[An Nahar] Sudan shut down the Khartoum offices of pan-Arab satellite channels Al-Arabiya and Sky News Arabia on Friday, the fifth day of mass protests against fuel price hikes, the networks said.
Al-Arabiya said on its website that the closure -- the first such move against a foreign media outlet since the protests began -- came hours after its Khartoum correspondent was summoned for a meeting.
Sky News correspondent in Khartoum Tarek al-Tijani told Agence La Belle France Presse authorities shut his office, seized equipment and banned him from working.
"Security officers came and informed us that the authorities had decided to freeze our activities. They seized equipment and told us we can no longer carry out journalistic activities," Tijani said.
The Sudanese government could not immediately be reached for comment.
The protests over fuel price hikes are the largest of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's 24-year rule, and young activists have used chants made famous during the Arab Spring to call for his downfall.
Rights groups accuse security forces of having bumped off more than 50 people, and Internet access across the country was cut on Friday for the second time this week. It was later resumed, users said.
Authorities, who have acknowledged 29 deaths since Monday, sought to impose a blackout on the unrest by seizing or blocking publication of three Sudanese newspapers Friday, journalists said.
The dailies Al-Sudani and Al-Majhar al-Siassi were seized at the printing press, they said, while Al-Watan was ordered not to print after covering the unrest in its Thursday edition.
Al-Arabiya and Sky News Arabia are both based in the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Arabiya, owned by a Saudi businessman with close ties to the ruling Al-Saud family, runs its operations from Dubai and is a rival of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... , with the two Arab news networks often taking opposing views on regional events.
Sky News Arabia has its headquarters in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi and is a joint venture between London-based BSkyB and the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation.
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[An Nahar] Two Arab tribes which have been battling off-and-on for months in Sudan's Darfur region have resumed festivities, leaving dozens dead, one of their leaders said on Friday.
"In total, 51 people were killed and 65 were maimed," in fighting on Thursday, Ahmed Khiri, a Misseriya tribal leader, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A leader of the rival Salamat tribe confirmed that the fighting took place in Central Darfur state, but gave no casualty figures.
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[An Nahar] Sudanese poured into the streets after Friday prayers in a fifth day of demonstrations against fuel price hikes that have seen dozens rubbed out and calls for the government's overthrow.
The price hikes have sparked the largest protests of Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's 24-year rule, as young activists have invoked chants from the Arab Spring to call for the president's downfall and security forces have been accused of gunning down more than 50 people.
Activists had called for stepped-up protests after weekly Moslem prayers, and security forces responded with a massive deployment on the streets of the capital and elsewhere.
Around 2,000 protesters marched in Omdurman, the capital's twin city, chanting anti-army slogans and calling for a halt to fuel price hikes, witnesses and an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said.
Police deployed in large numbers and watched from a distance as the demonstrators marched down a main thoroughfare chanting "Down to the army's power" and "No to price hikes."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... soldiers stood guard outside Khartoum petrol stations as long lines of cars waited to fill up after several stations were torched or shut down in recent days.
Internet access was cut for the second time this week, schools have been ordered closed until Monday and most shops remain shuttered, deepening the sense of crisis and sending residents scrambling to stock up on supplies.
"I want my family to have what we need because we don't know where this is all going," said Ahmad Hassan, 50, as he stocked up on canned goods.
In an apparent bid to impose a media blackout on the unrest, Sudanese authorities shut down the Khartoum office of pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya after summoning its correspondent for questioning, the network said.
Authorities also seized or blocked publication of three newspapers earlier Friday, even though the outlets are considered pro-government, journalists said.
The Al-Sudani and Al-Majhar al-Siassi dailies were seized at the printing press, they said, while Al-Watan was ordered not to print after covering the unrest in its Thursday edition.
The African Center for Justice and Peace Studies and London-based Amnesia Amnesty International said 50 people were killed after being shot in the head or chest on Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Local sources and activists have put the figure much higher, in excess of 100," a joint statement said.
They also expressed "deep concern" about reports of hundreds being enjugged You have the right to remain silent... and urged the authorities "to ensure that they are protected from torture and other ill-treatment."
"Shooting to kill -- including by aiming at protesters' chests and heads -- is a blatant violation of the right to life," said Lucy Freeman, Africa deputy director at Amnesty.
Police confirmed there had been 29 fatalities after the rioting erupted on Monday, without giving further details. Medics and other sources said most had been rubbed out.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said it was "concerned" about the reported deaths and called on all sides to avoid further violence.
