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Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now I know what they mean by a romp in the hay.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/29/2012 17:07 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/29/2012 18:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
NATO says al-Qaeda No 2 in Afghanistan killed
NATO says al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Afghanistan has been killed in an air raid near the Pakistani border.

The US-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, or ISAF, said on Tuesday that Saudi-born Sakhr al-Aifi, also known as Musthaq and Nasim, commanded foreign fighters and directed attacks on NATO and Afghan troops.

It described him as al-Qaeda's "second highest leader in Afghanistan", saying he frequently travelled between Afghanistan and Pakistan, "carrying out commands from senior al-Qaeda leadership".

He also supplied weapons and equipment to insurgents, and managed the transport of anti-government fighters into Afghanistan, the military said.

NATO said he was killed in an air raid on Sunday with "one additional al-Qaeda terrorist in Watahpur district, Kunar province" which borders Pakistan.

This article starring:
Sakhr al-Aifi
Posted by: tipper || 05/29/2012 05:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if all the drone-zaps in adjacent Pakistan this past week made Sakhr move to A'stan to try to get a good night's sleep. Sleep well...
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/29/2012 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Tolo News adds:

A senior Al Qaeda leader was killed in a joint Afghan and Nato troops operation in eastern Kunar province, Isaf said on Tuesday.

After positively identifying Sakhr al-Taifi and one additional Al Qaeda terrorist, and ensuring no civilians were in the area, the security force engaged the targets with a precision airstrike.

No civilian property was damaged and no civilians were harmed, Isaf said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/29/2012 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Another Saudi bites the dust.The amount of insurgents killed in Iraq must outnumber any other foreign nationality.What do they teach over there in their Mosques/schools?

Egypt and Pakistan have similar problems as they look up to the Saudis.

Posted by: Fester Clunter7205 || 05/29/2012 17:23 Comments || Top||

#4  With the "Horn" on his forehead?
Posted by: Recneck Jim || 05/29/2012 21:26 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe the prayer bump is an Egyptian specialty, Redneck Jim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/29/2012 23:25 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Blast rocks Kenyan capital, more than 30 hurt
[Emirates 24/7] An kaboom tore through a shopping complex in Nairobi's business district during Monday's lunch hour, wounding more than 30 people, an d police said they were investigating whether it was a kaboom.

Police front man Eric Kiraithe said anti-terrorism police were combing the blast site in the city centre for clues, appearing to row back on an earlier suggestion by the police commissioner that a massive electrical fault might be to blame.

More than ten people have been killed in a string of attacks in Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to fight al Qaeda-linked krazed killers.

Nairobi has blamed the al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
krazed killers, who merged with al Qaeda earlier this year, for the surge in violence and kidnappings that has threatened tourism in east Africa's biggest economy and wider regional destabilisation.

"The investigating team is exploring the possibility that the blast was caused by criminals using an improvised bomb," Kiraithe said in a statement.

Two shopkeepers told Rooters independently that they saw a man drop a bag inside the trading centre moments before the blast.

"He came into the shop twice, looking at T-shirts. He said he didn't have money so he left. Then he came back," said Irene Wachira. "(He was) three shops away from where I was. He left a bag and a few moments later we had an kaboom. The roof caved in and debris started falling on us," Wachira said.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Kenyans would not be cowed by "terrorists".

A front man for Kenya Power, the country's sole electricity distributor, said initial investigations had ruled out any electrical malfunction.

Dense black smoke initially billowed through the building's collapsed roof and sirens blared as emergency service crews rushed to Moi Avenue, a major road running through the city.

A military helicopter hovered in the skies above downtown Nairobi and the security forces cordoned off nearby streets.

"WASTING LIFE"

Medics applied bandages to the walking maimed, many of whom had been caught by flying glass, while some bystanders wailed in shock. Clothing, shoes and blown out windows littered the road.

Crowds carried away people seen with blood streaming down their faces. The police said 33 people had been maimed.

In the days after Kenya deployed soldiers across the border, al-Shabaab warned Nairobi to withdraw from its southern strongholds or risk bringing the "flames of war" into Kenya.

In April, the U.S. embassy in Kenya warned of a possible strike on Nairobi's hotels and key government buildings, which it said was in the last stages of planning.

The recent attacks, however, have tended to target low profile institutions, such as bars and nightclubs, where security is typically relatively light.

