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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Amanda Tapping aka Major Samantha Carter in "Stargate SG-1 (TV)" aka Dr. Helen Magnus in "Sanctuary (TV)" aka Lt. Colonel John Sheppard in "Stargate: Atlantis (TV)" aka Josephina Rooney in "Dancing Trees" aka Ingrid Elstad in "What Kind of Mother Are You?" (age 46)
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New prototype "The iBoob". Seven of nine and Major Samantha Carter are test units. Look but don't touch, classified. I believe they have revealed too much already perhaps become redacted. These are sensitive areas were talking about. The women suicide boomers have been told repeatedly don't put the explosive device there!(Taliban low tech division knockoff).
[Dawn] A suicide car boomwent kaboom! near a bank killing at least four people and wounding 22 others Saturday in Lashkar Gah, the capital of south Afghanistan's volatile Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
At least one child was known to have died in the blast, police said, adding that coppers and soldiers were among the maimed after the bomber struck as dozens queued to receive their salaries ahead of a religious festival.
No-one has so far grabbed credit for the attack, although the Taliban have carried out similar attacks in the past targeting government employees collecting their pay.
"So far, we have information that four people have been killed and 22 others injured in the suicide kaboom," said Ismail Khan, an official at the city's police headquarters.
"Among the injured are 10 soldiers and four coppers. The rest are civilians -- one seven-year-old girl and three more young people have been killed," he said.
Deputy police chief Kamaluddin Sherzad said: "The blast took place near Kabul Bank and the telecommunications office some 50 metres from the governor's office."
He added that many police and soldiers had gathered at Kabul Bank to collect their salaries ahead of the Eid festival that marks the end of the holy month of Ramazan, although it was not clear exactly what the bomber was targeting.
Control of security in Lashkar Gah passed from foreign to Afghan forces in July as part of the first wave of a transition process which is due to see all foreign combat forces leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Lashkar Gah was deliberately chosen in the initial group to prove that Afghan cops could hold their own in risky parts of their country, Western diplomats have said.
But some residents believe security has tanked since the handover, raising questions about the transition process. President Hamid 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... is set to announce in late September or October where will be next to transition.
Since British troops formally handed control of security in Lashkar Gah to the Afghan army on July 20, there have been a string of attacks which have terrified residents.
These included a suicide car kaboom on the town's police headquarters which killed 12 coppers and a child on July 31.
Nine people were also injured a week later what provincial officials describe as a shootout between police.
And in a macabre incident the day before the transition ceremony, seven police were poisoned and then rubbed out by bad turbans.
There are presently around 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan supporting the Karzai's government, although they are all due to leave over the next three years.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The Libyan rebel government will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, its justice minister said Sunday. New York senators on Aug. 22 asked the Libyan transitional government to hold Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi fully accountable for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people.
Good thing we're giving the rebels money, giving them Qaddhafi's money, and giving them arms and assistance.
But the transitional government Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told journalists in Tripoli that the request by American senators had "no meaning" because al-Megrahi had already been tried and convicted.
"We will not hand over any Libyan citizen. It was Gadhafi who handed over Libyan citizens," he said, referring to the government's decision to turn al-Megrahi over to a Scottish court for trial.
New York Senator Charles Schumer had encouraged the new Libyan leadership to hold al-Megrahi accountable.
"A new Libya can send a strong statement to the world by declaring it will no longer be a haven for this convicted terrorist," he said.
You mean Charlie the Mouth didn't persuade the rebels?
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Did Chuckie ask if we could use al-Megrahi and his buddy al-Alagi for hell-fire target practice?
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No problem. We will find something useful to do with the purported 1.1B in US banks left behind by daffy.
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This is a calculated affront against the West that shouldn't go unpunished.
The rebels are unlikely to shed tears over a Gaddafi regime element, and Gaddafi followers who have committed crimes against the rebels have met and will meet harsher 'justice' than Megrahi would.
Still, the West has not punished Karzai for trying negotiate with the Taliban, the objective being a return to power of the same.
That's the consequence of serving the enemy noble peoples of Libya and Afghanistan.
Why then should this Alagi lout fear negative consequences if he harbors and protects those who slaughtered hundreds in the West?
In a sane world NATO's response to this outrage would consist of one word:
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This is a calculated affront against the West that shouldn't go unpunished.
Or possibly a statement of principle from a Muslim about a fellow believer to the unbelievers generally and specifically. Which doesn't make it acceptable.
TRIPOLI - Libyan rebels said they captured the last military base held by forces loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi in the Tripoli area on Saturday.
NATO struck and then our special forces attacked, fighter Nurdin Yussef Misrata, 36, who took part in a dawn assault on the base of 32 Brigade commanded by Khamis Khadafi, a son of the leader, told AFP. He said the battle in Salaheddin, a suburb five kilometres (three miles) south of Tripoli, raged for seven hours.
The complex of mustard-walled buildings had its walls holed by bombs, its roofs caved in and windows blasted open. Witnin hours of the end of the battle, rebel fighters had completely emptied the storage rooms of weapons from Germany, the United States, Russia and Italy, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
Casualty figures were not immediately available.
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[An Nahar] Mali's most radical Tuareg rebel chief, who never agreed to disarm, died in an accident late Friday, his family said, but observers suggested the death could be linked to the unfolding chaos in Libya.
