The chief of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday, security sources and a senior Taliban commander said, in a major blow to the country's most feared militant group.
Hakimullah Mehsud was one of Pakistan's most wanted men with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. He led an increasingly violent insurgency from a secret hideout in North Waziristan, the Taliban's mountainous stronghold on the Afghan border.
"We confirm with great sorrow that our esteemed leader was martyred in a drone attack," a senior Taliban commander said.
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From the people who brought you 'smart diplomacy' et al. When you base your view of the world on falsehoods and misconceptions, usually your goal eludes you. The heart of the military are the thousands of junior and middle grade officers and the NCO corps. You can pick your politically obedient handlers at the top, but you won't be able to fill those lower ranks full enough or fast enough to accomplish your object in less than 10 years with sufficient competent personnel. You'll only drive those who are out upon which your less than competent will have to deal with when you attempt to 'impose' your rule.
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..for the most part the 'successful' Roman Emperors who played that game were field commanders themselves and as the record shows had competent personnel to cut their way to the thrown.
UPDATE 2: On Monday October 29 General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, released the following statement:
ĀThe speculation that General Carter Ham is departing Africa Command (AFRICOM) due to events in Benghazi, Libya on 11 September 2012 is absolutely false. General HamĀs departure is part of routine succession planning that has been on going since July. He continues to serve in AFRICOM with my complete confidence.Ā
It will feature the "U.S. Marine Band; 'President Lincoln's Own Band' from the movie, Lincoln; Governor Tom Corbett; a reading of the Gettysburg Address by Lincoln portrayer James Getty; and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will administer the Oath of Allegiance to sixteen new citizens." Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will represent the administration in Obama's stead.
President Obama "declined an invitation to speak at [the commemoration]." Oh really? I wonder why.. is he afraid of the phrase "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." It certainly stands in contrast of the actions of Obama and the left (facta non verba) ruling of the commoners, by the ruling class, for the elites "for their own good" Wonder what the golf is like mid-November in southeastern PA...
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It would be a great satisfaction to him, if the entire commemoration ceremony celebrating the 150th anniversary were cancelled, after all as a democrat, he is "uncomfortable" with the entire concept of emancipation,as it may give the serfs on the "democrat plantation" ideas.
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President Kennedy was invited to speak at the 1963 ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the speech but opted to travel to Dallas instead, where he was fatally shot a few days later.
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I'm glad he's not going. Gettysburg is sacred ground. He does not need to be among hero's and patriots. He needs to go hang out with the occupy crowd, they are more his speed.
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Probably the notion that whites fought and died to emancipate "his people" sticks in his craw.
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Abe didn't need a teleprompter now did he?
Abe didn't need anybody to tell him what to say either. He wrote the original Gettysburg Address himself on the back of an envelop while he was riding a train to Gettysburg. Now I wonder, how many speeches has Baraq actually written by himself?
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Ship - I think Champ's just concerned about the reception committee
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#6 and #14:
Abraham Lincoln was very careful about his speeches. For example, he had his Second Inaugural Address typed onto large sheets of paper, marked with the rhythm he wanted to use. If he had access to a Teleprompter, he'd have used it.
And the 'back of the envelope' myth is just that. He was much more careful in his prepared speeches. As his presidency went on, his impromptu speeches were rarer and rarer.
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Slaves heading to North America would have come from West Africa. I doubt Kenya had anything to do with that trade. Perhaps into the middle east but I wouldn't think to North America.
Russian Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO Reporting Name: Blackjack) strategic bombers on Monday (October 28, 2013) flew from an airbase in southwestern Russia and landed in Venezuela, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The nuclear-capable bombers, which took off from the Engels air base in the Volga region, flew over the Caribbean, the eastern Pacific and along the southwestern coast of the North American continent, and landed at Maiquetia airfield in Venezuela. On Thursday the two bombers departed Venezuela and landed in Nicaragua.
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I remember tracking these when they first showed up. No real equivalent in the western arsenal. unlike the B-1, these are bigger and supersonic. Caused a bit of a stir, but not for all that long. Its still a standoff platform IIRC
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The Pentagon this week edged closer to mounting missile-destroying lasers on unmanned and manned aircraft, awarding $26 million to defense contractors to develop the technology.
Under the name Project Endurance, DARPA, the Department of Defense's research agency, awarded Northrop Grumman $14.6 million and Lockheed Martin $11.4 million in contracts for the effort, according to Military & Aerospace Electronics. Called "Project Endurance," the research will "develop technology for pod-mounted lasers to protect a variety of airborne platforms from emerging and legacy electro-optical IR guided surface-to-air missiles," according to DARPA's 2014 budget request.
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IDF soldiers who were carrying out work to destroy a Hamas terrorism tunnel on the Israel-Gaza border came under fire from a Palestinian terrorist cell overnight Friday.
The IDF stated that terrorists detonated an explosive device targeting the soldiers during the operation. The attack left five soldiers injured. One is suffering from serious injuries, one was moderately wounded and three soldiers were lightly hurt, an army source said. The wounded were airlifted to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
In response to the attack, the IDF fired a shell at terror suspects in the nearby Gazan district of Khan Younis. One Palestinian gunman was killed and a second was wounded, according to Palestinian medical sources.
IAF aircraft also struck an attack tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF stated. Three members of the Hamas Kassam Brigades were killed in the strike east of the town Qarara, according to Palestinian news agency Ma'an. Time to fumigate
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Italy more or less followed the outline of the Roman provinces of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, while adding another, the Fezzan to cover the desert south. Under King Idris, Libya was divided into three governorates, all with capitals on the Med: Tripoli to the west, Al-Khalij in the center, and Benghzi to the east. Tripoli contained the large southern area including the Sabha oasis. Al Khalij contained the al-Kufra oasis and much of the Fezzan. Benghazi extended very little into the Sahil, extending only as far south as Al Jaghbub the King's favored settlement.
When Qadaffi came to power he initiated a series of changes in internal boundaries that began on 29 July 1970 and created eleven governorates. The issue now at hand is what constitutes Cyrenaica? The Islamist powers that control its ancient capital at Benghazi not only want independence, they want the most extensive boundary possible. Thus, should independence occur, the result would be boundary disputes (and warfare) for decades to come.
It's not exactly a vote of confidence in the powers that be: A sizable number of Americans think the undead would do a better job than the brain dead in Washington, D.C. Have you seen Harry Reid lately? Looks like a zombie is already running the Senate.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American Adults believe the federal government would do a better job than zombies running the country today. But the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most Americans don't share that view, with just as many (37%) who feel zombies would do a better job running the country and another 26% who can't decide between the two. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Can we simply feed the current crop of congresscritters, aids, and federal officals to the zombies? Nah - forget that it might make the Zombies sick.
These findings are no surprise, given that 64% of Likely U.S. Voters now view the federal government unfavorably, with 34% who have a Very Unfavorable opinion of it.
Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats still pledge allegiance to the federal government, but pluralities of Republicans (45%) and those not affiliated with either major political party (44%) have more confidence in zombies when it comes to running the nation's affairs.
Only six percent (6%) of all Americans anticipate a zombie apocalypse, so supporters of the federal government can rest easy. Eighty-two percent (82%) do not, but 12% are not sure.
Among those who expect an apocalypse, 74% say they are at least somewhat prepared, with 53% who are Very Prepared. I guess you can't make this up!
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zombies would do better but dead zombies would do better still. Basically we need to cut the government down to almost nothing. We should have more people involved in repealing laws then those in charge of making new ones and every law should have a sunset clause forcing congress to revote every 6 years to keep it alive (and get them on the record).
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..at least with spoils you can directly tie your local representative and senator to the performance of their minions/family and vote accordingly at the next election for change.
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"Only six percent (6%) of all Americans anticipate a zombie apocalypse"
Only? That's almost 20 million people.
Yeah I know: the rest probably believes that a zombie apocalypse has already happened, at least in D.C.
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"Can we simply feed the current crop of congresscritters, aids, and federal officals to the zombies? Nah - forget that it might make the Zombies sick."
No, they'll starve there. Remember, zombies eat brains...
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You mean there's a difference between FedGov and Zombies? Both are mindless large groups of former human beings who are slowly but surely eating away at civil society and the economy.
[WashingtonTimes] Two out of eight in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... sent to rescue, honored for valor
Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military's elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the B.O. regime's original story about the Benghazi tragedy.
But sources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators -- mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members -- were in Tripoli the night of the attack, on a counterterrorism mission that involved capturing weapons and wanted bully boyz from the streets and helping train Libyan forces.
When word of the Benghazi attack surfaced, two members of that military unit volunteered to be dispatched along with five private security contractors on a hastily arranged flight from Tripoli to rescue Americans in danger, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the special operations forces' existence inside Libya was secret.
The two special operations forces arrived in time to engage in the final, ferocious firefight between the bully boyz and Americans holed up in the CIA annex near the ill-fated diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the sources added.
The two special operators were awarded medals for valor for helping repel a complex attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, another American diplomat and two former Navy SEALs, but spared many more potential casualties.
Pressed why the Pentagon and administration officials did not publicly acknowledge the special operations forces' contribution that tragic night, the sources said officials decided that their anti-terror work inside Libya was sensitive and closely guarded. In addition, U.S. officials did not have a Status of Forces Agreement in place that would have authorized the troops' presence, the sources said.
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Huddled there was a mix of CIA officers and security personnel, such as former SEAL Tyrone Woods, and employees of BritainĀs Blue Mountain personal security team.
Ah yes, the lads from BMS surface once again. That might explain the whereabouts of survivors and those treated at Landstuhl, Germany. No need to highlight the bravery of the son's of ole Albion. Just send them home quietly.
Has anyone ever answered the question of WHY Stevens went to Benghazi in the first place? AND how did the AQ goons know he was coming and when?
Sounds like some kind of strange manipulation by AQ to get Stevens to Benghazi and into a prearranged trap...sort of a sting operation.
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Has anyone ever answered the question of WHY Stevens went to Benghazi in the first place?
From what I can gather it was a scheduled visit. There is some question, however, whether the ambassador's overnight stay was pre-planned or not.
AND how did the AQ goons know he was coming and when?
Seriously? You have to ask that?
Let's run down the situation:
A planned visit by the US ambassador, which means the consulate staff was aware of the visit and the schedule,
Unarmed guards of questionable competence at the front gate,
A Libyan militia providing armed security,
A Benghazi police presence of dubious quality and loyalty.
