[Dawn] A Taliban attack near a polling station in Afghanistan's north killed one Afghan soldier and six pro-government Boskonians on Saturday, police said.
"One national army and six Arbaki (militiamen) were killed in the attack," Baghlan's police chief, Abdul Rahman Rahimi, told reporters by phone.
Five others were maimed in the attack in Baghlan province, which took place near a polling station and an adjacent security outpost.
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(Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's second parliamentary election in the post-Taliban country was concluded almost peacefully on Saturday with registering only a few security incidents.
According to election body's chief Fazal Ahmad Manawai, the 11. 4 million eligible voters' casting until midday represented 32 percent of turnout.
Taliban Boskonians fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops based in Afghanistan ahead of the election called upon Afghans to boycott the voting process.
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(Xinhua) -- A front man for provincial administration said that 71 Taliban Boskonians were killed as troops raided their hideout in Paktia province east of Afghanistan on the election day on Saturday.
"The Taliban gathered in a hideout in Syed Karam district to disrupt the election process this morning but intelligence reports identified their location and called in airpower which pounded their position killing 71 turbans," Rohullah Samon told Xinhua.
[Dawn] Men in traditional tunics and women covered in sky-blue burqas trickled into polling centres to vote in Afghanistan's parliamentary election Saturday, as scattered attacks and the closure of some voting sites by Islamic fascistiunderscored the difficulty of trying to hold a vote in a country at war.
At least two people were killed in the first hours of polling, officials said.
The poll -- the first since a fraud-marred presidential election last year -- is a test of the Afghan government's ability to conduct a safe and fair vote after months of pledges of reform.
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(Xinhua) -- Four Ghanaians and some other nationals have reportedly been kidnapped by Somali pirates, sources at the ministry of foreign affairs told Xinhua on Saturday.
The crew on board an Arabian vessel was reportedly to have been detained by the pirates for the past six months. Their location and reasons for the kidnapping remained unknown.
Acting director at the ministry Lawrence Sotah said the ministry, in response to a petition by a relative of one of the hostages, had commenced investigations.
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[Dawn] Mauritanian military forces killed 12 members of al Qaeda's North African wing in fighting in the desert border zone flanking Mali, a Mauritanian security source said on Saturday.
Mauritania launched a military operation against al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on Friday and security sources said the fighting was continuing on Saturday.
A Nigerien security source said the fighting had no connection with the taking of seven foreigners, including five French citizens, as hostages in Niger on Thursday, a kidnapping that France's foreign minister has blamed on AQIM.
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(Xinhua) -- A Yemeni border security guard and a pro-government tribesman were killed on Saturday in clashes with northern Houthi-led Iranian catspaws in the country's northeast province of al-Jouf, a security official of the Interior Ministry said.
"The clashes erupted when the rebels, running a checkpoint at Ras al-Aqaba area of Barat district of al-Jouf, opened fire on another checkpoint run by pro-government primitives backed by border security forces," the official told Xinhua by phone.
The rebel's bullets killed a border security guard and a pro- government tribesman on the spot, he said on condition of anonymity, identifying the killed pro-government tribesman as 27- year-old Faisal al-Ateeb.
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(Xinhua) -- Yemeni deputy governor of the southern Abyan province beat feet an assassination attempt on Saturday after a group of al-Qaeda gunnies fired a rocket-propelled grenade on the official's convoy, wounding three of his bodyguards, a local police official said.
"Deputy governor of Abyan Ahmed Ghalib al-Rahawi survived early Saturday an assassination attempt after al-Qaeda fighters intercepted his convoy and fired a rocket-propelled grenade on one of the convoy's vehicle, injuring three bodyguards," the official told Xinhua.
The vehicle then caught fire, and the accident took place in Jaar city, as police reinforcement rushed to the spot, the official said on condition of anonymity.
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See also TOPIX > AL QAEDA GROWS STRONGER IN YEMEN.
HMMMM, HMMM, its interesting to discover iff one day the KSA = SAUDI ARABIA will end up USING ANY NUCWEAPS NOT AGZ ISRAEL, BUT AGZ AL QAEDA + REGIONAL MILTERR GROUPS [USE-EM-OR-LOSE-EM Scenario]
Also read, KSA to "DESTROY YEMEN IN ORDER TO SAVE YEMEN" from Radical Islam + [ post-2012 Nuclear = Nuke-WMD] Milterrs???
[Dawn] British police officers went door to door seeking witnesses on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the mystery surrounding the killing of a Pakistain politician whose death sparked rioting in Pakistain's largest city.
Scotland Yard said that 50-year-old Imran Farooq was stabbed and beaten to death in broad daylight outside his home in Edgware, a quiet suburban area in north London.
Farooq was a prominent member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, or MQM, and news of his death sparked a series of arson attacks in Karachi, where the party is the largest member of the city's ruling coalition.
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Eight individuals were murdered in violence in northern Mexican states including a decapitated victim found aboard a car which was also a car bomb. For a map, click here.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday night, say Mexican press reports. The victim was reported near the intersection of avenidas Juärez and Lombardo in the Toledan district where he was thrown from a moving vehicle.
[Dawn] Police fired on fresh anti-India demonstrations in Kashmir on Saturday, killing at least one and bringing the number of civilian deaths in an unprecedented wave of unrest to 100.
The protester was killed in Anantnag town when police shot at demonstrators who were hurling stones, after authorities retrieved the body of a man who drowned earlier in the week when police allegedly chased him into a river.
