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Gurkhas do not make mistakes. They make revenge.
Note in the article that, "it comes just days after a rogue Afghan soldier murdered three British troops from the same Gurkha regiment."
'The Gurkhas were designated by British officials as a "Martial Race". "Martial Race" was a designation created by officials of British India to describe peoples that were thought to be naturally warlike and aggressive in battle, and to possess qualities of courage, loyalty, self sufficiency, physical strength, resilience, orderliness, the ability to work hard for long periods of time, fighting tenacity and military strategy.'
In other words, you mess with a Gurkha at your own peril. Even the WWII Japanese were rather afraid of them. With good reason.
N.B.: The favored Gurkha technique for silencing helmet-less sentries was to hit them on the top of their head with a combat Kukri, which can be as long as a man's arm, splitting their head in half, vertically, from behind. If they were wearing a helmet, the Gurkha would approach at an angle, and cleanly cut off their heat at the neck.
They also favored silently entering an enemy trench at night, and finding two enemy soldiers asleep together, cut one of their throats. The other one would provide a blood curdling scream alarm clock the next morning. This did much to enhance the reputation of the Gurkhas.
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also he cut the dead taliban commaders head off so they could identify him later since they where sent on the mision too kil or capture this 1 man. So he brought back his head too identify him. It's not like he cut it off while he was still alive which wouldn't bother me at all. Guess the MOD got their panties ina wad trying too appease their future handlers the muslims.I say cut all the captured talibans heads off while they are still alive and their ranks would surely dwindle pretty quickly.
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Perhaps it is so theat the Queen can present their VCs and DSCs personally.
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This is considered a gross insult to the Muslims of Afghanistan, who bury the entire body of their dead even if parts have to be retrieved.
British soldiers often return missing body parts once a battle has ended so the dead can be buried in one piece.
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The source said: The soldier has been removed from duty and flown home. There is no sense of glory involved here, more a sense of shame. He should not have done what he did.
The incident, which is being investigated by senior commanders, is hugely embarrassing to the British Army, which is trying to build bridges with local Afghan communities who have spent decades under Taliban rule.
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The Anglo Saxons have forgotten a lot. Especially about how to rule. They can't even rule the Welsh anymore. Independence for the Grand Duchy of Fenwick can't be far away.
Would you prefer he imitate the Tallibunnies and behead live people?
Hokay....
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No local tooth doc for dental records.
No local constabulary for finger prints.
No CIA/MI5 notice of DNA samples.
Scalps don't identify who they belong to.
Guess that sort of cuts down the means of verification unless the pantywaists want to haul the body out of the backwoods.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Taliban militants have launched a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan Province to regain control of Barg-e Metal district.
The clashes broke out on Friday night after Taliban militants attacked a government office in the region. Afghan officials said 11 militants were killed and several others were injured during Friday's clashes.
Meanwhile, media reports said that clashes were still continuing, adding that it had spread to other areas in the region. Militants were reportedly launching attacks on the governor's office, when the security forces returned fire.
Earlier in May, Taliban militants regained control of Barg-e Metal district for several days, but government forces recaptured the area shortly afterwards.
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An African Union peacekeeping force, funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States and its allies, has killed, wounded and displaced hundreds of Somali civilians in a stepped-up campaign against Islamist militants, according to medical officials, human rights activists and victims. This isn't Islamist propaganda, of course. WaPo would never fall for something as obvious as that...
Led by Ugandan and Burundian troops, the force has intensified shelling in recent weeks as Somalia's al-Shabab militia, which is linked to al-Qaeda, has pushed closer toward the fragile government's seat of power. The shells are landing in heavily populated areas, in some cases even neighborhoods controlled by the government. There aren't any turbans lurking there, of course. And they'd never actually set up artillery in civilian areas.
Al-Shabab leaders say the peacekeepers and the shelling are the key reasons it bombed two venues in Uganda's capital last Sunday, killing 76 people watching broadcasts of the World Cup final. Otherwise they'd never have done such a thing...
In this war-torn capital, Fatima Umar and Muse Haji were among the latest victims. An artillery shell crashed into their building, killing Umar on the top floor and Haji on the bottom floor. Umar, 15, was a cleaner who earned $7 a month to support her parents. Oh, the humanity! Hand me a tissue, please!
Haji, 38, was a shopkeeper who was relaxing on his stoop on his day off. Witnesses said the shell was fired from the direction of the airport, which the peacekeepers control. "It was the Ugandans," declared Omar Sharif, a clan elder, as he stood in the rubble next to a shattered bed splattered with Umar's blood. Sunlight glared through a huge hole in the wall. "A bird sang. All was peace in the wake of devastation..."
"When one kilogram of mortars are fired by al-Shabab, AMISOM replies with 100 kilograms of artillery," said Abdulqadir Haji, director of a volunteer ambulance service, using the acronym for the African Union force. "It is America and the West who support them. America and the West are the silent killers in Somalia's war." "Oh, damn them! Without them we'd be living in peace and tranquility like we always did in the past!"
The mounting civilian toll is breeding popular resentment that threatens to undermine Somalia's U.S.-backed government, complicating Washington's efforts to combat Islamist militancy in an area where al-Qaeda's affiliates are increasingly posing a threat to U.S. interests and regional stability as they export jihad across borders. Islamists never kill civilians, not even by accident.
The peacekeepers deny using disproportionate force and say they exercise maximum restraint, even when they are in imminent danger of attack. They say al-Shabab uses civilians as human shields and in some cases has fired mortar shells at civilians and blamed the peacekeepers. No! Reeeeeeeally?
