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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Laila Rouass aka Nandita in "Split Wide Open (Bollywood)" aka Amy in "Bawandar (Bollywood)" aka Maya in "The Four Feathers" aka Amber Gates in "Footballers' Wives (BBC)" aka Ruby Kaur in "Shoot on Sight" aka Lucinda in "Freebird" (age 40)
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Died at 71 of "Cerebral thrombosis" and had to retire from film making due to "klieg-eyes". The lights were too bright. Retired down under and married. Successful business owner.
[Tolo News] At least two people were killed in a suicide kaboom in northern Parwan province on Tuesday, local officials said.
A jacket wallah targeted provincial office of Parwan at 11:00 am local time killing the driver of governor and a 14-year-old girl walking by at the time of the incident, Roshan Khalid, front man for governor told TOLOnews.
Two other civilians were maimed in the attack, he added.
The incident occurred while Parwan provincial governor Mr Basir Salangi was in his office and he has survived the attack, officials said.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
The Taliban have recently increased their activities in the country targeting government officials and sites.
Some of the key police officials in the north including commander of 303 Pamir zone Gen. Dawood Dawood have previously been killed in Taliban attacks.
Violence has increased as foreign forces are to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces in July this year.
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[Tolo News] At least seven civilians were maimed in a mine blast in southern Helmand province on Monday evening, local officials said on Tuesday.
The incident happened at 07:00 pm local time yesterday when a mine that was placed in a hand-pushed cart went kaboom! in Lashkargah city of Helmand province wounding seven civilians, Dawood Ahmadi, a front man for the governor of Helmand told TOLOnews.
The maimed were taken to a nearby hospital in the city.
Afghan police have started investigation about the incident.
No groups including the Taliban have grabbed credit for the blast.
Militants often use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces in the province.
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[Iran Press TV] India's naval forces have captured at least 14 suspected Somali pirates in the country's western coastline, off the Arabian Sea. "Y'know, Mukkerjee, I think these might be... furriners!"
"No! Say it ain't so, Patel!"
At least 17 people were locked away in Saurashtra region of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... on Monday, after local fishermen tipped off the coastline police about the foreign faces, a Press TV report said. "Y'aint from around here, air yew?"
"Ummm... We are simple but well-armed fishermen, sir!"
"Drop the rosco, Long John!"
Of the 17, fourteen are reportedly Somali nationals, and the other three are from Yemen, police inspector BH Jadeja said. According to the Yemenis, their vessel was seized by the armed Somalis in the high seas, but it ran out of fuel and drifted to the Indian coast. "Really, effendi! We wuz just fishin' an' suddenly there they wuz...!"
"No, no! Really it wuz we who were innocently fishing and those three Yemenis jumped us when we wudn't lookin'!"
The 17 men were in bad shape and had to be transferred to a local hospital before being taken into police custody. "Got some mighty sea-farin' men for you, Doc!" Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... the security breach has troubled the Indian Navy, raising questions as how the group managed to reach the shore unnoticed. "What was that horrible noise?"
"The admiral. He's unhappy."
Rampant piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia has made the waters among the most dangerous in terms of pirate activities. The Gulf of Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, is the quickest route for more than 20,000 vessels traveling annually between Asia, Europe and the Americas.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... attacks by heavily armed Somali pirates on speedboats have prompted some of the world's largest shipping firms to switch routes from the Suez Canal and reroute cargo vessels around southern Africa, leading to climbing shipping costs.
Probably still cheaper than the increased insurance costs for sticking to the old routes. Will we be seeing more wrecks on the Cape of Good Hope? There used to ba lot of that kind of thing, back when air pushed on sails attached to smallish wooden creations...
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"Ummm... We are simple but albeit well-armed fishermen, sir!"
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My mother was planning a trip to India and Kenya a few years back, but the India stopover was cancelled. Too hazardaous. Plague outbreak. Maybe this prison could accomodate some good rats?
Italy called for a suspension of hostilities in Libya on Wednesday in the latest sign of dissent within NATO as the civilian death toll mounts and Moamer Kadhafi shows no signs of quitting power.
