[Jpost] One person died and dozens were maimed during festivities between Mohammedans and Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt's second city, state newspaper Al-Ahram reported, in the latest violent sectarian row in the Mohammedan-majority country.
A quarrel between two young men, one Christian and one Mohammedan, morphed into a family feud that sparked festivities in a western district of Alexandria.
The two sides threw Molotov cocktails at each other before security forces intervened and cordoned off the area around the church.
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[Ynet] Egyptian coppers blocked the crossing into the Gazoo Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said. Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Paleostinians stranded on both sides of the fence.
Islamist gunnieskidnapped seven Egyptian security forces on Thursday and have demanded the release of imprisoned forces of Evil in exchange for the men. Three of those kidnapped have worked at the Rafah crossing, sources said.
Hamas senior member Mahmoud a-Zahar posted on Facebook a call to Egyptian authorities to reopen the Rafah Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt as soon as possible, after it was closed earlier on Friday.
According to him, Egypt must intervene quickly and "end the suffering of hundreds of Palestinian commuters stuck on both sides of the crossing."
Perhaps the Egyptians can teach them the connection between cause and effect...
[Ynet] A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite holy man, who has strongly sided with anti-government protesters. The reported raid could touch off more festivities on the strategic island nation, home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet.
The group Al Wefaq says security forces entered the home of Shiek Isa Qassim early Friday in Diraz, about 10 kilometers (six miles) west of the capital, Manama.
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South Korea's semi-official Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying that North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday.
The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon. The missiles were fired in a northeasterly direction, away from South Korean waters.
Andrew Salmon, a journalist and author based in Seoul, said North Korea's reported launch of short-range missiles should not cause the same amount of concern as the launch of a satellite or the medium-range Musudan rocket. He said, "It's a short-range tactical weapon. If any other country launched this kind of weapon, it's a routine test, nobody would be too worried. It's really simply because it's North Korea doing this that it raises concerns."
The situation in the region is not as tense as it was last month, Salmon said. He said, "The North Koreans have significantly de-escalated their bellicosity and their rhetoric since the end of April. The South Korean government, I suspect, will not be strongly condemnatory of this test because right now they are very, very keen to get the North Koreans to the negotiating table."
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Were these the ones pulled back off the line, or is this a final check of C2? Three launches seems a little enthusiastic for trials unless one is working 1) launch, 2) targeting, 3) payload delivery.
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Paul Harvey always felt that Bill Clinton would Wag the Dog militarily whenever his domestic peccadillos became too sticky on his wicket. Me wonders if Il Bambino might pull the same stunt(s).
[Jpost] Italian court sentences Moroccan man to 5 years in jail for planning terrorist attacks on Milan synagogue, Jewish school.
A 22-year-old Moroccan man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for planning terrorist attacks on Milan's main synagogue and Jewish school.
The five year and four month sentence against Mohamed Jarmoune was handed down by a court in Brescia on Thursday.
Italian media said the sentence was more than the four years asked by the public prosecutor. Jarmoune, who has lived in Italia since childhood, was locked away Please don't kill me! in Brescia in March 2012.
Investigators found documents on his computer analyzing the security measures of Milan's main synagogue. He was also suspected of planning attacks and organizing terrorist groups through internet social network sites.
[Jpost] Vehicles used in bombings that killed more than 50 were registered to M.G., who was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... near Syrian border.
Turkish police have placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of boom-mobileings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday.
Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, which fanned fears that Syria's civil war is dragging in neighboring states. Damascus denies any role.
Hatay governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. shortly before midnight on Thursday in Samandag district, near the Syrian border, and that he was being treated as a prime suspect.
Huseyin Celik, deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling AK Party, said the two vehicles used in the bombings were registered to the detained man, and that he had driven one to a blast site in Reyhanli.
State-run broadcaster TRT reported on Friday that Reyhanli's police chief had been dismissed. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said this week he did not think the attacks were the result of a weakness in the intelligence services, but that there may have been a "disconnect" between them and the police.
Lekesiz said police were still searching for two other suspected perpetrators, who along with M.G. had been trying to cross over into Syria from Samandag but had failed because of stepped-up security along the border.
He said the two men were believed to still be inside Turkey.