Ibrahim Ag Bahanga never totally joined in north Mali's grinding of the peace processor that resulted from a 2006 accord between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels, who have been fighting sporadically since the 1990s.
In 2009, Bahanga briefly decamped to Libya after a crackdown on his group by the Malian army and he was thought to have significant contact with the Libyan army.
But observers suspect that Bahanga had in recent months been providing weapons to the Libyan rebels, who this week all but vanquished strongman Moammar Qadaffy. ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years...
While Bahanga's allegiances in Libya were partly unclear, security sources told Agence La Belle France Presse in March that Qadaffy had recruited as mercenaries some 800 Tuareg fighters from various countries, including Mali, to quash the uprising against his regime.
Family member Bay Ag Alhassane told AFP that Bahanga died in an accident in the northeast of Mali, but one diplomat from a country bordering Mali suggested the death could be linked to a clash of loyalties in the Libyan conflict.
"Did he die from an accident or from a settling of scores with the Tuaregs who are fleeing the Libyan front? It begs the question as to whether there was a leadership struggle" within Bahanga's Tuareg faction, the diplomat, who requested anonymity said.
Bahanga's death could boost chances of securing peace in northern Mali, one observer said.
"The death of Ibrahim (Bahanga)... is a double-edged sword. It is first a chance for peace. He was radical," a development worker based in northern Mali told AFP.
But the development worker, who did want to be named, added that a power vacuum inside a well-armed Tuareg rebel faction could also create further instability.
It's only a land in which tribal peoples remember every slight, every infraction, and every death for a thousand years. What could go wrong?
Bahanga had several times before his death voiced interest in peace, but his commitment to ending the fight was always found wanting.
The Tuareg community is composed of some 1.5 million people spread across Algeria, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... , Libya, Mali and Niger and various Tuareg rebel factions have been fighting governments in the region for more than two decades.
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[An Nahar] Charred skeletons of some 50 people were found in a makeshift prison next to a military base abandoned by elite troops loyal to Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... in southern Tripoli on Saturday, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound saw.
Local residents discovered the remains after rebel forces took control of the base of the 32 Brigade commanded by Qadaffy's son Khamis in the district of Salaheddin.
"I am shocked, I never imagined I would see a scene like this in Libya," Dr. Salim Rajub, who lives near the base, told AFP, indicating they were victims of a massacre last Tuesday.
"On August 23, we heard gunfire before breaking the (Ramadan) fast and people shouting for help, but there were snipers outside and nobody could get close," he said.
"These men were killed by Kalashknikovs and hand grenades, and then they were burned."
Residents said there were a total of 53 bodies in the building, which showed signs of damage. An AFP correspondent counted 50.
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[An Nahar] Libyan rebels on Friday took control of the Ras Jdir post on the border with Tunisia, and raised the flag of the rebellion, a Tunisian government source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"More than 100 Libyan rebels arrived Friday at Ras Jdir," the source said.
"There were not any real festivities, the (regime) loyalists took off and the rebels' flag was raised at the border post."
A representative of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council, Adel Debachi, said on Tunisian television from Ras Jdir that they took control of the border post just before breaking the Ramadan fast around 18:00 GMT.
He also said four pro-Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... loyalists surrendered.
A humanitarian worker at Ras Jdir also told AFP the rebels had taken the border post.
Tunisian soldiers stationed near the crossing have been on high alert in recent days as fighting in western Libya has approached the border.
Ras Jdir, the main crossing point between Libya and Tunisia, was closed Monday by Tunisian officials who sought to block armed fighters from entering the country. Only those injured by the fighting in Libyaand humanitarian workers were allowed to cross.
Hundreds of people have entered Tunisia through Ras Jdir in recent days, according to humanitarian workers.
The rebels seized the Dehiba border post, the other crossing point between Libya and Tunisia, in April.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... Rebel fighters said they had captured the base of the elite 32 Brigade commanded by Qadaffy's son Khamis after a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... Arclight airstrike and seven hours of fierce fighting.
In a building nearby local residents showed an AFP correspondent the charred remains of some 50 people they said were captives killed on Tuesday with rifles and grenades.
National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil promised the elusive Qadaffy and his senior aides they would be given a fair trial in Libya if they surrendered.
Speaking in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the rebellion began in February, Jalil also called for emergency humanitarian aid for the capital, stressing the lack of medical supplies.
"We are calling all the humanitarian organizations and telling them that Tripoli needs medicines, first aid products and surgical material," he told a news conference.
Blaming "sabotage by Qadaffy's forces" for shortages of water and electricity in Tripoli, he said, "We are working on resolving these problems."
While fighting was still under way on various fronts, focus was increasingly turning to a post-Qadaffy era, with calls for reconciliation and a peaceful transition.
NTC front man Mahmud Shammam said in the capital the rebels would start distributing 30,000 tons of petrol to Tripoli residents immediately, and would be providing cooking gas within the next 48 hours.
They were also working to restore the Zawiyah refinery, Shammam said, pleading for patience and calling on all public, private and oil sector employees to return to work.
"We are starting from point zero in this situation. Do not ask for miracles, but we promise to try to make this difficult period as short as we can," Shammam said.
"The problems and accidents we are facing are less than in any other experience in an international war," he said.
"We don't have chaos. We don't have fire everywhere. We are in control."