A scheduled meeting with the Turkish ambassador,
The consulate being located in Benghazi, a known redoubt of Islamic militias, a record of attacking Western interests, and a city with a strong history of Egyptian influence.
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I wouldn't go with predictable. But something should have been expected, or security awareness placed at a higher alert, given the date and especially the locale.
The war against al-Shabab militants in Somalia has Āground to a haltĀ and needs a surge of almost 4,400 more African Union troops and massive U.N. assistance to break the stalemate and avoid failure, a top U.N. official said Wednesday.
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told the Security Council that the U.N.-endorsed African Union force and the Somali military lack Āthe capacity to push beyond areas already recoveredĀ from al-Qaida-linked group in the last 18 months during a successful campaign to recapture several cities, including Mogadishu and Kismayo.
Eliasson presented the Security Council with recommendations from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the AU force be boosted by 2,550 combat troops and 1,845 ground-support troops for the next 18 to 24 months.
Ban also called for another 1,000 troops for a U.N. guard force to prevent attacks like the recent suicide bombing at the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, and for another 840 police officers. If the Security Council approves the additional troops, that would boost the force to about 24,000 personnel, up from its current level of just over 17,700 soldiers and police.
ĀIt is hard to ask for additional resources in our present difficult financial environment,Ā Eliasson said. ĀBut it is my duty to advise this council that, without increased support, our present Ā and indeed past Ā investment in peace, and that of millions of Somalis, may be lost.Ā
The AU mission in Somalia is meant to pave the way for an eventual U.N. peacekeeping force. It is led by Ugandan officers and has large Kenya and Burundi contingents.
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[Al Ahram] There are no political prisoners in Egypt and all suspects are detained in accordance with the criminal law, Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat claimed on Thursday. Speaking at a forum in Vienna on cross-border organised crime, he also asserted that the rights of detainees in Egypt were respected.
Barakat's comments come amid US state department calls for the Egyptian government to stop what it described as politically motivated arrests and detentions.
"We have been continually calling for an end to the politically motivated arrests and detentions and we will continue to do this," the state department said via its Arabic-language Twitter account "USABilAraby" earlier on Thursday. It also said violence was hindering Egypt's political and economic progress.
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[Al Ahram] Sudanese Islamist scholars have formed a National Movement for Change that hopes to lead a search for alternatives to the country's "failed" political system, a member said Thursday. ...The solution, naturally, being more Islam...
"We are calling on other people from different political or cultural (groups) or think tanks to join us to try to find a new way for Sudan," Khalid Tigani, one of about 10 members of the group, told AFP.
He said the movement is not a political party and that a convention will later decide what form it will take.
The Movement for Change is the latest sign of public frustration with the 24-year regime of President Omar al-Bashir, who seized power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989.
Critics have become increasingly vocal since the government in September slashed fuel price subsidies, leading to the worst urban unrest of Bashir's rule.
Security forces are believed to have killed more than 200 demonstrators, many of whom were shot in the head or chest, Amnesty International said.
Authorities reported 60 to 70 deaths, saying they had to intervene when crowds turned violent, attacking petrol stations and police.
Hundreds of people were detained, but the government says most have been released.
Analysts said the spontaneous demonstrations pointed to an urgent need for reform by a government grappling with wars, internal dissent, economic crisis and international isolation.
Tigani said the current government is part of the broken system but "not the whole story."
"We are saying that the old Sudanese political system completely failed," he said.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... stressed on Thursday that no international power can force the disposition of Syria's chemical arms in Leb. In a word: "Huh?"
"Sources close to the Hague assured that there are unofficial reports saying Leb will take part in the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons," Berri said in a speech he gave during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Imam Sadr Foundation. Which brings up the question: "Are there Syrian chem weapons in Leb? And who's controlling them?"
We can probably guess the answers to both questions.
He assured, however: "No international power can convince or force us to dispose of Syrian chemical weapons in Leb."
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[Al Ahram] Iraq's prime minister says Death Eaters "got a second chance" to thrive in Iraq, largely as the result of the rise of al-Qaeda gunnies in neighboring Syria's civil war.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... said the world needs to help Iraq deal with its growing insurgency that U.S. officials estimate has killed 6,000 people so far this year.
Al-Maliki spoke at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He said he was in Washington to seek U.S. aid, including weapons, intelligence and other assistance.
He said the U.S. and the rest of the world should help Iraq because terrorism is an international concern.
Al-Maliki warned about the consequences of al-Qaeda rebels gaining political power in Syria should Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... step down.
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Buy some weapons with that oil money you cheap punk.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi announced on Thursday that police forces will be permitted to guard universities from outside campus grounds, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
The decision comes as universities across Egypt have witnessed mounting tensions since the beginning of the academic year in September.
El-Beblawi said police forces will be dispatched around campuses to assist the universities' private security services in their identity checks and car searches.
University heads are entitled to invite police forces to enter university premises, El-Beblawi added. Police forces will also be allowed to intervene after obtaining authorisation by the prosecution.
Since the start of the academic year, supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... have organised several protests across Egyptian universities. Their demonstrations have often escalated into festivities with students supportive of the military, who announced Morsi's ouster in July following mass protests against his rule.
At Cairo's Al-Azhar University on Wednesday, tens of students participated in a march through the campus, storming and ransacking the main administrative building. Following a request from the university, Egyptian police then entered the prestigious Islamic institution to confront the protesters.
It was the first time police had entered a university since a 2010 court ruling banned interior ministry personnel from operating on university grounds, a police general told AFP.
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[Al Ahram] The legal spokesperson of deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... has dubbed the trial of his client and other leading Moslem Brüderbund members as politically motivated cases facing a lack of evidence.
"There is no evidence in Morsi's 4 November trial. Besides the homeland security investigation report and the reports from criminal investigations, no other evidence is available," Mohammed El-Damaty told Al-Ahram's Arabic website on Thursday, adding that these reports were biased and not to be trusted.
The first session of Morsi's trial is to be held on 4 November in Cairo. The ousted president and Moslem Brüderbund members are standing trial for incitement to kill opponents during the December 2012 presidential palace festivities.
"Morsi's trial should be guided by certain conditions, according to the 2012 constitution. The constitution is clear that two-thirds of the People's Assembly must approval a presidential trial, which must be held in a special court under the president of the appeals court," El-Damaty added.
The spokesperson said that the legal defence team did not know whether or not the ousted president will attend the trial, asserting that Morsi does not recognise the court's authority.
"Mohammed Morsi refused a lawyer during the prosecution's investigation, as he still regards himself as the elected legitimate president of Egypt," El-Damaty added.
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[An Nahar] At least eight people were killed in an army rocket attack on southern Damascus's Al-Hajar Al-Aswad neighborhood Thursday, a monitoring group said.
The "bombardment... which killed at least eight people, comes amid an escalation by the regime in southern Damascus and (rebel) areas in the countryside around it," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.
The toll from Thursday's violence is likely to rise, he added.
"The bombardment is part of an attempt by the regime to retake southern Damascus," several of whose neighborhoods are have for months been under a suffocating army siege, he added.
More broadly, "the army is trying to totally secure the capital. To date, it has claimed many times it has complete control over Damascus, but rebels are positioned in many areas in the capital's southern belt", he said.
The Observatory was unable to immediately verify whether the dead were fighters or civilians.
"The regime's bombardment is arbitrary. Troops fire rockets at buildings, without knowing who is in them. Such attacks do not distinguish between civilians and combatants and therefore constitute a war crime," Abdel Rahman said.
Activists in southern Damascus also reported the attack, claiming "dozens" had been maimed.
"Many houses have been destroyed, and we have documented that (the bombing involved) more than 20 rockets and dozens of mortar rounds," according to the Damascus Media Office, a network of anti-regime activists.
The deaths in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad come a day after seven civilians, including five members of one family, were killed in a similar shelling in there.
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unable to immediately verify whether the dead were fighters or civilians.
The feet and right hands were civilians and the heads and left hands were fighters; re-assemble for burial.
[An Nahar] Arab Democratic Party official Rifaat Eid condemned the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau's summoning of his father, Ali, over his alleged links to the twin blasts that rocked the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in August, reported As Safir newspaper on Thursday.
He told the daily: "The ISF Intelligence Bureau crossed red lines when it summoned my father and he will definitely not comply with the request."
He declared that the accusations against his father are not based on any facts and they are part of a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n agenda to settle scores with Syria.
Moreover, he voiced his fear that the summoning will negatively affect the situation in Tripoli, stressing that the Arab Democratic Party was exerting "strenuous efforts to calm the angry residents of Jabal Mohsen," which is a stronghold of the party in Tripoli.
As Safir said that former MP and head of the Arab Democratic Party Ali Eid was summoned over testimonies his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali had made during the investigation over the Tripoli blasts.
The driver was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by the ISF Intelligence Bureau on charges of smuggling to Syria Ahmed Merhi, one of the suspects in the bombings against al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli on August 23.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Thursday that Ali Eid had refused to comply with the summoning request.
Judicial sources told the daily that suspicions are surrounding Rifaat Eid over his links to the Tripoli attacks because he is the main official in the Arab Democratic Party.
They also voiced their fears that he may be smuggled to Syria "in order to hide the truth and any leads linked to the twin bombings."
MTV reported on Wednesday that Ali Eid's personal driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on October 26 by Lebanese army intelligence agents on charges of smuggling Merhi into Syria at the request of the pro-Damascus former politician.
"During the interrogation of Ahmed, it turned out that the Alawite leader had provided a hideout for Merhi in the Akkar border town of Heker al-Daheri before he was smuggled into Syria," MTV said.
Ali was eventually handed over to the ISF Intelligence Bureau for further interrogation.
Merhi is reportedly the driver of the second explosive-laden vehicle that blew up near al-Taqwa mosque.
On October 14, seven people involved in the August bombings were charged, including three in jug.
Forty-five people were killed and over 800 maimed in the twin bombings.
The Arab Democratic Party has denied any involvement in the attacks and stressed that the suspects are not members of the party while slamming media leaks attributed to the ISF Intelligence Bureau.
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[An Nahar] Hugo Chavez may have died in March, but his successor says the comandante is still around -- most recently in an image of his face that appeared on a subway tunnel.
President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday workers in the tunnel saw the image come and go, and he showed a photo of the alleged visage in a rally in Caracas.
"Look at the figure, a face. This picture was taken by the workers," he said, smiling. "Chavez is everywhere."
