[Maghrebia] A Boumerdes court sentenced 14 terrorists to death in absentia, APS reported on Thursday (November 26th). One case involves 10 terrorists responsible for a series of criminal acts near Dellys. Convictions include attempted murder, terrorist financing and setting up roadside bombs.
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Nine Saudi soldiers are missing in the kingdom's borders with Yemen amid fighting between the country's forces and Shia Houthi fighters.
A Saudi defense ministry spokesman told the official SPA news agency on Thursday the Yemen-based fighters may have taken the soldiers prisoner, and that Houthis are 'entirely responsible for their wellbeing.'
The source provided a list of Saudi soldiers reported missing:
1. Lt. Col. Sa'eed Bin Muhammad Bin Ma'toug Al-Amri
2. Corporal Ayidh Bin Ali Bin Sa'eed Al-Shehri
3. Sergeant Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Ali Madadi
4. Staff Sergeant Muhammad Bin Mohsin Bin Sultan Al-Amri
5. Sergeant Ahmad Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al-Amri
6. Staff Sergeant Miflih Bin Jam'an Bin Miflih Al-Shahrani
7. Corporal Ali Bin Salman Bin Ali Al-Hiqwi
8. Sergeant Khalid Bin Saleh Bin Omar Al-Owdah
9. Private First Class Yahya Bin Abdullah Bin Amer Al-Khuza'iy
The conflict in northern Yemen first began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters, but relative peace had returned to region until August 11, when the Yemeni army began a major offensive, dubbed Operation Scorched Earth, against the province of Sa'adah.
The government claims that the fighters, who are named after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, seek to restore the Shia Zaidi imamate system, which was overthrown in a 1962 coup.
The Houthis, however, say they are defending their people against government marginalization policies which they believe have been adopted under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists, who consider Shias heretics.
The Saudi Arabian government has aggravated the conflict even more by launching its own offensive against northern Yemen based on an allegation that Houthi fighters have killed two of its soldiers on the border.
The fighters say Yemeni villages are being targeted with deadly phosphorous bombs, which cause massive injuries among the Shia civilian population.
Saudi officials have not given any figures for soldiers or civilians killed in the fighting. Unofficial estimates, however, say at least nine Saudi soldiers and four civilians have been killed since Riyadh began targeting Houthi positions inside Yemen.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that since 2004 up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada to take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Armed southern activists have closed down a main highway in Yemen, holiday travelers said on Friday, in a resurgence of separatist protests against the government.
Travelers said dozens of people leaving for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha were stranded on the road joining the capital and the main southern port of Aden after gunmen from the Southern Movement stopped all traffic late on Thursday.
Five Yemenis died in clashes on Wednesday between security forces and southern separatists, who say the northern-based government marginalizes and discriminates against the south, home to most of Yemen's oil facilities.
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"Armed southern activists"
Pirates tend to park their hijacked ships in the southern port. I have no doubt that Al-Q have ties with these groups.
A Huthi rebellion in the north with Al-Q assistance and a foreign Sunni rebellion in the south in challenge to the pro-western Sunni government in Yemen.
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At one time, the Arabian peninsula's only Marxist regime was in the South. Those were the days. Yemenis have the highest rate of personal gun ownership in the world. Mix that with competing religious crack pots
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The head of the Russian Federal Security Service has told a Russian news agency 14 pounds of explosives were used in the terror attack. And later another official suggested the explosive may have been inside one of the cars but that has not officially been confirmed.
And a second bomb detonated at the scene some 17 hours later during the cleanup operation say Russian sources. No one was injured in that blast.
The derailment occurred in a remote area hampering rescue efforts. Some of the 100 injured passengers were driven to St. Petersburg. Others were moved to Moscow by air and by road.
Initially Russian authorities said 26 were killed and 18 others were missing.
A similar attack occurred on a Russian train on the same line in 2009 but details of that attack and its motives have remained murky. Two Russians were arrested after that bombing and one is still being sought. No one died in that incident.
The Russian Prosecutor in charge of investigating this attack says bomb residue has been taken from the scene and that the blast created a five foot deep crater.
There have been numerous attacks in Russia in recent years carried out by Chechen separatists and also a growing number of violent incidents involving Ultra Nationalists.
But so far Russian authorities are not certain who carried out this bombing on the Nevsky Express.
Aimed at the rescue & cleanup crews. They've learned well from al-Qaeda.
The cause of the accident was unclear but police were investigating the possibility of a terrorist attack.
The carriages came off the track as the train was en route between Russia's two main cities on one of the country's busiest rail links.
A government spokesman said the accident to the Neva Express happened at 9.30pm (1830 GMT) near the town of Bologoye some 250 miles north-west of Moscow and 150 miles south-east of St Petersburg. Four carriages came off the rails as the train was travelling between stations in Aleshinka in the region of Tver and Uglovka in Novgorod region, Russian Railways told Russia's Interfax news agency in a statement.
Reports that a small crater was found at the site of the wreck lead to speculation that the derailment could have been caused by a bomb.
A bomb blast on the same line in 2007 derailed a passenger train and injured 27 people.
