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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Kyoko Fukada aka Momoko Ryugasaki in "Kamikaze Girls" aka Haruna Yamaguchi, the Pop Star in "Dolls" aka Kanae Sawaguchi in "Ring 2" aka Sakiko Kamiuchi - Fourth Daughter in "Like Asura" aka Machiko Yuki in "Shisha no gakuensai" aka Himiko in "Onmyoji 2" aka Haru in "The Inugamis" Aka Marie Suzuki in "Second Virgin" (age 30)
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GB your dreaming. I know several men who have gone overseas to find Asian wives.
It reminds me of "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" (After They've Seen Paree). Words by Sam M. Lewis, 1885-1959 and Joe Young.
GARISSA, Kenya: Kenyas military warned the residents of 10 towns in Somalia on Tuesday, including the port city of Kishmayu, Baidoa and Afgoye near the capital Mogadishu, that they will be under attack continuously.
The fact the towns listed include places well beyond the southern part of Somalia where Kenyan troops are advancing suggests that Kenya may step up airstrikes on other areas where Al-Shabab insurgents have strongholds.
Somalias Al-Shabab rebels also ambushed a Kenyan military convoy in the south of the Horn of Africa nation on Tuesday, the insurgents, a militia fighting with Kenyan and Somali government troops and a Kenyan security source told Reuters. All three sources told Reuters the ambush happened on the road leading from the Kenyan border town of Liboi toward forward Kenyan troop positions further inside Somalia.
Kenyan troops were attacked on the same road last Thursday in the first serious clash with Al-Shabab fighters since pushing into Somalia. Kenyas military said it killed nine Al-Shabab fighters then and one Kenyan soldier died from his wounds.
A Kenyan security source, who declined to be named, said three of its soldiers were wounded in Tuesdays attack. Mahmud Farah, a spokesman for the pro-Somali government Ras Kamboni militia said no Kenyan soldiers died in the attack.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, spokesman for Al-Shababs fighters, said they ambushed a Kenyan military convoy between Tabda and Dhobley and killed 10 soldiers.
The main objective of Kenyan ground forces is to seize the southern port of Kismayu, as this is a key Al-Shabab stronghold and an important source of funding for the Al-Qaeda-linked militants, and to dismantle the rebel network.
Operation Linda Nchi is on course, advance to Kismayu is on schedule, Chirchir said. The Kenyan operation is called Linda Nchi, which means Protect the Nation in the Swahili language.
Other towns listed by the Kenyan Defense Forces spokesman included Buale, Afmadow, Baar Dheere, Dinsoor and Jilib, the place hit by a Kenyan airstrike on Sunday.
Chirchir said the Kenyan military had received reliable confirmation that two aircraft had landed in the town of Baidoa with a consignment of arms destined for Al-Shabab. Baidoa, about 270 km northwest of Mogadishu, used to host Somalias parliament, before the rebels seized it in early 2009.
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[Tripoli Post] Days after US President Barack Because I won Obama called on Egypt's military to lift a state of emergency and end military trials for civilians, Egypt's ruling military tossed in the calaboose Alaa Abdel Fatah, a veteran dissident and blogger on charges of inciting deadly festivities between soldiers and Christians in October.
Abdel Fatah, who was tossed in the calaboose for his activism under ousted President Hosni Mubarak's ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... government in 2006, was remanded in jug for 15 days, and it is now up to the prosecutor to decide whether to formally refer him to a military court or release him.
Another activist, Bahaa Saber, faces the same charges but he was not jugged. He said that he and Abdel Fatah were charged with inciting attacks against soldiers and participating in the October 9 festivities in Cairo. Saber said they are charged with inciting attacks against soldiers and participating in them.
Coptic Christians were protesting against an attack on a church when festivities broke out with soldiers outside the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
's building. The festivities left 25 people dead, most of them Copts.
At the time, soldiers reportedly fired upon protesters and ran them over with armoured cars. The military denied the accusations and instead said that a number of its soldiers had died in the festivities.It refused to give a toll.
Saber said he and Abdel Fatah refused to answer the prosecutor's questions when they attended the military prosecutor's summons on Sunday. He said they were convinced that the military has no right to intervene in judicial matters.
