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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Cleo Moore aka Mary Adams in "One Girl's Confession" aka Lily Krenshka / Lila Crane in "Over-Exposed" aka Julie Hilmer in "Hit and Run" aka Margo in "Strange Fascination" Peggy in "Bait" aka Myrna Bowers in "On Dangerous Ground" (Died in 1973 at age 48)
[Bangla Daily Star] An Afghan provincial government official and former Taliban shadow governor from southern Kandahar was hit in a roadside kabooming yesterday, escaping with minor injuries, officials said.
Noor-ul-Aziz, director of religious affairs at Kandahar provincial government since he reconciled with the government, was travelling through the city at 11:30 am (0700 GMT) when his car struck a bomb.
"Noor-ul-Aziz Agha... has been maimed in a roadside kaboomkaboom," said the statement from the provincial government office.
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Pakistain's secret service spied on German security forces in Afghanistan, raising fears sensitive information could end up in the hands of the Taliban, a German paper reported on Sunday.
Without citing its sources, mass-selling weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency warned its interior ministry that Pakistain had spied on 180 German coppers deployed in Afghanistan to train locals.
The interior ministry told Rooters the BND suspected a German email had been intercepted but could not give confirmation. The ministry added it was not aware of any comprehensive interception of German police data.
Pakistain's interior and foreign ministries and military were unavailable for comment.
Bild am Sonntag said private telephone calls, messages to the ministry, military mission orders and lists of police officer names had been intercepted.
"On the basis of experience we must expect that the Pakistain intelligence agency ISI is continuing to give sensitive military information to the Taliban," Bild cited an unnamed Berlin security expert as saying.
The BND declined to comment on the report.
The United States has long suspected Pakistain, or elements within the ISI, of supporting myrmidon groups in order to increase its influence in Afghanistan, particularly after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops leave in 2014.
Pakistain supported the Afghan Taliban before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. It was one of only three countries to have diplomatic relations with the Islamist group.
Citing security sources, Bild wrote that German coppers in Afghanistan have communicated in the past via non-secure means as they cost less.
"We have opened the floodgates to the enemy," Bild cited a high-ranking Berlin ministry official as saying.
Bild said shortly after the BND warning and before a visit by the German president to Afghanistan, the German police mission was equipped with brand new laptops with the latest software for secure communication.
The interior ministry confirmed the police laptops and broadcasting technology were tested and equipped with new software between Sept.13 and 23. A front man said this was a regular I.T.-checkup and was not linked to the spying claim.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Two Al-Shabaabjacket wallahs blew themselves up yesterday at an Amisom base in Mogadishu and conflicting accounts indicate anywhere between three and 80 Ugandan soldiers were killed.
Following the attack, Al-Shabaab said today an American citizen of Somali origin was one of the two suicide bombers behind the attack.
Several pro-Al-Shabaab radio stations broadcast what they said were the last words of the attacker named as Abdusalam al-Muhajir who said that he "wanted to die as a martyr" after spending the last two years fighting alongside the beturbanned fascisti.
"I am an American citizen who grew up in the United States after my parents took me there at the age of two," he said in the message which was broadcast a day after the attack on an African Union base in the capital.
Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim, a Al-Shabaab front man, said: "Two young and brave mujahideen warriors, one who came from the United States, led the holy attack that killed many enemies yesterday."
Late on Saturday, the bad boy group, which withdrew from the Somali capital in August, leaving a queasy security situation, claimed in a press statement that "the Mujahideen stormed an Amisom compound, killing 80 Ugandan soldiers."
Uganda army Commander, Lt Gen Katumba Wamala, last night confirmed that a lunch-hour suicide kaboom on AU troops took place but but said only three soldiers perished and two were seriously injured.
"Eighty soldiers dead; are they nsenene (grasshoppers)?" Gen Katumba asked when informed of the Al-Shabaab claims.
Military front man Felix Kulayigye said preliminary details show three soldiers died and an equal number injured; two seriously.
"Those injured have been flown for treatment to Nairobi Hospital," Col Kulayigye said. "An investigation is being carried out to know exactly how this attack happened."
UPDF declined to name the dead, and or injured, soldiers saying it needs to first notify their relatives.
There were varied claims about fatality figures. Mr Wafula Wamunyinyi, African Union deputy Special Representative in Mogadishu said by telephone that four Amisom soldiers were killed.
