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Vera Steadman aka Blanche in "Elmer and Elsie (1934)" aka Telephone Operator in "The Drunkard (1935)" aka Mayme in "Ring Around the Moon (1936)" aka Molly Murdock in "Gambling with Souls (1936)" aka busy, appearing in approximately 100 silent films between 1915 and 1929 aka Sennett Bathing Beauty (Died in 1966 at age 66)
Emmanuelle Seigner aka Michelle in "Frantic (1988)" aka The Girl in "The Ninth Gate (1999)" aka Gloria in "Buddy Boy (1999)" aka Celine in "Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)(2007) " aka Titine in "La vie en rose (Life in Pink)(2007)" aka Mrs. Roman "Child Molester" Polanski "Bride 23, Groom 56, True Love" (age 45)
These charming fellows call themselves the "Match Brigade" because they use matches to burn down villages. This cell phone video was recovered from the body of the man at 1:02 after he was killed. Village was in South Kordofan, near Nuba Hills, border with South Sudan.
[An Nahar] A United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... worker found guilty of participating in a terrorist group in Æthiopia was Friday sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison.
Abdurahman Sheikh Hassan, an Æthiopian, was found guilty of "participating in a terrorist organization" earlier this week over alleged links to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an outlawed secessionist rebel group.
"Under the guise of his job, he has been passing information to a terrorist organization with the aim to help them," Judge Mulugeta Kidane said, delivering the sentence.
Hassan appeared in court Friday wearing a track jacket and slacks and holding Moslem prayer beads.
He shook his lawyer's hand after she translated the sentence to him as Hassan does not speak Æthiopia's main language Amharic.
He was sentenced along with Sherif Badio, whom the charge sheet lists as a senior member of the ONLF. Badio was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for "serving as a leader or a decision maker in a terrorist organization."
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A UN worker is a terrorist?
Boy you could knock me over with a feather. Well, maybe a 2x4.....with a nail in it.
(Sh. M. Network)-At least one person was killed and several others have been injured in an Al shabab attack on Somali government troops in Elasha Biyaha neighborhood, on the southern outskirt of Mogadishu, reports said.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting erupted after fighters from Al shabab ambushed on Somali military pick-ups en route to Afgoye district, 30 kilometers south of Mogadishu, killing Afrah Ali Afrah, the police chief in Elasha Biyaha area.
Military sources confirmed to Shabelle Media the death of the chief Mr. Afrah, adding that the took place after the Somali army convoy came under ambush attack during their travel to Afgoye district to supply logistics to the troops in the town.
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(Sh. M. Network)-A remote-controlled land mine blast is reportedly struck at Somali army base in Southern region of Bay, the latest in series attacks against Somali and Æthiopian troops in the region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
Conflicting reports are coming out of the kaboom, some say the attack was foiled by the Somali forces before it detonated its primary target according to the officials of Somali forces and witnesses said the bomb hit a convoy of military vehicles mounting soldiers at Qansah-dheere district.
Aden Abdikalil Qooqane, the commissioner of Qansah-dheere district for Somali government, told Shabelle Media station in Mogadishu via phone that security forces on Friday defused a land-mine place in a ground near a building locating a Somali army officer in the town.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudanese anti-government protesters on Friday burned tyres and clashed with police on the seventh day of widening demonstrations sparked by rising food prices, witnesses said.
Demonstrations even occurred in the upscale district of Khartoum Two, home to business magnates and foreign embassies, where an AFP news hound saw tyres burning Friday afternoon and said police had fired tear gas.
In Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, about 200 demonstrators rhythmically clapping and shouting for "freedom," earlier threw stones at police who fired back with tear gas, the AFP news hound said.
Security officers also used whips and batons against the demonstrators, who had blocked a road and set tyres ablaze.
Across town in the Burri area, tear gas fumes still stung the air after residents reported that police used force against their protest over high prices. Residents had blocked neighbourhood streets with stones, an AFP news hound observed.
