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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Leslie Parrish aka Daisy Mae in "Li'l Abner (1959 film)" aka Jocelyn Jordan in "The Manchurian Candidate" aka Jan Brasher in "For Love or Money" aka Ev Kester in "The Giant Spider Invasion" (age 76)
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I'm struck by the differences between US Soldiers and these Dutch Soldiers. I mean no slight to the Dutch but...They seem very unsure, uncoordinated, and unprepared for this action. It goes to show the benefits of actual combat experience, I suppose.
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Having known some Dutchmen, this would be a hit recruiting video back home. The soldiers have "everyman" Dutch speech and mannerisms, yet what they are doing is superhero stuff as far as most Dutch people are concerned. Totally cool. Sex symbol.
Unfortunately they Dutch military are no longer in southern Afghanistan, and they will only be sending police there from now on.
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Churchill, while covering the Spanish anti-insurrecto in Cuba, remarked that nothing is as exhilirating as being shot at without result.
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Unfortunately they Dutch military are no longer in southern Afghanistan The Jihad ain't over until it's over, and I suspect the next generation of Dutchmen will be involved one way or the other.
[Dawn] One civilian was killed when bullets fired by Pak troops crossed into a residential area in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan police alleged Saturday.
"Late last night, Pak soldiers started firing light weapons on residential areas in Goshta district," the commander of border police in eastern Afghanistan, General Aminullah Amerkheil, told AFP. "As a result, one civilian was killed in his house."
Last month, Afghan and Pak troops exchanged fire over the border, leaving one Pak soldier dead in the most serious festivities of their kind since 2007.
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Pay the border crossing bribes fees or we open fire!
[Tolo News] A Islamic myrmidon commander including three others were killed in Isaf military operation on Friday night in Nangarhar, Isaf said in a statement on Saturday.
The incident happened last night in Jalalabad city when they wanted to attack a convoy of foreign troops in the province.
Mullah Yonus and three other Orcs and similar vermin were killed in the operation, added the statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout... Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for governor of Nangarhar told TOLOnews that the operation was launched in coordination with Afghan forces.
"We only know that the operation was launched last night, there is no more information about the operation," Mr Ahmadzai said.
But the relatives of the dead ones claimed that all the victims were civilians.
"My two brothers were killed in the operation, we have been oppressed," a resident told TOLOnews.
According to Isaf statement the commander was involved in plotting attacks against government in the province.
Recently foreign forces have launched many military operations in the country to wipe out Death Eaters.
President Karzai, during a visit to eastern Kunar on Saturday, urged foreign troops to stop their operations in Afghanistan.
International forces are to start gradual pull-out from Afghanistan in July this year.
Counterinsurgency operations are launched in different parts of the country to pave the ground for a smooth transition.
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"My two brothers were killed in the operation, we have been oppressed," a resident told TOLOnews.
The repression will continue until morale improves. Now carry on.
[Tolo News] Afghan parliament, in a statement, strongly condemned mutilation of 4 workers by unidentified gunnies in Kanadahar.
Two days ago unknown gunnies beat up 4 people working for an internationl organisation in Zherai district of Kandahar.
As a punishment for working with foreign NGOs, the workers had their ears cut before being released.
Calling the incident anti-Islamic, the parliament secretariat urges the Afghan government to identify those responsible.
Some MPs said Kandahar security officials should be summoned to the parliament to be debriefed on the incident.
"I think we should also summon Afghan security bigshots and push them to take action against those responsible," Parliament Speaker, Abdul Raouf Ebrahimi said.
Farhad Azimi, Deputy Secretary of the Parliament, described the incident as anti-Islamic and inhumane.
The men whose ears have been cut said they worked for a foreign organisation implementing development projects in Kandahar.
"We tried to ask for mercy, but they did not listen to us and one of them cut our ears," said one of the victims.
Despite many operations launched in the province, Kandahar is still considered one of the volatile provinces in the south.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match... delegates of Kunduz province in the Afghan House of Representatives warned that if the government does not take necessary measure, security situation in the northern Kunduz province will deteriorate again.
In the most recent incident, the province's police Chief, Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili, was killed in a suicide kaboom while on his way home yesterday evening.
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[Al Arabiya] South Sudan ruling party suspended talks with Khartoum on Saturday after it accused Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir of plotting to overthrow the south's government before the secession of the oil-producing region in July.
Senior southern official Pagan Amum said the south would suspend talks with Bashir's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) about plans for the secession and would look into alternative routes for sending its oil to market, away from the north.
Southerners overwhelmingly voted to declare independence from the north in a January referendum promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of north-south civil war. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match... militia fighters attacked the capital of south Sudan's oil-producing Upper Nile state on Saturday, the southern army said, causing an unknown number of casualties.
The attack on Malakal, one of the south's three main settlements, marked an escalation in a wave of festivities between the south's army and militias which has aroused fears over the stability of the region in the countdown to its secession, due on July 9.
"There is fighting going on in Malakal. Militias have penetrated the town. They raided at night," said southern army front man Philip Aguer on Saturday morning.
Aguer blamed the attack on fighters he said were aligned with renegade leader George Athor, a former army officer who rebelled last year saying he had been cheated out of the governorship of neighboring Jonglei state in elections.
In January, southerners overwhelmingly voted to declare independence in a referendum promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the south.
The southern army and government has accused the north of backing militias in the south to destabilize the region and keep control of its oil, an allegation dismissed by Khartoum.
The southern army said the fighting started in the centre of town. Later, U.N. official David Gressly told Rooters the festivities were concentrated in the north of Malakal, near its airport.
Volatile state
Malakal is the administrative centre of Upper Nile, a volatile state bordering north Sudan and Ethiopia. It is the base for many U.N. agencies and international aid groups.
