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I hope this year is better. Sitting out here on a rig atm while they fish for the roller cones that fell off the bit.
Still, it's not been a bad year for some things and I'm hoping that they rip enough money out of Righthaven's billionaire backer to pay back ALL the money they owe, especially Fred's. Rantburg provides me enough news and entertainment so that I don't feel completely out of touch out here.
Thanks Fred and thank you everyone else:)
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Happy New Year, my dears! May this year bring each of us health, happiness and prosperity as needed, and defeat of the jihadi and drug cartel idiots.
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Happy New Year, especially Silentbrick: wish we were just fishing cones - we're jarring on my well(though U'm at home watching). Found our pay & then got well and truly stuck.
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Happy New Year indeed; clicked on the Nina Bott pix to see what was behind Door # 1 (had to feed mt daily perv requirement, ya see), and got locked in there; had to reboot to find my way out. Multiple back arrows and there I was, eye to leg with her, it was terrible, just terrible! If that is the worst of 2012, send me more!!!!!!
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Yeouch Glenmore. Lucky for me I've only gone to wells after they've done such things. This is the first time I've been on one that's had this kind of problem.
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The U.S. Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan came under 2 missile attacks on Saturday, as the American soldiers were celebrating the New Years Eve.
Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they have fired 9 long-range missiles on the strategic base, killing dozens of soldiers.
Afghan officials have confirmed the attacks, but ruled out any fatalities.
The latest attacks come as the Obama administration is trying to reach some kind of a cease-fire agreement with the Taliban.
One goal of renewed talks with the militants would be to identify cease-fire zones that could be used as a steppingstone toward a full peace agreement. They tried no fire zones in Vietnam, I believe, to disastrous, for our side, consequences.
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To those unaware: you can hear that type of missile coming for quite some distance. Thus, there is lots of time to scramble, as long as you are on your toes.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police have released the names of 15 men they believe hold key information that could help unravel the Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia.
The suspects are said to have left Kismayu recently for Kenya and some are believed to be already in the country. The group comprises nine Kenyans, two Asians and four Somalis aged between 24 and 32.
Most of the Kenyans are known to have resided in Majengo area of Nairobi and Mombasa before leaving for Somalia about a year ago.
"If any of these people is in Kenya, they are advised to report to the nearest cop shoppe," said Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe.
He also urged any person who sees any of them or has information on their whereabouts to inform police.
One of the suspects is Habib Saleh Ghani aka Abu Osama Al-Pak, a Briton.
The others, some only known by only one name, are Abdi Samadi Wadud aka Asu, Ali Hashim Muhogo, Amar, Bashir, Budalangi, Erico, Farhan Ayub, Jamadar, Juma Ayub, Amar, Mwarabu, Ramadhan Kioko, Sufiyan and Habib Saleh.
Police have also released the name of Baba Nawal, suspected to have been involved in the kidnapping of a disabled French woman who was kidnapped in Lamu in October.
Another suspect wanted by police is Natalie Fayed, holder of passport number A 0152478 who is said to have entered Kenya through Lunga Lunga border crossing on February 26, and also came in on August 25, through Namanga.
She is in the company of her three children one girl and two boys aged 10, 8 and 5.
Police have also confirmed that GSU officers killed three suspected Al-Shabaab faceless myrmidons and recovered five AK-47 rifles, two speedboats, 14 magazines and 372 bullets on Saturday morning.
Kiwayu area
The officers, who were on patrol, saw an unidentified boat approaching the Kenyan territorial waters at around 6.30am on Friday morning at Kiwayu area of Lamu. They gave chase but the suspects sped and abandoned the boat and disappeared into the Mukokoni forest.
On Saturday at around 9am the GSU officers from the 'L' company now based at Kiunga found the gunnies and a fierce exchange ensued.
In the process, three of the suspects were killed and three others beat feet with gunshot injuries.
"There were no casualties among the security agents," said Mr Kiraithe.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... police have banned all fireworks as they intensify security patrols and at the same time urged the public to liaise with their local police on security arrangements before they organise or attend any gatherings.
Mr Kiraithe, however, stressed that he was satisfied with the security situation in the country and the police would not ban gatherings.
Mr Kiraithe has at the same time warned refugees who engage in criminal activities that stern action will be taken against them. There have been cases of criminal activities within the refugee camps.
On Thursday night, a refugee leader, Ahmed Mohamud, was rubbed out as he was entering his compound at the Hagadera refugee camp.
Ahmed was the chairperson of the Community Peace and Security Team -- a refugee-run community group -- said to be instrumental in maintaining security in the camp.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres has also condemned the killing of the leader.
In the North Eastern province, the security forces are on high alert after intelligence reports showed that improvised bombs (IED) experts from Bulla Hawa town in Southern Somalia had crossed to Mandera on Friday.
The experts are allegedly training people in buildings near Kenya Customs control.