He went on to say: "It was humiliating and unacceptable. This is an unjust escalation by the military. I will not be silenced nor intimidated, and I don't think people will be silent either."
Abdel Fatah and Saber are only two of the thousands of civilians the military has tried in trials rights groups say are unfair and result in harsh sentences, since it took charge of the country after Mubarak's ouster on February 11.
Saber said the pair's lawyers were not allowed to see the military prosecution's evidence, and given its role in the incident questioned the military's impartiality in investigating the deadly clash.
Gay Paree-based media rights groups 'Reporters without Borders' expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at the plight of Fatah, Saber and other "cyber-activists" in Egypt, accusing the current regime of pursuing "increasingly repressive policies towards the Internet and bloggers." It said the situation for Internet-based activists had worsened since the fall of Mubarak.
It said that on October 22, Ayman Youssef Mansour was sentenced to three years' forced labour for having insulted Islam on Facebook, said RSF, and four days earlier a court ordered blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad to be confined to a psychiatric clinic for 45 days for having insulted the armed forces, it added.
During the uprising the military was hailed for not siding with Mubarak, but it now faces growing discontent over its trials of civilians and suspicion that it is delaying a transition to civilian rule.
Egypt is scheduled to start parliamentary elections on November 28, followed by presidential polls sometime in 2012.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... the trial of ousted Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak which was due to resume on Sunday was postponed following demands for the appointment of a new judge. Now a new hearing has been set for December 28.
Egyptian news agency MENA said: "The Cairo criminal court, chaired by Judge Ahmed Refaat, decided to adjourn the trial of former geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, businessman Hussein Salem, former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six of his assistants to December 28,"
Mubarak, who was forced to quit in February following massive streets protests, has been on trial since August 3 on charges of involvement in the killings of protesters and corruption. He has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." Lawyers for alleged victims of Mubarak in his murder trial have petitioned the court demanding that judge Refaat be replaced. Refaat has defended the court's integrity in previous sessions while lashing out at critics. MENA said the trial will resume once a decision has been taken on call to replace Refaat.
An appeals court is due to give a verdict on December 26.
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And then there's the first blogger jailed since the fall of Mubarak, the one nobody cared about because he was openly pro-Israel...he was bundled off to a psychiatric institution, which finally got people's attention. The Mamluks clearly never planned to go away, just find another patsy to take over running civilian affairs for them.
[Yemen Post] US counter-terrorism officials admitted that since Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... had been taken out of the "equation " they were now turning their attention towards individuals who they believed were posing a serious terror threat in the Arabic Peninsula region.
Ibrahim Hassan Tal al-Asiri is amongst the American terrorist shortlist in Yemen as the man has been identified as a bomb maker.
According to the Wall Street Journal, al-Asiri and Nasser al-Wahishi, the late Osama bin Laden ... who now dances with worms... 's former secretary in Afghanistan and newly established head of Al-Qaeda in Yemen have become America's next targets of choice as the country is intensifying its "War against Terror".
American sources are now claiming that al-Asiri is planning further attacks against the West and particularly against the United States of America, as he allegedly studied airlines security measures and policies trying to find a way to exploit the system's potential weaknesses.
Despite Yemen's growing popular outcry against airspace intrusions in its territories, the US is somewhat determined to resume its Drones campaign in the region, arguing that al-Qaeda is far too much of a threat to Western values for the White House to stand idly.
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ALMATY: An Islamist group has claimed responsibility for two explosions in a western Kazakh oil city after threatening violence in the Central Asian state, a US-based online monitoring service said.
The suspected bomber was the only person killed in the blasts on Monday, which occurred close to administrative buildings in Atyrau, close to the Caspian Sea about 2,500 km (1,553 miles) west of the capital Astana.
Intelligence monitoring group SITE said a message on an online forum attributed to the Jund Al-Khilafah group said the bombings were a response to the governments indifference to its warnings to repeal new laws restricting religious freedoms.
Mainly Muslim Kazakhstan adopted new legislation last month that bans prayer rooms in state buildings and requires all missionaries to register with authorities every year. Authorities moved to adopt the new law soon after security forces in August detained 18 people in Atyrau on suspicion of planning acts of terror.
