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[Tolo News] A senior Taliban leader was killed during a joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces operation in northern Faryab province, NATO said.
The operation was launched in Ghormach district of Faryab province, NATO added.
The Taliban leader was identified as Mullah Bahauddin, responsible for planning attacks against Afghan cops and facilitating weapons distribution and suicide-kabooms in the area.
The report said Bahauddin was a key leader in the Taliban hierarchy, working with the Badghis and Ghormach groups.
Bahauddin and his subordinate, who was not identified, were killed during a firefight with the security forces, who also seized their machine gun, grenades, rocket motors and a pistol, NATO added.
The death of Bahauddin raised the number of Taliban members killed in Faryab province to more than 50 since the beginning of this year , according to Isaf.
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I have been reading of these top leaders getting killed for too long. It appears that the Taliban can replace these people.
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It appears that the Taliban can replace these people.
Of course they can, bernardz. But if we can kill them faster than the ISI can train them, the replacements will be of lower caliber. That's what happened in Iraq.
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Yep. Though in Iraq they killed a lot of 'Second' in commands before popping the top guy. Guess the Taliban do more leading at the front. Whether that's because competent subordinates are less available or the structures of communication are less prevalent to support distant direction are just some factors to consider.
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More likely it's a concern about their communciations being intercepted and monitored (hence a tendency to pressure cellphone service providers, including blowing up their towers).
Looks like the boys are back in town... What, you mean the African Union peacekeepers didn't keep the peace? I feel faint, I'd best sit down.
You poor darling. Here, sit next to me on the fainting couch we keep handy for exactly such situations, and I'll bathe your forehead with my handkerchief dipped in cologne until you feel yourself again.
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I am in the wrong business "$3 million to two international non-profit organizations operating in Libya to secure and destroy weapons and munitions" also $1.5m Obama committed in May. In this part of the world they must have people working full time working deals, kick backs,and finders fees. Then the weapons are destroyed. Somebody has deep pockets.
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Now now...is 20K surface-to-air missiles and a little yellow cake floating around the terrorist arms market really too much to pay to save all those...uhem..."civilians" in Bengahzi?
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You need to destroy them where you can and buy them where you can. SA-7s are worthless against modern fighters and other military aircraft, but will take down a big fat 747 or Airbus like nobody's business.
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this smells like a 'funnel money to the "rebels" scam to me'
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I doubt it, abu.
Many of Ghadaffis' hired guns are from places like Mali. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that they're an endangered species. It wouldn't be all that hard to break into the armories, load up a vehicle or two, and escape.
Or you're a Libyan ordnance officer that knows he won't see that retirement check from Uncle Mo now.
[Emirates 24/7] Muammar Qadaffy's ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... son Al-Saadi liked fast cars, yachts and soccer, and his beachfront villa was stocked with his expensive toys. His sister Aisha lived in a two-story mansion with an indoor pool and sauna.
As rebels took control of the Libyan capital over the weekend, the luxurious homes, symbols of the Qadaffy family's excesses, were among their first targets. After driving out the guards, rebels trashed and looted the villas and neighbors wandered through the wreckage Wednesday expressing their anger at the Qadaffy family's wealth and ostentatious tastes.
"I can't even believe what I am seeing," said Muftah Shubri, a resident of Tripoli's western Nofleen neighborhood, as he walked across Aisha's lawn to the large covered pool where a ball and a small rubber boat still floated in the water.
In recent years, the Qadaffy offspring had been involved in a series of scandals: Hannibal got tossed in the slammer in 2008 in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... for mistreating his servants in a Geneva luxury hotel and Muatassim reportedly paid $1 million for a private New Year's concert by Beyonce.
Al-Saadi, a 38-year-old soccer aficionado, was described in a 2009 WikiLeaks cable from the US Embassy in Tripoli as having a troubled past, including run-ins with police in Europe, drug and alcohol abuse and excessive partying.
On Monday, a day after thousands of rebels rode into Tripoli, about 200 people stormed Al-Saadi's home on the Mediterranean, said Seifallah Gneidi, a 23-year-old Tripoli rebel who participated in the looting.
Gneidi said he took a large bottle of gin, a toothbrush with a gilded handle and a pair of Diesel jeans. "We wanted to have the stuff that he had," Gneidi said, a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder. He said rebels are not condoning looting of private property, and only allow the wrecking of symbols of the Qadaffy family's abuse of power.
Gneidi said Al-Saadi had four cars, a BMW, an Audi, a white Lamborghini and a Toyota, that were all driven off during the ransacking. His claim about the fate of the cars could not be verified. A large painting of a yellow Lamborghini decorated the back wall of the covered parking area.
In an office area in the villa, news hounds saw large piles of catalogues for yachts and cars. A catalog by the firm Benetti had a yellow handwritten post-it note attached listing the price for a 30-meter-long yacht as 7 million euros. A DVD with gay porn entitled "Boyz Tracks" slipped out of the stack of documents.
Business cards were scattered on the floor for a firm called "Natural Selection" that listed Al-Saadi as partner and executive producer with an address on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The looters left behind a black cloth, apparently the back of a "director's chair," that read, in green: "Executive Producer Al-Saadi Qadaffy."
Al-Saadi must have been concerned about his safety. A long underground passage with thick concrete walls led from a second villa he was building to the street.
The complex also had a grass soccer pitch. Al-Saadi, who was seen as a poor soccer player was involved in one of Libya's soccer teams, Al-Ahly. Al-Saadi also headed Libya's Football Federation.
Next to the field stood a barbecue pit and two tents, including one that housed guards and was filled with ammunition, said Gneidi. Al-Saadi also kept dogs and had his own kennel with four cages, one decorated with pictures of Dobermans.
If Al-Saadi had the reputation of a reckless troublemaker, the 35-year-old Aisha cultivated the image of caring about ordinary Libyans.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... her neighbors said that several years ago, a small neighborhood clinic was razed to make room for her home.
"You feel that this is not supposed to happen," Sharif Ben Suleiman, a 56-year-old university professor, said as he and other local leaders inspected the house. "It's a place that is serving the community and then it is serving no one."
The presence of small children was felt everywhere in the house. A large play room was strewn with toys, party hats and streamers were in a pile in an entrance hall, and her library contained a number of children's books.
Among Aisha's DVDs were action and mystery films, but also one on getting back in shape after childbirth.
Like others in the Qadaffy family, she had expensive tastes, Bohemian crystal glasses and a brown Dolce & Gabana leather jacket for one of her children were among the items not carted off by the looters.
