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I'm just here to thank MullahRichard for his link to a NatLamp DVD. Allah be praised, it should arrivee tomorrow upon door step. Life will take a turn for the better and weirder.
The Afghan intelligence service says it has seized a massive truck bomb packed with 17,200 pounds of explosives on the eastern outskirts of Kabul.
Intelligence spokesman Shafiqullha Tahiri said Friday that intelligence agents also killed five suspected suicide bombers and arrested two others during a raid early Wednesday when the truck was seized.
He says all were suspected members of the militant Haqqani network, which is closely allied with the Taliban.
Tahiri says the explosive material was disguised as bags of cement, a trademark method of the Haqqanis, who are known for conducting spectacular attacks.
He says agents also seized several suicide bomb vests, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and hand grenades.
A Bahraini protester was transformed into a human torch yesterday when bullets fired by riot police hit a Molotov cocktail he was holding and set it ablaze.
He had been among thousands of anti-government demonstrators clashing with police in and around the Gulf islands capital, Manama, on the second anniversary of a Saudi-led military intervention in the Arabic kingdom.
It was unclear yesterday whether the man, protesting in the village of Sanabis, survived.
Yesterdays clashes were among the worst in several weeks, with protesters hurling firebombs and stones at cops. Thirty-five protesters were said to be wounded, three critically.
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GOOD SHOOTIN.
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Don't take a bottle of gasoline to a gun fight...
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[An Nahar] Several hundred people attended the funeral on Thursday of a street vendor who burnt himself to death in central Tunis, with the event turning into a protest against the ruling Islamists.
Adel Khazri, 27, was laid to rest in Souk Jemaa in northwestern Tunisia, hours before the new government headed by Islamist premier Ali Larayedh was to be sworn in to confront the pressing problems facing the country.
Relatives and residents shouted angry slogans outside the home of Khazri's mother in the impoverished town before joining the funeral procession, an Agence France Presse journalist reported.
"Ennahda, get out!" the mourners chanted in reference to Larayedh's ruling Islamist party.
Khazri, who supported his family by selling contraband cigarettes, set fire to himself on Tuesday on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in central Tunis, focal point of the mass uprising that toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
Unemployment and poverty were key factors behind Tunisia's revolution, which was triggered by another street vendor's self-immolation in the maginalized town of Sidi Bouzid. Two years on, those economic grievances persist.
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Anti-Islamist, About damn time.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen on Thursday attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and started a fire, witnesses said.
"Several armed men arrived firing in the air, started a fire in the church and left," a resident near the church in central Benghazi told Agence France Presse, asking not to be named.
An AFP correspondent who visited the scene said the windows of the church -- already attacked in late February when its priest and his assistant were assaulted -- had been blackened but the walls did not show signs of a fire.
Since the 2011 revolution that ousted Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's small Christian minority has expressed fears over Islamic extremism, especially with the rise of armed militias enforcing their own law in the absence of central control.
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prolly just a small spontaneous demonstration spurred by a blasphemous internet video
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Rapid Action Battalion recovered a bomb near the district commissioner's office in Magura yesterday.
A bomb expert team of Rab-6, led by its company commander Maj Jahid, defused the device around 8:30am.
When did the Rab get into the bomb-fixing business? It used to be all cross-fires and encounters and Mahmoud the Weasel, back in the good old days when things were still predictable and safe.
The bomb was highly combustible and could have razed a huge chunk of the whole area, said Maj Jahid.
The whole area was cordoned off from 12:15am after the bomb was discovered by the night-guard of the DC office, informed Mohammad Zahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Magura sadar cop shoppe.
DC Masud Ahmed said, "The culprits left the bomb there to cause panic. The law enforcers are trying to nab them."
At least we can look forward to a proper encounter with the miscreants at the spot at zero dark thirty, sometime in the near future.
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More convert misunderstanders of the religion of pieced.
MUSLIM convert Richard Dart is facing a long prison sentence today admitting getting involved in terrorism.
Dart became involved in extremism after converting to Islam. He was featured in a BBC Three documentary made by his stepbrother.
He pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey with Imran Mahmood and Jahangir Alom to engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorism. They plotted to go to Pakistan to train at a terrorist camp and to travel abroad to commit acts of terrorism.
The three bearded men appeared by videolink and were remanded in custody by Mr Justice Simon for reports before being sentenced, on a date to be fixed.
