Encounter specialist' police officer Daya Nayak, who was suspended following complaints that he owned assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, had been reinstated after the Mumbai Police revoked his suspension order, Mumbai Police's official spokesperson Nisar Tamboli told The Hindu on Saturday.
He has been posted in the Local Arms unit in the same designation which he held when he was suspended, Mr. Tamboli said.
Mr. Nayak's suspension was revoked by a police committee and the order was signed by Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik on Saturday. Mr. Nayak is known to have killed more than 80 gangsters in encounters.
Mr. Nayak was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau in 2006 on the complaint by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar. He was given bail after 60 days of arrest as the police failed to file a charge sheet in the stipulated period.
Mr. Nayak has been under suspension since 2006. No substantial evidence was found against the policeman during the investigation, police sources said.
In 2010, the Supreme Court quashed all the charges against him under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
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I hear tell that peeps from the government and other high places read the 'Burg, so I thought I'd post a link to the Constitution in case anyone from the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, or the White House general counsel's office, stops by. Come on guys - did you throw your copy out with yesterday's newspaper? Lose it in the seat cushions?
Your attention is particularly directed to this bit:
[The president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed....
Let's have a little Con Law pop quiz. When the Constitution says that the Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, that means:
a. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
b. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless he disagrees with them.
c. The Prez shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, unless those laws imperil his re-election.
d. L'État, c'est moi.
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I suspect the Constitution is regarded by Obummer and his minions as is the Ten Commandments or the Lord's Prayer. They selectively obey what is convenient or not at all. Probably view such things as antiquated or historical mistakes. The Constitution is so un-European in their view.
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If the constitution was the official structure of a bank, and the president acted in such a way, the government would shut the bank down.
What sux furthermore, is el prez is supposed to be this scholerly scholer of constitutional law-theory, yet all we have been priviliged to are decrees about police searches and homeo-diddling legality, no real lectures or ideas from his hard hitting times as a substitute notegiver. Gonna sell the brand as warrior-poet, where's the damned poetry? Reading a screen, thanking the corpsemen, and splitting on bills don't quite cut it..in fact it looks at sharp as a bowling ball, promptly rolled into the gutter and quitting after 7 frames then blaming the special olympics.
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Answer to the quiz: d (at least for these clowns)
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Well, regardless, I expect President Romney to issue amnesty to all those who fail to register for individual mandates and employers who fail to comply with Obamacare. It's fundamentally the same principle. So much for a nation of laws.
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You mean like sebilius already has, except not cherry picking who is in and who is out?
A law passed by lawmakers who, if they even read the bill, fail to understand and communicate what that law is. The de-facto leader of the bill passage actually bragging that as a sales point.
Then, law is circumvented by the HHS, the executive blatently stating which laws it will or will not enforce.
Its a bum law, not evenly enforced, or even defined, let to be defined by fine, fiat, and fortune. Its no way to tile a bathroom, nevermind forcing a behavior by penalty onto people.
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud has died in Geneva, Saudi state television said on Saturday, citing a royal court statement.
Likely next Saudi heir Defense Minister Salman is fervent interventionist on Syria
Arab circles pushing for Western-Arab military force in the Syrian crisis will find substantial encouragement in the almost-certain accession of Saudi Defense Minister Salman, 76, to crown prince and heir to the throne after Interior Minister Prince Nayef died of a long illness. When Salman visited Washington on April 11 he won the approval of President Barack Obama and top administration officials as next in line to the throne occupied by the octogenarian King Abdullah. He bluntly urged the US president to dispose of the Syrian problem by bombing Bashar Assad's palace, a suggestion Obama rejected. Salman has since bombarded Washington himself with demands for US military intervention to end the Assad regime.
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It's sad. Because with Freddy Mercury already dead, who now has the world's gayest facial hair? Maybe Anderson Cooper can grow a handlebar mustache or something.
President Obama's Food and Drug Administration has caused "a public health crisis" -- a prescription drug shortage over the past two years -- by increasing the number of threats issued to raid and close drug manufacturing plants, according to House investigators.
"This shortage appears to be a direct result of over-aggressive and excessive regulatory action," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement. "These drugs can save lives and keep people who need them living healthy lives. The FDA is failing to ensure the availability of quality products."
President Obama signed an executive order last year to help the FDA anticipate drug shortages while knocking Congress for failing to pass his preferred legislation on the issue. "Congress has been trying since February to do something about this," Obama said in November. "It has not yet been able to get it done . . . we can't wait."
The committee report concluded that a significant portion of the drug shortage is a problem of the Obama administration's making. "Among shuttered manufacturing lines that occurred over the previous two years, the committee's review did not find any instances where the shutdown was associated with reports of drugs harming customers," the report says, noting a 30 percent drop in the manufacture of certain prescription drugs at the largest manufacturers in the country.
Instead, the drug shortage crisis began in 2010 after the FDA began sending letters to companies found to be in violation of a given rule, in which the company was warned that "failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice including, without limitation, seizure and injunction."
The FDA sent just 474 such letters in 2009, but that number spiked to 1720 in 2011. "A common sense approach to regulations must be restored at the FDA," the committee report advised, calling for more targeted measures to induce company compliance with regulations. "Agency protocols should be revised so that the agency is required to consider the implications of its actions on the nation's supply of critical drugs." I wonder how many of the raided companies were against Obamacare...
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It's worse. Imagine a shortage of a drug that comes from two vendors --say vendor A has a manufacturing issue. No problem, just have vendor B produce more, right?
