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During a House subcommittee hearing examining fairness in voting rights enforcement, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, referenced an article detailing a meeting between top Justice Department officials and Islamist advocates, where the advocates reportedly lobbied officials for a legal declaration that U.S. citizens criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.
Later in the hearing, Franks brought up the issue again, asking Perez pointedly, Will you tell us here today that this administrations Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?
When Perez didnt answer the question, Franks said, Now thats not a hard question.
(Sh.M.Network)--Somali government forces with the support of AMISOM troops have captured the strategic town of Bibi in southern Somalia.
During the 12:30pm operation, the forces faced little resistance from the Al‐Qaeda affiliated terror group, Al‐Shabaab. An assortment of weapons and ammunition was also recovered from the fleeing bad turbans.
Three Somali soldiers sustained minor injuries during the engagement and have been accorded the necessary medical attention. AMISOM forces did not suffer any casualties. Bibi is an important town situated at a road junction linking it to Beles Quoqaani and Afmadow.
AMISOM Force Commander, Lieutenant General Andrew Gutti, said the capture of the town would help enhance security for the population in the area. "AMISOM is committed to supporting the people of Somalia as they endeavor to rebuild their country." He said.
"We will continue to do all in our power to ensure their hopes and dreams for a better future are not frustrated by the terrorists." He added.
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(Sh. M. Network)--Witnesses say battle looms in villages around the main port city of Kismayo, the last major stronghold of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Al shabab militants in south Somalia.
Somali national army and their allied African Union forces, primarily Kenyan army attacked with mortars and machine guns on Al shabab controlled Birta-dheer village, Located on the outskirts of Kismayo, according to the reports.
"The combat has been heavy with both sides exchanging mortar and machine-guns in the early morning hours on Friday, a witness in the area said under anonymity.
It was not immediately clear if there had been any casualties from the battle against Al shabab fighters in Birta-dheer area, south of Somalia.
So far there has been no comment from Somali and Al shabab officials about the fighting.
Artillery strikes, launched from Kenyan Navy warships, hit areas north of the city's port and its airport last week, and there were reports of extra Kenyan fighter jets, warships patrolling the sky above and the sea of Kismayo,500 Km south of Mogadishu.
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The piece says the story is developing; however, recent history would indicate this is a mob in a frenzy with thoughts of Allen and murder on their minds. Fallujah bridge, Mogadishu (dragging and abusing the corpses of our guys), Lara Logan, our own troops caught in remote outpost attacks come to mind also. There's a pattern of violence, torture, and abuse of the alive as well as the dead by our enemy.
We have not really gone primitive on the jihadists and released our dogs of war. We do have that in us. Well, maybe the second battle of Fallujah did get serious--something like 50-60% of the buildings in Fallajuh were leveled often with terrorists in them. Probably should have leveled them all with carpet bombing first and then mopped up whatever was left over--if there was anything.
I'm listening to our idiot Ambassador Susan Rice who is pitching the administration line that it was the movie that caused the murder of Stevens. As long as we have idiots like this and the people who appointed her and a complicit press, we won't do anything until someone loses a city to the religion of death.
The Japanese took few prisoners--they viewed surrender as dishonor. They often beat to death or beheaded prisoners on death marches. Our Marines took the lesson seriously. They burned and blew them out of their caves and they took no prisoners.
We are still playing nice and make friends. Woe is the day for the islamists (or whatever the PC term of the day is) when we lose our patience and decide to do differently.
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I wondered why they had cell phones in their hands when I saw the first two pictures. It seemed they were for pictures, not for calling for first aid.
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"pitching the administration line that it was the movie that caused the murder of Stevens."
Something doesn't make sense here. Why the repeated and vehemant claims that this (and the other attacks) were spontaneous mob reactions to the movie when they OBVIOUSLY were not? I feel like there must be some underlying motive for the storytelling, that it cannot just be knee-jerk lying (well, I guess it could be but ...) - could there be some kind of diplo-BS going on in order to try to protect the less extreme (MB) elements from their even more wacko flanks?