"We have seen the effects of the crisis and therefore also of NATO action not only in eastern and southwestern regions but also in Tripoli," Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told a parliamentary committee meeting. Libya, the little mission that NATO couldn't.
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So now the African Union is, at best, deeply conflicted over the Libya thang. The Arab League continues their predictable duplicity. Russia, China, and all the tin-potter nations are condemning the mission as overly aggressive. Muslim leaders of every stripe are calling the campaign a new Western crusade. Heavy armaments have reportedly shown up in the hands of Jihadis in Nigeria, Tunisia, and Algeria. Some NATO members have already openly expressed fatigue over finances, objectives, and overall commitment. Italy has gone so far as to actually use the 'H' word - "hostilities".
Meanwhile, President Obama who supports the War Powers Resolution (Widely considerd Un-Constitutional) says it doesn't apply in this situation. His logic being the US Congress should be "consulted" but doesn't need to give formal approval because there are no "hostilities" in Libya.
Wow...and they said Bush lied the US into war? Go figure.
1) Implement Jerry Pournelle's idea to solve the problem: $200 million and a blank US passport to the person who brings us the severed head of the Duck of Death.
2) Once we have the head, thank NATO for all it's done and withdraw from the military side of the organization. We'll remain a member much the same way France did all those years.
3) Withdraw all parts of our military from Europe that aren't needed to make our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan work.
4) Strike a bilateral deal with the Poles and Czechs for a missile-defense system, if they're willing.
NATO was a great idea in the early 1950s: keep the US in, the Soviets out, and the Germans down. In 2011 we don't need to be in, Russia doesn't look to be coming in, and the Germans are down, down, down.
Time to disband NATO. Let Europe defend Europe, and let Europe put muscle behind their words when they talk about ousting (or extremely disliking) a thug somewhere in the world.
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"We've pretty much trashed the place. Now let's pull out and watch it sink."
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Hard to believe RR and Maggie came very close to getting all of NATO to 3% of GDP on defense spending. Perhaps it's time to put NATO in long term storage.
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Italy has gone so far as to actually use the 'H' word - "hostilities".
That's because Italy is involved in the hostilities and we aren't. Explains why things are going so smoothly.
[Al Jazeera] The Libyan government says 19 civilians have been killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... air strike on the home of one of Muammar Qadaffy's brass hats, a day after the Western military alliance admitted killing civilians in a separate attack.
Libyan officials took news hounds to Surman, 70km west of Tripoli, to the site of what they said was a NATO air strike on the home of Khouildi Hamidi.
The officials said the attack on the home of Hamidi, a member of Libya's 12-strong Revolutionary Command Council, led by Qadaffy, took place on Monday morning.
Rescue teams were looking for survivors while news hounds visited the site.
Reporters were then taken to a hospital in nearby Sabrata where they were shown nine bodies, including those of two children, plus some body parts, which the officials said were all of people killed in the attack.
This may even be true, or partially true.
The state-run Jana news agency later reported on its website that eight children were among 19 people killed in the attack.
The dead included members of Hamidi's family, it said. The government said Hamidi himself was not hurt.
'Legitimate military target'
NATO said it had bombed a "legitimate military target, a command and control node" in the area, and it could not confirm whether civilians had been hurt. It said NATO did not target specific individuals.
"This was a clear strike by NATO on a high value command and control node used to co-ordinate attacks against civilians," NATO military front man Mike Bracken said in a statement on Tuesday.
"NATO is aware of allegations that this strike caused casualties... that is something we cannot verify."
Bracken also addressed claims on Libyan state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that a NATO Apache attack helicopter came down over Libya. He confirmed that NATO had lost an unmanned helicopter drone over Libya, but he denied the report that it was a manned Apache air craft.
"NATO confirms it has not lost any attack helicopter," he said, adding that an "unmanned autonomous helicopter drone" was on an intelligence surveillance mission over Libya and lost contact with its command centre.
"We are looking into the reasons behind the incident," he said.
