Id like to ask you a few questions, UPROXX readers.
1. Did you recently attend a Megadeth/Motorhead show in Chicago?
2. While there did you, by chance, happen to make the acquaintance of a lady with blue hair wearing a silver tube top, fishnets and knee high black biker boots?
3. Did you happen to raw dog with this nice lady in the bathroom during the show?
If the answer to all of these questions is yes, then youve got a baby on the way, my friend. Congrats!
The Craigslist ad in which the blue-haired, black biker boot-wearing lass seeks her paramour has sadly been flagged for removal, but Fuse caught it before it was taken down.
In a post entitled, Did we hook up at the Megadeth/Motorhead concert? w4m 28 (Aragon Ballroom), an anonymous woman wrote the following post, which is reproduced here in its entirety:
Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, fishnets, Knee high black biker boots.
You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings.
I was grinding on you in the pit, then we went to the bathroom, and got f***ed up. You had a nice c**k and I was wasted so I let [you] raw dog it in the stall. You were really good and you had to gag me so I would make too much noise.
Anyway Im pregnant. Its yours. contact me if you want to be part of your childs life.
If you think this may be you, you can email your now-knocked-up fling at: c9kpp-2948959310@pers.craigslist.org
The body overseeing Egypt's presidential election disqualified 10 candidates from the race on Saturday, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater, former spy chief Omar Suleiman and ultra orthodox Salafi sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail.
Farouk Sultan, head of the presidential election commission, told Reuters the disqualified candidates had 48 hours to appeal against its decision. He declined to give details on the reasons for their disqualification.
The army doesn't like the Brotherhood candidates, and decided to nail Suleiman only to let him win his appeal? Thus getting rid of the Islamicists that would spoil the boodle for the army while letting Suleiman demonstrate his 'independence' from the military?
The disqualification of some of the leading candidates would redraw the electoral map with just weeks to go before the May vote that decides who will replace Hosni Mubarak as head of the Arab world's most populous country.
A council of military generals has been governing Egypt since Mubarak was swept from power a year ago in a popular uprising against his rule.
Abu Ismail's candidacy has been in doubt since the election commission said it had received notification from US authorities that his late mother had an American passport, a status that would disqualify him from the race.
Abu Ismail followers have held several demonstrations to warn against any move to disqualify their candidate. On Friday they besieged the headquarters of the election commission, forcing it to evacuate the premises. His lawyer, Nizar Ghorab, told Reuters he expected "a major crisis to happen in the next few hours."
Was he looking at his watch when he said that?
A spokesman for the Shater campaign said their candidate had already prepared his appeal. Shater's candidacy had been in doubt because of a former criminal conviction.
"We will not give up our right to enter the presidential race," said Murad Muhammed Ali. "There is an attempt by the old Mubarak regime to hijack the last stage of this transitional period and reproduce the old system of governance."
Suleiman, appointed deputy president by Mubarak in his last days in power, entered the presidential race at last moment, triggering both concern and heavy criticism from reformists who see him as a symbol of Mubarak's rule and a danger to democracy.
Hussein Kamal, a top Suleiman aide, told Reuters his campaign would also challenge the commission's decision. "Omar Suleiman will take legal route to challenge this decision to exclude him from the presidential race," he told Reuters.
Official Iranian media reports Tehran turns down request from US delegation to meet with Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
Iran turned down a request by the United States for a rare bilateral meeting on the sidelines of nuclear talks between the Islamic republic and six world powers in Istanbul on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency said. There was no comment from US diplomats, whose country has not had direct ties with Tehran for more than three decades.
IRNA's report followed contradictory accounts from two other Iranian news agencies on prospects for a meeting between Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and the head of the US delegation, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.
Yemeni military officials say an unmanned U.S. drone targeted a vehicle carrying seven al-Qaeda members south of the capital of Sanaa, killing all of them.
Two officials say the drone fired a missile at the vehicle on Saturday in the town of al-Zahar south of Sanaa. It was heading to the southern province of Abyan where al-Qaeda militants and government forces are fighting. Witnesses said the vehicle turned into a charred skeleton along with its passengers.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
The Yemeni Defense Ministry says a jet targeted al-Qaeda leaders but didn't elaborate.
U.S. officials had no immediate comment, but Washington has carried out deadly airstrikes in Yemen in the past.
The drone strike comes after Al-Qaeda fighters attacked a security checkpoint in a southern Yemeni city on Saturday and killed four troops while losing eight of their own, a security official said.
At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country's spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health-care reform. That was not true.It was obvious at the time that it could never be true. If government gives health insurance to 33 million uninsured, that costs. Costs a lot. There is no free lunch.
Three years later, we are back to smoke and mirrors. This time it's not health care but the Buffett Rule, which would impose a minimum 30 percent effective tax rate on millionaires.Okay. Let's do the math. No, NO! No FAIR! Proles can't do MATH!
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this new tax would yield between $4 billion and $5 billion a year. If we collect the Buffett tax for the next 250 years -- a span longer than the life of this republic -- it would not cover the Obama deficit for 2011 alone.
The Buffett Rule is nothing but a form of redistributionism that has vanishingly little to do with debt reduction and everything to do with reelection. As such, it's clever.
It perfectly pits the 99 percent against the 1 percent. Indeed, it is OWS translated into legislation, something the actual occupiers never had the wit to come up with. Clever politics, but in terms of economics, it's worse than useless. It's counterproductive.
The reason Buffett and Mitt Romney pay roughly 15 percent in taxes is that their income is principally capital gains. The Buffett Rule is, in fact, a disguised tax hike on capital gains. But Obama prefers to present it as just an alternative minimum tax because 50 years of economic history show that raising the capital gains tax backfires: It reduces federal revenue, while lowering the tax raises revenue.
No matter. Obama had famously said in 2008 that even if that's the case, he'd still raise the capital gains tax -- for the sake of fairness.
For Obama, fairness is the supreme social value. And fairness is what he is running on -- although he is not prepared to come clean on its price. Or even acknowledge that there is a price. Instead, Obama throws in a free economic lunch for all. "This is not just about fairness," he insisted on Wednesday. "This is also about growth." His lips moved. I saw them!
Growth? The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. Now, in the middle of a historically weak recovery, Obama wants to raise our capital gains tax to the fourth highest. No better way to discourage investment -- and the jobs and growth that come with it. (Except, perhaps, for hyperregulation. But Obama is working on that too.)
Three years ago, Obama promised universal health care that saves money. Today, he offers a capital gains tax hike that spurs economic growth. This is free-lunch egalitarianism.
The Buffett Rule redistributes deck chairs on the Titanic, ostensibly to make more available for those in steerage. Nice idea, but the iceberg cometh. The enterprise is an exercise in misdirection -- a distraction not just from Obama's dismal record on growth and unemployment but, more important, from his dereliction of duty in failing to this day to address the utterly predictable and devastating debt crisis ahead.
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Why go for real change when you can half ass it to the same political effect. His voters are not very smart.
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The Bammer seems intent on keeping the food aid suspended until Jong-un makes concessions on the DPRK's NucProgs, + prob safe to say
select Miltechs.
By most accounts, Jong-un is Mil-centric - this could still be a tensive or bad summer for the Bammer + US irregardless of what happens ala IRAN or AFRICA???
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The Turks have a reputation for being staunch fighters. Put them up in a defensive position and they will defend it to the last man, as they proved at Gallipoli and during their engagements with Chinese troops during the Korean War. The problem is that they have had serious difficulties with domestic Kurdish guerrillas who number in the thousands. How would they deal with Syrian guerrillas in the tens or hundreds of thousands? The prospects of Turkish body bags numbering in the thousands per year is why the Turks haven't intervened in Syria. Not to mention the prospect of Arab ingratitude after the expenditure of tens of thousands of dead Turks and the destruction of billions of dollars of Turkish military equipment at the hands of Syrian troops and guerrillas.
In addition, millions of Turkish Alawites are irate at Turkish government proclamations of solidarity with Syrian Sunni Arabs. They see the Sunni Arab rebellion in Syria as the beginning of a program of physical annihilation against Alawites. If Erdogan invades Syria, he might have to add an Alawite insurgency in Turkey to the Kurdish insurgency that currently kills hundreds of Turkish soldiers a year. That, on top of the fact that secular elements of the Turkish military might take the opportunity to stage a coup and defenestrate him, should give Erdogan pause about any Turkish intervention.
