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(Xinhua) -- Afghan police eliminated 18 Taliban and jugged 31 more cut-throats during operations in the country over the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
"The Afghan National Police (ANP), in collaboration with the Afghan National Army, NDS or National Directorate of Security and Coalition Forces, launched 10 joint operations over the past 24 hours in the Kabul, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Kandahar, Zabul, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , Baghlan, Paktia and Farah provinces," said a statement issued by the Interior Ministry here.
"As a result of these operations, 18 armed cut-throats were killed, seven other armed cut-throats were maimed and 31 armed cut-throats were locked away," the statement said.
Separately, police also found and defused a total of 13 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and anti-vehicle mines in Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Farah, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunduz, Nimroz and Uruzgan provinces, over the same period of time, besides seizure of seven AK-47 guns, six pistols and two rocket launchers, the statement said.
"The ANP also found five cycle of violences, one vehicle and five artillery shells as a result of the above operations over the past 24 hours," it said.
Taliban cut-throats have yet to make comments.
The Taliban outfit, fighting Afghan and 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 troops, have intensified their activities against government interests and security forces since the beginning of May when the forces of Evil group announced to launch a spring offensive against security forces all over the country.
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Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the house of an Afghan provincial governor just north of the capital, killing 19 and wounding more than 30 after setting off at least five explosions.
An Afghan interior ministry spokesman said 14 civilians and five police had been killed, with 37 people, mostly civilians, injured.
Governor Abdul Basir Salangi earlier told Tolo television station that he was inside the compound that houses his office and other administrators in Parwan province, about 30 miles north of Kabul.
"The enemy entered the southern gate. One detonated himself and five others attacked inside the governor's house. So far there have been five blasts," he said, adding that there was a standoff between the attackers and the guards.
"There are some people injured. I saw some people injured there," he added.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for an earlier attack in the Parwan capital of Charikar. The surrounding farming plains are also home to Bagram, the biggest US military base in Afghanistan.
KABUL: Afghan security forces have recovered the bodies of five policemen and three intelligence agents who were kidnapped by insurgents two days ago in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Saturday.
Gunmen abducted the eight security troops on Thursday in the Day Mirdad district of Wardak province, said provincial spokesman Shahidullah Shahid.
The bodies were discovered late Friday and taken to the provincial capital city of Maidan Shahr early Saturday, Shahid said. He added that three suspected insurgents have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and killings.
Wardak province has been the scene of heavy fighting between international troops and the Taleban. It was also in Wardak that insurgents shot down the US Army Chinook early this month, killing 30 American troops, seven Afghan soldiers and an Afghan interpreter.
The violence in the province prompted the WardakÂ’s governorÂ’s office to take the unusual step of publicly rebuking the Afghan military. The office said in a statement that Afghan army troops have enough personnel to secure the province, but fail to do so because the soldiers are confined to a few checkpoints along major roads.
“They are not chasing the enemies, they only patrol on asphalt roads,” the statement said. “They are not making any connections with the local people and they are unable to carry out their duties.”
The governorÂ’s office said that the Taleban continues to threaten local residents despite being outnumbered by Afghan security forces. The statement also said the military consistently fails to follow through with plans made during interagency security meetings in Wardak.
The US military had planned to handover a joint combat outpost in the Tangi Valley area of Wardak, near the site of the US helicopter crash, to the Afghan army in April. Afghan commanders refused to take over the camp, which was then briefly occupied by the Taleban, according to military officials and local townspeople.
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry, dismissed the criticism as the complaints of a provincial office about a national institution. “The national army cannot receive orders from the provincial governors in their provinces,” he said.
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[Dawn] Five members of the same family were killed Saturday when a roadside kaboomdestroyed their minivan in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, an official said.
The incident happened in Gereshk, a volatile district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, as the family travelled to Helmand's main town Lashkar Gah, provincial front man Daud Ahmadi said.
"At around 10:00 am this morning, a minivan struck a roadside kaboom killing three women and two men who were members of one family," Ahmadi said.
