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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Rhonda Fleming aka "Queen of Technicolor" aka Blanche in "The Spiral Staircase" aka Meta Carson in "Out of the Past" aka Alisande La Carteloise in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" aka June Lyons in ĀSlightly ScarletĀ aka Cleopatra in "Serpent of the Nile" aka Semiramis in "Queen of Babylon" aka Laura Denbow in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" aka Cora Lee Collins in "Alias Jesse James" (age 88)
Small consolation, but still better they are martyrs than living inspiration.
An American airstrike has killed the Taliban fighters believed responsible for shooting down a Chinook helicopter, killing 38 people including 30 American military personnel, the senior commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
A group of insurgents, numbering fewer than 10, were together as the location was hit by an F-16 strike, General Allen said. The airstrike occurred Sunday night onto Monday, Pentagon officials said.
A press statement released by the military headquarters in Kabul said the airstrike killed a Taliban leader named Mullah Mohibullah, who was part of the group that shot down the helicopter and subsequently escaped. Pentagon officials said he was not the primary leader of the insurgent network who had been the target of the first mission.
The statement said that security forces "located and followed the insurgents to a wooded area in Chak district. After ensuring no civilians were in the area, the force called for the airstrike which resulted in the deaths of the Mullah Mohibullah, the shooter, and several of their Taliban associates."
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Too bad ISAF could not have conducted an "air strike" to secure the LZ prior to the tragic INFIL.
Pentagon officials said he was not the primary leader of the insurgent network who had been the target of the first mission.
Mullah Mohibullah was it? Mullah is an honorariam, not a name. They change names as often as people in the west change undergarments. And just how do we know this piece of haji kak was the shooter? Names mean phueching NOTHING! Ok, so what was he doing there, just passing through and awaiting a helo target of opportunity?
Sorry Kabul, no closure for me. The entire story please, along with why the Task Force sent 10% of ST6 into a hot LZ as a Quick Reaction Force (QRF).
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They are saying the target of the original raid escaped but are not saying who it was. Who's that important? (nobody!) Also omitted in my clip was that even this strike could not be carried out until we ascertained there were no civilians at risk.
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Thanks Anguper. All valid points. Within the community, ST tragedies are sadly, all too common. Granada, Panama, etc. Link I hope the investigation does not determine there was a Hooah factor, which threw caution to the wind in favour of.... "let's go GET SOME!"
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From what I have seen, SEALS (and Deltas) are very methodical, level-headed, intelligent, and hugely into planning ahead. Might be some hooyah moments on the ground. :) Low likelihood of mindless pursuit.
Me, I want to see Arc Light action on the network that did this. I may suffer from pursuit desire.
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It seems to me that it's time to take a good hard look at whether Israel's Trophy system can be mounted onto choppers. Yes, the added weight would probably mean a smaller number of troops can be ferried around, but incidents like this might be avoided.
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Zhang Fei, there was an article recently which reported Israel was developing a system similar to Trophy but without all the bits flying about, apparently they do not make friends with a helicopter. Maybe that laser system will get up soon.
Rest brave men, who answered the call and gave their all, and those who may learn, learn well from this.
And the sumbitch they were after better realize that for the rest of eternity he will rest only one more time, and it will not be in peace.
(puts a vote mark up next to Wiskey Mikes suggestion)
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Like to know if the LZ was prepped and, if not, why not.
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AL-QAEDA-IN-GAZA Boyz???
* ION FOX NEWS AL > US ISAF SPOX = indic that the SEALS Chopper was shot down while trying to prevent a group of Insurgent fighters, ostensib TALIBAN, from escaping [blocking force].
IIUC, IOW the US Army Rangers etal. at risk were winning their fight.
OTHER > Evidence collected thus far is leaning toward the possibility that the Chopper may had been struck by TWO OR MORE RPGS IN TARGETED/DEDIC MASS FIRE = VOLLEY FIRE, by definition implying that MULTIPLE TALIBAN SHOOTERS WERE INVOLVED, NOT ONE. THE SITE INVESTIGATION = EVIDENCE COLLECTION, HOWEVER, IS STILL ONGOING + INCOMPLETE.
AFAIK Afghan INTEL are still claiming it was a Taliban "trap"???