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It happens. Can't be avoided (and still win.) Sad, but that's war kinetic action, and war kinetic action sucks.
[An Nahar] The army of Moammar Gadhafi has laid land mines in Libya's Nafusa Mountains to counter rebel attacks there, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The mountains, which lie to the south of Tripoli, have been the site of clashes between the two sides, as the rebels attempt to edge toward the capital.
Rebels claim to have removed around 169 mines from the area. The ordnance was later inspected by Human Rights Watch.
"These anti-personnel land mines pose a huge threat to civilians," said Steve Goose, arms director for the advocacy group.
The organization said it had now discovered mines in six locations across Libya. Five types of mine were found, including the difficult-to-detect Brazilian-made T-AB-1, an anti-personnel mine that can also be used as part of an anti-vehicle mine.
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"These anti-personnel land mines pose a huge threat to civilians", said Steve Goose
That's why they say "war is hell", Steve.
p.s. Ever thought of changing your surname to Ostrich (head in sand, etc...)?
More than 60 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists militants escaped from a jail in southern Yemen on Wednesday through a 50-yard-long tunnel.
They attacked a guard with daggers, seized his gun and fired it as they escaped. One guard was killed, and another was wounded.
Bands of gunmen attacked the prison from the outside as the prisoners were escaping.
According to an anonymous official, 57 of the 62 escaped militants were convicted terrorists, and some had been sentenced to death. Twelve of them were from a notorious al-Qaeda cell known as the Tarim cell.
The jailbreak occured in Mukalla, a port in the southeastern province of Hadramut, which borders Saudi Arabia.
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another reason LAWFARE can never work in the WoT.
No way d00d, a few days ago the TOTUS said TORT Squads were the way to go. I think it was covered right here on this channel. Everyone pretty much agreed that was the way to go.
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How many Islamic Govt's use extremist groups to stay in power and get money from the West?
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[Emirates 24/7] Battles raged on Tuesday between Yemen's army and suspected Al Qaeda hard boyz for control of the southern city of Zinjibar, a military official said, as the toll of soldiers killed passed the 100 mark.
"We are engaged in fierce battles with terrorist elements from Al-Qaeda, leading to heavy losses on their part during the past three days," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... At least 100 soldiers have been killed since the violence in Zinjibar erupted more than three weeks ago, while 260 others have been maimed, according to the official, updating an earlier toll.
Alleged Al-Qaeda myrmidons, who have named themselves Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... (Supporters of Islamic Sharia law) have been controlling most of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, since late May.
The official told AFP by telephone that government air raids had destroyed "selected targets" around Zinjibar which he said were being used by the hard boyz to launch attacks.
The official added that some troops had been pulled back in a "tactical move."
"We were forced to withdraw our 119th and 201st Artillery Brigades around three kilometres (1.8 miles) in a tactical move, as part of a strategy which we hope will work," the official said.
"We are facing heavy resistance from the network's hard boyz as they are well-trained in gang fighting, and have imported muscle within their ranks, including Arabs," said the official. Presumably that's non-Yemeni Arabs...
Senior local official, Ghassan Sheikh, complained meanwhile that the air strikes have also destroyed homes, killing and wounding many civilians. Two civilians were also killed by shelling that hit a bus at the city's entrance on Monday, he said.
Mahfuz Abdullah, a member of the city's local council, said Zinjibar is being controlled by gunnies.
"Hundreds of masked gunnies have taken over the city and nearby villages," he said. "We cannot leave our homes because of the fighting."
Abdullah said the fighters have also suffered many losses, with numerous cars seen carrying bodies to a nearby cemetery.
Officials say the hard boyz are connected to Al-Qaeda, but opponents of the country's embattled President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... accuse his government of exaggerating a jihadist threat to heed off Western pressure on his 33-year rule.
Yemen is the home of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an affiliate of the slain the late Osama bin Laden's ... who walked in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and didn't make it out... myrmidon network. The group is accused of anti-US plots including an attempt to blow up a US-bound aircraft on Christmas Day, 2009.
