Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan gunned down two children tending cattle in an incident likely to increase tensions over the conduct of international troops.
The two children, aged seven and eight, were killed on Thursday morning as the soldiers fought back after a Taliban attack in Uruzgan province, said provincial governor Amir Mohammad Akhundzada.
He said, The children were killed by Australian troops, it was a mistaken incident, not a deliberate one.
He added that insurgents had first shot at a helicopter carrying Australian soldiers.
NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) expressed its deep regret over the deaths and said it remained committed to minimizing civilian casualties. In a statement, General Joseph Dunford, commander of ISAF, said, I offer my personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed. I am committed to ensuring we do the right thing for the families of those we harmed, as well as for the community in which they lived. We take full responsibility for this tragedy.
ISAF said the troops had opened fire at what they thought were insurgent forces. It added that a joint Afghan-ISAF team visited Shahidi Hassas district in Uruzgan on Saturday to investigate and meet with local leaders.
PARYS A French soldaat has died in some of the most intense fighting thus far in the seven-week-old military campaign to push back a jihadist advance in Mali, officials said Sunday.
Parachutist Korp. Cedric Charenton was killed Saturday night in an assault in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains along the Algerian border, where the jihadists have retrenched as French troops have swept through the countrys north.
He is the third troop to die since France began its intervention to dislodge the al-Qaida-linked militants on Jan. 11. The 26-year-old had already served in Afganistan, Gaboen en Nieu-Caledonia.
Military spokesman Col. Thierry Burkhard said about 15 jihadists were killed in the fighting in the Ametettai Valley. He added that French forces destroyed three pickup trucks and seized a significant cache of munitions and arms, including automatic rifles and mortars.
Egyptian protesters torched a coppe shoppe police station in Port Said on Saturday. The interior ministry said about 500 protesters grimaced most fiercely threw stones and petrol bombs at the police station, setting it on fire, and then cursed each other's mustaches blocked fire engines from reaching the blaze.
The protesters had gathered outside the station after two men were injured when a police truck hit them during earlier clashes in the city, now entering its third week of a general strike, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, one person was killed and dozens injured in overnight clashes between police and protesters in the Nile delta city of Mansura, a security official told AFP. According to media reports, the protester died after he was run over by a police van.
Sounds like it's a little dangerous to be rioting near a moving police van in Egypt...
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Fighters linked to the radical Islamic terrorist network Boko Haram attacked a military base in Nigerias north on Sunday in an assault that left at least 20 people dead, as the networks leader denied any peace talks with Nigerias government.
The attack in the village of Monguno, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Maiduguri, punctuated the video statement by Abubakar Shekau that said Nigeria will remain under attack by the group until the multiethnic nation is ruled under Islamic law. Shekau also threatened the man who in recent months claimed to be a leader of Boko Haram and said that the group wanted to agree to a cease-fire with Nigerias security forces.
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Suppos the bulk of the casualties are on the BOKO HARAM side.
* See TOPIX > [Vanguard] BOKO HARAM: WE DID NOT DECLARE CEASEFIRE - SHEKAU [Islamist El Supremo].
* SAME > [Vanguard] BOKO HARAM: WE'RE FIGHTING AN INTERNATIONAL WAR - EX-DSS DIRECTOR [Govt Officio], as indic or denoted by the rise of the Boko-Haram/Al-Qaeda-linked MilTerr Group AL-ANSAR.
IIUC, NIGERIA = SYRIA = IT TAINT "LOCAL BAD BOYZ ONLY" ANYMORE???
RIYADH The Saudi police have arrested 176 people, including 15 women, for holding an illegal protest to demand the release of prisoners, the official Saudi Press news Agency (SPA) reported late on Friday.
The agency, quoting a police spokesman, said protesters were arrested after refusing to break up a gathering outside the offices of the investigation bureau and the prosecution in Buraida, in central Saudi Arabia.
The spokesman accused the protesters of acting on behalf of deviant groups. Small groups of women have gathered almost daily in Buraida, north of Riyadh, to demand the release of imprisoned relatives, and dozens of protesters held a rare sit-in outside the Buraida prison in September.
At the time police dispersed the protesters and authorities later warned they would deal firmly with demonstrations, sparking condemnation from Amnesty International which urged Riyadh to withdraw its threat.
