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Sudan Recognizes Republic of South Sudan
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Susan Cabot aka Monahseetah in "Tomahawk" aka Nona in "The Battle at Apache Pass" aka Laurie Kenyon in "Ride Clear of Diablo" aka Enger in "The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent" aka Janice Starlin in "The Wasp Woman" (Died in 1986 at age 59)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/09/2011 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  They're farm fed beauties, all right.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2011 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I have a DVD of The Wasp Woman. Strangely, it's about a woman who wants to live a long time and takes an experimental drug that turns her into a giant wasp.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/09/2011 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  "you'll put your eye out!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/09/2011 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: S || 07/09/2011 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Who knew Tyrone Power was Ruritanian?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/09/2011 9:57 Comments || Top||

#7  "Tyrone Power's movie career was interrupted by military service. In August 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, starting out as a private, having refused his studio's offer to get him an officer's commission. Upon completion of boot camp training at San Diego, he was selected for Officer's Candidate School at Quantico, where he was promoted to Second Lieutenant on June 2, 1943. Because he had already logged many solo hours as a pilot prior to enlisting in the Marine Corps, he was able to go though a short, intense flight training program at Corpus Christi, Texas, where he earned his wings and was promoted to First Lieutenant. Power served in the Pacific theater, with the VMR-352, carrying supplies aboard a R5C into the embattled Iwo Jima and carrying the wounded out, often under heavy fire."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/09/2011 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm not making this up!-"Cabot's son, Timothy Scott Roman, who suffered from dwarfism and psychological problems, bludgeoned her to death in her home in Encino, California with a weight lifting bar. I guess we can rule out natural causes.
Posted by: Dale || 07/09/2011 14:13 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
British soldiers told not to shoot Taliban bomb layers
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/09/2011 18:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Complete idiocy.
Posted by: Odysseus || 07/09/2011 22:27 Comments || Top||

#2  agreed. How about: "park your vehicle on them"?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/09/2011 22:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan Recognizes Republic of South Sudan
[An Nahar] Sudan on Friday announced its official recognition of the new Republic of South Sudan a day before its southern neighbor becomes the world's newest nation.

"The Republic of Sudan announces that it recognizes the Republic of South Sudan as an independent state, according to the borders existing on January 1, 1956," Minister of Presidential Affairs Bakri Hassan Saleh said in a statement broadcast on state television.
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"The government of Sudan is committed to implementing the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) and to resolving all the post-referendum issues," Saleh added.

The 2005 peace agreement that ended the devastating 22-year conflict between north and south Sudan paved the way for an independence referendum in January, in which southerners voted almost unanimously to secede.

Since the referendum, the two sides have failed to agree on a number of key outstanding issues, such as how to manage the country's oil, most of which lies in the south, demarcation of their contested common borders, and the future status of the disputed Abyei region.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
vowed after the referendum results were announced that his government would be the first to recognize an independent south.

On Thursday he repeated his claim to want a secure and stable south and confirmed that he would attend Saturday's official celebrations in Juba.

But he also said that good future relations between the two countries depended on secure borders and non-interference in the each other's internal affairs.

Although a number of the most contentious issues between the two sides remain unresolved, reaching independence is a major achievement, the head of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, the body overseeing the implementation of the 2005 peace agreement, said on Friday.

"Whatever other concerns there may be, there is a governing thought that this is a moment for celebration," Derek Plumbly told news hounds in Juba, while lamenting the failure of the two sides to reach an overall agreement on their unresolved disputes.

"It is a pity that all of this is not consolidated in a single agreement ahead of July 9," he added.

Later on Friday, the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Security Council adopted a resolution creating a U.N. mission in South Sudan that will include 7,000 peacekeepers and hundreds of civilians tasked with helping the decampedgling nation.

