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Of course not, OS. Perjury laws only apply to elected Republicans, not Democrats.
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The other unasked question is why those congressional folks briefed did not immediately demand that relevant portions of the testimony be declassified so impeachment proceedings could begin; this is way past 'high crimes and misdemeanors.' Those at the briefings that sat on their hands are complicit in this as well, regardless of party affiliation.
[Egypt Independent] Ahmed Kamel, media advisor to the Ministry of Health and Population, said that an elderly man died Tuesday as a result of a heart attack while waiting to cast his ballot in the referendum on the draft constitution in the neighborhood of Ain al-Sira, Cairo. That's nothin'. I live in Maryland, where there are thousands of people who not only had heart attacks before voting, but were dead and buried before voting.
In other news, Kamel said in a statement to the Middle East News Agency (MENA) that the ministry's operations room had not received information about the killing of a pro-Moslem Brüderbund protester in Beni Suef, adding that the ministry-affiliated hospitals had not received the body.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on Tuesday the death of a protester, who took part in a demonstration against the constitutional referendum, during festivities with police in Beni Suef.
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I guess you could say his heart was no longer in it...
[Egypt Independent] Voters in Dakahliya reported judges in charge of six polling stations to the police, saying the judges barred them from voting.
The voters reported polling station No. 135 at the Sherbin Girls School, three schools in Belqas and polling stations No. 99 and 100 in Sherbin Elementary School.
Voters accused the judges of closing the doors although there were hundreds of voters waiting to cast their votes.
The total number of eligible voters is 52,742,139 spread over 43,000 stations with 13,867 supervising judges.
The polling stations are open from 9am to 9pm on 14 and 15 January.
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[Egypt Independent] A source at the Health Ministry said that three people were rubbed out in festivities with Brotherhood supporters in Sohag and another in Beni Suef on the first day of the constitution referendum.
The source added that there were three other deaths of natural causes in Cairo, including two cases of cardiac arrest in Zamalek and Ain al-Sira, and one death in Haram.
The source also said that dozens were maimed with gunshots in different governorates.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Libyan political leader Abd Rabbo Abdul Hamid al-Barasi survived an assassination attempt in al-Bayda, Libya Herald reported on Monday (January 13th). Al-Barasi was appointed prime minister of the self-proclaimed autonomous region of Cyrenaica.
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[An Nahar] Protesters fired shots at Libya's parliament building in 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... Tuesday, hitting it several times and prompting the session to be suspended but causing no casualties, a politician told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Demonstrators have attacked or broken into the General National Congress (GNC) building several times in the past, either trying to force the adoption of laws or to air other grievances.
"We heard the shots before the bullets hit the front of the building," the congresswoman said on condition of anonymity.
Demonstrators calling for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Ali Zeidan ... served as a diplomat for Libya during the 1970s, serving in India under Ambassador Mohammed Magariaf. Both men defected in 1980 and went on to form the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Zeidan spent nearly three decades in exile in Geneva after the defection. During the revolution Zeidan served as the National Transitional Council's Europe envoy, and is credited as having played a key role in persuading French President Nicolas Sarkozy to support the anti-Qadaffy forces... 's government fired the shots, she added.
Security personnel helped politicians to evacuate the building.
The GNC, the country's highest political authority, had been discussing the future of Zeidan's cabinet after a no-confidence motion was tabled by 72 politicians.
Zeidan has been repeatedly criticized for his government's failure to tackle the instability that has plagued Libya since the ouster of strongman Muammar Gadafi in October 2011.
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[MAGHAREBIA] As part of its recent adoption of Sharia, the Libyan government announced a rough timetable for the implementation of Islamic banking and finance.
"It is our duty to apply Sharia," Economy Minister Mustafa Abufanas said last week during a 2-day Islamic finance conference in 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...
"We will start this year," Press Solidarity quoted the minister as saying Monday (January 6th) at the Corinthia Hotel.
