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Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/13/2013 07:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Urvashi Sharma [Bollywood][Filmography](age 29)



Subcontinental Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/13/2013 9:52 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Three Dead in Attack on African Troops in Mogadishu
[An Nahar] At least three people were killed Friday when a jacket wallah rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy of African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
troops in the Somali capital, police said.

"Three people are confirmed dead, and three others injured," said police official Ahmed Muktar, who was near the scene of the blast, the latest in a string of kabooms in the dangerous capital.

"I saw a car speeding towards the convoy, then it was a huge kaboom, buildings all around were rocked by the blast," said Hussein Gure, a witness who was driving nearby when the car went kaboom!.

The AU mission confirmed an exploding car "attempted to hit" one of their armored troop transport vehicles along one of Mogadishu's main central highways, but that none of its troops were killed in the blast.

There were "minor injuries to the soldiers in the convoy", it said in a statement, adding that such attacks "cannot shake our resolve".

AU vehicles are raised high off the ground specifically to protect the troops inside from such attacks.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
witnesses said that a mass of roadside shacks near the blast site had been reduced to rubble.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Protesters head to Egypt defence ministry to demand Morsi's reinstatement
[Al Ahram] Speakers at Nasr City's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, where a massive sit-in by supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is being held, announced that a peaceful march had set off towards defence ministry headquarters, along with other planned marches late Friday.

On Monday, over 50 people, mainly Morsi supporters, were killed in clashes with military forces following a protest at Presidential Guards headquarters in Cairo.

The Armed Forces have repeatedly warned against any attacks on military facilities. Following Monday's clashes, they accused Morsi supporters of attacking the building.

The Brotherhood, for its part, said protesters had been mostly peaceful.

Meanwhile, a march of thousands of Morsi supporters headed to the Ittihadiya presidential palace late Friday from the Ramses district in downtown Cairo, where they had earlier gathered to demand the ousted president's reinstatement.

The long-lasting march has been mostly peaceful in nature. As of midnight Friday, it had yet to reach its final destination.

Hundreds of thousands of Morsi supporters have been camped out in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in Nasr City in north Cairo since 28 June.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Security operatives raid Boko Haram's den in Sokoto
[Nigerian Tribune] OFFICERS and men of 1 Mechanized Brigade, Sokoto, in conjunction with sister security organizations, have smashed a terrorist hideout at Gidan Dare area, near Arkilla Junction in Sokoto metropolis, where they killed one suspected terrorist, captured another and secured five women, including two pregnant ones and six children, who were family members of the suspects.

Assisted by the officers and men of the 55 Air Force Forward Base, Sokoto, the Sokoto State police command and the Department of State Security (DSS), Brigade Commander, Brigadier-General Mohammed Tasi'u Ibrahim and his men engaged the suspected Death Eaters in a heavy gunduel that lasted for eight hours, between 2.00 a.m to 10.00 a.m on Thursday.

In a press briefing, the brigade commander said the joint military operation was as a result of a tip-off from members of the public.

He said the operation was a huge success, as the suspected terrorists, who were hell-bent on breaching the peace during the Ramadan fast, recorded fatalities leading to the death of a suspect and the capture of another.

Brigadier-General Tasi'u said in keeping with military rule of engagement, the family members of the Death Eaters were safe, with one of the two pregnant women receiving treatment at the brigade military facility.

He said apart from securing five women, six children of various ages, who were members of family of the suspected terrorists, were also secured.

The brigade commander said they recovered six AK-47 rifles and one pump action rifle, as well as 13 magazines of ammunition and seven improvised bombs (IEDs) materials.

He added that the security agencies also recovered seven 6.2 mm ammunition rounds, 12 locally-made bombs and timers, 9 mm pistol quantity 87, five masking tapes, six packets of electronic cables used for making IEDs, 56 detonator cables, 32 nine rolls of batteries, one axe, four handsets, 56 SIM cards, three memory cards, three handset chargers, 10 Hollandia milk cartons and N76,000 cash, among other things.

