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Jeez , BBC ! Iran Reformist : Medhi Karroubi's car : Fired Upon ! Iran's Opposition Leader has been fired in : Northern city : Quazvin : Crossfire : Lucky : Non !! He Survive : Dey's No Dood : Phat : Phat Crossfire : Whew Ah : hehn hehn !! Accordin' To Hiss : Webby Site !! DUH !!
[Maghrebia] A Moroccan court on Thursday (January 7th) sentenced fourteen members of the Fath Al-Andalous (Reconquest of Andalusia) terror cell to prison terms of up to 15 years, MAP reported. At the time of their 2008 arrest, the Moroccans, all in their twenties, possessed chemicals and electronic equipment used to manufacture explosives and had formed links with foreign extremists in the Maghreb and Europe. Five members of the cell had reportedly been in contact with Arab Afghans, who were ready to teach them long-distance bombing techniques used in Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria.
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Sentenced to 15 yars means that since they only intended to kill infidels they will be released in two years and get medals in four.
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Not in Morocco, JFM. The current Sultan doesn't look favorably on all the disruption these people cause. He's trying to increase tourism from Europe and raise the standard of living of his people. He's the ONLY Muslim head of state I'd even halfway trust. I'm pretty sure in this case 15 years means 15 years.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Three suspects behind a Christmas Eve shooting that killed six Coptic Christians in southern Egypt and sent shock waves through the country's Christian minority surrender to authorities on Friday, Al Arabiya correspondent in Cairo reported.
Police had scoured sugarcane fields for the three suspects and closed all their possible escape routes to the mountains west of Nagaa Hammadi, north of Luxor, forcing them to surrender.
The culprits opened fire opened fire Wednesday night on the Copts as they emerged from midnight mass. They raked pedestrians along a stretch of road that housed two churches and a shopping mall, leaving pools of blood on the roadside.
A Muslim policeman was also killed in the attack.
The interior ministry said in a statement late on Thursday that they had found the car used in the attack and were encircling the three suspects in fields near Nagaa Hammadi.
The suspects all had previous convictions, the statement said.
Act of retaliation
Police believe the attack was related to the alleged rape of a Muslim girl by a Coptic man in the nearby village of Farshut in November.
Muslim villagers responded to that incident by burning Coptic-owned stores in Farshut and surrounded a police station where the Coptic suspect was held.
Nagaa Hammadi's Bishop Kirilos told AFP that for the past week some of his parishioners had received threatening phone calls.
The callers said Muslims "will avenge the rape of the girl during the Christmas celebrations," Kirilos said.
Coptic mourners clashed with police on Thursday as they buried their dead. The shooting raised tensions in southern Egypt, where there have been repeated sectarian clashes in the past.
Wednesday's attack, which also wounded six people, was the deadliest since 20 Copts were killed in sectarian clashes in 2000, also in southern Egypt.
Copts, who account for up to 10 percent of Egypt's population of 80 million, are the Middle East's largest Christian community but complain of routine discrimination and harassment.
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alleged rape of a Muslim girl
Once again the words mean different things.
"Alledged" seems to mean "Already tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, so you Can't do anything aout it, Copper.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Egyptian security escorted British lawmaker George Galloway to take a flight out of the country on Friday and he was barred from returning after violent protests over an aid convoy he led into Gaza, MENA news agency said.
The Foreign Ministry declared the left-wing politician an "unwelcome individual", the agency said.
PNG-ed! Good for Egypt, which has been doing some things right, lately.
An Egyptian security source said Egypt reached a deal with members of the aid convoy to take supplies to Palestinians in Gaza after protests overnight.
Egyptian security forces and members of the convoy had thrown stones at each other when tempers frayed over the route the trucks were to take.
Cairo had insisted the food and other supplies should enter Gaza via an Israeli-controlled checkpoint but convoy leaders wanted to use the Egyptian-controlled Rafah border crossing.
Galloway, who had re-entered Egypt to ask about the fate of seven detained convoy members, was immediately asked to leave the country, security sources said. Galloway was escorted by Egyptian security personnel as he went to Cairo airport heading for London, MENA said. Police said later the seven detained convoy members had been freed and placed on a "watch list."
No member of Galloway's convoy was immediately available for comment.
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Galloway, who had re-entered Egypt to ask about the fate of seven detained convoy members
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The British should do the same.
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I wonder how much it would cost for the Egyptians to allow him in, then arrest him for some extended-stay criminal charge in a back country prison? There's a lot of people who would donate to that charity.
You figure if he was out of the limelight, in five years, even in his home district they would ask, "George who?"
