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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Rachel Shelley aka Elizabeth Russell in "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India" aka Helena Peabody in "The L Word" aka Dr. Kirsty McCloud in "Lighthouse" aka Chloe in "The Children" aka Mrs. Anne-Marie Castle in "Photographing Fairies" aka Clare in "B.U.S.T.E.D." aka Shelly Woodcock in "The Calling" aka Mikki in "The Bone Snatcher" aka Julia Barlett in "Gray Matters" (age 42)
Somebody oughta tell that cop that his tommygun is a lot more effective when you put a magazine in it...
[Tolo News] A local government official has been assassinated in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Tuesday evening, local officials said.
Gunmen on a cycle of violence fired at Sherin Agha, a member of the Nawa district council on Tuesday evening in Lashkargah, the scenic provincial capital. The councilman was rushed to a hospital, but died of his wounds, Dawood Ahmadi, front man for governor told TOLOnews news hound.
Militants have recently been targeting Afghan key officials in the country.
Violence has recently increased in Afghanistan as Death Eaters started targeting government sites, Afghan and foreign forces.
Afghan and 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... forces have also increased military operations in the country to clear volatile regions of Death Eaters, as foreign forces started security transition to Afghan lead.
In two incidents on Sunday, Death Eaters killed a councilman and chief prosecutor from Gereshk district.
On Friday, a man with a bomb hidden in his turban went kaboom!" outside the Helmand governor's compound in which one Afghan policeman was maimed in the blast.
Lashkargah province is one of the seven areas that Afghan cops have taken over from foreign forces.
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Oh, boy...sounds like Hamid's on the opium again.
[Tolo News] 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...
decreed the release of 5 would-be jacket wallahs set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by Afghan cops.
President Hamid Karzai stressed that the released suicide bombers will be provided with education scholarships inside or outside the country, especially in Turkey.
Turkey? Oh yes, do that!
They'd get a education alright...
The would-be suicide bombers or the Turks?
President Karzai described suicide kabooms as oppression to Islam and an effort to damage the image of Islam.
Among the suicide bombers who are going to be released soon, there are still Death Eater ideologies with some promising to continue their efforts.
But the president has ordered the release of these imprisoned suicide bombers ahead of Eid, which will be celebrated in a couple of days and right after the end Ramadan.
"Enemies of Islam take these kids and use them in kabooms inside mosques where people offer their prayers. They are doing it to defame Islam and make people turn their faces from Islam," President Karzai said.
Head of Afghanistan's Council of Clerics Qeyamuddin Kashaf said: "You kids are not obliged to do so."
Some of the would-be suicide bombers said they will face threats, because they surrendered to Afghan cops before carrying out their attacks.
Providing suicide bombers with scholarships is another privilege that the president insisted.
"Those among them who want to go home, take them to their homes and hand them to their parents so that they are safe," Karzai said. "And others like these youths who have lost their parents don't care for him and should be provided with education facilities inside or outside the country like our own sons."
President Karzai decreed the release of suicide bombers as the National Directorate of Security earlier urged the formation of a special tribunal for terrorists, and the call was welcomed by Karzai's senior legal advisor.
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Providing suicide bombers with scholarships is another privilege that the president insisted.
So is that supposed to deter or entice suicide bombers? Allah may not know but Adam Smith does.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Two sentenced soldiers were executed at the sand dunes next to General Kahiye Police Academy in Mogadishu yesterday.
It is seventh time the army court carried out capital punishment since its establishment last year.
After a firing squad eliminated the two men who were accused of killing other soldiers in Mogadishu, the Chief Judge of the Army Court, Colonel Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungaab held a presser in his office.
Col Mungaab stressed that the army court is part and parcel of the drive to restore security in Somalia.
The colonel vowed that the court is going to deal with the armed personnel with the habit of inflicting harm on the people and others in the defense service.
"We are going to implement the emergency directives recently promulgated by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed," said Col Mungaab.
President Ahmed recently declared a three months emergency directive in order to restore order especially in areas vacated by Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... and in the internally displaced peoples.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Soddy Arabia has donated 50 million dollars to help save children in famine-hit Somalia, the World Food Programme said in a statement received by AFP on Monday.
"The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... World Food Programme welcomes a generous contribution of US $50 million from the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia... that will be used to feed more than half a million Somalia children suffering from malnutrition," it said.
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(CNN) -- Another purported audio message from Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... surfaced Thursday, with the speaker exhorting his followers to fight back and not "surrender Tripoli."
"Tripoli is for you, men and women. Go out, go out and free Tripoli. Destroy them wherever they are, fight them. Let the crowds from everywhere march to Tripoli," the speaker said.
This comes as a rebel commander told CNN that fighters battling tenacious Qadaffy supporters in Tripoli believe the longtime strongman might be holed up in a cluster of buildings near his compound.