Although the attack bore the hallmarks of the Taliban, who frequently plant roadside kabooms in Afghanistan's restive regions, the Death Eaters were unreachable to comment on the attack.
Civilians are the biggest casualties in the decade-long war in Afghanistan, where around 140,000 foreign forces are stationed.
The year 2010 was the bloodiest yet for civilians, with the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... recording 2,777 fatalities.
A total of 1,462 civilians were also killed in the first half of 2011, according to UN figures -- an increase of 15 per cent over last year, with Death Eater attacks blamed for 80 per cent of fatalities overall.
Cheap and easy to make, improvised bombs (IEDs) are used widely by the Taliban and kill large numbers of civilians and troops.
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A suicide bomber's attack on a police headquarters in the Algerian city of Tizi Ouzou wounded 29 people early on Sunday. The attacker attempted to drive a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck packed with explosives into the police headquarters at 4:30 a.m. local time. Algeria's El Watan newspaper reported on its Internet site that four Chinese citizens and a baby were among the injured.
Tizi Ouzou lies about 60 miles east of the Algerian capital. It is the capital of the mountainous Kabylie region, where al Qaeda's north African group has a stronghold. A similar suicide attack in 2008 targeted the headquarters of the police intelligence unit in Tizi Ouzou.
[An Nahar] Egyptian tanks were rolling into a town near Gazoo's border on Saturday for an anticipated operation against forces of Evil who attacked a gas pipeline to Israel and cop shoppes, security officials said.
The officials said the tanks and more than 1,000 soldiers and coppers, deployed on Friday and Saturday, would try to restore order to a lawless section in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, and then move southwards to a mountainous region where armed outlaws were hiding.
Tanks and armored vehicles were stationed in El-Arish, 40 kilometers from the Gazoo Strip, where Islamist forces of Evil attacked cop shoppes two weeks earlier, killing a military officer and three bystanders.
"The forces that have arrived will participate in several surprise raids to arrest bandidos and those who participated in the attack (on the cop shoppe)" one security official said.
They were also seeking forces of Evil behind five bombing attacks this year on a pipeline that exports gas to Israel.
The operation will start in El-Arish, and then roll into the neighboring Sheikh Zuwied, where authorities believe Islamist forces of Evil are hiding out, and the Rafah border town, the officials said.
The operation, codenamed "Eagle," would then extend to mountainous central Sinai, long a safe haven for Bedouin outlaws.
"These reinforcements have been sent to aid forces already stationed, to restore security, arrest those behind the el-Arish attacks and capture outlaws in the mountains," a security bigshot told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He refused to say how they intended to storm the formidable mountain hideouts. "This is a plan put together in coordination with the military and it will succeed," he added.
The officials declined to give a precise number for the troops involved. A 1979 peace agreement with neighboring Israel limits the number of Egyptian soldiers allowed in the peninsula.
The governor of North Sinai, Abdel Wahab Mabruk, denied the increased forces would carry out raids. "They are here for protection, and to repel any further attacks," he told AFP.
He acknowledged that there was no police presence in areas of Sinai, such as the town of Sheikh Zuweid, since the interior ministry largely collapsed during a January-February uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... .But he said the security forces would not try to comb the area. "This is not a war."
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity if the issue, said the raids were imminent.
Sinai, home to some of the country's most lucrative tourist resorts, also has a largely marginalized and poor Bedouin population with a history of tensions with the Cairo government.
Islamist Bedouin forces of Evil were blamed for a series of massive kabooms in tourist resorts between 2004 and 2006 that killed dozens of Egyptians and foreigners.
Some of the forces of Evil incarcerated after those attacks decamped prison during the January revolt when police abandoned their posts.