The new mission, UNMISS, will take on a "vital role ... to support national authorities, in close consultation with international partners, to consolidate the peace and prevent a return to violence," stated the resolution.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Diplomatic recognition is nIce. Discouraging one's jihadi boys from terrorizing the neighborhood would be even nicer, but let's not ask too much of Sudan that they couldn't possibly deliver.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2011 13:35 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Gadhafi Says Regime Will Not Fall, NATO Must Pull Back
Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy said in an audio message relayed to supporters on Friday that his regime will not fall and told 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...
to stop attacking his troops.

"The regime in Libya will not fall -- it is based on the people, not on Qadaffy. NATO is wrong if it thinks it can topple the regime of this country," he said in the message to thousands of supporters in Sabha, some 750 kilometers south of Tripoli.

"This gathering of more than a million people is a new message to Europe, to the crusaders and colonialists: the regime does not belong to Qadaffy, it is the people's regime and the people will not give up an inch of its land or bow down to invaders," he said.

"Our only choice is resistance: we are on home ground and are not afraid of your war machine," a defiant Qadaffy told his supporters in Sabha, the desert stronghold of his clan, addressing NATO directly.

He added that the NATO-led air strikes on his forces must cease, and Libyans should be left "all alone" to solve their own problems.

Qadaffy last week threatened retaliation against Europe unless NATO ceases its operations, saying forces loyal to him can launch stinging attacks like "locusts and bees."

At the time he vowed that his forces will defeat NATO and called on European leaders to talk to his people "and heads of tribes" to find a solution to the protracted crisis, saying he was ready to help.

"The people are masters of their own destiny. Discuss with them a solution to the crisis and I will help you," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
One Killed, Others Injured As People Celebrate Saleh Appearance
[Yemen Post] A citizen was killed and tens others injured when regime supporters attacked from all directions the change square in Yemen's capital Sana'a coinciding with celebrations of Saleh's appearance and first speech since he survived an liquidation attempt last month.

They fired live bullets at tents of thousands of people who have been holding a sit-in for months to call for the ouster of the regime.

Saleh said in his speech today that they will face a challenge with a challenge, as he urged all political forces to hold dialogue and criticized the current crises in Yemen.

After the speech, Saleh supporters displayed fireworks and fired live bullets in the air to celebrate the improving condition of their president, whose face was entirely burned and his body looked very sick.

Medical sources at the field hospital in the square confirmed a protester was killed and many other -- more than twenty-- injured, coinciding with casualties in other cities due to celebrations of Saleh supporters.

Also, eyewitnesses said that armed people directly fired at tents of the protesters in the square outside Sana'a University.

When Saudi doctors said weeks ago that Saleh had undergone a successful surgery, his supporters celebrated the news killing at least 15 people and injuring scores in some cities.

Meantime, the organizational committee of the popular youth-led uprising has held the regime responsible for such incidents, urging rights organizations and activists to pursue killers.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because the very best way to celebrate is to murder tens of your opponents
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2011 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, did the article get double dipped in the Fred-0-Matic translation device? It's pure goodness of read.
Posted by: S || 07/09/2011 2:32 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican Federales Kill 11 Bad Guys
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A total of 11 armed suspects were killed by Mexican Policia Fedeal units in two separate battles Thursday, according to Mexican news sources.

Reprots are the suspects attacked Policia Federales on road patrol in Apatzingän at around 1640 hrs. Two separate ensuing firefights killed 11 armed suspects and wounded another. Three Federal agents were wounded.

Fighting was also reported in Morelia, Patzcuaro, Zinapécuaro Mugica, Zitäcuaro, Lazaro Cardenas and Maravatío.

The attackers were said to be part of the Caballeros de los Templarios (Knights Templars) a breakaway group of La Familia headed by Servando Gomez Martinez, AKA Tuta and Enrique Plancarte, AKA El Kike.

Members of the group at roughly the same time as the attack moved to block roads in Uruapan, on the Morelia-Salamanca road and disabling Apatzingän by hijacking, and disabling or destroying by fire several heavy vehicles. The blocks served to prevent Policia Federal and Mexican Army units from reinforcing Apatzingän.

A total of 11 vehicles were destroyed in the blocking actions, seven of them in Apatzingan.