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab disappeared in Yemen for more than two months before he allegedly tried to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet with explosives concealed in his underwear. Investigators want to know if, during that time, he heeded the call to prayer coming from the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism.
The students who pray at Al-Iman University now, two weeks after that failed Christmas Day attack, say the school has been made a scapegoat, and that what AbdulMutallab is accused of having done is wrong. "It's against Islam," one says. "The thoughts in their heads go against Islam," says another.
Al-Imam's leader is Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard. The United States considers him a terrorist, accused in 2004 of supplying weapons to al Qaeda. But in Yemen, al-Zindani is a free and influential man.
Al-Zindani denied CNN's request for an interview but allowed the network to tape at the school he's built from the ground up since the early 1990s. Every year, thousands of Islamic students from Yemen, Africa and around the world are cocooned in al-Zindani's compound, where they study their faith and are instilled with a strident defense of that faith.
Last year, al-Zindani made a public plea to recruit millions of young men to fight jihad against Israel. But the students say they don't think AbdulMutallab was ever at the school, and investigators don't appear to have come to ask. Yemeni authorities, it seems, have taken a hands-off approach to the university. "To my knowledge, no security, no investigation teams came here," political science professor Ismail al-Suhaili said. "Nobody thought that AbdulMutallab was here."
In Yemen, Al-Iman University is highly respected and its leader admired, making it difficult for investigators to find out for sure if the Christmas Day bombing suspect was ever there.
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Any chemical engineering major who can't figure out how to blow up a little jet airplane doesn't deserve his/her degree, Perfessor, nor most of the chemistry majors. On the other hand, Theory & Practice of Contained and Uncontained Explosions is not a listed chapter in the Koran, the Sunna, or the Hadiths.
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"the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism"
Sounds like a good place to send a well-placed drone or two twenty.
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Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northern parts of Yemen along the border with the oil-rich kingdom.
According to a statement released by the fighters on Thursday, Saudi forces carried out 13 aerial raids on Jebel al-Madood as well as villages in close proximity to the border region in northern Yemen.
The statement added that Saudi forces fired some 1400 rockets against the rugged area.
The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters. It intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada.
Yemen claims the fighters are seeking to revive an imamate that was toppled in 1962.
The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption.
Houthi fighters say that Riyadh has also been pounding their positions, and that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials, including white phosphorus bombs, against civilians in northern Yemen.
Saudi forces began fighting with Yemeni Shia resistance fighters, known as Huthis, and bombing their positions on November 4 after accusing the fighters of killing Saudi border guards.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
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* SAME > SHOULD THE US MOVE ITS FUTENMA MARINE BASE TO SHIMOJI ISLAND? A US BASE ON SHIMOJI CAN PUT POWERFUL US FORCES IN THE MIDST OF CHINA'S "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN".
ARTIC > US-JAPAN deemed strategic tiny island 300-km closer to TAIWAN + CHINA than Okin which can be used as "springboard" for milstrikes agz mainland China.
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Obomba has raided the treasury. We are incapable of waging a war on anything.
That's a feature, not a bug. Don't forget he's a Muslim.
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Obama is not a Muslim and, my opinion, probably leans more towards atheism than anything else.
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I agree with Yo Adrian. Our president likes the Islam of his childhood because its quaint and picturesque, dovetailing nicely with colourful native costumes and colourful native village life, all suitable for a correct-thinking anthropologist to dissect in the search for universal truths lost in the hustle-bustle of modern life. His faith is the cant of ivory tower drawing room Reds sipping sherry in the evening.
I speak from distant observation and knowledge of the type rather than personal encounters, of course, for which I am quietly grateful.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least four pirates were injured during a gunbattle with the forest guards at Boyatir Khal under Sharankhola range of Sundarban Forest Division Thursday evening.
Flying splinters or abdominal injuries with the promise of sepsis?
The injured could not be arrested as they managed to flee with their accomplices in one of their engine boats.
Md Ekramul Huq, station officer of Sharankhola range office, said the gunfight began when on-duty forest guards patrolling the area came under attack by a group of pirates of 'Ali Bahini' in the evening.
That's entirely too close to 'Ali Baba' to be accidental. How many of them were there?
Forest guards opened fire as soon as they came under gun attack by the outlaws, said Divisional Forest Officer Mihir Kumar.
They exchanged a hundred rounds of bullet during the clash that lasted for an hour, he added.
I assume the guards could calculate how many rounds they expended by counting those remaining, but how could they know the count used by the forest pirates (I know, but what else is one to call them?)? I've been in forests, and anything not visible from the path is effectively gone forever.
