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Excellent post Sea. All kinds of stuff I had forgotten about. Just a sample - Mr Annan said Iraqis .... faced now with a disaster "which could easily lead to epidemics and starvation".
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"Washington's line echoes the failed ambitions of past US leaders to invent a benevolent imperialism".
To bad after two years and all the evidence to the contrary, little gems like this are still tossed around freely.....at Turd Turtle Bay
A car bomb killed one Briton and wounded at least 12 people on Saturday at a theater frequented by Westerners in Qatar, the command center for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq which began exactly two years ago. "The explosion was caused by a rigged car. One person was killed and 12 were wounded, of whom 10 have left hospital," the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on the state news agency QNA. The British Foreign Office in London said the dead person was a Briton, and added that the nationality and sex of the wounded were not known. Qatari sources said the attack in the capital Doha was carried out by a suicide bomber -- the first attack of its kind in oil-producing Qatar, which hosts the U.S. military's Central Command. Supporters of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have staged attacks in neighboring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, but Qatar prides itself on its security and has not experienced suicide bomb attacks before.
A member of the investigating team told Reuters a medium-sized vehicle had slammed into the one-storey building housing the theater, near a British school in Doha. Brigadier General Ahmad al-Hayki of the Interior Ministry told Qatar-based Al Jazeera television the blast had struck the theater cafeteria, and that most of the wounded were Qataris, other Arabs and Asians. Asked if the blast had any links to militant attacks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Hayki said: "We do not want to precede events. We have started gathering evidence."
"What the hell do you think, Chum?"
Anti-U.S. sentiment has been high in the region over the Iraq war and perceived U.S. support for Israel against the Palestinians. An Al Jazeera correspondent on the scene said about 100 people had been inside the Doha Players theater, where William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" had been showing.
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A man has been arrested by British police for alleged links to the group that carried out the March 2004 Madrid bombings which killed 191 people. The Metropolitan Police said Moutaz Almallah Dabas, 39, a Spanish national, was arrested in Slough, Berkshire, on Saturday morning. He was arrested on an extradition warrant from the Spanish authorities. He is now thought to be in a central London police station and will appear at Bow St Magistrates' Court on Monday. Mr Dabas was arrested 24 hours after his brother Mohannad Almallah Dabas, a Syrian national, was arrested in Madrid. The Spanish Interior Ministry alleges that, among other things, both men had links to at least one person who has already been arrested and charged in connection with the 11 March attacks.
Spanish police have arrested a Syrian for the second time for his alleged links to the Madrid bombings. Mohannad Almallah Dabas was detained in his home in Madrid for his alleged links to the massacre on 11 March last year. Dabas was arrested in March last year in the wake of the attacks, but later released. He and his brother Moutaz Almallah were accused of recruiting young men and turning them into Islamic extremists and sending them abroad. They were also said to have sheltered Islamic extremists in Spain. Dabas was linked to Basel Ghalyoun, who is being held in custody accused of the same terrorist activity.
The three men were said to have held meetings to indoctrinate young recruits to the cause of jihad or Holy war. They were said to be part of the group led by Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Farket, alias 'The Tunisian', who was the supposed mastermind of the bombings. Farket later committed suicide with six other Islamic extremists when they blew themselves up in an apartment in Leganes near Madrid on 3 April last year. A police officer was also killed.
The Almallah brothers were also allegedly in contact with Rabei Osman Al Sayed, alias Mohamed The Egyptian, an ex-soldier and bomb expert who was said to have helped put together the explosives used in Spain's worst terrorist atrocity. Al Sayed is currently in custody after being arrested in Milan last year. The brothers used strict security measures to stop their detection by police, police sources said. Police also linked the brothers to Abu Dahdah, in custody accused of heading the Spanish cell linked to the 9/11 atrocity.
Good catch. Now keep him in the net this time (use the gaff if you have to) and get him singing!