The intelligence report further states that the krazed killers' main targets are the State security forces especially in Mandera.
Addressing the media during the briefing on the war against Al-Shabaab, Military Spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna said the Al-Shabaab suffered the highest number of casualties in the last one week.
He said that the KDF gained more ground on the Northern sector and close to 6,000 residents had moved back to their original homes.
On Thursday, five faceless myrmidons and one KDF soldier were killed, and five other KDF soldiers injured following a ground engagement.
Improvised explosive
Col Oguna said that the previous day, a KDF vehicle drove over an IED and, as a result, four soldiers were maimed and the vehicle slightly damaged.
The largest number of casualties occurred on Christmas day when the forces killed around 100 members including some imported muscle.
Earlier on December 24, the KDF raided a customs office and killed six and maimed eight Al-Shabaab members and also destroyed a technical (vehicle used by the krazed killers).
Col Oguna added that the forces had blocked the charcoal trade as part of their strategy to ensure that Al-Shabaab are starved of cash and also to check on environmental degradation.
Regarding the US stoppage of financial transactions from the diaspora, Col Oguna welcomed the move though he said it did not significantly contribute to the success of their operation.
"Al-Shabaab has never been funded from the diaspora and that is why we are concentrating on blocking their sources of income within," said Oguna.
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I, initially, read it as shish-kebab fugitives.
[Emirates 24/7] The Somali government said on Saturday its forces had recaptured some Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... territory in Hiiran and other regions.
Kenya has witnessed a spate of low-level attacks against its security forces near the border with Somalia since the start of the military campaign.
On Saturday, Kenyan security forces killed three suspected Islamic fascistias they tried to enter Kenyan waters through the Lamu archipelago on the northern coast, police front man Eric Kiraithe said.
Kenya said it would host an anti-piracy conference in February as cooperation grows between Al-Shabaab and pirate gangs who have increased attacks off the Horn of Africa coast.
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[Emirates 24/7] Rebel front man Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Rooters on Saturday Ethiopian troops had attacked Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... fighters 20 km north of Baladwayne. He said Al-Shabaab had repelled the soldiers three times.
On its Twitter account, Al-Shabaab quoted Abu Musab as saying the gunnies had declared a "planned withdrawal" from the town because of Ethiopia's "indiscriminate" shelling. The claim could not be independently verified.
Local elder Hassan Abdi said many residents had decamped the town as the warring parties fought on the outskirts.
"We do not have details about casualties. No fighting took place in the town itself. The town is calm," he said.
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[An Nahar] The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... has reinforced its peacekeepers in the flashpoint South Sudan town of Pibor and is airlifting food to the region, where tribal violence has prompted thousands to flee, a senior U.N. official said Saturday.
"We have deployed a battalion-sized force in Pibor to support the government to protect civilians," Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan, told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that the provision of food aid was an "urgent step."
She said the peacekeeping reinforcement had occurred within the past three days, with a company of blue helmets being the latest addition on Friday.
"We are extremely concerned about the massing of the Lou Nuer youth," in that part of Jonglei state, Grande said.
An estimated 500 members of the Lou Nuer tribe -- among 6,000 armed youth who have been marching towards Pibor -- were already on the town's outskirts, the United Nations warned on Friday.
To assist those left in the town, the U.N.'s World Food Program flew in a helicopter with food on Saturday, Grande said, after plans for an airlift on Friday were suspended following reports that security was deteriorating.
"As of yesterday there was no food in Pibor, so this was an urgent step," Grande said.
"We're going to try to assist several thousand people for up to two weeks," she added. "But of course that depends on security conditions."
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[Emirates 24/7] Ethiopian troops captured a rebel-held town in central Somalia on Saturday, Addis Ababa and residents said, in a new front against the Al Qaeda-linked orcs.
The Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... rebels said on Saturday they had repelled three Ethiopian assaults north of the town and then carried out a "planned withdrawal" from the settlement.
Both Ethiopia and Kenya have sent troops into Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab orcs, following a wave of cross-border attacks and kidnappings Nairobi blamed on the rebels.
The reports suggested the snuffies were now facing opposition on three fronts.
Al-Shabaab is fighting Kenyan troops in the south. African Union peacekeepers and Somali government soldiers have pushed the snuffies out of most of the capital Mogadishu. The Ethiopian assault marked a new push in central Somalia.
"Ethiopian troops are now in Baladwayne town. Al-Shabaab fighters have run away," resident Osman Farah told Rooters.
"We were woken up by the shells of Ethiopian troops early in the morning. They attacked Al-Shabaab on the outskirts of the town. We cannot leave our houses. We can see Ethiopian troops from the cracks of our windows," he said.
Ethiopian government front man Bereket Simon said Ethiopian and Somali government forces had captured the town.
"Enemy troops were routed during the operation and have retreated. We only had minimal losses," Bereket said.
