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Happy Birthday to Minka Kelly, 34 today !
American actress who starred as Lyla Garrity in the television series Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2009 and played Valerie Stahl in 2013's Almost Human. Before acting she briefly pursued a medical career, working as a surgeon's assistant and scrub tech.
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[Tolo News] After two weeks in Taliban captivity, 33 professors from Kandahar University were freed on Monday in nearby Ghazni province, according to local officials.
Dawa Khan Menapal, a front man for the Governor of Kandahar, told TOLOnews on Monday that all of the lecturers who were kidnapped by snuffies over two weeks ago will soon be joining their families.
He said the releases were brokered by tribal elders, a common method of negotiations between Afghan officials and murderous Moslems. "The teachers were released with mediation by the tribal elders of Ghazni province," Mr. Menapal said. "The teachers are in good health condition."
The 33 university lecturers were on their way to Kabul earlier this month when their bus was stopped by the Taliban in Ghazni's Qarabagh district.
Taliban front man, Zabihullah Mujahid, also confirmed the releases. "The teachers were released respectfully after full investigations," he said. He did not make it clear why snuffies had kidnapped the teachers in the first place.
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[Tolo News] Officials reported that at least 17 Taliban murderous Moslems, 13 coppers and nine civilians have bit the dust amid heavy festivities between bully boyz and the Afghan cops in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province over the past three days.
An additional five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and five coppers have suffered injuries.
The festivities began in Sangin and Nawzad districts of the province after hundreds of Taliban snuffies stormed police outposts, Helmand Governor Mohammad Naeem said on Monday. Four outposts fell into bad boy hands in Sangin district.
Governor Naeem said the non-combatants were killed by related Taliban missile attacks.
The festivities are reportedly still ongoing and reinforcements have been deployed to assist the security forces already in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... Helmand Police Chief Abdul Qayoum Baqizoy claimed that nearly 800 Taliban snuffies stormed the outposts in Sangin district.
"We have informed the Interior Ministry and Defence Ministry to seek support," Baqizoy said. "If they don't send support teams, the Taliban will take control of Sangin district."
More than 300 families are said to have fled Sangin over the past couple days because of the escalating violence.
Self-identified Taliban front man, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, confirmed the flare-up, but claimed more than 12 outposts have been destroyed in Sangin.
Helmand is known to be a hotbed of bad boy activity and has long been the focus of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... coalition attention. Over the past few years it has been the primary base of operations for British troops stationed in Afghanistan.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... in preparation for the coalition's withdraw by the end of this year, Afghan cops have taken on increased responsibility throughout Helmand as well as other restive provinces around the country.
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[NBCNEWS] A mother who was freed from death row for refusing to renounce Christianity has been re-placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! just one day later while trying to leave Sudan, her lawyer told NBC News on Tuesday. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was "very happy" after an appeals court on Monday overturned a death sentence imposed because she married a Christian man and allegedly turned her back on Islam. But lawyer Elshareef Ali Mohammed said a group of 50 security force personnel arrested her and family members during an angry confrontation at Khartoum's airport on Tuesday.
Mohammed, who said he was at the airport with Ibrahim, said no reason was given for her re-arrest. Britannia's Foreign Office said it had received confirmation that Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service had detained Ibrahim and her husband Daniel Wani, an American citizen who told the Guardian following his wife's release that he hoped they could start a new life in the U.S. The couple were with their two children at the time of their detention, including the baby Ibrahim gave birth to while she was on death row in a women's prison. When contacted by NBC News, a State Department spokeswoman said Ibrahim was "safe," but declined to say where due to security reasons.
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Sen. Ted Cruz was wondering why the State Department had her leave the US Embassy and go to the public airport instead of having a military plane ready for her since she had been threatened with torture and death by the Muslim government.
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Ransom. Played the Christian slave game the same way. It worked before, why not try again, and again, and again. Now if we had some drones in the area it would be time to make an offer they can't refuse. If we were really concerned about Christians. Not that this administration cares that much beyond the PC types (see-Presbyterian Church).
[Ynet] The Egyptian army has killed 22 Death Eaters in northern Sinai over the past 24 hours, in an operation which saw fire exchanges with the gunnies, Arab media reported.
According to one report, the Death Eaters tried to plant an bombs at a Multinational Force and Observer's (MFO) camp in the Sinai Peninsula.