This article starring:
ABU DAHDAH
al-Qaeda in Europe
BASEL GHALYUN
al-Qaeda in Europe
MOHAMED THE EGYPTIAN
al-Qaeda in Europe
MOHANNAD ALMALLAH DABAS
al-Qaeda in Europe
MUTAZ ALMALLAH
al-Qaeda in Europe
RABEI OSMAN AL SAIED
al-Qaeda in Europe
SERHANE BEN ABDELMAJID FARKET
al-Qaeda in Europe
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The article fails to mention that this guy became member of the Spanish Socialist Party jsu one month after the bombings.
It also fails to mention the suspicious friendship of a local big cheese of the Socialist Party towards a member of the GIA (those who perpetrate horrendous massacres in Algers), visiting him in prison and paying for his dental care. That islamist was noticed by ETA people for his ruthleness and that same Islamist, our socialist was so fond of, had frequent contacts with the leader of the 3/11 bombers. It also happens that our socialist owns a mining company and thus has access to explosives.
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Thanks for filling in the gaps, JFM. Curioser and curioser. So far the only trial in this case is that of the 16-year old kid "El Gitanillo" charged with transporting the explosives.
You can get more info at http://libertaddigital.com/
It is an electronic daily linked to COPE the second Spanish radio network. Today's editorial
http://libertaddigital.com/opiniones/opi_desa_23844.html
comments about it but you could look at the archives after Wednesday.
You could also take a look have http://elmundo.es who comments about it. El Mundo is a traditional newspaper who has an elevctronic edition. About a year ago it was El Mundo who reported many vcurious things about the hours and days following the bombings. If you remember well the government lost the elections in no small part for having lied and tried to hide that bit was islamists instead of ETA, but it looks like the police deliberately fed wrong information to the governemnt or delayed communicating it for enough time to make the governemnt look like caught lying. And El Mundo also reported about extensive cntacts between ETA and Al Quaida.
Note: You have to hurry for El Mundo since it looks like they don't keep archives of their electronic edition.
Note2: Libertad Digital is pro-America and pro-Bush. El Mundo is anti-Bush but is not in the hand of Prisa (the Socialist-friendly MSM group who manipulated the public opinion before the elections).
The arrested Syrian is Mohammad Almallah Dabas,
the socialist who was so friend of Islamists is
Fernando Huarte his Islamist friend is Abdelkrim Benesmail
In case you want to google about teh Arabs don't forget that their names are transcriptions who sound about right when read in Spanish ie they would be spelled differently in English
Two Armenians were busted as part of a multimillion-dollar plot to ship shoulder-to-air missiles into the United States that could be used by terrorists to shoot down airplanes, federal authorities announced yesterday. Eighteen other people involved in the scheme were arrested earlier this week in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. "There have been two additional arrests made by Armenian authorities based on information we provided them concerning the supply of weapons," Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Lawsky said during a hearing yesterday in Manhattan federal court. "This just shows that the plot wasn't just talk. These were real weapons with real people planning to ship them," Lawsky said.
The two Armenians arrested were Vahajn Yeribekyan, 25, and Razmik Barsenghyan, 32. It is believed that the pair had photographed rocket-propelled grenade launchers, shoulder-to-air missiles and other Russian weapons they planned to smuggle into the United States through co-conspirators here. What they didn't know is that the FBI had conducted a sting on arms smuggling, and the buyer they were dealing with was an informant. The investigation continues. "We are working with our counterparts overseas to get the weapons," Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley said.
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The first phase of the Syrian pullout from Lebanon is almost complete. "It roughly ended," a Lebanese security source said Thursday, adding that there were only some logistics left to be worked out. However, the evacuation of the Syrian intelligence posts in the country was not completed peacefully. In North Lebanon, as soon as the Halba post was evacuated Wednesday, supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and disbanded Lebanese Forces Party (LF), raising Lebanese flags and shouting slogans of victory, headed to the monuments of Syrian Presidents Hafez Assad and his son Bashar in an attempt to remove them. However, upon reaching the area, the groups were met by supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Baath Party.
Splitters. Where are the Syrian National Socialist Party thugs?
The confrontation that ensued soon turned into a fistfight, prompting the intervention of Lebanese Army intelligence units.
"Here, youse! Stop that!... Duck, Butros!"