News agency Novosti-Kazakhstan quoted Bolat Daukenov, deputy governor of Atyrau region, as saying Mondays bombings were the last breath of the group of people arrested.
Jund Al-Khilafah (Soldiers of the Caliphate) said it would carry out more attacks unless the law were repealed, SITE reported. The group denied reports it was a suicide attack and said the person carrying the bomb died when it exploded accidentally.
The Atyrau region prosecutors office said it had identified the splodydope bomber as a local 24-year-old man, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported. Home-made explosive devices and instructions for assembling them were found during a search of his home, the agency cited the prosecutors office as saying.
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The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its "editor-in-chief" for this week's issue. The fiercely anti-clerical magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication "Sharia Hebdo", was intended to "celebrate" the victory of Islamist party Ennhada in Tunisia's election.
Charlie Hedbo's editor-in-chief, known as Charb, told France Info radio: "We no longer have a newspaper. All our equipment has been destroyed or has melted."
No injuries have been reported.
A single Molotov cocktail was thrown at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris's 20th arrondissement at around 1am. The ensuing fire was rapidly put out, but a large amount of material in the office was destroyed, police said.
"We cannot, today, put together a paper," said Charb. "But we will do everything possible to do one next week. Whatever happens, we'll do it. There is no question of giving in," he said, adding that the magazine is filing a legal complaint against persons unknown.
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and the fire bomber probably had a "coexist" bumper sticker.
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I agree that it was probably sold to the insurance company.
It reminds me of the story of two retired businessmen in Florida, living off insurance payments after their businesses were destroyed.
The first said his business, along with a whole bunch of expensive new inventory was burned up in a fire. The second said that his business was wiped out in a flood.
This puzzled the first businessman, who asked the second, "How do you start a flood?"
[Dawn] Unidentified armed persons rubbed out a deputy director of Federal Investigation Agency near his residence at Kohat Road here on Monday evening, police sources said.
They said that the FIA official, Ikramulah, belonged to Tur Dher village of Swabi district but he was presently living at Shahab Flats at Kohat Road.
"We have no information that he was receiving threats or not," they said.
An official said that Ikramullah was a senior officer, who served FIA as in-charge of its crime circle. He was supposed to pursue cases pertaining to human trafficking in courts, he added.
The official said that Ikramullah was rubbed out at a busy spot. Quoting different people, he said that the attackers were riding cycle of violence.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... officials of Bana Mani cop shoppe said that they could not give details before registration of FIR.
Police front man DSP Nisar Khan, when contacted, said that he had no details about the case.
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[Dawn] Another kidnapped boy of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central has managed to escape from the custody of Taliban after remaining in their captivity for two months in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
Relatives said that 18-year-old Asadullah reached his home in Erab village of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur on Sunday evening. He was among the 27 boys of Bajaur, kidnapped by Taliban on Aug 31 after they crossed over to Afghanistan.
They said that his health condition was not good. He had crossed the border somewhere at Nakhtar area after escaping from the custody of Taliban, they added.
The local political administration also confirmed that another kidnapped boy had reached home safely.
Two other kidnapped boys had also dodged their captors and managed to reach their homes in Bajaur Agency earlier this month.
The Bajaur chapter of proscribed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain has grabbed credit for kidnapping 27 boys and keeping them hostages in Kunar province of Afghanistan. The kidnappers had also presented them before media 10 days after the incident.
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[Dawn] The United States is adding a top commander of the Pakistain-based Haqqani network to one its main terrorism blacklists.
The move by the State Department on Tuesday identifies Haqqani commander Mali Khan as a specially designated global terrorist and freezes any assets or property he may have in US jurisdictions.
More importantly, it bars Americans from providing Khan with any material support.
The department said Khan commanded hundreds of fighters who have committed numerous high-profile terrorist attacks in Afghanistan and that one of his deputies supported jacket wallahs that hit Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel in June, killing 12 people.
Khan was captured in September but the department said his blacklisting strengthens US abilities to target the Haqqani network.
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Why does it take so long? Why don't they just submit the entire list?
