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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Joi Lansing aka Connie Forbes in "The Bowery Boys - Hot Shots" aka Dorine in "A Hole in the Head" aka Julie in "The Atomic Submarine" aka Florence Coogle in "Who Was That Lady?" aka Boots Malone in "Hillbillys in a Haunted House" (Died in 1972 at age 43)
Shortly after Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti on Wednesday accused Israel of carrying out an attack on Tuesday near Port Sudan that killed two people, Al-Arabiya reported that one of the targets was a Hamas military leader. The report said that the second man that was killed was a local groupie citizen.
Sudan's foreign minister said Khartoum reserved the right to respond to the attack. "This is absolutely an Israeli attack," he declared. He said Israel undertook the attack in order to ruin Sudan's chances of being taken off of America's list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Different versions on how the strike was carried out have been offered by Sudanese officials. Police have said a missile struck the car near the port city, but a state government official blamed the bombing on flying Jews a foreign aircraft that flew in from the Red Sea.
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"One report said 2 apache helicopters were involved."
Shhhhhh, phil - don't tell Bambi.
He'll apologize.
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Debka says he's in charge of smuggling Iranian weapons to Gaza via Egypt, and that his latest shipment was to be over 3,000 shells filled with mustard and nerve gasses bought from the Libyan rebels.
Libya - Production at rebel-held oilfields in eastern Libya has stopped after they came under attack from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said on Wednesday.
Oilfields in Misla and the Waha oasis area were hit by Gaddafi's artillery on Tuesday and Wednesday, the spokesman Hafiz Ghoga told reporters in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
"These oilfields are the ones that pump oil to Tobruk," said Ghoga. "They stopped pumping today." That's my boy.
Are they going forth, this time, or back? I've lost track.
There was no respite for the rebels on Tuesday as they were again forced back by Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces along the desolate highway from the oil town of Brega towards Ajdabiya.
Col Gaddafi's men, whose rockets and 155mm shells can reach up to 25 miles according to rebels, had advanced their guns allowing them to strike deeper into rebel lines. Each time their armada of pickup tricks and saloon cars regrouped to fire their own artillery of vehicle-mounted rocket tubes, they were hit with accurate counter barrages.
Kamal Mughrabi, 64, a retired soldier who joined the rebel army said: "When you see this, the situation is very bad. We cannot match their weapons."
Nato insisted that its bombs and missiles had hit radar, munitions dumps, armoured vehicles and rocket launchers. But the rebels insisted it was not enough, suggesting most of the air strikes had been around the besieged town of Misurata in the west, rather than on their eastern front line.
"If the planes don't come back and hit them we'll have to keep pulling back," said Mr Mughrabi.
Low hills which had earlier in the week provided a safe, commanding view of the approach to Brega were on Tuesday straddled by explosions which sent rebels scattering, and they lost a hard-won toehold in the vital resource town.
Brega holds oil and gas plants which could provide badly needed revenue and fuel for the rebels. Power in Benghazi, the rebel's base city, is generated using gas from Brega and shortages have led the revolutionary authorities to begin rationing electricity.
The more staunch fighters tried to steady the nerves of their comrades by shouting "God is Great!" and exhorting them to hold fast, but with little effect. As the barrage crept forward across the desert floor, the rebel positions once more dissolved into a free-for-all of confused traffic heading east.
The scramble slowed in the late afternoon around ten miles west of Ajdabiya. Wounded from the government push were ferried by volunteers to the Ajdabiya hospital, where patients were stabilised before being sent onward to Benghazi.
Mohammad Abdul Karim, chief of the hospital, said he had lost count of the number of wounded treated in the hospital in the past six weeks.
The rebels played down the loss of territory, saying it was unlikely to be the last reverse they would suffer before overthrowing the regime.
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pickup tricks and saloon cars
Uh, okay.
