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Profiles in Courage
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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Gloria Dickson aka Sybil Hale in "They Won't Forget" aka Peggy in "They Made Me a Criminal" aka Dolly Baxter in "Lady of Burlesque" aka Ann Stacey in "Waterfront" aka Cleo Arden in "The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine" aka Florence Bertrand in "This Thing Called Love" aka Tina Martin Deribault in "King of the Lumberjacks" aka Jerry Sullivan in "Tear Gas Squad" (Died in 1945 at age 27)
[Iran Press TV] United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... health officials have warned of serious cholera outbreaks in various regions of the already famine-stricken Somalia.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says some 4,272 cases of acute watery diarrhea have been recorded in the capital Mogadishu so far this year.
The agency says more than 180 people have already fallen victim to the disease in Mogadishu and surrounding areas and that half of the victims are children under the age of two.
The UN has warned that the deadly illness could quickly spread to the south as many possible carriers flee the famine that's hit some 12.5 million people in the Horn of Africa.
The United Nations has called for more money, saying it has only received 48 percent of the requested 2.4 billion dollars for humanitarian aid and that lack of funding is hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... Iran has sent a second humanitarian aid convoy to drought-stricken Somalia. Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the country also plans to donate 25-million dollars to help with relief efforts.
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[Al Jazeera] Libya's opposition fighters are continuing their push to capture a strategic oil terminal in Brega, which is still in control of forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy. ...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule... The rebels took over the residential zone of New Brega, located about 15km from the central oil terminal and port area, on Thursday.
Mohammed Zawawi, the opposition front man, told the Rooters news agency on Friday it was still not safe to go into the city.
"Now we are trying to clear that area. There are some Qadaffy troops still there," Zawawi said.
Troops loyal to Qadaffy are holding onto the oil facilities and firing rockets at rebel positions. At least eight rebel fighters have been killed and another 25 maimed in the latest fighting.
"There's close fighting in the oil terminal area this morning, but maybe we can finish it off today," Mohammad Muftah, a rebel soldier, said.
In Brussels, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... operations report said that, among other targets in the country, air strikes had hit an armed vehicle, a multiple rocket launcher and an artillery piece in the vicinity of Brega on Thursday.
The two sides have been battling for months for control of the port, 750km east of Tripoli.
Rebels hope that by taking complete control of the city, its oil terminal and sea port will allow them to resume oil exports.
Capture of Tawurgha
On the western front, opposition commanders said they had control of the town of Tawurgha as they push to cut supply routes to forces loyal to Qadaffy. In a symbolic show of victory, fighters tore down green flags that had been hoisted atop buildings by Qadaffy supporters who had occupied the area.
"Qadaffy is finished!" shouted a jubilant 31-year-old fighter named Mohammed. "There is no way back. We have taken Tawurgha!"
The rebels encountered heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
and sizeable pockets of resistance among a maze of buildings and date palms. Rebel commanders said there were still some snipers inside the town and bombardments were now coming from a village south of the town.
Further south along the main road, truck after truck of rebel fighters pressed forward to new positions, as heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
continued.
Al Jizz's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Tawurgha, said it was a heavily co-ordinated operation with NATO, with six tanks involved.
"Fighting is going on in the old quarter of the town where Qadaffy forces are still putting up some resistance," he said. "Opposition fighters have been searching houses one after the other with green flags.
"Many, many Qadaffy forces have been jugged in areas surrounding the town to try to secure the area to stop Grad missiles from being fired on Misrata from here.
"Their other objective is to try to cut supply line to Qadaffy stronghold of Sirte."
The citizens of Misrata have blamed forces in Tawurgha for many of the attacks on their hometown.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... a captured Qadaffy intelligence officer has said that the Libyan leader has reinforced Zawiyah, which also has a coastal oil refinery, with about 1,000 conscripts.
Brigadier-General Al-Hadi al-Ujaili predicted the rebels would face a hard fight to capture the town. He said Qadaffy still enjoys strong support in Tripoli and among Libya's main tribes, which he said was crucial.
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[Yemaen Post] People and popular committees in Yemen's southern Abyan province locked away 15 Al-Qaeda cut-throats while planning to carry out terrorist and destructive attacks in Lawder city, Saba reported on Thursday.
Citing a security source in the city, the official news agency said that the arrests took place after the suspects put a bomb inside the car of member of one of the popular committees to blow up the hospital where the car was parked.
