CAIRO- The Egyptian army is clearing buildings deemed a security threat at a distance of up to one km (0.6 miles) from the Gaza border, an army spokesman said on Sunday, accusing groups in the Hamas-run territory of mounting joint attacks with Sinai militants.
It's almost as if the Egyptians know who their enemy is. And notice that they're knocking down buildings next to Gazoo without international protest...
Ahmed Ali, the spokesman, said the move did not amount to a buffer zone which Hamas fears Egypt is creating along the border to further isolate Gaza, whose economy is propped up by smuggling through tunnels to Sinai.
It's ... something else...
He was speaking during a news conference in Cairo to present the army's progress since it stepped up operations against Islamist militants in Sinai last week. Ali said the army was "dealing" with any building deemed a security threat in a corridor stretching from 500 meters to one km from the Gaza frontier. He said houses concealing tunnels used for weapons smuggling were a threat to national security.
The army had destroyed 152 tunnels since June 30, he added.
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Paleos gotta dig. It's in their mutated DNA
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Curse you Dr. Moreau, and your human-gopher hybrids!
[Ynet] Egyptian army front man: motorized paragliders seized during operation to 'purify Sinai from terrorizing elements'
Egyptian army soldiers operating against jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula discovered that the hard boyz are using motorized paradliders that can be used to cross any border barrier. Army Spokesperson Ahmed Ali told a presser on Sunday that three such paragliders have been seized over the past few days. The paragliders are apparently American made.
Ali also played a video showing for the first time hundreds of Islamists who were tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by security forces. The detainees were filmed speaking about their activities and motives. Many of the detainees are Paleostinians or jihadists who arrived in Sinai from other countries.
Presumably fighting the Egyptian army is deemed less dangerous than facing chemical weapons in Syria...
According to the video, Egyptian jihadists who are residents of Sinai are in the minority.
Ali declared that the army transformed its operations in the peninsula from reactive regarding the attacks on its forces, to proactive to "purify Sinai from the terrorizing elements" who pose "a threat, not only to national security, but also regional and international security."
Ali said that the army was surprised with the "sudden escalation of terrorist attacks in Sinai after 30 June 2013," which led the army to similarly escalate their own operations by the second half of August.
The paragliders are essentially chairs equipped with a gasoline engine. They can remain in the air for up to an hour.
An Egyptian security source told the Al-Masry Al-Youm daily that the paragliders were seized in northern Sinai homes where gunnies were holed up. He said they can fly at an altitude of 150-200 meters (492-656 feet). He explained that the jihad organizations are using them to photograph army positions and occasionally open fire from above using automatic rifles or even rocket-propelled grenades.
"This equipment is very dangerous. It is the most advanced we have found in their possession," he said.
According to Ali, the army has tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... around 309 bully boyz and confiscated a number of munitions, including mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
He added that some of the confiscated hand grenades bear the stamp of Al-Qassam Brigades -- the Death Eater wing of Gazoo's Islamist ruling party Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
"Hamas is also responsible for securing the borders," said Ali, who added that houses placed on the border with the Gazoo Strip are a threat to national security.
Ali stated that while no buffer zone has been declared between Sinai and Gazoo yet, the army is securing a distance of between 500 meters and one kilometer at the border.
Ali further vowed that once operations are finalized, the army would support an initiative to develop the peninsula.
"The last week involved a decisive confrontation with elements that threaten national security," said Ali. He added that the armed forces present in Sinai are also concerned with protecting the freedom and interests of "the people of Sinai."
"If we had used excessive violence in Sinai, we would have ended terrorism within 24 hours."
[Ynet] The Paleostinian Maan news agency quoted Egyptian security forces as saying that Egyptian border guard forces thwarted an attack to bomb an army watch tower in the El-Barazil neighborhood, adjacent to the international border line in Rafah.
The report stated that Egyptian forces uncovered a tunnel near the watch tower where hard boyz placed three devices containing 150 kg of explosives. They had been wired to electrical circuits to be detonated from afar.
