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Lana Turner aka Cora Smith in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" aka Constance MacKenzie in "Peyton Place" aka Lora Meredith in "Imitation of Life" aka Cynthia Potter in "Love Finds Andy Hardy" (Died in 1995 at age 74)
[Tolo News] At least four people were killed in a suicide kaboom in southern Kandahar province on Monday, local officials said.
The incident happened at 03:00 pm local time in Kandahar customs while foreigners were there, Salim Ehsaas, chief of 404 Maiwand Zone in Kandahar told TOLOnews. Four people were killed and two others were maimed in the incident, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Kandahar police chief, Khan Mohammad Mujahid told TOLOnews that three foreigners have been maimed in the incident.
The nationalities of the maimed foreigners are yet to be known. The maimed have been taken to a nearby hospital in the province.
No group including Taliban has grabbed credit for the attack.
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I wonder what's going on in Droneland these days - after a real nice run, the drone attacks have dropped way off. When was the last one, anyway?
[Tolo News] Six snuffies were nabbed on Sunday in Parwan province in an operation carried out by Afghan forces operation, local officials said.
In an Afghan forces' operation yesterday in Seya Gerd district of Parwan province, six gunnies were captured, police officials told TOLOnews.
Afghan officials said they have also seized some weapons during the operation.
Recently Afghan officials in Parwan said gunnies plan attacks in Pakistain to deteriorate security in the province. Officials claimed to have caught many snuffies who wanted to destabilise the situation in the province.
Parwan residents have recently complained about a surge in krazed killer activities in Ghorband district of the province. They see Hekmatyar's party, Taliban and al-Qaeda network responsible for insecurity in the district.
Afghan and Nato forces have increased military operations in different parts of the country to wipe out snuffies and pave the ground for a smooth security transition to Afghans.
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Watch the price of fuel go through the roof.
Suez Canal Company workers from the cities of Suez, Port Said, and Ismailia began an open-ended sit in today. Disruptions to shipping movements, as well as disasterous econmic losses, are expected if the strike continues. Over 6000 protesters have agreed that they will not go home today once their shift is over and will continue their sit-in in front of the company's headquarters until their demands are met. They are protesting against poor wages and deteriorating health and working conditions.
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On today's episode of The Post American World...
Wouldn't it be a hoot if the Mediterrainian Union had been formed? Just imagine the wackiness of French uniformed soldiers by obligation of treaty to enter Egypt...or would it be EU troops...or NATO?
Obama wants Mubarak out so US troops would be there for that, France under obligation to defend Mubarak, and both there legally!
But wait there's more, all the while Egyptians are attacking everybody!
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The price of fuel will go through the roof sooner or later, regardless of what happens in Egypt.
The figure I read is that 5% of world oil tanker trade goes through the Suez Canal. Also remember the canal was closed down completely from 1967-1975.
[Ennahar] Egyptian authorities have further reduced the duration of the curfew in force in three major cities including Cairo, giving an extra hour of freedom of movement for their citizens, said Monday on state television.
The curfew will now be in force from 8:00 pm (6:00 GMT) to 6:00 am (04:00 GMT), cons before 7:00 p.m., said the television.
The curfew was imposed on January 28 in three major cities - Cairo, Alexandria (north) and Suez (east) - after violent anti-government riots calling for the resignation of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak.
It did not stop the protesters to occupy night after night Tahrir Square in central Cairo.
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a declaration of curfew is worthless without the political will to fully enforce it.
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[Ennahar] The men who kidnapped an Italian woman on Feb. 2 in southern Algeria on board two 4X4 vehicles, spoke "Mauritanian Arabic," told the daily El Watan on Monday the agency's director of tourism Ténéré, citing the guide who had been briefly held by kidnappers.
"A gang of 13 to 14 gunnies, speaking Mauritanian Arabic, came aboard two 4X4 invested the scene at sunset in the day of Wednesday," said Ahmed Kheirani, referring to Alidéna, place of kidnapping in the Saharan region of Tadrart.