Goodness -- that's not very nice at all.
The people suspected the 15, locked away them and then contacted a military camp in the area which sent experts to defuse the bomb, it added.
Fifteen adults locked in a private Yemeni prison? It's enough to make one yearn for the hospitable mustache waxes and Number Seven truncheons of a Turkish prison.
The army has been battling Al-Qaeda or the Sharia supporters for months in Abyan and lately the tribes supported the army retaking cities from Orcs and similar vermin and leaving many of them killed, injured and locked away.
When the popular uprising started in Yemen six months ago, Al-Qaeda declared Abyan as an Islamic emirate retaking several cities and waging war against the army.
But the government responded quickly, as local skeptics said that there is no Al-Qaeda in the south and what is happening in Abyan remained a game amid the escalating protests seeking the ouster of the regime.
Meantime, the overall situation in Yemen has raised concerns that Al-Qaeda can exploit the political vacuum and expand its presence and operations in the country and pose threats to Yemen's neighbors and friends.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Five suspected robbers were killed in a shootout with a Rapid Action Battalion team in the capital's Uttara last night, Rab said.
Rab-1
The original Rab, the one which set the pattern for all the rest. Pause for a moment of awe and appreciation before we continue our tale.
personnel locked away two suspects.
"Hey! Mahmoud! Achmed! Why don't youse come wit us? Real peaceful like."
Commander M Sohail, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, told The Daily Star that a Rab team deployed to ensure security to Eid shoppers challenged the gang
"Yeah, you, little boys, we're talkin' to you!"
in Sector-13 of Sonargaon Janapath.
It's the capitol of the country, so Google Maps can probably get you there without unfolding the football field-sized monstrosity we usually need to find these places.
Sohail claimed that the gang opened fire on the team around 8:45pm
They sure do things differently in the big city. Out in the upazillas, miscreants haven't even awakened at that time.
triggering the shootout.
Bad move in response to a little RAB trash talk...
"Five of the criminals were rubbed out at two places near Mascot Plaza, two others were jugged and five firearms--two revolvers, two pistols, a pipe gun--five bullets and a machete were recovered from their possession," said Sohail.
*sigh*. The Rab-1 are too sophisticated for rounds of bullet any more.
The identities of the dead and the jugged could not be ascertained immediately, he said.
The former don't matter and the latter will soon join them...
Narrating the one sided fire fight, the Rab director said,
"At the bottom of the third, it's RAB 5, Hoods 0"
"Two of the criminals were killed in the first phase of the battle when the Rab personnel challenged the criminals...
"As cohorts of the criminals tried to save their partners in crime,
by spraying fire indiscriminately...
the second phase of the shootout ensued in which three suspects were killed."
"By the numbers, guys, always by the numbers. We have a reputation to maintain."
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Rab-1 is branching out! It's no longer killing one criminal at a time, but taking out whole gangs. Who knows, Bangladesh MIGHT even become a peaceful nation someday. Unpopulated, but peaceful.
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I'm concerned that this time shift may impact prime time TV ratings; such boffo shows as "Leave it to Allah" where burkah clad June submits to her husband while the al-Beav scores again.
Or "Monster Mosque" where Jesse-al-James bolts high explosives to a donkey cart and conceals them as fresh zuccini.
Authorities in Dagestan say two police officers were killed by gunmen who attacked them during Friday prayers at a mosque. A fire chief was killed in a separate shooting.
Vyacheslav Gasanov, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry, said the two policemen were killed at a mosque in the town of Khasavyurt, near the border with Chechnya. He said the assailants drove up to the mosque as worshippers were leaving after prayers and opened fire.
In the village of Kurush near Khasavyurt, the local fire chief died when shots were fired at his vehicle from a moving car early Saturday.
[Al Jazeera] A Dutch court has sentenced five Somali pirates to periods ranging from four to seven years for their role in abducting two South Africans off a yacht in the Seychelles last year.
"During the attack on the [yacht] Choizil, extreme violence was used," said Judge Jacco Janssen at a hearing held in the southern Dutch port city of Rotterdam on Friday.
"The crew thought their last hour had arrived," he added.
Omar Ali Abdallah, 24, was sentenced to seven years, while Sadag Ali Ibrahim, 20, received a six-year jail term for the attack on the South African yacht.