[Al Ahram] Armed assailants targeted a military checkpoint on the Ismailiya-Cairo Desert road on Sunday, killing one conscript and injuring three others, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported.
The assailants reportedly attacked the checkpoint with automatic weapons from two cars.
Security forces have closed off all exits on the Ismailiya-Cairo Desert Road in search of the attackers, who were last seen heading towards 10th of Ramadan City.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Some 45 inmates escaped a Libyan prison on Friday (September 13th) after setting a fire on Friday (September 13th), Libya Herald reported. Colonel Bashir Abdel-Jabir said that his infantry brigade managed to restore order at the Qadaiba jail in Ajdabiya and recapture six escapees.
In other security news, Interim Interior Minister Sidiq Abdulkareem said international experts were helping investigate the 9/11 Benghazi bombing.
"Investigations by the interior ministry are going on with the co-operation with friendly countries, including Italia and the United States, in order to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice," Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Post quoted him as saying Saturday.
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[THEAUSTRALIAN.AU] AN official says vigilantes in Nigeria's northeast have killed a police officer after one of their members was rubbed out by police.
The Civilian Joint Task Force has been helping the government capture Islamic gunnies in and around Maiduguri, where 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... formed years ago.
A member of the Civilian-JTF, Muhammed Adamu, said the policeman shot and killed the vigilante after stopping him for being on the wrong side of the road.
Adamu says the member was transporting a Boko Haram suspect in a car.
Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima said vigilantes blocked a major road with burning tyres and threatened to harm further coppers on Saturday.
State police commissioner Lawal Tanko said one officer was beaten to death.
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one officer was beaten to death
That's a hard way to go.
[An Nahar] Vigilantes in northeastern Nigeria captured 11 suspected members of the 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... and handed them over to the army, a military commander said Sunday, adding that four of them have since died in jug.
The vigilantes left their base in Borno state to chase six suspects into the neighboring state of Adamawa on Saturday, Beyidi Martins, a top commander in the operation against Boko Haram in the area, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The youth vigilantes mobilized from Maiduguri to Michika in pursuit of six Boko Haram gunnies who fled from Bama and succeeded in arresting them along with five other gunnies hosting them," Martins said.
He said four of the suspects had died since being handed over to the army of injuries sustained during their arrest.
The army has applauded the emergence in recent months of civilian fighters, describing them as a helpful tool which has boosted the military effort against Boko Haram.
The machete and ax-carrying vigilantes have succeeded in pushing Boko Haram Death Eaters out of the city of Maiduguri to villages near Nigeria's borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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[Al Ahram] A Bahraini court placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Sunday three Shia Musselmens for 10 years each after convicting them of attempting to kill coppers during anti-government protests, lawyers said.
The trio, Jaafar Ali, Hussain Mansur and Mustafa Abdulkarim, had been charged of attempting to kill three coppers "with premeditation" on February 16, in the Shia village of Karzakan, southwest of Manama.
The public prosecution had also accused the men of "possessing homemade shotguns, as well as employing violence against police, and participating in an unauthorised protest."
They opened fire on police as security forces were dispersing a protest in the Shia village, the prosecution said.
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[An Nahar] A police chief in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden escaped injury on Sunday when a bomb went kaboom! as his car passed by, a security source said.
The armored vehicle carrying special forces General Abdelhafedh al-Saqqaf was on a road near Aden airport when the device went off, the source said.
Saqqaf was uninjured but his vehicle was damaged.
The security source said the bomb appeared to have been detonated by remote control, and residents of the area said they heard shots after the blast.
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[Al Ahram] A Yemeni court Sunday tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three Al-Qaeda Death Eaters to between one and seven years after convicting them of plotting to assassinate President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and the American ambassador.
The same Sanaa court specialising in terrorism cases freed a fourth defendant held on similar charges based on time already served in prison, an AFP correspondent reported.
The defendants were accused of conspiring to carry out a suicide kaboom against Hadi using a vehicle laden with explosives, according to the charges read out by presiding judge Hilal Mahfal.