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Well, Occam's Razor. I'd say kneejerk lying seems most likely.
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What is in the movie? A reporter asked that of the Lybian cut throats and they said they never saw the movie. Jihad means these people are to hate other people who are non muslim or muslim of a different stripe. To watch the Obama admin twist itself into all sorts of contortions for Mohammedans is a pitiful sight to behold.
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Movie or not it is unAmerican to suppress free speech. This is not the America I knew when I was a kid and I can't stand it anymore. I'm so sick of hearing about this movie I could puke. The problem is we've been meddling in these countries for decades and before us it was the British and the French. It was all about oil, of course and they sure didn't mind taking our money. But now it's time we develop our own resources or else learn to do with less. Then we can get the hell out of all of the Arab countries and leave them to their own devices. If we don't have embassies in their countries we won't have any more scenes like this one in Benghazi. If they still wanna sell us their oil, fine. If they don't let them eat it. No more foreign aid. No more jizya. If they make trouble for us hit them back hard. If they make trouble for each other, let them. That should be fun to watch.
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Woe is the day for the islamistsLeftists (or whatever the PC term of the day is) when we lose our patience and decide to do differently.
I'm just waiting for the day, especially for the Left.
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I watched most of the movie trailer. It's basically a live-action cartoon. And not even very insulting of Mohommed. He's portrayed as sort of cool and sexy, yet still buffoonish. Think Plan 9 crossed with a (modern, not-funny) SNL skit.
Libyan authorities have arrested about 50 people after last weeks killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens in a mob attack in the city of Benghazi, Libyas parliament chief said Sunday, saying it was planned by foreigners.
The number reached about 50, Mohammed Al Megaryef, president of the Libyan National Congress, told CBS News in an interview.
"Round up the usual suspects!"
Stevens and three other Americans were killed on Tuesday when suspected militants fired on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city with rocket-propelled grenades and set it ablaze.
Megaryef said a few of those who joined in the attack were foreigners, who had entered Libya from different directions, some of them definitely from Mali and Algeria.
The others are affiliates and maybe sympathizers, he added.
Megaryef said the government has learned the attack was not the result of a spontaneous outburst of anger over a US-made anti-Islam movie which has triggered sometimes deadly protests in the Arab and Muslim world.
It was planned, definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago. And they were planning this criminal act since their arrival, he told CBS.
Gee, that's not what Ambassador Rice said...
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said in a statement the attack was in revenge for the killing of the terror networks deputy leader Shaikh Abu Yahya Al Libi in a drone strike in June.
Gee, that's not what Ambassador Rice said...
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"Mr. Ugati is dead, I'm afraid. I'm filling out the paperwork now - I haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or was shot while trying to escape..."
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Casablanca:
"round up the usual suspects", and make sure a lot of them try to escape or resist. We need the money and the kaffirs will buy any BS at this point.
In Niger, several Christian leaders are being held in protective custody after demonstrators angry at an anti-Islamic film ransacked a major Catholic church. Hundreds of protesters stormed the cathedral in Niger's second-largest city of Zinder after Friday prayers, and set fire to US and British flags.
The Islamic Council of Niger, the top religious body in the country, condemned the film, but also appealed for churches to be spared.
A policeman was injured in clashes that erupted during the protests in Zinder, situated near the border with Nigeria, and about a dozen demonstrators were arrested.
A local radio journalist said, "After Friday prayers, hundreds of protesters broke down the door of the church and totally trashed it, before setting fire to all the documents and breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary."
"Several Christian leaders are being held by the police to ensure their safety," he said, adding that security forces have been deployed to prevent further attacks against churches.
[Al Ahram] The US embassy in Yemen has suspended all consular services for two weeks, the mission said in a statement on its website, after four people were killed in violent anti-American protests in Sanaa.