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It wouldn't surprise me if this was the first step in the remilitarization of the Sinai (much as the Rhineland was remilitarized in 1936). This Arab Spring has a good chance of becoming an Israeli Winter. Meanwhile, the Israelis are looking at cutting defense expenditures in order to boost entitlement spending. Things like this are why I think we should slash defense spending to 1% of GDP ($150b). It would mean the end of the carrier force and the vast majority of the foreign bases, but it would also mean our so-called allies would start having to spend some of their own money for defense (for a change). The only defect in this idea is that the Democrats would immediately use the "savings" for domestic social programs.
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Zhang Fei yes. I have had the same foreboding.
"This Arab Spring has a good chance of becoming an Israeli Winter" You have put it very well. Why not, the way everything has been going.
[An Nahar] Rebels fighting east of Tripoli said they strengthened their grip on the town of Tuarga on Saturday, in a bid to create a buffer zone between Moammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... 's forces and the city of Misrata.
On the third day of an offensive, rebels from the port enclave of Misrata said they routed all but the last remaining pockets of resistance from loyalist forces.
Two fighters died and 15 were maimed as they closed in on the last sniper and pro-Qadaffy artillery positions in the town, the rebels said.
The bodies of at least four Qadaffy loyalists were seen at a field hospital near the town's northern entrance, although the corpse count for government forces was thought to be much higher.
Journalists were refused access to the eastern part of the town where most of the fighting took place on Friday, with reports that the rebels were in complete control of Tuarga not verifiable.
Streams of jubilant rebel fighters were seen travelling back toward Misrata, some with pickup trucks full of goods.
Looting was seen earlier in the offensive, despite a swathe of rebel checkpoints between Tuarga and Misrata.
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[An Nahar] The Libyan government insisted Zawiyah was under the regime's control on Saturday, dismissing rebel claims of having captured the port city on the road to Tripoli.
Zawiyah is completely under government control, government front man Moussa Ibrahim told news hounds in the capital.
"A very small group of rebels tried to enter from the south of Zawiyah but they were stopped easily" by the Libyan armed forces.
The rebels had earlier told an Arabic satellite channel they had captured the town, as a bus transporting foreign journalists traveling from neighboring Tunisia was on Saturday forced to turn back as it neared Zawiya.
Ibrahim said less than 100 fighters tried to enter the town to join up with about 50 rebels inside Zawiya. Government forces were dealing with the situation, he said.
This is not an advance. This is what you call a skirmish, what you call a suicide mission," he said.
"You have to remember we are very powerful. Tens of thousands of volunteers are armed right now, he claimed, adding "it doesn't matter whether NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... advances or not, whether rebels advance or not, because we will always be able to fight, in a year's time, in two years, in three years."
"We say to NATO, we say to the international community, stop this aggression, and let's talk peace."
Since the beginning of the revolt six months ago NATO has used sanctions, diplomacy and air raids to try to cleave off parts of Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... 's inner circle in the hope of hitting the regime's tipping point.
Government forces retook control of Zawiyah, 40 kilometers west of Tripoli, in March after battles with the rebels, who launched an uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy in mid-February.
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tens of thousands are armed! is that why they are having such a hard time breaking the rebels backs? Oh man the muslim propaganda machine is about as much bullshit as the north koreans
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[An Nahar] An imprisoned Libyan army colonel who surrendered to the rebel forces two months ago told Agence La Belle France Presse on Saturday that Moammar 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 regime is ridden with divisions and in the process of collapse.
Speaking from a prisoner of war camp in the rebel enclave of Misrata, Colonel Wissam Miland said Qadaffy's military hangs together through coercion and mercenary-enforced martial law, but that infighting is rife.
"I think it will soon collapse," he said, offering a rare glimpse inside Qadaffy's three-pronged loyalist force, made of up army regulars, militia fighters and mercenaries.
"Among the militias, the Libyan soldiers were starting to fight with the foreign mercenaries, there are many problems," he said in an interview.
"Qadaffy is losing now because of this," he said, pointing to a series of recent military losses suffered by the regime.
The prospect of mounting divisions among Qadaffy's fighters will be an encouraging sign for many NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... countries, which have warned that there can be no clear-cut military solution to Libya's nearly six-month-old civil war.