Maduro, handpicked by the ailing Chavez to run for president upon his death, said during the election campaign in April that he had seen the populist leader incarnated as "a little bird."
Since then in several speeches he has imitated the tweeting of a bird to allude to Chavez.
Critics have made fun of him. But Maduro brushed this off, and called on all Venezuelans to be "little birds" of the government he oversees.
Then, in June, Maduro said Chavez tends to appear to him in the mountains that overlook Caracas.
"Every time I see the mountain, I see Chavez appear on the mountain," he said once.
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Paper face, he's still DEAD, doorknob Dead,
can't get no deader,(will NEVER ((thank god)) be alive again,) he was a mass murderer, (People forget that in their insanity)
So rave away.
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[Dawn] The Ministry of Defence claimed on Wednesday that US drone attacks over the past five years had resulted in 67 non-combatant deaths, while 2,160 bad boyz were potted by the much-criticised America's weapon of choice against terrorism.
Importantly, the defence ministry said in a written statement in Senate that the collateral damage caused by the drone strikes had reduced to nil since 2012.
It is the first time that the so far jealously guarded date has been officially released by the government. The statement by the defence ministry came in response to a question submitted by PML-N politician Senator Nisar Mohammad in February this year.
The release of the data follows intense criticism of the US drone war by human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activists.
The Amnesia Amnesty International had in its report said the strikes amounted to war crimes because some of them killed people who posed no threat to the US national security interests.
UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson in his annual report submitted to the General Assembly in September had raised the issue of civilian casualties caused by America's lethal extra-territorial counter-terrorism operation and had asked Washington to make public the information on collateral damage.
The critics of drone attacks had relied on the narrative that it killed thousands of civilians and consequently fomented extremism in the country.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , who last week met President B.O., made the drone attacks a central point of his meeting agenda.
Secret CIA and diplomatic memos leaked to media after the criticism of drone programme suggested that the Pakistain government had been on board with regard to drone attacks at least over the four-year period from 2007-11.
The figures presented in Senate contradicted the numbers shared by the government with UN Rapporteur Emmerson, who had been told by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March this year that of the 2,200 people killed by drones the government could confirm that at least 400 were civilians, and another 200 were likely non-combatants.
The figure of hundreds of civilians having been killed by drones, Emmerson was then told, was an "underestimate".
The defence ministry's statement corroborates US stance that drones are the most effective way of targeting Death Eaters with minimal collateral damage.
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The 67 were probably camp followers and terror enablers as well. Keep droning!
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[Al Ahram] Five boom-mobiles north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 19 people Thursday, while attacks elsewhere in Iraq left seven more dead, officials said, the latest casualties in a nationwide spike in unrest.
The attacks, which maimed dozens, come as Iraq witnesses its worst violence since 2008, a surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 5,400 people this year despite authorities having carried out a swathe of operations and implemented tightened security measures.
They struck as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visits Washington to press for military equipment and greater cooperation with the United States in fighting myrmidons.
In Thursday's deadliest attack, twin boom-mobiles in a residential area in Tuz Khurmatu, a disputed town north of Storied Baghdad, killed seven people and maimed 42 others.
Three of the dead were from the same family.
As emergency responders rushed to the scene of the attack, a third bomb went off, but did not cause any casualties, Mayor Shallal Abdul told AFP.
"The two boom-mobiles went off simultaneously, and bear the fingerprints of Al-Qaeda," a police major, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
Tuz Khurmatu is a majority Kurdish town which lies in a disputed area of northern Iraq, where both Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and the central government in Storied Baghdad vie for power.
It is frequently hit by deadly attacks.
Two more near-simultaneous boom-mobiles went off in Khales, a restive town north of Storied Baghdad, as a police patrol was passing, killing five people, including a policeman, officials said.
The attack, which struck in area filled with car dealerships, also maimed 15 others, including four coppers.
Another boom-mobile in Muqdadiyah, north of Storied Baghdad, killed four people.
Police meanwhile found the bodies of three blindfolded women bearing multiple gunshot wounds to the head, execution-style, at an empty plot in a Shiite-majority neighbourhood in northeast Storied Baghdad.
A police officer and a medical official said initial investigations showed the women were shot earlier on Thursday.
Summary executions were commonplace at the height of the Sunni-Shiite conflict in 2006-2007, when many thousands died.
Also on Thursday, gunnies killed a soldier and maimed two others in an attack targeting their patrol in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, while a roadside kaboom targeting an army patrol northwest of the city left a soldier dead and two others maimed, officials said.
And two separate gun attacks and a roadside kabooming north of the capital killed five people, including an anti-Qaeda militiaman, police and doctors said.
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[Al Ahram] Constitution committee spokesperson Mohammed Salmawy announced on Thursday that the committee has approved an article to ban censorship of state media in Egypt.
"An article was approved on Thursday to ban censorship of official media, including state-owned newspapers, TV, and radio, except in certain conditions such as war or public mobilisation," Salmawy stated.
Salmawy clarified that foreign media would be guided by different criteria with regards to censorship, confiscation, and closure.
"An exceptional, limited censorship can be allowed for foreign media during war or public mobilisation," he announced.
The committee spokesperson added that this will be the first Egyptian constitution to clearly address the independence of official media. The proposed article expresses a commitment to an independent state-owned media free of bias and control by the ruling government.
The committee, tasked with amending the suspended 2012 constitution, passed another article on Thursday which would ban deliberate cuts to means of communication, such as phones or internet, Salmawy added.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] SaharaReporters has been informed that Nigeria's security operatives last night ambushed suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... members at a location in Bauchi State. The operatives recovered 11 AK 47 rifles, rockets, grenades and over 1000 rounds of ammunition. A military source who participated in the operations confirmed the development to SaharaReporters.
According to the source, one suspected Boko Haram member was killed and four were captured alive. He added that several other suspected members fled into a forest, with a combined team of operatives still trailing them.
The suspected sect members, who were traveling in several cars, were reportedly on their way to Azare town when the operatives ambushed them at Gidan Maiwa, in Ningi local government area of Bauchi along the Bauchi-Kano road.
"We got a tip that they were on their way to attack Azare town, and the information was accurate," said our source. "We ambushed them and we got them in an area called Gidan Maiwa on Bauchi-Kano Road. On sighting us they opened fire and we did same on their cars. We killed one and captured four of them and recovered 11 AK 47, rockets, grenades and over 1000 rounds of ammunition."
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[Dawn] The local chapter of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... has been reorganised as part of preparations for the coming local government elections in the district.
"We have elected amirs of eight zones and 60 union councils in the district through secret ballets for two years term and the newly elected office-bearers would revitalise and mobilise the party at the grass root level to win the local bodies elections," said Younus Khattak, JI district amir, while speaking at a presser here on Wednesday.
Other party leaders, including Dr Tariq Sherazi, Bukhtiar Khan and Dr Mohammad Siddique were also in attendance.
Mr Khattak said his party was likely to forge alliance with Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... for the local bodies election in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
He said Mohammad Ismail was elected amir (zonal head) of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... city, Qari Mohammad Fiaz for Gari Habibullah zone, Mukhtiar Rehman for Khawari, Ihtsahamul Haq Qurashi for PK-53, Dr Ali Asghar Shah for PK-55, Syed Yousuf Shah for PK 56, Abdul Latif for Oghi Agror and Qari Ashraf for PK-57.
He said that the party elected Dr Tariq Sherazi and Dr Siddique as deputy general secretaries to strengthen the party in the district.
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WASHINGTON Ā Nearly two years after pushing out the U.S. military, Iraq is asking for more American weapons, training and manpower to help fight a bloody resurgence of al-Qaida that has unleashed a level of violence comparable to the darkest days of the nationĀs civil war.
The request will be discussed during a White House meeting Friday between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Barack Obama in what Baghdad hopes will be a fresh start in a complicated relationship that has been marked by victories and frustrations for each side.
ĀWe know we have major challenges of our own capabilities being up to the standard. They currently are not,Ā Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview with The Associated Press. ĀWe need to gear up, to deal with that threat more seriously. We need support and we need help.Ā
He added: ĀWe have said to the Americans weĀd be more than happy to discuss all the options short of boots on the ground.Ā
ĀBoots on the groundĀ means military forces. The U.S. withdrew all but a few hundred of its troops from Iraq in December 2011 after Baghdad refused to renew a security agreement to extend legal immunity for Americans forces that would have let more stay.
You could have had a status of forces agreement with us in 2009. Then you likely wouldn't have this problem today. Nice going...
At the time, the withdrawal was hailed as a victory for the Obama administration, which campaigned on ending the Iraq war and had little appetite for pushing Baghdad into a new security agreement. But within months, violence began creeping up in the capital and across the country as Sunni Muslim insurgents lashed out at Shiites, angered by a widespread belief that Sunnis have been sidelined by the Shiite-led government, and with no U.S. troops to keep them in check.
More than 5,000 Iraqis have been killed in attacks since April, and suicide bombers launched 38 strikes in the last month alone.
Al-Maliki is expected to ask Obama for new assistance to bolster its military and fight al-Qaida. Faily said that could include everything from speeding up the delivery of U.S. aircraft, missiles, interceptors and other weapons, to improving national intelligence systems. And when asked, he did not rule out the possibility of asking the U.S. to send military special forces or additional CIA advisers to Iraq to help train and assist counterterror troops.
If the U.S. does not commit to providing the weapons or other aid quickly, Āwe will go elsewhere,Ā Faily said. That means Iraq will step up diplomacy with nations like China or Russia that would be more than happy to increase their influence in Baghdad at U.S. expense.
Russia, the traditional shopping mart for weapons to control one's own population...
The two leaders also will discuss how Iraq can improve its fractious government, which so often is divided among sectarian or ethnic lines, to give it more confidence with a bitter and traumatized public.
The ambassador said no new security agreement would be needed to give immunity to additional U.S. advisers or trainers in Iraq Ā the main sticking point that led to U.S. withdrawal. And he said Iraq would pay for the additional weapons or other assistance.
A senior Obama administration official said Wednesday that U.S. officials were not planning to send U.S. trainers to Iraq and that Baghdad had not asked for them. The administration official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters by name.
U.S. officials were prepared to help Iraq with an across-the-board approach that did not focus just on military or security gaps, the administration official said. The aid under consideration might include more weapons for Iraqi troops who do not have necessary equipment to battle al-Qaida insurgents, he said.