A tribal leader in southern Algeria has told AFP that the Tuareg of Niger, Mali and Mauritania "all speak the same Mauritanian Arabic, an Arab different from that spoken by the Tuareg of Algeria."
The tourist, Maria Sandra Mariani, 53, first Westerner kidnapped since 2003 in this area of the Algerian Sahel, was kidnapped "at 6.30 pm south of the town of Djanet, 90 km from the border with Niger," had said Rome on February 4.
"The attackers were seeking a group of tourists, before confiscating phones and papers from the guide, guardian and a shepherd and pick everyone including the tourist to an unknown destination, said the director of Ténéré agency. The three Algerians were left far at midnight, near the border between Algeria and Niger," he added, indicating that the kidnappers and their hostage" should no longer be in Algeria now."
Mr. Kheirani said he had been informed of the abduction by the guide while APS had reported that the hostage herself informed him using the satellite phone (Thuraya) of the kidnappers.
The director of the agency, located in Djanet, said he "could not believe that an abduction can be held in Alidéna," a "very secured" region. Anyway, he said he had informed the usual security services of the tourist itinerary.
The Sahel, which straddles the territories of Mali, Algeria, Mauritania and Niger, has become the stronghold of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has grabbed credit for several kidnappings of Westerners in neighboring countries of Algeria for several years.
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[Ma'an] Egypt's embattled geriatric President Hosni Mubarak tried to buy himself some time in the face of defiant street protests Monday, vowing to boost public sector pay packets by 15 percent.
The 82-year-old strongman met his new-look cabinet for the first time as the regime battled to get the economy moving again despite ongoing demonstrations by pro-democracy activists who have occupied a Cairo square.
According to the official MENA news agency, the cabinet approved a plan to increase state sector salaries by 15 percent from April and to spend another 6.5 billion Egyptian pounds [$940 million] more to boost pensions.
The raise might reassure Mubarak's partisans in Egypt's large bureaucracy and security forces, but there was no sign that the demonstrators who have now spent two weeks in Tahrir Square are ready to cede ground.
Campaigners sat under the tracks of army tanks deployed around the square, fearful that any movement by the military could be designed to drive out the protesters or abandon them to the mercy of pro-regime thugs.
Activists also kept up the pressure by barring access to the Mugamma, the heart of Egypt's bureaucracy, which dominates the square, despite dozens of people trying to gain access to get documents such as passports processed.
In a mark of the tension, protesters seized a man with a petrol can they said was trying to set the building ablaze, fearing they would be blamed, and handed him over to the troops controlling access to the square.
In other government moves to revive economic life, the nightly curfew in three cities including Cairo was pushed back to 8:00 pm to 6:00 am and the stock exchange said it would reopen on Sunday.
The Cairo bourse closed down 10 points on January 27, after 70 billion Egyptian pounds [$12 billion] was wiped off shares over two days.
Mubarak, meanwhile, met at his presidential offices with Vice President Omar Suleiman, parliament speaker Fathi Surur and the head of Egypt's appeals court, Sari Siyam, state news agency MENA said.
On Sunday, Suleiman -- Mubarak's key lieutenant and possible successor -- tried to appease the revolt by inviting several opposition groups to join him on a panel to pilot democratic reform.
But the demonstrators were unimpressed and vowed to maintain their vigil.
Opposition parties, including the powerful Mohammedan Brotherhood, repeated their demand that Mubarak himself must stand down or immediately delegate his powers to Suleiman.
And there was scant relief for the strongman in the Western capitals where he was once hailed as a close ally and bulwark of Middle East stability.
US President Barack B.O. Obama says Egypt has changed for ever since its street revolt broke out on January 25 and has called for a "representative government" in Cairo, although he stopped short of urging Mubarak to quit immediately.
The government said the parties agreed to set up a committee to examine constitutional amendments by March, while an office would look at complaints over the treatment of political prisoners and loosen media curbs.
A strict emergency law would be lifted "depending on the security situation," the government said.