The state includes oil concessions run by Petrodar, a consortium led by CNPC of China and including Malaysia's Petronas and Sudan's own Sudapet.
Aguer said the southern army clashed with the same militia, commanded by one of Athor's deputies called Oliny, outside Malakal on Sunday, leaving at least 56 dead, the latest in a surge of blood-letting in the region.
The southern army estimates more than 100 people died in festivities between northern and southern-aligned groups in the contested Abyei border region last week.
A southern minister said at least 211 people, including civilians, were killed in a "massacre" by Athor's forces in the Fangak area of Jonglei state in mid February. Athor accused the southern army of starting the fighting.
A mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave the south ahead of its expected independence killed at least 50 people in early February in Malakal, said officials.
Troop buildup
A U.S. monitoring group said Friday that gangs backed by the armies of north and south Sudan are reinforcing their positions in the Abyei border region, where 70 people died in festivities last week,
Satellite images show "a buildup and entrenchment of armed actors" linked to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), at new frontline positions in Abyei, said Enough Project, an anti-genocide group.
It warned in a statement that the increased military activity in the region, including the arrival at an SAF base of transport capable of moving heavy armor, risked a return to war.
"Northern-aligned troops appear to have constructed a forward operating base in the past two weeks at Bongo, some 15 kilometers (12 miles) from the recently razed village of Maker Abior."
"The Bongo base is some 20 kilometers to the north of where SPLA-aligned forces appear to have trenched in at the razed villages of Todach and Tajalei," the group added.
At least 70 people were killed and two villages razed in two days of festivities last week between fighters from the Misseriya tribe, which supports the Khartoum government, and the Ngok Dinka people, who back the south.
Another village was reportedly torched several days later by militia linked to Khartoum.
A peace accord reached by the north and south in the South Kordofan state capital Kadugli on January 17 called on all forces to withdraw from the area except for special joint units of northern and southern troops and U.N. peacekeepers.
A decision on Abyei's own future, as to whether it joins the north or south, was indefinitely postponed with neither side able to agree on voter eligibility.
The future of the fertile but highly volatile region is the most sensitive of a raft of issues which Khartoum and Juba are negotiating ahead of southern independence in July.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Rebels killed several coppers in a pre-dawn attack on the capital of south Sudan's oil-rich Upper Nile state Saturday before southern troops drove them back in heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... , officials said.
"There was an attack on Malakal at 4:00 am (0100 GMT). A small group of militia went into the centre of the town and started shooting," Philip Aguer, front man for the Sudan People's Liberation Army, said.
"The SPLA pushed them out, forcing them behind the airport. We do not yet have casualty figures," he added.
"No one knows how the rebels got into the town. But we were woken in the middle of the night by heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... . No one was sleeping," said Susan Oyach, an assistant in the state governor's office.
"The militia killed some police. We don't know how many. But then they decamped to the airport," she added.
The army front man said the rebel group was commanded by a man called Ulony, whose men fought with the SPLA in Owach, west of Malakal, earlier this week.
More than 70 people were killed in those festivities, Aguer said at the time, accusing Ulony of being in the service of the Khartoum government.
South Sudan, which is due to gain international recognition in July after January's referendum backed independence from the north, has witnessed a wave of deadly festivities with rebel groups in recent weeks.
Violence broke out in Malakal in early February, when loyalists of Gabriel Tang, who commanded a pro-Khartoum militia during the 1983-2005 civil war between the north and south, refused to surrender their heavy weapons.
At least 20 people were killed in the fighting that ensued.
Earlier this week, two days of fighting in neighbouring Jonglei state between the SPLA and renegade southern general George Athor also left more than 20 people dead.
Aguer said on Saturday that the SPLA had dislodged Athor from his bases in northern Jonglei and that the situation there was now calm.
During the devastating civil war Khartoum armed militias among southern ethnic groups opposed to the SPLA, which has repeatedly accused the northern authorities of maintaining the policy in a bid to destabilise the region.
Khartoum has in turn accused the southern authorities of backing rebel groups in the western region of Darfur, something they deny.
Analysts have said maintaining security in the southern nation-in-waiting and disarming its civilian population will be major challenges for the authorities.
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Heavy fighting is being reported in Libya's eastern town of Brega, as forces supporting Colonel Gaddafi advance on rebel-held strongholds.
Dozens of rebel fighters are pulling out of the area amid heavy shelling, witnesses say.
"Brega has been cleansed of armed gangs," a military source was quoted on Libyan state television as saying.
Libyan rebel forces have been losing ground for days, including the key oil port of Ras Lanuf on Saturday.
In other regional developments:
* In Bahrain, riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government protesters blocking the main road into the capital's business district, and encircled the protesters' main camp, eyewitnesses said
* In Yemen, dozens of people are wounded in clashes between Yemeni police, firing live bullets and tear gas, and anti-government protesters at the main opposition sit-in in the capital, witnesses said
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ION RELATED > NEWS KERALA = REBELS WARN OF CATASTROPHE IFF [pro-Gaddafy] LIBYAN FORCES ATTACK BENGHAZI CITY.
and
* SAME > CIVIL WAR COULD SPLIT LIBYA INTO TWO PARTS.
Muammar Gaddafi viewed as controlling a POST-CHAOS/JASMINE "WEST LIBYUH", while the Rebs fare worse wid a new sovereign East Libyan entity that has little to no Economy, Access to Oil Wealth [Failed State?]???
VERSUS
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > INSTEAD OF FEARING ANOTHER IRAQ [Gaddafi = new post-DESERT SHIELD/STORM Saddam Hussein], THE WEST SHOULD [Just]DO RIGHT BY LIBYA.
