Fresh festivities between Tunisian anti-government protesters and police forces have left several people injured in the southwestern town of Kebili.
Violence broke out overnight Saturday into Sunday when angry youths threw stones and 'tear gas bombs' at police buildings, said local Police Chief Adel Kacem, quoted by Tunisia's state news agency TAP on Monday.
A four-month-old child was also injured by a tear gas canister thrown by protesters, Kacem claimed.
The angry protesters also attacked officers' homes with fire bombs, leaving an officer seriously injured, he went on to say.
Five people were tossed in the clink in the unrest, which continued through Monday.
Local witnesses accused the police of using excessive force and causing panic and injury in the Ennazla area.
The developments come as Tunisians remain skeptical about a rapid transition towards democracy.
Demonstrators demand the resignation of the transitional government, which still includes figures from the ousted regime of former ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Tensions have been climbing in Tunisia following reports of a possible coup by elements loyal to Ben Ali.
SANAA: Raging battles between government forces and military units opposed to Yemen's president killed 12 people in the capital as a crisis over a violent state crackdown on popular unrest drifted toward civil war.
How exactly do you 'order' a cease-fire? With extra cheese?
Despite an order from the vice president for a cease-fire, the afternoon calm was broken by explosions and machine gun fire.
Witnesses said two mortars hit at the end of a street where thousands of protesters have camped out for eight months to demand an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule.
The death toll has risen to around 70 people since Sunday, when frustration boiled over at Saleh's refusal to accept a mediated power transfer plan even after he suffered serious wounds in a June assassination attempt. That has turned the violence prevalent in the street revolt against Saleh from shooting at protesters increasingly into a military showdown between forces loyal to him and troops and tribes who have defected to the opposition.
Opposition and government sources said they were in talks on a political solution to the crisis.
If Saleh gave a hoot what the opposition thought the crisis would have been over months ago...
When it goes on this long it isn't a crisis anymore -- weather vs. climate, dontchaknow.
A Western diplomat said mediators were trying to hang on to the positive direction talks had been heading only a few days earlier.
"All the evidence is that we are continuing with Yemeni politics and conflict as usual. They will sit down and talk, but without a deal, it will kick off again in the future," the diplomat said.
Heavy shelling and machine gun fire rocked Sanaa before dawn on Tuesday and snipers lurked in the upper stories of buildings near the protester camp, which they call "Change Square." Four defector soldiers were killed in street fighting with pro-Saleh forces and two civilians died when three rockets crashed into a protest camp just after morning prayers at around 5 am, witnesses said.
But a consensus was emerging among sources on all sides that government forces clashed with those of defected General Ali Mohsen, who has pledged to defend protesters, after his men took control of territory previously under government control.
The opposition said Mohsen's troops took the area to fend off security forces they believed would enter the protest camp. A source at Mohsen's office said his forces were holding off fire at the request of Saleh's Vice President Abd Al-Hadi Mansour but warned that protesters would be harder to control.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRC) said it had reports of shooting at Al-Gomhori Hospital, one of Sanaa's main hospitals, as violence reached "unprecedented" levels in Yemen's capital.
In Geneva, ICRC spokesman Hicham Hassan said: "Armed men are inside the hospital, it is one of the main hospitals."
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A total of 35 individuals including 12 women were dumped near a busy commercial shopping center in Veracruz, Veracruz, according to Mexican news releases.
Governor of Veracruz state, Javier Duarte Ochoa announced the find in a two minute press conference in Xalapa Tuesday afternoon. He said most of the victims had criminal records, including kidnapping and murder.
Mexican news reports say the victims were all members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and had been executed by the Gulf cartel. The victims were found near two abandoned trucks on a highway overpass near the Plaza Las Americas shopping mall.
Males victims were naked to the waist and were handcuffed.
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So now the Zetas have to hit back, twice as hard. Will the war continue until there's just one left standing? This isn't the Sharks and the Jets either.
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Fortunately for everyone in Mexico, the Los Zetas are almost completely wannabes and not the original Zetas that were trained by American SF troops. All of those guys are dead or deep in hiding now; the newbies are slightly more capable gangbangers from the barrios in Mexico.
