillas named Timoleon Jimenez, a hard-liner known as Timochenko, as their new leader after the Andean country's armed forces killed his predecessor, a rebel statement said on Tuesday
In one of the largest strikes against the guerrillas, Colombian forces killed FARC leader Alfonso Cano on November 4. But the forces of Evil vowed to fight on, dampening hopes that his death might bring the nation closer to peace.
Timochenko, who received military and political training in Cuba and Russia, is considered more uncompromising than other rival commanders of the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a narco mob based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. , according to Colombian intelligence services.
"We want to inform you that Comrade Timoleon Jimenez, with a unanimous vote by his lover companions in the secretariat, was designated on November 5 as the new commander of the FARC," said the statement, published on a news website called the Bolivarian Press Agency that often carries rebel messages.
Timochenko, 52, has been a member of the seven-member ruling secretariat since the early 1990s and a fighter in the FARC since the 1970s. He is believed to operate in the Norte de Santander province on the border with Venezuela.
The FARC's leadership choice could heat up the conflict on the northeastern provinces, where Timochenko and another secretariat member are believed to operate, if thousands of troops that were looking for Cano were moved to those areas.
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Good! He's definitely less able than the man he replaces. Plus, maybe he'll do some stupid crap just because he hates Colombia so much. Next, kill him and keep killing the replacements.
North Korea has recently moved fighter jets near the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border, and ground-to-air missiles close to Baeknyeong Island. There is speculation that it plans a minor provocation while South Korean president Lee Myung-bak visits the U.S. since any show of unity between the two allies tends to incense the North.
"The North Korean military was seen moving mobile missile launchers at a ground-to-ship missile base near the NLL," a government source said. "There's likelihood that the North will launch a military provocation" while Lee is away.
The government is closely watching movements of North Korean artillery units.
An intelligence source said, "The North Korean Army is showing movements similar to those seen right before it shelled Yeonpyeong Island last year."
Lee was quoted by a source as saying prior to his departure for Washington, "If the North launches a provocation during a Seoul-Washington summit, it will become an international issue rather than a domestic one." He instructed the military to "strongly respond" if the North does.
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[Dawn] Three Norwegians ...none of them named Knut or Sverre or something like that...
accused of plotting, with al Qaeda's help, to bomb a Danish newspaper for printing cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges in court on Tuesday.
The alleged ringleader, Mikael Davud, learned how to use explosives at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistain and made "an agreement" with the terror organization to blow up the Denmark's daily Jyllands-Posten, prosecutor Geir Evanger said on the first day of the trial.
The three acquired bomb ingredients like hydrogen peroxide and acetone while two of them may also have planned to kill a Danish cartoonist who had drawn the Prophet with a bomb in his turban, Evanger said in his opening statement.
"This is a ground-breaking case in Norway," Davud's attorney, Arild Karl Humlen, told Rooters.
"It is the first full-scale test of new (Norwegian) terror laws and the first time they (the prosecutors) are linking a terror conspiracy to an international organization."
Jyllands-Posten was the first of several European publications to print cartoons lampooning the Prophet in late 2005 and early 2006, sparking violent protests in the Middle East and Africa and a widespread debate about press freedom.
As recently as November 2, a firekaboom gutted the headquarters of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after it put an image of the Prophet on its cover.
Davud, a Norwegian citizen of Chinese Uigur origin, trained with al Qaeda in Pakistain from 2008 to 2009 and remained in contact with the group until the trio's arrest in July 2010, the prosecutor said.
"Davud has used e-mail to correspond with them (al Qaeda) and he has talked to them, cooperating about the target," Evanger told Rooters.
Weapons manuals, bomb-making instructions and pro-al Qaeda propaganda were found on his computer in Norway, Evanger said.
Davud's attorney told Rooters his client insists the training he received was in Iran and had nothing to do with al Qaeda.
"He says he went to Iran to learn to make a bomb that he would use at some point in his life to attract interest to what the Chinese are doing to the Uigur population," Humlen said.
