[Tolo News] At least 7 police were killed and 4 others wounded on Thursday morning in a suicide kaboom in the north-eastern Kunduz province
The incident occurred in the province's Imam Sahib district when a suicide kaboomer targeted a police vehicle, in which seven police were killed and another four were injured, the district's sub-governor, Muhammad Ayob Haqyar told TOLOnews.
Seven civilians have also been wounded in the incident, he added.
Road-side mines are planted by bad boys to target Afghan and foreign forces, in which civilians are the main victims.
Suicide attacks have increased five percent in July.
In Taliban attacks in the past one month, 125 police have been killed and 291 others have been wounded.
Last month has witnessed 765 insurgency attacks, most of them mine and bomb explosions.
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[Tolo News] At least two guards of a private security company were bumped off and another one was maimed Thursday morning in a road-side kaboom in Ghazni province, official say
The incident happened when the company's vehicle hit a mine in the province's Shahbaz area, the Provincial Police Chief of Ghazni, Nowroz Ali Mahmoud Zada, told TOLOnews reporter.
Two guards of a private security company were killed and another one was wounded, he added. Taliban has counted the coup for the attack, and claim that five of the company's guards have been killed in the incident.
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[Tolo News] At least 8 Taliban hard boys were killed, including their commander and 13 others were wounded Wednesday afternoon in clashes between bad boys and ISAF forces in the eastern Nangarhar province, officials say
The incident occurred in the province's Khogiani district when a convoy of ISAF forces was passing by, the Provincial Police Chief of Nangarhar, Abdul Ghafoor, told TOLOnews reporter.
Eight Taliban bad boys, including their leader Maulawi Sediqullah were killed and another 13 were wounded in these attacks, he added.
Meanwhile, 20 Taliban hard boys were banged and dozens of others were maimed in Mehtarlam, the provincial capital of the eastern Laghman province on Wednesday afternoon.
Afghan and coalition forces have conducted attacks in an effort to wipe out Taliban infestationss from the province many times before.
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I wonder if such "leaders" were assigned nominal rank equivalents, if it would lend some clarity to the situation.
Say ranking this particular fecal pellet anything from Captain to Colonel. It would give some idea of how many subordinates he had, the size of his operational territory, who his connections are, etc.
[Tolo News] A convoy of foreign forces was attacked by the Taliban insurgents on Thursday afternoon in Tagab, a district in northern Kapisa province
An Afghan civilian was wounded in the incident, foreign officials say.
The foreign forces have yet to comment on troops' casualties in the incident.
The attack took place as Taliban insurgents Wednesday in an attempt to gain control over some parts of Laghman province, attacked the province in which 20 militants were killed and another ten were wounded in clashes with the Afghan security forces.
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and road-side bombs are the deadliest and overused weapons used by the Taliban in the Afghan war and have claimed a huge number of civilian and foreign forces' lives since the US-led invasion in 2001.
The number of foreign forces' deaths in the infamous Afghan war has reached 415 according to icasualties.org, an independent site that tracks the deaths of foreign troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Egyptian police searched the southern Sinai on Thursday for trucks they believe could have been used to fire rockets on Israeli and Jordanian resort towns this week, officials said.
Police were following a lead that two pickup trucks mounted with rocket launchers were used in Monday's attacks, which left a taxi driver dead in the Jordanian port town of Aqaba, police officials said on condition of anonymity.
Senior security commanders were supervising the investigation near the southern Sinai Taba resort, where police earlier said they found what could have been rocket debris.
The coastal resort lies about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Eilat, where rockets landed in open ground outside the Israeli Red Sea resort.
Egypt on Wednesday blamed unnamed Palestinian factions and said it would not tolerate attacks from its territory but did not outright confirm Jordanian and Israeli accusations that the rockets were fired from the Sinai peninsula.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blamed the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza for the attacks, a charge Hamas denied.
The militant group has an arsenal of Grad type missiles with a range of about 20 kilometres (12.5 miles), and there are smaller armed militant groups in the coastal strip that sometimes operate on their own.