The move comes a month after the General National Congress (GNC) voted unanimously that Islamic law would be the source of legislation in Libya.
All state institutions are obligated to abide by the decision.
"Sharia is the source of legislation in Libya while all other provisions that violate it are void," GNC front man Omar Humaidan said after the law was passed December 4th.
But news of the implementation of Sharia in Libya is raising some concerns among citizens.
"Libyans are generally religiously moderate and do not encourage extremism," former health minister Fatima Hamroush said.
But while Libyans "are not opposed to a constitution and laws in line with sharia", Dr Hamroush said, "they do not accept the politicisation of religion, or its use for political gains".
"This is what the sons and daughters of Libya fear the most... that a group of hard boyz take ownership of the country," she told Magharebia.
"The application of Sharia, as per the understanding of Death Eater turbans, will certainly lead to the denial of women's rights, since their interpretation of religion follows their whims and instincts," the former minister added.
Libyans say it is not so much the idea of Sharia as the foundation for legislation as it is the possible misuse.
Even though women's rights are protected under international law, "fatwas and religious advocates of militancy have impacted public policies on the treatment of women", said Nozha Mansouri, a lecturer at Omar al-Mukhtar University in Benghazi.
"There is no fear of the real Islam, the tolerant and pure, which is based on co-operation and tolerance among human beings. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the sharia of the graduates of Kandahar and Afghanistan does not represent me," noted Ahlam Ben Tabon, a Tripoli civil society activist.
Benghazi high school teacher Nusseibeh Salem pointed out: "Islam is no longer one but many - the Islam of the Moslem Brüderbund, salafi Islam, moderate Islam, obscurantist Islam, etc, and Libya's future depends on legislation by whichever stream reaches power."
"Abuses could follow the triumph of obscurantist Islam, but equity is possible if moderation wins," Salem adds.
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[An Nahar] A Saudi court sentenced two suspected al-Qaeda members to death on Tuesday for the 2007 murder of four French expatriates near the western city of Medina, a judicial source said.
The two men were convicted of shooting dead the four Frenchies while they were on a desert excursion from their homes in the capital Riyadh.
Another 12 men convicted of helping the attackers were locked away You have the right to remain silent... for periods of between three and 23 years, and banned from travelling abroad for a period equal to their sentence.
The defendants were in court for the verdict in the trial, which began in December 2011, as were relatives of the victims and French consular staff, the source added.
Two of the dead worked for an electrics company, one was a teacher at the French school in Riyadh and the fourth was a teenager.
Police killed the suspected criminal mastermind of the attack, Walid Motlaq al-Raddadi, a 23-year-old Saudi, in Medina in April 2007.
Authorities in the kingdom set up specialized terrorism courts in 2011 to try dozens of Saudis and foreigners accused of belonging to al-Qaeda or of being involved in a wave of bloody attacks that swept the country from 2003.
The attacks prompted authorities to crack down on the jihadist network founded by Saudi-born the late Osama bin Laden ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... , who was killed in a U.S. commando operation in May 2011.
The crackdown prompted many of the network's Saudi snuffies to shift base to neighboring Yemen.
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These two AQ perps will not become recidivists from some "catch and release" program. There is a finality and closure regarding these two.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Shibir activist was killed in a clash where 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... and Chhatra Shibir members went head-to-head with the police in the Nangla area under Debhata upazila in Satkhira on Tuesday morning.
The dear departed was identified as Shibir Activist Anwarul Islam, 25, son of Hannan Gazi of the Nangla area.
Nangla cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Tarok Biswas told the Dhaka Tribune the Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked the police while they were carrying out a drive in the area to arrest some criminals around 10:30am.
He said: "We locked in a clash with the Jamaat-Shibir activists when they attacked us, forcing us to fire shots that left Anwarul bullet maimed."
The OC said Anwarul was rushed to a local hospital where he departed this vale of tears.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... three police members, including OC Tarok, were maimed in the clash.
