[DAWN] A suicide kaboomer went kaboom! near an Afghan cops vehicle on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, mostly civilians, officials said, in the latest deadly violence to rock the country.
The kaboom in the eastern city of Jalalabad also left at least four people maimed and set a nearby petrol station alight, provincial governor front man Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.
Eight civilians were among the dead, Khogyani added.
Some of the victims were brought to hospital with severe burns, health director Najibullah Kamawal said, confirming the casualty toll.
"I saw a big ball of fire that threw people away. The people were burning," Esmatullah, who witnessed the incident, told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attack in restive Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, which borders Pakistain.
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[PRESSTV] Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation to the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished country.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck Jazan Economic City, located 967 kilometers southwest of the capital Riyadh, with great precision on Tuesday afternoon, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, Yemeni army soldiers and Popular Committees fighters had fired a ballistic missile at the supply depots of Saudi-sponsored gunnies loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s western coastal province of Hudaydah.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s air defense forces intercepted a missile launched towards the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region by Yemen’s armed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias.
The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said earlier that a Badr 1 missile had targeted Jizan Economic City, where Saudi Aramco is building a refinery that is expected to become fully operational in 2019.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The Iran-aligned Houthis, who control Yemen’s capital Sanaa, have fired dozens of missiles into the kingdom in recent months. Most of the missiles have been intercepted by the Saudi military.
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015 to unseat the Houthis and restore the internationally-recognized legitimate government.
Yemen’s Houthi militias had also fired a rocket at Saudi Arabia’s southern Jizan province last Tuesday leaving a five-year-old child maimed.
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[SABANEWS.NET] Rocketry and artillery forces of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... army and popular committees shelled gatherings and sites of Saudi enemy and its mercenaries during 24 hours, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment, according to military reports combined by Saba News Agency on Tuesday.
In Yemen’s western coast, the army and popular committees cleared several sites in the west of Jabalia area of Tuhaita district during launching an offensive on Saudi-paid mercenaries sites, killing and injuring dozens.
In Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... border province, dozens of mercenaries were killed and injured during an attack on two sites in Shorfa.
Also in Najran, an ambush targeted military vehicle loaded with mercenaries in front of Sudais site, killing all its crew, while artillery shelling targeted Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Shurfa, Makhroq sites and western Sudais site.
Furthermore, military vehicle, loaded with militiamen, was destroyed by an bomb in front of Taibat-Esam.
In border province of Asir, Katyusha rockets were fired toward gatherings of mercenaries and two of Death Eaters were sniped in Majaza.
In Jizan border province, two of mercenaries were rubbed out in the east of Dood mount.
In restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, dozens of mercenaries were killed and injured in an unique offensive, preceded by artillery shelling, targeted their sites in Karesh, burning a military vehicle.
Also in Lahj, the army and committees carried out a large-scale operation on sites of mercenaries in Qabitah, securing several hill as well as killing and wounding dozens.
Furthermore, the mercenaries were inflicted heavy losses in lives and equipment during repelling their infiltration toward Hanaya valley, as well as a military vehicle was destroyed by artillery in Qubaita, killing its crew.
In Taiz province, the army and committees secured several hills in an offensive on the mercenaries’ sites in Hamir front of Maqbana district, killing, injuring dozens, seizing weapons.
Also in Taiz, engineering unit of the army and committees destroyed a mercenaries’ military vehicle by an bomb in Rain valley of Wazeayah, killing and injuring all who were on board, including leaders.
In additional, an armored was destroyed by a guided missile in Wazeayah front.
In Yemen’s Jawf province, the army and committees killed and injured dozens of mercenaries in north-west of Sallan camp in Masloob district.
Also in Jawf, engineering unit of the army and committees waged an ambush that targeted military vehicles of the mercenaries by bombs in Ajasher , killing and wounding all who were on board.
In Nehm district, dozens of the mercenaries were killed and injured after the army and committees repelled their infiltration attempt towards Madfoon area in Qatab region.
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One report after another about "mercenaries". What do these guys do for their pay besides get killed?
Something in the reporting isn't right.
