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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Charisma Carpenter aka Cordelia Chase in "Angel (TV)" aka Cordelia Chase in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)" aka Lacy in "The Expendables" aka Jane Grant in "See Jane Date" aka Kim in "What Boys Like" aka Playboys Playmate of the Month for June 2004 (age 41)



How about a little one on one?
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/23/2011 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Now that's some Midnight Basketball I could get behind...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/23/2011 14:02 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan blast kills five civilians: police
[Dawn] Five non-combatants were killed on Friday when their vehicle hit a mine in northern Afghanistan, where a Taliban insurgency has increasingly encroached in recent years, police said.
When, oh when will those Lutherans give up their wicked ways?
The device went kaboom! Faryab province's Qaysar district, police front man Sayed Massoud Yaqoubi told AFP.

"Five non-combatants were killed as their vehicle was hit by a roadside mine in the Shakh area of Qaysar district," Yaqoubi said.

The front man accused the Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against Afghan government and US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
troops, of planting the bomb.

The turban group was not immediately reachable for comment.
They've mostly given up doing that, for some reason.
The attack comes two days after a jacket wallah killed four people in Afghanistan's northern capital, Mazar-i-Sharif, where NATO troops are due to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces on Saturday.

The town will become the fifth area of the country to transition to local security control this week as part of a process that critics have branded too much too soon, with question marks looming over Afghan security capabilities.

Civilians are the biggest casualties in the near 10-year war in Afghanistan, where 150,000 foreign forces are stationed.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
has said that more than 1,400 civilians have been killed in the first six months of 2011, blaming gunnies for 80 percent of civilian deaths.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Abducted Somali Woman Minister Under House Arrest
[An Nahar] Somalia's newly-appointed women's minister is under house arrest after being kidnapped by Islamist jihad boys, family members said on Friday.

Gunmen seized 32-year-old Asha Osman Aqiil on Thursday in Balad, a town north of the capital Mogadishu, a day after she was named the country's minister for women and family affairs.

Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab fighters have ordered her to remain at home.

"The minister is partially free, but has been told to stay in the family home and not to leave Balad," a family member told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from Balad, speaking on condition of anonymity.
... for fear of being murdered...
"She is not free to go to Mogadishu to take her post -- she will be here because she might otherwise face bad consequences," they added.

The only woman in a new 18-member government unveiled by Prime Minister Abdiwali Mohamed Ali on Wednesday, Aqiil was traveling into Mogadishu to take up her new job when she was kidnapped.

Before her elevation to ministerial office, Aqiil was previously a women's rights campaigner. A widow, her husband was kidnapped and killed by suspected Islamist gunnies three years ago.

Residents of Balad town confirmed her house arrest.

"She is a prisoner but not in a cell," said Abdiwahab Mohamed.

"It is better she saves her life, and not die at the hands of Shebab -- that is what the elders told her," said Mumin Duqow, another resident.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Somali militants maintain aid ban and reject famine
[Dawn] Terrorists Militants in Somalia said on Friday that an earlier ban on specific aid agencies operating in the drought-struck regions they control remains in place, rejecting UN declarations of famine.

"Those earlier banned groups are not welcome to serve in our area of control," Shebab front man Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said in a broadcast on the myrmidon radio Al Furqaan radio.

The Al Qaeda inspired cut-throats since 2009 banned several aid agencies including the UN World Food Programme, although the agency has continued to send relief to other parts of the country out of myrmidon control.
Easy enough. They don't want aid, don't send them aid.
The hardline cut-throats also dismissed the declaration made by the UN earlier this week that there is famine in two regions of southern Somalia under myrmidon control.

"There is drought in Somalia but not famine -- what is declared by the UN is 100 percent false," Rage said.

"The declaration of famine is political, and is a lie with hidden agendas," he added, admitting only that there is "a shortage of rain."
"But that's not a drought, dammit!"
The Shebab appealed for help earlier this month, saying it would lift a two-year-old ban on foreign aid groups so they could help Somalis suffering from a severe drought. A Shebab official earlier this week had welcomed the famine declaration.
This article starring:
Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab

#1  no aid then. You wanted Islam? die pure
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2011 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  admitting only that there is "a shortage of rain."

Apparently Allan is not feeling generous.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/23/2011 12:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Well then...Allah U Akbar to you.
And bon appƩtit!
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/23/2011 13:54 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Gaddafi rules out talks with foes
[Emirates 24/7] Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule...
on Thursday ruled out talks with his foes to end a five-month rebellion against his rule and said the battle had already been decided in his favour.