[AnNahar] A kaboom at a public health college in Nigeria's second city of Kano killed at least eight people on Monday, in the latest violence to hit an area repeatedly attacked by 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... Body parts, burnt-out vehicles and pools of blood were visible at the bomb site on the grounds of the School of Hygiene, which lies near the heart of the ancient northern city, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
It was not yet clear who carried out the attack but initial suspicion fell on Boko Haram, the Islamist forces of Evil who have bombed many educational targets during a five-year uprising.
"So far 20 were taken to hospital and of that eight have been confirmed dead," Kano state police chief Aderele Shinaba told journalists at the scene.
A man believed to have planted the bomb, which went off at around 1 pm (1200 GMT), has been nabbed You have the right to remain silent... and his car impounded, according to Shinaba.
The kaboom came from a parking lot near the office of the school's provost, and while there were no classes on campus because of a term break, new students were reportedly on the grounds for registration.
Access to the area was being tightly restricted by the military who had deployed in large numbers around the college, causing massive traffic build-up in the congested city.
Attacks blamed on Boko Haram were once a near-daily occurrence in Kano, but the security services have had some success in containing the violence in recent months.
Much of the conflict has shifted to Nigeria's remote northeast, including the April 14 mass abduction by the forces of Evil of more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, an attack which brought unprecedented global attention to the half-decade conflict.
Kano was hit by a suicide car kaboom on May 19 in a mostly Christian area of the city, killing four people, including a young girl.
The military, which has been waging an offensive against Boko Haram in the northeast for more than a year, had claimed that the forces of Evil were on the run and no longer capable of attacking major population centers.
But a string of major attacks in key cities including central Jos, twin blasts on the outskirts of the capital Abuja and the bloodshed in Kano have reinforced the serious threat the Islamists pose to Africa's most populous country and largest economy.
Kano was also put on edge earlier this month amid festivities that followed the controversial appointment of the area's new Moslem monarch.
Boko Haram's uprising, which the group says is aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in the north, has left thousands dead since 2009.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Chief of banned bad boy outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Mufti Abdul Hannan and seven of his aides have to walk the gallows for killing 10 people in a kaboom incident during the traditional celebrations of the Bangla New Year at the capital's Ramna Batamul in 2001.
For the same offence, six other HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. members were sentenced to life term imprisonment for conspiracy, plotting and carrying out the attack on commoners who were visiting the place to observe the day, 13 years back, on April 14.
Judge Ruhul Amin of the Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka read out the verdict in a jam-packed courtroom amid tight security measures yesterday morning.
The court also fined the 14 convicts Tk50,000 each.
Before reading out the sentences, the judge, in his observation, said the incident had no political link, and that the case was not a political one. Those who had died had gone to the place with their family members, kith and kin and children to celebrate the Bangla New Year. They were common people.
This celebration is not meant for any particular party, class, ideology, group or religion. That day, several thousand people of different religions, castes, groups, sexes and ages gathered at the venue.
The judge said from the confessional statements of the accused and depositions of witnesses, the court learned that two powerful bombs had been planted technically in the spot early in the morning, hours before the programme began.
According to bomb experts, two remote control devices were used to detonate the bombs.
The first bomb went kaboom! around 8:05am and the other 10-15 minutes later. Seven innocent people was struck down in his prime during the first kaboom and 20-25 people sustained injuries. Later three persons died at hospitals while undergoing treatment.
"The attackers did not target any certain person, object or group. The [organiser] Chhayanaut is also a non-political organization," the judge said.
"The motive of the attacks was to create political turmoil and panic, to pollute the cultural arena and stop cultural activities in the country. What the attackers and the planners did that day was heinous, barbaric and cruel. There is no scope to show sympathy or favour them," the court observed.
According to the accounts of the accused, there was no religious or social clash between the attackers and the victims. It was an attack on Bengali culture so that the people refrained from celebrating the day.
"It is one of the most heinous, barbaric and shameful attacks on general people since the country's War of Independence," the court said.
During the trial proceedings, six of the injured gave their depositions while eight more people who were present on the spot described the incident before the court. The other witnesses included eight relatives of the victims.
The court said the prosecution had succeeded in proving the charges against the accused based on the witness accounts and documents. Confessional statements of three accused, especially HuJI chief Mufti Hannan's statement, had helped the court to draw its conclusion. In his statement made on November 19, 2006, Hannan said they had carried out the attack since the programme was "anti-Islamic."