"Maybe it is these al Qaeda people. They are wasting life for nothing. Just innocent people going about their business," said Wilfred Kimani who was several blocks away from the blast.

Outside Nairobi's Jamia mosque, one Somali refugee who identified herself as Aisha said she feared a backlash if al-Shabaab or its sympathisers were behind the kaboom.
"It's bad because Kenyans may get angrier now."

There have also been several attacks near the border with Somalia since Kenya's military incursion. At least five people were killed in two separate attacks in the remote region on Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  This African brand of jihad is very distressing to me. The shear brutality of their behavior, they make the Taliban appear tame.

If these guys get any traction and export their brand of violence we are all in trouble.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/29/2012 10:41 Comments || Top||


Sudan bombs South Sudan on eve of peace talks: South
[Al Ahram] South Sudan said Monday Sudanese war planes and artillery had bombarded its territory on the eve of peace talks, as Southern officials set set off to attend African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
-led negotiations in Æthiopia. "They are bombing South Sudan, attacking South Sudan, and continuing to send gangs to destablise South Sudan... these are not the signs of peace," South Sudan's top negotiator Pagan Amum told news hounds.
A common enough judgement in certain circles...
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Punties storm suspected pirate base
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police in Somalia's northern Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
region have placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
several suspected pirates, including a heavily armed gang accused of holding a Danish family hostage last year, officials said.

Troops from semi-autonomous Puntland attacked the northeastern pirate base of Hafun on Sunday, arresting 11 men including suspected pirate Mohamed Hassan -- known as Dhafoor -- and seizing automatic rifles and a machine gun.

"Dhafoor... is a well-known pirate wanted by Puntland authorities for hijacking commercial vessels travelling the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden waterways," Puntland's security forces said in a statement.

The authorities accuse Dhafoor of killing five Puntland security officers during a botched March 2011 operation to release a Danish family he was reportedly holding hostage.

Pirates captured the seven Danes -- a family including three teenage children, plus two crew members -- in February 2011 during a round-the-world voyage. They were released in September after the reported payment of a multi-million dollar ransom.
Think of the essays the children will be able to write for their college applications, and the equanimity with which they'll be able to face the little exingencies if daily life back home after spending more than half a year wondering each morning whether they would still be alive and unharmed by sunset, just because Mama and Papa wanted a unique family adventure.
Piracy has flourished off war-torn Somalia, outwitting international efforts to stamp out the scourge, including patrols by warships and tough sentencing of captured pirates.

The pirates are holding dozens of ships and hundreds of sailors for ransom, and have also branched out into land-based kidnapping.

Mr Ahmed Omar Issa, the front man of Puntland said "The suspects are assumed to be pirates with a record of attacking Puntland forces."

The front man told the media that some of the captured persons are infamous with past engagements in kidnappings and assaults on Puntland security personnel.

"The seized pirates include some of those involved in the kidnapping of a Danish family (that was recently released)," stated Mr Issa.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Blast rocks Kenyan capital, at least 28 hurt
NAIROBI: A blast struck a shopping complex in Nairobi’s business district during Monday’s lunch hour, wounding more than two dozen people, but there was confusion over whether the explosion was caused by a bomb or electrical fault.

Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere told reporters it was too early to determine the cause of the blast. He said blackened wires inside the trading center indicated a possible electrical fault and ruled out a grenade attack.

Two shopkeepers, however, told Reuters independently that they saw a man drop a bag inside the trading center moments before the blast.

“He came into the shop twice, looking at t-shirts. He said he didn’t have money so he left. Then he came back,” said Irene Wachira. “(He was) three shops away from where I was. He left a bag and a few moments later we had an explosion. The roof caved in and debris started falling on us,” Wachira said.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Kenyans would not be cowed by “terrorists.”

A spokesman for Kenya Power, the country’s sole electricity distributor, said initial investigations had ruled out any electrical malfunction.

A military helicopter hovered in the skies above downtown Nairobi and the security forces cordoned off nearby streets.

Dense black smoke billowed from a fire inside the badly damaged building and sirens blared as emergency service crews rushed to Moi Avenue, a major road running through the city center.

Medics applied bandages to the walking wounded gathered by nearby buildings and some bystanders wailed in shock. Clothing, shoes and blown out windows littered the road. Crowds carried away people seen with blood streaming down their faces. Iteere said 28 people had been wounded.

