[Tripoli Post] Former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy's ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... loyalists appear to be committing suicide if they follow the runaway leader's stubbornness. Moussa Ibrahim, whose role has now been relegated to just acting as front man for the former leader, has dismissed the ultimatum issued by the NTC that expires at the end of the Eid holiday on Saturday.
The decision of refusing to down arms and surrender by the Al Qadaffy loyalists in Sirte particularly, raises the prospect of new fighting in Libya this week's Eid holiday.
Acting as 'his master's voice' Moussa Ibrahim said Wednesday that the ultimatum would be rejected. In an overnight phone call to News Agency that Dare Not be Named headquarters in New York, he said: "No dignified honourable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs."
At the same time, Ibrahim reiterated Al Qadaffy's offer to send his son to negotiate with rebels and form a transitional government.
Ahmed Bani, a military front man for the council, again ruled out any negotiation with Al Qadaffy or his supporters and called on those holding out to give up quietly: "We will not negotiate with his murderers and the likes of him," he said. "We are still hopeful there will be a peaceful proposal put forward before Saturday ... Zero hour is quickly approaching."
What it all boils down to, is for the former leader's supporters in Sirte to express their readiness to die for a man now being described as a "coward hiding in a rat hole, wanting Libyans to fight for his survival while he cowers in a hiding place away from imminent danger."
Mustafa who has formed part of the rebels fighting to oust Al Qadaffy an end his 42 years' rule since the start of the conflict way back in February, said: "This is the same person (Al Qadaffy) who has been saying that he would march in front of his supporters in the fight against us, whom he calls rats and thugs.
"Now the coward sends his family to safety and tells the loyalists to die for him. How could his so-called supporters (the few fanatical ones if they still exist) believe there's still a future for the men who tortured and killed thousands of Libyans, his own people, for just expressing an opinion?"
Mustafa said he feels so sorry for those who still believe in Al Qadaffy. "He is certainly not a man worth dying for," he said, while appealing for the dictator's supporters in Sirte to abandon him while they still can, think of their families and also form part of the new Libya.
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Again, unlike Uncle Saddam, Uncle Muammar is NOT the type to be found in underground holes.
* INDEPENDENT.UK > ISLAMISTS AT THE HEART OF [Libyan] REBELLION TEMPER AIMS WID NEW PRAGMATISM, i.e. engage in cooperative collusion + alliance wid similar anti-Gaddafi foes whom also happen to be in ideological or political opposition to themselves.
Read, AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING UNTIL THE PLANS FOR PURGE(S) IS READY.
* ION DAILY TIMES.PK > ALGERIA TO CLOSE SOUTHERN BORDER WID LIBYA.
They didn't like at all what the Rebel TNC said about them taking in Gaddafi's family + not returning them to Libya - nope, no way.
Saadi Al Qadaffy, ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... the football-crazy son of Libyan dictator Muammar Al QadaffyAl Jizz quoting a senior National Transitional Council official in Libya.
The pan-Arab news network reported the National Transitional Council's military leader in Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belhaj saying that on Wednesday Saadi, who was banned from playing in Italia after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone, called him and asked if he could surrender.
In the exclusive interview, Belhaj salso told Al Jizz that the revolutionaries know for sure where some of the regime leaders are, including unconfirmed reports on where Al Qadaffy is.
"Al Qadaffy is now fleeing - and we have a good idea where he is," Ali Tarhouni, a senior NTC minister said earlier, without elaborating. "We don't have any doubt that we will catch him."
There has been speculation that Al Qadaffy is seeking refuge in Sirte or one of the other remaining regime strongholds, among them the towns of Bani Walid or Sabha.
Reporting from Tripoli, Al Jizz's correspondent James Bays, said: "We asked him (Belhaj) about the military situation, remaining members of the Al Qadaffy family, and he said that he believes one of Al Qadaffy's sons, Saadi, is preparing to surrender.