Administration officials consider the insurgency, which has rebranded itself as the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant, a major and increasing threat both to Iraq and the U.S., the official said.
U.S. and Iraqi officials see a possible solution in trying to persuade insurgents to join forces with Iraqi troops and move away from al-Qaida, following a pattern set by so-called Awakening Councils in western Iraq that marked a turning point in the war. Faily said much of the additional aid Ā including weapons and training Ā would go toward this effort.
One of the several things that fell apart when we left in '09...
James F. Jeffrey, who was the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad when the U.S. troops left, called it a ĀturnaboutĀ by al-Maliki. He said Iraq desperately needs teams of U.S. advisers, trainers, intelligence and counterterror experts to beat back al-Qaida.
ĀWe have those people,Ā said Jeffrey, who retired from the State Department after leaving Baghdad last year. ĀWe had plans to get them in after 2011. They can be under embassy privileges and immunities. They will cost the American people almost nothing. They will, by and large, not be in any more danger than our State Department civilians. And they could mean all the difference between losing an Iraq that 4,500 Americans gave their lives for.Ā
Wonder if Champ will explain how we blew it in 2009. No, no, I don't wonder at all...
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No one "told" Champ. He isn't responsible unless he is told. Hand me that 9 iron.
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If we go help we will get all the blame for anything that goes wrong or even just doesn't succeed. On the other hand, an opportunity to eliminate AQ goons is hard to pass up.
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Arms shipments? Get in line after the Messican Cartels
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At the time, the withdrawal was hailed as a victory for the Obama administration... But within months, violence began creeping up in the capital and across the country
"It's a measure of how far off the rails the NSA has gone that it's taking its Cold WarĀera eavesdropping tactics -- surreptitiously eavesdropping on foreign networks -- and applying them to US corporations. It's skirting US law by targeting the portion of these corporate networks outside the US. It's the same sort of legal argument the NSA used to justify collecting address books and buddy lists worldwide.
"Although the Washington Post article specifically talks about Google and Yahoo, you have to assume that all the other major -- and many of the minor -- cloud services are compromised this same way. That means Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Badoo, Dropbox, and on and on and on.
"It is well worth re-reading all the government denials about bulk collection and direct access after PRISM was exposed. It seems that it's impossible to get the truth out of the NSA. Its carefully worded denials always seem to hide what's really going on.
"In light of this, PRISM is really just insurance: a way for the NSA to get legal cover for information it already has. My guess is that the NSA collects the vast majority of its data surreptitiously, using programs such as these. Then, when it has to share the information with the FBI or other organizations, it gets it again through a more public program like PRISM.
"What this really shows is how robust the surveillance state is, and how hard it will be to craft laws reining in the NSA. All the bills being discussed so far only address portions of the problem: specific programs or specific legal justifications. But the NSA's surveillance infrastructure is much more robust than that. It has many ways into our data, and all sorts of tricks to get around the law."
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund will begin fresh protests starting Friday in preparation for the first court session in the trial of the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... on charges of inciting violence. The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) renewed the call for protests in a statement Thursday in support for Morsi who is due in court 4 November, which the NASL called "President's Perseverance Day."
Supporters of Morsi have been staging near daily demonstrations calling for his reinstatement since he was deposed by the military amid mass protests 3 July. Demonstrations have often resulted in festivities with security forces and residents against the Brotherhood.
This week's protests mark another test for the Moslem Brüderbund -- whether they can keep a presence in the street as a means to pressure interim authorities. They also challenge an already fragile security situation as authorities strive to maintain order nationwide in the run up to Monday's court session.
If Morsi is present in court it would be his first public appearance since July. Since being deposed, Morsi has been kept at some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location, with no access to the media or his supporters.
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Pals say the pressure of being Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... Ās niece made her a Āhot messĀ Ā but Caroline Biden apparently had no trouble using her status to try and pull rank on cops, The Post has learned
ĀI shouldnĀt be handcuffed! You donĀt know who youĀre doing this to,Ā Caroline Biden barked at police, according to court documents.
Cops tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Biden at her then luxury rental apartment in Tribeca Sept. 17 after she allegedly went berserk in a door-pounding, screaming confrontation with her roommate over unpaid rent.
After swinging at a female officer then slapping another, cops cuffed her and took her to the station house.
The unstable 26-year-old rambled for nearly two hours, snootily trying to get cops to make the connection between her name and that of her powerful uncle, court papers show.
ĀMy name canĀt be on it,Ā Biden bossily demanded, referring to police paperwork. ĀI know my rights, I studied law.Ā
When cops tried to search the Georgetown University gradĀs purse she snapped, ĀI have secret service stuff in there.Ā
Biden continually referenced her connection to her uncle, despite having complained to friends about how much she hated the pressure of being the VPĀs niece, according to socialite and pal Paul Johnson Calderon.
She at one point asked to use the bathroom and when her cell door was opened she announced she was leaving, according to the criminal complaint.
The prima donna, who wasnĀt cuffed, tried to slide past an officer who blocked her.
ĀDonĀt touch me,Ā she squealed, trying to push the cop out of the way. When the officer tried to deposit her back into the cell, she desperately clung to a doorframe to prevent it.
Some cops questioned whether the young womanĀs erratic behavior and incessant gabbing might be caused by medication, a source added.
A friend of BidenĀs previously told the Post sheĀd struggled with alcohol and pill addiction and even did a stint in rehab.
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Borderline personality disorder. Poor Joe probably thinks comprehensive health insurance can help her. Really all you can do is hope they OD or get hit by a bus.
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I want to hear the rest of the story. Did Uncle Joe's office intercede? Was the cop repremanded? Did he have to apologize to his betters (her)? Did she get special treatment?
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Crazy eyes. Note she's a Georgetown grad... guess they knew who she was related to...
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I have felt the same way for years since I am related to Carl Vinson, it's a pressure cooker goldfish bowl I tells 'ya. And no! I can't do a damn thing to change your peanut allotment, now let me be!
Go off an annoy Walter George's kin and let me alone I am tired of this crazy life.
[Dawn] Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer for former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, says his client has found a technical support job at a Russian website. "Help desk! How can I help you?"
Kucherena told the RIA Novosti news agency Thursday that Snowden starts his new job on Friday. Kucherena declined to name the company that has hired Snowden but says it's a major Russian website.
Snowden was granted asylum in Russia in August after being stuck at a Moscow airport for more than a month after flying there from Hong Kong. His whereabouts in Russia remain secret.
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Wow... I wouldn't believe someone would be stupid enough to give him a job in tech support.
More likely the job is simply a cover to provide him a living.
"Hi. I'm building a Windows app. in Assembler because I can't afford a copy of Visual C++."
(What are you, a fucking psycho?)
"I'm getting a GPF on a call to ::DialogBox() - what am I doing wrong?"
I made half an attempt to help him out, but I knew I was out of my league on that one, so I called in a 'pod', the senior tech support guys. The guy calling starts talking to the pod, and it sounded like two long lost brothers reconnecting. I listened in for a minute or so before I was cut off / dropped from the call. To this day, I still think the guy's a fucking psycho...
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Interesting to see how very quickly the 'bring him home for trial' narrative ended, and he was conveniently forgotten about by the regime. The enemy of your enemy..... sort of thing.
Wait until the Russians discover he was a clandestine ACA website developer.
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"Okay, Edward Iosifivch, here's your cube. If the phone rings, don't answer it or we'll arrest you. Turn on the computer and we'll arrest you. Actually, pretty much do anything besides sit there quietly and keep your hands folded and we'll arrest you. Have a nice day, and there's donuts in the conference room."
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Lee Harvey Snowden should trickle back to the USA in 5-6 years.
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The smelting plant has known since 2010 this was coming. They couldnĀt stop it and no one else rose up to stop it either. The business had been in production for 120 years and now goes the way of our auto industry.
The regime had to shut it down, but the shutdown actually had nothing to do with firearms. They employed hard working people, and had historically turned a tidy profit.
[TRIBUNE.NG] TROOPS of the 7 division Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, has continued to carry out attacks on the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... faceless myrmidons camp killing several gunnies and destroying their camps.
Residents of Maiduguri, who were travelling to Damaturu on Wednesday, were made to turn back by other travellers who claimed that they saw the krazed killer in their number crossing the highway road at Benisheikh town of Kaga Local Government Area, where gunnies have been attacking travellers in the past.
According to them, the krazed killer were seen hurrying as they cross.
Speaking to newsmen on behalf of the 7 division Nigerian Army, Captain Aliyu Danja confirmed the story stating that at about 11:00 a.m troops of 7 division Nigerian Army supported by the men of the Nigerian Air force with helicopter gunfire attacked and destroyed the Boko Haram camp in Goho village, in Mainok general area.
Captain Danja said several bad boyz were potted while others fled to another town in Marguba village and troops pursued the terrorists, destroyed the camp while several were killed and others fled.
He also confirmed that the krazed killers, who fled crossing road Maiduguri, Damaturu at Benisheikh were heading north towards Gubio and troops were still in pursuit of the terrorists.
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[An Nahar] A bomb went kaboom! on Thursday morning near an army intelligence station in the central Bekaa region of Jalala.
The National News Agency reported that the bomb was discovered on the side of the ride, adding that it was placed behind the Moussawi institute in the area.
The blast went off as a specialized member of the Internal Security Forces was dismantling.
No one was injured in the incident.
The army later announced in a statement the arrest of two suspects linked to the kaboom.
It added that the blast was caused by a 300-gram explosive, which was remotely detonated.
The explosive was placed on an off road of the Shtaura highway and went kaboom! at around 8:300 a.m. said LBCI television.
Only material damage was reported and television footage showed that a number of cars had been damaged in the blast.
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[An Nahar] Islamic Alawite Council head Sheikh Assad Assi on Thursday stressed that the council will not tolerate the summoning of top Alawite leader Ali Eid for interrogation in the case of the deadly twin bombings that rocked Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in August.
"The Alawite sect totally disavows the perpetrators of the two massacres that happened outside the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli and it is awaiting a legal and national investigation, not a politicized investigation linked to a foreign scheme," Assi said at a presser.
"Whoever is convicted, we will consider him to be a traitor and we are under the law and the fair investigation," he added.
The holy man stressed that "it is unjust to accuse the entire Alawite sect" of the bombings, noting that "this cannot be accepted by any Mohammedan."