But he admitted there was still resistance left.
"Anybody who thinks that there is not a fraction of people who support Qadaffy or that there is no fifth column who will try to trouble the peace of Tripoli would be mistaken.
"After 42 years of dictatorship we will find a problem of people trying to harm our society. We are a city liberated for just a few days."
Electricity in the capital is out for several hours a day. Many districts have no water and the price of food and petrol has skyrocketed.
Mountains of rubbish have piled up on the sweltering streets since the rebels entered the capital a week ago, battling Qadaffy's forces until they stormed his compound on Tuesday and then mopping up after that.
Even so, life bore a semblance of normality in central Tripoli on Saturday, with some shops open and people out and about preparing for the end of the Ramadan fast.
After several days of intense combat, the remaining Qadaffy loyalists seemed to have opted for guerrilla tactics, striking in small groups to keep tensions high and then withdrawing.
Tripoli airport, held by the rebels, was still being targeted by sporadic shooting and shelling but the beturbanned goons said they had expanded the area under their control.
The rebels late Friday also captured the Ras Jdir border post on the frontier with Tunisia, through which it was feared Qadaffy, his henchmen and family might use to escape.
Shammam said the coastal highway from Tripoli to the border would be open once fighting ends in Zuwarah, 90 kilometers west of the capital, which is held by rebels but still being bombarded by pro-Qadaffy forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the Algerian foreign ministry denied as "baseless" an Egyptian news agency report that a motorcade of six armored Mercedes that could be carrying Libyan officials, even Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... , had crossed into Algeria late Friday.
The rebels, who are making slow progress in their advance on Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte, east of Tripoli, another possible bolt hole, want to find him so they can proclaim final victory in the six-month-old uprising.
"We call on Moammar Qadaffy and his associates to surrender so we can protect them and spare them illegal execution," Jalil said. "We guarantee them a fair trial, whatever their position."
Asked about the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , which has issued indictments against Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam and his intelligence chief, Jalil said the ICC was complementary to Libyan justice.
"We have issued appeal after appeal for them to appear, that we will protect them and that they will be tried," Jalil said. "Those who are afraid and do not respond will be alone responsible for their security."
The rebels have offered a $1.7 million dollar reward for Qadaffy's capture, dead or alive.
"Colonel Qadaffy must avoid further bloodshed by relinquishing power and calling on those forces that continue to fight to lay down their arms and protect civilians," she said.
She added: "Today, under UN leadership, we agreed to call on all parties to respect international humanitarian and international human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... obligations. There should be no reprisals."
Ashton said that the Cairo Group, which also includes the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, "emphasized that the transition in Libya should be Libyan-led and inclusive."
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said after the talks, which he chaired, that an international police force may need to be sent to Libya, which is "awash" with small arms.
Egypt's news agency said NTC number two Mahmud Jibril was in Cairo for a special meeting of the vaporous Arab League that would see the rebels take over Libya's seat from Qadaffy's regime, suspended in February after the conflict began.
[An Nahar] Eighteen people were killed and 26 maimed in a suicide kaboom at the Cherchell military academy west of Algiers, the defense ministry said Saturday revising its own toll given hours earlier.
The ministry said 16 officers and two civilians were among the dead. Twenty maimed had been discharged but six people were still in hospital, one at death's door.
The maimed were evacuated to hospitals in the nearby towns of Sidi Ghiles and Tipaza, as well as to the army's central Ain-Naadja hospital in Algiers.
The ministry had earlier revised a toll given Friday by hospital officials of 18 dead and dozens of maimed, saying 11 people died.
No reason was given for the latest revision of the toll.
Saturday's figures were the first to be published by an official source, a day after the twin suicide kaboom about 100 kilometers west of the Algerian capital around 10 minutes after the breaking of the Ramadan fast.
The ministry branded the attack "appalling and terrorist" and attributed it to "criminal gangs" targeting objects that would be of media interest.
According to el-Watan newspaper, the jacket wallahs tried to cause as many casualties as possible by targeting the officers' mess just as all the soldiers were assembled to break the fast.
The bombers, one on a cycle of violence, set off kabooms a few seconds apart in front of the entrance to the officers' mess hall, the paper said.
Ramadan is generally considered a good time for holy war, or jihad, by Islamist groups. Since the fast started in early August, there have been many attacks east of Algiers, especially in Kabylie, targeting the army and police.
Authorities generally remain tight-lipped about such incidents, which have not ended despite a policy of national reconciliation adopted in the early 2000s by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him...
Most attacks are attributed to al-Qaeda's North African offshoot, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Under Algeria's policy of national reconciliation many Islamist fighters have been offered pardons in exchange for laying down their arms.
Late Tuesday two coppers and a soldier were killed in two separate attacks in the Bordj Bou Arreridj region, 220 kilometres southeast of the capital, and in corpse-littered Boumerdes, 50 kilometers east of Algiers.
The scene of Friday's attack, the Cherchell Academy, was set up by La Belle France during World War II after the Allied landings in North Africa on November 8, 1942. It remained an officers' college after Algerian independence in 1962.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Libyan rebels said they had complete control of Tripoli airport today and had cleared a nearby district of Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... 's forces but still feared isolated snipers at the airfield.
"We control the airport entirely," rebel commander Bashir al-Taibi told AFP.