In a combat situation, where risk of death is present, even the "Best of the Best" can make a dangerous "tripwire" lapse of judgement.
"Mullah Mohibullah was a key facilitator in an insurgent attack cell led by Din Mohammad, a Taliban leader killed in a previous Special Operations mission," the NATO-ISF statement read. "As a leader in Mohammad's network in Tangi valley, Mohibullah had as many as 12 Taliban fighters under his command, including potential suicide bombers."
"After an exhaustive manhunt, Special Operations forces located Mullah Mohibullah and the shooter after receiving multiple intelligence leads and tips from local citizens. The two men were attempting to flee the country in order to avoid capture."
[Tolo News] Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor said hard boyz of the UN office in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif were affiliates of the Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... party of Hezb-e-Islami.
Seven suspects who were involved in the attack on UN office in Balkh province have been tossed in the calaboose and they will soon face trial, Balkh governor said.
After the burning of Koran by an American pastor, hundreds of residents of Mazar-e-Sharif staged a huge demonstration nearly five months ago. Later on the demonstrations turned violent and some protesters broke into UN regional office killing 7 UN staff.
UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... strongly condemned the incident then.
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... has paid victim families in cash months after the incident.
"There is no doubt that some hands were involved in the incident. Investigations have been carried out and the case is complete," Governor Atta Mohammad Noor said. "Those who were tossed in the calaboose had links to Hezb-e-Islami and the Taliban."
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[Dawn] Somalia's embattled government offered an open amnesty on Tuesday to Islamist Shebab fighters after the rebels made a surprise withdrawal from the famine-struck capital over the weekend.
The al Qaeda affiliated hard boyz have waged a bloody war since 2007 to topple the Western-backed transitional government, which they had hemmed in to a portion of Mogadishu.
"We offer an amnesty -- put down your weapons and your guns, and come and join the people and your society," said Abdirahman Osman, a front man for the transitional government.
"For those who have been misled by the senior commanders, now is the time to end the war." The bully boy fighters, who had controlled around half of Mogadishu, abandoned their positions on Saturday but some units remained active within the capital.
Fighting was reported as rebel remnants clashed with 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... -backed government troops after the pullout.
Sporadic gunfire was heard in the city on Tuesday morning, according to an AFP correspondent.
Government officials celebrated the hardline rebel pullout but the Shebab said it was merely "a change of military tactics."
The 9,000-strong AU force (AMISOM) and government troops have meanwhile reinforced their hold over former rebel positions in an effort to allow more aid into the famine-struck capital on Tuesday.
"The hard boyz have been preventing the provision of food to hungry Somalis and this has opened up the opportunity to help many more people," said Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra, the AU special representative to Somalia, in a statement released late Monday.
AMISOM however warned people intending to return to former Shebab-controlled areas of the "high possibility" of "roadside kabooms and pockets of remaining bully boy fighters," Diarra said.
The UN Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was assessing how the rebel withdrawal would open aid group access to the war-torn city, to which about 100,000 people have decamped in the past two months to escape extreme drought.
"Although it is too early to know what the impact on the overall situation is, humanitarian actors are assessing the ability to operate and/or scale up activities," it said a statement Tuesday.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has officially declared famine in Somalia for the first time this century, including in Mogadishu and four southern Somali regions.
"Famine... is expected to spread across all regions of the south in the coming four to six weeks," OCHA warned.
"Cases of acute watery diarrhoea are increasing across Somalia," it added.
Much of southern Somalia -- including most of the regions declared to be in famine -- is still controlled by the Shebab rebels.
The UN's food monitoring unit has described Somalia as facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world and Africa's worst food security crisis since the country's 1991-1992 famine.
Parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda have also been hit by the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades.
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Spero] SOMALI FAMINE COULD CAUSE AL-SHABAAB TO SPLINTER.
ARTIC = AL-Shabaab likely to be WEAKENED, BUT STIIL VIOLENT SAVE FOR ITS TACTICS BECOM MORE UNPREDICTABLE.
IOW, Al-Shabaab = post-Osama, Zawahiri-led "Core" Al-Qaeda in AFPAK.
[Emirates 24/7] Canada on Tuesday ordered Libya's diplomats to leave the country within five days and cut off their access to the embassy's bank accounts, Foreign Minister John Baird said.