The Sokoto brigade commander said from the items recovered, the suspected Death Eaters did not mean well for the country.

He assured members of the public of the determination of the security personnel in the state to keep faith with their oath, to ensure security of life and property of the people.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Holy crap I thought Joseph Mendiola was having a senior moment there. False alarm I guess.
Posted by: jpal || 07/13/2013 19:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks, mods.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/13/2013 21:07 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Court Jails 11 for Qaida Offences
[An Nahar] A Saudi court has sentenced 11 people including foreigners to jail on charges including weapons training, bomb-making and ties to al-Qaeda, the SPA state news agency reported Friday.

The prison terms handed down by the special court ranged from 18 months to 15 years, it said, without specifying the number or nationalities of foreigners convicted.

Some were convicted of "declaring that it was the duty of young people to go abroad to fight, and permitting suicide kabooms, while some had links to people of the deviant doctrine," a term used to refer to al-Qaeda, SPA said.

Some were found guilty of "weapons training and training in bomb-making at al-Qaeda bases," it said, adding that "some defendants had links to someone involved in organizing the travel of youth to fight abroad".

Convictions also included "supporting al-Qaeda attacks in the kingdom and abroad... calling the government a supporter of infidels, and allowing the killing of members of the military".

SPA said that the 11 were part of a group of 15 people on trial, but it did not mention any verdict on the other four.

Both the defendants and the prosecution have decided to appeal the verdicts, it added.

Earlier this month, a court sentenced 18 men, again including foreigners, to between seven months and 15 years in jail for fighting in foreign conflicts on behalf of Sunni Mohammedan krazed killer groups.

Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern warnings against volunteers from the conservative Sunni Mohammedan kingdom going to fight alongside the mainly Sunni rebels battling to oust Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
But diplomats say hundreds of Saudis, perhaps even several thousand, have gone anyway.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Saudi Jails Two Shiites over Protests
[An Nahar] A Saudi special court has sentenced two Shiite men to eight and nine years in jail, respectively, for taking part in protests in Eastern Province, SPA state news agency said on Friday.

The first defendant was found guilty of joining three protests in the town of Awamiya, in the province's Shiite Al-Qatif region, it said.

He was also found guilty of having "anti-kingdom and anti-rulers pictures on his mobile phone... and of knowing dissidents in Qatif and covering up their activities".

The second defendant, who was sentenced to nine years, was found guilty of taking part in "most demonstrations" in Qatif.

He was also convicted of "surfing dissident Internet websites, and posting statements inciting opposition to the rulers... as well as calling for the release of prisoners", SPA said.

The two defendants and the prosecution have decided to appeal the verdicts, it said.

There are an estimated two million Shiites in the Sunni-ruled kingdom of around 27.5 million people.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Britain
Terror police investigating nail bomb attack at mosque
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A major atrocity was narrowly averted yesterday after a large nail bomb went kaboom! outside a mosque just two hours after the funeral of terror victim Lee Rigby.

The homemade device went kaboom! near the Kanz Ul Iman Masjid mosque in Tipton, West Midlands, shortly after 1pm -- when up to 200 worshippers would normally have been in the area for Friday prayers.

However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the prayers had been moved back an hour because of Ramadan and no one was injured in the blast.

The bomb, which was left on a disused railway line behind the mosque, showered the area with nails and other debris.

Police were last night treating the kaboom as a terrorist incident and were investigating whether there are any links to a small kaboom near a mosque in nearby Walsall last month.

Officers were also examining whether there is any connection to right wing bully boys.

It was being treated as a suspected terror attack because of the size of the kaboom, the fact nails were included and it appeared to have been timed to coincide with the Friday prayers.

One police source said such factors "appear to indicate at this stage intent to cause serious injury or damage".

Residents in Tipton believed the attack had also been timed to coincide with the day of the funeral of Drummer Rigby in Bury.

The soldier died in an alleged Islamic terror attack in Woolwich, east London, in May.