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[Yemen Post] A security bigshot in Abyan said that most governmental forces have evacuated Abyan province after fierce festivities with Islamic cut-thoats.
This comes as a blow to government efforts to clean the province from suspected al-Qaeda cut-thoats.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... an official in Abyan said to Yemen Post that the majority of fighters killed in Abyan over the last three weeks have not been al-Qaeda members, but rather civilians or Islamic cut-thoats.
He explained that Abyan beturbanned goons call themselves "Ansar Share'a", which means the "defenders of Islamic law."
The government fears that the spread of the Islamic militancy in Abyan, Lahj, and Aden could be as big of a risk as al-Qaeda.
Thousands of Jihadists exist in southern provinces, though they almost never attack western targets.
Government is making its stance clear and that they will target anyone causing chaos in the country.
Clashes with Islamic fighters has backlashed, as beturbanned goons are now spreading to neighboring provinces.
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[Yemen Post] At least ten students were maimed when the security forces broke into Hodeida University to disperse a rally by Art College students demanding a delay to final exams.
"Nobody could study with all the marching and shouting that had to be done. Besides, the security guys stole our crayons -- we can't do art exams without crayons!"
Locals said that the central security forces used live bullets and teargas to break up the rally and attacked students with batons and rifle butts.
Some students were also placed in long-term storage amid continuous protests calling for the ouster of the regime, opening trials for officials responsible for violence and other crimes as well as urging an immediate transitional council.
In Sana'a, a massive demonstration was held today in which thousands of people, who marched from the square of change outside Sana'a University to Hayel Street, urged to from an immediate transitional council and demanded the departure of the remaining officials in the Saleh regime.
The protesters urged Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... being treated in Soddy Arabia and who commands the elite republican guard, and Saleh's nephew, Ammar Muhammad Saleh, chief of the national security system, to leave the country.
Moreover, they refused the mandate of the U.S. and Soddy Arabia on Yemen.
Meantime, the front man for the Joint Meeting Parties, Muhammad Qahtan, has accused the relatives of President Saleh of being as a roadblock to start a practical transitional period in the country.
Saleh's relatives are seeking power inheritance and this must not take place, he said, warning that if reconciliation solutions fail, the youth-led uprising has the final word.
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[Yemen Post] U.S. Sherlocks have found out that a U.S.-made missile designed for assassinations was used in the attack on the presidential palace earlier this month that injured President-for-Life Saleh, ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... Alarabiya website reported on Tuesday.
We've got special missiles just for assassinating people? Why wasn't I told?
The Sherlocks also said that the missile is a 'very advanced product' used only in the U.S. and Russia, the website said.
"The U.S. probe team informed the Yemeni authorities about the finding," it said, a day after a Saudi paper reported that one of the bigwigs who were maimed in the attack had been buried in Soddy Arabia.
Several bigwigs were maimed in the attack on the presidential palace in Sana'a that also killed eleven of Saleh's guards.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Aloula newspaper quoted a Yemeni official as saying that the missile an advanced Russian rocket. "The guided missile held a Russian name, FOGAZ," the paper said.
A team from a U.S. non-government firm is currently investigating the attack without any help from the FBI, it added.
The finding refutes previous U.S. and Yemeni conclusions that President Saleh was attacked from inside his compound by artillery or tank missiles.
"The missile that landed in the presidential palace during Friday prayers was designed for targeting heavily-guarded personalities, not buildings or other targets," the U.S. Sherlocks were quoted as saying.
Has anyone seen the actual report, or is the Yemen Post reporter going by rumours here?
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So Yemen has their own version of the Weekly World News. Look! It's al-Bat Boy.
[An Nahar] Wounded Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... is "well" but the date of his return cannot be confirmed, the deputy information minister said on Tuesday, amid conflicting reports on the embattled leader's health.
"We have no confirmation yet" on the date of the return of Saleh, recovering in Riyadh from wounds sustained in an kaboom as he prayed at his palace mosque earlier this month, "but we assume he'll be back within the few coming days," Abdo al-Janadi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"He is constantly in contact with the vice president (Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi) and he is well. His wounds are of no source of worry," said Janadi.