[Ennahar] An instruction has been sent to all departments and public institutions indicating the retirement of officers and officials who have reached retirement age to allow the recruitment of young professionals.
To enable the Government to achieve the main objectives of the Five-Year Plan 2010/2014, for creating new jobs and activities, it is the duty of every employee who has attained the legal age of retirement to present themselves to the National Pension Fund to deposit their records in order to regularize their situation in the shortest possible time, we read in the statement.
In instruction excludes officials with great skills and professional experience in administration and in ministries and public institutions, who will always be needs for their experience. They may still be needed because of their experience and competence and will only retire on their demand.
This measure falls within the scope of the contribution of all to achieve the President's objective for the creation of 3 million jobs for the benefit of unemployed university graduates
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[Ennahar] Forty protesters tried again Saturday at the invitation of one faction of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD), a march in Algiers, but were blocked by a large police presence said an AFP journalist.
Dressed in helmets and shields, riot police surrounded the 1st of May Square in the downtown area and filtered all passersby under a pouring rain.
They have thus prevented the arrival of the president of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) Said Sadi they drove into the premises of Mustapha hospital nearby, before he left in his vehicle, witnesses said. Protesters could not force the cord to release Mr. Sadi in festivities that have caused no injuries, the sources said.
Shouting "we are sick of this power," the demonstrators surrounded by some 400 coppers in the square, carrying a photo of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him... shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 1999 for the funeral of King Hassan II of Morocco.
Algeria, which considers the Paleostinian cause as a national cause, does not recognize the State of Israel it fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 alongside the Egyptians.
The NCCD, created in January in the wake of riots that left five people dead and over 800 maimed, was split in two about a month ago, a faction refusing to manifest, the other establishing weekly demonstrations.
The latter, which showed again this Saturday for the fifth time, includes the RCD, the LDP (Party for secularism and democracy, not recognized) and MDS (Social Democratic Movement, not elected to the National Assembly). It also includes some associations, including two from Kabylia.
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[Ennahar] Troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... an Arab institution for 42 years ... launched an assault on the city of Misrata on Saturday, attempting to recapture the last town in the west of the country still in rebel hands.
Apparently unsettled by the uprisings against his 41-year rule that began just under a month ago, Qadaffy was initially slow to respond, but he has regained the initiative, ordering his troops onto the counter-offensive, crushing a revolt to the west of Tripoli and pushing back rebels in the east.
The only rebel outpost between the capital and the eastern front around the oil town of Ras Lanuf is Misrata, Libya's third largest city, with a population of some 300,000 people, around 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli.
"They are trying to get into Misrata, they are now 10 km away," said rebel front man Gemal by telephone. "We are hearing shelling. We have no choice but to fight."
"I can hear loud kabooms," said a resident who would only give his name as Mohammad. "Everybody is rushing home, the shops have closed and the rebels are taking up positions."
It took a week of repeated assaults by government troops, backed by tanks and air power to finish off the uprising in Zawiyah, a much smaller town, 50 km (30 miles) west of Tripoli.
While the corpse count from the fighting in Zawiyah is unknown, much of Zawiyah was gutted and destroyed by the fighting, gaping holes blown by tank rounds and rockets through buildings around the main square. Qadaffy's forces bulldozed a cemetery where rebel fighters had been buried.
"BRACING FOR A MASSACRE"
Qadaffy's guns are now trained on Misrata.
"We are bracing for a massacre," said Mohammad Ahmed, a rebel fighter in Misrata. "We know it will happen and Misrata will be like Zawiyah, but we believe in God. We do not have the capabilities to fight Qadaffy and his forces. They have tanks and heavy weapons and we have our belief and trust in God."
Further east, Qadaffy's troops pushed hard boyz out of Ras Lanuf on Saturday a day after carrying out an amphibious assault on the oil port and pitting tanks and jets against rebels armed with light weapons and machine guns mounted on pick-up trucks.
Libya's flat desert terrain heavily favors the use of heavy armor and airpower. The Libyan army is also better trained and disciplined than the rag-tag, though enthusiastic, rebel force.
Libya's rebels have repeatedly called for foreign countries to impose a no-fly zone to stop air strikes on cities, while insisting they do not want military intervention on the ground.
But the vaporous Arab League, meeting on Saturday, was expected to follow the European Union, the United States and NATO and fall short of calling for a no-fly zone.
President Barack B.O. Obama said on Saturday the United States and its allies were "tightening the noose" on Muammar Qadaffy and said he had not taken any options off the table, a hint at military action. But there is little enthusiasm in Washington for enforcing a no-fly zone without United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society' backing.
DISCUSSIONS
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday also sidestepped a British and French call to draw up a U.N. Security Council resolution to authorize a no-fly zone over Libya. Instead, they called for a three-way summit with the African Union and the Arab League to further discuss the crisis.
The African Union, long courted by Qadaffy, has already said it is against foreign military intervention, but is to send delegation of the leaders South Africa, Uganda, Mauritania, Congo and Mali to Libya to try for a peaceful end to the war.
The Arab League is to discuss a no-fly at meeting in Cairo on Saturday, but any decision would have to overcome the probable objections from Syria and Algeria.
"The fighters here and the people of Misrata hold the international community responsible for the fall of Zawiyah and for all the deaths that happened. Qadaffy is responsible but they are partners in crime," Ahmed, the rebel fighter in Misrata said.
"They do not care for us. All they care for is the oil and it seems they are waiting to see who is going to win so that they can deal with them, whether it's Qadaffy or us. They do not want to burn their bridges with him. All they do is say they are assessing the situation. Why are they taking so long?"
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[Arab News] The Arab League asked the UN Security Council Saturday to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians from air attack by forces of Muammar Qadaffy's embattled government, giving crucial backing to a key demand of the rebel forces battling to oust the Libyan leader.