"We particularly ask the Government of Sudan to respect the Sudanese people's right to freedom of expression, freedom of the media and freedom of assembly," a statement said.
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[An Nahar] Sudan's interior ministry said Friday that 600 people had been arrested for their involvement in anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the country this week.
The people were "arrested for participating in acts of vandalism and will be judged next week," a ministry statement said.
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A top Kenyan government official says investigators have recovered a vehicle believed to have been used by the terrorists who attacked Nairobis Westgate Mall. The official said on Friday investigators are tracing the cars ownership after it was retrieved outside the mall. He said there may be other vehicles used by the attackers, but gave no more details.
FBI agents along with investigators from Britain, Canada and Germany have been dispatched to investigate the crime scene. There have been no details on what the international team has found so far in the bullet-scarred, scorched mall.
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Also interesting would be the rental shop paperwork.
Details, details have already threatened the life of a good sheep dog.
[An Nahar] Two men threw hand-grenades at Malian troops in the ethnic-Tuareg northern rebel bastion of Kidal on Friday, wounding two soldiers, a local government official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The incident, which left one of the troopers seriously hurt, came after after Tuareg and Arab rebels claiming autonomy for northern Mali announced the suspension of negotiations with the government, dealing a blow to hopes of a durable peace in the troubled west African nation.
"I was in the Malian Solidarity Bank when I saw two turbaned men throw two grenades at Malian soldiers guarding the bank. One grenade went kaboom!. I saw blood on both soldiers," Moctar Maiga told AFP.
The incident was confirmed by a source in the governor's office in the town, the birthplace of Mali's Tuareg rebellion and the center of a number of uprisings since the 1960s.
Soldiers from the French-led Operation Serval mission combating Islamists in northern Mali and United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... peacekeeping troops arrived on the scene to defuse one of the grenades which had not went kaboom!, an African military source in Mali told AFP.
The Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) took control of Kidal in February after a French-led military operation ousted al-Qaeda-linked fighters who had piggybacked on the latest Tuareg rebellion to seize most of northern Mali.
The al-Qaeda-backed Death Eaters had chased out their former MNLA allies and imposed a brutal form of Islamic law.
The Malian authorities reclaimed the city after signing a ceasefire deal with the MNLA in June but the situation has remained tense.
The June 18 Ouagadougou accord between the rebels and the government allowed the Mali military to return to Kidal to prepare the way for presidential elections in July which brought Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to power.
Under the deal signed in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , the government and rebels agreed to respect the country's territorial integrity and to hold peace talks, focused on the status of northern Mali, which the Tuareg movements call Azawad.
But the rebels said on Thursday the government had not kept to its commitment under the deal to start prisoner releases, and announced they were pulling out.
The central government is unwilling to discuss autonomy for northern Mali and there have been sporadic festivities between Malian troops and local populations in the desert region since the deal was signed.
The Tuareg and Arab rebel groups released a statement from Ouagadougou on Thursday saying they had suspended their participation in the accord following "multiple difficulties" in its implementation "caused notably by the Mali government's failure to respect its commitments".
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[An Nahar] Algerian troops killed five Islamist gunnies east of the capital Friday, the defense ministry said, in the latest deadly violence to rock the restive corpse-littered Boumerdes province this month.
The Death Eaters died in festivities that broke out at 0600 GMT in a wooded area overlooking the town of Dellys and last for about three and a half hours, El-Watan reported separately, citing local sources.
"This operation, which took place after relevant information was obtained, reflects the determination and perseverance of the army to clean the country of these criminals," the ministry said.
It is the latest in a string of attacks in the restive region, where al-Qaeda forces are active, which have left at least nine Islamists and two soldiers dead.
The previous incident was on Sunday evening, when an army ambush killed two Death Eaters in the Baghlia area of corpse-littered Boumerdes.
Violence attributed to Islamists has declined considerably in Algeria in recent years, after a decade of appalling blood-letting during the civil war of the 1990s.
But groups affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to attack security forces in the eastern Kabylie region, in areas around the capital and in the south.
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[An Nahar] Several people were maimed in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria Friday when supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi clashed with his opponents, security officials told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Morsi loyalists had taken to the streets in several cities to protest against the military's overthrow of the Islamist leader in July.
In Alexandria, residents of the Al-Assafra neighborhood hurled stones at hundreds of pro-Morsi marchers, setting off festivities before police intervened to stop the fighting, one official said.