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They aren’t actually professional soldiers, Richard, but an insult aimed at the troops of the other Arab countries fighting alongside Saudi Arabia.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallahwent kaboom! at an anti-Taliban ...Arabic for students... political party’s rally in northwest Pakistain on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a candidate in July 25 elections, police said.
The attack on a meeting of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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. also injured nearly 50 others, city police chief Jamil Qazi said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first major pre-election violence. Live TV footage showed volunteers and police rushing the maimed to hospital.
The ANP was the main target of Taliban attacks in the 2013 election. Then, senior ANP leader Bashir Bilour was killed in a suicide kaboom. Tuesday’s attack killed his son Haroon Bilour, a candidate for the provincial assembly.
Peshawar city sits on the edge of a region bordering Afghanistan that has long been home to Islamist murderous Moslems.
The Pak Taliban, a loosely aligned umbrella group of several murderous Moslem and sectarian bands, have been waging a war against the Pak state for over a decade, killing tens of thousands of people.
They want nuclear-armed Pakistain to be a state run under their harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
The violence has decreased in recent months after several military offensives against their strongholds in the region. But many Death Eaters have escaped to neighboring Afghanistan, from where Islamabad alleges they launch attacks inside Pakistain.
Last month, a US dronezap killed the Pak Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , who had grabbed credit for most of the attacks against the ANP in the 2013 election on the grounds that it had supported military operations against the murderous Moslems.
The army announced on Tuesday it would deploy over 371,000 troops to ensure peaceful and fair and free elections on July 25.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi civilian was killed Tuesday after a bomb fixed to his car went kaboom! in Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
"A bomb planted under a car went off while the car was passing by al-Radwaniyah district in southwestern Baghdad, leaving the driver killed," the source told Alghad Press website.
According to the source, the body was moved to the forensic medicine department, and a probe was launched into the attack."
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Four suicide kaboomers were killed as the pro-government paramilitary troops thwarted an infiltration attempt by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members in Salahuddin province.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, "troops of the 43rd brigade managed to foil an infiltration attempt by 15 Islamic State members in Tal al-Thahab region in the vicinity of Balad town, south of Samarra."
"Four jacket wallahs were killed, others were maimed, while the rest bravely ran away," the statement added.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Eight Islamic State members, planning for a fake checkpoint, were killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led Coalition in Diyala, the Security Media Center said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the center said, “based on intelligence information from the Counter-Terrorism Service, the Coalition jets carried out an airstrike targeting Islamic State pockets in Hamreen mountains in Kabashi region in al-Saadiya town.”
During the airstrike, according to the statement, “eight militants, planning for a fake checkpoint, were killed.”
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi police forces killed on Tuesday an Islamic State commander following fierce clashes in Diyala province, a police chief was quoted as saying.
“The IS commander was responsible for preparing suicide bombers to carry out terrorist attacks in the country,” Federal Police Chief Raed Shaker Jawdat told Baghdad Today website.
“The troops also destroyed an IS hotbed and seized a huge amount of ammunition and explosives, including two explosive belts, eight arms depots, six grenades and a mortar shell,” Jawdat added.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Twenty-three Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members, including leaders, were tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , northwest of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh police said.
Speaking to BasNews, Lt. Gen. Emad Hassan, of Nineveh Operations Command, said "security troops still besiege al-Atshana mountain for the fourth day in row in Badush village to follow Islamic State members."
Security troops, according to Hassan, "took the bandidosgunnies and the leaders to the headquarters of Nineveh Operations Command for investigations."
Troops also "seized four tunnels that the bandidosgunnies use in the mountain."
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My pint is, balloons and kites are not fast or stealthy. It seems the same radars that can see Hezbollah rockets could tip local responders that something with the signature of one of these arson devices is headed towards a certain location.
But that's an uneducated guess on my part, for sure...
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And it's a flying Molotov cocktail. I'd think an IR sensor should see it?
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[Bloomberg] A reinforced deployment of tanks and heavy guns is parked along Israel’s frontier with Syria as the civil war that transformed the balance of power in the Middle East appears headed into its final stretch.