"There are injured," the government spokesman said without giving further details. "Medics, rescue teams and police are working at the scene."
An unnamed source at the Russian emergencies ministry told Ria-Novosti news agency that 10 people had been killed and 130 injured.
Frantic efforts were under way late last night to rescue those survivors trapped on the carriages. Emergency services said it was likely that bodies were buried under the wreckage.
No official statements were available as to what may have caused the accident but the Interfax news agency quoted a law-enforcement source as saying terrorism could have played a part.
[Dawn] Security forces on Friday took over an important militant training centre in lower Kurram Agency and cut off link routes to Orakzai Agency.
According to official sources, during the military operation against militants in Kurram, security forces secured Badama and Taindo villages. They also arrested a number of local and foreignl militats from the area. Link routes from check posts inside Kurram to Orakzai agency have also been cut off in order to stop fleeing militants from infiltrating the area.
Security forces also took over an important training center comprising three bunkers of TTP Cheif Hakimullah Mahsud in Shash area of lower Kurram and recovered important documents, explosives and land mines.
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[Dawn] At least 17 militants - who were allegedly linked to a local militant commander Zahid - have surrendered to Bannu Police, DawnNews reported on Friday.
Zahid has been accused of being involved in several attacks on girls' schools, and is reportedly a part of the Mehsud group.
Bannu DPO Iqbal Marwat, while talking to local media persons, said that Zahid is also responsible for attacking security personnel in Bannu district.
He added that Zahid has currently migrated to a safer area, due to the ongoing military operation.
The DPO also said that these militants were in contact with their fellow fighters, providing them with tactical and logistical support before they laid down their arms. He stated that the tribal elders were instrumental in bringing about the surrender.
Marwat added that the militants have vowed not to engage in militancy again or join any such group.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Two tribal elders have been killed, while Pakistani forces kill 34 pro-Taliban militants in two separate assaults in northwest Pakistan, reports say.
Violence is again on the rise in Bajur and other northwestern tribal regions since the Pakistani army launched operations in South Waziristan in mid-October.
A key anti-Taliban tribal elder Shahfur Khan was returning to his home in Badan village to receive guests after prayers marking the start of Eid al-Adha, or Muslim feast of sacrifice, when a roadside bomb exploded, killing him and wounding three other people, according to local officials, Associated Press reported late on Friday.
Khan emerged as a pro-government militia leader in the Mamund area of the Bajur tribal region after his predecessor was killed with at least 14 other people in a suicide bombing last year.
Militants in the adjacent tribal region of Mohamand had abducted another anti-Taliban tribal elder, Ameer Saiyed, late on Thursday after storming his house and killing his son.
Authorities found the bullet-riddled body of Ameer on Friday near his home in Wali Kor village.
Meanwhile, in the ongoing fighting between Pakistani troops and pro-Taliban militants, some 34 militants were killed in two separate assaults in Pakistan's restive north-western region bordering Afghanistan, dpa news agency reported quoting Pakistani security officials on Friday.
The army also besieged three important militant strongholds, in the Bara area of the Khyber tribal region.
The famed Khyber region is the main route for ferrying supplies to US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistani troops also cleared the Narakai area of South Waziristan after "stiff resistance," according to a military statement on Friday. One government soldier was injured in the fighting.
Most of the estimated 10,000 pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in South Waziristan have fled the area after military operations that started in mid-October. The militants however have vowed to come back in the coming months.
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[Ma'an] Israel has agreed to remove 90 former Palestinian fighters from its list of "wanted" men on the eve of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday, Palestinian sources said on Thursday.
The sources indicated that on Wednesday night the Palestinian Authority (PA) handed Israeli officials a list of 93 people it wants removed from the wanted list during a meeting.
Initial reports Thursday said Israel agreed to pardon 26 of the men, and ease restrictions on the movement and rights of others. Reports by Friday morning were that Israel had decided to pardon 90. Only eight of the total, however, received full pardons. Thirty-two received partial pardons, and the rest received "improvements" to their conditions.
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Fred,
I suggest you keep that list handy for the Rantburg version of Recidivism Bingo.
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Now permitted to sleep at home (as opposed to at the detention center)
I lol'd. Ebil Juice
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel has approved construction of 28 new public buildings in the occupied West Bank, the defense ministry said on Friday, highlighting the limits to settlement restrictions announced this week.
"These public buildings and schools must be completed in time for the start of the new school year in September," the ministry said.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak's approval for the new construction came just two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced restrictions on building in West Bank settlements in a gesture to U.S. President Barack Obama.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] U.N. nuclear watchdog governors voted on Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran dismissed the move as "intimidation" which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
The resolution was the first by the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran in almost four years, and a sign of growing alarm over Tehran's failure to dispel fears it has clandestine plans to build nuclear bombs.
It passed by a 25-3 margin with six abstentions, smoothed by rare backing from Russia and China, which have blocked global attempts to isolate Iran, a trade partner for both, in the past.
Iran's foreign ministry dismissed as "theatrical and useless" the resolution, state news agency IRNA reported.
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Iran's foreign ministry dismissed as "theatrical and useless" the resolution
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