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[Iran Press TV] At least six people have reportedly been killed and several others have been maimed after Pak forces fired rockets into an area of Afghanistan.
The Monday attack took place in Kunar Province. ...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun... A front man for the Kunar governor told Press TV that the dead and injured are women and kiddies.
He added that Pakistain has fired over 200 rockets into Afghanistan over the past few days.
Pakistain says the rocket strikes are in response to what it calls attacks against its territory from Afghanistan.
The U.S. humiliated Pakistan with the Abbotabad raid, so they're going to take it out on Afghanistan.
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[Tolo News] Taliban have chopped the head off a shepherd in northern Badakhshan province on accusations of espionage to international forces, according to provincial security officials.
Making friends with the locals in the traditional jihadi way.
Officials said the young shepherd, Mohammad Zaher, was kidnapped by the Taliban in Keshm, a district in Badakhshan province, and after a couple of days his decapitated body was found in the district. But chief of criminal investigation for Badakhshan province rejected the shepherd's connection with any sort of spy activities.
The Taliban "are usually active in areas belonging to Keshm and Tagab districts and they are usually doing things like that of Mohammad Zaher," Chief of Criminal Investigation for Badakhshan province Fazl Ahmad Nazari said.
Badakhshan located in far north eastern part of the country is a relatively peaceful province, but recently there have been reports of some bad turban activity in some parts of the province.
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Gee. According to our government, I thought they were so weak that we could leave Afghanistan to the Afghanis.
[Tolo News] The terrorist who stormed Kabul Bank Branch in eastern Jalalabad city killing 40 people, was hanged in Kabul on Monday. That was quick.
The terrorist and his accomplice were sentenced to death on June 13.
In February the shooter, Zar Ajam, dressed in police uniform and wearing boom jacket stormed into a Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad and rubbed out nearly 40 civilians with an AK-47. We saw the vid. They were like cattle in a chute: one walked out, he shot him, the next walked out and he shot him...
The Attorney General's Office had previously said the High Court had issued the death sentence of the convicts, Zar Ajam and Qari Mattiullah, an Afghan who provided him facilitation, for the massacre at the Kabul Bank branch.
Nearly 40 civilians, who were visiting the bank, were killed and 73 others were maimed in mid February this year. Officials had said Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... would have to sign the death warrant to allow the sentence to be carried out.
Victims' families in Nangarhar ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... province and some security officials have previously urged capital punishment for the raider. They have urged the government to hang the man in public to be a lesson to other murderers of innocent civilians.
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[Al Jazeera] Fighters from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in Darfur, in the west of Sudan, have said that the north's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has attacked them with war planes and military vehicles.
The SLA said the attacks resulted in 27 deaths, 40 injuries and the displacement of thousands of people.
The reports come as satellite images appeared to show the north Sudanese military massing in the southern border state of Kordofan, a monitoring group said.
Southern Kordofan, on the ill-defined border with the south, is among several flashpoints as Sudan's south prepares to secede on July 9, a move analysts say could embolden fighters in other parts of the country.
The SAF confirmed it had clashed with fighters in Darfur on Sunday in the mountainous Jabel Marra region, but said it had not used aircraft and the fighting had not displaced civilians.
Ibrahim al-Helwu, a spokesperson for SLA, the said the violence began when government troops advanced from the Darfur settlements of Kas and Nyala.
He said 27 people, including 19 civilians, were killed and about 40 maimed after an assault by land troops as well as Antonov and MiG aircraft.
"From the morning, the government started to attack," Helwu said, speaking by phone from Gay Paree. "More than 10,000 civilians are displaced from this area".
The northern army said the fighting in the Jabel Marra region had caused an unconfirmed number of casualties on both sides and that no civilians had been harmed.
Violence in Darfur, where mostly non-Arab fighters are fighting government troops and largely Arab gangs, has fallen from its peak in 2003 and 2004, but a surge in attacks since December has forced tens of thousands to flee.
The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... has issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, on charges of criminal masterminding genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
Khartoum refuses to recognise the court. The UN says as many as 300,000 people have died during the conflict in Darfur. Khartoum puts the corpse count at 10,000.
Thousands displaced
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), which monitors Sudan, said on Sunday that new imagery from Friday showed that the SAF controlled Kadugli, the capital of Southern Kordofan, and that thousands of civilians had been displaced.
The images "show a massing of SAF artillery, light vehicles and heavy transports of the kinds used to carry tanks, troops, and munitions," it said.
Fighting between the SAF and southern-aligned groups has spread across the north-run oil state since June 5.
Tens of thousands of people have decamped the area, according to the UN.
Al-Sawarmi Khaled, an SAF spokesperson, said: "We are now fighting harder to control all the area in Southern Kordofan."
The SSP, Set up last year by Hollywood actor George Clooney and other activists, says it seeks to head off renewed fighting and atrocities in Sudan by publishing commercial satellite images collated and analysed with the help of a UN agency.
Southern Kordofan, the main oil-producing state that will be left in the north after the south secedes, is home to thousands of fighters who fought against Khartoum during the last civil war, many of them from the Nuba mountains region.