Asked how the community felt about the presence of the Qadaffy daughter, Ben Suleiman, the neighbour, said it's enough to look out the second-floor window. Beyond the walls of Aisha's spacious compound, houses, some of them barely shacks, were pressed tightly against one another.
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The orderly transition to NATO sanctioned Mooslimocracy begins. Behold your future Franco'Obamaites.
[Al Jazeera] From inside a makeshift prison across the street from Muammar Qadaffy's ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... compound, Osama Mansour el-Hadi listened to the beginning of the end.
It was Tuesday, and rebels had begun to overrun the sprawling 6km-square complex, known as the Bab al-Aziziya, where Qadaffy's palace and the homes of his innermost clique sat in a warren of offices and military bunkers.
Gunfire rang out, Hadi told Al Jizz, and cries of "God is great!" echoed over the compound's walls.
For many Libyans, it was a joyous moment; the most symbolic assault yet on the reviled regime that had shackled the country for more than 40 years.
But for Hadi and 25 other civilian men, held by armed Qadaffy loyalists at a rundown apartment building now serving as an warzone detention center, a horrific massacre was about to begin.
As machine gun and artillery fire engulfed at the compound across the street, the captors marched Hadi and the other men into the street at gunpoint. They were lined up with the walls of the Bab al-Aziziya behind them as the sounds of the regime's downfall split the air.
Then Qadaffy's gunnies opened fire, spraying a barrage of bullets into their captives' heads, necks and chests.
Hadi collapsed into a pile of shuddering bodies, his shoulder, hand and right thigh shattered by bullets. Another prisoner beat feet, Hadi said, and the murderers decamped. As of Thursday, there had been no arrests or any known investigation into the grisly killing.
Hadi tells of detention
The bodies were found a day later and taken to Tripoli's Mitiga Hospital, a facility once-reserved for Qadaffy's military brass and high-ranking officials that now lies in rebel-controlled territory.
It was here, in a sparse and filthy hospital room, that Hadi told his story to Al Jizz on Thursday. He was the only known survivor of the summary execution.
Elsewhere in the hospital, 15 of his fellow prisoners were laid out in the corner of the car park under a metal roof. Covered only partially by blood-stained, plastic sheets, some of the victims' ghastly wounds were exposed. The smell was gagging.
Some men had been identified. One man, Abdelsalem, came from the town of Taghma. Others were simply marked "non-Mohammedan" for burial purposes.
In the hospital room, Hadi's forehead creased with pain as he spoke. Someone had draped the tri-colour rebel flag behind his head and over his shoulders. His father, in a pristine-white jalabeya and skullcap, stood watching at his bedside.
Hadi originally comes from Badr, in the western Nafousa Mountains. Rebels there led the advance on Tripoli, but Hadi's town was sympathetic to Qadaffy. He and his father were not. During the final push on the capital, the two left for the capital.
Hadi was placed in durance vile on August 15, five days before the uprising began in the city. He said he had been staying at a house in the Janzour district when 15 gunnies came, blindfolded him and took him away. He said he was innocent and claimed to not have been part of the opposition.
Others he met in the makeshift prison had been there longer, for more than two weeks. Most, he said, claimed they were civilians, picked up off the street while walking or riding bicycles.
The guards gave their captives little food to eat, cursed at them, and doused them with urine, Hadi said.
Talk of more mass killings
Outside of Hadi's room, the packed intensive care unit testified to the ongoing festivities in Tripoli. Nearly 30 young men lay injured, awaiting treatment.
Youssef Hodiry, an orthopedic surgeon from the United Kingdom and had recently arrived from Misrata, said the hospital had few medical staff, most had run away or were too afraid to come to work.
By Thursday, Mitiga Hospital was running low on tetanus shots and immunoglobin syrums, doctors said. Representatives from the International Medical Corps had arrived to assess the situation. They photographed the bodies of the dead prisoners as well.
According to Mohammed Rashed, a general surgeon from the United Kingdom who had been arrived in Tripoli from Misrata just days ago, the hospital had no forensic surgeons to exam the murdered men.
Nobody had conducted any autopsies, he said, adding that two of the bodies had already been taken away by relatives for a funeral.
Tripoli is these days flooded with rumors of other massacres. Locals speak of prison executions and rebel corpses found in shipping containers.
As the truth comes out, the dead men who were laid in a car park at Mitiga Hospital are hard evidence that the fall of Tripoli had not been free of war's atrocities.
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[Al Jazeera] Elsewhere in the country, rebel commanders said they are readying fresh attempts to advance against Qadaffy's ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years... forces in his hometown Sirte, 360km east of the capital and to break a siege of Zuwarah, a town to the west.
Jacky Rowland, Al Jizz's correspondent in Ras Lanuf, 200km from Sirte, said rebels there were assembling heavy weaponry in anticipation of an assault on the Qadaffy stronghold of Sirte.
However, Houston lies southeast of Dallas... Scott Heidler, Al Jizz's correspondent in the eastern city of Benghazi, said there had already been a stop to rebel advancement towards the Qadaffy stronghold.
"So we are facing a battle in the coming hours," he said.
Rebels advancing towards Sirte were also blocked on Wednesday in the town of Bin Jawad as loyalists kept up stiff resistance.
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Whoa! I thought it was all over but the shouting! And looting.
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Fat lady's warming up backstage but she didn't sing yet.
[Al Jazeera] Al Jizz has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya.
Visiting a hospital in Tripoli on Thursday, Al Jizz's James Bays said he saw the bodies of 15 men suspected to have been killed a few days earlier as the rebels closed in on the Libyan capital.
"The smell here is overpowering," Bays said from the hospital where a number of bodies lay.
"I have counted the bodies of 15 men we were told there were 17 here. Two bodies were taken away by relatives for burial."
"We are told these men were political activists who have been tossed in the clink over the last few days and weeks and being held near the Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... compound. When the opposition fighters started to enter the compound we are told they were killed.
"Everyone I have spoken to who has looked at these injuries, all the medical staff, they say they believe that the injuries they see on the bodies of these men have the hallmark of a mass execution."
Bays said there were no forensic scientists at the hospital. Doctors there had taken photos of the exit and entry wounds on the bodies, with the intention of showing it to an expert at a later stage.
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FREEREPUBLIC > Artic says 200 bodies have been discovered at an area hospital, prob Patients whose Doctors + Nurses abandoned them + fled at the height of fighting???
[An Nahar] Hardened fighters streamed Thursday into Tripoli as Libya's rebels sought to deliver a knockout punch to Moammar Qadaffy's ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... diehards and, backed by NATO, ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... to flush out the elusive strongman.
