A Turkish transport helicopter carrying at least 11 civilians was forced to make an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgents took all the people on board prisoner, including eight Turks and a Russian, officials said on Monday.
The civilian aircraft landed in strong winds and heavy rain on Sunday in the village of Dahra Mangal in the Azra district of Logar province, southeast of Kabul, District Governor Hamidullah Hamid told The Associated Press.
He said the helicopter came down in a gorge in the densely forested region, known for narrow gorges and rugged mountains, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Pakistani border.
The Taliban fighters then captured everyone aboard the helicopter and took them away, Hamid said.
In a telephone interview, Arsala Jamal, the Logar provincial governor, identified the prisoners as eight Turks, one Afghan translator and two foreign pilots of unknown nationality.
In Ankara, a spokesman at Turkey's Foreign Ministry confirmed that eight Turks were aboard the helicopter but had no information on their condition or what had happened to them after the emergency landing. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with ministry regulations.
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If the occupants were "trying to help those poor people" where their chopper went down, well, they know better now. If they were "trying to get money others left on the table," well, they know better now. Cold comfort either way...
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[An Nahar] Six Afghan police were killed Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an "insider," officials said, the latest attack involving Western-trained security forces turning on their own allies.
Militants stormed a police post in Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said.
"One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping. The Taliban were led to the post and killed six police," district chief, Fazul Ahmad Tolwak told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The police who led the Taliban into the post joined the Taliban after the attack and went with them."
He said one officer was maimed but survived the attack. Another police officer was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! over suspected links to the attack and was being investigated, he said.
Fazul Sabawoon, a front man for the Ghazni provincial administration also confirmed the incident and said six officers, part of the Afghan Local Police, a U.S.-funded community force, were killed in the pre-dawn raid.
He also blamed an "insider" for the attack.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Rival tribes in Sabha on Saturday (April 20th) signed a peace deal in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Libya Herald reported. Under the deal, they agreed to disarm and put aside past animosities.
Representatives from the Toubou and other local tribes were brought together at the "Reconciliation in the South of Libya" conference, opened by Army Chief of Staff Major General Youssef al-Mangoush, and attended by General National Congress head Mohamed Magarief, Prime Minister Ali Zidan, and Defence Minister Mohamed Mahmoud al-Barghati.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The spokesperson for the salafist movement in Djerba died in a Friday (April 19th) battle in the Syrian town of Aleppo, Shems FM reported. Kais Halloumi was killed in a battle with the Syrian army for control of an airport. Maghreb fighters in Syria have linked up with groups seeking to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad, including al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra.
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[Al Ahram] Members of the Ahrar movement, followers of popular Salafist preacher Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, have been released on bail.
They were placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during violent festivities at Mansoura University earlier this month.
Clashes erupted during a protest against the university administration after a student was hit by a car and killed.
Some students, reportedly belonging to Ahrar, attempted to barricade the university building in a move that was opposed by other students and led to the festivities. Ahrar members from outside the university joined the fighting.
Eighteen members of the movement were arrested and bail was set at LE1000, according to Al-Ahram Arabic news website.
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[An Nahar] A suspected U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed two al-Qaeda Death Eaters and destroyed an arms cache on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.
The raid targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the central province of Marib, where the two unnamed Death Eaters were killed, the official said.
He said an arms cache in the house also went kaboom!.
Witnesses said an unmanned drone conducted the air raid, just like in most U.S. air strikes that target al-Qaeda suspects in the Arabian Peninsula nation, which is home to al-Qaeda's most active branch.
In July 2011, he reaffirmed AQAP's allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... , head of the worldwide al-Qaeda network since the killing of its founder, the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... , in May of the same year.
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Several arrests have apparently been made following an RCMP counter-terrorism investigation in Ontario. No details have yet been released, but Toronto community leaders have been invited to a briefing. The arrests relate to a terror plot in Canada.
The 2:30 p.m. background briefing was to be followed by a news conference near Toronto's Pearson airport. In recent years, police have made a point of briefing community leaders before announcing terror arrests.
The arrests come at a time of heightened public concern over terrorism following the bombings in Boston as well as recent revelations over the involvement of radicalized Canadian youths in overseas terrorist groups.