Not so fast, chum, the FDA won't let that happen. Not only do you have to make the drugs in an FDA-approved way, but you can turn out pills ONLY at a prescribed rate. If you want to make more of a drug (to alleviate a shortage) you first have to get FDA permission.
Which almost never happens.
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What is the justification for prescribed rates?
It sounds anti-capitalism.
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WM the "excuse" is that they have to monitor / control drug protection to gaurd against prescription fraud. Big noise about pill farms writing oxy prescriptions in mass.
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Each Voyager space probe carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent life-forms from other planetary systems. The discs carry photos of the Earth and its lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people (e.g. the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the United States
Btw that would be Jimmy Carter and Kurt Waldheim.
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Yes EC, Jimmy Carter could be characterized as a "life form". We must surely give him that, but not a great deal more... please.
Syria's chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s.
It was July 2007 and in Aleppo, Syria, the muezzins were just starting to issue the early-morning call for prayers. It was a different Syria at the time -- Bashar Assad's rule appeared stable and was not threatened by rebels. Barely anyone knew that not far from the city, Assad was building a nuclear reactor that would be destroyed a few months later in a lightning Israeli airstrike.
But then the city was rocked by an explosion. Looking out their windows, residents could see smoke rising from a military base located on the outskirts of the ancient city. The damage was isolated to a single building, one that very few people -- even those who served in the base -- knew the purpose of.
Fifteen people were reported killed and several dozen more were rushed to the Aleppo University Hospital nearby with severe burns all over their bodies. Later, some residents would hear rumors about a number of Iranians being among the wounded and yelling out in Farsi as they were treated for their wounds.
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There is little doubt that an attack against Israel from foreign soil using Chem/Bio armed SCUD rockets would prompt an immediate nuclear retaliation.
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besoeker.
Against who? Whom? Whatever.
That's the thing with proliferated wmd. You might have an idea who made them--three years earlier, say--and maybe even the provenance to the actor who set them off in your cities.
While I might be sympathetic to the Third Conjecture--see Wretchard--if things get bad enough and we nuke everybody, there's probably a limit. If we don't nuke everybody because whatever it was isn't bad enough to make us go nuts--Third Conjecture--we have to choose whether and who.
And "who" is the question.
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bman. If we go nuts--Third Conjecture--we won't "start with" Iran. It will be ToT.
We didn't go nuke ToT aftr 9-11. Nor did Russia after Beslan.
Suppose we have a Beslan including mustard gas. Five hundred dead kids. Would there be the political will to go nuts? After the second? The third...?
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I'd go with Captain Renault
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I didn't want to say anything but the Juices get blamed for too much stuff already, so I confess... I was me. And Frank.
[An Nahar] A local Swedish politician wants to require all men to sit down whenever they use the toilets in a county council building, to keep them clean and promote good health, a counselor said Thursday.
Viggo Hansen, a member of the Left Party, submitted the proposal to the Soermland County Council in central Sweden earlier this week.
In Sweden, where daycare centers encourage little boys to "be a sweetie and take a seatie", the issue is not being taken lightly.
In an interview with a local television channel, Hansen pointed out that according to some experts sitting down to urinate is not only more hygienic but also reduces the risk of prostate trouble.
His proposal also claims that relieving oneself while seated "contributes to a better and longer sex life."
Critics suggest it may be difficult to enforce the rule, which the council has one year to study before reaching a decision, according to the head of the Left Party group, Maud Ekman.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us wihtout end for they do so with approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
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...well, you see, in their mind, you can put more urinals per linear feet/meters than stalls. Doing so would be unequal as the men's facility of equal size would have more units than the female's facility. Given that it is Scandinavia, it could be there's only one uni-sex facility, it would discriminate against the other gender on the basis of denial of access. Therefore no urinals. /sarc off
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This is the jerk whose Party wants to increase the number of Somalis and Afghans to places like Eskilstuna, where they can ghetto-ise the suburbs. Maybe he can teach 'em not to piss on their hosts goodwill first, then to pee sitting down. (Any good Swedish lady worth the whiskers on her chin already has her man trained to do this, btw).
Egypts emboldened military on Friday deployed troops around parliament and established checkpoints across the capital a day before presidential elections pitting one of their own against an Islamist outsider from a long-outlawed group.
Uniformed security officials barred lawmakers from entering the parliament building a day after an explosive court ruling cleared the way for the dissolution of a democratically elected legislature. The ruling also accorded all legislative and budgetary powers to the countrys ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was preparing to unilaterally define the powers of the head of state due to be elected this weekend.
Witnesses and state media said thousands of military police in battle dress fanned out across the capital and other cities in the early hours of the morning, setting up checkpoints and searching cars and minibuses after a court granted the armed forces police and intelligence operatives broad arrest powers over civilians. State television showed footage of convoys of trucks filled with soldiers.
They were reportedly being positioned to safeguard the elections.
The Brotherhood has responded angrily to the moves, which appear to be aimed at weakening it.
(Sh.M.Network)- A witness says Al shabab fighters have launched an attack on Somali and Æthiopian troops in Yurkut village which locates near the border between Bay and Gedo regions of southwestern Somalia.
The fighting broke out when Al shabab fighters armed with heavy and small weapons ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying Somali and Æthiopian forces in Yurkud village, sparking face-to-face confrontation.
Residents in the two nearest villages say they heard kabooms and gun fire which they believe to be an indication of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or desultory fighting... erupted in Yurkud on Thursday afternoon.
"The fighting is now over and (the Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... ) have been heavily repelled during the attack and many of their fighters were killed by the coalition forces," said Isac Gees-dheer, ASWJ official who gave an interview to Shabelle Media.