Rebel commanders said they were also readying fresh attempts to advance against Qadaffy's forces defending his hometown Sirte, 360 kilometers east of Tripoli and to break a siege of Zuwarah, a town to the west.
They were being supported in their hunt for the wily Qadaffy by NATO, which according to Britannia's Defense Minister Liam Fox is contributing intelligence and reconnaissance equipment.
An Agence La Belle France Presse news hound, meanwhile, discovered that French and British operatives are working with Libyan rebels as they press towards Sirte, amid reports British special forces SAS members were sent to Libya several weeks ago.
Leading the army of reinforcements into Tripoli were seasoned combatants from the city of Misrata, whose fellow fighters spearheaded the weekend assault that saw the Libyan capital swiftly overrun and Qadaffy's Bab al-Aziziya compound captured by Tuesday.
Rebel commanders said that while they control most of Tripoli, hot spots remain where sniper fire, rocket kabooms and heavy weaponry make life dangerous.
In an example of that, Tripoli's Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, where numerous foreign journalists are based, came under attack on Thursday, apparently by Qadaffy snipers, but there were no reports of casualties.
"Heavy shooting is going on in central Tripoli just at the doorstep of our hotel. Street battle. Sniper fire. Hotel under gunfire attack," an AFP correspondent reported of the firefight, which lasted about 40 minutes.
The Corinthia is located a few hundred meters from the center of Tripoli's Old City, near the sea.
The rebels are also hell-bent on finding Qadaffy, so they can proclaim final victory in an uprising that began six months ago and was all but crushed by Qadaffy's forces before NATO warplanes gave crucial air support to the rebels.
Rebel leaders say they want to put Qadaffy on trial in Libya even though he also faces charges of crimes against humanity along with his son Seif al-Islam and spymaster Abdullah al-Senoussi at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ....
The rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) on Wednesday offered a $1.7 million reward for the capture of the elusive strongman, dead or alive.
"The NTC supports the initiative of businessmen who are offering two million dinars for the capture of Moammar Qadaffy, dead or alive," NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil said in the rebel capital Benghazi.
Abdul Jalil also offered amnesty to "members of (Qadaffy's) close circle who kill him or capture him."
The 69-year-old Qadaffy has not been seen in public for weeks and despite losing control of the oil-rich North African country he ruled with an iron first for 42 years is still managing to broadcast messages urging Libyans to drive out the "rats" -- as he disparagingly calls the rebels.
He also claimed on Wednesday to have walked incognito on the streets of Tripoli without being recognized.
In the oil refinery town of Zuwaytina, the new eastern front about 150 kilometers southwest of the opposition's capital Benghazi, an AFP news hound saw French and British operatives working with Libyan rebels .
They are equipped with telecommunications equipment and housed in two shipping containers, within walking distance of the headquarters of Fawzi Bukatif, commander of the eastern front.
Britannia's Defense Minister Liam Fox told Sky news on Thursday that NATO is providing "intelligence and reconnaissance assets to the NTC to help them track down Colonel Qadaffy and other remnants of the regime."
Fox however declined to comment on reports that Britannia's SAS special forces were working with the Libyan rebels to track down Qadaffy.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper, quoting defense sources, said SAS members were sent to Libya several weeks ago and played a key role in coordinating the battle for Tripoli, which fell into rebel hands on Sunday.
In Tripoli's souk Al-Jumaa, the arrival of at least 60 Misrata rebels on Wednesday sparked joy among residents.
"We are very happy. Misrata's soldiers can win anything," said Taha Abu Zeid. "They could even win Afghanistan."
They were joined by rebels from as far west as the Nafusa mountains and as far east as Benghazi, as field commanders vowed to bring the capital under full rebel control.
Fighting is concentrated along the perimeters of Bab al-Aziziya and the neighboring Abu Slim district, where Qadaffy reportedly released, armed and paid former prisoners to fight for his regime, although the streets were quiet Thursday after heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... in the area the previous day.
Rebel commanders said Qadaffy forces were pounding cut-throats holding the center of Zuwarah, west of Tripoli, adding that they needed reinforcements to help them break the siege.
Rebels advancing towards Sirte were also blocked Wednesday in the town of Bin Jawad as loyalists kept up stiff resistance.
"Qadaffy's forces are still fighting, we are surprised. We thought they would surrender with the fall of Tripoli," rebel commander Fawzi Bukatif said.
Four Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya on Wednesday by forces loyal to Moammar Qadaffy, have been freed, the foreign ministry said in Rome.
The four were liberated around 0930 GMT on Thursday, according to a ministry front man, who said the journalists "are now in a hotel with other Italian journalists" and "are well."
The NTC's number two leader, Mahmoud Jibril, meanwhile called for "urgent" financial help at a presser with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... in Milan on Thursday.
"This is an urgent call upon our friends," Jibril said, adding the "biggest disabling element" for the NTC "would be the failure to deliver services and salaries" in the post-Qadaffy period.
The NTC had in Doha on Wednesday sought five billion dollars in emergency aid from frozen assets at a meeting with foreign representatives from the Libya contact group.
The sum was twice that announced on Tuesday by Jibril.
But at the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... South Africa refused to lift a block on the United States unfreezing 1.5 billion dollars of Libyan assets to buy humanitarian aid, setting up a diplomatic showdown at the Security Council.
South Africa insisted the council wait for the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to decide whether to recognize the NTC at a summit Thursday before approving the move.
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The NTC had in Doha on Wednesday sought five billion dollars in emergency aid from frozen assets at a meeting with foreign representatives from the Libya contact group.The sum was twice that announced on Tuesday by Jibril.
Yeah...well ya see...we crunched the numbers and...heh...funny thing...we're gonna need a little bit more jinga then we thought. Sooo anyhoo...we're thinkin...ohhhh...let's just round it up ta bout 5 bill. Whaddya say? Besides it'd be shame if those...heh heh...Democratic elections didn't happen now wouldn't it.
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This is far from over. Gadhafi is playing possum.
"Is he preparing to collect his family, escape Tripoli and launch a long and bloody guerrilla war like the one Saddam Hussein's followers waged after the US invasion of 2003". He still has support in the south and his tribe. Where is Gadhafi and his troops?. Soon the rebels will fight among themselves. Many will go home. To him I believe this is a game of chess. He may not be a good player perhaps. I don't believe he is done.
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And those that Khaddafy faces are nowhere near as skillful as the US Army and Marines, excluding any European Special Forces on the ground. If Britain and France want to get hip-deep in an Arab civil war in North Africa, more power to them; but the rebels will be killing each other in impressive numbers soon enough.
