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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Eleanor Parker aka Ann in "Between Two Worlds" aka Ruth Hartley in "Pride of the Marines" aka Ellen Gayley in "Never Say Goodbye" aka Mildred Rogers in "Of Human Bondage" aka Marie Allen in "Caged" aka Mary McLeod in "Detective Story" aka Joanna in "The Naked Jungle" aka Zoch in "The Man with the Golden Arm" aka Lucey Tibbets (As Mrs. Paul Tibbits)in "Above and Beyond" (age 89)
HT to Weasel Zippers moderate Taliban insurgents used an eight-year-old girl carrying a bag of explosives to attack a police checkpost in central Afghanistan, the Afghan government said on Sunday, making her one of the youngest child bombers of the decade-old conflict.
The incident took place in Char Chino district of central Uruzgan province, the interior ministry said. "The insurgents handed over a bag with a homemade bomb to an eight-year-old girl and asked her to take it to police forces," it added.
"As the girl was getting close to the police, it exploded and killed the girl." after all, it was just a girl. Allan is pleased
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[An Nahar] Former Egyptian trade and industry minister Rashid Mohammed Rashid was sentenced in absentia on Saturday to five years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, state news agency Mena reported.
Rashid, who is the subject of an international search warrant, was also ordered to pay a fine of more than nine million Egyptian pounds (over a million euros).
Cairo's criminal court found Rashid guilty of embezzling funds from the export development fund.
Several businessmen and officials of Hosni Mubarak's ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... regime, which was toppled February 11 by a popular uprising, are under investigation for embezzlement and corruption.
Uprooting corruption was and remains one of the central demands of the activists who pushed for Mubarak's departure.
Mubarak alongside his sons Alaa and Gamal is set to face trial on August 3 on charges of corruption and of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising in January and February that toppled the veteran leader.
Former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali was sentenced to 30 years in prison in absentia on corruption charges on June 4.
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Take note, Geithner, Paulson, Rubin, Johnson, et al.
[An Nahar] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... came under verbal fire again on Saturday from Moammar Qadaffy's regime, which accused it of killing 15 more people in strikes on civilian sites in the eastern city of Brega, a claim promptly denied by the alliance.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davey was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... three powerful kabooms struck the eastern Tripoli suburb of Tajura, where a number of military installations are located, and columns of smoke could be seen from the center of the capital.
It was not immediately known if the blasts were the result of an attack by NATO, which has repeatedly targeted the area in the past.
The report, which did not say when the alleged NATO attack took place, referred to a NATO "war of extermination" and "crimes against humanity" in Libya.
However, we can't all be heroes Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... state news agency Jana said the attack was on Saturday and spoke of five more "citizens" killed a day earlier.
Following the Libyan television claim, the NATO front man said the alliance "did target buildings in an abandoned area of Brega. These were legitimate military targets that were hit.
"We took a long time to watch the area and make sure. Meticulous planning went into this."
As far as NATO is concerned, he said, "any people in that area at that time were legitimate military targets."
In its daily operations report, the alliance said that on Friday it had targeted 35 objectives, including military vehicles and installations, around Brega, a key refinery town some 800 kilometers east of Tripoli and 240 kilometers southwest of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
Earlier this week, after NATO admitted misfires that Tripoli says caused several deaths, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini called for a suspension in the campaign in the latest sign of dissent within NATO.
Alliance chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said more civilians would die if operations were not maintained under a U.N. mandate to protect Libyans from the exactions of the government of veteran leader Moammar Qadaffy.
"NATO will continue this mission because if we stop, countless more civilians could lose their lives," Rasmussen said in a video statement on the NATO website.
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SUSPECTED Islamists hurled bombs and fired on a beer garden in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 25 people and injuring about 30.
The two men came on motorbikes and sped away after the shock attack, police and witnesses told AFP.
"The attackers, believed to be Boko Haram members, threw bombs and fired indiscriminate gun shots on a packed tavern at Dala Kabompi neighbourhood, killing at least 25 people and seriously injuring around 30 others," a police superintendent said.