"These people now have five business days to vacate the embassy and leave the country," Baird said in a statement, explaining the steps were taken to further isolate the regime of Libyan strongman Moamer Qadaffy. ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... Canada is one of the lead nations in a 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... -led alliance that has conducted an aerial bombing campaign against the Qadaffy regime since March, when the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... approved action to protect civilians.
Ottawa has contributed six F-18 fighter planes and a frigate, and the NATO mission is led by a Canadian.
Baird, on his first trip as foreign minister in June, met with Libyan rebel leaders during an unannounced visit to Benghazi.
He had commented in a conference call with Canadian journalists that the National Transitional Council (NTC) represented "the best hope for the future of Libya."
Canada had already recognized Libya's NTC before Baird's visit, which came as NATO allies marked the 100th day of their bombing campaign in the country.
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[Al Jazeera] Libya's opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) has dissolved its executive board and asked Mahmoud Jibril, its chairman, to elect a new one.
Al Jizz's Tony Birtley, reporting from the opposition stronghold city of Benghazi, said the news on Monday came unexpectedly.
"This came completely out of the blue. There's a lot of speculation now that there is some sort of inner fallout following the murder of Abdel Fattah Younes, the commander of the opposition forces, more than a week ago."
Birtley said there had been complaints over the handling of Younes' death by the NTC and the disbanding of the executive board could be related.
Abdul Jalil, the head of the Libyan opposition, in an interview with Al Jizz on Monday said: "Administrative mistakes have been noted in the NTC bureau performance in the recent period, prompting the NTC to take the decision to dissolve the bureau.
"A newly formed bureau would be entrusted with reviewing the 'conspiracy' that involved the liquidation of General Younes."
He said, "The members of the executive bureau did not dispose with the liquidation issue in a proper manner."
Asked whether they were accusing anyone, Abdul Jalil said, "No member of the opposition fighters would behave that way with the commander of the national army and his colleagues, unless there is a conspiracy."
Speaking about whether the decision had something to do with recently noted conflicts and disputes among the NTC members, Jalil said the decision has nothing to do with subsidiary issues.
He said Jibril, the outgoing chairman of the NTC executive board, would be entrusted with forming the new bureau and would submit the new panel to the NTC for endorsement.
Push to Tripoli
Our correspondent said it was doubtful that the political moves would affect the opposition's push towards 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... 's stronghold, Tripoli.
"Even the men who were said to be loyal to General Younes are said to be fighting in the frontline," said Birtley.
Libya's opposition fighters had announced earlier on Monday that they would begin their push towards the capital but expected a tough fight, after capturing the town of Bir al-Ghanam on Sunday.
The capture of Bir al-Ghanam was the biggest rebel breakthrough in weeks of largely static fighting on three fronts across Libya.
Libya's prime minister told news hounds in Tripoli on Sunday that government forces were in control of Bir al-Ghanam after fighting off a rebel attack.
But in the town early on Monday, the only sign of government forces was the weaponry they had left behind when they decamped, the Rooters news agency reported.
Al Jizz's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Bir al-Ghanam, said that an offensive was not only made in that town by opposition forces on Saturday but that an offensive, which is holding, was also made along the road that led to the city of Surman.
"Rebels advanced some 30km and are only 50km from the city of Surman," she said.
"If they manage to take that town they will be able to cut off Qadaffy's main supply line in the west," she said. "They know that they can get support from inside that city, that rebels there are ready to rise up against the Qadaffy regime but they need help from outside."
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they.ve been getting help. let emkill each other, who gic=ves a shit ? Any other regume will just be like the last just like any other islamic country.
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[Yemen Post] Tens of thousands of people erupted into the streets of Yemen's Ibb province on Monday to call for the ouster of the relatives of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... and trying those responsible for crimes including murdering antigovernment protesters and innocent people in their homes in some parts of the republic.
They urged the international community to support the popular revolution in Yemen seeking change and a civil state as well as removing the cover on the remaining officials of the Saleh regime. They said that the international community should stop providing military and financial aid to the falling regime because such aid is being used to kill the people and confiscate their rights.