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JM- "GADDAFI LIKELY TO BE KILLED, DEFECTOR SAYS".
GADDAFI is 69. To be killed for his country, his people and his tribe at his age would be what he would wish. His mistake was to compromise with the west. He has seen what has been done to other leaders. So if he is not a coward he will fight. He could have destroyed the oil wells and the massive water source he has. He has not done that because he is his people,Libyan first. This is foreign interventionism in his mind. Every media vindictive has been hurled at him. To myself orchestrated. Even his daughter is alive and so on. We have been feed disinformation for a long time.
Pakistan needn't worry. They have regular military coups, some time after which the government is turned over to the civilians, just to remind them who they like ruling them best.
[Dawn] The Libyan Embassy in Pakistain has raised the rebel flag above its compound in Islamabad following the fall of Moammar Qadaffy's ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... 42-year autocratic regime.
The red, black and green flag emblazoned with a white crescent and star fluttered in the breeze Thursday under overcast skies. The flag used under Qadaffy was solid green.
Libyan officials could not be reached for comment on the change.
Libyan diplomats abroad have been pledging allegiance to the rebels gradually after the rebellion erupted nearly six months ago, but defections surged this week as rebels entered Tripoli in a stunning breakthrough.
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[Dawn] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... gave its full backing to Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people on Thursday and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League's council.
"We agreed that it is time for Libya to take back its legitimate seat and place at the vaporous Arab League. The NTC will be the legitimate representative of the Libyan state," the League's Secretary General Nabil Elaraby told news hounds in Cairo.
The NTC's representative at the League, Abdelmoneim el-Houni, said Libya would resume its League membership at a meeting of Arab ministers on Saturday.
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The Nigerian Red Thingy says at least 16 people are dead after a car kaboom on the United Nations' ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... offices in Nigeria's capital of Abuja.
Umar Mairiga, the head of the organization's disaster management department, said that at least 11 others were maimed.
Mairiga said he believes the casualty figure will be greater than that.
Witnesses told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that a sedan broke through the exit at the U.N. compound, ramming through two separate gates as guards tried to stop the vehicle. Witnesses said the jacket wallah inside crashed the car into the main reception of the building before detonating, inflicting the most damage possible.
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A car bomb tore through UN headquarters in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Friday, killing at least 10 people.
Witnesses said the car slammed into the office building before exploding in an attack similar to a June assault on the Abuja police headquarters claimed by Boko Haram. An unnamed medical official said, "We have had 10 dead and there could be more."
The U.N. building was blackened all over and the remains of a car had fallen into the basement. Soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers swarmed over the area.
"This is very likely the work of Boko Haram and, or, AQIM (al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and is a serious escalation in the security situation in Nigeria. This is the worst thing that could have happened," said an Abuja-based security source.
Ocilaje Michael, a member of the U.N. staff working at the Abuja building, said, "We just saw the blast coming from the building. All the people in the basement were all killed. Their bodies are littered all over the place. I saw about five dead bodies."
A police spokesman in Abuja said, "We have deployed our policemen and anti-bomb squad. We can't establish how many casualties (there are)."
[Yemen Post] At least 42 have been killed in the ongoing festivities against suspected al-Qaeda snuffies in Yemen's southern Abyan province on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A security bigshot in Abyan told Yemen Post that most of the killed have been from the thugs. "A large number of the deaths are thugs, though the government lost more than a dozen of its troops over the last 24 hours."
Twenty seven of the killed in the province since Tuesday morning have been from the al-Qaeda thug lines while 16 were maimed.
Tribal fighters loyal to the government said that six fighters where injured in Shaqra district when a road side bomb went kaboom!.
Fighters said that al-Qaeda has lost hundreds of its followers in the Abyan war since mid July, but complained that reinforcements reach the snuffies every time they fall behind.
Clashes escalated over the last week in Abyan after government forces announced that it hoped to end festivities in the province before the end of the fasting month of Ramadhan.
Ali Anesi, Head of the national security in Yemen said that at least 80 big shots of al-Qaeda organization hae been killed in the Abyan fighting, and that fighters from numerous nationalities were among the dead.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo leon, click here. For a map of Monterrey, click here
Second casino was hit in Saltillio, Coahuila
By Chris Covert
At least 53 individuals were killed in a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Thursday afternoon in a small arms and launched grenade attack, according to Mexican news reports.
The attack on Casino Royale started at around 1545 hrs when 12 armed suspects entered the casino, splashed gasoline, then used small arms and grenade launchers to set the building on fire.
According to Milenio news daily, witnesses said they heard bursts of small arms fire and then explosions. Reports say 11 died in the initial explosion.
Late reports say emergency exits were locked, and that most of the dead were collateral damage from the fire and smoke.
Reports as of 0015 Friday morning say dozens of individuals were still trapped inside the burning building.
A report by the leftist weekly Proceso say rescue agents were forced to close a street in order to deploy heavy equipment to knock a hole in the wall to locate and rescue possible survivors.
News reports say one person was wounded in a similar attack on a second casino in an area north of Saltillio, Coahuila by armed suspects using explosives and small arms fire. The Casino Caliente is near the intersection of Periferico Luis Echeverria Alvarez and La Fragua in the Dorada colony north of Saltillo. The casino is owned by the Grupo Caliente, headed by controversial Mexican businessman Jorge Hank Rhon.
Today's attack in Monterrey is the highest single event mass casualty attack so far this summer in Nuevo Leon. A total of 21 individuals were shot to death in an assault on a bar in Monterrey near Zona Centro in Monterrey in early July. In that attack reports say the issue was retail drug sales between rival criminal groups. In that attack, at the El Sabino Gordo bar, reports indicated gunfire may have been exchanged between rival gang members at the scene. To read the Rantburg report on the El Sabino Gordo bar massacre, click here
Monterrey city administrators have been cracking down on unlicensed bars and restaurants since late last spring, when a number of them have been closed. The same problem exists with casinos.
Casinos have also been the focus of armed robberies. Late last May four casinos were robbed in rapid succession, including the Casino Royale. All four were said to have been operating without a license. To read the Rantburg report on the four casino robberies last May, click here
Thursday's attack has the earmarks of a Los Zetas attack. Los Zetas often make lavish use of 40mm grenades launched from under the barrel launchers attacked to AR-15 assault rifles or from dedicated launchers, dubbed "thump guns" by US soldiers.
Los Zetas have been since last spring under tremendous pressure from cartel alliances commissioned by the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels, especially in Zacatecas in the north central area of Mexico and in Nuevo Leon, and they have taken severe losses from attacks from rivals as well as from Mexican security forces.
