Former Afghan National Army sergeant Hekmatullah was captured by Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence in February and recently deported to Afghanistan, Defense Force Chief Lt. Gen. David Hurley said.
Overnight, he was deported to Afghanistan where he is expected to face trial charged with three murders, Hurley said in a statement.
We have been relentless and determined in our efforts to pursue those who have murdered and wounded our people, he added.
Hekmatullah allegedly fired 10 to 15 shots within a patrol base north of the Australian military headquarters at Tarin Kowt on Aug. 29. He is accused of killing three Australian soldiers and wounding another two as they were playing cards, then fleeing.
An Australian Defense Department inquiry said last week that security before the attack was too weak given the Afghan armys open access to the administration area where the shooting occurred and the Australian soldiers relaxed disposition. Many Australians were not wearing body armour.
[An Nahar] Female university students in Sudan protested for a second day running on Tuesday, their campus president said, on the ninth day of anti-government demonstrations that sparked a deadly crackdown last week.
The protest, with 100 students at most, was "on a smaller scale" than Monday's rally, Ahfad University for Women president Gasim Badri told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Monday police lobbed tear gas into the campus in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. They did not intervene in the latest rally, Badri said.
The intensity of demonstrations has eased since last week when thousands erupted into the streets after fuel prices jumped by more than 60 percent.
Authorities say 34 people died during the protests, many of them in poor neighborhoods, which were the worst in the history of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's 24-year rule.
Activists and international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups say at least 50 people were bumped off, most of them in the greater Khartoum area.
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"In Tripoli ...a shooting occurred and there was an attempt to enter the territory of the Russian embassy in Libya," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich, speaking on Russian state television.
"According to the most preliminary information there were no injuries among members of the Russian diplomatic mission."
[An Nahar] Six copperswere maimed in festivities between rival communities in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia, a security source and a human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist said on Tuesday.
Four people were nabbed You have the right to remain silent... in connection with Monday's violence between young Chaambas of Arab origin and Mozabites, a Berber minority group which adheres to the Ibadi faith, an offshoot of Shiite Islam
There were conflicting reports of the unrest.
A source with the national security service (DGSN) told Agence La Belle France Presse the six coppers were hit by stones thrown during a protest against water shortages in Ghardaia.
But according to Kameleddine Fekhar, a human rights activist in the M'zab region, 600 kilometers (400 miles) south of Algiers, some 50 Chaambas armed with stones and knives attacked residents of a Mozabite district, "with the full knowledge of the police."
"The assailants passed in front of two lorries packed with police, who did nothing," said Fekhar, who belongs to the Berber community.
"It was only hours after the attack that they were told to intervene, and then not to arrest the assailants but to hurl tear gas canisters at the Mozabites," he added.
The DGSN source denied the claims and said police intervened to break up a protest by Mozabites who had occupied the street to demonstrate against a four-day water cut in their neighborhood.
The Chaamba youths left the area left, but the Mozabites began harassing the security forces and throwing stones, the source said.
"They torched vehicles and ransacked the headquarters of the local branch of the Algerian water agency," he said, adding that four Mozabites were arrested for disturbing the peace and for damaging public and private property.
In May, a dozen people were maimed during unrest that erupted between the two communities in Ghardaia following a dispute over a Mozabite cemetery.
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[An Nahar] Three Jordanian men have been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! for carrying posters supporting Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund and ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , a judicial official said on Tuesday.
"The three men were arrested last week. They were carrying posters with the slogan of Rabaa," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The yellow posters show a black hand with four fingers raised, symbolizing Cairo's pro-Morsi Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp, which was broken up on August 14, sparking festivities that killed hundreds of protesters.
"The state security court charged the suspects on Monday with acts the government does not approve that would harm Jordan's relations with a brotherly Arab country," the official said.
"One of the suspects was accused of insulting heads of states. The authorities found text messages on his mobile phone's Internet messenger application WhatsApp that insult the Jordanian regime and other regimes."
The three face up to three years in jail if convicted, the official said, adding that the court refused to release them on bail.
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[TRIBUNE.NG] AS the military assault against the 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... sect continues in some Northern states, members of the sect might have concluded plans to infiltrate the South-West to seek traditional medicine protection from gunshots.
Sunday Tribune gathered that the last few weeks have seen large-scale efforts being made by people believed to be members of the sect to contact native doctors in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, especially Saki, for bulletproof charms.