Baladwayne is a commercial and farming town that lies near a river in central Somalia, about 45 km awayfrom the Ethiopian border and 335 km north of Mogadishu.
It is also the capital of the Hiiran region and was under the control of Al-Shabaab, which is fighting Somalia's Western-backed government. Residents fear the snuffies could retake the town if Ethiopian troops leave.
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[An Nahar] Sectarian festivities broke out in the southern Egyptian province of Assiut after a Christian student posted a drawing of the Moslem prophet on the Internet, officials said on Saturday.
The festivities, which spread to three villages, saw several Christian homes burned and left five coppers injured, a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
On Thursday, dozens of Moslems tried to storm the home of the Christian student after the drawing appeared online.
Police were called to the scene, placed in long-term storage the student and formed a cordon around the house to prevent festivities, Assiut governor Abdelrahim Borei said.
But on Friday, a group of Moslems set fire to a shop owned by the student's father in a nearby village and another group burned Christian homes in another neighboring village and clashed with its residents.
Borei has called for an emergency meeting with political and church officials as well as with recently elected MPs and members of ultra-conservative Salafi Moslem groups to try to defuse tensions.
"The situation is now calm in the three villages. We have deployed police in the areas in order to maintain order," Borei told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
On Friday, Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said the army would increase security around churches during the New Year and Coptic Christmas period, which falls on January 7.
Egypt's powerful Moslem Brüderbund has also vowed to protect the country's churches in a bid to prevent deadly attacks on Christian places of worship.
Last year, more than 20 people were killed in an apparent suicide kaboom as hundreds of worshippers were leaving the al-Qidissin (The Saints) church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after a New Year's Eve mass.
In January 2010, six Copts were rubbed out as they emerged from a Coptic Christmas Eve mass. A Moslem security guard was also killed in the shooting.
Coptic Christians, who make up around 10 percent of Egypt's 82 million population, have been the target of frequent attacks and complain of systematic discrimination.
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It makes you wonder why the Copts refrain from making assassination teams to rub out offensive Muslims known to attack them. There are 8 million Copts in a country of 80 million. If they fought back they could at least knock some of the teeth out of the most offensive Muslims.
The important thing is to do so discreetly. If they do that, the country is so disorganized right now that it is likely they could get away scot free.
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...Sadly, none of these groups targeted for genocide have learned the true lesson of the Holocaust: if every Jew had been prepared to take one SS or Gestapo man with them, the Holocaust never would have happened.
Mike
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Why do they do nothing? Twelve hundred years of communal punishment when someone actually shows any resistance, plus random acts of violence just for existing.
[An Nahar] Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... on Saturday declared a state of emergency in areas hard hit by violence blamed on Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... and ordered the closure of part of the country's borders.
He announced the measures after branding Boko Haram a "cancerous" body that was bent on destroying Africa's most populous country and vowing that the group blamed for a wave of bloody attacks would be crushed.
"While the search for lasting solutions is ongoing, it has become imperative to take some decisive measures necessary to restore normality in the country especially within the affected communities," Jonathan said in a nationwide broadcast.
"Consequently, I have... declared a state of emergency in the following parts of the federation," he said, listing parts of the states of Borno, where Boko Haram traditionally has its base, as well as Yobe, Niger and Plateau.
He also ordered the closure of the land borders of the affected areas to control "cross-border terrorist activities".
Jonathan said the move was necessary "as hard boyz have taken advantage of the present situation to strike at targets in Nigeria and retreat beyond the reach of our law enforcement personnel."
Nigeria has been hit by scores of attacks blamed on Boko Haram, but a wave of Christmas Day bombings particularly targeting churches which killed at least 49 people set off fear and deep frustration nationwide.
"(Boko Haram) started as a harmless group... they have now grown cancerous," Jonathan said in an earlier address at the church in the Madalla area near the capital Abuja where the deadliest Christmas bombing took place.
"And Nigeria, being the body, they want to kill it. But nobody will allow them to do that."
The latest wave of attacks also sparked fears of potential reprisals by Christians, and Christian leaders warned that they would be forced to defend themselves if the authorities did not address the spiralling violence.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 160 million people and the continent's largest oil producer, is roughly divided between a mainly Mohammedan north and predominately Christian south.
The areas affected by the state of emergency are within Borno state, where Boko Haram has traditionally had its base, and neighboring Yobe state in the northeast.
The other two areas are in Plateau state, in the country's middle belt dividing the north and south, and Niger state, which is next to the Federal Capital Territory, which includes Abuja.
A number of attacks have occurred in Niger state, including the bloodiest Christmas bombing at St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, where 44 people were killed as worshippers were leaving mass, according to the parish priest.
Borders affected included those in the northeast, where Nigeria shares frontiers with Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
It was not immediately clear what measures the state of emergency would entail beyond the border closings. Nigeria already has a number of military task forces operating in troubled regions, including Borno and Plateau states.