The forest guards seized one engine boat from the spot left by the pirates.
Meanwhile, coast guards, police and forest guards jointly launched special drive to nab the criminals.
Good hunting, gentlemen.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev resolved on Friday to wipe out what he calls "bandits" across Russia's Muslim-dominated Caucasus after a suicide bomb killed seven policemen in the Dagestan region earlier this week.
"As far as bandits are concerned ... They simply need to be eliminated," Medvedev told the head of the FSB, the successor to the KGB.
The Kremlin chief's hard-hitting words come after a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at a traffic police depot on Wednesday in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, killing seven and injuring 20.
"(Eliminating bandits) must be done in a tough manner and systematically," Medvedev added.
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They are Muslims, and it's likely something will happen. The "Chechen Republic of Iskeria" lives on, if only in Doku Umarov's mind and the wallets of his Arabian bankers. The Soviets Russers will be perfectly willing to exterminate more of them, possibly doing to Makhachkala what they did to Grozny in Shamil's prime..
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Russians might be clumsy but at least they're not PC.
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Talk is cheap. Successful action takes research, good intelligence, and planning. My suggestion is to go after the head--the financiers, top dawg, and the financial people that aid and abet these terrorists, wherever they may be, be it in the ME, or in a little land-locked country full of banks.
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I didn't say they'd be successful. I said I wouldn't be suprised if they reduced Makhachkala to rubble.
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[Kyodo: Korea] A New Zealand company linked to a cargo plane caught carrying 35 tons of weapons from North Korea is likely to be indicted by authorities in the United States, a New Zealand newspaper reported Friday. Thai police detained the Georgia-registered plane Dec. 12 after it uncovered a massive arms cache onboard the plane during a fuel stop in Bangkok.
Consequences can be such a beautiful thing.
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A Queens man tied to a suspected al Qaeda-trained terrorist may have been trying to kill himself when he crashed his car into the back of another at the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, law enforcement sources said.
Adis Medunjanin, 25, called 911 as he sped erratically away from federal agents through Queens streets at up to 90 mph. Let's see? I'm being chased by FBI at 90 mph. I pick up the phone, I dial 911, I praise my death, I praise my God. Naw, not a terrorist suicider to be. Just an underprivileged youth, lovin' America, etc.
"We love death more than you love life!" he exclaimed in Arabic.
Medunjanin also praised Allah moments before he rear-ended another vehicle, sources said.
Police are investigating the bizarre crash as a possible suicide attempt by the frantic Medunjanin, in the wake of a federal raid on his Queens home.
Medunjanin, 24, a recent graduate of Queens College, and Zarein Ahmedzay, 25, had been under intense surveillance in their homes since September when their former Flushing HS classmate Najibullah Zazi was arrested on suspicion of plotting a new 9/11-style attack in New York.
The latest twist in the case began Thursday afternoon, when neighbors said seven federal agents showed up at Medunjanin's two-bedroom co-op where he lives with his parents.
"They wanted his passport to document his travels," a law enforcement source said of the raid by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force.
About an hour after the feds confiscated the passport and left, the Bosnian-born Medunjanin got into his car and was tailed by agents. Maybe part of this hour, he was putting 911 on speed dial. Or using GPS to plot his course to that bridge
He accelerated to get away from them until the crash. Then he fled on foot Chickened out?
until he was chased down by members of the task force and hospitalized for minor injuries, police said. Hum --- thinking, I've seen those chases on TV! Wonder if the guy in the suit tackled him from behind, springing forward and grabbing him around the legs, bringing him down. "I just hate these runners."
He initially was charged only with fleeing the scene of an accident, but sources said he would be charged with providing material support to terrorism when arraigned in Brooklyn federal court tomorrow at 10 a.m.
His lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, fumed about a lack of information.
"The US attorney has refused to give me any of the details," he said. He said he hasn't been able to speak to Medunjanin.
Ahmedzay, an Afghan-born cab driver, was picked up by authorities in Greenwich Village Thursday night and pleaded not guilty yesterday to a single charge of lying to federal agents when he was questioned in September.
He allegedly lied when asked about traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2008 and whether he knew a "John Doe" -- apparently referring to Zazi -- who is believed to have attended military training at al Qaeda camps.
Anti-terror experts called the Zazi case one of the most serious threats since the 9/11 attacks. They said Zazi took bomb-making classes from al Qaeda, then returned to the United States to buy beauty supplies in a Denver suburb to make peroxide-based explosives. Ah yes, now I remember, The Beauty Bomber
Prosecutors said he tried to mix explosives in a hotel room in early September, then drove to New York to carry out an attack, possibly on the transit system, they said.