And how might the Arab League assist the UNSC do such a thing? Will members of the Arab League [door number 1] volunteer air bases, support personnel, fuel and money? Or [door number 2] ask for the UNSC to implement the no-fly zone knowing up-front that Russia and China will veto, thus absolving them of any responsibility for what's happening to their Arab 'brothers'?
Foreign ministers from the 22-member Arab bloc, meeting in Cairo, also left the Libyan leader of more than 40 years increasingly isolated, declaring his government had "lost its illusory sovereignty."
They also appeared to confer legitimacy on the rebel's interim government, the National Libyan Council, saying they would establish contacts with the umbrella group and calling on nations to provide it with "urgent help."
"The Arab League asks the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society to shoulder its responsibility ... to impose a no-fly zone over the movement of Libyan military planes and to create safe zones in the places vulnerable to Arclight airstrikes," said a League statement released after the emergency session.
League Secretary-General Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... stressed in remarks afterward that a no-fly zone was intended as a humanitarian measure to protect Libyan civilians and foreigners in the country and not as a military intervention.
That stance appeared meant to win over the deeply Arab nationalist government of Syria, which has smarted against foreign intervention into Arab affairs.
The Arab League cannot impose a no-fly zone itself. But the approval of the key regional Arab body gives the US and other Western powers crucial regional backing they say they need before doing so. Many were weary that Western powers would be seen as intervening in the affairs of an Arab country if they began a no-fly zone without Arab approval.
Still, the B.O. regime has said a no-fly zone may have limited impact, and the international community is divided over the issue.
Backing the rebel's politicianship, the League statement said it had faced "grievous violations and serious crimes by the Libyan authorities, which have lost their illusory sovereignty." The League's decision comes hours before the European Union's policy chief is set to arrive in Cairo to meet with the Arab bloc's leaders to discuss the situation in Libya.
Catherine Ashton said she hoped to discuss a "collaborative approach" with Arab League chief Moussa on Libya and the rest of the region. Ashton said it was necessary to evaluate how effective economic sanctions imposed on Qadaffy's regime had been so far and that she was "keeping all options moving forward" regarding any additional measures.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle welcomed the EU's "very cautious" stance on possible military intervention.
"We do not want to be drawn into a war in north Africa -- we should have learned from the events in and surrounding Iraq," Westerwelle said. "It is very important that the impression doesn't arise that this is a conflict of the West against the Arab world or a Christian crusade against people of Mohammedan faith."
"The Arab League has officially requested the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone against any military action against the Libyan people," Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told a news conference after a meeting of the group.
Moussa said the League also decided to open contacts and cooperate with the Libyan rebel council based in Benghazi, which has risen up against the country's leader, Muammar Qadaffy.
Communications with the Libyan National Council would include contacts on humanitarian assistance, he said.
The League's decision follows a statement by the European Union that it would consider military action in Libya only if it were supported by the United Nations and the vaporous Arab League.
During Friday's talks in Brussels, La Belle France and Britain pushed to maintain the military option because of continued fighting in Libya and the threat of more violence by the forces of Qadaffy, who has used at least some European-made weapons to attack his own people.
To coordinate action with the regional forces, the EU will meet in a summit "soon" with the Arab League and the African Union. With their backing, and that of the UN Security Council, the EU leaders said they want to go as far as needed to remove Qadaffy from power.
"Out objective is the safety of the people, and the safety of the people has to be ensured by all necessary means," EU President Herman van Rompuy has said.
The Arab League's stand is seen to buoy morale among Libya's rebels, who have been forced into the defensive as Qadaffy's forces mounted a counterattack in several fronts in the past days.
On Friday, Qadaffy's troops forced rebels to retreat overnight from the outskirts of the oil town of Ras Lanouf, pushing the front line eastward. The front line now stands between the rebel-held town of Uqaylah and Ras Lanouf, where oil storage tanks were hit during Friday's fighting. Rebels blamed an air strike but the government denied hitting the oil plant.
Rebels, however, said there were more fighters standing by.
"The volunteers now at the front are less than 30 percent of the people who are willing to go and fight, our people are ready and determined to fight Qadaffy's forces," Libyan National Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil told Rooters in an interview.
It was clear the rebels had retreated from Ras Lanouf, but with a rapidly-moving battlefield, just how far was uncertain.
"We're out of Ras Lanouf. They've beaten us back with bombardment," rebel Col. Bashir Abdul Qadr told Rooters. "We've moved back 20 km (12 miles) from last night because we are also afraid the refinery will explode."
"Yesterday evening there was heavy bombing from Libyan war planes. This bombardment made us take positions back from Ras Lanouf, but not 20 km as we heard, we are 3 km (away), rebel Col. Hamed Al-Hasi told Arabiya news network, adding: "I advise journalists not to enter the field of operations because we cannot guarantee their safety."
There were three air strikes close to a checkpoint near the town of Uqaylah, 40 km (25 miles) from Ras Lanouf unsettling the rebels who moved off the road and into the desert.
The colonel told Rooters that, according to engineers, the refinery at Ras Lanouf will blow up in the next five days due to the damage sustained in the operation to retake the town with a fierce land, sea and air assault.
This could not be independently corroborated.
Rebels, armed mainly with anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rocket propelled grenade launchers and light weapons, fought back to hold Ras Lanouf, about 590 km (370 miles) east of Tripoli, but were overwhelmed by Qadaffy's firepower.
"The city is a ghost town. The presence of civilians there is very difficult because of the intensity of the bombardment. Qadaffy's forces are still present in Ras Lanouf ... Under the aerial cover, they seized the opportunity yesterday," said Al-Hasi, adding: "The battles are far from the oil areas, the battles are on the outskirts of Ras Lanouf."