A recent expansion of the Mexican Army has deployed as many as 18 rifle battalions to northern regions, especially in key points such as Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, which is east of Nuevo Leon, Torreon, Coahuila, which sits astride an important east-west artery and in Chihuahua state, where the security situation has dramatically improved.
It is possible that the increased federal security at the US border may have forced drug cartels to resort to domestic drug sales to generate cash.
Close the border and save $100 billion/year from the trade deficit. Save several times more from the drug smuggling, money transfers and illegal alien costs.
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Tolerating the intolerable is what put Israel in it's untenable position...How much more creep will it take for the druggie gangs in America to behave like palesto-simians or messy-can narcos and start shooting grenades at the cops, the busses, the trains and the airplanes?
[An Nahar] South Korean prosecutors said Thursday they had charged five people with spying for North Korea, one of whom had been ordered personally by the North's founding father to organize revolution in the South.
The five were accused of leading an underground communist ring on instructions from North Korea's ruling communist party, the prosecutors said in a statement.
In 1993 the head of the group, surnamed Kim, allegedly met the North's late President Kim Il-Sung, known as the Great Leader, who told him to organize a network for "a communist revolution in the South," according to the statement.
It did not specify where the meeting took place.
Kim, 48, and the four others collected information including military secrets and passed it to the North, said the prosecutors.
"They obtained information from their acquaintances in the military and political circles. One of the group members was an aide to a former National Assembly speaker," Lee Jin-Han, a chief prosecutor on the case, told AFP.
The group ran a small technology firm in South Korea to finance their operations after funding from the impoverished North dwindled, he said.
Espionage charges in South Korea can carry a maximum penalty of death.
Crackdowns on pro-Pyongyang activists and spies have been on the increase since the conservative government of President Lee Myung-Bak took office in early 2008 and rolled back a policy of reconciliation towards the North.
South Korea's prosecutor general, Han Sang-Dae, who took office earlier this month, vowed to crack down hard on pro-Pyongyang leftists.
Tensions have been high since the South accused the North of torpedoing a warship in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.
Pyongyang denied the charge but went on to shell a border island last November, killing four South Koreans including two civilians.
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"Espionage charges in South Korea can carry a maximum penalty of death.
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The son of a Pak governor who was killed by his bodyguard for his opposition to a harsh blasphemy law this year was kidnapped in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday, police and the family said.
Four men on cycle of violences intercepted Shahbaz Taseer in his car in the upscale Gulberg area and took him to a nearby street before kidnapping him, police said, quoting witnesses.
Shahbaz's aunt Ayesha Tammy Haq, lawyer and columnist, has filed a petition in the court, DawnNews reported.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. has said that the recovery of Shahbaz Taseer is going to be a big challenge for the Punjab Police.
"Shahbaz was out with a friend when four unidentified people kidnapped him," his brother Shehryar Taseer told Rooters.
Shahbaz Taseer is a director in several companies his father founded, including Pace Pakistain Ltd., First Capital Equities Ltd., Media Times Ltd. and First Capital Securities Corp. Ltd.
"Our family has been receiving threats from the Taliban and krazed killer groups," Shehryar said, adding they could be behind the abduction.
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My money is on the ISI
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[Pak Daily Times] A Pak police chief denied Thursday that a kidnapped development expert had been safely recovered, only hours after saying that officers had freed the American in an early morning operation. The US also said it had no information indicating Warren Weinstein, 70, had been freed. Weinstein was kidnapped almost two weeks ago from the eastern city of Lahore.
Lahore police chief Malik Ahmed Raza Tahir initially said police traced Weinstein to the city of Khushab, 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Lahore, and freed him early Thursday. Tahir backtracked several hours later and said in a statement that Weinstein had not been recovered. The US Embassy in Islamabad said on Twitter that "we have no information that would confirm recovery of Warren Weinstein, but we are hoping for a positive outcome."
Weinstein was kidnapped before dawn on August 13 after gunnies tricked his guards and broke into his home. He is the country director in Pakistain for JE Austin Associates, a US-based firm that advises a range of Pak business and government sectors. Police have incarcerated three people suspected of belonging to the gang that kidnapped Weinstein, Tahir, the police chief, said Wednesday. Their arrests were made after officers tracked cell phone numbers, he said. Police have also released a black-and-white sketch of a possible suspect in the kidnapping. It's unclear if the young man is one of the three people who have been incarcerated.
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[Pak Daily Times] SWAT: Police have tossed in the clink two key terrorist commanders during an operation in Behar in the Khwazakhela police precincts, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Akhtar Hayat said on Thursday. The tossed in the clinkhard boyz have been identified as Commanders Abdullah, son of Sherzada and Alam Sher son of Sher Afzal, who were apprehended on a tip-off. The accused were said to be prominent members of the defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain and were wanted by police in various cases.
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[Pak Daily Times] A powerful remote-controlled bicycle bomb went kaboom! near a busy hotel in Nowshera on Thursday, killing 11 people, wounding 14 and destroying the building.
The device went off in the evening as dozens of people were gathered after breaking the day's fast. Like the rest of the Mohammedan world, Pakistain is observing Ramazan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk.
The bomb was planted on a bicycle parked in the front courtyard of the hotel in Nowshera, police said.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , told news hounds at the site that 11 people had been killed and 14 injured in the blast.
Hayatullah Khan, a police brass hat who was also at the chaotic scene, said that the dead included two army and one air force personnel.
"A woman and a child were also killed in the attack," he said. "It was a remote-controlled bomb. The officials of Bomb Disposal Squad are collecting more evidence."
Muhammad Hussain, a police brass hat in Nowshera, said, "The hotel was destroyed along with an adjacent hotel. Six nearby shops were badly damaged." The corpse count could rise as several people were critically maimed, the official said.
Last week, 51 people were killed when a jacket wallahwent kaboom!" at a crowded mosque in Khyber tribal district, in the deadliest attack for three months.
US special forces killed al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... on May 2 in Abbottabad.
The northwest suffers from chronic insecurity largely connected to the semi-autonomous tribal belt near Afghanistan which Washington calls the most dangerous place on earth.
More than 4,550 people have been killed in suicide kabooms and bomb kabooms in Pakistain during the last four years, many of them carried out by the Taliban and other al Qaeda-linked bully boys. Soon after blast the officials of the law enforcing agencies and police reached the scene. The victims could not be immediately ascertained. They also rushed the injured to nearby District Headquarter Hospital Nowshera and Sheikh Maltoon Hospital, Mardan.