“Maybe it is these Al-Qaeda people. They are wasting life for nothing. Just innocent people going about their business,” said Wilfred Kimani who was several blocks away when the blast occurred.

Outside Nairobi’s Jamia mosque, one Somali refugee who identified herself as Aisha said she feared a backlash if Al-Shabab or its sympathisers were behind the explosion. “It’s bad because Kenyans may get angrier now.”
Posted by: Steve White || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


African Union troops secure Somali aid corridor
[Emirates 24/7] African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
and Somali government troops secured an aid corridor between Mogadishu and a former rebel stronghold close to the capital, the AU said, wresting control of a strip of land believed to hold around 400,000 people displaced by conflict.

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali forces seized the town of Afgoye from the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
hard boyz on Friday.

The joint operation then took control of Elasha Biyaha, the last remaining al-Shabaab stronghold in the 30 km (20 mile) corridor, making the area safe for aid groups to operate in, AMISOM said late on Sunday.

The rebels had used Afgoye as a strategic base to stage sporadic attacks on the Somali capital.

The corridor northwest of Mogadishu is believed to hold 400,000 internally displaced people, the largest such concentration in the world, with some access to aid.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday about 6,200 people had been displaced by the fighting in Afgoye.

"The week-long operation... has enabled a free flow of civilian traffic between Afgoye and Mogadishu, and provided the opportunity for humanitarian agencies to access the area," AMISOM said.

"Previously, al-Shabaab had prevented aid groups from delivering assistance to the people in the corridor."

The rebel group has waged a bloody five-year campaign to topple Somalia's Western-backed government and impose its harsh interpretation of Islamic law (sharia).

It continues to hold swathes of central and southern Somalia but is being squeezed out of some areas by Kenyan and Æthiopian troops, which have launched incursions inside Somalia in support of the beleaguered government.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Puntland police arrest 11 pirates
NAIROBI: Police in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland arrested 11 pirates and recovered rifles, a heavy machine gun and a truck, the region's authorities said.

"On Sunday morning ... PMPF (Puntland Maritime Police Force) captured 11 pirates in a security operation in Hafun District," Puntland's Security Ministry said in a statement.

"The pirates arrested ... include Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed Hassan (Dhafoor), who is a well-known pirate wanted by Puntland authorities for hijacking commercial vessels traveling the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden waterways."

The ministry said the police also recovered a Toyota truck, seven AK-47 assault rifles and one heavy machine gun.

The statement said Hassan was part of a gang that killed five members of Puntland's security forces during an operation to rescue a kidnapped Danish family last year.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Shoot Dead 4 Christian Traders in Nigeria
[An Nahar] Gunmen on a cycle of violence rubbed out four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group in northeastern Nigeria on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks.

Islamist group 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...
has carried out scores of shootings and kabooms in northern Nigeria, but it was not immediately clear who was behind Monday's killings in the city of Yola, the capital of Adamawa state.

Police could not be reached for comment.

"Two men riding a cycle of violence came by some shops owned by Igbo traders," one resident said.

"They rubbed out the four men chatting outside their closed shops around 3:30 pm. Igbos in the city had refused to open their shops in protest over the killing of a bartender in a beer parlor last night by some gunnies."
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
Electricity Minister: Saleh is behind attacks against power
[Yemen Post] Minister of Electricity Saleh Sumaia has strongly slammed the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, accusing him of leading a gang that attacks power lines linking between the capital Sana' and Marib governorate.

In a speech delivered in a Yemeni university on Monday, he affirmed that Saleh heads five persons who rotate to attack power towers in Marib, asserting that all the attackers of power were identified and that Saleh is their leader.

He said that the Electricity Ministry lost about YR 30 billion as a result of repeated attacks against power lines.

The Yemeni capital has been living in darkness for two days due to the halt of the Marib gas-operated station that was subjected frequent sabotage acts only in the past two days.

Many of Yemeni politicians and analysts accuse supporters of the former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh of targeting power lines in order to hamper the interim government.

BBC correspondent in Yemen once said attacks against power lines were carried out by gunnies affiliated to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

According to government statistics, power lines in were subjected to more than 170 attacks since the outbreak of pro-democracy protests in February 2011.

The Saudi Development Fund is to grant the Yemeni government SR 270 million for the electricity and energy fields under agreement that was singed in Riyadh on May 24.

The grant aims at reducing the sharp shortage of power and improve power services in Yemen.