Police in Tipton cordoned off an area of up to half a mile around Binfield Street while forensic experts, bomb specialists and counter-terrorism officers examined the scene.

Residents reported finding nails in gardens several hundred yards away.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Practice makes perfect.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/13/2013 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Not Investigating very hard, I hope.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/13/2013 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  It usually turns out to be either other Moslems or the "victims" themselves.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I lean towards Fred.

Nobody was early?
Nobody missed the memo?
Nobody just hanging out?
Nobody there getting the place ready?
Why delay prayers, its not like there is a lunch break or anything?
Why place it in back?
No injuries anywhere, not even checkups for concussion?

Sending a little ol nail 50 yards takes work, nevermind 100s, so that would be quite a boomer (or crappy journalism, or both).
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 and #4. My first thoughts too. Next, they'll find a noose tacked to the mosque door, and graffitti on a parked car, and...
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 07/13/2013 14:51 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
6 wounded in southern Chihuahua shootouts

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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A total of six unidentified individuals were wounded in a series of shootings in the southern Chihuahua municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo earlier in the week.

Several Mexican news accounts, including news reports posted on the website of El Diario de Chihuahua news daily, say that four unidentified individuals were wounded in a shootout Wednesday between rival gangs between the villages of Puerto Yerbitas and El Ocote. An ambulance had been dispatched to take the four victims to medical care in nearby Parral only to be intercepted by armed suspects near the village of San José de los Baylon.

According to an account posted on the website of MexicoWebcast.com, a Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by a lone individual was used to block the road as other suspects grabbed four of the shooting victims.

The other two shooting victims were wounded after attempting to run a checkpoint set up by armed suspects on the highway between Guadaluoe y Calvo and Parral near the village of Turuachi.

Later in the afternoon, Chihuahua state Policia Minsiteriales and some elements of the Mexican Army went to the sawmill where the larger shootout took place. There they found two burned out tractor trailer rigs, eight weapons magazines, 362 rounds of AK-47 ammunition and 62 rounds of .223 caliber AR-15 ammunition, and one hand grenade. The grenade was said to be US made.

Separately, according to a news report by Angelica Martinez for AgoraRevista.com, the Chihuahua Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE), or attorney general is investigating links between the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Jaime Orozco Madrigal, who was a candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) for municipal president of Guadalupe v Calvo, and the Sinaloa Drug Cartel.

Sr. Orozco Madrigal was kidnapped June 9th and was found dead three days later. Orozco Madrigal's father and brother had been kidnapped and released late in 2012. Without describing specifics, the article says Chihuahua FGE officials say a connection exists between the crime and the Sinaloa Drug Cartel.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.
Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Army stages practice port assault
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2013 08:32 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing improves community relations like simulated combat in a populated area ... at midnight.

At least they didn't use live ammo.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/13/2013 11:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Had to check if it was Navy Pier.

Stupid sht like this will get people hurt or convinced.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2013 12:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Port Angeles, Wash.

Isn't this the location where the locals looked the other way or assisted the anti-war folks obstructing shipments to the personnel overseas?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2013 15:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Amazing thing is, there was not a single word in the Seattle Times on line this morning......Almost like this was only a real honest to gosh cross country night time flight and the residents over-reacted. And since the First Liar Wins, the Army has to do the squirming.....
Posted by: USN. Ret. || 07/13/2013 22:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two blasts hit Hyderabad
[Dawn] Two powerful blasts rocked Hyderabad on Friday at around 4.45am, one at the boundary wall of office of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Hyderabad and the other at a railway track in Hussainabad. Both the explosions were heard far and wide.

The first blast took place between 4.40am to 4.45am damaging a portion of the boundary wall of SSP office Hyderabad. A four-feet portion of the wall that faces the Government Model School was also damaged.

The ceiling of the adjacent Umer Islam Mosque was also damaged and same was the case with the old campus building whose clock tower, windowpanes of halls and buses of Sindh University were smashed by the explosion's impact.