Monday's attacks came days after two rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Egypt is under increased pressure to secure the Sinai, which attracts millions of tourists to beach resorts.
A similar rocket attack hit Aqaba and Eilat in April, although the source of the firing was never established.
Egypt's major beach resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba and Dahab were all the scenes of bloody attacks which killed a total of 130 people between 2004 and 2006.
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ABU DHABIThe Japanese-owned oil tanker that reported an explosion last week while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz was attacked by terrorists, according to investigators in the United Arab Emirates, citing forensic evidence that found traces of explosives on the vessel.
"U.A.E. explosives experts who collected and examined samples found a dent on the starboard side above the water line and remains of home-made explosives on the hull," according to a statement released by the U.A.E.'s state-run news agency WAM. "An examination carried out by specialized teams had confirmed that the tanker had been the subject of a terrorist attack," the statement said, citing an unnamed coast guard official.
A spokeswoman for Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the government is still investigating the matter.
A spokeswoman for the shipping company that owns the tanker, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., said that the company had no comment about the evidence disclosed by the U.A.E. investigators. "We saw the news, but we have nothing to say. We have so far not been contacted by anybody of the U.A.E." about the cause, the spokeswoman said.
She added that other than the U.A.E. and Japan's foreign ministry, the U.S. Navy and the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations have also been investigating the issue. None of the parties have contacted the shipping company with regard to the cause, she said, adding that none of them have any legal obligation to inform the company either.
Earlier this week, an al Qaeda-affiliated militant group claimed responsibility for the July 28 incident that has been shrouded in mystery. In a statement posted on a known Islamic extremist website earlier this week, a group called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades said it had targeted the supertanker filled with oil in what it had hoped would be a blow against the global economy and oil markets.
The shipping company that owns the tanker, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., originally reported that the vessel had been hit by an explosion while it was traveling through the strategic waterway through which some 20% of the world's oil travels each day. It had reported damage to the tanker's hull, but no casualties among its crew.
However, during the weeklong investigation conducted by U.A.E., Japanese and U.S. officials as the tanker docked in the U.A.E. port of Fujairah, officials in the region have given conflicting accounts of the incident. Some have claimed a rogue wave or a collision with another object were likely culprits.
Al Qaeda has threatened to target the strategic waterway in the past, but this is the first known attempt by an Islamic extremist group against the oil traffic in the region.
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Perhaps these tankers could use a "skirt" made up of some kind of continuous heavy blanket that could absorb the brunt of an explosion. It would have to be heavy enough that terrorists couldn't just push it aside and get their boat between it and the hull because that would amplify the explosion. Maybe the blanket could have some small holes through it so that it would disperse the wave front over time and not hit the blanket too hard.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Gunmen killed three members of Yemen's security forces in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern town of Zinjibar on Thursday, witnesses and a hospital official said.
Three masked men attacked the security forces near the town's intelligence headquarters, killing two and wounding a third, witnesses said. The wounded man apparently died of his injuries.
An official at Al-Razi hospital in Jaar, just north of Zinjibar, said the bodies of three security forces members were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the head.
The assailants rode a motorcycle, one of them carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle in a black bag, a security official said. Security forces were in hot pursuit of the attackers.
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A Tamaulipas Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) prison is where at least 14 inmates have died in a prison brawl, say Mexican press reports.
The prison is located near Matamoros near the US border and housed mostly Mexican federal inmates. The riot began at about 0500 hrs Friday morning.
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Ummm I'm reading this at 5pm Central standard time, and the prison is two time zones west, something's wrong it's only 3pm there right now?
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Tamaulipas is in the Cdentral Times zone, and I dunno how to explain the difference, All the news services are saying the riot began at. Mexican news services said the riot began at 1700 hrs. Changing to the corrected time of 0500 hrs.
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A car bomb exploded in a back parking lot of the Tamaulipas state Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) headquarters in the offices of the Rural Police in Ciudad Victoria early Thursday evening, according to Mexican press reports.
