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The Affordable Healthcare Act passes. The mandate is declared a tax. Roberts sided with the left in a 5-4 vote. The only way this can be turned aside is to gain control of the Senate and the Presidency in November. It is a sad day for the law and the country.
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Please don't label me anti-semitic, but the author of Obamacare, Robert Creamer, is a Jewish Leftist, married to Jewish Leftist Congressman Jan Scakowsky from Chicago's northside. Both Creamer and Schakowskiy are apostles of Sol Alinsky - the Grandfather of the Jewish Left. Not a fan of Beck, but the follow explains it a bit further.
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Request granted, Besoeker, as I don't think you are. But I do think you are looking at the thing simplistically, and therefore have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Would you have made the same fuss were the people you name Catholic Leftists, Black Leftists, WASP Leftists, or Army Leftists (of which some exist, as no doubt you know far better than I, my dear)? Such people are Leftists first, with all their hyphens being meaningful chiefly as sticks to beat with.
Sabrina Ferilli [Italian] aka Jole aka Alicia in "Naufraghi sotto costa (Shipwrecked along the coast)(1991)" aka Diana in "Donne sottotetto (Attic Women)(1992)" aka Sabrina in "Donne in un giorno di festa (Women in a day of celebration)(1993)" aka Miriam in "Vite strozzate (Screw choked)(1996)" aka Daniela in "Tutta la vita davanti (Whole Life Ahead)(2008)" (age 48)
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Roberts has just gutted the commerce clause. By defining the financing part as a tax, the rules change. If the House kills Obama care as a tax it can't be filibustered in the Senate. The best one liner is "Obama has won the battle but Roberts has won the war."
[An Nahar] Twenty-four Æthiopians, including a leading opposition figure and a prominent journalist, faced life in prison Wednesday after a court found them guilty on charges of terrorism.
"Guilty as charged," judge Endeshaw Adane said, referring to journalist Eskinder Nega, opposition member Andualem Arage and 22 others accused of links to U.S.-based group Ginbot 7, considered a terrorist group under Æthiopian law, and other outlawed groups.
Under the anti-terrorism legislation, the defendants face the death sentence, but the prosecutor recommended life sentences for the 24, only eight of whom were present in court.
Both Eskinder and Andualem were found guilty of "participation in a terrorist organization" and "planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt of (a) terrorist act."
Andualem was also found guilty of serving as a "leader or decision maker of a terrorist organization." Another less prominent opposition member was also among the group convicted Wednesday.
Endeshaw said Eskinder abused his freedom of speech and accused him of threatening national security.
"Freedom of speech can be limited when it used to undermine security and not used for the public interest," he said.
He was jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! last year after publishing articles asking whether the Arab Spring uprisings could have an influence in Æthiopia and questioning the arrests of Æthiopians under the country's anti-terrorism law.
Five of the defendants, including Eskinder and Andualem, will reappear in court on July 13 to present their mitigating circumstances.
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(Sh. M. Network)-At least three people dead and an unconfirmed number were maimed in a fierce fighting between Somali soldiers along with Æthiopian troops and Al shabab fighters in a village near Baidoa town, witnesses and officials said.
An attack on a convoy carrying Somali and Æthiopian troops in the central Somali village ofGoof-Gaduud by Islamist Death Eater group Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... early on Wednesday has left three people dead, according to Somali military officials.
Goof-Gaduud village lays the near strategic town ofBaidoa, the picturesque provincial capital of Bay region of southernSomalia. TFG military commanders in the area claimed victory over the battle, saying they have killed 3 gunnies in the attack.
Al-Shabaab still controls much of southern and centralSomalia, but is under increasing pressure from Somali, African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces in the south and Æthiopian forces in the west.
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(Sh.M.Network) -- The Kenyan government is protesting a U.S.embassy travel advisory that warns of an imminent terror attack on the coastal town of Mombassa. I double-checked the date. It only reads like last week's news.
The government says the advisory amounts to "economic sabotage" in a city that is reliant on tourism.
In a joint statement on Sunday, Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia and Tourism Minister Dan Mwadzo said the Kenyan government had officially asked the U.S.embassy in Nairobi to lift Friday's advisory.
The officials say the terror alert hurts Kenya's massive tourism industry.Mombasa is a major destination for foreign visitors.
Kenya has often been on terror alert since sending troops into Somalia last October.
The Somalint'> myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... the successor to the Islamic Courts... has vowed to stage a major terrorist attack on Kenyan territory in retaliation.
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The government says the advisory amounts to "economic sabotage" in a city that is reliant on tourismrobbery and kidnapping.
[An Nahar] Malian Tuareg and beturbanned fascisti clashed in the town of Gao on Wednesday as tensions soar between the gangs who have had a fractious relationship since seizing the north of Mali three months ago.