Officials with the south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) say festivities started when the north tried to disarm fighters there.
Northern officials blame southern-aligned groups for provoking the fighting after an official from the north's ruling National Congress Party was named winner of a state gubernatorial election last month.
In Khartoum, 16 political activists said they were jugged for about four hours on Sunday after attempting to stage a demonstration against violence in Southern Kordofan.
The south voted to secede in a January referendum promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
At least seven different gangs are also fighting the southern Juba government, according to the UN.
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[An Nahar] The rival governments of north and south Sudan signed an accord Monday on the demilitarization of the disputed Abyei frontier region, mediator Thabo Mbeki ...former president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela. He now pops up periodically as a mediator when something catches fire in Africa... told the U.N. Security Council.
No doubt worth as much as the paper it's written on.
The former South African president, who heads an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... panel mediating on Sudan, said the accord had been signed "in the last hour" before his address to the Security Council by video link from Addis Ababa.
He said the accord covered the withdrawal of Sudanese forces and demilitarization of Abyei, which was occupied by the north's army on May 21. Tens of thousands of people have since decamped, mainly to the south. And you can betcher life they'll be home in no time flat...
Mbeki said there was also hope that armies and militias loyal to the two sides would halt conflict in the Sudanese state of South Kordofan, which is also near the border. I hope to lose 40 or 50 pounds in the next couple weeks, too...
Tensions have escalated between the two sides ahead of Southern Sudan's declaration of independence on July 9.
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[An Nahar] A Mauritanian court has sentenced six Mauritanians and a Tunisian to prison terms for their connection to al-Qaeda's North African offshoot.
The Nouakchott criminal court late Sunday sentenced two young Mauritanians for their membership to "a terrorist organization" -- without naming al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- and condemned them to five years in prison and a 500,000 Ouguiyas (1,250 Euro) fine.
Four other Mauritanians and a Tunisian landed two-year jail sentences for "services rendered" to the bully boy group, including providing communications capability.
According to prosecutors these materials permitted attacks against targets in Mauritania.
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[Emirates 24/7] The United Arab Emirates Central Bank has ordered banks, financing houses and financial investment institutions operating in the country to freeze the assets of 19 Libyan individuals in line with the UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, a top central banker announced on Monday.
Abdulrahim Al Awadi, Executive Director at the UAE Central Bank and Head of its Anti-money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit, said the first resolution calls for freezing assets of 12 natural and juristic personalities while the second one imposes a freeze on assets of seven Libyans.
He told news hounds on the sidelines of the second meeting of the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLC) that the apex bank had addressed all banks, financiers and financial investment institutions to freeze any assets and accounts belonging to those named by the two resolutions.
''Information is being gathered now and we expect to receive feedback from these institutions within a week so as we can compile a report and submit it to the official authorities,'' he added.
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[Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the capital, Sana'a, demanding the immediate formation of a transitional ruling council to replace President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... Saleh left Yemen for Soddy Arabia earlier this month to receive medical treatment for wounds he suffered in a rocket attack on his compound. So far he claims he's not dead...
Since his departure, anti-government protesters have been holding daily demonstrations across the country, demanding a transitional council to prevent Saleh from returning to power. His vice president and interim seat warmer can't do anything until he's sure Saleh's not coming back and that Saleh's sons won't kill him...
On Monday, protesters also called for the removal of Saleh's relatives, including his son Ahmed and nephew Ammar, from key military posts. That won't happen until they know one way or the other whether Pop's coming home.
Saleh's eldest son, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh who was widely suspected of inheriting presidency from his father before the popular uprising started, heads Yemen's elite Presidential Guard, the force leading the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters since the uprising began in February. Ammar is also the head of Yemen's National Security force. If Pop doesn't come home Ahmed especially won't have to resign. He'll be out of town on the next plane...
Many in Yemen believe that Saleh's sons and nephews are trying to take control of the country in his absence. If they are, they haven't been paying attention...
Similar anti-Saleh protests were also held in the southern city of Taizz. ... which seems particularly keen on seeing the last of the Salehs...
Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, who is the acting president in charge of the caretaker government during Saleh's absence, has so far resisted intensive local and international pressure to heed the demands of protesters to set up an interim ruling council. Strictly as a matter of self-preservation...
According to the opposition, the transitional council would "appoint a nationalist and compatible figure to form a government of technocrats." I think the idea of amnesty has already been dropped...
Do they have enough trained technocrats in Yemen to set up a functioning government?
The opposition has also called for the dissolution of the parliament and the country's consultative council and the formation of a committee to draw up a new constitution and set dates for holding a referendum on the constitution and for elections. Maybe when Saleh's titzup or in exile in Gay Paree... Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... Yemeni officials insist that Saleh, who is now lying in a Saudi hospital recovering from what reports said were burns to over 40 percent of his body, will come back home within days, despite Saudi reports that the veteran leader will not return. Glad that's been cleared up...
A Yemeni deputy minister, who was maimed in the palace attack along with Saleh, pegged out in a Saudi hospital on Sunday.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Former Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... president Rezaul Karim was sent to Chittagong Central Jail on Monday in a sedition case filed for making "derogatory remarks" about the prime minister and home minister.