The detonation, which was first reported by Twitter users at 1800 hrs, took place at about 1720 hrs. The vehicle used was a Nissan Tsuru. The explosion damaged two official vehicles parked on either side but caused no injuries.
The attack is the sixth on police forces in northern Mexico since Sunday night. Five small arms and hand grenade attacks have been made against Mexican Federal agents in Juarez which killed in total one agents and wounded six others including one civilian female.
The bomb is also the second car bomb since the July 16th car bomb in Juarez, Chihuahua. One Mexican Federal agent and three civilians were killed in that blast.
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I think that when you're involved in a criminal enterprise the idea is to make money which you will never get to enjoy if you get yourself killed in the process. Not that I condone what these narco terrorists are doing. It's just that I find their particular type of evil a little easier to understand.
A Canadian accused by the US of supplying weapons to al-Qaeda has been sprung in Toronto after a judge refused to extradite him to the US.
Abdullah Khadr, 29, had been in jug since 2005, when he was arrested in Canada at US officials' request.
Mr Khadr is the elder brother of Omar Baby Face Khadr, the only Westerner held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The judge said statements made by Mr Khadr and used as the basis for the case against him were "unreliable".
Mr Khadr was arrested in Pakistan in October 2004 after the CIA offered Pakistani authorities a $500,000 (£314,000) bounty. The US accused him of procuring weapons, including mine components and rocket-propelled grenades, for al-Qaeda to use against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
He returned to Canada after about a year in Pakistani custody, and in December 2005 was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at US request. The US sought to extradite him to face charges. On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Christopher Speyer halted extradition proceedings, effectively denying the US bid.
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It is amazing how many of the characters the West has released have showed up in positions of influence or power in Islamist circles.
Let's see; shall we give the lawyers guns and send them to the front? Or just wage war directly against them? Either would work better than the current system.
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He's been in custody for over 4 years. That's time enough for our Canadian officials to have implanted the GPS/tracking/voice recording computer chip in his buttocks. Now we can track his every move. Insh'Allah.
A suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks. Soon to be intimately familiar with a Hellfire missile. Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, has taken over a position once held by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in 2003, Miami-based FBI counterterrorism agent Brian LeBlanc told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview. That puts him in regular contact with al Qaeda's senior leadership, including Osama bin Laden, LeBlanc said.
Shukrijumah and two other leaders were part of an "external operations council" that designed and approved terrorism plots and recruits, but his two counterparts were killed in U.S. drone attacks, leaving Shukrijumah as the de facto chief and successor to Mohammed - his former boss. "Congratulations, Adnan. You've just been promoted to Number Three! Adnan? Adnan? Hey, Achmed, get the smelling salts!"
"He's making operational decisions is the best way to put it," said LeBlanc, the FBI's lead Shukrijumah investigator. "He's looking at attacking the U.S. and other Western countries. Basically through attrition, he has become his old boss."
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The big question is not whether this guy understands US society, but US politicians. I can think of a half dozen things with a low enough profile to pull off that would cause a lot of long term damage all out of proportion to the the initial loss thanks to the multiplier effect of stupid democrat reflex actions.
[Dawn] The top US law enforcement offical said Thursday that 14 people, most of them American citizens, are being charged with providing support for the Somalian hard boy group al-Shabab.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the charges reflect a disturbing trend that leaders in Mohammedan communities in the United States are helping law enforcement agencies to address.
The charges against suspects in the states of Minnesota, California and Alabama include providing support for the hard boy group al-Shabab in Somalia, two US officials said Thursday. Most of the people are US citizens, with some supporting the terrorist organization from the United States and others traveling to Somalia to do so.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in the investigation which is culminating in several indictments.
Roughly 20 men all but one of Somali descent, left Minnesota from December 2007 through October 2009 to join al-Shabab, which seeks to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.
Somali-Americans have been recruited and have taken part in suicide kabooms in Somalia, and US officials fear trained Somali-American terror plotters could return to the United States.
The charges in Minnesota are the latest development in an inquiry in that state which has been under way for some time.
