[Bangla Daily Star] An Indian woman, who wrote a popular memoir about her escape from the Taliban, has been rubbed out in Afghanistan by suspected bad boys, police say.
Sushmita Banerjee, who was married to an Afghan businessman, was killed outside her home in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province.
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[Ynet] At least six members of Egypt's security forces were killed during an attack by gunnies in the north Sinai city of El-Arish, the Al-Ahram daily reported.
According to the report, at least 15 people were maimed in the attack.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian counter-terrorism forces, tasked with making the southern border with Mali and Mauritania secure, recently killed seven gunnies trying to enter Mauritanian from the Algerian region of Bordj Baji Moktar.
Two combat helicopters from the 6th region of Tamanrasset were used to chase and kill the gunnies on Saturday night (August 31st), according to the Algerian daily El Mihwar.
Algerian security forces seized two 4x4 vehicles registered in Libya, as well as Kalashnikov-type weapons, RPGs and a large quantity of ammunition.
"The gunnies were trying to cross the border into southern Mauritania, where training camps run by salafist groups are located," the newspaper stated.
Mauritanian authorities, however, deny the existence of terrorist training groups within the country.
"Over the past few years, the Mauritanian armed forces have put a great deal of energy into taking on terrorist groups, which even had cells in the capital," analyst Abdou Ould Mohamed said. "But after the army intervened in July 2011, the jihadists finally withdrew from the east of the country and even from the Wagadou Forest, one of their bases, in Mali."
Ould Mohamed noted, however, "they were still present in northern Mali, where most of the training camps have been destroyed".
"Though historically linked with Algeria, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is increasingly recruiting in sub-Saharan Africa," journalist Jidou Ould Sidi said.
"It also has ties with the Nigerian Islamist movement Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... "This Africanisation of al-Qaeda is accompanied by the growing power of political Islam and the expanding influence of Wahhabi imams, even though these religious men should not be confused with Islamist fighters," he added.
The situation "created by the occupation of a territory in northern Mali by terrorist groups is unbearable, inadmissible and unacceptable, not only for Mali, but for all countries inside and outside the region, and for all those who could be hit by terrorism one day", journalist Chouhoud Abdellahi Ould Moktar said.
"Several months of war in Libya followed by the collapse of the Qadaffy regime after it had been in power for 42 years radically changed the situation for the fragile states in the Sahel strip," he added. "But the Libyan crisis appears to have given a new lease of life to the jihadists, who have acquired new weapons from Libyan combatants."
In addition, the hundreds of Touareg fighters "who had pledged allegiance to Qadaffy are now returning to Mali and Niger, making the security situation even worse", according to Ould Moktar.
Ever since the outbreak of the crisis in Mali, border security has been a priority for the five countries that surround it.
By closing their borders, or at least reducing the numbers of people crossing them, these countries hope to reduce cross-border travel and traffic, Ba Sidi added.
"But the terrorist attack on the Algerian In Amenas gas complex demonstrated the bitter reality that it was difficult to keep watch over thousands of kilometres of desert," he added. "In each of the countries that neighbour Mali, jihadist elements, which are difficult to identify, can blend in with the refugees who are flocking to the camps."
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[An Nahar] Algerian soldiers killed two armed Islamists on Thursday in a military operation east of the capital, the defense ministry said.
The incident occurred in Ain El Hamra, in the corpse-littered Boumerdes region, with a weapons cache recovered in the operation, the ministry added, without elaborating.
Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in Algeria in recent years, after a decade of appalling blood-letting during the civil war of the 1990s.
But groups affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to attack security forces in the eastern Kabylie region, in areas around the capital and in the south.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry has said that body parts found at the site of kaboom on the interior minister's convoy on Thursday may belong to the perpetrator.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim survived an liquidation attempt on Thursday morning when a bomb detonated near his convoy in Nasr City in eastern Cairo. At least 22 people, including ten coppers and a child, were maimed. Several shops and vehicles were also damaged in the blast.
The ministry's latest statement said that "initial indications suggest the involvement of terrorist elements" in the incident.
It also said that body parts had been found at the site and are currently being examined, adding that the perpetrator "placed the bomb in a boot of a car that was parked at the roadside."