The next big oil town of Brega was alive with rumour that Qadaffy forces would be advancing shortly, mounting another overwhelming show of military force. On the outskirts, rebels made preparations in armed vehicles to defend the town.
"This will be their next target. They will be coming here next," said Rafah Farsi, 31, an oil worker and one of the few residents to remain in Brega.
"It saddens me seeing people fleeing their own homes for safety," a tearful Farsi told Rooters. "Ras Lanouf was a residential area and now it's destroyed, why?"
There was growing support for the scenario that Qadaffy's push east could leave him fighting a prolonged guerrilla war.
"We don't care how long it takes, five years or 10 years. The gate has been opened," said Bashir Warshfani, 30, a rebel in military fatigues and wearing a keffiyeh.
"If I die, my brother takes my place, if he dies, my neighbor. Qadaffy will only get this country when he kills us all," said Warshfani, lifting his shirt to show the entry and exit wound of a bullet that was freshly bandaged.
Some 4x4 vehicles with heavy weapons moved back toward Ras Lanouf from the front line in this barren landscape dotted with oil terminals that divides the west with Tripoli as its capital from the rebel-held east and Libya's second city of Benghazi.
The colonel was keen to boost the morale of a group of about 40 troops, saying: "Anyone who is willing to fight and become a martyr, come and fight!" To which the fighters replied: "Allahu Akbar! (God is greatest!)"
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[Al Jazeera] Libyan rebels, who for weeks had rapidly advanced to the capital Tripoli in a bid to oust Muammar Qadaffy, appear to be losing momentum as the better armed government forces regain control of several towns in the east of the vast country.
Brega, the scene of a fierce battle just over a week ago, was the latest town recaptured by Libyan government forces on Saturday, as rebel fighters retreated in the face of intense air and ground firepower.
Al Jizz's Nick Clark, reporting from the town of Tobruk, said that Qadaffy's forces "are now in a good position to take on Benghazi," Libya's second largest city and a rebel stronghold.
Diplomatic pressure is having little impact on the fighting, as forces loyal to the Libyan leader continue to push eastward into territory held by the rebels.
Qadaffy's forces, with air supremacy and a big advantage in tanks, are maintaining the momentum on the ground.
But while his forces were advancing eastward, Al Jizz's Tony Birtley reported from Benghazi that they were facing resistance from the rebels and that their progress had been slowed.
Qadaffy's forces have not used the full clout of their superior airpower, raising fears in the Benghazi of an aerial attack.
"When all that is employed, as the full might of his force is unleashed, there's concern here," Birtley reported.
'Global inaction'
There were conflicting reports on which side controls Ras Lanuf, the main oil port town, where the opposition's advance stalled on Thursday.
"We're hearing the opposition forces are back in control of Ras Lanuf at the moment, although during the day, Qadaffy forces came back in," Clark said.
Neither side had full control on Saturday, as fighting continued. Qadaffy's warplanes were carrying out air strikes seemingly unhindered by rebel anti-aircraft guns mounted on pick-up trucks.
Many rebels were angry at what they perceive as international inaction.
"Where is the West? How are they helping? What are they doing," shouted one fighter.
The resurgent Qadaffy forces have already crushed the revolt in Az Zawiyah, a town 50km west of Tripoli and held by rebels for days against a major offensive.
Al Jizz's Charles Stratford reported that pro-Qadaffy forces appeared to be in full control of the town on Saturday, though rebels vowed to keep fighting.
Foreign journalists brought to the city centre by government forces on Friday saw buildings scorched, patches of fresh paint and loyalists chanting "I love Qadaffy".
"The situation is that nothing is happening. It's just some gangs and people who like to destroy the country," Mohamed Ali, a Qadaffy supporter, said.
"Then the Libyan army came and cleaned everything up as though nothing had happened."
Witnesses said government forces had destroyed a graveyard where rebels had buried their dead.
Journalists were instructed to film what appeared to be hastily made graves.
It is unclear how many people, whether rebel fighters or Qadaffy forces, were killed in the fighting in Az Zawyiah.
The only town now holding out in western Libya is Misurata, about 200km east of Tripoli. It was calm on Friday, but rebels said they were expecting an attack in the near future.
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[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy continue a large-scale military offensive against revolutionary fighters in the country's east.
Qadaffy's troops carried out Arclight airstrikes on the oil-producing towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega on Saturday.
Latest reports suggest the frontline of revolutionary fighters has moved back 20 kilometers from the outskirts of Ras Lanuf following intensive air raids.
The revolutionary fighters are battling to keep control of the city.
Pro- and anti-regime forces are locked in intense fighting for the control of several other cities along the coastline to the east of the capital Tripoli.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory... the vaporous Arab League's Secretary General, Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... , backed the creation of a no-fly zone. A no-fly zone can prevent Qadaffy's warplanes from striking opposition positions.
"The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, the Arab League, the African Union, the Europeans -- everyone should participate," German weekly Der Spiegel has quoted Mussa as saying.
Libya's interim Transitional National Council has called on the league to officially recognize the Benghazi-based body.
The 30-member body was established in the city by revolutionary forces following the liberation of several eastern cities.
The council, headed by Libya's former justice minister Mustafa Abdel Jalil, plans to lead the country to an election.
Jalil was among the first high-profile Libyan figures to join protesters following the Qadaffy regime's brutal crackdown on the opposition.
Colonel Qadaffy has been in power since a 1969 military coup.
Latest reports from Libya indicate thousands may have been killed or injured as the government crackdown escalates.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemeni security forces stormed a square early Saturday where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out for the past month, firing tear gas and live ammunition during a pre-dawn raid that killed at least one person, doctors and witnesses said.