He said: "They approached the frontline and then went kaboom! their bombs. Four of the Amison soldiers was struck down in his prime and seven were maimed."
The AU in a press statement said the midday attack was executed by armed terrorists, including two suicide bombers disguised as Somali Army troops, who attempted to recapture an area near German Steel Factory which they lost two months ago.
It is understood the suicide kaboom triggered heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... for control of the gateway to Industrial Road, an important city artery, which marks Mogadishu's northern border.
Amisom troops repulsed the bad boys, AU said.
Some sources in the area indicated that as soon as the kabooms inside the compound occurred, more faceless myrmidons in army uniforms appeared from nearby and immediately jumped in commandos' styles over the perimeter wall.
Al-Shabaab claimed that heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... and the preceding suicide kabooms caused 100 deaths.
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The outgoing premier of Libya's NTC, Mahmoud Jibril said Sunday that nuclear weapons were found in the country, according to the Al Arabiya TV network, Israel Radio reported.
Jibril also said that the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will provide further details on the weapons found in the next few days, according to the report.
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From what I'm seeing this morning, they've been downgraded from "weapons" to "materials".
But there are also some stories floating around that they've found chemical weapons.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Qaddafi had shelled out to buy some old Russian nuclear artillery rounds. Not that even if he did would it be reported as such.
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Five'll get you ten that this is just them reporting Gaddafi's known yellowcake cache (which the press tripped over, wandering about central Libyan desert towns in the aftermath of the collapse of Tripoli) as if it were something novel.
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A member of the Saudi royal family has pledged $900,000 to a bounty offered by a prominent cleric to any Palestinian who kidnaps an IDF soldier, according to comments aired on a private TV station on Saturday.
Prince Khaled bin Talal,a brother of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Once Citibank Corp's largest share owner and fount of Muslim magnanimity
told Daleel television over the phone that he decided to contribute to Awad al-Qarni's bounty after the Saudi cleric received death threats for offering $100,000 to capture an IDF soldier.
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I think it would be hilarious if some unnamed "Jew" was to offer a cool $1m bounty on the head of this clown, payable to any "Muslim" who decides to off him for cash.
Those guys are already so hyper-paranoid that he would probably seal himself inside a bunker for a decade. And he would need to, because so many Muslims would be more than willing to get rich quick.
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Actually, it'd be funnier if his cell phone exploded and splattered his head all over the wall. I hear Mossad has nothing to do with exploding cell phones that kill terrorist vermin.
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Saudis showing their true colours!
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Well, since the powers of international courts are so universally accepted these days, file a criminal complaint of soliciting a felony and tie the moke up hearings in Brussels or the Hague for the rest of his life....
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This is putatively a response to the reward offered by an Israeli family for the death of the Palestinian convicted of the terror attack which killed their child. The terrorist was released in the first round of the Schalit exchange.
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Yesterday and today I have followed this. It is good to see more comments today. I would have thought to hear from g(r)omgoru but not as yet.
Why now, was my question. Perhaps this has been going on for some time. The Saudi fear the Iranians.The Saudi fear the Arab spring. Who are they trying to impress. What is to be gained. I guess TW you may have the answer.
[Yemen Post] Tribal sources in the districts of Nihm and Arhab, outskirts on the capital Sana'a, said that government forces pounded the areas for the past consecutive 3 days without giving the population any respite.
Two civilians were reported killed in Arhab on Saturday.
Both districts are situated on the northern outskirts of Sana'a, the Yemeni capital and in direct alignment with the country's main International Airport.
Since the tribes announced their allegiance to the revolution, the government has been battling the tribal forces consistently.
Back in August, villagers were forced to flee to neighboring caves in order to escape the bombing and destruction, too scared that a shell would land on their loved ones.
Eyewitnesses confirmed today that the 62 Brigade which is stationed in the area received orders to launch an intense shelling attack onto the villages, regardless of the potential civilian casualties. So far 2 deaths and a dozen casualties were reported.
Residents called on for help as they say their properties and businesses were reduced to rubbles, adding that the regime was preventing ambulances and medical staff to reach the injured.
Government sources have explained that since Arhab and Nihm are so close to the Sana'a International Airport and have an almost direct access to the capital, president Saleh is determined to block any potential movement of troops towards the city, even if it meant destroying the area entirely.
