Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, officials said.
The attack around dawn in the town of Sayed Abad in Wardak province, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Kabul, served as a reminder that even after a decade of fighting, tens of thousands of U.S. and foreign troops are still engaged in a war that shows no signs of slowing down despite the start of a withdrawal of coalition forces.
The U.S.-led NATO coalition said that no American or coalition troops were killed in the blasts. It confirmed that a number of troops were wounded, but did not say how many, in accordance with coalition policy.
Shahidullah Shadid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said one suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives outside a compound housing the district governor''s office as well as local police and Afghan army headquarters. A second bomber driving a fuel tanker detonated his bomb on a road separating the compound from the base.
Shadid said the dead included eight civilians and four Afghan police.
[Jerusalem Post] Recent massacres raise fresh concerns about Taliban leaders' commitment to forging peace with the Afghan government.
An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban. Yet more evidence to support the objective existence of Evil...
A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police, said provincial governor front man Jawid Faisal.
The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a US-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban strongholds, like Kandahar, feel more secure, Faisal said.
"It's a Taliban warning to the ALP and to others who support the government," Faisal said of the killing, which happened in Kandahar's Panjwai district.
Taliban front man Qari Yousuf denied the group was involved.
Separately, a 6-year-old girl was beheaded in eastern Kapisa province on Thursday, said provincial police chief Abdul Hamed.
"We are not sure if she was beheaded by her family or the Taliban, but we know the Taliban control the area," Hamed said of the killing in Jalukhil village. He added that he could not send Sherlocks to the area out of fears for their safety.
The murders follow the shooting or beheading of 17 young revelers attending a party in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province this week, which officials said was the work of the Taliban, a charge the group also denied.
That massacre raised fresh concerns about Taliban leaders' grip on their scattered fighters, amid on-again, off-again peace moves by the group with the Afghan government.
It also suggested that there are grassroots bad turban fighters who are not in a mood for compromise.
"What we're seeing could be a new tactic by the Taliban to behead civilians to intimidate the population," said Faisal.
In Kandahar's Zhari district, officials also said on Friday that a 16-year-old boy accused by the Taliban of spying for the government was beheaded and skinned in late July.
Such incidents highlight the difficulty that Taliban leaders have in enforcing discipline across an estimated 20,000 fighters spread from Afghanistan to Pakistain.
The central Taliban leadership is trying to improve the group's image in case it wants to push forward tentative reconciliation steps and perhaps even enter mainstream politics. But some beturbanned goon units are hard to control, roaming the countryside and attacking those deemed immoral.
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... will withdraw most of its combat troops by the end of 2014, leaving Afghan forces in the lead security role.
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The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP)
This is one of the techniques the Taliban uses to encourage attacks by the Afghan Police and Military against ISAF forces, the so called "Green on Blue" murders.
People are dropping heads like ripe fruit all over the Muslim landscape these days.
[Ma'an] Bedouins found a severed head near Egypt's border with Israel, security officials said Friday, indicating that jihadi groups in the Sinai were behind the murder.
Security sources said the head, found near al-Ouja crossing with Israel, most likely belonged to Mnayzel Barikat, who disappeared two days ago.
Barikat was seized by jihadi groups, who accuse him of cooperating with Israel in the liquidation of a jihadi turban in the Sinai peninsula on Sunday, the sources said.
Security officials believe the jihadi organizations are behind the decapitation.
Two others suspected of involvement in Sunday's attack fled to Israel, one accompanied by his wife, residents and security officials said.
Ibrahim Owida Nasser Madan was killed in an kaboom while riding his cycle of violence south of Al-Qasiya, 15 kilometers from the Israeli border.
At the time, an Egyptian intelligence report said he was hit by a missile fired by an Israeli drone. Other officials told Ma'an that Madan may have been killed by a missile which went kaboom! while Death Eaters were trying to launch it.
Israel told Egyptian authorities it was not involved in the incident, Egyptian security sources said.
Madan, a member of a Jihadi turban group, had just been released by Egyptian security services after he was locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a few days ago during an Egyptian security campaign in northern Sinai, the intelligence report said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... high-level security officials in Sinai on Friday expressed disappointment in what they called the failure of a military campaign against Jihadi Death Eaters in the Egyptian territory.
Egyptian forces in the Sinai began withdrawing some deployments on Thursday, security sources said, after a deal was reportedly struck with jihadi groups to cease hostilities.
Egypt's Middle East News Agency insisted 'Operation Eagle' -- launched early August after a deadly attack on Egyptian border guards -- was ongoing.