[Dawn] Three headless bodies were found in Bannu district while a school was blown up by suspected bully boyz in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Monday.
Police said that the headless bodies of three persons were found on Indus Highway in the limits of Domail cop shoppe. "We bring the bodies to district headquarters hospital for postmortem. The dear departed were identified with the help of national identify cards in their pockets," they added. Well, that was nice of them... The dear departed were identified as Maulana Qari Hussain Ahmed, a resident of Sarai Naurang, Sirajud Din of Shabakkhel Lakki Marwat and Noor Rehman, a resident of Serkot area of Miramshah in North Wazoo Agency.
The Domail police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... suspected bully boyz blew up a primary school in Adezai on the suburbs of Peshawar early on Monday, police said.
An official of Matani cop shoppe told Dawn that cut-throats planted two improvised bombs at the main pillars of the building and detonated them through remote control at about 1:30am.
He said that each of the bombs was about two kilograms that destroyed the school building. Police launched a search operation in the area but so far no one had been nabbed, he added.
Adezai Qaumi Lashkar deputy chief Fazal Malik, when contacted, said that it was the last school in the area to be destroyed. About 12 schools in the area had been blown up so far, he added.
"Basically it was a school for boys but girl students had also been shifted here after destruction of their schools in the locality," he said.
Mr Malik said that bully boyz were still present in the surrounding localities and were capable to attack the pro-government people.
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I didn't know Bannu had a topless bar.
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[Dawn] A local court on Monday acquitted Maulana Abdul Aziz chief holy man of Lal Masjid from four cases and also reserved judgment on two other cases for November 2.
Judicial Magistrate of Islamabad Kashif Qayyum Sheikh acquitted him from the cases registered against him during 2004 to 2007 by Aabpara Police.
The cases were initially heard in Anti Terrorist Courts (ATC) of Rawalpindi but after the removal of section 7 of Anti Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997, these were transferred to Islamabad.
The Police registered FIR 144/04 against Maulana Aziz when Police raided his house in 2004 to arrest him and his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi but both of them beat feet.
According to the said FIR, during the raid, Police recovered 2 Kalashnikovs, 3 magazines and 72 rounds from their residence. Another FIR 144/05 alleged Maulana Aziz of resisting the Police official and facilitating the escape of proclaimed offenders (PO) when the Police was about to arrest them in 2005.
Third FIR 146/05 alleged that on the call of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, the Lal Masjid administration led by Maulana Aziz arranged a demonstration in which the angry mob caused damage to vehicles and cycle of violences of the Police officials. The fourth FIR 221/07 in which the court acquitted Maulana Aziz accused him of distribution of pamphlets, delivering fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches and inciting people against the government.
The court reserved its judgment on two cases including issuance of `Fatwa` against Wana Operation and for detaining a police official in Lal Masjid.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: The Director of Ninewa's Intelligence Operations escaped an assassination attempt by a bomb blast targeted against his convoy south of Mosul city, security sources said today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that General Ismael al-Jibouri was not hurt, and only material losses were inflicted on his car.
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Summary: arms flow into Gaza from Iran and Syria; Hamas leadership is basking in Israeli prisoner release but disaffected members are moving to the more militant IJ
It is important to note that Iran and Syria were likely on the losing side of the Shalit swap. According to a recent analysis by the American think-tank Stratfor, "The crisis over Iran that we expected by the end of the year is here," and Saudi Arabia is playing its hand very aggressively.
Stratfor suggests that the Saudis sought to douse out the potential for violence between Israel and Hamas, in order to keep turning the screws on Assad:
In this context, the last thing that the Saudis want to see is conflict with Israel. A war in Gaza would have given the Assad regime an opportunity to engage with Israel, at least through Hezbollah, and portray opponents to the regime as undermining the struggle against the Israelis. This would have allowed al Assad to solicit Iranian help against Israel and, not incidentally, to help sustain his regime.
If the conflict between Islamic Jihad and Israel escalates, it is reasonable to look for a substantial foreign interference - by either Syria or Iran. Conversely, and perhaps in parallel, Israel may be trying hard to establish a deterrence in Gaza, in anticipation of a regional flare-up.