The fighting in Syria has come full circle as its army sets its sights on retaking Daraa province, where the regime’s brutal reaction to anti-government graffiti on a school wall sparked the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011. The offensive against one of the last two major opposition strongholds has brought Syrian forces close to the Israeli-held section of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.
As the thud of shells echoes across what has dependably been Israel’s quietest frontier for decades, fears of new conflicts have risen.
Iran, whose forces helped to propel Assad to the brink of total victory, has a presence on the doorstep of archenemy Israel. With the U.S. on the sidelines, only Russia has the clout to prevent the Israeli military from being drawn deeper into what remains of Syria’s war.
"None of us here is foolish enough to believe things will just go back to the way they were," said Qasem Sabagh, a member of the Golan Druze community that came under Israeli control, as he looked out at a United Nations post where Syrian relatives once came to shout greetings through a loudspeaker. "The entire world wants a piece of Syria -- Iran, the U.S., Israel, Russia."
[IsraelTimes] Navy arrests 8 passengers, some of them Paleostinians injured in recent border festivities with Israel, after vessel left permitted fishing zone, ostensibly en route to Cyprus
The Israeli Navy stopped and seized a fishing boat that attempted to break through the naval blockade around the Gazoo Strip, arresting the eight Paleostinians on board, some of them people injured in recent border festivities with Israeli troops, the military said.
The vessel’s purported destination was Cyprus, however the boat lacked the equipment necessary to safely reach the island nation, making it more likely that this was a symbolic act of protest.
"The vessel was seized without incident," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
After a search of the vessel, the boat was towed to the Israeli Navy’s base at the Ashdod port.
IDF medics provided treatment to the injured people on board the vessel, the army said.
Hundreds of Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip had gathered to see off the boat. Among the passengers were four people said to have been maimed by Israeli soldiers during recent riots along the security fence surrounding the Gazoo Strip. The other passengers were said to be students.
The passengers "with specific needs are prevented from travelling, receiving care, and finishing their studies," said organizer Raed Abu Dair. "We are determined to break the blockade."
Mahmud Abu Ataya, 25, who recently suffered a leg wound east of Gazoo City, said: "I am leaving to be cared for abroad."
This was the second time in two months that a Gazook fishing vessel was used in an attempt to break the blockade, which Israel maintains is necessary to prevent terrorist organizations from bringing weapons into the coastal enclave. The blockade, which is also enforced by Egypt, has been deemed legal by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and other international bodies, though it remains hotly contested by many human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups.
Under the blockade, which was put in place in 2007, Paleostinians are forbidden to travel more than 11 kilometers (seven miles) from the Gazoo shore.
"This is the second time in two months that the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group tried to cause a provocation at sea by taking advantage of injured and handicapped people and by paying residents of Gazoo to take part in this kind of activity," the army said.
On May 29, another vessel from the Gazoo Strip, called al-Hurriyah (Liberty), attempted to run the blockade.
"The IDF seized a Paleostinian boat carrying some 17 sailors who broke the sea blockade," the navy said at the time. "The seizure was carried out without incident."
[PRESSTV] The US government says it has sanctioned a Malaysia-based tourism agent for Iranian private airline Mahan Air which is already under American sanctions.
The blockade comes as the US prepares to unleash "the strongest sanctions in history" on Iran after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... decided to withdraw Washington from a landmark nuclear deal with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of Mahan Travel and Tourism Sdn Bhd that are or come within US jurisdiction are blocked," the US Treasury Department said in a statement on Monday.
The first group of unilateral US sanctions on Iran’s automotive sector, gold trade, and other industries will "snap back" on August 4. Further sanctions on oil and transactions with the Central Bank of Iran will come into effect November 6.
Trump has given companies 180 days to wind down their businesses in Iran or have their trade severed with the US.
Dutch airline KLM said on Saturday it had decided to suspend its direct flights to Tehran "for commercial reasons."
"As a result of the negative results and financial outlook for the Tehran operation, the last flight will take off from Amsterdam on 22 September 2018 and land at Schiphol on 23 September," it said in a short statement on its website.