Incidentally, Saki and some other Oke-Ogun towns have a very strong Islamic orientation with a large population of northerners, especially cattlemen, already making the area a home.
According to a source who claimed to be in the know about the recent attempt to seek Yoruba traditional protection by the Boko Haram members, a huge amount of money ranging from N5 million to N10 million was said to be on offer "if the amulet is made and tested okay."
"Recently, some strange people have been coming to Oke-Ogun for traditional bulletproof and most of these people are Northerners, though their contact persons are Yoruba. What we learnt was that anyone that facilitates the Boko Haram's contacts' meeting with a herbalist, who could make a potent charm would also get a commission of 40 per cent, with the remaining 60 per cent going to the herbalist," the source said on condition of anonymity.
He noted that the state of emergency in some states of the North and the strict surveillance on the sect coupled with the widely known efficacy of Yoruba bulletproof charms could have been responsible for the sect's search in Oke-Ogun, warning traditionalists to be discerning "so as not to empower destroyers who will return to haunt them and their communities in the distant future."
When contacted on the development, the Oyo State Director of State Security Services (SSS), Mr Charles Ugwu, told Sunday Tribune that he was not aware of it.
He added that he believed the native doctors knew what had been going on in the nation, and if approached by suspected Boko Haram members, they should give information to their community leaders or approach the security agencies in their zone.
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Give 'em all the bulletproof charms they want, as long as they aren't made of Kevlar with ceramic inserts.
[BANGLANEWS24] Chittagong BNP has called daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... for Wednesday in Chittagong protesting the verdict that awards death penalty to Salauddin Quader for war crimes.
BNP politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found BNP politician Salauddin Quader Chowdhury guilty of nine charges out of total allegations of war crimes including genocide and killings.
Out of total 23 charges, SQ Chowdhury was, however, acquitted of eight charges while the prosecutions failed to prove six other allegations.
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[BANGLANEWS24] BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury guilty of nine charges out of total allegations of war crimes including genocide and killings.
Out of total 23 charges, SQ Chowdhury was, however, acquitted of eight charges while the prosecutions failed to prove six other allegations.
ICT read out the verdict and made the observation on Tuesday.
Nine charges in which the BNP leader was found guilty are - Charge No.2- Maddhaya Gohira Genocide; Charge No.3- Murder of Nutun Chandra Singha; Charge No.4- Genocide at Jogotmollopara; Charge No.5- Murder of Nepal Chandra and three others; and Charge No.6- Genocide at Unsuttarpara; Charge No.7- Killing of Satish Chandra Palit; Charge No.8- Killing of Mozaffar and his son; Charge No. 17- abduction and torture of Nizamuddin Ahmed; and Charge No. 18- abduction and torture of Saleh Uddin.
He was awarded death penalty for charges No. 3, 5, 6 and 8.
Earlier in the day, ICT-1 Justices ATM Fazle Kabir, Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Anwarul Haque read out the verdict.
On December 16, 2010, BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury MP was arrested from a Banani residence in the city, a day after investigators petitioned the International Crimes Tribunal for issuing arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges.
Later, police showed arrested him for crime against humanity during liberation war in 1971.
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[Dawn] 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 chief Shahid Hayat has said a man suspected of involvement in the killing of Naimat Ali Randhawa, a lawyer involved in the Wali Babar murder case, has been placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Tuesday.
Speaking to a presser, Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Karachi Shahid Hayat named the suspect as one Kazim Abbasi Rizvi and said he was associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... 's Unit 178.
The senior lawyer was rubbed out in an attack in the city's Nazimabad area on Thursday that also left his lawyer son injured.
Hayat was asked whether Randhawa's killing had a sectarian dimension, responding to which, the police chief said the lawyer's killing was of a political, not sectarian, nature.
He said that during initial investigation, the accused had confessed to killing Randhawa.
The accused is also involved in murders of eight other people, said the AIGP. Raids were being conducted to arrest three other accomplices of the accused, he added.
To a question, he said that the ongoing targeted operation by police is against criminals and not any political party.
Police claimed to have recovered a 9MM pistol with five rounds from his possession. The accused was arrested under the Sindh Armed Act.
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[Dawn] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that as a result of the ongoing targeted operations 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... targeted killers were fleeing the city, but they were being chased and captured in various parts of the country.