Some Uigurs in China's easternmost province, most of them Moslem, have agitated for a separate state or more autonomy.
After his arrest, Davud, 40, admitted he intended to attack Chinese interests like the Chinese embassy in Oslo, police said last year, but he is charged only with plotting to bomb the Danish newspaper.
Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, a 38-year-old Iraqi Kurd with Norwegian residency, joined the newspaper plot in 2009 and stored explosive chemicals at his home, the prosecutor said.
He and Davud have been in jug since the arrests.
The third defendant, a 33-year-old native Uzbek national named David Jakobsen, was released last year proclaiming his innocence but remained under investigation.
According to Evanger, Jakobsen delivered hydrogen peroxide to Davud several times.
Evanger said Jakobsen's participation "lasted until he contacted police" in November 2009, after which he assisted the investigation.
Evanger said the trial, expected to last six weeks, would include surveillance tapes and testimony from a USinvestigator with knowledge of the al Qaeda contacts Davud allegedly maintained.
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[Dawn] Surveillance of the border was increased on Monday after Pak security forces killed three beturbanned goons and injured four who intruded into Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency from Afghanistan overnight, officials said.
They said that personnel of Khasadar Force and Frontier Corps, manning a checkpost in the Olay area, challenged the beturbanned goons when they were entering Baizai tehsil at about 8:15pm.
According to the officials the beturbanned goons had entered Olay from Nazarkhel area across the border and were proceeding towards Atam Kallay. The security forces targeted them with heavy weapons and started shelling from the nearby posts to force them to surrender, but they beat feet in the dark.
"At least three beturbanned goons were killed and four to five were maimed in the shelling by security forces," officials said.
They said that security forces accompanied by members of Atmarkhel Peace Committee visited the area in the morning and found stains of blood there. Security forces also recovered one hand grenade, two magazines and other things from the spot.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... political tehsildars Khalid Khan and Shamsul Islam inspected deployment of Levies and Khasadar personnel at checkposts, established in different areas of Haleemzai and Ekkaghund tehsils of the tribal region.
Also, one person was killed and eight others, including six women, were maimed when beturbanned goons fired mortar shells at Jawaki area of Frontier Region of Kohat on Monday.
Official sources said that beturbanned goons fired several mortar shells from the Tor Chappar mountain of Darra Adamkhel at the residential area of Jawaki. The mortar shells hit three houses in the area, they added.
They said that a man identified as Muneer was killed in the incident. The injured were identified as Asma Bibi, Fatima Bibi, Nausheen Bibi, Kiran Bibi, Sumera Bibi, Sakina, Aftab and Shafaat. They were shifted to combined military hospital in Kohat for treatment. It is important to mention here that eight alleged beturbanned goons were placed in durance vile on Sunday during a raid on an Afghan refugees camp, situated near the border between Kohat district and Shindhad tribal area.
Sources said that the placed in durance vilesnuffies were involved in attacks on the vehicles of rustics, who were fleeing the area.
The mortar attack on the residential area coincided with the daylong visit of Inspector General of Police Akbar Khan Hoti to Kohat. The IGP urged people to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in curbing militancy in the region.
The residents of Jawaki area have been migrating to safer places for the last few months owing to rocket and mortar attacks on their houses by jihad boys.
In Swat, the local peace jirga has demanded arrest of reuniting terrorists, who had decamped the district after a military operation, to bring them to justice. The demand was made by chief of Nekpekhel Peace Committee Saifullah Khan during a presser in Mingora on Monday.
Flanked by Feroz Shah, Ibrahim Dewlai, Inamur Rehman and Zaheen Khan, he said that suspected snuffies released from prisons might be involved in attacks on volunteers of peace committee. Terrorists would not be allowed to disturb peace of Swat, he added.
Mr Khan termed attack on Karimul Hadi, general secretary of the committee, a cowardice act. "Such acts of snuffies will never plunge the high morale of the elders of the committee," he said. He said that peace in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... was restored after great sacrifices of lives and properties. "We will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with army for maintenance of peace and elimination of last terrorist," he added.
