[Tolo News] A female Afghan politician kidnapped by Talibs was the victim of a plot hatched by her brother, the country's intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, one of 69 female MPs in the 249-seat lower house, was taken at gunpoint in August and held for three weeks before being released, reportedly in exchange for six Taliban prisoners.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said that her brother, Noor Ahmad, had been jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on charges of being a key accomplice behind the kidnapping, which attracted global headlines.
"The NDS investigation concluded that two people including Noor Ahmad, brother of MP Kakar, had plotted the kidnapping with a Taliban capo," the spy agency said in a statement.
It also released a video of Kakar's brother making a tearful confession.
"Money and some family issues may have been the motive," NDS front man General Farid, who only uses one name, told AFP.
Kakar was returning to Kabul from her constituency in Kandahar when she was taken hostage at gunpoint along with her three children, who were released soon after being kidnapped.
"I am even braver than before," she said in an interview after her release. ?I will defend Afghanistan, especially the women, until the last drop of my blood."
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[An Nahar] Women and children rallied quietly outside Sudan's state security headquarters Thursday calling for the release of prisoners held in a crackdown after protests over fuel price hikes, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
The crowd of around 45 carried photographs of the detainees, including social media activist Dalia El Roubi and Amal Habani, a journalist with Al-Khartoum newspaper, the news hound said.
Children held signs reading "Freedom for my mum" while others called for "justice".
Demonstrators gave security officers a memorandum asking for immediate release of the prisoners, and then they peacefully left the area, the news hound said.
Roubi, an employee of the World Bank in Khartoum, was taken from her home on Monday. Her husband Abdelrahman Elmahdi told AFP he still had no news about her on Thursday.
He and the couple's 13-year-old daughter attended the demonstration.
"They didn't try to disperse us," Elmahdi told AFP. "I think we got our message across."
Sudan's government says it has jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! about 700 "criminals" after last week's protests.
But rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International said Wednesday that "reports from journalists, members of opposition parties, activists, and family members indicate that the figures are much higher".
It said security forces were believed to have killed more than 200 protesters, many with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
Authorities say 34 people died after petrol and diesel prices jumped on September 23 when the government cut fuel subsidies, sending thousands into the streets in the worst urban unrest during 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.
The government said it had to intervene last week when crowds turned violent, attacking petrol stations and police facilities.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The successor of the slain Moslemholy man Sheikh Aboud Rogo, Sheikh Ibrahim Rogo was bumped off with 3 others Thursday night by unknown assailants.
Mr Rogo with four others were heading home from Musa mosque where he had just finished preaching when their vehicle was sprayed with bullets killing four of the five occupants about half a kilometer from Bamburi police post.
The others in the vehicle were Gadaffi Mohammed who is said to be a carpenter, Issa Abdalla whose sister is married to Gadaffi was the driver of the car, Omar Abu Rumeisa and Salim Aboud who survived the attack by playing dead.
Salim Aboud said they were heading home in a Toyota Fun Cargo when people on foot started shooting at their car until the car veered off the road.
"We have finished them," Mr Salim Aboud heard them say as he pretended to be dead. The assailant are said to have sped-off in a Mark X.
Other muslim leaders including Sheikh Abubakar Sheriff alias Makaburi who arrived at the scene later pointed accusing fingers at the Anti Terrorism Police Unit.
"The ATPU were here, why have they run way? What are we going to do next and why are they killing us? We have not killed any one but the police are killing innocent Moslems," said Mr Makaburi.
"This actions are being led by Americans and Israelis, Sheikh Ibrahim was not at Westgate during the attack. Western governments do not want Moslems to talk about Jihad. It is part and parcel of Islam, kill us all," he said.
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...talk about Jihad. It is part and parcel of Islam, kill us all
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[Shabelle] two Somali military soldiers were today executed after a court session hearing was held in Mogadishu.