The dear departed's family members and Jamaat sources confirmed his identity as a Shbir activist but claimed that he was struck down in his prime during clash.
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A former U.S. Army specialist who admitted to trying to aid the al-Shabaab militant group the al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia that claimed responsibility for the horrific mall siege in Kenya was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison.
Given his wishes to die for Islam, he should get life...
Craig Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Md., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Baltimore after pleading guilty to trashing records stored on his home computer that might have been used as evidence in a terrorism probe, the Justice Department said.
Baxam was arrested by Kenyan police in December 2011 as he tried to cross the border into Somalia to join al-Shabaab a loosely affiliated band of militia insurgents in southern Somalia that has ties to the al-Qaeda terror network.
The Justice Department said Baxam told FBI agents in Kenya that he had destroyed his personal computer to keep U.S. authorities off his trail and cover his tracks, according to Reuters.
Baxam joined the Army in 2007 and was deployed to Iraq. He re-enlisted in August 2010 and was deployed to South Korea for one year, but he left just one month before completing his enlistment, according to an FBI affidavit cited by Reuters. He converted to Islam during his last days in the U.S. military, the affidavit said.
That likely had a lot to do with him deserting...
The affidavit also said that Baxam claimed he wished to die with a gun in my hand and that he would have no qualms dying while defending Islam.
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The arrest and incarceration no doubt saved his life. He's far too doltish for al-Shabaab.
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So there was 9/11, he watched in TV the people jumping from the twin twowers and he converted to Islam. Nuff said. Seven years in prison???? Twelve bullets into his stinking body.
[An Nahar] U.S. federal prosecutors have charged an Iranian-American with trying to ship sensitive documents on the F-35 fighter jet to Iran, according to court documents.
Mozaffar Khazaee, who was placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! last week, is accused of trying to smuggle thousands of pages of F-35 blueprints and technical documents, authorities said in a U.S. government affidavit.
Agents inspected a shipment to the Iranian city of Hamadan that the 59-year-old suspect claimed contained household goods. Instead, they found "boxes of documents consisting of sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other proprietary material relating to the United States Air Force's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and military jet engines."
"Hey Larry, these don't look like plans for washing machines."
"Course not. Those are made in China."
Khazaee was arrested on January 9 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey before he was able to board a connecting flight to Frankfurt, Germany, en route to Iran, the U.S. attorney's office for the district of Connecticut said.
Khazaee, who became a U.S. citizen in 1991, was charged with "transporting, transmitting and transferring in interstate or foreign commerce goods obtained by theft, conversion, or fraud," which carries a potential 10-year prison sentence.
So he was a deep cover agent...
The documents he tried to send included design outlines of the fighter's jet engine that were labeled as subject to export restrictions, officials said.
The court documents say Khazaee worked for a defense contractor as part of a team carrying out strength tests on military engine parts.The affidavit does not identify the contractor, but Pratt and Whitney, which is the sole manufacturer of the F-35's engine, confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse that it employed Khazaee.
"Pratt & Whitney is fully cooperating with law enforcement and will support the government's investigation in any way necessary," the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.
Khazaee took sensitive documents from Pratt and Whitney despite having signed papers saying he returned all files to the firm when he left in August, 2013.
Last year, Pentagon officials said that data on the F-35 and other weapons programs has been stolen by Chinese cyber hackers.
The radar-evading F-35 warplane is the most expensive U.S. weapons program ever and is supposed to form the backbone of the future American fighter fleet.
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Unless he was doing the Johnny Cash One Piece at a Time method of aircraft assembly, this makes no sense; Nothing Iran has even comes close to any F-35 parts.
More likely is that Iran was just a waypoint on the parts' journey to some other country.
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Iff OWG Co-Superpower Rising China can clone B-2's, Apaches + Hypersonic aircraft, by extension so can - nay, MUST - also OWG "Co-Superpower" Rising Iran.
Clearly someone in the Admin needs to call Brazil + Argentina's Christina to put the botox down + start getting wid the program!