But the jacket wallah who was to launch the attack was instead assigned to a different operation by an Al-Qaeda leader.
Instead he went kaboom! on May 21, 2012 in a square in central Sanaa, killing nearly 100 soldiers taking part in a military parade marking the anniversary of Yemeni unification in 1990, Mahfal said.
It was the largest such bombing in Sanaa since Hadi, who had repeatedly vowed to battle Al-Qaeda, came to power in February 2012.
The defendants were also monitoring the movements of US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein "to prepare to assassinate him," according to the charge sheet.
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A gunman shot and killed at least four people and wounded eight more Monday at a Navy facility in Washington, authorities said. Naval officials said that the gunman was on the loose.
SWAT officers swarmed the facility, the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command at the Washington Navy Yard.
A naval security guard was among those shot and was hit in both legs, U.S. military officials said. Washington city police told WRC, the NBC affiliate in Washington, that one of their officers was also among those shot. It was not clear how many of the five others were civilian and how many were military.
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Fox is reporting the possibility [possibility] of multiple shooters due to hospital reports of different gunshot wound characteristics of the injured. Fox indicated it could be the result of a single shooter with two different weapons. No shots fired in last 30 minutes.
Multiple types of wounds could also be attributed to friendly fire.
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From WaPo:
David Stevens, a Navy contractor, was on the phone talking in building 197 when he heard an initial volley of shots fired. He heard people shouting that a shooter was on the buildings fourth floor.
He said he ran to the edge of a glass atrium that overlooks all the floors and glanced up, only to hear a second deluge of shots. The fire alarm sounded, and people began exiting the building.
Stevens described the building as very secure. He said employees must present an ID at the entrances. Visitors must have security clearance to get in.
Its unbelievable that someone could get a rifle in there -- if thats what the shooter had, he said.
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Second flash: One shooter is down, another neutralized as of 11:18 a.m. DrudgeReport has a multiplicity of articles on the subject
Multiple media reports said at least two attackers were involved in the rampage. Bulcatin reported one of the shooters was down.
WUSA9 reported the second shooter had been neutralized. Authorities had been closing in on the at-large assailant inside the Navy Yards Building 197.
Buclatin said all the injuries occurred in the Building 197, which is home to the Naval Sea Systems Command.
Navy officials had reported three shots were fired at 8:20 a.m. at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Southeast Washington.
Two of the shooting victims are D.C. police officers.
The Navy has issued a shelter-in-place order for personnel, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.
We believe there has been loss of life and several injuries, Little said. We continue to monitor this ongoing situation.
The 11th Street Bridge has been shut down, and people should stay away from the area, the police spokesman said. Flights departing from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport have being been stopped, the FAA says, and incoming flights are being held at their origin.
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Guys, if you can please include article links with your updates if you can. Type an anchoring word -- "link" will do -- copy the article URL, highlight the word, click on the little world icon in the row below the comment box, and paste your URL into the thingy that pops up. Oh yes, and if you erase the place-holding "http" that is already in the thingy, it will work much better.
Thank y'all so much! And for those of you in DC at the moment, stay safe.
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Time for the Obama regime to do massive CYA. Like the Benghazi attack, this will be another cover up as soon as the regime can get its wits together enough to come up with BS talking points.
U.S.: Police Searching For 2 Other Suspects In Navy Yard Shooting
September 16, 2013 | 1733 GMT
Police continue to search for two potential gunmen in the Washington Navy Yard shooting, police chief Cathy Lanier said Sept. 16, AP reported. The deceased gunman has been identified as a Navy employee, and authorities have said he could have been motivated by job-related grievances, though terrorism has not been ruled out. Lanier said she does not believe the other gunmen are members of the military.
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Of course its not terror attack, its "workplace violence" just like Ft Hood. He could have been screaming AllahuAkbar, Death to the Infidels, and wearing a kheffiyah, and it would *still* be "workplace violence" for this regime and the Courtney Massengales that serve politics instead of their oaths.