Fighting broke out between the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and members of the al-Qaeda offshoot Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) in at least two suburbs of the northeastern town.
"It is happening not far from the governorate, fighters from the two movements are firing at each other with heavy weapons," said the owner of a petrol station next to the governor's offices.
"We can hear gunfire, the fighters from MUJAO and the MNLA are shooting at each other," said Nina Oumarou, the sister of an official who was killed by gunnies on Monday night, provoking violent protests on Tuesday.
She said a group of MUJAO fighters had moved towards the MNLA camp in the town, which was seized by the various rebel groups in late March after a coup d'etat by renegade soldiers in Bamako.
Residents reported the fighting continued into the early afternoon and that both sides had received reinforcements.
The festivities followed Tuesday's protest by residents angry over the death of municipal councilor Idrissa Oumarou, who belongs to the party of Mali's transitional president Dioncounda Traore.
Oumarou was rubbed out on Monday and the protesters blamed the rebel groups for his murder.
Armed men on Tuesday fired on the group of demonstrators, leaving at least one dead and a dozen injured.
Witnesses accused the MNLA of the shooting, which the Tuareg movement denied, saying it was "manipulation" on the part of MUJAO.
"The MNLA firmly condemns those who shot at the crowd protesting its discontent in Gao," said Ibrahim Ag Mohamed Assaleh, a leader of the movement.
MUJAO said it had jugged Please don't kill me! two people for the murder of Oumarou, without identifying them.
The jihadist group is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), both of which are backing the Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith).
The MNLA spearheaded the takeover of the north when the March 22 coup left the country in chaos, and were soon joined by the previously unknown Ansar Dine, which has since taken the upper hand.
Tensions have been high between the two rebel groups, as they both pursue different objectives and ideologies.
While the secular Tuareg want independence for their northern homeland, which they call Azawad. Ansar Dine's main demand is a state where Islamic law is strictly implemented.
Last week a young couple was publicly lashed for having a child out of wedlock, while smokers have also been whipped and women forced to wear veils in the towns of Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal.
Ansar Dine and Tuareg leaders have been holding talks in the Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... capital with mediator President Blaise Compaore on a way forward for the troubled north.
Compaore's foreign minister, Djibrill Bassole, held talks Wednesday in neighboring Algeria, the region's top military power.
"Algeria's role in solving the cris in Mali is extremely important," Bassole told the official APS news agency.
Most of AQIM's top leaders are from Algeria.
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[An Nahar] Gun battles after suspected Islamists attacked police posts and a prison in northern Nigeria's Kano city left 17 "extremists" and one police officer dead, police said Wednesday.
"A total of 17 bully boyz were killed by our men. We lost a police corporal," said Kano State Police Commissioner Ibrahim Idris regarding the festivities that took place late Tuesday.
The latest unrest in Nigeria's second largest city, repeatedly hit 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... Islamists, began when Death Eaters launched coordinated gun and kabooms on the Dala, Panshekara and Shallawa police posts.
The Garan Dutse prison was also targeted.
"All these attacks were repelled," said Idris. "Our officers responded and drove the assailants away."
The police commissioner added that three suspects were tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and were being interrogated, while officers recovered 14 improvised bombs as well as rifles, ammunition and vehicles.
No group has claimed the overnight attacks, but the violence was likely to be blamed on Boko Haram.
Kano was the site of the Islamist group's deadliest attack yet, when coordinated bombings and shootings left at least 185 people dead in January.
The Boko Haram insurgency, concentrated in Nigeria's mainly Mohammedan north, has killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.
Security forces have frequently been the victims of its attacks, though it has continually widened its targets.
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(Sh.M.Network)- Uganda has locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! five Paks suspected of orc links, the police said on Tuesday, two weeks before the second anniversary of a bombing attack in Kampala for which Somali Islamist rebel group al Shaabab grabbed credit.
Officials say the country is vulnerable to further attacks from al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... who have vowed to keep striking until a Ugandan army contingent, leading an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -mandated force protecting Somalia's government, withdraws.
The area where the five men were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! was formerly a base for now-dormant Islamist rebel group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF-NALU), which officials say has links to al-Shabaab.
Chaos in Somalia has allowed faceless myrmidons to thrive and launch deadly attacks in the region.
Deputy police spokesperson Judith Nabakoba told Rooters the men were locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the western district of Ntoroko near the Rwenzori mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday.
"We got suspicious because these five Paks were coming from Congoand entering Uganda through an ungazetted border point," Nabakoba said.
She said they were with a Congolese man who was not carrying proper identification documents, and that they had been taken to Kampala for further investigation.
Al-Shabaab, which is closely linked to al Qaeda, grabbed credit for the July 2010 bombing in which 79 people were killed while watching the final of the football world cup.