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Los Zetas are in deep trouble. Every cartel in Mexico wants to destroy them, and they are allying with one another to make that happen, and every government security element wants them dead as well.
Amsterdams main court building was severely damaged by a rocket propelled grenade in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but there are no reports of casualties.
Eyewitnesses say two men on a motorcycle fired the missile at the court on the Parnassusweg at around 02.30 hours.
The grenade left a hole in the courts outer wall and shattered windows on seven storeys. The damaged part of the building houses a number of courtrooms and several offices of the Public Prosecutor. Court sessions will go ahead as planned, a court spokesperson said.
Police expect the investigation to last throughout the day.
The high-security court in Amsterdam-Osdorp was attacked four years ago. On the first day of the trial of criminal Willem Holleeder and several other suspects, unknown assailants fired two explosive devices against the fortified courthouse, causing severe damage.
Security and Justice Minister Yvo Opstelten has condemned the attack as an assault on the state.
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The DutchNews.nl is reporting: According to the Telegraaf, most of the activity in E Tower is concerned with 'deportations' and illegal immigrants. There are no major criminal cases ongoing at the moment which would appear to rule out organised crime, the paper said.
One eyewitness told local television station AT5 he saw two people making off on a motorbike shortly after the blast. Another told the Telegraaf he had seen 'squatter types' in the vicinity.
PESHAWAR: At least 20 Taliban were killed when the security forces repelled their attack at a checkpoint in Orakzai on Tuesday, security officials said.
One solider was killed and 10 others, including five civilians, were injured when Taliban attacked Dabori Post, they told Daily Times. The officials said, At least 20 Taliban were killed in the pre-dawn clash. A search carried out by gunship helicopters spotted the bodies of the killed terrorists.
According to the officials, 100 Taliban attacked the checkpoint, as attack on checkpoints is a new technique adopted by the terrorists. The attack led to intermittent gunfire between the security forces and the attackers, the officials wishing not to be named said.
Orakzai tribal region is infested with members of Hakeemullah Mehsud-led group in South Waziristan and the military launched an action against them last year to clear the district. Orakzai is an important place for terrorists to influence up to Khyber bordering Peshawar.
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At least 29 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed after gunmen opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, Press TV reports.
Officials told Press TV that the gunmen riding motorcycles attacked the bus in Mastung area on Quetta-Taftan road of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.
About 30 other people were also injured in the shooting, according to officials. Most of the victims belonged to Hazara tribe of Shia Muslims.
The bus carrying Shia pilgrims was on its way from Quetta to the Iranian border when militants targeted it.
Every year millions of Muslims pilgrims flock to the holy shrines in the Iranian cities of Mashhad and Qom.
Pakistani security forces reached the area and started rescue operation following the incident.
The death toll is expected to rise further as most of the injured are said to be in critical conditions.
No group or person has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Pro-Taliban groups have launched a violent campaign against Shia Muslims, and appear to have widened their terror campaign in major Pakistani cities.
Several Shia religious gatherings have been targeted in different parts of the country over the past few months.
Shia sources say they make up one-third of Pakistan's population of nearly 170 million.
Since the 1980s, thousands of people have been killed in sectarian-related incidents in Pakistan.
At least 29 Shia Mohammedan pilgrims have been killed after gunnies opened fire on a bus in Pakistain's southwestern province of 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... , Press TV reports.
Officials told Press TV that the gunnies riding cycle of violences attacked the bus in Mastung area on Quetta-Taftan road of southwestern Pakistain on Tuesday. The bus carrying Shia pilgrims was on its way from Quetta to the Iranian border when cut-throats targeted it.
About 30 other people were also injured in the shooting, according to officials. Most of the victims belonged to Hazara tribe of Shia Mohammedans. The corpse count is expected to rise further as most of the injured are said to be at death's doors.
Every year millions of Mohammedans pilgrims flock to the holy shrines in the Iranian cities of Mashhad and Qom.
Pak security forces reached the area and started rescue operation following the incident.
No group or person has grabbed credit for the attack.
