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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Bessie Love aka Miss Paula White in "The Lost World" aka Mrs. Partlow in "Reds" aka Hank Mahoney in "The Broadway Melody (1929)" aka Answering Service Lady in "Sunday Bloody Sunday" aka Begonia Baggot in "Atlantic Ferry" aka Ellen in "See America Thirst" aka Kathleen Vernon in "I Live Again" (Died in 1986 at age 87)
[An Nahar] Thirteen Sudanese coppers were killed and 30 maimed in festivities with an armed gang as they tried to rescue three hostages in the war-torn Darfur region, a police front man said Friday.
"What happened yesterday involved an armed gang, not a rebel group. The police tried to release three hostages in eastern Jebel Marra. Clashes broke out with the gang and we lost 13 men and 30 others were maimed," Ahmed al-Tughani told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He was unable to provide further details, including on the identity of the hostages.
But Sudanese newspaper al-Ahdath, citing police sources, said that one of the hostages was an Italian, and another was a businessman from Nyala, the state capital of South Darfur.
Last month, Italian humanitarian worker La Belle Francesco Azzara, who worked at a child-care center in Nyala, was kidnapped as he was driving to the airport. His vehicle was surrounded by gunnies who ordered him to get out.
Azzara, 34, was in charge of logistics at the pediatric center opened in Nyala by the charity Emergency in July 2010.
The Italian foreign ministry said at the time that it was working with the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... mission in Darfur and local authorities to try to resolve the matter.
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World police body Interpol called Friday for the arrest of runaway former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... for his alleged crimes against humanity, following a request by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
Interpol said it had issued a "red notice" for the arrest of Qadaffy, his son Saif al-Islam and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, one day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked for the agency's help.
Interpol asked its 188 member countries "to take all measures consistent with their national laws to help the ICC locate and apprehend Qadaffy."
The "request for Interpol Red Notices will significantly restrict the ability of all three men to cross international borders and is a powerful tool to help in their location and arrest," Interpol chief Ronald Noble said.
"Qadaffy is a runaway whose country of nationality and the International Criminal Court want nabbed and held accountable for the serious criminal charges that have been brought against him," the secretary general said.
A red notice by the international police co-operation agency, which is based in the central French city of Lyon, seeks the arrest for an extradition or surrender of a person to an international court based on an arrest warrant.
ICC judges on June 27 agreed to Moreno-Ocampo's request for arrest warrants against Qadaffy, 69, Saif al-Islam, 39 and Senussi, 62, for crimes against humanity committed by Libyan troops on their orders, using "lethal force" to quell the uprising against his regime.
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Might as well toss "resisting arrest" onto the list of charges.
[An Nahar] An Egyptian protester on Friday took down the flag at the Israeli embassy atop a Cairo high-rise after protesters destroyed a protective wall outside the building.
He threw the flag, only recently hung after a protester clambered up the building last month and tore it off, down to the street as thousands of protesters cheered him on.
Last month, protester Ahmed Shehat became a national hero after he climbed up the embassy and replaced its flag with an Egyptian one during a protest denouncing Israel for the deaths of five Egyptian coppers on the border.
The coppers were killed on August 18 as Israeli troops chased forces of Evil along the border after a series of ambushes in the Negev desert that killed eight Israelis.
Earlier on Friday, a large group of Egyptians rallying for reforms branched off from a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square and destroyed a protective wall outside the building housing the Israeli embassy.
Roughly 1,000 protesters branched off to the Israeli embassy several kilometers away and began destroying a concrete wall recently built to protect the mission.
They gathered outside the building housing the mission and attacked the wall with sledge hammers and a large metal bar, as military police nearby did nothing to stop them.
The wall, about two meters high, consists of cement slabs that were recently installed around the building that houses the embassy overlooking a bridge in Cairo.
They brought down almost half of the dozens of meters of wall, chanting: "Lift your head high, you are an Egyptian."