Rebels said they had also taken the Qasr ben Gheshir District after a "clean-up" operation around the international airport, launched to push out remaining loyalist forces entrenched in the neighbourhood.
They added that they were still being cautious after loyalist forces fired rockets and mortar rounds that destroyed three civilian aircraft on the tarmac.
At a roundabout in Qasr ben Gheshir, a cheering crowd celebrated the district's "liberation", singing: "Hey, hey hey, Qadaffy is gone forever," an AFP correspondent said.
"Last night (Friday), about 60 to 80 cars from the battalion of Khamis Qadaffy," one of the runaway dictator's sons, left the area and "fled to Bani Walid", a city near Sirte, Qadaffy's hometown, said Mokhtar Lakhtar, who commanded the operation.
"It was not a tactical withdrawal, but really a flight," he added.
Many in the district confirmed the departure of the convoy of vehicles with Qadaffy loyalists, saying they included 4x4s and "pick-ups with heavy weapons".
Two residents said they had seen a pair of large missiles, which they identified as Scuds, going with the convoy, but the rebels did not confirm that.
Rebel fighters fired their guns into the air, with the rattle sometimes punctuated by a burst of anti-aircraft fire.
At the centre of the roundabout, some residents sacrificed a sheep, in the Mohammedan gesture of celebration.
"We have been freed today! I sacrificed a sheep, and I will sacrifice another tomorrow, when Qadaffy is caught," said Saleh Belhaj, 42.
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Hat tip Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit. Rolled over to Sunday.
HARARE -- There are unconfirmed reports doing the rounds in Zimbabwe State intelligence circles saying President Robert Mugabe has sent troops from his Commando crack unit to Libya to save his long time ally and financier Colonel Muammaur Gaddafi.
The accuracy of these allegations have not been not been verified but plausible bags of evidence based on the relationship between the two leaders are hugely backing the reports.
Libya's ambassador to India, who resigned following a crackdown on protests, told Reuters on Tuesday that African mercenaries were being used by the authorities, prompting some army troops to switch sides to the opposition.
In Harare the rumour mill in the intelligence and military circles said a chartered Russian aircraft flew into Harare on Monday evening and left for Libya early Tuesday morning carrying troops from the crack Commando Unit.
Last night' the Libyan leader signaled his defiance in the face of a mounting revolt against his 41-year rule, making bizarre sporadic appearances on state television living up to his eccentric gamesmanship in a desperate effort to show up his waning power.
Swathed in brown robes, Gaddafi seethed and banged a podium on Tuesday outside one of his residences that was damaged in a 1986 U.S. air strike aiming to kill him. "I am not going to leave this land. I will die here as a martyr," Gaddafi said on state television, refusing to bow to calls from some of his own ministers, soldiers and protesters who braved a fierce crackdown to clamour for him to go.
And then he bravely ran away...
His forces have cracked down fiercely on anti-government demonstrators, with fighting now spreading beyond the capital Tripoli after erupting in Libya's oil-producing east last week. This morning, The Zimbabwe Mail tabled a number of questions to Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa with regards to these allegations and his office has not rejected or confirmed the claims.
The 'mercenaries' came from somewhere. Are they independent soldiers of fortune or did Gaddhafi get a discount from Muggsy?
Over the years, Gaddafi has become one of Robert Mugabe's most vocal political allies in African Summits and is believed to have contributed millions of dollars towards the Zimbabwean president's re-election campaigns.
In 2001, a British newspaper reported that Gaddafi had sent troops to Zimbabwe, to help Robert Mugabe crack down on his political opponents and the white farmers, according to Zimbabwean intelligence officers.
Gaddafi once visited Zimbabwe, driving down from the Zambian capital, Lusaka, in a motorcade packed with female Nubian bodyguards. During his visit, the Libyan dictator urged Zimbabwe's Asian Muslims to wage a jihad against Zimbabwe's small white population.
As part of the oil deal, Gaddafi's regime acquired some 20 Zimbabwean properties, from mansions in Harare's northern suburbs to farms. There are fears in Zimbabwe that the properties could become bases for the Gaddafi's rogue terrorist agents seeking retribution once he is deposed from power.
Gaddafi once dreamt of a United Africa States under him as King, with the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as his prime minister. The pair have long streak of bullying other African leaders in African Summits and imposing their wills on the continent's resolutions.
"The mercenaries are from Africa, and speak French and other languages," Libyan ambassador to India Ali al-Essawi said in an interview, adding that he was receiving information from sources within the OPEC-member country.
Essawi, who has left the Libyan embassy since he resigned on Monday to protest the violent crackdown and is now staying at a hotel in New Delhi, said he had been told there had been army defections.
"They (troops) are Libyans and they cannot see foreigners killing Libyans so they moved beside the people," Essawi said, looking nervous and agitated.
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Crack Zimbabwean commandos? That sentence can only be 1/3 accurate. Take your pick.
Its certainly plausible that the Colonel could have flown south, but the rest of the article doesn't make sense at any level - tactical to strategic.
The only choice is really exile or death. Not much middle ground for the regime.
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BIG NEWS NETWORK > GADDAFI POSSIBLY IN ALGERIA!?
Convoy of six [large?]Mercedes luxury cars observed mysteriously crossing the Libyuhn border into Algeria last Friday AM - ALGERIAN FOREIGN MINSTRY NOT CONFIRMING OR DENYING THE STORY, ONLY THAT IT HAS NO INFORMATION TO ACT ON AT THIS TIME???