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I wonder if the leaders of France, Britain and the United States ever consider that by grounding Daffy's air force and bombing his tanks to prevent the "humanitarian catastrophe" that would result if Daffy's forces entered Benghazi, that even more casualties might result from the protracted war that seems to be shaping up now. IOW, maybe it's better sometimes to get it over with.
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It's a sedan according to Wikipedia. I was thinking more along the lines of a stretch limo or a taxi but I guess not. British English indeed. As opposed to American English.
British intelligence officers have a firm foothold in Libya. Their subtle moves may be more explosive than the bombing campaign.
And we don't need to report in detail what MI6 and the CIA, along with the other Euro services, are up to. This means you, New York Times. Wait until it's all over and then write a book.
While David Cameron praises British pilots and enthusiastically announces an increase in the number of RAF Tornado aircraft deployed against Libya, British intelligence officers are operating rather more discreetly on the ground.
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, is in the thick of it and the Libyan conflict should be right up its street. The Libyan desert may have been the birthplace of the SAS during the second world war when MI6's main playground was the deserts of Arabia further east. But in recent years their officers have got to know the deserts of north Africa, and of Libya in particular.
Their role should be key now, as the coalition's military operation, which the US says it is abandoning, appears to have run its course.
While Cameron is gung-ho for the fight, defence chiefs and commanders, in Washington as well as London, are increasingly concerned about a stalemate. It is time for intelligence agencies to prove their worth.
CIA and MI6 officers are active in Libya, doing what they are trained to do encouraging influential people to come over, to defect.
Both agencies have a special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. They monitored it closely when Gaddafi was funding and supplying terrorists in western Europe, including the IRA. Their senior officers, Sir Mark Allen of MI6, Stephen Kappes of the CIA, were deeply involved in talks with Tripoli over compensation for the victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism, including Lockerbie. In 2003, they celebrated months of talks leading to Gaddafi's decision to give up weapons of mass destruction with a long lunch at the Travellers Club in Pall Mall.
A year later, and after failing to get the top job at MI6, Allen joined BP, a company that was to benefit from trade deals agreed between Libya and the Blair government. On the Libyan side, heading the negotiations that culminated in the Travellers lunch was Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's wily head of foreign intelligence who also gave the UK and US information about al-Qaida's presence in North Africa.
Koussa, who was later appointed foreign minister, is now being questioned by MI6 officers and Foreign Office diplomats in a safehouse in the home counties. MI6 wants his views on Gaddafi's inner circle in particular how vulnerable the Libyan leader is, and who may defect.
Given its past relationship with Tripoli, this is a special test for MI6. Its officers are in Libya, and neighbouring countries, trying to persuade others to abandon the Gaddafi regime. Imploding the regime from within, with the help of a propaganda war, is more likely to achieve a breakthrough than explosions from missiles fired from Tornado jets. It is a case, perhaps, where spooks could indeed, should be doing more good than fighter pilots.
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British intelligence officers have a firm foothold in Libya.
They haven't noticed that "the Rebels" are AQ, but they've a firm foothold.
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I did notice that TV's pictures from the front had shifted from those lovable ragtag underdog freedom fighters, to well dressed military men making definitive hand gestures - even got a Libya Free! commander so-and-so a blue screen.
The head of Libya's rebel army has accused Nato of abandoning people to their deaths after a sharp reduction in the number of western air strikes. Abdel Fattah Younes said that the limited number of air strikes since Nato took command of the operation last week had permitted Gaddafi's forces to advance once again, after earlier attacks forced them in to headlong retreat.
"The gift horse needs dental work."
"Nato is moving very slowly, allowing Gaddafi forces to advance ... Nato has become our problem," Younes said. "Either Nato does its work properly or I will ask the (rebel) national council to raise the matter with the (UN) security council."
"... and a pony!"
Reflecting a growing anger and sense of betrayal among many Libyans in rebel-held areas, Younes said that the failure to keep up the assault meant it was not living up to the UN resolution to protect civilians in cities such as Misrata where Gaddafi's forces are killing people "every day".