[NBCnews] Despite a serious throat wound preventing him from speaking, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect is beginning to respond to questions from Sherlocks, federal officials tell NBC News.
Nearly 48 hours after he was taken into custody following an intense shootout and manhunt, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was communicating with a special team of federal Sherlocks at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He was responding to questions mostly in writing because of the throat wound, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The suspect remains at death's door.
And the blessing of non-news from London:
About 36,000 runners participated in the London Marathon on Sunday amid heightened security, many of them wearing black ribbons to commemorate the victims in Boston or carrying "For Boston" signs.
No bombs, no shootings, no terror. Whether nobody had thought to do anything, or the security was just that good, let us be glad nothing happened that ought not have done.
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Yeah, I have read that the current from an AA battery, applied directly to the myocardium, can induce arrest. So the electric chair really is about selling the sizzle...
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City University of New York Professor Ruth O'Brien complains in an op-ed that "too much force" had been used against Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by the police.
She writes:
Now we have captured the two terrorists from Chechnya who come from the troubled region that is Muslim, but we cannot understand their motives, not yet. And Obama encourages us to refrain.
This said, the mortuary pictures of the older brother of the two are extremely disturbing, raising questions as to whether the Boston Police Department captured him with too much force. I understand the explanation offered by Katharine Q. Seelye, William H. Rashbaum, and Michael Cooper. Yet, it does not ring true. A picture is worth a thousand words that will keep our ears ringing as we recoil from this photo. Images have a way of searing themselves into our memory in a way that cant be undone. We have an emotional memory, not just a rational one that is exemplified by words.
While terrorism is about causing fear again an emotion we do have to account for our conduct in these extreme times when adrenaline is running high.
At my home, to at least offset this, we turn off all media. I couldnt believe my sons explanation when they got home about one brother running over the other one. So I found a place to read about this, and I recoiled after seeing the picture. Still, we all know that terrorism, like crime, leads if it bleeds with the established media. The established media fixates on the domestic-violence or crime-of-passion aspect of terrorism, and it, too, inculcates more fear in all of us.
She has no clue as to what the real world is about. Most Terrorists dould rather die than be captured.
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I reckon the police should have prevented his brother driving over him in a stolen car...
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Sorry but the officer he murdered was the one who was supposed to throw himself in the path of the charging car and for some reason he wasn't available at the time.
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You want "extremely disturbing? Here is extremely disturbing:
At least one of the three young people, one of the two young ladies, who were murdered in the Boston blast was reportedly blown to bits, with police and bystanders found wiping innards and blood from their clothing. Very reminiscent of Afghanistan.
(Unconfirmed reporting from a medical professional in Boston to relative here in the Atlanta area)
I have no idea what the Lady Prof is thinking, + I'm NOT sure I want to find out.
* FYI DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [CNN.com] SOURCE: BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT [Dzhokhar]SAYS BROTHER [Tamerlan] WAS BRAIN ["driving force"] BEHIND ATTACK.
* SAME > [CBS News] OFFICIALS: BOMBING SUSPECT [Dzhokhar] SAYS HE + BROTHER ACTED ALONE, widout any Foreign or International MilTerr Groups helping them.
* LUCIANNE > [AP]OFFICIALS: BOSTON SUSPECTS MOTIVATED BY RELIGION.
VERSUS
* LUCIANNE > [Daily Mail UK] DID "CONTROLLING" MOTHER OF BOSTON BOMBERS LEAD THEM ON THE PATH OF RADICALISM? UNCLE CLAIMS SHE ALLOWED HARDLINE CLERIC - WHOM BELIEVED HE COULD TALK TO DEMONS - TO PREACH TO BOYZ AT THEIR KITCHEN TABLE.
OOOOOOOOOO, you just know Mom is going end up a skeleton in an Alfred Hitchcock classic movie ["Psycho"] starring Anthony Hopkins in a blonde wig???
EITEHR THAT, OR THE NEW REMAKE OF SAME ON CABLE???
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The two men who own a BMW with the license plate 'Terrorista #1' and who are said to be friends with the younger Boston bombing suspect were taken into custody again on Saturday.
This time the two foreign nationals were placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! over alleged immigration violations in the Massachusetts town, New Bedford, where police say the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have once lived.