As a result of the scuffle, the two monuments were transferred from the Halba Square to the area's army-intelligence headquarters. In Qobeiyat, similar clashes had also been reported late Tuesday when FPM and LF supporters shouted anti-Syrian slogans at a bus transporting Syrian intelligence personnel. The armed passengers exited from the bus and tried to ward off the protestors and return to their posts until units of the Lebanese Army cordoned off the area and removed the demonstrators. It has been widely reported that some 10,000 Syrian troops remain in the Bekaa Valley, while 4,000 have already crossed over into Syria.
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A car bomb has wounded at least six people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The blast created a deep crater, wrecked dozens of cars and blew off the front of nearby buildings. It was unclear what might have been the target of the attack, which occurred in the northern district of New Jdeideh.
The target was good order and civil society...
The attack comes amid unrest following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a car bomb on 14 February in Beirut. The latest blast took place after midnight (2200 GMT), when the streets of the predominantly Christian area were mostly empty.
But it's doubleplus good if you can kill a few infidels while you're at it.
Windows were shattered several blocks away. "We saw this car just fly into the air and land on the street right in front of us," a witness told Reuters news agency. Car bombs were common during Lebanon's civil war from 1975 until the early 1990s.
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A powerful bomb explosion in southwestern Pakistan late Saturday has killed at least 30 worshipers and injured many others. Local officials say the bomb ripped through a religious gathering in a remote town of southwestern Baluchistan province. Dozens of people were also injured in the powerful explosion and authorities are expecting the death toll to go up. Witnesses say thousands of Shiite Muslims had gathered for an annual pilgrimage at the shrine of a Muslim saint in Fatehpur town and many were having their evening meals when the bomb went off.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Provincial authorities have condemned it as an act of terrorism. An investigation is under way but police officials say it is premature to suggest as to who was behind the deadly bombing. Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province and has a history of sectarian violence between militants from the majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite Muslim sects. Since the start of the year, the resource-rich province has scene bloody clashes between security forces and tribal militants fighting for more autonomy.
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Sectarian violence, authors Summi. SOS different day.
"Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest province and has a history of sectarian violence between militants from the majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite Muslim sects."
What it doesn't say is that Shiites have been getting the worse of this violence for the past few decades. Also, despite this, the percentage of Shiites is thought to be greater than it was 20 years ago.
One reason for this is that about 15 years ago, several parts of the country instituted Sharia and said that it only applied to Sunnis so a number of Sunnis became Shia.
Pakistan is poised on the precipice of a tribal war in the vast desert province of Baluchistan after the army unleashed helicopter gunships and heavy weapons on local protesters. The Independent has learnt that during two days of violence, more than 60 tribespeople in the region, including women and children, have been killed. Reports suggest the confrontation is becoming increasingly brutal. Baluchistan covers almost half of Pakistan and is home to primitives tribespeople who respect no central law. Outside the main cities, tribal rules apply and the region has traditionally been a no-go area for Pakistani police. Law and order is kept by tribal chiefs paid by the government to keep a semblance of control.
Tensions with Karachi spilled over into violence in January after Pakistani soldiers stationed in the area were accused of raping a local woman doctor. This, together with the attempted eviction of 30,000 tribespeople from the area containing Pakistan's largest gas fields and the imminent opening of a new port in the province, has led to reprisals from local chiefs who accuse Karachi of decades of brutality and neglect. Foster Brooks Nawab Akbar Bugti, one of the tribal chiefs who has been leading local opposition to the government of Pervez Musharraf, says his people have been attacked without provocation. "The situation was that the army opened up with uniform and concentrated fire with artillery and mortar directly at my house," he told The Independent. "A mortar came through the roof and killed two people sitting to the left of me." Nawab Bugti says that in total 60 people were killed and more than 150 injured. The Pakistani military countered by claiming that one of its convoys was attacked as it was passing through the town, killing eight soldiers.