Hundreds of people have been killed this year alone in attacks blamed on Boko Haram. Most have been in the northeast, but it also claimed for the August suicide kaboom of U.N. headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 25 people.
An early version of the group formed in 2004, initially made up of university graduates and dropouts from wealthy and middle-class families and going by the name the "Nigerian Taliban".
While Boko Haram initially sought the creation of an Islamic state in the north of Nigeria, a number of people have since claimed to speak on its behalf and issued a range of demands.
There has been intense speculation over whether it has formed links with outside thug groups, such as al-Qaeda's North African branch and Somalia's Shebab rebels.
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[Yemen Post] The son of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , Brigadier General Ahmed Ali incarcerated officers from the Elite Republican Guards in an attempt to suppress a rebellion.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said on Saturday, quoting a Yemeni military official as saying that the Ahmed incarcerated officers from the Elite Republican Guards in an attempt to suppresses a rebellion to clean Elite Republican Guards led by him from the dissidents.
The source said that said the Ahmed Ali Saleh has incarcerated dozens of officers so far, and the purpose of suppressing the rebellion is to prevent the officers from joining the demonstrations against the Yemeni regime.
Adding that he had been warned in a meeting with the Elite Republican Guards this week from any protest among his forces or any one try to imitate the protests that swept a lot of institutions all over Yemen.
Yemeni press sources said last Wednesday that Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Saleh addressed the Elite Republican Guards about the protests that occur in some of the civil and military institutions.
«You hear and you see what is happening and we know that there are those who send you messages inciting protests by."Saleh said.
According to the source, who preferred anonymity, Ahmed Ali Saleh threatened to crush any protests and to punish anyone wishing to incite the same or, adding that the Elite Republican Guards is not any other institution.
He also asked his forces in Sobaha camp on Tuesday not to follow the news of the protests that occur in different institutions, addressing them that such protest act will be treated as a military rebellion.
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[An Nahar] Two Yemeni soldiers and two suspected al-Qaeda Death Eaters were killed in festivities overnight near the restive southern city of Zinjibar, a military source said on Saturday.
Three soldiers and four members of the Partisans of Sharia, an al-Qaeda-linked myrmidon group that took over most of Zinjibar earlier this year, were maimed in the fighting, the source said.
Zinjibar is the capital of the southern Abyan province, a stronghold of al-Qaeda, and has been the scene of frequent fighting between army troops and Islamist Death Eaters since May.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... hundreds of Yemenis were marching Saturday on Zinjibar to protest months of violence that has seen most of its residents abandon the city and seek shelter elsewhere.
The protesters, mostly Zinjibar residents, carried banners calling for "the departure of al-Qaeda gunnies" from their city and an end to the "destructive war," said one of the organizers, Mohammed Qays.
But five kilometers outside Zinjibar Death Eaters from the Partisans of Sharia group stopped the protesters and prevented them from going any further, Qays later told said.
"They want us to put pressure on the army to quit the city but we want both the soldiers and Death Eaters to leave," he said.
Qays added that the marchers decided to hold their ground and set up a protest camp in the village of Kud, until they are allowed to enter Zinjibar.
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[Dawn] Two consecutive rocket attacks on Saturday spread fear in Quetta a day after when a car-kaboom killed more than a dozen, DawnNews reported.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... according to rescue resources, attacks did not cause any causality.
The first rocket, fired from an unknown location, dropped in a graveyard near Sabzal Road was followed by the second one which was dropped in a crop field next to Spinney Road.
Emergency was imposed in two hospitals of the city which was plunged with fear and chaos after the attacks.
Yesterday's attack near a politician's residence killed more than a dozen and injured around 30 in the violence-ridden city.
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[Dawn] A kaboom killed two people and injured 13 in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
The blast occurred in the compound of a local tribal leader Malik Rasool Khan while a tribal council meeting (jirga) was underway on the auction of a local bus stop, DawnNews reported.
As a result of the blast, two school going children who were passing by were killed while 13 people, including 10 children were maimed, sources said.
Three tribal landlords are also included in the injured.
The injured victims were admitted to the Khyber Agency headquarter hospital.
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how's that Pak purity and sovereignty?
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[Dawn] A bomb destroyed a military vehicle on Saturday killing two Pak soldiers in a village in the restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, a security official said.
The remote-controlled bomb planted on a roadside hit a patrol party leading a convoy of security forces at Boya village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of Miranshah, ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... the main town of troubled North Wazoo tribal district.
"Two soldiers were martyred in the kaboom," a security official told AFP.
"The authorities have clamped a curfew on the main Miranshah-Datta Khel road and are carrying out a search operation," said the official, who requested anonymity.
A local intelligence official confirmed the attack and corpse count and said that he suspected the involvement of Talibs in the attack.
Pakistain has for years battled homegrown Islamic fascistiin the tribal belt that borders Afghanistan.