The students, named by neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the back which reads: 'F*** you, you f****** f****'.
They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until Friday night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint.
One of their girlfriends was also arrested on Friday. All three are in their late teens or early 20s.
The three were subsequently released on Friday night before Saturday's arrest of the two men.
Their apartment was raided because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address.
MailOnline has discovered another link - Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar.
In one picture the BMW is next to another dark coloured sports car with the caption: 'Place your bets' as if they are about to race.
In another a group of boys stand by both vehicles and a youth can be seen making a gesture that looks like a gun towards the camera.
The three arrests took place at the Hidden Brook housing complex in New Bedford.
A neighbour claimed that the men had said the BMW was stolen or that they claimed they had rented it and were not paying the rental fee.
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The students, named by neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the back which reads: 'F*** you, you f****** f****'.
Russia warned US of Chechen immigrants
The Hussein US Regime supports violence of this kind. Hasan, Benghazi, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda opposition forces in Syria. Farrakhan said: 'That's a Murderer in the White House'...
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As per FOX + CNN, looks like Fed-Local AUthorties are operating on the presumption that the Brothers Tsarnaev weren't alone, + may had been part of a group per the Boston Marathon booms.
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"Brothers Tsarnaev weren't alone, + may had been part of a group per the Boston Marathon booms."
I'd seem worth investigating since:
1. Unlikely the pair was operating without a support network.
2. Brothers had a background in accounting and nursing--not engineering, chemistry, etc. It would seem they received bomb-making training, explosives, and detonators somewhere.
3. Russians warned us about the older brother (although the Russian warnings ought to be taken with salt).
4. Older brother was out of the country for 6 months.
5. When, where, and by whom did radicalization occur?
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We now know that the explosives used were probably non-military. We know that pressure cookers were used, which are a signature Taliban IED tactic. We have seen a small circuit board and a battery which were recovered from the blast site.
We do NOT know what specific type of detonator (blasting cap) was used. Was it a commercial grade, military, or homemade. Along with a lot of other information, the type of detonator(s) used should now be available from the FBI lags in Quantico, VA.
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Kicking it up a notch; the late brother Tsarnaev would have been an Absolut [pun intended] prime-time recruitment for US Intelligence. Imagine, a non-US citizen, smart, young, penniless, Islamic motivated, web savvy, well connected within the local Boston Chechen community. He had family in Russian and liked to travel. Possessing capability to provide useful reporting for pass-back to Russian intelligence.
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"Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people." What people is he referring to?
Perhaps this statement had no literal meaning, but was a pre-arranged code to his co-conspirators. Like Radio Londres broadcasting "Blessent mon cur d'une langeur monotone" on D-Day. Set up ahead of time & used as a signal known only to the initiated.
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One thing I don't understand is the brothers' finances. In that photo joural piece done in 2005, tamerlan is described as having a Mercedes SUV. H?e always wore expensive clothes & $900 shoes. Where did he get the money?
The dad was a freelance auto mechanic. The boys were going to school. nobody had access to that kind of money.
Al
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#10 One thing I don't understand is the brothers' finances. Al
It is not that you "do not understand it" Al. It is rather that you clearly see the fog of bullshi*. Your "understanding" is quite clear indeed.
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Besides saying Terrorista #1, that plate says "UMass Dartmouth". I suppose it's something that can be bought at the student union bookstore. How very edgy.
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There seem to have been no drone strikes on April 2o, they day he was reported zapped, so maybe he got killed in a 'work accident' and they are sanitizing his cause of death..
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court on Saturday remanded 21 suspects in police custody in a rioting case for one week.
The police had tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! them on Friday for allegedly staging a violent protest near Tariq Road against the arrest of retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... Suspects Syed Wasiuddin, Ahsan Memon, Mohammad Shahid, Mohammad Iqbal, Bilal, Khurram, Moshin and others were brought to the anti-terrorism court on Saturday for remand.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... after going through the documents, special public prosecutor Abdul Maroof directed the investigating officer to produce them before the court of the judicial magistrate concerned since the offences did not fall under relevant section of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
But a prosecutor at the magistrate's court also refused to produce the suspects before the court for remand and passed on the matter to his superiors.