An army captain, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "It will be difficult to say with precision the number of casualties, but it can't be less then two dozen."
Emmanuel Okon, who sells roast beef on the fringes of the tavern, said: "I just heard a loud bang followed by sporadic shootings and plumes of black smoke filled the area with people screaming and running in all directions.
"The wounded and the dead lay on the ground and the place was littered with broken bottles and glasses and personal effects like shoes," he said.
"I didn't count the number of casualties, but I believe those who died are more than 25 and the injured could be more than 30," Okon said.
Nuraini Kanta, a local resident, said he heard a bang followed by a series of gunshots while sitting outside his home, hundreds of metres away.
"I was listening to the radio ... when I heard a loud explosion followed by gunshots and dark smoke ... I instinctively rushed indoors because it was clear that Boko Haram had attacked," he stated. Boko Haram: "Western or non-Islamic education is a sin"
ADEN - Yemeni authorities have detained the director of a prison for questioning over the escape of 63 al Qaeda inmates earlier this week, state television said on Saturday. It said the deputy director of the al-Munawara prison in the southern city of al-Mukalla also was detained for questioning. It gave no further details.
The prisoners escaped on Wednesday after they dug a 35-m (yard) long tunnel.
Nonsense. They were given weapons, they whacked the guards, and then strolled out the front gate. They didn't even need Chuck Connors landing a helicopter in the prison yard...
They attacked prison guards, killing one and wounding two, before they escaped, the state news agency Saba said.
It said security forces pursued the prisoners, killing three and recapturing two.
Yemen state television said on Saturday that the body of a fourth inmate had been found. It said he had been sentenced to death.
They got their wish then...
All the prisoners were Yemeni and most had been jailed after returning from Iraq where they fought alongside militant, he said.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni women held demonstrations in the capital Sana'a and the cities of Dhamar and Hodeida in which they urged to form an immediate transitional council and refused the U.S. and Saudi interventions in the country.
Thousands of women erupted into the streets in the three cities amid continuous protests in most cities and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud such as: O, Al Saud, Saleh will not come back and the people want to build a new Yemen. Yeah, that doesn't do a thing for me...
Furthermore, they urged to oust the remaining officials of the Saleh regime and Saleh's relatives and to open trials for all those responsible for crimes including killing the antigovernment protesters.
In Dhamar, the demonstration confirmed the women's support to the youth-led uprising and urged the people to continue the revolution until its goals are implemented.
Separately, media outlets quoted local sources as saying that the director of Al-Monawara Jail and his deputy in Mukalla city after 63 Al-Qaeda suspects beat feet from the jail.
The sources said the two will be investigated, days after the Interior Ministry said that three Al-Qaeda prisoners were killed and two incarcerated when the authorities tried to thwart the escape through a tunnel.
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They got burkhas, moustaches? Kill'em, ungrateful heathens, They are not on my, 'our' side. Whiplash and knobkerries soon.
[Yemen Post] Two people were killed in governmental raids against tribal gunnies in Arhab district, 40 km north of Sana'a. Republican guards have been clashing with gunnies for more than 24 hours, and are getting closer to occupying the military compound in the district.
Eyewitnesses said that the guards random;y raided villages in Arhab destroying tens of homes and forcing residents to join the tribal gunnies against government forces.
At least 15 residents have been injured in the attacks. Clashes have intensified and are ongoing.
Security officials in Sana'a are claiming that opposition forces are behind the continuous attacks on Elite Republican Guards military compounds in an effort to weaken the ruling family and the Yemeni government.
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[Yemen Post] The Interior Ministry announced on Saturday a list of 43 suspects wanted on charges related to bombing oil pipelines and power towers in Marib province that led to the acute fuel shortage and day-and-night power outages.
Blackouts happen more than 20 hours a day in many cities including the capital Sana'a which is also experiencing a week-long water shortage.