As a final note, the much acclaimed Israeli anti-missile system Iron Dome seems to have failed the test this weekend. The Israeli army blamed poor weather conditions and "a technical glitch".
Islamic Jihad has boasted of new missile technologies, including multi-barrel rocket launchers. There have been signs - also during previous confrontations - that the militant groups in Gaza are studying the Israeli defense system and adapting to it
Israel delayed a military operation in the Gazoo Strip to stem Paleostinian rocket fire due to an Egyptian request to give an additional 24 hours to cease fire efforts, The Jerusalem Post learned on Tuesday.
A small jihadi terror cell in Gazoo, rather than 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... , was behind a wave rockets on southern Israel on Monday night, the defense community believes.
Internet services in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip were cut off on Tuesday following an attack by hackers from more than 20 countries, the Paleostinian Authority announced.
PA Minister of Communications and Technology, Mashour Abu Dakka, blamed "pro-Israeli" parties of being behind the assault on the internet services in retaliation for the admittance of the Paleostinians to UNESCO.
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That'll teach them to try and list their stinking Nativity church as a world heritage site.
Heresy site yes, but heritage?
The birth place of a heretic who turned his back on the teaching of the creator, and formed an egotistical cult has no place in Israel. The Paleos can go practice their christianity and islam some place else (like hell perhaps?)
Look how dey massacred mah boy...
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The mother of Islamic Jihad military leader Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil told Ma'an she was laughing with her son hours before he was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike on Saturday. Oh, Ahmad! You're so funny for a psychopath!
See ya later, ma...
"We have been expecting him to die as a martyr every day except the day he was actually killed, because we were so happy after Palestinian prisoners were released," his brother Radwan al-Sheikh Khalil told Ma'an. He thought it would cut down on his overtime. But...
The Al-Quds Brigades leader was killed with four others when Israeli war planes struck a site used by the group near Rafah on Saturday afternoon. Made it, Ma! Top of the world!! Arclights Airstrikes since Saturday have killed 12 militants and a volley of rocket fire from Gaza killed one Israeli. Islamic Jihad says it is holding to an Egyptian-brokered truce. Yeah. That rocket shooting stuff don't count... That was a splitter group of course. Maybe the Juggalos. Couldn't be the Islamic Jihad, they'd never break a truce. You know that!
His mother, Fatima, expressed hope that her fifth son had not died in vain."We will, God willing, triumph in the end even if we have to sacrifice our lives, because we are the owners of this land, and the (Israeli) occupiers are the aliens." Whaddya mean "we", ma? I don't see you saddling up.
Fatima only has two surviving sons. Pic of moms at the link. She looks like Charles Laughton. But some guys will tap anything.
"We were laughing and he was telling me secrets" hours before the Arclight airstrike, she said. Ma...I like goats.
That's okay, Ahmad. So did your father.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
"That day it never occurred to me that I will not see him again." Funny how things turn out, huh, mom?
Khalil's mother expressed anger at Palestinians who aid Israel's attacks."We must eliminate all collaborators, who are more dangerous than the (Israeli) occupiers and the US as they are the ones who spy on our sons and watch their movement." They probably watched pieces of Ahmad go flying through the air.
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What's she so cranky about? Her son is a martyr now. If I remember right, he gets to bypass all the usual rules and head stright to heaven and take all his family with him. Including the goats he was intimate with.
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He didn't shower/shave down and trim the unibrow. How's he gonna get his Virginians?
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The least someone should do in these cases is to send the grieving mother a letter with a picture of their son burning in Hell and being tortured by demons.
Of course it's cruel, but then again, so is sending your child to slaughter innocent people. And casting doubt on martyrdom might go a ways to preventing more such acts in the future.
As an added bonus, give the return address as being that of a local radical Imam.
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Look here there must be some mistake. They said virgins not Virginians.Look bud were all out, take it or leave it. You shudda looked at the fine print.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 26-year-old man was killed in an explosion in northern Gaza on Monday, medics said. Mohammad al-Ghourani died in a blast in his Jabaliya refugee camp home, medics said. Ah. Better get GazaGas down there to check the pipes. Sounds like maybe they got a leak.