Eventually, the suspects were produced before Judge Ghulam Mustafa Memon of the ATC-III for remand and he handed them over to the police on seven-day physical remand.
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[Dawn] With the election campaign by political parties yet to gain momentum amid fears, an election camp and an office of two parties were set on fire on Saturday further adversely affecting the electioneering pace and raising security concerns among contesting candidates, officials and party sources said.
In the early hours of the day, an election camp of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) in Sector 11-E near UP Mor was ransacked before being set on fire.
"The suspects bravely ran away after executing the job," said a police officer. "Area people and party workers said the myrmidons also fired shots into the air though we did not find any sign. More police force has been deployed in the affected part of the area."
As the police expressed ignorance about the people and their motive for the arson attack, the PTI leaders said undemocratic forces wanted to keep their party from election campaigning mainly in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... "We know very well and have the capacity to respond to such cowardly acts," said Jamal Siddiq, the PTI media coordinator. "But we believe in democratic norms which demand policy of co-existence.
The camp set on fire was actually a part of PTI Tabdeeli Razakar Camp (camp of volunteers for change) and a large number of Karachi youngsters are turning up at these camps to contribute for the change approaching."
In every Karachi town, he said, the PTI had set up at least two such camps where it had registered hundreds of youngsters for "being a part of change". He ruled out any review in the strategy after the arson attack.
"Our morale is high and we are determined to continue our peaceful struggle, which has received enormous response from Karachiites. We are not removing any camp in any part of the city," said Mr Siddiqi.
While the police were yet to register an FIR of the attack, the 'myrmidons' struck again and this time a Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) election camp in Nazimabad was the target.
"Early in the morning the JI election office in Nazimabad No 2 was attacked when no one was there," said SSP central Amir Farooqi. "The myrmidons ransacked the office and also tried to set it on fire.
The camp office was set up temporarily in a shop that was once used as a barber's shop. The police are busy assessing loss before registering the case," the SSP said.
In a statement, the JI condemned the incident and said the caretaker administration seemed powerless to maintain law and order in the city. The situation had raised doubts over peace on polling day, the party said, seeking immediate arrest of the 'myrmidons'.
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[Dawn] Militants threw a hand grenade at the residence of an election commission officer in Stanchion's Kharan town in 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... , Levies said.
A Levies official who preferred not to be named, due to him not being authorised to speak to the media, told Dawn.com that forces of Evil on a cycle of violence hurled a hand-held bomb at the residence of Muhammad Hashim Baloch, an election officer at Kharan bazaar.
He said the daughter of Hashim Baloch was injured during the blast. The kaboom also damaged window panes and glass in the house. Levies officials said forces of Evil escaped unhurt from the spot.
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[Dawn] A convoy of security forces was ambushed with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mirali area of North Wazoo in which four security personnel were killed and four others were critically injured.
A security official told Dawn.com that exchange of fire continued between security forces and cut-throats near the Khwaja Khar checkpost in Mir Ali district of North Waziristan region.
In another incident festivities between cut-throats and security forces in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... 's Dabori area injured three security personnel. At least three suspected cut-throats were also killed during the exchange of fire, security sources told Dawn.com.
Moreover, security forces conducted a raid operation in Frontier Region (FR) Kohat of Darra Adamkhel and locked away You have the right to remain silent... three suspected turbans.
Security sources said a huge quantity of arms and ammunition was also recovered from the arrested suspects.
In another incident, Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel on Sunday defused a bomb in Bazeedkhel near Badaber area in the outskirts of 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. BDS official Abdul Haq told Dawn.com that 10 kilograms of kaboom was used in the making of the bomb.
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[Dawn] Police retossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... more than 100 'former jihad boys' in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... to maintain peace in the district during the upcoming general elections, sources said.
They said that raids were being conducted to arrest the remaining former gun-hung tough guys in the district.
The government issued directives to Swat administration to arrest more than 200 former gun-hung tough guys belonging to category A. The lists of the former gun-hung tough guys were issued to the cop shoppes concerned in Swat.
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[Dawn] Around 37 pilgrims -- two of them children -- braved a test of their lives during which they spent 26 hours in detention in Iraq and then interrogation by the FIA after finally making it back to Pakistain.
Despite having completed all the legal formalities, the pilgrims were not allowed to enter the country by Iraqi immigration authorities.
