[ADN Kronos] A suicide attack on a police patrolling vehicle injured nine people in the Taliban stronghold of southern Kandahar province on Friday, Pajhwok Afghan news agency reported. A pedestrian approached the police vehicle on patrol in Panjwai district and detonated explosives stripped to his body, provincial officials said in a statement.
Nine people - six policemen and three civilians including a child - were wounded in the blast, which also destroyed the police vehicle, the statement said. All the injured were airlifted to a nearby hospital run by the NATO-led international force in Afghanistan, where the injured were said to be in a stable condition.
The statement strongly condemned the blast, saying the enemies of Afghanistan launched their attack at a time when the whole country was observing the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Two soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in clashes with militants in volatile eastern Afghanistan, NATO announced on Friday.
The Western military alliance said a US soldier was killed on Thursday in an attack on a patrol. Another soldier was killed after coming under fire, NATO said.
Two Afghan National Army soldiers were killed as a group of insurgents attacked a joint convoy of US and Afghan forces in the southeastern Kunar province on Thursday, an official said on Friday. Afghan and US launched retaliatory attack, but the attackers managed to escape.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed their fighters destroyed a US military tank in the attack on the convoy, killing and wounding several troops.
On Tuesday, a suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle rammed his explosives-packed bike into a convoy of foreign troops in Kandahar's Spin Boldak district. However, the blast caused no casualties.
In the neighbouring southern province of Helmand, police claimed they arrested four Taliban militants including a commander involved in planting mines along road sides.
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you'd think Muslims would be universally offended by the attacks on muslim peace officers and civilians during the holy month of Ramadan
/you'd also buy Obamacare and Psychic numbers for the lotto
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I'm beginning to believe that suicide bombers are a sign of desperation among the Taliban/AQ/whoever. It's something you only do when you can't fight military forces directly. I also believe the Taliban aren't as much in control of parts of Afghanistan as the press would lead us to believe. There are a lot of sympathizers that aid and abet them because they're (mostly) Pashtuns, but really don't like most of the Taliban ideas. We need to be just as hard on the sympathizers as we are on the Taliban. Unfortunately, McChrystal's rules of engagement don't allow us to do that. It's gonna be another long war.
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[Maghrebia] A Sale court on Thursday (September 10th) handed down sentences ranging from 18 months to 10 years for six convicted terrorists who escaped Kenitra prison, and two who helped the escapees, in April 2008, MAP reported. The two defendants who sheltered the escapees were sentenced to 18 months each, while another was acquitted. Charges against a ninth defendant were dropped after his death. The escapees were convicted of terrorist activity for the 2003 Casablanca bombings, which killed 45 people.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Russian doctor kidnapped on Thursday by Yemeni tribes in the northeast of the country has been released, an official said on Friday. The doctor, who works in a hospital in Shabwah, was kidnapped on Thursday in the neighboring province of Marib while he was travelling to the capital Sanaa, the official said.
" The car has been returned but my nephew, Qaed Duaihan, is still being detained "
Tribal leader Naji Duaihan
Kidnappings are common in Yemen and hostages usually are freed, but in June nine foreigners were kidnapped and three were later found dead.
Rebels loyal to leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi denied they are holding any civilians.
The doctor's three or four kidnappers demanded the release of one of their relatives in a criminal case, the governor of Marib said in a statement. He urged that the doctor be released within a few hours.
"Don't release him now. Wait a few hours. That'll be fine."
Tribal leader Naji Duaihan had told AFP by telephone that his nephew was being held in prison in Sanaa for stealing a government official car. "The car has been returned but my nephew, Qaed Duaihan, is still being detained," complained the chief who belongs to the Al-Shaafa tribe.
Yemeni tribes habitually kidnap foreigners to try to put pressure on the authorities. More than 200 foreigners have been seized during the past 15 years, with most being freed unharmed.
But five Germans and a Briton who were taken captive in June in the north of the country are still missing with no word on their fate. They were among nine people seized in the northern Saada region, the stronghold of Shiite rebels led by Abdel Malek al-Huthi.
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Comment from the dioctor, "I just feel so used."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals, including an outlawed party leader, were killed in separate 'shootouts' in Kushtia and Mymensingh early yesterday.
The dead were identified as Ziko Parvez alias Killer Samrat, 36, a leader of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF) and Md Nasim, 25, wanted in criminal activities.
Samrat was killed in an encounter between his cohorts and law enforcers at Baliapara village in Sadar upazila, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and Rapid Action Battalion raided Baliapara bridge where the outlaws, led by Samrat, were holding a meeting at about 4:00am, police said.
