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The little secret of Afghanistan is that it has become the vacation destination of elite forces from any number of countries, even if they are not officially there. The "street cred" they get from going there means that they will be setting policy in their respective armies for years.
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Stoba stops exploding laptop batteries ! It seems that explosive was found residue in laptop ! Faulty battery or use it for : K-bom : for : Kabul ! Blast nott battery -STOBA : won't blast : proof safety : battery ! trerrisata/ cavina stay awaya from : safety yyeah : stoba
[Quqnoos] At least 13 Taliban militants and two police were killed Monday in separate attacks in western Afghanistan, officials said.
Eight militants were killed and six others wounded in a two-hour gun-battle, erupted in Bakwa district of Farah province, bordering Iran.
Other five insurgents were gunned down in a fighting broke out in the restive Bala Murghab district of northwestern Badghis province as militants stormed a military base, a top regional police official said.
Two Afghan policemen were also killed in the clashes, added Gen Ekramuddin Yawar.
Violence has increased in Afghanistan in the last months as more NATO-led forces are about to arrive in Afghanistan, aiming to turn the Taliban's momentum.
Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on the presidential palace and some ministries in central Kabul on Monday -- the biggest ever militant operation carried out in Kabul since 2001.
US President Barak Obama has authorised the deployment of an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan and other NATO member countries also pledged to send 8,000 extra reinforcements.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's president on Tuesday said he would support the country's oil-producing south if it chose independence in a looming referendum, in his closest acknowledgement of the possibility of separation.
The unusually conciliatory speech from President Omar Hassan al-Bashir came as Sudan marked the fifth anniversary of a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war and promised the referendum.
Southerners are widely expected to choose independence in the ballot, scheduled for January 2011, although analysts have up to now warned Bashir's northern supporters would resist any loss of control over southern oil fields.
Bashir told dignitaries gathered in the remote southern town of Yambio that his northern National Congress Party (NCP) still wanted to keep Sudan unified.
"But if the result of the referendum is separation ... the Khartoum government will be the first to recognize this decision. We will support the new-born government in the south," he said.
Security was tight as Bashir spoke in a newly-constructed stadium in Yambio, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Analysts and activists have released a series of reports in recent weeks, warning Sudan's northern and southern armies were re-arming and the country could slide back to war in the run-up to the southern referendum.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, speaking at the same event, played down fears that the 2011 vote would lead to a confrontation with the north.
"Let me be clear ... that even if the south decides to separate from the north in 2011, it is not going to split into the Indian Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean ... Let us prepare ourselves to embrace the outcome of the referendum peacefully," he told the crowd.
"The (River) Nile will continue to flow from south to north ... Arab nomads will continue to look for pastures and water in south Sudan and no one would think of denying those rights. Before appropriate oil infrastructure is developed in south Sudan, the oil will continue to flow south to north," he added.
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Arab nomads will continue to look for pastures and water in south Sudan and no one would think of denying those rights.
DAKAR, Senegal — Armed with guns, machetes, torches, and bows and arrows, Christian and Muslim antagonists in central Nigeria's religiously volatile city of Jos have been fighting for three days in sporadic clashes that have left dozens dead, witnesses and local news accounts said Tuesday.
It was difficult to ascertain the precise toll in Jos, the scene of frequent religious violence over the past decade. Estimates ranged from 30 to 300 deaths, as the city was still consumed by mayhem Tuesday evening, with security forces descending on Jos in an attempt to contain it.
Gunshots could be heard throughout the city, and smoke from burning buildings was visible everywhere, witnesses said.
“This morning there was smoke, and a lot of shooting by the military personnel,' said Shimaki Gad Peter, director of the League for Human Rights, which is based in Jos, in a telephone interview. The violence began Sunday when Muslim youths attacked a church, according to Mr. Peter, “and they were resisted by church members.'
Subsequently, “innocent persons were macheted,' Mr. Peter said. “I saw youths holding bows and arrows, and machetes,' he said. While “the majority' of people killed Sunday appeared to be Christians, he said, there was now a “balance of terror' among the religious groups.
The Rev. Emmanuel Joel of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria said, “Personally, I have seen over 100 bodies.' He said he had seen the bodies in Red Cross trucks going to the morgue.
Mr. Joel said Jos was “still boiling.' He was critical of the security forces' efforts to contain the violence, saying, “While they are trying to contain it in one area, it is breaking out in another area.'