Last month, outraged Egyptians staged huge protests outside the embassy and called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador over the border deaths of the Egyptian coppers.
Egypt has asked Israel for an official apology and demanded a probe into the deaths of the five coppers.
Friday's protest at Tahrir Square was called by mostly secular and leftist activists and boycotted by the influential Moslem Brüderbund movement and other Islamist groups.
Mohsen Rady, a senior Brotherhood member, told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
his movement, which is showing growing strains with the military, believed Egyptians were weary of protests.
"People have grown bored of these demonstrations," he said.
Secular activists are concerned the military's current timetable for parliamentary elections this autumn will play into the hands of the Brotherhood by denying new political movements the time to organize into parties.
The activists are also demanding an end to the military trials of civilians.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of protesters flocked to Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Friday for a rally to demand reforms as the ruling military warned it would respond harshly to any violence by activists.
Organizers called the gathering to press Egypt's military rulers to keep their promises of reform after a revolt ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in February.
Protesters, gathered under a scorching sun, filled a section of the square to listen to the weekly Mohammedan prayer sermon.
"It would be shame on the Egyptian people if they forget their revolution," the preacher said.
He criticized some of the prosecution witnesses in the ongoing murder trial of Mubarak and his security chiefs for testifying this week that they had not been ordered to use deadly force against protesters during the revolt.
"They must be charged with false testimony. How can a prosecution witness turn into a defense witness?" the holy man asked.
The preacher also denounced military trials for civilians. The military, which took charge after Mubarak's ouster, has sentenced thousands of people to prison since February.
Protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the military ruler and current de facto head of state Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi after the sermon ended. Tantawi is set to take the witness stand Sunday when the trial of Mubarak resumes.
Ibrahim Ali, an agricultural engineer, said he had come to the capital from northern Egypt to attend the rally.
"None of the revolution's demands have been met," he said. "There is still injustice in the country."
The military, in a statement posted on its Facebook page, said it respected the right to protest peacefully, but warned it would respond to any violence by protesters with "the utmost severity and decisiveness."
The interior ministry said it had withdrawn riot cop shoppeed in Tahrir Square to allow the activists to protest unhindered, the official MENA news agency reported.
Hundreds of football fans also demonstrated in front of the interior ministry near Tahrir Square to protest against Tuesday night's festivities with police in which nearly 80 people were maimed and dozens of cars torched.
There were no police guards outside the ministry, leaving the protesters to scrawl anti-police slogans on its front gates.
Several protesters lined up to urinate on the gate
Oh, those cultured Egyptians with their ancient civilization.
while others peeled off a steel and brass eagle emblem from the gate, scrunched it up and threw it over the wall.
One protester threw a glass bottle at an officer inside who peeked over the gate, yelling: "stay inside you son of a whore."
But most of the protesters outside the hated ministry, whose forces largely collapsed during the revolt that overthrew Mubarak, insisted on keeping the demonstration peaceful and prevented others from carrying a ladder to the gate.
Yes. The more athletic members of the crowd took themselves off for more exciting environs -- see today's other stories for those particular details.
Friday's protest was called by mostly secular and leftist activists, and is being boycotted by the influential Moslem Brüderbund movement and other Islamist groups.
Mohsen Rady, a senior Brotherhood member, told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
his movement, which is showing growing strains with the military, believed Egyptians were weary of protests.
"People have grown bored of these demonstrations," he said.
So true. Some of them have moved on to classic rioting.
Secular activists are concerned that the military's current timetable for parliamentary elections this autumn will play into the hands of the Brotherhood by denying new political movements the time to organize into parties.
The activists are also demanding an end to the military trials of civilians.
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[An Nahar] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... was underway Friday outside Bani Walid, a stronghold of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... , as forces loyal to the interim government were poised for an assault on the town if it does not surrender.