Two Policia Federal helicopters were flying in support of federal forces. Apparently one helo was damaged in the fighting.

Unconfirmed published reports also said three civilians were killed in the blocking actions.

Early Friday morning several narcopintas blankets appeared in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan and in Apatzingan which accused Policia Federal agents of rape and theft. Such graffiti is one of the primary means drug gangs in Mexico use to communicate with the public without filtering their messages through news agencies.

Security forces seized six rifles and two short, six grenades, 32 weapons magazines and 200 rounds of ammunition at one location. An overturned Chevrolet Suburban was found with tactical gear, police uniforms, brochures and an undisclosed number of weapons.
Posted by: badanov || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reuters last night: Gunmen kill 20 in Monterrey bar
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/09/2011 6:09 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Terrorist dead after clash with police in Dagestan
Authorities in southern Russia say a terrorist militant was killed during a clash with police after six terrorists insurgents attacked the house of a banker in Dagestan.

A police spokesman said unidentified men opened fire on the banker's house in western Dagestan early on Friday morning. One of the attackers was killed in a subsequent clash with the police. The banker was not harmed.

Police said the 26-year-old man had been wanted for terrorism. At least five other suspected terrorists insurgents managed to escape.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Five killed in Dagestan gun battle
At least six people were killed when a gun battle between terrorists militants and federal forces broke out in Dagestan, police said on Wednesday.

Two civilians, a serviceman, and two suspected terrorists militants were killed during the shootout that occurred late Wednesday. Another serviceman and six civilians were injured. An assault rifle and a handgun were recovered from the site of the clash.

One of the two terrorists militants killed in the gunfight was identified as gang leader Magomed Aliyev. A local source said the gang led by Aliyev extorted money from businessmen, murdered religious leaders, blew up railroads and tried to kill law enforcement officers.

The source said, "Aliyev underwent training in Syria and after returning he joined the militants."
Posted by: ryuge || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Commanders among Afghan Taliban killed in Dir
[Dawn] Twelve Afghan Taliban killed in an encounter with Dir Scouts on Wednesday in Upper Dir included two important Taliban capos, according to the commander of Dir Scouts.

Col Kamran disclosed this to the journalists who were shown the bodies of the Afghan raiders in Dir Scouts Fort in Timergara on Thursday.

Two of the Afghan dead were buried the same day by Tehsil Municipal Administration on Thursday.

Col Kamran said that 150 snuffies from across the border had besieged some 25 villagers in a mosque on Wednesday at Nusrat Dara in Dir Upper when they were offering morning prayers.

He said that villagers and security forces responded to the attack vigorously. He said that 12 attackers, most of them Afghans, had been killed in retaliatory firing.

The FC commandant said that two important Taliban capos were also among the dead. Two bodies were shown to media at Dir Scouts Fort Timergara. The bodies were later buried by TMA officials in a local graveyard.

Col Kamran said that a cellular phone set and a letter written in Pashto were recovered from one of the killed bad turban. He said that the phone set contained video clips of some Taliban capos and important numbers.

The official said that after besieging villagers at Nusrat Dara, snuffies formed four groups and attacked different villages in Barawal area. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
locals repulsed the attacks, he said, adding snuffies wanted to attack a security checkpost at Nusrat Dara but prior information worked and location of the post was changed.

"Therefore we suffered no casualties," he claimed, adding that five villagers were maimed in the attack and one of them later pegged out. He said that attackers torched two schools and a mosque in Nusrat Dara and destroyed another school in Soro Kallay of Barawal area. The commandant said that snuffies also fired five rockets and three mortar shells at a security post at Bin Shahi but there was no report of casualty.

The situation in the border area was under control as the attack was repulsed, he added. He appreciated the role of villagers.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Four killed in fresh Tirah clashes
[Dawn] At least four persons were killed in fresh festivities between a bad boy group and tribal volunteers in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency while security forces pounded hideouts of Taliban in Frontier Region of Kohat on Thursday.