It has been nearly three months since Egypt's first democratically elected president was deposed by the army following massive protests calling for his ouster.
His Moslem Brüderbund movement had staged rallies and set up protest camps to demand his reinstatement, but security forces dispersed them in August in a bloody crackdown that left hundreds dead.
With its leadership and many of its activists in jail, the movement has struggled to mobilize and the numbers of Morsi supporters on the streets has been dwindling with every passing week.
In Cairo, pro-Morsi demonstrators sprayed anti-military graffiti on the walls of buildings as they marched on the Nile corniche in the Maadi neighborhood, an AFP correspondent said.
Protests were also staged in the Cairo districts of Nasr City and Mohandesseen, in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya and the central province Qena, security officials said.
Meanwhile in village of Kerdassa on the outskirts of Cairo, security forces continued to make arrests as they searched for Islamist hard boyz as part of a sustained crackdown on pro-Morsi supporters.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Benghazi plans to install a surveillance system to help improve security.
"The measures whether technical, administrative or financial require some time, but we will start mounting this system within a month in order to provide security services the capability of implementing security in Benghazi," Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Interior Minister Sidiq Abdelkarim announced on Sunday (September 22nd).
In his press briefing, he also offered updates on various investigations, including the US mission attack and the targeted assassinations of more than 60 military and police officials.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A raid by Libyan security forces on Tajoura prison uncovered a number of illegally-incarcerated Please don't kill me! inmates, including women, Libya Herald reported on Thursday (September 26th).
The defence ministry unit also reportedly found evidence of torture among prisoners held at the facility near 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...
Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... voiced concerns over the slow progress in transferring prisoners from the hands of militias to authorities.
Thousands of detainees in Libya "continue to be held by armed brigades not affiliated with the state in any form", Ban said on September 5th.
"The continuing ill-treatment and torture in non-state-run detention facilities is unacceptable," the UN chief added.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen have rubbed out a Yemeni man in the south of the country because they suspected he was homosexual, police said on Friday.
One of two men on a cycle of violenceshot up the man in his twenties late on Thursday outside his house in Huta, the capital of Lahij province, killing him on the spot.
Police said the attackers, presumed Islamist hard boys, escaped after the killing, the sixth such murder since the start of the year.
Similar killings in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation's provinces of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Aden have been blamed on an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active...
For the past year, Ansar al-Sharia has imposed Islamic law on areas of Abyan where it still holds sway.
Its so-called courts have tried and condemned to death several people accused of different crimes. Others have had hands amputated after being "convicted" of theft.
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Hey, Mahmoud, isn't that the guy you were banging in the ass?
#3
Then he/she should go and live* there, swksvolFF.
*for the 10 or so seconds he/she lived at all, there.
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Totally agree. And to prove just how modern and progressive the rest of the world is, it is high time to organize a naked PRIDE Tour de Yemen. Make it pay-per-view to cover the cost of transporting Georgetown Law armed with a pen and FAIL slips to politely explain.
[An Nahar] Thousands erupted into the streets in Bahrain on Friday to condemn the arrest of a prominent opposition figure hours after festivities between protesters and police, officials and witnesses said.
Demonstrations had been called to protest the arrest of ex-MP Khalil Marzooq on charges of inciting terrorism. The majority Shiite Gulf island, ruled by a Sunni monarchy, has seen frequent unrest since the government crushed an Arab Spring-inspired uprising in 2011.
Friday's demonstration west of the capital -- in which protesters waved Bahraini flags and chanted "Revolution until victory" and "We will not forget the deaders" -- was peaceful, but came hours after protesters and police clashed in a nearby village.
"Police were the target of a terrorist act of Molotov cocktails being thrown and partly setting on fire a vehicle of law enforcement officers in Shaharkhan village" west of Manama, the interior ministry said.
Also on Friday, police used tear gas to disperse small groups of protesters who tried to approach Pearl Square, the epicenter of the 2011 protests.
Witnesses said protesters on Thursday night erupted into the streets of Manama and nearby Shiite villages, chanting slogans demanding the release of political prisoners and the fall of the Sunni monarchy.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, who hurled stones and petrol bombs, they said.
Opposition groups suspended their participation in national reconciliation talks aimed at ending Bahrain's political impasse following Marzooq's arrest Tuesday.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! five Shibir men after they clashed with the former in Rajshahi city yesterday.