The statement, published Saturday, said the embassy will be "closed for all consular services through September 29," warning citizens of the "potential" for protests near the mission.
An angry mob of protesters tried to storm the embassy grounds and clashed with security forces on Thursday, leaving four dead.
In response, the US ordered the deployment of a Marines anti-terrorism unit to Yemen to help protect the American embassy, a move that was condemned by the Yemeni parliament.
The embassy also renewed an existing travel warning to Yemen and called on Americans in the country to leave. "The security threat to all US citizens in Yemen remains critical," it said.
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[Al Ahram] Three Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others maimed in a roadside kabooming that targeted the convoy of a security chief in the southeastern city of Mukalla on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said. The bomb went off as a three-vehicle convoy passed through the Huwaysh neighbourhood of the coastal city, witnesses said.
It targeted the convoy of Colonel Abdulwahab al-Waeli, head of Central Security in the city, the security official said. It was not clear who was behind the attack but Al-Qaeda remains active in the south and east of impoverished Yemen.
Al-Qaeda loyalists have carried out a spate of deadly attacks against security forces and their militia allies since President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi came to power earlier this year pledging to crush the hard boys.Al-Qaeda took advantage of a nearly year-long uprising against Hadi's predecessor, veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , to seize large swathes of the south and east.
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On 15 Sep. 2012, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) issued a written statement calling for the burning of US embassies and the killing of US ambassadors and envoys. The statement said, "the incident is a major one when the various efforts should collaborate in order to aim to expel the embassies of the United States from Muslim countries, to continue the demonstrations and protests as happened in some Muslim countries, and to set fire to these embassies as our zealous people did in Egypt and Yemen. Whoever, from among our Muslim brothers, captures US ambassadors or envoys, he may follow in the footsteps of the grandsons of Umar al-Mukhtar in Libya who set the best example by killing the US ambassador, may God reward them for their adherence to Islam. The step of expelling the embassies and consulates is a step toward liberating Muslim lands from US hegemony and arrogance." No mention made of "spontaneity" or of evil films, but note the instruction "capture US ambassadors".
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Theres no need to fear, Hillary is here.
All that time and effort invested. China also. Calgon take me away.
Please.
In this area of the world many things are against her but she can't even manage her own man.
A total of 17 unidentified individuals were found dead in Michoacan state Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news report posted on the website of Terra.com, police were notified that all 17 murder victims had been dumped on the highway Sunday morning. The site is located on Kilometer 38 of the Guadalajara, Jalisco to Morelia Michoacan highway, near Ejido Modelo in Tizapan Alto municipality in Michoacan.
All 17 victims were males who had been shot to death, and were dumped in front of local residents at around 1000 hrs. Some of the victims were partially nude and bound with chains, and some had been tortured.
The area around western Michoacan state has been heating up of late as leaders of Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel have decided to square off against Los Zetas over territory once dominated by La Familia Michoacana drug cartel.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Five terrorists militants and one police officer were killed in fighting in Dagestan on Saturday. Security forces exchanged fire with terrorists militants they discovered in the basement of a kindergarten in a village near Russia's border with Georgia. One police officer was killed and three others were injured in the clash with the terrorists militants, four of whom it said were wanted for killings in the area over the past two years.
Most of the fighting took place after the terrorists gunmen took refuge in a home in the village of Khutrakh.
[Al Ahram] The cooled for a few years ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... leader of the Basque independence movement, Arnaldo Otegi, apologises to victims of the bully boy separatist group ETA in a new book, according to extracts published Sunday.
For the first time the leftwing independent leader offers "his most sincere apologies" for exacerbating the "pain and humiliation" of victims of ETA, which announced last year it had abandoned its armed struggle but has not formally disarmed or disbanded.
Arnaldo Otegi was cooled for a few years ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for six years in 2009 for attempting to reform Batasuna, the separatist party banned in 2003 and considered the political arm of ETA.