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Speculation is not a good thing, but I will bet dollars to donuts that the guy or guys showed signs like Hussein did and supervisors did nothing for....various reasons.....
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reports out indicate this person is the shooter
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The Idiot of the Day award should go to the CNN anchor who said this, "Who ever heard of a gunman rampaging across a U.S. military facility?
Ive worked in Washington for many years, Ive never heard of such a thing happening.
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How'd he get hired as a civilian contractor?
Oh, as suppose hiring a worker who sets fire to a nuclear submarine to get out of a day's work?
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#24 Probably. From what I read, that charge is a Class A misdemeanor in Texas. Up here in NY, any type of infraction with a gun might get one crucified.
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More about Mr. Aaron Alexis, former Navy petty officer 3rd class, which is no doubt meaningful to some of you. According to the article, he left the Navy because he didn't like getting up early, and has worked as a civilian contractor -- computers -- since then.
Also, death count is up to 13, but that includes Mr. Alexis.
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How did he get a weapon into the facility and to the 4th floor with no resistance?
Fox reports I have pieced together say he stole a badge and killed a guard first. He apparently had a handgun and an AR-15 so he could have taken that from the armed guard but what is on the 3rd and 4th floors of building 97 and why target them? I also heard early reports when it was chaotic of the black armored vehicles arriving and the many armed escorts of a black vehicle getting some VIP out.
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I guess the 3-4th floors can look down to the cafeteria in an open atrium so maybe no one was targeted but he must have been in the building previously. I wonder whose ID he stole and if that is the person being sought?
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Clearly a disgruntled employee/contractor went postal. Nothing to do with Islamic Terror....but jumping to conclusions is Americans favourite pastime.
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Something highly secure on the 4th floor. Fox interviewed a Capt with 60 people under him. His offices and conference room were on a "security only" entrance.
He stated that some fast employee of his shut the "outer layer of security." There were gun shots in the doors of the offices there on that 4th floor.
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Seattle Police say Aaron Alexis was arrested June 3rd 2004, a few days after shooting out the tires of a car parked in a driveway next to a home where he was staying in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.
Police say the morning of May 6th 2004, construction workers reported a man coming out of a house near where they were working and shooting out the tires of a Honda Accord that they had driven to the site and then returning to a nearby home.
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We can be thankful the officer that shot him, killed him. Now we wont have to go through Jackson and the rest of the race baiters blaming it on the middle aged white guy.
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Frequented the Wat Busayadhammavanaram Buddhist Temple.
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> Both FOX + CNN repor that Police are looking for a possible third shooter.
> Shooter Alexis repor prayed at a Buddhist temple.
> Shoote ALexis claimed to had been involved in the search-n-rescue efforts back on 9-11-2001 in NYC.
> Father says son was a LT sufferer of PTSD.
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I always thought that mass shootings were from odd ball loner, young white males. Thus we need to keep them from owning firearms.
My prayers to the families.
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I always thought that mass shootings were from odd ball loner, young white males. Thus we need to keep them from owning firearms.
So what are you gonna do. Use every little niggling adverse event in a man's life to deny him the right to purchase a firearm?
We already have that in place, and in addition to denying folks who obey the law the right to purchase a firearm, a lot more folks who would never conceive of such of trying such an act being denied.
The shooter was a f*cking asshole. End of story. Al the fascist laws in the land Congress has passed since the NFA wouldn't have stopped him from doing what he did.
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Jeeze Louise! The Navy is treating their personnel in security like a friggin elementary school. Lockdown, people. At least you need each section having someone armed with at least a sidearm. You do not get security from the top down. You get it in layers, so if a link breaks, you can recover. Law abiding citizens with firearms have better security for their families than the Navy Yard has.
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So what are you gonna do. Use every little niggling adverse event in a man's life to deny him the right to purchase a firearm?
I think the commenter was being sarcastic, bad.
....but jumping to conclusions is Americans favourite pastime.
Yep, IP sez Toronto area. I thought I recogised that particular reek of condescension.