Earlier, hundreds of people, mainly from the opposition Umma Party, gathered in Omdurman to call for regime change, a demonstrator there said. The crowd hurled stones while police used batons against them, he added.
Elsewhere, in Khartoum North district, about 100 youths burned tyres and shouted, "No, no, to high food prices," but they dispersed when riot police arrived, an AFP news hound observed.
A slightly smaller group, many of them women, held a sit-down protest on chairs to block a road in the same district on Thursday night. An AFP news hound saw riot police beat and detain several of the demonstrators objecting to the cost of food.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] 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 Friday fired his national security adviser and defence minister, his front man said, as fears mounted over spiralling unrest in the country's north.
"The NSA has been dropped ... The minister of defence has also been dropped," Jonathan front man Reuben Abati told AFP.
He said the new security adviser would be Sambo Dasuki, a retired colonel, prominent northerner and cousin to the Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria's highest Mohammedan spiritual figure.
Dasuki was also implicated in a 1995 coup attempt against the government of former dictator Sani Abacha and went into exile in the United States at the time.
It was not yet clear who would replace defence minister Bello Mohammed.
Nigeria has faced a deadly insurgency from Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... for months, but criticism of Jonathan greatly intensified this week after three suicide kabooms at churches sparked reprisals from Christian mobs who burnt mosques and killed dozens of Mohammedans.
There have been growing warnings that there could be more cases of residents taking the law into their own hands if something is not done to halt the Boko Haram attacks.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer, is roughly divided between a mainly Mohammedan north and predominately Christian south.
The fired national security adviser, Owoye Azazi, is a political ally of Jonathan's, with both men from Bayelsa state in the country's oil-producing south.
The decision was announced after Jonathan met with his security team on Friday, hours after returning to Nigeria from a UN environmental summit in Rio.
Jonathan's decision to leave Nigeria on Tuesday for the summit as fresh riots broke out had also drawn heavy criticism.
Several days of unrest in parts of northern Nigeria began Sunday in Kaduna state, with suicide kabooms at three churches that killed at least 16 people and sparked reprisals by Christian mobs, who burned mosques and killed dozens of Mohammedans.
More rioting broke out in Kaduna later in the week, while on Monday and Tuesday, shootouts between security forces and suspected Islamists in the northeastern city of Damaturu left at least 40 people dead.
At least 106 people were killed in the days of violence.
The initial suicide kabooms were claimed by Boko Haram, whose insurgency concentrated in the north has killed hundreds.
Criticism has mounted over the government's response to the violence, with few public indications of what strategies are being employed beyond heavy-handed military raids to stop the onslaught of attacks.
"Since these terrorist acts began, nothing the president ... has done has been reassuring that the end to this spate of bombings and gun attacks is in sight," the Christian Association of Nigeria, the country's main Christian body, said this week.
"On the contrary, his utterances after each bombing and killings, even if unwittingly, seem to have cast a hallmark of weakness on his presidency and an escalation of the terrorist acts."
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defence minister Bello Mohammed
I bleev I see a problem right there.
Is that a name or an incitement to jihad?
Speaking of names, Nigeria sure has a kit bag of colorful first nomikers: Goodluck, Bello, Reuben(!?), Sambo (!!??)(As as child, twas my favorite pancake house in Oakland, CA. Hadda inlaid mural above the kitchen pass-out bar depicting an Indian -- w/a dot, notta feather -- rescuing his order of flapjacks from a tiger.)
[An Nahar] Yemeni security forces rubbed out two people taking part in a protest in the port city of Aden on Friday for the secession of the formerly independent south, activists and a medic said.
"Security forces fired live rounds on protesters, killing two and wounding five," said Ghassan al-Shuaibi, an activist from the separatist Southern Movement.
An official at Aden's Al-Naqib hospital confirmed the toll.
The demonstrators had been demanding an end to a week-old crackdown on a longstanding protest camp in the city's Mansour neighborhood, Shuaibi said, adding that nine people had been killed in the security force operation.