Relatives of Ahmedzay at his Parsons Boulevard home said he is a hard worker who regularly attends a local mosque. Part of the training, "appear normal."
Asked if Ahmedzay hates America, his older brother Nazir said, "If he did, he wouldn't be living here." Well, maybe there is some redeeming principal here for Ahmedzay. If proof of not hating America is living here, then lots of our political leaders need to take a lesson from this "principaled" man. "Love it or leave it." But, truth is, they don't hate America, they just want to change it, just like the terroists. Same principals, I suppose.
British Intelligence has confirmed perhaps the most chilling boast that accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab made to investigators after his arrest: that close to 20 other young Muslim men were being prepared in Yemen to use the same technique to blow up airliners, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports exclusively.
Goody. More opportunities for passengers to remember they are a herd, not a pack, and for newly-minted pantibombers to remove all possibility of enjoying the 72 virgins they'll never have a chance to actually meet. In the meantime, a few Predators properly aimed would not go amiss.
"I think the fact we know that there are other operatives being trained by al Qaeda in Yemen is extremely troubling, and is the most dangerous dimension to come out of the December 25th event," said CBS News national security analyst Juan Zarate.
That is why, sources say, the U.S. government issued this directive last Sunday - announcing "enhanced screening" for "every individual" on U.S.-bound flights from 14 countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen.
In addition, a team of FBI agents is now on the ground in the West African nation of Ghana, having arrived last Saturday, attempting to piece together Abdulmutallab's whereabouts and activities in the two weeks prior to the attempted attack on Flight 253.
According to a government official, Abdulmutallab first arrived in the Ghana capitol of Addis Ababa on December 9 after spending five months in Yemen.
U.S officials strongly suspect Abdulmutallab met Al Qaeda operatives in Ghana who may well have offered final preparations for his suicide mission investigating if it was there that the would-be bomber obtained the specially-designed underwear packed with highly explosive powder.
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Did the suspect mention if any of the 20 were 80 year old ladies from the mid-west?
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The capital of Ghana is Accra, not Addis Ababa, as SP9774 reported. Why Ghana, other than the fact that it's closer to Nigeria than Yemen? Ghana is mostly Christian, as well. Close enough to call his father and say goodbye, but not close enough to be stopped?
Lots of questions, no answers.
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DETROIT -- Terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded not guilty Friday in a federal court in Detroit on a six-count indictment for allegedly attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound plane and murder its 279 passengers and 11 crew members.
"Ya got nuttin' on me! Nuttin', you hear!"
Mr. Abdulmutallab entered the courtroom just before 2 p.m. Friday shackled by his feet and wearing a white T-shirt, khaki pants and blued shoes.
He is accused of strapping explosives in his pants that failed to detonate and instead set him on fire on a Christmas day Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. His trip originated in Nigeria, where his father had earlier alerted authorities to his radical turn.
Caught red-handed in fact, but somehow even the WSJ won't say that.
Judge Mark A. Randon presided Friday, asking the suspect a series of questions during the brief hearing about his mental state and fitness to stand trial Friday. When asked, he told a judge he had taken pain medication in the last day.
Because the burns hurt. Hurt alot. Bad. Really bad.
Mr. Abdulmutallab made his first appearance in court amid crowds of journalists. Scores of Muslim Americans held up anti-terrorism mantras on posters and waved large American flags outside the coutroom. A handful of Nigerian-born Americans joined in, with signs such as "Nigerians Are Against Terrorism."
Good. Help us find the rats hiding in this country and we'll believe you.
Mr. Abdulmutallab will remain detained but has the right to a hearing on the matter. His next appearance in court was not immediately set Friday.
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Two F-16s under the direction of the North American Aerospace Defense Command were scrambled today after the pilot of an AirTran flight from Atlanta to San Francisco reported an unruly passenger on board. The Boeing 737 with 132 passengers and crew on board was diverted to the Colorado Springs Airport.
An intoxicated passenger who was disruptive had locked himself in a bathroom, according to John McGinley, assistant director of the Colorado Springs Airport.
Friday evening, the FBI identified the passenger as Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia. If convicted of interference with a fight crew, Tahir faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Didn't say he was drinking, said he was "Drunk" there are other plentiful drugs to get "Drunk" on.
And the Koran says nothing about them, just alcohol.
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Thank you Buckley AFB in Aurora and the Air National Guard for those F-16s.
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DISCLAIMER: The above information is unofficial and apocryphal based on public observation of F-16 activity at said base at an unusual time for that day.