"We had just ended the prayers and came out of the mosque when the blast took place. I felt as if it was an earthquake," said Syed Ashraf Ali, who lives a nearby street in the same area.

No casualties were reported in either blast.

A large number of residents, policemen and Rangers rushed to the spot. Police prevented onlookers from going forward to see the site. Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) officials examined the area and BDS official Saleem Vistro said the bomb weighed three kilograms.

"It was a heavy explosive device that was attached with a detonator and planted outside the boundary wall," he said.

He added that a haze of smoke filled the area for a considerable period of time.

A visit to the site revealed that the bomb was planted outside the boundary wall on the footpath and the debris of the wall's portion fell inside the SSP office. District police's Estate Management Office (EMO) is located inside the boundary wall where the major damage occurred. Windowpanes and a portion of the ceiling were also damaged in the meeting room of the SSP's office and the kitchen.

"There was a smell of explosives in the entire area," said Saleem Vohra, a traders' leader who also rushed to the spot after hearing the explosion.

He said windowpanes of a number of houses were also damaged by the impact of the blast.

SSP Hyderabad Saqib Ismail Memon told Dawn.com that it was only one blast that had hit the SSP's office wall. He said he was not sure about the second kaboom, adding that although he had visited the railway track in Hussainabad, he could not find any traces of the kaboom.

"There was a rumour about a second blast in Qasimabad but it could not be confirmed," he said.

He admitted that there were similarities between Friday's blast and those that had taken place previously in the city.

He, however, said that "it would be premature to say who did it".

The SSP confirmed that an FIR was lodged at the Cantonment cop shoppe regarding the blast.

"We will obviously strengthen our surveillance system and install closed-circuit TV cameras," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Militants kill nephew of Baloch nationalist leader
[Dawn] Militants bumped off the nephew of Jan Mohammad Buledi, the spokesperson of the Chief Minister of 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...
, in Turbat town of the insurgency-hit province on Friday.

Levies officials told Dawn.com that two armed hard boyz on a cycle of violence shot up Chiragh Buledi, the nephew of Jan Buledi, in Buleda area of Turbat.

They said Chiragh sustained serious gunshot wounds, and departed this vale of tears on his way to hospital.

The attackers managed to escape after the attack, they said. Levies personnel reached the spot and started investigation into the incident.

Jan Mohammad Buledi is the central secretary information of ruling Baloch nationalist party, National Party (NP) led by Chief Minister Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Levies officials said they suspected separatists operating in the area to be behind the attack.

Chief Minister Balochistan Dr. Malik Baloch has strongly condemned the incident and termed it an attempt to undermine his government's efforts for bringing peace in the restive province.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Former IB assistant director shot dead in Peshawar
[Dawn] A former director general of the Intelligence Bureau of Pakistain was rubbed out by unknown persons in Dhaki Nalbandi area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, police officials confirmed on Friday.

Station House Officer of Khan Raziq cop shoppe Muhammad Noor said that Muhammad Arif, a former DG of the IB, was sitting at a shrine near his residence when unknown motor-cycle riding gunnies shot him before Iftar.

The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
Police sources added that Arif had retired two-and a half years ago and had served as the Intelligence Bureau's Assistant Director.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
Nine Killed in Iraq, including Senior Police Officer
[An Nahar] Attacks mainly targeting security forces killed nine people on Friday in Iraq, including a police brigadier general, a day after 56 people died in bombings and shootings, police and doctors said.

The latest violence came amid a surge of deadly unrest across the country where more than 2,500 people have been killed this year, including more than 260 this month alone.

Analysts point to widespread discontent among Iraq's minority Sunni community, and the Shiite authorities' failure to address their grievances, as the main factors driving the increase in violence.

Gunmen rubbed out Brigadier General Sabri Abed Issa on his way to a mosque near Sharqat, northwest of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, while others killed a retired policeman in front of his home in Muqdadiyah, northeast of the capital.

In the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, a jacket wallah detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a police checkpoint, killing four coppers and wounding two others.