"There is no water for weeks here and most recently we have used to buy water for tripled prices per water truck," said a housewife in Al-Hasaba district.
Fuel, water and other key supply shortages have sent the prices of materials much higher. People in some parts where water supply continues said bills have quadrupled.
The Ministry said the suspects are members in the Joint Meeting Parties, the main opposition coalition in the country, ordering all security systems including the political security, the national security and security departments in provinces to arrest them.
Land, air and sea authorities were also ordered to catch suspects, it said, pointing out that if any suspect surrenders to the authorities, they will consider any procedures against them.
In addition, the ministry announced a YR 3-million reward for information about or leading to the arrest of any of the suspects.
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[Yemen Post] A physician was killed and twelve protesters injured when elite republican guard and central security forces dispersed a demonstration in Yemen's port city of Aden. Now it's getting personal...
Thousands of people marched after Friday prayers in Khour Maksar district and walked in the funeral procession of martyr Ahmed Al-Darwish who was murdered on June 24, 2010.
The forces fired live bullets at the procession after Friday prayers killing medic Thiyab Al-Saadi and injuring a dozen others, alsahwa-yemen.net reported on Friday.
They directly fired at the unarmed mourners preventing them from reaching the cemetery of Abu Harba, where Al-Darwish should be buried, it said.
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heh. Ayman's a Doc, too
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[Yemen Post] The coordination committee of the youth-led revolution has called for massive demonstration on Sunday in which millions of people should participate to reject the attempts of the remaining members of the Saleh regime to snatch power and to condemn regional and international positions towards what is happening in Yemen.
Nayef Al-Qanis, a member in the committee said," the international community, especially the United States and Soddy Arabia, stand as a roadblock to an immediate power transfer and the formation of a transitional council in the country".
"They pin hope on the dead GCC plan for a power transfer and forming a transitional council, ignoring the popular uprising and the people's demands and moves," he said.
"In fact, Yemen's sisters and friends should stand by the people and their choices including promoting a true democracy and building a modern Yemen. The youth-led protesters also blame the opposition here which still holds talks with other countries on the GCC power deal," he said.
The Saleh regime has already fallen and the protesters now see the U.S. and Soddy Arabia as their enemies because they don't support their choices, he said.
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[Dawn] At least 10 coppers were killed Saturday when Talibs in boom jackets, some of them clad in burqas, laid siege to a cop shoppe in northwest Pakistain, officials said.
"Police have taken the control of the cop shoppe and 10 of our coppers were martyred in the attack and six attackers were killed," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, told AFP.
Militants armed with guns and hand grenades had attacked Kolachi cop shoppe near the border with South Wazoo tribal district and taken a group of coppers hostage. Hussain said the burqa-clad attackers had hoped to secure the release of other hard boys.
"The attackers had come prepared for days of siege and hostage-taking to secure the release of other hard boys," Hussain told AFP.
"When our armoured car entered the cop shoppe two jacket wallahs blew themselves up and a third suicide bomber was killed by a rocket," Hussain said.
"Police have found the bodies of three Islamic fascistiand the heads of three suicide bombers," Hussain said, adding that half of the cop shoppe building had been destroyed and 11 coppersmaimed.
Regional police chief Imtiaz Shah told AFP there was one woman among the suicide bombers. Shah said the siege began when attackers dressed in burqas pulled out guns at the station's main gate and killed coppers deployed there.
The Islamic fascistithen damaged the boundary wall with hand grenades, enabling more rebels to follow them into the building.
About 17 coppers were on duty at the time and were taken hostage by the Islamic fascistionce they ran out of ammunition, the police chief said.
As security forces were called to the scene and cordoned off the cop shoppe, two of the attackers detonated their boom jackets, while three others were rubbed out by security forces, Shah said.
District police chief Mohammad Hussain Khan said it was likely the attackers had come from the nearby lawless tribal belt.
Television footage showed thick black smoke billowing from the roof of the fortress-like cop shoppe and security forces and police firing at hard boys.
Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan in a telephone call to AFP grabbed credit, saying it was the latest in a series of attacks to avenge the killing of Al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden. ... who used to be but now ain't...
"We sent one male and one female suicide bomber to participate in the attack, because we want to liberate our people from the slavery of America," Ehsan said.
Nearly 4,500 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on Taliban and other hard boy networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
Washington has called the semi-autonomous region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, where Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked networks need to be defeated if the 10-year war in Afghanistan is ever to end.
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[Dawn] A bomb failed to explode outside the international Red Thingy office in Bloody Karachi on Saturday, police said.
A small blast did take place from the detonator of the home-made bomb, which two motorcyclists left in a trash bin outside the main gate of the International Committee of the Red Thingy office in Bloody Karachi's Bahadurabad area.
"A detonator of a locally-made bomb went kaboom!, but it failed to explode the bomb," senior police investigator Omar Khitab told news hounds.
"There were no casualties or damage," he added.
Khitab said that the bomb resembled the one defused by police on Friday in the residential colony of Bloody Karachi's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.
Provincial interior ministry front man Sharfuddin Memon confirmed the incident.
No one has so far grabbed credit for the botched attack.
Bloody Karachi suffers from killings linked to political and ethnic tensions and crime, but beturbanned goon violence is also on the rise in the city of 16 million people whose port is a hub for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... supplies bound for Afghanistan.
Last month, it took the navy 17 hours to fight off a handful of bully boyz who killed 10 security officials and destroyed two US-made aircraft at the only naval air base in Bloody Karachi.
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Faulty wiring, eh, or colour-blind from in-breeding?
No matter.
[Dawn] Three students and a policeman were maimed in baton charge and stone pelting when hundreds of protesting students of Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST) and riot police clashed here on Friday.
The students, earlier, had blocked the University Road for several hours to protest against the delay in issuance of degrees to their former colleagues despite payment of fee long ago.
The police also tossed in the calaboose 255 students of different departments and locked them in the police lines and declared several others as proclaimed offenders. Besides, cases have been registered against the students with the Jarma cop shoppe on the complaint of the university administration for creating disturbance in the annual examinations, which started on Friday.
Talking to this correspondent at the scene of clash, some of the students said that they were holding a peaceful protest to demand issuance of degrees to their colleagues, but the police raided their hostels by breaking the doors and windows and manhandled them.
"We have learnt that the vice chancellor has given a free hand to the police to deal with the situation. We were infuriated at the use of brute force and firing in the air because we were expecting to talk out the issue with some bigwigs of the university," they said.
Sources said that the students scuffled with the police who had surrounded the whole campus and also entered the university in large number.
The KUST administration on the other hand alleged that the students were making their demands heard through illegal means and ransacking offices, which forced the VC to seek police`s help.
It was learnt that police would remain deployed in the university till restoration of normality.
This correspondent tried to get comments of the KUST administration on the issue, but none of the officials wanted to talk about the incident. When contacted, the controller of examinations said that he did not know anything about the situation as like other staff he had been asked to lock his office from inside.
Mr Murad, the KUST public relations officer, also did not answer calls on his mobile phone since morning.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the sources said that negotiations were still going on between the KUST administration and parents of the students for their early release and hundreds of people had thronged the police lines where the protesting students had been jugged under strict security. Earlier, they were moved from the Jarma cop shoppe, located close to the university, to police lines fearing attack by the students to free their colleagues.
The police said that the students had been booked for attacking the examination section and stopping the candidates from sitting in examinations.
Hospital sources said that the three students and one policeman who had sustained minor injuries had been discharged after first aid.
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It was learnt that police would remain deployed in the university till restoration of normality.
in Pakistain? Lulz
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Mark the rioters with paintballs, then expell them from the school. Repeat until only those who are there to learn remain. In Pakistan there are numerous career paths for those who develop the skills of shouting, marching and throwing hard objects as the authorities -- the rioting students are wasting their time and their parents' money by going to school, when they could be earning money and climbing the ladder to success* instead.