In the book compiled from interviews, "El tiempo de las luces" ("The time of light"), which comes out on September 28, the Basque leader said he wanted to make amends, according to extracts published in the Gara newspaper.
"If as front man (and I speak in the name of all spokesmen of Batasuna), I have added in any way to the pain, suffering or humiliation of the families of the victims of armed actions by ETA, I want to present here my most sincere apologies, accompanied by an 'I am sorry' from the heart," he wrote.
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We'll forgive them as soon as the victims come back to life.
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And donates the proceeds from the book sales to the victims' families.
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[Al Ahram] "We take the safety of our personnel and our missions overseas very seriously," Foreign Ministry official Rick Roth told AFP.
He said Canadian authorities were monitoring events closely and taking appropriate security measures, but refused to give details on the latter.
Canada's decision to close its embassies in the capitals of Egypt, Libya and Sudan came a day after the United States withdrew all non-essential personnel from Sudan and Tunisia in response to the wave of angry protests sweeping much of the Middle East over a US-made film that lampoons the Prophet Mohammed.
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It's a start.
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"We take the safety of our personnel and our missions overseas very seriously, unlike some countries I could name", he added.
[Dawn] An alleged terrorist was killed while preparing a suicide jacket in Dhoda area in Kohat on Saturday.
Aqeeq Hussain, an investigation officer, told Dawn that the terrorist was killed when a hand grenade, he was planting in the suicide jacket, went kaboom!.
The residents of Dhoda village informed police about the blast in the mud-house of Taj Mohammad. The room, in which the blast occurred, was partially damaged, police said.
The Bomb Disposal Squad reached the scene after the incident and cleared the area. The body of the killed person was shifted to KDA hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy. The man was stated to be around 45 years of age and sported a grey beard.
Eyewitnesses told this scribe that for five hours after the blast the body was lying in the police vehicle as no doctor was ready to conduct its postmortem. The Bilitang cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else and launched investigation.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , unidentified gunniesrubbed out a volunteer of a peace committee of Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... in Yakatoot area on Friday evening.
Mehboob Gul told police that his father, Shah Jee, was killed outside his residence. He was a member of Baizai Peace Committee in Mohmand Agency and had no enmity, he added.
"He was at home when someone called him out and after sometimes we heard fire shots. As I came out, I saw my father lying in a pool of blood," Mr Gul said. Shah Jee was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital but he could not survive.
In another incident, a beheaded body found in Sheikhan area on the outskirts of Peshawar was identified as that of Faizullah, a resident of Sango area. A police source said that the dear departed had been missing for the last three days after meeting some of his friends in the area. His family members were searching for him, the source said.
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[Dawn] A 12-year-old boy was killed and eight others, including a four-year-old girl, were maimed in a powerful kaboom inside a shop in Nazimabad's Bara Board area on Saturday, police said.
The blast also damaged a nearby parked rickshaw and a neighbouring shop, the police said.
They added that the bomb disposal unit of the Sindh police found that the victim boy, Muhammad Babar, who worked at the Waheed Kabari House, had carelessly blended several chemicals and acids in a drum, which caused the kaboom.
The boy was struck down in his prime and other injured were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment.
An official at the Pak Colony cop shoppe said that the boy poured various chemicals that included hydrochloric acid, sodium chloride, sulfuric acid, caustic soda in a 20-litre drum and started blending them.
He said that some witnesses noticed sparks before the kaboom.
He said the scrap shop was badly damaged in the blast that also affected the parked rickshaw and its neighbouring tea shop.
The shop owner was among the injured and he was being questioned for selling chemicals without due safety measures in place, he added.
"Among the injured there is four-year-old girl who was playing with other children near the shop. The injured are said to be out of danger," said the police official.
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[Dawn] One person was killed and nine others were maimed after protestors led violent protests in front of the US consulate in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported.