Initial investigations showed at least 50kg of explosives or other chemicals were used in the blast, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.
The ministry also asserted that it will continue its investigations to reveal the circumstances behind the incident and bring those involved to justice.
Egypt's presidency condemned the kaboom, vowing not to let those who committed the crime escape justice.
"The presidency will not allow terrorism, which was defeated by the people in the 1980s and the 1990s, to return once again," it said in a statement in the name of interim president Adly Mansour.
No group has as yet grabbed credit for the attack.
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[GOOGLE] Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamists stormed the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n town of Gajiran on Thursday, opening fire in a market and killing 15 people, residents said.
Borno state in the northeast, Boko Haram's stronghold where the latest violence occurred, has seen a spate of similar attacks on locals in recent weeks.
Gajiran residents speaking to journalists in the state capital Maiduguri said the gunnies pretended to be traders attending a local market.
"Some of them came aboard trucks while others came on foot to beat the security checks at the entrance of the town," resident Ibrahim Bulama said.
They then "blended among traders conducting business", before opening fire in the market, killing 15 people, he told news hounds.
They also set fire to a local government building and a police post, he said.
Another local speaking to journalists in Maiduguri, Aisami Yusuf, also put the corpse count at 15 and provided a similar account.
Gajiran is roughly 85 kilometres (50 miles) from the capital.
There has been no mobile phone service in Borno since the middle of May, when Nigeria declared a state of emergency across most of the northeast and launched an offensive aimed at crushing Boko Haram's insurgency.
Details of attacks have been difficult to verify, with area police and military officers unreachable by phone.
The military has said it switched off the phones to block the Islamists from coordinating attacks.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday indicted 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... leader Mir Quasem Ali on 14 charges, including murder, torture, abduction and confinement of people and complicity in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
A member of Jamaat's executive council, Quasem, 60, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." by saying, "Honourable tribunal, I am completely innocent."
The tribunal also fixed September 30 for the opening statement of the prosecution and the commencement of the trial.
Born in Munsidangi Sutalori of Manikganj on December 31, 1952, Quasem became the general secretary of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on November 7, 1971.
Chhatra Sangha members formed the Al-Badr force to collaborate with the Pak military to commit genocide and mass killing during the war, according to historical records and earlier tribunal verdicts. The charges say that Quasem had led members of the Al-Badr of Chittagong in 1971.
"Al-Badar [Al-Badr] was created not to maintain peace and public order. Rather, it is proved beyond reasonable doubt that it had carried out a series of untold criminal activities, in furtherance of the policy and plan of the Pakistain occupation army in a systematic manner," read the judgement against condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
Quasem apparently did very well after the Liberation War. According to defence documents, Quasem is the chairman of Keari Ltd, a real estate and tourism company, chairman of the managing committee of Diganta Media Corporations, which owns now off-the-air Diganta TV and the Naya Diganta paper.
He is also a founding member of Ibn-Sina Trust, which owns several medical facilities and a pharmaceutical company, and a member secretary of Islami Bank Foundation and founding member of Islami Bank.
The prosecution during the charge framing hearing tried to establish the superior status of Quasem during the Liberation War by citing reports published in newspapers.
Quoting a report of Daily Pakistain of November 8, 1971, prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon said Quasem addressed a rally, organised by Al-Badr, in front of Baitul Mukarram mosque where he vowed to resist India's attack, kill "myrmidons" and establish Islamic society.
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[Dawn] A bomb maimed 11 people, mostly children, when it went kaboom! outside a girls' school in Bannu on Thursday, a doctor said.
The bomb went off at the end of the school day as pupils walked into a street lined with fabric shops in the northwestern town of Bannu, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province.
Doctor Omar Zeb told news agency AFP that 11 people had been brought to the local hospital -- seven primary schoolgirls and four other people who had been in the street.
Police official Azad Khan told AFP that at least four girls, two boys and a man had been maimed. Three of them are at death's door he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... a suspected bad turban was killed and another tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by police during an overnight clash with residents in Bannu, DawnNews reported.
According to the police, residents of the area Haji Anwar Khel area spotted six suspicious men Wednesday night and asked them to stop. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the suspected men opened fire on the area's dwellers.