Since the beginning of the revolt, the alliance -- along with Libya's rebels -- has used sanctions, diplomacy and brute force to try to cleave off parts of Qadaffy's inner circle in the hope of hitting the regime's tipping point.
The prospect that Qadaffy's use of foreign mercenaries may be backfiring will also offer hope that the once oil-rich regime could be running out of options.
While it has long been known that Qadaffy has used paid fighters from Chad, Niger, Mauritania and other Sahel nations, their role has not always been clear.
"Within my unit there were a lot of mercenaries," Miland said. "But they are not fighting with the army -- they surround the army. They don't let anyone fall back. If you retreat, they will kill you."
But, Miland warned, Qadaffy is also successfully using economic, social and political levers to sustain his regime.
"Most of the soldiers are illiterate, they are just trained very hard and they are told that Qadaffy is the most important person in the world -- 'Your life depends on Qadaffy, if Qadaffy loses, you lose'," he said.
"Most soldiers fight, because they do believe that without Qadaffy they cannot leave."
And as the corpse count mounts, there are also signs that Qadaffy's war effort has gathered some self-sustaining momentum.
"Some people are fighting not because they like him, but because their cousins or relatives have been killed," Miland said.
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This is very close to over, and there is no way Gadaffi Duck may maintain. As we said early on, he will lose.
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Dictators usually kept things in order. There are countless examples. The Post-Gadhafi regmine (if there is to be one) will be bloody for many years to come. A bit too late now, but the best thing we could have do was to have stayed the hell out of it.
[Yemen Post] At least five people were maimed when gunnies attacked soldiers of the first armored division guarding the change square outside Sana'a University on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses said the gunnies inside a car with a police number plate threw two bombs at the square entrance near Old Sana'a University where soldiers and activists are located.
An exchange of gunfire took place between soldiers and the gunnies who could run away.
Separately, military sources were quoted as saying on Saturday that commander of the army camp 310 Hamid Al-Qushaibi beat feet an liquidation attempt in Amran province.
A bomb was planted inside Al-Qushaibi's car that was discovered before it could be went kaboom!.
The main suspect in the plot was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock, newsyemen.net reported.
The first armored division including the camp 310 announced peaceful support to the popular youth-led revolution months ago and since then its soldiers have been guarding the change square in downtown Sana'a.
The commander of the division is Ali Muhsen Al-Ahmer, once a close ally of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... .
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[Yemen Post] The Islah Party and the Houthi Group have signed an agreement ending month-long battles in Jawf province which went out of control of the Saleh regime amid the escalating protests months ago.
A tribal mediation sponsored the agreement that named the province governor who will take charge on August 17 when the Joint Meeting Parties declares the national council.
Sheikh Hussein Al-Thaneen from the Islah Party was picked as the governor and the eight-term agreement called for the withdrawal of all gangs from their positions and that the province's status will be similar to Saada's.
The opposition named Faris Mana'a as governor of Saada months ago when the province, the stronghold of the Houthi Groups which fought the army for years, went out of control of the regime.
The agreement also provided that armed forces of those which joined the popular revolution or from the first armored division will deploy to the province to be in charge of the military camps inside it.
Hundreds were killed and injured in the battles between the Islah Party and the Houthi Group over military camps and control of Jawf.
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[Yemen Post] Local rustics in Abyan province, fighting with government against myrmidons, are accusing the government of helping al-Qaeda gunnies stay strong by attacking tribal posts and arming the myrmidons.
According to tribal sources in Abyan, at least 19 rustics have been killed by government attacks.
A senior Yemeni Defense Ministry official denies that the toll is that high, but did not deny that government raids did kill tribal fighters in accidental attacks.
Over the last month, tribes have succeeded to retake more than 60 percent of the province from the hands of suspected al-Qaeda beturbanned goons after the government failed to show progress in its fight against the beturbanned goons since May.