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"We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside the base today," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
So one shooter as a diversion for escape of the other two?
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I always thought that mass shootings were from odd ball loner, young white males
The majority of the population is white, therefore the majority of such shooters ought to be as well. Contrariwise it is generally assumed that any minorities engaging in such behaviour are gang bangers, except in cases like that Korean lad at Virginia Tech some years back. Journalists tend not to look beyond the standard storyline, making it hard for readers to discover underlying truths.
[Dawn] Armed bully boyz torched at least a dozen oil tankers carrying fuel for US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troops stationed in Afghanistan in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's industrial town of Hub on Sunday night.
Arif Ali, a police official told Dawn.com via telephone that around 10 to 15 armed bully boyz fired rockets and hurled hand-held bombs at the NATO tankers, parked outside a roadside hotel near Hub town in Lasbela district.
The tankers caught fire after the attack. "Even after two hours, flames of fire could be seen," Ali said. He said the fire had also engulfed the hotel and nearby shops.
Fire brigade was called from Hub city to extinguish the roaring flames of fire. "Fire fighters are making hectic efforts to put off the fire," said the police officer.
Exact number of oil tankers would only be ascertained once fire is completely extinguished, he added.
District Police Officer (DPO) Lasbela Ahmad Nawaz Cheema, while confirming the incident, contradicted the reports of firing and rocket attack saying no firing was heard in the area. He, however, did not rule out possibility of an IED blast.
The attackers drove off the scene after the strike. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... there was no human loss since all drivers managed to escape unhurt from the site.
Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the spot and cordoned off the area to probe into the incident.
Militants have intensified attacks against NATO supplies. This incident has come two days after the bully boyz torched nine NATO oil tankers in Sorab area of Balochistan.
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[Dawn] A prison official, deputy superintendent of police, was killed in an ambush on his car in Model Colony on Saturday in what police Sherlocks saw as a case of sectarian attack and also linked with his sensitive professional association.
The officials said that armed riders on a cycle of violence targeted DSP Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah minutes after he had left his home in Model Colony with a younger brother. The attack was so severe that the densely-populated locality reverberated with gunfire, spreading fear and panic in the area.
"The younger brother, Sher Muhammad, told the police that he was with Mr Shah but escaped unhurt," said Inspector Misri Shah, the SHO of the Model Colony cop shoppe. "He said he ducked when he heard the gunshots and that's why couldn't notice the number of attackers who had intercepted them near Faryal School, neighbourhing Soorti Housing Society in Model Colony, which is hardly 500 metres from the Malir Cantt gate 2. But he is sure, as are we, that the attackers were on a motorbike."
The 46-years-old DSP, who was struck down in his prime, was hit by four bullets on the head and chest, he said, adding that the body was later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. The dear departed, who left two widows and seven children, was recently promoted and posted as deputy superintendent at the juvenile jail in Landhi.
Before the recent posting he was serving at the central prison as an inspector. The Sherlocks, who earlier suspected a dispute within the family as a reason behind the incident, after examining the scene of the crime and going through other facts were having second thoughts.
"Sher Muhammad, the younger brother of the victim, told the police that they had some serious dispute with their nephew, who lived in Hyderabad," said an official associated with the Model Colony cop shoppe's investigation arm.
"Sher Muhammad was also attacked by his nephew more than a month ago in Hyderabad but he escaped with a bullet wound in the left arm."
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the way the attack on DSP Shah was carried out and multiple casings of spent bullets of 9mm pistol -- the commonly used arm in targeted attacks -- on the scene of the crime encouraged the high-ups to explore other angles as well. That was the reason that pushed the authorities to set up a special team for investigation instead of pursuing the probe in a conventional way.
"The investigations are open so far," said newly-appointed DIG-East Munir Sheikh. "We are looking into different aspects, including a sectarian motive for the attack as well as the jail services of the victim. For that purpose, an investigation team has been set up under an SP rank officer, which would come up with an initial report in the next few days."