Dart, 29, of Broadway, Ealing, west London, Mahmood, 21, from Dabbs Hill Lane, Northolt, west London, and Alom, 26, of Abbey Road, Stratford, east London, admitted being involved in the offence between July 2010 and July last year.
The case against them was that they intended to use their training to attack targets.
Mahmood, who had been to Pakistan before, was able to offer advice and assistance.
Police recovered bits of text messages from a computer in Dart's home which referred to "even to just deal with a few MI5 MI6 heads".
Another referred to WB, thought to refer to Wootton Bassett, the town through which repatriated British military heroes were driven.
Details of the allegations were not given in court and lawyers will have to discuss their basis of plea before the facts are finalised.
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I watched the documentary when it first came out- he hated visiting his parents in Weymouth as there was too many Kuffar.He preferred East London as there was plenty of unemployed muslim brothers.
An alleged member of the North Caucasus Islamic insurgency has been killed in the Russian town of Gubkinsky near the Arctic Circle. Russia's Federal Security Service said the man was killed in a special operation on March 14 after he refused to surrender and opened fire at security officers.
Officials said the slain man, whose identity was not disclosed, was involved in robberies and extorting money. He had reportedly been sending the money to the Islamic insurgency in the North Caucasus.
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IF I were to be an Islamic insurgent I think I'd choose to do it in Southern Thailand. For the sunshine and beaches and pretty girls. But that's just me!
#4
Smiling, having fun, and enjoying life are un-Islamic. Everybody knows that.
Proper Islamists prefer riding their camels across the burning sands and waving their automatic weapons. They'd prefer it if the entire world was the Sahara desert.
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I'd choose to do it in Southern Thailand. For the sunshine and beaches and pretty girls.
If it's Thailand, those might not be girls. [insert Seinfeld here]Not that there's anything wrong with that[/insert]
[Dawn] Karachi police claim to have arrested six Pakistani Taliban militants involved in the Abbas Town blasts which killed more than 50 people earlier in the month, DawnNews reported.
Police said the suspects were arrested on a tip-off from spy agencies and a large quantity of explosives was recovered from them.
Speaking to media representatives on Thursday, senior police official Shahid Hayat said police first took into custody two members of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khairdeen and Ishaq, after an encounter in Karachi's Sea View area.
"Two pistols and 100 kilos of explosives were recovered from their possession," said Hayat.
Both suspects made intriguing revelations upon which, Hayat said, police raided Khuda ki Basti in Surjani Town and nabbed four of their accomplices.
Police further claim to have recovered around 250 kilos of explosives from the possession of the four, who were identified as Irfan, Inamullah, Bashirullah and Aalam Sher Mehsud.
He claimed the arrested belong to the TTP and were involved in the Abbas Town blasts which destroyed several apartments and shops and also injured around 200 people on March 3. TTP's spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan however had denied involvement of his organisation in the incident.
Earlier in the day, another commander of the TTP Qari Bilal was killed in a shootout with security forces in the city's Manghopir area.
According to police officials, Qari Bilal was involved in the murder of Parveen Rehman, a social worker who was gunned down in Karachi on Wednesday.
Police, along with Rangers forces, are carrying out targeted operations against law breakers and militants in the aftermath of renewed wave of violence in Karachi, the country's financial hub which is plagued by political and sectarian violence and targeted killings.
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[Dawn] A bomb explosion killed at least three and injured five people on early hours of Friday in Karachi's Landhi neighbouhood near Quaidabad police station, DawnNews reported.
Initial reports suggest the blast took place near Rangers' headquarters in Quaidabad adjacent to Muzafarabad Colony killing at least three and injuring five people.
Police and other security agencies are reaching the site. Nature of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.
Injured are being shifted to hospitals, said rescue sources.
Police sources said the blast took place in an office of local cable operators, who had received threats to shut cable TV service in the area few days back.
Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad, by taking notice of the incident, has ordered the IG Sindh police for a probe report.
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[Dawn] KARACHI:A commander of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Qari Bilal was killed in a shootout with security forces on Thursday in Karachi's Manghopir area, DawnNews reported.
Qari Bilal was involved in the murder of Parveen Rehman, a social worker who was gunned down in Larachi on Wednesday, according to DIG West Javed Odho.
A targeted operation led by Rangers personnel took place in Karachi's Korangi industrial area's Mehran Town locality, during which 26 suspected militants, including three activists of proscribed outfits were taken into custody.