According to Belhaj, Saadi doesn't want to leave Libya, but wants to talk to the national council and negotiate his surrender. Belhaj also said that from the phone call he believed he knew the whereabouts of Saadi, adding that he also believes that some senior figures of the government, such as the former prime minister, are now ready to surrender,.
During the interview, Belhaj made a point of saying that any of those who do surrender will be treated properly, and court cases will be held to international norms. He thought that Muammar Al Qadaffy is less likely to surrender, but would be treated fairly if he did, adding: "he would be held in jug with proper human rights." One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
The Hague-based International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) has already approved warrants for the arrest of Al Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam, and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, said he may also apply for an arrest warrant for Khamis - who unconfirmed reports indicate that he has been killed - after Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said members of the Khamis Brigade, a force commanded by him, appeared to have carried out summary executions of detainees whose bodies were found in a warehouse in Tripoli.
"We know Khamis should also be prosecuted because he was the commander of the brigade that was more active on some of the crimes," Moreno-Ocampo said.
Moreno-Ocampo said a UN Human Rights Council commission would conduct further investigations on the ground in Libya soon and that he would base his decisions on the results.
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[Al Jazeera] At least four Libyan fighters have been killed in the capital, Tripoli, in a blast that went off as residents, already rejoicing at the fall of Muammar Qadaffy's ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... regime, celebrated Eid-al-Fitr.
Some residents said it was a car boom and the blast was carried out by Qadaffy loyalists.
"At 5:30am local time [03:30GMT] exactly, I heard an kaboom," Omar Mahmoud, a resident whose windows were shattered at his home in the Al-Andaluss neighbourhood, told the AFP news agency on Wednesday.
"The car was passing in front of my house, it hit the wall and then it went kaboom!," he said.
The vehicle was completely destroyed and burned by the blast, and hand grenades and rockets were scattered at the site.
Al Jizz's Sue Turton, reporting from Tripoli, said, "On early hours of Wednesday, we heard reports of a car boom but now different stories have emerged."
"A group of rebels have denied it was a car boom; they say actually a car full of fuel was hit by celebratory gun fire, that's what killed the four Libyan fighters," she said.
Another group said that children had picked up grenades left on the road after the recent fighting, and that they were killed in the grenade kabooms.
Our correspondent said, "The confusion is pretty much symptomatic of the feeling at the moment in Tripoli. Also, there is worry that still there are some pockets of Qadaffy loyalists in the city."
"But over all, it is much more relaxed, checkpoints are more relaxed and shops are now opening, but fear remains that something could happen even now.
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If you do not quit playing with those damn infidel grenades.... Ima coming back there....KABOOOOM! KABOOOOM! Pop, pop pop pop, pop (7.62x39 secondaries).
[El Universal] Venezuelan ambassador to Libya Afif Tajeldine has decamped Libya and is at an unknown location in Magreb, said his son Basem Tajeldine.
The diplomat's son said his father decamped the country due to alleged political persecution launched by Libyan rebels.
Without revealing his father's whereabouts, he said the ambassador was safe and sound and that he had been given protection, as continues representing and defending Venezuela's view on the Libyan conflict.
Tajeldine added that the ambassadors' house in Tripoli, seized and plundered, has been in jug by Libyan rebels since August 24, as Venezuelan president Chavez reported.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Nigerian authorities said Wednesday that an Al-Qaeda linked suspect who recently returned from Somalia criminal masterminded last week's attack on UN headquarters here, one of the bloodiest targeting the world body.
The statement by Nigeria's secret police over Friday's suicide kaboom that killed at least 23 people came amid mounting concern over whether local Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... has formed ties with outside krazed killer groups.
It also said that two other suspects, identified as key figures of the Boko Haram krazed killer sect, were tossed in the clink on August 21, days before the UN bombing.
Boko Haram has grabbed credit for the bombing that also maimed dozens of others.