Sources said that volunteers of Zakhakhel tribal lashkar and members of banned bad boy organization Lashkar-i-Islam traded heavy fire in different parts of Tirah to gain control of each other positions.They said that at least four persons were killed in the festivities.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos...
windscreens of several vehicles were smashed when a powerful bomb, planted along roadside, went kaboom! near Ali Masjid area of the tribal region on Thursday. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
nobody was hurt in the blast. A convoy of 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...
oil tankers was passing through the road at the time of kaboom but no tanker was damaged in the incident.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davey was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
security forces pounded the hideouts of Death Eaters when they fired rockets at Jawaki area of FR Kohat to punish the rustics for forming armed lashkar against them.

Militants fired three rockets from Gharib Paya mountains at the residential area in Jawaki adjacent to the Chappar area of Darra Adamkhel to target the local residents. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the rockets landed in open and did not cause any kind of damage, except spreading panic among the locals.

The tribal lashkar retaliated with automatic weapons while security forces targeted the said mountains with artillery from their camp near the Kohat tunnel. But there were no reports of casualties or damage.

The bad boys, who enforced their own style of Sharia in FR Kohat back in 2008, have been carrying out IED attacks against passengers and firing rockets to reestablish their lost writ, which was ended with the formation of local armed lashkar in 2009.

The people of the area have been demanding establishment of permanent checkposts in the region and round the clock patrolling to prevent a comeback by bad boys.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Nato fires 16 mortar bombs inside North Waziristan
[Dawn] At least 16 mortar bombs fired from across the border in Afghanistan fell near a Pak military check post in North Wazoo's tribal region.

The shelling was carried out by 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...
forces from the Afghan side of the border, DawnNews reported.

Pak forces retaliated with more mortar firing, local intelligence officials said.

There were no reports of any casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Sixteen mortar rounds?
No following assault, just harassment fire?

Good enough from NATO I guess.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/09/2011 18:50 Comments || Top||


Officials say '50 killed' in Kurram offensive
[Dawn] Officials said Friday that a four-day air and ground offensive against Islamic fascisti in the Kurram tribal district
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
had left 42 bully boy and eight soldiers dead.

There was no independent confirmation of the corpse count because journalists and aid workers do not have free access to the tribal region.

"We have cleared the Jawaki, Mantao and Sarkat areas of central Kurram during four days of operations in the region," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"We have killed 42 Islamic fascisti and injured over 100. Eight soldiers have also been killed. Taliban are on the run and we are marching ahead," he said.

Another official said that at least 40 Islamic fascisti had been killed in Kurram, a flashpoint for sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Mohammedans.

"At least 40 Islamic fascisti have been killed by the forces. Resistance by the Islamic fascisti against the military is very limited," said Shahab Ali Shah, a local government official.

He said that more than 500 families who decamped the fighting had registered with the government for shelter. Around 28,000 people are understood to have decamped the offensive, but most have sought accommodation with relatives.

Pakistain's seven tribal regions bordering Afghanistan are rife with a home-grown insurgency. Washington has called the region the most dangerous place on earth and the global headquarters of Al Qaeda.

In the tribal district of Khyber, local administration official Syed Ahmed Jan, a local administration official, said 10 people were killed in festivities between the Lashkar-i-Islam network and a pro-government militia.

Although Pakistain has fought home-grown Talibs across much of the tribal belt, it has withheld American pressure to move against the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Wazoo.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Police yet to probe killings
[Dawn] The Bloody Karachi police have yet to launch a proper probe into on-going assassinations in the city as Sherlocks have not begun to gather crucial evidence, it emerged on Thursday.

As the corpse count in the so-called ethnic violence continues to mount, the role of both wings (operations and investigation) of the police is dismal.

The police have failed to contain the violence or arrest suspects involved in the killings, which have now spread to other parts of the city.
Did they at least send all the deaders for autopsy? That always happens as the last sentence in a Pak Daily Times article; the police are absolutely meticulous in getting an autopsy so that Dr. Quincy can confirm that the deader died of a gunshot blast to the head. Can't do an investigation without an autopsy.
The violence which was confined to Orangi Town and its adjoining areas, including Qasba Colony, soon spread to such parts of the city as Baldia, Site Town, Banaras and North Nazimabad.