The ripples of what has happened in Dera Bugti could spread much further. Though he is 78, Nawab Bugti commands the loyalty of more than 30,000 tribesmen, all of them heavily armed and prepared to fight and die for him. Bombs exploded on two trains in Baluchistan yesterday, killing two people and wounding eight, a sign that the violence is already spreading beyond Dera Bugti. A recent siege of the Sui gas field by Baluch tribesmen incensed at the alleged rape, led to gas supplies to the rest of the country being cut off for more than a week. The military has now retaken Sui, about 45 minutes by car from Dera Bugti, and is said to have a considerable force based there. Many fear that the impoverished tribespeople will now face a brutal military offensive similar to that which Pakistan unleashed on restive tribesmen in the 1970s but updated with lethal modern weaponry. President Musharraf threatened as much after the Sui siege when he said: "Don't push us. It isn't the 1970s when you can hit and run and hide in the mountains. This time you won't even know what hit you."
But the Baluch are talking tough too. "An uprising would be more fierce and more strong than it was in 1973," the secretay-general of the Jamhoori Watan Party, Shahid Baloch told The Independent. "The general said the Baluch insurgents would not know what hit them because it's not the 70s. Yes, we know it's not the 70s, but it doesn't go for us only. It goes for both of the parties." The anger does not stem from a single act of rape. There was a series of bombings last year. The rape was a catalyst, but the anger has more to do with the huge new port Pakistan is constructing at Gwadar on the coast - and the fact that the tribesmen see Baluchistan not as a province of Pakistan, but as their homeland. They fear the authorities will bring in millions of ethnic outsiders from the overcrowded cities of Punjab province to live and work in Gwadar, changing the demographics of Baluchistan forever. "After passing through years of bitter experiences we feel that Gwadar will be a death warrant," said Mr Baloch. "Once we are turned into a minority what's left for us? I'd put it this way: the white man started developing the great American plains and removing the red Indians in the name of development Now in the 21st century our Pakistani rulers are trying to apply the same formula".
There is also seething resentment that Baluch towns remain primitive places, not even connected to the gas from their own land, neglected by the Pakistani authorities, while they pump it into Gwadar. "This is our forefathers' land and we will not give it up and we will resist," said Wadera Kanadeen, another tribal chief. "We are getting nothing. We are getting no help from the government, no schools, no roads, no hospitals, no drinking water. We don't see Pakistan as one country and don't see Musharraf as our president."
Thousands of people fled a town in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, fearing renewed fighting between renegade tribesmen and government forces after clashes this week left at least 30 people dead. At least 1,500 armed men from the dominant Bugti tribe have taken up positions in mountains outside the town of Dera Bugti and were waiting for an order to attack, said Abdul Samad Lasi, a senior official. A security official, who requested anonymity, said paramilitary reinforcements were being sent to the region to support an already-strong troop presence.
The government and tribal forces fought a 16-hour gunbattle in Dera Bugti on Thursday that officials say left at least eight troops and 22 tribesmen dead. Tribal representatives said at least 50 of their people died. They agreed to a cease-fire early Friday. Lasi said government officials and their families started leaving the town on Saturday morning, after the chief of the Bugti tribe said he could not guarantee their safety. The refugees were being escorted by paramilitary troops. "Yes, he (Bugti) has asked all government officials to leave Dera Bugti before 3 p.m. today, and they are leaving with their families," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the town. Lasi said all 3,314 officials and their families would leave Dera Bugti, which lies about 30 miles from Pakistan's main gas fields and 185 miles southeast of the provincial capital, Quetta. A government-organized trip to take opposition lawmakers and journalists to Dera Bugti was postponed Saturday for security reasons.
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Attackers gunned down a police officer Saturday in Kirkuk, then bombed a funeral procession carrying his corpse, killing three other policemen and wounding two, officials said, as protesters in Europe marked the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The attackers sprayed automatic-weapons fire from a vehicle, killing the policeman as he made his way to the station house early Saturday, police Capt. Ahmed Shinrani said. Hours later, a roadside bomb hit mourners and security forces transporting the corpse for burial. "This is a criminal act. The mourners were doing a religious duty. I don't understand how someone could blast a funeral," wailed Allaa Talaban, sister of one of the officers killed in the blast in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city 180 miles north of Baghdad.
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When more than 80 bodies, many of them slain Iraqi police officers and soldiers, were found last week at four sites in Iraq, a fifth gruesome discovery attracted little notice.