They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud condemning the military operations in some districts on the outskirts of the capital Sana'a and in the provinces of Taiz and Abyan, and the collective punishment of all the Yemeni people through involvement in all crises topped by acute fuel and cooking gas shortages, persistent power outages and price hikes.
Furthermore, they affirmed the Yemeni revolution is always peaceful until its objectives were achieved. The massive demonstration coincided with continuous protests and sit-ins in downtown main cities to continue the youth-led uprising that started six months ago.
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[Al Jazeera] President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , Yemen's president, is to return to his country from Soddy Arabia after his doctors have determined the necessary recovery period for him, Yemen's official news agency reported.
The SABA news agency on Tuesday quoted an official within Yemen's presidential office who said Saleh will return "after a specified period of convalescence".
The official also denied a report No, no! Certainly not! published in Asharq al-Awsat, the London-based pan-Arab daily, that US officials had convinced Saleh not to return to Yemen.
Saleh was released from the military hospital in Riyadh, Soddy Arabia, on Sunday, where he had been recovering for the last two months following an liquidation attempt at the peak of the Yemeni uprising.
'Elements of terrorism'
Saleh appeared on television on July 7 for the first time since the June 3 bombing, covered in bandages.
He accused "elements of terrorism" of having targeted him in the kaboom, without specifying the identity of the assailants.
Fighting broke out several months ago between forces loyal to Saleh and those of a powerful tribal faction, which backed the mass protests calling for him to leave his office after 33 years of rule.
Since Saleh's departure to Soddy Arabia, Yemeni vice president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has assumed power in Sanaa but without being designated as de facto head of state.
The opposition, meanwhile, has called for the creation of an interim council, to prevent the return of Saleh who has defiantly clung to power.
Since January, protesters across Yemen have been calling for Saleh to step down.
Political paralysis over Saleh's fate has brought the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of civil war and raised fears in neighbouring Soddy Arabia and the United States that chaos in Yemen could embolden the country's al-Qaeda branch.
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Armed suspects attacked a police station in an remote area in far western Chihuahua state early Tuesday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
An unknown number of armed suspects assaulted the municipal police station in Gomez Farias, which is about 360 kilometers northwest of Chihuahua city, the capital. Gomez Farias is on Mexico Highway 5.
Reports say armed individuals entered the station firing weapons causing damage to the building. The suspects left with two AR-15 assault rifles and one 9mm weapon. Suspects also made off with three radios.
No one was reported wounded in the attack.
Armed direct fire attacks on police stations and armory robberies are not common in Mexico. The last armory robbery was a nighttime raid of a Chihuahua state police armory a year ago to the day in which 40 H&K G36 assault rifles were stolen, along with ammunition.
To date, only one of the weapons have been recovered in a shootout with Mexican Federal agents near the Juarez Municipal Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO).
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maybe SKOR should just launch a surprise and whoop their ass and end this bullshit once and for all. 60 plus years is long enough.
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TOPIX > [Spero News] KOREA: SOUTHERN AID [ROK] TO PYONGYANG [DPRK] "LAST CHANCE BEFORE WAR".
Makes me wonder just how confident Kimmie + Regime truly is as per the ability of the DPRK + DPRK Socialist Movement to asymmetrically or unilater self-recover vee CHINA???
Given
* WORLD MIL FORUM > US SAYS CHINA'S MODERN SUBMARINES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STOP THE PENETRATION BY US SUBS OF EAST ASIA SEA LANES DESPITE THE GROWING SOPHISTICATION OF PLAN SUBS.
IOW, its still gonna be a while before the PLA = PLAN can effectively do so.
THINGS ARE PRETTY "IFFY" RIGHT NOW FOR RISING CHINA VEE ACHIEVING PLA STRATEGIC ACCESS THRU THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", ESPEC IN NE ASIA [Japan-Okinawa-Taiwan corridor]???