The investigation police, supposed to investigate the cases and identify, charge sheet and arrest suspects involved in the killings are yet to properly initiate their work.

At the moment, police are just compiling data of the victims killed in the violence.

Similarly, lists are also being prepared of the accused nominated in the previous acts of assassinations in the city, sources said. Probably the only progress in a particular case of killings is the acquiring of CCTV footage by the police.

Five persons were killed after a minibus was hijacked by gunnies in Gulberg Town and dumped in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The spent bullet casings were also found in the minibus, the police said.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
in the rest of the random killings in the city, especially in Orangi Town, there is no way of gathering this vital piece of evidence, as police, even the operations police, are unable to enter the narrow lanes where firing is taking place.

Sharing his past experience of investigation of these assassinations, a senior officer said that in such type of cases, FIRs were usually registered against unknown persons since these were random killings and there was no witness to the incident who could identify the accused.

He said that even if there was a witness to such a killing, he would not testify for fear of life.

"Witnesses are hard to find even in a simple murder case; finding a witness to politically motivated assassinations is almost impossible," remarked an investigator. He added that even the families of most of the victims were quite fearful and did not want to pursue such cases.

He said almost in all the FIRs unknown suspects were nominated.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Karachi violence continues as death toll rises to 88
[Dawn] Incidents of violence continued in Bloody Karachi on Friday as 18 people were killed in fresh incidents of firing, DawnNews reported. The violence ensued as firing continued in different parts of the city on Friday. The affected areas include Kharadar, Orangi Town and New Bloody Karachi where several people were rubbed out and many maimed.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
No casualties in US Delta Base in Kut
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Close sources to U.S. forces in Wasit province said today that the rockets directed to their military base west of Kut resulted in no harm for the Americans and Iraqis present there.

The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the Delta military base was targeted yesterday night with three Katyusha rockets, which fell in adjacent areas. He pointed out that the base comprises a number of Iraqi police units, border and air force units, in addition to US forces.

Unknown armed group shelled three rockets towards the base, 7 km west of Kut. Kut, center of Wassit province, lies 180 km south east of the capital, Baghdad.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload". One truck launch and go. Katie's being Russian made are very popular in this area of the world and cheap. Psychological effect but in a group can do allot of damage. Spray and pray then run.
Posted by: Dale || 07/09/2011 14:04 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli police arrest pro-Palestinian activists at Ben Gurion airport
(KUNA) -- Israeli police tossed in the calaboose scores of foreign pro-Paleostinian activists immediately after arrival at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on Friday.

Around 60 activists from several European countries suspected of being pro-Paleostinian have arrived in Ben Gurion airport, the Israeli radio said.

The Israeli police kept the activists in a separate lounge for interrogation, it added.

The airport authorities decided to ban 25 activists from entering Israel, added the radio, and that they would be repatriated to their countries: La Belle France, Belgium, the US, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Repatriated at the expense of the airlines that brought them, according to yesterdy's flotilla roundup. No doubt next time they'll check more carefully...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/09/2011 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  People don't seem to understand that every country has the right (and duty) to control who enters it. You do not have a RIGHT to enter a country unless you are a citizen.
Posted by: Rambler in Virgnia || 07/09/2011 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  they would be repatriated to their countries: France, Belgium, the US, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands

Perhaps they should have been delivered to Gaza, with their luggage repatriated to their countries.

Depend of the kindness of wild dogs strangers, etc.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/09/2011 14:10 Comments || Top||

#4  This kind of people, Rambler, have always operated under the principle "the end justifies the means".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/09/2011 14:27 Comments || Top||


Israel blocks Sierra Leone ship from sailing to Gaza
(KUNA) -- Israel was able to block the Gazoo-bound Juliano ship, carrying a flag of Sierra Leone, from sailing from Greece, Israeli public radio report said on Friday.

The radio said that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman telephoned the President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma and asked him to stop the sailing of the ship.

