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Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in television's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and films like Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
Hawn was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Laura (née Steinhoff; November 27, 1913 November 27, 1993), a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn (September 28, 1908 June 7, 1982), a band musician who played at major events in Washington. She was named after her mother's aunt.[1] She has a sister, Patricia; her brother, Edward, died as an infant before Goldie's birth.
Through her father, Hawn is a direct descendant of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Hawn was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., and attended Montgomery Blair High School in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland. Her father was Presbyterian and her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary; Hawn had a Jewish upbringing.
Hawn founded and funds The Hawn Foundation, which teaches the Buddhist technique of mindfulness training; where kindergarten through seventh-graders are instructed in mindful awareness techniques and positive thinking skills, then tested for changes in behavior, social and emotional competence, and moral development.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- At least ten Al Shabaab fighters were reportedly killed in heavy clashes between Kenyan security forces and Al Shabaab militants late Wednesday night in a Kenyan vicinity bordering Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
According to Garisa mayor, Harun Rashid Militia suspected to be Al Shabaab fighters attacked Kenyan patrol with grenades, mortars and gun fire and the battle lasted for nearly an hour, residents said.
"The battle occurred in North Eastern Kenya after Al Shabaab tried to raid security forces lying in ambush and Kenyan forces killed 10 Al Shabaab militiamen," said Mr. Rashid.
On their side, Al Shabaab officials declined to comment on the fighting.
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group raided Galmagala police administration post in Fafi district 10 KMs from Somalia border and killed four police officers manning the station last week. Kenyan forces have been continuing security operations since Galmagala incident and Somalia's Al Shabaab group claimed to have seized electronic surveillance equipments and weapons during that raid.
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(Reuters) - Mass protests called by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood mostly failed to materialize on Friday as the movement reeled from a bloody army crackdown on followers of ousted President Mohamed Mursi.
Troops and police had taken relatively low-key security measures before the "Friday of Martyrs" processions that were to have begun from 28 mosques in the capital after weekly prayers.
But midday prayers were canceled at some mosques and there were few signs of major demonstrations unfolding in Cairo.
"We are not afraid; it's victory or death," said Mohamed Abdel Azim, a retired oil engineer who was among about 100 people marching slowly from a mosque near Cairo University.
"They intend to strike at Muslims," the grey-bearded Azim said. "We'd rather die in dignity than live in oppression. We'll keep coming out until there's no one left." Kinda like the attack on the death star in Star Wars: "Almost there!... Al-l-lmost there!... A-l-l-l-l-lmost there!...[KABOOM!]"
[Al Ahram] Two Armed Forces soldiers were killed, and another seriously injured along with a major, after a group of masked assailants targeted an army vehicle on the Port-Said Agricultural Road Thursday morning, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Egypt has witnessed numerous incidents of violence, with reports of nearly 900 killed, including at least 100 coppers, in the aftermath of the forced dispersal of two Pro-Morsi protest camps in the squares of Al-Nahda, in Giza, and Rabaa Al-Adawiya, in Nasr City. Egyptian security forces have been targeted across the country at checkpoints, facilities and patrol routes since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's Islamist president, on 3 July.
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[Al Ahram] Top Moslem Brüderbund member and former MP Ahmed Abu Baraka was enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by Egyptian security forces Thursday in an apartment in the Sayeda Zeinab district in central Cairo.
Abu Baraka is the latest in a string of arrests including the Brotherhood's top leadership in addition to a wave of detentions of its members that included hundreds of members this week.
Abu Baraka is a member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau who's lead member, Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei, was arrested on Tuesday also in Cairo.
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[Ynet] The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram's website reported that a cell suspected of the execution of 25 coppers on the road between el-Arish and Rafah on Monday has been captured.
The members of the cell aren't feeling so good right now, I bet...
The newspaper reported that additional details on the arrest will be released in the coming hours. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... Arab media outlets reported that the Egyptian army nabbed 15 gunnies wanted for attacks in Sinai, among them seven Paleostinians.
Ah, the Paleos, once again spreading good will throughout the region...
[Ynet] Egypt's state TV reported that Ahmed Aref, the front man for the Moslem Brüderbund, has been placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! . The movement's leader Mohamed Badie was arrested earlier this week.
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[CNN] A military jury has convicted Army Maj. Nidal Hasan of 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in a November 5, 2009, shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, making it possible for the death penalty to be considered as a possible punishment.