Amnesty said Fridays protesters were seeking the release of more than 50 women and children detained after a similar demonstration two days earlier. The women and children were demanding the release of their relatives, incarcerated without charge or trial or beyond the end of their sentences, said the watchdog.
Some of the women also called for the sacking of the interior minister, it added.
A wave of deadly Al Qaeda attacks in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006 prompted a crackdown by the Saudi Arabia authroties that drove out the local branch of the group that was founded by the late Saudi-born Osama bin Laden.
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Bangladesh on Sunday deployed troops in the country�s north as six more people were killed in fresh rioting over death sentence given to a top Islamist opposition leader for crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war, taking the death toll to 56.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Clashes between Jamaat-Shibir activists and police yesterday killed five people and injured at least 150 others, including 10 coppers, across the country. Besides, two maimed in previous festivities also gave up the ghost yesterday.
In the capital BNP activists in collaboration with Jamaat-Shibir men torched four vehicles and vandalised more than 100 vehicles.
Since the International Crimes Tribunal-1 had awarded Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... the capital punishment on Thursday, a total of 47 persons had been killed in the festivities between Islamic fanatics and law enforcers until yesterday.
In Chittagong, three people, including a teenaged boy, were killed and 30 others injured in a shootout between Jamaat-Shibir men and police at Satkania upazila yesterday.
The dear departed have been identified as Abu Taher, 30, son of Abdus Sukkur; Shaidul Islam, 15, son of Abu Taher; and Md Osman, 27, son of Abu Sayed. All of them were from Chhodaha union of the upazila and supporters of 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 maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. 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... and Islamic Chhatra Shibir, said Satkania upazila chairman Moshad Hossain.
The injured have been admitted to clinics in Satkania and Chittagong city, said police and locals, adding that the four-hour-long clash that took place around 10:00am in Hasmater Dokan area had created widespread panic among people.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shajahan of Satkania Police Station said Jamat-Shibir men had blocked the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway from Kerani Haat to Chhodaha areas [approximately 1.5 kilometres] with trees and logs around 7:00am. This triggered a long tailback on the highway.
On information police and members of Rapid Action Battalion rushed to the spot and charged batons to disperse the activists, who at that time had started to vandalise vehicles.
In the face of resistance, the Jamaat-Shibir men at first burled brick chips and then charged homemade bombs at law enforcers. At this the law enforcers retaliated with bullets. The activists also returned bullets, triggering a shootout.
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[Dawn] Insurgents shot and killed two policemen at a market place in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said. A police statement said the assailants fled after Saturday's attack near a bus stop in Handwara, a town 90 kilometres north of Srinagar.
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[Dawn] At least 11 people were killed Saturday in separate incidents of violence in different parts of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , DawnNews reported.
Three people were bumped off and one person was injured in during firing in the city's Orangi Town. The assailants managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... and the bodies and the injured were shifted to a hospital.
In another incident, one person was rubbed out in Karachi's Shah Faisal Colony. Police said the victim, who was killed in the colony's Green Town area, was a teacher in a madrassah.
Separately, two people were killed during firing in the city's Moach Goth area, falling within the limits of the Mauripur cop shoppe, whereas, one person was rubbed out in Liaquatabad's B-1 area.
Furthermore, a body bearing torture marks was found in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town. The body has not yet been identified.
Also, in the city's New Mianwali Colony in Manghopir, two alleged dacoits and a female bystander were killed during a police encounter.
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[Dawn] Frontier Corps paramilitary troops conducted a targeted operation in the Eastern Bypass area of Quetta, the lovely provincial capital.
FC sources said six suspected target-killers were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... and arms and ammunition were recovered from their possession.
"All six bully boyz were involved in assassinations and kidnappings," said an official of the FC , requesting not to be named since he was not authorized to speak to media.
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[Dawn] Four people were shot at and later burnt to death in Tump, a town in Pakistain's southwestern 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... province, Levies officials said on Saturday.
Mujeeb Ahmed, a Levies official said armed bully boyz shot up a vehicle in Tump tehsil of district Kech. He said all four persons were killed inside the vehicle.