Shabelle Media cannot independently confirm the casualties of the warring sides, but ASWJ claims victory.
Somali government and Al shabab are yet to comment on the battle. Yurkut is a key position on the supply line for Æthiopian forces in Bay and Gedo region of southwestern Somalia.
Al shabab which merged Al Qaeda early this year continues to carry out attacks on Æthiopian, AMISOM and Somali troops despite the group was pushed out from several towns they controlled in south and central Somalia.
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[Dawn] PRESIDENT Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... as warrior president, is no different from his predecessor George W. Bush. He has emerged as the author and practitioner of the doctrine of 'assassination' which is totally opposed to international law and morality.
David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former news hound for the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , noted last March that his administration had carried out "at least 239 covert drone strikes, more than five times the 44 approved under George Bush". There is no accountability, no transparency and no legality.
Jo Becker and Scott Shane of the New York Times revealed recently that Obama personally selects the targets. "Mr Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret 'nominations' process to designate snuffies for kill or capture of which the capture part has become largely theoretical."
The report created a sensation because of its authenticity and disturbing details. "Mr Obama is the liberal law professor
Not actually a professor, O Dawn Editorialist. Lots of people lecture, but not nearly as many are willing or able to make it their profession.
who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture
...and for the Afghan war -- no peacenik, he...
and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding 'kill list,' poring over terrorist suspects' biographies on what one official calls the macabre 'baseball cards' of an unconventional war.
No doubt the dear man thinks of himself as nobly preventing the drone corps from running amok, all very The Buck Stops Here, and is confused that anyone would look askance.
When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises -- but the terrorist's family is with him -- it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation. 'He determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go,' said Thomas E. Donilon, his national security adviser."
Obama has avoided the complications of detention by deciding, in effect, to take no prisoners alive. While scores of suspects have been killed under Obama, hardly any have been taken into US custody.
Nearly 40 years ago, the US Senate's Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities, headed by Senator Frank Church, probed the charges of CIA involvement in liquidation planning, doubtless with top approval. In a lengthy public report on such plots, the committee concluded that the art of "plausible deniability" may have been so well refined by the CIA that the exact extent of presidential involvement may never be known.
"Whether or not the respective presidents knew of or authorised the plots, as chief executive officer of the US, each must bear the ultimate responsibility for the activities of his subordinates," the committee said.
The committee revealed in the report the names of 10 US officials involved in the plots to assassinate foreign leaders. The targets included presidents Fidel Castro of Cuba, Sukarno of Indonesia and Patrice Lumumbe of the Congo.
Starting with president Ford, presidents issued executive orders specifically prohibiting the CIA from carrying out liquidations. A change came over later. We now have a president personally designating persons to be killed like a mediaeval monarch.The New York Times expressed its anguish in an editorial recently.
Which the New York Times expresses with such practiced ease...
"It has been clear for years that the B.O. regime believes the shadow war on terrorism gives it the power to choose targets for liquidation, including Americans, without any oversight. Now The New York Times has revealed who was making the final decision on the biggest killings and drone strikes: President B.O.. And that is very troubling. ... How can the world know whether the targets chosen by this president or his successors are truly dangerous snuffies and not just people with the wrong associations? (It is clear, for instance, that many of those rounded up after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks weren't terrorists.) How can the world know whether this president or a successor truly pursued all methods short of liquidation, or instead -- to avoid a political charge of weakness -- built up a tough-sounding list of kills?"
The Defence Department killed suspects in Yemen without knowing their names, using criteria that were never made public.
The administration counted all adult males killed by drone fire as combatants without knowing that for certain. It assumed they are up to no good if they were in the area.
The US Authorisation for Use of Military Force Act 2001 empowers the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against persons linked to the 9/11 attack -- a decade ago. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... on May 22, 2010 Obama said: "This is a different kind of war. There will be no simple moment of surrender to mark the journey's end -- no armistice, no banner headline.
Though we have had more success in eliminating Al Qaeda leaders in recent months than in recent years, they will continue to recruit, and plot, and exploit our open society." So, the war will continue and so will the assassinations by drone attacks.Dr Christine Gray, professor of international law at Cambridge University, is one of the most highly respected authorities on the law. She holds that "even if it is accepted for the sake of argument that assassinations may sometimes be lawful, it is difficult to argue that they count as self-defence under the UN Charter if the individuals targeted are not actively engaged in an armed attack (broadly construed) on the United States, but are being punished for past attacks, or deterred from non-imminent future attacks."
The Obama doctrine blurs the distinction between war and peace. It rests on the assumption of continued supremacy in military might. Prof John Fabian Witt of Yale reminds his president: "The awesome technology of the armed drone is ours and ours alone only temporarily. History's lesson is that what we Americans employ against Abu Yahya al-Libi now will soon be available for use by our adversaries. When that happens, we will desperately want the credibility to judge their actions."
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He taketh his golf club where no other man had been before and hitteth many, many balls.
And he has mighty army of OWS, SEIU, Holder, and a puppeteer puveyor over the Holacaust in support of all of his efforts, Yet still cannot beat tiger.
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We COULD abandon the 'doctrine of assassination, that violation of human rights, and go back to the approach we used in WWII - fire bomb raids, nukes, etc.
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If you're planning to kill Fire Ants with a pistol, you may wish to bring a lawn chair and plenty of ammunition. You may be at it for quite a spell.