"AMISOM has never shelled indiscriminately at civilians," said Gaffel Nkolokosa, a spokesman for the force. "Peacekeepers have always avoided civilian shellings and observe international humanitarian laws." Oh, come now. Everybody knows it's good tactics to waste all your ammunition on random civilian targets, rather than aiming at actual bad guys. They teach that in all the best military academies.
Somali government officials welcome the peacekeeping mission but expressed concern about the civilian deaths. "Oh, we're so concerned! We don't have any semi-competent troops of our own but we're really concerned by the ones somebody else sent us."
"We are in a dilemma," said Abdirahman Omar Osman, Somalia's minister of information. "For us, al-Shabab is trying to do everything it can to get rid of the government. But when we defend ourselves from al-Shabab, civilians get caught in the middle. We do not want one civilian to die." "Not even the ones sheltering and supporting al-Shabaab. We care, really we do. Most of us live in Nairobi so we don't accidentally injure any civilians, whether on our side or on the other side."
Mark Zimmer, a public affairs officer for Somalia at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, said Washington is "proactive" in trying to prevent the peacekeepers from "inadvertently targeting civilians and increasing their sensitivity to avoiding civilian casualties." But he noted that "al-Shabab has increased attacks of late, forcing AMISOM to respond."
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Civilians get caught in the middle? The losers use civilians as shields as well as targets. People are nothing more than sandbags and fodder to jihadists.
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Maria Ressa, CNN, was rumored to be involved in an affair with Kadaffi Janjalani. She seemed to have full access to the Abu Sayyaff and the hostages.
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the commenters at the WaPo article get it:
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this has to be the worst article ever written in the washingtonpost. it is very inaccurate, and inflammatory and gives readers the impression that these peacekeepers are just killing innocent civilians intentionally and for no reason. it is just flat out horrible journalism. where was this type of top class reporting when the peacekeepers were getting killed themselves, or the Somalian citizens. somalia has been a lawless country for decades now, and 100's of thousands of innocent people have died in the hands of these militants who don't even know why they are fighting. articles like this is a serious violation of common sense"
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This is just a propaganda piece for al-Shabab : they bombed the Ugandans and now the Ugandans are sending more troops and making it clear that the ROEs are NOT going to stop them from splattering al-Shabab. So, al-Shabab is using its useful idiots in the West to spread anti-AMISCOM propaganda before the Ugandans go all medieval on them, to try to stop them.
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Ok, so Sudarsan Raghavan is WaPo's bureau chief for Africa. We have a pretty good history of anti-American elements infiltrating bureau chief positions with organizations like AP. Why not WaPo?
This article reads like an Islamic Courts propaganda piece.
The Washington Post has certain sunk a long way from back when they were are real newspaper.
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The Washington Post has certain sunk a long way from back when they were are real newspaper.
Posted by: crosspatch 2010-07-18
Well, that WAS 70 years ago. A lot can happen in 70 years. Of course, WAPO has been a piece of crap for at least the last 45 years, so the drop happened rather quickly.
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versus
WORLD NEWS > PAN-AFRICANS: SEND MORE TROOPS TO SOMALIA.
and
* SAME > AL SHABAAB CELLS NOW IN MAJOR AMERICAN/US CITIES, as due to 00's of "Bad Nature/Character" Somali Men being smuggled into the US by Americ ANTHONY JOSEPH TRACY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
versus
* SAME > [India]EASY REBEL ACCESS TO CALCUTTA. WANTED individual anti-Govt Maoist Leaders have little to no difficulties covertly sneaking or moving, etc. around Calcutta despite Govt security presence.
* SAME > [Tibet = Nepal] BAIDYA WARNS OF [armed = violent] "UPRISING" IFF MAOISTS NEGLECTED, by the Nepali Congress + CPMN-UML??
[Mail and Globe] Hands of two men who admitted theft as hundreds of people, including women and children, looked on, a judge said Saturday.
"The court handed down its verdict according to Islamic sharia law after the two accused admitted their guilt," judge Abu Yusuf Sheik Hasan told journalists Saturday.
"They paid for their crimes."
The sentence was carried out by a hooded executioner with a long knife late Friday in the small town of Balad, 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Mogadishu, which is controlled by the Shebab movement, witnesses said.
Hassan Omar Mohamed, 18, and Murshid Ahmed Adan, 22, confessed to having burgled shops, stealing 45-million and two million Somali shillings ($1 350 and $60) respectively.
A witness who gave his name as Muktar described how three men restrained each amputee, one of them holding the right arm while it was cut off.
While the pair had been drugged, "It seemed really painful," he added.
Another witness, Adan Yusuf, said, "Women and children were watching this horrible punishment and I saw a woman vomit" while it was being carried out.
The al-Shabaab movement, which controls most of central and southern Somalia and is linked to al-Qaeda, has imposed an extreme interpretation of sharia, including amputation and other corporal punishment.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] The Sudanese army said 75 of its troops and more than 300 fighters of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement have been killed in clashes in Darfur over the past week.
General Al-Tayeb Musbah Osman, the army's commander for the war-torn western region, said the army had also captured 86 JEM fighters, in a statement carried by the official SUNA news agency late on Friday.
It is unusual for the army to acknowledge such large losses in its own ranks.
The JEM said on Tuesday that it was locked in fresh fighting with the army, a day after the International Criminal Court charged Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir with genocide over his government's conduct of the conflict in Darfur.
In March 2009, the ICC already issued a warrant for Beshir's arrest on war crimes charges and charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the conflict.
The most heavily armed of the Darfur rebel factions, the JEM has refused to join peace talks in the Qatari capital Doha after a framework accord it signed with the government ran into problems earlier this year.