Wonder why the PAO down in FL doesn't release that info? Its not exactly OPSEC worthy. Its public and open information that particular bases and units, based on the aircraft type and location, perform that mission for given regions of the nation.
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Lots of the suicide folks take some kind of drug before doing their act. Remember, the underwear (whatever you are calling him)bomber was in a "dazed" state.
Guy could have been "under the influence" with a different kind of high.
Notice, no mention of name, serial number, etc. We seem to be getting a "rash" of the "drunks" disrupting air travel these last few weeks.
Two intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed two people in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.
The Saturday strike was the sixth in about a week in the area. Two missiles fired by a suspected unmanned drone hit a house in Data Khel, an area that is a stronghold of the Haqqani militant network.
The intelligence officials say three people have also been wounded. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The Haqqani network is suspected of involvement in a Dec. 30 attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan that killed seven Americans.
Security forces produced before the media on Friday six boys who had fled the Taliban captivity in the Gat Peochar area in the Swat district. The boys, all of them from Matta Tehsil, a former militants' stronghold, were identified as Amanullah, Shah Hussain, Zakirullah, Hazrat Bilal, Ziaur Rahman and Rahmatullah. They were 12- 16-year-old.
Talking to reporters, the boys said they were kidnapped by the Taliban from their schools and homes. They said the militants were telling them that security forces were not good people and Jihad against them was a must. The boys added that when they got a chance, they ran away from the militants' hideout in the area and contacted security forces.
Meanwhile, Ismail, the eight-year-old son of militant commander Nisar alias Ghazi Lala, told reporters that his father was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces. He added that members of his family, including his mother and uncles, time and again asked his father to renounce militancy. He, however, said his father did not listen to them.
Security forces also produced the fathers of two dreaded militant commanders before the media. One was Abdur Rahim, the father of Omar Rahman alias Fateh, and the other was identified as Mian Said Wahid, the father of Sultan Hussain alias Shah Sahib. While disowning their sons, the two men said they tried their best to stop them from fighting against the country and the people of the area, but to no avail. The two militant commanders were carrying a head-money of Rs 10 million each.
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Maybe there is hope for the next generation, their fathers explodated themselves and the kids want no part of it.
I suspect that while we'll never change Islam, they'll do it for us.
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At least eight more people have been killed as violence continues to plague Pakistan's largest city of Karachi.
The deaths resulted in indiscriminate shooting by unknown people in the Garden area of Karachi, a Press TV correspondent reported late Friday.
Following the incident, angry protestors from the Lyari area placed the dead bodies in front of the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Jilani's house and alleged that the Muttahida Quami Movement was involved in the killings.
On Thursday, at least ten people were shot dead and nearly a dozen were injured after unidentified gunmen went on a shooting rampage around the Garden and Lyari areas of Karachi.
Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza termed the killings as a conspiracy against the incumbent government.
The Home Ministry has announced that it will hold a meeting on January 11 to probe the killings, which have rocked the port city of Karachi over the past two days.
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BHARAT RAKSHAK > SWAT TALIBAN HAVE FLED TO KARACHI, SOUTH WAZIRISTAN.
[Dawn] Government forces killed two heavily armed separatists on the outskirts of Indian-administered Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Friday, a day after soldiers shot dead two militants to end a daring siege of a city hotel.
Friday's shootout began after an Indian army patrol was fired at from a house in Pampore town, about 12 kilometres south of Srinagar.
Police said the two militants belonged to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
Indian intelligence agencies have warned of a spike in attacks in Kashmir such as this week's siege at a Srinagar hotel that paralysed the city for almost 22 hours.
The flare-up in violence is the worst in two years in Srinagar, hurting government claims of a gradual return to peace after successful local elections last year.
Such attacks, experts say, could raise the political temperature between India and Pakistan and make more difficult any effort at normalising relations strained by the 2008 Mumbai raid.
"The fear is any bigger attack outside Kashmir will hamper chances of resumption of any dialogue with Pakistan," retired Major General Ashok Mehta, said in New Delhi.
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Police said the two militants belonged to the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
In that part of the world, it seems ordinary English has an entirely different meaning, "Banned" seems to only mean
"Come join our group, the cops won't do anything"
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[Geo News] At least two police officials have reportedly been injured when a key Taliban commander identified as Irfan, fearing of arrest, blew himself up here in Matni locality of provincial capital Peshawar late on Friday night, Geo news reported. According to sources, the police, on intelligence regarding his whereabouts, tightened noose around him and was about to catch but, on seeing policemen he opened fire and later committed suicide by exploding himself up with a hand grenade. A brief shootout was also reported between police officials and Taliban commander Irfan before explosion besides, arms including hand grenade, bullets and suicide jackets were also recovered from the place, sources said.