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[An Nahar] Four kabooms rocked an air base in Sanaa on Sunday, setting two fighter jets on fire and prompting the closure of the Yemeni capital's international airport, aviation officials said.
"There were four kabooms at the air force base alongside the international airport and two fighter jets went up in flames," the official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
Sanaa international airport closed after the kabooms, another aviation official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The airport was closed right after the kabooms ... All flights have been re-routed to Aden," the south's main city, the official said.
Residents of the airport district area reported loud kabooms and massive flames and plumes of smoke.
There were no immediate reports of casualties and no claims of responsibility for an attack.
Sanaa has been the scene of deadly festivities between troops loyal 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... , and dissident soldiers and armed rustics who have thrown their support behind protests that have rocked his regime since January.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have risked their lives in near daily protests that have been met with force by pro-Saleh troops. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands more maimed over the past nine months.
On Friday, marchers in Sanaa demanded Saleh go on trial over the killings.
"O men who love peace in the world, Saleh must face justice," chanted a crowd of 10,000 people that amassed after weekly Moslem prayers in Sittin Street, near Change Square, the epicenter of anti-regime demonstrations.
The opposition accuses the longtime president of nepotism and corruption, but the strongman has refused to step down despite pressure from Gulf nations and the U.N. Security Council.
Last Tuesday, Saleh told the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa that he is committed to a Gulf plan to step down, the State Department said.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland welcomed Saleh's remarks but said that he needed to live up to his promises, after a string of statements by the veteran leader voicing support for the plan without implementing it.
Saleh met with U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein to discuss developments in Yemen after the Security Council and the United States both urged him to begin the transfer of power immediately, Nuland said.
Under the plan brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh would step down 30 days upon signing of the deal in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
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As many as ten individuals may have been buried in a remote area of western Chihuahua state, according to Mexican news accounts.
Reports are an anonymous phone call led Chihuahua state police to a location near El Rancho Dolores near Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, where a grave was found Saturday night.
Ciudad Cuauhtemoc is due west of Chihuahua, Chihuahua on Mexico Federal 45 highway. The location of the grave is said to be about 200 meters from a stream bed. At the location were found .32 caliber and 9mm spent shell casings, and bits of masking tape.
Current reports place the death toll at six, but La Polaka has said at least ten dead were found.
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A total of ten unidentified individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in and around the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon metropolitan area.
Four unidentified men were found shot to death in a remote area east of Monterrey Sunday morning. A Mexican Army unit was dispatched to Kilometer 18 of the Cadereyta-Allende road where the victims, all in their 30s, were found tortured then shot. Additional Policia Federal and army units were sent to the area following the discovery to beef up patrols.
Two unidentified men were found dead in the trunk of a car in San Pedro Garza Garcia Sunday. Passersby detected an odor eminating from the vehicle which was parked near the intersection of Avenida Alfonso Reyes and Calle Jimenez in Los Sauces colony. Authorities refused to say the victims had been shot, but information is the victims had been tortured.
An unidentified man was found shot to death at a restaurant in Monterrey early Sunday morning. The victim was found in the parking lot of Los Doctores restaurant near the intersection of calles Peñoles and Santos Degollado in Luisa Maria colony.
An unidentified woman was found decapitated in southern Monterrey Sunday morning. The victim was found near an auto body shop near the intersection of Avenida Rio Nazas ans Calle Virginia Fabregas in Luis Echeverria colony around 0940 hours.
Two unidentified men robbed a taqueria Friday night in eastern Monterrey. Two men, one of them wielding a fake rifle stormed the restaurant near the intersection of calles Jardin de las Delicias and Nueva Orleans in Lincoln colony at about 2230 hrs and demanded personal belongings from customers as well as the stores's receipts. The crew arrived at the scene aboard a stolen Jeep Liberty and stole a different car to make their getaway, this time presumably a late model Toyota Camry.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Monterrey Friday afternoon. The victims were apparently on foot at about 1500 hrs on Avenida Las Torres in the Cumbres del Valle colony when they were shot.
[An Nahar] French police fired tear gas to break up festivities that erupted between Turkish protesters and supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in central Gay Paree on Sunday.
Around 150 young Turks waving their national flag and singing patriotic songs gathered on the Place de la Bastille to protest "terrorism in Turkey" after an attack by PKK rebels that killed 24 earlier this month.