"Tripoli is a city for all its residents and we fear for Tripoli from a possible strife," he added.
Assi urged President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... to "personally come to Tripoli to seek a real reconciliation among all the sons of the city."
He called on Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji "not to await a political cover" to restore stability and security in Tripoli.
"Let the army strike with an iron fist against anyone who goes against the national principles of Tripoli," Assi said.
"The summoning of Arab Democratic Party leader Ali Eid by the (Internal Security Forces) Intelligence Bureau is unacceptable, impermissible and it will not take place whatever that may cost," the council's leader underlined, noting that "we are all demanding the truth."
In remarks published Thursday in As Safir newspaper, Arab Democratic Party top official Rifaat Eid, Ali's son, warned that "the ISF Intelligence Bureau crossed red lines when it summoned my father and he will definitely not comply with the request."
He declared that the accusations against his father are not based on any facts and that they are part of a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n agenda to settle scores with Syria.
As Safir said that former MP and head of the Arab Democratic Party Ali Eid was summoned over testimonies his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali had made during the investigation over the Tripoli blasts.
The driver was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by the ISF Intelligence Bureau on charges of smuggling to Syria Ahmed Merhi, one of the main suspects in the bombings against al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli on August 23.
MTV reported Tuesday that Ali Eid's personal driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali was locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on October 26 by Lebanese army intelligence agents on charges of smuggling Merhi into Syria at the request of the pro-Damascus former politician.
Merhi is reportedly the driver of the second explosive-laden vehicle that blew up near al-Taqwa mosque.
On October 14, seven people involved in the August bombings were charged, including three in jug. The majority are from Jabal Mohsen.
Forty-five people were killed and over 800 maimed in the twin bombings.
The Arab Democratic Party has denied any involvement in the attacks and stressed that the suspects are not members of the party while slamming media leaks attributed to the ISF Intelligence Bureau.
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(CNN) -- President Champ tried to log onto the Obamacare website, according to Vice President Joe Biden, who added his name to those apologizing for the online snafu that has rocked the introduction of the administration's sweeping health care initiative. I'm sorry, so sorry, that I was such a fool.
"The President tried to get online and my daughter tried to get online. I did not, because it was clear that I wasn't getting online," Biden told CNN's sister network HLN on Wednesday.
The Vice President said Obama was told several weeks before the October 1 launch that the website was "ready to go."
"Neither he and I are technology geeks and we assumed that it was up and ready to run," Biden said. I don't believe it takes a "geek" to log onto a website.
The fact that it crashed and has experienced other problems since its debut is "inexcusable," he said. No, what is "inexcusable" is that you and Champ did nothing about it.
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The CHAOS will grow due to Obamacare regulations:
Thursday, Forbes reported that the Obama administration knew in 2010 that by the time the dust settles, 93 million Americans will lose their insurance due to ObamaCare.
Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act contains whatĀs called a ĀgrandfatherĀ provision that, in theory, allows people to keep their existing plans if they like them. But subsequent regulations from the Obama administration interpreted that provision so narrowly as to prevent most plans from gaining this protection.
ĀThe DepartmentsĀ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013,Ā wrote the administration on page 34,552 of the Register.
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The donks (left-wing radicals) don't ever seem to anticipate the consequences of their actions. Maybe they have never had any in their lives. Obama never really cared about the chaos he unleashed on the American people. He only thought of the votes that would get him elected, about the new Donks he would bring into the fold, and the political power and control that he and the party would obtain. He and the Donks never anticipated the pitchforks that extremely ticked off Americans would start bringing out. His presidential ratings are going south of Carter territory. I still can't believe the Donks were so dumb as to try resurrect Hildebeast's torpedoed HillaryCare. Few want ObamaCare and few wanted HillaryCare. In this entire debacle, I have not heard Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid step up and say: "I'm proud of my role in shoving this unwanted turkey down the throats of Americans." Chief Justice Roberts also has a chance to step up to the plate and drive a stake in the heart of this cancerous legislation.
...does anyone know where I can trade canning wax, Flaming TP and $hit-in-a-Bag futures in North Dakota...? I offered fish one year. That was in the days before digital cameras, so I didn't get any pictures of the kids' expressions...
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Once upon a time, people who disapproved of candy handed out wholesome apples. These days they'd probably arrest you for that. Might be razor blades in 'em.
(My mother went nuts one year, handed out homemade candy apples.)
[Dawn] Five soldiers were killed and another was injured when a roadside kaboom hit a military vehicle in South Wazoo on Wednesday.
Intelligence sources said the vehicle was hit by an IED (improvised bomb) planted along a road in the Zateri area of Berwand in Sarwekai tehsil. Two soldiers were killed on the spot and three died later, they said.
No group grabbed credit for the attack.
Soon after the blast, security forces resorted to intense shelling in the Shamkai area and conducted a search operation.
Locals said that during the search operation at least 50 people, among them women and kiddies, were forced to leave their homes along with their cattle. Later, they were handed over to the political administration which shifted them to the Wazirabad area of Tank district. Then the authorities left them at a seminary.
The villagers said scores of cattle had perished in the shelling.
Saleh Shah, chairman of the Senate standing committee on SAFRON, told Dawn that he would take up the issue in the house.
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[An Nahar] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday pleaded for a major global effort to combat the "virus" of al-Qaeda and terror networks, likening the fight to a third world war.
In Washington for a series of meetings hoping to drum up more support for Iraq, Maliki said that with U.S. help his country had defeated al-Qaeda.
But now with the vacuum created by the toppling of long-standing regimes during the Arab Spring, "the hard boyz found a second chance."
His visit to the U.S. comes as Iraq witnesses its worst violence since 2008, a surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 5,400 people this year despite several operations and tightened security measures.
"We want an international war against terrorism," Maliki said in a speech to the United States Institute of Peace, calling al-Qaeda and its ilk "a virus" which was trying to spread "a dirty wind" around the region.
"If we have had two world wars, we want a third world war against those who are killing people, killing populations, who are calling for bloodshed, for ignorance and do not want logic to govern our daily lives."
Maliki also called for the convening of an international conference on counterterrorism to be hosted in Iraq, and his front man Ali Mussawi told Agence La Belle France Presse the idea had been "welcomed" by U.S. officials.
"Maliki has received good responses, and everybody he has met has emphasized they will stand with Iraq, to help Iraq in fighting terrorism in Iraq and in the region," Mussawi said by phone from Washington.
Maliki also did not rule out running for a third term in elections due next year, but said it would be up to the Iraqi people.
His government has been criticized for not doing more to address grievances in the Sunni Arab community over alleged ill-treatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities.
But the Iraqi leader denied his country was plagued by sectarian unrest, pitting Sunni and Shiite Moslems as well as Kurds against each other, saying "all are targeted."
He blamed the terror groups for setting back Iraq's struggles to emerge from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and the bloodshed of the U.S. invasion to rebuild its institutions, schools and homes.
"Without terrorism we would have leaped forward in providing services for our people," Maliki insisted.
"All our efforts should aim at preventing the success of al-Qaeda and other terror organizations," he said, adding that while Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... was neutral in the conflict in Syria it was concerned bully boy groups might win control and gain a platform to wreak havoc across the region.
Maliki will meet U.S. President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... on Friday at the White House to press for military equipment and greater cooperation in fighting bully boys.
"We expect the results of the visit will be very good and will improve bilateral relations, and it will lead to solutions," Mussawi said.
The United States vowed Wednesday to help Iraq combat terror groups, but said Storied Baghdad needed a broader strategy which was not just based on strengthening its military arsenal.
The top U.S. commander in the Middle East, General Lloyd Austin, gave voice to increasing concern in Washington that al-Qaeda will manage to hunker down in a safe haven stretching from western Iraq into Syria.
"If left unchecked, we could find ourselves in a regional sectarian struggle that could last a decade," Austin told The Wall Street Journal in a rare interview.
"What we are very worried about is a continued downward spiral that takes you to a civil war," Austin said. "It could easily get worse."
The Iraqi leader also met Thursday with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who stressed "the important role that Iraq has in maintaining regional stability," Pentagon front man George Little said.
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Who funds these AlQ groups in Iraq and Syria?
Gulf nations of Saudi,UAE,Qatar and Kuwait come to mind.
Are we doing anything about this?
I get the impression the Sunni Gulf is alot more intolerant of other religions than Shiite nations.
[Dawn] Providing no other details about who was taking part or what would be discussed, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... Thursday said talks have started with the Pak Taliban.
He said peace talks must take place inside the framework of Pakistain's constitution. That could pose difficulties because the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pak (TTP) was demanding a much harsher version of Islamic law (Shariah Law) across the country than allowed in the constitution.
Sharif was elected in part by promising to negotiate with faceless myrmidons in the country's northwest who have killed thousands of civilians and security forces. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the faceless myrmidons have shown little appetite for talks.
Sharif's comments came during a meeting in London with British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and were released in a statement by the Pak High Commission there.
Many in Pakistain are frustrated that years of military operations in the tribal areas, where the faceless myrmidons have their safe havens, have failed to end the violence. They see negotiations as a necessary step.
Representatives of the country's major political parties backed Sharif's plan for negotiations in early September. His government has been under pressure to show progress ever since.
The Talibs have demanded that Pakistain stop supporting the US-led war in Afghanistan, and that the Mighty Pak Army withdraws troops from the tribal areas of northwest Pakistain that border with Afghanistan.
They've also demanded an end to American drone strikes in the tribal areas. Drones are a particular touchy subject for many Paks who view them as an infringement on their illusory sovereignty.
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[An Nahar] The soldier who led a coup that ousted Mali's government and paved the way for a sweeping Islamist offensive has been summoned to appear in court over alleged violence involving men under his command, police and judicial sources said Thursday.
A judicial source said the intention was to question Amadou Sanogo about "the deaths in the last mutiny against him", adding that he would also be questioned "on all violence in recent times" of which his men have been accused.
"The police on Thursday received a summons from the Malian courts for General Amadou Sanogo. According to the procedure, the notice shall be addressed to the Malian Ministry of Defense, which, in turn, will inform General Sanogo of the summons," said a source at a cop shoppe in Bamako.
Sanogo was controversially promoted from captain to lieutenant-general in August, prompting fellow ex-junta members also seeking promotion to mutiny earlier this month at his former headquarters, a barracks near the capital Bamako, and forcing the army to intervene.