A security official told Agence La Belle France Presse that seven security personnel had been maimed in festivities in the district since June 15.
"Security forces are present in Mansur because of the gangs there," the official said.
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[An Nahar] Bahraini security forces on Friday fired rubber bullets to disperse an unauthorized rally by the opposition Al-Wefaq wounding its leader, the Shiite bloc said.
Sheikh Ali Salman was "maimed with rubber bullets in his shoulder and back when security forces fired at a peaceful demonstration held in Bilad al-Qadeem," three kilometers (two miles) from Manama, it said in a statement.
It said two other leading opposition figures -- Al-Wefaq's Jawad Fairouz and Hasan al-Marzouq -- were also maimed.
"Security forces besieged the area, chased citizens and repressed them brutally, beating them up and firing live rounds at them," it added.
Witnesses told Agence La Belle France Presse that security forces used tear gas, sound bombs, rubber bullets and birdshot to disperse the rally, adding that several people were maimed in the crackdown.
The interior ministry had announced late Thursday it had "turned down a request submitted by Al-Wefaq... to stage a rally" in the area, state news agency BNA reported.
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[Yemen Post] The security authorities have jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Al-Qaeda leader involved in assassinating a senior Yemeni military commander in the south this week, security sources said.
Sami Dayan was the head of the terrorist cell behind the suicide kaboom which killed Salim Qatan, commander of the southern military region, the sources said.
Dayan and two of his assistants were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at a checkpoint in Aden and explosives and ammunition were seized with them, they said.
"The group fled from Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... after the army drove all snuffies from their strongholds two weeks ago and had planned for more suicide kabooms," the sources added.
The three gunnies were inside the same car which carried the jacket wallah, who killed the commander, and were seen in Aden searching for an apartment for rent, the sources said.
Al-Qaeda has grabbed credit for the liquidation of Qatan and other security leaders and vowed to attack more senior military and security commanders in Yemen.
After Al-Qaeda snuffies received severe blows in Abyan, the retreated to hideouts and secret positions in nearby provinces and now the authorities are continuing a hunt to clear them from all parts in the country.
In the past few days, the authorities dismantled terrorist groups and thwarted suicide plots.
In the US-backed offensive in Abyan over the past few months, hundreds of snuffies including big shots were killed.
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Terrorists arent supposed to get visas. But Hani Nour Eldin was apparently invited to D.C. this week to meet with top officials. Did no one Google him?
[An Nahar] MPs elected Raja Pervez Ashraf as Pakistain's new prime minister Friday, in a bid to end a crisis sparked by judges ousting the premier and demanding the arrest of his would-be successor.
The national assembly rubber stamped Ashraf's appointment by 211 votes in the 342-member lower house of parliament, dominated by the main ruling Pakistain People's Party (PPP) and its fractious coalition members.
"Raja Pervez Ashraf is declared to be elected as prime minister of the Islamic republic of Pakistain," speaker Fehmida Mirza announced.
President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... will now hope that Ashraf can form a cabinet able to see through the government's five-year term in office, due to expire in February 2013, without the need for early elections.
But Ashraf is a controversial choice. Currently fighting a corruption case from his tenure as water and power minister, he has also been blamed for much of the government's inability to resolve a disastrous energy crisis.
The change in premier is likely to ease little of Pakistain's myriad problems, not least appalling power cuts that enrage millions or a stalemate in US relations that have led to a seven-month blockade on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supplies into Afghanistan.
Ashraf will also come under immediate pressure from the Supreme Court to write to Swiss authorities, asking them to reopen investigations into Zardari.
The Pakistain People's Party government, dogged by corruption allegations, has been locked in a stand-off with the judiciary for years, accused of working behind the scenes with the military and the political opposition.
Its culmination came on Tuesday when the Supreme Court unceremoniously evicted Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... from the prime minister's office after convicting him of contempt for refusing to reopen Swiss corruption cases against Zardari.
Two days later an anti-narcotics court ordered the arrest of Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Zardari's nomination to replace Gilani, over a drugs scandal.