Earlier this week, thousands demonstrated in front of the revolutionary council headquarters in Benghazi to demand Nato launch more attacks.
The rebel army has relied on the protection of western air strikes destroying government armour to advance close to the city of Sirte, which, as Gaddafi's birthplace, is strategically and politically important. But after Gaddafi shifted tactics to rely less on tanks and artillery and more on a force with increased mobility, the revolutionaries have been forced back more than 150 miles to Brega.
In the initial stages of the air campaign, strikes by French, US and British aircraft destroyed scores of tanks, armoured vehicles, guns and other military equipment. But Gaddafi's forces have copied the rebels in using pick-up trucks on which guns are mounted, which are harder for aircraft to target, and even if they are hit, have less impact on the Libyan leader's forces than the destruction of large armour.
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Fighting has erupted between French forces and supporters of the Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo ... President-for-Life of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... as festivities between rival Ivorian sides continue.
French troops were trying to evacuate the Japanese ambassador from his besieged embassy in Abidjan when they clashed with Gbagbo's loyalists on Wednesday.
Japan's ambassador to Ivory Coast Okamura Yoshifumi has said their embassy came under attack from "mercenaries who entered the building shooting RPG rockets."
On Wednesday, forces loyal to internationally recognized President-elect Alassane Ouattara stormed Gbagbo's residence in Abidjan but met with fierce resistance from the president's loyalists.
The attack came when Gbagbo once again announced defiantly that he was the winner of November presidential election and refused to sign a document, as demanded by the UN and La Belle France, to recognize Ouattara's victory.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... UN peacekeeping department front man Nick Birnback has said talks with Gbagbo's camp are still underway.
The strongman had previously agreed to quit power provided that a safe departure was guaranteed for himself, his family members and some of his army generals, reports said.
The International Red Thingy has warned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast as fighting continues and more people displaced by the post-poll violence suffer food and water shortages.
At least 1,500 people have reportedly bit the dust since November last year when the political impasse erupted in the West African country.
Bahraini security forces have attacked the funeral procession of an anti-government protester in the western village of Karzakan, dispersing the mourners by force.
Witnesses say security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd attending the funeral of Hassan Jassim Fardan, who was killed during a brutal government crackdown.
Also on Wednesday, the body of another Bahraini anti-government protester was found in a bin near a petrol station in the city of Saar, a few kilometers west of the capital Manama.
Seyyed Hamid Mahfood went missing on Tuesday. His funeral was held under heavy security presence in Saar. There were no reports of clashes during his funeral.
The city has witnessed a series of anti-government protests in the last couple of weeks. On March 31, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head by a police shell in Saar.
There are reports suggesting that Bahraini authorities remove the body organs of those killed in anti-government protests.
The bodies of the youths, who are being taken out of hospitals and killed, are being returned to their families with their organs missing, Ralph Schoenman, the author of The Hidden History of Zionism told Press TV.
Since the beginning of the uprising in Bahrain, dozens of anti-government protesters have been killed and many others went missing. Their bodies were often found days after.
However, many still remain missing.
Six opposition leaders have also been arrested and the Manama government has so far refused to provide any information on their fate. The opposition leaders, five Shia and one Sunni, were rounded up on March 17.
Among the opposition leaders is Hassan Mushaima, the head of the Haq party. He returned to Bahrain from Britain in mid-February after Manama dropped charges against him. His family members say Saudi troops were among Bahraini forces taking part in the arrest operation.
In the latest round of arrests, opposition Waad party said on Wednesday that the head of its central committee, Abdulhameed Murad, was arrested.
According to Bahrain's leading Shia opposition group Wefaq, over 450 opposition activists, including 14 women, have been also arrested since the uprising began in the tiny Persian Gulf state in mid-February.
SANAA - Yemens president urged the opposition to join talks in Saudi Arabia to try to end weeks of turmoil and violence in which at least three more people were killed on Tuesday.