Television footage showed protesters overcome by tear gas lying in the central square in the capital, Sanaa, the site of a monthlong sit-in to demand the ouster of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... . An ally in the Obama's administration's fight against al-Qaeda, Saleh has been in power for 32 years.
Shortly after midnight, security troops surrounded the central square with police cars and armored personnel carriers and began calling on protesters through loudspeakers to go home. At 5 a.m., security forces stormed in, firing tear gas and live ammunition.
One protester died from a bullet to the head, which may have come from a sniper on the rooftop of a nearby building, witnesses said. Abdelwahed al-Juneid, a volunteer doctor working with the protesters, said around 250 people were maimed.
The raid came hours after Yemen's largest demonstrations in a month Friday were met by police gunfire that injured at least six protesters and seemed certain to fuel more anger against the deeply unpopular president.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Yemen's four largest provinces, ripping down and burning Saleh's portraits in Sheikh Othman, the most populated district in the southern port city of Aden, witnesses said.
Security forces hurled tear gas into crowds close to a stadium and then opened fire, using machine guns mounted on vehicles, said eyewitness Sind Abdullah, 25.
In the conservative capital, Sanaa, thousands of women participated in demonstrations -- a startling move in a deeply tribal society where women are expected to stay out of sight.
Demonstrators demanded jobs and greater political freedom and decried Saleh's proposal Thursday that the government create a new constitution guaranteeing the independence of parliament and the judiciary, calling it too little and too late.
The autocratic leader is also an ally in the B.O. regime's push to eliminate the local branch of al-Qaeda, which has attempted to attack the United States. He has also worked closely with the Saudis to quash his own Shiite uprising in the north.
Yemen was chaotic even before the demonstrations began, with a resurgent al-Qaeda, a separatist movement in the south and a sporadic Shiite rebellion in the north vexing the government, which has little control outside major urban areas.
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[Iran Press TV] One protester is rubbed out by a sniper during an attack on an anti-government camp in the Yemeni capital, raising the corpse count to three as hundreds more have been injured.
Witnesses say police fired live rounds and teargas to invade the camp at dawn, adding that the security forces were also carrying knives and charged the protesters with batons, AFP reported.
So far, two deaths have been confirmed in the capital and one in the southeastern city of Mukalla. More than 30 protesters have been shot, with others suffering from loss of consciousness and spasms from breathing in poisonous gas, which medics have not been able to identify.
"This isn't teargas. This is poison gas that disables the nervous and respiratory systems. People hit by this gas pass out," Dr. Hussein al-Joshaai, a nerve specialist at the scene, told AFP.
Reports say festivities are still continuing. Security forces have blocked all roads leading to the square, preventing ambulances from evacuating the casualties.
The protesters, who demand an end to President Ali Abduallah Saleh's 32-year rule, have been camping out at University Square in Sana'a since February 21.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage... Yemeni police have rubbed out a schoolboy in anti-regime protests in Mukalla. Hundreds of school students had poured to streets on Saturday, when riot police fired live bullets to disperse them.
On Friday, thousands of Yemenis erupted into the streets of Sana'a and the southern city Aden. Two people were killed and over a dozen maimed after police opened fired on the protesters in Aden.
Saleh has promised a new constitution which would shift power from the presidency to an elected parliament. Protesters say that the offer is not enough, vowing to continue to demonstrate until he resigns.
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SPOKANE, Wash. A man with ties to the white supremacist movement was arrested and charged Wednesday in the foiled bombing of a Martin Luther King Day parade in this city last January.
Kevin William Harpham, of the Colville area in northeastern Washington, was charged with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of possessing an unregistered explosive device.
At a brief court appearance, Harpham waived a bail hearing and will remain in the Spokane County Jail for now. He can request a bail hearing at a later date, or wait until a grand jury decides on March 22 if he will be indicted.
Harpham, 36, was a member of the white supremacist National Alliance in 2004, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.
The SPLC being quite a hate group itself, IMO, so it knows something about this...
But the center doesn't know when Harpham joined the group or whether he left it.
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[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Explosives packed in a water cooler went off at a mosque in the Badhber outskirts of the city luckily before the Friday prayers and so caused no casualties.
Officials said the kaboom damaged the Masjid Sher Ali in Shahbkhel village but the gun-hung tough guys caused more damage when they blew up three bridges, a girls` school and a portion of a technical college in the adjacent Khyber Agency.
They said the five kilogrammes of explosives planted in the mosque went off with a big bang at 11am, destroying the boundary wall of the mosque and creating big cracks in the concrete roof of ablution place.
A police officer said that it was a time device targeting the Friday congregation. Fortunately it went kaboom! prematurely. He said that the gun-hung tough guys seemed to have come from a nearby locality.
Eyewitness Naseer Amer said that he was working in the nearby fields when the blast occurred and filled the area with dust and smoke. He said that local people avoided to visit the mosque till arrival of the police.
Head of Bazidkhel Amn Lashkar Fahimur Rehman said that the mosque had been constructed a few months ago. Claiming that the beturbanned goon group, Lashkar-i-Islam, was behind the blast, he said that the Amn Lashkar activists had successfully stopped movement of the beturbanned goons, but non-cooperation of police forced them to abandon their efforts.
He said that police had registered several FIRs against the peace body workers and the peace Lashkar was likely to withdraw its support to police against beturbanned goons. "We nabbed several bully boyz and handed them over to police, but they were freed," Mr Fahim alleged and added that instead of any support the police had registered FIRs against him and his colleagues.
Our Correspondent in Landikotal reported that gun-hung tough guys in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency destroyed three bridges, a girls` school in Jamrud and an under-construction room of the technical college during the last 24 hours.