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That, on top of the fact that secular elements of the Turkish military might take the opportunity to stage a coup and defenestrate him, should give Erdogan pause about any Turkish intervention.
This. I pray. I hope the have a good camera angle for his descent.
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A German vessel carrying Iranian weapons was stopped in the Mediterranean while en route to Syria, Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
The ship, which had been chartered by a Ukrainian shipping company, was delivering weapons to Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been coping with 11-month-long mass protests against his rule. According to the report, the German government's economic ministry has announce that it will investigate any and all smuggling attempts.
This is not the first time a German vessel has been used to smuggle Iranian arms. In March 2011, the Israeli navy seized the Victoria cargo ship as it was sailing off Israel's coast on its way to Egypt while flying a Liberian flag. The ship was carrying 50 tons of weaponry destined for Hamas, including advanced Iranian-made radar-guided anti-ship missiles.
The Iranian regime does not confine its weapons smuggling to German vessels. In November 2009, Israel also intercepted the Francop ship, which was sailing near Cyprus on its way to Syria. Flying an Antiguan flag, the vessel was found to be carrying around 500 tons of weaponry, including long-range Katyusha rockets.
In January, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said he was working to recruit countries from around the world to help combat what he called the "transatlantic smuggling" of weaponry from Iran to its terror proxies in the region.
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Left unsaid is from where the ship departed, the stops made along the way, and at which port the arms were loaded.
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Ask, and ye shall receive, Dr. Steve. Ynet reports:
German weekly Der Spiegel reported that the Atlantic Cruiser was halted in the Mediterranean after its owners were warned it was suspected to be carrying Iranian military equipment to Tartus, Syria, where it was supposed to arrive Friday.
Der Spiegel quoted shipping agent Torsten Lueddeke of Hamburg-based CEG Bulk Chartering as saying: "We stopped the ship after we received information on the weapons cargo."
He said the ship had been chartered to an Odessa, Ukraine-based company called White Whale Shipping and "they declared to us as cargo above all pumps and things like that," according to the report. "We would never have allowed weapons on board."
The ship's current whereabouts weren't clear. Der Spiegel -- which reported that the suspect cargo was loaded in Djibouti -- said it had changed course for Iskenderun, Turkey, on Friday and then stopped about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Tartus and sailed in circles.
Sailing in circles. Perhaps it's not just weapons they're shipping from Iran...
The son of the Chinese power couple embroiled in the scandal over British businessman Neil Heywood's death was escorted from his home by US officials, as experts said he could obtain asylum in America.
Bo Guagua, the Harrow- and Oxford-educated son of Bo Xilai, was slipped out of his luxury flat near Harvard University late on Thursday night, in a pre-arranged pick-up by law-enforcement officers. Wearing a dark jacket and pulling a roller suitcase, the 24-year-old, who was preparing for final exams of a postgraduate degree, was driven away in a dark SUV by a besuited officer wearing a badge.
"He did not look frightened, but he seemed anxious to go with them," a source told The Daily Telegraph. "He had clearly been expecting it".
People who grow up in police states usually do learn to expect the knock at the door...
Mr Bo was accompanied by a female friend.
Speculation was mounting that the younger Mr Bo may have sought protection from American authorities.
He's in America already. From what does he need protection?
The FBI's Boston office declined to say if the man was one of their agents. It is understood that he was not from the local or university police departments.
He was picked up at about 10pm on Thursday, after his female friend told the doorman to expect a visitor and gave him an electronic key fob to let him into the underground car park. She is believed to have left later in Mr Bo's Porsche, after collecting more luggage.
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Jeez, remember when high roller commie's kids went to Patrice Lumumba University, lived in 8th floor walkups in Moscow, spent most of their time getting drunk on cheap Russky vodka and got degrees in Revolution Theory?
How times have changed...
A combined Afghan and coalition security force today captured a Taliban leader who was planning a suicide attack against an upcoming gathering of local Afghan civilians in Afghanistans Kunduz province, military officials reported. A leader who was willing to fight to the last suicide bomber?
As the security force approached the Taliban leaders suspected location, an insurgent armed with an assault rifle was killed as he prepared to fire, and the Taliban leader was wounded in the arm. Whereupon he began crying like a baby.
The security force provided medical treatment to the Taliban leader and later took him to a coalition medical facility. He is expected to fully recover and will be detained, officials said. Several other insurgents were detained in the operation.
In other operations today:
-- In Paktia provinces Gardez district, security combined force captured a Taliban leader who coordinated suicide bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces. He also provided weapons and ammunition to insurgents in the area. The security force also detained another insurgent in the operation.
-- An Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents and destroyed more than 330 pounds (of bomb-making materials while searching for a Taliban leader in Wardak provinces Sayyidabad district. The wanted man supervises construction and placement of roadside bombs and facilitates the movement of Taliban fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
-- In Ghazni provinces Khugyani district, Ghazni province, security combined force detained two suspected insurgents during an operation launched to capture a Taliban leader who plans kidnappings and conducts attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces. He also supplies local insurgents with weapons and equipment.
-- A combined force in Kandahar provinces Shah Wali Kot district detained several suspected insurgents during an operation to capture a Taliban leader who directs attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces.
-- In Nangarhar provinces Chaparhar district, security combined force detained several suspected insurgents an operation to capture a Taliban leader who directs attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces.
In other news, Afghan security forces supported by coalition troops found and destroyed 1,100 pounds of ammonium nitrate and a 115 mm rocket in Nangarhar provinces Achin district yesterday. Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer banned by the Afghan government because insurgents use it to make explosives.
And in an April 11 operation, a combined security force in Faryab provinces Maimanah district killed Ammar Sahib, a senior facilitator for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorist group. Hopefully they've already picked the next sucker martyr.
Ammar Sahib, also known as Qyamuddin, provided weapons, ammunition, and equipment to terrorists across northern Afghanistan. He also recruited suicide bombers and coordinated with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders in Pakistan for newly trained fighters.
In 2006, he was arrested for a bombing that killed two civilians and two members of the coalitions provincial reconstruction team. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but served only six months.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan organization is linked closely to al-Qaida and the Taliban. It operates in northern Afghanistan and other countries in Central Asia, officials said.
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No mention, not even speculation, about what sinking just a single oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz would mean for the world economy, renders the discussion moot. I suppose the US could render Iranian naval forces and artillery equivalents non-functional while leaving oil transport unimpeded. That seems unlikely to happen.
I still like the idea of airdropping a vast supply of pistols and ammo into Iran as a gift to those opposing the mullahs.
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I still like the idea of airdropping a vast supply of pistols and ammo into Iran as a gift to those opposing the mullahs.
RPGs, man. Don't forget the RPGs. :-)
But I'll bet they'd listen to reason if they truly feared for their lives. Decapitation strikes, a warning MOAB near a couple of key infrastructure points, families of mullahs threatened, napalm any place that might provide cover for a missile launch, laying waste to their entire navy in an afternoon (including their stupid subs), bombing the crap out if Republican Guard barracks and key logistics centers, a couple of fake cluster bomb alpha strikes in key population centers (maybe use yellow Nerf balls with the words "If this had been a cluster bomb, your child would be dead now, so don't do anything stupid to make us use them. Tell your neighbors." written on it), sonic booms all through the night, radio broadcasts promising $100,000 rewards for informantion leading to the hamburgerization of key government and military officials, etc., etc.. And of course tactical nukes to take out their precious nuke sites. No boots on the ground. And take out Syria and the Norks.
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As a first step: INVITE CHINA to make a military road from China across Afghanistan to the Iranian border.
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Guerrilla tactics are somewhat ineffective against airborn targets. The US would be smart not to put boots on the ground, except perhaps advisors and contacts working with Iranian rebels.
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Anguper Hupomosing9418, a number of tankers were sunk during the Iran/Iraq tanker war. I'm sure they've modeled it out very well. The real fear is the speculators send the price up, but that can be controlled.
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I am sure there are plans to mine all Iranian harbors. Speedboats would be destroyed at their bases. If shtf, then action important. Getting inside MM OODA loop is paramount.