The bodies of three missing soldiers were subsequently discovered in and around the Kati barracks, relatives told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Around 20 officers, including Sanogo's former deputy, were locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Sanogo led a group of fellow mid-level officers to overthrow then-president Amadou Toumani Toure on March 22 last year, upending what had been considered one of west Africa's flagship democracies.
The mutiny precipitated the fall of northern Mali to Islamist gunnies linked to al-Qaeda but a military intervention by French and African troops in January chased the rebels from the region's main cities.
The coup also deepened a schism in the army between the Red Berets, loyal to Toure, and the Green Berets, who were broadly pro-junta, and Sanogo was implicated in the disappearances of Red Berets after a failed counter-coup on April 30 last year.
In the months that followed the March coup, the Kati barracks was the site of numerous atrocities allegedly committed by his men against military considered loyal to the ousted president.
Sanogo has since moved from Kati to the capital and Mali's new president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has vowed that Bamako is "no longer going to live in fear of Kati".
It was not immediately clear when Sanogo was due to appear in court.
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[Dawn] Police in Gilgit-Baltistan said Thursday they have tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 18 suspects over the killing of 10 foreign climbers in the Himalayas in June, but warned that others remain on the lam.
The June 22 attack was the deadliest assault on foreigners in Pakistain for a decade and was claimed by a purported new faction of Pakistain's umbrella Taliban movement, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
Police in the northern districts of Gilgit and Diamer in the Gilgit-Baltistan region said they have arrested 18 suspects on suspicion of planning and carrying out the attack.
The officer leading the investigation said only four of those held are believed to have been directly involved in the killings at the foot of Pakistain's second highest mountain Nanga Parbat.
"We have arrested four culprits who shot the tourists at Nanga Parbat base camp while seven are still on the lam," Muhammad Naveed told AFP.
The victims of the attack, carried out by men in police uniforms, were identified as one American with dual Chinese citizenship, three Ukrainians, two other Chinese, two Slovakians, one Lithuanian and one Nepalese. A Pak guide was also killed.
New details emerge
Further details of the attack have emerged during interrogation. The suspects have revealed that their original plan was to kidnap the trekkers, an investigating officer said.
"They said their plan went foul when one of the Chinese resisted after they approached them," he said.
"After the Chinese tourist retaliated, one of the gunnies fired a shot that killed him and the gunnies fought with each other over it. After that they sprayed bullets at all the tourists."
Asked if the kidnap could have worked, the officer said it would have been almost impossible for them to escape with the hostages because of the difficult terrain.
A bigwig of the local administration said gunnies from Diamer district had linked up with the Pak Taliban and travelled to the tribal areas along the Afghan border for training.
A group of 35 including the 18 detainees was trained in North Wazoo.
"This group was launched as an extension of the Pak Taliban in the northern region," the official told AFP, adding that the group had been behind a rise in killings targeting Shia Mohammedans in the north.
Naveed, the senior police officer, also confirmed that some of the suspects arrested in connection with the Nanga Parbat attack had links with the Pak Taliban.
After the attack the Taliban said it had set up a new faction, Junood ul-Hifsa, to kill foreigners to avenge US drone strikes on Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in northwest Pakistain.
Until the June 22 attack, Gilgit-Baltistan was considered immune from much of the militancy plaguing other areas.
The killings badly hit the local tourism industry, a major economic prop.
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My outrage would be considerably less if I were convinced he was not dead when buried.
Can't have everything.
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On one hand its sad to desecrate a Jewish cemetary with this filth, but on the other hand it makes me glad to think there is an afterlife and he is surrounded by his worst enemies.
[Al Ahram] Aly Baraka, a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official in Leb, warned that Israel is preparing to launch a new attack on the Gazoo Strip, emphasising the need for united Arab efforts to fight Israeli aggression and support Paleostinian resistance. After a meeting with former Lebanese prime minister Selim Al-Hems, Baraka warned of the consequences of the Gazoo blockade, which has cut off Paleostinian access to basic necessities, Egypt's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... MENA reported on Thursday.
Baraka asserted that the current Paleostinian-Israeli negotiations will not grant Paleostinians their basic rights.
Baraka added that Israel is the only entity that stands to gain from extending its power over additional Paleostinian land, making the possibility of an independent Paleostinian state increasingly unlikely.
Baraka pointed out the dire state of Paleostinian refugee camps in Leb, where more than 50,000 internally displaced Syrian Paleostinians have emigrated.
Baraka urged the Lebanese government to reconstruct the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in order to accommodate the influx of new refugees, and to protect the Dabbaya camp currently under threat of demolition by the Lebanese interior ministry.
Baraka concluded that a Paleostinian presence in Leb can only help stabilise the country, and he expressed his continued support for Lebanese illusory sovereignty and security.
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[Al Ahram] Younes Makhioun, head of the ultra-conservative Salafist Nour Party, condemned on Thursday the decision by Egypt's constitutional committee to ban the formation of political parties on a religious basis, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
Earlier on Thursday, the 50-member committee tasked with amending the 2012 Islamist-backed constitution announced on Twitter that article 54 of the charter would ban parties founded on a religious basis.
The decision mainly affects the Islamist parties that emerged after the January 2011 popular uprising that ousted long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . Those parties, including the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist Nour Party, won sweeping victories in the country's 2011 legislative elections. Former president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , ousted in July, himself hailed from the Moslem Brüderbund.
Describing the ban as "exclusionary," Makhioun said it was reminiscent of Mubarak's "fascist dictatorial regime" that prevailed before the 2011 uprising.
"Why do we ban the formation of parties on a religious basis, despite the fact that there are parties who have a socialist, secular or Nasserist background?" Makhioun asked. "Could an article in the constitution that bans parties on those grounds be allowed?"
Makhioun underlined the difficulty of differentiating between a religious and a non-religious party, suggesting that the ban was open to various judicial interpretations that could change with the judge's mood.
The article could also be used by the authorities against parties it wanted to dissolve, Makhioun argued.
Makhioun called for a return to the 2012 constitution's text on this matter, which banned parties built on religious, sexual, or racial discrimination.
While the 2012 constitution was drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly, the current constitutional committee includes only one Islamist representative, hailing from the Nour Party.
Other Islamist parties, who do not acknowledge the legitimacy of Morsi's ouster, have refused to participate in the committee, calling instead for the former president's reinstatement.
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[Al Ahram] A man was killed in fighting between Sunni gunnies and Lebanese troops in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Thursday, a security official told AFP. The tense city has seen a week of deadly festivities pitting Sunni gunnies in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood, who support Syria's rebels, against the Alawite gunnies of neighbouring Jabal Mohsen, who back the regime.
The battle ended after the army deployed troops in the strife-torn neighbourhoods -- separated by the aptly named Syria Street -- to put an end to the fighting.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, the official said Sunni gunnies opened fire on Jabal Mohsen earlier Thursday, wounding one person.
"Tension then returned to the frontline," the source said, with troops exchanging fire with the Sunni gunnies and killing one person.
In a week of fighting that broke out last Monday, 14 people from both sides were killed.
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[CHRON] Gazoo officials say Israeli tank fire has killed a Paleostinian bully boy.
Gazoo health ministry front man Ashraf al-Kidra says the bully boy was killed late Thursday by Israeli tank fire. The Israeli military says it is engaged in a defensive operation against a recently uncovered smuggling tunnel from Gazoo into Israel.
The Israeli military announced two weeks ago that it had discovered a concrete-lined, mile-long tunnel dug from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip into Israel. It said snuffies planned to use it to attack or kidnap Israelis.
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[Al Ahram] The South Cairo prosecution announced Thursday it would begin investigations into leading Moslem Brüderbund member Essam El-Erian on Saturday.
El-Erian, who was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Wednesday, faces multiple charges of inciting the murder of protesters on separate occasions: at the Presidential Palace in December 2012, at the Brotherhood headquarters on 30 June and in the Manial neighbourhood against members of a popular committee on the same day.
The leading Brotherhood member was referred to the criminal court for his charges in both the Brotherhood headquarters and the Presidential Palace festivities.
Other defendants on the trial related to the Presidential Palace festivities, scheduled for 4 November in Cairo, include ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... .
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[USATODAY] The police chief of Toronto said Thursday that his office is in possession of a controversial video allegedly showing Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
Police Chief Bill Blair, speaking to news hounds at police headquarters, confirmed that Ford is shown in the video, but refrained from commenting on the drug-use allegation except to say that it includes "images consistent with those reported in the press."
"As a citizen of Toronto I'm disappointed," Blair said. "It's an issue of significant public concern."
Blair said, however, that nothing in the video would allow police to "form reasonable grounds" to support a criminal charge against Ford.
The feisty mayor met briefly with news hounds Thursday afternoon and said he is constrained from trying to defend himself.
"I wish I could come out and defend myself," he said in a raucous, two-minute meeting with news hounds outside his office. "Unfortunately I can't. It's before the courts. That's all I can say right now."
He emphasized, however, that he would not step down from the post he has held since 2010.
"I have no reason to resign," the mayor said.
The crack video allegations surfaced in May when news hounds from the The (Toronto) Star and the Gawker, a U.S. website, reported that they were shown the video allegedly by people associated with drug pushers who were seeking money.
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Gateway activity. He'll be a troll on the Burg in no time.
Probably wouldn't work, even in Toronto, him being a righteous wight. Quite the blub-berg. Not that I would know, but you gotta be totally off the rails to reach that weight. Shuttup, chair. I couldn't trust a wealthy, powerful person who stays that fat farther than I could throw 'em. Anti-bike fanatic. Probably hates swimming, too. And hte whole idea of bipedal locomotion. And the hookers: "[chew chew chew pause pop] Baby, it's like someone left a hotdog on a waterbed!"
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"Worked for Marion Berry, so why not? Liberals have no shame"
Cleary Casper is getting senile...Ford is a right-wing conservative hypocrite, of which the Re-Pubes down south would be proud of...way to do your research, Spooky...stick to your normal Teapot bullsh*t...
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jeebus - we have Joe M's semi-literate Autobot twin programmed by a HHS/ OFA tool!
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The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (in French: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada.
"centre-right" also referred to as the moderate right, describes adherence to views leaning to the right but closer to the centre on the left-right political spectrum than other right-wing variants.
Basically, in the US, that would put Rob Ford as an "establishment Republican" or at the extreme, a "Jesse Ventura" politician. Hardly what is defined in the US as "right wing conservative" or what a Southern Republican would be proud of.