President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Thursday strongly condemned the kaboom.
The president expressed his condolences with the families of those who bit the dust in the terrorist act.
He said the government and people were determined to defeat terrorism and such gruesome acts could deter the resolve of the nation to defeat terrorists. Zardari asked the law enforcement agencies to take measures to protect people from terrorist acts.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has also condemned the kaboom.
Expressing deep condolences with the bereaved families, the prime minister directed the law enforcement agencies to investigate the unfortunate incident and bring the perpetrators to justice. Gilani reiterated the government's resolve to stamp out the menace of militancy and terrorism from the country.
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(KUNA) -- A US national, who was kidnapped two weeks ago from an eastern Pak city, has been recovered, citing police sources local news channel Dunya reported on Thursday. The channel said that J.E. Warner was recovered from Khushab district of Punjab province. Officially the report was yet to be confirmed. Warner, 60, was kidnapped by unknown persons on August 12th from his house in Model Town area of eastern Lahore city, capital of Punjab province. He had been living in Pakistain for five to six years and working on a development project in Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA).
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[Dawn] Militants blew up a government school in Mardan district and attacked several checkposts in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sabir Gul, the SHO of Jabbar cop shoppe in Mardan, told Dawn that unidentified faceless myrmidons had planted explosives in a room of Government Girls Higher Secondary School Sawldher that went off at 1:25am with a big bang.
"I along with other police officials was on routine patrolling of the area when the kaboom occurred," he said, adding that they rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area.
He said that the blast completely destroyed two rooms and a veranda while boundary wall and two other rooms of the school building were partially damaged.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the kaboom caused no loss of human life as the school was empty at the time of the blast. "We launched a search operation soon after the kaboom in the surrounding areas and tossed in the slammer several suspected persons," Mr Gul said.
According to officials of Bomb Disposal Unit, 14 to 15 kilograms of explosives were used in the kaboom.
It is pertinent to mention here that a week ago the main gate and wall of a government middle school for girls in Gujrat Bashkhali area were partially damaged in a blast.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... faceless myrmidons attacked several checkposts in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to sources, faceless myrmidons used light weapons to attack the checkposts in Karir, Dwajangi, Qayumabad and Hashim Kor areas of Safi tehsil.
Security forces retaliated and targeted suspected positions in the area along the border. No report of casualty was received from the area.
In another incident, a primitive was injured when a stray shell hit a house in the Safi tehsil during the night. The injured, identified as Jamil, was shifted to Peshawar at death's door.
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Ali al-Maliki, head of the Basra provincial council's security committee, said the rockets were aimed at the former U.S. prison camp Bucca and had a range of only one kilometre. "The rockets targeted the (former) Bucca prison building, which is used by foreign companies," Maliki told Reuters."Security forces managed to seize the vehicle which was used to launch the rockets."
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They are? I'm at the Werner von Braun level, tu3031: "Once the rockets go up, who cares vehr ze come down. Dat's not my department," said Werner von Braun*.
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One might want to look at the types of fuel used by the typical scud and see if random People's Front of Jihadi type groups could be able to do the fueling.
(According to Wikipedia, it's mostly kerosene and some variety of red fuming nitric acid, with UDMH used as an ignitor, with the kerosene replaced in some systems with UDMH.)
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An easy comparison would be that SCUDs are what Saddam launched at Israel during Desert Storm. Katyushyas are what the Gaza boys launch at them now.
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Easy way to tell if they are Scuds: Scuds are V-1 rockets that go straight up when they are first launched and required a truck launcher, a fueling truck, and a transport truck for the ancillary equipment. These in the picture are stinking artillery rockets, probably Grads or similar 127mm to 150mm artillery rockets. Saddam had tens of thousands of those artillery rockets stashed all over the country.
A Grad rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open field south of Ashkelon on Friday. No injuries or damage were reported in the attack.
The attack came after the Islamic Jihad announced the latest cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip early Friday morning. This agreement was reportedly brokered by Egypt and the UN. The same report claimed that the cease-fire was already in effect. The cease-fire announcement, made by Nafaz Azam, was not expected because, on Thursday, Islamic Jihad had vowed to extend the range of their rocket capabilities. They threatened to triple the number of Israelis affected by rocket attacks.
This announcement came as southern Israel braced for a weekend of violence as rocket fire intensified on Thursday and the IDF struck back, killing two terrorists in the Gaza Strip. At least 15 rockets and mortar shells struck southern Israel, hitting open areas near Ashkelon and in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. A mortar shell struck the Erez crossing, frequently used by Palestinians to enter Israel for medical treatment, causing extensive damage.
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ION DEBKA > ISRAEL'S NEW PROBLEM, i.e. covert manipulation + attempted control of the Paleo struggle, + by extension the PA -m Gaza-West Bank, ala Iran + Hezbollah.
* TOPIX > EGYPT: MILITANT GROUPS IN SINAI POSE THREAT TO SUEZ CANAL.
* WAFF > [StrategyPage] ANOTHER BATTLE FOR THE SINAI.
HAMAS may be losing its grip on power in Gaza + PA, due to anti-Hamas ideo disenfranchisement by the many lessor Radical = MilTerr groups originally supported by Hamas + allowed by same to set up in Paleo regions.
New operational doctrine for snipers developed in anticipation of violent demonstrations over Palestinians unilateral declaration of statehood.
...The doctrine includes the use of the Amit targeting system, which was developed by Elbit Systems and became operational in the IDF following Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in 2009.
The Amit weighs less than 2 kg., including an eight-hour rechargeable battery, and enables an operator to locate targets up to a kilometer away, under all weather conditions.
1) Don't make the Paleos mad at us.
2) Don't offend anyone.
3) Watch your language.
4) Use sunscreen. Poor Mrs. Leibowitz's son didn't and he got a sunburn like you wouldn't believe.
5) Call more often. Your mother worries about you.
6) Don't shoot them anywhere embarrassing. They have mothers, too.
7) You should eat more, you look malnourished. Have a nice piece fruit maybe. It will help keep you regular.
8) Let the UAV and the lawyers handle it.
9) You could have been a doctor, or a lawyer. Instead you want to go gallivanting around the desert shooting at some meshuggah Arabs. But it's not up to your ROE to tell you how to live your life, already. Just play nice.
Terrorist groups in Gaza have figured out how to get around the new Israeli Iron Dome anti-rocket system. All you have to do is fire at least seven rockets simultaneously at the same area being guarded by one Iron Dome battery. Islamic terrorists did this recently. One rocket got through, and killed an Israeli civilian. This "saturation" tactic is a problem with all air defense systems. Who didn't see this coming?