Mr Khan said that snuffies were trying to regroup in Swat but people would foil their evil designs. He demanded of the government and security forces to arrest all terrorists, either hiding in Pakistain or in other countries, to bring them to justice.
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BAGHDAD - A roadside kaboom blew up near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in northern Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding 18 others, security and hospital sources said.
The bus was attacked as the pilgrims returned from a visit to a Shi'ite Mohammedan shrine in the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.
Iraqi security forces are trying to quell a stubborn Sunni Mohammedan insurgency more than eight years after the US-led invasion that ousted Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
Two kabooms rocked the southern Lebanese city of Tyre just after dawn Wednesday morning, causing significant damage but no casualties.
The two blasts struck near a hotel frequented by UN peacekeeping officials and a liquor store. Outside the Queen Elissa Hotel in the port city, the car belonging to a UN officer was damaged. A restaurant adjacent to the hotel was destroyed and nearby windows were shattered.
Despite the presence of a UNIFIL official, Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel denied that the UN peacekeeping force was the target of the blasts, Lebanese news site Naharnet reported. The interior minister claimed that the explosives targeted the sale of liquor in the area.
Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus early on Wednesday, in the first reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar Assad, activists said.
Members of the Free Syrian Army fired shoulder-mounted rockets and machineguns at a large Air Force Intelligence complex situated on the northern edge of the capital on the Damascus-Aleppo highway at about 2:30 am. A gunfight ensued and helicopters circled the area, the sources said.
"I heard several explosions, the sound of machinegun fire being exchanged," said a resident of the suburb of Harasta, who declined to be named.
There was no immediate report of casualties and the area where the fighting occurred remained inaccessible, the sources said.
Together with Military Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence is in charge of preventing dissent within the army. The two divisions have been instrumental in a crackdown on the uprising against Assad, which the United Nations says has killed 3,500 people.
Syria's military is controlled by Assad's brother Maher and members of their minority Alawite sect, while the army is comprised mostly of Sunni Muslims, who also form the majority of Syria's population and have been defecting from the army in mounting numbers.
The pervasive security apparatus, dominated by Alawites, underpins the power structure. Security chiefs of an estimated eight major secret police organizations answer directly to President Assad.
An Arab official, who did not want to be named, said insurgent attacks on loyalist forces rose sharply in the last 10 days, although the army remains largely cohesive.
[An Nahar] Total said Tuesday the Syrian government has stopped paying for oil the French energy giant produces in the country, which is the target of a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ban on oil exports.
"We are no longer being paid," a Total front man said, confirming media reports. He said the company had since late September "slightly" reduced its production in Syria but was continuing to produce oil and gas there.
The front man would not say when the payments had stopped, nor how much money was involved.
Total and the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell are the largest foreign international oil producers in Syria, where the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... has violently cracked down on anti-government protests.
Last week, the Financial Times newspaper reported that both companies were no longer being paid the by the government 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...
In September, the European Union banned crude oil imports from Syria, a tough measure against Damascus as the 27-nation bloc buys 95 percent of its oil exports, providing a third of the regime's hard currency earnings.
More than 70 people died on Monday in one of the bloodiest days of Syria's eight-month uprising, activists said, as Assad's loyalists reacted angrily to growing isolation.
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[BBC] Turkey has stepped up its pressure on neighbouring Syria over the crackdown on protests by 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... government.
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the future could not be built on "the blood of the oppressed", and condemned attacks on Turkish missions in Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... Turkey's energy minister announced that joint oil exploration projects with Syria had been halted.
Damascus is also facing increasing pressure from the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , which has suspended its membership.
On Monday, King Abdullah of Jordan became the first Arab leader to openly urge Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... to stand down.
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OK, so why is Erdogan leaning on Pencil Neck? Designs for Ottoman Empire Redux sounds farfetched (but delightfully islamic)
Is he providing cover for the Juice to deal with the Persians by menacing the Syrians with hints of Turkish involvement if the Syrians want to play in the coming Iran-Israel conflict? It would be one way to even up the sides. Last thing the Syrians need is a two-front war.