"Investigation has revealed that one Mamman Nur, a notorious Boko Haram element with Al-Qaeda links who returned recently from Somalia, working in concert with the two (tossed in the clink) suspects criminal masterminded the attack on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... building in Abuja," the police statement said.
The suspect has been declared wanted following the attack on the building where some 400 UN staff with a variety of nationalities worked, it noted.
Nur's name has previously circulated as a top figure within Boko Haram and he was considered by some to be the sect's third-in-command during its 2009 uprising in northern Nigeria, put down by a brutal military assault.
He was believed to have decamped to Chad to escape arrest by Nigerian security agents before moving on to Somalia, according to sources claiming to have been sect members as well as others familiar with Boko Haram.
Nur is thought to have returned to Nigeria several weeks ago at the beginning of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan.
The statement also described the two other suspects tossed in the clink on August 21 as "notorious leaders of the Boko Haram gun-hung tough guys sect."
They were identified as Babagana Ismail Kwaljima, aka Abu Summaya, and Babagana Mali, aka Bulama.
Their arrests came after authorities received intelligence on August 18 of plans for attacks in the Nigerian capital Abuja, it said.
"On 18th August, 2011, precise intelligence was obtained by this service that some Boko Haram elements were on a mission to attack unspecified targets in Abuja ...," according to the statement.
"Following their arrests, security was further beefed up in Abuja and its environs," the statement said. "Meanwhile the suspects have made valuable statements and are being held at a military facility."
There has been growing concern over whether Boko Haram has formed links with krazed killer groups outside Nigeria, including Al-Qaeda's north African branch and Somalia's Shebab fighters.
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[An Nahar] The corpse count from a clash between Christians and Mohammedans in deeply divided central Nigeria has risen to at least 13, a hospital official said on Tuesday.
"Thirteen corpses have been transferred (from another hospital closer to the violence)," Ishaya Pam, chief medical director at Jos University Teaching Hospital, said after Monday's clash.
Witnesses told AFP that a group of Mohammedans had gone to a prayer ground in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, to mark the end of Ramadan when they were surrounded by residents of the Christian-dominated neighborhood.
The residents would not allow them to leave and violence resulted, with cycle of violences and cars burnt. An Agence La Belle France Presse journalist saw two shops burnt.
Gunshots could be heard, believed to be soldiers firing into the air in a bid to clear the crowds.
A witness said Christians involved in the festivities spoke of preventing Mohammedans from marking their holiday in Dire Revenge™ for a string of bombs that went kaboom! in Jos on Christmas Eve last year.
Soldiers evacuated Mohammedans who had gone to pray from the area.
Jos and the surrounding area has been hit by waves of violence between Christian and Mohammedan ethnic groups that have left hundreds dead in recent years.
The region lies in the so-called Middle Belt between the mainly Mohammedan north and predominately Christian south of Africa's most populous nation.
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Yemeni military and medical officials say 30 al-Qaida suspects have been killed in U.S. airstrikes and clashes with Yemeni soldiers in al-Qaida-held cities in the south. The airstrikes freed a Yemeni military unit besieged in southeast Abyan for several weeks by al-Qaida militants.
[Dawn] Four suspected al Qaeda gunnies were killed in festivities with Yemeni forces as the army pressed on with its advance toward the gunnies-held southern city of Zinjibar, a medic said on Wednesday.
The four shuffled off the mortal coil in hospital early on Wednesday in Jaar, 11 kilometres (six miles) north of Zinjibar, the medical source told AFP, adding that two other maimedcut-throats and a civilian were brought in.
The suspects were hit by army shelling of Zinjibar, Abyan's picturesque provincial capital that has mostly been overran by gunnies since May.
Jaar and Shaqra, in addition to Zinjibar, remain controlled by gumen, while advancing army troops have seized control of the villages of Dofes, Al-Kud and Al-Matla, on the outskirts of Zinjibar, local sources said.