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In military courts, the death penalty requires a unanimous vote of the panel. It's conceivable that one or more members will want to refuse to give Hasan what he wants. I hope the prosecution discourages that line of reasoning. Doesn't matter if it's what he wants. Dead men can't gloat. Fucker needs to die.
Of course, I'm dubious that the CAAF will let it happen.
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The CAAF hasn't allowed a single death penalty to be carried out for decades. I'd place my bets there.
Then again till Timothy McVeigh decided to test the speed of the penalty at the national level, we hadn't seen such a quick conviction to execution in that system in decades either. I guess it depends upon how quickly the Obama administration wants to 'bury' the dirty problem of 'work place violence' vs 'terrorism'.
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Workplace violence would be a boss who grabs your ass every time you walk by and tells you not to wear panties, and threatens to destroy your life if you say otherwise.
Am I right Mr. President? Obama? Sir?
This was either terrorism or an action by an enemy soldier on US soil, destroying a platoon and change of US Soldiers. Nah, they want this story gone so bad we didn't even get the standard The Gun Made Him Go Crazy so Ban Guns! treatment.
The gay leaker and the hobbled jihadi in the same cell? I'd watch that show.
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Hasan believes he will go to paradise when he is executed. Personally I'm inclined to think his version of paradise doesn't exist, but while I am normally pro-death penalty in this case I want Hasan to live a very long life in military Supermax locked in a cell 23 hours a day. Make him wait 30 or 40 years before he can die and become a martyr and go to his paradise like he believes and wants.
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Not even sure if one can call it sarcasm anymore, Raj. But yeah, I forgot to add my sarc off tag at the end. I don't really comment that much so I forget matters of etty-quetty from time to time.
[SmokingGun] Foreigner entered U.S. yesterday with uranium hidden in luggage
AUGUST 22--A foreigner who agreed to sell undercover Homeland Security agents 1000 tons of yellowcake uranium for shipment to Iran was enjugged Please don't kill me! yesterday when he flew into the United States with uranium samples hidden inside the soles of shoes in his luggage, The Smoking Gun has learned.
A 15-month sting operation concluded Wednesday afternoon with the arrest of Patrick Campbell inside a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Campbell, 33, traveled to New York from Gay Paree on an Air La Belle France flight. It is unclear where Campbell is being held, or when he will make an appearance in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
In communications with an undercover agent, Campbell said he was affiliated with a Sierra Leone firm that mined and exported uranium, chromite, gold, and diamonds from the western Africa nation.
The federal probe began in May 2012, when an investigator posted an advertisement on the web site alibaba.com seeking the purchase of yellowcake uranium (which is also known as Uranium 3O8). Alibaba.com is a China-based site that helps small businesses worldwide arrange cross-border transactions.
[Dawn] Seven people, including a Customs official who was also a member of the Ahmadiyya community, were bumped off in targeted attacks in the city on Wednesday, police said.
They said that two armed motorcyclists targeted Zahoor Ahmed Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , 46, outside his home in Mujahid Colony in Orangi Town. The attackers also killed his neighbour and friend Noorul Wahid, a non-Ahmadi, when he tried to save him.
Both victims sustained multiple bullet wounds and were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced them dead.
Mominabad SHO Ahmed Butt suspected personal enmity behind the murder. Mr Kayani was an employee of the Customs and father of seven, he said.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... a spokesperson for the Anjuman-e-Ahmadiyya Pakistain (AAP) said in a statement that Mr Kayani was a member of the party and had become a victim of 'religious hatred'. His friend was killed because he tried to resist the assailants, he added.
The AAP members were being targeted 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... but the government had failed to curb such killings, although it was the state's responsibility to provide protection to all its citizens irrespective of their faith, he said.
Two killed in Sohrab Goth attack
A shopkeeper and a boy were killed when gunnies fired indiscriminately in a Sohrab Goth market on Wednesday in what police described as an extortion-related attack.
The police said that gunnies resorted to firing in the Super Market near the terminal of 4-L bus and, as a result, shopkeeper Mohammed Yousuf, 40, was struck down in his prime while Atta Rehman, 12, died during treatment at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Sohrab Goth SHO Mohammed Naeem said that two other boys, identified as Irshad, 12, and Sajjad, 10, also sustained bullet wounds. Irshad was admitted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), while the whereabouts of Sajjad were not known, he added.