At least 1600 rustics are fighting al-Qaeda beturbanned goons in the province.
More than 15 al-Qaeda gunnies were locked away on Thursday by the rustics as their push to cleanse the province from the beturbanned goons nears the final steps.
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I believe them.
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Four people were found shot to death in Dagestan on Sunday. Villagers in Boatshyurt found the bodies on the edge of their village. The men appeared to have been killed overnight Sunday. One of them was a police officer, it was reported.
[Dawn] A military court in Rawalpindi has sentenced to death a former soldier over an attack in 2009 on the Pakistain Army Headquarters (GHQ) and awarded prison terms to the others.
The sentences, according to a military source, were handed down to the convicts almost a fort-night ago. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they became public after the relatives of some of the convicts visited them at Adiala jail.
Aqeel alias Dr Usman, a former soldier of the army's medical corps, was given the maximum punishment of death while another retired soldier, Imran Siddiq, was awarded life imprisonment.
Three civilians -- Khaliqur Rehman, Mohammad Usman and Wajid Mehmood -- were given life terms while two others, Mohammad Adnan and Tahir Shafiq (both civilians), got eight and seven years jail sentence respectively.
"One former soldier, Aqeel, alias Dr Usman was awarded the death sentence while one of his accomplices, also an ex-soldier, and three civilians were sentenced to life," a Western news agency quoted a military official as saying on Saturday.
Aqeel was caught injured during the Oct 10 raid on GHQ by bully boyz while the other serviceman and five civilians were found guilty of abetment.
The trial by the military court, which was headed by a brigadier, lasted over five months at Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
The Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) would not confirm or deny the sentencing by the military court.
Eleven soldiers had bit the dust in the embarrassing Oct 10, 2009, attack when 10 heavily armed beturbanned goons, wearing boom jackets, stormed the GHQ, holding off commandos for hours.
A lawyer for one of the accused said his client intended to challenge the sentence before a military court of appeal.
Colonel (R) Inamur Rehman, a defence lawyer for Wajid Ali -- one of the convicts -- said he would apply for a copy of the verdict on Monday.
Under article 199, sub article 3, of the Constitution, verdicts handed down by military courts cannot be challenged in a high court. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... a Supreme Court ruling provides that those convicted by a military court can petition a high court if they could prove that the verdict was mala fide.
Col Inam, after getting a copy of the decision, would try to see if he could establish that the military court acted with mala fide intentions.
Under the normal process, a mercy petition could be filed with the Chief of Army Staff. If the appeal is rejected, the convicts can then approach the President.
Col Inam said that under military rules, the convicts can appeal within 40 days of an order passed by a military court.
Agencies add: The Taliban had grabbed credit for the day-long siege.
Troops ultimately fought off the attackers and freed 39 hostages, but 23 people were killed, including 11 troops, three hostages and nine attackers.
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[Dawn] All major markets in Bloody Karachi remained closed on Saturday, with public transport off the roads, while at least nine people were killed and more than 16 vehicles torched in different incidents of violence following the strike call by Sindh nationalist parties against the restoration of Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001.
All Sindhi-speaking localities of the city including Ibrahim Haideri, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Malir, Sachal Goth, Chakra Goth, Shanti Nagar, Lyari remained in grip of fear after intense gun sex and burning of tiers on roads on Friday night.
Several areas of Orangi, Banaras, Gulistan-e-Johar and Gulshan-e-Iqbal also remained tense. All markets of the city remained closed, with no minibus or coach plying on roads.
In Saddar area a few buses were seen; however, public transporter opted to park their vehicles following the announcement of Bloody Karachi Transport Ittehad (KTI) not to ply minibuses on the strike day.
Miscreants suspended traffic in Orangi Town after pelting vehicles with stones. Some motorcyclists were beaten up and at least six bikes torched in the limits of Pirabad cop shoppe.
Two bodies were found from a car parked at the Shah Nawaz Bhutto Chowk in Pak Colony that were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) Hospital.