"Security forces had to open fire to quell the violent demonstration," a police officer told AFP from Anantnag, south of Srinagar, where a two-decade uprising has been under way against New Delhi's rule.
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"On Friday the London-based human rights group Amnesty International called on Indian authorities to order security forces not to use firearms against demonstrators "
Would this organisation be better placed, if it based itself where the action is ?
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The action will be where it is based soon enough, I fear.
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A combined security force captured three wanted men in Kirkuk on Saturday, one of them believed the leader of Ansar al-Sunna group, according to the director of the Kirkuk Districts' Police Department.
"A combined force from the KDPD and the Anti-Crime & Internal Affairs Department arrested two wanted persons in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism during search raids in Sahat al-Aghnam area, al-Orouba neighborhood, southern Kirkuk, with fake documents seized in their possession," KDPD chief, Brig. Sarhad Qader, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Qader said one of the detainees is possible Faris Awwad, the leader of the Ansar al-Sunna (Supporters of the Sunna) group in Kirkuk province, adding the arrested persons were referred to the anti-crime department for investigations.
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AyPee: The Spiritual Guide and former cell-block-buddy of AQI murderman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was detained, according to his relatives.
Jordan's state intelligence agency picked up Palestinian-born militant Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi late Friday and no one knows where he is now. Or where they'll find the body ... There is 'No Comment!' from Jordanian security officials.
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well, at least won't be surprised by his old friends, Mr. Blowtorch and Mr. Pliars
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IMO that should be "allegedly died in 2006" as per ZARQAWI/ZARQHAWI/ZARQHWAWI, as ZARKY's oft-repor Pic is STILL BEING USED ON THE MSM-NET, ETC. TO DESCRIBE THE FOUNDER OF THE EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC PARTY in 2008.
The above + similar once again show why the US needs to formally recover the physical Bodies = Remains of Any + All Major = High-Profile Radical Islamist Leaders, e.g. OSAMA BIN LADEN IFF OBL WAS INDEED KILLED YEARS AGO AT TORA BORA, OR EVEN IFF HE DIED TIME AGO FROM DIABETES OR OTHER MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS.
[Iran Press TV] The Viva Palestina charity has sent a new aid convoy, Lifeline 5, to the Gaza Strip despite the likelihood of a new Israeli aggression against the mission.
Part of the aid convoy set sail from London on Saturday and is scheduled to be joined on by other parties on its way to the coastal sliver.
"Well, it's unique actually in two respects. First of all, it will be by far the biggest convoy so far. And secondly it's leaving from three places simultaneously," one of the organizers, former British lawmaker George Galloway, told a Press TV correspondent in London.
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The blockade has deprived the Palestinians of food, fuel and other basic necessities.
Sure, Georgie. Just make sure there's some chlorine for the water parks and some Gucci for the new mall.
[Dawn] One hostage and three gunnies who held six Iranians captive in a restive southeastern region of the country have been killed in a rescue operation, the IRNA news agency said on Saturday.
Gunmen had attacked a bus on Thursday and seized six people -- five soldiers and a bank clerk -- between the towns of Iranshahr and Chabahar in Sistan-Balochistan province.
"In a successful operation by the Revolutionary Guards, five of six hostages have been freed. One has been martyred and three of the culprits have been killed," Jalal Sayah, a provincial security official told IRNA without saying when this happened.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah has conducted missile maneuvers on Fateh 110 rockets in Iran, reported the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper on Saturday.
Sources concerned told the paper that the units participating in the maneuvers have returned to Leb after demonstrating great prowess in using this long-range missile.
The newspaper also highlighted the fact that the party's maneuvers coincided with Israeli military maneuvers, which it interpreted as a growing readiness by both sides to wage a new war that is expected to be "the last of the wars" due to its expected highly destructive nature.
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it's about time Isreal too kick the shit out of Hezbollah and Lebanon for lettin them station there!
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FREEREPUBLIC > these Rockets can potentially hit JERUSALEM iff fired from at or close to the ISRAELI-LEBANON BORDER.
* ION WAFF > [Netanyahu]ISRAEL THREATENS RUSSIA ON MISSLE SALES [Yakhonts] TO SYRIA.
ARTIC > ISRAEL warned that it may SUSPEND BILATER COOPER wid Russia, + that it may choose to begin engaging in [tit-for-tat?] international sales of Advanced or Strategic Weapons, Conventional + Nuclear + Other, to any World Nation desiring same iff RUSSIA, ETAL. refuse to stop selling ADVANC = SOPHISTICATED MILSYS TO ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.
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Besdies being suspicious of POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN,, + NUCLEAR IRAN + POST-2012 NUCLEAR MILTERRISM + NUCLEAR MIDDLE EAST = ARAB-MUSLIM STATES, Israel also fears the SLOW-BUT-CETAIN EROSION OR LOSS OF ITS TRADITIONAL COLD WAR SUPERIORITY AGZ ITS MUSLIM NEIGHBORS IN ALL THINGS MILTECHS.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Dawn] Mauritanian military forces killed 12 members of al Qaeda's North African wing in fighting in the desert border zone flanking Mali, a Mauritanian security source said on Saturday.
[Dawn] British police officers went door to door seeking witnesses on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the mystery surrounding the killing of a Pakistain politician whose death sparked rioting in Pakistain's largest city.
[Iran Press TV] The Viva Palestina charity has sent a new aid convoy, Lifeline 5, to the Gaza Strip despite the likelihood of a new Israeli aggression against the mission.