He made these remarks while talking to media men in Sukkur, where he had come to offer Fateha at the Lal Mashaikh graveyard on Sunday. He said conduct of elections was not his job but that of the Election Commission. He said his government was implementing the apex court directives on delimitation.
He assured all parties that nobody would be allowed to rig the local bodies elections. He added there was no justification for the demand to involve the judiciary.
Mr Shah said the Pakistain Moslem League-Functional wanted to escape from local government election as it raised objection to delimitation, though it had remained silent on the 2001 delimitations.
He said it was his desire that peace prevailed not only in Karachi but in whole Sindh, for which the government was doing its best. He said cases were being opened of the police officials who were killed in Karachi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the chief minister offered to a four-member delegation of the Pak-UK Chamber of Commerce and Industries, which called on him at the CM House on Monday, that foreign educational institutions, especially from Britannia, impart training in language and technical skills to youths in Sindh, adds Our Staff Reporter in Karachi.
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[Dawn] Thirteen people, including three members of a family and an Imambargah trustee, were rubbed out in targeted attacks in the city on Monday, officials said.
They said that the trustee of an Imambargah and his driver were rubbed out in a New 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... locality in an attack apparently on sectarian grounds.
Hasan Ali, 35, was on his way to his Pakwan Centre in New Karachi's Sector-13 in his chauffeur-driven car when four gunnies riding two cycle of violences sprayed the vehicle with bullets and rode away.
Mr Ali and his driver, Mujeeb Rehman, 40, sustained multiple bullet wounds and died before any medical aid could be provided to them. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
"Ali Hasan was a trustee of Aal-e-Muhammad Imambargah in the area and his murder could be linked to sectarianism," said Karachi Central SSP Amir Farooqi.
He said that a relative of the slain Mr Ali, who was also a trustee of the Imambargah, was killed in a sectarian attack in the same area around a year ago.
Man, two sons killed in Lyari
A man and his two young sons were rubbed out by armed motorcyclists in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... in a suspected targeted attack on Monday morning, the police said.
They added that four gunnies riding two cycle of violences attacked the three family members who as a matter of routine were selling cooked breakfast on pushcarts in Jhat Pat Market.
Kalakot SHO Saleem Marwat said the victims identified as Abdul Shakoor, 55, and his two sons, 24-year-old Zahid and 20-year-old Abid, sustained multiple bullet wounds in the attack. They were rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where doctors declared them dead on arrival, he added.
The police officer said that the victims, residents of Oqal Bunga compound of Ranchhore Line, originally hailed from Bahawalnagar, Punjab.
"Investigators are probing mainly two possible motives for the attack," said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the three men might have been targeted by criminal elements over the suspicion of their being police 'informers'.
The other possible motive could be their ethnic identity, as people hailing from Punjab were being targeted 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... also, he added.
The officer said the vendors had been selling cooked breakfast for the past 16 years in the same area.
Three found rubbed out
Three young men were found rubbed out in a car near Haroon Royal City, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block-17, in the early hours of Monday, according to the Sharea Faisal police.
Wrapped in polythene bags, the corpses also bore torture marks, they said.
Shah Faisal SP Syed Ali Asif told Dawn that the three men, in their 30s, might have been kidnapped, subjected to torture before being bumped off.
He said each victim was hit by a single bullet in the head.
The senior officer said the car in which the bodies were found had been snatched in the vicinity on Sunday. "The car was snatched from Waqar Ahmed near Rabia City in Gulistan-e-Jauhar," the police said.
They said the bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification after a post-mortem examination at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Man bumped off outside KU
A young man was bumped off outside the University of Karachi on Monday morning, the Mobina Town police said.
They added that Saleem Rahat Bhatti, 40, was on his way from his residence in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block-8, on his cycle of violence to his office in a factory in SITE when suspects also riding a cycle of violence attacked him on the main University Road. He sustained two bullet wounds and died. Mobina Town SHO Jamal Muhammad Leghari said circumstances suggested that the suspects had been chasing him and targeted him at a deserted place outside the university early morning.
He said the victim's family had hinted at some personal enmity behind the murder but did not nominate anyone in the FIR.
Watchman killed in Sohrab Goth
A watchman was rubbed out in a commercial area of Sohrab Goth, police said.
They added that Amir Khan, 45, was bumped off in Super Market. He sustained three gunshot wounds in his head.
The police said the victim was the watchman in the same market and originally hailed from Wazoo.
Killing in Korangi
A young man was bumped off in Korangi on Monday.