After more than a day of detention, they were sent back to Pakistain, wrung out and hungry, only to be put through another four-hour detention at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport's immigration counter.
The group included 14 women, 21 men and two toddlers aged one and two-and-a-half years.
The elderly person in the group was 75 and one was a cancer patient.
"We departed from Karachi at about 2:40 am on Thursday in a transit flight of Fly Dubai for Iraq.
We stayed for ten hours in Dubai before leaving for Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and reached there at around 3:30 pm Iraq local time," said Aale Raza, the tour operator who was leading the caravan intending to visit three sacred cities of Kazmain, Karbala and Najaf.
"The Iraqi officials held us for two hours at the immigration counter. After that they asked us to pick up our luggage. They took us to a so-called room, which was actually a part of the hallway for passengers, and asked us to stay here. The room was small and partitioned by a wooden wall, with about a dozen chairs. Too small to accommodate 38 people," said Mr Raza.
Every one in the group had paid around 68,000 rupees for an 11-day tour of the holy cities in Iraq offered by Mr Raza.
Iraqi officials had asked the pilgrims not to go anywhere and had stationed guards outside the room.
During their 26-hour detention, only one person accompanied by one guard was allowed to use the washroom outside.
"It was too embarrassing for all of us. We were accompanied by women and kiddies for whom you cannot even think about such a situation," said 54-year-old Saeed Rizvi, who works for a private company and lives in Ancholi area.
It was to be the first visit for Mr Rizvi and his family to Iraq.
Five others, his father, two female relatives and two cousins were also traveling with him.
"They put us in virtual incarceration. We were compelled to sit on the floor in a very awkward condition. Everyone passing by was staring at us bizarrely as if we had no self respect like them," said Mr Rizvi.
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Yet another aspect of the "nightmare" is, after 13 years out government has not settled the issue of how to prosecute these bastids, ie, Miranda rights, military tribunal, etc.
The more troubling aspect is the FBI had received a Russian terrorism tipper [and possibly a dossier] and had actually met with this guy, possibly on numerous occasions.
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The more troubling aspect is the FBI had received a Russian terrorism tipper [and possibly a dossier] and had actually met with this guy, possibly on numerous occasions.
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Recruit him for what? Didn't one of the FBI's anti-terror guys turn out to be, well, playing for the other team?
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They'll stand out like sore thumbs. One of the facial characteristics of Chechens is they have the trade mark large chin and nose like the younger brother.
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I prefer the way RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES [RBTH] labels these Jihadis - CHECHEN "JIHAD INTERNATIONAL".
'Tis a long way from "COMINTERN", to include
"SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALE'".
* ARTIC > "Jihad needs many things ... ... but truly today there is a chance to establish (an Islamic State] here on Earth".
IMO the above refers to Islamist-desired OWG Caliphate = Global Islmist-Jihadist State, NOT JUST IN PAR BUT SUPERIOR IFF NOT DOMINANT TO ANY + ALL NON-ISLAM, to which my response is a resounding "Yuuupp".
[STAREFUL, GRASS-CHEWING BILLY GOAT here].
I suspect Radical Islam will become more inspired as to their "final victory" as dependnent on the final outcome of CHINA-VS-JAPAN-VS-DEBT/SEQUESTER-RIDDEN-US over in NE Asia, i.e. IFF THE USA = ALLEGED MARXIST-ANARCHIST-GLOBALIST POTUS BAMMER ADMIN CAN'T-OR-WON'T INTERVENE OR DEFEND ITS OVERSEAS ALLIES + STRATEGIC INTERESTS DUE TO ITS CRUSHING-N-STILL-EXPANDING DEBT BURDENS.
"The US can't afford to intervene" = is PCorrectly spun into "POTUS Bammer kept us out of War [Asian, Nuclear War]".
> Iff China backs down = Bad for the Global Jihad.
> Iff China does NOT back down + prevails = Good for the Global Jihad, AS THE US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM/ISLAMISM/JIHAD IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEVOLS INTO ONLY CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM//.
[An Nahar] Jordan police have nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! eight Syrians on suspicion of inciting riots at a refugee camp near the Jordan-Syria border, a Jordanian security official said Sunday.