During an exchange of fire between the two sides, one suspect was killed whereas another was captured and handed over to the police. The remaining four suspects beat feet from the site of incident.
Approximately three kilograms of kaboom was also recovered from the men. Police said the suspects were aged between 14 and 15 years. A case was lodged against the suspected forces of Evil at the local cop shoppe.
The northwestern town of Bannu, which stands at the gateway to the semiautonomous Wazoo tribal region, is 150 kilometres southwest 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. , the capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The town has witnessed a number of attacks and was the scene of a massive jail break in April 2012 during which 384 prisoners beat feet from its central prison.
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[Dawn] Four suspected hard boyz have been killed in a US drone strike on a compound in Ghulam Khan Tehsil of North Wazoo Agency near the Pak-Afghan border.
Champ didn't ask Congress for authorization, did he...
Official intelligence sources told Dawn.com that the drone fired two missiles on a compound believed to be owned by the Haqqani network of Afghan Taliban in the village of Darga Mandi.
"The compound has been destroyed and four suspected hard boyz have been killed in the strike," the officials said.
"The identity of the dead could not be ascertained at this hour but this areas is mostly inhibited by the Afghan Haqqani Network of Taliban," they further said.
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just curious how much does it cost per Hell Fire missle from one of these drones? How much does a cruise missle cost if sent from one of our ships off the coast of Syria- no matter what it hits. Jusr curious about the cost beneifit analysis of hitting Assad over time, like we have the turbans in the NW region of Pakiland. And why can't we justify the same shit in Pak as we could in Syria.
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In Wazoo, we are playing whack-a-mole. Hitting Assad would be the assassination of a head of state. Pretty much everyone would go batshit crazy over the latter. And they'd be correct to do so...
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[ArutzSheva] Police forces enter Temple Mount compound immediately after Mohammedans began throwing rocks at Jewish visitors.
Police forces were dispatched on Wednesday to break up Mohammedan stone throwers who were targeting Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount (Har Habayit).
As soon as stones were thrown and riots broke out, police forces stepped in to make arrests.
Security forces were prepared for a riot as this incident follows renewed incitement by Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah, who called for Mohammedans to physically prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount last week.
Yesterday, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on charges of "incitement against Israel and regarding the Temple Mount," and is currently being questioned by police.
This morning's attack on Jewish visitors is likely connected to Salah's claim last week to his followers that Israel is planning to "break in" to the Temple Mount, on which the Islamic Al Aqsa compound is located, built atop the ruins of two Jewish Temples.
After warning of the alleged "danger" of increased Jewish prayer at the site, Salah called on Mohammedans from across Israel - from the Negev and Galilee, Akko and Haifa - to descend on the Temple Mount to prevent the "dangerous mass invasion into Al Aqsa" with their bodies.
In the past, such statements have led the Israeli Police to close off the Temple Mount to Jews, out of concern that Jewish presence at the holy site could be met with Mohammedan riots, which on Wednesday proved to be true.
The police policy of restricting Jewish access in order to maintain quiet has led to complaints of discrimination.
The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site, but Jews are forbidden from holding prayers there due to the presence of an Islamic complex, and against the backdrop of threats of violence by Islamists.
The New People's Army (NPA) Southern Mindanao regional command strongly denied contaminating its explosives with human feces and snake venom.
Rigoberto Sanchez, NPA regional command spokesman, accused the military of "inventing" stories after it claimed that traces of human feces and snake venom were found in the wounds of the seven soldiers hit in a recent landmine explosion in Barangay Napnapan in Pantukan, Compostela Valley. He called such claims "malicious and wildly concocted military propaganda."
In an e-mailed statement Sanchez said, "The seven AFP troops who were hurt in a bomb blast in Pantukan (on September 3) were hit by command-detonated explosives and not the falsely reported pressure-type bombs that are banned by international laws like the Ottawa Treaty."
He admitted that the NPA uses "guerrilla warfare weapons, such as but not limited to, command-detonated explosives made up of traditional, non-biologically toxic ingredients”, but to engage in a highly criminal biological and chemical warfare is “pure invention."
Sanchez said, "The bacteria and poison are not found in the NPA bombs, but in the AFP headquarters, camps, detachments and in the AFP echelons itself."