The protestors were voicing their anger in relation to a anti-Islam video, which has led to uproar in other Mohammedan countries.
Police fired bullets in the air and used tear gas and water canons to disperse some 1,000 people at a rally organised by Majlis-e-Wahadatul Mohammedaneen, a Shia religious organization, according to an AFP photographer.
A senior local police official, Asif Ijaz told AFP: "The police had to fire tear gas shells after the protestors refused to pay any heed to our warning."
At one stage protestors broke through security cordons and got close to the heavily guarded US consulate, pelting stones at the building.
They chanted "Down with America", "We will sacrifice our lives to safeguard the honour of the Prophet" and "Hang the film maker."
Richard Silver, a front man for the US consulate, said: "There has been no damage or injury to any of our personnel at the consulate."
DawnNews also reports that protestors have torched two vehicles near M.A. Jinnah Road.
Activists from the Majlis-e-Wahadatul Mohammedaneen have also protested at Numaish Chowrangi, where police had to resort to gun sex to disperse the crowds.
News reports said that four police vehicles, a petrol pump and a bank were also set on fire by protestors.
The Shia Ulema Council have called for three days mourning in response to the death of an activist in Bloody Karachi.
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[Dawn] A roadside kaboom killed 14 passengers in a van and maimed 12 others in northwest Pakistain near the Afghan border on Sunday, police said.
Officials said they did not know who set off the bomb, but such attacks are common in the country's remote tribal regions, where gunnies from both Pakistain and neighboring Afghanistan are active.
The vehicle was hit in the Jandol area when it was taking people from a border village to the town of Munda early in the morning, said Ejaz Abid, police chief in Lower Dir district where the attack took place.
He said the bomb was planted in a dirt road and apparently detonated by remote control. The injured were rushed to a hospital, where some remained at death's door.
Local government official Mahmood Aslam said two children were among the dead. He said that the vehicle was not carrying any tribal elders, militia commanders, or others from the area frequently targeted by turbans. "I don't understand why the passenger vehicle was targeted," he said.
Dilawar Khan, a survivor, said he heard a huge blast, and the passengers suddenly dived to the ground.
"There was a big bang and we all were lying here and there ... I was listening to people's cries but unable to see anything as dust and smoke engulfed the air ... Then I found myself in the hospital with my leg and hand bandaged," said Khan.
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[Dawn] Mohibullah, the driver of former Vice-Chancellor Islamia College University (ICU) Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Professor Ajmal Khan, was greeted Saturday evening by his relatives at home, following his release by the Pak Taliban after almost two years of captivity when both were kidnapped on gun point on September 7, 2012 from Professor Colony in University of Peshawar.
Though the ICU Vice Chancellor Ajmal Khan's appeal for release still remained unheard, as the government seemed unwilling to meet Taliban's demands in return for his freedom, Mohibullah, the TTP front man Ihsanulla Ihsan said had been released in exchange for Taliban prisoners.
Speaking to Dawn.com after his release in Peshawar Mohibullah said; "I don't know about their demands and the reason why I had been set free but I am really happy to be back home and pray for the professor's early release."
To a query if they were kept in Wazoo by the Taliban he said: "I don't know where they were keeping us, we were moved from one dark room to another, blindfolded so its really difficult to tell the exact place but I can say for sure it was a really cold place, the weather was very cold even in the month of June and July and it was very chilly a few days back."
"No we were never forced to do anything, we were on our own, nothing unusual but yes the armed Taliban did keep us under watch," he replied, when asked if they were ever tortured in captivity.
"Ajmal sahib is alright, we had been together all the time in captivity. I was separated from him three days back and on Saturday they put me on a vehicle and in the evening I was freed near Scheme Chowk on Kohat Road from where I called my brother and now I am home," he said while narrating his journey to freedom.
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Hundreds violently protest in Afghanistan, police use tear gas to disperse crowd in Indonesia, several thousand rally against anti-Islam film in Pakistain, crowd burns an American flag and an effigy of Obama
How many are rent-a-mobs, how many boys just having fun because they have no jobs anyway?