He said the police had necessary expertise to investigate such cases, which would help determine the motive and people behind the deadly attack in the shortest possible time. The Sherlocks during the course of their job would also consider personal and professional history of the victim, he added.
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So much for the peace movement...
The major-general and lieutenant-colonel were visiting troop positions in the Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, along the Afghan border, when their vehicle hit a bomb killing them and a soldier.
Maj-Gen Sanaullah and Lt-Col Touseef embraced Shahadat (martyrdom) this morning. They were returning after visiting troop posts on Pak-Afghan Border, the military said in a statement. Sepoy Imran also embraced Shahadat (martyrdom), two soldiers injured in the blast have been evacuated, it added.
Taleban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a statement condemned the blast.
He had to.
Pakistan army has made substantial sacrifices to protect the nation against the menace of terrorism and such cowardly acts by terrorists cannot deter the morale of our armed forces, Sharif said.
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[An Nahar] Attacks across Iraq, including more than a dozen boom-mobiles, killed at least 46 people on Sunday while the head of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... 's provincial council escaped an liquidation attempt on his convoy.
The violence was the latest in months of unrelenting bloodshed, the country's worst since 2008, that has sparked concern Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian war of previous years that killed tens of thousands.
Authorities have imposed tough restrictions on movement in the capital and elsewhere, and carried out wide-ranging operations against Death Eaters, but Death Eaters have pressed their attacks.
On Sunday, they struck in more than a dozen towns and cities, with at least 17 boom-mobiles, killing 46 people and wounding more than 130 overall.
The deadliest violence was in and around the city of Hilla, the predominantly Shiite capital of Babil province south of Storied Baghdad, where four boom-mobiles killed 19 people, police and medics said.
"I saw many people with burns, and people who were on fire, they were screaming for help," said Sajjad al-Amari, a 22-year-old witness to one boom-mobileing on the outskirts of Hilla.
Another witness, Karrar Ahmed, told Agence La Belle France Presse he saw "many shop owners who were thrown to the floor, many were killed and maimed, and they were lying on the ground, among the goods from their shops."
Ahmed, still shaking with nerves, said incompetence by the security forces had "cleared the way for gunnies to target, and kill, civilians."
No group immediately grabbed credit for the violence, which largely struck majority Shiite areas. Sunni snuffies linked to al-Qaeda, however, often target Iraq's Shiite majority, whose adherents they regard as apostates.
In Storied Baghdad, meanwhile, a boom-mobile hit the convoy of Riyadh al-Adhadh, chief of the provincial council and a Sunni politician from the party of the national parliament speaker.
Adhadh was unharmed but two others, including one of his bodyguards, were killed and four people were maimed.
The blast shattered the windows of nearby shops and buildings, and security forces imposed a cordon around the area in the aftermath, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
A separate boom-mobile later on Sunday in the capital killed three others.
Another boom-mobileing at a market on the outskirts of the southern port city of Basra killed three people and maimed 15 others, officials said.
Attacks south of Storied Baghdad -- in Yusifiyah, Karbala, Nasiriyah, Kut, Suweirah and Hafriyah -- left nine people dead, while shootings and bombings in and around the northern and western cities of Abu Ghraib, Baquba, Sharqat, Kirkuk and djinn-infested Mosul killed 10 more.
The latest bloodshed comes amid a months-long increase in violence which has left more than 4,000 dead already this year, as Iraq grapples with a prolonged political deadlock and spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
On Saturday, a jacket wallah at a funeral near djinn-infested Mosul, Iraq's main northern city, killed 27 people and maimed dozens, and violence in the past week alone has claimed more than 200 lives.
Authorities insist a campaign targeting snuffies is yielding results, claiming to have captured hundreds of alleged fighters and killed dozens, with security forces apparently having dismantled several krazed killer training camps and bomb-making sites.
But the government has faced criticism for not doing more to defuse Sunni Arab anger over alleged ill-treatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities.
Analysts and diplomats say snuffies have exploited this on the ground to recruit new fighters and carry out attacks.