And while world police body Interpol called for the runaway Qadaffy's arrest for crimes against humanity, following a request by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , there were reports a number of his generals had decamped Libya.
The National Transitional Council has set a Saturday deadline for towns still loyal to Qadaffy to surrender, and on-off talks have been going on for days over Bani Walid, where a number of former regime officials, including Qadaffy's front man Moussa Ibrahim, are believed to be holed up.
The town has not yet been attacked, but NTC commander Abdullah al-Khzami said "fierce fighting between our forces and pro-Qadaffy ones are underway in sectors very close" to it.
"The revolutionaries have reached the gates of the city, and its first neighborhoods lie before us, but we will not enter until the ultimatum expires," he told Agence La Belle France Presse amid reports of an undetermined number of casualties.
Colonel Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak, commander of forces around Bani Walid, added that "revolutionaries had begun operations inside" the town, but that could not be independently confirmed.
Columns of smoke and the crump of shelling could be heard by journalists 20 kilometers from Bani Walid.
Earlier, another commander, Abdullah al-Hakim, said pro-Qadaffy forces were shelling his forces about 30 kilometers away "to keep us from advancing on Bani Walid," and that one of his men had been killed.
And an AFP correspondent said convoys carrying fighters and ammunition were heading toward Bani Walid, 170 kilometers southwest of the capital.
In Brussels, 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... said its aircraft destroyed two Scud missiles around Bani Walid on Friday.
"The intent of Qadaffy forces to use these indiscriminate weapons represents a serious threat to civilians in Libya and demonstrates their willingness to ignore calls for discussions," said Colonel Roland Lavoie, the NATO mission's front man.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... on the road to Qadaffy's hometown of Sirte, rebels who on Thursday captured Red Valley, 60 kilometers to the east, were under counter-attack, an AFP correspondent reported.
Sporadic fighting had ensued on Friday morning, and Qadaffy forces launched their counter-offensive with the arrival of a convoy of 10 vehicles along the front line.
NTC fighters fired anti-aircraft guns and held their positions under cover along the road and behind two buildings just outside the town, and the news hound said they appeared to be readying a pushback, with tanks moving toward the front.
Speaking for the first time from Tripoli since it was captured on August 23, de facto premier Mahmoud Jibril warned late Thursday that "the battle of liberation is not finished."
Jibril, who refused to speculate on Qadaffy's whereabouts, acknowledged the conflict would end only with the "capture or elimination of Qadaffy."
The NTC fears Qadaffy will try to slip across one of Libya's mostly non-existent borders, and neighboring Niger strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! he was there after a convoy carrying other senior ousted regime officials arrived on Monday.
In a defiant message on Thursday -- his first for days -- Qadaffy dismissed as lies reports that he had decamped to Niger, insisting he was still in Libya.
Interpol said it had issued a "red notice" for the arrest of Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, a day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked for the agency's help.
The "request for Interpol Red Notices will significantly restrict the ability of all three men to cross international borders and is a powerful tool to help in their location and arrest," Interpol chief Ronald Noble said.
"Qadaffy is a runaway whose country of nationality and the International Criminal Court want incarcerated and held accountable for the serious criminal charges that have been brought against him," he said.
In a bid to sever potential escape routes, the NTC said it had dispatched a team to the Nigerien capital Niamey, and Washington said Qadaffy aides who entered Niger were being jugged but none appeared to be on a list of persons subject to U.N. sanctions.
On Friday, a source from Niger's ethnic Tuareg community in Niamey said a number of Libyan generals loyal to Qadaffy are now in 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... after having passed through Niger.
"Three or four weeks ago a group of generals and bigwigs close to Qadaffy entered Niger via Agadez," the source said, giving no numbers.
They continued on to Niamey, where they made large transactions at the Libyan Bisic bank before going on to Burkina Faso, the source added.
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!... China -- which long propped up the fallen strongman and has extensive business interests in Libya -- said it was ready to help rebuild the North African nation.