Youths saying they were PKK supporters hurled stones and other objects at the gathering before police fired tear gas to disperse the Kurds.
One of the Turkish protest's organizers, Hakan Fakili, said that 10 people were maimed.
Turkey launched a wide army operation against the PKK after they carried out a series of attacks that killed 24 soldiers and injured 18 others in Cukurca town of Hakkari province near the Iraqi border on October 18.
The latest attack of the PKK caused the biggest loss for the army since 1993, when the PKK rebels killed 33 unarmed soldiers.
Clashes between the PKK and the army have escalated since the summer.
The PKK listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community took up arms for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
Turkey's last ground incursion into northern Iraq, an autonomous Kurdish region, was in February 2008, when the army struck against the Zap region.
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Kurds are rapidly become a majority in Turkey, thanks to their fecundity. It will be interesting see what happens as the country becomes the Kurdistan Kurds have been agitating for throughout the 20th century.
[Dawn] DERA ISMAIL KHAN Unidentified persons rubbed out an influential member of a local peace committee here on Friday night and took away his head with them.
Sources said that Qari Marjan was killed by person or persons unknown in Rori village in the limits of Kulachi cop shoppe.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else on the report of Mohammad Iqbal, who told them that his cousin Qari Marjan, 41, was having tea along with his friends at a tea stall when masked men opened firing on him.
He said that the masked assailants beheaded him after killing and took away his head with them. "The residents of the area found his head, dumped about one kilometre away from the village, on Saturday," police said.
In Nowshera, three persons were seriously injured when an kaboom occurred in Afghanistan-bound oil tanker at a workshop at Pabbi on Saturday.
Police said that the oil tanker developed some faults and was taken to a workshop at Toru Jabba. A blast occurred in the vehicle when mechanics started to repair it. The mechanic, Akbar, his helper, Atif, and a passerby identified as Rehmat Gul were maimed in the blast.
The Pabbi cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else against the owner of tanker, Mohammad Yoqoob, and started investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... a house was partially damaged when explosives went off in a village in the precincts of Mandan cop shoppe in Bannu on Friday night.
The residents of the area said that the kaboom blew away the main gate of the house of Abdul Ghaffar in Kangar Larmast village and damaged a room in which the family members were asleep.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the family members remained unhurt. Police reached the spot soon after the incident and collected evidence.
In a subsequent search operation in Janikhel and Miryan areas, police locked away 21 suspected persons, one of them in injured condition, after an exchange of fire. The injured man identified as Akbar Zaman was taken to a local hospital.
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[Dawn] Unknown myrmidons attacked Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) offices in different cities and towns of interior Sindh and set them ablaze late on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Unknown attackers beat feet after setting PML-N office in Hyderabad on fire, which was located on first floor of the district council building.
According to the watchman of the building four attackers opened fire and beat feet after setting the building alight.
General secretary PML-N Hyderabad told DawnNews that PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif's ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... posters and pictures were also being burnt in different parts of the city.
NawabShah, Kindhkot, Jacobabad and Khairpur were among other cities where PML-N's offices were targeted and set ablaze.
Residence of PML-N district chief's brother in Sukker was also attacked with a petrol bomb, however no casualty was reported.
Sindh Home Minister Manzoor wasan ordered for the judicial inquiry of the incidents and asked IG Sindh police to submit report on priority basis.
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[One Pakistan] Pak officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed at least four beturbanned goons in Pakistain's northwestern tribal region, near the Afghan border.
Authorities say the drone fired at least four missiles into a vehicle Sunday near the town of Datta Khel in the North Wazoo region.
U.S. officials have never publicly acknowledged the use of drone strikes inside Pakistain, but privately they have confirmed their existence to various news outlets. Pakistain has condemned the attacks as a violation of its illusory sovereignty, but the strikes are believed to be carried out with the help of Pak intelligence.
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Lately there've been so many and such similar dronezaps that one can't tell if it's the same one just reported slightly differently, or a different one.
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian officials have secured a truce to halt hostilities between Gazoofaceless myrmidons and Israel, Israeli TV said on Sunday.
Israel's channel 10 said the truce would begin at 10 p.m. Sunday.
A high-ranking Egyptian official, who was not named, said Israel would not be able to carry out a major military operation in the Gazoo Strip, as Egypt will not turn a blind eye to such actions, the TV channel's website said.