A magnetic "sticky bomb" also killed a civilian in djinn-infested Mosul, while a roadside kaboom south of the city killed a policeman and maimed another.

And a "sticky bomb" killed an anti-al-Qaeda militiaman and maimed another person near Baquba, also north of Storied Baghdad.

The attacks came a day after a wave of violence killed 56 people, 31 of them members of the Iraqi security forces.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebels, al-Qaida fighters battle in Aleppo
Activists say Syrian rebels and fighters from an al-Qaida-linked group have turned their guns on each other and are fighting for control of a key checkpoint in the northern city of Aleppo.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Saturday’s clashes are focused on the strategic checkpoint in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr district.

The checkpoint is the only gateway between rebel-held eastern districts and the city’s western areas, controlled by President Bashar Assad’s troops.

Earlier this week, al-Qaida-linked militants seized the checkpoint and closed it for several days, cutting the flow of food supplies to the city and triggering the confrontation.

Residents angry over the blockade have staged protests against the anti-Assad forces as food prices soar in Aleppo at the start of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan.
Posted by: tipper || 07/13/2013 11:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Where's the picture of Assad JR laughing his head off?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/13/2013 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Haven't heard from McCain in a while...must be busy being absolutely right about immigration.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2013 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Hanoi John's too busy trying to crash the aircraft of state to worry about Syria.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 07/13/2013 16:30 Comments || Top||

#4  A pretty good explanation for Jihadist crazy behavior
Gang violence cause of high levels of mental disorders
Posted by: tipper || 07/13/2013 18:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Or, perhaps high levels of mental illness cause gang violence, tipper.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/13/2013 18:13 Comments || Top||

#6  They're speaking of brain damage,From Fights etc.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/13/2013 21:19 Comments || Top||

#7  for Bihar hitting targets- al Qaeda by Planes aided by FSA And Watch Out Stolen Taserville Exploited Ruse by al Qaeda - Watch
Posted by: Watch Aircover || 07/13/2013 21:40 Comments || Top||


15 Killed in Damascus Shelling, 6 in City Center
[An Nahar] Fifteen people were killed on Friday in shelling on Damascus, among them six in the heart of the Syrian capital, as the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan entered its third day, a watchdog said.

"Six people were killed when three shells (likely launched by rebels) hit Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
street, in the center of the city. Nine others were killed in a massive (regime) shelling of Qaboon in northwestern Damascus," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Several people were also maimed, the Britannia-based watchdog said without giving further details.

"Shelling and festivities have raged non-stop in Qaboon all throughout the day," said the watchdog, which relies on a broad network of activists, doctors and lawyers for its reports.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Lebanese Shiites Ousted from Gulf over Hizbullah Ties
[An Nahar] When Ali Farhat was summoned to the immigration department in the United Arab Emirates, the 33-year-old Lebanese restaurant worker knew he would have to pack up his family and leave fast.

Like many Shiite Moslems working in the oil-rich Gulf state, Farhat says he popped up on the country's deportation radar merely because of his sect, which its Sunni rulers associate with Hizbullah.

"I felt like a criminal, but I did not know what I did wrong," said Farhat, who had lived in the UAE for 15 years before his expulsion in May. "It seems that my only crime was that I am Shiite."

Long considered by authorities as a security threat, hundreds of Shiites have been quietly expelled from the UAE, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and other Gulf Arab states on suspicion of being supporters of Hizbullah. The deportations have surged in recent months after the group publicly joined the civil war in Syria on the side of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, an archenemy of the Gulf's rulers.

It is the latest fallout for Hizbullah's high stakes and highly divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
military involvement in the war in Syria, and a sign of the growing sectarian fissures in the Arab world over Syria.

Last month, Saudi Arabia announced plans to deport Lebanese who authorities accuse of supporting the Iranian-backed Hizbullah, and the other Gulf states say they too are reconsidering the status of their Shiite guest workers.