According to the judge, enough evidence has been gathered confirming that 33 year old Yahye Sheikh Abdullahi Ahmed and 37 year old Hussein Ali Ahmed shot amd killed to government soldiers in Mogadishu's Wardigle suburbs.
The killing occurred when the 2 accused soldiers confronted the two deceased soldiers in unknown circumstances in last month's incident.
"The executions or penalties will be take place in the coming days. We will shot them to death and all we waited is for the court ruling" said Mr Keyse who is the front man and lawyer at the military court.
This is not the first time search rulings are being made by Somalia's military court in efforts to discipline the indiscipline government troops.
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[Shabelle] a heavy battle between Somali government troops allied with Kenyan troops who are part of the AMISOM contingent and Alshabab fighters occurred at Qoqani district which is located in the lower Juba region of Somalia.
Residents told Shabelle radio that they heard a heavy gunfire and motors which the opponent troops used against each other.
The fighting started when Alshabab fighters attacked a military base manned by the Kenya peacekeeping forces and government soldiers.
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[Shabelle] news from Jowhar town in the middle Shabelle region report that a loud blast was heard at the entire town and its surrounding in the early hours of Wednesday evening.
The residents add that the loud blast was followed by a heavy gunfire which is believed to be opened by military troops who were on a patrolling mission when the incident occurred.
The town has suffered from planned attacks by unknown gunmen believed to be the opposing Alshabab fighters.
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[Shabelle] Two Somali nationals facing charges of being in possession of an improvised bomb yesterday appeared before Nairobi Principal Magistrate Joseph Karanja.
Abdirahman Ahmed Heeyle Mohamud and Nucmaan Mohammed Hassan are accused that on March 31, this year, at the Outering Road/Juja Road Junction near Kariobangi roundabout, they committed an act of terrorism by placing an explosive aboard a public service vehicle.
On March 4, police conducted swoops in Eastleigh where they incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! some of the suspects.
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[Shabelle] Somalia's al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Islamists on Wednesday threatened to step up Death Eater attacks against Kenya, after Nairobi refused to pull its troops out of Somalia.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab grabbed credit for last week's attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, in which at least 67 people died, with 39 more listed as missing by the Red Thingy.
"We will strike Kenyans where it hurts the most, turn their cities into graveyards and rivers of blood will flow in Nairobi," al-Shabaab said in a statement.
"The Kenyan government's decision to keep its invading force in Somalia is an indication that they haven't yet learnt any valuable lessons from the Westgate attacks," the Death Eaters added, warning that Kenya was "inviting unprecedented levels of insecurity, bloodshed and destruction".
Kenya invaded southern Somalia to attack al-Shabaab bases two years ago, and later joined the 17 700-strong AU force deployed in the country.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday said troops had been sent to Somalia to restore order to their anarchic neighbour, and they would not leave until the job was done.
"We will not be intimated, we will not be cowed," Kenyatta said. "We will stay there until they bring order to their nation."
In turn, al-Shabaab said it was "fully determined to intensify attacks inside Kenya until the last KDF (Kenya Defence Force) boots exit Somali soil", saying it had the "right to defend our land and our people from enemy aggression". --
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is the term "rivers of blood" a Brand name in Islam? You hear it quite often among the more pious of the Religion of Peace .
An Egyptian army vehicle fired live rounds in the direction of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had been pushed away from Cairo's Tahrir Square by security forces on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
Onlookers threw rocks at the protesters, backers of the Brotherhood's deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and protesters threw them back. Riot police had earlier fired tear gas to push back the pro-Morsi march.
[BBC.CO.UK] All staff and family members have been evacuated from the Russian embassy in Libya after gunnies attacked the compound in the capital, 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... The foreign ministry in Moscow announced that the evacuees had arrived in neighbouring Tunisia, from where they planned to fly back to Russia.
It suggested the incident was a Dire Revenge attack after the alleged killing of a Libyan by a Russian citizen.
