Insurgents pulled over a minivan with eight young labourers on their way to work at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, forced them out and then shot them dead, officials said.
The killings near Forward Operating Base Shank, a US base in Logar province, were the latest in a militant campaign of intimidation against Afghans working for the government or the international coalition. The attack took place just after dawn near Puli Alam, the provincial capital.
"They were eight ordinary labourers going to work at that base. They were day labourers," said Logar deputy police chief Raeis Khan Abdul Rahimzai. "This is very hard to believe. It is an inhuman and un-Muslim act against innocent people."
Inhuman it may well be. But it is very, very Muslim.
He said the eight were heading for temporary day jobs at the base and were not part of the facility's local staff. The gunmen let the driver of the minivan go and did not harm him, Rahimzai said.
Provincial spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh said there were four gunmen on motorcycles who pulled over the minivan.
"They just took them out of the car and shot them. They are all in their late teens and early 20s," Darwish said.
Logar, located just south of Kabul, has seen a sharp increase in insurgent activity this year, The Afghan army last week carried out a large operation against insurgents operating in the province.
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[Al Ahram] Æthiopian troops who entered Somalia in November 2011 to help fight Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab bully boyz have begun their withdrawal from the key central city of Baidoa, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
"Æthiopia's troops are pulling out of Baidoa and AMISOM will be taking over," foreign affairs ministry front man Dina Mufti told AFP, referring to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force in Somalia.
Æthiopia has for several months said it plans to hand over control of the city to AMISOM, whose 17,700-strong force is backing Mogadishu's weak central government.
Æthiopian troops captured Baidoa from the forces of Evil last year, and AU troops later joined them.
"There is a firm schedule for Æthiopian troops to gradually withdraw from all of its operations this year on the basis that Shabaab will not come back and take over. This requires strategy and coordination to ensure a smooth transition," said Dina.
In mid-March, Æthiopia pulled its troops from the southern town of Hudur without warning, leading to the Shabaab immediately taking back the town, their first real military success since they were chased out of Mogadishu in August 2011.
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KISMAYO, Somalia -- At least two persons including an African Union soldier (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port of Kismayo were killed in a roadside explosion Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
One AMISOM soldier and one civilian bystander were killed after a roadside explosion occurred along a main road commonly used by AMISOM convoys, local reports said. The explosion also wounded three other civilians and Al Shabaab militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing.
Jubaland soldiers opened fire following the roadside bombing on AMISOM convoy in Kismayo, but it was unclear how the fired bullets wounded three Somali journalists.
Another case for NCIS: Kismayo...
Mohamed Abdi, a close relative of wounded journalist Masud Abdullahi who spoke to Radio Garowe by telephone from Kismayo said the three journalists are gradually recovering and receiving medical treatment at Kismayo General Hospital.
Jubaland administration is yet to comment on this incident but Kismayo based journalists condemned the shooting.
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Baidoa, Somalia -- Armed confrontation in Bay regional capital of Baidoa left several casualties when around three persons including the Deputy Mayor of Baidoa district were injured in a shootout between Somali Federal government soldiers and the security guards of Baidoas Deputy Mayor, Garowe Online reports.
Eyewitnesses in Baidoa told the media that the armed confrontation was intense and interrupted the movement of people and businesses.
The confrontation caused the injury of several persons from both sides, it began when the Somali government soldiers quarreled with contractors rehabilitating Baidoa livestock market, an eyewitness said.
Reliable sources in Baidoa told Garowe Online that the Deputy Mayor of Baidoa Mohamed Hassan is in critical condition and it is expected to be flown him to Mogadishu for medical treatment.
The situation returned to normal although the rehabilitation work of Baidoa livestock market temporarily stopped. This incident was the first of its kind and comes two days after Ethiopian troops vacated Baidoa.
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost two years ago in Kenya and then held in Somalia have been freed, their employer Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, who were abducted from the Dadaab refugee complex near the border with Somalia in October 2011, are both safe and healthy, MSF said.
Both are safe and healthy and keen to join their loved ones as soon as possible, the medical charity said, without disclosing when they were released or how.
MSF said it would give no further details before a Press conference scheduled in Madrid on Friday. Serra and Thiebaut, both logisticians, were seized by armed men in the Ifo camp in Dadaab and driven across the border.
Kenyan police said they had been kidnapped by members of Somalias Islamist Shebab group.
Their abduction followed the kidnapping of a French woman and a British woman from the Kenyan coast near the Somali border.
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[Al Ahram] The Egyptian army has killed ten "Islamist bad boys" in North Sinai over the last 48 hours, a security source told state news agency MENA on Thursday.
The army has reinforced its security presence in North Sinai due to an increase in bad boy activity since the removal of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. A number of heavy machine guns have been moved to the region.