Two people were bumped off in Nazimabad number II. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
At least three people died and several others injured hand grenade attacks in Nazimabad.
A man badly injured after arson of a minibus at Keamari area Friday night died on Saturday.
A passenger had already burnt alive in the sad incident. A man was bumped off in firing of myrmidons near Habib Bank Chowrangi of SITE Area.
Another man was bumped off at Dawood Chowrangi Landhi. A torture-marked body of a man was found from the Bin Qasim area and shifted to the JPMC.
At least 16 vehicles including minibuses, trucks, cars and bikes were burnt in Bin Qaim, Shah Faisal, Keamari, Tower, NIPA, Safoora and Banaras areas.
Police launched a crackdown following firing of gunnies in Empress Market area on Friday evening in which a man had died and two persons injured.
Police also raised various localities and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock more than 50 suspects recovering arms from them.
The whole city remained in grip of tension and very thin attendance was observed in offices, educational institutions and hospitals.
Police and rangers started patrolling in the disturbed area to control the law and order.
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[Dawn] Mortars fired from Afghanistan struck a house in Pakistain's South Wazoo tribal region on the Afghan border, killing a child and maimed two others, DawnNews reported.
The house struck in the attack was situated in South Waziristan's Angoor Adda area.
Subsequently, Pakistain lodged a protest with the Afghan National Army and the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), security sources told DawnNews.
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[Dawn] The two hard boyz who beat feet in an attack on a police van are affiliated with a group operating in the tribal Darra Adamkhel area and were considered 'high profile' by the law enforcing agencies.
Official sources told Dawn that in the past the two hard boys, Nadeem Abbas and Zakeem Shah, were involved in several incidents of unrest inside the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Central Prison and were wielding a lot of influence among the prisoners as well as some officials who had served at the prison.
The entire story of taking the two suspected hard boyz to the Khyber College of Dentistry (KCD), situated near the main University Road, created several suspicions about the prison administration as well as the doctor, as normally the officials had been reluctant in referring prisoners to hospitals outside the facility for treatment. But in the present case, such high
profile hard boyz were sent to hospital in a casual manner.
Sources say that among the two Nadeem Abbas is more influential as he was a close aide to Tariq Afridi, the commander of hard boyz in Darra Adamkhel. He continued to operate from inside the prison and in past several incidents were reported about how he used his influence on the prison administration on different occasions.
Although, the law enforcement agencies believe that Nadeem Abbas, hailing from Attock district of Punjab, is involved in several incidents of terrorism, but presently he has been facing trial before an anti-terrorism court here on account of bombing Badhber cop shoppe around two years ago.
An official said that the case against him was weak due to lack of witnesses and other evidences and it was expected that he would be set free by the court.
Similarly, the other beat feet prisoner, Zakeem, was charged with the murder of an influential businessman and was facing a trial before the court of an additional district and sessions judge.
An inmate of the prison told Dawn that both of them were often seen together inside the prison and had a lot of influence over other hard boyz imprisoned there.
It was learnt that in past Zakeem and his associates had also sent a video footage to an official of the prison, who they believed was not toeing their line. That video footage showed the beheading of a government official by the hard boys. They had conveyed message to the official that he might face the same fate if he did not follow their directions.
In one of the instances, he had used his influence over a former prison superintendent and asked him not to release a would-be jacket wallah, Mir Janan, even after he had completed his prison term. The official acted in accordance with his directions and did not release the bomber due to which an intelligence agency had lodged complaint with the government about the said official.Later, the government suspended that official and the acting superintendent freed Mir Janan in Jan last.
The would-be bomber was allegedly whisked away by the security agencies when he was released. Over that issue, a clash took place between the hard boyz and the prison officials following which around 25 of them went on hunger strike.
Nadeem and some of his lover companions including Zakeem were put in solitary confinement after that incident.
Interestingly, Zakeem had also put forward a complaint to the Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan during one of his visits to the prison a few months ago. He had reportedly told the chief justice that he was having dental problems but he was not being provided proper treatment.