More than 3,000 soldiers have died but Pakistain has resisted US pressure to do more to eliminate havens used by Afghan cut-thoats.
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[Dawn] Two volunteers of a local peace committee were killed and three, including a woman, maimed when a remote-controlled bomb went kaboom! in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central on Friday.
After the blast, security personnel showed up and cordoned off the area.
There followed a search operation during which security personnel nabbed a suspected myrmidon and seized an bomb near the Darra bazaar area.
An official of the local administration said the dead volunteers were Nawaz Khan, 24, and Hazart Khan, 22, while the maimed were Tor Khan, Farman and an unidentified woman, who were taken to the Agency Headquarters Hospital, Khar, where their condition was declared to be stable.
The official said it was yet not clear if the attackers targeted volunteers. He confirmed the arrest of a suspected myrmidon during search operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a government primary school was blown up in Ziarat Kaka Sahib area of Nowshera district early on Friday.
A teacher of the school said the 4:30am kaboom completely destroyed the two-room building and its boundary wall. The bomb disposal squad said explosives weighing around 12kg were used in the attack.
Police said they began a search operation in the area with the help of sniffer dogs after the terrorist activity and nabbed 10 suspects.
They said schoolteacher Nasir Khan and watchman Hameed Khan were also taken into custody after sniffer dogs went to their houses and that a Kalashnikov and one gun was recovered from the teacher`s house.
The Nowshera Kalan cop shoppe registered the case of the kaboom and began investigation. Zameer Khan, who lives near the school, said the kaboom was so loud that it shattered windowpanes of his house.
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[Dawn] Angry demonstrators burn two buses on Abul Hassan Isphahani Road on Saturday after unknown cycle of violence attackers injured two officials of Pasban-e-Aza, DawnNews reported.
Despite of loud claims of the police on security arrangements of the violence-ridden city, the menace of "murders" was again raising its head.
Two unknown cycle of violence attackers opened fire on officials of Pasban-e-Aza (Shia mourning organization) in Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood which injured Askari Raza and Ali Mehdi.
Both the injured were taken to a nearby private hospital.
According to police, attackers were also got injured in a retaliatory fire from the car of the officials. "we have started search for the culprits," said a police official.
Earlier on Friday, unknown cycle of violence attackers killed Dr Saleem Kharal of Jinnah Hospital.
It's important to note that three people have become the victim of assassinations this week including a doctor and a religious scholar.
Unkown terrorists, on December 27, also killed Mufti Abdul Samad Soomro in Gulbahar and chief of Sajjadia Scouts Nayyar Zaidi in Orangi Town.
Later on, one of the injured Askari Raza succumbed to his wounds in a local hospital.
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World famous military strategist and ex-army chief Aslam Beg told Daily Express that to avoid getting into more trouble President Zardari should submit his resignation. He said Memogate was actually an effort to stage an uprising within the army for which the army was very angry. He said Osama was not in Abbottabad when the US operation took place and some people in government knew about the US attack.
Sipah agitates in Jhang against blasphemer
Daily Express reported that Sipah Sahaba had agitated quite dangerously in DJ Khan because the police had not arrested an insulter of the Sahaba or Companions. The city remained subject to marches and shutter-downs but the name of the blasphemer was not revealed by the paper.
Qatar Pakistanis condemn Veena Malik
Daily Pakistan reported that expatriate Pakistanis in Qatar got together and agitated for the expulsion of Veena Malik, the Pakistani filmstar who had allowed objectionable photos of her in an Indian magazine. They said that because she had insulted the country and nation (mulk-o-qaum) she should be divested of nationality and thrown out of Pakistan. Nawa-e-Waqt also reported that the film industry in Pakistan got together on one platform and demanded the same treatment of Ms Malik. According to Mashriq, a palmist proudly predicted that such people as Veena Malik often died by suicide or in an accident. Earlier Veena Malik was condemned by the Pakistani nation for acting in TV programmes that showed her being intimate with a Hindu actor. Most Pakistani film actors who are very pious and live cleanly made public statements against her immorality.
Caught for burning Quran
According to Mashriq a couple - Khurram and Mrs - were secretly burning pages of the Holy Quran in Shahdara Town near Lahore and could have gone scot free had not a conscientious neighbouring lady with utmost honesty and industry looked into their house despite all kinds of obstructions. She reported the matter to the police who lost no time in arresting both the culprits.
Mian Azhar angry with Imran Khan
Daily Mashriq reported that former Muslim League leader Mian Azhar who had just joined Tehreek Insaf of Imran Khan was greatly offended when Shah Mehmood Qureshi formerly of the PPP was accepted into the party and made vice chairman of the party over his head. (Mian Azhar has since been mollified.)
