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[Dawn] International military forces in Afghanistan handed over control of a peaceful province in the centre of the country to Afghan police on Sunday, taking another step in a transition that will allow foreign troops to withdraw in full by the end of 2014.
Bamiyan province is one of seven areas going to Afghan security control this month in a first round of the transition. Another, Panjshir province in the east, began being transferred earlier this month. Both places have seen little to no fighting since the overthrow of the Taliban nearly 10 years ago and barely had any coalition troop presence.
Violence has increased in other parts of Afghanistan since the Taliban began an offensive in April. Afghan and 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... troops killed at least 13 Taliban fighters in the east on Sunday, and three NATO troops were killed in roadside kabooms.
The transition to Afghan control will allow international military forces to slowly start withdrawing from Afghanistan until all combat troops are gone in just over three years.
Bamiyan only had a small foreign troop contingent from New Zealand. Bamiyan and Panjshir are the only two provinces that will be handed over in their entirety during this month's transition phase.
Other areas to be handed over are the placid provincial capitals of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, Herat in the west, Mazer-e-Sharif in the north and Mehterlam in the east. Afghan forces will also take control of all of Kabul province except for the restive Surobi district.
Not all residents of Bamiyan were happy with the handover decision, which they said had resulted in increased violence in the province by snuffies seeking to make the Afghan government look bad.
"From my point of view, but also the point of view of many in Bamiyan, the transition that occurred today was not a good idea at all," said Bamiyan politician Abdul Rahman Shaheedani. "People are very concerned about security in Bamiyan right now.
When several months ago they announced the areas where the first phase of transition would occur, and named Bamiyan, hard boy activities increased."
In Sunday's fighting, Afghan and NATO troops fought an overnight gunbattle with the Taliban and called in an air strike on the building where the fighters were holed up. At least 13 Taliban were killed.
Captain Justin Brockhoff, a front man for the coalition, said the overnight operation targeted a Taliban leader in the Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... province. Afghan and coalition troops came under fire and the Taliban refused requests to come out of the building, he said.
The fighting ended on Sunday with a NATO air strike, he said, adding that there were no casualties among civilians or security forces. The Taliban were armed with machine guns, assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
"As Afghan members of the security force attempted to clear the building, they were met with continuing myrmidon fire," Brockhoff said. The coalition and Afghan forces eventually called in an air strike, which "killed several more Islamic fascistiand destroyed the building," he said.
Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for the Nangarhar provincial governor, said the bodies of 13 snuffies had been found so far. He said the building occupied by the Taliban was a school, which was empty because the students are on summer break.
Also on Sunday, NATO said three of its service members died. One was killed by a roadside kaboom in eastern Afghanistan and
two were killed by a similar device in the south.
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[Dawn] General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan and most celebrated military leader of his generation, stepped down on Monday after a checkered year at the helm of what is America's longest war.
At a ceremony in Kabul Petraeus passed the baton to John Allen, a former subordinate who made his name in Iraq by striking tribal alliances considered integral in reversing Al-Qaeda's momentum after years of appalling violence.
Petraeus oversaw a surge of tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan in a last-ditch bid to reverse a nearly 10-year Taliban insurgency and although he has claimed some progress, violence remains at record highs.
He is leaving to head up the CIA, after a week in which Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... saw his younger brother and a key aide assassinated at their homes, and as 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... began transitioning areas of the country to Afghan control.
Washington has now started to draw down troop numbers under a controversial timetable, which Petraeus has admitted he did not recommend, that has attracted widespread criticism for being too fast to hold onto tentative gains.
Celebrated in Washington for turning around the war in Iraq, Petraeus' legacy in Afghanistan, however, has been less clear.
Despite the surge, UN statistics released last week show that 1,462 civilians died in the first six months of 2011, an increase of 15 percent, and putting this year on track to be the deadliest in a decade.
Last Tuesday's killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai, probably the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and younger half-brother of the Afghan president, has also been considered a threat to US gains against the Taliban in Kandahar.
Last night's killing of his senior adviser Jan Mohammad Khan, a former governor of southern Uruzgan province, in a raid on his Kabul home, has also been seen as another loss for the president.
The Taliban grabbed credit for both the killings.
Petraeus took charge in Afghanistan in extraordinary circumstances after US President Barack B.O. Obama sacked his predecessor, Stanley McChrystal, over scathing remarks made to Rolling Stone magazine about the White House administration.