"The battle has been decided. It has been decided in favour of the masses and the people," he said in a speech broadcast to thousands of supporters in his home town of Sirte, 450 kilometres (280 miles) east of Tripoli.

"They cannot defeat us. They will be defeated and they will go home empty-handed," he added.

Qadaffy said that no one "can face an army of millions. For the first time you are facing a people in arms," he said, referring to NATO's
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
military campaign under a UN mandate that effectively backs the rebels.

Qadaffy insisted he would not start negotiations with the rebels.

"I will not talk to them. There will be no negotiations between me and them...," adding: they "must understand that their desperate fight is a lost cause. They must return to their bases".

"The masses will walk over you and crush you," he warned the rebels who are in control of several regions in the east and west of the vast north African country.

In another speech broadcast by Libyan television Qadaffy addressed "a meeting of Misrata tribes", calling for "a march on the city (east of Tripoli) to liberate it" from rebels.

The meeting was attended by several dozen people, according to television footage.

As Libya's rebels seek to consolidate their progress in the east and ramped up for a pre-Ramadan offensive in the west, Qadaffy has made several speeches to supporters in cities still under his control over the past weeks.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Pro-democracy journalist escapes death in Yemen
SANAA: A pro-democracy journalist working for the Yemeni state TV survived on Thursday evening an assassination attempt in the capital, the second opposition figure targeted in less than three days.

Yasser Al-Muolimi was seriously injured when unknown attackers opened fire on him. He is currently recuperating in a local hospital following a surgical procedure on his legs.

The Yemeni Journalist Syndicate issued a statement condemning the attack and urging security services in the country to quickly investigate the incident and bring the culprits to justice. The syndicate said that the assassination attempt is a dangerous escalation against journalists and a crime targeting activists.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Norway horror: 80 die in camp shooting, 7 in blast
Aaaay-Peeee story.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Up to 87 now - at first it appeared that it was being repor + described as a severe domestic hate crime, IIRC "MORE LIKE OKLAHOMA CITY THAN THE WTC ON 9-11" vee FOX NEWS AM.

LOOKS LIKE ITS BACK TO "WTC" NOW = As per FREEREPUBLIC, an UNKNOWN ISLAMIC MILITANT GROUP IS REPOR NOW CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY for the Kiddie wipeout.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/23/2011 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  blonde-blue eyed Norwegian with reported Christian fundamentalist, anti-Muslim views

The One himself couldn't have picked a better candidate.

Fortunately, my hair is no longer blonde, so I won't be in the first group rounded up.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/23/2011 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I only saw the You Tube, but it seemed when Maobama had his melt down he made not mention of this, no condolences, no nothing. If so, that says a lot.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/23/2011 7:42 Comments || Top||

#4  He called the Norwegian prime minister to express his support. He's fine in this.
They've arrested a second suspect - get this - a member of the same party that got shot up.
I think the nut they've described so far is just a nut, a la Lee Harvey Oswald.
Eyewitnesses have said there were two shooters.
The pieces don't fit quite yet.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia || 07/23/2011 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Something doesn't smell right: the island is small but is covered by dense forest so people could easily hide. Also he killed 80 people. Add for misses, add for people he just wounded and escaped and for people he had to finish off. How many bullets would have he been carrying? How much would weigh the ammo (not just the bullets but the magazines). Also I have mentioned the forest: seeking people in it for further victims (I assume after the first shots people would disperse) would have taken time; lots of it. How it is that police didn't arrive?

The only logical explanation is that thre was more than one shooter.
Posted by: JFM || 07/23/2011 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  That's what happens when you oppress tall blond Nordics.

I have as much sympathy for Norwegians as they do for the thousands of Israelis killed in terror attacks.
Posted by: Phager the Rash2607 || 07/23/2011 8:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Only comment at this time: condolences to the Parents who lost their Children and families who lost treasured loved ones.
Posted by: Charles || 07/23/2011 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Phager the Rash put it better than I could.
Posted by: Excalibur || 07/23/2011 10:53 Comments || Top||

#9  JFM, the missing piece is apparently he dressed like a cop and had the kids come towards him, then he shot at them.

If the initial stories are true this one one sick individual.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/23/2011 10:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Cry Me A River

What were the Labor PartyĀ’s youth discussing on Utoya before being shot to death? The groupĀ’s leader was denouncing Israel, calling for a boycott, and supporting recognition of a Palestinian state.
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http://auf.no/-/bulletin/show/671591_til-kamp-mot-fremmedfrykt?ref=mst

AUF leader Eskil Pedersen believes it is time for stronger measures against Israel. He is impatient on behalf of a permanent two-state solution. Ā– The world must exert tougher pressure.