But Suleiman refused another key demand of the opposition, saying he would not assume Mubarak's powers and rule in his place during the transition.
Not all of the opposition movements involved in the revolt against Mubarak's rule were present at the talks. Former UN nuclear watchdog head and leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei was not invited, and has criticized the talks.
The Mohammedan Brotherhood, still officially banned, said it had agreed to take part in the talks because it wanted to determine if the government was serious about reform, but warned that the initial concessions were insufficient.
While Mubarak has said he is "fed up" with leadership, he says he must stay on until September's presidential election in order to ensure stability -- but the demonstrators' frustration is now finding an echo abroad.
Spain's foreign minister said the election should be brought forward, but US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... said warned an early election could lead to complications if opposition groups are not organized for the vote. I hear Kerry wants her job. He'll make her look like Thomas Jefferson...
But this cuts little ice in Tahrir Square, where the demonstrators have kept up demands for his immediate exit and have no faith that Mubarak is serious about stepping down after three decades in power.
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Campaigners sat under the tracks of army tanks deployed around the square, fearful that any movement by the military could be designed to drive out the protesters or abandon them to the mercy of pro-regime thugs
"St. Corrie of the Pancake House, protect us!"
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Let the activists have the square. Anybody who has a job and wants to keep it will at some point have to go back to work. And so it seems the game is not over.
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Egypt's embattled geriatric President Hosni Mubarak tried to buy himself some time in the face of defiant street protests Monday, vowing to boost public sector pay packets by 15 percent.
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Uh, uh, PANCAKES = KINDLER, GENTLER, FLUFFIER FRUIT CAKES [widout the Fruit]???
Gut nuthin.
* ION PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > EGYPT VICE-PRESIDENT:PROTESTS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO GO ON FOR TOO LONG. There will be no end to the current Regime = Govt. establishment? in Egypt, + no quick departure for Mubarak as demanded by the Protestors.
[Ma'an] Egyptian security came under attack Monday by a group identified by witnesses as the radical Islamist group Takfir Wal-Hijra, injuring an officer and a civilian.
Security officials told Ma'an that the attack was launched on forces operating in the Ahrash neighborhood of Rafah city, with several Rocket-propelled Grenades fired in what was said by witnesses to be a two-hour battle.
The Rmeilat tribe, part of the indigenous Bedouin population, were said to have joined forces with with the security forces to push back the group, an offshoot of Egypt's popular Mohammedan Brotherhood with alleged ties to Al-Qaeda.
According to local officials, members of the same group kidnapped three Egyptian coppers from Dahaqliya on Friday, as the car of officers left the Al-Arish district on patrol.
Egypt had stepped-up border security after a clash with Bedouin tribes in the area during the first week of mass protests in the nation's cities demanding the ouster of the country's 30-year geriatric President Hosni Mubarak.
Eyewitnesses said they recognized several of the assailants, who were identified as belonging to the Takfir Wal-Hijra movement.
The injured were identified by security sources as officer Muhammad Nabil, shot in his leg, and a local Bedouin young man, 20-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud, who sustained a gunshot wound in the chest.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] geriatric President Hosni Mubarak's new cabinet on Monday held its first full meeting since an uprising started nearly two weeks ago, with no concrete progress in talks with Islamists and an opposition who demand his immediate exit.
Mubarak, 82, who has refused calls to end his 30-year-old presidency before September polls, saying his resignation would cause chaos in the Arab world's most populous nation, has tried to focus on restoring order.
Protesters, barricaded in a tent camp in Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo, have vowed to stay until Mubarak quits and hope to take their campaign to the streets with more mass demonstrations on Tuesday and Friday.
The banned Islamist Mohammedan Brotherhood movement was among the groups that met Egyptian government officials at the weekend, a sign of how much has already changed in an uprising that has rocked the Arab world and alarmed Western powers.
Opposition figures reported little progress in the talks. While protesters want Mubarak to step down immediately, many worry that when he does leave, he will be replaced not with the democracy they seek but with another authoritarian ruler.