[DAWN] A police officer was bumped off in Orangi Town in a targeted attack on Monday evening, officials said.
Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad Ali said that two gunnies targeted Inspector Mohammed Iqbal, 40, at a hardware shop in MPR Colony.
He said the officer sustained two bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
The assailants used a 9mm pistol to carry out the shooting, the police said.
They added that the victim was a resident of MPR Colony. He was posted in the investigation wing of the district west police.
The Orangi SP said that some days back the inspector and certain local people had a brawl in the area. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he added that investigation was still under way.
With the fresh killing, the number of coppersbumped off in the city during the first fortnight of this year rose to six.
Earlier, two coppers were rubbed out in an attack on a police mobile in Orangi Town. Two other coppers deputed for the security of an Awami National Party leader were killed in an attack in Baldia Town. The fifth victim was bumped off by suspected land grabbers in the Sachal area.
Woman among three killed in Lyari
Three people, including a young woman, were rubbed out in parts of 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.... on Monday, police said.
The Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... i police said that Gulshan Bibi, 25, was killed by unknown person in the Shah Beg Lane area.
The body was taken to the Civil Hospital 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... where her relatives did not allow doctors to carry out a post-mortem examination.
She was a resident of Nayabad, Kalri. It appeared that she was killed on suspicion of being a police 'informer', said Storied Baghdadi SHO Aslam Dahiri. He said that the victim was a close relative of alleged Lyari gangster Zubair alias Wehshi, who was recently killed in an alleged encounter.
The police said the killers did not take away her jewellery.
In the Chakiwara area, two unidentified young men were rubbed out.
The police said that the bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.
There was a dispute between the Kalakot and Napier cop shoppes over jurisdiction.
Lyari SP Shahnawaz said that the victims were in their early-twenties.
They were passing through the Khaliq Juma Hall when two gunnies targeted them from behind and fled.
The young men died before any medical aid could be provided to them, the SP said, adding that the double murder might have linked with the ongoing infighting between rival gangs in Lyari.
Man bumped off
A young man was rubbed out in Gulshan-e-Maymar on Monday, police said.
They said that Abdul Malik, 30, was killed inside his home in Afghan Basti.
Area SHO Samad Khan said that the victim's relatives were trying to bury him but the police got information about the murder and they reached there to stop the burial.
The police took the body in their custody and sent it for a post-mortem examination at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Doctors said that a single bullet hit him in the temple. The SHO said that his wife, Fatima, had allegedly killed him and escaped.
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[DAWN] At least 29 people were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Tuesday during a targeted operation conducted by Rangers' personnel in different parts 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... , DawnNews reported.
According to a Rangers' front man, one of the arrested suspects included a hit man from a political party.
Moreover, arms and weapons were also recovered from the arrested suspects, including an automatic gun, the front man added.
Karachi, the largest metropolitan city of Pakistain, is riddled with assassinations, gang wars, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism. Targeted operations led by Rangers' forces with the support of police are ongoing in the city under a directive issued by the federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies.
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[DAWN] Two separate kabooms occurred in different parts of the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Tuesday, leaving one policeman dead and three others injured.
According to the police, security personnel had cordoned off the area near a pull 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. 's Regi Model Town area when an kaboom took place. Subsequently, one policeman was killed whereas another sustained injuries.
Police added that the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) personnel defused two bombs worth five kilograms from the site of kaboom.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village the snowball down Jack's back had finally melted...... a huge contingent of police personnel reached the area and a probe into the incident went underway.
Separately, a bomb kaboom took place near a police van, injuring two cops near the Kolachi Tehsil area of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
The bomb was remotely detonated.
Other sources reported that seven coppers were maimed in the blast on Rohri road and that the Station House Officer (SHO) of Kolachi cop shoppe was among those injured in the blast.
The kaboom comes as the country celebrates Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) on 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal, and strict security measures have been put in place across the country.
Mobile phone services were suspended in most parts of the country in order to avoid any untoward incident.