Saleh "is now undergoing plastic surgery from the burns he had suffered in the attack."
But an informed Yemeni source in Riyadh said Saleh, who has not been seen in public since the attack, is still in the intensive care unit at a Saudi military hospital.
"His condition has not improved. He is still at the intensive care unit and nobody can see him," the source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... The source dismissed any speculation of Saleh's imminent return.
The condition of Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Mujawar and consultative council chief Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, who were also maimed in the blast that killed 11 people and injured another 124 and who are also in Riyadh, is "still very bad," the same source said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... Saudi-based Al-Watan daily reported Tuesday that a plane owned by national airline Yemenia "which will transfer President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh and his lover companions to Sanaa later this week," has arrived in Riyadh.
"The Yemeni president is well and began welcoming his visitors at the hospital," the daily said, quoting a diplomatic source.
Political sources in Yemen told AFP the plane was in fact carrying the deputy secretary general of Saleh's General People's Congress party, Abdul Karim al-Aryani, who has secretly visited Riyadh during the past two days.
Reports on Saleh's condition have been sketchy, but Bahraini King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... was reported to have called him on Thursday, two days after King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands #65, Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... had a phone conversation with him.
In Saleh's absence, Hadi has been coming under intensive local and international pressure to heed the demands of protesters to set up an interim ruling council, which would prevent Saleh returning to power.
But Hadi's grip on power is strongly questioned as relatives of Saleh continue to run main security systems. Key among them is Saleh's son, Ahmed, who leads the elite Republican Guard.
Last week, Hadi met representatives of youth protests that have raged since late January demanding the ouster of Saleh. They pressed him to give a clear stance on their demands, and gave him two weeks to decide whether or not he will join the proposed council.
At least 200 protesters have been killed by Saleh's security forces over the past five months.
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[Yemen Post] Senior opposition Joint Meetng Parties officials confirmed that the formation of the joint governmentis expected to be signed within weeks.
Both sides have accepted the idea of a 50-50 share in the joint transitional government to be divided between Yemen's ruling party and opposition. Hasan Zaid, the secretary general of the opposition Haq party said "The new government will be formed very soon and the political wheel in Yemen will start moving again with the absence of President-for-Life Saleh." ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... Senior officials in Yemen's ruling party said that Vice President Abdo Rabu Hadi is having difficulties in convincing the ruling General Peoples Congress party to agree to a unified transitional government, and has informed them that it is the only option on the table.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen ruling party assistant spokesperson Abdul Hafid al-Nahari said that President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... will be in Yemen this Friday.
Though analysts don't expect Saleh back this week, the Yemeni government is stressing that he will.
Yasser Yamani, the deputy governor of Sana'a said that President Saleh's stay in Riyadh has already been longer than expected and that it was time for him to come back.
President Saleh advisor, Ahmed Soufi, said that even though Saleh is in Riyadh currently, he is fulfilling his duties from there. "We are coordinating with President Saleh while he is in Riyadh, and he continues to be updated on all the changes and developments in Yemen."
Soufi said that Saleh will continue ruling Yemen until the end of his term in 2013. "When he is back, he will rule as normal and the country will continue to be under his control. Saleh will return strong and the will of the people will stand against any other will."
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Russia's Investigative Committee reported that an investigator was killed late on Tuesday in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Gadzhi Alibegov, who was gunned down when he got out of his car near his home, had been mainly involved in investigating extremists. An investigation is underway.
[Dawn] India's anti-terror National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Monday filed charges against five alleged Hindu faceless myrmidons for the 2007 fire-bombing of the Samjhauta Express that killed 68 passengers, including 42 Paks on their way home, reports said.
The move comes days ahead of a critical meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistain in Islamabad who are to discuss a raft of issues, including terrorism. The Samjhauta issue has figured prominently in bilateral talks in the past.
Local reports said the NIA filed the charges, including that of criminal conspiracy and murder, in the Special Court at Panchkula in the Haryana state where the incident occurred on February 18, 2007.