Or not...
A Ma'an reporter said al-Ghourani was handling a homemade explosive device when it detonated. Jeez, Mo. That's a beau...BOOM!
Three of his relatives were transferred to hospital for shock, medics said. I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHAT DID YOU SAY!
I SAID, "WHERE DID MO GO?"
WHAT? HEY, WHERE DID MO GO? AND WHAT'S ALL THAT SHIT ON THE WALL!
WHAT?
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said three children were injured last Wednesday when a suspicious object they were playing with exploded in northern Gaza town Beit Hanoun, which it blamed on "the state of misuse of weapons plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory." ...and then they told the Attorney General to get on the stick again.
Three people, a child and two men, were injured in two incidents in Narathiwat province after home-made bombs were detonated. The bombs yesterday followed the fatal shooting of three people at a gas station in the same province on Sunday.
The first incident took place at 7 a.m. yesterday when a civilian defense volunteer was inspecting trees felled to block a local road. He stepped on one of the explosive devices and lost his right leg. Police said the bomb was a plastic water pipe filled with 1 kg of explosive. A banner tied to tree branches at the scene had a message in Thai, which said: "October of Tak Bai: As long as those who killed Malays are in power, Thai Buddhists pay for it with their lives."
Later, at a rubber plantation, a 16-year-old and a 10-year-old were injured after the older boy stepped on a similar device and lost his left ankle. The younger boy was hit with shrapnel in the torso and both legs, sustaining minor wounds. Police found debris similar to the first bomb.
At about 10 a.m., a roadside bomb was detonated on a road near a group of soldiers on foot patrol, but they were not harmed.
And in Yala, a bomb squad defused yet another home-made device planted at a bus shelter.
Narathiwat police said terrorists insurgents who planted bomb attacks at several locations had disguised themselves as women by wearing head-to-toe burkas before planting the explosives.
Police in Yala said they had found a crucial piece of evidence in a series of bomb attacks on October 25 which killed three and injured 60 people - a SIM card in the mobile phone of an terrorist insurgent also killed by the blast linking him with fellow terrorists insurgents in Pattani.
[An Nahar] Iran has sent a letter to the United States seeking an "apology" over allegations of an Iranian liquidation plot on U.S. soil, foreign ministry front man Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday.
"A letter has been sent... It is our right to seek the official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario as these allegations are not true at all," Mehmanparast told a news conference, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
He explained the Iranian letter was in response to a U.S. one, whose contents he did not divulge.
Mehmanparast did not give details on how the letters were transmitted. Iran and the United States have had no direct diplomatic channels for more than three decades.
On October 11, U.S. officials alleged Iran's Quds Force -- an elite wing the Revolutionary Guards -- plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by hiring assassins from a Mexican narco mob for $1.5 million.
An Iranian-American car salesman accused of involvement in the plot pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in a New York court last week.
Iranian officials and leaders have fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! any involvement in the alleged plot, calling it an attempt by Washington to divert attention from domestic economic woes and foreign policy failures in the Middle East.
The U.S. and Iran broke off diplomatic ties after radical students in Tehran took U.S. diplomats hostage following Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
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I guess they're innocent since they demanded the apology first.
[An Nahar] Thousands of Syrians staged a rally in support of embattled Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in eastern Syria on Tuesday, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, as activists reported a counter rally in the same area.
Meanwhile four people were killed on Tuesday in violence in the protests-wracked country, including an army officer and a soldier who were rubbed out by gunnies in the northwestern Idlib province, a rights watchdog reported.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that dozens of civilians were tossed in the clink on Tuesday, including 60 schoolchildren jugged for holding an anti-regime protest in their schoolyard.
Tuesday's victims included two civilians, one killed in Idlib province by security forces and the second when pro-regime faceless myrmidons opened fire in central Homs. An 18-year-old man also died on Tuesday of gunshot wounds from the previous day in the 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... suburb of Douma.
State television aired a broadcast showing thousands of people rallying in support of Assad in the eastern town of Deir al-Zour, waving flags and carrying portraits of the president.
They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud of praise for Assad, who is under mounting international and Arab pressure to end a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters which the U.N. says has claimed more than 3,000 lives since mid-March.