The three other men, including the pirate group's 23-year-old leader, were sentenced to between four-and-a-half and five-and-a-half years for complicity to piracy.
The five accused pirates were part of a group of 20 people picked up by a Dutch navy supply ship off the Somali coast in late November last year, and were transferred to the Netherlands on December 5.
Fifteen others were released due to a lack of evidence.
Piracy on the rise
"The number of piracy attacks and hijacking of ships along the Somali coastline has increased substantially over the last few years," Janssen said, adding the route along the coast was one of the busiest in the world.
"The free movement of freight, raw materials and fuels are more and more in peril. This could have global economic implications," he said.
"Pirates have also notably become more professional, more violent and more reassured in their deeds. The motive is clear: it brings in enormous amounts of money."
The couple named by South African media as Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz are still being held by Somali pirates at an unknown location, with a $10m ransom being asked for their release, Dutch prosecutors said.
A statement on Friday from the Rotterdam court said the judges dismissed arguments that the suspects were driven to piracy by poverty and famine.
Two decades of anarchy have allowed pirates to flourish off Somalia's coasts.
Some of the captured pirates have been extradited to other countries for prosecution.
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The U.S. Embassy identified the victim as Warren Weinstein. A man by that name serves as the Pakistan country director for J.E. Austin Associates, a development contractor that works with the aid arm of the American government, according to a profile on the LinkedIn networking website. Weinstein is based in Lahore and has been in Pakistan for seven years. Calls to the company headquarters in Virginia were not immediately answered, but its website describes Weinstein as a development expert with 25 years experience and a Ph.D. in international law and economics.
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Hmmmm, the kidnapped American's last name is Weinstein ....... sounds Jewish. Kidnapping and/or killing a Jewish American, that's hitting the Islamic trifecta. Triple points for Jew killing.
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I too was wondering exactly which company was his employer...
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well they were providing "aid" so i'm guessing the company was subsidized byt he US paxpayer!PPl in this country are ahving a hard time making ends meet so why not supply these asshats with food and medical care.
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well they were providing "aid" so i'm guessing the company was subsidized byt he US paxpayer!
Well the "a development contractor that works with the aid arm of the American government" might have been a clue...
ISLAMABAD: In a landmark judgment on Friday, an anti-terror court sentenced to death a soldier who shot dead an unarmed youth as he was begging for mercy.
This just about pegged the Surprise Meter, though the whole incident was caught on videotape and the average chumbalones in Pakistain were actually paying attention. I still thought the perps would either walk or get a wrist-slap.
Five other soldiers and a civilian who were present during the June killing in a park in the southern city of Karachi were also convicted of murder and handed life sentences.
Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso told the seven accused they were guilty of murder and read out the verdicts. Khoso pronounced the verdict before the anti-terrorism court in Karachi, finding 35-year-old Shahid Zafar guilty of pulling the trigger, and sentenced him to death and a fine of 200,000 rupees ($2,300).
"The crime of killing Sarfraz Shah has been proved against you and I announce the death sentence and also impose a fine of 200,000 rupees," said Khoso, addressing Zafar.
He handed life terms to five other paramilitary soldiers and a civilian who had accused Shah of robbery and dragged him over to them. The judge ordered each to pay 100,000 rupees to the victim's family. The verdict concludes a swift trial after the seven defendants were charged with murder and terrorism on June 29, just weeks after the killing.
The June 8 killing of Sarfaraz Shah in Karachi, was caught on videotape and repeatedly broadcast on TV, triggering unusual public anger at the country's powerful military. It sparked a backlash over the brutality of trained officers in a country awash with violence blamed on the Taleban and Al-Qaeda. Lawyers said it marked the first time that a civilian court in Pakistan has sentenced to death a serving member of the military.
Although the Rangers paramilitary technically comes under the supervision of the interior ministry, it is considered part of the powerful armed forces, which has ruled the country for more than half its existence.
There was a euphoric reaction from the prosecution and the victim's family, but the defense vowed to appeal the sentences. "The decision is historic, it shows no one is above the law," government Prosecutor Mohammed Khan Buriro told reporters.
"The Rangers as an institution was not involved in the murder, and it proved in the court proceedings it was the culprits' own act," he said. "My family is extremely relieved with the verdict. We have got justice," said Salik Shah, brother of the victim.
Speaking to the media after the court's verdict, slain Sarfaraz Shah's brother Salik Shah said he was satisfied with the decision and thanked the chief justice of Pakistan for taking notice of this case.