Another large rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) faction of Abdelwahid Nur, is also boycotting talks.
Southern former rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement offered on Wednesday to mediate between the Khartoum government and the two rebel groups in a bid to break the deadlock.
US special envoy Scott Gration was in Khartoum on Saturday for talks with UN and African Union officials and other diplomats on how to move the moribund peace process forward.
Darfur, an arid region the size of France, has been gripped by civil war since ethnic minority rebels rose up against the Arab-dominated government in 2003.
Some 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million fled their homes, according to UN figures. Khartoum says 10,000 people have been killed.
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Inspector General of police in Uganda Kale Kayihura has said that about 20 suspects have been arrested in connection with the bomb attacks that killed 76 people watching the World Cup final on television.
He said that all those arrested have connections with al Shabaab, and include Ugandans, Somalis, Ethiopians and Pakistani nationals. Al Shabaab, Somalia's most dangerous militant group, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Kayihura on Saturday said that the 20 suspects were being held by Ugandan security as they investigate Sunday's bombing. He said that 37 bomb victims were still receiving treatment in hospitals. Without disclosing the name or nationality, the Kenyan police said they arrested another suspect at a police checkpoint on Wednesday near the Kenya-Somalia border.
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Muslims attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing eight people with machetes and burning seven houses and a church in fresh religious violence, Lieutenant Colonel Kingsley Umoh, an army spokesman, said on Saturday.
The attack followed clashes in eastern Nigeria earlier in the week that also killed eight and left six mosques and a church burnt. "It's true eight people were killed," the spokesman said. An AFP correspondent saw the bodies, as well as the burnt houses and church in Mazzah village, near the city of Jos.
Umoh said Fulani Muslims entered Mazzah between 1:30am and 5am, shooting sporadically in the air to lure sleeping residents outside their homes before they were killed. "Seven people were killed instantly with machetes while three others were seriously injured. One of them died on the way to the hospital," he said.
He said troop reinforcements had been deployed to Mazzah, some 14 kilometres from Jos, the capital of central Plateau State, to prevent the violence from escalating. The village was calm on Saturday afternoon, but some residents were seen leaving for Jos out of fears for their safety. A senior state official, Gyang Pwajok, described the overnight attack as an act of terrorism.
Plateau State lies in the middle belt between the Muslim north and the Christian south. Local rights groups say 1,500 people have died in inter-communal violence in the Jos region since the start of this year alone. Some observers say the violence results from religion being exploited in the struggle for local power.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen's government has agreed to free more than 400 people, mostly northern rebels, as the Arab state tries to launch a dialogue with opposition groups, an opposition leader said on Saturday.
An opposition coalition and the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) party signed an agreement on Saturday to set up a joint body for a national dialogue, state media reported.
The government is trying to halt conflict in the northern province of Saada with Shiite rebels as well as with secessionists in the south.
"As demanded by the opposition in order to sign the agreement, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has issued a directive to free 27 from the southern movement and 400 with links to the fighting in Saada," the opposition figure, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the government.
Socialist opposition figure Mohammed Ghalib Ahmed said 28 southern activists had been released.
Yemen has faced pressure from Western governments and neighboring Saudi Arabia to quell domestic conflicts and focus on fighting a resurgent al Qaeda wing based in the country after the group claimed responsibility for a failed bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner in December.
The Shi'ite rebels have complained about what they call a government failure to free all detained rebels under a truce reached in February to end sporadic fighting which has displaced 350,000 people since 2004.
On their website, the rebels accused the army of being behind an ambush which killed three of their fighters on Friday.
On Thursday, officials accused the Shiite rebels of killing 11 people, including three policemen, in an attack on a convoy carrying food supplies for government forces in the north. The rebels denied involvement.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Obama administration added a U.S.-born, al-Qaeda-linked cleric to a terrorism blacklist Friday, targeting him with sanctions aimed at cutting off his financial support.
The U.S. Treasury said it blacklisted Anwar al-Awlaki as a "specially designated global terrorist", a move under an executive order that freezes any assets he may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
"Anwar al-Awlaki has proven that he is extraordinarily dangerous, committed to carrying out deadly attacks on Americans and others worldwide," said Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey.
"He has involved himself in every aspect of the supply chain of terrorism -- fundraising for terrorist groups, recruiting and training operatives, and planning and ordering attacks on innocents."
Awlaki, now based in Yemen, rose to prominence last year after it emerged he had communicated by email with Major Nidal Hasan, a U.S. army psychiatrist accused of opening fire on colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13.
The Treasury said in a statement that al-Awlaki has pledged an oath of loyalty to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and has recruited individuals to join the group.
He also has facilitated training at camps in Yemen to support acts of terrorism and "helped focus AQAP's attention on planning attacks on U.S. interests," the statement said.
The Treasury said New Mexico-born al-Awlaki provided instructions to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Dec. 25.
After receiving instructions, Abdulmutallab obtained the explosive device he used in the failed attack, the Treasury said.
A U.S. official said in April that President Barack Obama's administration had authorized the targeted killing of Awlaki, after American intelligence agencies concluded the cleric was directly involved in anti-U.S. plots.
Awlaki was imprisoned in Yemen in 2006 on charges of kidnapping for ransom and being involved in an al-Qaeda plot to kidnap a US official but was released from jail in December 2007 and subsequently went into hiding in Yemen.
"Awlaki has sought to encourage his supporters to provide money for terrorist causes," Levey pointed out. "Those who provide material support to Awlaki or AQAP violate sanctions and expose themselves to serious consequences."