Electricity crisis had led to the paralysis of factories, laboratories, workshops and many service sectors, pushing further Yemenis to unemployment.

Minister of Electricity Saleh Sumaia has strongly slammed the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, accusing him of leading a gang that attacks power lines linking between the capital Sana' and Marib governorate.

In a speech delivered in a Yemeni university on Monday, he affirmed that Saleh heads five persons who rotate to attack power towers in Marib, asserting that all the attackers of power were identified and that Saleh is their leader.

He said that the Electricity Ministry lost about YR 30 billion as a result of repeated attacks against power lines.

The Yemeni capital has been living in darkness for two days due to the halt of the Marib gas-operated station that was subjected frequent sabotage acts only in the past two days.

Many of Yemeni politicians and analysts accuse supporters of the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of targeting power lines in order to hamper the interim government.

BBC correspondent in Yemen once said attacks against power lines were carried out by gunnies affiliated to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

According to government statistics, power lines in were subjected to more than 170 attacks since the outbreak of pro-democracy protests in February 2011.

The Saudi Development Fund is to grant the Yemeni government SR 270 million for the electricity and energy fields under agreement that was singed in Riyadh on May 24.

The grant aims at reducing the sharp shortage of power and improve power services in Yemen.

Electricity crisis had led to the paralysis of factories, laboratories, workshops and many service sectors, pushing further Yemenis to unemployment.

Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Al-Qaida Leaders Escape Yemen Airstrike
[Yemen Post] Senior Al-Qaeda leaders, two, escaped an Arclight airstrike which killed three Death Eaters in Yemen on Monday, News Yemen reported, quoting local sources.
Congrats on being next to the spot instead of on it, guys. For some reason Allah wants you to know you're being hunted -- enjoy!
Nabil Al-Dhahab and Qaed Al-Dhahab, the leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Rada city in Baidha province, were targeted this afternoon while driving a car in the Masanih area, the website reported.

"They escaped the Arclight airstrike which killed three Al-Qaeda krazed killers," the sources said, according to the website.

Earlier this year, Al-Qaeda seized Rada and other parts in Baidha, but left the areas after the government met their demands including the release of Death Eaters from state prisons.

Leader of Al-Qaeda in this province was killed in family festivities after this development.

Monday's Arclight airstrike coincided with ongoing battles on Al-Qaeda in the southern Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, where hundreds of Death Eaters have been killed and injured including big shots in the past two months.

With direct support from the US and tribal fighters, the forces have recently stepped up the offensive against the Death Eaters to retake key towns including Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan, which were seized last year.

They have so far regained control of some areas and are now surrounding the most notorious strongholds of the krazed killers: Zinjibar and Jaar.

More recently, President Hadi ordered to further intensify the war on the Death Eaters to retake the two cities and so far the forces retook key krazed killer positions on their outskirts.

Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


U.S. Drone Strike, Attacks Kill 17 Qaida Fighters in Yemen
[An Nahar] Air raids, including by U.S. drones, and festivities in Yemen have killed at least 17 al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti and a civilian, officials and rustics said on Monday.
Hurrah! Well done, guys!
Five Islamic fascisti of al-Qaeda were killed when they were hit by a U.S. drone on Monday, a tribal source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"A U.S. drone struck a convoy carrying al-Qaeda's leader in Bayda province, Qaed al-Dahab," the tribal source said on condition of anonymity, adding that "Dahab survived but five of his guards were killed."

The strike hit the Islamic fascisti as they were travelling in the area of Manaseh, east of the city of Radaa in central Yemen, he said.

Seven other krazed killers, including the local military chief in Hadramawt, Saleh Abdul Khaleq, were killed in an air raid conducted by Yemeni warplanes in the eastern province, a security official said.

The raid struck the group as they met in a "deserted coastal area" some 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of the city of Mukalla, the official told Agence La Belle France Presse.

Western diplomats say that U.S. experts are assisting the Yemeni army in their battle to destroy al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, considered by Washington to be the network's deadliest and most active branch.

In an interview with ABC television's "This Week," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
defended the use of drones as "the most precise weapons we have" in the campaign against the krazed killer group.

His comments marked the first time the U.S. formally acknowledges the use of unmanned drones against al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen.