The PPP dropped Shahabuddin. Analysts suggested the arrest warrant had been engineered by the military, the chief arbiter of power.
Ashraf has promised to make the power crisis his priority despite being widely criticized for incompetency when power minister from March 2008 to February 2011.
"I hope soon we will find a solution," he told news hounds Friday.
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What An Syrian Colonel Of MIG Plane Defects To Jordan : Turkey Hears: - France : Syria Military Defect From Being Soldiering ! Turkey Will Pay Defectors Than Retaliate In Fight For Suspect Downed Plane ! Money Pay In Gain Than Bane In Warfare Onto Islam ! Undo Being Thy Good Than Hoods , Allah O Akbar ! - al Qaeda
[Al Ahram] At least eight people were killed and more than 50 maimed when two roadside kabooms went kaboom! in quick succession at a popular market on the northern outskirts of Iraq's capital on Friday, police and hospital sources said.
The attack was the latest in a wave of bombings this month that have targeted mainly Shi'ite Mohammedan pilgrims and religious sites and have revived concerns of widespread sectarian violence.
The first kaboom struck a main market area of Husseiniya - a predominately Shi'ite area on the edge of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... - where people were shopping for groceries and other goods, sources said.The second blast occurred shortly after in the same area, as security forces and people gathered to tend to the injured, one police source said.
Tensions have been high in Iraq since the departure of U.S. troops in December especially due to feuding between Iraq's main Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political factions over power.
While overall violence in Iraq has dropped since the peak of sectarian fighting in 2006-07, recent bombings against Shi'ites have reignited fears the country risks sliding back into major bloodshed. On Monday, a jacket wallah killed at least 15 people mourning at a Shi'ite funeral in the northern Iraqi city of Baquba.
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[Jerusalem Post] Following nearly two days of relative quiet, hostilities on Gazoo front resume; six rockets fired into southern Israel cause no injuries; Paleostinians say 2 killed, 5 maimed in two IAF Arclight airstrikes.
After an informal ceasfire brokered by Egypt brought two days of relative quiet to southern Israel, rocket fire into the communities bordering the Gazoo Strip resumed Friday night, prompting two separate Israel Air Force forays into the coastal territory to strike rocket launching terrorist cells.
The first IAF strike targeted a terror cell preparing to launch a rocket at Israel, killing one member of a pro al-Qaeda fringe Salafist Islamist group and wounding two others at the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gazoo. The Paleostinians had originally reported that the man was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist group that is often involved in rocket shooting into Israel.
Following the IAF strike on the cell, Death Eaters fired five rockets into Israel over the span of two hours on Friday night. No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks. Three rockets landed in the Eshkol Regional Council area and another landed in the Sdot Hegev Regional Council area. The fifth rocket, fired at the Ashkelon Coast Council area, prompted the IAF's second strike of the night in Gazoo.
Immediately after the rocket was launched, IAF aircraft targeted the terror cell responsible for the launch, recording a direct hit. Paleostinian sources said the strike hit a cycle of violence in northern Gazoo, wounding four Paleostinians, one of whom was at death's door. The man later succumbed to his wounds, marking the tenth Paleostinian death from IAF strikes since hostilities began Monday, according to Paleostinian sources. Minutes later a sixth rocket hit southern Israel, again in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council area.
More than 130 rockets have been fired into the South from Gazoo since Monday, prompting Israel on Thursday to lodge an official complaint with the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor complained to UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... that "the lives of about a million Israelis are paralyzed" by the projectiles.
Prosor stated that "as long as Israel's southern communities will not know quiet, it will not be quiet in Gazoo."
He added that Israel fully cooperates with the UN, allowing civilian material and humanitarian aid into Gazoo, "and in exchange weapons continue to flow into the Strip and rockets are fired into Israel."
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"IAF aircraft targeted the terror cell responsible for the launch, recording a direct hit. Paleostinian sources said the strike hit a cycle of violence in northern Gazoo, wounding four Paleostinians, one of whom was at death's door."