Egyptian security experts and political figures told Ma'an the drawdown of forces was "caving in to Jihadi groups' threats and Israeli and US pressure to limit military presence (in the border Sinai region)."
Security officials said they had submitted a report to Egypt's military leadership showing that around 500 jihadi Death Eaters are hiding in seven locations in the central Sinai desert, and complained it had not been followed up.
[An Nahar] Eight suspected al-Qaeda members were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike in eastern Yemen on Friday, a local official said.
The official, who declined to be named, told Agence La Belle France Presse the suspects were in an armored car on the road between Qatan and Khashgha when it was struck.
It was the third such anti-Qaeda strike in Hadramawt province this week, following attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday that left seven dead.
The United States is the only country that has drones in the region and it has stepped up its strikes on al-Qaeda targets in the Arabian Peninsula state.
Al-Qaeda took advantage of a nearly year-long uprising which led to president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... stepping down in February to seize large swathes of south and east Yemen.
Al-Qaeda loyalists have carried out a spate of deadly attacks against Yemeni security forces and their militia allies since President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi came to power earlier this year pledging to crush the jihad boys.
In an all-out offensive launched in May, the army retook a string of towns in 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... province of southern Yemen.
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Wow! Zero must have been busy with his list.
Checked it twice huh? Found out who'd been naughty huh? Had 'em whacked huh?
US drones have fired a barrage of missiles at a vehicle and a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing at least five suspected militants.
Officials say the strikes, on Saturday in North Waziristan, were the first since news that a top commander of the powerful Haqqani militant network was killed in a drone strike there late last month.
The strikes came also as a group of gunmen on motorcycles in Afghanistan''s southwestern Baluchistan province killed seven Shi''ite Muslims in the latest escalation of violence against the country''s minority sect.
Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said US drones fired seven missiles at targets in the village of Degan in an area of North Waziristan close to the Afghan border.
They said the area is dominated by anti-American militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur but they did not know whether the men killed belonged to his group.
Bahadur''s faction is alleged to have been involved in frequent attacks on US troops in Afghanistan but generally shies away from carrying out operations inside Pakistan.
Several drone strikes have killed militants affiliated with Bahadur''s group.
The CIA-run drone program is controversial in Pakistan. Many call it an infringement on the nation''s sovereignty and maintain it causes a high number of civilian casualties, a charge the US denies.
A drone strike a week ago in North Waziristan killed Badruddin Haqqani, one of the sons of the founder of the Haqqani network. The US has blamed the group for a number of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan and considers it one of the key factors in undermining security there.
Badruddin was considered the organisation''s day-to-day operations commander and he was labelled as a terrorist by the US State Department, along with his father and two of his brothers.
Also on Saturday, four gunmen riding two motorcycles stopped a local bus near the central vegetable market of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan.
The gunmen identified seven people belonging to the Shi''ite Hazara community, forced them off the bus and shot five of them dead, senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said.
Two tried to run away but the gunmen chased them down and killed them in a nearby street, Nasir said.
[Dawn] Gunmen rubbed out a judge along with his driver and security guard here on Thursday.
Sources said Additional District and Sessions Judge Zulfiqar H. Naqvi was going to his office from the Government Officers Residence Colony at around 8am when the gunnies waiting for him at a railway crossing in the Chalam housing society opened fire on his car.
The security guard and the driver were identified as Abdul Shakoor and Essa Khan.
Capital City Police Officer Mir Zubair Mehmood said the judge and the two other men received multiple bullet injuries and was struck down in his prime.
The attackers escaped on cycle of violences after firing on the car from two sides.
Police sources said the judge was the target of the attack which appeared to be sectarian.
But Mr Mehmood said it was too early to say anything about the motive of the killers. "We are investigating the incident."
The sources said that the security guard himself suffered multiple wounds and he was unable to fire back.
Police and FC personnel took the bodies to the civil hospital.
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... High Court's Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa took notice of the judge's killing and said the attackers should be locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! without delay.
He and other judges went to the hospital and expressed grief over the murder of Mr Naqvi.
According to family sources, Mr Naqvi had received threatening calls a month ago. His mother said she had asked her son to quit the job.
The body of Mr Naqvi will be taken to 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... for burial.
Police raided various areas and took some suspects into custody for questioning.
The police sources said two teams -- one headed by the DIG Investigation and the other by the CID SP -- had been set up to investigate the killings.
Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani condemned the killing of the judge and ordered the inspector general of police to immediately arrest the killers.
The Balochistan Bar Association also condemned the killing of Judge Zulfiqar Naqvi and urged the government to arrest the murderers.