Members of al-Awlaki's tribe in Yemen have denied he is connected to al-Qaida despite a video posting calling for the killing of Americans. In the 45-minute video, al-Awlaki said U.S. deaths are justified and encouraged, citing what he said was U.S. intentional killing of a million Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Blacklist? A hitlist would be the only relevant list for this fella...
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The Bangladesh government has ordered tens of thousands of mosques and libraries to remove books written by Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Shamim Mohammad Afjal, head of the state-run Islamic Foundation, said on Saturday. He said that the books written by Maududi were deemed anti-Islamic and likely to foster militancy. "We will withdraw Maududi's books from all of the state-funded 24,000 libraries," he said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-9) early yesterday arrested a leader of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) and his Bangladeshi aide from Bhairab in Kishoreganj.
The arrestees are Ranjan Chowdhury alias Major Ranjan, 46, former general secretary of Dhubri district unit Ulfa, and his Bangladeshi aide Pradip Marak, 57, of Bakura village in Jhinaigati upazila.
The law enforcers also recovered one pistol, one revolver, four handmade bombs and bomb making materials from Ranjan's hideout at Lakshmipur village in Bhairab.
Rab sources said on information, they conducted a raid in Lakshmipur village around 4:30am and arrested the two with the arms and explosives. In preliminary interrogation the arrestees admitted their involvement with Ulfa, the sources added.
The arrestees were brought to the Rab headquarters in Dhaka yesterday for a media briefing and sent back to Bhairab in the afternoon.
The Rab sources said they would soon produce Ranjan and Pradip before a Kishoreganj court with remand prayers.
Rab Chief Hasan Mahmud Khandaker said, "We are trying to find out whether Ulfa has any link with local militant outfits or has any military wing here. We are also trying to ascertain how many Ulfa leaders and operatives are living here."
Chief of Rab Intelligence Wing Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan said, "Ulfa activities in India are apparently regulated by its leaders and operatives who have taken shelter in Bangladesh. Among them, Ranjan is now the chief as the other top leaders of the separatist group are in jails."
Ziaul Ahsan said in the preliminary interrogation Ranjan informed about his training in firearms and explosives. Rab is also trying to find out the organisation's arsenal in the country, he added.
Commander Mohammad Sohail, director of Rab legal and media wing, said Ranjan married a Bangladeshi and started living at Gazni village of Jhinaigati upazila in Sherpur since 1997. He has been making frequent trips to India on organisational purposes.
Ranjan illegally entered into the country through Kurigram district in September 1997 to meet Ulfa military wing chief Paresh Barua in Dhaka, said commander Sohail.
Rab sources said Ulfa operatives under Ranjan's leadership are active in Sherpur, Kurigram and Sylhet, the bordering districts of Assam.
In 1995, Indian law enforcers arrested Ranjan on his way back to India from Bhutan after his meeting with Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia, who has been convicted in several cases and now in jail in Bangladesh since 1997.
Last December, Assam police arrested Ulfa chief Arabinda Rajkhowa Raju Barua and eight others of the group although some foreign media reported that Arabinda and the others were handed over to Indian Border Security Force by Bangladesh at Dawki in Meghalaya.
The Bangladesh and Indian governments dismissed the media claim.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Detained acting JMB chief Nazmul told interrogators that he and executed JMB military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny were there when JMB men stabbed eminent author Prof Humayun Azad in front of Bangla Academy in February, 2004.
Nazmul, who is also known as Bhagne Shahid and Anwar Alam, made the disclosure during remand at the Detective Branch of police office yesterday, a DB official told The Daily Star requesting not to be named.
Nazmul told interrogators that as Prof Azad cried for help he detonated a bomb to clear the way for their escape dispersing people coming forward to aid Azad.
Sunny had planned the attack and he had led the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh operatives who carried out the attack, he told investigators, adding that he had provided them with the knives.
Nazmul told interrogators that they had also issued several death threats over telephone to Azad to stop, what they claimed, his anti-Islamic writings and opinions. He said Azad did not pay heed to their warnings.
Asked about the information they received from Nazmul about the JMB operatives who took part in the attack, the DB official refused to give details for the sake of investigation.
However, another DB official said JMB operatives Minhaz and Shamim, who is also known as Sado, took part in the attack among others.
On February 27, 2004, they swooped on 56-year-old linguist Azad, a professor of Bangla at Dhaka University, as he was trying to catch a rickshaw to go home from the Ekushey Book Fair at Bangla Academy, sources said.
Four to five youths, who were shadowing Azad, emerged from the direction of Suhrawardy Udyan and hemmed him, witnesses had told The Daily Star after the attack. As Prof Azad cried for help, a loud blast rocked the area and the attackers got away, they said.
Azad died from what an autopsy said was a heart attack in Munich on August 12 that year.
Azad was receiving threats from fundamentalists after his book "Pak Saar Jamin Saad Baad" was published in a national Bangla daily's Eid issue.
Meanwhile, a top DB official said they put acting JMB chief Nazmul, the banned outfit's North Bengal chief Shafiqul Islam alias Jamai Rafiq and former acting JMB chief Saidur Rahman face-to-face and interrogated them.
The official said they also put detained Jamaat leaders face-to-face with detained JMB leaders and interrogated them yesterday.
A DB official said Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Motiur Rahman Nizami and Delwar Hossain Sayedee claimed that they are not war criminals. They said they just supported Pakistan during the war and it was their political right to do so.
The detained JMB leaders used to keep regular contact with Jamaat leaders and some Jamaat leaders used to provide financial help to JMB operatives, claimed a DB source, adding that JMB high-ups were also trying to forge a unity with Jamaat.
Jamaat and Hizb-ut Tahrir also tried to keep contact with Detained JMB leaders, a DB source said quoting the JMB leaders.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three activists of the banned Islamist outfit, Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested from a procession brought out by them near the press club in the capital yesterday.