In the morning, visiting Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store UtĆøya. He will, among other things, participate in a debate on the situation in the Middle East.
AUF has clear advice to the Norwegian government.

Ā“We like to talk, but as we have seen so has Israel not been interested, and have not listened to any of the clashes that have been made. The peace process is the wrong way, and though the whole world screaming for Israel to comply, they do not. We in Labour Youth will have a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side,Ā” says Eskil Pedersen told Dagbladet.
Posted by: Phager the Rash2607 || 07/23/2011 11:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Based on reading Norwegian newspapers and some of the writings the shooter posted online in 2009 and 2010:

He held that multi-culturalism is as evil and eventually as oppressive as communism (anti-individual), nazism (anti-jewish), and islamism (anti-kaffir). His targets were the social-democrat government and a "Youth Camp" for future leaders of the same political party. Given his logic, it's as if back in the mid-30s he bombed Hitler's Chancery Building plus attacked a "summer camp" designed to nurture future nazi leaders, all in one day.

He had an hour to walk around the island and shoot people. Apparently, nobody made any attempt to fight him, they just ran, hid inside tents, begged for mercy, tried to swim with all clothes on, and hoped to survive by playing dead. He brought multiple weapons with him, and a bag full of ammo, calmly announced that they were all going to die. Some survivors claim that they heard shots from multiple directions, leading them to believe there were multiple shooters.
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 12:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Just when you think that Janet Napolitano has completely lost her mind, this Norwegian psychotic comes and gives her some transient credibility.

Everything about this guy is wrong...blonde, blue eyed, Norwegian, Christian and Crazy.

The difference between this guy and the nutjobs in Islam is that he is crazy and they are not. They believe they are doing the right thing. He's lost touch with reality.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/23/2011 12:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Update by Norwegian police: the shooting lasted 1.5 h

He had two weapons one "single-hand" and one "two-hand" guns. He put his weapons down and surrendered when the police arrived. He has not offered any motive since his arrest. He bought 6,000 kg of fertilizer, apparently used half of it.
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 12:46 Comments || Top||

#14  He brought multiple weapons with him, and a bag full of ammo, calmly announced that they were all going to die.

Multiple weapons. That means around 10 pounds per long weapon. Plus ammo (between 500 to 1000 rounds). Plus magazines.

About the killer, he also was a mason (PC press often omitted this) and an admier of an American philosopher who was from a trotskist family (left of communists), who opposed the war on Irak and hated WWB.
Posted by: JFM || 07/23/2011 13:04 Comments || Top||

#15  @Phager the Rash2607

It's one thing to criticize the Norwegian Labour Party (aka Socialists) for the stance against Israel.

It's an entirely other thing to say "cry me a river" over the death of innocent kids aged 14-16

Maybe you should think about it once more
Posted by: Flavigum Crairt2062 || 07/23/2011 13:39 Comments || Top||

#16  Easy to do in a gun-free zone. If these people had been carrying, most all would have survived.
Posted by: KBK || 07/23/2011 13:43 Comments || Top||

#17  Flavigum Crairt2062 was me
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/23/2011 13:47 Comments || Top||

#18  An oddity: According to Aftenposten (translated), the police had staged an anti-terrorist training operation on the same block just two weeks before the attack. This created some disturbance, because the public was not fully informed that it was just an exercise.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/23/2011 14:12 Comments || Top||

#19  Hey Justice, as a subhuman moronic ass monkey, what's it like not having a soul?
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division || 07/23/2011 14:30 Comments || Top||

#20  wow that must've been a Ferguson to flush that much Saoodi shit so quickly
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2011 14:58 Comments || Top||

#21  BA WOOSH!

Absolutely my favorite MwC scene.
Posted by: badanov || 07/23/2011 15:00 Comments || Top||

#22  ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2011 15:03 Comments || Top||

#23  My sympathies to the victims of this tragedy, particularly the children, their parents, and relatives. As to the perpetrator(s) - I hope they receive swift justice for their horrendous crimes.
Posted by: CincinnatusChili || 07/23/2011 16:16 Comments || Top||

#24  2 things occur to me as I read about this outrage:

1) Norway has compulsory military service for males 18-44, as benefits their small population. It's entirely *possible* that this crazy-head knew how to shoot.
2) As always, our despicable journalist-class leaves out any context for what 'right-wing' means in Europe. As a general rule, a rabid right-winger in America would be 'center-right' in Europe.
Posted by: Free Radical || 07/23/2011 16:31 Comments || Top||

#25  Something fishy this way comes.