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Taliban "Injured" as he blows himself up?
That plus the pantybomber proves they're scraping the bottom of the Moron barrel, can't even explodate themselves, much less others..
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistani officials reported Friday the death of five people after US drone attacked the northwestern area of North Waziristan.
The attack targeted the village of Tappi in the strife-torn area, AFP reported. "The US drone fired two missiles on a house. The house was completely destroyed," a senior security official was quoted as saying on condition of anonymity.
Local officials, commenting on the incidents, usually request anonymity, citing the 'sensitive' nature of the raids carried out on the Pakistani tribal belt which borders Afghanistan.
In 2009, the attacks, launched by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in cooperation with the Pentagon, reportedly killed more than 700 civilians in the country. They have also fueled anti-American sentiments in the Muslim Pakistan.
In an allusion to the issue, the visiting US Senator John McCain said in Islamabad, "friends don't always agree on every issue."
"We will continue to try to find common ground with the Pakistani government as we have to do everything we can... to protect Americans from the attacks of terrorists who may be based here and operate out of Pakistan."
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I'm losing count. We need to give the dronezaps names, like we do hurricanes. So was this dronezap David, or Ethel, or?
[Dawn] A portion of a house was flattened here on Friday morning in what was described as an accidental blast that claimed the lives of six militants.
"We heard a loud bang at about 7:45am and saw two bodies lying in the debris. A Kalashnikov rifle was beside the bodies," a witness told Dawn.
Police found a cache of arms and ammunition and suicide vests strapped to the two bodies in the house in Baldia Town. The suicide vests were fitted with grenades, they added.
Apparently the suicide vest of the third militant accidentally triggered the explosion, causing a grenade to explode, investigators said, adding that the blast also caused a small crater.
"The vests were not meant for causing maximum damage because these didn't have high degree of explosives. The vests were supposed to be used as a last resort in case they were apprehended," an investigator said.
The Saeedabad Police Training College is located at a walking distance from the scene of the blast.
Although police claimed that Interior Minister Rehman Malik was their target, some investigators believed that the militants were planning an attack similar to the one on Manawa police training school, in Lahore, on March 30 last year.
The nature of weapons found in the house showed that the terrorists had prepared themselves for a long haul, the investigators added.
Police found in the house several cartons of tinned food, jihadi literature, books and CDs, stickers of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Sipah-i-Sahaba pasted inside a trunk containing certifications of graduation from a seminary, cell phones and several SIMs.
Three AK-47 rifles with several dozen rounds, over 25 hand grenades, anti-personnel mines and a pistol were seized, Baldia town SP Zahid Husain said.
According to an initial investigation, the six militants had come to the house at about 3am on three motorcycles. They were guests of Ayaz, younger brother of Riaz who was living in the house with his mother, wife and three children.
All the militants were in their late teens or early twenties.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told journalists that the militants were from Swat.
Five of the dead militants were identified as Riazul Hasan, Mohammad Husain, Shahbaz Lahori, Asif and Zahid. Ayaz was also killed in the blast, while his brother Ibrar was injured.
Riaz's mother, wife and two children were in another room at the time of the blast.
The investigators said Khalid, the sixth guest, had walked away from the scene with shrapnel injuries in his legs.
He went to his house, changed and then went to the Civil Hospital. The nature of his injuries prompted doctors to inform police, who arrested him.
The three-room house, located in Sector 8-B, was rented by Riaz two years ago. Maulana Saeed, a peshimam of a nearby mosque, had brokered the deal with the owner of the house, Abdul Rehman, a police officer said.
Riaz, who supplies garments to the Zainab Market, told police that he had gone to a nearby shop, along with his daughter, to buy biscuits. He said he rushed to the house after hearing the blast.
Riaz and members of his family were detained by police for questioning.
Police said that two women who had taken refuge in the nearby Babari Masjid-o-Madressah soon after the blast were also detained.
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I'm also losing track of the premature explodations; they need names too.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Three Palestinians are killed and others wounded in heavy Israeli air strikes on the Gaza borders with Egypt, a day after Israel accused fighter groups of launching dozens of mortar bombs into the Jewish state, Al Arabiya correspondent in Gaza reported.
Israeli jets hit seven targets in the tunnels area, which Palestinians use to smuggle goods into the besieged coastal strip, medics and Hamas security officials said.