Lieberman claimed during the conversation that the ship, part of the freedom flotilla II aid campaign to Gazoo Strip, was working "instigating" the situation.

The Israeli radio said that the President answered Lieberman call, ordering the removal of the flag, which allowed Greece authority to stop the ship from sailing.

In recent days, Greek authorities blocked the flotillah II ships from sailing to Gazoo Strip, which is under Israeli siege for the past five years.

Israeli has used tremendous influence on Greece to stop the ships from sailing to Gazoo.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Southeast Asia
Indonesia arrests 11 men over terror plot
[Straits Times] INDONESIA has rounded up 11 terror suspects who planned to launch attacks against police and liberal Mohammedan figures, the national police front man said on Friday.

'They planned to attack police and the JIL office,' Antan Bachrul Alam told news hounds, referring to the liberal Mohammedan group which was the target of a parcel bomb in March which injured four people.

He said they were placed in long-term storage earlier this week in Jakarta and other locations on Java island as part of a four-day operation. More than a dozen firearms were seized along with more than 270 bullets.

The front man said the suspects were suspected of involvement in smuggling weapons into the world's most populous Mohammedan-majority country from the Philippines, through Malaysia.

Police placed in long-term storage 16 terror suspects last month for a plot to poison police personnel with cyanide at station canteens. According to Sherlocks they planned to inject the poison into mineral water bottles.

In the last few months dozens of suspects have been held who are allegedly part of a new thug cell behind a series of recent incidents, including book bombs sent to Mohammedan moderates and counter-terrorism officials.
Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian forces storm suburb, U.S. ambassador in Hama
[Emirates 24/7] Syrian security forces stormed the northern 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...
suburb of Harasta, injuring two people, residents and a human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
group said on Friday, ahead of further protests against 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...
rule.
Overnight, about 300 security personnel entered the suburb, where there have been daily protests demanding political freedoms, and started firing from machineguns mounted on trucks and making house to house arrests, they said.

Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said in a statement that security forces also raided the main hospital in Harasta, a tactic used in similar assaults on cities and towns elsewhere in Syria, and kidnapped three injured protesters "whose lives are now in extreme danger."

Some of the biggest protests against Assad's rule have been staged after Mohammedan prayers on Fridays.

The U.S. ambassador to Syria toured the city of Hama on Thursday to show solidarity with residents facing a security crackdown after weeks of anti-government protests there.

Syria condemned ambassador Robert Ford's visit, which it said went ahead without approval from Damascus, as an attempt to incite escalation in the city where more protests are planned on Friday.
That's actually a pretty gutsy thing to do. Kudos to Mr. Ford.
The U.S. State Department said the U.S. embassy had informed the Syrian government that an embassy team -- without naming Ford -- was travelling to Hama, which residents say is still ringed with tanks, and said Ford hoped to stay until Friday.

"The fundamental intention ... was to make absolutely clear with his physical presence that we stand with those Syrians who are expressing their right to speak for change," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said.

"We are greatly concerned about the situation in Hama," Nuland told a news briefing in Washington.

The city was the scene of a 1982 massacre which came to symbolise the ruthless rule of the late President Hafez al-Assad and has staged some of the biggest protests in 14 weeks of demonstrations against his son Bashar.

Residents blocked streets with burning tyres on Thursday, trying to keep out busloads of security forces, and dozens of families decamped to a nearby town, an activist and a resident said.

Rami Abdelrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said two men were found dead on a bridge leading out of Hama towards the industrial city of Homs.

Tanks were deployed around the outskirts of Hama this week after tens of thousands of people rallied in a central square last Friday demanding Assad's departure, the culmination of a month of growing protests in the city.

Protesters were exploiting an apparent security vacuum in the city after Assad's forces pulled back following the killing of at least 60 protesters on June 3.