[Times of Israel] Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad turned violent in the Afghan capital early Monday.
And in Jakarta, Indonesians angered over the film clashed with police outside the U.S. Embassy, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails and burning tires outside the mission. At least one police officer was seen bleeding from the head and being carried to safety by fellow officers.
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya was killed during an attack on the consulate in Benghazi last week; protesters have also stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and held violent demonstrations outside posts in Egypt and Sudan. The U.S. has responded by deploying additional military forces to increase security in certain hotspots.
In Kabul on Monday, the air was thick with smoke on Jalalabad road -- a main thoroughfare into the city center where the crowd burned shipping containers and tires. At least one police vehicle was burned by the mob before they finally dispersed around midday, according Daoud Amin, the deputy police chief for Kabul province.
Earlier in the morning, men lobbed rocks from the pavement and lobbed them at Camp Phoenix, a U.S. military base that lies along the road. More than 20 coppers were slightly injured -- all from being hit by rocks, said Gen. Fahim Qaim, the commander of a city quick-reaction police force.
"Death to America™!" and "Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our prophet," shouted the crowd. Police officers shot into the air to hold back about 800 people and prevent them from pushing toward government buildings downtown, said Azizullah, a police officer at the site who, like many Afghans, only goes by one name.
As the Jalalabad rally was broken up, demonstrations picked up elsewhere in the city. In the southeastern part of Kabul, about 50 protesters gathered in front of a mosque, shouting "Death to America™," said police officer Ahmad Shafiq but there were no signs of violence.
Protester Mohammad Humayun, 28, called on President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... to bring those who have insulted the prophet to justice.
And the director was indeed arrested. For parole violations or something entirely unrelated, but arrested he was nonetheless. Even if it really is protective custody, the optics are shameful.
"People around the world are angry," he added.
Skinless people in a sandpaper world.
"It is the responsibility of all Mohammedans to show reaction whenever they hear any disregard and disrespect."
Big difference between letters to the editor and dragging the body of the ambassador through the streets. Y'all are busily confirming every bad thing the world believes of you people.
Wahidullah Hotak, another protester, said the rallies will continue "until the people who made the film go to trial."
Destroy your country around you. As you can see, we won't stop you, but it is you that will have to live in the rubble afterward. Enjoy.
A number of Afghan religious leaders urged calm.
"Our responsibility is to show a peaceful reaction, to hold peaceful protests. Do not harm people, their property or public property," said Karimullah Saqib, a holy man in Kabul.
A lovely thought. But mobs are prone to violence as the sparks to fly upward.
Outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, people also tried to ignite a fire truck as Molotov cocktails went kaboom! against a fence surrounding the embassy compound. Police used a bullhorn to call for calm.
The demonstration started off peacefully as the group of several hundred protesters, many dressed in white, marched toward the mission. The U.S. Embassy has issued an emergency message to American citizens, saying about 1,000 people were expected to demonstrate in front of the mission with about 1,500 police on hand.
Demonstrations were also held Monday in the Indonesian cities of Medan and Bandung. Over the weekend in the central Java town of Solo, protesters stormed KFC and McDonald's restaurants, forcing customers to leave and management to close the stores.
In neighboring Pakistain, around 3,000 students and teachers rallied Monday against the film in the town of Chaman in southwestern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province. The crowd burned an American flag and an effigy of Obama, said officer Mohammad Shahid.
How creative.
Teacher Abdul Malik said it was an obligation of all Mohammedans to protest the video, while Abdul Waris, a 12-year-old student who attended the rally, said his teachers told him the U.S. and Israel produced the film. The teachers canceled classes and told the students to go protest
Thus helping Pakistan to deeper poverty and non-function, ever the goal of the teaching profession.