He oversaw his trademark counter-insurgency teachings, which were deemed to have been so successful in Iraq, backed by a buildup of more than 30,000 extra American troops, now due to go home by the end of 2012.
But although the military is seen to have inflicted heavy casualties among the Taliban, particularly in the south, it has struggled to harness a tribal "awakening" of the type so instrumental in Iraq.
One day before Petraeus stepped down, a ceremony was held in central Bamyan province marking the start of a security transition from NATO to Afghan forces, a process that will see the departure of all foreign troops by 2014.
Analysts have already warned that the killing of Wali Karzai may trigger a pie fight for control of the critical southern heartland that could embolden the Taliban and reverse NATO gains.
The killings -- and a Taliban attack on the Intercontinental hotel in the heart of Kabul last month that left 21 dead -- have fuelled doubts about the readiness of Afghans to manage national security.
After nearly 10 years of war, there are still around 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, including nearly 100,000 from the United States.
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I am very curious what he will be like as DCIA.
Most of those sent in to "reform" the CIA fail, as they try to struggle against extremely massive institutional inertia.
But I suspect that if he is wise, he will first reorder his staff in a more C&GS manner. This will result in improved administrative efficiency, which bureaucrats notice and appreciate. This works well as institutional "lubricant", because nothing succeeds like success.
That is, if he first shows he is good for the organization, there will be a lot more willingness to let him make changes. And if they work, then he is golden.
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"Embolden the Taliban + reverse NATO gains" > see also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ESCOBAR: PAKISTAN, NOT AFGHANISTAN, IS US' TOP WAR IN REGION DUE TO QAEDA PRESENCE, PAKISTAN WANTS RETURN OF [pro-Pak]TALIBAN CONTROL IN AFGANISTAN.
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* IIRC WAFF [old = paraph] > US TO RESUME MILITARY AID TO THE TALIBAN - ERRR, PAKISTAN GOVT-ARMY [SAME THING].
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN LeT SUFFER MAJOR BLOW AS [five] TOP COMMANDERS ARE KILLED, to include from the aligned JeM Group after a major gun battle wid combined Army-Police task force in north Kashmir.
* SAME > CIA TO RESUME NORMAL OPERATIONS IN PAKISTAN, after Pak approves 87 new visas for Agency sleuths.
Islamabad = PAK Taliban, + the Pak Taliban = Pakistan Govt-Army, perhaps though exclusive of Mullah Omar's AFGHAN TALIBAN due to the latters pledge of non-intervention in the Pak Taliban's fight agz the US-NATO + "Islamabad" [Political-Govt Taliban]???
AS CLEAR AS DAY, THEY TELL YA, AS CLEAR AS US DEBT IS US$14.33TRILYUHN OR US$14.84TRILYUHN.
[Dawn] The Taliban on Monday claimed the overnight killing of one of Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... key advisers, who died along with a politician in an attack on his home in Kabul.
Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of southern Uruzgan province and a key ally of the embattled president, was killed along with an MP for Uruzgan.
"We killed Jan Mohammad Khan. We made him pay for his deeds," Taliban's front man, Zabihullah Mujahed, told AFP by telephone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location. "We dunnit and we're glad! Glad, I tells yez!"
Khan, a long-standing Karzai ally and key tribal chieftain, was killed in the attack that the interior ministry said was carried out by two assailants.
The gunnies targeted the house late Sunday and a standoff lasted until the early hours of Monday. One police officer and the two assailants were also killed, the interior ministry said.
The liquidation comes less than a week after the president's half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was rubbed out by a close friend at his home in the southern province of Kandahar, in an attack also claimed by the Taliban.
A senior government official speaking anonymously told AFP that Khan's death was a major blow for the US-backed leader.
"He was very close to the president. His death is as important as Ahmad Wali Karzai's death," the official said.
Just hours before Sunday's attack, a ceremony was held in central Bamyan province marking the start of the transition of security duties from 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 to Afghans, a process aimed at leaving the country free of foreign troops by 2014.
Sunday was also the last day in Afghanistan for top US commander General David Petraeus.
Experts say Khan had a reputation for brutality and double-dealing with tribal rivals, falsely accusing some of being Taliban, and Dutch forces taking over Uruzgan operations in 2006 insisted on his removal as governor.
According to the independent website afghan-bios.info, Khan's nephew runs a 3,000-strong militia in Uruzgan that he had inherited from his uncle.