Iff true, IMO then it infers that recently repor light Border Clashes between Algerian Border Guards + incoming Libbyies may in fact had been a scruffle between [unknowing?]Algerian Border Guards + disguised elements of Gaddafi's Advance Security???
[An Nahar] Seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others maimed on Saturday in festivities with suspected al-Qaeda forces in the southern province of Abyan, a military officer said.
The fighting took place near Dofes, a village south of the placid provincial capital of Zinjibar that has been occupied by jihad boy elements since the end of May, the source said.
"Al-Qaeda gunnies hidden in a wooded mountainous area opened fire on army units heading from Dofes to Zinjibar to try to rejoin the 25th Mechanized Brigade," which is encircled by the Islamists, the source said.
The casualties were taken during "several hours of fighting that ensued," the officer added.
On Thursday, an air strike killed eight suspected al-Qaeda members in the same restive province, a local official said, adding the hit could have been carried out by a U.S. drone.
The official said the strike targeted a position held by al-Qaeda suspects in Wadi Hassan valley, south of Zinjibar held by Death Eaters linked to the Islamist network.
An air strike on Wednesday in Abyan killed six suspected al-Qaeda gunnies, a tribal source said, again without being able to confirm it was carried out by Yemeni or U.S. forces.
Local residents claim U.S. drones regularly fly over the region.
Yemeni authorities deny any direct U.S. participation in their fight against al-Qaeda, but on June 14, Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... , the CIA director, said his country was carrying out anti-terrorism operations in Yemen.
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The Maryland teenager secretly arrested by the FBI for allegedly conspiring with the woman from the Philadelphia suburbs known as Jihad Jane also spoke of a Columbine-style plot with a Pittsburgh-area friend in a jihadist chat room, according to sources and documents.
"I had a lot of thoughts about you today," Mohammed K. wrote to his Western Pennsylvania pen pal late last year. "About us both doing martyrdom operations together in my school. . . . It was like we both were in a big truck and had guns and we were shooting randomly at a huge crowd of kids."
The chats provide new insight into a boy who at age 15 allegedly began helping Colleen LaRose, aka "Jihad Jane," the 48-year-old Pennsburg woman who U.S. officials say represents a disturbing new face of homegrown terrorism.
Mohammed K. was 17 and a high school senior in Ellicott City, Md., when he allegedly wrote those threatening words. The Inquirer is not publishing his last name because he is a juvenile.
Mohammed's chat room friend was Emerson Begolly, a Pennsylvania State University student who was soon charged with soliciting unrelated terror attacks. Transcripts of the chats were publicly filed in that case.
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...who U.S. officials say represents a disturbing new face of homegrown terrorism.
Granted, the so-called "homegrown terrorist" presents some unique challenges. But one can't help wonder if the added emphasis is an attempt to diffuse the focus on the base commonality.
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What is this, some sort of sexting, wanting a mustache ride?
DepotGuy, I think it does that, as well as expand the reasoning for in-country terrorism designations, such as the Gibson gang's gaia trafficing operations. Seriously, a couple weeks ago a guy traveled from NE to KS after allegedly saying at a bar he was going to go kill some law men. News also stated he was a member of several terrorist organizations...but never mentioned a single one of them. I know sometimes details are not released which may be the case - no free advertising for such groups - but then why mention it in the first place, isn't potential cop killer a warning enough?
Then we have politicians calling certain voting blocs as terrorist orgs, like hamas except without the millions of US Aid.
CHITRAL, Pakistan: Several hundred militants from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on Pakistani paramilitary posts on Saturday, killing up to 36 people, government and security officials said.
Looks like the 'mighty Pak army' took one on the chin...
Soldiers of the Chitral Scouts and police were among the dead in the string of attacks that began with an assault on paramilitary check posts in the border village of Arandu in the Chitral district just across from Afghanistan's Nuristan province.
"Reportedly, terrorists from Swat, Dir and Bajaur organized by Fazullah and Maulvi Faqir Mohammad with local Afghans have attacked the security forces posts," a military statement said, referring to northwestern Pakistani regions and senior Pakistani Taleban commanders.
Many Pakistani Taleban fighters fled to Afghanistan in the face of army offensives and have joined allies there to regroup and threaten Pakistani border regions, analysts say.
Did they flee or did they just kiss the wimmins goodbye and tell them that they'd be back after vacation and a few training seminars?
A senior Chitral Scouts official, Haroon Rasheed, said 26 soldiers and 10 border police were killed.
So much better when these attacks occur at the border instead of Swat or Islamambad..
Twenty militants were also reportedly killed when up to 300 insurgents attacked seven military check posts, the military statement said. There was no independent verification of the militant death toll. The military statement put the security forces death toll at least 25.
Troops blew up two bridges in the border region to stem the militants' incursion.
"Scanty presence" of NATO and Afghan forces along the border has enabled militants to use these areas as safe havens and launch repeated attacks inside Pakistan, the military said.
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So instead of Taliban hiding in Pak and raiding into A-stan, it's Lutherans hiding in A-stan and attacking Pak. How....refeshing.
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See also CHINA DAILY FORUM, TOPIX > NATO: TALIBAN JUST AS STRONG AS ONE YEAR AGO, i.e. fighting strength of roughly 25,000.