The Afghan government has blocked video-sharing web site YouTube to prevent Afghans from viewing a clip of the anti-Mohammedan film. Officials have said it will remain blocked until the video is taken down.
Cut off their nose to spite their face comes mind, but it won't hurt for them to be separated from their p0rn0s for a while, if they are anything like their Pakistani brothers.
Other Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... services, including Gmail, were also blocked in Afghanistan during much of the weekend and the block continued on some providers Monday.
The wave of international violence began Tuesday
On 9/11...
when mainly Islamist protesters
Organized especially for the occasion...
climbed the U.S. Embassy walls in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and tore down the American flag from a pole in the courtyard.
Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed Tuesday along with three other Americans, as violent protesters stormed the consulate in Benghazi. Obama has vowed that the attackers would be brought to justice but also stressed that the U.S. respects religious freedom.
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The domestic Muslims are remarkedly quiet.
1. Fear to raise their heads in protest.
2. Simmering to a boil and we should see some nearterm structured events.
3. Active recruitment and strategy development.
4. Their enjoyment of an active American lifestyle precludes engagement.
I actually think ALL may apply.
Gunmen ambushed a military vehicle in southern Thailand on Saturday, leaving three paramilitary rangers and a housekeeper dead. The 6 a.m. attack occurred in Yala province a few hours after a clash in Pattani province in which one suspected terrorist militant was killed and another arrested.
Witnesses said the rangers and housekeeper were on their way to a market when the gunmen opened fire from nearby woods. After killing them, the attackers set fire to the truck and fled. Police believe the gunmen are members of a southern separatist movement led by Abdul Roseh Jarong.
An Iranian religious foundation has upped its reward for killing Salman Rushdie, supposedly in response to an anti-Islamic film sparking protests across the Muslim world.
Hassan Sanei, the foundation's head, in a statement reported by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) said, "I am adding another $500,000 to the reward for killing Salman Rushdie, and anyone who carries out this sentence will receive the whole amount immediately."
The reward offered by the state-linked foundation now stands at $3.3 million, according to the report.
Sanei, who is also the foundation's representative to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said, "Surely if the sentence of the Imam (Khomeini) had been carried out, the later insults in the form of caricatures, articles and the making of movies would not have occurred."
Rushdie, appearing on British radio before the news of the bounty increase, called the film "idiotic ... a piece of garbage" but also condemned mob violence against it as "an ugly reaction that needs to be named as such".
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"I am adding another $500,000 to the reward for killing Salman Rushdie, and anyone who carries out this sentence will receive the whole amount immediately."
A statement by Hillary, Susan Rice, and Obama (if he's not on the golf course or hustling bucks from Hollywood) will issue a statement of clarification of what the Iranian religious foundation really meant.
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A statement by Hillary, Susan Rice, and/or Obama (if he's not on the golf course or hustling bucks from Hollywood) will issue a statement of clarification of what the Iranian religious foundation really meant.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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(Sh. M. Network)--Witnesses say battle looms in villages around the main port city of Kismayo, the last major stronghold of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Al shabab militants in south Somalia.
In Niger, several Christian leaders are being held in protective custody after demonstrators angry at an anti-Islamic film ransacked a major Catholic church. Hundreds of protesters stormed the cathedral in Niger's second-largest city of Zinder after Friday prayers, and set fire to US and British flags.
The US embassy in Yemen has suspended all consular services for two weeks, the mission said in a statement on its website, after four people were killed in violent anti-American protests in Sanaa.
Three Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others 
[Al Ahram] The 
"We take the safety of our personnel and our missions overseas very seriously," Foreign Ministry official Rick Roth told AFP.
[Dawn] An alleged terrorist was killed while preparing a suicide jacket in Dhoda area in Kohat on Saturday.
Mohmand Agency
A 12-year-old boy was killed and eight others, including a four-year-old girl, 
One person was killed and nine others 
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An Iranian religious foundation has upped its reward for killing Salman Rushdie, 