* WAFF > {StrategyPage] NORTH KOREA UPDATES A COLD WAR CLASSIC., i.e. revamped Russian SS-N-6 = new DPRK RSM-25 "Musudan" BMS.
versus
* ABC.NET/AU [Australia BBC] JAPAN GOVT. PREPARES [contigency] PLAN TO FLEE TOKYO, to other Nippon Cities e.g. Osaka to escape from post-Tohoku radiation poisoning, + espec iff another 03/11-or-Worse Quake,Tsunami? event occurs.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > [Uighur]EXILED LEADER SAYS CHINA'S UIGHURS "WILL LIBERATE OURSELVES OR DIE" | UIGUR LEADER REBIYA KADEER REJECTS BEIJING ACCUSATIONS THAT MUSLIM UIGHURS OR FOREIGN EXTREMISTS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR RECENT VIOLENCE [Hotan, Kashgar].
As per reports of J&K Government, 13226 civilians and 5369 Security Force personnel have been killed in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir during the period from year 1990 to April, 2011. Similarly, 21323 terrorists have been killed during the same period.
Relief is a State subject. As per the J&K GovernmentĀs Relief policy, the Next of Kins (NoKs) of civilian victims of terrorist violence as well as Security Force personnel are sanctioned ex-gratia amounts based on extent orders in this regard.
This was stated by Shri Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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A U.S. drone strike killed at least 21 Previously reported number was just 5, but there was a lot of rubble to sort through.
suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region Wednesday, officials said, just days after Pakistan called for "clear terms of engagement" in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. I guess this was our answer. Good.
"The dead included local Taliban as well as some Arabs and Uzbek nationals," an intelligence official in North Waziristan said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Some Afghan insurgents belonging to the Haqqani network were among the dead.
The latest strike took the death toll of suspected militants in such attacks since the beginning of June to more than 160, according to Reuters figures based on statements from local intelligence officials.
[Dawn] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed the post-arrest bail petition of a would-be jacket wallah.
The Margalla police said they incarcerated Meera Jan on June 26, 2011, near Bloody Karachi Company bus stand and recovered an explosive jacket, hand grenade, a 30-bore pistol and six bullets from his possession. Meera Jan is currently confined in Central Jail Adiala.
The single bench of IHC Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman in its order observed: "Incidents of terrorism have increased in the country and innocent people are being deprived of their lives; the same must be dealt with an iron hand."
It said: "Overwhelming incrementing material is available on record to connect the petitioner with the commission of offence. Prima facie, the petitioner is involved in offence against the society, which is a heinous offence."
According to the court order, Meera Jan was involved in an offence which is punishable with life imprisonment and in such cases grant of bail is an exception while the petitioner`s counsel has failed to highlight any exception.
Chaudhry Nisar Ahmed Gujjar, the petitioner`s counsel, informed the court that his client was absolutely innocent and had been roped in the case by Islamabad police in order to show their fake efficiency.
He contended that the petitioner had become a victim of family rivalry and the Margalla police on the instigation of the opponents of the petitioner had implicated him in a false case. "Nothing was recovered from the possession of the petitioner and he has no concern with the suicide jacket," he added.
Deputy Attorney General Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri contended that Meera Jan was incarcerated with other co-accused.
He opposed the grant of bail to the accused and requested the court to dismiss the petition. On July 28, Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Syed Wajahat Hussain had also dismissed the post-arrest bail petition of the accused.
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[Dawn] Fear gripped parts of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and a few housing societies in Scheme-33 on Monday after armed attacks and an exchange of fire killed at least four people and left at least five maimed, including a man and his 12-year-old son, police and witnesses said.
The firing incidents that erupted about an hour before sunset continued into the night, prompting the police and the Rangers only to cordon off the affected areas and launch a snap checking of motorists.
Showing unawareness about the motive and people behind the firing, police said they had spotted the affected areas and would launch a 'search operation'.
In the first incident, armed riders targeted young men sitting outside an electronics shop near Asma Garden in Scheme 33 along the main Abul Hasan Ispahani Road.
The police said the two men on a cycle of violence fired shots at Zain, Mansoor and Nawab while two more riders were backing them up.
"The firing left the three men maimed. They were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital," said an official at the Mubina Town cop shoppe.
"Zain and Mansoor died during treatment. Zain was the owner of the shop and a resident of the nearby Scout Colony while Mansoor was his friend and had come to see him from Federal B Area."
Though the police denied political association of any of the victims, they said the younger brother of Zain was an active member of a political party.