Last week, an al-Qaeda front group grabbed credit for a spate of boom-mobiles that targeted Shiite neighborhoods of Storied Baghdad and left 50 dead.
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A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 53 people in mostly Shia-majority cities on Sunday, another bloody reminder of the governments failure to stem the surge of violence that is feeding sectarian tensions.
Sundays deadliest attack was in the city of Hillah, 95km south of Baghdad, where a car bomb near an outdoor market killed nine civilians and wounded 15 others, a police officer said. A few minutes later, another car bomb went off nearby, killing six civilians and wounding 14, he added.
In the nearby town of Iskandariyah, 50km south of the capital, another car bomb hit a parking lot, killing four civilians and wounding nine, police said.
Another car bomb went off in an industrial area of the city of Karbala, killing five and wounding 25, a police officer said. Karbala is 80km south of Baghdad. In the aftermath, security officials inspected burnt-out cars in front of what appeared to be a smashed row of workshops.
In Kut, 160km southeast of Baghdad, a car bomb targeted construction workers and food stalls, killing two and wounding 14, another provincial police officer said.
Seven more civilians were killed and 31 others were wounded when four separate car bombs ripped through the towns of Suwayrah and Hafriyah outside Kut, police said.
In Baghdads northern Sunni-dominated Azamiyah neighbourhood, a car bomb that exploded near the convoy of the head of Baghdads provincial council killed three and wounded eight, police say. The council head escaped unharmed.
Two other car bombs hit the southern cities of Basra and Nasiriyah, killing eight civilians and wounding 26, two police officers said. And two more civilians were killed when a bomb hit a police patrol in Baghdads Sunni western suburb of Abu Ghraib. Nine other people were wounded.
To the northeast of Baghdad, gunmen broke into a farm in the village of Abu Sayda and killed three Sunni farmers, police said
Sometimes insurgents launch multiple attacks for two or more days in a row. On Saturday, 27 people were killed in suicide attacks, bombings and shootings.
In the afternoon, police found the bodies of four Sunni men killed with gunshots to the head. The men, all relatives, were kidnapped early Sunday by gunmen who stormed their house in Baghdads southern Youssifiyah suburb.
Eleven medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.
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Two suspected terrorists militants were killed in a battle with a combined police and military force in Yala province early yesterday.
The clash occurred about 5 a.m. after rangers and police raided a house in Muang district, acting on a tip-off that three or four armed terrorists militants were hiding there. Upon seeing the authorities, the men allegedly opened fire on them.
The security forces fired back and, after a brief gun battle, found two bodies of suspected terrorists militants. The suspects were identified as Muhammad Ayi Tayae and Abdullor Jaeni, both from Yala.
Officials believe the two men might be sympathisers of the Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) separatist group and an insurgent group led by Ubaidela Rommuedee and Arba Jae-arlee. Officials said the two men had no arrest warrants out for them. They are thought to be responsible for supplying information about security officers' movements to the insurgent group.
[BREITBART] Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels battled more moderate Syrian opposition fighters in a town along the Iraqi border on Saturday, killing at least five people in the latest outbreak of infighting among the forces opposed to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime.
Clashes between rebel groups, particularly pitting al-Qaeda-linked bad boy factions against more moderate units, have grown increasingly common in recent months, undermining the opposition's primary goal of overthrowing Assad.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday's fighting took place in the town of Boukamal between the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant against more mainstream rebel groups.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the more moderate rebels used mosque loudspeakers Friday to demand the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant leave Boukamal. When it was clear Saturday the ISIL had no plans to decamp, the mainstream groups attacked, Abdul-Rahman said. Three mainstream rebels and two ISIL fighters were killed in the festivities, he said.
It was not immediately clear what spurred the rebel demands for ISIL to leave Boukamal.
After months of growing tensions, infighting among Syria's mosaic of rebel factions broke into the open in July. For a time, the festivities contributed to a sense that the rebellion was faltering, and threatened to fracture an opposition movement that has been plagued by divisions from the start.