The Bammer Admin repor intends to maintain a SPECOPS + MIL, GOVT ADVISORY PRESENCE in AFGHANISTAN = AFPAK after 2014 - IS THE USDOD COORDINATING WID HILLARY = DepSTATE TO DEFEAT ISLAMIST-LED POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD ONCE THE US-NATO TROOPS DRAWDOWN ESCALATES AS SCHEDULED???
[Dawn] A man and his three sons were killed over a domestic dispute in Tarrikhel village in Tajori cop shoppe jurisdiction on Thursday evening.
Police said the accused Javed along with other accomplices forcibly entered the house of Ayyub Khan at the time of breaking of the fast. The accused opened fire on the family members, killing Ayyub Khan and his three sons, Inamullah, Jan Badshah and Nek Nawaz on the spot. The attackers beat feet the area after the incident.
The Tajori cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... police recovered the body of a kidnapped man near Paharkhel Thall village the other day.
The victim, Hafiz Suleman, a property dealer, was allegedly kidnapped from the village last week when he was returning home after Taraweeh prayer.
Sources said that the kidnappers had demanded ransom from the family for the release of SLearned Elders of Islamn. But he was killed when the family refused to pay the amount. The police recovered the body near the bank of a canal in the Paharkhel Thall village and shifted it to the city hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... Naurang police claimed to have tossed in the slammer two persons and recovered a huge quantity of firecrackers and toy bombs from their possession.
Acting on a tip-off, a police party led by SHO Asad Ali Shah of Shaheed Asmatullah Khan Khattak cop shoppe raided two shops in Naurang town and recovered 1,300 packets of firecrackers and toy bombs and tossed in the slammer two accused.
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[Dawn] Police commandos raided a house in Sector G-6/1 in the wee hours of Friday and placed in durance vile five bully boyz soon after a suspect disclosed their hideout under interrogation.
Inspector General of Police Bani Amin Khan told Dawn police were still hunting for a jacket wallah and his handler, Sardar Ali Khan Khattak, a naib qasid in the Ministry of Finance.
They were to join the terrorists, who are affiliated to the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain, on Friday to carry out suicide kaboom either on a Jumatul Wida congregation or the Al Quds Day rally that was to pass by their hideout, according to the city police chief.
It was possible that the two got wind of the pre-dawn arrests and changed their travel plans to Islamabad from the tribal area, he said.
Other police sources said that though not directly connected to Thursday's bomb threat to the Supreme Court, the police
operation certainly sprang from the heightened vigilance that was mounted in the wake of that threat.
IGP Bani Amin said that events started rolling after a suspect was picked up from Anwar Hotel in Aabpara around 3am Friday.
His interrogation led to the terrorists' hideout which was in the use of Sardar Ali Khan Khattak who has been on two-year leave from the finance ministry.
Subsequent arrest and interrogation of the five bully boyz revealed that Khattak had gone to tribal area to bring a suicide bomber.
A suicide jacket, a hand grenade, two pistols, bullets and foreign currency were recovered from their hideout.
Further investigations are underway. Islamabad police have termed their operation "timely action and a great success" which
helped thwart a terrorist attack.
IGP Bani Amin said the police were working on some vital leads to trace and arrest other terrorist hiding in the city, but would not share it with the media.
Several teams were working on the leads since the arrest of the six persons, he said.
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[Dawn] Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistain, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the US believes to be on the verge of defeat, a senior B.O. regime official said Saturday.
The Libyan national who was the network's former operational leader rose to al-Qaeda's No. 2 spot after the US killed al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... during a raid on his Pakistain compound in May.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said last month that al-Qaeda's defeat was within reach if the US could mount a string of successful attacks on the group's weakened leadership.
"Now is the moment, following what happened with bin Laden, to put maximum pressure on them," Panetta said, "because I do believe that if we continue this effort we can really cripple al-Qaeda as a major threat."
Al-Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in the lawless Pak tribal region of Wazoo, according to the official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss intelligence issues.
The official would not say how al-Rahman was killed. But his death came on the same day that a CIA drone strike was reported in Waziristan. Such strikes by unmanned aircraft are Washington's weapon of choice for killing Islamic fascistiin the mountainous, hard-to-reach area along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border.
Al-Rahman, believed to be in his mid-30s, was a close confidant of bin Laden and once served as bin Laden's emissary to Iran.
Al-Rahman was allowed to move freely in and out of Iran as part of that arrangement and had been operating out of Waziristan for some time, officials have said.
Born in Libya, al-Rahman joined bin Laden as a teenager in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union.
After Navy SEALs killed bin Laden, they found evidence of al-Rahman's role as operational chief, US officials have said.
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So they say....other say not true......I'm getting deja vu
[Straits Times] Twin roadside kaboom blasts in east Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed five coppers and maimed seven other people late on Saturday, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.
The kabooms targeted a police patrol in the Ghadeer neighbourhood, the official said, on condition of anonymity. Of the seven maimed, three were police and the others civilians.
Saturday'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 is now beyond all cares and woe... in a US special forces raid in Pakistain on May 4.
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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Police said a resident of Nablus entered a taxi near the beginning of Salameh Street in south Tel Aviv, and carjacked the driver, stabbing him in the hand. He then drove for approximately a kilometer down Salameh Street towards the Hoaman 17 nightclub, which was filled with people in and around the building.