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a number of tankers were sunk during the Iran/Iraq tanker war. I'm sure they've modeled it out very well
Like our economists modeled the housing bubble crash? If that is the case, we are already sunk. The world has changed a great deal since. If sovereign interest rates merely returned to the levels current during the last Iran/Iraq war, multiple national economies would collapse.
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The thing is, Iran is due to run out of oil it can pump in eight years, if I understand correctly. So nation destroying isn't necessary, except as a lesson to similarly ambitious nations. Likewise, Israel needn't utterly destroy Iran's nuclear industry, merely set it back enough, often enough, that weapons aren't accomplishable before economic melt-down is achieved. Afterward, Iranians of fighting age should be too busy caring for their grandparents and trying desperately to strive off starvation to trouble themselves about sending war beyond their borders.
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Like our economists modeled the housing bubble crash?
Actually the housing crash was modeled very nicely. Having worked in the mortgage banking industry for many years, I can tell you that people cringing as the tsunami approachedwaiting for it to hit.
Back to Iran: The Iranians probably want to repeat the Iraqi insurgency only 3 - 5x bigger. There are 3 problems with that strategy:
1) The US already has experience defeating a Muslim insurgency.
2) The Sunni Arabs are not about to help out a radical Shia insurgency (like they did in Iraq).
3) The Iranian insurgents will not have a foreign sanctuary next door.
Certainly a conflict with Iran would be messy, but I am convinced we would win.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN TELLS UAE: [We are Strong +] WE WILL CRUSH ANY AGGRESSION. UAE should NOT make a serious mistake + underestimate Iran like the Zionist US + Israel.
and
* SAME > SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT THREATENS IRAN WID MILITARY ACTION.
* SAME > BAHRAINI FORCES [Govt-Security] ATTACK MOURNERS AT MANAMA, attending the funeral of slaim Jounalist Ahmed Ismail al-Samadi.
Also, SAME = [AL-Jazeera]PAKISTANI TROOPS AID [Saudi-backed?]BAHRAINI CRACKDOWN, agz local Shias.
FYI thats NUKE-WANNABE IRAN'S BFF NUCLEAR PAKISTAN doing that to Bahraini Shias.
YEMEN + UAE + BAHRAIN = ARISE, BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR, ARISE??? OMAN wants to feel the love.
US intelligence officials tell ISSSource 'Israeli proxy' at Natanz nuclear facility used memory stick to infect machines; claim spies belong to same dissident group behind killing of nuclear scientists
The Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear program was implanted by an Israeli proxy -- an Iranian, who used a corrupt "memory stick.32," former and serving US intelligence officials told the Industrial Safety and Security website.
Nothing says friendship between nations like America publicly undermining Israel's security. Thank you, President Obama. .
[jingle] "Memory Stick 32, don't leave for work without it!"
According to the sources, Iranian proxies have also been active in assassinating Iran's nuclear scientists.
The officials told ISSSource that a saboteur at the Natanz nuclear facility, probably a member of an Iranian dissident group, used a memory stick to infect the machines there. They said using a person on the ground would greatly increase the probability of computer infection, as opposed to passively waiting for the software to spread through the computer facility.
"Iranian double agents" would have helped to target the most vulnerable spots in the system," one source was quoted by the website as saying.
The intelligence officials told ISSSource they believe these nuclear spies belonged to the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which, according to them, Israel uses to do assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
"The MEK is being used as the liquidation arm of Israel's Mossad intelligence service," Vince Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism, told the website.
Last year the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that Israel had tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon.
In what the Times described as a joint Israeli-US effort to undermine Iran's nuclear ambitions, it said the tests of the destructive worm had occurred over the past two years at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert.
[An Nahar] Sudan's army said on Friday it has launched a counterattack towards Heglig town in its main oil-producing region where South Sudanese forces took control earlier this week.
"Now we are moving towards Heglig town" and are "close," army front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad said in a statement.
"The situation in Heglig is going to end in coming hours," he told news hounds, adding that South Sudan had tried but failed to control "all of South Kordofan state."
World powers have urged restraint after the latest round of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... that broke out on Tuesday with waves of aerial bombardment hitting the South whose troops seized the Heglig region from Khartoum's army.
Southern President Salva Kiir and his Khartoum counterpart Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. have accused each other of seeking war, prompting a U.N. Security Council call for an immediate ceasefire.
Sudan had vowed to react with "all means" against a three-pronged attack it said was launched by South Sudanese forces.
The festivities, the worst since South Sudan won independence in July after one of Africa's longest civil wars, have brought the two former foes closest to a return to outright war.
Neither army has provided casualty figures but one soldier in the capital of the South's Unity state said earlier: "There are so many bodies at the front line, so many dead" that it is impossible to bury them or bring them back.
When the South separated, it left with about 75 percent of Sudan's oil production, leaving the Heglig area as Khartoum's main producer. Its output roughly fulfilled domestic requirements.
But Ahmed Haroun, governor of South Kordofan state where Heglig is located, said Tuesday's attack caused a total production shutdown in the area.
Despite international calls, Juba has refused to withdraw from Heglig unless certain conditions are met, including Khartoum's pullout from the neighboring Abyei region it holds, but which like Heglig is claimed by both sides.
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[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda front organization, the Islamic State of Iraq, said on Friday that it carried out a jail breakout in which 19 prisoners beat feet in late March, in a statement on jihadists sites on Friday.
The group said that its members were able "to drug the guards responsible for monitoring the prisoners at night... and then open a hole in the wall of one of the cells".
"Nineteen mujahedeen (holy warrior) prisoners succeeded in leaving, among them some who were sentenced to death by the Safavid judiciary," it said, using a derogatory term for Shiites derived from the name of the Safavid dynasty, which ruled what is now Iran from the 16th to 18th centuries.
The prisoners beat feet early on March 23, according to a security official who said that the escapees included members of al-Qaeda and the Ansar al-Sunna Death Eater group.
The group apparently drugged guards and fellow inmates using narcotic-laced dates that put them to sleep before breaking out of al-Tasfirat prison in the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Of the 19, two were sentenced to death, while 17 faced various accusations including murder.
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Of the 19, two were sentenced to death, while 17 faced various accusations including murder.
Hmmm, in the mid-east murder is NOT considered worth the death penalty?
Explains most of the Mudser-jihad people.
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The group apparently drugged guards and fellow inmates using narcotic-laced dates that put them to sleep before breaking out of al-Tasfirat prison in the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Hey! Are those dates!
Yeah, Mahmoud, and they're really good too! Put your gun down and try some!
Reliving a Day of Tragedy Will Test Survivors; Many Fear Courtroom Will Give Breivik a Platform for His Extremist Views.
Nine months after a lone gunman killed 77 people and injured hundreds with an unprecedented shooting spree and a car boom, Norway faces a new trauma: his trial.
Anders Behring Breivik, 33 years old, has admitted his deeds, but said they were justified because he is at war with Islam and what he described as "multiculturalism." Many in Norway fear that the trial--the biggest in Norway since those of Nazi collaborators after World War II--will give him a platform to spread such views.
At the core of the trial, scheduled to last 10 weeks, is whether the massacre was carried out by a madman or by someone representing growing political rumblings over Norway's increased openness to immigrants. Try musclehead and meth head
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Very interesting article. RTWT.
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Now everyone knows that only white crackers can be slavers! Whitey went to Africa, kidnapped innocent Africans and transported them across the Atlantic ocean.
There may have been more prolific and/or worse slavery, but that doesn't make it right. It would be better to paint a more complete picture to help understand the various cultures involved, though.
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I didn't say it was right. I was pointing out that this is the only view which the Media, Hollywood, and the left shows. You never hear any discussion of the Islamic slavery (which is still occuring) or anything else.
But you are right that they did transport them across the atlantic - often in terrible conditions - but, as this article pointed out, the death rate across the Sahara and Indian ocean were much worse. But you wouldn't know that from the media or hollywood.
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Despite all the numbers going east, is there any place in the ME, or on the littoral of the Indian Ocean that looks like, say, Haiti, or Brazil, or even Alabama?
No? Whyever not.