The firing sparked tension in the area and forced traders to pull down shutters before sunset. As the Sherlocks were trying to trace links behind the double murders, within the next few minutes of it gunnies struck in Gulistan-i-Jauhar that led to an exchange of fire in and outside the Rabia City housing scheme.
An official at the Sharea Faisal cop shoppe confirmed the death of a man identified as Salman Javed in the firing, but said he was a pedestrian killed in crossfire.
The causality unit of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre received another body from the same area. It remained unidentified. The firing turned intense after sunset and left five people maimed.
"Four or five persons have been maimed. They include a man whose 12-year-old son has also sustained wounds in the wrist," said SP Waqar Mullahan of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town.
"We have spotted the area inside Rabia City from where the firing started and led to a group clash-like situation. More police force has been called in backed by Rangers personnel, who would search certain pockets of the residential scheme."
The police and a heavy contingent of Rangers later cordoned off the roads leading out of and into Rabia City, which affected traffic movement in certain blocks on Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Scheme-33.
In Shershah, at least a body was found in a storm-water drain which the police said had marks of torture and gunshot wounds. The victim was said to have been killed three days ago.
An official at the Shershah cop shoppe said the police found the body along the Lyari river near the old truck stand which was later shifted to the Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
"The victim was tortured and shot twice in the chest. The body has been shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification," he added.
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[Dawn] Six gun-hung tough guys were killed and four others injured when security forces targeted their hideouts in upper tehsil of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Monday.
Officials said that several hideouts were destroyed in the operation. Security forces targeted cut-thoat positions with artillery. One vehicle was also destroyed in the shelling.
In another incident, one soldier suffered injuries in a landmine kaboom in Meshti Mela area on Monday. Officials said that soldiers were heading towards Dabori area when one of them stepped on a landmine. He was immediately rushed to a military hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... perforated carcass of two-year-old Hussain Ahmad was found in Khwa Darra area on Monday. The child was kidnapped two weeks ago.
His body carrying multiple bullet injuries was sighted by a local shepherd.
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(Xinhua) -- At least five Mohammedan rebels were killed, nine others maimed and hundreds of families beat feet as fierce fighting between troops led by two rebel commanders erupted Tuesday in the restive southern Philippines, a military official said.
Lt. Col. Prudencio Asto, front man for the military's 6th Division, told Xinhua by phone the festivities involving Commander Abunawas of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and Commander Adzmi, of Moro Islamic Liberation Front's 106th Command erupted in remote village in the township of Datu Piang in Maguindanao province.
Asto said the fighting has something to do with long standing land conflict, a claim confirmed by the MILF's Central Committee.
"We deployed troops to the scene not to fan the ongoing fire but to pacify. We are containing the fighting within the area so it will not spread," the military official said.
Asto said as of 3:00 p.m., government agencies along with military personnel distributed relief goods to people displaced by the fighting.
Von Al Haq, front man for the 11,000 strong MILF, said the incident involved land conflict over a six-hectare agricultural land.
In Southern Philippines, clan war or "rido" is common among warring clans and sometimes the hostilities could last for decades until a peace pact is reached by protagonists, usually through mediation by religious leaders and the payment of blood money.
Among major causes rido include land disputes, particularly those caused by disputed government surveys or ancestral land claims; political rivalries, mostly election-related; crime- related, including murder and proliferation of illegal drugs, competition over resources and businesses.
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[Dawn] Syria's president held talks with neighboring Turkey's foreign minister Tuesday as the regime faced a chorus of global reproach, with envoys from India, Brazil and South Africa also heading to 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 press for an end to the violent crackdown on a five-month-old uprising.
The visit by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was significant because Turkey until recently had close ties to Damascus. But Ankara has become increasingly critical of its neighbor over the bloodshed.
Turkey's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... confirmed that Assad was meeting Davutoglu, but there were no details.
In Washington, US State Department front man Mark Toner lauded the visit and said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... had spoken to Davutoglu.
"They did talk about the situation in Syria, you know, and we believe it's another opportunity to send yet another strong message to Assad that this crackdown on peaceful protesters cannot stand," Toner said Monday.
India's UN Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri said his country's representative is scheduled to arrive in Damascus on Tuesday and will join representatives from Brazil and South Africa for a meeting with Syria's foreign minister to appeal for an end to the crackdown and to promote democratic reforms.