Border Police had set up a road block ahead of time at the entrance to the club on Abarbanel Street. The terrorist rammed the road block, and struck a number of people, including a Border policeman. "He then got out of the car, screamed Allahu akbar, and went on a knife attack," a police spokeswoman said.
The man stabbed five Border Policemen. One is seriously injured and two are moderately injured. The remainder are lightly injured.
An Arab man driving a stole taxi smashed into a crowd of people outside of the Haoman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv. The suspect ran over two people, then exited the vehicle and began stabbing others, police said. The incident took place on Tel Aviv's Abarbanel Street.
Five people are reported wounded so far - four lightly and one moderately, according to police.
The suspect was captured by a team of Border Police officers on the scene. He was taken to the Wolfson Medical Center with light injuries. Large numbers of police are on the scene.
Police said a resident of Nablus entered a taxi near the beginning of Salameh Street in south Tel Aviv, and carjacked the driver, stabbing him in the hand. He then drove for approximately a kilometer down Salameh Street towards the Hoaman 17 nightclub, which was filled with people in and around the building.
Border Police had set up a road block ahead of time at the entrance to the club on Abarbanel Street. The terrorist rammed the road block, and struck a number of people, including a Border policeman. "He then got out of the car, screamed Allahu akbar, and went on a knife attack," a police spokeswoman said.
The man stabbed five Border Policemen. One is seriously injured and two are moderately injured. The remainder are lightly injured.
An Arab man driving a stole taxi smashed into a crowd of people outside of the Haoman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv. The suspect ran over two people, then exited the vehicle and began stabbing others, police said. The incident took place on Tel Aviv's Abarbanel Street.
Five people are reported wounded so far - four lightly and one moderately, according to police.
The suspect was captured by a team of Border Police officers on the scene. He was taken to the Wolfson Medical Center with light injuries. Large numbers of police are on the scene.
RAMALLAH: Israeli forces on Saturday opened a road near the West Bank city of Ramallah after nine years of closure, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. Ramallah Gov. Laila Ghannam said that the Israeli army opened road 466 near Ein Seinya, to the north of Ramallah. The Israeli army closed the road in 2002 under the pretext that Palestinian fighters used it to launch attacks against Jewish occupiers.
Ghannam said that the 10-kilometer road, which begins from the entrance of Beit El settlement to the northern entrance of Ein Seinya, connects Ramallah with cities in the West Bank.
She added that the Palestinians had used alternative roads during the last nine years to travel between the two destinations. The governor said that the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works had finished reconstructing the road last week.
A spokesman for the Israeli army said that the decision to open the road to Palestinian traffic was approved by the Israeli forces OC Central Command and the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Division. The spokesman added that the opening of the road is a good will gesture to Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel routinely extends goodwill gestures to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and moderates in the Palestinian Authority
Meanwhile, Israeli forces placed military checkpoints at all entrances of Nablus.
Palestinian witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoints restricted the entry of Palestinians into the city.
Nablus Gov. Jibrin Al-Bakri said that the Israeli measures will badly affect Nablus economy. The city is the economic capital of Palestinian territories.
Al-Bakri said the restrictions will bar the Palestinian residents from entering the city to buy guns and ammunition Eid Al-Fitr gifts, sweets and clothes.
Shop ahead next time. There's 330 days to next year's Ramadan...
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Hunh? By opening the 10K road as a good will gesture, Nablus Gov. Jibrin Al-Bakri thinks Palestinians will be unable to buy sweets?
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Isn't Goodwill something one throws in when selling a buisness, calculated as, oh, I don't know, some percentage of turnover and/or profit? Which turnover and/or profit and what percentage could it be?
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The reason there is no Muslim Gratitude is because Muslims are entitled to anything and everything. Why would anyone be grateful for receiving what they are entitled to?
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Hopefully this means North Korea got hit by Stuxnet as well.
Al
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Hopefully this means North Korea got hit by Stuxnet as well.
Could explain the sinking of the Cheongan, was about that time weren't it?
Mike
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Once again, ala so-called "FRANCHISING" among "ROGUE GOVTS/STATES", its not clear what major national benefit(s) Iran or the DPRK receives = desires? iff the DPRK Labs dev the LRBMS, management software includ Mil C4IRS, Etc. + Nukes? which Iran tests + operat deploys, espec given Pert-believed levels of control or influence that China asserts oer the DPRK???
MORESO GIVEN RADICAL ISLAM'S = MILTERR GROUPS' SUPPORT [Al-Qaeda, Hezboolah, Muslim Brotherhood, etc.]FOR THE VARIOUS CURRENT "ARAB SPRINGS" = "JASMINE" UPRISINGS IN THE ME + NORTH AFRICA, wid high risk of Islamist Groups getting formal electoral control or domination of the Armed Forces + Civilain NucProgs of many Muslim States???
[An Nahar] Security forces were on Saturday searching for two Syrian nationals who were kidnapped by three gunnies a day earlier after crossing the Syrian border into the Bekaa Valley.
The gunnies in a Hyundai four-wheeler with tinted glass windows intercepted a Jaguar in Bar Elias in the central Bekaa and kidnapped Mohammad Ayman Ammar, 49 and Nour Jamil Qadoura, 30.