The death row convicts are Mufti Abdul Hannan Munshi alias Abul Kalam alias Abdul Mannan, Arif Hasan alias Suman alias Abdur Razzak, Maulana Akbar Hossain alias Helal Uddin, Alhaj Maulana Md Tajuddin (absconding), Hafez Jahangir Alam Badar (absconding), Maulana Abu Bakar alias Hafez Selim Hawlader (absconding), Mufti Shafiqur Rahman (Absconding) and Mufti Abdul Hye (absconding). Of them, Hannan, Akbar and Arif Hasan admitted their involvement in the incident. Later they submitted petitions to withdraw the statements, but those were rejected.
The lifers are Hafez Maulana Yahiya, Maulana Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Maulana Sabbir alias Abdul Hannan, Maulana Abu Taher, Shahadat Ullah alias Jewel and Maulana Abdur Rouf. Hannan is facing 24 other cases.
The judge started reading out the verdict around 11:45am.
Nine HuJI men including Hannan were produced before the court around 10:50am. In the courtroom, they looked tensed and pale. Lifer Maulana Abu Taher cried after hearing the verdict.
'HuJI chief wanted no bloodshed'
In his confessional statement, Hannan said Hafej Abu Taher, who was the president of Ranangan Shilpi Gosthi, a cultural wing of HuJI, had met HuJI's former secretary Maulana Sheikh Farid in Dhaka. He proposed to Farid that they should launch a kaboom on the Bangla New Year ceremony to stop the programme.
"Sheikh Farid came to our city unit office, which was situated in the capital's Mohammadpur between the Shia Mosque and the Rahmania Madrasa. After a discussion among myself, Maulana Abdur Rouf, Yahiya Sabbir, Jahangir Badar, Abu Bakar and some others, Sheikh Farid asked Taher to launch the kaboom," Hannan said.
But at one stage of the discussion, the leaders at the meeting decided to consult the matter with HuJI chief Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, for approval. Farid, Abu Bakar and Jahangir went to Shafiqur's place to finalise the plan.
"After they came back, Farid told me that the chief had given his approval but had asked all to carry out the attack in a way so that no one was harmed."
The HuJI chief had instructed Sabbir and Jahangir to make the bombs. They were ordered to hand those over to Taher. The duo followed the instructions.
On the day of the incident, several HuJI men including Hasan and Omar Faruque (who used to introduce themselves as students of Dhaka College) planted the bombs.
Two cases — one for the killing and the other under the Explosive Substances Act — were filed with the Ramna cop shoppe.
On December 30, 2008, the Criminal Investigation Department pressed the charges against the 14 accused in both the cases. Earlier, the court recorded statements of 61 prosecution witnesses, including the complainant of the case.
The case involving explosive substances has remained stuck till now. In 2009, the Speedy Trial Tribunal 1 of Dhaka sought the Supreme Court registrar's opinion on whether both the cases could be tried together. The registrar has yet to respond on the matter.
Hannan claims himself innocent
After the judge delivered the verdict, death row convict Hannan, who had appointed no lawyers to defend him, immediately told news hounds that he had not received justice. "I was a prey of political vengeance. The prosecution failed to prove the charges against me. I am innocent," he stated.
Abu Taher claimed that he had known nothing about the incident. "God will decide my fate on the day of final judgement," he said.
Additional public prosecutor SM Jahid Hossain said they were somewhat happy, mentioning, "The state will file an appeal with the High Court seeking death penalty for the six HuJI men who have been awarded life sentences." On the other hand, one of the defence lawyers Jasim Uddin said they would also appeal against the judgement.
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[Ynat] DHAKA - A Bangladeshi court sentenced to death eight members of an outlawed Islamist Death Eater group in connection with a series of kabooms 13 years ago that killed 10 people, lawyers said on Monday.
The Islamists, including the head of the Death Eater group Harkat-ul Jihad Islami ((HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. )), were found guilty over the attacks during the traditional celebrations of Bengali New Year in the capital on April 14, 2001.
[AnNahar] China has tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! more than 380 suspects in the first month of a year-long crackdown on "terrorism", media said Monday as authorities grapple to curb rising violence stemming from mainly Moslem Xinjiang.
A total of 32 "violent terrorist" gangs were broken up as part of the campaign launched after a deadly attack on a market in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said.
Assailants in two vehicles killed 39 people last month, one of several high-profile attacks blamed on bully boyz from Xinjiang. In recent months these have spread beyond the far-western region and targeted ordinary citizens rather than government or security personnel.