Around 100 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , student body of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , were taking preparation for bringing out a procession in New Market area in the afternoon to protest at the arrest of their Rajshahi University unit general secretary.
As police tried to stop them, the Shibir men hurled brick chips at the law enforcers and went kaboom! around five crude bombs, triggering the clash, said Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station.
Police then shot around 100 rounds of rubber bullets and lobbed several tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters, he added.
Police later nabbed the five Shibir men from the spot.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... identities of the arrestees could not be known.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion-5 on Thursday arrested General Secretary of RU unit Shibir Saifuddin Yahia, who is wanted for several criminal charges, along with seven accomplices at a Shibir-run university admission coaching centre in the city.
They also seized firearms and explosives from the coaching centre.
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The Russian anti-terrorism committee said Friday that an alleged warlord and four suspected terrorists militants had been killed in a raid on a home in the republic of Dagestan.
The alleged warlord, Sherif Akhmedov, had been suspected of being directly involved in at least 20 terror-related attacks, including on police and other officials, as well as on a synagogue, in the past two years alone. After being tipped off, special forces surrounded the house in Derbent on the Caspian Sea and in an ensuing gunfight killed the suspects, who had refused to surrender.
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The Russians have been quietly and steadily beavering away in Dagestan, Chechnya and vicinity for some time now, slowly but surely attriting the terrs. No doubt the threats against the upcoming Olympics add some motivation. Good hunting, comrades!
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One wonders what Afghanistan would have been like if the US had not aided the anti-Soviets, which eventually became the Taliban. In hindsight maybe we gave too much aid - should have been just enough to keep them killing each other indefinitely.
I don't like the Russians much, but I sure hope we don't decide to help the Islamofascists in Dagestan, etc.
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It wasn't so much aiding the anti-Soviet forces as much as funding the Pak ISI as the venue to do it with. It's sort of like backing Stalin against Hitler in that case.
[Dawn] At least 18 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bomb went kaboom! on a bus carrying government employees on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Charsadda Road, DawnNews reported.
Police officer Najeebur Rehman told AFP 18 people had been killed. Shah Farman, provincial minister of information, confirmed the toll and said there were 44 maimed.
Inspector General of KPK police Nasir Durrani said it was a remote-controlled bomb, containing six to eight kilograms of explosives and planted at the back of the bus, which was taking government staff home to the town of Charsadda after work. He added that it was a planned sabotage activity and the police was assessing the situation.
Eyewitness said the blast was so powerful it threw victims' bodies clear of the vehicle and onto the roadside.
"The sound of the blast is still ringing in my head, I cannot explain it in words," Lal Zada, 40, a government employee whose right leg was severely maimed, told AFP.
Lal Zada lost his brother-in-law, also a government employee in the blast.
"All of a sudden, there was a huge kaboom. The bus shattered and something hit me in my leg and I fell to the floor. It was horrible," he said.
Footage showed the back of the bus reduced to a tangle of twisted metal by the force of the kaboom.
Horrific scenes were seen in Peshawar's main Lady Reading hospital where nine dead bodies and 32 injured were taken.
The injured screamed for help in the emergency unit while doctors and medics were seen rushing in and outside the wards, providing medical treatment and wheeling the critically injured to the operating theatre.
The target was government employees, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis, the commissioner of Peshawar, told AFP. The bus was heading to the town of Charsadda when the bomb went off.
At least 18 people were killed and 44 others injured when a bomb went kaboom! on a bus carrying government employees on Peshawar's Charsadda Road, DawnNews reported.
Police officer Najeebur Rehman told AFP 18 people had been killed. Shah Farman, provincial minister of information, confirmed the toll and said there were 44 maimed.
Inspector General of KPK police Nasir Durrani said it was a remote-controlled bomb, containing six to eight kilograms of explosives and planted at the back of the bus, which was taking government staff home to the town of Charsadda after work. He added that it was a planned sabotage activity and the police was assessing the situation.
Eyewitness said the blast was so powerful it threw victims' bodies clear of the vehicle and onto the roadside.
"The sound of the blast is still ringing in my head, I cannot explain it in words," Lal Zada, 40, a government employee whose right leg was severely maimed, told AFP.
Lal Zada lost his brother-in-law, also a government employee in the blast.
"All of a sudden, there was a huge kaboom. The bus shattered and something hit me in my leg and I fell to the floor. It was horrible," he said.
Footage showed the back of the bus reduced to a tangle of twisted metal by the force of the kaboom.