Although ADF-NALU has long been inactive, officials say they are still a credible security threat from their bases in eastern DRC, where they fled after being defeated and ejected from western Ugandain the late 1990s.
The group, formed in 1996, wants to establish an Islamic state inUgandaand the Ugandan army says ADF's recruits are predominantly young Moslems.
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One of two Iranians facing charges related to accusations the two planned to carry out an attack with explosives in Kenya says he was interrogated by Israeli agents while in detention.
Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad also told a Kenyan court on Wednesday the Israeli agent tortured and injected him with chemicals without his consent.
[Yemen Post] An international news agency reported on Wednesday that negotiations aiming to release the Saudi Deputy Counsel Abdullah al-Khaledi from al-Qaeda captivity are underway. The diplomat was kidnapped by al-Qaeda operatives on March 28 and several mediations to free him have failed so far.
A tribal chief told the he official Chinese news agency (Xinhua) that some tribal chiefs resumed their efforts aimed at mediating a safe release for al-Khaledi two days ago.
The unnamed tribal chief expected the meditations to bear fruit this time in the few coming days, arguing that the negotiations are led by high-ranking tribal chief and thus al-Qaeda might accept to release the diplomat.
He revealed that the tribal mediation committee offered to pay 150 million Saudi Riyals as a ransom for the Death Eaters in exchange for releasing the diplomat. He said the negotiations are still underway with the kidnappers.
The tribal chief emphasized that al-Kaledi is in good health and that he has not been subjected to any harm until this moment.
"The Saudi kidnapped diplomat is in some area in the southern province of Abyan, " ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... he was quoted as saying.
Al-Qaeda-linked gunnieskidnapped al-Kaledi from an area nearby his residence in the southern port city of Aden on the last day of his five-year tenure.
Conditions made in April by al-Qaeda to release al-Kaledi included the release of all of the female prisoners as well as the terror network operatives imprisoned in the kingdom. It further asked for a ransom but did not pinpoint the sum of money, saying it would be specified later on.
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[Yemen Post] Qaeda bully boyz who escaped Zinjibar and Jaar have set up a new stronghold in Al-Mahfad area of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , media sources revealed on Wednesday.
The sources made clear that Al-Mahfad is an extremely rugged mountain ranges in the borders with Shabwa governorate.
They further said that Al-Qaeda leaders and bully boyz were monitored while they were heading to Al-Mahafad during the past days, affirming that they set up training camps in the area.
The Yemeni army backed by the Public Resistance Committees comprised of rustics could dislodge Al-Qaeda from main towns in Abyan such as Jaar, Zinjibar and Shaqrah.
The bully boyz were also cleansed from Azzan district of Shabwa that was previously declared by Al-Qaeda as an Islamic Emirate and set up the largest training camp inside.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... an Omani newspaper said on Tuesday that al-Qaeda operatives have left Yemen to the neighboring state of Oman after they were attacked in the South Yemen.
The newspaper quoted the Secretary-General of the Foreign Minster Badar Al-Boseedi as saying that Al-Qaeda operatives infiltrated to Oman and actions were taken to pursue them.
He said that the Omani authorities have not locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! any bully boyz so far, asserting that Omani authorities are alert, pointing out that the they contacted with neighboring states regarding the issue.
"Dear America,
Please fly many Predators post haste over the attached map coordinates. You have our permission to shoot missiles at anyone you see there.
Your friend,
His Majesty, the Sultan of Oman"
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... Yemeni officials said Al-Qaeda bully boyz implanted landmines before they fled from key southern strongholds, pointing out that they killed nearly 73 civilians over the past week.
The Yemeni army captured Jaar and Zinjibar after a two-month offensive to uproot al Qaeda gunnies from large swaths of land they captured during last year's political turmoil.
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The Mexican Navy helicopter reported missing since last Friday as found Wednesday afternoon , but it is unclear if any survivors were found, according to a news release by the Mexican Secretaria de Marina, the controlling agency for the Mexican navy.
The Eurocopter Panther AS565 helicopter was enroute from the port city of Manzanillo, Colima to its base in Minatitlan in Veracruz state Friday when it was reported missing after failing to make contact with air traffic control in nearby Michoacan state. According the the SEMAR news release the ship captain, two officers and one other navy personnel were aboard. The news release does not mention casualties.
The bird was found 18 kilometers south of Pihuamo municipality in Jalisco state at the top of a mountain. Navy personnel are making preparations to arrive at the crash site.
The area around Pihuamo municipality was the location last May 2011 of several major counternarcotics sweeps by Mexican security forces which yielded quantities of drugs and weapons. Because of the Article 41 clamp on drug war news it is impossible to learn if the area is still a counternarcotics area of operation for Mexico's security forces.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Chechen police have detained a 19-year-old woman who they say was recruited by an militant group to carry out a suicide attack in neighboring Dagestan, said a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry.