* For a very tightly defined meaning of success, of course.
[Dawn] Three of the five bodies of suspected Death Eaters recovered by police after an encounter at Sarband in the suburbs of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar were identified and handed over to the relatives on Friday, officials said.
They said that the Death Eaters were killed in encounter following a midnight attack on Manzoor Shaheed police post in the limits of Sarband cop shoppe three days ago.
Sarband SHO Abidur Rehman said that three of the suspected snuffies had been identified as Jamil and Shakeel of Shalbar and Gulab of Sipah sub-tribe of Afridi tribe.
He said that the other two bodies had been handed over to the Khasadar Force of Bara tehsil, but their identity was yet to be ascertained.
Referring to the statements of the heirs, the SHO claimed that those killed were associated with Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... -led Lashkar-i-Islam in Khyber Agency and had no links with their families since long. "We have been in contact with the line officer of Khasadar Force of Bara to ascertain the identity of the two bodies," the official said.
The official said he was optimistic about a positive change in the law and order situation at the border area of Sarband, located close to the Khyber Agency.
Mr Rehman said that police had blocked entry of snuffies into Peshawar's main areas and the people would feel some sort of peace in days to come.
"Since the encounter no Death Eater has dared to enter the area," he claimed and added that police were regularly patrolling the roads to check the suspected people and vehicles.
Another official of the rural circle said that the LI had close contacts with people in the suburban localities, who were providing it information about movement of the law enforcers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... the Bala Manai police have found body of an unidentified young man on Ring Road, who was apparently hit by a vehicle.
"We have shifted the body to a local mortuary and are trying to locate his relatives," the police said.
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Sins of the fathers, sins of the sons, make them pay; go tribal in every quarter.
[Dawn] A remote-controlled bomb carrying 20 kilos of explosive was timely detected and safely defused at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), preventing what could have been a massacre in the densely populated locality on Friday, officials said.
They added the target apparently was hundreds of people who converged at a tented mosque, neighbouring the hospital's staff colony, for Juma prayers every week.
The officials said that a man spotted four youngsters riding two cycle of violences after placing some suspicious thing close to the tented mosque early in the morning. He promptly informed hospital officials and the police and bomb disposal unit officials were called in, with the result that the bomb was detected placed between bricks.
"The JPMC administration informed the police and we cordoned off the area and then called the bomb disposal unit," said Saddar SHO Inspector Shabbir Hussain.
"The unit then confirmed that it was a bomb attached with a remote-controlled device. It was concealed between bricks."
He added that it's not a proper mosque but some area people and staff members had made makeshift arrangements for Friday prayers in the absence of an Imambargah on the premises.
Suspicion falls on PN attackers
The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of police, which has been tasked with investigation of terrorism cases, took over the probe and found several traces to the same group that had carried out assaults on the buses of Pakistain Navy last month.
"According to the information gathered by us, more than 300 people offer prayers here every Friday," said SP Raja Umer Khattab of the SIU.
"The explosive weighed around 20 kilos and the bomb carried nuts and ball bearings to cause further devastation. It could have caused heavy casualties and also damaged the nearby structure."
He said the police had prepared the sketches of the four riders who were seen returning after placing the bomb with the help of eyewitness. Video footage of the cameras installed on the entrances of the JPMC had also been acquired, he added.
Reward
Sindh police chief Wajid Durrani announced a Rs100,000 reward for the person who informed the JPMC and police about the suspicious activity and helped foiling the terrorism bid.
He appealed to the Bloody Karachiites to inform the police on Madadgar 15 or 021-99212064 if they witnessed any suspicious activity in their areas.
The Saddar police later started the paperwork but haven't done much else (FIR 192/2011) under Sections 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 5 of the Explosive Act and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code on behalf of the state.
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Sure, like I will ever choose Friday to speak to my God. My enthusiasm for the god of death has wilted.