Two Libyans were reportedly also killed during the assault on the embassy.
The Russian foreign ministry said its diplomats in Tunis would maintain ties with Libya.
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[Al Ahram] Two bombs exploded on Thursday at the Kerdasa gas unit outside Cairo, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
Once an Islamist stronghold, Kerdasa (15km from Cairo) was raided by security forces on 19 September. The district's police station had been abandoned after it was hit with rocket propelled grenades and gunfire following the violent dispersal of two Islamists sit-ins in Cairo on 14 August.
On Thursday, preliminary investigations revealed that three of the gas agency's guards were tied up by six assailants, who then left three bombs in the agency that supplies a power station and an industrial zone, Al-Ahram reported.
One bomb exploded in a control room, partially burning it. The two other bombs were left near a gas pipeline. The first one exploded, damaging part of the pipeline without causing a gas leak. The second one was later defused, Al-Ahram said.
Earlier Thursday, bomb disposal experts defused a hand-made grenade found near a hotel in the Cairo neighborhood of Mohandessin, Al-Ahram also reported.
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[WORLDBULLETIN.NET] Fighter jets have bombed camps belonging to 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... in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... in response to a massacre of students at an agricultural college, an army front man said on Thursday.
Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the night-time raid on a college in Yobe state on Sunday, in which students were dragged out of their beds and shot. Forty-one were killed.
Boko Haram, which has not grabbed credit for the attack, is fighting to impose an Islamic state in religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has become the biggest security threat to a country that is Africa's second largest economy and top oil exporter.
"We used jet fighters to drop bombs on terrorist camps, where many of the faceless myrmidons were killed," said Captain Eli Lazarus, military front man in Yobe state.
He said the strikes were carried out on Monday near Majari village on the border between Yobe and Borno, the two states worst hit by Boko Haram's four-year-old insurgency.
Soldiers have incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 15 people suspected of involvement in the college attack and patrols along main roads in Borno and Yobe have been reinforced, Lazarus said.
Nigeria's army has in the past exaggerated its capabilities and successes and played down casualties among soldiers and civilians, security and diplomatic sources say.
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[CHANNELSTV] Three days after the killing of innocent students of the College of Agriculture, Gujba in Yobe state, military authority has confirmed that 15 suspected 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... hard boyz have been nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in connection with the killings.
Spokesman of the 3 division special Operation Battalion Damaturu, Captain Eli Lazarus in a statement today in Damaturu the Yobe state capital, stated that several members of the hard boyz group were also killed in a ground and air strikes carried out by officers and men of the command.
"After the attack on the college of Agriculture in Gujba, our men carried out an operation around the Gujba axis and a camp of the snuffies was raided and several members of the terrorist group were killed, while 15 others were arrested" Eli Lazarus said.
Those arrested according to him are currently being investigated, where they will give the force useful information as to how to track down the perpetrators of the heinous act.
He said the military plans to come up with new measures of strategy that will curtail the activities of the snuffies and will continue to strengthen its collaboration with the civil populace so that timely and useful information can always be divulged to it in order for the military to continue to maintain peace in the state and the country as a whole.
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Employees of El Norte news daily in Nuevo Leon state were threatened with "consequences" if the newspaper failed to pay MEX $3,000 a month in protection money, according to Mexican news accounts.
A Thursday news article featured in AnimalPolitico.com said that a truck driven by a distributor carrying 800 copies of the newspaper was stopped Tuesday by armed suspects who apparently hit the driver, pointed weapons and left the message of the demand.
El Norte, as with many newspapers in northeastern Mexico, is under near constant threat of harm from organized crime, from threats of harm if information is published to extortion, the most pervasive crime in Mexico.
Drug war news in Tamaulipas is at a premium due to threats from organized crime, especially in Nuevo Laredo, the home of Los Zetas drug cartel.