The arrestees were identified as Fazle Hadi, 28, Ripon Mia, 22, and Mohammad Ahsan, 30.
The banned organisation brought out the procession at around 1:00pm demanding release of their leaders and activists who were arrested earlier.
Four policemen were also injured as they tried to disperse the procession of the banned outfit.
Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim said around 50 Tahrir men brought out the procession carrying banners written in Bangla, English and Arabic. They attacked the law enforcers who tried to stop the procession, injuring four policemen.
Later, the law enforcers had to charge baton to bring the situation under control and arrested three unruly Tahrir men from the spot, he said adding, the police also seized six banners from the protesters.
The government had banned all kinds of activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh in the greater interests of security of the public since October 22, 2009.
The injured policemen are -- Assistant Sub-Inspector Zahirul Islam, Habilder Nazrul Islam, Habilder Anwar Hossain and Constable Maruf Hossain.
Police filed two separate cases - - one under Anti-Terrorism Act and another on charge of assaulting members of the police force, against the arrestees with the Shabagh Police Station.
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This is very bad from a geographical and Mexican political point of view. Torreon is the psychological "halfway point" from the US border to Mexico City. To a lot of Mexicans, this might look far like a civil war than a gang war, and they are still culturally traumatized by the last civil war.
Their equivalent of "reconstruction" from that last civil war only ended in the 1940s.
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Anon: you speak wisdom on this point. The "armed phase" of the Mexican Revolution was 1910-1920. It took Lazaro Cardenas in the late thirties to put the lid on. Seems like the pot is ready to boil over again. )):
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Hopefully, we can avoid another Pancho Villa raid on the US during this current Mexican civil war. I am afraid that Obambi would blame the American townspeople and send the feds in to round them up, not to go after the Mexican banditos.
Twelve individuals died in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included a Juarez CIPOL agent shot to death Friday night and two Santiago, Nuevo Leon police officers shot to death Saturday morning.
Four unidentified individuals were shot to death at a block party in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Portal del Mango and Puerto Vallarta in the Portal del Roble II district, where a number of people were drinking at a party. A single armed suspect shot eight people, with four, three men and a woman, dying at the scene. Witnesses say an AK-47 was used and more than 100 shots were fired.
A farm was set afire by unidentified suspect near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday, according to Mexican news reports. The farm near Km. Marker 33 on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juarez highway was owned by a CIPOL agent who had been apparently threatened in the past by drug gangs. No victims were found on the property by police.
An unidentified Juarez CIPOL agent was shot to death in his home Friday night, say Mexican news reports. CIPOL is a detective squad.
The attack took place near the intersection of calles Portal de Cupido and Ramacoi, del Fraccionamiento Complejo Integral Aeropuerto district. Investigators say more than 20 shot were fired.
A man was found shot to death in his car in Parral Chihuahua Friday night, say Mexican press reports. Jesus Humberto DomÃnguez Palma, 27, was found shot in the head in his Chevrolet sedan on Avenida Santa Barbara near a business called Duraplay de Parral.
A man was found shot to death on a farm near Nogales, Sonora Thursday night, say Mexican press reports. Amadeo Rivas Carlos Duarte, 45, was found near the Kennedy district between calle Marathon and the access road to Cerro de los Portales. He had been shot multiple times with an AK-47 assault rifle, a .45 caliber weapon and a 9mm weapon.
This is the 136th murder so far in calender 2010 for Nogales, most of those using AK-47 assault rifles.
Two unidentified Santiago, Nuevo Leon police officers were shot to death in an apparent ambush early Saturday morning. The attack took place when two police patrols on Carretera Nacional between the Antonio Villalón Tamez and Jardines de la Boca district came under fire from armed suspects. Two officers were forced from their vehicles to take refuge between the homes and when one of them ran out toward his patrol unit, he was killed.
The second officer was intercepted and killed after a brief hunt by the armed suspects nearby.
Three men were found shot to death in a car in the Chihuahua rural community of Lazaro Cardenas Thursday evening, according to Mexican press reports. Carlos Ignacio Martinez Salinas, 20, Miguel Angel Perez Guerrero, 24, and Juan Alberto Martinez Pinon, 25 were found dead inside a Pontiac sedan near the intersection of calles Madero and Emiliano Zapata near the Abraham Gonzälez Primary school. All three had been shot to death.
One of them victim was identified as a Chihuahua police officer, although the name was not released.
A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer was seriously wounded by a car bombing in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, local police reported Saturday.
Two children of the officer and two women were also injured when an explosive device was set off by unknown assailants beneath the VAZ-2110 car of the officer as he was driving off a private house in the town of Nartkala at around 23:45 Moscow time Friday (1945 GMT). All the five people have been hospitalized. A criminal investigation has been launched into the attack.
Last Saturday a total of six TV and radio broadcasting stations were attacked overnight at various districts of the republic, causing neither casualties nor disruption of normal operation of the stations.
Despite Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putins, announcement of a new plan to overhaul the economy of the North Caucasus, there was little sign of a let-up in insurgency related violence in the region this week.
[Ma'an] Sixty lawyers from 25 countries gathered in Istanbul to discuss their legal defense of activists on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was raided by Israeli forces in international waters, one of the fleet's Turkish organizers said Friday.
The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, known as IHH, said lawyers agreed on a "road map" for their legal defense in the lawsuits, a statement read.
The lawyers told reporters at the Akgun Hotel that they will be working for the legal rights of victims from 36 countries, including Israel, as well as those on board Mavi Marmara, which Israeli forces raided, killing nine participants.