Similarly, Nadeem had also complained to the district and sessions judge, Ziauddin Khattak, during a visit that the prison officials were torturing him.An official said that the issue of medical treatment of prisoners was always centre of controversies as in the past there were several prisoners suffering from serious diseases, but they were not shifted to hospital due to lack of police escort.
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[Dawn] Unknown gunnies killed a member of tribal lashkar of Bara tehsil near the headquarters 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... in Hangu on Friday.
Officials said that a member of peace lashkar of Bara, Khyber Agency, Malik Jan Afridi had come to Hangu for some domestic work when unknown gunnies shot him dead on the main Hangu-Parachinar road. The Hangu police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the unknown assailants and sent the body of the dear departed to his native village in Khyber Agency for burial.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... a man from Thall tehsil of Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... did away with himself in Ghamkol camp here on Friday, police said. The Junglekhel police claimed that Nizamuddin, who was living in Ghamkol Afghan refugee camp, shot himself with a pistol and died instantly. He was 35. His body was taken to the KDA divisional headquarter hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to his family members.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else on the complaint of his mother. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... they said that the motive behind the suicide could not be ascertained.
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(Xinhua) -- State security forces foiled Saturday a terror attack in the southern Philippines, a day after a homemade bomb killed two suspected bombers in the restive south.
Army Col. Prudencio Asto, a regional military front man, said government bomb experts defused two improvised bombs fashioned from a mortar shell recovered near the bus depot in the southern city of Tacurong in Sultan Kudarat province. "We are trying to find out the group behind the foiled attack," Asto said.
On Friday, two suspected bombers were killed early Friday when their bomb prematurely went kaboom! in front of the office of National Irrigation Administration in Amas village in the southern city of Kidapawan.
A security guard was also maimed.
On Aug. 2, two people were killed when a bomb went kaboom! in front of a gun store in the city of Cotabato.
The incident forced United Kingdom to renew their warning against their citizens from travelling to Mindanao due to high threats from terrorism.
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[An Nahar] Syrian troops killed at least three people as they pounded Latakia and raided other towns on Saturday, activists said, as Washington and Riyadh demanded that 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... "immediately" halt its crackdown.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two people were killed and 15 maimed, four of them critically, during a military operation in the southern Latakia area of Ramleh, a nerve centre of anti-regime protests.
One of the casualties was a 17-year-old man, the Observatory said.
The watchdog said earlier that military vehicles, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers, converged on Ramleh during a "large demonstration calling for the fall of (President Bashar al-) Assad's regime.
The Observatory said the deployment of troops sparked an exodus of residents, especially women and kiddies.
Security forces raided the Asaliba district, also in the Mediterranean city, arresting "more than 70 people" in a door-to-door crackdown, it said, adding that women who resisted the arrest of their children were harassed and beaten.
"There was heavy gunfire and kabooms," in Asaliba, the Observatory said.
An activist in the Homs region of central Syria said troops backed by two tanks also entered the village of Jussiyeh which borders Leb, triggering a stampede across the frontier and to neighbouring areas.
Military vehicles, meanwhile, swooped on the town of Qusayr, also in Homs province, where security and intelligence services carried out arrests and killed one person, the Observatory said.
"Ten military trucks, seven security vehicles and 15 buses full of pro-regime faceless myrmidons entered these villages," said security services.
In the town of Huleh, also in Homs province, families received the corpses of four relatives who had been tossed in the clink in the past few days, the Observatory said.
Security forces backed by tanks have been trying to crush dissent city by city and town by town since pro-democracy protests erupted in mid-March.
The Observatory says 2,150 people have been confirmed dead since then -- 1,744 civilians and 406 members of the security forces.
Activists said at least 20 people were killed on Friday when security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-regime protesters who rallied in flashpoint cities after Mohammedan weekly prayers, updating earlier tolls.