A Lebanese diplomat stationed in the Gulf confirmed to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Thursday that the stepped-up deportations from Saudi Arabia have begun, adding that he has documented an average of three cases a week in the past three weeks.

Farhat, like hundreds of other deportees, was never given an official reason for his family's expulsion, and was not able to challenge it in court or at a government agency.

Deportees like Farhat are not the only ones bearing the brunt of Hizbullah's military involvement in Syria, where the group's fighters helped Assad's forces recapture the strategic town of Qusair, near the border with Leb, last month.

The group's backing of the Syrian regime has angered the overwhelmingly Sunni rebels fighting to topple Assad and raised sectarian tensions inside Leb. Several Syria-based Islamist groups have threatened to attack Hizbullah strongholds in Leb in retaliation.

Rockets from the Syrian side regularly crash into Shiite towns and villages near the border with Syria. Twice this month, rockets slammed into the Hizbullah stronghold known as Dahieh, Beirut's southern suburbs..

In the most ominous sign yet that the sectarian war in Syria has begun to consume Leb, a boom-mobile tore through a heavily guarded sector of Bir al-Abed area on Tuesday, wounding 53 people.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Leb Tripoli Man Killed Fighting Alongside Syrian Rebels in Aleppo
[An Nahar] A man who hails from the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
has been killed while fighting alongside the armed Syrian opposition against forces loyal to the regime.

"Gunfire was heard in Tripoli during a prayer for the dead for Ahmed Zaki Mansour," LBCI television reported, adding that "Moamen Kahil, a minor, was maimed in the back by a stray bullet" from the shooting.

LBCI clarified that Mansour was killed in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
the Facebook page Tripoli News Network said the gunshots were fired on al-Rahbat Street and published a picture of a crowd carrying black Islamist flags.

In November 2012, several Lebanese Islamists, including Tripolitans, were killed in an ambush by Syrian regime forces in the Homs town of Tal Kalakh.

Thousands of imported muscle have joined Syrian rebels pitted against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
Lebanese Islamist holy mans Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi have called on their followers to join rebels fighting in Syria and to support Sunni residents of the embattled central province of Homs.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Army: Israeli Troops Briefly Cross Blue Line at Houla
[An Nahar] The Army Command announced on Friday that Israeli troops briefly crossed the Blue Line into Leb earlier in the morning before returning to Israel.

It said that five troops opened the technical gate at the southern region of Houla and then crossed the Blue Line for a brief time. They then retreated to Israeli territories.

The army promptly deployed patrols in the area in coordination with troops from the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Interim Force in Leb.

UNIFIL Spokeswoman Antoinette Midday later described the violation as dangerous and provocative. She told the National News Agency that some four or five Israeli troops crossed the Blue Line into Leb.

They entered a few meters into the territory, where they stayed for some 30 minutes before leaving, she added.

Crossing the Blue Line is a violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 and the land excursions are very dangerous because they could be provocative, she stated.

Midday revealed that UNIFIL Commander Major General Paolo Serra later contacted the Israeli army command to inquire about Friday's violation. He called on it to withdraw its troops without any delay, stressing that Israel should completely respect the Blue Line, she added.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FYT N-O-T named after the great "Blue Angel" that drew Bush 41's "line in the sand" ala the First Gulf War.

Contrary to the MSM + popular opinion, God drew the line first.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/13/2013 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Stepping into Leb to have a smoke?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/13/2013 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "God drew the line first"
Posted by: newc || 07/13/2013 2:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe they were testing security camera's recently installed, or motion-sensors? Regardless, 3 meters for 30minutes actually makes the UN look... well they are incompetent.
Posted by: Charles || 07/13/2013 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  reminds me of my sons when they were little "he's on my side!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2013 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Monitors - If True , UN Condemn Israel For P acts
Posted by: The UN Morekarinijhmojmohl || 07/13/2013 22:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Provocative Acts And Walter Serrao Nomore Witt Karin Mohl -hehe
Posted by: The UN Morekarinijhmojmohl || 07/13/2013 22:08 Comments || Top||



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