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Keep an open mind RF, I for one knock down a brew or 12 and hit the links with God every Friday I can. Do not give God a mulligan and don't take his word on the Law, see the Pro, get a second ruling and stay far far far away from the burning bush on the 2nd dawglaig. Lay up, don't trust it.
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[Dawn] The Inter-Services Public Relations on Friday reacted sharply to a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report suggesting that a krazed killer group with ties to ISI could have functioned as the late Osama bin Laden's ... who now dances with worms... support network in Pakistain, saying Pak military's counter-terrorism efforts spoke louder than the NYT's words.
"Pakistain and its security agencies have suffered the most at the hands of Al Qaeda and have delivered the most against the terror outfit; our actions on the ground speak louder than the words of the Times," ISPR Director General Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said.
The NYT story titled 'Seized phone offers clues to Bin Laden's Pak links' said: "The cellphone of Osama bin Laden's trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistain last month, contained contacts to a krazed killer group that is a longtime asset of Pakistain's intelligence agency."
Quoting anonymous officials, the daily said the discovery indicated that Bin Laden used the group, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, as part of his support network inside the country.
The cellphone numbers, NYT said, provided one of the most intriguing leads yet in the hunt for the answer to an urgent and vexing question for Washington: How was it that Bin Laden was able to live comfortably for years in Abbottabad?
The Harkat, the report claimed, had deep roots in the area around Abbottabad and the group's chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil lives unbothered by Pak authorities on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Some of the phone numbers of Harkat commanders retrieved from the courier's cellphone were in turn determined to have called Pak intelligence officials.
Gen Athar said "the army rejects the insinuations made in the story". "It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign against our security institutions," he added.
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Some of the phone numbers of Harkat commanders retrieved from the courier's cellphone were in turn determined to have called Pak intelligence officials.
Gen Athar said "the army rejects the insinuations made in the story". "It is part of a well-orchestrated campaign against our security institutions," he added.
"They were all wrong numbers. Everyone knows those HuM guys aren't very bright," he said. "Except that New York Times reporter -- how did he miss what everyone knows?"
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Two soldiers were killed by gunfire while on their checkpoint to the north of Mosul, security sources said today. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the two soldiers were killed when an unknown gunman shot them while on duty at an Iraqi checkpoint.
"The rifle that was used in the attack was found, while the culprit fled," the source added. Cheez, Operation Fast and Furious made it to Iraq...
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And the purpose of the checkpoints is????
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BEIRUT: Hundreds of Syrians, some with gunshot wounds, have crossed into neighboring Lebanon in search of a refuge from the growing violence in their homeland, a Lebanese security official said Saturday.
Most arriving at the border came shortly after Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters across Syria on Friday. Syrian activists said 20 people were killed, including two children aged 12 and 13. The Local Coordination Committees, a group tracking the Syria protests, said most of the deaths occurred in the Barzeh neighborhood of the capital, Damascus, and in the suburb of Al-Kaswa. Others died when security forces opened fire in the central city of Homs, sending residents fleeing to the Lebanese border 20 miles (30 kilometers) away.
The violence has prompted thousands of Syrians to seek a safe haven in neighboring countries. Up to 1,000 crossed Friday and overnight into northern Lebanons Akkar region, near Wadi Khaled, a Lebanese security official said. Most crossed into the border village of Kneiseh from the Syrian village of Al-Quseir, where Syrian activists said security forces fired on protesters Friday At least six Syrians with gunshot wounds were among the arrivals, the Lebanese official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations. The wounded were receiving treatment in Akkar hospitals.
The new arrivals join thousands of other Syrians who fled to Lebanon in May and early June, most during the Syrian militarys crackdown on the border town of Talkalakh, a few minutes walk from Lebanons Wadi Khaled.
Unlike the earlier exodus, when the displaced Syrians camped out on the Lebanese side of the border, many new arrivals were staying with relatives or elsewhere in Beirut, the Lebanese official said.