The day after the Urumqi market attack Beijing announced that "gunnies and bully boyz will be hunted down and punished" as part of a year-long campaign, which also targets "gun and explosive manufacturing dens and terrorist training camps".
A total of 264 devices capable of detonating 3.15 tons of explosives were also confiscated, the report said.
Xinjiang is the resource-rich homeland of China's mostly Moslem Uighur minority, and much of the violence stems from ethnic tensions.
CCTV's report did not detail the ethnicities of those arrested.
China executed 13 people last week for "terrorist attacks" in the violence-racked region as three others were condemned to death over a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... car crash at Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Authorities in Xinjiang also sentenced 55 people for offenses including terrorism at a mass sentencing in May.
In the most recent confirmed flare-up of violence, police rubbed out 13 people Saturday after they drove into a police building in a county outside Hotan and set off an kaboom.
Exile groups say cultural oppression and intrusive security measures imposed by the Chinese government are the main causes of tension, along with immigration by China's Han ethnic majority, which they say has led to decades of discrimination and economic inequality.
Beijing says the government has helped improve living standards in Xinjiang and developed its economy.
[DAWN] Three suspected snuffies were rubbed out in an 'encounter' in the militancy-infested area of Sohrab Goth on Sunday, bringing the corpse count to more than 12 snuffies within the past three days, demonstrating an intensification of the targeted operation 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... following the launch of the military operation in North Wazoo, the officials said.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a suspected hideout of snuffies in Sohrab Goth.
On seeing the police, the alleged snuffies attacked the law enforcement agencies personnel with guns and grenades, damaging a police mobile of the Sohrab Goth DSP, Additional Inspector General of Police of Karachi Ghulam Qadir Thebo said.
In retaliation, the police bumped off three suspects, who appeared to be foreigners belonging to the banned the Tehrik Taliban Pakistain, he added. The police also detained 10 suspects, including a few foreigners, and found kaboom and arms and ammunition at the scene of the crime.
Sohrab Goth SHO Shoaib Ahmed told Dawn that contingents of the Malir police raided an alleged hideout of snuffies in Pioneer Homes off the Superhighway at around 2pm.
The police had received secret information that snuffies were hiding in a bungalow whose door was locked from outside.
He said that the suspects, whose number was stated to be 12-13, opened fire on the police in their bid to flee. The police retaliated and after a fierce shootoutrubbed out three alleged snuffies while the others managed to escape.
The bodies were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
According to a hospital official, the dear departed were aged between 30 and 35 years. One deceased received eight bullet wounds on different parts of his body while the two others sustained four bullet wounds each. Their identity could not be ascertained immediately.
The police claimed to have seized 20 kilograms kaboom, two kilograms kaboom in ready position, four hand-grenades, one rifle, one 9mm pistol, one 30-bore pistol, one cycle of violence and other ammunition.
The city police chief told Dawn that in the wake of the military operation against snuffies in North Waziristan and a possible threat to law and order in Karachi, the law-enforcement agencies had adopted a three-pronged strategy to meet any eventuality in the placid provincial capital.
Security had been enhanced at all vital installations, particularly establishments belonging to the police, Rangers and armed forces, who could be the prime target of the bully boys, he added.
Secondly, the rapid response force comprising 40 highly-trained police commandoes was established at zonal level of Karachi, who would respond to any emergency situation. Thirdly, Ghulam Qadir Thebo added, "previously, we were defensive, but now we are offensive against the bully boys." As part of the 'offensive strategy,' 'targeted operation' had been launched in militancy-infested areas of Karachi "to keep snuffies on the run so that they would not be in a position to attack".
Therefore, over the past three days, more than a dozen suspected snuffies had been killed in the metropolis during different encounters, added the city police chief.
He admitted that threat or retaliation from the Taliban could not be ruled out.
In fact, he added that suspected snuffies on Saturday had targeted a police checkpoint in Gulshan-e-Maymar with kaboom. The post was destroyed along with a parked cycle of violence of a policeman.
Replying to a question, Mr Thebo said that they had received intelligence reports in the wake of the military operation in North Waziristan that snuffies in Karachi might try to create chaos and a hostage-like situation and since there was an alleged nexus between the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... and the Taliban, therefore, the Shia community might be a target. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he added that the prime target of the snuffies would be the police and law enforcement agencies.
Earlier on Friday morning, five suspected snuffies were rubbed out after a fierce shootout between the police and Rangers and snuffies in another militancy-infested area of Manghopir in which three Rangers personnel were also maimed.