"It depends on the needs of the Libyan people themselves, whatever they need we will be willing to help them," said Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, adding China would support U.N.-led reconstruction efforts.
Elsewhere on the economic front, The Netherlands received permission Friday to unfreeze $2 billion (1.4 billion euros) in Libyan assets and send them to the NTC, its foreign affairs ministry said.
The savings, from the Central Bank of Libya, are taken from a total of 3.1 billion euros frozen in March by the Dutch government in line with EU sanctions imposed against Libya.
[An Nahar] A former justice minister in Tunisia, Bechir Takkeri, has been jugged for alleged witness nobbling in the case of a yacht stolen in La Belle France in 2006, the TAP news agency reported Friday.
A judicial source confirmed to AFP that Takkeri was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock early on Thursday evening.
According to TAP, Takkeri is suspected of inciting a witness to commit perjury to lift suspicion hanging over Imed Trabelsi, the nephew of Leila Ben Ali, wife of president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who decamped the country on January 14 after a popular uprising.
Imed Trabelsi was unsuccessfully prosecuted in La Belle France for "thefts in an organized gang". He was accused of having stolen the luxury yacht owned by Bruno Roger, a manager of the Banque Lazard and close aide to President Jacques Chirac and the current head of state, 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...
Two other yachts which disappeared from the French Riviera in 2005 and 2006 were found with forged registration details in Tunisia.
In May 2007, French police issued a warrant for the arrest of Trabelsi, but Tunisia refused to extradite him.
In Tunisia itself, Trabelsi was acquitted in connection with the yacht thefts on January 30, 2010.
Last July, Takkeri, who had been placed in jug for suspected corruption, was freed. This decision aroused anger, particularly in the ranks of the North African country's magistrates, who denounced alleged impunity for men who had served the Ben Ali regime.
Trabelsi was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock after the tossed of Ben Ali and is being tried on a series of charges.
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[Tripoli Post] News organizations quoting officials in Niger report that a senior general and other officials who were part of the dictatorial regime of Libya's Muammar Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... have crossed into Niger.
The sources say that General Ali Kana and several other high-ranking officials were part of a group of about a dozen people who entered Niger on Friday.
During Al Qadaffy's reign, Ali Kana is said to have been in charge of the runaway leader's troops in southern Libya. He is a Tuareg, the dominant tribe in northern Niger.
The latest crossings follow Wednesday's announcement by Niger's justice minister who said that 18 people had entered the country from Libya in recent days, adding however, that Al Qadaffy was not among them.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Libya's National Transitional Council has sent envoys to Niger in an effort to prevent the runaway former leader and his associates from leaving Libya, while Thursday evening Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Al Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam and Libya's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi.
The international police agency said Friday that it issued a "red notice" calling on all countries to help locate the three men and place them under arrest. Their current whereabouts are unknown, but they are accused of committing crimes against humanity.
There have been speculations that though not pinpointing the exact spot, the NTC knows where Al Qadaffy is.
Al Qadaffy is not in the city of Bani Walid that following a break in negotiations is expected to be attacked Saturday at the end of the deadline for surrender. But the desert town still held by Al Qadaffy supporters, is reported to be hosting Al Qadaffy's son Seif al-Islam.
Negotiators from Libya's National Transitional Council say they are committed to avoiding bloodshed as they press tribal elders tied to the former leader to surrender. They have until Saturday to decide
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Debka. But it's happening in real time and others are reporting the story, too. So I'm trusting this.
The Egyptian government declared a state of emergency early Saturday, Sept. 10 as thousands of demonstrators using sledgehammers smashed through the wall outside the Israeli embassy, broke into the building and dumped the flag and hundreds of documents through the windows. DEBKAfile: Egyptian security forces using tear gas and shooting in the air failed to contain the howling mob led by Muslim Brotherhood adherents.