"The assailants put the vehicle on fire after the incident," Ahmed said. The assailants managed to escape after the attack.
"All victims were burnt inside the vehicle," he said.
He said the victims, residents of Tump tehsil, were traveling near the Pak-Iran border when they were attacked by the gunnies. Two of the dear departed were identified as residents of Mand area in Kech district.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killings.
The bodies of the victims were shifted to Civil Hospital Turbat for medico-legal formalities.
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[Bangla Daily Star] An Islami Chhatra Shibir activist orchestrated the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar, detectives yesterday quoted the five arrested students of North South University (NSU) as saying. Comes as a surprise, huh?
The students confessed to their involvement in the killing, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), told reporters at a press briefing.
The five, all aged between 19 and 23, were arrested during raids in different parts of the capital Friday night, the DMP official informed.
The mastermind, whom the arrestees mentioned as "Borobhai" [senior brother], and another alleged killer were absconding, he added.
According to primary interrogation, the decision to kill blogger Rajib was taken one and a half months ago, the detectives said.
Split in two groups, intelligence and execution, at least six including the five NSU students accomplished the killing on February 15, the detectives added.
The revelations came during a press briefing at the DMP media centre yesterday morning, three days into Home Minister MK Alamgir's claim that seven had been arrested in connection with the murder.
Although the five were present at the briefing, journalists were not allowed to talk with them.
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ISLAMABAD Unidentified armed assailants gunned down a senior journalist in Kalat town, some 160km from Quetta, on Friday. Kalat Press Club president Mehmood Khan Afridi was attacked by two motorcyclists while he was sitting inside a shop at main bus station in Kalat town. The assailants showered bullets killing him on the spot.
The attackers, who were on a motorbike, swiftly fled after firing, police said quoting eyewitnesses.
This was the third murder of a Pakistani journalist within a week. Earlier chief reporter of the state-run news agency the APP was killed in Karachi while a senior journalist was shot dead in Waziristan. No one has claimed responsibility for the murder.
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Police, with support from the Iraqi army, have arrested six gunmen from the al-Qaeda-affiliated "Islamic State of Iraq" in al-Tharthar basin, south of Samarra, police said Saturday.
A special unit from the Samarra police carefully planned an raid after receiving intelligence about the presence of an al-Qaeda cell at a residential building in an agricultural area in al-Tharthar.
Salaheddine police spokesman Hasan al-Majmaie said the detainees include "four wanted terrorists". He said police found an explosives vest, a number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), one Katyusha rocket, and several mobile phones, leaflets and "letters from al-Qaeda emirs" in the detainees' possession.
Ay-Peeee. This seems to be escalating
Gunmen ambushed and killed six Malaysian policemen as fears mounted that armed Islamic thugs intruders from the southern Philippines had slipped into at least three coastal districts on Borneo island, officials said Sunday. perhaps the Malay navy should deter boats...with a few sinkings
Six of the attackers were also fatally shot Saturday night, while another was beaten to death by angry villagers, escalating tensions in eastern Sabah state, where Malaysia's biggest security crisis in recent years began after about 200 members of a Philippine Muslim royal clan occupied a village last month to claim the territory as their own. yeah villagers!
Security forces clashed with the clan members in the coastal area of Lahad Datu on Friday, leaving 12 Filipinos and two Malaysian police commandos dead. an armed invasion, basically
The remaining clan members have refused to budge, while concerns have grown that other groups from the Philippines' restive southern provinces might enter Sabah, which shares a long and porous sea border with the Philippines that's difficult to patrol. The Malaysian and Philippine navies have strengthened their presence in waters near their border, according to Filipino officials.
A police team was attacked late Saturday while inspecting a settlement in Semporna town, more than 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Lahad Datu, said national police chief Ismail Omar.
Six of the assailants were fatally shot by police at the settlement and another was beaten to death by villagers whom he apparently tried to take captive while armed with a rifle, said Sabah police chief Hamza Taib. Nice try, Abu-Pinoy Boy
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Spain stopped the Muslim sultanates pretty much in the nick of time. If Spain hadn't arrived, the Philippines would be 100% Muslim today.
A leading member of the RKK terrorist separatist group was killed in a clash with government forces late on Saturday night in Narathiwat's Rangae district.