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The term "prisoner" or "POW" isn't even used or whispered in Afghanistan. Suspected Taliban which are captured are referred to as "detainees." The duration of detention is highly structured and vigorously enforced by DoD JAG officers. If held at all (which must gain very lofty approvals) the dentention generally does not exceed a couple of weeks. Taliban suspects have quickly learned that they must only remain silent for a short while, enjoy the chow, ISAF hospitality, and provide scripted answers to questioning. They also know they will be shown photographs of known Taliban suspects, to which they routinely deny any knowledge of.... or confuse collection efforts by identifying them by a previously unknown alias.
Detainees who are later released are debriefed by Taliban leadership and provide detailed information on specific ISAF questioning and photographs/personnel of interest. [the Americans think Omar is Yusef. I told them the photo was of Yaseem].
Some detainees with established Taliban associations are handed over to the host nation for prison incarceration. The entire detention process disestablishes long-term interrogation efforts and has a chilling effect on Human Intelligence collection.
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The administration counted all adult males killed by drone fire as combatants without knowing that for certain.
Was Al-Alawki officially designated as a combatant? Dont think so. Bad dude no doubt but he was never even charged with any crime much less convicted. But hey according to the liberals Cheney should be charged as a war criminal for giving a wink and a nod for KSMs ride on the boogie-board. (An actual enemy combatant) And The One can publically call for and carry out the assassination of a US citizen without crowds of hippies dancing with giant puppets. Its good to be the King Light Bringer.
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and since Xena has the Warrior Princess thang locked up, he's SOL
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Compare and contrast:
"Washington, with his hat in his hand, rode forward and waved the Americans forward, while he rode ahead on his horse. At this point, Mawhood had moved his troops slightly to the left to get out of the range of the American artillery fire. Washington gave orders not to fire until he gave them the signal, and when they were thirty yards away, he turned around on his horse, facing his men and said "Halt!" and then "Fire!". At this moment, the British also fired, obscuring the field in a cloud of smoke. One of Washington's officers, thinking he was dead, as he was in between both lines, exposed from fire on both sides, pulled his hat over his eyes, but when the smoke cleared, Washington appeared, unharmed, waving his men forward."
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Honestly, overall, this is the only thing that Obama does that I really like. Al-Alawki had, in effect, declared war on the United States and was in the process of waging it. That gets you a bullet, not a trial, and it honestly don't matter how that bullet is delivered. Whatever works.
[Al Ahram] A Bosnian court on Friday convicted four former elite soldiers of crimes against humanity for executing some 800 Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced them to up to 43 years. The men, three Bosnian Serbs and a Slovene, were members of an elite Bosnian Serb unit who took part in a notorious six-hour execution at the Branjevo military farm, were acquitted of genocide charges as the court ruled it was not proven they had the "genocidal intent" needed for such a conviction.
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Nothing "elite" or soldierly here, just your common, garden variety, Euro mass murderers. Not certain how they escaped "genocidal intent".
[An Nahar] Police incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... eight people in western Turkey over alleged links to the al-Qaeda network, Anatolia news agency reported Friday.
Police tossed in the clink Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! seven suspects during simultaneous raids at different addresses in Bursa province and one in Balikesir province, Anatolia said.
The suspects are claimed to have been trained at al-Qaeda camps in some countries and have recruited members to the organization, it added.
Turkish security forces have regularly targeted suspected al-Qaeda supporters since twin suicide kabooms hit Istanbul in November 2003.
A Turkish cell of al-Qaeda was held responsible for the attacks, in which explosive-laden trucks first targeted two synagogues, and then the British consulate and a British bank, killing a total of 63 people, including the British consul.
Seven men were cooled for a few years Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for life in 2007 over the bombings, among them a Syrian national who criminal masterminded and financed the attacks.
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(Sh.M.Network) -- An official in Tanzania says his country will transfer a terror suspect to Germany.
Acting Director of Criminal Investigations Isaya Mngulu said Thursday that Tanzanian security officials have alerted German officials of Emrah Erdogan's imminent arrival.
Mngulu told Tanzanian state radio that Erdogan is a member of al-Qaeda who has fought in Afghanistan.
Erdogan is a 24-year-old German of Turkish origin. His name has been linked to a May 28 kaboom inKenya, though Kenyan officials have not formally accused him in the attack.
Officials say that Erdogan recently traveled from Somalia toKenyaand then toTanzania.
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Glad I'm not on that flight.
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[An Nahar] Segi, an outlawed youth group linked with the armed Basque separatist organization ETA, said Friday it had disbanded.
Segi, which was declared a terrorist group by Spain's Supreme Court in 2007 over its suspected ties to ETA, said it "has ended its course", in a statement published in pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara.
"With its mistakes and successes, it has already accomplished what it set out to do. We have always known how to adapt and we have made the right choice. Segi has ended but we are not going home," it added.
The Spanish government had accused Segi of being a "recruiting ground" for ETA, blamed for the deaths of over 800 people in more than 40 years of bombing and shooting for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southern La Belle France.
Segi members have in the past thrown Molotov cocktails at symbols of Spain such as post offices, banks and political party offices.
ETA itself announced what it said was the "definitive" end to its campaign of violence in October 2011.
Segi's announcement comes just two days after Askatasuna, an outlawed group championing the rights of prisoners including ETA orcs, said it was dissolving the movement.
Askatasuna, created in 2001 from a fusion of a pro-amnesty association and a support group for Basque political prisoners, was banned by Spain in 2002.
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(Sh. M. Network)-A Gay Paree court has convicted four Somalis in a 2008 attack on a French luxury vessel and acquitted two others.