Someone took a screen shot of his Facebook page, and went back later to discover that his interests had suddenly changed, to include "Christian" and "conservative", shortly after he was captured.

Here are the before and after screenshots.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/23/2011 17:18 Comments || Top||

#26  Norwegian sources claim there is a YouTube video the shooter prepared before the attack, plus a 1500-page manifesto he sent out to 7,000 facebook connections he had. Apparently a group of people planned a European movement against Islamism, back in 2002.
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 17:38 Comments || Top||

#27  A copy of the killer's manifesto is at this page: 2083 -- A European Declaration of Independence
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 17:59 Comments || Top||

#28  From the intro of his manifesto, he planned the bombing and island-shooting as self-sacrifical "marketing" for his anti-islamist, anti-multiculturalist message.

He feels that his message is an echo of European resistance to Islamist conquest from the 8th to the 19th century, and that there are decades of war with Islamism ahead of us.
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 18:26 Comments || Top||

#29  Do you think any MSM will report the motivation to attack the government HQ and the camp for future party leaders: fear that the ultimate enemy of Western Civilization is marxism and its modern product multi-culturalism, which have together enabled the rapid growth of militant Islamism in the heart of the West?

The question they should all ask: why exactly would an anti-Islamist attack his "own" people? what is the connection between the Leftist Youth Camp and the Moslem Wars?
Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 || 07/23/2011 19:24 Comments || Top||

#30  From what I can tell watching these Norwegians, they are the coldest, most soulless people on earth; from the prime Minister right down to the little HitlerJugend there on the island.

The PM was proud to tell the cameras that they he had visited the island a few days earlier to for a political meeting to "discuss" the Middle East. I'll bet it was real balanced discussion, eh.

Fewer of these Fuhrer worshipers and the world be a better place.

Posted by: Phager the Rash2607 || 07/23/2011 20:04 Comments || Top||

#31  Screw you Phager. 80 children were murdered. Take your cold, most soulless Jew Supremacist crap elsewhere.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/23/2011 21:26 Comments || Top||

#32 
Enough of that, Phager. I'm not going to blame children for their own deaths. Their political views aren't important. That this man coldly and callously gunned them down is what matters.

People start going your way we're going to end up with eye-for-an-eye justice. Then we'll all be blind. No thanks.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/23/2011 21:46 Comments || Top||

#33  Fewer of these Fuhrer worshipers and the world be a better place.

Very few people were amused when Ward Churchill called the people working in the WTC on 9/11 'little Eichmanns.'
Posted by: Free Radical || 07/23/2011 23:06 Comments || Top||

#34  Very disgusting comment Phager.
Posted by: Penguin || 07/23/2011 23:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Dad of NYC subway bomb plotter convicted
NEW YORK: The father of an admitted terrorist was convicted Friday of charges he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's Al-Qaeda-sanctioned plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers.

A Brooklyn jury found the father of Najibullah Zazi guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice at a trial detailing the disintegration of a working-class family of Afghan-Americans amid chilling allegations of homegrown terror.

Mohammed Wali Zazi had no visible reaction when the verdict was read.
Too bad, would have been sweet to have him clutch his chest in sudden agony...
He faces up to 40 years in prison at sentencing on Dec. 2, although the term could be much lower under federal sentencing guidelines.

Leaving court, the 55-year-old former cab driver from Colorado told reporters he was innocent.

"There are so many things that didn't come out in court," Zazi, who remains free on bail, said without elaborating.
"Lies! All lies!"
One of his attorneys, Deborah Colson, said the verdict was a disappointment and would be appealed.

"We will keep fighting for Mr. Zazi, and we will not give up," she said.

Said US Attorney Loretta Lynch: "This defendant sought to conceal one of the most violent terror plots in recent times. His actions, had they not been thwarted, would have left Americans at grave risk."

The case featured the testimony of two other family members who pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the government to stave off stiff prison terms. They detailed the family's failure to acknowledge Najibullah Zazi as a budding terrorist and its clumsy attempts to protect him once his plot fell apart.
The family that plots together...
The father was guilty of "lying and convincing others to lie to investigators and the grand jury, and destroying incriminating evidence that was crucial to the FBI's investigation," Assistant US Attorney Melissa Marrus said in closing arguments.