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Christians didn't invent slavery - but they did invent abolition. Yet another modern innovation Islam has yet to adopt.
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Despite all the numbers going east, is there any place in the ME, or on the littoral of the Indian Ocean that looks like, say, Haiti, or Brazil, or even Alabama?
No? Whyever not.
From the article:
"The Muslim slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves: eunuchs. Eunuchs were created by completely amputating the scrotum and penis of eight to twelve year old African boys. Hundreds of thousands of young boys bled to death during this gory procedure. The survival rate from this process ranged from 1 in 10 to 1 in 30."
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Free the white slaves, send them back to Africa.
That thought reveals exactly how nutty the whole idea is.
I don't know a single Black who doesn't think he's a wholr lot better off than the Africans.
Thre'd be a revolition.
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This court ruling is just the latest incident that appears to contradict the U.S. White House's positive spin that began with use of the term "Arab Spring"
In retrospect its almost comical the manner in which the O-Team managed the Egyptian coup d'état. The hook for Hosni and Son was inevitable. However, if there ever was a time to attempt the proverbial dictators soft landing Cairo was it. The Progressive/Marxist/Unionists never stood a chance to overwhelm the more established Islamists. Rather than exercising whatever leverage against the Egyptian military the Obama Whitehouse had instead it chose to focus all of its resources on developing a narrative. Arguably, this is an example of President Obamas greatest liability his predictability. He will always make a decision based on what (they think) will have the most favorable perception for the president himself.
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They beat them and their friends in a different war a long time ago when the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAD REAL LEADERS AND GHOULS WERE NOT IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING!
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Chinese fixed-wing aircraft on Thursday approached a Japanese destroyer that was patrolling near the median line that ostensibly separates the two countries' exclusive economic zones in the East China Sea, immediately triggering a protest from Tokyo.
The plane, marked with the flag of China and Chinese characters indicating its affiliation with the State Oceanic Administration, at one point approached as near as 50 meters to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Asayuki at around 12:10 p.m. on Thursday in the area where the two countries' 200-nautical-mile EEZs overlap.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry urged Beijing not to repeat such a flight, which it described as "a dangerous act."
The Joint Staff Office of the Japanese Defense Ministry said the Chinese aircraft approached the MSDF destroyer in the Japanese EEZ near the Chunxiao gas field, known as Shirakaba in Japan. The two countries are at odds over gas development in the area. Beijing does not recognize the median line and claims its EEZ stretches further to the edge of the continental shelf, nearer Okinawa Prefecture.
The Asayuki was mobilized for routine patrol activities and not for an emergency response in the event North Korea goes ahead with its planned rocket launch, which is widely suspected to be a covert test of a long-range ballistic missile, according to the office.
Meanwhile, two Russian surveillance planes flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday, prompting Japan's Air Self-Defense Force to scramble jets to guard against an airspace incursion. The Defense Ministry said the Tu-142 aircraft did not violate Japan's airspace but repeatedly flew around over the East China Sea north of Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture.
The ministry suspects the Russian planes were collecting data on the Japanese and U.S. response to the planned rocket launch by North Korea, which involves the deployment of Aegis destroyers and ground-based radar by Japan and the United States.
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According to Wikipedia, the Asayuki has two Phalanx CIWS. At 50 meters, they would make mincemeat out of any plane flying by.
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In the South China Sea, the PHIL + CHINA had repor withdrew their protests ala disputed Scarborough Shoal, but only one CG Warship/Gunboat apiece, + pullout by 3 of 8 Chin Fishing Boats.
AFAIK that leaves two armed Chinese Maritime Surveillance Gunboats [converted PLAN Destroyers?]versus one PHIL Coast Guard Search-N-Rescue vessel???
* See also DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > VIETNAM DISMISSES CHINA'S OBJECTIONS TO RUSSIAN OIL EXPLORATION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
* WORLD NEWS > PHILIPPINES WARNS OF DEFENDING ITSELF IFF ATTACKED BY CHINESE VESSELS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA STANDOFF.
* SAME > US GENERAL ISSUES PACIFIC WAR WARNING AT SEMINAR. USPACAF LTG Paul Selva.
US will react strongly to any attempt by foreign powers to push its MilFors out of PACOAS.
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TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > PHILIPINE, CHINA STANDOFF
[Scarborough Shoal] CONTINUES DESPITE WARSHIPS PULLOUT.
Purvue of the Diplomats.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > THE FINAL WARNING FOR INDIA |PEKING REFUSES TO ACCEPT INDIA'S STAND ON BORDER ISSUE, claiming that Indjuh's position is tantamount to formal rejection by New Delhi = Central as per any attempt for a bilateral
"peaceful settlement".
BLOGGER > "Rejection of Peaceful Settlement" = same as "Asking for War".
From a tiny studio in southern Tel Aviv, a group of Iranian-Israelis beam music and news in a effort to reach out to their former fellow countrymen. Farsi-language web broadcaster, Radio RadisIN is based in a small shopping center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. It was set up three years ago to encourage a sense of unity among the 300,000 Israelis of Iranian descent.
But it also has another, perhaps more important mission: to send news and views from Israel directly to Iranians living in the Islamic Republic and around the world. Broadcaster Kami Itzhakyan said, "Our goal is for Iranians to really know what is happening here in Israel, and also at home. The Tehran regime hides the truth from them."
Born in Iran, Itzhakyan immigrated to Israel 25 years ago and is now one of the station's 35 presenters and journalists, who provide a steady stream of popular and classical Iranian music, cultural programs, and political news and analysis.
He says, "In Iran, all of the news which is broadcast is a lie. There is no truth in it. I want our listeners in Iran to know the real truth."
RadisIN broadcasts on the Internet because the Iranian regime is not able to interfere with the US-owned Intelsat Galaxy 15 satellite by which its programs are transmitted. The programs are also rebroadcast by several free cable and satellite stations, the station says.
The this has resulted in a growing audience. They have callers ringing in from around the world, most of them from the United States, France, Germany and of course, Israel. From time-to-time, a listener may dare to ring in "from somewhere in Iran".
Many in Iran are preparing for the inevitability of war, says Itzhakyan, who stays in touch with friends back home. He says, "There's a sense of war in Iran, people fear that war is very, very close. Some people are going to the supermarkets and stocking up on supplies which they are keeping at home in case of war."
Meanwhile, as speculation grows that Israel is ready to mount a lightning strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, RadisIN is sticking to business as usual, despite attempts by the Iranian regime to shut them down.
Amir Shai, the 42-year-old founder of RadisIN, says, "They tried to block us, and got into our website and damaged it. The regime knows that a station like RadisIN, which was set up by people in Israel, is much more dangerous to it than if it were set up by a government body.
"They don't want my voice -- along with another 35 or so other broadcasters who speak heart-to-heart with the Iranian people -- to be heard. But it's important for the Iranian people that it is."
[An Nahar] Western nations and Russia on Friday put forward rival U.N. Security Council resolutions on sending ceasefire observers to Syria as they wrangled over conditions for the mission.
The dispute after two days of tough negotiations means no vote is likely until Saturday on any final resolution which would allow an advance party of 30 unarmed military observers to go to Syria next week.
The United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany have registered one text for a vote. It demands "full, unimpeded, and immediate freedom of movement" for the mission.
But it also demands that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... "implement visibly" the commitments he made to U.N.-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... envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... , including the withdrawal of troops and weapons from cities.
The text would force the council to "consider further measures" if Syria does not carry out its commitments.
Russia's U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his mission had put forward a much shorter text. Details were not immediately released but diplomats said it did not demand the same level of security guarantees or that Assad pull back troops.
La Belle France's U.N. ambassador Gerard Araud said the council will negotiate the western text "paragraph by paragraph and I suspect it will be a long afternoon."
"If there is an agreement on the council we will vote it tonight. If there is not agreement, as you know, we need 24 hours after having put a text in blue which means that your Saturday is lost," Araud told news hounds. Putting the text "in blue" is the technical phrase for registering a draft resolution for a vote.
Churkin, whose country is Syria's last major ally, insisted that the Western countries were putting too much detail into the text.
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[Dawn] Police seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition found in an abandoned house in Ittehad Colony of Baldia Town on Thursday.