In the audio message, the speaker said, "Libya is for you" and not for La Belle France or its president, Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... . La Belle France is a leader in the 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... mission in Libya.
"Do not leave Tripoli for the rats, do not leave them. Fight them, destroy them. You are the overwhelming majority, you have marched in millions (before). March with the same millions but fight this time. Fill the streets and the fields," the speaker said. Qadaffy has previously described his adversaries as rats.
"Do not be afraid of bombing, you will not be hit. Do not be afraid at all. They are just stun grenades to scare you. Do not be afraid at all, do not surrender Tripoli."
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[Tripoli Post] A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the Bab al-Azzizyah compound were reported saying by Rooters they believed that Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.
Without giving any indications why they believed Al Qadaffy was inside with his sons, the rebelswere exchanging fire with loyalist regime forces inside the buildings.
One of the rebels told Rooters: "They are together. They are in a small hole. Today we finish. Today we will end that."
In another development, citing a source in a unit which it said was co-ordinating among intelligence services from Arab states and Libyan rebels, the French weekly magazine Gay Paree Match said on Thursday that Libyan rebels fighting to oust the Libyan leader, came close to capturing tMuammar Al Qadaffy on Wednesday.
The report on the French magazine said on its website that the rebels raided a private home in Tripoli where Al Qadaffy appeared to have been hiding. They believed was still somewhere in the Libyan capital.
Al Qathaif is said to have gone from the unassuming safe house in central Tripoli "when agents arrived about 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday after a tip-off from a credible source."
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the magazine said, they found evidence that he had spent at least one night there - though it did not say how recently that was.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... as fighting in central Tripoli continued Thursday, with rebels claiming they believe Al Qadaffy and some of his sons are hiding., there was an exchange of fire with the regime's troops inside the buildings.
On another site, Tripoli's Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, where numerous foreign journalists are based, was under attack Thursday afternoon. Gunfire was reported just on the doorstep of the Maltese-Libyan owned hotel.
Sniper fire was also reported as the hotel came under a gunfire attack for about 45 minutes.
An AFP correspondent reported that about 300m from the hotel, a green Al Qadaffy flag was raised on a building rooftop. It attracted the rebels' gunfire from below in the street.
Then rebel pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns converged on the hotel, and some of the fighters,, carrying small arms and rocket-launchers, took over the top floor of the hotel, which is located a few hundred metres from the centre of the Medina, which surveys the surrounding area.
The Corinthia is also about five kilometres from the Rixos Hotel, from which 33 journalists were freed on Wednesday after being held there against their will for three days by Al Qadaffy loyalists, and six or seven kilometres from Bab al-Azziziyah.
Some of the journalists who vacated the Rixos moved into the Corinthia, to join up with other colleagues who had ben there throughout the conflict..
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OUAGADOUGOU - Burkina Faso, a former recipient of large amounts of Libyan aid, has offered Muammar Gaddafi exile but has also recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as LibyaÂ’s government.
Good news, Muammar, is that you'd be in exile instead of dead. Bad news is that you'd be in Burkina Faso, so you might as well be dead...
Chad, another major aid recipient, also recognised the rebel council. The African nations join a list of more than 40 countries who have recognised the rebels who have taken control of most of Libya and are now hunting the veteran leader.
Burkinabe Foreign Minister Yipene Djibril Bassolet said that Gaddafi could go into exile in his country even though it is a signatory of the International Criminal Court, which has charged him crimes against humanity.
“In the name of peace, I think we will take, with our partners in the international community, whatever steps are necessary,” Bassolet said, without giving any other details.
As recipients of GaddafiÂ’s largesse during his decades in power, the governments in Ouagadougou and NÂ’Djamena had previously been hesitant about taking sides the conflict.
LibyaÂ’s rebels have often accused neighbouring Chad of backing Gaddafi by sending mercenaries to put down the uprising, a charge denied by NÂ’Djamena.
But a council delegation was in Chad on Wednesday when Moussa Dago, secretary general for ChadÂ’s foreign affairs ministry, recognised its authority and called on it to protect Chadian interests in the country.
Burkina Faso, not a neighbour but previously a Gaddafi ally in sub Saharan Africa, also recognised the council as the only legitimate Libyan authority.
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See also TOPIX > OFFICIAL: NICARAGUA WOULD CONSIDER [granting]GADDAFI ASYLUM.
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Khaddafy will get sanctuary in one of those friendly countries, if for no other reason than the gold, diamonds, bearer bonds, and offshore accounts that he and his clan control and no one else can get to. Khaddafy will be sure to spread the wealth around to friendly locals wherever he lands.
PARIS: The head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, said on Wednesday he had no information on the whereabouts of Muammar Qaddafi following his flight from his Tripoli stronghold.