Two indictments unsealed in Minnesota on Thursday added five new names to a list of people charged in the investigation in that state, bringing the total charged in the state to 19. Two were women from the Rochester, Minn., area accused of raising money for al-Shabab.
The Minneapolis indictment said two men, Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, raised money for al-Shabab both by open appeals on teleconferences and by pretending in other cases that the money was for the poor and needy.
The indictment cited 12 money transfers to al-Shabaab in 2008 and 2009 totaling $8,608. The charges included providing material support to a terrorist group and lying to authorities.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Army soldiers killed a gunman and detained nine wanted persons in different incidents in Mosul city on Thursday, according to a military source in Ninewa.
An Iraqi armys 2nd Division force shot dead a gunman in clashes and arrested nine wanted men in security operations carried out by the force in Mosul in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Fourteen wanted persons were arrested and two improvised explosive devices defused in separate incidents in Diala on Thursday, according to the provinces police chief.
The arrests took place in an operation by Diala policemen in different areas of Baaquba city. The arrested persons include four wanted on charges of involvement in terrorist acts, Maj. General Abdulhussein al-Shimari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Bomb squad experts also defused two IEDs in central Baaquba city while the police secured protection for the return of a family that had been displaced from Mandili, Khanaqin district, (155 km) northeast of Baaquba, to its original residential place in al-Mustafa neighborhood, Shimari added.
Baaquba, the capital city of Diala province, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
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[Arab News] Gunmen stormed a Baghdad money exchange and killed three people Thursday, the latest in recent brash daylight attacks on banks, financial and trade centers in the Iraqi capital, many of which have been blamed on insurgents.
Police officials did not immediately know how much money was stolen in the 2 p.m. heist in the southeastern New Baghdad neighborhood. Fleeing the scene, the gunmen also threw flash bombs into a crowd of people responding to the shooting.
Hospital officials confirmed three people were killed, including the owner of the money exchange. Five passers-by were wounded.
Overall violence has decreased, but attacks still occur daily across Iraq.
Insurgents, suspected of trying to steal funding for their operations, have increasingly been blamed for heists on banks and financial centers.
An Al-Qaeda front group claimed responsibility for June strikes against the Central Bank of Iraq, the nation's treasury, and the Trade Bank of Iraq, a state-run investment center. Together, those heists killed at least 44 people and wounded scores more as the Islamic State of Iraq gloated over its ease in penetrating security to pull off the attacks.
Earlier, police officials said three traffic policemen were killed in drive-by shootings late Wednesday in western Baghdad while gunmen stormed the house of a policeman, killing him, his wife and a relative.
The shootings raised to at least five the number of traffic policemen killed since Tuesday in Baghdad. Police and health officials said at least seven traffic policemen have been wounded over the same period in Iraq's capital.
In the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, gunmen stormed a policeman's house, killing him, his wife and a relative, police officials said.
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I got critized here when I made this comment after the central bank attack, but notice that these are attacks on financial offices, not necessarily traditional bank robberies. They're trying to destabilize the financial system.
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Similar objective when power lines and the water systems are attacked.
Dummies... The kidnapping conspiracy charge stems from a plan to kidnap a Baka al-Gharbiya man they mistakenly believed was Bassam Adel, a Syrian Mig-23 pilot who defected to Israel in 1989 with his fighter bomber. After his landing, which took Israeli authorities by surprise, Adel immediately requested asylum and has been living in an undisclosed location in Israel ever since.
The three men are also suspected of making a number of videos of IDF facilities. They also reportedly shot footage of a power plant in Hadera and tracked the movements of Israel Navy submarines in Haifa.
Syrias Foreign Minister Walid Muallam on Thursday night protested at the arrests, which he said were unjustified, and urged the UN to intervene over the affair. Geez, why don't you just stamp "Guilty" on their foreheads...
[Al Arabiya Latest] An Arab Israeli and two Druze residents of the occupied Golan Heights were on Thursday charged with spying for Syria and attempted kidnapping, Israeli police said.