The woman, who lives in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was arrested in the Chechnya's capital Grozny. Police also obtained what they said was a martyrdom letter addressed to the womans relatives along with extremist literature.
The woman has claimed to be innocent. She told police she was travelling to Dagestan to study Islam at a religious school. She said that none of her relatives knew about her trip.
When you're that bad at lying, maybe you should just keep your mouth shut.
Police believe the womans actual aim was to carry out a suicide attack in Dagestan.
Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said extremists often use young people to achieve their villainous and malicious goals.
The would-be suicide bombers husband was in jail, and the recruiters have apparently found the womans raw spot her unfortunate personal life, which they used to persuade her to carry out the attack.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said law enforcement officers killed in separate raids the alleged leaders of two insurgent groups in Dagestan on Wednesday.
Magomed Al-Bara Abdusalamov was gunned down near the village of Khuchni. Abdusalamov, the alleged leader of the so-called Izberbash gang, was transporting a powerful bomb made from a 100-liter barrel filled with explosives, which was defused by a bomb squad.
Elsewhere in the republic, police gunned down Nazhmudin Abu-Zeit Nazhmudinov, the supposed head of the Tsumada gang. A policeman was killed and two others injured during that shootout, along with Nazhmudinovs female supporter Zarema Ramadanova, who also shot at the officers.
[An Nahar] Spanish police Wednesday tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! two suspected Islamist Orcs and similar vermin who found young recruits in north Africa for training in camps and war zones, officials said.
The pair -- 25-year-old Rachid Abdellah Mohamed and 30-year-old Nabil Mohamed Chaib, both Spanish -- were nabbed in the nation's disputed north African enclave of Melilla.
They were believed to lead an Islamist group with international connections, made up mostly of Spanish citizens of north African origin living in Melilla or the neighboring Moroccan city of Farkhana, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"Both detainees are believed to be the authors of torture and liquidation of two group members who decided to leave and break away from the strong religious authority that was imposed," it said.
Corpses of the two victims showing signs of torture were found July 15, 2008 in the northeastern Moroccan city of Nador, it said.
Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said the suspects were radical Islamists.
Their doctrine was similar to that of seven Orcs and similar vermin who blew themselves up in a Madrid suburb on April 3, 2004 when they were surrounded by police investigating the March 11, 2004 train bombings which killed 191 people in the Spanish capital, he said.
According to the interior ministry, the group set up strong internal security measures including keeping its own existence secret.
Members followed the extreme takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... i ideology which obliged them to separate from family and barred them from listening to music or watching television, the ministry said.
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Updated/1:35p.m. After nearly two hours of deliberation the jury found Khalid Aldawsari guilty of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Sentencing will be on October 9 in Amarillo.
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Closing arguments from the defense and the prosecution wrapped up Wednesday morning in the trial of Lubbock terrorism suspect Khalid Aldawsari.
The former Texas Tech and South Plains College student from 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 their national face... is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
At the start of the trial, the defense painted the accused as a failure who wasn't planning an attack, and wouldn't have succeeded in carrying one out.
In closing statements, prosecutors say this isn't about the defendant being a failure, citing the fact he got into college. They point out there were obvious steps toward committing the crime: prosecutors say he watched instructional videos on making a bomb 198 times and had more than 200 pages of notes. He was one ingredient short of constructing the bomb. On the morning of his arrest, the defendant prayed for martyrdom and killing, saying he would not have stopped until he detonated a bomb on American soil.
Defense attorney Dan Cogdell claims there is a lot of evidence, but no answers. He told the jury there is no evidence of any set target, where the defendant was going to make the bomb, and that his client did not have all the materials to construct the bomb. "Hate him to his core, hate him to his dying day, but don't convict him on misinformation they failed to prove," Cogdell said. "Khalid Aldawsari is not guilty on what he is charged with."
The prosecution spent several days presenting their case. The defense presented no evidence and called no witnesses to testify.
The jury is deliberating the case. Check back here for details.
[Dawn] At least four more people were killed and five others, including three workers of the Pakistain People's Party, maimed in different localities on Tuesday as the law-enforcement agencies failed to stem the tide of targeted attacks despite the importance the prime minister attached to the law and order situation during his recent visit to the metropolis.
Police believed that in most cases, the attacks were carried out to target people for their political activism or instil fear into residents, but together with the paramilitary force the police remained unable to trace those involved in the drive-by shootings.
In two separate early morning attacks, an officer and a driver of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Electricity Supply Company (KESC) were killed and a lineman was maimed, said police and the power utility.
"KESC deputy general manager Syed Ali Imran Jaffery, 40, was targeted near Saifee Degree College in North Nazimabad's block F," said Inspector Fasihuddin, the officer in charge of the Hyderi police post.
He added that the attackers wearing helmets sped away on a cycle of violence after executing the job. "They used a 9mm pistol, which is commonly used in targeted attacks," said the officer.