According to the AnimalPolico.com article, El Norte offices were attacked three times last July, two of them on July 10th including attacks using hand grenades in their La Silla and Linda Vista offices in Monterrey. Almost three weeks later, the Sierra Madre office was firebombed.
Newspapers are not the only victims of organized crime. Offices of Televisa and other television stations have been attacked in the past in Monterrey as well as in Tamaulipas' border cities.
The threat issued to El Norte specifically demanded payment of protection money to continue distributing newspapers in northern Monterrey.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. His latest work of non-fiction, the Wounded Eagle, Volume 2, can be found at Smashwords and Amazon.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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Employees of El Norte Monterey Hearld news daily in Nuevo Leon state California were threatened with "consequences" if the newspaper failed to pay MEX $3,000 a month in protection campaign contribution money, according to Mexican news accounts.
A little editing and somehow has the same feel. What, no Obamacare waiver? Coming to a Peoples Democratic Republic near you.
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Three armed suspects were shot to death in an armed confrontation with Mexican security forces in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Wednesday night, according to official government news sources.
According to a news release posted on the state government website of Tamaulipas, the incident took place at 2100 hrs near the intersection of Avenida Division del Norte and Calle Republica de Cuba in Modelo colony, where a Mexican Army road patrol had observed and then signaled a number of armed suspects traveling aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck.
The armed suspects fired on the army patrol, which returned fire, killing all three men.
One of the dead was identified as Juan Antonio Sanchez Lumbreras, 22, of Matamoros.
After the confrontation ended army troops seized three rifles, an undisclosed number of weapons magazines and ammunition. The suspects were wearing bulletproof vests, and according to the news release had military style haircuts.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. His latest work of non-fiction, the Wounded Eagle, Volume 2, can be found at Smashwords and Amazon.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
[An Nahar] Belgium extradited a Tunisian former professional footballer turned convicted al-Qaeda fighter to the United States on Thursday, the justice minister said.
Nizar Trabelsi, who was locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! just two days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2003 for plotting a suicide truck bombing against a Belgian air base where American troops are stationed.
Washington has long sought his extradition, suspecting him of also being behind a more devastating al-Qaeda plot than the one he was convicted of in Belgium.
The 43-year-old Trabelsi had long battled to avoid extradition to the United States for fear of "inhumane" treatment.
His last appeal was rejected on September 23 by the Belgian Council of State, the country's highest administrative court.
Belgium has received "assurances from U.S. authorities" that he would be tried by a civil court rather than a military tribunal and would not be sentenced to death if convicted, Justice Minister AnnemieTurtleboom was quoted as saying by the Belga news agency.
His extradition was requested by Washington in November 2008.
"The Americans believe Nizar Trabelsi is an active member of an al-Qaeda terrorist network, which was developing terror activities beyond what he was already been convicted of in Belgium," said a front man for the Belgian federal prosecutor.
As far back as November 2007, a U.S. grand jury claimed Trabelsi was part of a conspiracy to murder American nationals outside the United States, a crime punishable by life imprisonment.
He is also accused by Washington of having participated in a "criminal association for the use and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction" and for providing financial support to terror groups.
Trabelsi played football in Germany for Fortuna Dusseldorf, but later fell into drugs, and went through al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] A Taliban-claimed bully boy attack in Spin Tall area on the border of Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions killed at least 17 persons and injured another 22, according to security sources.
Although Spin Tall is part of settled areas in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... , it has the status of semi-tribal territory.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man, Shahidullah Shahid, speaking to Dawn.Com grabbed credit for the attack, saying Mullah Nabi Hanafi had been supporting the government against the TTP and hence was their target as anyone opposing the Taliban ideology and fighting against them would be on the TTP hitlist.
Security sources said that the compound of an anti-Taliban militia commander Mullah Nabi Hanafi was targetted by snuffies who opened fire before detonating an explosive-laden vehicle inside the compound.