Police said that the perforated carcass of Haris Arif, 25, was found near the Coast Guard Chowrangi.
The corpse was shifted to the JPMC for a post-mortem examination.
Zaman Town SHO Sarfraz Gondal said a pistol was found on the body.
He said that the police believed that he was killed by his accomplice(s) over some dispute.
He was a resident of Landhi.
Trader rubbed out in Kalri
A fish trader was rubbed out in the Kalri area, police said.
They said that Iqbal Niazi, 50, was going on his cycle of violence when gunnies targeted him near the old truck stand on Mauripur Road.
The police said that the victim was going to the Fisheries area when he was killed.
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[Ynet] Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has grabbed credit for a string of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that killed 55 people.
In a statement posted late Monday hours after the bombings that mostly targeted Shiite neighborhoods, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant says the attacks were in retaliation to the "arrests, torturing and targeting of Sunnis" by the Shiite-led government.
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Sept 2013 was worst month since March 2008 for terror related fatalities in Iraq (somewhat over 1000)
of course Syria has about 1000 each week
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* WAFF >[BreakingNews] AL-QAIDA TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR REGHANLI + THREATENS TURKEY | ISIL THREATENS ERDOGAN: WATCH YOUR BACK, OUR SUICIDE BOMBERS WILL HIT ANKARA + ISTANBUL.
As part of its demands, ISIL also wants Turkey reopen key border-crossing points into Syria.
* TOPIX > [AlertNet] SAUDI ARABIA BOOSTS SALAFIST RIVALS TO AL-QAEDA ["Army of Islam"] IN SYRIA.
RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [YouTube] VIDEO:A TOTAL OF 43 ISLAMIST GROUPS UNITE IN SYRIA, under the auspice of the new "Army of Islam" coalition group.
* SAME > [Real Clear Politics = World] AL-QAEDA'S PLAN TO SWALLOW ISRAEL, LEBANON, AND SYRIA, eventually in time to attack the US-West.
* SAME > WEST'S FAILURE TO SUPPORT MODERATE SYRIA REBELS LED TO RISE OF AL-QAEDA GROUPS.
[An Nahar] Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said Tuesday.
Twenty of the 23 were either al-Qaeda members or otherwise involved in terrorism, while three were convicted of unspecified "criminal charges," a ministry front man said.
The executions were carried out on September 22 and 26.
They take to at least 90 the number of people who have been put to death in Iraq this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally based on reports from the ministry and officials.
Executions in Iraq, which are usually carried out by hanging, have drawn widespread condemnation from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and rights watchdogs.
"The Iraqi authorities have chosen to defy repeated calls not to execute prisoners and to rely on tainted 'confessions' obtained under torture," Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui of Amnesia Amnesty International said last month.
"That a death sentence could be imposed after obviously grossly unfair trials beggars belief."
U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. chief Navi Pillay said this year that Iraq's criminal justice system was "not functioning adequately".
She highlighted "numerous convictions based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, a weak judiciary and trial proceedings that fall short of international standards."
"The application of the death penalty in these circumstances is unconscionable, as any miscarriage of justice as a result of capital punishment cannot be undone," Pillay said.
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most of them convicted on terrorism charges,
Twenty of the 23 were either al-Qaida members or otherwise involved in terrorism, while three were convicted of unspecified "criminal charges,"
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What is it about Islam that breeds Wolverines in Turbans and Tasmanian Snapbiters in excess of profusion?
Philippine troops killed a militant commander and captured another in a clash with the communist group New Peoples Army.
Captain Raul Villegas said five soldiers were also injured in the fighting that erupted in the village of Aliwagwag. He said troops recovered the automatic rifle of the slain NPA leader who was identified only by his alias Ka Ryan, and also the weapon of the captured militant.
Villegas said the soldiers were patroling in the village when it ran into a group of militants and a firefight ensued.
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Unfortunately the Artic doesn't indic iff this is related to the MNLF BIFF attack agz Zamboanga City, or else is an isolated or independent incident.
Generally, in the GWOT where Commies go Radical Islam's Hard Boyz also follow, + vice versa.
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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[TRIBUNE.NG] AS the military assault against the 
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[Dawn] Thirteen people, including three members of a family and an Imambargah trustee, were 
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[Ynet] Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has 
[An Nahar] Iraq executed 23 people during two days in September, most of them convicted on terrorism charges, the justice ministry said Tuesday.