Government spokesmen could not be reached for comment. News reports said a curfew had been imposed on the city.
“Nobody comes in, nobody goes out,' Mr. Joel said. “We are all scared of coming out, standing outside.'
Several thousand people have been killed in religious rioting in Jos since 2001. The city is situated near the frontier between Nigeria's mainly Muslim north and the mostly Christian south.
“All we see is smoke coming out of burnt structures,' Mr. Joel said. “And gunshots, seriously.'
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What's the body count? Which side is "winning"?
Darwin, and Hobbs idea of Nature as the war of all against all. Or so it seems. Actually, given what I hear about conversion rates from Islam to Christianity in the borderlands of Dar al Islam, long term it should be the Christians that win.
[Mail and Globe] Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on the Nigerian flashpoint city of Jos on Tuesday after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims, a state spokesperson told Agence France-Presse.
"The government has placed a 24-hour curfew on Jos and Bukuru [a small town on the fringes of Jos] following the resumption of violence in parts of the city," Plateau State Information Commissioner Gregory Yenlong said.
Weekend clashes in the city left at least 26 people dead, hundreds wounded and thousands homeless.
"All residents are hereby directed to stay indoors as security agents work towards restoring peace," said Yenlong as residents heard gunshots and saw smoke billowing from parts of the city.
The curfew announcement was relayed repeatedly over the radio.
"From here I can hear gunshots and see burning buildings from a neighbourhood in the northern part of the city," Ibrahim Mudi, a resident of Sabon Fegi suburb, said.
"It seems that Jos north is completely on fire," added Mudi, who spoke on the phone from his veranda.
Fighting erupted on Sunday when Christian youths protested the building of a mosque in a Christian-majority area of Nigeria's 10th-largest city, which has a population of 500 000. Houses and vehicles were set ablaze.
The Red Cross said more than 100 people were seriously injured in the fighting and 3 000 had been displaced.
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Weekend clashes in the city left at least 26 people dead, hundreds wounded and thousands homeless. "All residents are hereby directed to stay indoors as security agents work towards restoring peace,"
"Thousands homeless", yet everyone has to stay "indoors". Talk about cognitive dissidence!
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of police arrested three persons including two Pakistani nationals and seized fake Indian currencies worth about 10 lakh Indian rupees from their possession at a Mouchak hotel in the capital on Monday.
A team of detective police led by Assistant Commissioner (AC) Mohammad Golam Azad Khan arrested Pakistani nationals Mohammad Danish, 32, of Anarkoli in Lahore, Sabbir Ali, 55, of Karachi in Pakistan and Bangladeshi national Fatema Akter Opi, 23, wife of Danish, from Mouban hotel.
Danish lives at West Rampura with his wife Opi. The criminals were rounded up as they were waiting to handover 10 lakh forged Indian currencies to their clients.
Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday held a press briefing at its Minto Road DB office in the capital where Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque said an international gang of smugglers is using Bangladesh as a transit for smuggling forged Indian currencies from Pakistan into India.
AC Azad said acting on a tip-off they took position in Mouchak and Mailbag areas. As the two Pakistani nationals and the Bangladeshi woman entered the hotel they arrested them with forged notes.
Police seized Danish's Pakistani passport and Fatema's Bangladeshi passport, he added.
During preliminary interrogation the arrestees informed DB that they had made several visits to Nepal, India and Pakistan to smuggle forged Indian notes over the last three years.
Detained Fatema said she became acquainted with Danish three years ago at the Trade Fair in city's Agargaon. She got married to Danish who later involved her in the illicit business.
She said they use secret codes to identify themselves and they are known as gang members of FIC.
DMP commissioner said Danish and his gang members carry forged Indian notes from Pakistan and use Bangladesh and Nepal as their transit passages for smuggling them to India as Bangladesh shares vast stretches of border with India.
DB sources said they produced the detainees before the court with a prayer for a seven-day remand.
DB sources said they were trying to arrest other gang members of FIC.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Around 40 operatives of outlawed Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) including convicted and charge-sheeted accused of different bomb attack cases are still on the run, posing a threat to the country.
Some of the absconding militants are holding secret meetings and were even training up members at a secluded place in Mohammadpur in the capital a few months ago.
However, the militants cancelled the training and abandoned the area after different intelligence and law-enforcement agencies started a hunt for them months after the present government assumed power, intelligence and Huji sources say.