Sources said that two bridges were destroyed in Akkakhel area -- one at Meeran Talab and another near the telephone exchange -- while another bridge connecting Bara bazaar with Malikdin Khel area was blown up in Mandai Kas locality.
The powerful blasts, they said, completely destroyed all the three bridges, rendering them useless.
The gun-hung tough guys also blew up an under-construction room of the government technical college at Dogra in Bara tehsil.
All the educational institutions in Bara are closed since the start of military operation in September 2009.
In Sheen Tang area of Jamrud tehsil, gun-hung tough guys damaged parts of a two-room girls` school in a predawn sabotage act. It was for the first time that at a government school was targeted in Jamrud.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout... police and Frontier Constabulary conducted a search operation in different parts of Akkakhel and nabbed 19 suspected beturbanned goons, including a local commander Shahbaz of a banned beturbanned goon organisation.
In a separate incident, unidentified gunnies kidnapped a young man from Spin Qabar area on Friday. The kidnapped man was identified as Naeem son of Mohammad Yousaf.
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[Dawn] Six bully boyz were killed and three soldiers maimed in a shootout in the Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Saturday, government officials said.
The shootout occurred as bully boyz attacked a security check post in Orakzai's Ghaljo area, DawnNews reported.
There was no independent confirmation of the incident as the area is remote and off-limits to journalists.
Orakzai is one of the most lawless areas in Pakistain's northwest tribal region, which is made up of seven districts near the Afghan border.
Pakistain launched a major operation in Orakzai in March last year after bully boyz fled a sweeping offensive in the nearby tribal district of South Wazoo.
Late last year military officials said lower Orakzai had been cleared, but the Death Eater threat persisted in some pockets of the upper part of the area.
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[Geo News] The boundary walls of a cop shoppe caved in and a person lodged in the lock-up maimed in a blast, while the other bomb planted in the People's Colony cop shoppe was defused.
Gojranawala CPO, Ghulam Mohammad Dogar said that a bomb planted by the boundary wall of the Sabzi Mandi went kaboom! demolishing boundary walls of the cop shoppe and the walls of its adjoining buildings besides an accused lodged in the lock-up was also injured.
Another bomb was planted inside the People's Colony cop shoppe, which was defused by the bomb disposal squad. More than two kilograms of explosives were used in both the bombs.
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[Geo News] Six-member family including a man, his wife and four daughters have been killed in a rockets and mortars attack in Goth Hairdeen area of Jaffarabad district, in east of the scenic provincial capital Quetta on Saturday morning.
Unidentified men fired rockets and mortars from unknown destination at a village of Bugti tribe near Goth Hairdeen area, SHO Police Station RD-298 Muneem Khan Khoso said, adding that as a result of the attack, six-member family among them a woman and four girls were killed.
He said the dead were identified as Fallo Khan, his wife Mai Khatoon, and their four daughters including Shahi, Shari, Chochi and Jhirki.
Law enforcement agencies and police reached the place soon after the incident and cordoned off the entire area to trace out the clue of the assailants while a search operation has also been launched to arrest the attackers, said an official in the district administration.
The incident caused panic amongst the local inhabitance.
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[Geo News] In spite of the presence of President and Prime Minister in Bloody Karachi, the ongoing incidents of assassinations in the metropolitan city have so far left 12 people dead including political workers and a child while 7 others sustained injuries, Geo News reported Saturday.
Miscreants set ablaze an office of a local organization and three vehicles.
Unidentified attackers fired and killed a party worker, identified as Khurram, at his Pan shop in the busy area of Kharadar. This triggered a bout of heavy firing that spread a wave of tension in the entire area where enraged people set on fire a bus, truck and a rikshaw beside an office of a local organization.
Two men named Musavir Bangash and Sikandar Chandio were bumped off by unknown gunnies at Jauhar Chowrangi in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area. Musavir was a resident of Pehalwan Goth whose brother had been nabbed a few weeks ago.
In another incident of firing in the same area, a political worker Asad Khan was killed and three others were maimed.
In Garden area two bullet-riddled bodies of Adnan and Sami were found dumped while a worker of a religious party identified as Khadim Hussain was rubbed out in Orangi Town.
Dead bodies of two youths with bullet wounds were recovered from Memon Goth, Malir and Super Highway.
Armed attackers bumped off a 19-year old boy identified as Shams in SITE area.
A firing incident also occurred in Azizabad area where men with guns riding a motor cycle fired and killed Noman, 23.
Three men were maimed in similar incidents of firing in Baldia Town, Ghani Chowrangi and Kharadar.
Tension spread in all these areas where patrolling by police and Rangers personnel was undertaken to maintain order.
Latest reports have confirmed that a child who received injuries as a result of firing in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area later succumbed to his wounds and died.
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[Ma'an] Israeli forces swept through the vicinity of southern villages in southern Jenin early Saturday. There were no reports of home raids or arrests.
Soldiers fired stun grenades in Zbabdeh, Sanour and Maslyeh, residents said. They also used helicopters and police dogs, according to locals in the three villages.
An army spokeswoman did not comment on the reports of the incursions in Jenin and elsewhere in the aftermath of a deadly stabbing attack that left five Israeli citizens dead.
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[Ma'an] Villages across the West Bank have reported raids by settlers following the murder of five Israelis early Saturday morning in Itamar settlement. What's the Hebrew word for "intifadeh"?
A three-month old baby girl, two children aged three and 11, and their parents were all stabbed to death in a brutal attack which has been blamed on Paleostinians.
As Israeli forces launched a manhunt across the northern West Bank, residents of several Paleostinian villages said they were stormed by angry settlers.
In Burin, near Nablus, village council head Ali Eid said residents of the illegal Bracha settlement raided the village.