District and Sessions Judge of Chittagong Abdul Kuddus Mian passed the order after Rezaul surrendered to the court to seek extension of his bail that expired on May 25.
The court rejected the prayer and sent him to jail.
Earlier, Rezaul granted bail up to May 25 in the case.
The case was filed against Rezaul and seven others with a Chittagong court on November 2, 2010.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Monday pressed charges against 24 persons including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJI) Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case.
Of the 24, 14 have been found to be involved in the gruesome liquidation in the fresh investigation.
They were spared in the previous probe conducted during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government regime, Rafiqul Islam, an additional superintendent of police and investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star Monday. Though charges against the rest 10 could not be proved, their names were included in the charge sheet as those came up in a previous one, the IO added.
The charge sheet was ready for submission on May 25. But the Sherlocks deferred the submission due to Kibria's wife Asma Kibria's allegation that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police had spared the real culprits and criminal mastermind of the gruesome murder. Asked what changes came in the charge sheet he submitted Monday, the IO replied: "Nothing."
"I readied it a month ago. But the bigwigs took more time for a final check. Finding no mistake or flaw, they kept it unchanged and asked me to go ahead with it," Rafiqul Islam told the Daily Star. Rafiqul submitted the charge sheet before the court of Habjganj Judicial Magistrate Rajib Kumar Biswas.
Kibria, also a former Awami League politician from Habiganj, was killed in a grenade attack on a rally at Baidyer Bazar in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. His nephew Shah Manzur Huda, local AL leader Abdur Rahim, Abul Hossain and Siddique Ali were also killed in the attack.
CID official Rafiqul was tasked with a 'further investigation' into the grisly liquidation on May 6, 2007 weeks before the then Investigation officer, CID's SP Munshi Atiqur Rahman went on retirement.
Six years into the murder, the Sherlocks found Babar's involvement in the plot executed by hard boys, officials said.
Babar arranged sending abroad Moulana Tajuddin, an accused in the murder who is also the brother of former state minister Abdus Salam Pintu, using a fake name days after HuJI kingpin Mufti Hannan was nabbed by the law enforcers on October 1, 2005, the investigator said. An influential minister on the then government, Babar is now in jail in connection with several graft charges.
Rafiqul said banned hard boy organization HuJI was behind the attack.
"The killers were determined to carry out the liquidation as part of a plan to eliminate the AL leadership on the pretext that it was a pro-Indian political party," the IO said. The killers held several secret meetings in the capital and in Habiganj before embarking on the killing mission, he added.
Badrul Alam Mizan was caught from Habiganj town on a tip-off by Mufti Hannan on October 1, 2006, the IO said. Mizan also confessed that he had joined the attack on instruction from Mufti Hannan.
Apart from Babar, the 14 include HuJI kingpin Mufti Abdul Hannan, his brother Muhibbullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi, Moulana Tajuddin, Mufti Mainuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal and Indian national Abdul Aziz Butt alias Abdul Majed Butt. The others are HuJI operatives Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Hafez Syed Nayeem Ahmed Arif, Badrul Alam Mizan, Mizanur Rahman alias Mizan, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye, Mohammad Ali and Badrul Alam Badrul.
The killers were determined for killing the man under a plan to eliminate the AL, as it was a pro-Indian political party, the IO said, they held several secret meetings in the capital as well as in Habiganj before finishing the mission, he added.
On the 10 accused in the previous charge sheet, Rafiqul Islam told The Daily Star: "We did not find any evidence for the allegations brought against them. Now the trial court would look into the matter."
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After the killing incident, Habiganj district AL organising secretary Abdul Mazid Khan (now a politician) filed two cases in this connection -- one for killing and the other for explosive substances -- with Habiganj Sadar Police Station the following day. The home ministry assigned CID's Munshi Atiqur Rahman as the IO of the two cases.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... a government formed a high-powered committee formed to probe the incident submitted its report in April 2005 accusing 10 people of Habiganj including some local BNP leaders and grassroots activists.
They are: district BNP Vice-president Abdul Quaiyum, Juba Dal leader Zainal Abedin Jalal, Zamir Ali, Tajul Islam, Zainal Abedin Mumin, Shahed Ali, Selim Ahmed, Ayat Ali, Muhibur Rahman and Kajol Miah. In his charge sheet submitted on March 10 the same year, the IO also accused the same 10 and his report was identical to that of the probe committee.
Receiving charge sheet, Sylhet divisional Speedy trial Tribunal Judge Biplab Goswami started trial through framing charges against 10 accused. But following appeal by the complainant, the High Court stayed the proceedings.
The complainant of the cases and Kibria family repeatedly expressed their 'no confidence' over the investigation and asked for further investigation.
Further investigation was during the 2007-2008 caretaker government regime following a court order.
All the 10 got release on bail during the army-backed caretaker government rule. One of them died that time.
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Recently executed North Korean spy chief Ryu Kyong planned and orchestrated the abduction of two female U.S. journalists on March 17, 2009, it emerged on Sunday.