Israeli aircraft also hit three targets near Gaza City and two near the southern town of Khan Younis, witnesses and Hamas officials said. All the strikes hit empty buildings or open spaces.
On Thursday, Israeli planes dropped thousands of leaflets over the Gaza Strip warning residents to stay clear from the border after Palestinian militants fired mortar shells into Israel.
The letters, which were dropped over northern Gaza and Gaza City, warned residents not to get within a range of 300metres (yards) from the heavily secured border with Israel.
Functionally moving Gaza's border inward. Soon enough it will become 500m, because the Gazans will refuse to learn.
"Anyone who gets closer than this will be in danger," the leaflet read in Arabic.
Palestinian fighters earlier fired a salvo of more than five mortar shells that fell near the Israeli community of Kerem Shalom, causing no casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.
As a result, Israel closed down the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip "until further notice," the defence ministry said in a statement.
The strikes marked the latest violence along Gaza's border, which has been mostly quiet since a war Israel launched on the Islamist Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27, 2008 in response to rocket fire ended with mutual ceasefires on Jan. 18.
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[Ma'an] Palestinian Authority security forces placed nine Fatah operatives into protective custody in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, detaining them in the nearby Al-Juneid prison, Ma'an has learned.
The men were once "wanted" members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's paramilitary wing, until they entered into an amnesty program and received pardons from Israel.
An informed security source said the arrests came amid indications from the Israeli military that it would take its "own procedures," which were not specified, in the event PA forces failed to detain all nine before midnight. PA officials interpreted the warning as a threat to reinvade Nablus, the site of an incursion last month that left three Al-Aqsa members dead, two of whom had received pardons beforehand.
Ma'an obtained the identities of the men, who all turned themselves in before the alleged deadline.
1. Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh
2. Omar Akuba
3. Saleh Abu Al-Hayyat
4. Zaki Anees Issa
5. Muntaser Anees Issa
6. Haytham Al-Masry
7. Muhammad Labada
8. Reda Tubela
9. Anwar Al-Mahrum
At least two of them, Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh and Omar Akuba, were partially pardoned as recently as two months ago along with 30 others, and it was not clear why Israel was insisting they be rearrested.
Approached by Ma'an, representatives of the Israeli military were not immediately able to comment.
A number of Al-Aqsa fighters voluntarily entered an amnesty program in which they signed an agreement swearing off armed struggle against Israel. Under the terms of the deal, each handed in their weapons in exchange for a guarantee from Israel that they would no longer be pursued for arrest or assassination. The assassinations last month, however, threw into question the program's legitimacy.
Last Sunday, another operative affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades handed himself over to Israeli authorities. Imad Tayih, 22, from the Al-Far'a Refugee Camp near Tubas, had been "wanted" by Israel for over a year and a half. During his time as a fugitive, he survived targeted assassination attempts and was injured as a result on several occasions, according to his family.
He turned himself in at the Salim military base in Nablus late last Sunday, said his cousin Faris, who observed that Tayih had been receiving a high volume of telephone calls from Israeli intelligence threatening to kill him if he did not give himself up.
Since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have assassinated more than 200 Palestinians with the use of air strikes, ambushes or undercover forces. As many as 400 bystanders were also killed in these attacks.
Faris explained that whenever his cousin would receive such a call, it was swiftly followed by attempts to ambush or abduct Tayih, adding that he had survived two assassination attempts and was injured nine times, recently including a critical gunshot wound to the spine. Unable to receive medical assistance and no longer able to bear the pain, Tayih handed himself in.
An Israeli military spokesman refused to comment on that arrest at the time.
Three weeks ago, Israeli forces assassinated three Palestinians affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades in Nablus. The attack provoked an angry response from President Mahmoud Abbas, who threatened to scale back security coordination with the Israelis. The arrangements were already strained in late November when Israeli forces operating in Nablus and Salfit detained the commander and four officers of the PA Intelligence Services.
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[Ma'an] The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for firing three mortar shells on an Israeli military post east of Rafah.
The brigades said in a statement that "the shelling comes in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza [overnight Thursday] and a as confirmation of continued resistance against the Israeli occupation."
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Two Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel on Friday evening. Israeli media sources report that there was no injuries or damage caused by the rockets.
The Israel Defense Forces launched a series of air strikes overnight Thursday against targets in the Gaza Strip, hours after a Qassam rocket fired from the Strip hit southern Israel. Three Palestinians were reportedly killed in the strike, including a 15 year-old boy, with two wounded and several others feared trapped inside the ruins, medics said.