Ramazan Ariturk, an attorney from Elmadag Law Firm, said their defense plan will be based on international legal values and principles, with an "aim [..] to bring about a brand new outlook on the international judicial conception and to re-establish the rule of law," IHH wrote.
Ariturk also noted that their legal battle is not aimed at targeting the people of Israel. "If it was the people of Israel who were subjected to such injustice, we would still be acting the same way. This gathering is not a gathering-around-hate as some people with bad intentions claim."
Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old dual Turkish-US citizen,
I do hope someone is combing Mr. Dogan's phone and computer records to track down his connections, given that he died in association with terror-related groups.
and the eight others killed by Israeli forces, will be defended in the same way, the statement added.
Lawsuits have been filed in some countries and other cases are in their final stages before being launched, the lawyer added. Ariturk also mentioned their efforts to file an international lawsuit and to establish an international commission for investigating the attack on the flotilla.
Lawyers at the meeting were representing nationals from various countries including Israel, the US, the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, South Africa, Egypt, Belgium, Indonesia, Algeria and Kuwait.
Following the raid, several participants and organizers began filing suits against Israel in France, Greece and the UK, with lawyers citing international jurisdiction as the attack took place in high seas.
The lawyer for Saint Pancake Rachel Corrie, the US citizen crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to prevent a Palestinian arms tunnel home from being razed in Gaza, also attended the news conference, IHH wrote. Corrie's family filed suit against Israel and against the company that manufactured the bulldozer.
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lawyers agreed on a "road map" for their legal defense in the lawsuits
My money is on "Let's blame the Juice!". Should have just thrown the bodies over the side. Would have attracted fewer sharks.
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The lawyers told reporters at the Akgun Hotel that they will be working for the legal rights of victims from 36 countries, including Israel, as well as those on board Mavi Marmara, which Israeli forces raided, killing nine participants.
BULLSHIT
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Methinks the next "Flotilla" should be filled with lawyers...then follow Shakespeare's advice...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Sixteen Shiite Muslims were killed and four wounded Saturday in an apparent sectarian ambush in a remote tribal town in northwest Pakistan, a paramilitary spokesman and local officials said.
The incident took place early Saturday in the Sunni dominated Charkhel area on Tal-Parachinar road in the violence-hit Kurram tribal district, close to the Afghan border.
Local administrative and intelligence officials also confirmed the incident and said that all those killed were Shiite Muslims.
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'Hotbed of terrorism' is not the usual label for Kerala. But intelligence gathered by disparate agencies over the last few years suggests the description may not be far off the mark. Confirmation of this came with the horrifying incident of July 4, when a college lecturer's right hand was chopped off in Moovattupuzha, a town in Eranakulam district.
The attack on T J Joseph was apparently in retaliation for setting a question paper that allegedly hurt Muslim sentiments. Police raids on offices of the Popular Front of India (PFI), whose activists are believed to be behind the attack, have exposed a well-oiled, pan-Islamist network fed by a heady mix of Wahhabism and hawala. Kerala's deep-rooted Gulf links also come in handy for the PFI.
The revelations of the last two weeks are startling. It includes al-Qaida training tapes, Taliban-style courts that dispense justice according to Shariat law, literature on conversion, explosives enough to kill dozens, and documents indicating unusual interest in the Indian Navy.
Sources say it was one of the PFI's Taliban-style 'courts' in Erattupettah in Kottayam district that decided Joseph's fate. There are 13 more across Kerala, discreetly exhorting members of the community to stay away from regular courts which are deemed "un-Islamic". The state police is now taking a fresh look at three murders in Kannur, including that of a police constable. There is some suspicion the killings were ordered by Taliban-style courts.
The policemen who seized the CDs from PFI offices later reported disgust and disbelief at videos showing brutal punishment such as the severing of limbs inflicted on "enemies of faith". Some shots had activists slaughtering animals, apparently to harden them. Kerala's descent to terror is not recent nor is it without political backing. For decades, both Congress and the Left have been soft on the more radical sections of the Muslim community leaving the moderates at the mercy of the extremists.
Radicalisation of the northern districts began in the 1990s. Fingerprints of the banned al-Umma, which was behind the Coimbatore bombings, were found to be all over the murder of three Hindu youth in Malappuram, Palakkad and Thrissur reportedly for having relations with Muslim women.
In July 1993, reformist Islamic scholar Moulavi Abdul Hassan Chekannur was abducted from his home and slaughtered allegedly by hardliners. That conspiracy is yet to be unravelled.
But perhaps the jihadi network first became really visible in Marad, a sleepy fishing hamlet in Kozhikode district. On May 2, 2003, eight Hindu fishermen were executed on the beach by a crack team, which appeared out of nowhere. It was said to be a revenge attack and the execution betrayed a chillingly high level of training. Fingers were pointed at the National Development Front (NDF), headed among others by P Koya, who was a founding member of SIMI, the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. But the trail went cold when it inexorably led to politicians.
Kerala's then A K Antony-led government as well as the Left turned down calls for a CBI investigation. A later inquiry by a judicial commission made reference to the alleged role of some leaders of the Indian Union Muslim League, a Congress ally.
The Left, which was in power when the report was tabled in the state assembly, saw political opportunity and swiftly agreed to a CBI probe. But the "independent" central probe agency expressed its unwillingness to take up the case, claiming that the passage of time three years meant the destruction of crucial evidence.
Police believe the NDF was never more than a front to accommodate members of the Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS) founded by radical cleric-turned-politician Abdul Nasser Madani after it was proscribed. Even so, it managed to groom a dedicated cadre with jihadi leanings. In November 2006, the NDF merged with like-minded organizations Manitha Neethi Pasarai of Tamil Nadu and the Karnataka Forum for Dignity to form the PFI.