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[Dawn] Three people, including two brothers, were killed at a den of drug peddlers in what police described as a clash between criminal gangs in the Khokhrapar area of Malir late Thursday night.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz claimed that the three men were activists of the party and not criminals.
Earlier during the day, at least four men were killed in different parts of the city.
Following the Malir shooting, tension gripped the Khokhrapar area where eateries and shops were closed.
While the police were not certain about the number of attackers and the mode of transport they used, they said all the three victims were rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where two of them were pronounced dead on arrival while the other died during
treatment.
The three men -- identified as Mohammad Aslam, 45, Mohammad Anwar, 40, and Nadeem, 30 -- were criminals and booked in several cases, said SP Shah Faisal Latif Siddiqi.
The two brothers, Aslam and Anwar, used to run the den in D-1 Area of Khokhrapar No 4 while Nadeem was a caretaker, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer Fakhrul Islam.
"They were essentially criminals and Haji Aslam was wanted in at least five cases by the Khokhrapar police," DSP Islam added.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz 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... President Elahi Bakhsh Bikak claimed that the three men were JSQM activists. He said that they were not involved in the drug peddling business. Haji Aslam was a former Khokharapar unit in charge of the party's organizational structure, he confirmed to Dawn.
Man found rubbed out
Earlier, a young man said to be associated with a 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.... gang was found rubbed out in the old city area, police said.
A gunny bag containing his body was found near Crown Cinema close to Darwesh hotel within the remit of the Kalri cop shoppe.
The body bore torture marks along with gunshot wounds in the head and chest, said a police official.
He added that the victim had been kidnapped and subjected to severe torture before being rubbed out. The police did not find any spent bullet casing at the spot, making them believe that he was killed somewhere else and his body was dumped by the roadside.
They shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities.
The victim was later identified as Akram Baloch, 27, a resident of Pak Colony, Jehanabad area.
Kalri SHO Khan Niazi suspected that Lyari gangsters had killed the victim who was believed to have links with the Arshad Pappu group.
Body found
Another body stuffed in a gunny bag was spotted near Jubilee Cloth Market, said police.
They quoted area people as saying that the body was thrown from a moving rickshaw at Chand Mor within the remit of the Nabi Bukhsh cop shoppe.
The body bearing torture marks and bullet wounds was taken to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities following which it was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.
Washerman rubbed out
Earlier, a washerman was killed in Mianwali Colony near the Dhobi Ghat bridge within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe.
The police quoted eyewitnesses saying that Shamim, 42, aka Nanha attempted to escape on seeing gunnies who after a brief chase fired at him and fled.
The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi where he died during treatment, the police added.
They said that the victim was elder brother of an activist of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement Unit 32, Naseem.
ASI killed
An assistant sub-inspector was killed within the remit of the Mithadar cop shoppe on Thursday.
ASI Gul Zeb was shot at and maimed after he spotted two suspicious-looking men riding a cycle of violence on a link road between I.I. Chundrigar Road and Queens Road and challenged them, said ASP Ali Asif.
The maimed ASI was rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! The slain police officer was posted at the Mithadar cop shoppe and hailed from Haripur.
DawnNews news houndmaimed
A news hound of DawnNews channel was maimed while resisting a robbery attempt in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Thursday night.
Police said that gunnies intercepted Zunaib Moeen near a private hospital and deprived him of his valuables, including a cellphone and wallet. They shot at the news hound while fleeing, the police said, adding that he sustained a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
He was rushed to the nearby private hospital for treatment. Later, he was shifted to another private hospital on Stadium Road.
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The police did not find any spent bullet casing at the spot, making them believe that he was killed somewhere else and his body was dumped by the roadside
Or the deceased crawled into the gunny bag, shot himself to death, then handed the weapon off to an accomplice, who picked up the brass.
[Dawn] A member of a local peace committee was rubbed out at Matani Bazaar on the suburbs of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Thursday evening.
Sources said that a teenager opened firing on Ahmad Gul, the peace body member, with his pistol and left the bazaar calmly without any fear. The injured was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital at death's doorwhereupon he stumbled through to the Great Beyond.
Sources said that several members of the dear departed's family were present at the bazaar but they could not dare to chase the attacker.
They said that Niaz Wali, a son of the dear departed, was also an active member of Matani Peace Committee and a close associate of former head of Bazidkhel Qaumi Lashkar Fahimur Rehman. Mr Wali was killed in July in Nowshera on the charges that he was involved in kidnapping of two police commandos.