He said: "Mr Jaffery was not affiliated with any political or religious organization."
The victim's family was clueless about the motive and so were the police.
The Hyderi police later registered an FIR (18/2012) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code against unidentified suspects on a complaint of the victim's family member.
According to a KESC statement, the victim was deputy general manager, IBC North Nazimabad (Region-IV).
As the police were connecting dots to ascertain the motive for the killing, a maintenance vehicle of the KESC came under a gun attack in a Malir locality.
The police officials said that gunnies riding a motorbike opened fire on the vehicle near Cooperative Centre of the Shamsi Housing Society.
"The firing left driver Aman Baloch and lineman Mohammad Nasir maimed," said an official at the Al-Falah cop shoppe. Both were rushed to a private hospital on Stadium Road, where Mr Aman died during treatment, he said, adding that Nasir was said
to be out of danger.
The KESC, meanwhile, sought immediate inquiry into the acts of 'terrorism' and harsh punishment to the culprits. The power utility criticised the law-enforcement agencies for not taking immediate action to chase and apprehend the attackers, who easily
escaped.
MQM activist killed
On Jehangir Road, a 55-year-old activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM), Mohammad Siraj, was bumped off inside his spare parts shop, said police.
They added that the attackers had arrived on a motorbike and managed to flee after killing the victim inside the shop.
"The victim was a resident of Martin Quarters area and had been running the shop for past many years," said DSP Qaiser Ali Shah, the area's sub-divisional police officer (SDPO). "He was a known MQM worker. Apparently, Siraj was targeted due to political reasons."
Shop owner rubbed out
Earlier, the owner of a puncture shop visited by his friends associated with a political party on a daily basis met the same fate, said an official at the Surjani Town cop shoppe.
The official added that 32-year-old Aqeel Nafees was busy in work when two men riding a cycle of violence pulled up outside his shop. "One of them got off the two-wheelers, pulled out a pistol, fired at Aqeel and sped away with his accomplice," said Surjani Town SHO Inspector Shabbir Hussain.
"The victim, an area resident, was not associated with any political party, but had several friends associated with a political party who used to sit at his shop regularly," said the inspector.
"However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the reason for the murder is not yet clear," he added.
Later, a younger brother of the victim lodged an FIR (290/2012) at the Surjani Town cop shoppe against unidentified persons
under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
Three PPP men maimed
In the evening, three young workers of the Pakistain People's Party sustained gunshot wounds in an ambush on their car in a Nazimabad locality, said police.
The police added that Owais Khan, Imtiaz Khan and Afsar Khan were shot at and maimed near Chhota Maidan in Orangabad.
"They were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment. Doctors have described their condition as stable," said DSP Shahid Abbass, the area's sub-divisional police officer.
ASWJ leader escapes attack
A big shot of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, believed to be a reincarnation of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... , survived a gun attack on his vehicle in Qayyumabad, said police and party sources.
"Our secretary Orangzeb Farooqi was attacked near the Qayyumabad bridge while he was returning from Korangi after meeting some people there," said a party front man.
The police said the gunnies rode away on their motorbike when Mr Farooqi's guards returned fire.
"All the people, including three armed guards of Mr Farooqi, inside the vehicle remained unhurt, while one of the guards, Salahuddin, sustained injuries as he fell from the moving vehicle. He was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment," said the party front man.
He condemned the attack and said the police and security agencies failed to protect party workers and leaders despite several assurances. "Only a few days ago, we have conveyed our concerns about the security of our leaders to police authorities and senior government officials but no step has been taken in this regard," he added.
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[Dawn] The security forces claimed to have killed eight beturbanned goons including three commanders and secured strategically important positions in Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Tuesday.
Official sources said that security forces also destroyed two hideouts of beturbanned goons in Botakhel area of the tribal region. They said that forces launched an operation in the area, which was considered a stronghold of beturbanned goons in the troubled Orakzai Agency.
Security forces backed by artillery launched offensive to flush out beturbanned goons from the area, the sources said. An official said that beturbanned goons vacated their positions after heavy shelling.
He said that eight beturbanned goons were killed and their two hideouts were destroyed in the artillery shelling. He said that three commanders were also among the dead. The killed bully boy commanders were identified as Wahid Ilyas, Ihsanullah and Mohammad Din.
Also, warplanes targeted suspected positions in the area adjacent to Khyber Agency. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... no loss of life was reported from the area.
In North Wazoo Agency, four persons including two children were maimed when mortar shell hit a residential compound in Spelga village on Monday night.
Earlier beturbanned goons fired two rockets at the base of paramilitary forces in 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... . However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Security forces retaliated with heavy artillery and mortar firing.
The residents of the area said that a shell landed in a house in Spelga Village and injured two children, a woman and a man. The injured were shifted to the agency headquarters hospital in Miranshah.