Five other al-Qaeda gunnies and a civilian were killed in overnight festivities as Yemeni troops inched closer to capturing the city of Jaar, a bastion of the krazed killer group in war-torn southern province of Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
, a military official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said a "mid-level commander" of the krazed killer group, Abdul Rahman al-Musallami, was one of the five al-Qaeda operatives killed in the festivities.

A local official in Jaar confirmed this toll and said the bodies of the five Islamic fascisti were taken to the city for burial.

The military official said that Yemeni troops had advanced towards Jaar and were surrounding the city from three sides.

Yemeni troops advanced to "about three kilometers of Jaar," and have "surrounded the city from the north, the east and the west," he said.

He said the overnight assault on al-Qaeda positions in and around Jaar involved both ground troops and Yemeni air force. "We are tightening the noose around al-Qaeda," he added.

The army also made strides in their advances on Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan that fell to the Islamic fascisti in May 2011, he said, but gave no further details.

Yemeni forces launched an all-out offensive on May 12 this year to capture al-Qaeda controlled areas in Abyan.

Since the offensive began, at least 338 people have been killed, according to a tally compiled by AFP, including 247 al-Qaeda gunnies, 55 military personnel, 18 local snuffies and 18 civilians.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Bangladesh
Nizami, Mollah indicted
[Bangla Daily Star] 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...
Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami
...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
and its Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah have been indicted separately for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War. The two international crimes tribunals that had been formed to deal with such crimes framed 16 specific charges against Nizami and six against Mollah yesterday. Trial against Nizami will start at Tribunal-1 on July 1 while trial against Mollah will begin at tribunal-2 on June 20. Both Jamaat leaders, however, pleaded not guilty.
"Wudn't me."
If the charges against them are proved, the duo could face death sentence, the maximum punishment for such crimes.
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Britain
Abu Qatada loses British bail request
LONDON: A radical preacher accused of giving spiritual inspiration to one of the 9/11 hijackers on Monday lost a bid to be freed from the British prison where he is being held ahead of moves to deport him to Jordan to face terrorism charges.

The decision to refuse Abu Qatada bail at a special court will come as a relief to the British government which has been trying to expel the Jordanian cleric for a over decade. The judge also said he would not be able to rule on the legality of Qatada's deportation until November, following a two-week hearing starting on Oct. 8.
Excellent. He's jugged for the Olympics!
He said he accepted concerns from Britain's security services, detailed at the hearing, that Qatada might abscond if freed and damage their ability and that of the police to protect the public when their resources were in high demand during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games in London this summer.

"If the appellant were to abscond then either their resources would be diverted, or finding him would be allocated a lower priority than should be the case," the judge, Mr.Justice Mitting said.

Last month the preacher, who was not present at the hearing, embarrassed the government by seeking a last-minute delay to deportation proceedings with an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, nearly 24 hours after Britain said the deadline for such a legal recourse had passed. Even though the appeal was subsequently rejected, the confusion allowed opposition politicians to accuse interior minister Theresa May of incompetence and mock her for apparently not knowing what day it was in the week.

Britain rearrested Qatada in April, hoping it had removed legal obstacles to his deportation and could remove him before the Olympics in July.

The prospect of a swift removal has now receded, and May will have to convince the October hearing that she has overcome a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Qatada could not be deported as he would not receive a fair trial in Jordan. The Strasbourg court said in January there was a risk that Jordan would use evidence obtained by torture against Qatada, and that without assurances to the contrary his deportation would be a "flagrant denial of justice."

Britain now says a 2005 deal with Jordan and more recent diplomatic reassurances will ensure that Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as "Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe," will receive a fair trial.

Qatada's lawyers had sought his release on bail, arguing that the proceedings to send him back to Jordan would be lengthy and that it was wrong to keep him in prison during that process after already spending six years in detention without charge.
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Bad guys attack cop shop in Jalisco state

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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

As many as 40 armed suspects attacked the facade of the police station and city hall in San Cristobal de la Barranca municipality in extreme northern Jalisco state Sunday morning, according to Mexican news reports.

A report on the website of El Sol de Zacatecas news daily said that the suspects arrived aboard ten pickup trucks at about 0600 hrs, dismounted and then proceeded to fire on the police station. The firing last five minutes.

The suspects then left on board their vehicles in the direction of the nearby village of La Lobera. The attack left no one hurt. About 500 spent shell casing from AR-15 and AK-47 rifles were found at the scene.

San Cristobal de la Barranca is on the mountain highway Mexico Federal Highway 23 which connects Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state in the south with Teul de Gonzalez Ortega in Zacatecas state in the north.