Good thing you were a loyal thug for your boss Kimmie, huh...
Ryu, who served as the deputy director of North Korea's State Security Department, obtained intelligence that Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists working for Current TV, were planning to visit the North Korean border as part of their report on defectors.
He then used his overseas operatives to bribe an ethnic Korean guide in China to lead the two women into the hands of their abductors. The guide took Ling and Lee to a point on the banks of the Duman (or Tumen) River, where they were dragged across the border into North Korea.
The abduction, which occurred just after U.S. President Barack Obama took office, prompted the White House to dispatch former U.S. President Bill Clinton to Pyongyang in August of that year. It also served as a propaganda coup for Pyongyang, which boasted that a former U.S. leader had to "bow before General Kim Jong-il and beg for forgiveness." By successfully carrying out the mission, Ryu was subsequently hailed as a national hero.
Teams of overseas operatives, many of which had been in place for years, were mobilized in September of 2002 following the visit to North Korea by former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Many had been tasked with missions aimed at creating favorable diplomatic conditions for the summit. Boosted by the success of the summit, the State Security Department expanded the missions of its overseas operatives until they had created a vast intelligence network in China.
South Korean intelligence officials are now trying to ascertain why Ryu, one of Kim Jong-il's closest and most trusted aides, ended up being purged, especially in light of his achievements in prompting former and incumbent U.S. and Japanese leaders to visit North Korea.
"The official charge made against Ryu was that he was corrupt and that he accepted bribes," an intelligence source said on Sunday. "But it is doubtful that a key intelligence official in the State Security Department, which is responsible for propping up the North Korean regime, was not just demoted, but executed on such charges."
Corruption was the excuse. Everyone's corrupt at that level in Nork-land. Either he double-crossed Kimmie or he wasn't sufficiently zealous about the ascendency of Sonny-Boy...
For some, however, Ryu's demise came as little surprise in the context of its leader's despotic rule. "The execution of Ryu Kyong is simply part of Kim Jong-il's reign of terror," said one high-ranking North Korean defector. "When times get tough, Kim Jong-il tends to resort to bloody purges."
"We need to focus on the fact that the State Security Department is responsible for the transfer of power, and the execution of Ryu took place during this power transfer," he added. "Kim seems to have wanted to remind people that even the State Security Department is not beyond his reach."
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"...Ryu's knees dug into the rough, unfinished concrete as the goons pushed him to the floor and forced his head down. In what he knew would be the last moments of his life, he could only see the door to the cell opening and the familiar sharply pressed khaki pants cuffs come into his field of view, the mirror-polished black elevator shoes treading softly across the floor until they were just a foot or so away.
There was a pause, brief enough, but it seemed like an eternity to Ryu before he felt the cold, sharp bite of a gunbarrel rasp against the back of his head as Kim said, quite gently and without reproach or malice, 'I'm sorry, Ryu, but it was nothing personal - just business.' "
- The Kimchifather, pg 602
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There's a lot more to this story than meets the eye. Al Gore's slow moving train wreck of a cable TV channel, has as its top programs, really, not kidding:
infoMania - A satirical news show like The Daily Show. Kill it, Cook it, Eat it - A hunting, butchering, and cooking show. Bar Karma - A viewer developed show. 4th and Forever - A reality show about a CA high school football team. Long Way Round - Traveling by motorcycle from London to New York. Cooking in the Danger Zone - "Features Stefan Gates traveling the world to check out the crazy foods that some people eat." The Beat - A reality show featuring the Vancouver police. SWAT: Miami Dade - A reality show featuring the Miami-Dade police. Deadliest Journeys - A reality show featuring the worlds most dangerous roads. Hooked on Danger - A reality show featuring Tuna Fisherman in Australia. This American Life - A television version of the Public Radio program.
Okay, so why is the most worthless cable TV channel since Videodrome's CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), sending two female journalists to North freaking Korea?
Barack Obama is set to reject the advice of the Pentagon by announcing on Wednesday night the withdrawal of up to 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by November next year, in time for the US presidential election.
The move comes despite warnings from his military commanders that recent security gains are fragile. They have been urging him to keep troop numbers high until 2013.
The accelerated drawdown will dismay American and British commanders in Kabul, who have privately expressed concern that the White House is now being driven by political rather than military imperatives.
"This is not something we feel entirely comfortable with," a Whitehall official told the Guardian.
Obama's nationally televised address, the sixth he has given since becoming president, is intended to mark the beginning of the end of American military deployment in Afghanistan, from a present high of almost 100,000 troops.
The White House confirmed that the withdrawal will be "significant".
Obama's decision is aimed at placating an American public tired of a 10-year war that has cost 1,522 US lives. The killing of Osama bin Laden added impetus to calls to pull out.
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AFAIC, 2011-2014 its all but absolute that the MilTerrs in PAK will bide their time in order to focus on "POLITICAL JIHAD", i.e. formally acquiring significant Govt. power, iff not domination, via regular or normal national electoral process e.g. HEZBOLLAH [Lebanon], MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD {Egypt].