Israeli Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip killed 9 Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... fighters on Saturday, amid a barrage of rockets from Gazoo that killed one Israeli.
A previous truce, also brokered by Egypt, started 6 a.m. Sunday, but was followed by rocket fire and an Israeli Arclight airstrike that killed a member of DFLP's armed wing in Rafah.
(Ma'an) -- A truce secured through Egyptian mediation early on Sunday failed to end cross border violence between Israel and the Gazoo Strip.
The truce aimed to put an end to the violence which had killed nine Paleostinian gunnies and an Israeli civilian on Saturday.
Sources close to Gazoo's ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement and to Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , which was at the forefront of fierce cross-border fighting on Saturday said that Egyptian intelligence officials helped broker a ceasefire due to take hold at 6 a.m.
Three rockets were fired at Israel after the 6 a.m. deadline for the truce, an Israeli official said. Two were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile shield and another slammed into southern Israel causing no casualties or damage.
Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad base in southern Gazoo on Saturday afternoon, killing five senior operatives and drawing Paleostinian rocket salvoes that killed an Israeli civilian.
Four more fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in separate strikes.
Medical front man Adham Abu Salmiya identified two of them as Sami Abu Sabt, 21, and Suleiman Abu Fatima, 25, both members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing.
The Paleostinian civil defense managed to recover the bodies of two other Paleostinians killed in Israeli Arclight airstrikes late Saturday. They were later identified as Suheil Jundieh and Murdi Hajjaj.
One of some 30 rockets and mortar bombs fired at Israel killed a man in the city of Ashkelon. Two other people were maimed.
Israel kept schools shut in its southern region on Sunday as a precaution against further rocket fire, while hundreds of thousands of civilians within 40 km of Gazoo were urged to stay indoors.
Richard Miron, the front man for UN special envoy for the grinding of the peace processor Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said Saturday in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
Islamic Jihad said a commander, Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil, and four comrades who had overseen production of bombs and rockets were killed in Saturday's Israeli strike on the base. Two other fighters were maimed.
Islamic Jihad vowed Dire Revenge, a call echoed by smaller groups in the coastal territory.
"There is no chance of speaking about a truce now, following such a big crime against leaders of the group," Islamic Jihad front man Abu Ahmed said on Saturday.
Islamic Jihad and two more secular factions, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s... and Fatah-aligned al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, grabbed credit for most of Saturday's rocket fire.
Israel demanded international intervention to stop the Paleostinian attacks.
Hamas last week repatriated an Israeli soldier it seized in 2006 in exchange for the release of more than 1,000 nabbed Paleostinians. There were no claims of any Hamas involvement in Saturday's violence.
Commenting on the Islamic Jihad deaths, Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."
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It is possible that Iran has started supporting Islamic Jihad while reducing subsidies to Hamas. It is also possible that Islamic Jihad has gotten its hands on some of the heavy stuff from the Libyan weapons depot.
If Islamic Jihad takes on Hamas in a serious way, it could be quite a popcorn event.
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Ima thinkin' we should have an over/under pool on how long it takes the IDF to bring the hammer down after the Paleos achieve statehood. But I can't decide if the units should be days or hours.
Some 20 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gazoo into southern Israel on Saturday, killing one man and wounding four others.
Man wounded in Ashkelon rocket strike dies of his wounds; some 20 rockets, mortars fired from Gaza into Israel; IDF kills five Islamic Jihad militants just hours before rocket attack, then kills two more in retaliatory strike.
The rocket barrage followed an IDF strike on the Gazoo Strip which resulted in the deaths of five Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... thugs.
Rockets were fired from Gazoo into Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gan Yavne, and around Be'er Sheva. One man was seriously maimed in Ashkelon and eventually died of his wounds. Another man was moderately maimed in the Ashdod rocket strike and three others were lightly hurt. Moreover, 17 trauma victims were reported.
As a result of the escalation, classes were canceled in Ashdod, Ashkelon and other towns in the 40-kilometer range from Gazoo. Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva also called off classes, which were due to begin on Sunday.
The Israel Defense Forces responded to the rocket fire by carrying out another air strike on Gazoo thugs, and according to Paleostinian sources, two more snuffies were killed as a result.
The IDF Spokesperson issued a statement Saturday confirming an Israel Air Force strike on Gazoosnuffies who were firing rockets into Israel.