The accused are Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra alias Ramji.
The initial investigation was carried out by the Railway Police and the Haryana Police but on July 26 last year, India handed over the probe to the NIA, which registered the case on July 29. NIA sleuths fanned out to several parts of the country to unravel the conspiracy.
The investigation, conducted over the past year, established that the conspiracy was hatched between 2005 and 2007 by Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi and his associates -- Ramji, Sandeep Dange, Lokesh Sharma and others at different places in Gujarat, ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... Madhya Pradesh and other states.
The accused were upset at a series of attacks on Hindu temples by alleged Mohammedan bully boys.
"As a result, Swami Aseemanand propounded a bomb ka badla bomb (bomb for bomb) theory. The Samjhauta Express was particularly chosen, as most of its passengers are Pak citizens. He not only provided financial and logistical support to the terror group which executed this dastardly act but also played a vital role in instigating and motivating his associates to undertake this terrorist act," the charge-sheet says.
Sandeep Dange, Ramji, Lokesh Sharma and others, acting under the leadership of Sunil Joshi, were instrumental in procuring the raw materials for building Improvised Explosive Devices and getting them fabricated and planted. The investigation yielded a strong suspicion about the role of some more persons in the conspiracy and, therefore, further probe would be conducted.
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(KUNA) -- Three Death Eaters were killed and five others, including a soldier, were maimed in a kaboom and subsequent retaliatory operation in South Wazoo tribal agency on Pakistain on Tuesday, said sources.
A security forces' vehicle hit a remote-controlled bomb in Laddah district of the agency, security sources told KUNA. The incident critically maimed a soldier.
Sources said further that the security forces launched a retaliatory operation and killed at least three Death Eaters and maimed four others.
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[Dawn] An attack in the tehsil Laddah of South Wazoo tribal region resulted in the death of a member of the security forces on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.
According to reports, a remote-controlled device was used in the attack that also maimed another security forces official. Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... four faceless myrmidons were killed in a retaliatory attack by security forces.
A search operation was started after forces surround the area.
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[Emirates 24/7] A Pakistain army brigadier assigned to military headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi has been incarcerated for suspected ties to a banned group, a military front man said on Tuesday.
Spokesman Major General Athar Abbas ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... said Brigadier Ali Khan, who was in charge of drafting army regulations, was linked to Hizb-ul-Tahrir, a banned group in Pakistain.
"We follow zero tolerance policy of such activities within the military therefore prompt action was taken on detection," Abbas said.
Hizb-ul-Tahrir, or "Party of Liberation", is a radical political group dedicated to reestablishing an Islamic Caliphate across the Mohammedan world. Active in Britannia, it is banned in many Mohammedan countries for its calls to overthrow the sitting governments.
The group says it does not advocate violence, but many critics say it has ties to bad turban organizations and encourages young men to radicalism.
Abbas said efforts were also being made to arrest members of the group who were in contact with Khan.
Khan would be the highest-ranking serving army officer incarcerated in a decade.
A senior military official, who declined to be identified, told Rooters that the detention was made 20 days ago.
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BAGHDAD: The U.S. forces in Iraq announced today that an armed group targeted Iraqi forces stationed in Betaira airport, near Amara city, with mortar shells.
In a statement issued by the southern command of U.S. armed forces in Basrah, as received by Aswat al-iraq, it noted that the shells fell on the Tenth Division of the Iraqi forces stationed near the airport. The statement added that there were no casualties.
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[Emirates 24/7] Twenty-five people were killed as two car booms destroyed a group of coppers outside the local governor's home in the central Iraqi city of Diwaniyah on Tuesday, officials said.
A medical source at the main hospital in Diwaniyah, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Storied Baghdad, ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... said most of the casualties were police.
"Two car booms went kaboom! almost simultaneously near the governor's home in Diwaniyah, killing 25 people and wounding more than 30," a defence ministry official told AFP.
It was not immediately known if Salam Hussein Alwan, governor of the province -- also named Diwaniyah -- was among the casualties.