Not only newfound National, Geopol-level political power, but also control of State-specific Civilian = Military? Nucprogs.
Radical Islam's desired OWG CALIPHATE = GLOBAL ISLAMIST-JIHADISTS STATE WILL BE NUKULAAR [NucWeaponized = Nukes-WMDS]]AT BIRTH.
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The accelerated drawdown will dismay American and British commanders in Kabul, who have privately expressed concern that the White House is now being driven by political rather than military imperatives.
These must be the commanders who have not yet read Clauswitz. Wonder if they know who Elphinstone was.
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"now being driven by political rather than military imperatives"
Now? Whaddaya mean now? When were they not?
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Wid the NUCLEAR CALIPHATE will also come [non-State = NGOS]PROXY NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM.
* ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > OBAMA [likely] TO WITHDRAW 30,000 TROOPS AGZ PENTAGON ADVICE.
* TIMES OF INDIA > OBAMA LIKELY TO CUT 10,000 TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN.
> May pull out 5000 US troops this summer, + another 5000 by EOY 2011, Total = 10,000.
> Pull out 20,000 US Troops for 2012?
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* SAME [old] > US COULD WITHDRAW 70,000 TROOPS IN THREE YEARS.
Iff NATO HISTORY is any measure, US NATO allies will prefer NOT to stay in AFPAK widout US leadership or $$$ support.
Also read, TEST OF OWG-NWO "REGIONALISM/
CONTINENTALISM" I.E. CAN THE US' TRUSTED ALLIES TAKE THE LEAD IN REGIONAL SECURITY + DEV WIDOUT MAJOR OR ANY US INVOLVEMENT???
[Dawn] A car boomwent kaboom! near a women's college Quetta, killing one person and wounding 12 others.
Four of the maimed were at death's door. Moreover, four shops were destroyed as a result of the blast.
Police officer Hamid Shakil said the bomb appeared to have been detonated Monday by a timing device. The car was parked near a women's college in the capital of Balochistan province.
Shakil did not say who was suspected of carrying out the attack nor did he indicate the target.
Balochistan has experienced frequent attacks by nationalists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resource wealth but car kabooms are rare.
The province, which borders Afghanistan, is also widely believed to be home for many Afghan Talibs, including the group's leader, Mullah Omar.
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Balochistan has experienced frequent attacks by nationalists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resource wealth but car kabooms are rare.
[Dawn] Dozens of faceless myrmidons attacked the homes of two prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders in northwest Pakistain, killing four people and wounding six others, a government official said.
Zabit Khan said the attacks early Monday in the Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal area were nearly simultaneous. More than 80 faceless myrmidons assaulted the homes of Malik Ghazi Gul and Malik Mian Gulab with grenades and machine gun fire.
Khan said Gul was critically maimed along with two guards and an unidentified woman. His 12-year-old son was killed. Gulab was not maimed, but his brother, son and nephew were killed. Two women at Gulab's house were also maimed.
Both homes were located in the Safi area of Mohmand. Gul and Gulab were members of an anti-Taliban militia.
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[Dawn] The bodies of five men, stuffed in gunny bags, were found in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said.
Two of them were identified as workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of Urdu speaking civilians dead... while the remaining three bodies were yet to be identified, the police and party sources said.
The body of a young man, packed in a gunny bag, was found near the Kakri Ground, within the remit of the Kharadar cop shoppe, in the early hours of the day.
The police said they shifted the body of the young man, later identified as 23-year-old Feroz Iqbal, to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for a post-mortem examination. The body bore severe torture marks, they said, adding that the victim was slaughtered.
The police said Feroz Iqbal was an MQM worker, who went missing near his home in Agra Taj Colony on Saturday.
Three men were found rubbed out in the Ghas Mandi area, said an official of the Kalakot cop shoppe.
He added that the bodies lying at a desolate place near Cheel Chowk were spotted by area people who subsequently informed the police.
Kalakot SHO Babar Hameed told Dawn that all the three bodies were found stuffed in gunny bags and were shifted to the CHK for medico-legal formalities.
"They're dead, Jim. Put murder down on the form as the cause of death."
He said it seemed the victims were killed somewhere else before their bodies were dumped in the area.
Doctors said the bodies bore torture marks and multiple bullet wounds. Two of the victims were in their mid-20s and the other was in his 40s, they said.
The SHO said the bodies were moved to the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth for want of identification where one of the victims was identified as Shahid alias Bali, a resident of Baldia Town.
Shahid was a worker of the MQM, according to the police and the party sources.
The body of another young man was found stuffed in a gunny bag near Bacha Khan Chowk in Banaras, the police said. "The victim was strangled with a piece of rope and was also hit by some hard and blunt weapon," said an official of the Pirabad cop shoppe. He added that the victim appeared to be in his late-20s.
A piece of paper found in the victim's pocket stated that he was killed because he had illegitimate relations with the killer's sister, said Orangi Town SP Khurram Waris. "However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the paper might have been placed there to mislead Sherlocks," the SP said.