Although no arrest was made during the raid, the police foiled a terrorism bid in the city, claimed Baldia DSP Abdul Haq Bhutto.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the house situated within the remit of the Mochko cop shoppe and recovered a huge quantity of weapons, including two rocket launchers, an anti-aircraft gun, 14 hand grenades, 100 short distance mortars and dozens of rounds of different calibres.
Following the seizure, operatives and officers from different law-enforcement agencies visited the scene and inspected the weapons.
'Gangster' held
A notorious Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangster said to be associated with the Baba Ladla group was tossed in the calaboose in Bulbul Hazaar Dastan Building in the old city area on Thursday, police said.
SSP Farooq Awan of the crime branch said that acting on a tip-off, the police raided the building situated within the remit of the Napier cop shoppe and tossed in the calaboose Mullah Nawaz associated with the Baba Ladla gang.
He added that the Nawaz was on the list of most wanted criminals and the Sindh government had also put a bounty on his head of Rs0.5 million. He was wanted in over 50 cases related to murder, money extortion, police encounter and drug peddling.
During the initial investigation, he confessed that he was involved in the murder of another notorious Lyari gangster, Majeed Speed, a few years ago, the SSP said.
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No arrests made during the raid? Yawn. Glad they seized a weapons cache but that'll be easily replaced.
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Twelve Secret Service agents with President Obama at an international meeting have been relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct. The AyPee received an anonymous tip that the misconduct involved prostitutes in Cartagena, the site of the Summit of the Americas. A Secret Service spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the allegation.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan did not confirm that prostitution was involved, saying only that there had been "allegations of misconduct" made against Secret Service personnel. He said the allegations of misconduct were related to activity before the president's arrival Friday night.
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Zerohedge's comment: while he may be far more successful in generating jobs in Latin America than domestically, even those jobs have proven to be quite transitory, just like virtually all quickie temp jobs "created or saved" in the US in the past several years. Furthermore, just like in the US, we doubt that the incremental wealth benefits will trickle down to the local population. After all, unlike in the US, endogenous Colombian liquidity may be abundant everywhere but certainly not at the central bank
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Bust-ed! Fox sez the boys were drinking heavily and disputed the extra hotel bill for an extra overnight guest. Sounds like GSA isn't the only agency accustomed to perks.
Last week we were supposed to post an analysis of a Mexican general who could be the next top commander in the Mexican Army. Due to circumstances that story won't be presented until we can find a suitable news peg.
Human rights organizations have lauded the Mexican senate for advancing military justice reforms this week to make crimes committed by soldiers against civilians prosecutable by civilian courts.
However, those very reforms were among those suggested last fall by Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa in anticipation of a far greater reform in national security law, which languishes in the legislative process.
Human rights organizations may wind up getting what they asked for. And so could Calderon.
[Dawn] Angry people of violence-hit Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area of the metropolis on Friday clashed with police resulting in deaths of four more, at least two rockets were also fired by unknown myrmidons, DawnNews reported.
According to sources, people were protesting against a raid allegedly by Crime Investigation Department (CID) police at the residence of People's Aman Committee (PAC) leader Uzair Baloch.
Sources said CID police raided house of Uzair Baloch early in the morning and allegedly harassed his family members when they did not find him at home. Protests then started in Lyari Town including Lee Market, Aath Chowk and Chakiwara.
A man identified as Hanif was killed and his teenage daughter Afshan and another child were maimed in a hand grenade attack by myrmidons at his house in Hass Pora building in limits of Napier Police Station.
A schoolteacher identified as Iftikhar was rubbed out in an earlier firing incident in the Baldia town area of Lyari.
A young man identified as Hayat Gul was rubbed out by unidentified gunnies at Miranaka in jurisdiction of Chakiwara cop shoppe.
Sporadic firing injured at least ten people as well. Bodies and injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital.
Frequent gun sex forced owners to shut shops and small businesses. Mobs pelted vehicles with stones and blocked main roads leading to Lyari by burning tyres and placing hurdles.
Heavy contingents of police and rangers have been deployed in the affected areas to control the law and order situation.
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[Dawn] Provincial Election Commissioner Sonu Khan Baloch on Friday revealed that around 112,000 voters of Karachi have been fraudulently registered in Balochistan, DawnNews reported. That's all? As the noted philosopher R. Ricardo once said: "I dun blivit."
Pooh. If they aren't dead, it's a Chicago suburb on a bad day.
"We are taking steps to rectify the errors," Khan assured.
Election commissioner said that compiling the list of 85 million eligible voters could have possibility of errors.
Khan urged the political parties to cooperate in this regard rather than being critical.
Earlier Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had lodged a protest outside the provincial election commission urging the commission to immediately prepare new voter lists removing the irregularities in the present lists.
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[Dawn] Four men went on trial in Denmark on Friday accused of plotting a "Mumbai-style" attack on the offices of a Danish newspaper whose publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad ((PTUI!)) in 2005 outraged many Moslems.
The three Swedish citizens and one Tunisian pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges of terrorism and three of the four pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of weapons. Prosecutors have said they could face life sentences if found guilty.
They are accused of plotting to kill a large number of people in an armed attack on the offices of the daily Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen's Town Hall square at the end of 2010 and with trying to terrify the population.
"It is our perception that an unknown number of people were to be killed by shooting," chief prosecutor Gyrithe Ulrich told TV2 News outside the courthouse before the trial began.
Standing trial are Mounir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, and three Swedish citizens -- Lebanese-born Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father, and Sahbi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, of Tunisian origin.
All four were living in Sweden at the time of their arrest in December 2010, three days before the alleged attack was to have been carried out.
Awad and Zalouti entered the courtroom wearing handcuffs, while Aboelazm and Dhahri had their hands free.
When the judge entered the courtroom, Zalouti rose to his feet only after being urged to do so by his lawyer, the three others stood without prompting.
All four pleaded not guilty to the main charge of terrorism, but Dhari pleaded guilty to illegal possession of weapons.
Senior prosecutor Henrik Plaehn showed the court a large automatic pistol, which police have said was found in a car rented by the defendants, and plastic strips which police have said could have been used as handcuffs.
Zalouti's lawyer asked Plaehn to point the gun at the floor, and not wave it around in the air.
Denmark's state security police (PET) have said the attack was meant to be like the 2008 shooting spree in Mumbai, when 10 Pak gunnies killed 166 people in a three-day coordinated assault on city landmarks, including two hotels and a Jewish centre.
The PET said the men belonged to a jihad boy religious group and had links to international terrorist networks.
Jyllands-Posten was the paper that first published a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad ((PTUI!)), provoking protests in 2006 against Danish interests abroad and riots in countries from the Middle East and Africa to Asia in which at least 50 people died.
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[Dawn] Pakistain will deport the widows and children of former al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who went titzup one dark and stormy night... to Soddy Arabia next week after their jail sentence for illegal residency ends, their lawyer said on Friday.
The three women and two children were jugged by Pak security forces after a secret US special forces raid killed bin Laden in the Pak town of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... in May last year.
Earlier this month a Pak court sentenced the women to 45 days in prison for illegally staying in the country. It ordered their deportation after the prison term which began on March 3 when they were formally placed in durance vile.
"They are likely to be deported to Soddy Arabia on April 18, as their sentence ends on April 17," the family's lawyer, Aamir Khalil, told Rooters.
The three widows and the children were among the 16 people jugged after the US raid. Two of the wives are Saudi nationals, and one is from Yemen.
The family is being held at a house in the Pak capital Islamabad.
Analysts had said Pakistain may have preferred a lengthy prison sentence for the family to prevent them from discussing details of their time in the country.
Once outside Pakistain, bin Laden's relatives could reveal details about how the world's most wanted man was able to hide in US ally Pakistain for years, possibly assisted by elements of the country's powerful military and spy agency.
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[Dawn] Thousands of Shia Mohammedans rallied across Pakistain on Friday to protest against sectarian violence and demand the government to provide security for their community.
At least 14 people were killed and more than 50 maimed in sectarian violence in northern Pakistain on April 3, prompting the government to deploy troops and impose a curfew in the northern towns of Gilgit and Chilas.
Around 2,500 people staged a sit-in outside the parliament building in Islamabad on Friday, an AFP photographer said, a demonstration organised by the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Mohammedaneen (MWM), a Shia religious party.