Khan beat feet a previous liquidation attempt on August 4 when a cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! by his convoy in the southern province.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates owned and flagged oil tanker with a crew of 16 people, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's naval force for Somalia said on Monday.
It added that the ship was carrying crew made up of a Sri Lankan, three Bangladeshis, five Indians, four Somalis, a Kenyan, a Sudanese and one crew member from Myanmar.
The 4831 dwt, MV Jubba XX was captured on Sunday morning in the northern Indian Ocean while loaded with oil, on a regular route from UAE to the Somali port of Berbera.
"Little information is available at present but it is reported that nine suspected Somali pirates are on board," the EU force said in a statement.
One fuel trader in Mogadishu said that vessels carrying commodities to the conflict-torn horn-of-Africa nation, were increasingly being targeted by pirates.
"We are very concerned the increasing piracy attacks against our ships," Ahmed Shire, the fuel trader told Rooters by phone.
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[An Nahar] Libya's rebels claimed control of Brega on Monday, as most pro-Qadaffy troops retreated westward leaving around 150-200 loyalist fighters pinned down inside the oil town, a front man said.
"The bulk of (Moammar) Qadaffy's forces have retreated to Ras Lanuf," rebel front man Shamsiddine Abdulmolah told Agence La Belle France Presse, referring to another oil hub some 50 kilometers to the west.
Abdulmolah added that the remnants of Qadaffy's troops were holed up among industrial facilities in Brega with supplies dwindling.
"Their food and water supplies are cut and they now will not be able to sleep," said Abdulmolah as the latest battle for Brega entered its fifth day.
"It's a matter of time before they come to their senses, we hope to prevent some bloodshed."
Taking the town would be a major rebel victory, boosting morale and recapturing infrastructure vital to Libya's economic future.
Brega is a major center for channeling the pipelines of the oil-rich Sirte Basin to the rest of the world.
Fighters on the ground reported no signs so far that those oil installations have been set on fire or sabotaged, but Abdulmolah said the area has been heavily mined.
Libya's warring armies have been fighting over Brega since Thursday when rebel forces launched a three-pronged attack on the town which has switched hands many times, but which had been under Qadaffy control since April.
Rebel troops approached from the northeast, east and southeast, surrounding Qadaffy's forces and reaching the outskirts of the city's eastern-most tip on Friday before pulling back to allow for 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... bombardments.
Since then it has been a steady advance.
Nestled on the Gulf of Sirte, Brega is made up of three areas, a residential area in the east, a major oil facility in the west and an old town in between.
After a series of military gains were washed away by hasty and badly coordinated advances, rebel commanders were anxious to make sure they have a unified offensive line before their final push.
But the complete occupation of Brega may still have to wait.
"Most of the troops going in right now are anti-mine teams," said Abdulmolah. "We have found an extraordinary number of anti-personnel mines."
He added that the effort to clear the ordnance is being hampered by missile attacks from the village of Bishr around 20 kilometers away.
The rebels hope that a phalanx of their fighters which swept past Brega from the south will soon take out those positions.
"We hope to take Bishr today," said Abdulmolah.
The victory has come at a price. Around 15 rebel fighters have been killed and 274 maimed since the battle began.
The toll on Qadaffy's troops is not known.
In its latest operational update on Monday, NATO reported hitting "nine armed vehicles, two armored fighting vehicles and a command and control node" in the Brega area.
Southwest of Tripoli, Qadaffy's forces fired rockets at rebel positions in Gualish in the Nafusa Mountains and around Bir Ayad, a key junction on the road to Tripoli in the plains below, rebel commanders said.
The rebels responded with rocket fire against the loyalist-held hill town of Asabah, an AFP correspondent reported.
British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... sought to bridge the gap with South African President Jacob Zuma over the conflict in Libya in talks in Pretoria.
Zuma has accused NATO of overstepping its U.N. mandate to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, although South Africa voted for the U.N. resolution that the alliance uses to justify its bombing campaign.
"It is no secret that we have disagreed on some aspects of how to respond to the violence in Libya," Cameron said.
"But we are agreed in the immediate imperative -- that all sides must take every effort to avoid the loss of civilian life," he added.
"And we agree on the ultimate destination that Qadaffy must step aside to allow the people of Libya to decide their own future.
"The president believes that is the outcome of a political process. I believe for a political process to work, this has to be the starting point."