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[Dawn] At least 25 Orcs and similar vermin and four soldiers were killed in a clash in Wali Dad area of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal region on Sunday when troops, backed by military planes, helicopters and artillery, pushed in to take control of the jihad boy stronghold of Soran Darra along the Afghan border.
According to ISPR, many Orcs and similar vermin were maimed. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... independent sources did not confirm the claim.
Sources said that both sides used heavy weapons in the fierce clash in Wali Dad top, Mettai and Soran Darra.
According to officials, eight injured soldiers were taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Peshawar.
Militants' hideouts were pounded by jet bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery and security forces regained control of the area after overcoming the resistance put up by jihad boys, the officials said.
Frontier Corps Inspector General Maj-Gen Nader Zeb also visited the area.
Mohmand is the third tribal area to come under cross-border jihad boy attack in recent months. The earlier attacks took place in Upper Dir and Bajaur.
Agencies add: A statement issued by the military said the army, paramilitary troops and the air force had launched a joint operation to evict hard boyz from Wali Dad.
"Ground operation was preceded by precise strikes by Pakistain Air Force aircraft on terrorists' bunkers and positions," it said.
"After an intensive fight, troops were able to secure Wali Dad top and surrounding areas of the mountain and managed to kill 25 terrorists, while the remaining decamped across the border."Troops are consolidating their positions in the area and a search
operation for remnants (of jihad boys) is in progress."
Local officials earlier said three FC personnel were killed and at least 13 injured when dozens of Taliban stormed a security post near the Afghan border.
The pre-dawn attack took place in Baizai village facing the Afghan province of Kunar, local administration chief Maqsood Hussain told AFP.
"The jihad boys, believed to be more than 50 and armed with light and heavy weapons, launched an attack on the Wali Dad Kor post, triggering a shootout that lasted about an hour," he said.
Four Orcs and similar vermin were killed and several injured.
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Today's dispatch from the Depths of Depravity...
[Dawn] An eight-year-old Pak girl was kidnapped by gun-hung tough guys who forced her to wear a boom jacket to attack security forces, police said on Monday.
Police produced the girl, identified as Sohana Javaid, before a news conference broadcast on Pak television channels.
The girl recalled how she was kidnapped in her hometown of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar by two women and a man who pulled up in a car.
"They put a handkerchief on my mouth and I fell unconscious. They took me to some place. They gave me some biscuits to eat and I again fell unconscious," Sohana said in a video, according to a voice over translation on the tape.
Forced to wear a boom jacket, she was transported to a security check post in a small town in the Lower Dir district in the northwest.
"I moved towards the check post but I started shouting and was taken into custody," said Sohana.
There was no way to independently verify the story.
Pak authorities, who are facing a stubborn Taliban insurgency, have in the past produced would-be jacket wallahs in front of television cameras. But they have been men or boys.
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And yet --- they (Pakistan) still harbor them and give them support.
What was that passage about holding a viper to your chest?
#2
They say it's the religion. Then they say it is a bastardization of the religion. Whatever it is, we should not have to be forced to deal with it. It's an abomination that causes desolation.
I don't care what it is. all of islam is stained with this kind of crap in this world. No more excuses.
For now on, retaliate with nukes. They ain't worth it.
[Dawn] Seven Iraqis were maimed as an improvised bomb struck a French embassy car in southern Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Monday, interior ministry and hospital sources said.
The embassy told AFP the bomb went kaboom! as a single armoured car with four French guards on board was passing by and that no one inside was hurt.
"The bomb targeted a passing French diplomatic convoy. Four Iraqi guards protecting the convoy were hurt, and three people passing by were also maimed," an interior ministry official told AFP earlier.
A medical source at Ibn Nafis hospital said it had received seven maimed Iraqis, among them four guards.
The bomb struck near the French ambassador's residence in the Mesbah district of southern Storied Baghdad, and an embassy vehicle damaged by the kaboom was left at the site, an AFP journalist said.
"A single armoured vehicle carrying four French embassy guards was damaged by a roadside kaboom at 8:17 a.m.," said Denis Gauer, the French ambassador who recently arrived in Storied Baghdad to take up his post.
"No one in the car was hurt and there is no indication the bomb was especially targetting this vehicle," he told AFP.
Roadside bombs are common in Iraq, with similar attacks every day.
A witness said the bomb appeared to have been placed under a parked vehicle.
"A bomb under a parked car went kaboom! as soon as a blue 4×4 vehicle from the embassy arrived. The embassy car was hurled forward a few feet," said Abu Hassan, who witnessed the kaboom.
Violence has plummeted in Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when tens of thousands were killed in festivities between Sunni and Shia Arabs and turban attacks. But bombings and kidnappings remain common.
Private security firm AKE Group said last week that attacks have been on the rise since the start of the year, with violent incidents averaging more than 10 a day in May, up from four to five a day in January.
Official figures put the corpse count from attacks in May at 177, most of them killed by roadside kabooms or with silencer-fitted handguns.
The rise in violence comes with only months to go before US troops, in Iraq since the invasion of 2003, are due to complete a pullout under the terms of a bilateral security pact.