In the violent city of Ramadi, a center of insurgent activity 60 miles west of Baghdad, the bodies of seven men were found neatly lined up in an unfinished house on the western outskirts of town, according to witnesses. Each had been shot in the head or torso. Some witnesses said the bodies were then secretly buried in a local cemetery.
Witnesses said they never went to the local police or foreign military forces to report finding the bodies, fearing that they would be accused of complicity in the slayings or that the killers would return to punish them for talking.
"I feared telling the Iraqi army because they would detain me and accuse me of being involved in the killings," said Ali Omar, 32, a motorcycle mechanic who found the bodies on the morning of March 12. Instead, he went to Ramadi Hospital and told an emergency room doctor about his discovery, but the doctor refused to get involved. "He told me, 'Why bring problems on yourself? Leave them until they find them,' " Omar said.
Witnesses also said the event went unreported because the dead men were foreigners, all Sunni Muslims and members of al Qaeda in Iraq, the radical group headed by Abu Musab Zarqawi that is at the forefront of the insurgency. Now that details of the slayings have surfaced, Zarqawi is vowing revenge.
"My cousins are the ones who killed them," said Jabbar Khalaf Marawi, 42, a former army officer and Communist Party member in Ramadi. Marawi said the slayings were carried out by members of his Dulaimi clan in retaliation for the killing of a clan leader -- Lt. Col. Sulaiman Ahmed Dulaimi, the Iraqi National Guard commander for Ramadi and Fallujah -- by Zarqawi's group last Oct. 2.
These guys take their time - we should keep that in mind.
Dulaimi and three bodyguards were traveling through Khaldiyah, a small town east of Ramadi. When their vehicle slowed to navigate a series of concrete blocks placed in the road by U.S. forces, it was suddenly surrounded by a large group of armed men, according to witnesses interviewed at the time. The bodyguards were shot and killed on the spot, and Dulaimi was abducted, they said.
His body was found two days later in a youth center on the shores of Tharthar Lake, 20 miles north of Khaldiyah. Both his legs were broken in multiple places, his fingernails were removed, razor slashes were etched across his back and he had two bullet wounds in his chest, according to his autopsy report.
A statement by Zarqawi's group asserted responsibility for the killing, accusing Dulaimi of being an "agent . . . who works for the Americans." The statement said he had "confessed" to giving U.S. forces information about weak spots in the guerrillas' defenses in southern Fallujah.
..... Omar Karim, 32, said he was with a group of about 10 men at the Right Mosque when the imam, whom he identified as Yassim Abdul Latif, came in "and told us there are some dead bodies belonging to mujaheddin brothers who were killed by agents of the occupiers, and we have to put them in coffins and bury them." They collected the bodies and returned with them to the mosque, Karim said. Diehard imams in the Sunni triangle
Abdul Latif refused to be interviewed for this article.
Ahmed Mushrif, 29, a fruit juice and ice cream vendor, said the imam was late for noon prayers. He entered as an overpowering stench suddenly filled the mosque, and he "asked all those praying to take the bodies to the cemetery."
During a simple ceremony, "the preacher gave a speech, asking us to be united, because the seven who were killed weren't hurting the people as much as they were hurting the Americans," Mushrif said.
A notice from Zarqawi's group was posted on the mosque's gate this week announcing the deaths of the men and calling their killers "blasphemers, far from the religion of God, who betrayed the mujaheddin after they trusted them." I mean, come on, what's the murder of a few relatives between friends? We're from Saudi and we're Here to Help You. It vowed to find and behead the killers, described as "followers of the occupiers."
At the Dulaimi family compound this week in the Abu Marie area of Ramadi, the slain colonel's father, Hamad Dulaimi, 73, sat on a bench as a group of children played in the yard. The surrounding streets and rooftops were crowded with armed men.
"These are the children of Sulaiman, who was killed by those bastards," he said. The colonel's wife joined him: "Now we can talk, because we got revenge."
"If I didn't know that my son was innocent, I wouldn't have sent his cousins for revenge," the father said. "But for we Arabs, the matter of revenge is like honor. Both are the same for us."
As for Zarqawi's promise to retaliate, he said: "We got our revenge, and we have our precautions. Let them do as they like." "Bring it on, Jordanian furrner! The Boyz in the Hood know how to deal with punks like you."