Mittel's offer on Thar-Coal rejected
Daily Express reported that Pakistan proudly rejected can offer made by the Indian tycoon Lakhsmi Mittel to invest $2 billion in the extraction of coal from the region of Thar in Sindh. His company was to extract gas and set up a power station in Thar. Pakistan's security was at the heart of all Pakistanis. Daily Jang reported that Dr Samar Mubarak Mand will start producing gas from the coal in Thar in the month of February 2011. Dr Mand said that billions of dollars will come as foreign investment but did not notice the rejection of Mittel's offer.
Taliban want Islamic sharia first!
Daily Jang quoted Taliban commander Dadullah as saying that the Taliban will not talk peace with Pakistan Army before the enforcement of Taliban's sharia in Pakistan. He said Maulvi Faqir of Bajaur - vice chief of the Taliban movement - was talking to the Pak army in his private capacity but Dadullah as commander of Taliban was not in favour of talking before the imposition of sharia in Pakistan. He said Taliban were split in Bajaur. One commander said in Jang that during peace talks the Army had released 154 Taliban terrorists. He said he was very happy that Pakistan had quarrelled with America.
When NAB chief fell to his knees
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that during the Musharraf rule Asif Ali Zardari and NAB chief of Nawaz Sharif Saifur Rehman came to court for their hearings. When Saifur Rehman saw Zardari he approached him and prostrated himself in front of him and begged to be forgiven for having cooked up false NAB cases against when he was NAB chief.
Genera Ehtesham Zamir and 'zamir'
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir revealed that he was approached by ISI officer Major General Ehtesham Zamir to ask Zardari that and Benazir should quit Pakistan for ten years after which Musharraf would release Zardari from jail. Hamid Mir wrote that Zardari thought he was a Kashmiri brother of Nawaz Sharif while Nawaz Sharif thought he was close to Imran Khan.
Major Amir's luxurious retreat
Chief Editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that going from Islamabad to Peshawar near the Attock Bridge there was a luxurious establishment on the left side owned by a former ISI officer Major Amir which was the destination of 28 editors and distinguished newspapermen of Pakistan. This was a farm house to beat all farm houses because Major Amir was a very well-endowed man from his famous Panjpir madrassa background. Major Amir was an asset of Pakistan and had gone into business to become so rich. Major Amir lost his job after being accused of trying to overthrow the PPP government in the 1990s through a plot named Midnight Jackals, the jackals being Major Amir and Brigadier Imtiaz alias Billa who later spent time in jail.
Dr Fai destroyed by ISI
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Dr Abdul Nabi Fai from Indian administered Kashmir was resident in Washington and was honestly agitating for the freedom of the Kashmiris from India but was destroyed by someone in the ISI who thought of giving him money for doing what was his national mission. He was not made a formal lobbyist for Pakistan and was therefore caught and punished for taking money from the ISI.
Karachi madrassa keeps pupils in chains
Daily Mashriq reported that a madrassa in Sohrab Goth in Karachi was keeping its pupils in chains for the last ten years and the children and youths were picked up from all over Pakistan and brought to the madrassa by their relatives. The madrassa trained them for suicide-bombing missions and jihad, but gave them little food, whipped them hundreds of lashes at a time with their feet chained. The police got to know about it after ten years and rescued 57 chained pupils.
Christians want wine banned for them too
As reported in Mashriq Christians protested in Lahore against the government for allowing Christians to drink alcohol and giving them licences to buy wine while Christianity under Bible prohibited the drinking of wine just like the Muslims.
Musharraf and Ijaz Shah sheltered Osama!
Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Ziauddin said in Mashriq that General Musharraf and Brigadier Ijaz Shah had given shelter to Osama bin Laden but Memogate was an American sting operation to entrap Pakistan. He said America could not save any government in Pakistan from being toppled. When it considers democracy inadequate, the Army takes over. According to, General Ziauddin said that America had trained 90 commandos to capture Osama but ISI chief General Mahmood had scrapped the scheme.
The daily Waqt and Safina of Lahore published the following poem in their issue of March 8, 1950:
"I am preparing for Jehad.
I shall crush enemy forces.
The infidels cannot stand in front of me.
One day, I shall hoist Pakistans flag in India.
My Motherland: I will achieve glory for you."
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[Dawn] Gunmen carrying silenced weapons attacked a checkpoint manned by government-backed Sunni forces of Evil and killed all five of them in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, security officials said on Saturday.
The attack occurred shortly after 2 am (2300 GMT) in the town of Khan Bani Saad, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , the head of the local security committee and police said.
"An attack of this size, in which the five killed makes up the total (number of) staff at the checkpoint, indicates that al-Qaeda sleeper cell groups are now re-activating their movements," said Saad Abdullah, head of the security committee in Khan Bani Saad.
"The government should move quickly to crack down on these al-Qaeda cells."
Al-Qaeda linked faceless myrmidons are still capable of carrying out lethal attacks and there are worries they may try to regroup following the withdrawal of US troops on December 18, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, grabbed credit for multiple bombings around Storied Baghdad that killed at least 72 people on December 22.