Rallies were also held in the central city of Multan, Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistain-administered Kashmire, and the southwestern city of Quetta where protestors called for action against those involved in killing Shias.
Human rights groups have heavily criticised the government for failing to crack down on sectarian violence between the country's majority Sunni and minority Shia Mohammedan communities that has killed thousands.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of Syrians marched on Friday to test the regime's commitment to a U.N.-backed peace plan, and the fragile two-day old ceasefire was again shaken when security forces killed 10 civilians and an army deserter.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed three protesters in Daraa, two protesters in Hama, two people in Idlib, two protesters in 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... , a demonstrator in the Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... suburb of Daraya and a rebel soldier in al-Hassakeh.
The hard-won truce to end a 13-month crackdown on dissent that has cost an estimated more than 10,000 lives appeared to be relatively holding, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... said he did not expect it to last. He questioned Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... 's sincerity and appealed for observers to monitor his compliance.
U.N.-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... peace envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... , who brokered the ceasefire, urged Syria to open humanitarian corridors to deliver aid.
"Mr. Annan is aware that we don't have a perfect situation in the country at the moment," his front man Ahmad Fawzi said. "There are detainees that need to be released, humanitarian corridors need to be opened."
Protesters rallied in the Qadam and Assali districts of Damascus, while other demonstrations took place in Irbin and Bibla outside the capital, according to videos posted on the Internet.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said demonstrations were organized in the northern province of Aleppo, while protesters erupted into the streets after the main weekly Mohammedan prayers in several neighborhoods of Deir Ezzor in the east.
The Britannia-based watchdog said demonstrators hurled stones at security forces in the Tariq al-Sadd district of the southern city of Daraa, cradle of the protest movement that erupted in March last year.
Sporadic festivities broke out between troops and rebels at Khirbet al-Joz on the northern border with Turkey, it said.
Violence on Thursday killed at least 10 people, including seven civilians, and maimed dozens more.
Among the dead were two soldiers killed by rebels after forces loyal to Assad attempted to break up a demonstration in the central province of Hama.
Even so, the toll is markedly lower than in recent weeks, when there have often been scores of people killed on a daily basis.
On Friday, security forces killed one man when they shot up a group joining a demonstration in Assi Square, in Hama, the Observatory said.
Another demonstrator was rubbed out in the village of Nawa in Daraa province, as he left a mosque to join a demonstration, the Observatory said.
Regime forces also killed a man in the town of Salqin, in Idlib province, the center added.
After the ceasefire came into force at dawn on Thursday, Annan declared he was "encouraged by reports that the situation in Syria is relatively calm and that the cessation of hostilities appears to be holding."
But as Assad's government and the rebels traded accusations of trying to wreck the ceasefire, Annan insisted "all parties have obligations to implement fully the six-point plan."
The plan, to which Damascus has committed itself, calls for the withdrawal of forces from urban areas, the release of arbitrarily jugged people, freedom of movement for journalists and the right to demonstrate.
Despite the regime's commitment, the spokeswoman for the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), Basma Qoudmani, said "we have concrete proof that heavy weapons are still in population centers."
The SNC, the most widely recognized opposition group in exile, and Internet-based activists called for peaceful demonstrations to test the government's readiness to accept public shows of dissent.
"We call on the people to demonstrate and express themselves... The right to demonstrate is a principal point of the plan," SNC head Burhan Ghalioun told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Qoudmani said: "The real test (of the ceasefire) will be if there is shooting or not when people demonstrate."
The Syrian Revolution 2011 activist group called on Facebook for protests on Friday -- the Mohammedan day of rest when the demonstrations have been the largest after noon prayers -- under the rallying cry: "A revolution for all Syrians."
But the interior ministry insisted people wanting to demonstrate must have permits.
"The right to demonstrate peacefully is guaranteed by law. We call on citizens to apply the law by requesting a permit before demonstrating," it said.
On Friday, the U.N. Security Council could vote on a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to monitor both sides in a conflict the Observatory says has cost more than 10,000 lives.
An advanced mission of 20-30 observers could be in place early next week, diplomats said, with the full mission reaching at least 200.
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said: "The world is watching however with skeptical eyes," adding that previous promises made by the regime "have not been kept."
In a statement after two days of talks in Washington, foreign ministers from the Group of Eight major economies, which include Western powers and Syria's main supporter, Russia, urged "immediate" action to send in observers.
Syria's government urged tens of thousands of people who decamped the violence both inside and outside the country to return home and offered an amnesty to opposition gunnies without "blood on their hands."
In Turkey, which is hosting around 25,000 Syrian refugees, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said international aid has begun to arrive.
"We will start getting international aid, and in fact we have already started," he told news hounds in Istanbul.
The United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) this week sent 1,500 tents and 1,500 blankets to Turkey, diplomatic sources told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the international community to help Turkey house Syrian refugees.
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[Dawn] Difa-e-Pakistain Council on Thursday announced not to let food for Afghanistan-based NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... forces pass through Pakistain, saying the reopening of the supply route will mean accepting the US supremacy.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... chief Professor Mohammad Ibrahim at Al-Markaz-e-Islami here, DPC chairman and JUI-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq said conditional restoration of NATO supply was meant to accept conditional slavery of Americans and that was unacceptable to the nation.
He said the council's April 15 public meeting had a great significance as it would be a warning to the pro-US people in Pakistain.
Mr Haq regretted that the NATO supply continued during Musharraf regime and the current government was giving it a legal shape through parliament's consent. He said parliament had no authority to compromise national interests.
"We will stop NATO supply and in case any mishap happens, the entire responsibility will be with the government as Americans on the pretext of provision of protection to its supply will try to push its forces into Pakistain," he said.
Mr Haq said supply of foodstuff to Americans in Afghanistan was un-Islamic as they would consume liquor and pork and kill Moslems for no fault of theirs and that was why DPC was opposed to such food's passage through Pakistain.
JI leader Professor Ibrahim said his party would fully support the April 15 public meeting of DPC as it would an effective step towards ridding Pakistain of the US slavery. He asked the government to withdraw the decision to restore NATO supply to prevent people's agitation. JI provincial general secretary Shabbir Ahmad Khan, former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly deputy speaker Ikramullah Shahid, Maulana Yousaf Shah, Israrullah Advocate, Najam Khan Advocate and Abdul Haseem Haqqani also attended the news conference.
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[Dawn] Showing deep resentment at 'illegal' detention of a person for over 38 months, the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court on Thursday asked the General Headquarters (GHQ) and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) director general to form a high-powered team to check widespread illegal activities of ISI and other agencies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and adjoining Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk observed: "It is more than essential to bring these agencies under control and discipline and their work is fully channelised as none will be permitted to act in this illegal manner in future and if any one defy and violate the law he should be tried by a court martial under the Army Act."
The bench also summoned the sector in charge of ISI and the inspector general of prisons in some missing person cases.
It, especially the chief justice, expressed anger after a former detainee, Mir Mohammad Arshad, informed that he was kept in a basement for 38 months after he was interrogated only for three days. He informed that during his captivity his old mother could not sustain his disappearance and had died.
The chief justice asked: "Who will compensate him and his family who has undergone agonising period of 38 months is a big question mark for the army leadership?"
The bench observed that instead of taking action directly it would leave the matter to ISI DG and GHQ to constitute a high-powered team to check activities of ISI and other agencies.
"This court expects Pakistain Army, which has rendered great sacrifices for this country, to step into this matter quickly to regain what they have lost due to illegal acts of agencies," it said.
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AFP - The head of Iraq's electoral commission and another of its members have been jugged on suspicion of misusing state funds, a statement released on Friday by the country's Higher Judicial Council said.
"The decision to detain Faraj al-Haidari and Karim al-Tamimi was based on (them paying) real estate registration employees to register pieces of land for them, from the budget of the electoral commission," Abdelsattar Bayraqdar, the front man for the Higher Judicial Council, said in the statement.
Haidari heads the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), of which Tamimi is a member.
The charge of using state funds for personal benefit carries a prison term of up to seven years, the statement said, adding that the two were placed in long-term storage so the investigation could be completed.