Assad sacked the Hama provincial governor on Saturday. Security forces swept in on Monday and activists say at least 26 people have been killed in a wave of arrests and shootings, but the tanks have stayed outside the city. Residents say water and electricity supplies have been cut.
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13 Dead, 40 Hurt in Syria: Half a Million Flood Hama amid Demos in Central Damascus
[An Nahar] At least 13 Syrian protesters were killed and 40 others maimed on Friday across the country as nearly half a million people demonstrated in the protest hub of Hama, activists said.

Rami Abdul Rahman, chief of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that at least 450,000 Syrians rallied after Friday prayers in Hama under the banner "No to dialogue" with 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...
's regime.

The Hama demonstrators reiterated their "refusal to dialogue with the regime and called for its fall," he said.

Opposition activists speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse separately by telephone reported five deaths in the city of Homs, two in the capital's commercial neighborhood Midan and six in the area of al-Damir, east of 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...
.

Both the American and French ambassadors to Syria visited Hama on Thursday, and the regime on Friday accused U.S. envoy Robert Ford of meeting "saboteurs" in Hama and inciting anti-Assad protests.

"The US ambassador met with saboteurs in Hama ... who erected checkpoints, cut traffic and prevented citizens from going to work," the interior ministry said in a statement.

"The ambassador incited these saboteurs to violence, to demonstrate and to refuse dialogue," with the government, it added.

In Gay Paree, foreign ministry front man Bernard Valero said La Belle France's envoy went to Hama "to show La Belle France's engagement with the victims, the civilian population."

The Syrian Observatory said at least 24 people were maimed on Friday in the central city of Homs when security forces fired on demonstrators to disperse them, saying that "some people were gravely maimed."

Elsewhere, security forces used live rounds against protesters in the coastal city of Banias.

"Protesters left the mosques in the southern districts of the city and dozens were incarcerated," Abdul Rahman said.

Further north on the coast, in Latakia, more than 1,000 protesters were dispersed as they left Al-Rahman mosque, an activist there told AFP.

"Armed security services came in more than 20 cars, dispersed the protesters and incarcerated some of them," the activist said.

In 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...
, a regime stronghold, "thousands of people rallied at Seif al-Dawla and Salaheddine. They were attacked by security forces and a pro-regime militia," a witness told AFP.

Protests also took place in Saqba and Jdeidet Artuz, while 7,000 protesters filed through Qatana north of Damascus, activists said.

In the northern town of Raqqa, "security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse protesters, at least one of whom was hurt," said an activist who requested anonymity.

Thousands also marched in Syria's Kurdish regions.

Between 4,000-5,000 erupted into the streets of Qamlishi, as did thousands more in Amuda, expressing solidarity with Hama and calling for the fall of the regime, rights activist Radif Mustafa said.

Before Friday's protests, the Facebook group Syrian Revolution 2011 had urged "No to dialogue: What dialogue (is possible) when blood has been spilled, while the towns are besieged? The people want the fall of the regime."

It added: "No to dialogue with the assassins, the still-warm blood of the deaders is calling us. We are legitimacy ... dialogue with the regime is useless."

Residents of Hama and Homs staged a general strike ahead of Friday's protests, according to Abdul Rahman, while Syrian Revolution 2011 called for the boycotting of businesses that trade with Assad's regime.

"Don't pay for the bullets that are being used to kill us", the group urged its online followers, also calling on activists to march on the Turkish border on July 16 in support of "the refugees, exiles and victims" of the unrest.

Rights groups say that more than 1,300 civilians have been killed and 10,000 people incarcerated by security forces since mid-March when the anti-government protests erupted.

Posted by: Fred || 07/09/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  That video of a tank that ran over people in Homs (Homa) will probably get much attention. May be the magic straw to break baby Assad (iranian whore).
Posted by: newc || 07/09/2011 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, that's a titillating comment to post...with no associated link to the video in question.
Posted by: gromky || 07/09/2011 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Best I could find was this from May. Not a lot of views. Must not be broadcast quality.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/09/2011 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Good thing for the protesters in Hama that they are dealing with Baby Assad and not his father. IIRC Daddy killed about 10000 protesters.
Posted by: Rambler in Virgnia || 07/09/2011 10:23 Comments || Top||



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