At least 5 Egyptian soldiers killed and more than 500 police and demonstrators were injured. Ambassador Yizhak Levanon, his family and 70 embassy personnel were evacuated from Egypt by military plane.
The Egyptian government after declaring an emergency sent armored vehicles to the burning building and cut off the power in the street. The demonstrators set up barricades in the streets around the embassy building and attacked police vehicles and other vehicles with Molotov cocktails. They moved on then to attack a police station.
Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, his family and staff were taken from their homes in Cairo to await the military plane which evacuated them. US President Barack Obama expressed concern at the attack and told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he was taking steps to help resolve the situation without further violence.
Sure he is. No doubt a summer intern has just dropped a stiff note written on his personal stationary into the Alexandria consulate out-box, to be mailed to the Egyptian government on Monday...only he still hasn't grasped local postage rules, so he did his best.
He called on the Egyptian government to honor its international obligations to safeguard the embassy. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak asked US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for assistance in safeguarding the building.
The attack came two days before a scheduled visit by the Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan to Cairo amid an escalating Turkish diplomatic offensive against Israel which the US is seeking to contain.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood incited the Israeli embassy attack to show the military rulers in Cairo who calls the shots and pressure them to break off three decades of peace ties with the Jewish state.
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'demonstrators'???? RIOTERS is a far more accurate term. JPost today:Netanyahu thanked US President Barack Obama and the Egyptian forces for their help in extracting the security guards from the embassy during what he termed a "blatant violation of international norms."
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This is why you give Embassy guards flamethrowers and grenade machineguns. After the first few dozen people attacking the embassy get torched or mangled, the others will be a bit less eager.
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The Mexican navy says it has broken up a sophisticated communications network used by the Zetas drugs cartel in the eastern state of Veracruz.
The navy said it seized mobile radio transmitters and encryption equipment that the gang was using to coordinate its criminal activities. At least 80 suspects have been locked away over the past month.
Founded by former army commandos, the Zetas are considered one of Mexico's most violent cartels. Last month, the gang was blamed for an arson attack on a casino in the northern city of Monterrey which killed 52 people.
The Mexican navy said the operation against the Zetas in Veracruz was carried out by marine special forces after months of work by naval intelligence officers. It said the gang had installed secure radio communications systems in at least 10 towns in Veracruz.
The network was being used to coordinate drug trafficking, kidnap, extortion and murder across much of the state. The equipment seized included high-powered transmitters, computers, radio scanners, encryption devices and solar power cells.
The immediate result of the operation was the disruption of the Zetas' "chain of command and tactical coordination" in Veracruz, navy front man Jose Luis Vergara said.
The Mexican navy has been playing a growing role in the Mexican government's campaign against drugs gangs, and marines have captured or killed several of the most wanted suspected drugs barons.
In recent months Veracruz state has seen an upsurge in violence blamed on a struggle between the Zetas and its rivals, the La Familia and Gulf cartels, for control of drug smuggling routes.
Around 40,000 people have died in drug related violence in Mexico since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon began deploying the armed forces to combat the cartels.
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I read a Scientific American article (maybe ten years ago, before the OD'd on Bush-Derangement Syndrome)that the panic would kill far more than the radioactivity.
So I - 25 miles south of the Capitol - shall not panic. Probably safer inside anyway.
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November 2002 Sci Am, but it costs $7.95 to see the article now.
But JPL covers the topic, borrowing some of the Sci Am graphics at - JPL link
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Scientific American has become less and less of both since I read it in the '80s. I don't touch that Goracle rag now.
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Cancelled that rag years ago. They still push the AGW BS.
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Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC > [Lloyd's Syndicate]US LAWSUIT: SAUDI GOVT RESPONSIBLE FOR 9-11 ATTACKS, hence the KSA must pay big $$$ back to Lloyd's, etal. for victim payouts due to the Saudis alleged actions.
[Dawn] A New York City resident has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by plotting to travel to Pakistain to join a radical fighting group.