American officials have been pressing their counterparts in Storied Baghdad to decide quickly whether or not to extend the military presence beyond year-end.
The issue is complicated by bickering within Iraq's national unity government, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki having yet to appoint ministers of defence and interior, 16 months ago after a parliamentary election.
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A policeman, three Muslim villagers and a local leader were killed Monday by suspected Muslim terrorists militants in southern Thailand.
A local official says two men shot the policeman as he rode his motorcycle to his job in Pattani province.
Also in Pattani, four attackers on two motorcycles fatally shot a 37-year-old Muslim man; four other attackers shot a 54-year-old village defense volunteer, also a Muslim, and yet another Muslim man was gunned down while returning home on his motorcycle.
In Yala province, a local community leader -- a Buddhist -- was gunned down while his wife was seriously injured by a lone gunman as they were leaving a wedding reception party.
[An Nahar] "Outraged" European foreign ministers on Monday prepared to beef up sanctions on Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... as Britannia demanded he "reform or step aside".
Amid reports of continuing bloodshed in Syria's crackdown on protesters, European Union ministers also angrily demanded action at the United Nations, ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... slamming Russia's resistance to any such move.
Stepping into one-day talks with his 26 counterparts, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he hoped Turkey would use its influence on Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... to tell the regime that "they are losing legitimacy, that Assad should reform or step aside".
He added that he hoped Turkey "will be very clear and very bold about that".
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who chaired the talks, said on arrival the ministers were waiting "with interest" to hear Assad's speech to the nation.
"That will affect of course the conclusions that we take," she said.
In that speech, Assad vowed not to reform Syria under "chaos" but said dialogue could lead to a new constitution.
Syria was at a "turning point", the president said in a televised address, and vowed that the country would emerge stronger in the face of "plotting" against it.
In a first reaction to the Syrian leader's speech, Hague said on twitter it was "disappointing & unconvincing".
"Little new on how reforms will be implemented & when, or how he will end violence," he added.
A draft resolution due for adoption and seen by Agence La Belle France Presse, said the EU was "actively" preparing to "expand its restrictive measures by additional designations".
It also states that Assad's "credibility and leadership depends on the reforms he himself promised".
The EU has been looking at adding up to a dozen people and businesses to a blacklist of 23 people targeted by an asset freeze and travel ban which already includes Assad and key allies.
But Sweden's outspoken foreign affairs chief Carl Bildt said European sanctions were a second-best choice to a global condemnation that must come from the United Nations.
And Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, whose government had split with its EU partners by refusing to vote with them at the U.N. on Libya, said there could be no comparison between the two situations.
With the situation in Syria going "from bad to worse", Bildt said it was vital for the U.N. Security Council "to express the outrage of the world".
"The silence of the Security Council until now can be seen as an indirect tolerance of what is going on in Syria and that is unacceptable," Bildt added.
"We have sanctions and we'll probably reinforce them but as long we have the silence of the Security Council we are in a difficult situation," he said. "I think there will be a strong message on that coming from here."
Several European nations -- notably Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and Portugal -- have joined Washington in pushing for a U.N. resolution condemning the crackdown but were stonewalled by permanent Security Council members China and Russia.
Westerwelle said Moscow's U.N. position "goes in the wrong direction".
Western military intervention in Libya must not be used as a pretext, he said. "This does not justify failing to act together on an international level against Syria."
"You don't give up on helping one country because you have in another," he said.
The German minister said images of events in Syria were "inhumane" and accused Assad of "causing much distress".
"It is essential for the international community to act together and agree on widening sanctions," he said. "Pressure must be exercised on Assad's regime. His political isolation must be upheld."
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[An Nahar] President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has reached "a point of no return," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Monday following the Syrian leader's speech to his troubled nation.
"Some believe there's still time for him to change his ways and commit to a (reform) process," Juppe said after Assad suggested in a televised speech that dialogue could lead to a new constitution.
"For my part, I doubt it. I think that the point of no return has been reached," he told news hounds at the close of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Assad's speech, his third bid in three months to placate protesters, offered no reason to take him "more seriously today than yesterday," the Frenchie said.
The Syrian leader said dialogue could lead to a new constitution and even the end of his Baath party's monopoly on power, but stated that he refused to reform Syria under "chaos."
His remarks immediately drew condemnation from freedom fighters who vowed that the "revolution" -- now in its fourth month -- must go on.
Juppe remarked that Assad had pledged reform previously but had never kept his word.
"Announcing elections when you continue to send tanks against civilians has no meaning," he added.
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So... are the French going to show their outrage by issuing a toothless demarch?
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[An Nahar] Pro-democracy activists said the three-month-old "revolt" in Syria must go on after a speech by President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... on Monday that they said only deepened the crisis.
The Coordination Committee, an umbrella group of activists calling for street protests, called for "the revolution to carry on until all its aims have been achieved."
"We consider any dialogue useless that does not turn the page on the current regime," it said in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse. Assad's speech on the three-month-old unrest only served to "deepen the crisis."
Witnesses and opposition activists said the speech was followed by protest marches in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , in the flashpoint province of Idlib in the northwest, and in the central regions of Homs and Hama, as well as in the suburbs of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... .