The hospital source said they received 20 bodies and admitted 35 maimed following the attack, which occurred at 7:45 a.m. (04:45 GMT). "Most of the casualties are coppers," he told AFP.
Casualty figures often differ in the immediate aftermath of an attack in Iraq, due to the ensuing chaos and confusion.
The bombs went kaboom! at a police barrier about 30 metres (100 feet) outside the governor's home.
Attacks against government officials have shot up in recent months, as Iraqi leaders bicker over key security posts left vacant since a March 2010 general election.
The car booms were part of a string of blasts on Tuesday in Storied Baghdad and other parts of Iraq that killed at least four people and maimed 16, including two coppers and three soldiers, interior and defence ministry sources said.
The bombings followed a spate of gun and kabooms on Monday, including a blast next to a French embassy car that maimed seven Iraqis. Four French security personnel inside the armoured vehicle beat feet unhurt.
Monday's attacks killed an army officer and a policeman who were bumped off in different districts of Storied Baghdad, and the mayor of the town of Al-Shar in central Baquba province, rubbed out as gunnies raided his home.
Violence is down in Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when tens of thousands of people were killed in festivities between Sunni and Shiite Arabs and in cut-thoat attacks, but attacks have risen since the beginning of this year.
The rise in violence comes with only months to go before US troops, in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, are due to complete a pullout under the terms of a bilateral security pact.
Eight US soldiers have been killed on duty this month.
An Al-Qaeda-style raid by gunnies against government offices in the central city of Baquba on June 14 killed seven people.
Private security firm AKE Group said this month that attacks have been on the rise since the start of the year, with violent incidents averaging more than 10 a day in May, up from four to five a day in January.
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They way the irhabin keep targeting the Iraqi Security Forces, it stands to reason that the ISF must be effective enough for them to worry about.
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Two villagers were killed in separate roadside shooting attacks in Yala province.
Bueraheng Sadeemae, 37, was gunned down in the attack by unidentified assailants on Wednesday morning. The victim's body was found lying near his motorcycle.
An investigation found that the victim, former assistant to a local village leader and a village defense volunteer, was shot in the head while riding his motorcycle to work at a rubber plantation. When Mr Bueraheng entered the scene, the attackers on their own motorcycle ambushed him.
Another shooting attack in the same district resulted in Abdulao Tae, a 48-year-old man, being killed on Tuesday night by suspected terrorists insurgents armed with shotguns. He was killed while on his way home.
[Iran Press TV] Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has reportedly granted a new general amnesty while a huge crowd erupted into the streets nationwide to support the president. "Hooray for Pencilneck!"
According to Syria's Arab News Agency (SANA), the Syrian president on Tuesday issued a decree granting a general amnesty for crimes committed before June 20.
The news agency did not elaborate further regarding the issue.
On May 31, Assad had ordered a general amnesty for all political prisoners, including Moslem Brüderbund members. Rights groups in Syria confirmed the release of hundreds of detainees.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... Syrian people rallied on Tuesday in central Damascus. ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... Pro-Assad demonstrators gathered at the Omeyyades Square, waving Syrian flags and the president's portrait, chanting, "We will sacrifice ourselves for you, Bashar!"
State television said a huge pro-Assad demonstration was also held in Homs city, north of Damascus. "Millions of Syrians" flocked to squares around the country to hail his speech, it said.
The demonstrations came one day after the Syrian president offered a national dialogue to end the recent unrest in the country.
"We can say that national dialogue is the slogan of the next stage," President Assad said. "The national dialogue could lead to amendments of the constitution or to a new constitution."
The president also blamed the deadly violence on gangs and said saboteurs are taking advantage of the pro-reform movement.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Syrian security forces rubbed out seven people on Tuesday during festivities in two cities between President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... loyalists and protesters demanding his removal, a leading activist said.
The violence followed rallies organised by authorities in several cities in support of Assad, whose 11-year rule has been challenged by a three-month popular uprising, prompting him to promise reforms on Monday, which were dismissed by protesters and world leaders as inadequate.