Sentences handed down late Thursday for the attack on the Ponant in the Gulf of Aden ranged from four to 10 years. The 10-year prison term went to the only man who admitted he was a pirate, 31-year-old Ismael Ali Samatar.
Two other Somalis who said they boarded the boat received seven-year prison terms. The driver of a pick-up truck used to flee was given a four-year term for complicity. Next time flee faster...
The 30 people on the Ponant were freed after its owner paid a ransom of $2.15 million. The French army tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the six on Somali territory.
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[Tolo News] A notorious Afghan narco, Haji Baghcho was sentenced on Tuesday by a US court to life imprisonment for using proceeds of one of the world's largest heroin distribution operations to support the Taliban insurgency.
Haji Baghcho was manufacturing heroin in secret laboratories along Afghanistan's border with Pakistain and send drugs to more than 20 countries.
He was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! on May 2009 and brought to US to face charges following a yearlong investigation by both Afghan and American prosecutors.
Prosecutors said that his drug trafficking network in eastern Afghanistan produced hundreds of thousands of kilograms of Heroin intending to ship to United States.
He was also had close ties with Taliban's high ranking official who protected from police in the area.
He was also order to forfeit more than $254 million over drug proceeds.
According to information obtained from sources, Haji Baghcho's network was responsible for trafficking more than 123,000 kilograms of heroin with a wholesale value of more than $261 million in 2006 alone. According to officials, the amount is roughly one-fifth of the total amount of heroin produced worldwide that year.
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Deepening splits between Angela Merkel and François Hollande erupted into the open on Friday as the German chancellor attacked Paris for allowing the French economy to stall.
Mrs Merkel warned the policies of the new Socialist president could destroy the eurozone by bringing the sovereign debt crisis to France itself.
The bleak assessment came on the eve of an important weekend that will see elections in Greece and France and a key G20 meeting of world leaders in Mexico.
"Europe must discuss the growing differences in economic strength between France and Germany," she said.
Tensions are running so high that Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French prime minister, was forced to deny that Paris had broken off the Franco-German partnership, following Berlin anger at a Franco-Italian summit in Rome on Thursday.
There was a growing sense of crisis in European capitals after David Cameron, the Prime Minister, took part in a tense conference call with Mrs Merkel, Mr Hollande and Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister.
G20 leaders meet in Los Cabos on Monday afternoon for talks dominated by the deepening eurozone crisis and the result of close elections that could put Greece on course to leave the EU's single currency.
Eurozone finance ministers are on standby for an emergency telephone conference on Sunday night, if Greek exit polls put the radical Left Syriza coalition in the lead, to trigger contingency plans, including possible capital controls in the event of a run on banks in Greece, Portugal or Spain
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The Germans are very irritated that France lowered its retirement age to 60, while they retire at 67. They don't want to bail them out.
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Sounds like post-French and Greek elections against austerity, the Germans may have decided: "screw it"
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I wonder how well an "EU" comprised of the following countries would do: Germany, Poland, Austria, The Czec Republic, Denmark, the Baltic States, Finland, and Norway? Possibly Slovenia and Croatia as well.
No Romania, Slovakia, or any other economic third stringers or hanger ons, either. Just economically productive countries whose populations have an established work ethic.
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Electing the socialists in France is probably the most idiotic move in history. I really do not understand how the French people could possibly have been so stupid. Europe's problems are BECAUSE of socialist policies, more of them are not going to solve the problem.
How the heck did this guy get elected? I mean, the French must have at least HALF a brain.
[Al Ahram] The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) will retain legislative powers until a new parliament is elected, a judicial source told Ahram Online on Friday. The source says that according to Article 56 in the constitutional declaration, which was issued by the SCAF in March 2011, the armed forces have broad rights to administer the country's affairs during the transitional period after the fall of ousted president Mubarak.
The article listed ten powers SCAF retains during that period, including the right to appoint a prime minister and cabinet ministers, the right to appoint civil and military officials, and the right to legislate and determine budgetary matters.
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[Al Ahram] A 33-year old Chinese woman will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 speacecraft which will perform a highly technical procedure aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020
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[Dawn] At least five people were killed in latest incidents of violence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported on Friday.
One person was rubbed out in the city's North Bloody Karachi area while two were killed in incidents of firing in the Garden area.
In an incident of firing on Jahangir Road, one person was killed and two others were maimed. The area became tense in the aftermath of the firing.
Moreover, in the city's SITE area, a policeman was rubbed out and another was maimed.
Four 'hit mans', two Taliban men placed in long-term storage
Four 'hit mans' were placed in long-term storage Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in an operation carried out by police personnel in Bloody Karachi's Garden and Kharadar areas, SSP South said.
The four, Saeed Pathan, Iqbal alias Arif Gul, Shahid and Mohammad alias Baba, are also alleged to have associations with political parties.
The police recovered four hand grenades, four 7-MM guns and four TT pistols from the suspects' possession. The four are alleged to be involved in over 30 incidents of assassinations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of police placed in long-term storage Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! two alleged bully boyz in a raid in the city's Pak Colony area.
Police claimed both suspects were members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and that they were involved in murder and acts of terrorism both in Bloody Karachi and the tribal areas.
A man was killed and nine other people were wounded in shootings across the city Friday afternoon into Saturday morning, police said.
The one death was Antonio Buck, 32, of the 5400 block of South Aberdeen Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was one of two people shot about 1:30 a.m. this morning in the 5100 block of South Honore Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said.