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Saturation attacks can go both ways, ya know, if Israel takes the gloves off.
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Last Paragraph of the Article:
"Firing salvos of rockets at once is more difficult, and dangerous, than firing one or two at a time. The larger number of rockets takes longer to set up, and makes it easier for the Israelis to spot the preparations and fire a Hellfire missile. Moreover, the Iron Dome system control software can be tweaked to handle more simultaneous targets, and the fire control hardware can be upgraded as well. So the new terrorist tactic wont remain successful for long."
Of course it wouldn't hurt if they bought a few Paladin's.
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If you fired seven rockets at our PB, you know we would call for fire at their origin. Makes a steamy red heat trail from whence they were fired.
By the way, does anyone even know why "Palestinians" are even allowed to live near Israel? You know? being nothing but thugs and breeding terrorists and all?
A roadside bombing killed five defense volunteers and severely wounded another as they went to inspect the scene of a fatal shooting attack in Narathiwat province.
The six-man defense volunteer team on a pickup truck was responding to investigate a shooting at a rubber plantation in Ruso district. As the pickup truck passed Suro village, a 20-kilogram homemade bomb hidden beneath the road surface was set off.
The powerful explosion immediately killed the five defense volunteers and seriously injured another. The bomb destroyed the vehicle and made a one-meter deep hole with electric wire and bomb fragments scattered around the scene.
Prior to the bombing, Somsak Saengngam, 53, was gunned down in the rubber plantation while he was at work Friday morning.
Initially, police believed that the incidents were carried out by members of the terrorist insurgent group Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) in retaliation against the combined groups of provincial civil authorities and military personnel recently sent to monitor the movement of armed forces on the hill near Suro village.
A bomb exploded in Yala province on Friday morning, wounding two municipal garbage collectors working for the city of Khokchang. Both victims were struck by bomb fragments.
They were at work in their garbage truck and a bomb exploded as they lifted a bin to put trash into the vehicle. Local authorities believe that terrorists insurgents had hidden a time bomb in the trash bin, targeting soldiers on their daily morning patrols.
[An Nahar] Two brothers were wounded at dawn Thursday when unknown assailants tossed four hand grenades at a petrol station in Rwaissat Jdeideh area, the National News Agency said. NNA said the grenades were tossed at the Mar Elias gas station. Brothers Fouad and Sharif al-Samlawi were taken to Arz hospital for treatment. Security sources rushed to the scene of the attack and opened an investigation.
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[An Nahar] Security forces rubbed out a woman and beat up Syria's best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, a day after violence in which 11 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, activists said.
The woman was rubbed out during a military operation in a village near the eastern oil hub of Deir al-Zour, 460 kilometers northeast 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... , said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Activists also said masked security forces personnel and pro-regime "shabbiha" hard boyz grabbed cartoonist Ali Ferzat at the capital's Ummayad square while he was returning home by car at 4:30 am (0130 GMT).
"The attackers stole the contents of his briefcase, including his drawings and other personal belongings," said the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), which groups activists on the ground.
"He was beaten hard, notably on his hands. Passers-by found him on the road to the airport and he was taken to hospital," the LCC's Omar Idlbi said in a statement.
Since the start of an anti-regime uprising in March, Ferzat, one of the Arab world's most renowned cartoonists, has published cartoons critical of the brutal crackdown on protesters.
"The Syrian security forces are fully responsible for what happens to Ali Ferzat, especially as he had recently undergone a spinal operation," Idlbi added.
The Observatory said "an armed gang kidnapped and assaulted Ali Ferzat. He has bruises on the face and hands. They (the gunnies) then threw him out of a car on the road to the airport."
A friend who visited Ferzat in hospital told Agence La Belle France Presse that two fingers of his left hand were broken, his right arm was fractured, the left eye badly bruised and blood oozed from his chest.
On Wednesday, 11 people were killed, according to the Observatory: seven in Homs province, two in Deir al-Zour, one in Idlib and one in Damascus, where security forces shot up the al-Midan square on youths offering condolences to the family of a young man who died under torture.
The same day, eight Syrian soldiers were killed in two attacks in Homs province of central Syria, the official SANA news agency reported.
An officer and two soldiers were killed in an attack on a military bus in the town of Talbisa, and five military men died in an attack on their vehicle at Al-Rastan, further north, it said.
The Syrian government has not given a total for the number of security forces killed in the regime's crackdown on anti-regime protests which began in March, but activists and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups say about 400 have died.
More than 2,200 people, mostly civilians, have been killed over the past five months in the uprising 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, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says.
Also in Talbisa, several people were maimed when security forces stopped them from trying to approach members of a visiting U.N. humanitarian mission, the Observatory said.
The people wanted to give accounts to the delegation, which arrived over the weekend and was to complete its mission on Thursday, of "the violence of the regime," the group said.
Iran, a key ally, called on Wednesday for dialogue between Damascus and the opposition.
"The people and government of Syria must come together to reach an understanding," Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad said in an interview with a Lebanese television channel.
Visa credit cards issued in Syria, by Syrian banks or those with branches in the country, stopped working from Wednesday, bank officials and users told AFP.
Ali Ismail, manager of the import-export company Medsea, linked the move to U.S. and other Western sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime over its deadly crackdown of anti-government dissent.
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[An Nahar] Eight Syrian soldiers, including an army officer, have been killed in separate attacks in the country's central province of Homs, the official SANA news agency reported Thursday.
"In an ambush Wednesday afternoon at (the town of) Talbisa, cut-throats fired on a military bus killing one officer and two soldiers and wounding seven others," said a military official quoted by the agency.
At Al-Rastan further north, "a terrorist group fired on a military vehicle killing five soldiers," the official told SANA.
Human rights groups said 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 forces have killed more than 2,000 people since the uprising against his autocratic rule erupted in mid-March, touched off by the wave of revolutions sweeping the Arab world.
Assad has shrugged off international condemnation and calls for him to step down, insisting that armed gang and thugs are driving the violence, not true reform-seekers.
The crackdown has led to broad international condemnation and sanctions.
Despite the harsh words, the Syrian crackdown continued.
Tanks stormed the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and made sweeping arrests there Wednesday, according to Syrian activists. Deir el-Zour is an oil-rich but impoverished region known for its well-armed clans and tribes whose ties extend across eastern Syria and into Iraq.
Security forces killed seven people, including a woman who died under torture, and tossed in the slammer more than 150 others over the past 24 hours in a 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, activists said Wednesday.