With a government pledging to reform, an opposition with limited political experience, a constitutional process that mitigates against haste, and a key strategic role, Egypt's next steps must be considered carefully, U.S. officials say.
The opposition has made big gains in the past two weeks.
Mubarak has said he will not run again for president, his son has been ruled out as next in line, a vice president has been appointed for the first time in 30 years, the ruling party leadership has quit and the old cabinet was sacked.
Perhaps more important, protesters now take to the streets almost with impunity in their hundreds of thousands. Before January 25, a few hundred would have met a crushing police response in this U.S. ally whose army receives $1.3 billon in aid annually.
"OVER THE HORIZON"
Appearing to soften her position for Mubarak to step down, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... has said her policy on Egypt looks "over the horizon" to its possible democratic future -- a future that must be carefully planned.
The cautious U.S. approach to the unrest shaking its strategic Middle East partner has come at a cost, putting the B.O. regime out of step with the protesters who say Mubarak must quit now for serious political talks to take place.
As allies coalesced around the U.S. position, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's front man Steffen Seibert said it was clear that the Mubarak era was in its final phase and there would be other leaders.
"That is what's important for us, that this new direction is clear and irreversible," he said, adding: "It's not so important that individual people resign or whether there is a competition to have the quickest possible election."
Former Trade Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, sacked by Mubarak along with the rest of the cabinet, said: "I believe the presence of Mubarak in the next phase of transition for the next few months is very critical."
Determined protesters in Tahrir (Liberation) Square were settling into a routine on Monday after a bloody revolt which the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society says may have cost 300 lives so far. Activists have called the uprising the "Nile Revolution."
Keen to get traffic moving around Tahrir Square, the army tried early on Monday to squeeze the area the protesters have occupied. Overnight campers rushed out of their tents to surround soldiers attempting to corral them into a smaller area.
Wary of the army's effort to gain ground to try and restore the traffic flow in central Cairo, dozens of protesters slept inside the tracks of the army vehicles. The powerful army's role in the next weeks is considered critical to the future of Egypt.
"The army is getting restless and so are the protesters. The army wants to squeeze us into a small circle in the middle of the square to get the traffic moving again," protester Mohamed Shalaby, 27, told Rooters by telephone.
Egypt's government tried to get the country back to normal when the working week began on Sunday. Banks reopened after a week-long closure with lines of customers accessing accounts but hours, and withdrawals, were limited. Schools remained shut.
Several major Egyptian business concerns resumed business. Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), Egypt's biggest listed firm, said it had resumed work at almost 90 percent of its construction sites in Egypt as of Sunday.
In another move to restore normality, authorities shortened the curfew, largely ignored by the hard-core protesters, to start at 8 p.m. and end at 6 a.m..
Many Egyptians, including those who took part in nationwide demonstrations last week against Mubarak, are keen to get back to work and are worried about the effects of the crisis on stability, the economy and the important tourism sector.
Egypt's pound weakened to a six-year low on the second day of trade after a week-long closure. State-controlled banks seemed to be selling dollars to support the pound.
"Things are stable. I can't say they're good, but they're not collapsing," said a trader at a Cairo-based bank.
The bourse remained closed until Sunday because of the political turmoil and Egypt's central bank reduced the size of its Treasury bill offering, possibly out of concern that nervous investors would not buy the full amount.
Government ministers held their first full meeting at since Mubarak reshuffled his cabinet on January 28 in an attempt to appease protesters enraged by years of corruption, economic hardship and political oppression.
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
The presence at the weekend talks of the banned Mohammedan Brotherhood, whose members have for years been repressed by Mubarak's feared security forces, was a significant development that would have been unthinkable before the uprising.
Egypt's courts have repeatedly rebuffed the Brotherhood's requests for recognition as a party on the grounds that the constitution bans parties based on religion.
In the past three decades, Brotherhood members were tortured, repressed, nabbed and tried in military courts under emergency laws implemented when Mubarak took over after the liquidation of Anwar Sadat by Islamist soldiers from his army.