Cameron has called for Qadaffy to step down. South Africa has refused to join in that call, saying the decision should be the outcome of negotiations among the warring parties, not a precondition as demanded by the rebels.
"What happens to Qadaffy must be decided by the Libyan people. You need to negotiate how, why and where he must go," Zuma said.
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"Most of the troops going in right now are anti-mine teams."
It's not like you send out some chump wrapped in a bed mattress with a shovel to de-mine. Can you say "Boots on the ground"?
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It is not true I just got off World Of War Craft Libya edition and all the people sent out to find mines are dead. The Rebels haven't left their strong hold in the East since it started. The French weapons drop ended up in Poland and the Mexicans are invading Ukraine get with it people!
Don't bet on it - TLA. Also a lot of the new leadership either received asylum or had immigrant status in America. We're hip deep and spending more than any other country on Libya, about 4X that of France, even though "we're not actively involved"
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Iff OBL's "Core" Al-Qaeda + Hezbollah have one thing in common wid Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood + Islamist movements, its support for the MB's threat to deny Suez Canal access to foreign shipping doing business or trade wid Israel, espec the "Great Satan" USA.
Now that ex-MB AYMAN ZAWAHIRI has ascended to BFF the late OBL's position as top El Hefe/Supremo for "Core" Al-Qaeda, I expect the above support to continue + for Ayman to work to reduce the ideo differences between Al-Qaeda + MB.
DESPITE THEIR RHETORIC TO THE CONTRARY, I DON'T SEE THE NFZ COALITION + UNO GETTING RID OF UNCLE MUAMMAR UNLESS THEY KNOW WID HIGH CERTAINTY HOW POST-MUBARAK, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD/RADICAL- INFLUENCED EGYPT WILL TURN COME END-OF-SUMMER ELEX.
Barring internal close assasination, death by air strike, or self-resignation/abdication from power, IMO Uncle Muammar is prob safe for another 6-12 months easy.
Police gunned down several rioters who attacked a police station and killed four people in Hotan city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday noon, sources with the Ministry of Public Security said.
Rioters broke into the police station shortly after 12 p.m.. They assaulted the police, took hostages and set fire to the station, according to the ministry.
A member of the armed police, a security personnel and two hostages were killed during the ordeal, the ministry said, adding that another security personnel was severely injured.
The police quickly converged on the scene and shot a number of rioters while freeing six hostages, the ministry said. The injured are currently hospitalized.
The national counter-terrorism office of China has dispatched a working team to Xinjiang.
[An Nahar] At least four people were killed when a crowd attacked a cop shoppe Monday in the latest bout of deadly unrest in China's restive Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The dead included two security officers and two people who had been taken hostage in the incident in the remote city of Hotan, it said.
In a separate report, Xinhua said an unspecified number of attackers had also been killed, but gave no details.
The festivities broke out when a group of people attacked the cop shoppe, took hostages and set fire to the building, the report said, adding that the situation had now been brought under control.
Xinjiang witnessed the worst ethnic violence China has seen in decades in 2009, in festivities between Mohammedan Uighurs and members of the majority Han ethnic group.
The unrest, which lasted for days, was largely fueled by Uighur resentment over China's rule of Xinjiang.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, hundreds of people have been jugged and prosecuted since those riots, with several dozen sentenced to death or executed and many more sentenced to long prison terms.
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IIRC the WUC = World Uighur Congress is disputing the official Govt. casualty toll, arguing that 20 Uighurs were killed by Police, i.e. 14 beaten to death + 6 shot, wid scores wounded or unaccounted for.
Beijing, on its part, is labeling the incident as the work of "terrorists" linked to Uighur, other Central Asian radical separatists.
[Dawn] A court on Monday charged a radical holy man, who once brokered a Taliban peace deal in the Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley, with treason and murder, lawyers said.
Sufi Mohammad, father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of a Taliban insurgency that paralysed the northwestern valley from late 2007 until a military offensive in the spring of 2009, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock two years ago.
He is now set to go on trial in an anti-terrorism court in Swat, held behind closed doors in the a maximum security prison in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar over security fears.
"Today, the court framed murder and treason charges on Sufi Mohammad and his 23 followers," defence lawyer Majeed Adil Majeed told AFP.
"He and his followers broke the law by attacking a cop shoppe, killing 11 people, including nine paramilitary and two coppers, and attacked government buildings, which is treason," Majeed said.