Beautiful Downtown Peshawar encounter
In Peshawar, a bully boy commander was killed during an encounter in Mashogagar area on the outskirts of Peshawar on Tuesday, police said.
An official said that a police party was sent to the area when they got information about presence of four beturbanned goons there. The beturbanned goons tried to escape in a motorcar when the law enforcers approached the area, he added.
The official said that upon seeing the police party, the beturbanned goons left the motorcar and opened firing on law enforcers with automatic weapons.
During the encounter, he said, one bully boy was killed while his three accomplices managed to escape. The killed bully boy was identified as Umer, a commander of Taliban in Khyber Agency, he added.
The official said that nobody had approached police to receive the body of the killed bully boy commander. He said that one hand grenade, one pistol and many cartridges were recovered from the possession of the bully boy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... police claimed to have recovered an kidnapped girl from Badhber and locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man involved in her kidnapping.
A police front man said that on the complaint of Mumtaz, a resident of Sar Dheri in Charsadda, police raided a house in Badhber and recovered a girl, who was kidnapped by Shahid.
He said that the girl was kept in chains inside a room. A case against the accused was already registered at Sar Dheri cop shoppe, he added.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The bullet-riddled bodies of an anti-Taliban militia commander and three of his associates were dumped in Pakistain's northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar yesterday, police said.
The bodies of Fahimud Din, 50, chief of a 1,500-strong vigilante force in Bazidkhel on the outskirts of Peshawar, and three of his associates were found in a Toyota Land Cruiser on the city's ring road.
The Taliban grabbed credit.
"We killed Fahimud Din and his colleagues. They raised a militia against us and wanted to defeat us," Ehsanullah Ehsan, front man for Pakistain's main Tehrik-e-Taliban faction, told AFP by telephone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
"Anybody who rises up against us will face the same fate," Ehsan added.
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[Dawn] A powerful blast at train station late on Wednesday killed at least five and injured at least 20 people in Sibi, DawnNews reported.
Home Secretary Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Nasinullah Bazai, while speaking to DawnNews, vowed to arrest the culprits behind the attack and called a bomb disposal squad at the site to avoid anymore untoward incidents.
According to officials, kaboom was hidden at a tea stall at the platform number two of the station.
At the time of blast, Jaffer Express was stationery at the crowded platform. The train was arriving from Jafferabad and destined for Quetta.
AP adds: Police officer Qasim Salachi says the bomb went off just minutes after the train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack.
The dead and injured were being shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Sibi. Deputy Commissioner Shahid Saleem Qureshi has imposed an emergency in the hospital.
There are children among the injured while eight injured are reported to be at death's door.
Police and other security agencies have cordoned off the blast site and initiated an investigation.
Balochistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Talibs.
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At least twelve people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a series of car bombings in Iraq.
Reports say the attacks happened in and around Baghdad, with at least eight people killed when a car bomb blew up outside a market in a mainly Shia district of the capital. Another car bomb targeted a government building in the nearby predominantly Sunni city of Taji.
Sources said Thursday's car bomb at a market in the predominantly Shia Muslim district of Washash had killed at least eight people and injured 30. The blast in Taji, some 12 miles north of Baghdad, killed four and injured 20, police said.
There are unconfirmed reports that a police patrol and a roadblock manned by militamen trying to prevent al-Qaeda attacks were targeted.
[An Nahar] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... called for early elections, in a statement released on Wednesday, after a series of political crises escalated into calls for his removal.
"When the other side refuses to sit at the table of dialogue and insists on the policy of provoking successive crises in a way that causes serious damage to the supreme interests of Iraqi people, the prime minister found himself forced to call for early elections," said the statement on the premier's website.
Iraq has been hit by a series of intertwined political crises that began in mid-December with accusations by the secular, Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc that Maliki was concentrating power in his hands and have escalated into calls to unseat him.
An effort to persuade President Jalal Talabani to call a no-confidence vote stalled earlier this month when he said that Maliki's opponents lacked the votes to oust him.
That decision meant the only way Maliki's opponents could press their drive for a no-confidence motion was by requesting he appear before parliament and then holding the vote.
Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi said on June 21 that Maliki's opponents were to ask in the coming days for him to appear before the house in a renewed bid to oust him.
The crises have paralyzed government, especially parliament, which has passed no significant legislation except for the budget, while other important measures such as a hydrocarbons law regulating Iraq's oil sector have been delayed.
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A Hamas member was killed in Damascus Wednesday night, the French news agency AFP cited a senior official for the organization as saying, adding that Hamas suspected that the Mossad was behind the killing. The official, who spoke anonymously, said that "a group of people entered the home of Kamel Ranaja (also known as Nizar Abu Mujhad), and killed him. IIUC, the deceased, although high up in the Hamas photo group picture, did mostly admin stuff such as coordinating money laundering, weapon smuggling, liaison with the Assad regime and the like; however, in the past 6 months, Hamas has become something of a burden to the regime as Hamas required bodyguards for protection but refused to support the regime in its current massacrefest.