Judge Qassem Abboudi, also a member of the IHEC, had earlier told AFP that Haidari and Tamimi were placed in long-term storage on Thursday for paying a bonus of 150,000 dinars ($130) to an employee.
Karima al-Assadi, a spokeswoman for IHEC, said that "an investigation of the integrity commission (Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog) is under way within the electoral commission."
Asked about the matter, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's front man Ali Mussawi said only that "it is a judicial issue related to the integrity commission and the judiciary."
There is bad blood between Haidari, a 64-year-old Shiite Kurd, and Maliki's State of Law list over the former's refusal to carry out a national recount after 2010 parliamentary polls, in which the premier's list came second to rival Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived liquidation attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... 's Iraqiya list.
Haidari recounted the votes only in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... province.
The State of Law list sought a no-confidence vote on Haidari for alleged corruption, but failed because other parties opposed the move.
[Dawn] DESPITE the virtual media blackout of Gilgit-Baltistan it is becoming increasingly clear that sectarian violence in the entire region is spiralling out of control.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... the systematic attacks on the Hazaras of Quetta continue unabated. It is hardly surprising then that Shias everywhere are talking conspiracy even as beturbanned goon Sunnis of all varieties are doing everything in their power to prove the conspiracy theorists right.
A conspiracy is that which is hidden from the public eye, a plan hatched by unknown elements hell-bent on causing maximum possible harm to the adversary. By this definition, organised attacks such as those that have been carried out in recent times are a conspiracy only in the sense that immeasurable harm has been caused to the community being targeted. Who is doing the killing is hardly a secret.
In Quetta, a couple of 'banned' and 'defunct' organizations have taken responsibility for most of the attacks. It scarcely matters that the killers have not been as forthcoming in Gilgit-Baltistan (or the media willing to break with the 'greater national interest' in its adhering to the terms of the blackout).
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ), after all, is just another name for a nexus of social forces and state institutions that has unapologetically transformed Pakistain's social and political landscape since the dark years of Ziaul Haq.
Madressahs, a retrogressive public educational curriculum, a pro-jihadi media discourse -- these and many other dimensions of Pakistain's love affair with millenarianism have been in and out of the news for years, in the English press at least.
Commentators, myself included, have emphasised the continuing refusal of our holy guardians to give up on hare-brained schemes such as strategic depth that have shredded the innards of this society.
But there has been, till now, not enough focus on arguably the most dangerous trend of all: that otherwise forward-thinking people spread out across the length and breadth of this country, almost despite themselves, are starting to conform to the exclusivist discourse that the gunnies on all sides are championing.
Beyond the alarmism that afflicts the chattering classes the objective evidence is relatively conclusive; most Paks are not bigots, even if many are cowed into silence by the issuers of the proverbial fatwas.
At best most of us are hypocrites who have imbibed the Ziaist imperative of demonstrating religiosity in public and otherwise engaging in distinctly 'un-Islamic' practices -- as far as the mullahs are concerned -- in the comfort of our own homes.
Minority communities that have been victimised consistently over a period of time -- some even before the 1980s -- have understandably looked within themselves to cope with the tyranny of the majority. This tendency has, however, not necessarily given rise to reaction. In fact, there have been many notable progressive outcomes, including a marked desire of more affluent members of the community to look after those endowed with much less.
Where some form of reaction has come to light, as in the case of Shia militancy in the 1990s, a significant part of the community has rejected it. Many young, educated Shia who have, for one reason or the other, been taken in by the appeal of Shia militancy, subsequently recanted and generally espouse a principled politics of non-violence and promote inter-faith harmony.
But it is now important to ask whether or not there may be countervailing trends emerging. Individuals hailing from minority communities active in the social media are starting to evince more alienation than might have been the case even a few years ago. Anger and resentment are becoming more common as the perception of perennial victimhood becomes more pronounced.
Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... is the best example of how systematic brutalisation can precipitate extremely dangerous social conflicts between relatively disempowered communities. Ethnic Baloch have long felt victimised by the Pak state, but xenophobic trends within the Baloch nationalist movement have historically remained relatively muted.
The Shia Hazara community settled mostly in Quetta has, for the most part, coexisted with Baloch and Pakhtuns and integrated itself into the wider society. Pakhtuns are probably the most upwardly mobile of the three major communities, but this is not to suggest that they constitute a dominant ethnic group per se.
It is impossible to ignore the fact that tensions between all three communities have intensified greatly in recent times. Hazaras and Baloch in particular have become less likely to express any measure of empathy for one another, and it is noticeable that otherwise eloquent progressives on both sides are now in the business of competing over which community faces more systematic and structural violence.
The situation in Gilgit-Baltistan has been on knife-edge for much longer. Sectarian festivities which were a minor speck on the social landscape before the Zia years erupt in all their fury at almost regular intervals, radicalising otherwise ordinary people and arousing suspicions that persist long after the particular phase of violence has passed.
Of course, it matters that those charged with protecting the public peace are heavily implicated in destroying it, and that our holy guardians and their sycophants jealously guard the ideological apparatuses that produce hate and violence.
But simply reiterating that the state is culpable will not force it to change its historical posture. The fact of the matter is that too many people in society are starting to believe they have to take sides in a manner that makes it more difficult in the long-term to build an alternative consensus. It is necessary to face up to this growing polarisation and then do something about it.
In particular, as many of us as possible need to speak up not only for our own but for all those who are victims of wanton violence and systematic exclusion. The biggest burden must be owned by majorities, especially religious and ethnic ones. But the sane voices within minority communities have a role to play too, as they have in the past.
If all those who believe that there is still something to be salvaged from the wreckage of sectarian and all other forms of organised violence do come together and say what needs to be said, there is hope yet that all the blood that has been spilt will not have been in vain.
[Dawn] More than 181,000 people have decamped fighting between government troops and Taliban or al Qaeda-linked forces of Evil in northwest Pakistain, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
"The number of people displaced by an ongoing government security operation in northwest Pakistain has now surpassed 181,000," said a statement from the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The agency said that about 10,000 new arrivals were being registered daily by officials at the Jalozai camp near the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province.
"The vast majority of those registered --85 per cent --choose not live in the Jalozai camp, opting instead to stay with friends, relatives or in rented accommodation," said the UNHCR.
The body said it had distributed more than 37,000 humanitarian kits and other UN agencies, including Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO), were also providing aid.
The fighting started on January 20 when government troops attacked krazed killer groups in the Khyber region.
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NEW YORK -- An American-born jihadist who joined al-Qaeda could testify for the government in the upcoming trial of a man accused in a plot to bomb New York City subways.
...who has been singing like a bird about all the little friends he made while indulging in jihad...
is listed as a potential witness at the trial of Adis Madunjanin. Opening statements are set for Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.
Medunjanin has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges he conspired with two childhood friends from Queens to suicide bomb Manhattan subway lines in 2009. Prosecutors say the three had gone to Pakistain together in 2008 to get terror training from al-Qaeda.
Vinas, 29, who's from Long Island, was captured in Pakistain in 2008. He isn't charged in the subway plot, but could be called to the witness stand to testify about the inner-workings of al-Qaeda.
A new study has found that almost half of Pak students applying to come to Britannia to further their studies are incapable of speaking English.
The study carried out last month by the National Audit Office (NAO) also found that a flawed immigration crackdown may have allowed up to 50,000 bogus students into Britannia.
The NAO estimated that around one in six of student visas granted went to workers whose intention was to take jobs.
Border officials conducting face-to-face interviews for student visas found that more than 40 percent of the applicants should be blocked for poor language skills.
But under the current form-filling visa system, just 20 percent of those from Pakistain are turned away.
Home Secretary Theresa May will now order that every person in Pakistain applying to study in Britannia will have to be interviewed first.
Every Pak student wanting to come to Britannia will face tough new tests after a pilot scheme found that as many as four in ten applicants may be bogus, according to the study.
Home Office figures have revealed that thousands of student visa applicants cannot speak English, despite claiming they want to study in the UK.
The Home Secretary has now decreed that anyone wanting to come to study in Britannia from Pakistain must be interviewed by border agency officials before a visa is granted.
An estimated 10,000 students apply to come to the country from Pakistain every year.