I continue to be amazed at how few ground DRT casualities there are from a direct hit rocket blast. Did the IAF give up on craters?
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The Israelis should put up a rocket counter (similar to our national debt counter) recording each missile fired at the nation in real time -- dating back to, say, 1948.
A village defense volunteer was killed in a drive-by shooting in Yala province on Saturday morning.
Abdulrosek Sata, a defense volunteer in Yala's Raman district, was returning home on a motorcycle when he was shot by a terrorist gunman riding pillion on another motorcycle. The terrorists assailants then fled. Abdulroseh was hit several times and died on the spot.
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The recent large consignments of weapons are not only new, they are free
But the new consignment hasnt yet arrived. Indeed, there is growing frustration along the border among rebel commanders who have been waiting weeks for shipments due any day now, in the next few days, soon Inshallah.
Hey you yeah you cmere. Wanna taste of some good shit. Cmon dont worry dude its free. Aint this shit da bomb? Want some more sure go ahead help yerself. Go ahead man take a little stash for yerself too. Check it out I gotta a line on some real killer shit commin up soon. Hey Ill be back in a couple of weeks with a load if you want more. Oh yeah...by the way, tell all your friends if they want some too.
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Amusing passage from the article about the purported leader-in-exile of the rebels, the Sunni Arab defector As'aad:
While Asaad may be cut out of the new weapons transfers, that doesnt mean other senior FSA defectors arent in on the deals. Asaad has often come under friendly fire from members of the opposition who have questioned his effectiveness and his contributions to the struggle against Assad. He has been publicly sidelined by the FSAs military council in the embattled city of Homs. Nobody has the right to issue press releases, take decisions or speak about operations in the Free Syrian Armys name, except for the FSA command inside Syria, the groups spokesman, Colonel Qassem Saadeddine, said in a videotaped statement uploaded to YouTube last month. From now on, all decisions will be taken from inside Syria Anyone wishing to represent the Syrian people, the free army, or speak in its name, is invited to make their way to the battlefield, to Syria, and wait for the Syrian people to confer legitimacy upon them.
[An Nahar] Turkey searched for a missing fighter-jet and held an emergency security summit Friday, as the prime minister backed off reported comments suggesting Syria had downed the aircraft.
The military plane -- reportedly an F-4 Phantom with two pilots aboard -- lost radio contact and vanished off radar screens around 0900 GMT over the eastern Mediterranean, near the border with Syria.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government has had tense relations with Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... amid the uprising there, met military and intelligence chiefs and key ministers for the security meeting.
He said "an exact explanation could be issued after the summit".
Earlier, local media had quoted Erdogan as saying that Syria had apologized over the fighter jet crash, in a comment that suggested it had downed the plane.
"Syria immediately offered a very serious apology for the incident and admitted it was a mistake," the Haberturk daily newspaper quoted Erdogan as saying onboard a plane on his way back from Brazil.
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[An Nahar] Syrian protesters erupted into the streets on Friday as the government accused rebels of carrying out a "brutal massacre" of 25 of its supporters, and activists said regime forces killed at least 55 people across the country.
The independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a higher toll for the pro-regime losses, saying at least 26 government supporters -- most of them members of the feared shabiha militia -- had been killed.
The Britannia-based watchdog also reported that government forces met the demonstrators with hot lead in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... killing nine, as activists called nationwide protests.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said regime forces killed 55 people across the country, among them five children and two women.
It said 13 people were killed in the central province of Homs, 11 in the northern province of Aleppo, 10 in the countryside around Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , eight in the southern province of Daraa, seven in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, three in the western province of Latakia, two in the capital Damascus and one in the northwestern province of Idlib.
In the capital, troops fired on demonstrators in the upscale district of Mazzeh, the Observatory said, without giving any immediate word on casualties.
Protesters in other areas of Damascus and its suburbs were also fired on, the Observatory said, adding that two children were rubbed out in two different areas of Damascus province, although not at demonstrations.