"The incident might be extortion related," said Sohrab Goth DSP Mohammed Khalid.
Besides, he said two groups of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain were also fighting with each other to establish their control in the area and the infighting had intensified following the killing of Sher Khan Mehsud in Manghopir a few days ago.
Man rubbed out in Korangi
The owner of a poultry shop was rubbed out in Korangi Industrial Area on Wednesday.
Police said Rana Mohammed Arshad, 30, was standing outside his shop in P&T Colony when two armed motorcyclists targeted him and rode away. He was taken to the JPMC where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! The victim originally hailed from Mandi Bahauddin.
The family told the police that they would get an FIR lodged after burial there.
Teenager found rubbed out
A teenage boy was found rubbed out near Pakhtunkhwa Chowk in Korangi Industrial Area's Sector-8-A.
Police said the body of Umar Ali, 17, was found on late Tuesday night.
The victim's mother told the police that he left home at 11pm to see a friend, Shoaib Bengali.
The family lodged an FIR in which they expressed their suspicions about the possible involvement of Shoaib in the killing.
The police said Shoaib had criminal record and they suspected that the victim was also involved in some criminal activity.
They said that in the same area, four gunnies shot and maimed a shopkeeper, Dilawar Khan, and the spent bullet casings found from both spots had matched.
Robbers kill man
A young man was rubbed out when he resisted a robbery bid in Saeedabad on Wednesday, police said.
They said that the man, identified as Malang Abbas, 40, suffered bullet wounds near 100 Quarters Road in Yusuf Goth. He was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where he died.
Saeedabad SHO Zafar Iqbal said the victim was a 'commission agent'.
Young man rubbed out
A young man was rubbed out in a Gulistan-e-Jauhar locality, police said.
SSP-East Imran Shaukat said that Ashraf Musharraf, 21, had a scuffle with someone near Pehlwan Goth who fired at him. He sustained multiple bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! He sold kebabs on a pushcart.
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[Dawn] Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was indicted on three counts Tuesday in Rawalpindi's anti-terrorism court (ATC) over the 2007 murder of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Musharraf was also produced in the ATC amidst tight security during today's hearing of the case headed by ATC judge Habibur Rehman.
A challan ... list of charges ... was read out against the former president and seven others nominated in Benazir's murder during the hearing.
"He was charged with murder, criminal conspiracy for murder and facilitation for murder," public prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told AFP at the ATC in Rawalpindi hearing the case.
The seven accused persons include former City Police Officer (CPO) of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz, the then SP Khurram Shahzad, Hasnain Gul, Rafaqat Hussain, Sher Zaman, Abdul Rasheed and Aitzaaz Shah respectively.
Musharraf and the accused men denied the charges.
The court ordered the authorities to produce all the defendants in a hearing fixed for August 27 as it subsequently adjourned the matter to the said date for evidence to be brought.
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Mushie, you're a f'ing IDIOT to go back there once you had escaped.
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[Dawn] A Pak Taliban capo believed to be harbouring foreign hard boyz was killed along with four others in a roadside kaboomkaboom in South Wazoo tribal agency, officials said Thursday.
Ghulam Jan, believed to be a key commander of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), was killed along with four accomplices when the improvised bomb targeted his vehicle on Wednesday evening in Birmal tehsil, located about 27 kilometres from Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.
Assistant Political Agent Shahid Ali Khan confirmed that five people were killed in the blast which completely destroyed the vehicle.
Local officials confirmed the incident took place around 7 pm on Wednesday, but access to the area is limited and reports from the semi-autonomous tribal region, infested with Taliban and al Qaeda bad turbans, are difficult to verify.
Jan, who had a reputation for supporting and harbouring Uzebk, Tajik and Central Asian bad turbans, was earlier believed to have been ousted from the area by the pro-government Mullah Nazir group.
"He was anti-government and well known for his support to foreigners," a official said on condition of anonymity.
The Mullah Nazir group had flushed out Uzbek fighters and anti-state hard boyz from Wazir areas in 2008 and 2009.
Other people who had died in Wednesday's blast were identified as Jan's uncle, Juma Khan, and his close aides Mir Gul, Asmatullah and Kharote.
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[Dawn] The Mighty Pak Army said that two of its soldiers were killed on Thursday in "unprovoked" Indian fire along the border dividing the disputed territory of Kashmire, in the second such incident within two days.