Barely two years later, Kerala's links with the global jihad became clear when four young Malayali men were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kashmir. They were en route to PoK for training. The incident brought some disquieting facts to light, not least the extensive recruitment of Kerala's young men for jihadi operations. Official estimates say as many as 300 young Malayalis were recruited from different parts of the state.
The state government sought to play it down, but then constituted a special inquiry by an anti-terrorism unit. Once again, the trail led to politicians of various hues and the investigation languished. It was finally handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Bomb attacks across the country in the last decade have had a Malayali imprint. That includes the May 2008 Jaipur blasts, the serial bombings in Bangalore in July 2008 and then in Delhi in September. Yet, there has been little action on the ground.
Police officers accused of links with the organization remain free. Just recently, the Centre ordered an NIA probe into allegations that a senior IPS officer, Tomin J Thachankary, met suspected terrorists during a visit to Qatar in January this year.
The state home department has not initiated action against a former SP accused of sabotaging the arrest of SIMI activists from a camp in Alwaye near Kochi in August 2006. Though 18 hardcore activists took part in the camp, the police allegedly under instructions from the SP only arrested five and let off the rest. They would later mastermind the Jaipur and Bangalore blasts.
[The News (Pak)] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Thursday announced that terrorists would be dealt with in accordance with the law irrespective of their age and sex.
The announcement was made at a briefing jointly conducted by Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Minister for Law Barrister Arshad Abdullah and Minister for Social Welfare Sitara Ayaz.
Reporters were also briefed about the Child Protection Law. Provincial government spokesman Mian Iftikhar Hussain said around 40 juvenile suicide bombers and several families were in custody and would be dealt with under the law of the land. The minister said the families with juvenile militant members were also kept in protective custody because they had links with those carrying out target-killings in Swat.
He added that the rate of target-killings in Swat had considerably dropped after confinement of these families and children. "Everyone, juvenile or adolescent, is equal in the eyes of the law and would be punished if found guilty," he added.
The minister said for those in custody, the government had adopted a full-fledged rehabilitation mechanism and a psychiatrist had been hired for the purpose. KP Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development Sitara Ayaz said the government had promulgated the Child Protection and Welfare Ordinance on June 9 to protect their rights and ensure welfare.
She said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Ordinance had also been tabled in the provincial assembly and the government had set up the commission for the protection of the child and the directorate in the province. "Child protection units would also be set up at the district level," she added.
The minister said before this law, the Social Welfare Department could neither pick the street children, beggars and orphans nor there was any punishment for the habitual beggars. "But now after this law, the Social Welfare Department could pick up children and the beggars from the street."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border ambushed a convoy of vehicles being escorted by security forces on Saturday, killing 18 people, including two women, witnesses said.
Militants opened fire on civilian vehicles in the convoy as it headed to the main northwestern city of Peshawar from Parachinar, the main town of the Pashtun-dominated Kurram region where the army has killed nearly 100 militants in operations in the past few months.
"Militants attacked the last two vehicles in the convoy with automatic weapons near Char Khel village, killing 18 people," said Jamshed Tori, who was also wounded in the attack.
Local administrative and intelligence officials also confirmed the incident and said that all those killed were Shiite Muslims.
They said that the death toll may rise and added that gunmen managed to flee the scene.
Kurram tribal district has for three years been a flashpoint for violence between the minority Shiite and majority Sunni communities.
Shiites account for some 20 percent of Pakistan's mostly Sunni Muslim population of 160 million.
More than 4,000 people have died in outbreaks of sectarian violence between the groups since the late 1980s.
Militants have gone on the offensive again after a recent lull in violence, challenging government assertions that a major assault in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan along with smaller operations in other regions had dealt a major blow to insurgents.
The road linking Kurram with Peshawar often remains closed because of militants and Pakistan army operations, forcing people to take a circuitous route through Afghanistan to travel to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and its capital, Peshawar.
But that route is not safe. At least 11 people were killed in a similar attack last week when a passenger bus heading to Peshawar was attacked inside Afghanistan.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Several people have been injured in two back-to-back bomb blasts in different parts of the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say.
Both blasts took place inside internet cafes in Lahore on Saturday. Pakistani security officials say that the first bomb went off in Garhi Shahu and the second in the city's Shahdara area.
No group or individual has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani government reacted by putting its security personnel on high alert in major cities across the country.
Lahore has been the target of several deadly attacks in recent months.
The latest bombing incident comes days after a series of explosions rocked the popular shrine of a Sufi saint, Abul Hassan Ali Hajweri -- located at the heart of Lahore.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army force captured two operatives of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network south of Mosul city on Saturday, according to a military source within the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC).
An NOC intelligence force arrested today (July 17) two operatives of the AQI in the district of al-Shoura, south of Mosul, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The two men are wanted by security agencies and were arrested upon intelligence tip-offs, he added, not giving further details.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Two thermal bombs on Saturday hit a U.S. army patrol southwest of Kirkuk city, causing no casualties.
The blasts occurred in al-Igaydat village of the al-Haweja district, 65 km south of Kirkuk, a local security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He noted that the blasts left neither casualties nor damage.
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what is meant by the term 'thermal bomb'?
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[Ma'an] Officials from the Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Palestinian security services set up checkpoints on Friday to harass party supporters en route to an annual conference in Ramallah, which itself was quashed.
"Security forces in Ramallah began installing security checkpoints early this morning on all of the entrances to Ramallah," a statement from the organization, which promotes the re-establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, read, accusing the officers on the checkpoints of detaining men they believed were on their way to a party meeting.