The law enforcers cordoned off the area and asked the outlaws to surrender.
But the outlaws started firing on the law enforcers prompting them to retaliate that triggered a half-an-hour long gunfight.
At one stage the operatives of the outlawed party managed to flee the scene while the body of Samrat was found lying on the ground.
Police recovered one LG, one shutter gun and three bullets from the spot.
With this, the death toll of the operatives of different outlawed parties in the district from "crossfire" reaches 19 in last 16 days.
In another incident, Nasim was killed in a shootout between his cohorts and Rab in Polashpur area in Mymensingh town, our Mymensingh correspondent reports.
A team of Rab arrested Nasim from Keotkhali area of the town Thursday night and recovered one pistol, one pipe gun, one bullet and five sharp weapons from his possession, police said.
As per Nasim's statement, the law enforcers took him near the bank of Brahmaputra River at around 3:00am to nab his accomplices, police said, quoting Rab sources.
As soon as the law enforcers reached the spot along with Nasim, his accomplices opened fire on them forcing the law enforcers to fire back.
At one stage Nasim was caught in the line of fire while trying to flee and died on the spot.
There are nine cases, including extortion, against Nasim with Kotwali Police Station, police said.
Rab handed over the body to police at around 4:00pm.
Later, police sent it to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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Ziko Parvez and Killer Samrat...I'll have to remember those for the next role-playing game I try. And what kind of a name is "Md"?
[Dawn] A top separatist leader in Indian Kashmir was put under house arrest Friday to prevent protests against Indian rule during weekly prayers, police and officials told AFP.
Police was deployed at Syed Ali Geelani's residence in the summer capital Srinagar late on Thursday and he was ordered 'not to attempt to break their cordon,' his close aide Aiyaz Akbar told reporters.
The ailing Geelani, 79, had been set free by police on Wednesday after serving a three-month jail sentence for organising protests against a double rape and murder case that has fuelled discontent here.
The latest detention came hours after he led scores of Kashmiris in an anti-India demonstration in Srinagar. 'It is a preventive arrest to avoid any law and order problem,' a police official told AFP on condition he not be named.
Police and federal paramilitaries were also deployed in Srinagar ahead of the Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Geelani heads the hardline faction of the region's main separatist alliance and he favours Indian Kashmir's merger with Pakistan, which holds part of the disputed region.
Last year, the hardliner led some of the biggest anti-India demonstrations in Kashmir that left more than 50 protesters dead, mostly in police shootings.
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A local lashkar of armed volunteers, with the support of the Frontier Corps and district police, destroyed over 40 Taliban hideouts and bunkers in the Dogdarra area and torched 60 houses. The lashkar, FC and police conducted a joint search operation in the Shot Kas, Ghazigay, Sugia and Paparoo Awar areas and set fire to 60 houses belonging to Taliban, including those of important commanders such as Maulvi Zakirullah, Amanul Haq, Gul Rehman and Maulvi Noor Islam. The joint operation is likely to continue for another three to four days, District Police Officer Ijaz Ahmed said, adding the majority of these areas had been cleared of the Taliban.
"And don't come back!"
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[Geo News] India, on Pakistan, has leveled allegations of firing rockets on Indian limits through Wagha border meanwhile, Pakistan has strongly denied Indian allegations, terming those accusations as baseless, Geo news reported late on Friday night. The allegations, from India and refusal from Pakistan side, came during the emergency meeting of Pakistan rangers and Baharti Security Forces (BSF), following reports reached here in regard to three explosions in Indian administrated village Lakhan bordering Pakistan. According to sources, India, during the two sides' security forces meeting, staged strong protest with Pakistan, saying that three rockets were fired from Pakistan while in the meantime, officials from Pakistan rangers, denied Indian allegations, saying that India has failed to produce concrete evidences to prove allegations right.
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Following a warning from Taliban-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, around 500 officials of the Khasadar force failed to report for duty in Khyber Agency on Friday, a senior official said.
LI chief Mangal Bagh, who reportedly has ties to the Taliban, in an FM radio broadcast threatened lawmakers, army and paramilitary troops in the region that whoever did not resign would see their houses demolished and suffer other harsh penalties.
Hours after the speech on Thursday, Taliban blew up three houses belonging to khasadars to terrorise its members, residents said. "Some 500 khasadars abdicated their duties today," Khyber Agency political Agent Tariq Hayat said. "We have given them 24 hours notice, and if they fail to report by Saturday afternoon their services will be terminated," he added.
Taliban spokesman Zar Khan confirmed that Mangal Bagh issued the warning and charged that the military operation targeted "innocent residents".