Sarfaraz Shah's father said the decision was on merit and it should be upheld by the superior courts and implemented. "God listened to our prayers, we spent the last two months crying," he added.
Human Rights Watch welcomed the verdicts. "One hopes that the verdict will go some way in arresting the impunity with which Pakistan's trigger-happy security and paramilitary agencies perpetrate abuses," said Ali Dayan Hasan, the group's Pakistan director.
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[Dawn] A would-be jacket wallah and two of his handlers were killed and a jihad boy commander was injured in a clash with Adezai Qaumi Lashkar and police in a suburban area of a provincial metropolis on Thursday morning.
It was a successful operation against jihad boys, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Sajjad Khan. He said that volunteers of lashkar and police potted two jihad boys, one of them a would-be suicide bomber, during a joint action.
Two faceless myrmidons were killed on the spot and two others injured in the clash but one of the injured died in the nearby semi-tribal region after fleeing the area, said Dilawar Khan, the head of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar.
"However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the most wanted jihad boy commander Jangrez managed to escape in injured condition," he said. He added that they received information that he reached Pakho Parezi area of FR Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. "He is at death's door due to intense
bleeding," he claimed.
The deputy head of the lashkar, Fazal Malik, said that following information about entry of jihad boy commander Jangrez in the area, their volunteers were deployed at different points and link roads to check movement of terrorists.
"Two motorcars of gun-hung tough guys entered the area. One of them crossed the area and the second one was stopped but faceless myrmidons opened firing on us," he said and added that two faceless myrmidons were killed and two others including the commander were maimed in their retaliatory firing.
He said that blood stains showed that the maimed terrorist came out of the motorcar through front window and beat feet. "We cordoned off the entire area but he entered maize crop and then decamped towards the Pakho Parezi area of Frontier Region of Peshawar," Mr Malik said.
The vehicles, he said, entered the area from Akakhel via Matani but security agencies intercepted their phone calls and continuously monitored their movement. The jihad boy while sitting inside the maize field also talked to his accomplices in the tribal region. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... he managed to escape, he added.
"We recovered one Kalashnikov and one hand grenade from the motorcar and took the vehicle bearing registration number LRH-1982 into custody," he said. He added that police had brought sniffer dogs to chase the fleeing jihad boy but the dogs avoided following his footprints despite blood stains.
Mr Malik said that heavy contingents of police were posted in the area following reports about entry of jihad boys. Similarly, he said, personnel of security forces also arrived to support volunteers and police. He said that a suicide kaboom by a woman in Peshawar further complicated the situation. He said that he barred stranger women from entering his residence.
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[Dawn] Gunmen on Friday ambushed police ferrying terror suspects to dental treatment on a university campus,
Dental treatment? Surely there's time enough for such things -- on the government dime, no less -- after convictions have been obtained.
killing three officers and driving off with the detainees, police said. The detainees included a Taliban capo.
The attack happened at the University of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar where police had taken the detainees from the northwestern city's central jail.
"They were taken to hospital for a dental check-up. The gunnies fired at them when they returned from the hospital," Peshawar police chief Imtiaz Altaf said.
"The prisoners were nabbed under terrorism charges. The gunnies came on two cycle of violences and a car, and beat feet with them after killing three coppers and injuring one," said police official Mohammed Ijaz.
Security officials told AFP on condition of anonymity that eight to 10 gunnies had been lying in wait outside the dental college.
The really cool cats hang out by the clinic, man.
Peshawar, a teeming city of 2.5 million, is on the front line of a Taliban insurgency and borders Pakistain's tribal belt that Washington calls the global headquarters of Al Qaeda.
And clearly they are on the cutting edge of dental hygiene, as well.
On Thursday, a female suicide kaboomer and a separate handcart bomb also targeted police in the city, killing seven people in the first deadly attacks on the northwest during the month of Ramazan.
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I'm a firm believer in more conventional sabotage operations. I was once assured by an EOD NCO that he and his companions had a standing wager for the theoretical neutralization of a major metropolitan area with under $500 worth of "homemade" explosives.
They would select a random target city in the world, then scheme how they could grind it to a halt on a budget, by taking out key parts with small amounts of explosive.
There was a very good reason for them to do this wager, as they figured that others could reach the same conclusions in an educated sabotage operation, and that they, the EOD, would be tasked with neutralizing that threat.