Lieutenant Victor Dato, a medical officer of Camp Panacan Station Hospital, said human feces and snake venom that were found in the injuries of the soldiers could cause death because of bacteria that can contaminate the wounds.
Sanchez said the Philippine military has also accused the NPA of systemizing its landmine distribution in the region by way of color coding per province. He said, "Major Jake Obligado and other spin doctors at the Eastern Mindanao Command-AFP are desperate to reverse the tide of revolutionary guerrilla warfare, so desperate, that they have to copy methods used by the US imperialist military strategists in its current war against Syria.
"By alluding that the NPAs are terrorists, who hatch bombs and weapons of mass destruction in chemical and biological forms, Obligado and EastMinCom propagandists are copycats to the Obama government that is now justifying its military occupation in Syria by accusing the Assad regime of engaging in chemical weapons attack."
[Bangkok Post] Two suspected terrorists militants were arrested and weapons seized in a search of a village in Yala province on Wednesday night. Yala police chief Pol Maj Gen Peera Boonliang said the search was carried out by a combined team of police from Raman district in Yala and Sai Buri district in Pattani.
Two suspected terrorists militants were arrested for further interrogation. The suspects are Ibrohan Sadahong from Pattani's Sai Buri district, and Muhamad Aman Hama from Yala's Raman district. Police seized five weapons in the raid.
[An Nahar] Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. leader Amin Gemayel on Thursday held a series of contacts with the U.N. and world powers in a bid to stop attacks by Qaeda-linked rebels on the ancient Syrian Christian village of Maaloula, his office said.
In this regard, Gemayel held phone talks with U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman, U.N. Special Coordinator for Leb Derek Plumbly and the ambassadors of the Vatican, La Belle France, Britannia and the United States.
Gemayel urged them to "ask their governments to take quick measures to stop the assault on Maaloula and pull the gunnies out of the town and places of worship immediately."
He called on the envoys to inform their countries' leaders -- who gathered Thursday in Saint Petersburg for the G20 summit -- of the "enormity of the attack," warning that "the onslaught might lead to pushing the events in Syria down an increasingly sectarian and seditious course, which would affect the firmness of the international community's stance on the Syrian crisis."
Gemayel's office noted that "all these international officials responded to president Gemayel's call," revealing that "Arab and international stances over this attack are expected to be issued in light of the contacts that got underway between the European capitals, the Vatican and New York."
It also announced that it had been receiving all day "distress calls from the residents of the town of Maaloula, who called for a prompt action to rescue the historic town, its residents and its spiritual heritage."
Syrian government troops battled al-Qaeda-linked rebels over Maaloula for the second day Thursday.
Residents of the village said the Death Eaters entered the village late Wednesday. Rami Abdul Rahman, the director of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the fighters included members of the of al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front.
Despite heavy army presence in the village, Abdul Rahman said the rebels patrolled its streets on foot and in vehicles, briefly surrounding a church and a mosque before leaving early Thursday.
The rebels launched the assault on Maaloula -- which is on a UNESCO list of tentative world heritage sites -- on Wednesday after a Nusra fighter went kaboom! at a regime checkpoint at the entrance to the mountain village.
The village, about 60 kilometers northeast of Damascus, is home to 3,300 residents, some of whom still speak a version of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ that only small, scattered communities around the world still use today.
It is full of troglodyte caves dating back to the first centuries of Christianity, and also houses the Mar Takla Greek Orthodox monastery.
Heavy festivities between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's troops and al-Nusra Front fighters persisted in surrounding mountains Thursday, according to the Observatory, which collects information from a network of anti-regime activists.
Speaking by phone from a convent in the village, a nun told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the rebels left a mountaintop hotel Thursday after capturing it a day earlier. The nun said the frightened residents expect the Islamist Death Eaters to return to the Safir hotel and resume shelling of the community below.
"It's their home now," the nun said. She said some 100 people from the village took refuge in the convent. The 27 orphans who live there had been taken to nearby caves overnight "so they were not scared."
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And we want to finance/arm support these scumbags?
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian counter-terrorism forces, tasked with making the southern border with Mali and Mauritania secure, recently killed seven 
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interior ministry has said that body parts found at the site of 
[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday indicted 
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