The absconding Huji leaders include some of the top brasses like Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Sheikh Farid, Maulana Abu Bakar, Abdul Hannan Sabbir, Maulana Liton, Abdul Hye, Abu Jehad, Abu Musa, Abdullah, Sagir Bin Emdad, Maulana Monir, Maulana Masum and Golam Mostafa.
Most of them have training on sophisticated weapons and grenades.
Sources in the law-enforcement agencies believe the militants responsible for deadly bomb and grenade attacks and death of over 90 people since 1999 are still a threat.
However, top officials from Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Detective Branch (DB) say since the absconding militants are on the run, possibility of any attack by them is very slim.
"There is little chance of any attack by Huji men since we are always after them," Rab Director General Hassan Mahmood Khandkar told The Daily Star recently.
DB Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam also expressed similar view on the issue.
The Rab DG said they have lists of the members of not only Huji but also other militant outfits including banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and are always after them.
Some Afghan war veterans launched the Bangladesh chapter of Huji on April 30, 1992 with an aim to establish Islamic rule in the country. Since then it spread its tentacles across the country until 1996 with the very knowledge of the then government.
After the political changeover in 2001 Huji again started its activities which were an open secret to the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government.
Probes into the August 21 attempt on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's [then main opposition leader] life have already revealed involvement of former deputy minister of BNP government Abdus Salam Pintu and a number of Huji leaders.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is now carrying out further investigation into the cases and has already arrested BNP leader and former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Huji founder Sheikh Abdus Salam.
The sources say an influential intelligence agency helped Maulana Tajuddin, who supplied grenades for the August 21 attacks, flee the country.
The sources add the agency in October 2004 also helped Hafez Jahangir Badar flee to Saudi Arabia where he became a major source of Huji funding later.
Some Huji kingpins including the outfit's founders Sheikh Abdus Salam and Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid even used to meet a section of officials of that intelligence agency during the BNP-Jamaat rule and even during the immediate past caretaker rule, say the sources.
Salam, arrested in November last year in connection with the August 21 carnage, claimed he had maintained connection with the agency and tried to form Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) with its consent during the caretaker regime.
Some 475 Afghan war veterans joined the IDP, sources say.
The attacks by Huji include the August 21 carnage in 2004, Ramna Batamul blast in 2001, Udichi blast in 1999, Narayanganj Awami League office blast in 2001, CPB rally blast at Paltan Maidan in 2001, and attempt on the then British high commissioner in 2004.
The sources say intelligence agencies launched raids on Huji hideouts to trap militant leaders including Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid in vain in recent months.
Two of the Huji absconders -- Anisul Mursalin and Muhibul Mottakin -- are now in Tihar Jail in India after they were arrested by the Indian security forces in 2006.
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A terminal at the Munich airport was closed and passengers were evacuated Wednesday after a security breach in which a laptop tested positive for explosives and its owner fled, AFP reported.
Authorities seized the computer, but the suspect is still at large. He made it through security at the German airport around 3:30 p.m. local time, AFP quoted officials. Brilliant, Hans, simply brilliant.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, airport spokesman Robert Wilhelm told Bloomberg. The terminal that was evacuated is used for flights to European Union countries for which travelers do not need to show their passports.
Or perhaps the authorities did not seize the laptop, in a later iteration of the same story:
An airport security instrument alerted officials to possible explosives as the man's laptop was being checked, police said. He then hastily left the scene carrying the computer into the terminal.
Officials wanted to check the computer again, but the man left. "We believe that the man didn't realize there was more to come," Poerschke said.
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Strange story.
I know Munich airport very well and I simply don't see how you could FLEE and make it onto a plane.
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"I know Munich airport very well"
My deepest sympathy, EC.
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Actually up to now they had very stringent security measures, so that story really has me thinking.
Munich is a great hub actually
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I know Munich airport very well and I simply don't see how you could FLEE and make it onto a plane.
Ummm It said he fled, NOT He fled onto a plane, , probably beat feet out of the terminal and away.
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Once you are at the securit
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uh oh...looks like they got EC!
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hey who ate my message..lol
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I said: Once you are at the security checkpoint you CAN'T leave the terminal. At least it's quite complicated.
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Also I don't get the point that they would GIVE BACK the laptop in question. Something just doesn't sound right with this story but I don't know yet what it is.
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Dummy run(Test)?
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[Dawn] Seven Indian policemen were injured in two separate attacks by suspected militants in revolt-hit Kashmir, police said Tuesday, in the latest of a series of attacks this month, reports AFP.