Mohammad has refused to defend himself in court as he does not recognise them and Majeed took on his counsel on orders from the judge.
Arshad Abdullah, law minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, confirmed the indictment.
Fazlullah, who has a 50-million-rupee ($615,000) price on his head, was the architect of an uprising that marked the only time that a district under Pak government control has effectively slipped into hands of the Taliban.
Pakistain security officials say Fazlullah decamped into eastern Afghanistan after the army crushed the Taliban uprising in Swat in 2009.
Under a deal brokered by Mohammad, the Pak government agreed to allow the implementation of Islamic law in Swat once violence had stopped but Talibs led by Fazllulah refused to lay down arms and undermined the deal.
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(KUNA) -- Military front man Ather Abbas here said, Monday, that 15 coppers were kidnapped by Taliban when they attacked their checkpost in Upper Dir district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province last month.
A newly released video, published on LiveLeak website, meanwhile shows the Taliban executing 15 coppers in Pakistain, allegedly for killing six children.
The video shows blindfolded coppers in civilian clothes with their hands tied behind their backs and lined up on a hillside. Masked Talibs opened indiscriminate fire at them, and then shot them in the head individually.
The killing of coppers comes as Pakistain and Afghanistan are launching formal talks to address growing cross-border attacks.
There had been at least five such attacks from hundreds of Afghan-based Taliban on Pak security checkposts in northern districts and tribal agencies. Afghan forces have accused Pak counterparts of firing shells into their territory.
President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... is paying a day-long visit to Kabul on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
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Know your enemy. It's pretty brutal but every American should watch it and see for themselves what these animals do to their own kind. What would they do to those of us they consider farm animals?
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Thanks EP. I forced myself to watch that. I guess these are the Lions of Islam. I'll hug my kids a little extra today and be thankful we don't live in that God forsaken hellhole.
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While this is definitely horrific, it is also instructional. This, is exactly what will be necessary to defeat these animal.
It will also be necessary to employ this sort of ruthlessness to stop the Left from enslaving this nation. In this video, you see evil people killing to enforce their will.
Do not kid yourselves for an instant that the Left would not resort this type of behavior if they get the chance. Remember who they are in bed with.
That's right, exactly these same sorts of people. We must be willing to meet evil head on and use their tactics and solutions to defeat them. Nice, never won crap.
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At least in this video, they made sure they were all dead before they started cutting off heads. I have seen videos otherwise.
(KUNA) -- A group of armed rebels called 'Naxals' killed as many as three villagers, including the head of village, in India's south-western state of Maharashtra on Monday, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI).
The incident occurred in the state's Gadchiroli district.
The Naxals killed the villagers and dumped their bodies in a nearby village. The bodies were found in mutilated conditions. While two of the victims were stoned to death, the village head was killed using firearms, said the report.
The Naxals left a written note near the bodies accusing the dear departed of being police informers. Naxals are active in various Indian states, including Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. They mainly attack government installations, particularly the Police and other security personnel, alleging that the Government does not watch the interests of the landless farmers. They claim to be fighting for the cause of the landless farmers.
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Not the Israeli Navy, dear Reader, but the passengers, whom the ship's captain claims forced him to sail toward Gaza instead of Alexandria, as he'd declared upon leaving Greece. Video at link.
After crew of over a dozen pro-Palestinian activists refuses to divert course away from closed naval blockade of Gaza, IDF soldiers board, commandeer ship with no resistance; yacht will be brought to Ashdod Port
The Israel Navy commandeered and intercepted the Gaza-bound French ship Dignity - Al-Karama after negotiations to persuade 15 pro-Palestinian activists aboard to divert their course away from the Strip's closed naval blockade failed.
Navy soldiers did not encounter any resistance during the interception which resulted after the ship's captain refused to cooperate with the IDF's demand to divert its course to the Ashdod Port, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.
An IDF doctor inspected the passengers and they were transferred to one of the navy ships where they received food and water. The bridge of the Dignity was taken over by navy officers and then began sailing towards the Ashdod Port. The 15 passengers will be transferred to Interior Ministry officials and immigration authorities in Ashdod. They will likely be deported from Israel.
Shortly before the take-over, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz ordered the navy to take control of the yacht as he was overseeing the operation from an underground command center at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv (kirya). Gantz gave the command to Navy Vice Admiral Eliezer Maron who was at sea with the forces.