Further details of the incident were not available till the filing of this report.
Dera Ismail Khan sits close to the restive South Wazoo tribal region bifurcated by the semi-autonomous Frontier Region Jandola.
Earlier, four bodies of unidentified people were recovered from Aman Gar area near Kabul River, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera district.
A policeman of Nowshera Police confirmed that the four people were rubbed out and their bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for identification.
In a separate incident in Swabi District, an official of the intelligence agencies, Amjad was rubbed out in Swabi bus stand area where he was on duty.
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[An Nahar] Gun and kabooms in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Tuesday killed 10 people, including a senior judge, in part of a protracted surge in bloodshed ahead of April parliamentary elections.
The bloodshed came just a day after attacks in and around the capital killed 30, with the spike in unrest and a deadly weeks-long standoff in Anbar province sparking fears Iraq is slipping back into the brutal sectarian war that killed tens of thousands in 2006 and 2007.
At least 10 people were killed and 16 others maimed in Tuesday's violence, according to security and medical officials.
Attacks struck across the capital, from a boom-mobile in the sprawling northeastern Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, which killed four, to the killing of the son of a tribal leader in Jisr al-Diyala, south Storied Baghdad.
In west Storied Baghdad, gunnies bumped off Muttar Hussein, a judge and member of the Higher Judicial Council, one of Iraq's top courts. Hussein's driver was also killed.
The latest bloodshed came after attacks in and near the capital killed 30 people, including 27 who died in four evening boom-mobiles, part of a spike in violence that has seen nearly 500 people die in just two weeks, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the two days of unrest, but Sunni hard boys, including those linked to al-Qaeda, often carry out coordinated attacks on civilian targets in and around Storied Baghdad.
The violence comes as security forces and pro-government tribes are locked in a deadly standoff with gunnies tied to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... and allied tribes in Anbar, a mostly-desert area west of Storied Baghdad that stretches to the Syrian border.
Gunmen hold an entire city and parts of another on Storied Baghdad's doorstep -- the first time they have exercised such open control in major cities since the insurgency that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
It comes with parliamentary elections due on April 30. Diplomats, including U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , are urging the Shiite-led government to address the "root causes" of the violence and seek political reconciliation with the disaffected Sunni minority.
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[An Nahar] A Paleostinian minister on Tuesday accused "terrorists" fighting to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... of blocking aid access to the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus.
Where oh where is my femtoviolin?
Rebels control swathes of Yarmuk, but for months government forces have imposed a suffocating siege on the camp, where some 20,000 Paleostinians live despite terrible shortages.
Paleostinian labor minister Ahmad Majdalani, who was visiting Damascus to negotiate aid access to the camp, said its Paleostinian residents must not be used as "hostages" in the conflict.
An aid convoy heading to Yarmuk was targeted on Monday "some 100 meters (yards) away from the agreed meeting point," on the edges of the camp, Majdalani said at a presser in Damascus.
He said "the source of fire was known... to be controlled by Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and Suqur al-Golan," directly accusing rebel groups battling Assad's troops.
Majdalani added "all these groups are known for their terrorist links and methodology."
The minister also said Paleostinians "everywhere know... that those who have taken the camp hostage are these groups, not the Syrian authorities."
Some 45 people have died in recent months because of food and medical shortages in Yarmuk, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group has said, with the most recent death on Tuesday.
Monday's aid convoy was the sixth to have failed to enter the camp.
Paleostinian sources have told Agence La Belle France Presse the convoys were blocked from entering by gunfire, but did not specify who was responsible.
But the opposition Yarmuk local coordination committee said Assad loyalists had blocked the convoy.
"The Syrian regime and the (pro-Damascus) Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command... kickstarted a clash targeting the Paleostinians and everyone else there, to continue with their brazen policy of starvation," the activist group said via Facebook.
The convoy of six trucks carried 1,700 30-kilogram food parcels, each of which could feed a family for 20 days.