The army now controls the road linking Zinjibar with the main southern city of Aden -- a stretch of 50 kilometres.
According to the supreme security committee, more than 300 al Qaeda suspects have been killed in Abyan since May. Unofficially, military sources put the army casualty toll at 183 troops dead and more than 250 maimed.
On Tuesday, a military official said Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed Ali beat feet unharmed when a roadside kaboom targeted his convoy in Al-Kud but two guards of the south's military commander, General Mehdi Maqwala, were killed.
A defence ministry official, however, cited by Saba state news agency, denied the reported kaboom.
The lawless southern and eastern provinces of Yemen have provided safe havens for al Qaeda cut-throats to regroup, especially over the past seven months of mass protests across the country against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
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How do the doctors know if the injured/deceased were al Qaeda?...
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[Yemen Post] An official source in the office of the Minister of Defense in Yemen denies the liquidation attempt of the Minister of Defense, Major General Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad by a roadside kaboom in Abyan province, killing two of his guards. Media sources yesterday said that Yemen's defense minister, Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, survived on Tuesday an liquidation attempt from a roadside kaboom, which targeted his motorcade on the main road linking Aden province and Abyan, citing a military source.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Eight people, seven of them police, were killed in a suicide kaboom in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Tuesday during celebrations at the end of the Mohammedan festival of Ramadan, a police source told Interfax news agency.
A man detonated an bomb when a police patrol tried to detain him and a second blast rang out soon afterwards, an unidentified police official told the privately-owned agency.
The kaboom killed seven coppers, an emergency services worker and maimed at least 16 people, Interfax added.
The scene of the kaboom, in a densely populated district of Grozny 50 meters from a local parliament building, was cordoned off by the police. Residents told Rooters they heard gun shots after the kabooms.
A decade after Russian forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya, the Kremlin is still struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus. The violence has now spread from Chechnya to other mainly Mohammedan regions.
None of the Islamist rebel leaders grabbed credit for the attack.
"Today is the most sacred day for all Mohammedans. On that day a trained and zombified bandit attempted to carry out a terrorist attack," Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov told RIA news agency.
"The bandidos have shown their real face which only proves that this evil should be eradicated," Kadyrov added.
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Turkish police have arrested a man born in Lebanon who has been wanted in Germany since 2008 for ties to a terrorist group. The Anatolia news agency says the man was arrested in Izmir and questioned by authorities, but was released by a court without charges because he had not committed a crime in Turkey. He is still being held and is awaiting possible extradition procedures to Germany.
German authorities believe he is linked to an alleged plot to blow up American targets in Germany that was foiled in 2007.
Indian forces fired across the de facto border in Kashmir early on Wednesday, killing three Pakistani soldiers, the Pakistani army said on Thursday. It described the action by Indian forces across the Line of Control as "unprovoked".
Right. For a definition of the term which means strongly provoked.
Military spokesman Major Gen. Athar Abbas said, "The soldiers were moving snuffiesjihadisweaponsammojacket wallas from one post to another when they came under fire. Three soldiers were killed."
Pakistani forces returned fire and the incident was reported to local Indian commanders, he said.
A spokesman for the Indian army in Kashmir had a different version.
"They opened fire first and we retaliated ... In the morning again they started firing mortars again and we retaliated and the exchange of fire continued," Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said.
And there it is. No doubt the dead ones learnt something useful in that brief period between being hit and their souls flying free of their bodies. Sadly, it's highly likely that those untouched learnt nothing at all.
[Dawn] Militants destroyed a primary school for boys in Kung area of 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 Monday night.
The residents of the area said that explosives were planted at the school building that went off late on night. The kaboom caused serious damage to the building.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... no loss of life was reported in the blast.
Militants have destroyed 81 schools so far since insurgency has plagued Mohmand Agency.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Commandant Mohmand Rifles Col Mohammad Azeem said that Pakistain-Afghanistan border was sealed to stop entry of hard boyz in Mohmand Agency.