An IDF source said that during the dialogue with the ship, the captain had claimed that he had been forced by the passengers to sail to Gaza after he had listed to the Port of Alexandria in Egypt as his destination when leaving Greece over the weekend.
The source said that it was likely an attempt by the captain to clear himself of responsibility from sailing for Gaza.
The navy initially warned the crew aboard the vessel that soldiers were preparing to board the yacht after making initial radio contact. The navy instructed the crew not to enter Gaza's closed naval blockade, the IDF said.
"We are getting ready to board the ship, we'll do it calmly," a navy official told the captain of the Dignity.
Activists were offered the legal alternative of reaching Gaza through land crossings, the IDF added.
Three navy ships were on the yacht's left side and another on the right side, activists reported.
After departing from Egypt's Port Said in the direction of Gaza shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the activists expected to reach Gaza by noon, Israeli-Swedish passenger Dror Feiler said, unless they were stopped by the navy.
A defense official on Monday said that the navy was preparing to stop the ship before it reaches the Strip.
The Dignity was carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists. It was part of the Free Gaza Movements flotilla that was canceled earlier this month after Greece refused to allow the ships to leave its ports for the Gaza Strip.
Three navy ships were on the yacht's left side and another on the right side, activists reported.
After departing from Egypt's Port Said in the direction of Gaza shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the activists expected to reach Gaza by noon, Israeli-Swedish passenger Dror Feiler said, unless they were stopped by the navy.
A defense official on Monday said that the navy was preparing to stop the ship before it reaches the Strip.
The Dignity was carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists. It was part of the Free Gaza Movements flotilla that was canceled earlier this month after Greece refused to allow the ships to leave its ports for the Gaza Strip.
Not the Israeli Navy, dear Reader, but the passengers, whom the ship's captain claims forced him to sail toward Gaza instead of Alexandria, as he'd declared upon leaving Greece. Video at link.
After crew of over a dozen pro-Palestinian activists refuses to divert course away from closed naval blockade of Gaza, IDF soldiers board, commandeer ship with no resistance; yacht will be brought to Ashdod Port
The Israel Navy commandeered and intercepted the Gaza-bound French ship Dignity - Al-Karama after negotiations to persuade 15 pro-Palestinian activists aboard to divert their course away from the Strip's closed naval blockade failed.
Navy soldiers did not encounter any resistance during the interception which resulted after the ship's captain refused to cooperate with the IDF's demand to divert its course to the Ashdod Port, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.
An IDF doctor inspected the passengers and they were transferred to one of the navy ships where they received food and water. The bridge of the Dignity was taken over by navy officers and then began sailing towards the Ashdod Port. The 15 passengers will be transferred to Interior Ministry officials and immigration authorities in Ashdod. They will likely be deported from Israel.
Shortly before the take-over, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz ordered the navy to take control of the yacht as he was overseeing the operation from an underground command center at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv (kirya). Gantz gave the command to Navy Vice Admiral Eliezer Maron who was at sea with the forces.
An IDF source said that during the dialogue with the ship, the captain had claimed that he had been forced by the passengers to sail to Gaza after he had listed to the Port of Alexandria in Egypt as his destination when leaving Greece over the weekend.
The source said that it was likely an attempt by the captain to clear himself of responsibility from sailing for Gaza.
The navy initially warned the crew aboard the vessel that soldiers were preparing to board the yacht after making initial radio contact. The navy instructed the crew not to enter Gaza's closed naval blockade, the IDF said.
"We are getting ready to board the ship, we'll do it calmly," a navy official told the captain of the Dignity.
Activists were offered the legal alternative of reaching Gaza through land crossings, the IDF added.
Three navy ships were on the yacht's left side and another on the right side, activists reported.
After departing from Egypt's Port Said in the direction of Gaza shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the activists expected to reach Gaza by noon, Israeli-Swedish passenger Dror Feiler said, unless they were stopped by the navy.
A defense official on Monday said that the navy was preparing to stop the ship before it reaches the Strip.
The Dignity was carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists. It was part of the Free Gaza Movement's flotilla that was canceled earlier this month after Greece refused to allow the ships to leave its ports for the Gaza Strip.
Three navy ships were on the yacht's left side and another on the right side, activists reported.
After departing from Egypt's Port Said in the direction of Gaza shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the activists expected to reach Gaza by noon, Israeli-Swedish passenger Dror Feiler said, unless they were stopped by the navy.