Jibril met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris for talks on how to ensure a smooth transition to democracy in the post-Qaddafi era. A "Friends of Libya" conference has been set for Sept. 1 in Paris.
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Maybe he is in Burkino Faso.
Nope, no idea where that is either.
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It's a landlocked, penniless expanse of undistinguished plains and prairie in the west-central Sahel, SteveS. It makes Chad look prosperous, and Mali cosmopolitan. I have no idea why they haven't attempted to get themselves annexed to a neighboring country with an actual port decades ago, except perhaps that the Ivory Coast, the most rational imperial candidate, is deeply unstable at the best of times, and wouldn't want a vast new Islamic interior to deal with if it were given to them.
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Steve - You probably remember Burkina Faso as that loveable paradise and vacation resort Upper Volta
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Come for the dysentery, stay for the dengue fever.
China has asked the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
to lead post-war reconstruction in Libya, urging a smooth political transition in the North African state after rebels overran Moammar Qadaffy's Tripoli compound. ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
Beijing also said it was qtern countries to exert too much influence there. And it's very certain that it doesn't have enough...
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi urged U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to take a lead in the reconstruction of Libya, where NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... has waged an aerial bombing campaign to defend civilians against attacks by Qadaffy's loyalists.
"The U.N. should play a leading role in post-war arrangements in Libya," Yang told Ban in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, according to a foreign ministry statement.
"China ... is willing to work with the U.N. to promote stability in Libya," added Yang, who also called on the United Nations to work with other regional organizations such as the 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... and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
Yang further told Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota in phone talks that China was willing to work with emerging developing nations to help stabilize Libya, his ministry said in a separate statement.
Britannia, La Belle France and the United States have thrown diplomatic and financial support behind the Libyan opposition, and Yang's comments appeared to indicate a reluctance to allow them to take control of the reconstruction efforts.
China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, abstained from voting on the resolution which authorized a NATO bombing campaign to protect civilians in Libya, as did Russia.
Beijing has since been critical of NATO's actions in Libya, urging a compromise between the country's government and the rebels.
Beijing initially maintained a policy of non-interference and public neutrality on the conflict, but has since shown a willingness to engage, holding talks with both government officials and rebel leaders.
On Wednesday, the foreign ministry called for a smooth transition of political power -- the closest it has come to a formal recognition of the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC).
"China hopes for a smooth transition of political power in Libya," foreign ministry front man Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement.
"We hope the future, new regime will adopt effective measures to unite different factions, rapidly restore a normal social order and strive to start political and economic reconstruction."
Ma said China had always attached importance to the NTC's role in "resolving Libya's problems".
In June the foreign minister, Yang, hosted senior rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril in Beijing and said Libya's opposition was an "important dialogue partner", but stopped short of formally recognizing it.
Underlining the scale of its economic involvement in the country, China had to evacuate nearly 36,000 of its nationals from Libya in a huge land, sea and air operation in February, when fighting first broke out.
Beijing acknowledged Tuesday that its investments had been hit by the revolt that erupted during the "Arab Spring".
On Wednesday, commerce ministry front man Shen Danyang said China was willing to help rebuild Libya after the conflict.
"We also hope to continue to develop cooperation of all kinds with Libya," he said.
According to a previous commerce ministry statement, China currently has 50 large-scale projects worth at least $18.8 billion in Libya.
The state Xinhua news agency on Tuesday urged "the new Libyan government" to protect "lawful" foreign assets, including business contracts and projects with the Qadaffy government, and equipment on work sites.
China, a major oil importer, also needs to secure stable supplies of the resource to help keep its huge economy moving.
The North African state produced about 1.6 million barrels per day of oil before the rebellion broke out, but output has since slowed to a trickle.
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The ChiComs have noticed that the new bosses - however mayfly their term of service might be - are not exactly rushing to embrace their east Asian comrades. Possibly something to do with Beijing's cheerful willingness to deal with the presently expiring tyranny.
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Many countries have found the allure of Libya appealing. Like 1001 Arabian Nights a region of many stories and history. They come and they go.
I wonder what this new modern progress will bring as we turn another page of our story.
(CNN) -- The businessman son of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... appears to be out of rebel hands and says he wants to negotiate a cease-fire to save his family Tripoli from "a sea of blood."
In an e-mail exchange with CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, Saadi Qadaffy -- whose capture had been announced by the rebel leadership on Sunday -- said he had the authority to negotiate and wanted to discuss a cease-fire with U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... officials.
"I will try to save my city Tripoli and 2 millions of people living there ... otherwise Tripoli will be lost forever like Somalia," he wrote. Without a cease-fire, he added, "Soon it will be a sea of blood."
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[An Nahar] Libyan rebels put a price of two million dinars ($1.67 million, 1.2 million euros) on the head of strongman Moammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years... , dead or alive, the head of the National Transitional Council said on Wednesday, as battles rocked the capital Tripoli.