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Paging the UNRWA. UNRWA to the white courtesy phone, please.
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My old mans a refugee,
What do you think about that?
He wears a refugees grin,
He wears a refugees burka.
He wears a refugees boomcoat,
He wears a refugees curly shoes.
And every Saturday evening,
He reads the Refugee News.
And someday, if I can,
Im gonna be a refugee just like my old man.
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I can see refugee Syrians pleading at the OIC and UN for Right of Return. No wait...that's the beer talking.
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[Dawn] Four civilians were rubbed out by Syrian security forces on Saturday, two in Kassir near the central city of Homs and two in Kiswah south of the capital Damascus, ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... a human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activist said.
The shootings came as Syrian tanks entered a village on the border with Turkey, where workers are scrambling to erect a huge tent city anticipating a new exodus of refugees from the anti-regime crackdown.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah is moving its arsenal from Syria over fears that the anti-Assad demonstrations would lead to regime change, a Western expert closely following up Iranian-Syrian ties told the French daily Le Figaro on Saturday.
The expert confirmed that Western intelligence had monitored the movement of trucks from the Syrian border to eastern Leb's Bekaa valley.
The trucks are allegedly transporting Iranian-made Zelzal, Fajr 3 and Fajr 4 rockets that the Shiite party had amassed in depots in Syria. Be a real shame if a truck had a spectacular kaboom accident while on the road. Pro'ly set off all the trucks around it. Might close the road for quite a while. Too bad Mossad would never, ever do such a thing... Le Figaro said that Hizbullah's logistics units based in Syria were helping the party move its arsenal. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... it said that Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... and Tehran have lately doubted that the transfer of arms to Hizbullah has been monitored by U.S. and Israeli satellites.
In an effort to confront the surveillance, Syrian intelligence units and Iran's al-Quds Force have established a central command at the Damascus airport, Le Figaro added. I'm just guessing that the IAF has the coordinates nailed down to within a centimeter in any direction...
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I think more and more, the bottom line is that Assad no longer "rules", but is just the most powerful warlord with a mercenary army and secret police that terrorize the population.
It lasts only so long as it is expensively subsidized, and has logistics provided by someone with deep pockets, which is just a money pit that achieves nothing. Even the Iranian rank and file are getting upset with wasting money on Assad when things at home are very tight.
Hezbollah is wise to bug out, but it means that they either seize power in Lebanon over all the other factions, or they are next on the chopping block.
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Somehow the Damascus airport central command will prevent Israeli and American electronic surveillance of cell phone and Internet traffic, and American satellites and Israeli UAVs watching where the trucks come from and go to. I wonder if Hizb'allah supplies will end up near Saddam Hussein's WMDs, parked beneath the Bekaa Valley back in 2003...
On a larger scale, the Hezzies Hizzies Huzzies Hazzies, etc. smell Israel's blood in the water, + its no longer just the Paleo Bad Boyz in the West Bank + Gaza-Strip.
IMO MORESO WID THE ADVENT OF THE JASMINE-LED [proto]"CALIPHATE", WHICH WILL BE NUCLEAR ONCE INTEGRATED.
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By extension, the various Paleo Militant Groups, etal. will also be "Nuclear" as weell their non-Sttae/NGO MilTerr comrades, MUSLIM OR NOT?, across the Region + around the World.
[An Nahar] Syrian tanks on Saturday rolled into a village on the border with Turkey where workers are scrambling to erect a huge tent city for fear of a new exodus of refugees from the crackdown.
As families across Syria mourned 18 protesters bumped off by security forces on Friday, activists said troops backed by tanks rumbled into al-Najia village near Jisr al-Shughur, a town which the army seized on June 12 after repeated protests.
The operation came just days after the army moved into Khirbet al-Joz, another village near the border, and amid EU condemnation of Syria's resort to "shocking violence" against peaceful dissent.
"The army backed by tanks and troop carriers entered Al-Najia as part of its deployment in the province of Idlib," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told Agence La Belle France Presse in Nicosia.