Faced with mass demonstrations demanding an end to his 32-year rule, President Ali Abdullah Saleh is clinging to power in the poorest country in the Middle East, from which al Qaeda has planned attacks on the United States.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday invited government and opposition representatives to talks in Saudi Arabia, at a date yet to be set, with the United States pressing the veteran political survivor to negotiate with his opponents.
Saleh, who ignored a transition-of-power plan offered by the opposition on Saturday, accepted the Arab Gulf states invitation on Tuesday and urged the opposition to follow suit.
I promise that we will make every effort to return things to normal through talks with rational people from the Joint Meetings Party, he said, referring to the main opposition coalition. We repeat our invitation to them to sit at the table of dialogue and we call for a restraint from violence.
Aides to a prominent general, Ali Mohsen, who turned against Saleh last month, said he had also accepted the call for talks in Saudi Arabia. But the Joint Meetings Party was non-commital in its response.
We welcome the (GCC) position on respecting the Yemeni peoples choices and we will also welcome any efforts made for the sake of President Salehs speedy departure, spokesman Mohammed al-Sabri said.
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An aspirant candidate for chairman in union parishad polls, who had gone missing Sunday afternoon, was killed in a 'gunfight' with the Rapid Action Battalion at Golapdi in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj early Monday.
If this was Chicago instead of Golapdi, he'd still be on the ballot. And win.
The police claimed that the deceased, Shafiqul Islam, 48, also a former union parishad chairman in Ziarkandi of Titas upazila of Comilla, was wanted on waaaay more than twelve planets accused in 38 cases, including seven for murder.
The latest incident took to 28 the number of people killed in 'crossfire,' 'gunfight' or 'encounter' after January 1.
Lots of badmen no longer troubling the universe. The Rab are earning those cool sunglasses.
Twelve of them were killed in Dhaka.
*Sigh* Things are more competitive in the big city.
Two hundred and fifty-eight people have so far fallen victim to extrajudicial killing by law enforcers since January 6, 2009 when the Awami League-led government assumed office with a commitment to end extrajudicial killings.
Did they promise to end floods and put a pony in every pot, too?
Apparently they found things were better left unchanged - like a certain other administration.
The victim's family suspect that Shafiqul, a sand trader at Gowripur in Daudkandi upazila,
He's got your white coral sand, your black volcanic Hawaiian special (smooooooooth, dude), your basic sandbox tan... and for special clients, real Saudi dune spice sand. But you'll pay through the nose for that one.
was picked up by the RAB sometime on Sunday afternoon after he had gone to the High Court to seek bail in a murder case.
Seriously ambitious, that one. Two union parishad chairmanships, the sand trade, and yet another murder? When does the man sleep?
Shafiq's widow Tahmina Akhter Baby told New Age
That's the magazine with the pretty leaf on the cover. Sand, you know -- it's natural.
at the DMHC morgue that she had talked with her husband at about 2:00pm on Sunday over phone but failed to reach him by phone at about 10:00pm.
'He used to return home by 8:00pm. After waiting till about 10:00pm, I called him but both of his cell-phones were switched off. At about 2:00am, an unidentified caller told me that he was killed,' she said.
She said that they had moved to Duaripara in Dhaka from Ziarkandi a few months ago.
The RAB-11 claimed that on a tip-off
"Mahmoud the Weasel here. Listen carefully, I shall say this only once."
they had raided Gopaldi Dakshinpara area where a gang of 'robbers' were taking preparations to commit a robbery.
It was the sand. That Hawaiian black is like catnip for a certain kind of mind.
Sensing their presence,
"Eek! A spider!!"
the 'robbers' opened fire at the RAM team, forcing them to return fire, triggering a 'gunfight'.
You'll need hip waders to get through that sarcasm. There's a selection of sizes in the back hall.
At one point, Shafiqul was wounded while his associates fled the scene,
As if they had never been, oddly enough.
a battalion release said.