Whitehall sources said that in 2006 12 percent of visa applicants were interviewed, but by 2009 this had fallen to just one percent.
Students make up two-thirds of the migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU.
The coalition has already barred more than 11,000 foreign students from entering Britannia after their college courses were exposed as bogus.
One in every five colleges - more than 450 in total - offering places to overseas students have lost their licenses, and have been banned from bringing any non-EU students into the UK.
A pilot of the new "culpability test" of interviews was carried out in Pakistain last year.
It was followed up by similar tests in 14 locations across the world. Between December 2011 and February 2012, more than 2,300 student visa applicants were interviewed by officials.
Some 38 percent were deemed bogus in Bangladesh, 27 percent in Sri Lanka, 29 percent in India and 28 percent in Egypt. Campaign group Migration Watch heralded the findings as a victory for its three-year call to re-introduce interviews for all overseas students.
[An Nahar] A Lebanese-Canadian university professor accused of a 1980 bombing of a Gay Paree synagogue that killed four people will appeal an order to extradite him to La Belle France, his lawyer said Friday.
Canada's justice minister on April 4 signed an order to send Hassan Diab to La Belle France after a Canadian court in June 2011 approved his extradition despite its concerns the case is "weak."
"We don't want your kind round here no more, eh!"
The sociologist at the University of Ottawa denies any involvement in the first fatal attack against the French Jewish community since the Nazi occupation in World War II.
His lawyer Donald Bayne said Attorney General Rob Nicholson's decision was made in the face of "shocking new information that La Belle France is not prepared to put Hassan Diab on trial, but is only seeking him for questioning."
French officials confirmed no charges have been laid, yet.
Both sides left open the possibility that Diab would be formally charged upon his return to La Belle France.
Bayne also said some of the evidence in the case was obtained from Syrian intelligence services through torture, and thus questioned its reliability.
The lawyer said he would appeal the minister's order. It will be heard by year's end, at the same time as another appeal of the evidence presented at Diab's extradition hearing.
"We simply cannot be sending Canadians around the world so foreign regimes can investigate them," Bayne said. "Either there's a case against them or there isn't."
"Canada is alone in doing this and Canada has never done this before."
Canada used to be ruled by those left-wing types, but now Prime Minister Harper is running things. All sorts of new things are being done.
Diab himself told a presser, "I'm very disappointed that the minister of justice has allowed this travesty to go on."
"It's a grave injustice to extradite me for a crime that the evidence shows I did not commit."
"I would like to go back to teaching and resume my life... and not languish without charges in a French jail."
Diab stressed that he does not support terrorism and is "not an anti-Semite."
Furthermore, he said he wishes to cooperate with the French investigation and answer "any questions," but from home. His lawyer said police have not responded to the offer.
Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, was placed in long-term storage in an Ottawa suburb in November 2008 following a request from French prosecutors.
La Belle France alleges Diab was a member of a Paleostinian bad turban group believed to have planted a bomb in a cycle of violence saddlebag outside the Copernic Street synagogue in the posh 16th arrondissement of Gay Paree on October 3, 1980.
The blast killed three Frenchies and a young Israeli woman, and injured dozens.
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founder and President of the Dead Cats MC ... He enjoyed booze, guns, cars and younger women until the day he died.
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Question, there was a line in the obit that said "brother Stephen Blanchard (Susan)" what does the Susan mean? Girlfriend, wife, that Stephen became Susan? Don't mean to be snarky but it seems odd.
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When people talk about "when men were men", they're talking about guys like this. I never knew you Flathead, but I'll miss you. There aren't enough of you left.
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there was a line in the obit that said "brother Stephen Blanchard (Susan)" what does the Susan mean? Susan is significant other to Stephen, relationship not otherwise specified. Common usage in obits, perhaps to save money on per-word billing.
[An Nahar] A desperate man in Munich fled onto a balcony and called police for protection after his insatiable companion for a one-night stand refused to let him leave her flat, police said Thursday.
The 43-year-old man had met a woman four years his senior in a bar in the southern German city on Monday and she took him back to her apartment for sex, a police spokesman said in a statement.
"There they had sexual intercourse several times," the spokesman said.
"When the 47-year-old wanted even more, her partner said no."
The man then attempted to leave the apartment but the woman prevented him from escaping and demanded he sleep with her again.
"Because the 43-year-old saw no other alternative, he complied with the woman's wishes another few times so he could finally leave the apartment," the spokesman said.
"But when she continued to refuse and demanded even more sex from him, he fled to the balcony and alerted the police."
The woman "then tried to talk the dispatched officers into similar activity but was unsuccessful".
She is now facing possible charges of sexual assault and illegal restraint.
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[An Nahar] Clashes between armed civilians and al-Qaeda bully boyz trying to retake control of the town of Loder spread on Friday to nearby Mudia, as the corpse count from four days of festivities reached 200, local sources said.
At least 23 people, 20 of them suspected bully boys, were killed in one suburb of the southern town, tribal sources said.
The rest of the dead were tribal levies allied with government troops who were killed in the jihadist assault on the Abyan province town, the sources said.
Residents of the province, mainly from Loder and Mudia, formed gangs in 2011 after al-Qaeda bully boyz overran the picturesque provincial capital of Zinjibar.
At least 51 people were killed on Wednesday in a third day of festivities in and around Loder, according to military and tribal sources.
Loder lies some 150 kilometers (95 miles) northeast of Zinjibar, the Abyan capital that bully boyz of the al-Qaeda-linked Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law) overran last May.
Al-Qaeda briefly seized Loder in August 2010 before being driven out by the army, while gunnies from the Assal tribe also ejected the bully boyz from Mudia.
A tribal source said the bully boyz wanted to recapture it because of its strategic location between Shabwa, Bayda and Lahij provinces where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is also active.
Abyan has fallen completely under the control of the terror network except for Loder and Mudia.
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A form of mideast peace, sort of.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Yemeni military officials say an unmanned U.S. drone targeted a vehicle carrying seven al-Qaeda members south of the capital of Sanaa, killing all of them.
A combined Afghan and coalition security force today captured a Taliban leader who was planning a suicide attack against an upcoming gathering of local Afghan civilians in Afghanistans Kunduz province, military officials reported.
Sudan's army said on Friday it has launched a counterattack towards Heglig town in its main oil-producing region where South Sudanese forces took control earlier this week.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Chinese fixed-wing aircraft on Thursday approached a Japanese destroyer that was patrolling near the median line that ostensibly separates the two countries' exclusive economic zones in the East China Sea, immediately triggering a protest from Tokyo.
From a tiny studio in southern Tel Aviv, a group of Iranian-Israelis beam music and news in a effort to reach out to their former fellow countrymen. Farsi-language web broadcaster, Radio RadisIN is based in a small shopping center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. It was set up three years ago to encourage a sense of unity among the 300,000 Israelis of Iranian descent. 
Western nations and Russia on Friday put forward rival U.N. Security Council resolutions on sending ceasefire observers to Syria as they wrangled over conditions for the mission.
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
Police seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition found in an abandoned house in Ittehad Colony of Baldia Town on Thursday.
Angry people of violence-hit 
Provincial Election Commissioner Sonu Khan Baloch on Friday revealed that around 112,000 voters of Karachi have been fraudulently registered in Balochistan, DawnNews reported.
[Dawn] Four men went on trial in Denmark on Friday accused of plotting a "Mumbai-style" attack on the offices of a Danish newspaper whose publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (
Pakistain will deport the widows and children of former al Qaeda leader 
[Dawn] Thousands of Shia 
Thousands of Syrians marched on Friday to test the regime's commitment to a U.N.-backed peace plan, and the fragile two-day old ceasefire was again shaken when security forces killed 10 civilians and an army deserter.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Showing deep resentment at 'illegal' detention of a person for over 38 months, the 
[Dawn] DESPITE the virtual media blackout of Gilgit-Baltistan it is becoming increasingly clear that sectarian violence in the entire region is spiralling out of control.
[Dawn] More than 181,000 people have
A new study has found that almost half of Pak students applying to come to 
A desperate man in Munich fled onto a balcony and called police for protection after his insatiable companion for a one-night stand refused to let him leave her flat, police said Thursday.
[An Nahar] Clashes between armed civilians and al-Qaeda 