Separately, two more snuffies were killed in 'encounters' in Kalakot area 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.... and SITE areas of the city on same day.
On Saturday, three TTP men were rubbed out in an 'encounter' in Steel Town by the CID police in which one kidnapped doctor of Gulshan-e-Hadeed was also recovered.
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[DAWN] Over 150 coppers and activists of the Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) were maimed during festivities on Monday.
Apparently, the government's instruction to the police not to deal with PAT activists harshly helped the latter to manhandle the officials and reach the airport. Early in the morning, police personnel in riot gear reached Koral Chowk to take action against the PAT supporters. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the authorities concerned did not allow the police to use force against the activists.
Clashes erupted when the PAT supporters while going towards the airport found hurdles placed on I.J. Principal Road near I-9 at about 2am. The activists tried to remove the blockades and clashed with the police. In response, the police resorted to baton charge and fired tear gas shells. The activists succeeded in removing the hurdles near I-10, Faizabad, Khana Bridge and Koral.
The police unsuccessfully tried to intercept the activists at Faizabad, Khana Bridge and later at Koral Chowk. The PAT workers staged a sit-in at Koral Chowk and also offered Fajr prayers there.
When the police tried to disperse them, a scuffle erupted.
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[DAWN] Four bodies bearing torture marks were recovered from Karachi's Baldia Town area on Monday, DawnNews reported.
According to police, the bodies were recovered from Baldia Town's Raees Goth area.
The victims were blindfolded and their bodies bore torture marks and gunshot wounds.
Nine MM shells were also discovered near the bodies.
The victims could not be identified immediately.
Their bodies were shifted to a hospital for postmortem.
Karachi is riddled with targeted killings, 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] Residents of North Wazoo have until the end of Monday to leave the remote mountainous North Waziristan tribal region ahead of a widely anticipated major ground offensive by the army against Islamist bad boys.
At least 430,000 people have fled the region into nearby areas of Pakistain as well as neighbouring Afghanistan, the biggest movement of refugees in Pakistain in years.
"Today is the last day for the people to leave the tribal region," a military official told Rooters by telephone from the North Waziristan capital of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... . "The curfew will be then imposed and preparations made for the ground offensive."
Many of those who stayed behind, their number is unknown, said they could not afford to pay for cars to take them to safer places such as Bannu, a dusty town on the edge of the region, where most refugees have settled.
"Those who could afford it have left the tribal region, but some are still there and could die in the fighting as they don't have any means to come out of Waziristan," Zakirullah Khan said after arriving in Bannu.
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[AnNahar] Government forces rubbed out a youth in Indian Kashmire Monday during protests following an overnight gunbattle in which one suspected rebel was killed and another was believed to have escaped.
The incident happened in the volatile town of Sopore, 45 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of the main city of Srinagar, during protests by residents at the end of the gunbattle which had started Sunday evening, a police officer said.
"One civilian was killed and four were maimed in the firing," the officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Residents said police jugged Please don't kill me! two young men from the area following the gunbattle on suspicion of involvement with the rebels.
This infuriated residents further and hundreds more joined the protest. They clashed with police shouting "We want freedom!" a witness told AFP by phone.
Gunbattles between suspected rebels and government forces break out frequently in the disputed territory. These often trigger anti-India protests and bring out thousands during funerals for slain rebels.
Kashmire has been divided between India and Pakistain since the two countries gained independence from Britannia in 1947. Each claims the territory in full.
About a dozen rebel groups have been fighting in Indian Kashmire since 1989 for independence or merger with Pakistain. The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
[DAWN] At least 25 suspected forces of Evil were killed in air strikes and by ground troops of Pak armed forces in North Wazoo as the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), fleeing the cordoned area, crossed 430,000 on Monday.
"Eight terrorist hideouts around Mirali, North Waziristan Agency were destroyed by jet aircraft early morning today," said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
"15 bad boyz were potted in the strikes. Tunnels were spotted in the targeted areas."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... 10 suspected bad boyz were potted while fleeing from the cordoned off area in Spinwam and Mir Ali areas, said the Army statement. "Two soldiers embraced shahadat (martyrdom) in exchange of fire," it added.
The statement said that the Pakistain Army troops have foiled several attempts by forces of Evil to flee the cordoned off area.