Settlers entered Maher Mahmoud Hassen's home and tried to take his children, who managed to escape, Eid said.
Settlers also entered the homes of Najeh and Hatem Tawfiq E'mran, he added.
Residents of nearby Huwwara also said they were harassed by settlers, who tried to enter Paleostinian homes in the eastern side of the town.
Town officials called on residents to gather in the area to protect the homes in a call over the loudspeakers of the local mosque.
Residents responded to the call, and settlers left the area.
Meanwhile in Hebron, settlers threw rocks at a Paleostinian Authority civil defense vehicle, smashing the wind screen and injuring the driver, police said.
Ibrahim Abu Sabha sustained head injuries from the shattered glass as he drove between Yatta and Al-Musafer villages in the southern West Bank district.
In the central West Bank village of Beitillu, residents said settlers handed out leaflets threatening residents that their lives were at risk.
Settlers distributed the statement signed by "the Jews from the land of Israel" at the village entrance, locals said.
Israeli forces have jugged dozens of Paleostinians since the attack in Itamar settlement. Several military checkpoints have been reinstalled and flying checkpoints set up across Nablus. Locals said the army has declared the district a closed military zone.
Israel's military had no immediate comment.
Tensions between Paleostinians and settlers have escalated since the Israeli government removed structures at an illegal outpost west of Nablus on February 28.
Settlers responded to the demolition immediately, Molotov cocktailing a home in Huwarra. Two children were taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at Paleostinians during festivities with settlers near Nablus on Monday, injuring 10 Paleostinians, medics said. One settler was injured by a rock, a front man for settlers said.
Settlers also smashed shops and cars and cut down olive trees in Hebron.
On March 3, settlers organized a "day of rage" rallying in Israel and the West Bank and threatening further attacks against Paleostinians.
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[Ma'an] An armed faction calling itself the "Imad Mughniyya Group" has grabbed credit for stabbing to death an Israeli family of five in the illegal settlement of Itamar in the northern West Bank.
Israeli authorities have dismissed statements from the group in the past, as it has grabbed credit for other operations that may have been the work of others. It is believed to be linked to Fatah.
Another armed wing of Fatah, which started out as the armed Arab wing of the Soviet Union... or something like that.
"Thanks to God almighty, fighters affiliated to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Imad Mughniyya Group succeeded in attacking a settler home and killing its inhabitants," the group said in a statement.
"The fighter confirmed that at 1:15 (a.m.) he broke into the home and killed all five inhabitants. Zionist forces admitted the operation and the fighter returned safe and sound. This operation is a natural reaction to the massacres by the fascist occupation against our people in the Gazoo Strip and the West Bank."
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[Ma'an] Israel's military besieged the northern West Bank after an apparent attack on a settlement left five people dead. All army checkpoints in the area have been closed.
Soldiers jugged 20 Paleostinians from Awarta village, the closest Paleostinian community to Itamar, where the army says a Paleostinian stabbed to death five members of the same family including three children.
Soldiers began aggressive inspections using police dogs as helicopters and drones flew overhead.
Military checkpoints which had been evacuated in recent months were erected again. Soldiers reoccupied the Huwwara post south of Nablus, the Taneib checkpoint to the west, and Al-Badhan in the north.
Flying checkpoints were also set up after the attack. Locals said all Paleostinians who attempted to cross in or out of Nablus were searched and sent back after the army declared the region a closed military zone.
The An-Najah National University in Nablus delayed an English-language examination and cancelled a day of voluntary work which had been previously scheduled for Saturday.
Tension between Paleostinians and settlers in the area has been extremely high in recent days.
On Monday, Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at Paleostinians after they clashed with settlers near Nablus.
Ten Paleostinians and a settler were maimed during the violence, according to Paleostinian medical sources and a front man for the settlers.
A week earlier, police clashed with settlers in the Havat Gilad outpost west of Nablus as officers moved in to remove a caravan, a tent and another half-built illegal structure there.
That prompted settlers to Molotov cocktail a house in Huwarra village, which saw two Paleostinian children taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
They also smashed up shops and cars in the southern city of Hebron and settlers also cut down 500 olive tree saplings that had been planted on the site of a former settlement outpost.
The settlers routinely react when police and soldiers demolish structures in settlements or wildcat settlement outposts in what are known as "price tag" attacks, which often target Paleostinians.
This violence against the local population is a direct response to what they consider "anti-settler" activity by the Israeli government.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned hardline settlers that such attacks were unacceptable.
The last deadly attack on a West Bank settlement was on August 31 last year, when four settlers were killed near Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Two other Israelis were maimed in an attack the following day in Ramallah.
The following month, the Paleostinian Authority of the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas said those responsible for both attacks had been nabbed.
He identified them as members of the rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group that controls the Gazoo Strip.
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[Iran Press TV] Iranian security forces have killed a terrorist and nabbed another responsible for the death of four rangers in the western province of Kurdistan.
Kurdistan Deputy Governor Iraj Hassanzadeh said Saturday that the hard boyz belonged to a "Salafi" turban group, Mehr News Agency reported.
During armed festivities with the group in the town of Dehgalan, security forces killed one terrorist and nabbed the other, who was injured in the fighting, Hassanzadeh said.
He said the jugged terrorist confessed that his group was responsible for the killing of four rangers in the lovely provincial capital of Sanandaj last Friday.
Hassanzadeh added that the terrorist group was "dismantled" by Iranian security and intelligence forces.
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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.
[Dawn] One civilian was killed when bullets fired by Pak troops crossed into a residential area in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan police alleged Saturday.
Bouteflika
leader Muammar Qadaffy
Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
Khyber Agency
Orakzai Agency
[Ma'an] An armed faction calling itself the "Imad Mughniyya Group" has 