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These guys take their time - we should keep that in mind.
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Now capping the zman might be a rush, worth a good celebration and a short turn run as an Iraqi national hero, but would you trade that for greater revenge? and what would that revenge be? Turn him over to the Iraq authorities for playtime, over to the Americans for a reward and a promise of a long stay for zman in Gitmo? Enquiring minds would like to know.
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Yeah, but Zark is a Jordanian acting at the direction of a Saudi, killing Iraqis. Who would take revenge for Zark's wacking? But I *do* like to think about how he would be tried when captured. Sent back to Jordan? Nah! Gitmo? Not unless we were gonna fly the judges there, too. Tried by the Iraqi's as a mass murderer? Youbetchya.
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Seven suspected militants were killed in two separate gunbattles in held Kashmir on Friday, and an explosion outside a school killed a student and wounded eight others, officials said. Security forces raided a suspected rebel hideout in Sonabrari, a village 80 kilometres south of Srinagar, killing six militants in a fierce gunbattle, army spokesman Col RK Sen said. After the fighting, soldiers recovered four AK-47 assault rifles and one pistol from the rebels, Sen said. He said the guerrillas belonged to the outlawed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen group and that one was a district commander. There were no casualties among the Indian troops. Elsewhere, in Kralgund village, about 90 kilometers north of Srinagar, a suspected militant was killed in a firefight with troops, Sen said. Also on Friday, suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at a school entrance, killing one teenage student and wounding eight others, Javed Makhdoomi, a senior police officer, said. Two boys were in critical condition. The insurgents targeted the school in Nadhihal, a village 70 kilometres north of Srinagar, because government soldiers are occupying part of the school building, Makhdoomi said.
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Cardiologist Dr Akmal Waheed and his brother Dr Arshad Waheed filed an appeal in Sindh High Court on Friday, challenging their conviction by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on charges of harbouring activists of Jundullah and providing them with medical assistance. The ATC-II had on March 14 sentenced both doctors to seven years in jail, besides imposing a fine of Rs180,000 on each of them.
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ISLAMABAD: Law enforcement agencies have arrested two suspects who allegedly threatened a high-ranking official of the United Nations designated in Pakistan, via email. The suspects reportedly belong to Lashkar-e-Mehdi and were arrested from sector I-10, sources told Daily Times. The email threatened the official with dire consequences if he continued to gather information about religious seminaries and underground 'elements' of banned militant religious outfits. The identity of the two accused has not been ascertained yet, however they have been taken to an undisclosed location, sources added.
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Basant as blasphemy
Writing in Jang, Amjad Islam Amjad stated that in the era of medieval Muslim ruler of India Muhammad Tughlaq a Hindu in Lahore named Haqiqat Rai Dharmi had insulted the Holy Prophet PBUH and was punished with death by the local administration. On this the Hindu population of the city caused an uproar and killed a lot of Muslims to prevent Haqiqat Rai's death. But the death sentence was carried out on the day of Basant (Basant Panchami). The samadhi of Haqiqat Rai exists to this day near Lahore's Engineering University. While it is true that Basant is not a celebration of an insult offered to our Holy Prophet PBUH it nonetheless falls on the same day Haqiqat Rai was hanged and should therefore not be celebrated. Nawa-e-Waqt reported that the NWFP assembly passed a resolution asking for a ban on kite-flying on Basant. Daily Pakistan quoted Yusuf Salahuddin as saying that Basant as spring festival was started at the time of Muslim Emperor Aurangzeb and had nothing to do with Hindus. He said Allama Iqbal used to fly kites and enjoy the festival.
DNA test not good enough
Daily Pakistan reported that Lahore High Court had asked for expert opinion on whether to accept the evidence of DNA test. In two cases claims of paternity had been proved false on the basis of DNA test. Religious scholar Sarfraz Naeemi said DNA was not acceptable under Islam because it was not sure enough.
Gilgit terrorists caught in Peshawar
According to Jang, the companion of Niaz who was killed by gunfire from the body guards of the murdered Shia leader Agha Ziauddin Rizvi was caught in Peshawar. His phone number was found in the pocket of the dead terrorist. Both took part in the killing but Niaz was killed during the shooting.