A 29-year-old woman was shot in the shoulder in the incident and is in guarded condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
When police first responded to the scene, they found her with a gunshot wound. Someone drove Buck from that scene to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died from a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Police spotted the vehicle carrying Buck as it sped away and tried to pull it over, but the driver kept going. It was only when they arrived at Holy Cross that police realized the driver was shuttling a man who was shot.
A 23-year-old man was shot about 6:20 a.m. Saturday on the 7900 block of South Ellis Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood, police said. He was shot in the lower back and leg. Additional details weren't immediately available.
Another man, 23, was shot in both legs near the intersection of Clark and Division streets in the Near North neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. It's not clear why he was shot. He "self transported" to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said. He told police he heard shots and felt pain.
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[An Nahar] Russia on Friday denied holding discussions with other nations on a political transformation in Syria that would include the departure of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... "I read somewhere today that supposedly, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said something along the lines of the United States and Russia discussing a political transformation in Syria after the departure of Bashir al-Assad," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told news hounds.
"If this was really said, this is not true. There were no such discussions and there could not have been such discussions. This completely contradicts our position," he told news hounds.
"We are not involved in regime change through either the U.N. Security Council or through involvement in sort of political conspiracies."
His comments came only moments after the foreign minister of La Belle France also mentioned holding such talks with Syria's Soviet-era ally.
"The Russians are not today attached to the person of Bashir al-Assad," Laurent Fabius said.
"They clearly see he is a tyrant and a murderer. But they are sensitive about who might take his place, if Assad is ousted. The discussion is about that," he told La Belle France Inter radio.
Lavrov also denied holding such talks with La Belle France.
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Moscow cares about its Mediterranean fleet [Tartarus] + Caucasus, Central Asia security + reducing tensions wid Assad BFF RISING IRAN + IRAN-VS-TURKEY which also affects the Caucasus, Central Asia situation.
FYI ANY EXPLOSION IN ASIA MINOR INCLUD IRAN MAY ALSO AFFECT EASTERN EUROPE, WHICH RUSSIA + RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH [Moscow = aka "The Third Rome"] DEEMS TO BE ITS "SPHERE/DOMAIN"
OF CULTURE + INFLUENCE.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TURKEY + QATAR TO TAKE JOINT MILITARY ACTION AGZ SYRIA? | [GlobalResearch] POSSIBLE DEAL BETWEEN TURKEY + QATAR ON MILITARY OPERATION AGZ SYRIA.
versus
* IIRC SAME > QATAR + SAUDI ARABIA CONSPIRE TO TOPPLE IRAQI GOVERNMENT: MALIKI.
Looks like Iran may yet find itself in a multi-front conflict agz these three regional rivals - Qatar in particular becomes that much more vital to any anti-Nucprog US = US-led Coalition iff Iran's schema to keep US CVNS + Amphibs, + Allied, out of the Persian Gulf proper + limited to the Sea of Oman + beyond succeeds???
Unless the USDOD can initiate a significant military buildup in Bahrain, espec BMD?, methinks its safe to say that the US Fifth Fleet base there will be all but absolut destroyed via Iran saturation strike. The USDOD must be aware of this threat because they have repor begun "expansion" of the Bahrain base.
[Al Ahram] Yemeni troops took control of the city of Shuqra on Friday after Al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin pulled out, the third jihadist bastion in the south to fall in the space of a week, a military official said.
"The army has taken control of Shuqra," said a military official, adding that "troops have taken positions in the centre" of the coastal city while Orcs and similar vermin were seen fleeing.
A local official told AFP that Al-Qaeda gunnies "pulled out towards Azzan," in Shabwa province, some 110 kilometres (70 miles) to the northeast.
The official said that Orcs and similar vermin fled after the army "tightened the noose from three fronts."
Shuqra was the last major stronghold of Al-Qaeda in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province to fall to government forces, which launched an all-out offensive last month that had already resulted in the recapture of the towns of Jaar and Zinjibar.
The Orcs and similar vermin remain in control of the smaller Abyan town of Al-Mahfad.
At least 48 people, including 40 myrmidons, were killed on Thursday in the battle for Shuqra, state media said.
The official Saba news agency said the air force had launched around 100 raids against Orcs and similar vermin holed up in the city.
On Tuesday, the military drove the jihadists out of the lovely provincial capital of Zinjibar and Jaar, with Al-Qaeda gunnies believed to have fled east to Shuqra.
Taking advantage of the weakening of central government control by an Arab Spring-inspired uprising last year, the Orcs and similar vermin had overrun most of Abyan, taking full control of Zinjibar, Jaar, Shuqra and several villages.
On May 12, the army launched an all-out offensive to recapture territory lost to the jihadists.
A total of 540 people have died in the campaign -- 402 Al-Qaeda myrmidons, 78 soldiers, 26 Islamic fascistiand 34 civilians -- according to an AFP tally compiled from various sources.
The recapture of Jaar and Zinjibar on Tuesday came just hours before the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution threatening sanctions against groups seen as undermining Yemen's political transition.
The main targets of Resolution 2051 were the family and supporters of ousted 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... , although they were not named in the text, diplomats in New York said.
Saleh has been accused by his opponents of allowing Al-Qaeda to take hold of large swathes of the country's south and east, and of meddling in the new government's affairs.
The resolution also backed President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who pledged to destroy Al-Qaeda when he was sworn in as Saleh's successor in February.
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[Al Ahram] Tunisia's religious leaders including hardline Salafists appear for calm at Friday prayers and cancel rallies as 1 was killed and 100 injured after clashes against police forces
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[An Nahar] At least 26 people were killed in violence on Friday as thousands protested against the regime across Syria, activists and a monitoring group said.