Pro-Taliban groups have launched a violent campaign against Shia Mohammedans, and appear to have widened their terror campaign in major Pak cities. Several Shia religious gatherings have been targeted in different parts of the country over the past few months.
Shia sources say they make up one-third of Pakistain's population of nearly 170 million. Since the 1980s, thousands of people have been killed in sectarian-related incidents in Pakistain.
In a brutal assault, gunnies ordered pilgrims off their bus, lined them up and assassinated them in a hail of gunfire in Mastung, a district 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of the southwest Balochistan province. "The attackers stopped the bus and forced the pilgrims to get off, lined them up and then opened fire," local deputy commissioner Saeed Imrani told AFP.
Shiite Mohammedans account for around a fifth of the country's 167 million population, which is dominated by Sunnis.
Oil and gas-rich, Balochistan borders Afghanistan as well as Iran. It also experiencing a surge in violence linked to a separatists fighting for political autonomy and a greater share of profits, and Talibs.
On September 7, Taliban jacket wallahs killed 27 people in Quetta, targeting the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps paramilitary after troops placed in long-term storage an alleged senior Al-Qaeda leader in the Quetta suburbs. One bomb detonated in a car outside Farrukh Shahzad's home, and the second attacker went kaboom!" inside the house, killing the deputy chief's wife and injuring him and at least one of his children.
Two days earlier, the military announced that Younis al-Mauritani had been placed in long-term storage on suspicion of planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia, along with two other high-ranking operatives.
The worst Islamist cut-thoat violence in Pakistain is concentrated in the northwest, where Taliban gunnies earlier Tuesday stormed a checkpoint, killing one soldier and sparking festivities in which up to 20 Death Eaters died. Officials said five soldiers and five civilians were also maimed after the Death Eaters attacked the Dabori post manned by paramilitary troops in the semi-autonomous tribal district of Orakzai, the officials said.
Orakzai is one of seven districts in Pakistain's northwestern tribal belt which the United States has described as most dangerous region in the world and a global headquarters of al-Qaeda.
The Pakistani military last year launched an operation against militants in Orakzai, which for two years was dominated by the Pakistani Taliban, blamed for most of the suicide and bomb attacks that routinely hit the country.
An hour after the first attack, unidentified gunnies killed another three Shiites on the outskirts of Quetta whom police said were relatives of victims of the first incident en route to collect their bodies. "Armed men ambushed their car. Three of them were killed and one was maimed. They were going to take the dead bodies," Hamid Shakil, a police brass hat in Quetta told AFP by telephone.
The bus driver, Khushal Khan, recounted harrowing details of the attack to news hounds for two Pak TV channels who quickly reached the scene. "There was no security on our bus. Eight to 10 attackers armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers stopped the bus and forced all the passengers to get off," he said in comments broadcast by Geo television. "The attackers then decamped in their vehicle."
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A police colonel was killed by unknown armed group north of Mosul, security sources said here today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the armed group opened fire and killed him immediately at the entrance of his house. The culprits fled the crime scene. No other details were given.
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A postman was shot and seriously injured in an attack by suspected terrorists militants in Pattani province on Wednesday.
Lert Sopanri, 50, was shot multiple times in the chest by two men who followed him on a motorcycle. Mr Lert was riding his motorcyle on a routine mail delivery when attacked. He was admitted to the hospital. Police found 12 spent 9 mm catridges at the scene.
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The Shield organization created by Marvel comics used to have a flying aircraft carrier. I'm not sure why you couldn't build one now specifically for drones. It wouldn't need to be as big as a standard carrier, not by a longshot. Heck, it could even potentially be a derigible that returned to an island or carrier from time-to-time to restock on missiles and such.
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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SANAA: Raging battles between government forces and military units opposed to Yemen's president killed 12 people in the capital as a crisis over a violent state crackdown on popular unrest drifted toward civil war.
PESHAWAR: At least 20 Taliban were killed when the security forces repelled their attack at a checkpoint in Orakzai on Tuesday, security officials said.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A police colonel was killed by unknown armed group north of Mosul, security sources said here today.