One soldier was killed and two others injured in the latest firing incident along the Line of Control (LoC) a statement by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
"Indian troops again resorted to unprovoked firing at Hotspring (Tatta Pani) sector in the evening. A Pak soldier has embraced shahadat (martyrdom) while two soldiers are injured," it said.
Earlier on, a Pak soldier had been killed "due to Indian troops unprovoked firing at the LoC on Thursday," according to a statement by the ISPR which added that, "Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing at the LoC in Rakhchakri sector near Rawlakot at 1150 hours today."
On the other hand an Indian army officer said that Indian troops had responded after receiving gunfire from Pak soldiers, and the exchange lasted three hours.
He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military policy.
The latest development comes a day after Pakistain asked India to stop further ceasefire violations in a message delivered to the Indian deputy high commissioner Gopal Bagley after he was summoned to the Foreign Office to receive a demarche over the latest ceasefire violation in the Shaqma sector, near Skardu, in which a Pakistain Army officer was killed and a soldier critically maimed.
The recent flareup started two weeks back when five Indian soldiers were killed along the Line of Control, which is a UN-monitored de facto border dividing Kashmire between India and Pakistain.
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sounds like the Indians got tired of the Pak infiltration shit and went offensive
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[Dawn] A roadside kaboom targeting troops killed a civilian and left 16 more people including 11 soldiers maimed on Thursday night in Pakistain's violence-plagued port city of 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... , police and military officials said.
Television footage showed several cars and cycle of violences were damaged in the blast aimed at a truck carrying soldiers back to camp after they carried out security duties for by-elections in the city.
The army truck was targeted near headquarters of paramilitary Rangers force in Korangi number 5 neighbourhood.
"At least 11 soldiers were maimed in the kaboom on their truck," a military official told AFP. "A civilian was killed and five others were also maimed," he added.
Police officials confirmed the bombing and toll.
Senior police official Irfan Bhutto said another bomb was found near the blast site attached to a pylon and a bomb disposal unit was attempting to defuse it.
Security was put on high alert in the wake of Thursday's by-elections in the metropolis.
Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has condemned the apparent terrorist attack and telephoned the DG Rangers to get details of the incident.
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[Dawn] The votes in the biggest ever by-elections in Pakistain's history have now almost completely been counted. By and large the polls were conducted in an orderly manner although it has been marred by few allegations of rigging, terrorist attack on Pakistain Army troops and women being denied the right to vote.
The polls are not expected to shatter the status quo in the country's political discourse; however it will indicate the mood of the public regarding the incumbent political parties.
No massive change was witnessed in Sindh and 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... , like in the May 11 general elections, as the ruling Pakistain Musselmen League-Nawaz (PML-N) again topped the electoral race bagging 18 of 39 national and provincial seats.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... few unexpected results have emerged in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... provinces.
The National Assembly seat vacated by PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... 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. has been claimed by his May 11 rival, Ghulam Ahmed Bilour of Awami National Party (ANP).
PTI's Asad Umar has defeated his Pakistain Musselmen League-Nawaz rival Chaudhry Ashraf Gujjar to win the Islamabad seat, vacated by Javed Hashmi while Shmasun Nisa Memon -- mother of the May 11 winner and subsequently disqualified by the SC, Sadiq Memon -- has defeated PML-N's Syed Riaz Hussain Shah Sherazi to win NA-237 Thatha seat.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... Secretary Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan has said the commission has taken notice of the news of counting of votes at some polling stations before the valid time of 5:00 pm, APP reported.
"Counting cannot be started even one minute before the legal time. We have taken notice of the matter and would ask from the concerned presiding officers," he told the media while announcing the first result of the by-polls.
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[Al Ahram] Explosions were heard near Israel's northern border with Leb on Thursday, witnesses and AFP correspondents said, as Lebanese security sources said Death Eaters had fired four rockets into Israel.
Witnesses reported hearing several blasts near the northern coastal town of Nahariya.
No casualties or damage were immediately reported.
"We heard about four or five kabooms, and then the sirens went off for about a minute," a woman named Yasmin from the northern village of Klil told AFP.
A security source in Leb said that four rockets were fired at Israel from the south.
"Unknown gunnies fired four rockets from two positions, south and east of Tyre, at Israel," the source said as residents in the area said they heard four blasts.
The Israeli army said the Iron Dome defence system intercepted one rocket.