"The NTC supports the initiative of businessmen who are offering two million dinars for the capture of Moammar Qadaffy, dead or alive," Mustafa Abdul Jalil said in Tripoli.
Also, Abdul Jalil offered amnesty to "members of (Qadaffy's) close circle who kill him or capture him."
Fighting raged Wednesday near Qadaffy's Bab al-Aziziya compound a day after it was captured by rebels, while loyalist troops staged a fightback and the strongman boasted he went walkabout.
Thick smoke hung over the Bab al-Aziziya complex, where rebels and Qadaffy's forces were fighting early afternoon with light weapons, heavy machineguns, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and mortars, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
Fighting also spread to the nearby Abu Slim area, where loyalist troops were on the attack, in marked contrast to Tuesday's battle for Bab al-Aziziya when they decamped as the rebels breached the gates.
Rebel commanders said however they were determined to push the loyalist troops out of the area, which houses the Rixos hotel where around 30 foreign journalists remain trapped.
Many streets were deserted in the city center, with commanders saying dozens of pro-Qadaffy snipers have taken up positions.
"There are snipers above and around the perimeter of Bab al-Aziziya; there are dozens of them but we don't know where they are," said the chief of a rebel group, Nouri Mohammed.
Two powerful blasts thought to be caused by an air attack rocked the capital early Wednesday as a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... warplane flew overhead.
The whereabouts of the strongman himself and his family remained a mystery on Wednesday.
Rebel fighters said they had found no trace of Qadaffy when they swarmed through his compound on Tuesday, raiding his armory, raising their flag and ripping the head off a statue of the strongman.
"Bab al-Aziziya is fully under our control now. Colonel Qadaffy and his sons were not there; there is nobody," said military front man Colonel Ahmed Bani "No one knows where they are."
Wherever he may indeed be, the strongman is still managing to get his messages out.
In a speech carried early Wednesday by the website of a television station headed by his son Seif al-Islam, he said he had abandoned his compound in a "tactical withdrawal" after it had been wrecked by NATO warplanes.
"Bab al-Aziziya was nothing but a heap of rubble after it was the target of 64 NATO missiles and we withdrew from it for tactical reasons," he said.
The speech gave no indication of where he had gone.
In a later audio message on Syria-based Arrai Oruba television station, Qadaffy boasted that he had taken to the streets of Tripoli without being recognized.
"I walked incognito, without anyone seeing me, and I saw youths ready to defend their city," the strongman said, without specifying when he did his walkabout.
He also urged "the residents, the tribes, the elderly to go into the streets ... and cleanse Tripoli of rats" -- referring to the rebels.
Qadaffy front man Moussa Ibrahim claimed to the Arrai Oruba channel that more than 6,500 "volunteers" had arrived in Tripoli to fight for the regime, and called for more.
Insurgents, jumpy but jubilant and armed with assault rifles, combed the streets of the capital Wednesday for remnants of the regime.
"We are the champions. We've been dying for 42 years and now we are going to live," said Sharif Sohail, a 34-year-old dentist who took up arms to patrol the city center.
Other rebel fighters, some wrapped in Free Libya flags, some wearing flackjackets, manned checkpoints through the night, scrutinizing traffic by flashlight in neighborhoods without electricity.
"We are checking every car that passes," Ibrahim Mukhtar, 27, told Agence La Belle France Presse at a main intersection near Souk al-Fatah. "We are guarding the streets."
The attack on Qadaffy's headquarters followed three days of fighting in the capital which NTC chief Abdul Jalil said had left more than 400 killed and 2,000 maimed.
He did not specify if he was talking of both sides.
Not far from Wednesday's fighting, some 30 foreign journalists were still unable to leave their hotel after four days of siege.
"It's getting pretty miserable here and you can only imagine the sort of tension which the foreigners here, the journalists here, find themselves feeling at the moment," BBC correspondent Matthew Price told BBC radio.
Wednesday morning, some of the journalists attempted to venture a few meters from the hotel before gunfire erupted nearby and gunnies ordered them to return to the Rixos.
Electricity, temporarily cut, has been restored, but water remains scarce. Mobile phone signals are poor and food is in short supply.
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SAS has already been on the ground in Libya for weeks working with Libyan rebels. Now they are searching for Qadaffy.
Hostages at Rixos Hotel were freed after they persuaded their guards to lay down their arms.
Delivery of food, medicines & other supplies to Tripoli are being held up by snipers along the roads from the air and seaport facilities.
There are reports of gunfights in the tunnels beneath Tripoli.
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The journalists at the Rixos are no doubt self-selected for the easily herded and receptive rather than adventurous and inquisitive. The adventurers are the guys in body armor rolling with the Nafusa technicals who are used to the idea of being occasionally shot at. And perhaps, that is the way it ought to be. Are the Rixos crews even equipped to cover a shooting war?