The Observatory said security forces fired with live rounds on a rival protest in Deir al-Zour.
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... , of which Syria is a member, has proposed a plan to end the bloodletting, calling for tanks to be withdrawn from streets and the start of a dialogue between opposition figures and the regime.
Syria was due to give a response on Monday, after talks in Qatar between an Arab task force and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem but the latter has asked for some changes to the proposals, a diplomat told Agence La Belle France Presse in Cairo.
"There has been agreement on some minor amendments, but the Arab delegation demanded a final response on Tuesday to the Arab proposal," the diplomat told AFP.
The pro-government daily Al-Watan said Syria's leadership was holding consultations on Tuesday concerning the Arab plan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... security forces on Tuesday pressed on with the crackdown, arresting dozens of people in the southern province of Daraa -- cradle of the popular dissent that has shaken the Assad regime since March 15, the Observatory said.
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[An Nahar] Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday noted that U.S. allegations of Iranian involvement in a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington did not "require an agreement" with Tehran concerning its hajj pilgrims, Agence La Belle France Presse reported.
AFP quoted the prince earlier on Tuesday as saying that "there can be no compromise with Iran concerning the liquidation bid because there is no need for it." However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the agency later corrected that version, noting that it had misinterpreted the crown prince's remarks.
"We are ready to deal with any scenario ... with any means necessary," he added during an inspection tour of preparations for the annual hajj Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam's holiest site.
"We do not expect any surprises during the hajj pilgrimage and preparations are a normal thing ... all of our capabilities are employed to prevent harm against any pilgrim or group of pilgrims," the crown prince, who also holds the interior ministry portfolio, told a news conference in Mecca.
Iran has fiercely and repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged plot, which the United States said implicated an Iranian-American car salesman in jug and Iranian officials in a plan to hire a Mexican narco mob to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani proposed on Sunday that Saudi and Iranian officials should meet over the alleged plot, the official Qatari news agency QNA reported.
"I think that the best and easiest way to solve this issue is for the two sides to meet," Sheikh Hamad said after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Doha.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and Soddy Arabia are two big nations and should have good relations," he said, adding that he hoped the U.S. allegations against Iran would be proven false.
"We are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and we have an interest in the security and stability of Soddy Arabia. We hope that it is false," he said.
"We still wait for evidence," said Sheikh Hamad.
In a Saudi newspaper interview last week, Salehi again denied that his country plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir.
"We reject these accusations. There is no justification for Iran, which is a brotherly country to Soddy Arabia, to do such an act," he told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
"It's an American accusation -- they want to create divisions between Moslem countries and especially the two most important countries in the Islamic world, Soddy Arabia and Iran," Salehi said.
On Tuesday Salehi said Washington recently made a written offer to speak with Iran over the alleged plot, implying that Tehran rejected it.
The United States claims that the Quds Force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by hiring assassins from a Mexican narco mob for $1.5 million.
An Iranian-American accused of involvement in the plot pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." in a New York court last week.
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[An Nahar] Syria and 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... have agreed on a roadmap to end violence in the country, 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... said, but a top official of the regional organization said it was still awaiting Tuesday the expected formal response.
"Syria and the vaporous Arab League are in agreement over the final paper concerning the situation in Syria and the official announcement will be made at Arab League headquarters tomorrow (Wednesday)," Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
and the SANA news agency said early Tuesday evening.
Later, Arab League deputy chief Ahmed Ben Helli told Al-Arabiya television no response had yet been received.
"The secretary general of the Arab League has not yet received Syria's official response to the document submitted by the ministerial committee" to end the violence, Ben Helli said.
"As far as I know the Syrian delegation will give an official reply tomorrow during the (extraordinary) meeting," which the Arab League is to hold to discuss the violence in Syria, Ben Helli said.
The proposal is aimed at ending more than seven months of bloodletting which, the U.N. says, has claimed more than 3,000 lives, mostly civilians killed in a government crackdown on dissent.