The area since at least 2011 has been a scene of an intense and deadly competition between Los Zetas on one side and La Valencia Drug Cartel and Carteles Unidos, both of which are aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel.

That competition has led to large scale armed encounters between the groups, the bloodiest of which was an unconfirmed gunfight in San Cristobal de la Barranca municipality, which led to as many as 20 dead a year ago.

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India-Pakistan
Muttahida man among three killed in Lyari
[Dawn] Three people, including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
, who had gone missing over a couple of days back, were found rubbed out in Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
and its neighbouring areas on Sunday, police said.

A young resident of the Napier Road area kidnapped on his way to a friend's home was found rubbed out in Memon Society early Sunday morning, said the police.

The Kalri SHO said Shahid, 28, son of Zakariya, was kidnapped somewhere between Lea Market and Kharadar on Saturday.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
(CHK), where the victim was identified.

The police quoted hospital sources as saying that the body bore torture marks and a gunshot wound.

The victim was an active worker of MQM Lyari sector's unit 29, said Mithadar SDPO Zafar Ali Shah.

He added the victim had a decoration shop in the Napier Road area.

The Kharadar police later registered an FIR (183/2012) against unidentified suspects on a complaint of the victim's father.

The police described the murder as a assassination.

Following the killing, tension spread in the areas of Napier Road and Kharadar amid suspension of commercial activities.

Man found rubbed out

The partially decomposed body of a young man believed to have been killed two days back was found in the Lyari river near the Love Lane Bridge within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe, police said.

They added that 30-year-old Mohammad Bilal Mengal, son of Mohammad Khan Mengal, had gone missing two days back.

A resident of Al Fareed street, Garden West, Bilal was not associated with any political party, said the police quoting the victim's family as saying.

Pak Colony SHO Abdul Moid said the victim had sustained a gunshot wound to his head. The body was shifted to the CHK for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to his family.

The police suspected that gangsters in Lyari might have killed the victim.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
a case had not been lodged at the cop shoppe till late in the evening.

Body found

Another young man was rubbed out within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe, police said.

Twenty-five-year-old Nasir, son of Hayat, was kidnapped close to his residence in Nishtar Basti, old Sabzi Mandi, the police said.

They added that the victim, an MSc student, was rubbed out before his body was dumped in Jahanabad, old Golimar.

The police said Nasir was not associated with any political party. They described personal enmity as a possible motive for the killing.

The victim hailed from Kalat, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, they added.

The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities.

No case had been registered till late Sunday evening.
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Children among 10 injured by stray shells in Bara
[Dawn] At least 10 people, including five children and a woman, were maimed when stray artillery shells fell in three different localities of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Sunday, while myrmidons blew up a high voltage power transmission line in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
disrupting electricity to the entire region.

Sources said that an artillery shell hit a house in Swati Maqbara locality of Shalobar area early in the morning, which resulted in critical injuries to wife of one Aqal Khan, while three of his children suffered minor wounds. The injured were later taken to a hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.

In the second incident which took place in Arjali Nadi area of Shalobar, father and uncle of one Gul Wali, principal of a private school, were maimed when an a stray shell hit their house.

They said that a third mortar shell fell on the house of late Maj (retired) Noorullah in Jansi camp area of Sipah, which left two minor children and a woman maimed. Relation of the injured with the late officer could not be ascertained.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
Bara Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee expressed its serious concern over the indiscriminate artillery firing by security forces in Shalobar, Sipah and Malikdinkhel areas.

Turab Ali, a KKC office-bearer, told Dawn by phone that residents were facing a lot of difficulties in shifting their injured to hospitals due to closure of roads linking Bara with Peshawar, as security forces had also imposed curfew in most of these areas. Security forces had a few days ago sealed the Sam Baba-Qambarkhel road, thus causing hardships to residents of Shalobar, Malikdinkhel and Sipah areas.

The road closure has also caused food shortage, as forces were not allowing supplies to enter these areas where a military operation was in progress.

Mr Ali said that power supply to the areas also remained disconnected from last one week, which had been resulting in acute shortage of drinking water.

The KKC has appealed to the political administration and security officials to take utmost care to avoid civilian casualties in Bara and ease curfew restrictions in Shalobar and Sipah areas to enable people to shift to safer places.