On Saturday afternoon, four rockets went kaboom! in Ashdod, one directly hitting a residential building and lightly wounding a man. Another rocket hit a school, but caused no casualties.
An hour afterward a rocket hit an Ashkelon home, seriously wounding a man who was transferred to Barzilai hospital where he later died of his wounds.
One rocket went kaboom! in Gan Yavne, lightly wounding a 40-year-old man who sustained shrapnel wounds to his legs. Several trauma victims were also reported.
A short time later, a Qassam rocket fell in Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, and three mortar shells landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no casualties or damage.
After several hours, two more rockets went kaboom! in an open area west of Be'er Sheva, and no casualties were reported.
Yigal Cooper, a resident of the Ashdod building that was hit, said that the city was in panic.
"We knew there would be more kabooms so we went into our protected spaces. The whole building shook and we panicked. We waited for several minutes before coming out, and then I saw that my car had burned down."
Following the kabooms, head of the Gan Yavneh local council, Dror Aharon, said, "We heard an kaboom one minute after the siren sounded. Damage has been caused to a number of vehicles and houses."
The council head said the maimed man is Chaim, who heads the parent committee at one of the community's schools. According to Aharon, Chaim ran outside to see if anything had happened to his son, and was maimed in his leg. He then ran home, and a Magen David Adom ambulance took him to a hospital.
"We have been demanding protected areas for some time now. This kind of reality could repeat itself tomorrow. We will evaluate the situation with the Home Front Command later on in the evening with regards to whether school will be held tomorrow," said Aharon.
An alarm sounded throughout Ashdod prior to the kabooms, just hours after Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a commander of the Islamic Jihad and four of its munitions experts.
According to IDF sources, the strike was targeted at the cell responsible for launching a Grad rocket that went kaboom! in Ashdod earlier this week.
Paleostinian sources say the strike occurred near the Al-Sultan neighborhood, near the former Israeli settlement of Atzmona. Sources also said the strike killed commander Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil and four senior comrades who oversaw the manufacture of bombs and rockets for the faction.
In the wake of the strike, the organization said a response would come "deep into Israeli territory."
[An Nahar] China's Middle East envoy Wu Sike cautioned Syria during a visit to Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... of the dangers of a government crackdown on dissent that he said "cannot continue," he told news hounds in Cairo on Sunday.
Wu said that he "affirmed to bigwigs in Syria of the danger of the situation and that it cannot continue," during his visit to Damascus on Thursday.
He said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... regime must "respect and respond to the aspirations and rightful demands of the Syrian people," according to an Arabic translation of his remarks in Mandarin by an interpreter traveling in his delegation.
Wu said China supported an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... proposal for Assad's regime to hold talks with dissidents, some of whom he met during his visit to Damascus.
"Syria has to show some flexibility in that regard in order to help the vaporous Arab League implement its proposal," he said, when asked whether he believed Assad's regime should negotiate with overseas-based dissident groups.
China, along with Russia, vetoed a Western-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on October 4 that would have threatened Assad's regime with targeted sanctions if it continued its campaign against protesters.
Asked whether China would veto further resolutions if the regime continued its crackdown, which the U.N. says has killed more than 3,000 people, Wu said he warned Syrian officials of the dangers of the continuing unrest.
He added that the "international community must respect Syria's illusory sovereignty" and that China "would continue its efforts internationally and in the Security Council to find a solution."
Asked whether China would raise the pressure on Assad, he said: "At this time we must concentrate on ending the bloody festivities" through the Arab League's efforts.
Wu's remarks came as an Arab League team was due to hold talks with top Syrian officials later on Sunday.
The Arab ministerial delegation led by Qatar aims in the Doha talks to try to reach "serious results and an exit to the Syrian crisis," a statement said.
In talks in Damascus last week, the Arab ministers warned Assad to stop the bloodshed and start meaningful reforms or face an international intervention, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported on Sunday.
Citing well-informed Arab sources, the paper said the delegation told Assad on Wednesday that failure to resolve the crisis within the Arab fold would mean "internationalizing" the unrest.
"This would mean Syria should expect a foreign intervention and a painful international blockade on the economy and other aspects," the daily said.
The Doha talks come as Syrian activists put mounting pressure on the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership in the 22-member bloc.
"Assad's militias have been killing us for eight months. They arrest us and crush us ... And you, Arabs, who love rhetoric, what are you doing," the Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the motors of dissent, said in a post on its Facebook page.