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Well the bar stayed open so it wasn't too bad. Mahmoud kept the TV on CNN International so we could cover the war and the gin and tonic flowing.
Ernie Pyle would've been proud of us.
War's hell, I tell ya...
[Iran Press TV] Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is getting ready to move its headquarters from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli, following the takeover of Muammar Qadaffy's ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... last bastion.
During a meeting with visiting Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri in Benghazi on Wednesday, Abdel Jalil said that NTC has sent a delegation to Tripoli to prepare its relocation to the Libyan capital city, Xinhua reported.
Libyan opposition forces stormed into Muammar Qadaffy's main compound in the Bab al-Aziziya district on Tuesday in a major move to consolidate their grip on the capital, Tripoli.
The capture of Bab al-Aziziya appears to herald the de facto end of Qadaffy's 42-year-old rule, but with his whereabouts still unknown and his influential sons unaccounted for, the revolutionaries still cannot declare victory.
Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is getting ready to move its headquarters from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli, following the takeover of Muammar Gaddafi's last bastion.
During a meeting with visiting Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri in Benghazi on Wednesday, Abdel Jalil said that NTC has sent a delegation to Tripoli to prepare its relocation to the Libyan capital city, Xinhua reported.
Libyan opposition forces stormed into Muammar Gaddafi's main compound in the Bab al-Aziziya district on Tuesday in a major move to consolidate their grip on the capital, Tripoli.
The capture of Bab al-Aziziya appears to herald the de facto end of Gaddafi's 42-year-old rule, but with his whereabouts still unknown and his influential sons unaccounted for, the revolutionaries still cannot declare victory.
Meanwhile, Libya's elusive leader issued a defiant message to his loyalists in Tripoli and called on them to repel the opposition' advance.
"All Libyans must be present in Tripoli, young men, tribal men and women must sweep through Tripoli and comb it for traitors," he said in remarks broadcast by the al-Rai television network on Wednesday.
"I have been out a bit in Tripoli discreetly, without being seen by people, and ... I did not feel that Tripoli was in danger," he added.
Libya has been the scene of intense fighting between regime troops and fighters since a revolution seeking to topple Gaddafi began in mid-February. Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... Libya's elusive leader issued a defiant message to his loyalists in Tripoli and called on them to repel the opposition' advance.
"All Libyans must be present in Tripoli, young men, tribal men and women must sweep through Tripoli and comb it for traitors," he said in remarks broadcast by the al-Rai television network on Wednesday.
"I have been out a bit in Tripoli discreetly, without being seen by people, and ... I did not feel that Tripoli was in danger," he added.
Libya has been the scene of intense fighting between regime troops and fighters since a revolution seeking to topple Qadaffy began in mid-February.
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So much for the spring speculation that the eastern tribes were going to move the capital to Benghazi. Big centralized capitals make their own gravity, and power slides down the slope to the centre. The established physical base alone will guarantee that.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Military and medical officials say Arclight airstrikes have killed 30 suspected al-Qaeda-linked Orcs and similar vermin in southern Yemen. Eight soldiers also died in festivities in the area.
The officials say the strikes targeted Orcs and similar vermin near Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, early on Wednesday. They say 40 Orcs and similar vermin were also maimed in the operation, which was a "deadly blow" to the thugs.
The officials say eight soldiers died in the Dufas area, close to Zinjibar. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
Militants have used Yemen's political turmoil to overrun Zinjibar and several towns in the south.
Government forces have been trying to dislodge them with Arclight airstrikes and ground troops.
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[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... have once again launched fresh assaults on the village of Arhab, northeast of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
The mountainous region came under attack on Wednesday when Yemen's military forces shelled the area. Heavy kabooms were reportedly heard in the location, but no casualties or damages have been reported yet.
Arhab district has been the front line of almost daily festivities between Yemeni opposition forces and government troops.
The government's offensives against the region and its surrounding areas have displaced thousands of Yemenis.
Yemenis across the country have condemned the brutality of the regime against the people of Arhab. Many army personnel have also defected to the opposition in response to deadly attacks on anti-government protesters.
In a popular revolution that began in late January, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been taking part in regular mass demonstrations in the nation's major cities.
The major demands of the protesters include an end to rampant government corruption and unemployment and ouster of the country's US-backed Ali Abudullah Saleh.
Most Arhab tribes are loyal to former Yemeni General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who defected from Yemen's army and joined opposition forces since the beginning of the uprising in the Middle Eastern country.
Hundreds of protesters have been killed and many more injured since Yemen's popular uprising began as a result of a brutal crackdown on the anti-government protests by military forces and bands of thugs loyal to Saleh's dictatorship.
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Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawer has returned to Yemen from a Saudi hospital in Riyadh after a months-long struggle to survive.