On Wednesday, GOC Southern Command Yoav Galant warned Negev residents that the quiet Israel has recently experienced along the Gaza border may only be temporary, adding that the IDF was prepared to face tensions should they arise. Galant also urged civilians in the Negev to "prepare themselves for another round of fighting."
Hamas had said it was cracking down on militant groups firing at Israel from the Gaza Strip, but communities in the Negev have been hit with rockets numerous times in the year since the IDF embarked on Operation Cast Lead.
Just last week, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for firing two Russian-made Grad missiles from Gaza at southern Israel. The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) also claimed responsibility for firing four mortar shells at Israeli army vehicles near the border the week before.
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How are they getting GRAD rockets? Didn't un ban weapons from Gazaland? Just wait till monday I feel a un condemnation coming. Right after that Santa will speak to the un about non secular holidays.
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Three Palestinians were reportedly killed in the strike, including a 15 year-old boy,
Quick Mohammed, you grab his rifle and I'll take the picture for the Press and UN, be sure to add extra catsup before taking the picture.
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Go ahead, guys. Keep it up until the Israelis reach that point and show up in force to kick your murderous asses. Then you can scream and cry like little girls. "Help, help, I'm being repressed. Come see the violence inherent in the system!" Morons.
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Frankly, I'd like to see Israel totally CRUSH Gaza and everything controlled by Hamass. No buildings left standing, no roads that run more than 200 feet, no bridges, no power plants, no utilities of any kind, no nothing. Then bulldoze it flat and take over 100% - no Arabs allowed - only Jewish Israelis. THEN they can whine about "Occupied Territories" all they want. I wouldn't give them ANYTHING back. Let them go live off the UN somewhere else. I don't think Egypt would put up with Hamass for 10 minutes before some noggins got knotted.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A visit by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi to the central Iranian city Of Qazvin on Thursday night sparked outrage.
Qazvin residents, a city northwest of the capital Tehran, came out and chanted slogans against Karroubi, urging him to leave the city.
Rajanews website quoted protesters as chanting slogans such as "Death to Karroubi," "Death to seditionists," "Death to (another opposition leader) Mousavi."
Police had to be called in to help Karroubi leave Qazvin as the crowd of protesters grew in number. The incident finally came to an end when anti-riot police intervened to allow safe passage for Karroubi's car through the angry stone-throwing crowds.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The armored car of one of Iran's opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire in the northern town of Qazvin, his party's website reported on Friday, but only the windows were damaged.
Karroubi was in the town to attend a mourning ceremony for slain opposition protesters organized by a reformist former member of parliament, Sahamnews.org said.
"Around 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and residents of nearby villages surrounded the place where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," it said.
After four hours, anti-riot police finally intervened to get Karroubi out of the building.
"As his car was pulling away, it was attacked and hit by gunfire. But, as it is an armored car, only the windows were damaged."
There was no immediate word from the authorities on the incident.
The website quoted Karroubi as saying there had been no return of fire by his guards.
"My bodyguards did not return fire as, unlike the assailants, they would have been brought before the courts and faced prosecution," Karroubi said.
The attackers chanted slogans in support of the Islamic regime and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the website added.
"Our town is not a place for hypocrites," they reportedly chanted using the regime's standard term of abuse for the outlawed rebel People's Mujahedeen.
A reformist former speaker of parliament, Karroubi stood against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June election along with moderate former prime minister Mir Hossein Moussavi.
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"My bodyguards did not return fire as, unlike the assailants, they would have been brought before the courts and faced prosecution,"
Prime snark, as good as any seen here on the "Burg.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Egyptian security escorted British lawmaker George Galloway to take a flight out of the country on Friday and he was barred from returning after violent protests over an aid convoy he led into Gaza, MENA news agency said.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least four pirates were injured during a gunbattle with the forest guards at Boyatir Khal under Sharankhola range of Sundarban Forest Division Thursday evening.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev resolved on Friday to wipe out what he calls "bandits" across Russia's Muslim-dominated Caucasus after a suicide bomb killed seven policemen in the Dagestan region earlier this week. 
DETROIT -- Terror suspect 
Two intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed two people in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region. 
Security forces produced before the media on Friday six boys who had fled the Taliban captivity in the Gat Peochar area in the Swat district. The boys, all of them from Matta Tehsil, a former militants' stronghold, were identified as Amanullah, Shah Hussain, Zakirullah, Hazrat Bilal, Ziaur Rahman and Rahmatullah. They were 12- 16-year-old. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistani officials reported Friday the death of five people after US drone attacked the northwestern area of North Waziristan. 
Two Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into southern Israel on Friday evening. Israeli media sources report that there was no injuries or damage caused by the rockets. 