Fidaa al-Shaar and his father Majid al-Shaar from Majdel Shams in the Golan and Mahmud Masarweh from the northern Israeli village of Baka al-Gharbiyeh were charged at a court in Nazareth with "aggravated espionage."
"Three Israelis were charged with spying and having contact with the enemy," police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP.
The three allegedly passed on information to Syrian intelligence officials about submarine maneuvers off the northern coastal city of Haifa.
They are also suspected of having handed over video and other footage of Israeli bases around the country, Rosenfeld said.
The defendants were charged with planning to kidnap a man who they believed was a Syrian pilot who defected to Israel in 1989. "They planned on kidnapping him and sending him back to Syria," the spokesman said.
Police arrested Fidaa al-Shaar in Majd al-Shams on July 12 but all details of his arrest and that of his father and the other defendant were initially subjected to a court-issued gag order.
Majdel Shams is the main town on the Golan Heights which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan in 1981. The vast majority of the 18,000 Syrians, mostly Druze, left from the Golan's original population of 150,000 have refused to take Israeli citizenship.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war. The two indicted Druze Arabs -- a father and son -- are Syrian citizens, like most of the Druze in the Golan Heights.
Thousands of Druze surrounded the home of one of the two charged Druze Arabs when police arrived to arrest him in July, trapping officers inside for hours before the standoff ended peacefully.
Israel has recently charged several Israeli Arabs with espionage.
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[Arab News] Israeli forces operating in the West Bank on early Thursday arrested 55 Palestinians, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said on Thursday. Forty-six of those that were detained were released later the same day.
The Palestinian sources said that 49 Palestinians were arrested in the village of Jalboun to the east of Jenin, one in the village of Dair Istya to the southwest of Nablus and five in the Asirah Al-Shamaliyah to the west of Nablus. The sources added that the 55 were arrested after houses were searched.
The sources added that the Israeli forces transferred the Jalboun detainees to the nearby interrogation centers of Salim and Jalameh. Forty-six of those that were detained were released later on the day after questioning by the Israeli internal intelligence agency Shin Bet.
Israeli security sources told the Army Radio that the detainees were wanted by the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet.
Israeli defense establishment says the arrests in Palestinian cities are part of its war against Palestinian armed groups.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) says that the daily Israeli raids hinder its security forces to tighten their grip on the Palestinian territories.
Israel does not allow the PA to have any security role in specific areas in the West Bank that the 1993 Oslo peace agreement between the two sides classified as C areas.
According to the recent Palestinian statistics, there are 7,500 Palestinians, including 270 under the age of 18, are currently held in 10 prisons and 3 detention camps in Israel and in the West Bank. There are also three prisoners who have been in jail for more than 30 years, and 315 prisoners are held for more than 15 years.
In a separate development, the Jewish occupiers and Israeli security forces clashed after large police and army forces razed several structures in the West Bank early Thursday morning.
Israeli Army radio said that the police arrested four occupiers for suspicion of damaging a military jeep.
The occupiers rioted after the forces arrived in the Mitzpeh Avichai illegal settlement outpost, near West Bank city of Hebron, and destroyed six wooden structures, including a synagogue.
They claimed to have torched nearby Palestinian agricultural fields in response to the demolition work. They said they would rebuild the razed structures within hours.
They also said they threw stones at Palestinian vehicles and homes.
The issue of settlements is one of the thorniest issues the stall the resumption of direct peace talks between Palestinian Authority and Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been under American and international pressure to enter direct peace discussions with Israel after several rounds of indirect US-led proximity talks that started in May.
However, the Palestinian leader said he will not jump to direct talks, which halted in 2008, unless Israel freezes settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and set references and timetable for face-to-face negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Jewish has so far refused to yield to that demand.
The Hamas movement on Thursday warned Abbas' Fatah movement against joining direct negotiations with Israel after the latter declined holding a tripartite meeting to set terms of reference for the stalled peace process.
Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of Hamas parliamentary bloc, demanded Fatah not to return to "absurd talks" with Israel, urging movement to give the priority for achieving national unity and isolating Israel.