Horrific scenes were seen in Peshawar's main Lady Reading hospital where nine dead bodies and 32 injured were taken.
The injured screamed for help in the emergency unit while doctors and medics were seen rushing in and outside the wards, providing medical treatment and wheeling the critically injured to the operating theatre.
The target was government employees, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis, the commissioner of Peshawar, told AFP. The bus was heading to the town of Charsadda when the bomb went off.
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[Dawn] Unknown myrmidons manhandled members of a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination team in Merozai area on University Road here on Thursday and forced them to leave the area.
The matter has been reported to the district administration. Sources said that the attackers first asked the polio team to suspend the campaign and when it refused the vaccinators were manhandled and forced to leave the area.
They said that a special polio vaccination campaign was launched in Kohat after a three-year-old child was found to be polio affected in Afghan refugee camp in Jarma here about two weeks ago.
Attacks on polio teams have increased this year in Kohat division. A lady worker was injured in July last when polio vaccination team came under stone attack in Darwesh Nadan Baba area in Thall tehsil of Hangu.
Similarly, forces of Evil attacked a polio vaccination team and stopped it from administering drops to children in Darra Adamkhel in Frontier Region of Kohat in May this year.
In one case, myrmidons destroyed vaccine and threatened the polio and Frontier Region staff of dire consequences in Manikhel village.
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New Peoples Army militants killed a Philippine soldier in a clash Friday in Compostela Valley province. Local officials said the fighting broke out in Mawab town where communist militants attacked soldiers on patrol. The fighting lasted 10 minutes and it is not known if there were any casualties on the NPA side.
Lt. Col. Alexis Bravo said troops were deployed in the area to protect the village from threats of militant attacks. He said villagers sought help from the military following harassment by the NPA. He said, We preempted the entry of NPAs in that barangay. If not on the timely arrival of our troops, the community may have been attack by the NPAs."
[Bangkok Post] Four policemen and a villager were killed and 12 others wounded in Narathiwat province on Friday. The local resident was caught in the crossfire between terrorists insurgents and police, while the four officers died in a crash while rushing to provide backup to their colleagues battling the gunmen.
Pol Capt Prachaup Nimruang, head of a local bomb disposal unit, said he and 15 other officers were returning to their base after checking out a bombing incident on Friday afternoon. The team decided to take a mountain pass as a shortcut. As they passed through, a bomb placed on a rocky slope went off and the rocks tumbled onto the road.
At least 20 gunmen came out of hiding, fired at their four vehicles and threw nails on the road to prevent them from escaping. Three officers were wounded in the shootout which lasted more than an hour and the terrorists militants later fled.
During the gun battle, a civilian car passed and was fired upon. The driver of the vehicle was wounded and his passenger was killed. In a neighboring district, a police car heading to provide backup for the ambushed bomb squad overturned, resulting in four deaths and seven injuries.
The afternoon incidents followed the drive-by shooting of a woman in Rangae district earlier in the day. According to witnesses, the woman was traveling on her motorcycle when a gunman on another motorcycle shot at her with a handgun. The assailant then fled. The woman took six bullets to the body and was taken to the hospital.
[An Nahar] A boom-mobile killed at least 30 people on Friday in the town of Rankus north of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... the Observatory said 11 people were killed in a regime air raid in northern Aleppo province.
"At least 30 people were killed and dozens more injured in a boom-mobile blast that targeted worshipers at the Khalid Bin Walid mosque in Rankus," the Observatory said.
It added that regime forces shelled the area afterwards.
Rankus, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Damascus, is a Sunni town that backs the Sunni-dominated opposition to the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs...
Local activists called on residents to avoid gathering for fear of additional attacks in the town, which has regularly been the scene of fighting between rebels and regime forces.
State news agency SANA reported the blast. Without elaborating, it said the kaboom was the result of "a dispute between terrorist groups over the division of weapons and ammunition."
A video of the aftermath of the blast, filmed from a distance, showed a large cloud of black smoke and flames rising from a site next to a mosque.
In Aleppo province, the Observatory reported nine rebel fighters, a woman and a child were killed in a regime air raid on the village of Hadir.
More than 110,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, according to the Observatory.
The violence, which began with peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashir al-Assad, has also displaced millions inside Syria and forced at least two million to seek refuge abroad.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Bangla Daily Star] Police 
As police tried to stop them, the Shibir men hurled brick chips at the law enforcers and 
The Russian anti-terrorism committee said Friday that an alleged warlord and four suspected 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