Mujawer is the first government official to come back to the Yemeni capital of Sana'a following a rocket attack on the presidential palace on June 3, which injured a number of brass hats, including Yemen's President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , AFP reported on Tuesday.
Upon his arrival, Mujawar thanked Soddy Arabia for its hospitality and medical treatment.
"The health condition of other officials is improving quickly and [they] will be back to Yemen soon," he said.
Mujawar's return comes one day after Yemen's Chairman of the Shura Council Abdulaziz Abdulghani, also injured in the attack on the presidential palace, died in Riyadh.
Saleh, who has reportedly been released from a Saudi hospital, said he plans to return to Yemen soon. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... opposition leaders have vowed not to allow him back to rule in Yemen.
Senior Yemeni official Howver Barakani said the date of Saleh's return to Yemen is still unclear, saying, "The decision rests with the president, and with his doctors."
He said the result of the probe into the rocket attack on the presidential palace would be released after the end of the holy months of Ramadan, pledging a crackdown on Saleh's opponents.
"We were tolerant after the incident in the palace mosque and agreed to meet the opposition, but we are no longer holding out a hand to these murderers, these criminals and hard boyz ... those who planned and carried out" the attack, he added.
In a popular revolution that began in late January, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been taking part in regular mass demonstrations in the nation's major cities.
The major demands of the protesters include an end to rampant government corruption and unemployment and ouster of the country's US-backed Ali Abudullah Saleh.
Hundreds of protesters have been killed and many more injured since Yemen's popular uprising began as a result of a brutal crackdown on the anti-government protests by military forces and bands of thugs loyal to Saleh's dictatorship.
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[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Police claimed on Tuesday to have seized huge consignment of arms and ammunition and also incarcerated two alleged smugglers at Ring Road in limits of Bala Mani cop shoppe.
A front man said police at the PAF canal check point recovered 25 Kalashnikovs, 37 pistols of various bore, and 8,000 cartridges from a Datsun pick-up (D-1156). The alleged smugglers identified themselves as Abdur Rehman and Khan Noor of Bara. During initial interrogation, the accused disclosed they had brought the weapons from tribal regions and were shifting these to Punjab. He said a case against the accused was registered at the Bala Mani cop shoppe under the Arms Act.
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[Dawn] Suspected hard boyz killed an Afghan refugee in Pakistain's North Wazoo region in the northwest on suspicion of being a spy for the United States, local intelligence officials said.
The perforated carcass of the man was found by the road in the Datta Kheil area on Tuesday night.
An ATM card from an Afghan bank and a hand-written note, stating that he was caught spying for the United States, were found beside the body.
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AFGHAN ATM CARDS ....
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN ASKS AT LEAST 200 US OFFICIALS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY WITHIN 40 DAYS.
"US Officials" = Pak Govt-Blog speak for "US/CIA Spies"???
[Dawn] The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved operation against hit mans in nine areas of Bloody Karachi, DawnNews reported.
The decision was taken in the cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... in Islamabad.
Prime Minister Gilani apprised the cabinet over the measures being taken to restore peace in Bloody Karachi and said the army could be called in if the government thought it necessary.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... calling in the army was decided as the Sindh government's call.
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[Dawn] The Rangers and police on Tuesday night started a 'surgical operation' against criminals in areas of Bloody Karachi affected by violence and tossed in the clink 24 suspects, DawnNews reported.
Large numbers of Rangers personnel were deployed in Lyari, Orangi Town, Malir, Saddar and other parts of the city.
Police and Rangers tossed in the clink eight suspects from Lyari, five each from Hasan Square and the old vegetable market area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... seven people were maimed in a firing incident that took place in Lyari's Agra Taj Colony. All the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. also visited the areas of Lyari and Kati Pahari. He told media representatives that the operation would be conducted in all the areas where Islamic fascistiwere present.
Residents of Lyari got angered on the news of the operation in the area and staged a protest against police and Rangers. Aerial firing was also reported in the area.
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Protests?
When you throw the old gangsters in the clink, new gangsters show up wanting to be paid off I guess.
[An Nahar] At least five people, including a woman and a child, were killed and nine maimed in a series of attacks in Iraq's restive central province of Diyala on Wednesday, security and hospital officials said.
In the worst attack, four people were killed and seven maimed when snuffies detonated bombs at the homes of three town criers whose job was to awaken people for the Ramadan pre-dawn meal, at around 3:00 am (00:00 GMT) in the town of al-Hudaid, west of picturesque provincial capital Baquba, according to an Iraqi army colonel in Diyala's security command centre.
"Among the dead were a woman and a child, and two women and a child were among the maimed," the colonel said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . He added that rescue workers were still searching the rubble of the houses, and warned the toll could rise.
Firas al-Dulaimi, a doctor at Baquba general hospital, also said four people had died and seven were maimed.