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Pakistan said Friday it arrested the chief spokesman and a commander of Taliban militants in Swat, capturing the first most-wanted ring leaders behind a devastating two-year insurgency.
The spokesman Muslim Khan and four other Taliban leaders were arrested from Swat "in a successful operation," the military spokesman Mj. Gen. Athar Abbas said.
" Muslim Khan and Mahmood Khan have been arrested by security forces in a successful operation in Swat "
Military spokesman Athar Abbas
But local news reports quoted a Taliban member as saying some of the men had been engaged in secret negotiations with the government when they were arrested.
While the commander of the Taliban in Swat, Fazlullah, avoided interviews and television cameras, Khan became the public face of the Taliban in Swat.
The army launched an offensive in the Swat valley and adjoining districts of North West Frontier Province in late April after Taliban fighters began expanding their influence nearer to Islamabad.
Military officials say more than 2,000 insurgents and over 300 soldiers have been killed in the operation, which has moved into its final stages.
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One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States' Guantanamo Bay prison in 2004.
Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.
According to Sveriges Television (SVT), it was Ghezali, along with two other Swedes and several other foreigners, who was arrested by police in Pakistan on suspicions the group had ties with the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. "We confiscated a laptop and $10,000 they had with them," said a spokesperson for the Pakistani military, according to the Expressen newspaper.
The arrests took place at a checkpoint in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province, when the group was reportedly on its way to southern Waziristan, a stronghold for the Taliban in Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan.
Golly, what could they possibly have been doing there, a whole group of them?
The now 30-year-old Ghezali, a resident of Örebro in central Sweden, was arrested in December 2001 and put in custody of the US military shortly after the start of the campaign in Afghanistan. He spent more than two years in a prison for terror suspects set up by the American military on its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ghezali, dubbed in the Swedish media as the "Guantanamo Swede", was never put on trial nor was he told why he had been detained. He was released from the prison in July 2004, whereupon he returned to Sweden.
New reports that Ghezali has again been arrested in Pakistan on terror suspicions came as a surprise to his attorney, Anton Strand. "Yes, I'm surprised by it. One should remember that Ghezali has traveled in that region previously and he has an interest in the region. He is religious and has friends and contacts," Strand told Expressen.
Really? Who might those be? Are they listed on his mobile and laptop?
Gösta Hultén, the Swedish journalist who wrote a book detailing Ghezali's story, told the Aftonbladet newspaper that Ghezali's father believes his son is on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and called home from there a few days ago. "The father is very upset about the allegations that Mehdi has ties to Al-Qaeda. He has already been cleared from those suspicions once," said Hultén.
He can't have been cleared if he was released without trial. He was probably just a tiny fish, however painful that thought is to the ego.
Sweden's foreign ministry in Stockholm refused to comment on the information, although spokesperson for the Swedish embassy in Islamabad told SVT that they have yet to receive any confirmation from authorities in Pakistan that Swedes have been arrested.
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dubbed in the Swedish media as the "Guantanamo Swede", was never put on trial nor was he told why he had been detained.
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His name obviously wasn't Björn?
Mehdi Ghezali, good old Viking name.
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Alien captives in Afghanistan were properly designated as persona non grata. 100% of those animals were there to engage in terror. Feed them to pigs.
Aswat al-Iraq: Multi-National Force (MNF) troops on Friday detained a suspect and defused three improvised explosive devices in the district of al-Saadiya, northern Diala, a security source in the province said. "MNF soldiers, received tip-offs from citizens, arrested a suspected gunman in the village of Qorat Taba, central Saadiya, (30 km) south of Khanaqin," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Khanaqin, one of the districts subject to dispute between the central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), lies 155 km northeast of Baaquba. "The MNF soldiers also managed to dismantle three IEDs without incident," the source added.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A Ramadi police force detained nine wanted persons and suspects during security operations in several villages and areas in southern Ramadi city on Friday, a security source said. "The detentions took place based on intelligence tip-offs and in accordance with arrest warrants," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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Ma'an -- Israeli soldiers detained eight Palestinians, including two children, during raids on West Bank cities on Friday.
Palestinian police reported that raids on the village of Kufr Ad-Dik near salfit where soldiers searched the houses of Fayez Odeh, Iyad At-Tork, and Musleh Nayeh Ad-Dik stealing 4,500 JD and 14,000 NIS.
Near Nablus, a group of Israeli soldiers raided the villages of Burin, Madama, and Asira detaining 17-year-olds Khaled Al-Qut and Saed Awada.
Youths, then, rather than children. Practically adults, in fact.