The Syrian regime has shown no signs of scaling back its crackdown despite Damascus' increasing diplomatic isolation. Soddy Arabia, along with Bahrain and Kuwait in the Gulf, recalled their ambassadors this week.
In an editorial published Tuesday, the Al Baath newspaper of Syria's ruling Baath party said the regime was hopeful that Turkey and the Gulf Arab nations will "quickly correct their stands."
The latest wave of bloodshed started a week ago, on the eve of the holy month of Ramzan, when tanks and snipers laid siege to Hama, a city in central Syria that had largely freed itself from government control earlier this year.
Residents were left cowering in their homes, too terrified to peek through the windows. The city is haunted by memories of the regime's tactics: In 1982, Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez, ordered the military to quell a rebellion by Syrian members of the conservative Moslem Brüderbund movement there, sealing off the city in an assault that killed between 10,000 and 25,000 people.
Since the start of Ramadan, more than 300 people have been killed in cities including Hama and Deir el-Zour, an oil-rich but largely impoverished region known for its well-armed clans and tribes whose ties extend across eastern Syria and into Iraq.
Syria has blocked nearly all outside witnesses to the carnage by banning foreign media and restricting local coverage that strays from the party line, which states the regime is fighting thugs and religious snuffies who are acting out a foreign conspiracy.
More than 1,700 people have been killed since March, according to activists and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups.
On Monday, Assad replaced his defense minister with the army chief of staff, saying Gen. Ali Habib was being removed from his post because of health problems.
But some analysts said the general was unhappy with the crackdown.
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Wonder what all of them will say when victorious Sunnis will start massacring Alawites & Christians?
[An Nahar] Turkey's foreign minister held talks Tuesday in 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... with 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... with the aim of delivering a stern message that Ankara has "run out of patience" with the Syrian regime's deadly crackdown on protests.
Assad met Davutoglu in the presence of the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, the pro-government Dunia television channel reported.
The mission comes after Soddy Arabia and two other Arab states in the Gulf withdrew their ambassadors from Damascus, in a development that both "encouraged" and "heartened" the United States.
President Bashir al-Assad named a new defense minister on Monday as he faced growing regional isolation and Sunni Islam's top authority urged an end to the bloodshed.
Davutoglu's visit to Damascus was to pass on Ankara's message that it "has run out of patience" with the ongoing violence, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
He said Turkey "cannot remain a spectator" to current events in the country with which it shares a border as well as historic and cultural links.
"We do not consider the problems in Syria a question of foreign policy but a domestic matter," Erdogan said.
The prime minister added: "We must listen to the voices coming from over there, listen to them and do what is necessary."
Ankara, whose ties with Damascus have flourished in recent years, has called on Assad to initiate reforms but has stopped short of calling for his departure.
They met as the corpse count mounted, with rights activists reporting 21 deaths, including 17 people killed by security forces in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, scene of a deadly army assault Sunday that killed 42 people.
"At least 15 people were killed in different parts of Deir Ezzor which has been raided by tanks and vehicles mounted with machine guns," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, quoting activists at the scene.
"A woman and a young man shot (earlier in the day) died of their wounds," the Britannia-based Observatory said in a statement.
A human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... lawyer also spoke of two deaths in the central flashpoint city of Hama, adding that some 50 tanks were deployed in the Hilfaya and Tibet al-Imam districts.
The Observatory reported two people killed and several maimed in the northwestern Idlib province bordering Turkey, while "a dozen tanks and other armored vehicles attacked the Binnish and Sarmin areas."
State-run SANA news agency reported that funeral ceremonies were held Tuesday in the Homs military hospital for three members of the security forces killed by "terrorist" groups in the central city and in protest hub Hama.
On Monday SANA, quoting a military source, said troops had left Hama "after completing a mission of protecting civilians and tracking down the armed terrorist groups which had been wreaking havoc" in the city.
On their Facebook page, Syrian Revolution 2011, an engine of the uprising, invited Davutoglu to "come and pray" in a Damascus mosque "to find out from close up of the demands of the Syrian people."