On Wednesday, three officers were killed and two injured in an attack by Islamist bad boys. Last week, at least ten police and army personnel were killed in separate attacks.
The army recently announced it had discovered 39 new tunnels being used to smuggle goods between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip.
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[Al Ahram] Suspected militants shot dead a policeman on Thursday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, medics said. Another policeman was wounded in the drive-by shooting targeting a police water truck in the restive north of the peninsula, the medics added.
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Ten militants have been killed in Egypts restive Sinai peninsula in the past two days during an army offensive against Islamist militants, the official Mena news agency reported on Thursday.
The security operation carried out by the armed forces in northern Sinai in the past 48 hours led to the deaths of 10 militants, a military source was quoted as saying.
The report comes hours after militants killed three Egyptian policemen in separate overnight attacks in the region, and as the army pressed an operation to curtail a surge in violence since the ouster by the army of president Mohammed Mursi on July 3.
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A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in the parking area of a mosque in Riffa Town, south of Manama, but caused no casualties. The town is not among the disturbed areas. According to the Interior Ministry the bomb was made of gas cylinder. The same method was followed to arson a building of a company in the early hours of Wednesday that damaged the offices.
Bahrain police banned two protests scheduled for Friday as the first announced measure to implement the directive of the King to security authorities to take all the necessary steps to enforce the law. The order of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was issued short after the blast on Wednesday. King Hamad issued the statement, condemning the attack and ordering security forces to enforce the law against instigators of these terrorist acts and accomplices who committed or assisted in such acts.
The people of Bahrain have had enough and have run out of patience over such acts that are strange to the people of Bahrain and their morals, King Hamad said.
The ministry through its twitter account highlighted that the two protests scheduled for Friday are banned and violators will face legal actions.
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QUETTA: Seventeen districts of Balochistan plunged into darkness on Thursday night when unidentified people blew up four power pylons in Bibi Nani area of Mach district of Bolan. According to the Balochistan Levies sources, unidentified persons had planted the explosives on four power pylons of two main transmission lines. The bomb destroyed one of the pylons completely and three others partly.
While talking to media QESCO spokesman Mohammad Afzal said that unidentified persons blew up four power pylons, two of 220kV and two of 132 kV, in Bibi Nani. The electricity supply to 17 districts of Balochistan, including the provincial capital Quetta, was suspended as a result, he added. QESCO is providing electricity to Quetta city from alternative Habibullah Costal Power House and Shaikhmanda Thermal.
We have 270 megawatts of electricity currently for Balochistan, whereas its total needs stands at 1,550 megawatts. We are providing electricity to the district headquarters and rural area feeders for one hour each, he said and added that a 220KV tower was completely destroyed and three others partly damaged. The repair work will be start after security clearance by the provincial government, he added.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack until this report was filed.
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How long has it been since Moslems invented anything? Which Moslem country manufactures its own Ballpoint Pens?
Moslem Culture is fascinating.
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so anyone with half a mind to post 'witty' commentary at the Burg can do so (and unfortunately do.)
my other half a mind is...resting. Yeah, that's it
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Country's gone to hell since gas got over 40 cents and the damn music.... don't get me started. I'll be at the Golden Corral if I can find it, or did they steal that too?
KARACHI: Four people including two policemen were gunned down in separate incidents of targeted killing across the city while a body of a young man was also recovered here on Thursday.
Police constable Ghayasuddin was killed while his partner Saleem wounded when unidentified riders sprayed bullets at them near Furniture Market, Karimabad. Azizabad police informed that victims were critically injured when attackers opened fire at them. The injured cops were rushed to hospital where doctor pronounced the death of Ghayasuddin while admitted Saleem with critical wounds.
Another cop, ASI Ghulam Mustafa, was gunned down in Sindh Muslim Society armed assailants targeted him. Ferozabad police told that ASI was going somewhere when riders attacked him, killing him on the spot. Police reached the spot and shifted victim's body to hospital for autopsy. Separately, a seminary leader, 34-years-old Maulana Kalimullah, was gunned down in Khamosh Colony. Gulbahar police said that Kalimullah was also a constructor and was inspecting a construction site when assailants attacked to kill him. His body was taken to hospital for autopsy and later handed over to heirs. Similarly, a man was shot dead in his house locate in Gulshan-e-Sikandarabad, Keamari.
Jackson police said that unidentified men barged into victim's house and started indiscriminate fire, killing him on the spot. On being informed police reached the site and shifted victim's body for autopsy. It said that deceased hailed from Sawabi and was a driver by profession. Police suspected that motive behind his killing was personal enmity.