State television, meanwhile, said "two security agents were rubbed out by gunnies in Douma," a suburb of the capital.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on Saturday urged "the Syrian leadership to exercise utmost restraint through immediate cessation of the use of force to suppress people's demonstrations."
Ihsanoglu "expressed the readiness of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to play a role in this regard, as he believes that dialogue is the only secure option through which this devastating crisis could be contained."
The U.N. Security Council is to hold a special meeting next Thursday to discuss human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... and the humanitarian emergency in Syria, diplomats at the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said.
In a Twitter statement, La Belle France's U.N. mission said U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay and U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs Valerie Amos were to brief the meeting.
As the West grapples with ways to pressure Damascus into ending the bloodshed, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Al Haig ... has urged countries to stop trading with Syria.
"We urge those countries still buying Syrian oil and gas, those countries still sending Assad weapons... to get on the right side of history," Clinton told news hounds.
La Belle France on Saturday followed the example of the United States in advising its citizens in Syria to leave the country.
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[An Nahar] Five inmates have beat feet from Ward "D" in the Roumeih prison on Saturday, however, two have been jugged.
Internal Security Forces said a sixth inmate attempting to flee had been caught inside prison grounds and was under interrogation.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told Voice of Leb radio (100.5) that he issued a warrant to punish all Roumieh prison officials.
Preliminary information said that four Fath al-Islam inmates that fought deadly battles with the Lebanese army in 2007 beat feet Roumieh prison.
LBC reported that the Fath al-Islam convicts are Abdullah Saad al-Shukri, Abdel-Aziz al-Masri, Mohammed al-Dusri and Abdel-Nasser Sanger.
The security forces have launched wide search operations by air and land, and troops had surrounded the notorious prison as helicopters flew overhead, the National News Agency said.
Al-Jadeed television reported that the search operations are focusing on 800 meters around the prison because "they haven't left this perimeter."
MTV reported that inmate Midhat Khalil beat feet the prison from its main entrance by getting aboard the visitors Van then took a taxi to Beirut.
"The Van driver is being interrogated in presence of Mount Leb ISF commander," the television channel said.
MTV said that the four Fath al-Islam prisoners broke out wearing security forces clothes.
According to a statement issued by the Internal Security forces: "between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday five inmates' beat feet Roumieh prison Ward "D"."
"The five prisoners had sawed through a fence inside the prison, used sheets to rappel from their ward and then mingled with visitors in civilian clothing and beat feet," the statement said.
The ISF said in its statement that the five prisoners are Midhat Hasan Khalil, a Mauritanian born 1963; Abdullah Saad el-Dine al-Shukri, a Syrian born 1984; Abdel-Aziz Ahmed al-Masri, a Syrian born 1985; Mohammed Abdel-Nasser Abdel-Dusri, a Kuwaiti born 1973 and Abdel-Nasser Said Sanger, a Lebanese born 1980.
The statement added that a sixth prisoner, Walid Issam Lababidi, a Lebanese born 1980, was caught while trying to escape with the other five inmates.
"An investigation by relevant agencies is ongoing in order to take the necessary measures against those who were neglectful," the statement added.
Earlier, the NNA reported that one of the beat feet inmates was a Sudanese national.
Roumieh, the oldest and largest of Leb's overcrowded prisons, has witnessed sporadic prison breaks in recent years and escalating riots over the past months as inmates living in dire conditions demand fairer treatment and even general amnesty.
In the summer of 2007, al-Qaeda inspired Fatah Al-Islam group led an uprising in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared two years ago.
The fighting killed some 400 people, including 168 soldiers, and deadly festivities also broke out in the nearby northern port city of Tripoli but some of the Islamist leaders beat feet despite a 15-week siege by the army at the camp.
The bad boy group is also accused of being behind twin bus bombings in a Christian suburb northeast of Beirut which left three dead and close to 20 maimed in 2007.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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KABUL: Afghan security forces have recovered the bodies of five policemen and three intelligence agents who were kidnapped by insurgents two days ago in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Saturday.
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