Arab foreign ministers are due to hold a key meeting in Cairo to discuss the violence, after talks Sunday in Doha with their Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem at which they offered a plan to end the crisis.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Dread of Those Who Don't Like Him... is under mounting international and Arab pressure to end the violence and implement wide-ranging political reforms to meet the aspirations of protesters who have rallied almost daily since mid-March.
The Arab League proposals call on Assad to pull tanks off the streets and launch a national dialogue with his opponents.
Syria had been due to give its response to the plan on Monday but Muallem asked for some changes.
An Arab League diplomat told Agence La Belle France Presse in Cairo "there has been agreement on some minor amendments, but the Arab delegation demanded a final response on Tuesday to the Arab proposal."
He said Syria would inform Qatar -- whose foreign minister chaired the Doha talks -- of its response.
Syria's Arab League representative Youssef Ahmed told AFP in Cairo that Damascus would respond Tuesday to the plan. "We are dealing positively with the last proposal, which was drafted (at Sunday's meeting) in Qatar."
Algerian Foreign Minister Murad Medelci also sounded upbeat.
"We had a good meeting in Doha and we have found some common ground with our Syrian friends. I hope this will be confirmed in Cairo," he said on Tuesday.
The pro-regime Syrian daily Al-Watan said "Muallem provided the Qatari side with ideas adequate to resolve the crisis in Syria ... and requested additional time to consult (Tuesday) with his leadership."
Some diplomats in Cairo expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that the response from Damascus will be tied to conditions to gain time.
"Syria's answer could be 'yes, but,' a maneuver to buy time," said one diplomat who attended the Doha talks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... Syrian activists reported that five more people were killed in the protests-wracked country and dozens tossed in the clink, including 60 schoolchildren jugged for holding an anti-regime rally in their school yard.
Two non-combatants were killed when pro-regime cut-throats opened fire in central Homs and one was shot by security forces in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An officer and a soldier were also killed in Idlib by gunnies believed to be army deserters, the watchdog said, adding that an 18-year-old man also died on Tuesday of gunshot wounds from the previous day near Damascus.
Syrian security forces also rounded up dozens of civilians in Daraa -- cradle of the anti-regime protests that erupted March 15, the watchdog said.
Pro- and anti-regime demonstrations also gripped Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, with state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reporting that thousands rallied in support of Assad while activists spoke of a counter-rally in the eastern city.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, reiterated Moscow's opposition to any Libya-style military intervention in Syria.
"If it depends on us, I don't think we will allow anything of that sort to be repeated" in Syria, Lavrov said in Abu Dhabi.
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan echoed him.
"We do not think that there is any party which is willing to internationalize this matter. At least we Arabs don't," he said.
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.
Last week activists urged the international community to impose a Libya-style no-fly zone on Syria.
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Bout was convicted of conspiracy to kill US citizens and officials, deliver anti-aircraft missiles and provide aid to a terrorist organisation.
"Viktor Bout was ready to sell a weapons arsenal that would be the envy of some small countries."
In the opening statements of his trial the prosecution alleged that Bout had agreed to deliver 100 surface-to-air missiles, 20,000 high-powered rifles and 10m rounds of ammunition to rebels in Colombia in 2008. They told the jury that Bout had been told the weapons would be used to target US pilots working with Colombian officials.
Prosecutors say Bout replied: "We have the same enemy." That doesn't mean you didn't break the law, Vik...
But the defence argued Bout was just trying to sell two old cargo aircraft for $5m (£3.1m). "Viktor was baiting them along with the promise of arms, hoping just to sell his planes," lawyer Albert Dayan told the court.
He will be sentenced on 8 February 2012 and could face a maximum term of life in prison.
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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
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The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its "editor-in-chief" for this week's issue. The fiercely anti-clerical magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication "Sharia Hebdo", was intended to "celebrate" the victory of Islamist party Ennhada in Tunisia's election.
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 26-year-old man was killed in an explosion in northern Gaza on Monday, medics said. Mohammad al-Ghourani died in a blast in his Jabaliya refugee camp home, medics said.
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Tuesday's victims included two civilians, one killed in Idlib province by security forces and the second when pro-regime 
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Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday noted that U.S. allegations of Iranian involvement in a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington did not "require an agreement" with Tehran concerning its hajj pilgrims, Agence 
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