Fatah and Hamas factions have been fiercely divided since the Islamic movement grabbed hold of the Gaza Strip by force in 2007, leaving Abbas' Fatah party only in control of the West Bank.
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Often they'll arrest a bunch of them to protect one or two informants. If they went in and talked to just one, the Paleostinians would know who to kill.
[Arab News] A bomb went off outside an airport in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 24, local officials said.
US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. condemned the "heinous attack" and canceled his trip to the city on Friday, saying he did not want police resources diverted from the investigation. Washington, he said, was ready to extend any help requested by authorities.
Police said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device. "There was one man who died on the spot and he could be the one who detonated the explosive device," Celso Lobregat, mayor of the city on Mindanao Island, told reporters after the incident.
He later said another man had died while being treated at a hospital and 24 were wounded. They included Sakur Tan, governor of the southern island of Jolo, a hotbed of militancy in the country.
Officials gave no indication whether there was a link between the attack and Thomas' visit.
The blast occurred as people were leaving the airport after the arrival of a flight from Manila, Lobregat said.
"I believe I was the target," Tan told reporters, saying the device went off just a yard away from him. "I saw the flash very clearly." Tan sustained a small wound near his ribs. He was later discharged from hospital.
An enemy of the Abu Sayyaf militants, the Sulu governor has been targeted before. He escaped unharmed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his convoy in Sulu in May last year. A town mayor and at least three security escorts were wounded in that attack.
In the past, a small group of militants with links to Al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah had been blamed for bomb attacks in shopping malls, parks and Catholic churches in the city.
Dozens of US soldiers are stationed in the city, helping train and advise Filipino troops fighting militants who were sheltering a small group of Indonesian extremists.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Lebanese army reports further violation of the country's airspace by Israeli planes amid tensions deepening after Tuesday's deadly border clashes. "Overflights of southern Leb? Why would we do that? There's no threat to Israel there is there?"
On Thursday, an Israeli reconnaissance plane entered the Lebanese airspace over the border village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, the army said in statement. "Boss! Boss! Do plane!"
A similar Israeli aircraft breached Lebanon's airspace in the south on Wednesday, flying over the border area for about two hours. The developments follow clashes that erupted on Tuesday after Israeli troops tried to uproot a number of trees in an area which Beirut considers part of its territory. ... but nobody else does...
Israeli forces targeted a military post in the Lebanese village of Adissyeh with gunfire and rockets, killing three soldiers and a journalist. ... who just happened to have come along to watch the fun...
A senior Israeli officer was also killed in the fire exchange. [BANG!] "I got one! I got one!"
[BOOM! BOOM! BOOMETY BOOM!]
"Run away! Run away!"
The incident drew serious warnings from Lebanese officials, including President Michel Sleiman, who vowed that his country would "stand up to Israel's violation of UN Resolution 1701 -- whatever the cost." ... which may include all of Beirut this time. It won't just be a war "against Hezbollah." Everybody's signed up now...
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah ... the Satrap of Leb...
also gave his movement's full support for the army, warning that if Israel invaded the Lebanese military again, his gunnies would not hesitate to act. "The arm that extends itself against the Lebanese army will be cut by the resistance," he said.
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Of course...no mention of The Lebanese Army's or Hezbollah's massive and daily violations of UN Resolution 1701
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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
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[Tolo News] At least 8 Taliban 
[Asharq al-Aswat] Gunmen killed three members of Yemen's security forces in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern town of Zinjibar on Thursday, witnesses and a hospital official said.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Army soldiers killed a gunman and detained nine wanted persons in different incidents in Mosul city on Thursday, according to a military source in Ninewa.
[Arab News] Gunmen stormed a Baghdad money exchange and killed three people Thursday, the latest in recent brash daylight attacks on banks, financial and trade centers in the Iraqi capital, many of which have been blamed on insurgents.
[Arab News] A bomb went off outside an airport in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 24, local officials said.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Lebanese army reports further violation of the country's airspace by Israeli planes amid tensions deepening after Tuesday's deadly border clashes. 