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He was an associate of the guy mysteriously whacked in a Dubai hotel earlier.
[An Nahar] An attack on a pro-government television near Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... killed seven staff Wednesday, state media said, while 29 people died in other violence on the heels of the "bloodiest week" of the 15-month uprising, according to a watchdog.
Live footage broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed extensive damage to the studios of Al-Ikhbariya satellite channel outside the capital with several small fires still burning.
"The terrorist groups stormed the offices of Al-Ikhbariya, planted explosives in the studios and blew them up along with the equipment," Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
in a live interview.
"They carried out the worst massacre against the media, executing journalists and security staff," Zohbi said, adding that a number of staff were kidnapped.
Those killed comprised three journalists and four security guards, state media said.
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders called for members of a U.N. observer mission, which suspended its operations on June 16 in the face of worsening violence, to visit the scene to ascertain the facts.
"News organizations should not be used as targets by the parties to the conflict," the watchdog said.
"However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... we deplore in the strongest possible terms the broadcast by the media of messages inciting hatred and violence against civilians."
In other violence on Wednesday, 10 soldiers were killed before dawn in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, while 15 troops defected to the rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Later Wednesday fierce festivities took place between regime troops and rebel fighters in Deir Ezzor city, where kabooms were reported.
Five people were killed in shelling and shooting in the Damascus suburb of Douma and surrounding areas, while regime forces carried out raids and arrests elsewhere in the province.
The central city of Homs was exposed to heavy shelling by regime forces where "living conditions remain difficult because of the blockade and bombardment, which has continued for weeks", the Observatory said.
In the northwestern province of Idlib, festivities and shelling left six civilians and three rebels dead, in addition to five soldiers, among them a colonel of the elite Republican Guard.
More than 15,800 people have been killed since the outbreak of the revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime in March last year, the Observatory said, adding that the seven days to Tuesday were the bloodiest so far.
"The pace of the killings has escalated," the watchdog said.
"The last week was the bloodiest week of the Syrian Revolution," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone, adding that 916 people were killed from June 20 through 26.
Of the 15,804 people killed since March 2011, 4,681 had bit the dust since a U.N.-backed ceasefire was supposed to take effect on April 12, he said.
Of those, roughly a quarter -- 1,197 -- have been killed since the U.N. observer mission intended to oversee the peace plan suspended its operations in the face of the mounting violence.
"The last month, from May 26 to June 26, was the deadliest since the start of the protests. During this period, 3,426 people were killed," Abdel Rahman said.
An attack on a pro-government television near Damascus killed seven staff Wednesday, state media said, while 29 people died in other violence on the heels of the "bloodiest week" of the 15-month uprising, according to a watchdog.
Live footage broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed extensive damage to the studios of Al-Ikhbariya satellite channel outside the capital with several small fires still burning.
"The terrorist groups stormed the offices of Al-Ikhbariya, planted explosives in the studios and blew them up along with the equipment," Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
in a live interview.
"They carried out the worst massacre against the media, executing journalists and security staff," Zohbi said, adding that a number of staff were kidnapped.
Those killed comprised three journalists and four security guards, state media said.
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders called for members of a U.N. observer mission, which suspended its operations on June 16 in the face of worsening violence, to visit the scene to ascertain the facts.
"News organizations should not be used as targets by the parties to the conflict," the watchdog said.
"However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... we deplore in the strongest possible terms the broadcast by the media of messages inciting hatred and violence against civilians."
In other violence on Wednesday, 10 soldiers were killed before dawn in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, while 15 troops defected to the rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Later Wednesday fierce festivities took place between regime troops and rebel fighters in Deir Ezzor city, where kabooms were reported.
Five people were killed in shelling and shooting in the Damascus suburb of Douma and surrounding areas, while regime forces carried out raids and arrests elsewhere in the province.
The central city of Homs was exposed to heavy shelling by regime forces where "living conditions remain difficult because of the blockade and bombardment, which has continued for weeks", the Observatory said.
In the northwestern province of Idlib, festivities and shelling left six civilians and three rebels dead, in addition to five soldiers, among them a colonel of the elite Republican Guard.
More than 15,800 people have been killed since the outbreak of the revolt against President Bashir al-Assad's regime in March last year, the Observatory said, adding that the seven days to Tuesday were the bloodiest so far.
"The pace of the killings has escalated," the watchdog said.
"The last week was the bloodiest week of the Syrian Revolution," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone, adding that 916 people were killed from June 20 through 26.