The two police commandos were stated to be guards of Fahimur Rehman, who along with his three close associates was found dead in a land cruiser on Ring Road Peshawar in June this year.
An official of rural police said that Ahmad Gul had assured Taliban that his son would not support the peace body and requested them to avoid action against him. "But now he himself also lost his life," he added.
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where the HECK do you guys find these pix and posters?!! Classic :-)
[Dawn] A powerful car boomdestroyed a market in northwestern Pakistain on Friday, killing at least 11 people, police said.
The kaboom in Matni bazaar near the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar injured another 20 people and damaged 30 shops, senior police official Abdul Sattar said.
Khan said the dead and maimed had been transported to a hospital, and some of the injured were listed in a critical condition.
No one grabbed credit for the attack.
Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar condemned the attack, saying forces of Evil had killed innocent people by detonating the bomb in a crowded bazar.
"Such attacks cannot deter our resolve in the fight against terrorism," he said.
Peshawar has witnessed scores of such attacks, most blamed on Pak Taliban against whom the military has launched several offensives in recent years. Local tribal elders have assisted the military in its campaigns.
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[An Nahar] Pakistain on Thursday jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the head of a banned Sunni cut-thoat group accused of inciting sectarian hatred and criminal masterminding an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, police said.
Malik Ishaq, leader of 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 ... which is said to have links to al-Qaeda, was jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in the eastern city of Lahore after his return from a pilgrimage in 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... police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar said.
"I can confirm his arrest," she said, adding that Ishaq will be produced in a local court on Friday. Betcha he's out in five days or less. Any takers?
Police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him after his "provocative speech to spread sectarian hatred" at a religious gathering in Lahore earlier this month, police official Liaquat Ali said.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, regarded as Pakistain's fiercest Sunni cut-thoat group, was banned more than a decade ago by former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... .
It is accused of killing hundreds of minority Shiite Mohammedans after its emergence in the early 1990s.
Ishaq was jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in 1997 and is implicated in dozens of cases, mostly murder. He was released on bail in July last year after serving a jail term of nearly 14 years.
Since his release he had been frequently put under house arrest as his sermons raised sectarian tensions, officials said.
Ishaq was also accused of criminal masterminding, from behind bars, the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, which maimed seven players and an assistant coach, and killed eight Paks.
The attacks saw Pakistain stripped of its right to co-host last year's cricket World Cup.
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[An Nahar] Pak security officials said Friday that 15 troops were missing following fighting with thugs, as a Taliban video emerged showing what appeared to be the severed heads of a dozen soldiers.
The festivities on Tuesday came as part of a Pakistain army operation to repel Talibs who had crossed over from Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... in Afghanistan last Friday and occupied the village of Batwar in the Bajaur tribal district.
"At least 15 of our soldiers are still missing," a security bigshot told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Another security official said "more or less" that number of soldiers were missing but declined to give the exact total.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Sirajud Din sent AFP a video showing a thug commander posing with 12 heads arranged on the ground which he claimed were from soldiers they had killed.
"Praise be to God that the mujahideen in Bajaur agency have managed to kill the infidel soldiers of Pakistain," he says.
"Many of them were killed by bullets, 12 of them as you see have been beheaded, you see 12 heads here, and more heads are on the way."
The commander is flanked in the footage by gunnies including one wielding a huge axe.
The video also showed the identity cards of the dead men, but military sources have so far not said whether they are the missing soldiers or confirmed that those shown in the video are Pak troops.
In July the TTP released a video showing the heads of 17 Pak soldiers they claimed to have killed in a cross-border attack on a checkpost in the northwestern district of Upper Dir.
Intelligence officials blamed that attack on loyalists of Pak Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of TNSM head Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullahs Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , who fled to Afghanistan after losing control of the Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley to the army.
Fighting in Bajaur in the past week has claimed at least 50 lives, including 31 beturbanned goons and two members of a government-backed peace committee who were killed on Monday.
Bajaur is one of seven districts in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked beturbanned goons have carved out strongholds used to plot attacks on Pakistain.
Pakistain has lost more than 3,000 soldiers in the fight against homegrown gun-hung tough guys but has resisted U.S. pressure to do more to eliminate havens used by those fighting the Americans in Afghanistan.
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Pakistain has lost more than 3,000 soldiers in the fight against homegrown gun-hung tough guys but has resisted U.S. pressure to do more to eliminate havens used by those fighting the Americans in Afghanistan
The least the Paks could do is neuter them, as what is done with other pets that have gone feral.