Six policemen were hurt when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb planted by militants on a bridge in southern Pulwama district late Monday, a police spokesman said.
"The powerful explosion also damaged a police jeep and part of the bridge," the spokesman said, adding that earlier a policeman was injured in a gun attack by militants on a foot patrol in the same district.
Kashmir had been relatively stable in recent months but Indian police have reported a spike in violence over the past two weeks.
Earlier this month, Indian commandos stormed a hotel in Kashmir's main city Srinagar and killed two gunmen who had been holed up in the guesthouse for nearly 24 hours. A civilian and a policeman were also killed during the siege.
Attacks and clashes have continued since the siege.
The insurgency erupted in 1989 against Indian rule of the Muslim-majority region and has claimed more than 47,000 lives, according to an official count.
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[Dawn] The ISPR claimed that the military killed 10 militants on Tuesday during clashes in which two soldiers also lost their lives in South Waziristan.
The militants were killed when the Army conducted a search and clearance operation near Kunar Sar, which is located in the Admi Kot area of South Waziristan. Two soldiers lost their lives when an Improvised Explosive Device went off in the Udin Sar area near Janata. In the Shakai sector, security forces conducted a search and clearance operation and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Last week's failed attempt on the lives of Israeli diplomats in Jordan was apparently carried out on instructions from Teheran, sources close to Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) revealed on Monday.
The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.
The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.
On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.
According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.
On Monday, Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi's assassination.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in "Zionist style."
The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.
"We can see Iran's fingerprints on the roadside bombing," the sources said. "The investigation is continuing in various directions."
Israel has been on high alert in recent weeks ahead of the second anniversary of the assassination of Hizbullah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus.
A number of attempts by Hizbullah to avenge Mughniyeh's February 2008 killing have been thwarted, including a plot last year to bomb Israel's embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the Israeli defense establishment is concerned that Hizbullah will make an effort to strike an Israeli target ahead of the anniversary.
Security officials are also considering the possibility that the attack may have been carried out by al-Qaida or one of its affiliates, or a Palestinian terrorist group.
Last year three Hamas activists were sentenced in Jordan to five years in prison for conducting surveillance of the Israeli Embassy in Amman.
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leaving prints at a crime scene is always a good move.
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This all remains speculation at the moment. However there is one glairing fact that substantiates it being an Iranian attempt and that's in that it was a failure. The prosecution rests its case. I thang yew.
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The intel portion of the operation was done by al Qaida and was very successful.
The explosives portion of the operation was done by Iran and was a spectacular failure.
and now the al Q operatives in Jordan will be hunted down, tortured and killed.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran has arrested four suspects in connection with the assassination of a local prosecutor in the country's northwestern city of Khoy.
Announcing the arrests, Governor Ebrahim Mohammadlu on Tuesday said a security committee has been tasked with investigating the fatal shooting of Vali Haji Gholizadeh late Monday.
The prosecutor was shot twice in front of his home and died later that night in a local hospital.
Although no group has officially claimed responsibility for the killing, the chief prosecutor of the West Azerbaijan Province said Haji Gholizadeh had been threatened by the outlawed PJAK terrorist group a couple of times over the past days.
"Prosecutor Haji-Qolizadeh had a very good record in dealing with cases, including land-grabbing, moral corruption and anti-revolutionary groups, and his assassination likely rests with such groups," he stated.
The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is responsible for a number of fatal bombings in western Iran and southern Turkey during the past few years.
Iran has on several occasions reported clashes between government forces and PJAK members along its western border with Iraq.
Although the US has announced its willingness to help Turkey defend itself against PKK terrorist attacks, it has been aiding the PJAK in Iran's Kurdestan to stir up ethnic unrest in the country.
In a 2006 article published in The New Yorker, investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, revealed that the US military and Israel are assisting the PJAK terrorists by providing the group with equipment, training, and vital intelligence, in a bid to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
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actually, pretty fair since he took out the lead bikes first and let the straggler catch up to steel death. Everyone's a winner and self-esteem by the bucketload!
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Someone should Go 42 seconds in and then redub the tune onto this vid (I don't know how :(... )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP4yJDGHZBc
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Quqnoos] At least 13 Taliban militants and two police were killed Monday in separate attacks in western Afghanistan, officials said.
[Dawn] The ISPR claimed that the military killed 10 militants on Tuesday during clashes in which two soldiers also lost their lives in South Waziristan.