'I did not make any deal!'
PPP leader Mr Asif Zardari was quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that during his incarceration he was kept in the cell where his father-in-law Bhutto was kept before his hanging. He said he was frequently marched in front of the place where Bhutto was hanged to scare him into making a deal with the government, but he had not.
Salma Ahmad reveals Junejo's corruption
Extracted in Jang, a memoir ('Cutting Free') of Karachi industrialist Salma Ahmad said that after she had acquired an oil factory in Karachi, prime minister Muhammad Khan Junejo met her and said she had done so without permission and must give him 60 percent shares in it. Because she did not want to take on a prime minister, she offered to give the factory to him, for which he prepared proper papers of sale and purchase. Thus she avoided being maltreated by bribing the prime minister. When she offered to 'buy' it he said his family never sold anything, it always bought things. Junejo took the factory in the names of his two children. Then General Zia included her name in his Shura, but her former husband Admiral (Retd) Fazil Janjua threatened that he would resign if she was taken. Frontier governor General Fazle Haq approached Zia and asked him why he was taking 'this cabaret lady'? After that Zia dropped her. She also narrated the incident of a JUP-supporting federal minister Afaq Shahid getting a car from her simply to vote in her favour.
Angel of death calls
According to Nawa-e-Waqt one Haji Farzand of Muridke was addressed by the Angel of Death Izraeel while he was performing hajj. The Angel said 'come with me'! Haji Farzand said spare me because here in Saudi Arabia I am without waris (heirs). The Angel kept repeating his request but waited till Haji Farzand had reached home at Muridke. After that a sudden heart attack took the man away.
'Namaz' behind PM without 'wuzu'
Sarerahe in Nawa-e-Waqt said that PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat was heard telling a gathering of PML members that he had seen some people running after the prime minister to say namaz behind him, but they did not care to do ablution (wuzu) first. After that Chaudhry Sahib held his ears in fear of Allah. Sarerahe said that the wuzu was ignored because there was fear that others might take the places close to the PM.
Shehbaz 'third time lucky'
According to Nawa-e-Waqt, PML leader Shehbaz Sharif after marrying Tehmina Durrani in London said that he had done it to achieve peace of mind (itminan-e-qalb). Another leader Ghulam Mustafa Khar — himself married 8 times and earlier married to Tehmina — said that he hoped that third time would be lucky for Shehbaz. The paper said that the divorce of second wife Aliya 'Honey' was not yet complete and that Shehbaz's son Hamza had also divorced his wife. Daily Khabrain reported that after marrying Shehbaz Sharif Tehmina Durrani had become vice president of PMLN. Daily Insaf reported that Nawaz Sharif had stopped talking to his brother after the wedding. It reported that soon a new PML would be announced and Shehbaz will give Tehmina the charge of establishing it in Pakistan.
Christian women exploited through 'nikahnama'
Quoted in Khabrain, Bishop John Malik of Lahore stated that as long as the minorities were not represented in the Senate the system in Pakistan would not be completely democratic. He said there was a legal loophole which enabled people to kidnap Christian women and convert them to Islam forcibly. After that they obtained nikahnama (marriage deed) that prevented the Christian women from being restored to their faith. He said Christian youth could not get admission to professional institutions because Muslims got extra marks for reading the Quran and Islamiyat which the Christians could not.
'We killed 150 terrorists in Wana!'
Quoted in Jang, corps commander Peshawar General Safdar Hussain said that the operation in Wana had killed over 150 foreign terrorists while a large number of them had been arrested. He said there were still around 100 at large in the area. In March 2004, there were 600-700 of them there. He said the survivors had fled in groups of four and were spread around in the country. There were 70,000 Pakistani troops deployed in South Waziristan while there were only 18,000 allied and Afghan forces on the Afghan side of the border. He said he had ordered 44 operations in one year.
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We need a Roadside Pakiland website.