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[An Nahar] Visa credit cards issued in Syria, by Syrian banks or those with branches in the country, have stopped working from Wednesday, bank officials and users told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Clients were sent SMS messages Tuesday evening informing them they could no longer use their Visa cards in Syria, or even abroad if it was issued in Syria," said Wissam Abu Ghazala, director of a branch of Leb's Byblos in 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...
Ali Ismail, manager of the import-export company Medsea, linked the move to U.S. and other Western sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime over its deadly crackdown of anti-government dissent.
"This is what the Americans call smart sanctions targeting bigwigs of the (Syrian) regime. Which means that either we are all bigwigs or it's just a way of punishing all the Syrian people," he said.
U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama and his Western allies for the first time Thursday called on 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... to resign and boosted sanctions against his regime after five months of a brutal repression of protests.
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"Ali Ismail, manager of the import-export company Medsea" is pissed off about the Visa deactivation. No crud. The guy runs an IMPORT-EXPORT business in one of the more heavily sanctioned countries in the world.
YOU CHOSE THE WRONG LINE OF WORK, JERK.
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"This is what the Americans call smart sanctions targeting bigwigs of the (Syrian) regime. Which means that either we are all bigwigs or it's just a way of punishing all the Syrian people," he said.
Appears quite by accident, that Mr. Medsea has discovered the modus operandi of the US Government's Internal Revenue Service as well.
(KUNA) -- Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad urged scholars and religious figures to heed their responsibility to stress unity and support of reforms in the country, in an Iftar banquet he hosted Wednesday.
Al-Assad noted the recent unrest in Syria could and should serve as a lesson, remarking that the holy month of Ramadan is a very special time where one should be doubly-sure of one's actions and careful to avoid all that would bring about divide and strife.
Rather than get carried away with sentimental review of the recent events, he said, the nation needs to analyze developments rationally and the elite has a responsibility to instill this attitude among the laymen and among the young in particular.
The "individual actions" of some people and acts which sought religion as a guise should not be tolerated as they jeopardize the interest of the nation and should not be taken as representing the whole Syrian people. Ethical corruption was among the main causes of the recent confrontations, he added.
The state is going ahead with reform, which needs cautious progress if it is to realize the aspirations of the people and must be based on basic rather than transient or non-collective needs.
Al-Assad urged the scholars and religious figures to support this reform, which are not jeopardized in any way by the state's efforts to restore law and order.
The Army, he remarked, has a duty to protect the property of the state and that of the people, as well as all parties' security and interests.
"Syria is a long-lusted over spot for many external parties, most particularly western parties. Through instilling divide and sedition and through challenging the legitimate role of our security forces, they hope to force our nation to make compromises that we do not accept.
"This," he stressed, "is not going to happen."
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian government tanks have resumed shelling in the town of Deir ez-Zour a day after at least 17 protesters were reportedly killed across the country, activists said.
Syrian security forces stormed the area of al-Busaira in Deir ez-Zour on Thursday amid heavy gunfire, conducting house-to-house searches, said the Local Co-ordinating Committees of Syria (LCC), a group of activists representing provinces across the country.
Despite the crackdown, anti-government protests are ongoing across the country.
Tanks and armoured vehicles have entered Shuhail, a town southeast of the picturesque provincial capital of Deir ez-Zour, which has seen daily protests 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 rule since the start of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan, a local activist said.
"Initial reports by residents describe tens of tanks firing randomly as they stormed the town at dawn. Shuhail has been very active in protests and the regime is using overwhelming force to frighten the people," activists said.
Al Jizz's Nisreen El Shamayleh reporting from Ramtha on the border with Jordan said: "We understand that a total of 17 people have been killed since Wednesday, Deir ez-Zour is coming under heavy attack by Syrian troops that are backed by tanks.
"At least 118 tanks were stationed in Shuhail town where several protests have taken place there in the last few month."
In another incident, the LCC said masked Syrian security force members and masked pro-regime shabiha beturbanned goons attacked Ali Ferzat, Syria's best-known satirical cartoonist, at the capital's Ummayad square while he was returning to his home.
"The attackers stole the contents of his briefcase, including his drawings and other personal belongings," the LCC's Omar Idlbi said in a statement.
"He was beaten hard, notably on his hands. Passersby found him on the road to the airport and he was taken to hospital," he said.
Meanwhile in the central province of Homs on Thursday, Syria's state news agency reported the deaths of eight Syrian soldiers, including an army officer, in what it said were separate attacks a day earlier.
"In an ambush Wednesday afternoon at (the town of) Talbisa, cut-throats fired on a military bus killing one officer and two soldiers and wounding seven others," said one military official quoted by the agency.
At al-Rastan further north, "a terrorist group fired on a military vehicle killing five soldiers," the official told SANA.
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[Pak Daily Times] Syrian protesters chanted "Bye, bye Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... , Bashar your turn is coming" overnight, but 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... showed few signs of cracking after months of demonstrations and his forces raided an eastern tribal region again on Thursday.
The new chant, inspired by the apparent collapse of Muammar Qadaffy's rule in Libya, was filmed by residents in the 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 Duma after prayers on Wednesday. But in eastern Syria, tanks and armored vehicles entered Shuhail, a town southeast of the quiet provincial capital of Deir al-Zor, where daily protests have taken place against Assad's rule since the start of the fasting month of Ramazan, they said. "Initial reports by residents describe tens of tanks firing randomly as they stormed the town at dawn. Shuhail has been very active in protests and the regime is using overwhelming force to frighten the people," a local activist said.
Since Ramazan began on August 1, tanks have entered the cities of Hama, scene of a 1982 massacre by the military, Deir al-Zor and Latakia on the Mediterranean coast, trying to crush dissent after months of street protests. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an activist group based in Britannia, said 11 civilians had been killed across Syria on Wednesday, including seven in the province of Homs. State news agency SANA said "armed terrorist groups" killed eight soldiers when they ambushed two military vehicles near the towns of Rastan and Telbiseh.
Syria has expelled most independent journalists, making it difficult to verify accounts on the ground from authorities and activists. Prominent cartoonist and Assad critic Ali Ferzat was beaten up in Damascus by a group of gunnies and then dumped in the street, an opposition activist group said. SOHR said Ferzat was taken to hospital with bruises to his face and hands. Ferzat, whose cartoons often mock repression and injustice in the Arab world, has criticized Assad's repression of protests. He told Al Arabiya television three weeks ago: "For the first time there is a genuine and free revolution in Syria."
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It may be in OUR interest to make sure that this falls, and then falls again. The road to Damascus is paved in rubble.
Israel is in lead, we have no military prowess there, but it will fall on it's own.
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