A defense official on Monday said that the navy was preparing to stop the ship before it reaches the Strip.
The Dignity was carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists. It was part of the Free Gaza Movement's flotilla that was canceled earlier this month after Greece refused to allow the ships to leave its ports for the Gaza Strip.
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Thank you for covering for me, Frank. I messed up, and somehow it published itself partway through the process. All fixed now, article-wise, but I'm going to leave the title as it was as a souvenir of the experience. ;-)
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No, shoot them in the legs OR in the arms, THEN let them swim for Gaza.
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strap a bag of concrete to each of their backs so they can bring in some aid when they arrive. i did read that Gaza is suffering from a severe concrete shortage did i not?
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Internet cultural note: Some years ago, there was a children's TV show called "Lazytown", featuring live actors along with muppet-type puppets and musical numbers.
One such musical number caught on with the ruder part of the Internet, and has spawned many mutated iterations.
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Three navy ships were on the yacht's left side and another on the right side, activists reported.
Tugboat Annie Sharpenmad and friends.
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Let them spend 6 months in prison.
I liked Tugboat Annie.
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An IDF source said that during the dialogue with the ship, the captain had claimed that he had been forced by the passengers to sail to Gaza after he had listed to the Port of Alexandria in Egypt as his destination when leaving Greece over the weekend.
Hmmmmmmmm...sounds like kidnapping to me. Charge them with it just to break their balls.
Arrest warrants have been issued for four residents of the Than To district in Thailand's Yala province for their alleged involvement in the May 3 gun assault on a teashop in Bannang Sata district, in which four villagers were killed and 16 wounded.
Bannang Sata police superintendent Colonel Suwat Wongpaiboon said the drive-by shooting at Ban Kasod teashop was related to an earlier incident in which Ban Khiri Khet resident Sombat Pandam was gunned down. Police later asked a court to issue arrest warrants for suspects in Sombat's murder. Suwat said the attack at the teashop reportedly took place in revenge for Sombat's death.
He said police would ask the suspects to turn themselves in after the court issues the warrants for the four Than To suspects, including Peerapol Pandam, 24, whose Isuzu truck was allegedly used in the drive-by.
In another incident, a village defense volunteer was gunned down in an orchard Monday afternoon in Narathiwat province. Yagariya Damae, 32, was fatally shot three times in the chest while he and two friends were pruning fruit trees. Police suspect the murder was part of ongoing terrorism violence in southern Thailand.
[Emirates 24/7] Syrian activists say up to 30 people have been killed in the past 24 hours as tensions between supporters and opponents of 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... went kaboom! into violence.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday the killings started over the weekend after three regime supporters were found dead in Homs, their bodies mutilated.
The observatory and a Syrian activist in Homs put the corpse count at 30 and said they have the names of the victims. Another activist in Homs said he's not certain if the corpse count was as high as 30. He suggested the real number may be about half.
The activists in Homs spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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[An Nahar] Qatar's ambassador to 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... , Zayed al-Khayarine, has quit Syria and the embassy has suspended its work, an official from the Qatari delegation told Agence La Belle France Presse on Monday.
"The diplomats have left Syria and work has been suspended until further notice," the official said, declining to be identified.
He refused to specify the date of the ambassador's departure nor his reasons for leaving.
Qatar had long enjoyed cordial relations with Damascus but recently al-Jazeera, the Doha-based pan-Arab satellite news channel, has come under strong criticism by the Syrian authorities for its coverage of the popular revolt against 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 that erupted in mid-March.
Damascus deems al-Jazeera to be exaggerating the protest movement.
In late April nearly 100 people gathered outside al-Jazeera's Damascus offices, accusing the channel of "lies" and of "exaggeration" in its coverage of the protests.
Official Syrian media regularly accuse foreign news services of using fabricated images and of not verifying their sources in their coverage of the uprising.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan and most celebrated military leader of his generation, stepped down on Monday after a checkered year at the helm of what is America's longest war.
Somali pirates
Qadaffy troops retreated westward leaving around 150-200 loyalist fighters pinned down inside the oil town, a 
David Cameron
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
(KUNA) -- A group of armed rebels called 'Naxals' killed as many as three villagers, including the head of village, in India's south-western state of Maharashtra on Monday, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI).
The source said that it was likely an attempt by the captain to clear himself of responsibility from sailing for Gaza. 
President-for-Life Bashir 
President-for-Life Bashir 