The bully boy compund was completely destroyed in the kaboom, Deputy Superintendent of Police Tall Tehsil Shaukat Ali Shah told Dawn.com.
He added that there were reports of at least 17 people dead, including a woman and a child whereas 22 others were maimed.
Security forces reached the site of attack and sealed the area.
Moreover the injured were shifted to the local hospitals as reports of another jacket wallah were received.
The intensity of the kaboom was so huge that the area residents claimed to have felt its jolt similar to that in an earthquake.
There are also reports, whch could not be confirmed by official sources, that Mullah Nabi Hanafi was also injured in the attack.
The intelligence reports said that two attackers who had tried to enter the compound were also bumped off, but the snuffies surrounded the compound and no one was allowed to enter as the injured were rushed out.
The details could not be independently verified as access of media is restricted in the region.
Mullah Hanafi was associated with the Tehrik-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in the past but later, after developing differences, formed his own bully boy faction to fight against the TTP.
TTP snuffies have also targetted Hanafi's training compunds in the past.
Moreover, Hanafi is also wanted by authorities in connection with the killing of Fareed Khan, a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) MPA from Hangu, after an tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! accused member of his group confessed to the killing.
Orakzai is one of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions in the northwest, where Pak Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked snuffies are said to have carved out strongholds.
Security officials have claimed in the past that up to 92 per cent of Orakzai has been cleared of Death Eaters.
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[An Nahar] A bomb went kaboom! near a football field in Iraq on Thursday, killing five people and wounding at least 11, officials said.
The bombing in Madain, south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , was just the latest in a string of attacks this year targeting young men playing Iraq's favorite sport.
Militants seeking to cause maximum casualties have also bombed other areas where crowds of people gather, including markets, parks, cafes, mosques and funeral tents.
Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, and there are fears Iraq is slipping back toward the intense Sunni-Shiite bloodshed that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands.
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[LATIMES] The Paleostinian Authority has launched a security crackdown after a wave of lawlessness in West Bank cities.
Hundreds of masked special forces, dressed in black and armed with machine guns, were dispatched Wednesday to the northern city of Jenin in a show of force, according to its governor, Talal Dweikat. He said the troops were there "to reinforce the work of the local security forces and to help them restore law and order to the city."
Jenin has been plagued by shootings, property destruction and other attacks since Israeli troops last month killed a man during a raid at a refugee camp there. Local authorities, fearful of a return to the time, from 2000 to 2007, when armed snuffies controlled the streets, appealed for help from the central government.
Dweikat said the security forces had locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! dozens of people since their arrival.
The Paleostinian Authority is worried that its arch-rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which governs the Gazoo Strip, is trying to stir up trouble in the West Bank to undermine peace negotiations with Israel.
Paleostinian and Israeli negotiators met Thursday in Jerusalem but reported no major progress. It was their eighth meeting since the resumption of direct negotiations this summer.
With the talks stalled and Israel increasing the pace of settlement building in the West Bank, Hamas and other radical Paleostinian groups have called for a third intifada, or uprising.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in separate incidents in the West Bank last month.
The Paleostinian Authority has conducted a series of raids to arrest suspected krazed killers, notably in the southern city of Hebron, where one of the soldiers was shot and killed in what officials suspect was an attack by a Paleostinian sniper.
Days earlier, a Paleostinian man was said to have lured an Israeli soldier to the West Bank village of Siniria and killed him.
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Lawlessness in the West Bank? I'm shocked! What are things coming to? Next, we'll be hearing about gambling in the back room!
In the midst of a misspent youth I worked one summer building in-ground vinyl swimming pools. The customer was the nephew of Sam, who was tied up in Rahway State pen IIRC, who wanted a pool for his grand-kds.
Several "funny" stories about that job. (the electrician's scheduled changed realllllly quick when he found out the client) 8^)
Four soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in Yala province yesterday as they were traveling in an armoured car. Another three civilians were wounded when their truck fell into the crater left by the blast. The soldiers were on their way to Krong Pinang when the terrorists insurgents detonated the bomb, which blasted the car off the road.