Agron Hasbajrami was charged in an indictment unsealed Friday in federal court in Brooklyn. The indictment said he had exchanged email messages with a contact in Pakistain and expressed a desire to die as a martyr.
Authorities say the defendant, a citizen of Albania, was planning to join the contact's fighting group, which had killed American troops.
Authorities say he was incarcerated Tuesday at Kennedy International Airport when he arrived to board a flight to Turkey. They say he was carrying a tent, boots and cold-weather gear. He's scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.
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All roads lead to Pakistan again!
Saudi,Pakistan and Iran are no friends of the West and should be the main targets in WOT.
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[Dawn] A Pak national pleaded guilty on Friday in a US court to conspiring to commit export violations in a scheme to illegally transfer nuclear-related materials to his home country from the United States.
The US Justice Department said Nadeem Akhtar, 46, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, a Washington suburb, entered the guilty plea at a court hearing in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of a deal with federal prosecutors. Under his plea agreement, Akhtar, who owned a company called Computer Communication USA, admitted that he and his conspirators used the firm from 2005 through 2010 to obtain or attempt to get various nuclear-related devices and equipment.
The items, which included radiation detection devices, resins for coolant water purification and calibration and switching equipment, had a value of more than $400,000.
The Justice Department said Akhtar took direction from the owner of a trading company located in Bloody Karachi who had business relationships with Pak government entities.
The ISI, perhaps?
It said Akhtar's co-conspirators included individuals in Pakistain, the United Arab Emirates and New York associated with the owner of the Pak trading company.
Akhtar faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at his sentencing scheduled on Jan. 6.
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S. not much there. Under five people. Very interesting world. With good contacts all it takes is a small number of people to work a deal on anything. Fewer people the better. DC draws this sort of thing but it can be done anywhere now. DC is a draw because of the variety of possible political or business connections.
[Dawn] Two cut-throats were maimed when security forces opened fire on a suspected vehicle in Bagun area of Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Thursday, officials said.
They said that security forces were providing escort to 300 passengers going from Parachinar to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar when armed persons travelling in a suspected car approached the convoy from the opposite direction. When it reached Bagun area, the soldiers opened fire on the vehicle.
They said that two cut-throats were maimed in the firing. The suspected persons along with their maimed accomplices abandoned the vehicle and bravely ran away, they added.
Sources said that the attackers belonged to the group of cut-thoat commander Mohammad Ayub.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... one person was killed and seven others were maimed in two different incidents in upper and lower Kurram.
In the first incident, gunnies opened firing on a vehicle near Alizai and injured two persons identified as Nasir Hussain and Hadi Hussain.
In another incident, one person was killed and five others were maimed in a clash between the residents of Boshara and Malikhel areas. A resident of Boshara was killed while five others received injuries in the clash.
Security forces fired artillery shells from their base in Parachinar to end the clash.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... a body was found in Chappari area of lower Kurram Agency on Thursday.
Officials said that deceased belonged to upper Kurram Agency, however, his identity could not be established. The dear departed was kidnapped from the main road few days ago.
The body was hanging from an electricity pole near a security checkpost. A cellular phone number was also inscribed on the body. The body was sent to Parachinar for identification.
In South Wazoo Agency, security forces blew up five houses near Wana on Thursday and tossed in the calaboose 20 rustics under Frontier Crimes Regulation.
Sources said that security forces backed by helicopters besieged houses in Manrh, Sholam and Raghzai areas and conducted a search operation. They said that 20 people were tossed in the calaboose under territorial responsibility clause of FCR and were shifted to Brigade Headquarters at Zari Noor colony for interrogation.
After search operation soldiers destroyed five houses with dynamites. Sources said that a convoy of security forces was attacked on Wana-Angoor Adda Road three days ago. One soldier was killed and two others were maimed in the attack.