Aerial surveillance, vigorous patrolling and cordon around the area housing forces of Evil continue as the operation Zarb-e-Azb progresses as per plan, said the ISPR statement.
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[AnNahar] Two roadside kabooms struck a patrol in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Monday, killing five Kurdish security forces members, a front man said.
The blasts, which went off in the Rabia area near the Syrian border, also maimed three Kurdish security personnel, according to Halkurd Mulla Ali, front man for the ministry responsible for the Kurdish peshmerga forces.
A major myrmidon offensive, spearheaded by jihadists from the 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... but also involving other groups, has this month overrun large areas of five Iraqi provinces, including Nineveh.
Iraqi security forces wilted when faced by the onslaught, in some cases abandoning uniforms, positions and vehicles to flee.
Forces from Iraq's Kurdish region took control of the Rabia border crossing between Nineveh and Syria after Iraqi forces withdrew in the early days of the myrmidon drive.
The offensive has cleared the way for Iraqi Kurds to begin realizing long-held territorial dreams, moving their forces into areas that the federal government has long opposed them adding to their autonomous northern region.
But this has also put Kurdish forces directly in the line of fire from myrmidons.
[Ynet] Sunni tribes took control of a border crossing between Iraq and Jordan late on Sunday after Iraq's army pulled out of the area following a clash with rebels, Iraqi and Jordanian intelligence sources said.
The major Turbail crossing was now in the hands of officials following orders from Sunni tribal fighters in Iraq's western Anbar province, the sources told Rooters on Monday.
[Ynet] Eight people were tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for belonging to a hostile organization in the villages of Abu-Dis and Azaria, near Jerusalem. According to the police, incitement material as well as equipment needed for demonstrations was found during the arrest.
The suspects were brought in for questioning at the Ma'aleh Adumim cop shoppe.
[Ynet] Cleared for publication: Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi was killed by Ziad Awad, a Paleostinian freed from an Israeli jail as part of the prisoner deal that freed Gilad Shalit.
The killer of Baruch Mizrahi, the senior Israeli police officer killed in a Passover eve terror attack near Hebron, was a Paleostinian released in the prisoner exchange deal which saw Gilad Shalit freed in 2011 in return for 1,027 Paleostinian prisoners, it was cleared for publication Monday.
An indictment was filed Monday against Ziad Awad, a resident of the village of Idna near Hebron, for murder and attempted murder.
Awad was freed in the first tranche of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal, after he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Paleostinians who had collaborated with Israel.
Chief Superintendent Mizrahi, a senior officer in the Israel Police, was killed when a gunman armed with what is believed to have been a Kalashnikov opened fire on Israeli cars near Hebron, as they travelled to a Passover Seder in the Kiryat Arba settlement. His wife and nine-year-old son were maimed in the attack. Mizrahi left behind five children.
Awad, 42, was locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! last month by the Shin Bet and the police in a special joint operation with the IDF. He was arrested together with his son Izz a-Din, 18, who helped him plan the attack as well as flee the murder scene and hide afterwards. Both father and son are members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
During their interrogation, it emerged that Ziad Awad rode a cycle of violence to the scene of the attack, having obtained the Kalashnikov rifle beforehand. According to the Shin Bet, he visited at the place somew 10 days earlier to better plan his attack.
Before launching the attack, Awad confided in his son that he had religious motivation, saying that, "according to Islam, whoever kills a Jew goes to heaven."
According to a senior IDF source, "the murder was conducted in professional manner, and (Awad) then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace on a cycle of violence, returning to his home in the village."
Freed before completing half of sentence
During the investigation into Mizrahi's murder, security forces located the Kalashnikov rifle allegedly used by Awad.
Despite initial assessments, the investigation pointed to the attack being carried out by a lone terrorist. The assumption was based on the large number of shells found at the scene. What led Sherlocks to Awad was DNA evidence collected from the shell casings. The IDF and Shin Bet are still searching for other suspects involved in the shooting.
Ultimately, physical evidence allowed Sherlocks to create a profile for the murder, which helped them close in on Awad.
Awad was initially arrested in 1999 and began serving what was supposed to be a 27-year prison term for murdering Paleostinian collaborators, but he was released in 2011 as part of the deal to free Shalit, who had been held captive in Gazoo for five years.
A few days after his murder, Mizrahi's wife, Hadas, recalled coming under fire and ordering her children to stay down.