Activists said people were killed when army and security forces intervened on the side of Assad's supporters in the city of Homs and the town of Mayadeen in the tribal Deir al-Zor province, 40 km (28 miles) east of the bustling provincial capital, near the border with Iraq's Sunni heartland.
Ammar Qurabi, head of the Syrian National Organization for Human Rights, said Assad loyalists, known as shabbiha, shot at protesters in Homs, Hama and Mayadeen, killing at least seven civilians and wounding 10.
"It is difficult to say who started first, but the army's armored personnel carriers drove through the (anti-Assad) demonstration firing at people. One is confirmed killed but seven more people suffered serious wounds," a resident of Mayadeen said.
Two residents in Homs said security forces fired at protesters who had staged a demonstration to counter a pro-Assad rally backed by secret police and 'shabbiha'.
Witnesses in Deraa said security forces opened fire to disperse several thousand protesters in the city's old quarter who erupted into the streets in reaction to a pro-government rally in the Mahatta area which they said employees and army forces in civilian clothes had been ordered to attend.
Syria has barred most international journalists, making it difficult to verify accounts from activists and officials.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy said Syria had agreed to give the humanitarian agency greater access to civilians and areas caught up in the conflict.
SECOND AMNESTY
State television showed tens of thousands of people in central Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... waving flags and pictures of Assad who announced an amnesty for people who committed crimes up until Monday, the day of his speech. It was the second amnesty to be announced in three weeks.
After the first, authorities freed hundreds of political prisoners but rights groups say thousands still languish in jail and that hundreds more have since been placed in long-term storage in an escalating crackdown they say has killed 1,300 civilians in three months.
Authorities say more than 200 police and security forces have been killed by armed gangs.
Activists said that public workers were required to take part in the pro-Assad rallies under threat of dismissal from their jobs, along with the security police and their families.
After Monday's speech, activists said Syrian forces extended their security sweep near the northern border with Turkey to the merchant city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... .
Central neighborhoods in Aleppo have been largely quiet, with a heavy security presence and the political and business alliance intact between Sunni business families and the ruling hierarchy from Syria's minority Alawite sect.
Syria, a country of 20 million, is mainly Sunni, and the protests demanding political freedoms and an end to 41 years of Assad family rule have been biggest in mostly Sunni rural areas and towns and cities, as opposed to mixed areas.
"Road blocks in Aleppo are noticeably more today, especially on roads leading north toward Turkey and toward the east. I saw military intelligence agents arrest two brothers in their 30s, apparently just because they were from Idlib," a resident of Aleppo, who owns an import business, told Rooters by phone.
He was referring to the northwestern province where troops and tanks have been deployed in towns and villages for the past 10 days to quell protests, according to witnesses.
ARRESTS
Tens of students at Aleppo University were placed in long-term storage on Monday and 12 people, including a mosque preacher, were jugged in the nearby village of Tel Rifaat, halfway between Aleppo and the Turkish border, following protests, witnesses said.
Protesters at the university had criticized Assad's speech, only his third since the uprising, inspired by protests across the Arab world that ousted rulers in Tunisia and Egypt.
Speaking at Damascus University, Assad reiterated a commitment to "national dialogue" and promised new laws on the media and parliamentary elections but protesters denounced the speech and Washington demanded "action, not words" from Assad.
The military assault has sent thousands of refugees streaming over the border into Turkey, which has become critical of Assad, having previously backed his drive to seek peace with Israel and improve relations with the United States.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... said on Tuesday it was right to press Damascus to end the violence but said interference in the country's affairs was not the solution.
A veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, Russia has withheld support for a Western-drafted Council resolution condemning the violence in Syria.
"Interference from outside does not by any means always lead to the resolution of a conflict," Putin told a news conference with his French counterpart Francois Fillon. La Belle France has been among the most vocal critics of Assad's actions.
At the same time, Putin said, "there is no doubt that it is necessary to apply pressure on the leadership of any country where mass disorder and particularly bloodshed is occurring."
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...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile...