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at this point much of the maneuvering is about the post Assad era (the betting odds probably favor 2012 as the beginning of this era).
Erdogan, Abdullah of Jordan, the Saudis, Iraq, the Kurds --- all want to preserve their influence in that era. Obviously, Iran and Hezbollah, while still backing Assad are probably looking for post Assad allies also.
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[An Nahar] Turkey said Tuesday it has halted joint oil exploration with Syria and threatened to cut energy supplies to its neighbor as relations sour over the Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on demonstrators.
"We are currently exporting electricity (to Syria). If the situation continues like this, we may be in a position to revise all these decisions," Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.
Turkey, once a close ally of 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... , has been exporting electricity to Syria since 2006.
Yildiz also said that Turkey's Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has stopped exploration with the Syrian national oil company in six wells, according to the Anatolia news agency.
The minister's remarks come in the wake of weekend attacks on Turkish diplomatic missions in three Syrian cities.
Thousands of pro-regime protestors armed with knives and batons attacked the missions in Damascus as well as the cities of 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... and Latakia on Saturday over Turkey's support for an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... decision to suspend Syria.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier Tuesday that Ankara had abandoned hope that Syria would respond to international demands to halt violence and initiate democratic reforms.
Erdogan, once a close political ally and a personal friend of Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, has for months expressed frustration at Assad's failure to listen to his people as the corpse count in Syria mounts.
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Can't we just turn Syria over to the French to run?
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[An Nahar] The six Gulf Cooperation Council states said on Tuesday that they oppose a Syrian request for an emergency Arab summit on the bloody crisis in the country.
The GCC "sees that the request to hold an Arab summit at this time is useless," knowing that Arab foreign ministers will meet in Rabat on Wednesday, GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif al-Zayani said.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... on Saturday voted to suspend Syria from all of the pan-Arab bloc's activities over its failure to implement a deal to end the violence which has left around 3,500 dead since March, according to U.N. figures.
League chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Monday that he had received a letter from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem calling for an urgent Arab summit to discuss the crisis.
Arab leaders have been informed of the request, the secretary general said, adding that the emergency summit can only be held if two-thirds of the bloc's members endorse the call.
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[An Nahar] Kuwaiti MPs on Tuesday called on world countries to recognize the opposition Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people and take action against the regime.
"We declare our support for the Syrian National Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people," said a statement signed by 33 Kuwaiti MPs in the 50-member house.
"We call on world governments to recognize this council and to freeze the membership of the Syrian regime in various international establishments and bodies," the statement said.
Kuwaiti MPs have been pressing the government of the oil-rich Gulf state to expel the Syrian ambassador and sever relations with 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... On Monday, hundreds of Kuwaitis staged a rally outside the Syrian embassy demanding the expulsion of the ambassador.
Kuwait in August recalled its ambassador from Damascus for consultations in a move also taken by some of its Gulf partners.
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[An Nahar] More than 100 demonstrators stormed the Jordanian embassy 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... and tore down the flag in protest at King Abdullah II's call for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to go, Jordanian newspapers said Tuesday.
It was the fourth such protest against embassies of regional powers by angry Assad loyalists since the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... voted on Saturday to suspend Syria and impose sanctions against the regime over its bloody eight-month crackdown on peaceful protesters.
"Nearly 120 people protested in front of the Jordanian embassy in Damascus on Monday evening and two of them managed to break into the outside courtyard of the embassy and tear down the Jordanian flag," ambassador Omar al-Amad told the al-Dustur and al-Ghad newspapers.
"Syrian security forces did not intervene to prevent the incursion into the embassy compound by these two individuals," the ambassador added.
"By international agreement, the responsibility to protect embassies and other diplomatic missions falls on the host country," Amad said, underlining the protection afforded to the Syrian embassy in Amman despite widespread anger in Jordan over the bloodshed in the Arab neighboring country.
Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday became the first Arab leader to openly call for Assad to step down, two days after the vaporous Arab League took the rare move of suspending Syrian membership of the 22-nation bloc.