The government insists it investigates accusations of torture and says it uses emergency laws to fight terrorism.
The government said after the weekend meeting, chaired by Vice President Omar Suleiman, they agreed to draft a road map for talks, indicating Mubarak would stay in power to oversee change. It would also move to release jugged activists, guarantee press freedom and lift Egypt's emergency laws.
A committee was set up to study constitutional change.
The opposition said the government failed to meet its demand for a complete overhaul of Egypt's political system.
Abdel Monem Aboul Fotouh, a senior Brotherhood figure, said the government statement represented "good intentions but does not include any solid changes."
Leading Brotherhood member Essam al-Erian said on Monday the statement issued after the meeting between Suleiman and the opposition on Sunday had not been signed by the attendees.
It had been issued after they left the meeting and without them having seen it in its final form, he told Rooters.
Opposition activists reject any compromise which would see Mubarak hand over power to Suleiman but serve out his term -- essentially relying on the old authoritarian system to pave the way to full civilian democracy and saving his face.
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[Tolo News] Sunday Talks between opposition groups and the Egyptian government to bring an end to crisis in the country have failed to stop people protesting against Mubarak's government.
People said they will only end the protests after geriatric President Hosni Mubarak leaves power.
It has been over two weeks that people have occupied the Tahrir Square demanding Mubarak's resignation and constitutional reforms.
During the negotiation, which was led by Vice President Omar Suleiman, some settlements were made but they were described as "superficial".
The opposition groups said the concessions were not sufficient.
The opposition groups in talks included a coalition of youth organisations, a group of "wise men" and Mohammedan Brotherhood movement.
This is the first meeting being held between opposition groups in particular Mohammedan Brotherhood and the government.
The state television announced that formation of a joint committee of judicial and political figures was agreed in talks to suggest constitutional reforms.
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Mudrat could end this quickly by just ordering up a half dozen ships full of staple foods, to drive the price lower for a week or two, then tell grocers to have a big sale at cut rate prices.
"Shop and eat" generally trumps "scream and riot".
[Dawn] Burundian police nabbed eight Pak Mohammedan preachers in a mosque in the central province of Gitega overnight, police and local officials said Monday.
"A group of eight people calling themselves Pak Mohammedan preachers arrived... two days ago and started holding unauthorised meetings, day and night, in the Bihororo mosque," local official Alexis Manirakiza told AFP.
"Residents became suspicious at the presence of these foreigners in a remote area at a time when there is a terror threat from Somali faceless myrmidons and they informed the police," he said.
The eight were nabbed, together with two Burundians who were with them.
A police officer who asked not to be named said the eight were travelling on Pak passports.
"We're investigating to find out exactly who they are and what they were doing in this part of the world without informing the security services or the administrative authorities," the officer said.
The arrests come less than a week after the US embassy in Burundi warned its citizens in the central African country that terror organisations, including Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab, could carry out attacks in February.
Security measures have been stepped up since last week, with soldiers and police now patrolling the streets of the capital.
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I'm guessing that Mubarak threw every supportive policeman, soldier, and peasant he could pay off at the demonstrators all on one day, and now they're tired and beat up. If he had them alternate days, he wouldn't be able to come up with the critical mass it takes to send these folks packing. The people, on the other hand, will just keep coming.
Keep up the good work, angry mob. But keep an eye on the Muslim Brotherhood or it will just be the beginning of yet another 30-year cycle of misery.
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I read somewhere that 70% of all Egyptian employees work for the Egyptian government. Those people will not be coming out to put their employer out of existence. The others may keep coming, but they are outnumbered by a bit.
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I saw somewhere that he gave a 15% raise to government workers, and the number was somewhere around 7M. I don't know if it was all government workers or not. I think Egypt's population is around 85M.
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As per NETTERS = time may be right for a NEW MAJOR INCIDENT(S) = FALSE-FLAG? MASSACRE? to occur to reignite the Protestors + p'o the Egyptian Army in favor of same???
[Arab News] The windows of two vehicles belonging to the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haiah) were smashed in Madinah on Saturday.