In Syria's third largest city Homs, residents held a small protest despite a renewed bombardment by government forces of rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said.
The bombardment scuppered a new Red Thingy attempt to evacuate trapped civilians as the United Nations ...When talk is your weapon it's hard to make yourself heard over the sound of artillery... said up to 1.5 million people needed aid.
It came after at least 168 were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday, the highest single-day corpse count since a U.N.-backed ceasefire was supposed to take effect on April 12, the Observatory said.
In the reported massacre, "armed terrorist groups... kidnapped a number of citizens in Daret Azzeh area in the countryside of Aleppo, according to official sources in the province," the state SANA news agency said.
"The terrorist groups... committed a brutal massacre against the citizens... through shooting them dead and then mutilating their bodies," it added.
"Initial information indicates that more than 25 of the kidnapped citizens were killed... with the fate of the rest of the kidnapped people still unknown."
Amateur video posted on YouTube and distributed by the Observatory showed piles of mangled bodies of young men, their clothing soaked in blood. At least two of the bodies in the footage were wearing fatigues.
"These are shabiha of (President) Bashir al-Assad's regime," the narrator said, without identifying himself.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), meanwhile, said up to 1.5 million Syrians now need humanitarian aid, up from the one million estimated at the end of March.
"The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to tank," said the latest OCHA bulletin.
Turkey on Friday denied reports it was shipping weapons to fighters of the rebel Free Syrian Army. "Turkey does not ship weapons to any neighboring country, including Syria," foreign ministry spokesperson Selcuk Unal said.
The BBC, for its part, reported that Britannia has refused to grant the head of the Syrian Olympic Committee a visa to travel to London for next month's Games.
General Mowaffak Joumaa's application was refused because of his links to the Assad government, even though his name does not appear on a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... list of Syrian officials banned from traveling to the bloc, the BBC reported.
And La Belle France called for more defections from the Syrian armed forces after the high-profile flight of a MiG fighter pilot to neighboring Jordan on Thursday.
"Yesterday's defection leads us to call on members of the Syrian army and security forces to continue these defections, these desertions, and no longer to obey the Damascus regime's criminal orders," a foreign ministry front man said.
Jordan granted Colonel Hassan Hammadeh asylum after he made an emergency landing at Mafraq base near the border.
On Friday, the Turkish army said it lost radar and radio contact with one of its aircraft over the Mediterranean near neighboring Syria.
"Search and rescue efforts have started immediately," the general staff said adding that it was not immediately clear if the plane crashed or if there were casualties.
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[Al Ahram] At least 26 regime supporters were killed in an ambush in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... on Friday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "At least 26 supporters of the regime - believed to be forces of Evil - were rubbed out in the west of the province of Aleppo," the watchdog said, adding that regime forces have shelled villages in the area for several weeks.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(Sh. M. Network)-At least one person was killed and several others have been injured in an Al shabab attack on Somali government troops in Elasha Biyaha neighborhood, on the southern outskirt of Mogadishu, reports said.
(Sh. M. Network)-A remote-controlled land mine blast is reportedly struck at Somali army base in Southern region of Bay, the latest in series attacks against Somali and Æthiopian troops in the region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
Sudanese anti-government protesters on Friday burned tyres and clashed with police on the seventh day of widening demonstrations sparked by rising food prices, witnesses said.
Goodluck Jonathan
[An Nahar] Yemeni security forces 
[An Nahar] Bahraini security forces on Friday fired rubber bullets to disperse an unauthorized rally by the opposition Al-Wefaq wounding its leader, the Shiite bloc said.
The security authorities have 
MPs elected Raja Pervez Ashraf as Pakistain's new prime minister Friday, in a bid to end a crisis sparked by judges ousting the premier and demanding the arrest of his would-be successor.
Asif Ali 
[Al Ahram] At least eight people were killed and more than 50 
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Syrian protesters 
[Al Ahram] At least 26 regime supporters were killed in an ambush in the northern province of 