The battle occurred at about 11:30 p.m. after three teams of the 48th Rangers Regiment laid siege to a house where RKK terrorists insurgents led by Masa-e Hajidiyoliya were reported to be hiding. An exchange of gunfire went on for about 10 minutes. Another exchange of gunfire happened when a police special operation team arrived.
The three terrorists insurgents tried to break through the siege. Masa-e was gunned down about 20 meters from the house while the two others managed to escape into the dark.
Masa-e was wanted for six security-related incidents - one in 2007, two in 2008 and three in 2009.
[An Nahar] The Syrian army said on Saturday it has seized control of a key road linking the central province of Hama to Aleppo international airport, scene of weeks of fierce battles with rebel fighters.
The capture of the road will allow the army to deploy fresh reinforcements and send supplies to the area near the airport, where fighting has raged since mid-February.
"In collaboration with honorable citizens, troops carried out a special operation and restored security and stability to villages on the airport road," the military said in a statement published by state news agency SANA.
"This achievement shows the commitment of our forces to continue to fulfill their sacred national duty, repelling killings and aggression targeting our people and our country," said the statement.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the report and said the army will now be able to deploy fresh troops and supplies in the area and the nearby Nayrab military airport.
Rebels launched last month an all-out assault on several airports in Aleppo province, including the international airport and Nayrab, which are located southeast of Syria's second-largest city.
They have since captured Al-Jarrah military airport as well as several other air defense complexes and nearby checkpoints.
But Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said that if the army succeeds in keeping control over the road "it will change the course of battles" around Aleppo and Nayrab airports "and even Aleppo", Syria's second city.
While rebels have taken over large swathes of territory and a number of key military garrisons in Aleppo province, fighting in the city has been at stalemate for months.
Abdel Rahman said that festivities around the airport road continued despite the army's capture.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels on Saturday hanged two Paleostinians at a refugee camp in Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... on suspicion of aiding the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... , a rights watchdog said.
"Rebels in the Yarmuk camp executed two men accused of cooperating with the regime by identifying targets that were bombed last week," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"They were hanged from trees in the camp."
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground to collect information, provided a picture illustrating the hangings.
In it, two men are seen hanging from trees next to buildings as a crowd of people surrounds them, some taking pictures of the scene.
It was not possible to immediately verify the authenticity of the picture.
The Observatory says hangings of people suspected of working for the regime have been reported in Hama and Aleppo, but this was the first time that such an execution was announced along with a picture.
The Yarmuk camp housing tens of thousands of Paleostinian refugees is a regular site of festivities between pro- and anti-regime supporters.
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It'll be a laugh if they hang Pencilneck. How far will he stretch, that's what I want to know.
Mortar rounds believed to have been fired from Syria hit the southern Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday without causing damage or casualties, the army said.
Several shells landed and were found in an open area in the southern Golan Heights, most likely due to the fighting in Syria, a spokesman told AFP. No injuries or damages were caused. The incident was reported to the United Nations forces, and IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) soldiers continued searching the area."
On Wednesday, a mortar shell struck the central Golan Heights, causing no injuries or damage, after nearly three months of no spillover from the fighting in Syria. In recent months, there have been several instances of gunfire or mortar shells hitting the Israeli side of the plateau. In November, troops responded with artillery in the first such instance of Israeli fire at the Syrian military since the 1973 war.
Israel seized the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981, in a move never recognised by the international community. It is currently upgrading its security fence along its border armistice line with the work expected to be finished by the end of the year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bangla Daily Star] Clashes between Jamaat-Shibir activists and police yesterday killed five people and injured at least 150 others, including 10 
[Dawn] At least 11 people were killed Saturday in separate incidents of violence in different parts of 
[Dawn] Frontier Corps paramilitary troops conducted a targeted operation in the Eastern Bypass area of Quetta, the 
[Bangla Daily Star] An Islami Chhatra Shibir activist orchestrated the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar, detectives yesterday quoted the five arrested students of North South University (NSU) as saying.
A leading member of the RKK 
[An Nahar] The Syrian army said on Saturday it has seized control of a key road linking the central province of Hama to Aleppo international airport, scene of weeks of fierce battles with rebel fighters.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