"The cars were parked in front of the Quba Street branch of the Haiah. Their front and rear glasses were totally smashed," said a Haiah statement. An eyewitness said he saw some young men in their 20s hitting the vehicles with hard objects. One of the vehicles was a GMC and the other a jeep. Police are investigating the incidents and no arrests have so far been made. Quba Street runs through a popular shopping district and is frequented by many of Madinah's residents. It is one of the city's busiest roads.
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Ten individuals were killed or found dead in various actions in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican news accounts.
Five unidentified men were found shot to death and dismembered near Los Ramones, Nuevo Leon. The find was made on the Monterrey-Reynosa highway. All the victims were stripped naked. Three separate "narcomessages" were found at the scene although their content was not released.
Armed suspects attacked a Nuevo Leon state prison in Apodaca early Monday morning using grenades and small arms fire. The Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) on the Salinas Victoria road was attacked when armed suspects presumably aboard a vehicle went to the front gate and threw a hand grenade, then fired a rifle about six times. No one was hurt in the detonation of the grenade or in the fusillade.
A Mexican security force combining a Mexican Army unit and state police agents conducted a security sweep in the Cerro de la Campana area in southern Monterrey Monday. The operation made use of two state helicopters. Authorities did not release information about the operation or its results, but news reports did note that this is the first security sweep since the appointment three days ago of Nuevo Leon's new chief of Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Estatal (SSPE), General Jaime Castañeda Bravo.
A gunfight between a detachment of the Mexican Army and armed suspects in Cerralvo, Nuevo Leon ended Monday with five dead and three arrested. The firefight took place in the town center. Two vehicles and four rifles were seized following the battle.
[Dawn] Militants fired rockets and bullets on a police patrol van in northwestern Pakistain on Monday, killing one officer and injuring seven others, one of them critically, police said.
The incident, claimed by the Taliban, took place in Balyamina village, 10 kilometres west of northwestern Hangu, a town regularly suffering from sectarian violence and a Taliban-linked insurgency.
"One policeman was killed and seven others maimed, one of them critically when snuffies fired five rockets and shot at their van patrolling the village," police front man Fazal Naeem told AFP.
A senior local police official, Abdul Rasheed, confirmed the incident.
Taliban front man Azam Tariq claimed the attack in Balyamina and said: "Our attacks will continue until (US) drone attacks and operations in tribal areas, which are killing innocent people, are stopped."
A covert US missile campaign in the tribal areas has escalated in recent months with Islamabad's tacit agreement, despite public protestations.
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[Geo News] Former President Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... (retd) has been declared absconder in Benazir Bhutto liquidation case, Geo News reported on Monday.
He would be declared proclaimed offender if he fails to appear before the court.
Interim charge sheet into BB murder case was presented in Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi. FIA counsel informed the court that former president Pervez Musharraf has been included as accused in the charge sheet, adding that FIA had been trying to investigate him but all in vain, therefore, he has been declared absconder.
He further stated that both police officials Saud Aziz and Khurram Shehzad were complying with the orders of Pervez Musharraf.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... counsels have concluded their arguments on Saud Aziz and Khurram Shehzad's bail plea, and the court has reserved the verdict in this regard and it would be announced soon.
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As I recall, lawyers in Pak are both Islamist and strongly anti-Perv, as well as courts and judges. So for him to appear before them is both unwise and unlikely.
[Emirates 24/7] Two roadside kabooms on Monday in a Sunni Arab town south of the Iraqi capital killed five people, including three soldiers, local police said.
The three soldiers were killed by a bomb near their patrol in Iskandiriyah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Storied Baghdad, a police officer in the Babil lovely provincial capital of Hilla said. Among the dead was an army captain.
Another roadside kaboom in a Iskandiriyah market also killed two people, including a woman, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered...
Iskandiriyah lies within a confessionally mixed region known as the "Triangle of Death" because of the frequency of Islamic myrmidon attacks during the worst of Iraq's insurgency after the 2003 US-led invasion.