The regime's repression of Syria's pro-democracy uprising has left more than 2,050 people dead, including almost 400 members of the security forces, the Syrian Observatory says.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese authorities have reported to the Special Tribunal for Leb on the measures that they have taken to search for, arrest, and transfer those accused in the February 14, 2005 liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, said the STL press office in a statement.
Lebanese Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza submitted his report Tuesday, it added.
He stated that so far none of the four people who are accused has been jugged, it reported.
"The President of the STL, Judge Antonio Cassese, will now consider the report carefully and will in due course make a determination on the next steps," continued the court statement.
"Leb's obligation under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1757 to arrest, detain and transfer the accused continues," it concluded.
In June, the STL issued the first phase of its indictment, along with four arrest warrants against four Hizbullah members suspected of being involved in Hariri's liquidation.
Leb had some 30 days to hand over the suspects.
For its part, Hizbullah had repeatedly announced that it would not cooperate with the STL, deeming it an American and Israeli product.
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[An Nahar] Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. has appointed Osama al-Shahabi as the new leader of the group after the death of its former leader Abdul Rahman Awad who was killed in an army ambush in Shtoura in 2010, revealed a Fatah source to the Central News Agency on Tuesday.
Confessions of two Fatah al-Islam members revealed that al-Shahabi was the criminal mastermind of the failed liquidation attempt against Fatah's Leb commander Mahmoud Issa, alias "Al-Lino", added the source.
The liquidation attempt took place about a week ago and was conducted by some Jund al-Sham members.
Shahabi also oversaw the festivities that took place between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam that broke out at the Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp over the weekend.
The source explained that Jund al-Sham and Fatah al-Islam have been harmed by the reconciliation between the Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Paleostinian groups in Cairo and the improved ties between the Lebanese state and Paleostinian Liberation Organization, as well as Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ' upcoming visit to Leb.
The source said that Abbas will stress during his trip that the refugee camps are a part of Leb and they will not be a "thorn in its side."
The Paleostinian authorities in Ain al-Hilweh have succeeded in withdrawing armed individuals from the camp after Sunday's festivities between Fatah, Jund al-Sham, and Fatah al-Islam.
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The survival of the regime is at stake, for it is surviving now on brute force alone.
It is in that context that the death of the man who was an Assad intimate and his Defense Minister [former Lt General], Ali Habib, is so striking other reports were that he is not dead but in confinement
There were reports that he had objected to the use of the military in Hama. And according to news reports, after being fired Monday Habib was found dead in his home Tuesday. The official news agency noted that he had been suffering from a deterioration in his health. As we are talking about Assad's Syria, that deterioration may have been very rapid indeed: it may have occurred immediately after he was shot.
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apparently, clan loyalty is dead. Think Assad will live this rebellion out in Syria? I see him exiting in a hasty flight with as much boodle as he can cobble together as a "best scenario" for him. My preference? Stretching that pencil neck from a Damascus streetlight and letting the populace play piƱata
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Damn, the commodores got the pulse of the Syrian Disco... but yeah, this is serious shit damn shit. Hay fire in the barn.
Who first dead/gone or neither....
Pencilneck or TheDuck?
TheDuck is making a bold move on the inside...
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apparently, clan loyalty is dead.
Out in the Near East, the traditional punishment for treason against the sovereign is death. I'm surprised that Assad had to use subterfuge. Saddam used to pull people into a side room and just shoot them. No mucking around there.
Where can you go when the bullet hits the bone? Sure, it would be nice to spend your days lounging by the pool in Bahrain or Saudi, enjoying the fruits of your rotten dictatorship, but you can't just check into a Motel 6. You need a state sponsor who can fade the heat from your esteemed presence. And you certainly don't want to worry about all the pissant revolutionaries, revenge seekers or god forbid, the SEALs who might show up unannounced.
Maybe we need an international theme park for retired ratbag dictators, someplace that provides an exit strategy and a soft landing.
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Yet Libya was CRUCIAL to interfere in. If Assad flee's, I expect Hezbollah to make a play at taking over Syria. They'll fail, but I still expect it.
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"Maybe we need an international theme park for retired ratbag dictators, someplace that provides an exit strategy and a soft landing."
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I thought Ukraine would be a good place for Daffy. He could move in with his nurse there. As for the others, maybe Vladimir could offer them a place in Siberia.
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