KLM resumed flights to Tehran in 2016 when the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and world countries came into effect. The Dutch airline had ceased its Iran operations in 2013 after the West intensified sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Austrian Airlines also announced on Friday that it will stop service to the Iranian cities of Isfahan and Shiraz, starting in September, but will continue its flights to Tehran.
"The underlying reason for these changes in the route network is a realignment of the airline’s portfolio," a statement said on the official website of Austrian Airlines which is owned by the German airline company Lufthansa.
Austrian Airlines announced its expansion of flights to Shiraz and Isfahan in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
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We should strongly suggest any Iranian-Americans refrain from visiting the homeland. It could be a one-way trip with prison or forced military induction. Anyone foolish enough to do so will not be fought for as a hostage
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One of the Ret family friends is half Persain; she, her family and Dad escaped when the Shah fell. Dad went back to get Grampa and was killed. She wants to visit the homeland but is smart enough to sit tight; her biggest fear is that the current regime will send assassins to the States to seek out those that fled.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Rebels and bully boyz killed more than two dozen pro-government fighters in a joint attack in a northwestern stronghold of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... ’s regime, a monitor said Tuesday.
In retaliation, the government and its ally Russia pounded rebel-held areas in the coastal province of Latakia and neighboring Idlib on Tuesday.
The government’s attack resulted in the death of four civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It was the bloodiest opposition assault on the area in three years, according to the Britannia-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside the country.
The surprise offensive late Monday targeted a pair of villages and observation points in Latakia, near the Ottoman Turkish border.
"At least 27 regime forces and allied fighters, including eight officers, were killed in fierce festivities and shelling in the village of al-Ateira," said Observatory Head Rami Abdulrahman.
He said, "They took al-Ateira and kicked out regime forces from several observation points after killing or wounding them."
Another 40 government loyalists were maimed and six rebels were killed, he said.
The Observatory said the opposition fighters included local rebels from Latakia as well as more hardline forces.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suicide boom-mobileing on Tuesday killed eight newly reconciled fighters from pro-government and rebel ranks in an attack on a south Syrian village claimed by ISIS.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the kaboom hit Zaizun, a village in the western countryside of Daraa province which rebels agreed in recent days to hand over to regime control.
"Eight regime and opposition fighters who recently reconciled were killed in a suicide car kaboom targeting a military position in Zaizun," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
ISIS grabbed credit for the attack in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app, saying the car driven by a jacket wallah had been packed with explosives.
Zaizun lies near a sliver of southern territory controlled by Jaish Khaled bin Walid, a faction that has pledged allegiance to ISIS, which is not bound by the deal between the rebels and the government.
Abdel Rahman said it was likely that this faction was responsible for the attack, adding it was the first suicide kaboom targeting regime forces since they launched an offensive on Daraa.
Backed by Russia, Syrian troops began a bombing blitz of Daraa province on June 19 that killed dozens of civilians and displaced more than 320,000 people.
The onslaught came to an end on Friday, when Moscow brokered a deal with rebels for them to surrender their weapons and hand over towns to government troops.
The agreement also provides for safe passage for thousands of opposition fighters and civilians to rebel territory further north, although those transfers have not yet begun.
The regime is now in control of around 80 percent of Daraa province, while rebels hold around 15 percent, according to the Observatory.
Anticipating a regime attack, thousands of people have fled the ISIS-held zone in the past two days heading toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Around 200,000 displaced people have already sought refuge along that frontier, which remains sealed, according to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... "After finishing off rebel forces in the south, the regime is expected to attack the last pocket held by the ISIS affiliate there," said Abdel Rahman.
Government forces have not yet begun their assault but rebels nearby hit the ISIS-held area with artillery and mortars late Monday.
Meanwhile Syrian state news agency SANA on Tuesday said four other villages northwest of Daraa were expected to seal deals with the government on Wednesday, citing unspecified "reports".
At least "14 regime and opposition fighters who recently reconciled were killed in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a military position in Zaizun," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, giving an updated toll.
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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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...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi civilian was killed Tuesday after a bomb fixed to his car 
[IsraelTimes] Navy arrests 8 passengers, some of them Paleostinians injured in recent border 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