"We passed the Tarqumia checkpoint and a traffic circle, and then Baruch saw a terrorist," she said. "He told me, 'they're shooting, they're shooting, they're shooting. There's a terrorist.' Baruch put his foot down on the gas pedal."
"I felt a pain in my back. I told the kids, 'take off your seatbelts and lie down on the floor'. I took the steering wheel, shifted into low gear and used the handbrake to reduce the speed," she said. I used a rag to wipe up the blood; I saw that Baruch was dead. When the soldiers arrived, I told them to dress my wounds and put the children in a protected vehicle, so that they didn't see their father lying dead."
Mizrahi was the head of the tech division of the Israel Police. He had served for 25 years in the IDF, holding senior posts in elite intelligence units. A police statement said that his contributions to Israel's security had been "substantial".
Large numbers of IDF troops have been deployed to the West Bank over the past 10 days, following the abduction of three Israeli teens in the Hebron area on June 12. Awad's arrest is not connected to the search for the three boys, the Shin Bet said.
[Ynet] High-ranking member of the Central Command says that West Bank population realizes kidnapping crossed line; since operation began, two to three million shekels confiscated from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
The Paleostinians know that the IDF action currently underway in the West Bank targets Hamas and not them, a senior army officer told Ynet on Monday. The IDF launched Operation Brother's Keeper last week, following the abduction of three Israeli teens near Hebron on June 12.
"We are well within the boundaries of legitimate action in the eyes of Paleostinian public," said the officer, a high-ranking member of the Central Command.
"The Paleostinian public understands that the kidnapping was an aberration and our response was predictable. They know that we are not working against them but rather against Hamas. The Paleostinian public understands that a red line has been crossed."
"The operation against Hamas infrastructure in Judea and Samaria has exhausted itself, with no connection to the intelligence operation to locate the abductees, which will continue for as long as necessary."
Regarding the number of Paleostinians maimed and the Paleostinian resistance to Operation Brother's Keeper, the officer said that the casualty rate was low.
"I wish every army in the world could take 5,000 soldiers into villages with the resistance we encountered, and the result would be four Paleostinian deaths, with three of them justified," he said.
The officer said that the army had not changed its orders to the troops, nor did IDF leadership feel they were constrained by time factors.
"We have no indication either way about the situation of the abductees. Therefore, every special unit's action and exercise operates under the working assumption that they are still alive. There has been progress in the investigation, and we always take notice of what the reports say. We have to remember that if someone wants to be swallowed up in a population of 300,000 people, it's not that difficult."
In the meantime, the pressure on Hamas welfare institutions has begun to make itself felt. The officer believed that the IDF and Civil Administration have confiscated a total of between two to three million shekels from the organization in Judea and Samaria since the operation began. The military has also seized a great deal of equipment and vehicles. He says that the institutions in the West Bank that the IDF raided are no longer active, and are now "just four walls."
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... intelligence efforts continue. In recent days, the IDF has seized almost 150 security cameras in Paleostinian homes and business, not only in the area of the kidnapping, north of Hebron, but also in other areas such as the southern Hebron Hills and villages east of Gush Etzion. The confiscations, the army says, are undertaken to enable the IDF to keep learning and compiling a full intelligence picture.
Regarding claims by PA officials that Israel has not yet proven that Hamas was behind the kidnapping, the senior officer said, "We can prove unequivocally that this is Hamas. We also did not wait for a terror attack in order to arrest those freed in the Shalit deal. We have high expectations that the kidnappers have not completed their escape."
The officer also said that catching the turbans before the abduction would have been extremely difficult.
"We have to ask ourselves questions regarding this incident. What we knew and how much we knew. There was no specific alert in this sector, and we have to bear in mind that if two people are planning to carry out an (attack), it is very hard to trace them. In my opinion, not one based on hard intelligence, there is a small number of kidnappers involved."
[AnNahar] A suicide boom-mobileing took place around midnight Tuesday in the Tayyouneh area at the entrance to Beirut's southern suburbs, leaving at least 12 people maimed.
The kaboom happened near an army checkpoint and a cafe where football fans were watching the World Cup.
The Lebanese Red Thingy said "no one was killed in the bombing, which caused light injuries among the customers at the Abou Assaf Cafe."
Quoting medical sources, al-Jadeed TV said 12 people were maimed, most of them lightly.
State-run National News Agency also said that twelve people were lightly maimed.
Military sources told LBCI television that no soldiers were hurt in the attack.
MTV said a "female jacket wallah" wanted to cross the checkpoint but blew up the vehicle "when troops detected her suspicious behavior."