Investigators think the attackers were members of an terrorist insurgent group led by Aba Cheali, who is believed to be active in Krong Pinang and Bannang Sata districts.
Internal Security Operations Command spokesman Col Pramote Prom-in called on civic groups and non-government organizations to denounce the attack. He said the attackers are extremists who pursue their cause without considering the effects the violence has on the innocent.
Meanwhile, a man was gunned down on a road in Pattani's Sai Buri district yesterday. He was identified as Mawee Masae. Mawee had been arrested on a charge of violating the security law in 2003 but was later released.
Witnesses said the victim was standing on the side of a rural road waiting for his friend to pick him up. Two men on a motorcycle approached, and the pillion rider shot him. The assailants then fled. Mawee died at the scene.
[UK.REUTERS] Several powerful Syrian rebel groups on Thursday demanded al Qaeda-linked bully boyz and a rival rebel faction stop fighting and called on the hardline Islamists to withdraw their forces within 48 hours, a statement said.
The al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized Azaz, about 5 km (3 miles) from the frontier with Turkey, last month and has repeatedly clashed with the local Northern Storm brigade since then.
A previous attempt by rebel groups to broker a truce between the two sides did not hold.
The fighting prompted Turkey to close its border crossing, a lifeline for Syria's rebel-held northern areas because it let refugees out and supplies like food and building materials in.
A statement posted online by four rebel brigades on Thursday called for an "immediate ceasefire" between the two sides and called on them to submit their dispute to an Islamic court in Aleppo, about 30 km (20 miles) to the south.
"We ask our brothers in the faction of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to withdraw their forces and equipment to their essential bases immediately," said the statement.
"We consider them above spilling the blood of Moslems or rushing to describe them as infidels and apostates."
The statement was signed by commanders from the powerful Ahrar al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawheed, Suqour al-Sham and Army of Islam brigades, and a copy was posted to Northern Storm's Facebook page. It did not say what the groups would do if the two sides did not stop fighting or if ISIL did not withdraw.
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[An Nahar] Experts overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal have begun securing their work sites, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the U.N. said in a statement.
"Joint work with the Syrian authorities has begun on securing the sites where the team will operate," said the statement, which detailed the activities of the team's first day of work on Wednesday.
"In addition, planning continues for one of the team's immediate tasks, disabling Syria's chemical weapons production facilities, which should begin soon."
Later on Thursday, the U.N. said the experts hope to begin on-site inspections and the initial disabling of arms "within the next week."
The joint mission of the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said it "has made encouraging initial progress" adding that documents handed over by Damascus on Wednesday "look promising."
"The team hopes to begin on-site inspections and the initial disabling of equipment within the next week, but this depends on the outcome of the technical groups established with the participation of Syrian experts," they said in a statement.
The two organizations, however, warned that "further analysis, particularly of technical diagrams, will be necessary and some more questions remain to be answered."
U.N. front man Martin Nesirky declined to provide further details to journalists, saying: "The technical experts need to study everything they are given very closely."
"There is clearly a good cooperation with the Syrian authorities at the expert level to try to understand the material provided to the advance team from the U.N. and OPCW," Nesirky added.
The OPCW team of 19 disarmament experts arrived in Damascus on Tuesday.
They are overseeing the implementation of a U.N. resolution which orders Syria's chemical arsenal destroyed.
Resolution 2118 was passed after gas attacks on the outskirts of Damascus killed hundreds of people on August 21, an atrocity that prompted the United States to threaten military strikes on Syria.
The OPCW team faces a daunting task, as Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's regime is understood to have more than 1,000 tonnes of the nerve agent sarin, mustard gas and other banned chemical weapons.
On Wednesday, the team also considered "the health and environmental hazards which they may have to confront", said the joint statement.
"Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... discussions on the size of Syria's stockpiles are also under way, as well as long-term planning, so that deadlines unanimously imposed by the executive council of the OPCW and the U.N. Security Council are met," it added.
Under Resolution 2118, Syria's chemical arsenal should be destroyed by mid-2014.
"In their discussions with the authorities, the OPCW-U.N. team was keen to stress that the onus was on the Syrian government to meet the verification and destruction deadlines," said the statement.
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If you asked the US armed forces to secure a building,
the Army and Marines would go in, weapons blazing, ensuring it is 100% safe;
the Navy would lock it up and go home,
[An Nahar] An attempt to smuggle kaboom through sandwiches was thwarted at Roumieh prison, reported LBCI television on Thursday. "Who ordered the TNT, lettuce, and tomato?"
It said that 150 grams of kaboom were discovered in a sandwich that was being delivered to inmate Charbel Shalita, the murderer of Roland Chbeir.
The National News Agency later reported that a members of prison security was delivering the sandwich to the prisoner.
The explosives were discovered on the security guard during a routine security check as he was entering the prison to start his shift.
He confessed that Shalita had requested that he obtain the explosives that can be used to heat water.
The NNA added however that the material, with certain modifications, can be turned into an explosive substance.
According to the prisoners, this was not the first time that kaboom was smuggled into the prison, and to its B block in particular where Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. inmates are being tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , reported LBCI.
After the discovery in the sandwiches, Shalita was interrogated by state Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr and his cell was searched.
Investigations are underway to determine to whom the explosives were being smuggled to, said LBCI.
The NNA said however that Shalita, under pressure from the Fatah al-Islam inmates, was going to transfer the explosives to them.
Shalita was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in 2012 after confessing to the murder of his friend Roland Chbeir in October of that year.
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[Al Ahram] Syria's army took back control of a strategic town in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday after a weeks-long battle pitting troops against rebels, a monitoring group said.
Rebels meanwhile made fresh gains in southern Syria, while activists accused an Al-Qaeda front group of destroying a symbolic statue in the northern city of Raqa, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory said dozens of fighters on both sides were killed in the battle for Khanasser, a town located on a key supply route linking central Syria to second city Aleppo.
Opposition factions had cut off the army's supply route to Aleppo in August, when they had seized Khanasser and some nearby villages.
At least 25 rebel fighters were killed on Wednesday alone, as were 18 pro-regime militiamen, said the Britannia-based Observatory.
Fighting has raged on, as Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's regime "used helicopters and warplanes to bombard" the area, it added.
Al-Watan, a pro-regime newspaper, also reported the takeover, a development it said "opens the way to allow aid to reach the city (of Aleppo) in the coming hours".
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... Aleppo-based citizen journalist Abu Omar told AFP that "the fighting is hit and run. The takeover of Khanasser does not mean the battle is over".
Large swathes of Aleppo have been out of army control for months, but the army has pushed hard to reopen a route into the quiet provincial capital, Syria's one-time commercial capital.
In Daraa in southern Syria, meanwhile, rebels took control of Bakar village, said the Observatory.
"It is important because it shows the opposition is making continuous progress in the south," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Daraa is strategically located between a sensitive area between Jordan, Damascus and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
"At the moment, there isn't a single Syrian loyalist soldier deployed anywhere from Daraa city to the Golan Heights," Abdel Rahman said.
In the north, meanwhile, activists accused the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) of tearing down a statue of Harun al-Rashid in Raqa city.
Rashid was an Abbasid ruler who lived in the eighth century, and whose era was marked by cultural progress.
ISIL fighters in Raqa, Syria's only rebel-held quiet provincial capital, had recently set fire to statues and crosses inside churches.
Jihadists had previously torn down a statue of a well-known poet, Abu al-Alaa al-Maari.
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An Egyptian army vehicle fired live rounds in the direction of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had been pushed away from Cairo's Tahrir Square by security forces on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
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