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you'd think there'd be a little more...tension ...among the ISI, Mighty Pak Army (which keeps getting disassembled soldiers and Frontier militiamen back), and the various and sundry warlords, Taliban, and Pols.
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Pappy, surgery is expensive but they could always resort to polio shots ....
TWO suspected terrorists have been killed in a shootout with police in Indonesia, just six weeks out from the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings. A member of Densus 88 - Indonesia''s crack anti-terror unit - was also killed when police ambushed a group of armed men outside a supermarket in the city of Solo, in central Java, on Friday night. Police confirmed a security operation had taken place but would not say which organisation the two suspected terrorists belonged to, or whether they were planning attacks. "They were armed and one of the police officers was also shot dead," Indonesian National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said on Saturday.
[An Nahar] Fierce fighting rocked northern Syria on Friday as Ankara pressed its call for safe havens to be set up in the country to stem the refugee exodus and protesters demanded the fall of the regime.
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... told Syria's premier at a summit in Tehran that Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... must stop using heavy weapons in the conflict, and the International Committee of the Red Thingy warned of a fast deteriorating humanitarian situation.
Clashes erupted in the battleground city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Turkish border, and rebels attacked Abu Zohur air base in Idlib province on the border where they said they shot down a MiG warplane on Thursday, a rights group said.
In some of the heaviest fighting, rebels clashed with army troops in Albu Kamal, a town in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"The rebels have seized several army posts, including a base in the Hamdan military airport," Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expressed frustration at the reluctance of Ankara's Western allies to heed its calls for protected camps inside Syria to cope with the rapidly swelling numbers of fleeing civilians.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... estimates that in Aleppo alone at least 200,000 of the city's 2.7 million population have fled since it became a major battleground on July 20.
Rebels attacked a security service building in west Aleppo before dawn, and festivities erupted in the districts of Saif al-Dawla and Salaheddin in the southwest and Hanano in the northeast, the Observatory said.
In Idlib province, rebels seized part of the Abu Zohur base in heavy festivities, the Britannia-based watchdog said.
The rebels say that aircraft from Abu Zohur have been used by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's regime to launch devastating strikes on rebel-held areas.
The Observatory reported at least 70 people killed on Friday, with the overall corpse count since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March last year now topping 26,000.
It warned that hundreds of families remain trapped in the central city of Homs as an army siege of rebel-held districts entered its 90th day on Friday.
"The injured and the elderly need medicine, the children need milk. But nobody in the world cares any more, no one at all," activist Abu Bilal told Agence La Belle France Presse in Beirut via Skype. "Here in Homs, we are all dying a slow death."
Protesters demonstrated in Damascus, Daraa, Hama and also in Aleppo, chanting anti-regime slogans.
"We will not surrender, despite your tanks and guns!" they shouted in Assali, a Damascus district, while chants like "Treacherous soldier, shame on you!" echoed in Daraa as protesters accused regime troops of killing civilians.
The U.N.'s Ban told Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem that the fighting must stop, "with the primary responsibility resting on the government to halt its use of heavy weapons."
He said at a news conference in Tehran: "What is important at this time is that all the parties must stop the violence. All those actors who may be providing arms to both sides... must stop."
The International Committee of the Red Thingy warned that the situation across large swathes of Syria was "edging towards irreversible deterioration."
A Turkish diplomat told AFP Ankara would maintain its campaign for a safe haven inside Syria for the tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the violence after Davutoglu's appeal to the U.N. Security Council fell on deaf ears.
"We will continue to appeal to the international community to act," the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
Davutoglu on Thursday told the Security Council to act "without delay" to set up safe havens, warning that 80,000 Syrians are already in camps in Turkey, with 4,000 crossing the border each day.
"How long are we going to sit and watch while an entire generation is being wiped out by random bombardment and deliberate mass targeting?" Davutoglu asked, slamming the Security Council's failure to act.
But world powers failed to reach agreement on his proposal which would imply authorizing a highly controversial protective military operation.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad told Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam television: "Turkey nowadays trains and allows in terrorists, allows in al-Qaeda. Most of the faceless myrmidons in Syria come from Turkey."
Syria ally Russia on Friday again called for an immediate end to the violence.
"The violence in Syria has to be ended immediately," and work begun on a "political settlement to end the suffering of the civilian population," a foreign ministry statement said.
In other developments, Canada expanded sanctions against Damascus, adding 50 names to a list of people and organizations linked to Assad's regime in Ottawa's 10th tightening of sanctions against Syria in the past year.
And the news agency MAP said Morocco will host the next "Friends of Syria" meeting in October, not September as originally scheduled.
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