Colson argued that cooperating family members "falsely accused our client, Mr. Zazi, just to save themselves." At trial, a cousin of Najibullah Zazi told jurors that while living in Pakistan he had introduced Zazi to a cleric there who arranged for Zazi and two childhood friends from the New York City borough of Queens to get explosives and other instruction at an Al-Qaeda outpost.

Zazi admitted in a guilty plea last year that he returned from Pakistan to his family's Denver-area home to practice cooking up homemade bombs using chemicals extracted from beauty supplies. He then drove to New York City in September 2009 with plans to attack the subway system in a "martyrdom operation" before he learned he was being watched by the FBI and fled back to Colorado.

The defendant's nephew and brother-in-law both testified how the FBI and immigration agents put the squeeze on the Zazi clan as soon as the plot unraveled.

When it became clear Najibullah Zazi was a suspect and family members were getting grand jury subpoenas, the cousin said "Uncle Wali" recruited him to get rid of plastic containers of peroxide and other evidence. The family agreed to code name the chemicals "medicine" in case the FBI was eavesdropping, he said.

He also claimed his uncle admonished the family, "If anybody asks questions, tell them we don't know nothing."
Didn't work for Sergeant Schultz, either...
The brother-in-law recalled coming across Zazi's stockpile of bomb-making materials in his garage two months before Zazi set the plot in motion and confronting him by asking, "What the hell is this?" But he also claimed he wasn't suspicious enough to report it.

The elder Zazi's lawyers argued recorded phone calls showed the brother-in-law had a vendetta against their client because he believed the terror case had ruined his life.
He had a point...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He also claimed his uncle admonished the family, "If anybody asks questions, tell them we don't know nothing."

If you "don't know nothing" that means you know something.
Mohammed Wali Zazi. Hoisted on the petard of the double negative...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/23/2011 15:15 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Nationalist leader, 3 others killed in SW Pakistan
(KUNA) - A local nationalist leader and three others were killed in a target-killing incident Friday in Southwestern Pak province of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, said police.

Jumma Khan Raisani, the local leader of Balochistan National Party (BNP), was going back home after offering Friday prayer when two motorcyclists shot up his vehicle in Khuzdar district, police sources told KUNA.

They said Raisani, his driver and two body-guards was struck down in his prime. Police said that the assailants managed to flee.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Violence spirals again in Karachi, over 10 killed
(KUNA) -- After few days of solace, violence spiral again in Pakistain's largest commercial city on Friday as firing erupted between rival groups, leading to the death of over ten innocent people.

Fierce fighting erupted between two rivals groups over the possession of offices and shops in Liaqat Market area of Malir town late Thursday, police sources told KUNA.

The exchange of fire is still continuing, said sources, adding, so far at least ten dead-bodies and dozens of maimed have been shifted to nearby hospitals.

Police said that because of its weak strength, it has been unable to control the situation. It was only after few days of respite that violence has erupted again in Bloody Karachi's one of the sensitive areas. The previous wave of violence was triggered by political difference between the ruling Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) and ethnic-based Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). As MQM decided to rejoin the provincial coalition government, violence came to halt.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


4 militants killed in attack on security checkpost
(KUNA) -- Four beturbanned goons were killed and a soldier was maimed in an attack on a security checkpost Friday morning in a Pak tribal agency, close to Afghan border, said sources.

Militants attacked a security checkpost in Orakzai tribal agency with heavy weapons, security sources told KUNA. At least two soldiers were seriously maimed in the attack, said the sources.

They said the forces launched a retaliatory fire and killed four cut-thoats. The others managed to flee.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Violence in Kashmir over alleged army rape
[Dawn] Indian riot police fired teargas and used batons Friday to disperse hundreds of Kashmiris protesting the alleged rape of a married woman in the disputed region, police and witnesses said.

The woman from Mohammedan-majority southern Kulgam district alleged that she was kidnapped and subsequently raped by two gunnies wearing army uniforms on Tuesday.

On Friday, angry protesters set fire to a government vehicle and clashed with police, one officer said, adding several protesters and coppers were hurt after police used teargas and batons.

"The protesters have retreated into narrow lanes and are targeting the coppers with stones and bricks," a witness, Ghulam Ahmed, said in Kulgam town, a two-hour drive from the region's biggest city Srinagar.

The region was hit by massive protests in 2009 over the alleged murder and rape of two women in the neighbouring Shopian district. Federal Sherlocks later said the two had drowned in a stream and were never raped.

Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else and constituted a special team to investigate the latest incident, while the army has also launched its own investigation.