About 100 Syrian refugees threw stones at police on Friday for preventing some of them from sneaking out of their desert camp. Ten coppers were maimed, including two who remain at death's door.
The security official said a military prosecutor will question the eight suspects later Sunday.
If convicted, they face up to three years in jail.
The Zaatari camp houses 150,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war. Another 350,000 Syrians have found shelter in Jordanian communities.
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send em back
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[An Nahar] The army on Sunday carried out raids in the area of al-Sharawneh in the eastern city of Baalbek after it engaged in a gunbattle with gunnies, the military command said.
The communique said that an army patrol came under fire by gunnies as it was raiding the house of a suspect in al-Sharawneh.
But the military unit fired back and launched raids in the area to arrest the gunnies and to hand them over to the judiciary.
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[An Nahar] Three rockets and a shell fired from Syrian territory landed in Leb's Hermel district on Sunday, causing material damage only, the state-run National News Agency reported.
A shell and two rockets hit the road leading to the Sahlat al-Ma' area in the town of al-Qasr, NNA said.
In the evening, a rocket fired from Syria landed in the center of the town of Hermel near al-Mabarrat School, the agency reported.
Later on Sunday, NNA said the Grad rocket went kaboom! on the fence of Imam Zein al-Abidin Orphanage which is affiliated with the Mabarrat Charity Association, shattering the glass of its windows.
The orphanage's director Mohammed al-Saeed reassured that no students were maimed "because the administration had moved them to the orphanage's theater, which is like a bomb shelter, when the shelling of the area resumed at noon."
Saeed noted that "450 students aged 4-15 years live at the orphanage."
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... Free Syrian Army chief of staff Selim Idriss denied that the FSA and the jihadist al-Nusra Front had issued a joint statement threatening to move the battle into Leb, as reported by several media outlets.
The latest assaults, prompted President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... to issue a statement, saying the rocket attacks and shelling on Leb did not guarantee democratic rights.
He said Leb was already suffering from the burden of Syrian refugees and that the authorities were committed to controlling the border as called for by the Baabda Declaration
His remarks came as he asked Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji to take the appropriate measures to preserve the safety of the Lebanese.
Most shells in the past two years were launched from regime-held areas, but anti-Assad rebels last week claimed firing into Hermel's countryside, threatening further attacks if Hizbullah did not stop fighting the insurgency.
Several shells landed in al-Qasr and neighboring villages on Saturday. They triggered panic and residents rushed to take cover indoors as shops in Hermel closed.
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[An Nahar] Syrian troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... stormed a flashpoint town near Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... on Sunday, said a watchdog, adding that scores of bodies, some of them disfigured, were found there.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 80 people have been killed in the town of Jdaidet al-Fadl in five days of violence.
"Regime troops have taken complete control over the town of Jdaidet al-Fadl and its surroundings," said the Observatory which has documented the names of at least 80 people killed.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse he feared the corpse count could be much higher, but that it was difficult to document the killings after the entry of regime forces into the town.
"We call on the International Committee of the Red Thingy to send a delegation to Jdaidet al-Fadl in order to investigate," Abdel Rahman said.
Three of those killed were children and six others were women, the Observatory said, adding that the rest were men, among them many rebel fighters.
Meanwhile the opposition Local Coordination Committees said the corpse count from the Jdaidet al-Fadl "massacre" has risen to 476.
The Observatory distributed amateur video filmed in the town showing the bodies of men laid out on the ground, some with mutilated faces and covered in blood.
Jdaidet al-Fadl is located in an area southwest of Damascus that is home to several communities, including Sunnis, Druze and Christians.
After the outbreak of Syria's conflict, which the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... says has forced millions to flee their homes, many of those living in the area were internally displaced people.
An activist in Damascus said via the Internet that all communication, water and electricity have been cut off in Jdaidet al-Fadl, adding that some of the corpses were "found in one of the hospitals" in the town.
Identifying herself as Enas, the activist said some of the bodies "were severely beaten on the head, causing it to crack open. Others had bruises all over their face". She added that other bodies had been "burnt."
Since last year, the army has tried to root out rebels positioned southwest and east of Damascus, in a bid to secure the capital.
Sunday's violence comes a day after at least 121 people were killed across Syria, the Observatory reported.
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