Shafiqul was taken to a local health complex where the doctors declared him dead.
"doctors"? Gee, at the medical college, it only takes one.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the morning for post-mortem examination but a RAB team returned with the body in the afternoon without getting the autopsy done, the morgue sources said.
The battalion claimed that they had recovered one revolver, one pipe gun and one cartridge from the spot.
"Hey! New guy! Polish those up and return them to the evidence room -- chop, chop!"
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Shafiqul Islam...also a former union parishad chairman in Ziarkandi of Titas upazila
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"doctors"? Gee, at the medical college, it only takes one. They have to use more than one doctor to declare someone legally dead, otherwise a doctor might go 'rogue' and start declaring people dead without justification. The RAB has a bad enough rep as it is.
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You are entirely too good for my ego, Ptah. Thank you. But notice that the two bits getting all the comments are in battleship grey, which is Pappy. He doesn't say as much, but when he does it is precisely to the point.
TIJUANA Mexican authorities said Tuesday that they have ruled out drug-related violence as the cause for two U.S. citizens being shot to death Monday near the San Ysidro border crossing. The U.S. Consulate confirmed early Tuesday that the two victims, Kevin Joel Romero, 28 and Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, were U.S. citizens. They were living in Playas de Tijuana and commuted together to their jobs in San Diego.
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Marcela Romero believed all along her nephew was not involved with drugs.
She said she believes the likely motive in the shooting is a love triangle gone bad that involves Salcido.
Romero said in December Salcido caught his girlfriend cheating and got into a fight with the other man. Since then, she said, the man left voicemails and text messages threatening to kill Salcido.
Romero said she was told by Mexican police that Salcido's girlfriend was on the scene when both men were shot.
"She was on scene. She saw everything happen," said Romero, who added that police told her that same woman then went to her nephew's Tijuana home where his wife was to announce what had happened.
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A total of four residences and eight vehicles were torched by armed suspects in a remote area of western Durango, according to several Mexican news sources.
Reports say Friday residents of El Zapote de Buena Vista in the San Dimas municipality fled to surrounding hills when a six vehicle convoy was observed entering the village from the west.
The village had only women and children as its population. No one was reported hurt in the attack.
Reports also say the attack was a response to a confrontation a day earlier when an unidentified resident of El Zapote de Buena Vista assaulted armed suspects in self defense.
The resident was killed by suspects the day before they entered the village to torch it.
A Mexican Army detachment only Monday arrived in the location. Residents had not evacuated the area despite the attack.
Several remote locations in western Durango served as drug growing area for Mexican drug cartels. As with many of the small communities in western Durango, they are occupied by Indian tribes who engage in farming as their occupation.
Western Durango sits astride the Sierra Madres Occidental mountain range, which is some of the most rugged and inaccessible terrain the North America.
Several remote communities have run afoul of drug gangs in the recent past. Several attacks and intergang firefights have taken place since early October 2010 in Otaez, Pueblo Nuevo and Pueblo Ideal municipalities. To read Rantburg reports on previous attacks and shootouts in western Durango, click here, and follow the links.
San Dimas municipality is about 80 kilometers north of the east-west Mexican Highway 40, which is the main communications road that runs from the Mexican state of Sinaloa to points east including the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen burst into the home of a professor and killed six members of his extended family, security sources said. The professors widow and two teenage daughters were also seriously wounded, a military source said, adding that the attack took place overnight in a southern district on the outskirts of Baghdad that is predominantly Sunni Arab.
A police source said the dead were two girls aged four and 14, two boys aged six and nine, a man and a woman. They were all related, but their relation to the dead professor or to each other was not immediately clear, the sources said.
Extended families in Iraq frequently live in the same home.
All the victims are from the family of a professor who was killed in a terrorist attack last year, the military source said. The wounded women are the late professors widow and two daughters, who were less than 20 years old, he added.