Activists uploaded videos of protests outside mosques or street marches on what they named a "Friday of Readiness."
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said regime forces killed six people in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, six in the southern province of Daraa, five in the central province of Homs, three in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , three in Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... ' countryside, two in Damascus and one in Idlib.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight people were killed in Busra al-Sham in the southern province of Daraa in an kaboom outside a mosque, while another blast was reported in al-Midan area of Damascus, without reports of casualties.
Regime forces also tried to reassert control over the central city of Homs and the town of Andan in Aleppo province, clashing with rebels and leaving two people dead in shelling, the Observatory said
The Britannia-based group had reported at least another 84 people killed in festivities and bombings nationwide on Thursday.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said major powers could hold a conference at the end of the month in Geneva on the crisis which erupted in mid-March 2011 and has since cost more than 14,400 lives, according to the Observatory.
"There is a possibility of holding a conference in Geneva on June 30," Fabius told La Belle France Inter radio.
Participants would include U.N. Security Council countries, but the meeting would be held "without the constraints of the Security Council," he added.
Fabius also said that talks were under way with Russia on Syria's future if Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... was ousted.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov swiftly denied such talks had taken place with La Belle France or the United States, which have both been pushing for Assad to step down.
"There were no such discussions and there could not have been such discussions. This completely contradicts our position," Lavrov told news hounds. "We are not involved in regime change."
Russia, along with China, has vetoed two Security Council resolutions against Assad and has vowed to oppose any military intervention.
Also on Thursday, 14 people were also maimed in suicide vehicle bombing near an important Shiite Mohammedan shrine in the capital, the state news agency SANA said.
Syrian authorities said they had uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to bomb Damascus mosques around the main weekly prayers.
A suspect tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Thursday confessed that he had been planning a suicide kaboom during Friday prayers at Al-Rifai Mosque in the heart of the capital, SANA reported.
The suspect told interrogators that the group's members "have prepared young men... to carry out suicide kabooms in several areas in Damascus during prayers on Friday, June 15," SANA said.
In a fresh report of bloodshed, the Syrian Observatory said nine bodies, some of them mutilated, had been found.
"The bodies of nine people were found in Hamouria in Damascus province, some with their throats slit," the watchdog's head Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. "It is unclear who carried out the attack."
In Istanbul, Syrian opposition leaders were meeting on Friday in a bid to settle their differences and forge a united front to confront the escalating conflict in their homeland.
"We will work towards a unified vision," Burhan Ghalioun, the former head of the main opposition group, the Syrian National Council, told Agence La Belle France Presse shortly before the two-day gathering kicked off.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... , meanwhile, accused Syrian government forces of having used sexual violence to torture men, women, girls and boys tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! since the unrest broke out in March 2011.
The New York-based group said it had interviewed 10 former detainees, including two women, who described being sexually abused or witnessing such abuse in detention.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said Thursday that the party's missiles are now "capable of reaching vital targets inside Israel," pointing out that the "Israelis themselves acknowledge Hizbullah's missile power."
They also acknowledge what will happen if Hizb'allah dares to use it...
In an interview with the Iranian television, Nasrallah added that the military capabilities of his group "cannot be compared to the previous phase," describing Israel's threats to attack Iran as "propaganda to blackmail the international community."
According to the transcript of the interview published on the website of Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam satellite TV network, Nasrallah added: "We should thank Iran because it supported us in reaching our objectives," warning of the "attempts of the United States to conspire against the revolutions and Islamic renaissance in the region."
He also said that "Israel, the U.S. and some other Western countries along with certain Arab nations are seeking to topple Bashir al-Assad's regime with the help of al-Qaeda," adding that such actions "prove that they are not seeking reforms in Syria."
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[Dawn] Pakistain's most revered social worker has been given round-the-clock protection against an alleged Taliban threat, officials said Friday.
Abdul Sattar Edhi, 85, runs the country's largest charity, which operates hundreds of ambulances and shelters for women, children and the destitute.
Described as a "living saint" for his modest lifestyle and charitable crusade, Edhi has won international peace awards and is one of Pakistain's most popular figures.
But for the first time he now has round-the-clock police protection in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Pakistain's largest city of 18 million where he is based.
"There is a threat to him by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), which wants to kidnap him and use him to get their set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! bully boyz released in exchange," a Pak security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Two armed coppers, who each work a 12-hour shift, have been going everywhere with Edhi since June 5, the official said.
Aslam Khan, a senior police official, said "a letter containing a hit-list has been intercepted, which includes Edhi and two police officials, including me," he said.
Khan and Rao Anwar, the other police official on the alleged hit list, have both narrowly escaped kabooms in Bloody Karachi claimed by the TTP.
Khan's house was flattened by a powerful bomb on September 19, 2011, while he was sleeping. He escaped unhurt but eight people were killed.
Anwar was in an armoured personnel carrier on April 5 when it was rammed by a motorcyclist laden with explosives, killing four people.
Edhi said he was carrying on regardless. "I have accepted the guards, but that won't deter me from doing my job to serve my people," he told AFP.
But Edhi's son and deputy, Faisal, told AFP that the Taliban had visited his father's office on June 6 to assure him that he was not a target.
"They told my father that they respect him and admire whatever he does, and won't target him ever," Faisal told AFP.
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[Al Ahram] The secretariat of Egypt's People's Assembly on Thursday received an official notification from Egypt's ruling military council to immediately dissolve the lower house of parliament in line with Thursday's High Constitutional Court (HCC) verdict.