The activists called for protests across Syria on Sunday calling for the League to "freeze the membership" of Syria.
At least two people were killed in fresh violence on Sunday, both by snipers in the flashpoint central province of Homs, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group said.
Gunfire from a security checkpoint in the Deir Balaa neighborhood of Homs city maimed another 10 people, some of them critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Saturday in Homs, 20 Syrian soldiers were killed and 53 maimed in festivities with presumed army deserters, while 10 security agents and a deserter were killed in a bus ambush, the Britannia-based watchdog added.
It said at least 12 civilians also died from sniper or machinegun fire in the province.
Funerals were held on Sunday for eight of the security force personnel killed the previous day, state news agency SANA said.
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[An Nahar] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... on Sunday proposed a plan to end the bloodshed in Syria and expects Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... response on Monday, Qatar's foreign minister told news hounds.
An Arab ministerial team "agreed on a serious proposal to stop the killing and all forms of violence in Syria," Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani told news hounds after more than three hours of talks in Doha between a group of Arab foreign ministers and a Syrian team led by their Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem.
"The Syrian delegation has said they would respond tomorrow," he said.
In response to a warning from Assad that any Western intervention in Syria would inflame the region, Jassem said the risk was if Syria failed to take "concrete steps" to stop the violence.
"The entire region is at risk of a massive storm," he said, warning against any "procrastination and maneuvering."
"What is required of Syria ... is concrete steps that could avoid what happened to other countries," Sheikh Hamad said, in apparent reference to the conflict in Libya.
Assad has warned that Western intervention in Syria would cause an "earthquake" across the Middle East, Britannia's Sunday Telegraph newspaper quoted him as telling one of its journalists.
The talks in Doha were bolstered by strong support for the bloc's mediation efforts from China, one of two governments with Russia which earlier this month vetoed U.N. Security Council action against Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... The Arab ministerial delegation led by Qatar aims to try to reach "serious results and an exit to the Syrian crisis," a statement from the team said before the meeting.
In talks in Damascus last week, the Arab ministers warned Assad to stop the bloodshed and start meaningful reforms or face an international intervention, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported on Sunday.
Citing well-informed Arab sources, the paper said the delegation told Assad on Wednesday that failure to resolve the crisis within the Arab fold would mean "internationalizing" the unrest.
"This would mean Syria should expect a foreign intervention and a painful international blockade on the economy and other aspects," the daily said.
China threw its weight behind the Arab mediation effort, with its Middle East envoy Wu Sike saying he had told Assad in Damascus on Thursday that his regime's deadly crackdown on dissent "cannot continue."
Wu said China supported the vaporous Arab League's proposal for Assad's regime to hold talks with dissidents, some of whom he met during his visit to the Syrian capital.
"Syria has to show some flexibility in that regard in order to help the Arab League implement its proposal," he said.
Wu said Assad's regime must "respect and respond to the aspirations and rightful demands of the Syrian people," and abandon the crackdown that has killed more than 3,000 people since mid-March, according to U.N. figures.
China, along with Russia, vetoed a Western-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on October 4 that would have threatened Assad's regime with targeted sanctions if it continued its campaign against protesters.
Assad told Russian television on Sunday he expected continued support from Moscow, less than month after President Dmitry Medvedev told the Syrian strongman for the first time to either accept political reform or bow to calls for his resignation.
"First and foremost, we are relying on Russia as a country with which we are bound by strong ties, in the historic perspective," Assad told Moscow's Channel One television.
The Syrian foreign ministry accused the Arab ministerial delegation of stoking dissent, having been influenced by "lies spread by television channels."
It said that in Sunday's talks in Doha, Muallem would inform the delegation of the "true situation in Syria," the official SANA news agency reported.
The Doha talks come as Syrian activists put mounting pressure on the Arab League to suspend Syria's membership in the 22-member bloc.
"Assad's militias have been killing us for eight months. They arrest us and crush us ... And you, Arabs, who love rhetoric, what are you doing," the Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the motors of dissent, said in a post on its Facebook page.
The activists called for protests across Syria on Sunday calling for the League to "freeze the membership" of Syria.
At least two people were killed in fresh violence on Sunday, both by snipers in the flashpoint central province of Homs, a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. group said.
Gunfire from a security checkpoint in the Deir Balaa neighborhood of Homs city maimed another 10 people, some of them critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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