Members of the Sahwa, a Sunni militia that took up arms against al-Qaeda and helped stop Iraq's sectarian strife becoming a full-scale civil war, are frequent targets of the Sunni insurgency.
On Friday, a Sahwa militia member and three of his bodyguards were killed when a sticky bomb attached to their car went kaboom! in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Storied Baghdad, police said.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian National Council (SNC) opposition group has signed a political agreement with another faction of dissidents laying the ground rules for a "transitional period" should the regime be toppled, a statement said.
The SNC, a major umbrella of factions opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... , signed the deal with the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, NCB chief Hassan Abdel Azim told Agence La Belle France Presse.
According to the statement, the NCB and the SNC signed an agreement "which sets out the political and democratic rules for the transitional period," should Assad be ousted by a pro-democracy uprising that erupted in March.
The accord also "determines the important parameters for Syria's future which aspire to ensure that the homeland and every citizen's rights are treated with dignity, and for the foundation of a civil democratic state," according to an English-language text from the NCB.
The deal was signed late Friday in Cairo by SNC chief Burhan Ghalioun and the NCB's Haytham Manna and "will be deposited as an official document with the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... " on January 1, said the statement.
Speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse from Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , NCB chief Abdel Azim said the agreement underscores the need for the opposition to close ranks in a bid to fend off any foreign intervention in the country.
"Opposition factions inside and outside Syria must unite their efforts," he said.
"A common political vision is needed to ensure a total change in Syria and achieve the goals of the peaceful revolution to avoid the dangers of foreign military intervention," he added.
The SNC is a coalition of 230 members, including the banned Moslem Brüderbund and liberal figures who are determined to end Assad's 11-year autocratic rule. Only 100 of its members live in Syria.
The NCB is an umbrella group of Arab nationalist figures, socialists, independents, Marxists and also comprises members of Syria's minority Kurdish community. The coalition is staunchly opposed to any international military intervention.
The agreement, posted on the Internet, calls for the protection of civilians in Syria, where a government crackdown on dissent has left more than 5,000 people dead since March according to U.N. estimates.
It also opposes foreign military intervention and says "the transition period starts with the fall of the regime and all its symbols."
The pact voices support for the so-called dissident Free Syrian Army that has been battling regular army troops.
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[Al Ahram] Syrian security forces, undaunted by the presence of Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... observers, have killed at least 12 protesters as hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , opposition activists said. Five members of the security forces were also killed in a shooting in the city of Homs, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
Assad, 46, has signed up to an Arab League plan for a verifiable withdrawal of his troops and heavy weaponry from towns and cities, where they have been trying to crush protests that have raged since March.
But the presence of Arab League monitors in hotspots across Syria since Monday has, if anything, energised the protesters, while provoking scepticism in Western countries.
Demonstrators determined to show the scale of their movement to the monitors threw rocks at security forces in the Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... suburb of Douma, where troops tear-gassed the chanting crowds.
Five people were rubbed out in the city of Hama and five in the city of Deraa as crowds braved army and police, the Observatory reported, adding that at least two dozen people had been injured in Douma.
"We are determined to show them (the monitors) we exist. Whether or not there's bloodshed is not important," an activist named Abu Khaled said by phone from the northern city of Idlib.
Most foreign media are banned from Syria and witness reports and videos are hard to verify.
An opposition supporter named Manhal said thousands had tried to reach the main square of Idlib to start a sit-in but failed "because the security forces are firing a lot of tear gas and a few rounds of live fire".
"People hoped the presence of monitors will prevent fierce attacks. I believe we have partial protection, I don't think they would use live fire on us in front of the monitors."
The Observatory said security forces had rubbed out two people and maimed 37 in Idlib province.
Amateur video from Idlib showed monitors in white baseball caps and yellow safety vests wading through a sea of protesters. Some rushed at the observers, trying to shout over the thousands chanting "The people want to liberate the country!".
More than 5,000 people have been killed across Syria since March - most shot during peaceful anti-government protests but many others killed in rebel attacks and local defence actions. Protesters flooded the streets of many towns, shouting "Peaceful, Peaceful" and "The people want you executed, Bashar!"
Some held up banners with the names of those rubbed out in protests. "We will not forget your spilled blood," they read.
In parts of Hama, videos showed protesters fleeing the main streets as heavy gunfire erupted in the background. In one such segment, a few men rushed back, ducking in the crackle of gunfire, to carry away a man who had fallen limp in the street.
In the Damascus suburb of Douma, protesters bore away a man whose leg had been shredded by what they said were nail bombs. Activists in Idlib said the army had concealed its tanks in buildings on the outskirts or in dugouts.
The Arab League mission has met with strong scepticism from the outset over its makeup, its lack of numbers - due to rise from 60 to 150 - and its reliance on government transport.
A first assessment by its Sudanese head that the situation was "reassuring" prompted disbelief in the West on Wednesday, but on Friday Syria's ally Russia accepted the judgment.