Rangers sieged Mehran Town at 4:00 in the morning and blocked its entry and exit points. They refused to let people enter the area and also imposed restrictions on anyone leaving.
Later, they conducted house-to-house searches in the locality.
Sources said several suspects, including some from banned groups, were detained during the operation. Moreover, caches of weapons were recovered during the raids.
Over 1,000 Rangers were involved in the operation.
Separately, four people were reported killed in incidents of violence.
Two bodies bearing torture marks were recovered from the city's Malir River. Police said the bodies were of two brothers who had been kidnapped a day earlier from Khokhrapar.
Another body was also found near the city's Ahsanabad area.
Moreover, one person was killed in a firing incident in Karachi's Malir Town's Model Colony.
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The "Ayman" + "Mullah Omar", etal. Rule of Zombie Verification now in effect.
[An Nahar] Coordinated attacks involving a string of bombings and a brazen attempted assault on a ministry near the heavily-fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad killed nine people Thursday, officials said.
The violence comes just days before the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of the country, and with barely a month to go before Iraq holds its first elections in three years.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni militants including those linked to al-Qaida often target government officials and offices in a bid to destabilize Iraq.
At least three bombs were detonated in the Allawi neighborhood, near the foreign and culture ministries and offices of the communications ministry, at around 1:30 pm (10:30 GMT) while militants staged an apparently unsuccessful assault on the nearby justice ministry, officials and witnesses said.
"Some terrorists tried to infiltrate the justice ministry," said Sabah Noori, spokesman for Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service.
"The bombs ... were coordinated with them (militants) trying to get into the ministry."
Justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi said no ministry employees were hurt in the attempted assault, and that there had been clashes in front of the ministry building.
Iraqiya state television reported that security forces evacuated all employees from the ministry.
At least nine people were killed and 25 wounded in the attacks, an interior ministry official and a medical source said.
Gunfire was heard in the aftermath of the blasts, and plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the neighborhood, witnesses said.
Also on Thursday, a bombing targeted a candidate in Iraq's upcoming provincial elections, while another was kidnapped along with his father and other relatives north of Baghdad.
A magnetic "sticky bomb" exploded on a car carrying Khaled Hussein al-Daraji, a candidate in Salaheddin province, killing his driver and wounding three nearby workers, though Daraji escaped unharmed.
And a tribal sheikh, Qais Abdul Karim al-Janabi, was kidnapped along with his son, Salaheddin provincial elections candidate Abdul Karim, and five other relatives in Siniyah, north of Baghdad.
Provincial polls are to be held on April 20, Iraq's first vote since March 2010 parliamentary elections.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police have shot and killed three suspected militants and arrested four others near the country's capital, seizing more than a dozen homemade bombs and a cache of other weapons from a group suspected of planning terrorism acts, police said Friday.
Two suspects resisted when police tried to arrest them late Thursday in western Jakarta for their alleged connection to a jewelry shop robbery. Police fatally shot one of the men, said the National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.
He said another suspect was interrogated and revealed that the robberies were being used to fund terrorism activities. His information led police to five other members of the group early Friday in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta.
Two men were killed after drawing weapons on police, and three others were arrested, Amar said.
Police seized more than 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of gold jewelry, five homemade guns and 14 pipe bombs, and they are investigating terrorism links.
Amar said the men were part of a cell allegedly involved in recent attacks on police and bank robberies in Medan in North Sumatra province.
An assistant village leader was killed in a shooting outside his home in Narathiwats Rangae district early Thursday morning.
The shooting occurred just before 6 a.m. at Mayakoh Samaes house in tambon Chalerm. Witnesses said that Mayakoh was working beside his house when two men showed up on a motorcycle. The men riding pillion got off, walked up to the victim, pulled out a pistol and fired a shot into his chest at close range. The assailants then fled.
His relatives, alerted by the sound of the gunshot, ran out and found Mayakoh lying on the spot, suffering from a fatal wound. They took him to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
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Let's see, take three suicidal fanatics, affiliation and intent irrelevant, add 1000 lbs of assorted explosives, one large inflatable boat, add one Evinrude or Yamaha outboard motor, and mix.
Add one Russian battle cruiser, explode, and let sink...add one pissed off Russian President, and stir...