Meanwhile, a body of a young man whose hands and legs were tied with ropes was found near Mirza Adam Khan road within the premises of Chakiwara police station. Officials identified the victim as Amjad Baloch. Police said that kidnappers had tortured and shot him multiple times before throwing his body at said place. Police further said that deceased was resident of Kalakot and had affiliation with gang war criminals.
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The prime suspect in the attack on the convoy of Justice Maqbool Baqar of Sindh High Court succumbed to his injures in a hospital late on Wednesday, police claimed.
"Not so hard next time, Mukharjee!"
"Sorry boss. Can he still talk?"
"Not with his head rotated like that! Criminy!"
According to a police statement, the suspect, identified as 60-year-old Hafiz Bashir Leghari, and allegedly a member of a banned extremist outfit, was arrested from Surjani Town on Tuesday night during an operation in which the suspect sustained bullet injuries.
The driver of the senior SHC judge and eight police guards were killed in the attack on June 26 on the busy Burnes Road near the Sindh High Court. Justice Baqar was admitted to a private hospital with serious injuries and is currently under treatment.
A senior police officer told newsmen that a Kalashnikov, a 9mm pistol and explosive material were seized from Bashir Legharis possession. However, suspects family disputed the police claim.
The suspects son, Mohammed Ahmed, told media that his father was shot by policemen during a raid on their home in Sector 7-C, Surjani, at 3.45am.
Meanwhile, the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat denounced the police raid on Bashir Legharis home and described it as regrettable.
In order to hide their own failure, the police have falsely described him as the mastermind of the attack on Justice Maqbool Baqar, said ASWJ spokesman Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi.
The ASWJ leader claimed that Leghari was involved in social work in the area. Besides, he was also chairman of the Deoband action committee and businessman and had nothing to do with the activities of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or any other militant organisation.
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Indian paramilitary forces on Thursday shot dead six people protesting against an alleged incident involving troops in a religious seminary in Kashmir, two police officers said. Troops fired on protesters who had gathered outside a Border Security Force (BSF) station in the district of Gool, 230km south of the main city of Srinagar, the officers said on condition of anonymity.
It is mayhem. Six are dead and dozens injured. The death toll could rise further, said one officer.
"Dere we was, mindin' our own bidness, when all of a sudden..."
Protesters clashed with troops over an incident on Wednesday evening in the seminary attached to a mosque in Gool, witnesses said. The head of the seminary, Qari Shabir, said four BSF troopers came into the seminary looking for militants, at the same time that a caretaker of the seminary was alone reciting prayers for Ramadan.
They beat him up... That is when Abdul Lateef (the caretaker) raised an alarm and people started to assemble and the word spread, Shabir told AFP by telephone from Gool.
Other local residents said the troops had entered the mosque to complain about the loud recitation of prayers by worshippers during the holy month of Ramadan.
The angry protesters clashed outside the station on Thursday with troops who started firing, witnesses said.
Couldn't help themselves, could they...
The BSF soldiers fired indiscriminately, downing protesters left, right and centre, one witness who declined to be identified said by telephone from the nearby village of Dharam.
"And we was doin' was throwin' dem bricks at 'em. I asks yas what's wrong wit throwin' a brick at an infidel, huh? Huh?"
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[Al Ahram] Three farmers were among six people killed in a series of attacks in Iraq on Thursday, police and doctors said, as the country struggles to curb the worst violence since 2008.
A magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a man and his wife, both farmers, in the Dujail area as they drove to work, while another farmer was rubbed out by gunnies near Balad, officials said.
Another four people were maimed when a roadside kaboom went off as police arrived at the scene of the Balad attack. Dujail and Balad are located north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
The deadliest attack, however, was when a roadside kaboom killed three young men in the town of Wajihiyah, northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.
Areas to the north of Baquba have been hit by numerous attacks in recent days, including a bombing on Wednesday that killed three children at a popular swimming area.
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No need to be idiotically vicious, Threater Flusoper9823. It is possible to understand a couple of farmers as equally as human as your exaulted, overly verbose self.
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So for those of us that tune in late and miss the actual 'stupid posts,' is there a repository of same so we can truly regale in the non-contact arse-whipping laid on the poor sot what did the posting....? (Curious minds want to know)
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I had the 'privilege' of reading Threater Flusoper9823's drivel. You didn't miss anything and you've probably seen enough of his droppings that your imagination can fill in close enough.
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Egypt set for Fattah 2 offensive on Sinai Islamist terror. Gaza sealed. US and Israeli forces on alert
The Egyptian army has set Friday, July 19, as D-Day for launching a major offensive, dubbed Fattah 2 (Conquest 2), against a coalition of aggressive Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Hamas and Jihad Islami groups terrorizing Sinai. The commanders of Egypts Second and Third Armies are leading the campaign.