None of the three town criers, who awaken people for early morning meals and dawn prayers before the daily Ramadan fast, were among the casualties, the army colonel said.
In the center of Baquba, meanwhile, an anti-Qaeda militiaman was bumped off at around 8:00 am (05:00 GMT) by snuffies equipped with silenced pistols, according to the colonel.
The militiaman was a member of the Sahwa, made up of Sunni tribes that sided with the U.S. military against al-Qaeda from late 2006, helping to turn the tide of Iraq's bloody insurgency.
Also in Baquba, a roadside kaboom targeting police Lieutenant Colonel Hamid al-Karkhi left the officer and his driver maimed, the army colonel said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... in Baghdad, three people were maimed Wednesday morning when a roadside kaboom struck against an Iraqi army patrol in Allawi, in the west of the capital, an interior ministry official said.
Wednesday's violence comes after al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq threatened a campaign of 100 attacks, starting mid-August, to avenge the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who was potted in Pakistain... in a U.S. Special Forces raid in Pakistain nearly four months ago.
Violence is down across Iraq from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 259 people were killed in violence in Iraq in July, according to official figures, the second-highest figure in 2011.
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[Al Jazeera] Israel has launched several air strikes on Gazoo, killing three Paleostinians and wounding several others, prompting Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to allege that it violated an unofficial two-day-long truce.
Medics in Gazoo said the latest air strike occurred on Wednesday evening, killing 20-year-old Mohammad Moqat. He was a member of the Paleostinian resistance group Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Israel's attack came after Paleostinian fighters lobbed several rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel in retaliation for an earlier Israeli air strike in the border city of Rafah.
Ah. So the Israeli action was a result, not a cause. How unsurprising.
The earlier attack targeted a vehicle carrying Ismael al-Ismar, 34, a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement. He was killed.
An Israeli military front man confirmed the strike, saying it had targeted "an activist linked to Islamic Jihad who was implicated in attempted terrorist actions in the Sinai".
A third man of 60 years old was also killed when Israeli forces opened fire near the border.
According to the Israeli military, Ismar had "operated with terror elements in the Gazoo Strip which have recently made several attempts to execute terror attacks in the Sinai, on the Israel-Egypt border".
The renewed attacks raised fears of a fresh descent into violence scarcely 48 hours after factions had agreed to end rocket fire on southern Israel, on condition that the Israeli Air Force also stopped its raids.
Shaky truce
Gazoo's Hamas government accused Israel of violating the unwritten truce with its latest air strikes and called for UN intervention.
A statement issued by Hamas read: "Such aggressive behaviour confirms that Israel has no true intention of maintaining the truce and insists on escalating the situation. We call upon the international community and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... in particular to pressure Israel to stop its aggression against our people."
The latest cycle of violence erupted on Thursday, when gunnies attacked cars and buses on a desert road near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, killing eight in an attack blamed on the Popular Resistance Committees.
In the following days, Israeli air strikes killed 15 Gazooks, and armed factions in Gazoo lobbed more than 100 rockets and mortar shells across the border, killing one man.
During the hunt for Thursday's attackers, Israeli troops rubbed out three Egyptian coppers - causing a diplomatic rift between the two countries.
On Wednesday, Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Alyoum reported that Egyptian authorities have identified three of the people responsible for the attacks in Eliat. The report claims that the attackers were from the Sinai region of Egypt, not Gazoo as Israel suspects.
The Israelis and Egyptians are currently conducting an investigation into the matter.
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Last night and today the IDF has hit Islamic Jihad and other non-Hamas assets.
It would be a good time to start the rumor that Hamas was providing intel to the IDF.
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Who says they're not? Have the Joooos do the dirty work wiping out the competition, and condemn them for international brownie points while they're doing it. It's a win-win...
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A rocket fired by Paleostinian gunnies from the Gazoo Strip on Wednesday landed in Egypt and maimed a woman, the official MENA news agency reported.
Whoops.
The woman, who was not identified, was rushed to hospital after the rocket struck the Rafah border town, the report said.
It was the second time Paleostinian rockets aimed at Israel strayed into Egyptian territory.
Oh dear. Not how to make friends and influence countries.
On Sunday, a projectile landed on the Egyptian side of the border but caused no casualties nor damage.
The Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers of Gazoo agreed a truce with Israel on Sunday to end fighting sparked when gunnies believed to have slipped into Israel from Egypt ambushed several vehicles in the Negev desert last week, killing eight.
Egyptian security sources said five of their coppers were killed as Israeli troops pursued the attackers along the border on Thursday, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two neighbours who signed a peace treaty in 1979.
But the truce has scarcely held after the resumption of Paleostinian rocket attacks and Israeli Arclight airstrikes, which killed a Paleostinian turban on Wednesday.