A total of 16 people were in detention in relation to the bombings, Lekesiz said, four of whom were formally arrested. It was not clear what charges they faced.
Government ministers have said the bombings - one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey's modern history - were carried out by a group with ties to the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama....
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[DailyTimes] Police claimed to have foiled a terrorism attempt on Thursday night in Loralai area. According to details, police was informed about presence of a suspected bag in a field in Kali Azgharloon area. Police along bomb disposal squad reached the spot, took possession of the bag and diffused the explosive kept inside the bag. Sources said that 16 kilogram explosives material was packed in the bag. Police have launched further investigations in the regard.
[DailyTimes] Two security persons were killed while another injured here on Friday when snuffies opened indiscriminate firing on a security caravan. According to Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR), terrorist attacked on security forces caravan near Mattani in which two security personal was struck down in his prime while another sustained serious injuries. After the incident, the Pak Army blocked Kohat roads for all kinds of traffic and started search operation in the area.
In another incident, four more cops were maimed when snuffies targeted police vehicles which was on a routine patrolling in the Maryam Zai. After the initial information, police arrived on the spot and rushed the injured personals to LRH hospital for medical treatment. The hospital administration said that one injured person was at death's door.
[Dawn] Two bombs went kaboom! near separate mosques after Friday prayers in Malakand Division's Bazdara area killing 15 persons and injuring at least 100 others.
Deputy Commissioner of Malakand Amjad Ali confirmed that 15 persons were killed and dozens others injured in the two blasts.
"The explosive was a timed device planted apparently among the pillows and sheets of worshipers inside the mosque," said Amjad.
He said both mosques remained open throughout the night, which is when the culprits may have planted the bomb.
An eye witness, Aalam Khan, told Dawn.com that two blasts rocked the Bar Kalley and the main Jamia Masjid of the Bazdara region immediately after Friday prayers.
"At least 12 bodies were brought to the Palai Hospital whereas only 30 of the 100 or so injured were treated at the Palai Hospital. The remaining casualties were referred to Dargai and Mardan hospitals."
Another eyewitness Israrullah said the first kaboom rocked the Upper Bazdara mosque.
"People from the mosque in the Lower Bazdara area immediately rushed to the site of the first blast. This is when the second blast rocked the Lower Bazdara mosque," he said.
The second kaboom causes the roof of the other mosque to collapse, killing one person.
"The huge blast occurred as soon as the prayer leader had finished the Friday sermon," said Waseem, a young boy injured in the kaboom.
Nine of the injured are being treated at Lady Reading Hospital in 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. , while fifteen were being treated at Dargai Hospital, where the condition of some of the patients were said to be critical.
Security forces imposed a curfew in the area which is 35 to 40 kilometres to the border of Buner District. An emergency was also imposed in Dargai and Mardan Hospitals.
ISLAMABAD - Five security personnel were killed and six inured in an attack by Taleban militants on Engineer Battalions vehicle near Sara Khawara area in Mattani on the border of the restive Dara Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The militants also attacked on Thursday night police armoured personnel carrier injuring four police officials just a few yards away from the site of the first attack.
Official sources said the convoy was ambushed near Sara Khawara area with rockets and then the miscreants opened fire on it, killing five soldiers of the Engineer Battalion on the spot and injuring six others.
In a separate incident also in the same area, the militants lobbed a hand grenade on an APC of Mattani police, which was on routine patrolling, and then opened indiscriminate gunfire on it. Four policemen were injured in the attack, who were later shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for treatment.
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A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.
The shootings and bombings follow three days of attacks that killed 130 people in both Shiite and Sunni areas in scenes reminiscent of retaliatory attacks between the two groups that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006-2007. The spike in bloodshed in recent weeks has raised fears the country may be heading toward a new round of sectarian conflict.
Thus continues the Muslim civil war begun with the murder of Ali the son-in-law and nephew of Mohammed himself in 661 C.E.
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war.
The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus stops and outdoor markets, with a total of 130 people killed since Wednesday.
Scenes of bodies sprawled across a street outside a mosque and mourners killed during a funeral procession were reminiscent of some of the worst days of retaliatory warfare between the Islamic sects that peaked in 2006-2007 as U.S. forces battled extremists on both sides.