"I believe, if I were in his shoes, I would step down," the king said in a BBC interview. "I would step down and make sure whoever comes behind me has the ability to change the status quo that we're seeing."
King Abdullah said Assad should usher in a new era of political dialogue before stepping down.
"Again I don't think the system allows for that, so if Bashar has the interest of his country, he would step down, but he would also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of Syrian political life," he told the BBC.
Syria has reacted angrily to the decision at the weekend by the Arab League to suspend the country from the pan-Arab bloc.
The main Jordanian opposition parties, including the powerful Moslem Brüderbund, called on the government on Sunday to withdraw its ambassador from Damascus in accordance with an appeal from the Arab League made as part of Saturday's package of sanctions.
The bloc's foreign ministers decided to leave the final decision to member states but there has been growing pressure from human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups and Arab public opinion angry over a crackdown that has cost more than 3,500 lives, according to the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas...
The embassies of Turkey, Qatar and Soddy Arabia, seen as prime movers in the groundswell of regional opinion against the Assad regime, had already come under attack.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on Monday apologized for the attacks on those embassies.
"It is important... that this does not repeat itself. The protection of the embassies is part of our responsibilities," Muallem told a news conference in Damascus.
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[An Nahar] A wave of violence killed at least 50 people in Syria in one day, many of them Syrian soldiers who came under attack from army defectors, activists said Tuesday.
The unrest in Syria appears to be escalating as Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... comes under mounting pressure -- not only from the West but from his Arab neighbors, as well.
The U.N. estimates the regime's military crackdown on dissent has killed 3,500 people in the past eight months.
The activist coalition called the Local Coordination Committees group identified at least 50 people who were killed on Monday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented 69 deaths, and said 34 of them are soldiers.
The violence appeared focused in the southern province of Daraa.
It is common to have a discrepancy in figures, because the Syrian government has prevented independent reporting and barred most foreign journalists. Details gathered by activist groups and witnesses are key channels of information.
Assad is facing the most severe isolation of his family's four-decade rule in Syria. On Monday, Jordan's king said Assad should step down for the good of his country, the first Arab leader to publicly make such a call.
Syria's crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising has brought international condemnation, but 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... generally has been spared broad reproach in the Arab world. That changed Saturday, with a near-unanimous vote by the 22-member Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... to suspend Syria.
Earlier Monday, Syria struck back at its international critics, branding an Arab League decision to suspend its membership as "shameful and malicious" and accusing other Arabs of conspiring with the West to undermine the regime.
The sharp rebuke suggests Damascus fears the United States and its allies might use the rare Arab consensus to press for tougher sanctions at 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...
Assad says faceless myrmidons pushing a foreign agenda to destabilize Syria are behind the unrest, not true reform-seekers aiming to open the country's autocratic political system.
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[Iran Press TV] Syria has released 1,180 prisoners who were placed in durance vile during the past few months of unrest in the country.
The prisoners were released on Tuesday, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
Earlier on November 5, 553 detainees were also released on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.
Syria has chosen to free the prisoners as part of efforts to end the months-long unrest in the country.
The release of prisoners comes as on Monday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem censured a decision made by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... (AL) to suspend the country's membership.
The Syrian foreign minister said that the decision against 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... was made despite the implementation of measures requested by the AL to end the unrest in the country.
The Arab League announced the suspension of Syria during an emergency session in Cairo on Saturday and called for the imposition of sanctions on Syria.
Muallem described the decision as "illegitimate and dangerous."
Millions of Syrians erupted into the streets in several cities across the country on Sunday to condemn the vaporous Arab League decision and express their support for the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath...
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of President Assad.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.
On Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 34 Syrian soldiers were killed in an attack by gangs in the southern province of Daraa. According to the observatory, 12 gunnies and over 20 civilians were also killed in the festivities.
The opposition and Western countries accuse security forces of being behind the killings in Syria over the past months, but the government blames outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups for the deadly violence, saying that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
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