According to a source who asked to remain anonymous, the Assembly's secretary-general, Sami Mahran, received the notification, which also prohibits everyone except workers and parliamentary reporters from entering the parliament building.
On Thursday, the secretariat had distributed the work agenda for the week to MPs as the Islamist-led Assembly was set to hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the ramifications of the HCC decision.
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[An Nahar] A Paleostinian was killed and three others were maimed on Friday when the Lebanese army opened fire during a spat at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Leb, a Paleostinian source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The violence erupted after the army set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock You have the right to remain silent... two Paleostinian men who were on a cycle of violence and refused to stop at a checkpoint, the source said.
State-run National News Agency said the motorcyclist had no identification papers. It later identified him as Mohammed M.
The arrest prompted hundreds of the camp's residents to block roads with burning tires and hurl stones at army troops, the source told AFP.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... LBC television reported that residents in the al-Beddawi camp, also in northern Leb, "blocked roads with burning tires to protest what happened at the Nahr al-Bared camp."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Togolese security forces took over an area where a third day of protests that have drawn thousands were to be held on Thursday after police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators the previous day.
Several thousand had gathered for protests in the capital Lome on Tuesday and Wednesday over changes to the electoral law opposition members say the governing party forced through in a country led by the same family for more than four decades.
Security forces broke up the demonstration on Wednesday with tear gas, and the opposition claimed 119 people were maimed over the two days amid government "repression."
Security Minister Colonel Gnama Latta said Wednesday that 22 copperswere maimed in the two days of unrest when protesters hurled missiles at them and erected barricades in certain districts.
The protests have come ahead of parliamentary elections expected for October.
"We could not rally today as planned because the entire area was occupied by the security forces overnight," said Zeus Ajavon of the Let's Save Togo coalition, which organised the protests.
He said the coalition was calling on residents in Lome to stay at home in protest on Friday. More protests would be planned for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, he said.
An AFP journalist saw around 50 police at the main protest area.
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Agent arrested in spy may have compromised some of China's US agents, in what is considered major setback for Beijing's intelligence efforts
A Chinese state-security official arrested earlier this year on allegations of spying for Washington is suspected to have compromised some of China's US agents in a major setback that angered President Hu Jintao, sources said.
Hu personally intervened this year, ordering an investigation into the case after the Ministry of State Security arrested one of its own officials for passing information to the Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The official, an aide to a vice minister, was taken into custody sometime between January and March after the ministry became alarmed last year over repeated incidents of Chinese agents being compromised in the United States, they said.
The ministry's own investigations found the aide had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for years, divulging information about China's overseas spy network in the nation's worst espionage scandal for two decades, they added.
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The editor's none too bright. The damage is to US intelligence and it's massive. We've just lost a highly-placed mole. I have to wonder if we could have provided a defector package to Wang Lijun and thereby diverted attention from our mole. Did Obama more or less sign this mole's death warrant by not taking Wang in?
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I have to wonder if the FBI was a little too ham-handed in apprehending the spies whose identities were provided by this mole. If David Cornwell's novels are anything to go by, spy agencies are supposed to throw a lot of red herrings in the path of whatever foreign intel agencies are engaged in trying to figure how one of their own was discovered while operating abroad. Over the past several years, the pace at which Chinese spies were being arrested seemed a little high. Now we know why - we had someone on the inside.
Was Barack "007" Obama involved in trying to generate positive headlines for himself? When Bush was president, Senior Colonel Xu Junping, Director of Strategy in China's Defence Ministry, who came in from the cold in March 2001, after having begun working for the Taiwanese intelligence services in 1999. Why couldn't our guy have done the same? What a disaster for future agent recruitment - the impression being given here is that (1) we won't accept defectors and (2) we will keep moles working for us in place until they are captured (and eventually executed).
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you may have just nailed 0bama's intel strategy. He wants china to prosper at our expense. he might even have dropped the dime on the mole for campaign cash. nothing is beyond him.
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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
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
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President Obama's Food and Drug Administration has caused "a public health crisis" -- a prescription drug shortage over the past two years -- by increasing the number of threats issued to raid and close drug manufacturing plants, according to House investigators.
Syria's chemical weapons program has been focus of Israeli intelligence operations since the mid-1970s. 
A local Swedish politician wants to require all men to sit down whenever they use the toilets in a county council building, to keep them clean and promote good health, a counselor said Thursday.
(Sh.M.Network)- A witness says Al shabab fighters have launched an attack on Somali and Æthiopian troops in Yurkut village which locates near the border between Bay and Gedo regions of southwestern Somalia.
[Dawn] PRESIDENT 
(Sh.M.Network) -- An official in Tanzania says his country will transfer a terror suspect to Germany.
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[Al Ahram] The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) will retain legislative powers until a new parliament is elected, a judicial source told Ahram Online on Friday. The source says that according to Article 56 in the constitutional declaration, which was issued by the SCAF in March 2011, the armed forces have broad rights to administer the country's affairs during the transitional period after the fall of ousted president Mubarak.
A 33-year old Chinese woman will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 speacecraft which will perform a highly technical procedure aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020
At least five people were killed in latest incidents of violence in 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Yemeni troops took control of the city of Shuqra on Friday after Al-Qaeda 
At least 26 people were killed in violence on Friday as thousands protested against the regime across Syria, activists and a monitoring group said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hizbullah Secretary-General 
The secretariat of Egypt's People's Assembly on Thursday received an official notification from Egypt's ruling military council to immediately dissolve the lower house of parliament in line with Thursday's High Constitutional Court (HCC) verdict.