Al-Najia lies on the road linking the northwestern city of Latakia to Jisr al-Shughur -- home to 50,000 people, most of whom decamped after the army seized the town, many fleeing across the border to Turkey.
On Friday, the state-run SANA news agency reported that the army had "completed" its deployment in and around Jisr al-Shughur and quoted a military official urging villagers who had decamped their homes to return.
The authorities blame "terrorist gangs" for the unrest that has gripped Syria since pro-democracy protests broke out in mid-March and says the military deployments are aimed at rooting them out.
The army's sweep through protest centers in the northwest has sent nearly 12,000 Syrians fleeing to safety in neighboring Turkey, which is scrambling to build a giant tent city on its border with Syria.
More than 200 tents have already been erected in the camp while another 1,000 are due to be ready in a week in the village of Apaydin, in Hatay province on the border, with a capacity to accommodate up to 15,000 people, village headman Omer Cagatay said.
Syria's Red Islamic Thingy chief, Abdurrahman Attar, said on Saturday that the refugees would not face retribution or interrogation if they returned home, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.
"We, as the Red Islamic Thingy, guarantee that the Syrian government will not call (the refugees) to account and under no circumstances will security forces take decisions about them," Attar was quoted as saying.
Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... on Tuesday ordered a general amnesty in a bid to quell rising unrest, a day after offering a "national dialogue."
But tens of thousands of Syrians calling for the regime's ouster surged onto the streets on Friday in response to a call by the Facebook group Syrian Revolution 2011 -- motor behind three months of anti-regime protests.
Friday's protests were held under the slogan "Fall of legitimacy," with a Facebook page message reading: "Bashar is no longer my president and his government no longer represents me."
Security forces opened fire and rained tear gas on the protesters, killing 18 people and wounding scores more, activists told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Five people died in the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... neighborhood of Barzeh, six in the town of Kiswah, south of the capital, and seven in and around the central city of Homs, they said.
Dozens were rounded up in house-to-house searches in Barzeh and a curfew imposed on the neighborhood, activists said. The London-based Observatory spoke of more than 70 arrests in Mareh near 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... .
Protests in Aleppo, Syria's second city, have been muted since the pro-democracy protests erupted in mid-March.
But the Syrian Revolution 2011 called on demonstrators to "get ready for a volcano" in the city next Thursday, in a message posted on its main Facebook page.
The Observatory says 1,332 civilians have been killed in the government's crackdown and that 341 security force personnel had also bit the dust.
EU leaders adopted a declaration in Brussels on Friday denouncing "in the strongest possible terms the ongoing repression and unacceptable and shocking violence the Syrian regime continues to apply against its own people."
This week, the European Union expanded its sanctions against Syrian leaders to embrace 23 bigwigs, including the embattled Assad, and three commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused of aiding the crackdown.
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See also WAFF > SYRIA WANTS TURKEY TO STOP WEAPONS FLOW TO SYRIAN TERRORISTS.
HMMM, HMMMM, looks like Syria = Assad is describing fleeing Syrian refugees as "terrorists"???
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SYRIA'S ASSAD ACCUSES TURKEY OF ARMING REBELS.
* SAME > TURKISH FLAG LOWERED [Syrian side of border by Syrian troops], SYRIAN ARMY AT BORDER.
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I am behind in my reading and posting so I woke up early to try and catch up. That is when I came across this post. Life will (if not already is) get interesting for anybody in that courier's cell phone address book.
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Who is telling the press all of this crap???
Can't we, for once, have a good intell grab and not have parts of it leaked?
Can we do anything of a clandestine nature anymore without the politically correct blabber mouths and pseudo important passing information?
This is crap. None of the the details of the stuff we found at OBL's house should have been published.
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Affirmative, it's all BS, we buy it by the ton.
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[An Nahar] Former Egyptian trade and industry minister Rashid Mohammed Rashid was sentenced in absentia on Saturday to five years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, state news agency Mena reported.
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