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... media reports said "General Security members shot up the car before it blew up."
A witness told a TV station that he saw a white Mercedes car traveling fast on the wrong side of the road before exploding.
NNA said "a suicide bomber went kaboom! inside a Mercedes 180 carrying a license plate with the number 144631."
"The force of the blast ejected the terrorist's corpse to the wall of the fourth floor of a building at the site of the kaboom," the agency added.
The boom-mobileing came three days after a suicide kaboom at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint in the east of the country left one person dead and 30 maimed. The attack was the first inside Leb since March.
On the same day, the busy Hamra district in Beirut was the scene of a major security crackdown, with security forces raiding two hotels in the area and interrogating around 102 people.
Around three suspects remain in jug, including a French national with Arab origins who reportedly confessed to plotting a terrorist attack against a certain Lebanese region.
[AnNahar] The residents of the town of Tufail were forced to leave their village after an infiltration by the Syrian army and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... fighters that was accompanied by air raids.
According to al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper published on Monday, the residents of Tufail, which lies in eastern Leb in an area surrounded by Syrian territory, informed Lebanese authorities that the town has been under attack for the past two days.
Higher Relief Council acting chief General Mohammed Kheir told the newspaper that around 50 Lebanese families left their homes in Tufail on Sunday and headed to the town of Arsal, while only eight families stayed there.
He pointed out that 60 Syrian families also left the Lebanese village and headed to several areas, in particular, the border town of Arsal.
In April, the village of Tufail was isolated after the only road that leads to the town came under the control of Syrian government troops.
The town is located at the end of the eastern mountain belt's plains, in an area that is 24 kilometers inside Syrian territories. Tufail is surrounded by Syrian lands to its north, east and south, and by the Lebanese villages of Ham, Maarboun and Brital to its west.
More than 4,000 Lebanese nationals reside in Tufail, Christians and Mohammedans, among them there are around 25 soldiers in the army and some 5,000 Syrian refugees.
[AnNahar] The Lebanese army obtained satellite information from major countries that several Middle Eastern states that have embassies in Europe are recruiting fighters to engage in terrorist acts, An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.
The daily said that the mentioned embassies are mostly recruiting north African nationals to train them to carry out security operations in the region.
The report noted that a certain embassy recruited 1,800 Tunisian members.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the newspaper said that western countries that have satellites in the Middle East briefed the army on the matter, which indicates that Leb will not become "another Iraq."
A member of the Internal Security Forces was killed and at least 30 people were maimed in a boom-mobileing that targeted an ISF checkpoint in the Dahr al-Baydar area on Friday.
The army recently boosted its security measures after obtaining information of a terrorist act planned to be carried out across Leb by a group linked to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... The 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... (ISIL), which grew from the ranks of al-Qaeda before splitting with the global terror network, is active in both Syria and neighboring Iraq and seeks to set up an Islamic state that straddles both countries.
[BUSINESSWEEK] The Syrian government said Monday a series of Israeli Arclight airstrikes targeting its troops in retaliation for a deadly cross-border attack killed four people and maimed nine others, in its first comment on the overnight incident.
It said the attack was a "flagrant violation" of Syrian illusory sovereignty, but in a departure from previous incidents when Israeli warplanes struck targets in Syria, the government did not vow retaliation.
Israel's prime minister on Monday warned the warring parties in Syria against any attempt to heat up tensions along the disputed frontier, hours after the Israeli air force carried out a string of Arclight airstrikes in Syria in response to the attack, which killed an Israeli teenager riding in a civilian vehicle.
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[MIAMIHERALD] The last known components of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal steamed away from that war-torn nation Monday. While their removal came a bit behind schedule, it was hailed by experts as a major milestone that makes the world a safer place.
The final load of chemicals used to produce deadly and dangerous weapons such as sarin and mustard gas left Syria aboard a Danish ship that sailed from the port of Latakia. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands, which oversaw Syria's chemical disarmament, noted that never before had weapons of mass destruction been removed from a country embroiled in armed conflict.
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[Ynet] Syrian military officials have said that in the past 24 hours their forces attacked terror centers in Ophania village in northern city of Quneitra near the Syrian Golan heights area, SANA news agency reported.
According to Syrian government reports, some 40 rebels of Qatari, Jordanian and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... nationalities were killed in the area. Syrian opposition sources reported that in the past day the area has seen intense battles between the sides.
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