Second Army chief, Gen. Ahmed Wasfi, has established his command center at El Arish in northern Sinai, and Gen. Osama Askar, head of the Third Army has set up his headquarters in the central Sinai village of Nakhal. They have sealed off the exit from the Gaza Strip through Rafah, and warned its Hamas rulers that the crossing will remain closed until the campaign ends.
Israeli forces along the Egyptian and Gaza borders are on alert; so too are the 2,600 US Marines aboard two amphibious helicopter carriers anchored opposite the Red Sea shores of Southern Sinai and the Gulf of Suez since the start of the Egyptian crisis.
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Egypt & Sinai With Hamas - Gaza With Abbas Fatah Held Palestine Be Included With Palestine Peace Talks - 1967 Borders - 1946-1948 Borders Gaza With Egypt - Israel Roll Back Borders At 1967 & Tel Aviv Be Israel Capital !!
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SYRIA - WATCH - KURDISH HELD TROOPS KURDISH REGION HAS EITHER al QAEDA ATTACK OR ISRAELI BOMB ZONES COMING - GOLAN HEIGHTS - LEBANON -OR TURKISH REGION ZONE
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BANGLADESH SOMTIMES PAKISTAN OR AFGHANISTAN HAS TIES al QAEDA RING SMUGGLING GUNS AND DRUGS INTO SYRIA al NUSRA FRONT ZONES WHY THE FSA GUY KILLED BY CANNIBAL GUY HAS DRUGS AND CRIMINALITIES RING IN THOSE REGIONS WILD WEST - hELLO UN
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a diarrhea mouthed wanna-be jihadi whose Daddy abused him sexually, obviously
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I see Shipman cleaning up here big-time.
The other day we had an article about the Egyptians moving forces into what seemed like blocking positions, and some hints of cooperating with the Israelis in removing their mutual annoyance - your basic hammer and anvil, in other words. Political ramifications aside, I'd let the IDF do the hammering and the Egyptians can shoot the rats as they try to escape. Total fantasy or are we just waiting for the whole mess to jump off?
[Al Ahram] At least 29 people have been killed in fighting between Kurdish and jihadist fighters in northern Syria in the past two days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.
"At least 19 Al-Nusra Front (jihadist) fighters and 10 Kurds have been killed since the day before yesterday in festivities in the oil region of Hassakeh," the NGO said.
On Wednesday, the group said Syrian Kurdish fighters had pushed members of Al-Nusra and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant out of the town of Ras Al-Ain and its nearby border crossing with Turkey.
The festivities between Kurdish fighters and jihadists erupted after Al-Nusra Front gunnies attacked a convoy of Kurdish women fighters, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Activists in Ras Al-Ain said members of the jihadist groups had taken advantage of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan, which began last week, to try to impose their extreme version of Islam.
In the early days of the Syria conflict, when the opposition was desperate for help from any quarter, jihadist fighters were welcomed. But a spate of abuses has fuelled a major backlash.
The Observatory said that jihadist fighters began firing rockets at Ras Al-Ain, in western Hassakeh, after their expulsion.
They also attacked several roadblocks manned by Kurdish fighters and festivities were ongoing in the village of Tall Alu and Karhok in eastern Hassakeh, the group added.
Kurdish fighters, meanwhile, advanced elsewhere in the northeastern province, taking control of part of the Sweidiya area of Hassakeh, which is the only majority Kurdish province in Syria.
Syria's Kurdish minority have walked a sometimes ambiguous line in the country's conflict, which is now in its third year.
Despite occasionally cooperating with rebel fighters, the country's Kurds have largely chosen to remain outside the conflict, and have sought to keep both regime troops and rebels out of their areas.
Their position has earned them the ire of some rebels, who fault them for failing to back the uprising.
The community's more liberal interpretation of Islam has also made it a target for some bad boy rebel groups, including Al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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Insurgents pulled over a minivan with eight young labourers on their way to work at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, forced them out and then shot them dead, officials said.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- At least two persons including an African Union soldier (AMISOM) in the southern Somali port of Kismayo were killed in a roadside explosion Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
Ten militants have been killed in Egypts restive Sinai peninsula in the past two days during an army offensive against Islamist militants, the official Mena news agency reported on Thursday.
A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in the parking area of a mosque in Riffa Town, south of Manama, but caused no casualties. The town is not among the disturbed areas. According to the Interior Ministry the bomb was made of gas cylinder. The same method was followed to arson a building of a company in the early hours of Wednesday that damaged the offices.
KARACHI: Four people including two policemen were gunned down in separate incidents of targeted killing across the city while a body of a young man was also recovered here on Thursday.
Egypt set for Fattah 2 offensive on Sinai Islamist terror. Gaza sealed. US and Israeli forces on alert