Our correspondent reported from Khar that unidentified myrmidons blew up a high power transmission line in Yusufabad area of Bajaur Agency on the night between Saturday and Sunday, disrupting electricity supply to the entire region.

Officials said that a group of gunnies had planted explosives to the tower of 66 KV high transmission line near Yusufabad and blew it up.

The tower was situated close to a levies checkpost.

Residents said that electricity was instantly suspended in the whole agency. Soon after the blast heavy firing was heard from the levies post, but the myrmidons escaped, a resident Naik Amal Khan told Dawn.

When contacted, an official of Tribal Electric Supply Company said that the transmission line was completely damaged and power supply to Bajaur Agency would remain suspended for next two days.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami


Two policemen killed, one hurt in Quetta firing
[Dawn] At least two coppers were killed and another sustained injuries when gunnies ambushed them here in the Wali Jaith area of the city on Monday.

Police officials said that unknown gunnies riding bike opened indiscriminate fire at a police van in the precincts of New Sariab cop shoppe, killing an officer on the spot and leaving two others critically injured.

Later, police officer ASI Abdul Qayum died while he was being transported to the hospital. The condition of the other injured coppers was also stated to be critical.
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US drone attacks kill nine militants in North Waziristan on Monday
[Dawn] Two separate US drone attacks killed at least nine cut-throats in Pakistain's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border Monday, security officials said.

Both attacks took place near Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town of North Wazoo, a known stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda linked thugs.

The first, in the early hours of the morning, targeted a thug compound in Hassokhel town, 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Miranshah, killing at least five thugs, security officials said.

The second attack targeted a thug vehicle in Datta Khel district, 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of Miranshah, killing four thugs, a security official told AFP.

"The drone fired two missiles on a vehicle. The vehicle caught fire and the bodies of the people inside were badly burnt," he said.

Two military officials confirmed the casualties.

There have now been five such attacks in the area since Thursday, in an apparent surge in covert strikes following a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
leaders' conference on Afghanistan in Chicago last week.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Western Nations Expel Syrian Diplomats
[Wall Street Journal] Syria's international isolation deepened Tuesday as several Western countries said they were expelling Syrian diplomats, in a coordinated response to the killing of 108 civilians last week in a single attack.

The U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, La Belle France, Germany and some other European countries announced Tuesday they were kicking out senior Syrian senior envoys. The U.S., which had already downgraded diplomatic relations earlier this year, said Tuesday that Syrian chargé d'affaires Zuheir Jabbour has been given 72 hours to leave following the tank and artillery attack on the village of Houla.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 14:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  North Korea Embassy / Cuba / Human Foot Sent To Tory National Party Official ! Seemingly Looks As Old Cadaver Bod ! Most Likely Sent By Reject Disgruntled Recently Fired Or Reprimanded Govt. Canada Official Or Medical Student : Dismissed From : Permanent Accademia or Gov. Job ! Either Someone Posed As Relative Of Deadened Person Bod Used For Medical Cadaver School : Purpose - EXCULSIVELY ! Or Reject From Potters Fields ! : By Someone Identified As Loved One ! Or Homeless Bod : Also !
Posted by: Hello , Interpol || 05/29/2012 18:40 Comments || Top||

#2  #1: Huh?
Posted by: Barbara || 05/29/2012 20:04 Comments || Top||


Free Syria Official: Hezbollah, Iran and Tater Helping Assad
"... Assad is receiving increased assistance from Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon and from Iraqi fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. In addition to the advisors the Iranian Quds Force has sent, they also sent technological assistance, says the opposition leader."

The anonymous official also reports that many Syrian Pro Assad troops have been killed by other Syrian Pro Assad Troops.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I dont know who would be worse to be in charge of Syria, the Iranian funded intolerant shiites or the Saudi funded intolerant Sunnis?
Posted by: Fester Clunter7205 || 05/29/2012 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg3FGULhBUE&list=FLb25-K-Yxb8ZH2sHF8IjaOw&index=1&feature=plpp_video
Posted by: Glinesh Craling7938 || 05/29/2012 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Seriously now guys,

Is this a surprise?

Come on now, we should have known.

Syria is Teheran West and Assad has cozied up to every nutjob terrorist group in the ME. He makes Saddam look small time in his support of all things terrorist and anti-US/Anti-Israel
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/29/2012 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  It is surprising, Bill, with regard to Iran since they're struggling for cash.