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Religious scholar Sarfraz Naeemi said DNA was not acceptable under Islam because it was not sure enough
not like the edict of a fat be-turbanned holy man on the take - which you can trust
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A car bomb killed one Briton and wounded at least 12 people on Saturday at a theater frequented by Westerners in Qatar, the command center for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq which began exactly two years ago. "The explosion was caused by a rigged car. One person was killed and 12 were wounded, of whom 10 have left hospital," the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on the state news agency QNA. The British Foreign Office in London said the dead person was a Briton, and added that the nationality and sex of the wounded were not known. Qatari sources said the attack in the capital Doha was carried out by a suicide bomber -- the first attack of its kind in oil-producing Qatar, which hosts the U.S. military's Central Command. Supporters of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden have staged attacks in neighboring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, but Qatar prides itself on its security and has not experienced suicide bomb attacks before. 
A man has been arrested by British police for alleged links to the group that carried out the March 2004 Madrid bombings which killed 191 people. The Metropolitan Police said 
Spanish police have arrested a Syrian for the second time for his alleged links to the Madrid bombings. 
The first phase of the Syrian pullout from Lebanon is almost complete. "It roughly ended," a Lebanese security source said Thursday, adding that there were only some logistics left to be worked out. However, the evacuation of the Syrian intelligence posts in the country was not completed peacefully. In North Lebanon, as soon as the Halba post was evacuated Wednesday, supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and disbanded Lebanese Forces Party (LF), raising Lebanese flags and shouting slogans of victory, headed to the monuments of Syrian Presidents Hafez Assad and his son Bashar in an attempt to remove them. However, upon reaching the area, the groups were met by supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Baath Party. 
A car bomb has wounded at least six people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The blast created a deep crater, wrecked dozens of cars and blew off the front of nearby buildings. It was unclear what might have been the target of the attack, which occurred in the northern district of New Jdeideh. 
A powerful bomb explosion in southwestern Pakistan late Saturday has killed at least 30 worshipers and injured many others. Local officials say the bomb ripped through a religious gathering in a remote town of southwestern Baluchistan province. Dozens of people were also injured in the powerful explosion and authorities are expecting the death toll to go up. Witnesses say thousands of Shiite Muslims had gathered for an annual pilgrimage at the shrine of a Muslim saint in Fatehpur town and many were having their evening meals when the bomb went off. 
Tensions with Karachi spilled over into violence in January after Pakistani soldiers stationed in the area were accused of raping a local woman doctor. This, together with the attempted eviction of 30,000 tribespeople from the area containing Pakistan's largest gas fields and the imminent opening of a new port in the province, has led to reprisals from local chiefs who accuse Karachi of decades of brutality and neglect. 
Thousands of people fled a town in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, fearing renewed fighting between renegade tribesmen and government forces after clashes this week left at least 30 people dead. At least 1,500 armed men from the dominant Bugti tribe have taken up positions in mountains outside the town of Dera Bugti and were waiting for an order to attack, said Abdul Samad Lasi, a senior official. A security official, who requested anonymity, said paramilitary reinforcements were being sent to the region to support an already-strong troop presence.
Attackers gunned down a police officer Saturday in Kirkuk, then bombed a funeral procession carrying his corpse, killing three other policemen and wounding two, officials said, as protesters in Europe marked the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The attackers sprayed automatic-weapons fire from a vehicle, killing the policeman as he made his way to the station house early Saturday, police Capt. Ahmed Shinrani said. Hours later, a roadside bomb hit mourners and security forces transporting the corpse for burial. "This is a criminal act. The mourners were doing a religious duty. I don't understand how someone could blast a funeral," wailed Allaa Talaban, sister of one of the officers killed in the blast in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city 180 miles north of Baghdad.
Seven suspected militants were killed in two separate gunbattles in held Kashmir on Friday, and an explosion outside a school killed a student and wounded eight others, officials said. Security forces raided a suspected rebel hideout in Sonabrari, a village 80 kilometres south of Srinagar, killing six militants in a fierce gunbattle, army spokesman Col RK Sen said. After the fighting, soldiers recovered four AK-47 assault rifles and one pistol from the rebels, Sen said. He said the guerrillas belonged to the outlawed 
Cardiologist Dr 
ISLAMABAD: Law enforcement agencies have arrested two suspects who allegedly threatened a high-ranking official of the United Nations designated in Pakistan, via email. The suspects reportedly belong to 
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