"If there is any truth in the allegation, then it is a criminal act against which strict action must be taken," the army chief of Kashmire valley S.A. Hasnain told news hounds in Srinagar.

"Army is cooperating in the police investigation and we have launched a separate investigation of our own," Hasnain said. He said that in Kashmire even faceless myrmidons use combat uniforms.

"I do want to clarify this that in Kashmire, (military) uniform is also worn by terrorists," he said, and did not rule out the incident involving rebels aiming to incite anger against the army.

The protests were the first major demonstrations this summer and raised concerns that the scenic region might return to the street violence that has hit the state in the last three years, leaving scores dead.

State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said an identification parade of soldiers from the army unit stationed in the area could be held. He added the "guilty won't be spared".

Kashmire is split between India and Pakistain, with the Indian-administered sector hit by a violent 20-year insurgency against rule from New Delhi that has left more than 47,000 people dead.

Kashmiri separatists have called for more protests and also demanded an independent probe by human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
groups or a team from the UN.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So there were four male witnesses? Otherwise she's just a harlot, no?
Posted by: Pollyandrew || 07/23/2011 21:46 Comments || Top||


Volunteers kill would-be suicide bomber
[Dawn] Peshawar: A would-be jacket wallah was killed in Bazidkhel village here on Thursday when he attacked the heads of two local peace bodies, sources said.

They said that leaders of the peace bodies narrowly beat feet when the bomber hurled a hand grenade and fired at them. The bomber was killed in retaliatory firing by the volunteers of peace bodies, they added.
Good for them.
The head of Bazid Khel Qaumi Lashkar, Fahimur Rehman, and Adezai Qaumi Lashkar chief Dilawar Khan along with several other elders of the area were leaving a hujra after resolving a local dispute when the would-be suicide bomber attacked them.

"As we were coming out of the hujra, the cut-thoat entered through a window. He hurled a hand grenade and also fired at us with a pistol. People remained unhurt as there was enough distance between the attacker and us," Mr Rehman said.

He said that his bodyguards opened firing on the bomber in retaliation. "He fell down and tried to detonate his boom jacket but failed to do so," he added. Mr Rehman said that the attacker was struck down in his prime as he received several bullet injuries.

Dilawar Khan, the head of other peace body, said that the bomber was a young man of about 22 with a light beard. He tried to kill the volunteers of the peace bodies but failed to detonate his suicide jacket, he added.

"We had been in Bazidkhel village for the last three days to resolve a dispute," he said.

Mr Khan said that Taliban and Khyber Agency-based cut-thoat organization Lashkar-i-Islam were responsible for the attack. He said that two other accomplices of the bomber beat feet on a cycle of violence. "Our volunteers are trying to capture them," he added.He said that there was no prior information about the attack otherwise volunteers would have captured the other two cut-thoats. "We will continue our efforts against beturbanned goons at any cost. The snuffies can`t scare us with such cowardly acts," he said.

An official of the Bomb Disposal Unit said that the boom jacket tied around the bomber`s chest weighed about 10 kilograms. The boom jacket was defused successfully, he said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea...
a policeman was killed and his two colleagues, including a lady constable, sustained bullet injuries during a raid at the residence of alleged proclaimed offenders at Ghazali Garhi in the limits of Regi cop shoppe on Thursday.

An official of the cop shoppe said that they raided the residence of proclaimed offenders Abdullah, Mumtaz, Mujahid, Nek Mohammad and Khan Mohammad but they opened firing on the raiding party.

A policeman and an accused identified as Amal Khan were killed and two police constables, Khan Alam and Ms Safia, were maimed in the encounter, he added.

The injured constables were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.

The funeral prayers for the killed policeman were offered at Malik Saad Police Lines.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Schools, bridges destroyed in Khyber
[Dawn] Militants blew up two schools and as many bridges in Bara while an oil tanker was targeted with an bomb in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency.

Official sources said that a government middle school in Akkakhel and a primary school for girls in Shalobar were completely destroyed when huge quantity of explosives, planted by snuffies in the buildings, went kaboom! at midnight on Wednesday.

Militants also destroyed two bridges in Shalobar, causing suspension of traffic between the area and other parts of Bara. With the destruction of the two schools, the number of destroyed educational institutions, according to official figures, has risen to 56 in Khyber Agency since the start of military operation in September 2009.

In Landi Kotal, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
oil tanker was partially damaged when a magnet bomb attached to its rear portion went kaboom! on Thursday morning. Officials said that they took the driver and cleaner of the vehicle into custody after the incident because two cabins of the tanker were empty at the time of kaboom.