In a reflection of the desperation in the camp, footage distributed by activists on Tuesday showed a young man from Yarmuk crying for assistance.
"We don't have the money to pay for a kilo of rice, we don't have money to pay for a kilo of bulgur... We don't have anything to do with this conflict. We just want to eat and drink, we want to be safe," he wept.
So move to Mauritania and get a job...
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Palestinian minister says Syria rebels blocking Yarmuk aid
Wadda they care? I'm sure the Juice have plenty of hair clips and two-sided tape.
[Egypt Independent] The Syrian government has retaken territory around the northern city of Aleppo, the military said on Tuesday, after two weeks of rebel infighting that has weakened the insurgency against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. The Scourge of Hama... It's kind of a truism: when you're stoopid, you deserve to lose.
The internecine conflict among some within the chaotic plethora of rebel groups will allow Assad to portray himself as the only secular alternative in Syria to a radical Islamist regime when peace talks begin in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... on January 22. ...and he'll be right.
His military advances will give the Syrian government delegation greater leverage at the negotiating table. ... and the fact that the rebels are shooting each other and kow-towing to itinerant religious nutjobs is a really good pointer to the kind of government they'd introduce...
An army statement said government forces had pushed out from their base at Aleppo's international airport, southeast of the city, and were moving towards an industrial complex used as a rebel base and the al-Bab road, urgently needed by gunnies to supply the half of Aleppo under their control.
It said that government forces, along with militia loyal to Assad, were in "complete control" of the Naqareen, Zarzour, Taaneh and Subeihieh areas along the eastern side of Aleppo, which was the major Arab country's commercial hub and most populous city before the conflict erupted in 2011.
Fighting between the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... and rival Islamists and more moderate rebels have killed hundreds of people over two weeks and shaken ISIL, a krazed killer faction led by foreign jihadists.
But ISIL regrouped and retook much of its stronghold in the eastern city of Raqqa on Sunday from remnants of the Nusra Front, another al Qaeda affiliate although much more Syrian in makeup, and Islamist units called the Islamic Front.
WAR WITHIN A WAR
ISIL took control of the town of al-Bab, east of Aleppo, from other rebels on Monday, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
The Observatory, which tracks Syria's war using sources from both sides, said eight fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, a unit within the Islamic Front, were killed by an ISIL boom-mobile in the western province of Idlib just before midnight on Monday.
Syria sank into civil war after a peaceful street uprising against four decades of Assad family rule began in March 2011. The revolt spiraled into an armed insurgency after the army responded with massive and deadly force to suppress the unrest.
As the fighting spread, better-armed hardline Islamists took the fore over more moderate Moslem and secular rebels, who are supported by Gulf Arab and Western nations.
Syria's foreign ministry dismissed as "fantasy" statements by the pro-opposition Friends of Syria group - including Western and Gulf states - in Gay Paree on Sunday that Assad was a war criminal and peace talks should end his "despotic regime".
"The Syrian Arab Republic is not surprised by what happened in Gay Paree during the meeting of Syrian people's enemies and the statements, which are closer to fantasy than reality," the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The World Food Programme delivered rations to a record 3.8 million people in Syria in December, but civilians in eastern provinces and besieged towns near the capital Damascus remain out of reach, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
The U.N. agency voiced concern at reports of malnutrition in besieged areas, especially of children caught up in the civil war, and called for greater access.
The official Kuwaiti news agency said non-governmental organizations had promised to donate a combined $400 million for humanitarian aid for Syria ahead of an international donor conference that will start in Kuwait on Wednesday.
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The internecine conflict among some within the chaotic plethora of rebel groups will allow Assad to portray himself as the only secular alternative in Syria to a radical Islamist regime when peace talks begin in Switzerland
Apparently Assad is running unopposed in this regard. US State Department and White House condemnations of Assad have tapered off slightly. More reality sinking in perhaps.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] Protesters fired shots at Libya's parliament building in 
[DAWN] A police officer was 
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