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Twin explosions hit two mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, killing at least 42 people and wounding hundreds, intensifying the sectarian strife that has spilled over from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The apparently coordinated blasts - the biggest and deadliest in Tripoli since the end of Lebanon's own civil war - struck as locals were finishing Friday prayers in the largely Sunni Muslim city. Lebanese officials appealed for calm.
Hezbollah says "terrorist explosions" aim to provoke sectarian tensions.
[An Nahar] Masked gunniesrubbed out a Hizbullah supporter and two other men, including a member of the security forces, in the northern city of 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... early Thursday, a security official said.
"Masked men on cycle of violences rubbed out Hussam al-Mouri, a security official and a third man who happened to be at the scene," the official said.
Mouri was a known supporter of Hizbullah, a key ally of Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , and has been target of previous liquidation attempts.
He headed an gang in the northern city which last year clashed with faceless myrmidons opposed to Hizbullah and Assad's regime.
The majority of residents of the port city support the 29-month anti-Assad rebellion in neighboring Syria, and resent Hizbullah's decision to send fighters to support the army there.
Mouri, who was in his 40s, and the two other men were standing at the entrance to his home when the gunnies drove up and shot them, the official said.
"The army has deployed in the al-Zahriyeh district" in central Tripoli, near Mouri's home, the official said.
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Lebanon is way overdue for a round of civil war.
[An Nahar] An bomb was found on Thursday evening in the town of Maarakeh in the southern Tyre District.
"The device was found in Shdaghrouss neighborhood in Maarakeh," the state-run National News Agency said.
But an army statement said the bomb was found in Maarakeh's outskirts.
"At 4:30 p.m., an army patrol found an bomb composed of 500 grams of TNT in the outskirts of the southern town of Maarakeh. A military expert arrived on the scene and defused it as a probe was launched under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities to arrest the perpetrators," it said.
Earlier, NNA said the bomb was composed of "two dynamite sticks, an electric device and kaboom."
The discovery comes hours after four rockets were fired earlier on Thursday from Tyre towards northern Israel.
The NNA revealed that the army found wooden launch pads from which the rockets were fired between Hawsh and al-Rashidiyeh in the South, denying reports of retaliatory Israeli shelling against southern Leb.
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[An Nahar] The army on Thursday evening announced seizing a truck carrying gas masks and related equipment in the town of al-Kfeir in the Hasbaya District as al-Jadeed television said it was "bound for the Syrian opposition."
"The pick up truck driver was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and the foundings were confiscated," a communique issued by the Army Command said.
It remarked that "the competent court has opened an investigation in the incident."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... al-Jadeed noted that the truck was bound for the Syrian opposition.
"The truck was bound for Syria's opposition via (the Israeli-occupied) Mount Hermon," it remarked.
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Another Iranian filmmaker, Esmail Heydari, has been killed in Syria, Fars news agency reported. Heydari is the second Iranian filmmaker that has been assassinated in Syria this week.
Prior, Adi Bagbani was killed by "Takfiri militants", as Iranian authorities call them. "Takfiri" is a religious minority that hardly stands against Shia beliefs.
They're part of the Sunni-led rebellion, I think...
Fars news agency reported earlier that a 3-member group went to Syria to make a documentary film about the violations there. The group reportedly included the both Heydari and Bagbani. The film group, according to Fars, was scheduled to work in Syria for 10 days.
Since 2011 a lot of Iranian filmmakers have gone to Syria, and about 22 documentary films have been shot in the country since then.
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Esmail Heydari, the Iranian Leni Riefenstahl....
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[Ynet] Syrian activists say Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces are pressing on with a military offensive in the rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs where the opposition says a chemical weapons attack killed over 1,000 people.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it had no word on casualties in Thursday's bombing of eastern Ghouta.
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One would think that if AQ is in decline and on the run that locals, if they had the will, could root them out and destroy them. Maybe the numbers of AQ are greater than those shown on the map? Iraq and Afghanistan should with all our efforts, be able to do the heavy lifting themselves by this time.
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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KISMAYO, Somalia -- At least ten Al Shabaab fighters were reportedly killed in heavy clashes between Kenyan security forces and Al Shabaab militants late Wednesday night in a Kenyan vicinity bordering Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
[Ynet] The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram's website reported that a cell suspected of the execution of 25 
[CNN] A military jury has convicted Army Maj. Nidal Hasan of 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in a November 5, 2009, shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, making it possible for the death penalty to be considered as a possible punishment.
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