I also see that you're posting later and later, One-Trick Pony. Afraid to face prime-time criticism and rebuttal?
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Various times in India there are comments about Bollywood's top female actresses. They look too white, not sufficiently Indian.
This gal has...blue contact lenses?
They do look a little strange, but can you blue up brown eyes?
Maybe she's got a bit of the ol' Celt back in the day.
Well, don't we all.
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Bollywood definitely selects the fairest skinned actresses for the major parts. In fact, "fairness" of skin tone is highly desired in India.
Billions of Rupees are spent every year by dark skinned Indians on creams and lotions that claim to lighten skin tone. Some Indian women smear either rice flour or a past made of haldi (turmeric) on their skin to lighten it...to no avail.
We had a Bengali maid servant that spent about half her monthly income on Fair and Lovely skin cream.
All the bio's on the web say Aishwaryas' eyes are a natural Blue/Green, I believe it. Her eyes looked greenish when I met her, and there was no visible sign of them being contacts. Her ethnicity is quoted as being "Bunt", but I suspect that is more of a community affiliation than anything else.
She's definitely of Indo-Aryan stock though, not from the small of stature, dark little Dravidians.
I found her to be pleasant, and of good humor.
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Bunt? Are you kidding, I'd for sure try to put one in the seats.
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Not kidding. Bunt, also spelled Bant is more a community than an actual ethnicity.
India is an amazing and strange place. VERY class and status conscious. While the caste system has been outlawed, the people that cling the tightest to it are the among the members of the lowest castes.
You will see the term SC/ST & OBC. It means Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes & Other Backward Classes. Essentially Affirmative Action on steroids, with all the preferences and set asides.
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[Dawn] The Islamabad police have declared former president Gen (retired) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 'innocent' in the murder of Lal Masjid holy man Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, but have left Musharraf's acquittal to the court.
Both Ghazi Rasheed and his mother died during the 2007 operation against the mosque.
The police have prepared an investigation report under Section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code, commonly known as a challan.
According to this challan, "the complainant in the said case, Haroon Rasheed, son of Ghazi Rasheed, was neither the eyewitness of the murder nor could he produce tangible evidence against Musharraf."
The Aabpara police submitted the report before additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) Wajid Ali on Wednesday during the hearing of a post-arrest bail petition filed by Gen Musharraf.
The police have placed Mr Musharraf in Column 2 of the incomplete challan, and have thus put the former army chief at the mercy of the court.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... they maintained that there was no evidence or any eyewitness against the accused.
According to Inspector General (retired) Saleemullah Khan Advocate, the police place an accused in Column 2 if they believe the suspect is innocent but do not want to discharge him on their own.
He said: "The former army chief, being placed in Column 2, is not guilty according to the police. He can not only get a bail but is also entitled to file a petition for his acquittal in the murder case."
Similarly, when Ilyas Siddiqui, Gen Musharraf's counsel, was contacted, he said the Ghazi Rasheed murder case lacked substantial evidence.
"Now, it is up to the judge to decide Mr Musharraf's fate," he added.
The counsel maintained that an accused can apply for acquittal if he is placed in Column 2 and in most cases the court acquits such a person.
It may be mentioned here that during the blasphemy case in which a minor Christian girl was nominated as an accused, the police had initially placed her in Column 3. This column is reserved for a person who the police believe is guilty.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... her name was later moved to Column 2 after she was found innocent, and the court subsequently acquitted her in the blasphemy case.
Similarly, in July this year, the Airport police had declared Imtiaz Ahmed alias Taji Khokhar innocent in the murder of a woman and had moved his name from Column 3 to Column 2.
Taji was likely to get acquitted in the case but the anti-corruption establishment of Punjab incarcerated Please don't kill me! SHO Aslam Aziz Niazi for tampering with the record through which the accused had been cleared.
During the hearing of Mr Musharraf's bail plea on Wednesday, Ilyas Siddiqui adopted before the court that the Lal Masjid holy mans and students had been involved in abducting government officials and foreigners prior to the operation.
He said the district administration had requisitioned the army after it failed to resolve the issue through negotiations.
He claimed that his client, Mr Musharraf, had not issued any directive to launch the operation against the mosque.
On the other hand, Tariq Asad, the counsel of the complainant, Ghazi Rasheed, alleged that Gen Musharraf was the 'criminal mastermind' of the said operation.
He praised the role of Lal Masjid holy mans and claimed that they were rendering a great service to the society.
Tariq Asad maintained that the residents of Islamabad were getting speedy justice from the informal courts established by the holy mans who were passing orders in accordance with Islamic injunctions.
He alleged that Musharraf, being responsible for the Lal Masjid operation, was not entitled to the bail and requested the court to dismiss the bail plea.
ADSJ Wajid Ali reserved the judgment on the bail petition after the counsels of the complainant and petitioner concluded their arguments. The court would announce the verdict on Friday.
The challan ... list of charges ... filed against Gen Musharraf also narrated a brief history of the Lal Masjid operation.
It maintained that prior to the operation, Maulana Abdul Aziz (the Khateeb of Lal Masjid) and his brother Ghazi Rasheed were facing 31 cases in the cop shoppes of Aabpara, Kohsar, Margalla and Bhara Kahu.
It said that during the military operation 10 army men, including Lt-Col Haroonul Islam and an official of Rangers, were killed in addition to civilians.
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A Kenyan police crackdown on Islamists is fuelling Muslim resentment and moderate preachers say it undermines their efforts to counter recruiting by al Qaeda militants with links across the border in Somalia. "Yeah. Just leave us alone. We'll take care of it."
Much seething commences...
Smashing Islamist recruitment networks among its Muslim minority has become a priority for Kenya, however, as it tries to end attacks by Somali militants bent on punishing it for sending troops over the frontier to fight al Shabaab rebels. If Kenya remains bent on punishing the Shaboobs for their atrocity they'll get more results than by kicking back and letting the holy men deal with it.
The cost of failure was laid bare in September when al Shabaab gunmen, one of whom police say is a Kenyan from the port of Mombasa, raided the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. At least 67 people were killed.
Police say their tough approach, taken before Westgate but stepped up since, has limited the flow of would-be jihadists in and out of Somalia, citing a drop in the number of suspected militants they have tracked and arrested in the past year.
But Islamists, former militant sympathisers, independent security experts and diplomats, some of whom acknowledge short-term benefits from the police actions, say sweeping detentions and perceptions police are carrying out extra-judicial killings have fuelled Muslim resentment in the mostly Christian nation.
Not a word about Christian resentment about the churches being burned, Christians being gunned down, and so on -- by Shaboobs and their sympathizers. Apparently seething and resentment run in one direction only...
Police deny accusations of running anti-Muslim hit squads. "No, no! Certainly not!"
Moderate imams, particularly along the coast where most Kenyan Muslims live, have been attacked by Islamist radicals and some say they have been cowed into silence as a result. "Oh, yeah. We'da said somethin' otherwise."
Police tactics "are benefiting al Shabaab more than they are benefiting the government", said Akullah Khamis, a 33-year-old Muslim in Mombasa, Kenya's second city. He works with young people and non-governmental agencies and says he himself fended off a bid by al Shabaab to enlist his support three years ago.
Kenya's battle against militancy is seen as vital to the stability of east Africa's biggest economy, the gateway for regional trade and with a long coastline that has become a transit route for would-be jihadists trained in Somalia.
The United States, Britain and Israel, which fret about the reach of Africa's al Qaeda-aligned Islamists, have trained and equipped Kenya's anti-terror police and intelligence forces.
Mombasa county police commander Robert Kitur dismissed suggestions the force was being heavy handed or targeting the wider Muslim community: "We have never been brutal," he told Reuters. "People shouldn't generalise this is about Muslims."
"These are not Muslims, these are hooligans. We are going to deal with these people ruthlessly. We are just applying force when it is necessary."
However, one man accused by Western governments of aiding the militants believes widespread arrests, along with raids on mosques and the deaths of people during clashes with police, are helping al Shabaab recruiters.
"This being done to Muslims opens the eyes of the youth to al Shabaab being right," Abubakar Shariff, accused by the U.N. Security Council and the United States of raising funds and recruiting for al Shabaab, told Reuters at his Mombasa home. Shariff, whose assets have been frozen by Western powers, denies the charges against him.
"Lies! All lies!"
There is also new friction between majority Christians and Muslims, something that historically has been rare. Muslims, who make up about a tenth of Kenya's 40 million people, also complain of economic disadvantage in their coastal heartland compared to more prosperous central areas around the capital.
Ten percent? Yup, that's about the time people start seething...
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"These are not Muslims, these are hooligans. We are going to deal with these people ruthlessly. We are just applying force when it is necessary."
I kind of like this police commander Kitur.
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perhaps they need to bone up on the "decimating" definition
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Mombasa has always been a problem area when it comes to the muslim population. Then again, it's really no worse than going into areas like Compton, Lancaster (CA), South Boston, or Camden (NJ). It makes sense that Mombasa would be a source of jihadis - considering that most of the places I mentioned in the US are recruiting areas for gangs.
[TRUST.ORG] Cameroonian gendarme Gaitan Atouba was stunned when the Nigerian military opened fire on more than 100 Nigerian refugees under his protection, killing 15 and seriously wounding seven in the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n border town of Banki earlier this month.
Atouba and his fellow officers had been ordered to round up refugees in the town of Amchide in Cameroon's Far North region and hand them over to the Nigerian border authorities in Banki for questioning about their possible involvement with the rebel Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Around 8,300 Nigerians, fleeing both attacks by Boko Haram and the heavy-handed response of the security forces in northern Nigeria, have crossed into Cameroon's Far North since Nigerian President Jonathan Goodluck declared a state of emergency in June.
The Cameroon government believes Boko Haram members have infiltrated Cameroon posing as refugees, and are using it as a safe haven to launch attacks into Nigeria as part of their drive to establish an independent state based on sharia (Islamic law) in largely Musselmen northeast Nigeria. Hundreds have been killed in Boko Haram attacks and fighting between the group and Nigerian security forces in recent months.
"The refugees had already been warned that if they didn't relocate to the official refugee camp in Minawao, they would be treated as undocumented Democrats or combatants and handed over to the Nigerian authorities," said Atouba. "In our search, we found evidence that connected them to Boko Haram, so we had to kick them out of the country."