They said that administration took action under FCR because it was the responsibility of rustics to prevent such incidents in their area. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... locals said that authorities had tossed in the calaboose innocent people, who had nothing to do with the attack on security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... an kaboom caused partial damage to a health unit in Tanai area near Wana on Wednesday night.
In Shangla district, police claimed to have recovered a cache of arms, dumped at a hilltop by suspected cut-throats in Charsar area, on Thursday.
The arms include seven mortar shells and 13 hand grenades.
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[Dawn] Dozens of suspects were rounded up for their suspected involvement in assassinations and 149 weapons with a big cache of ammunition seized during raids conducted in different parts of the city, Pakistain Rangers claimed on Thursday night.
The raids were carried out at Yousaf Plaza of Federal B Area, Pehalwan Goth, the Banaras flyover area, Sohrab Goth and Ranghar Para of Baldia Town, said Colonel Shafeeq Niazi while speaking at a presser at the temporary headquarters of the paramilitary force.
The colonel said that arms and ammunition were recovered during raids at some residences and the offices of some political parties. He, however, declined to mention the name of the parties whose offices were raided.
The colonel also claimed arresting some "important hit mans" in the raids but refused to disclose their names.
He told the media that some myrmidons used women and kiddies as human shields during and after the search operations. He requested media people to stay at a safe distance from the places being raided.
Earlier on Thursday morning, women and kiddies had staged a protest demonstration on Shahrah-i-Pakistain after the Rangers carried out the raid at Yousaf Plaza.
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[An Nahar] Syrian troops killed seven people on Friday as protests broke out across the country urging international protection from a deadly government crackdown on dissent, the Syrian Revolution General Commission said.
Opposition-affiliated Flash News Network identified the seven victims as Hassan al-Bakkour (Jabal al-Zawiyah), Mohammed Dakkak (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... ), Abdul Razzaq al-Masri (Homs), Khaled Kharma (Homs), Ahmed al-Intabli (Homs), Ziad al-Hafian (Homs) and Ali al-Fayyad (Deir al-Zour).
"A 15-year-old boy was martyred when soldiers manning a checkpoint opened fire in the village of al-Rama, in Jabal al-Zawiyah," in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, for its part, said in a statement.
The rights advocacy group also reported protests in several parts of the country after weekly Mohammedan prayers on Friday -- the day of rest that has seen regular anti-regime protests since mid-March.
The rebellious central city of Homs was swept by protests, including one rally of an estimated 20,000 people demanding the regime's fall, the Observatory said.
It said "huge protests" gripped the eastern oil hub city of Deir al-Zour, as worshippers emerged from mosques and erupted into the streets "despite heavy security deployment."
Protests also swept several parts of the capital Damascus, activists said.
More than 150 people marched in the flashpoint neighborhood of Barzeh chanting slogans of support for the rebellious central province of Homs "for the protection of Syria and the fall of the regime," the Observatory said.
Videos posted on the Internet showed crowds of protesters in Barza with some carrying signs saying: "We want Russia and China to change their position towards this regime."
Similar scenes were repeated in the neighborhoods of Al-Hajar al-Aswad, where arrests were reported, and in al-Midan, the Observatory added.
In Homs, demonstrators on YouTube videos were heard chanting: "Long live Free Syria," and in the central city of Hama they held up signs reading: "Bashar, Game Over" and "The People want to execute the president."
The Local Coordination Committees group, which has activists on the ground, also reported demonstrations in the southern city of Sweida.
Democracy activists have called on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to send international observers to Syria and urged nationwide protests Friday.
"The Syrian people calls on the United Nations to adopt a resolution to set up a permanent observer mission in Syria," activists said on their Facebook page "Syrian Revolution 2011."
"We demand access to the international media, we demand the protection of civilians," they said.
More than 2,200 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the government's crackdown on almost daily pro-democracy demonstrations in Syria since mid-March, according to the United Nations.
The Syrian regime blames "armed terrorist gangs" for the violence.
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