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Too true Moose. I recall thinking on the afternoon of 9/11/01 exactly how easy it would be to do this to the large city where I live.
Even worse, you could do this with no immediate loss of life, but "neutralize" or otherwise make life very difficult if not wholly uninhabitable for a pretty lengthy period.
Is it too much to hope that DOD has all these plans shelved alongside the invasion maps for Canada, Belize, Antarctica and the Moon?
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When I was in, the toe-popper contained 1/3 oz of octol. Who says old guys have lousy memories. When it counts....
But if you take a toe-popper and....
Never mind.
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[Dawn] USAID is halting humanitarian assistance to the Gazoo Strip over alleged meddling by the radical Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, a US official said on Friday.
"We deeply regret that USAID-funded partner organizations operating in Gazoo are forced by Hamas's actions to suspend their assistance work," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"USAID assistance programs were put on hold effective August 12," he added.
"Hamas, through a series of measures it has imposed over the past months, has created an environment which jeopardises the ability of non-governmental organizations to provide assistance to Gazoo's most vulnerable residents," the official said.
He said all US partner organizations would suspend their activities funded by the United States until these are able "to operate without interference or harassment from Hamas."
Another official in Washington said he understood that Hamas has been demanding access to physically search files and records of NGOs, which would be unprecedented.
Hamas, which controls the Gazoo Strip, insisted on Friday that it should be able to verify the accounts of NGOs financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Paleostinian territories.
"The minister of interior of the government of Hamas intends to exercise its legal rights in the surveillance of all institutions operating in Gazoo," front man Taher al-Nunu said.
He complained that "USAID refuses to recognise the government in Gazoo," adding that anyone who "wishes to work in Paleostinian territory must obey its laws."
A similar row was underway in Cairo where a notorious Egyptian intelligence apparatus is probing foreign funding of civil society groups sparking tensions between Washington and Egypt's ruling generals, judicial sources said.
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"auditing" foreign-funded NGO's? Thieves and dirtbags. Paleo-Scum
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"Thieves and dirtbags"....I think that just about covers it.
Let's give a country to these people and encourage Moslem Values. Oh, you might say the Moslems are peaceloving and their pious and noble Religion has been highjacked by
"radical militants"? Pull my finger.
Islam is not your friend. And having a middle name like Hussein is just another way to say you were a sucker if you are thinking people named that can be your friend.
Barack is Arabic for "Stick 'em up." The word Obama, however, is an African term for "polish my curly toed slippers with the oil on your nose."
Let's all be tolerant and multi-cultural. Joan Baez does a tre- fabulous version of "Kumbaya". Gently swaying and looking up at the Messiah. While the vision of the Greek Columns are flowing like pale near beer across the vistas of your Liberal grandmother's paisley shawl.
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GAZA CITY (AFP) -- Hamas and the US Agency for International Development have reached a compromise to maintain the flow of aid, a senior Hamas official said Saturday.
"We've reached a compromise with USAID through the United Nations" to allow the continuation of aid, which was suspended by Washington on Friday, the official of the Islamist movement controlling the Palestinian enclave told AFP.
Hamas, as a result of the agreement, renounces for a "three-month period" its demand to verify the accounts of NGOs financed by the US Agency for International Development in the Palestinian territories, he said.
[Straits Times] Three Indonesian soldiers tried over the killing of a Papuan priest were sentenced to up to 15 months in jail for insubordination, a military official said on Friday.
'The sentences were appropriate,' a military front man said.
'The men were investigated through a process that was in accordance with military criminal law.'
Indonesia is often criticised by human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups for failing to punish military personnel responsible for killings and abuses of civilians in the eastern Papua region.
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Priest = Catholic, Indonesia = Muslim. This has been ongoing (persecution of Christians) down there for a while. I know Bishop Steve down there, and things have been getting worse in many areas as the Indonesians try to displace the natives, and kill off or intimidate the Christians.
[An Nahar] Military Tribunal Judge Saqr Saqr pressed charges on Friday against unknown individuals suspected of being involved in the blast that took place in Antelias on Thursday.
The suspects are charged with taking part with the victims, Hassan Nassar and Ihsan Diya, in preparing a bomb and detonating it in a parking lot in Antelias on Thursday.
A blast rocked the town of Antelias on Thursday, killing two people who were in possession of an bomb.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told cabinet that the kaboom was a result of a financial and personal dispute between several people, including some car dealers.