Officials said that they suspected the driver of stealing fuel. The kaboom was carried out to hide the theft of thousands litres of fuel, they alleged.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami


Iraq
Iraq attacks kill five policemen
[Bangla Daily Star] Separate bomb and gun attacks yesterday killed five Iraqi coppers and maimed 17 other people in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
and Baquba, north of the capital, security officials said.

In Storied Baghdad's western Mansur district, a roadside kaboom killed two coppers, including a captain, an interior ministry official said. Eight people were also maimed, among them four coppers, he said.

"The kaboom happened when the police went to check on an earlier kaboom outside a liquor shop which had inflicted no casualties," the official said.

June was the deadliest month in Iraq so far this year, with 271 people killed in attacks including 155 civilians, 77 coppers and 39 soldiers, according to a government count.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


U.S. Transfer of Hizbullah Fighter to Iraqi Authorities on Hold
[An Nahar] Iraq's Justice Ministry said Friday that plans to transfer a top Hizbullah commander who's being held in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
from U.S. to Iraqi custody have been put on hold.

The turnabout comes as 20 U.S. senators ask the Pentagon to take "whatever steps you can" to prevent the transfer out of fear that the Islamic exemplar, Ali Mussa Daqduq, will escape or be released by Iraq's government.

Just two days ago, Justice Ministry front man Haidar al-Saadi said the U.S. would transfer custody of Daqduq by the end of this week.

U.S. forces have held Daqduq since his 2007 capture for allegedly cooperating with Iranian agents to train Shiite militias to target American soldiers.

He is one of about 10 detainees whom the U.S. must either prosecute or hand over to Iraq by the end of the year.

In a letter dated Thursday, 20 U.S. senators asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
...current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
"to take whatever steps you can to block Daqduq's transfer to the Iraqi government and out of U.S. custody."

"If he is released from United States custody, there is little doubt that Daqduq will return to the battlefield and resume his terrorist activities against the United States and our interests," the senators wrote in the letter signed by 19 Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
of Arizona, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Joseph Holy Joe Lieberman
...what a Democrat maverick would look like if the Democrats had mavericks...
, an independent senator from Connecticut, also signed the letter.

Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


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New mastermind behind Thai bombing identified
Security officials investigating a bombing in the southern Thai province of Yala on Tuesday that injured scores of victims, including young students, have identified the possible mastermind: an insurgent leader "competing" to take over terror operations after his area chief was killed recently.

The man named was Abdulloh Pulah, who sources said was demonstrating his potential against another area terrorist in Yala, Hubaidilah Romli, for the position of provincial terror chief -- replacing Ma-ae Aphibalbae, who was gunned down recently in a gunfight with authorities. Abdulloh is wanted on several criminal charges and for terror attacks, and his colleagues include his cell's bomb-maker, Kohseng Toh.

Among the many victims in Tuesday's explosion across from a school in Bannang Sata district, Sergeant Major Saroj, 45, Wednesday succumbed to severe head wounds.

Police are also tracking Muhammad Hayisamoh, another suspect implicated in Tuesday's bombing. An unidentified suspect is in the custody of Army rangers, according to a military source.

More patrols by Army rangers are being provided along the route to Tao Poon School after the bomb attack while evidence is being gathered, he said.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/23/2011 06:16 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


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One Fewer Iranian Nuclear Scientist
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been shot dead outside his home in Tehran, Iranian media sources say.
Operation Lemony SnickettĀ™ rolls on...
The Isna news agency named him as Daryoush Rezaei, 35, adding that his wife was wounded. His identity has not been officially confirmed.

In 2010, nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Tehran. Iran blamed that attack on Israeli secret service Mossad. Israel has long warned about Iran's nuclear programme.

Some reports said the latest attack involved assailants on a motorcycle, but this has not been confirmed.

Isna said that Mr Rezaei was an expert with links to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.

This week, Iran said it was installing newer and faster centrifuges at its nuclear plants, with the goal of speeding up its uranium enrichment process.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/23/2011 12:11 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  another one bites the dust and the cycles of violenceĀ© roll on
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2011 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Except this one had a brain and was using it. There's never enough of them to go around, which is why intel groups always try to identify essential actors. Take out a few of those, and it could set your enemy back years.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/23/2011 13:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Once is an accident, twice a coincidence... but after the 12th time or so, I would be more than a little suspicious.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/23/2011 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  We're everywhere, baby. Everywhere...
Posted by: The MOSSAD || 07/23/2011 13:32 Comments || Top||


Six Iran troops killed in clashes with Kurd rebels
[Bangla Daily Star] A senior officer of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards was among six soldiers killed in festivities with Kurdish rebels on the border with Iraq, Fars news agency reported yesterday.