"Judging by the public statements made by the chief of the mission (Sudanese general Mohammed) al-Dabi, who in the first of his visits went to the city of Homs, ... the situation seems to be reassuring," Russia's Foreign Ministry said on its website.
However on Friday Dabi, whom some link to war crimes in Darfur in the 1990s, said the reports of his comments were "unfounded and not true", a mission statement said.
The United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... said it was critical that the team's "independence and impartiality be fully preserved".
Spokesman Martin Nesirky urged the vaporous Arab League to "take all steps possible to ensure that its observer mission will be able to fulfil its mandate in accordance with international human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... law standards". He said the United Nations was willing to give the League observers training on human rights monitoring.
The monitoring teams have encountered a range of problems, from hostility when they turn up under army escort to random gunfire, shouting mobs and breakdowns in communications.
An Arab League member from a Gulf State played down expectations for the mission, which has no peacekeeping mandate.
Even if its report turned out to be negative, it would not "act as a bridge to foreign intervention" but simply indicate that "the Syrian government has not implemented the Arab initiative", the delegate told Rooters.
The commander of the anti-government Free Syrian Army told Rooters he had ordered his fighters to stop offensive operations while the FSA tried to arrange a meeting with the monitors.
"All operations against the regime are to be stopped except in a situation of self defence," Colonel Riad al-Asaad said. "We have tried to communicate with them and we requested a meeting with the team. So far there hasn't been any success."
Just how widely the Turkey-based commander's order will be heeded by rebel forces inside Syria is open to question. A video shot by rebels this week showed the ambush of a convoy of army buses in which, activists said, four soldiers were killed.
The FSA, formed by thousands of defectors from Assad's army and financed by expatriate Syrians, has taken the offensive in the past three months, taking the fight to the state rather than simply trying to defend opposition strongholds. Its decisions are potentially crucial to any peace plan.
Syria says it is fighting Islamist Islamic fascististeered from abroad who have killed more than 2,000 of its troops. Activists do not dispute a significant toll among the security forces.
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[An Nahar] The rebel Free Syrian Army is suspending operations against regime forces during the mission of monitors deployed in Syria to implement an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... peace plan, its chief told Agence La Belle France Presse on Saturday.
"We have decided to stop all the operations, except those for self-defense," dissident Colonel Riyadh Asaad told AFP in a telephone interview from his base in Turkey.
Asaad announced in July his defection in protest over the regime's violent repression of a protest movement that erupted mid-March, and which has cost more than 5,000 lives, according to U.N. figures.
His forces, which he says comprise some 20,000 deserters and swelling, have grabbed credit for several deadly operations against the regular army.
Asaad warned however that his men were ready to pick up arms against the Syrian regime forces at any moment, noting that "massacres are on the rise" in Syria.
"Resuming operations will depend on developments on the ground," Asaad told AFP in Beirut. "Massacres are on the rise and we cannot stand it anymore.
"Before, 20 people used to be killed each day. Now it is 50," he added.
He also accused the Syrian authorities of failing to implement the terms of the vaporous Arab League peace plan and pursuing the crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.
"We can't just sit back and watch," he said.
A first team of 50 Arab League-mandated observers arrived Monday in Syria and have since visited several flashpoint cities and towns that have seen a deadly crackdown on anti-regime protesters.
The mission is part of an Arab plan endorsed by Syria on November 2 that calls for the withdrawal of the military from towns and residential districts, a halt to violence against civilians and the release of detainees.
There have been daily reports of bloodshed in Syria since the first monitors deployed, with at least 32 civilians killed on Friday, including 25 rubbed out by security forces who opened fire on protests across the country.
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[An Nahar] Former MP Mustafa Alloush accused supporters of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... of opening fire on his house in the northern city of Tripoli at dawn Saturday.
In remarks to Voice of Leb radio station (93.3), Alloush said that a group of gunnies began cursing outside his home and shouting pro-Assad slogans around 1:00 am.
They then shot up the house, the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement official said, stressing that he wasn't there when the incident took place.
"The shabeeha (armed thugs) in Leb want to say that those who support the Syrian people will be shut up," Alloush said.
The incident happened after tents were erected in Tripoli to gather financial and blood donations to the Syrian refugees and injured in Leb.
Thousands of refugees have decamped to Leb as the state cracks down on a popular revolt against the Assad regime, now in its tenth month.
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Aslam Beg wants Zardari's resignation
Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Ziauddin said in Mashriq that General Musharraf and Brigadier Ijaz Shah had given shelter to Osama bin Laden but Memogate was an American sting operation to entrap Pakistan. He said America could not save any government in Pakistan from being toppled. When it considers democracy inadequate, the Army takes over. According to, General Ziauddin said that America had trained 90 commandos to capture Osama but ISI chief General Mahmood had scrapped the scheme.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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