But with Sadr involved I suppose the bulk of the money is actually coming from Iraq.
Posted by: American Delight || 05/29/2012 17:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Hmmm, if the money is coming from Iraq, it is turn about fair play, after all of the grief Syria caused Iraq during the CPA days....

I suppose somewhere Maliki is cackling over the turn of events.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/29/2012 18:03 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Fat Bob Unotch3711 || 05/29/2012 22:30 Comments || Top||


Hezbollah deplores Houla massacre in Syria
[Al Ahram] Without assigning a blame for the killings of at least 109 civilians in Houla in central Syria, a statement by Hezbollah said it "strongly condemns the massacre and deplores those who carried it out". The Shi'ite guerrilla group, which the Syrian opposition accuses of backing Assad's military crackdown on the-14 month uprising, along with its patron Iran, is seeking the release of a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped last week by an armed Sunni Mohammedan group in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Well, as long as you're deploring it, how about proving it by not helping Pencilneck anymore?
Posted by: gorb || 05/29/2012 0:41 Comments || Top||


UNSC condemns Syria over killing
[Emirates 24/7] The UN Security Council on Sunday unanimously condemned the killing of at least 108 people, including many children, in the Syrian town of Houla, a sign of mounting outrage at the massacre that the government and rebels blamed on each other.

Images of bloodied and lifeless young bodies, laid carefully side by side after the onslaught on Friday, triggered shock around the world and underlined the failure of a six-week-old UN ceasefire plan to stop the violence.

Western and Arab states opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
put the blame for the deaths squarely on the government. But Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
rejected the charge.

"The Security Council condemned in the strongest possible terms the killings, confirmed by United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
observers, of dozens of men, women and kiddies and the wounding of hundreds more in the village of (Houla), near Homs, in attacks that involved a series of government artillery and tank shellings on a residential neighbourhood," the non-binding statement said.

"Such outrageous use of force against civilian population constitutes a violation of applicable international law and of the commitments of the Syrian Government under United Nations Security Council Resolutions," the statement said.

The United Nations believes that at least 108 people were killed in Houla, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said.

Russia, which along with China has vetoed two Security Council resolutions calling for tougher action against Damascus, said the "tragic" events in Syria deserve condemnation and called for a UN assessment of the violence there.

Russian Deputy UN Ambassador Alexander Pankin said the circumstances surrounding the massacre were "murky" and rejected the idea that the evidence clearly showed Damascus was guilty.

The head of the UN observer force, General Robert Mood, briefed the council by video link. Pankin said Mood "did not link directly the (army's) shelling with numbers of deaths."

UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
sent the council a letter that appeared to give ammunition to both sides.

He said the observers "viewed the bodies of the dead and confirmed from an examination of ordnance that artillery and tank shells were fired at a residential neighbourhood." The rebels do not have artillery and tanks.

But Ban also said UN monitors observed shotgun wounds on some of the bodies, which could indicate close-range attacks by rebels, as Pankin suggested, or could be the result of follow-up attacks by the army after it stopped shelling.

"While the detailed circumstances are unknown, we can confirm that there has been artillery and mortar shelling," Ban said. "There have also been other forms of violence, including shootings at close range and severe physical abuse."

Ban is expected to brief the Security Council on the situation in Syria on Wednesday.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  The next sharply worded letter is going to be a doozey. It will definitely leave a mark.

I support some meaningful discussions and frank exchange of opinions will be next.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 05/29/2012 1:27 Comments || Top||


Hama bombardment kills 41
[Emirates 24/7] Syrian activists said on Monday President Bashar Al Assad's forces had killed at least 41 people, including eight children, in an artillery assault on the city of Hama over the past 24 hours.

The report, which could not be independently verified, comes after the U.N. Security Council condemned the massacre of at least 108 civilians, many of them children, in the Syrian town of Houla on Friday.

Images from Houla of the bloodied bodies of children triggered shock and outrage around the world and underlined the failure of a six-week-old ceasefire plan aimed at stopping the violence.

Opposition sources said Syrian tanks and armoured vehicles opened fire on several neighbourhoods of Hama on Sunday after attacks by rebel Free Syrian Army fighters on roadblocks and other positions manned by Assad's forces.

The Hama Revolution Leadership Council said in a statement: "Tank shelling brought down several buildings. Their inhabitants were pulled out from the rubble." It said five women were among the dead.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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