Tensions have been intensifying since Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government, including random detentions and neglect. The protests, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.
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Well, look on the bright side: If they're so busy killing eachother, they won't come over here. Not all of them mind you, but alot of them.
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Muslim love...the "Religion of Peace"...
Following the example of Mohamed.
Think...he decapitated one thousand men in one day,
then tortured their chief to make him reveal his treasure location, cut his head off then raped his young wife on top of his still pulsing cadaver...
I think it's the body on top of the wall, so I suppose the part hanging down is an arm or leg, but what's at the bottom of the arm/leg (or whatever)? It's too big for a foot or hand. Was he holding something that got burned to him?
Just curious.
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[Ynet] IDF forces used crowd dispersal measures, including Ruger bullets, against about 50 Paleostinians who threw stones toward Israelis early evening near Jilzon in the vicinity of Ramallah.
Five Paleostinians were maimed by the IDF fire and evacuated by Red Islamic Thingy ambulances.
[Ynet] Following a report of a loud kaboom in an open terrain in the Salem village near Umm al-Fahm, a police sappers' investigation revealed it was most likely due to a RPG rocket which went kaboom! because of a brush fire.
No one was hurt. Police are examining why a rocket was at the scene.
[Ynet] Arab youths hurled stones at buses traveling near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. No injuries or damage were reported. Police are searching for the suspects.
[Ynet] The Lebanese news website Elnashra reported that Israeli Air Force planes have been circling at low altitude above the Lebanese villages of Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun, Tebnine and Tufah since Friday morning.
And Hizb'allah is busy fighting in Syria. Bummer, guys.
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Lebanese villages of Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun, Tebnine and Tufah
Sooner or later IDF will have to blow up Hisb's rocket storage depots. At which point the villages above become holes in the ground and we all will discover that we only thought Euros were screaming before.
[Ynet] Unknown organization posts video it claims documents attack from Syria on observation post in Golan Heights to mark Nakba Day; group apparently referring to mortars that landed in Mount Hebron region: 'We are not celebrating, but avenging the death of our fallen'
Unknown organization posts video it claims documents attack from Syria on observation post in Golan Heights to mark Nakba Day; group apparently referring to mortars that landed in Mount Hebron region: 'We are not celebrating, but avenging the death of our fallen'
See their video at the link.
"We are not celebrating, but avenging the death of our fallen," the group said in a statement.
The organization, which is affiliated with the "Free Paleostine Movement," said the "rocket attack" was launched to commemorate "Paleostinians killed" during Nakba Day events last year, but the most recent deaths of Paleostinians on Nakba Day took place two years ago. "We are telling our Zionist enemy that this is a campaign of settling scores," the group said in the statement.
The video clip, which is dated Wednesday, shows two launchings carried out in the dark. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the authenticity of the footage has not been verified. The group claims it launched the attack at 5:30 am, while the mortars hit the Mount Hebron region at 6:15 am. A few days ago the Paleostinian organization said it managed to hit an Israeli radar station, but its claims have not been confirmed by any other source.
Israel estimates the mortar landings on Wednesday were the result of errant fire from Syrian territory conducted during battles between Syrian army forces and rebels trying to overthrow Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... . The battles on the Syrian side of the border, near the Druze village of el-Hadr, not far from Majdal Shams, have intensified in recent weeks.
Syrian, Iran and Hezbollah have threatened to open another front against Israel in the Golan Heights in response to the recent Arclight airstrikes on Damascus, which were attributed to Israel.
London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat on Thursday quoted a "knowledgeable source in Tehran" as saying that Iran has convinced Assad to provide Hezbollah with all the military equipment it needs should the Lebanese Shiite movement decide to confront Israel in the Golan. The source said Iran had also persuaded Assad to allow "any interested party" to wage a jihad -- or holy war --against Israel from the Golan region.
Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside. The forced retreat was the latest setback for fighters seeking to topple President Bashar Assad, whose forces have been gaining ground in the countrys civil war.
Forces loyal to Assad have recently made advances in strategically important locations across the country, including in areas around the capital, Damascus, and in the countrys south, near the border with Jordan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Ynet] Egyptian 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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