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Better double check that compass on the prayer rugs from Egypt. I think these Wrong Way Corrigans have been praying toward Cairo all along.
(KUNA) -- Paleostinian Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Movement said it fired six mortar shells on Israeli targets near Gazoo Strip Wednesday morning.
The statement in this regard said "this comes in initial retaliation over the cowardly liquidation of leader Ismail Al-Asmar in Rafah early this morning.
The group also said a group of its fighters survived an Israeli raid and bombardment near Deir Al-Balah at dawn.
On the Israeli side, a front man for the army said two mortar shells were fired from Gazoo Strip onto southern Israel this morning, both landing in an empty area and neither causing any losses.
The front man however pointed out one shell hit in the regional council area while the second hit in a location near residential compounds.
The Israeli authorities in this second area had instructed the locals to stay near fortified rooms and bunkers with the aim of being able to get inside within 15 seconds.
A miniature cabinet meeting is today to discuss the latest developments in Gazoo, as well as findings of inquiries and investigations over the Eilat attacks which left eight Israelis injured.
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Two people were killed, including a four-year-old, when around 30 terrorists gunmen attacked a former vilage leader's house in Yala province early Thursday morning, sparking a two-hour gunfight with defense volunteers that left 10 other people injured.
An estimated 30 terrorists armed men surrounded the house of Dorloh Sengmasu, headman of Ban Talohwae, widely called "Loh Talohwae", and opened fire on defense volunteers guarding the residence. The defense volunteers and Dorloh returned fire. The gun battle lasted for about two hours. Before fleeing, the terrorists attackers set fire to Dorloh's home.
Joint police and military force searched the area. They reported finding two bodies - Dorloh's son Nisulaiman Sengmasu, and Rassami Sengmasu, 4, Nisulaiman's daughter. A total of 10 people - rangers and villagers - were injured in the attack and taken to hospital.
Police blamed separatist terrorists militants.
In Pattani province, Hami Kuemi, 60, another village headman, was gunned down late last night. Witnesses told police that Hami was returning to his home after prayer at the village mosque when terrorists gunmen opened fire at him with pistols. He was hit six times and died on the spot.
[An Nahar] The situation in Lassa is expected to escalate in light of an attack against a clergyman, Antoine Hakim, last week and the state's failure to apprehend the attacker even though he is roaming the town freely, reported the Central News Agency on Tuesday.
March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... General Secretariat coordinator Fares Soaid told the news agency that the residents of the town are awaiting "strict measures" from the Lebanese state against the attacker, "whose identity and whereabouts are known."
"Such tangible measures have not been taken, which is a real blow to the state before the eyes of the residents of the Jbeil District," he added.
"Questions are being raised over the state's lax approach in this matter and its failure to present an explanation to its actions," he continued.
"The state has refused to uphold the law against the attacker, which paves the way for several repercussions," Soaid warned.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... one of Hakim's relatives told the Central News Agency that there are fears that the land dispute in Lassa may negatively affect ties between the residents.
"We have contacted all concerned sides and all we have heard are condemnations," he revealed.
"They are required to take serious steps that comply with our demands and halt the attackers," he stressed.
Property disputes erupted in Lassa a few weeks ago when Hizbullah members prevented a Maronite League team from surveying land owned by the Maronite Patriarchate in the predominantly Shiite town of Lassa in the Jbeil District.
They also came after members of the same party prevented an MTV crew from filming a report on the issue in the town.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed seven people, including a woman who died under torture, and incarcerated more than 150 others over the past 24 hours, activists said on Wednesday.
Four people were killed in the protest hub of Homs in central Syria and two demonstrators were killed in Talbisseh, north of the city, by security forces Wednesday, said the Local Coordination Committees which groups activists on the ground.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a 28-year-old woman who was incarcerated a week ago died under torture in the city of Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday.
In Palmyra, 245 kilometers east 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... , one person who was maimed at a funeral a fortnight ago also died.
Military and security forces incarcerated 27 people in the Harasta suburb of Damascus Wednesday morning, after sealing off the district and arresting 120 people the previous day, the Observatory added.
The industrial district, 10 kilometers northeast of Damascus, has been the scene of protests since anti-regime protests broke out in mid-March.
Rallies erupted Tuesday night in the Damascus suburbs of Douma, Daraya, Kanaker, Zabadani, Madaya and Kisweh, witnesses said.
European nations and the United States pressed Wednesday for U.N. sanctions against Syria's 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... and his entourage for their deadly crackdown on opposition protests.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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A local government official has been assassinated in southern 
l-Shabaab
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[Tripoli Post] A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the Bab al-Azzizyah compound were reported saying by 
PARIS: The head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, said on Wednesday he had no information on the whereabouts of Muammar Qaddafi following his flight from his Tripoli stronghold.
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The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved operation against 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A rocket fired by Paleostinian 
President-for-Life Bashir 