Shooting broke out when the Nigerians, under Cameroonian escort, reached the border on Oct. 5, Atouba said. "When we arrived in Banki, we heard gunshots. Nobody knew where they came from, but the refugees panicked and made a run for it. To my disbelief, the Nigerian military started firing to stop them getting away," Atouba told Thomson Rooters Foundation.
"There was no mercy, no respect for human life. Some was struck down in his prime. We recovered the maimed and drove them back to Cameroon where they could get treatment. I never imagined they would shoot to kill unarmed people. They might have been Boko Haram, we'll never know, but nobody deserves that," said Atouba, who declined to use his real name for security reasons.
The Banki shootings have drawn criticism from the U.N. refugee agency, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which in a press statement on Tuesday questioned the ethics of the Cameroonian security forces for sending people back into an area of known insecurity.
In a statement, the UNHCR said it had been alarmed by reports of the attempted forced return of 111 people from Cameroon to Nigeria. In light of the security situation in northeastern Nigeria, people fleeing are likely to meet the criteria for refugee status as outlined in the 1951 Refugee Convention, it said.
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[An Nahar] Dozens of Musselmens gathered Thursday outside a Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... church where an Islamist assault killed 44 worshipers and two priests three years ago, appealing for Christians to stay in Iraq.
Clergy led low-key prayers inside Our Lady of Salvation church in the capital's main commercial district of Karrada, on the anniversary of the October 31, 2010 attack.
There was a heavy security presence outside, and people were barred from entering unless they could produce documents showing they were Christian.
At the same time, journalists were not allowed to take photographs or film in the vicinity.
"It is a wound that will never heal, and a crime that I will never forget," said Rafid, a Christian man who was walking to the church.
"On this day, with all this pain, all I can think of is leaving the country, because the country is finished," said the 56-year-old carpenter, two of whose cousins were killed on that day.
The attack, the single bloodiest one against Christians since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, shocked Iraq and the international community and sparked a massive flight of Iraqi Christians from the country.
Another worshiper, a 37-year-old who gave his name as Abu Yaqub, or father of Yaqub, recalled the attack as a "terrifying day."
"Their only sin is that they were praying," the accountant said, referring to the victims.
"What had they done?" he continued. "How can we forget this day? We will never forget it. We will never forget it."
Outside the church, both Sunni and Shiite Iraqi Musselmens lit candles and held up banners appealing for their Christian countrymen to resist emigrating, and said they stood by the religious minority.
Abbas Hassan, a retired civil servant, said "the Christians are the people of Iraq, for thousands of years, and Christianity is one of the oldest religions in Iraq."
"We invite them not to leave Iraq, because all Iraqis share their pain."
Another retiree, 65-year-old Faruq Baban, said: "I ask them not to emigrate, to hold their ground, because they are the people of Iraq, the original citizens."
"It was an ugly crime that made me cry," he said of the attack, which was later claimed by an al-Qaeda front group. "I suffered because they are my brethren, my fellow countrymen."
Estimates of the number of Christians living in Iraq before 2003 vary from more than one million to around 1.5 million. But now they are estimated at fewer than 500,000.
One of the oldest Christian communities in the world is the Chaldean church, which has 700,000 followers worldwide and uses Aramaic, the language that Jesus Christ spoke.
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Where it's easier to kill you.
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Maybe in the dimmer recesses of their dim minds they have the sneaking feeling that Christians maybe have that little something extra that they don't have...and it might even be a good thing if they didn't have to think of ol' Mo (PBUH).
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Holding candles is the sort of thing the Piskies would do.
What these folks need to do is drop the dime on their friends and neighbors BEFORE--hope I was clear on that--something else happens.
BEFORE, guys.
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[Dawn] Pakistain on Thursday urged India to resume the composite dialogue for resolution of all outstanding issues including the lingering Kashmire dispute.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in his weekly briefing said, "Pakistain wants resolution of Kashmire dispute through dialogue."
"Pakistain believes that third- party mediation can also be productive in this regard," he added referring to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's plea to the US for playing its role as a mediator.
He said prime minister's advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz will visit India on November 10 to attend the Asia-Europe summit in New Delhi.
The front man said Pakistain was focusing on establishing ceasefire on Line of Control (LoC) and in this regard, certain steps have been taken including communication between the two Director General Military Operations through hotline and sectoral flag march.
He said Pakistain was committed in implementing decisions taken during the meeting of both prime ministers recently in New York.
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[Al Ahram] Algeria said Thursday it considers as "unjustified" a decision by Morocco to recall its ambassador in response to comments by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... about disputed Western Sahara.
"This is an unjustified decision, amounting to an unfortunate escalation based on spurious motives, and detrimental to the illusory sovereignty of Algeria," a foreign ministry front man said in a statement sent to AFP.
But despite its protest, Algiers said it would keep its diplomats in its North African neighbour, which on Wednesday branded comments by Bouteflika this week as "aggressive" and "provocative."
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[An Nahar] Israeli warplanes have struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting missiles that might have been destined for Hizbullah, CNN quoted an B.O. regime official as saying on Thursday.
An kaboom at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the Israeli government.
The target, according to the B.O. regime official, was "missiles and related equipment the Israelis felt might be transferred to Hizbullah."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... The News Agency that Dare Not be Named also quoted U.S. officials as saying that Israeli warplanes attacked a military target inside Syria.
An B.O. regime official confirmed the attack happened overnight Thursday but provided no details. I can say no more!
Another security official said that the attack occurred in the port city of Latakia and that the target was Russian-made SA-125 missiles.
Another U.S. official confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse that "there was an Israeli strike" but gave no detail on the location or the target.
"Historically targets have been missiles transferred to Hizbullah," the official said.
Israeli government officials contacted by AFP refused to comment on the reports.
Leb's MTV quoted unnamed sources in Jerusalem as saying that Turkey was behind the Latakia attack, in Dire RevengeĀ for the recent shooting down of a Turkish plane in the same area.
Earlier on Thursday, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television quoted unnamed sources as saying that two Israeli Arclight airstrikes had targeted Damascus and Latakia on Wednesday evening.
The raids totally destroyed shipments of SA-8 surface-to-air missiles destined for Hizbullah, the sources said.
Al-Arabiya also quoted sources from both the Syrian opposition and regime as saying that a Latakia air defense base was targeted Wednesday night by a rocket fired from the Mediterranean Sea. Israel's Channel 2 said a missile fired from a warship targeted a Russian S-125 missile system that has recently arrived at the Latakia military base.
Also on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a series of kabooms struck an air base in Latakia, a regime stronghold.
"Several kabooms were heard in an air defense base in the Snubar Jableh area" on Wednesday, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said the cause of the kabooms is "unclear" and that no casualties have been reported.
A Syrian security source meanwhile told Agence La Belle France Presse that "a rocket fell near the base, causing a fire to break out."
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Israeli Warplanes Strike alleged Missiles it was actually a kindrgarten Allegedly Destined for Hizbullah
[An Nahar] Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Fierce festivities are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of Sfeira, amid a loyalist advance on the town, as troops take control of a new area," said the Britannia-based Observatory.
Battles have raged in the Sfeira area near second-city Aleppo for several months. The area is important because of the arms factories and because it is located on a key route linking Aleppo to central Syria.
Sfeira has been under rebel control for a year, but the factories have remained in army hands.
The army advance opens up the loyalists' entry to Aleppo city, which has seen intense fighting since a massive rebel advance on July 20, 2012. Some parts of the city are already controlled by the regime while others are in rebel hands.
Elsewhere, several mortar shells launched by rebels hit Jaramana, a majority Christian-Druze suburb of Damascus, said the Observatory.
The attack killed two women and maimed several other people, the group added.
The Britannia-based Observatory, which relies on local activists and other witnesses, reported a series of kabooms Wednesday at an air base in the western Latakia province, a regime stronghold.
"Several kabooms were heard in an air defense base in the Snubar Jableh area" on Wednesday, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said the cause of the kabooms is "unclear" and that no casualties have been reported.
A Syrian security source meanwhile told Agence La Belle France Presse that "a rocket fell near the base, causing a fire to break out."
Latakia is a stronghold of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's regime, and is home to a large number of Alawites, who belong to the same minority Shiite sect as the country's embattled ruler.
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[Al Ahram] Some 20 women supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund have been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in festivities with residents of one of the most populous areas in Alexandria, Al-Ahram Arabic website has reported.
Clashes started Thursday when dozens of protesters allegedly blocked a main road in the coastal city and started damaging shop facades, prompting violent encounters with shop owners. The two groups hurled stones at each other. The severity and number of injuries is still not confirmed.
Moslem Brüderbund supporters have been staging near daily protests calling for the reinstatement of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... who was deposed by the military 3 July amid mass protests against his rule.
Pro-Morsi protests chanting against the military have often resulted in festivities with security forces and local residents with anti-Brotherhood sentiments.
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See what happens when you convert England Air Force Base to civilian applications...
Not THAT Alexandria? Never mind...
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... threatened Thursday to cut off 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... supplies moving through Pakistain if the US launches any drone strikes during the talks.
The party of the cricket legend-turned-politician has been an outspoken critic of the US drone policy. His party controls the provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) province in northern Pakistain, one of two routes supplies move in and out of Afghanistan.
Speaking at a news conference in the eastern city of Lahore, Khan said his party had the capability to stop the NATO supplies and warned that his words must not be taken lightly.
The Pak Taliban has similar viewpoints and loyalties as the Afghan Taliban but a separate structure with separate leadership.
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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.
The chief of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday, security sources and a senior Taliban commander said, in a major blow to the country's most feared militant group.
It will feature the "U.S. Marine Band; 'President Lincoln's Own Band' from the movie, Lincoln; Governor Tom Corbett; a reading of the Gettysburg Address by Lincoln portrayer James Getty; and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will administer the Oath of Allegiance to sixteen new citizens." Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will represent the administration in Obama's stead. 
Nouri al-Maliki
Nawaz Sharif
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
Joe 
[TRIBUNE.NG] TROOPS of the 7 division Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, has continued to carry out attacks on the 
Wazoo
[Dawn] Providing no other details about who was taking part or what would be discussed, Prime Minister 
Pervez 
A Kenyan police crackdown on Islamists is fuelling Muslim resentment and moderate preachers say it undermines their efforts to counter recruiting by al Qaeda militants with links across the border in Somalia.
Bouteflika
[An Nahar] Israeli warplanes have struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting missiles that might have been destined for Hizbullah, CNN quoted an 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