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[An Nahar] Three fuel tankers with Syrian plate numbers were torched on Thursday in an old wheat market in the northern city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported.
"Seven tankers were attacked and their drivers were detained for a while before being released by the residents of (the northern area of) Bab al-Tabbaneh," Agence France Presse elaborated.
One driver is still missing, a security source said.
AFP added: "While three tankers were torched, the four others were dismantled by the residents".
"The attackers wrote slogans referring to (the Islamist anti-President Bashar Assad) al-Nusra Front on the tankers".
The NNA had reported earlier on Thursday that Bab al-Tabbaneh residents intercepted a number of fuel tankers coming from Syria to transport diesel from Lebanon.
The NNA said in February that residents of al-Baddawi region in the northern Akkar had stopped several tankers transporting diesel to Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Radio Voice of Lebanon (93.3) said that unknown assailants opened fire at two gasoline trucks carrying Syrian license plates in Tripoli, prompting the army to deploy in the area.
Later on Thursday, Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5) said "a diesel tanker exploded in Tripoli after being torched and black smoke is engulfing the city."
"An Energa rocket fell between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh, amid reports of two wounded people and a tense situation in the area," it added.
This comes after several media outlets said on Tuesday that gasoline trucks have reportedly headed to Damascus after filling their tankers in Lebanon.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Energy Ministry said that fuel tankers captured transporting oil to Syria are filled by private companies, stressing that the cabinet is not committed to the sanctions imposed on the neighboring country.
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[An Nahar] An Iranian fighter jet tried to intercept a U.S. Predator drone over the Gulf but backed off after encountering two American military aircraft, the Pentagon said Thursday.
No shots were fired in the confrontation Wednesday, officials said, but the United States renewed a vow that it would protect its forces in the region.
The Pentagon initially said one of the U.S. aircraft discharged a flare as a warning to the Iranian plane but officials later said no flare was let off.
The incident, which the Pentagon said took place over "international waters," highlighted the tensions between the two arch-foes and the risks of an accidental clash escalating into a serious crisis.
At one point the Iranian F-4, an old U.S.-built warplane dating from the Vietnam War era, was within 16 miles (25 kilometers) of the unmanned Predator drone, spokesman George Little said.
The unarmed Predator, the workhorse of America's fleet of robotic planes, was carrying out "a routine classified surveillance flight" over the Gulf when it was approached by the Iranian warplane, he said in a statement.
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At one point the Iranian F-4, an old U.S.-built warplane dating from the Vietnam War era.....
but strangely still flying despite crippling sanctions.
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"Iranian FighterIdiot with Death Wish Tries to Intercept U.S. Drone in Gulf"
Fixed.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Jerusalem Post] IRAN BELIEVES CHANCES OF [US,Israeli = foreign] ATTACK ON IT ARE LOW.
AND
* SAME > IRAN SKIES ARE IMPERVIOUS TO INVASION.
As said times before, Iran will prefer or choose to stay on the strategic defensive AMAP ALAP - PC Anti-US rants aside, IMO it is unlikely to do anything serious to provoke a de facto US, Israeli, or US-led Coalition unilateral attack unless it is attacked first by same, andor the lives of Shia communities in Sunni-controlled Muslim nations are at high risk.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[An Nahar] Several hundred people attended the funeral on Thursday of a street vendor who burnt himself to death in central Tunis, with the event turning into a protest against the ruling Islamists.
[An Nahar] Gunmen on Thursday attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and started a fire, witnesses said.
[Dawn] Karachi police claim to have arrested six Pakistani Taliban militants involved in the Abbas Town blasts which killed more than 50 people earlier in the month, DawnNews reported.
[Dawn] A bomb explosion killed at least three and injured five people on early hours of Friday in Karachi's Landhi neighbouhood near Quaidabad police station, DawnNews reported.
[Dawn] KARACHI:A commander of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Qari Bilal was killed in a shootout with security forces on Thursday in Karachi's Manghopir area, DawnNews reported.
[An Nahar] Coordinated attacks involving a string of bombings and a brazen attempted assault on a ministry near the heavily-fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad killed nine people Thursday, officials said.
[An Nahar] Three fuel tankers with Syrian plate numbers were torched on Thursday in an old wheat market in the northern city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported.
[An Nahar] An Iranian fighter jet tried to intercept a U.S. Predator drone over the Gulf but backed off after encountering two American military aircraft, the Pentagon said Thursday.