While violence is down across Iraq since its 2006-2007 peak, attacks remain common. Government figures show that 259 people -- 159 civilians, 55 coppers and 45 soldiers -- died in violence in January.
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[Ma'an] Gazoo Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday visited a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, thug who returned to the Gazoo Strip after escaping an Egyptian jail.
Haniyeh congratulated Noufel on his release, and said he prayed to God to protect all resistance fighters.
Ayman Noufel, a leader in Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades, returned to the Al-Buriej refugee camp in central Gazoo on Saturday. Home Sweet Home...
He was one of several Paleostinian prisoners who joined thousands of detainees in a mass jail break, as an anti-government uprising created security chaos across Egypt.
"I broke the door of my cell down with the bed frame and the Egyptian prisoners helped us break open the cell's door. As we ran toward the main gate of the prison some guards shot at us, while neighbors living near the prison broke the gate and set fire to it," he recalled of the escape.
Noufel thanked all those who arrived to his home in Gazoo to congratulate him on his return. He also expressed gratitude to the media for their solidarity and to all the Paleostinians who took part in rallies demanding his release.
He was jugged three years ago in El-Arish, when thousands of Paleostinians broke out of Gazoo by tearing down a section of the wall on Egypt's border.
He said he was never told the reason for his detention, but that Egyptian police interrogated him about Hamas and its military capabilities. Hmmmmmm...inside for three years? You didn't talk to any of those Mossad guys, did ya, Ayman?
What? No. Me? Me? Talk to the Mossad? No. Never. Nope. Not me. Never. I...spit on the Mossad. Spit on them, I tells ya!
The Qassam commander said he suspected he was being used as a hostage to blackmail the Islamist movement.
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"pretty convenient youse escaped, huh?"
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[Asharq al-Aswat] The tribunal set up to try the killers of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri started a hearing on Monday on how to define the crime of terrorism as listed in a draft indictment.
Oh dear. The U.N. has never yet managed to define terrorism. If they start there, they'll probably still be at it in a century or several. Still, I s'pose the court room'll do as a purgatory for the suspects...
They're working on that. I understand the draft definition begins with Zionism and Islamaphobia = failure to convert or be a good dhimmi. There might be a few more points, but that's the gist of the evolving UN definition of terrorism, quite adequate for the Euros to act on immediately.
"Today's proceedings show that Leb, a proud founding member of the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, is set for a course of judicial accountability through the rule of law," presiding judge Antonio Cassese said as the hearing opened before the Special Tribunal for Leb, based in Leidschendam near The Hague.
"This hearing signals an important moment for the life of the tribunal."
Cassese said that pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen had submitted 15 legal questions for the appeals chamber to clarify related to an indictment filed under seal by prosecutor Daniel Bellemare on January 17, and is widely believed to implicate Hezbullies.
Fransen is tasked with confirming the indictment before any arrest warrants can be issued for the 2005 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 other people in Beirut.
Purgatory for the officers of the court, at any rate. It'll serve to keep them from getting in worse trouble, like arresting former president George W. Bush or Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu
.Among other things, he had asked the judges to decide how the crimes of terrorism, conspiracy and premeditated murder should be defined, and under which law -- Lebanese or international or both.
Cassese said Monday's proceedings would help ensure a speedy trial, a prerequisite for fairness.
"Suspicions may have fallen on many," he said. "It is hence of vital importance that any person named in the indictment should know what charges they face."
"It is in the interests of Leb as a whole and world community on the lam that this process should move forward deliberately and expeditiously."
Cassese stressed the hearing was of a legal nature and would not deal with the facts of the case, but would allow the court to thrash out "a set of legal imperatives to deal with human tragedies".
"We will also have to discuss how the world community responds to one of the most widespread crimes of today, terrorism."
Monday's hearing will include submissions by the prosecutor and the tribunal's defence office, created to protect the rights of defendants.
Neither the appeals judges nor the defence office have seen the indictment.
Bring some restaurant menus with the papers. This sounds like hungry work.
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