"General Assemi of the Qom branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed along with five of his comrades in festivities with terrorist rebels of the PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) in the Sardasht area," the agency said, without giving any further details.

Iranian troops launched a major offensive on Saturday against PJAK rebels operating out of rear-bases in neighbouring Iraq.

On Tuesday, the autonomous regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan demanded Iran respect the border after a Guards commander said Iranian forces had taken "full control" of three PJAK camps inside Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran has officially asserted its sovereign right to deal militarily wid cross-border "terrorists" + rebels, i.e. KURDS, + strike at their local or regional home bases wherever they may be.

The prob for the USoA + the IGA is that, by the same token, IRAN HAS NOT INDIC THAT IT WILL FORMALLY WITHDRAW FROM THE KURDISH AUTONOMOUS REGION/ZONE IN IRAQ EVEN IFF IT IS DONE DEALING WID THE KURDS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/23/2011 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  We took Public Relations instead of ENGLISH I, II, etc. that deacde, didn't we???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/23/2011 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  JOE!

:)
Posted by: S || 07/23/2011 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Joe lets his veil down now and then.
Posted by: Pollyandrew || 07/23/2011 22:00 Comments || Top||


8 Dead in Syria as More Than 1.2 Million March in Hama, Deir Ezzor
[An Nahar] Eight non-combatants were killed on Friday when Syrian security forces and regime agents used violence to disperse anti-regime demonstrators, as more than 1.2 million protesters flooded streets in the northern city of Hama and Deir Ezzor in the east, activists said.

"More than 1.2 million people marched: in Deir Ezzor there were more than 550,000, and in Hama more than 650,000," Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding the security forces were notable by their absence during the protests.

In Hama, 210 kilometers north 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...
, demonstrators rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud "in favor of national unity and against sectarianism," while also calling "for the fall of the regime," Abdul Rahman said.

The authorities are trying to quell protests in the city where rights groups said 25 non-combatants were killed by the security forces last Friday. Hama has seen some of the largest recent protests against 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...
's regime.

Memories in Hama remain strong of a 1982 crackdown by the president's father, Hafez al-Assad, against Islamists that left 20,000 people dead.

In Deir Ezzor near the border with Iraq, some 430 kilometers east of Damascus, "daily sit-ins are taking place calling for the fall of the regime," Abdul Rahman said.

Syrian television said "about 2,000 people took part in Friday's demonstration in Deir Ezzor, contrary to reports by satellite television channels which put their numbers at hundreds of thousands."

"Two demonstrators were stabbed to death in front of the Amneh mosque in 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...
by pro-regime cut-throats who entered the compound and attacked" the faithful, said Abdul Karim Rihawi of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights.

Dozens more were maimed or jugged, he said.

In Aleppo province, another civilian was rubbed out by security forces in Azzaz, he added.

In the central city of Homs, "two protesters were rubbed out by security forces who dispersed demonstrations in the al-Khalidiyeh and Dawar al-Fakhoura districts," he added.

In the northwest, another demonstrator died of gunshot wounds inflicted by security forces in Kfar Rouma village in Idlib province bordering Turkey, Rihawi said.

Several people were also reported maimed in Idlib.

For his part, Abdul Rahman said: "Two protesters were killed by security force fire and others were maimed" at Mleiha in the Damascus region.

Thousands of protesters also marched in the capital Damascus, despite a clampdown by security forces ahead of Friday's weekly Mohammedan prayers.

Around 5,000 people thronged the neighborhood of Midan and thousands more emerged from three mosques in Hajar al-Aswad chanting slogans calling for freedom, activists said.

Earlier Abdul Rahman told AFP that army and security forces had barricaded the district of Rukneddine, isolating the mostly Kurdish-populated neighborhood, while a clampdown was also imposed on Qaboun district.

"Rukneddine is completely isolated. Barricades have been erected at all the entrances. Thousands of security officers are patrolling and conducting searches of homes and making arrests," he said.

Since the start of anti-regime protests in Syria in mid-March, pro-democracy demonstrators have chosen Friday -- the weekly day of rest when devout Mohammedans gather for midday prayers -- to vent their rage and call for change.

Meanwhile La Belle France on Friday condemned the repression in Syria, particularly the crackdown on dissent in Homs, with the foreign ministry front man saying the army should protect the people rather than "sow terror."
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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