"The protesters condemned the speech which branded them as saboteurs, bully boyz ... The demonstrators are calling for freedom and dignity," the head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman, told AFP by telephone.
An opposition figure said the speech failed to specify concrete steps such as the army's withdrawal from population centers.
"There were a lot of ideas in the speech. But the withdrawal of the army and security forces was not raised, which is not very reassuring and puts the emphasis on a military solution," said Hassan Abdul Azim, a lawyer.
The president "did not mention any dialogue with the Syrian opposition," said the 80-year-old Abdul Azim, front man for the National Democratic Gathering, a coalition of leftist opposition movements.
Prominent human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... lawyer Anwar al-Bunni, who was freed from five years in prison last month, called Assad's speech "disappointing."
"The key demands made by the people were not mentioned and the existence of a political crisis has been ignored," Bunni told AFP.
"The president spoke of a military and security solution and reaffirmed the thesis of a conspiracy and gunnies," blaming gunnies for sowing chaos in the country, said Bunni.
"A real political solution must be based on ... the army's withdrawal from cities and must respect the right to peacefully protest," he added.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... pledged on Monday political reforms within months to address a wave of protests against his rule, but blamed saboteurs for the unrest and warned that no deal could be reached with gunnies.
Assad said a national dialogue would start soon to review new legislation including laws on parliamentary elections, the media, and political parties and look at possible changes to the constitution.
But activists dismissed Assad's promises, saying they failed to engage the demands of protesters who for three months have defied a fierce military crackdown in calling for greater freedom, posing the gravest challenge to his 11-year leadership.
After his speech, delivered at Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... University, protesters erupted into the streets of the capital's suburbs and in the coastal city of Latakia, activists and residents said.
"The regime has no realisation that this is a mass street movement demanding freedom and dignity," opposition figure Walid al-Bunni said. "Assad has not said anything to satisfy the families of the 1,400 deaders or the national aspiration of the Syrian people for the country to become a democracy."
In just his third speech since unrest began in March, Assad appeared tense as he pledged to pursue a national dialogue on reforms and held out the prospect of expanding a recent amnesty.
But he said: "We have to distinguish between (those who have legitimate demands) and saboteurs. The saboteurs are a small group that tried to exploit the kind majority of the Syrian people to carry out their many schemes."
No political solution was possible with people carrying weapons, he said.
As Syrian forces swept through the northwestern border region with Turkey, blocking refugees fleeing the military crackdown, Assad called on the 10,000 who have already crossed the frontier to come home.
"There are those who give them the impression that the state will exact Dire Revenge™. I affirm that is not true. The army is there for security," he said in the speech.
A committee on national dialogue is to invite more than 100 personalities in the next few days to discuss framework and mechanism of the dialogue.
Assad said he hoped the package of reforms should be ready by September if parliamentary elections went ahead as scheduled in two months' time, which will be decided during the dialogue.
"The parliamentary elections, if they are not postponed, will be held in August. We will have a new parliament by ... August and I think we can say that we are able to accomplish this package (of reforms) ... in September," he said.
NIGHT PROTESTS
The violence so close to its border has challenged Turkey's foreign policy of "zero problems with neighbors" under which it has befriended the Middle East's autocratic rulers while presenting itself as a champion of democracy.
A senior Turkish official said on Sunday that Assad has less than a week to start implementing long-promised political reforms before foreign intervention begins.
Faced with troops firing live ammunition, Syrian protesters have taken to venting their anger against Assad at night.
Demonstrations erupted overnight in the cities of Hama, Homs, Latakia, Deir al-Zor, the town of Madaya near the Lebanese border, several suburbs of the capital Damascus and in Albu Kamal on the border with Iraq, witnesses and activists said.
Authorities blame the violence on gangs and Islamists, backed by foreign powers. Syria has barred most international journalists from entering the country, making it difficult to verify accounts from activists and officials.
Syrian rights groups say at least 1,300 civilians have been killed and 10,000 people jugged since March.
The Syrian Observatory for human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... has said more than 300 soldiers and police have also been killed. Other rights campaigners said dozens of security personnel had been killed by loyalist troops for refusing to shoot at unarmed civilians.
Even so, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev practically ruled out supporting a UN resolution condemning Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
In an interview published in the Financial Times on Monday, Medvedev criticised the way Western countries had interpreted UN Resolution 1973 on Libya which he said turned it into "a scrap of paper to cover up a pointless military operation."
"I would not like a Syrian resolution to be pulled off in a similar manner," he added.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Tolo News] The terrorist who stormed Kabul Bank Branch in eastern Jalalabad city killing 40 people, was hanged in Kabul on Monday.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Monday pressed charges against 24 persons including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Harkat-ul-Jihad (
Barack Obama is set to reject the advice of the Pentagon by announcing on Wednesday night the withdrawal of up to 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by November next year, in time for the US presidential election.
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Mohmand
[Dawn] The bodies of five men, stuffed in gunny bags, were found in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said.
An eight-year-old Pak girl was kidnapped by 
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