By evening, members of the movement said PA security had "shut down the gates of the school, confiscated equipment and arrested hundreds," in addition to what a statement said was hundreds of others detained at the PA checkpoints.
Witnesses confirmed heavy security forces presence at checkpoints erected around Ramallah, and around the location where the conference was set to take place.
"Since early morning, the PA has arrested 1,000s of Hizb Ut-Tahrir members," a statement from officials estimated.
Security forces entered the yard of the school where the conference was scheduled to be held in Ramallah, a representative for the movement said, and security officers in civil uniforms were seen deployed at the scene and were observed to have assisted in dozens of arrests.
A statement from the organization said security personnel with the government had broken into the offices of Watan TV because they believed that a photojournalist had captured the arrests on tape.
Events organized by Hizb Ut-Tahrir to mark the 89th anniversary of the fall of the last caliphate have been repressed in areas of the West Bank and Gaza, with 17 said to have been arrested near Hebron, and limited violence erupting north of Gaza City last week.
A large event was planned by the group in Ramallah for Saturday evening, and a statement said similar tactics were employed by PA forces throughout the West Bank, targeting smaller events in other villages.
In one case, the statement added, PA security services were dispatched around a school where an event was scheduled, "turning the school, the venue for a conference, into a military post."
There has been no comment from government officials on the accusations.
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[Ma'an] Lebanon's Internal Security Forces have informed Hizbullah of the names of three senior party members suspected of collaborating with Israel, Lebanese media reported.
According to the Lebanese daily An-Nahar, quoting an anonymous source, Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa was told of the three suspects' involvement.
"[Hizbullah] is well aware of this matter," the source told the daily.
The news follows reports that a Lebanese national was detained on Thursday, suspected of spying for Israel through his employment with a telecommunications company.
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah called for the execution of all collaborators with Israel on Friday, and said his party could not be penetrated by Israeli agents, the online news site NOW Lebanon reported.
Meanwhile, speaking on the Hezbollah-run satellite channel Al-Manar, Lebanese MP Walid Jumblatt said "Spying is a dangerous thing and all spies must be executed. Enough with some civil society calls on the need to abolish the death penalty for the sake of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership because the country's security is more important than that partnership," Lebanon's news site Nahrnet reported.
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Today: all suspected spys must be killed
Next week: rumors that top Nasrallah assistants (and sex toys) are Israeli agents
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian authorities briefly detained the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Livia Leu Agosti, while she was on a trip three days ago to North Khorasan province, Press TV and Fars news agency reported Saturday.
Agosti was detained on Wednesday by provincial security forces "because her identity was not established at the time," said the website of Press TV, the Iranian channel in English, citing "informed sources."
She was freed a few hours later, the report said.
Fars news agency, which also quoted an informed source, said that Agosti's trip to North Khorasan was, however, planned with the knowledge of relevant authorities.
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Iran has detained 40 people seeking to create disturbances in the southeastern city of Zahedan in the wake of the recent deadly explosions in the city, a report says.
Iran's Deputy Police chief Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan says those arrested were taken into custody after failing to create chaos in the Sistan-Baluchestan Province, Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
He also said that the latest terror attack in front of Zahedan's Grand Mosque on Thursday night has spilled in from across the eastern borders.
On July 15, two bombs were detonated in quick succession the southeastern city, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 270 others.
Radan further noted that two policemen were amongst the martyrs of the attack and ten other police officers were also hurt.
Sistan-Beluchistan Province borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is widely believed that hard-line Wahabis and Salafis trained by the CIA in Pakistan are the main elements behind the bombings.
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[Dawn] A militant group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities said on Friday the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
The group, Jundallah, has repeatedly succeeded in carrying out deadly strikes on the Guard, the country's most powerful military force -- including an October suicide bombing that killed more than 40 people. The new attack was a sign that the group is able to carry out devastating bombings even after Iran hanged its leader Abdulmalik Rigi and his brother earlier this year.
Worshippers were attending religious ceremonies when the first blast went off at the entrance of the mosque in the provincial capital Zahedan. The male bomber was disguised as a woman, local lawmaker Hossein Ali Shahriari told the ISNA news agency.
Inside the mosque, a cleric was reading from the Quran in front of lines of faithful sitting cross-legged on the floor when the building suddenly shook from the blast and screams were heard from outside, according to footage taken at the time and aired on Iranian state TV.
As people rushed to help, the second explosion detonated 20 minutes later, causing the majority of the deaths and injuries, ISNA reported. The technique is often used by Sunni militants in Iraq to maximise casualties.
Members of the Guard were among the worshippers, particularly because the ceremonies coincided with Iran's official Revolutionary Guard Day. The deputy interior minister, Ali Abdollahi, told the Fars news agency on Thursday that several Guard members were among the dead.
Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastagerdi told ISNA on Friday that the toll stood at 27 dead but could still rise, with another 270 injured, including 11 in serious condition.
Iran accuses the United States and Britain of supporting Jundallah in a plot to weaken Tehran clerical leadership, a claim both countries deny. On Friday, Iranian officials again blamed them for the attack.
Gen Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guard, told worshippers at the main weekly prayers in Tehran that the victims "were martyred by hands of mercenaries of the US and UK".
He was echoed by influential lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi who said: "America should be answerable for the terrorist incident in Zahedan."
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer was seriously wounded by a car bombing in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, local police reported Saturday.
[Ma'an] Sixty lawyers from 25 countries gathered in Istanbul to discuss their legal defense of activists on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was raided by Israeli forces in international waters, one of the fleet's Turkish organizers said Friday. 
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army force captured two operatives of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network south of Mosul city on Saturday, according to a military source within the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC).