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Yikes, was he working for Cyberdine? These people don't seem able to let bygones be bygones.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Death toll from the Ninewa suicide bombing went up to three dead and seven wounded, a security source said on Tuesday.
Three persons were killed and seven others, including two policemen, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in al-Baaj district, west of Mosul, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
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GAZA CITY: A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border.
A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez, Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the same incident. At the time, Palestinian medics were not allowed into the area so were unable to confirm how many people were involved or how badly they had been hurt. It was not immediately clear if a second person was involved.
The Israeli army confirmed firing at someone near the border fence, but a spokeswoman mentioned only one person, who she said was armed and had been hit. The IDF identified an armed man near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and fired towards him, she said. They identified a hit.
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"collecting gravel".
riiigghhtt
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Everyone knows the Juice have hoarded all the really good gravel for themselves.
A terrorist militant was gunned down in a clash with a joint police-military unit in Yala province on Wednesday.
After receiving a tip from locals that a man acting suspiciously was hiding in a house in Raman district, the joint security force surrounded the targeted house about 10:30 a.m.
After learning that he was surrounded, Asman Jehleng, 29, ran out of the house and fired shots from a 9mm pistol at the security team, who returned fire. The fight lasted about five minutes, and the suspect died at the scene.
Asman had been wanted on a warrant issued after an attack on a military base in Raman district in 2009 in which several soldiers were killed.
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Leftists worldwide are cheering, as their new ally, Islamism (basically communism with the Ten Commandments codified into law), gains ground relentlessly.
BEIRUT -- Lebanese security forces stormed Lebanons largest prison Tuesday, freeing three hostages, after several hundred inmates demanding improved conditions set a fire inside one of the buildings, a Lebanese security official said.
Inmates of the overcrowded Roumieh prison east of Beirut had been rioting for days, burning mattresses and breaking windows. On Tuesday, prisoners took three guards hostage in one of the buildings. In another building, prisoners set fire to highly flammable material inside the kitchen, triggering a blaze. Thick black smoke billowed from the hilltop compound for several hours despite heavy rain.
Relatives of prisoners outside the prison threw stones at police as they brought reinforcements to the prison.
The security official said troops stormed the prison compound Tuesday evening in an effort to bring the situation under control. He said the hostages were freed and at least six inmates were wounded or suffered from smoke inhalation.
Prison riots are not uncommon in Lebanon, where inmates often demand better conditions and reduced sentences.
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said Roumieh was built to take 1,050 prisoners but currently holds 3,700 inmates. He said that out of the total, only 721 have been convicted, while the rest are either awaiting trial or are now on trial.
Earlier in the day, relatives of Roumieh inmates held a protest against prison conditions, briefly closing a main road and burning tires. State-run National News Agency said the relatives also briefly closed roads in different parts of the country on Monday and Tuesday night. Baroud said the families want authorities to speed up the trials of their relatives.
Among the prisons population are members of the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam militant group, which fought the army inside a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon in the summer of 2007.
Golly, wonder if they had anything to do with it...
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BEIRUT -- Syrian activists are calling for a new wave of protests across the country.
At least 80 people have been killed as security forces cracked down on anti-government demonstrations that started nearly three weeks ago.
A Facebook page is calling for protests this week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
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ION HAARETZ > AHMADINEJAD: US SEEKING TO DIVIDE JORDAN TO FORM PALESTINIAN STATE.
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.
Shortly after Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti on Wednesday accused Israel of carrying out an attack on Tuesday near Port Sudan that killed two people, Al-Arabiya reported that one of the targets was a Hamas military leader. The report said that the second man that was killed was a local 
British intelligence officers have a firm foothold in Libya. Their subtle moves may be more explosive than the bombing campaign.
Laurent Gbagbo
An aspirant candidate for chairman in union parishad polls, who had gone missing Sunday afternoon, was killed in a 'gunfight' with the Rapid Action Battalion at Golapdi in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj early Monday.
GAZA CITY: A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border. 
A 