The Lebanese driver of the Jaguar, however, was not kidnapped and a bag containing $5,000 wasn't taken either, media reports said. The driver, Khalil Saleh al-Agha, was questioned by police.
Security forces are also interrogating the family members of Ammar and Qadoura.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat said that the two Syrians enter Leb regularly. Qadoura has a furniture company in Leb and Ammar works as an accountant in the firm.
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[An Nahar] The number of suspects tossed in the slammer for assaulting a deacon and another man earlier this month in the predominantly Shiite town of Lassa rose to three after two more people admitted to the crime, the National News Agency reported Saturday.
NNA said that Rouwad al-Moqdad, 30, and Fares al-Moqdad, 28, were handed over to the military police after admitting that they were behind the assault on Deacon Tony Hakim and his lover companion Anis Daou on Aug. 20.
Security forces tossed in the slammer two days ago Mohammed Itawi who also admitted to participating on the assault on Hakim as he escorted security forces to implement a judicial order to demolish illegal construction on land owned by the Maronite patriarchate.
The residents of Lassa, which lies in the district of Jbeil, are caught in a land dispute with the church. The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition accuses Hizbullah of allowing the residents to build on church land and providing a cover for the property violators.
NNA said that investigations are ongoing to find those who instigated the attack.
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[An Nahar] A second suspected nuclear installation has been identified in Syria, according to commercial satellite photos, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The publishing Wednesday of the photos by Washington's Institute for Science and International Security could increase pressure on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to demand wide new inspections of suspect Syrian facilities during a March board meeting of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
The newspaper said that "the photos published by the ISIS identifies what it says are one of the three additional sites the IAEA believes could be connected to the Deir al-Zour facility."
"In a series of photos, ISIS displays what it alleges were apparent Syrian attempts to disguise the activities of site after the Israeli attack (2007)," it added.
Israel attack in 2007 an alleged nuclear site in Syria in which Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, reports say.
The report noted that the "ISIS says the location and contours of the building suggests it housed uranium-conversion equipment that is used to produce nuclear fuel. The facility, in a town called Marj as-Sultan, is on the outskirts 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...
ISIS said it located the site using commercial satellite images based on information provided by sources at the IAEA as well as by a report in the German newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday cited unnamed officials in the United States and Israel as saying both countries are monitoring Syria's suspected nonconventional arms, fearing that terror groups could take advantage of the unrest to obtain chemical agents and long-range missiles.
The newspaper said U.S. intelligence services believe Syria possesses significant stockpiles of mustard, VX and Sarin gasses and the missile and artillery systems to deliver them.
IAEA inspectors had visited eastern Syria in 2008 and reported that they recovered traces of processed uranium from a site called Deir al-Zour, which the Bush administration alleged housed a nearly operational nuclear reactor. Israeli jets destroyed the facility nearly eight months before the IAEA's visit.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has said in recent months that he'd consider calling for a so-called special inspection of Syrian sites if Damascus continues to deny U.N. staff entry, But Syria could then be referred to the Security Council, if it again refused the IAEA's request.
Diplomats at the IAEA told the newspaper that Amano is also considering releasing a report at the March meeting that would detail what the agency says is evidence that Syria was secretly developing a nuclear reactor.
Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's government has rebuffed repeated IAEA requests to conduct additional inspections of the site as well as three other facilities the U.N. agency believes could be related to a covert Syrian nuclear program.
Syria is one of six nations that isn't a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the production and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
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"Washington's Institute for Science and International Security"
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Perhams the Obama and US State Department's consternation with Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad is gaining a bit of clarity. No worries, the IDF will bail us out as they did previously.... with stinging UN condemnation of course.
[An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed two anti-regime demonstrators on Saturday morning and maimed another 15 in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... and in the northern province of Idlib, rights activists said.
In the capital's western quarter of Kafar Susseh, one demonstrator was killed and 10 hurt when club-wielding security forces attacked a group of people leaving prayers at the Rifai mosque, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Among the maimed was the imam of the mosque, Osama al-Rifai.
The Local Coordination Committees, which groups activists on the ground, confirmed the death, but said 12 people had been injured.
Demonstrations were also reported in the northern Damascus quarter Roukn Edinne and in Zabadani, 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of the capital, the Observatory said.
Separately, the Observatory said one person was killed and five maimed in Kafar Nabel, in Idlib.
On Friday, the last during the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan, security forces killed at least seven people as they fired on protesters rallying in their tens of thousands across Syria and vowing to bring down the regime.
An eighth man died in detention, his family told rights groups.
Spurred by calls posted on the Internet, protesters flooded the streets in the north, center and south of the country, chanting "Bashar, we don't love you, even if you turn night into day," according to activists.
The latest bloodletting came as the U.N. Security Council remained divided over measures against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime, with Russia and China blocking bids to pass fresh sanctions, including a total arms embargo.
The ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, meanwhile, upped the pressure on Syria during a visit to key Damascus ally Iran, saying the use of force was "fruitless."
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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CHITRAL, Pakistan: Several hundred militants from Afghanistan launched a pre-dawn cross-border raid on Pakistani paramilitary posts on Saturday, killing up to 36 people, government and security officials said.
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistain, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the US believes to be on the verge of defeat, a senior 
Al-Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in the lawless Pak tribal region of 
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