In Burin, Israeli settlers burned parts of Imad Khaled Omran's house and attempted to detain him before villagers and civil defense forces intervened to stop the seizure. However settlers took his name, phone number, and are still present in the village.
In Jenin, Israeli forces detained Saleh Samudy from the village of Al-Yamun while he was passing a checkpoint between Anbata and Ennab.
Troops overran Azzun and surrounded a local school detaining 14-year-olds Ayman Marwan Huwari and Amir Kamel Salim before releasing them a short while later.
There are the claimed children. They were let go immediately, though, so the claim is deliberately misleading.
The forces also detained 17-year-old Adham Shaher Abdel Aziz Slim, 21-year-old Samir Nabil Shehaded, and 21-year-old Muhammad Rafe Fatesh after searching houses in the area.
Israeli sources said one of their militarized jeeps was attacked with an explosive device and soldiers responded with shots. No Palestinian groups have claimed any attack in the West Bank, and no injuries were reported on either side.
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However settlers took his name, phone number, and are still present in the village.
"Is your refrigerator running?
Why aren't you? Boo!"
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A teenaged Muslim man was killed and his body set on fire in the latest deadly violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority far south on Saturday, police said. The 19-year-old man in Yala province was killed before dawn, his neck slashed, Police Lieutenant-Colonel Charoen Nuantong told reporters. "His body was set on fire and he was left beside the entrance to a rubber plantation," he said.
On Wednesday, police said terrorists suspected separatist insurgents had shot dead a Buddhist defense volunteer and set fire to his body in Pattani province.
A Muslim man has been arrested for allegedly launching twin bomb attacks at grocery and a restaurant in Pattani early this month. Pattani Police chief Pol Maj Gen Pichet Pitisetthaphan told a press conference Saturday that Annuwar Sama-ae, 23, was arrested because he was identified by witnesses as the one launched the attacks. Pichet said footage from security camera also implicated Annuwar. The police chief added five more Muslims were being interrogated on suspicion that they involved in the attacks.
[Al Arabiya Latest] At least 15 Israeli rockets hit the southern Lebanese village of al-Qlaileh on Friday shortly after two rockets were fired from it towards Israel, a security official said. Residents of northern Israel said they heard explosions but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
"Debris from at least one Katyusha rocket fired from south Lebanon were found in the area of the city of Nahariya and Kibbutz Gesher Aziv," a police official told AFP. Public radio said the Israeli armed forces responded with artillery fire against the Lebanese village from which the rockets were fired. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that Israel fired about a dozen artillery rounds in response to several rockets.
Good. Hope they hit something more than fields.
The Israeli army holds the Lebanese government responsible for preventing such attacks, the spokesman said.
In Lebanon, ambulances were rushed to the village from the port city of Tyre, nine kilometres (five miles) away.
Both Washington and the United Nations condemned the violence and urged continued adherence to a 2006 truce that ended a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah. P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said the rocket fire was in "clear violation" of that ceasefire and showed "the urgent need to bring arms in Lebanon under control of the state."
A stiff note to follow on official stationery, no doubt.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged both sides, in a statement, to exercise restraint and said U.N. peacekeeping troops known as UNIFIL were "investigating the circumstances of the incident."
It was the first time since February that rockets had been fired from Lebanon into Israel, raising tensions along a border that remains volatile three years after a war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah Islamist guerrillas in Lebanon. Occasional salvoes since then have been blamed by Israeli, Lebanese and U.N. peacekeeping forces in the area largely on fringe militant groups rather than on Hezbollah, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi'ite movement which remains a powerful force in Lebanon, especially in the south.
During Israel's offensive against Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip in January, Hezbollah denied responsibility for several rockets fired from Lebanon. Security officials have said small groups active among Palestinian refugees or with links to al Qaeda were more likely to have mounted the attacks.
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Iran musta been disturbed by Bibi's travels and dialed up an "incident"
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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.
[ADN Kronos] A suicide attack on a police patrolling vehicle injured nine people in the Taliban stronghold of southern Kandahar province on Friday, Pajhwok Afghan news agency reported. A pedestrian approached the police vehicle on patrol in Panjwai district and detonated explosives stripped to his body, provincial officials said in a statement.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals, including an outlawed party leader, were killed in separate 'shootouts' in Kushtia and Mymensingh early yesterday. 
Following a warning from Taliban-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, around 500 officials of the Khasadar force failed to report for duty in Khyber Agency on Friday, a senior official said.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Pakistan said Friday it arrested the chief spokesman and a commander of Taliban militants in Swat, capturing the first most-wanted ring leaders behind a devastating two-year insurgency.
One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States' Guantanamo Bay prison in 2004.