Of the 15,804 people killed since March 2011, 4,681 had bit the dust since a U.N.-backed ceasefire was supposed to take effect on April 12, he said.
Of those, roughly a quarter -- 1,197 -- have been killed since the U.N. observer mission intended to oversee the peace plan suspended its operations in the face of the mounting violence.
"The last month, from May 26 to June 26, was the deadliest since the start of the protests. During this period, 3,426 people were killed," Abdel Rahman said.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Wednesday named five Colombia and Venezuela-based men as key players in a sprawling trafficking and money laundering network of alleged Hizbullah-linked Lebanese drug lord Ayman Joumaa.
The U.S. Treasury set sanctions on two Lebanese-born men, Abbas Hussein Harb and Ibrahim Chibli, for helping Joumaa launder what it said were millions of dollars of narcotics-related proceeds.
Harb led a network based in Colombia and Venezuela that moved the money through Lebanese banks; Chibli helped in his position as a branch manager of Leb's Finicia Bank to help the operation, the Treasury said.
Treasury named Lebanese-Colombian Ali Mohamad Saleh as a "key controller" for Hizbullah, raising money for the cut-thoat group in Latin America.
Two others, Harb's brother Ali Houssein Harb and Saleh's brother Qassem Mohamad Saleh were targeted with sanctions for running companies in Venezuela and Colombia that are linked to the Joumaa group.
The United States set its sights on the Joumaa network over the past two years after investigations showed the group has laundered as much as $200 million a month from mainly drug trafficking, according to the U.S. Treasury.
He was indicted in the United States last November for allegedly leading a network that helped ship tons of cocaine from Colombia via Mexico's Los Zetas cartel to the United States.
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I don't see where any action was actually taken against Joumaa.
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And I don't see where 'sanctions' have actually provided any real hinderance to any miscreant at any time anywhere.
They've only served as a method whereby a politician (or gaggle thereof) can say to his/her adoring public that they've accomplished something, albeit with no more teeth than a 'Strongly Worded Letter®'.
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Hamas says it is launching investigation to discover who is behind 'despicable crime.' Al-Mayadeen: Kamal Ranaja served as aide to top Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, man killed in Dubai in 2010
A senior Hamas operative has been assassinated in his Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... apartment, the Islamist terror group announced Wednesday evening.
According to a statement by a member of Hamas' politburo, the organization did not know who was responsible for the death of Kamal Ranaja, known as Nizzar Abu-Mujhad, but was launching an investigation to discover who is behind the "despicable crime."
There was no word about the manner in which Ranaja met his death. No Hamas official has yet pointed a finger at any third party, such as Israel or the Assad regime.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... shortly after his death was announced, the new pan-Arabic television station Al-Mayadeen reported that he used to serve as aide to Mahmoud al-Mabhouh,
...who was mysteriously assassinated in his very expensive hotel room in Dubai, possibly by tennis players who disliked his manners, or possibly by Mossad...
a senior Hamas member who took part in several terror attacks and was also involved in kidnapping and killing IDF soldiers. Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai in 2010. The deed was laid at the door of Mossad, which never confirmed or denied the accusation.
Mabhouh was responsible for smuggling weapons into the Gazoo Strip from Iran.
The SDyrian opposition claimed Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's regime was responsible for Ranaja's liquidation.
One opposition activist, a former journalist, said Assad's regime ordered the hit. She claimed Ranaja was tortured before he was killed. According to her, the hit was a message to Hamas, which turned its back on Assad following the violent crackdown on the opposition.
In recent years, Arab officials have blamed Israel for a number of deaths of cut-throats outside the country, such as the February 2008 liquidation of Imad Mugniyeh -- an operations commander for Hizbullah. Mugniyeh is the most senior terrorist Israel has been accused of killing since the death of Hizbullah head Abbas Musawi in the early 1990s.
The news of Rajana's liquidation comes on the heels of former Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades commander Ibrahim Hamed's conviction for 46 counts of murder earlier Wednesday.
Hamed was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in 2006 and convicted of direct involvement in a number of terror attacks that left at least 46 Israelis dead and hundreds maimed.
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.
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[An Nahar] Gun battles after suspected Islamists attacked police posts and a prison in northern Nigeria's Kano city left 17 "extremists" and one police officer dead, police said Wednesday.
An international news agency reported on Wednesday that negotiations aiming to release the Saudi Deputy Counsel Abdullah al-Khaledi from al-Qaeda captivity are underway. The diplomat was 
[Yemen Post] Qaeda 
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said law enforcement officers killed in separate raids the alleged leaders of two insurgent groups in Dagestan on Wednesday.
At least four more people were killed and five others, including three workers of the Pakistain People's Party, 
cycle of violence
Orakzai Agency
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At least twelve people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a series of car bombings in Iraq.
Nouri al-Maliki
An attack on a pro-government television near 
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