He stressed that the probe hasn't revealed that a political or another known figure was targeted.
Security forces are searching for a third person who is involved in the financial dispute, the minister said.
"Our investigation so far does not point to an act of sabotage," he told news hounds.
Sabotage, no. Attempted murder, yes.
Charbel told Voice of Leb radio station 100.5 on Friday that the victims most probably tried to plant the explosives device in the vehicle of a third person who owes them money.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces opened fire Friday killing 18 people as thousands of anti-regime protesters poured onto streets of flashpoint cities after the Ramadan weekly prayers, rights activists said.
Undaunted, protesters also erupted into the streets after the Tarawih evening prayers in several suburbs of the capital 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... and in Homs, Deir Ezzor, Latakia, Hasakeh, Daraa and many other regions.
Friday's operations come in defiance of warnings by the United States that Syria will face further sanctions if it does not stop killing protesters.
A man was rubbed out in an early morning assault on the Damascus suburb of Saqba while a woman died when troops opened fire during a dawn raid in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwestern Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
As thousands poured out of mosques after the noon prayers in the central city of Hama, security forces opened fire, killing a civilian and wounding three others, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
Hama has been the scene of some of the bloodiest festivities since an uprising began mid-March against the authoritarian rule of 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... . At least 100 people died when troops backed by tanks stormed the city on July 31, the eve of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan.
State television streamed images showing Assi Square -- nerve center of protests in Hama -- as completely empty, saying: "Life is back to normal in Assi Square, there are no armed forces."
Another man died in sniper fire Friday near a mosque in Homs, another central city which has witnessed relentless bloodletting in past weeks.
And a man was killed in Deir Ezzor, rights activists at the scene told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Security forces also opened fired against demonstrators in two neighborhoods on the outskirts of Damascus -- Harasta and Douma -- where they killed two people and maimed five others, the Observatory reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... Syrian television said "two security agents were rubbed out by gunnies in Douma."
Security forces encircled the Damascus neighborhood of Qaboun in a bid to prevent demonstrations after Friday prayers.
"They came in large numbers into Qaboun, shutting down the neighborhood and encircling the mosques," the Observatory said.
Protests were also staged in the coastal city of Latakia while in the eastern Mediterranean city of Banias troops circled mosques in a bid to prevent protests taking place, the Observatory said.
The protests are in response to a call by Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind the anti-regime protests, for "no-kneeling" mass demonstrations after the weekly prayers.
"We only kneel before God," the group said on its Facebook page, also urging Syrians to pursue anti-regime rallies throughout Ramadan, which started August 1, saying "every day in Ramadan is a Friday."
At least 16 people were killed in a crackdown on dissent in other hubs of protest across Syria on Thursday, according to rights activists.
The Observatory said a total of 2,150 people have been confirmed dead since the protests began, including 1,744 civilians and 406 members of the security forces.
As the West grapples with ways to pressure Damascus into ending the bloodletting, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ... urged China, Russia and India on Thursday to weigh in against Assad's regime.
In an interview with CBS News, she suggested that China and India impose energy sanctions on Syria, and urged Russia to stop selling arms to Damascus, which has bought weapons from Moscow for decades.
"What we really need to do to put the pressure on Assad is to sanction the oil and gas industry. And we want to see Europe take more steps in that direction," Clinton said.
"And we want China to take steps with us. We want to see India, because India and China have large energy investments inside of Syria. We want to see Russia cease selling arms to the Assad regime."
Clinton's comments came as U.S. officials said Washington has decided to call explicitly for Assad to step down.
Ignoring the growing international outrage, Assad pledged this week a relentless battle against "terrorist groups" Damascus says are fomenting a popular uprising across Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford personally warned Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Thursday that Syria will face further sanctions if it does not stop killing protesters.
Ford, who returned to Damascus last week after consultations in Washington, also urged Syria's top diplomat to ensure journalists can cover the protests.
As part of the crackdown, Abdul Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights since 2004 and a key source of information for international media, was tossed in the slammer on Thursday, activists said.
La Belle France condemned Rihawi's arrest.
"The arrest of Mr. Abdul Karim Rihawi ... constitutes another unacceptable decision by the authorities in Damascus and goes directly against the expectations of the international community," the foreign ministry said in Gay Paree on Friday.
"Mr. Abdul Karim Rihawi must be released immediately," the statement said.
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