The moderates once valued the expertise and resources that the Islamic bad boy brigades brought to the battlefield, and rebel factions of all stripes enter into occasional alliances for specific operations. But many of the moderates now question whether such military assets are worth the trouble _ not to mention the added difficulty in persuading the West to arm them.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese citizen Hasan Hjoula was critically maimed Sunday in an armed ambush in the Beirut southern suburb of al-Kafaat, state-run National News Agency reported.
"As news broke that Hjoula was rubbed out by gunnies, tension surged in the al-Laylaki area (in Dahieh), where gunnies deployed heavily on the streets and intense gunfire was heard," NNA said.
The agency noted that army troops have deployed in the area in a bid to contain the situation.
Later on Sunday, the Army Command issued a statement clarifying that Hjoula was "critically maimed" and not killed as initially reported.
"Today at 6:20 p.m. and against the backdrop of old family disputes, gunnies in an SUV opened fire from light assault weapons on a citizen in the al-Kafaat area, wounding him critically," the statement said.
"An army force deployed in the aforementioned area to preserve security and stability and it is pursuing the shooters in order to arrest them and refer them to the relevant judicial authorities," it added.
In August, two men were maimed in renewed festivities between the Hjoula and Zoaiter families in al-Laylaki, a southern suburb of Beirut.
During a previous round of festivities in June, the army explained that the unrest erupted over non-political reasons.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese army was on Sunday pursuing a Paleostinian who had injured two Syrians after opening fire on them in the southern city of Sidon.
An army communique said Sunday that Louay Ahmed Mansour, known as Abu Khaled, fired around 22:40 pm Saturday at Syrian refugees residing in a building at Sidon's northern entrance.
Two Syrians were lightly injured in the attack, the army said.
A military patrol, which was dispatched to the area, contained the incident, the communique said.
It added that the army was pursuing Mansour to arrest him and hand him over to the judicial authorities.
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[An Nahar] The jihadist al-Nusra Front said in an Internet statement on Sunday its fighters attacked three villages in Syria's Homs province and killed dozens of Alawites five days earlier.
"The people's wall of fear has been broken, as this was the first time these villages were entered and such a high number was killed," the al-Qaida-linked group said in the statement published on a jihadist forum.
Al-Nusra said its fighters entered the villages of Massudiyeh, Maksar al-Hissan and Jab al-Jerah on Tuesday and killed 30 members of the Alawite community, to which President Bashar Assad's clan belongs.
The statement said al-Nusra fighters were urged by an Islamic jurist "to kill the Nusairis, enemies of God", using a pejorative term for Alawites.
The attack was "in revenge for the killing in cold blood of Muslims and their women in Eastern Ghouta" near Damascus, where the opposition claims 1,400 people were killed in a chemical weapons attack on August 21.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported this week on the attack that 12 civilians were killed, before on Sunday updating its toll to 22 civilians killed in Maksar al-Hissan.
It said among them were 16 Alawites including four above the age of 80 and four children aged between nine and 12.
The watchdog said five soldiers loyal to Assad were also killed.
The region, mostly home to Alawites and Bedouins, has been largely free of fighting over the past year.
Other areas of Homs province have seen some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's 30-month war.
Several areas of the provincial capital, dubbed "the capital of the revolution", have been destroyed as the Assad regime bombarded rebel-held areas.
Sectarian tensions have soared in Homs, which is home to sizable Sunni, Alawite and Christian communities.
Meanwhile, a mortar round exploded near a provincial headquarters in the Marjeh district of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, without reporting casualties.
It said the attack was swiftly followed by an air strike on rebel positions.
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Uh, just a thought but there might ( just maybe ) be a business opportunity here. Get Dupont on the line and ask if they want to sell any Napalm to a third party for delivery to Assad?
Good money in napalm. And Electric Machine guns...in the upper mike mike sizes...sell 'em a little snake to light up their mornings along with the Napalm.
Allah can wash his Holy hands in it.
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