Talking to journalists at Nahaqi camp after distribution of relief goods among internally displaced persons on Tuesday, he said that all entry points along the border had been secured.
He said that hard boyz entered Mohmand Agency from Afghanistan`s side for sabotage activities in the area. Col Azeem said that hard boyz had been expelled from the area and there was peace in Mohmand. He said that displaced families would be sent back from Nahaqi camp to their homes within month.
He distributed relief goods among 900 displaced families residing in the camp.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... army distributed relief items among displaced people in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Tuesday. Relief goods were being distributed among tribal IDPs in different parts of Fata.
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Screwed Up, should be a School for Girls.
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August marks the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died.
Figures compiled by The News Agency That Can Not Be Named show that there were no American forces killed in Iraq in August either in combat or non-combat related situations.
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Another story, this one from the BBC, about the IDF providing the settlers with rules of engagement for when the Palestinians try to come marching in, and that they're to be given tear gas and stun grenades. Some new details plus the obligatory Beeb sneer.
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foreign-manufactured software or hardware components had been purposely embedded with malware or insertions that pose a security risk.
Not a surprise. I'm betting China did this. Our strategic interests are being threatened by the cozy relationship with our former enemy. This is on Washington's doorstep.
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China's enormous scale industrial espionage effort actually points out a severe problem in China.
One of the biggest values to R&D comes from doing the work, not just enjoying the results of that work. You learn as much or more by failing with experiments and process errors, as you do making breakthroughs.
This truly matters when things fail, because you don't have a clue as to why, or what process you have to change so that it works. This is why many of their high performance aircraft have crippling maintenance costs.
Look for China to sue /EPA style/ for environmental condition birth and developmental defects brought about by American firms outsourcing dirty manufacturing to China.
Look for Arab states to sue American firms for selling 'pollution enabling' goods. Kinda like the child labor law/garment manufacturing issue. Which we all ignore.
[An Nahar] One person was killed in a personal dispute that erupted into gunfire in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Miyyeh-w-Miyyeh, near the southern city of Sidon, state-run National News Agency reported. "While Rami Aql was passing by Mohammed Adwan on his cycle of violence, a dispute broke out between the two before erupting into gunfire," NNA said. Adwan died in Hammoud Hospital in Sidon where he was taken after sustaining severe gunshot wounds in the clash, the agency added.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces searching for anti-government protesters raided houses in central Syria and made arrests, activists and residents said Wednesday.
The troops backed by tanks and military vehicles entered districts in Homs and Hama as part of efforts to crush five months of street 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....
Wednesday's raids come a day after security forces killed seven people as thousands of protesters poured out of mosques and marched through cemeteries at the start of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday when Mohammedans traditionally visit graves and pray for the dead.
The three-day holiday, which started on Tuesday, marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The Local Coordination Committees activist network said security forces set on fire the homes of two activists in Houla, in the Homs province. They also threatened their families with arrest if the activists fail to turn themselves in, it said.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the at least 16 people were incarcerated in Houla Wednesday.
The activists said the military also carried out raids in districts in Hama. The military withdrew from Hama earlier this month following a weeklong military siege and military operations in the city, a hotbed of dissent against the regime.
Human rights groups said more than 2,000 civilians have been killed in the crackdown on the protest movement that erupted in mid-March.
Amnesia Amnesty International said it believed that at least 88 people, 10 of them children, have died in detention in Syria during the past five months.
Some of the victims were as young as 13, it said Tuesday. It said that in recent years the annual number of deaths behind Syrian bars has been about five.
"These deaths behind bars are reaching massive proportions, and appear to be an extension of the same brutal disdain for life that we are seeing daily on the streets of Syria," said Neil Sammonds, Amnesia Amnesty International's researcher on Syria.
In Washington, the B.O. regime announced Tuesday a new set of sanctions on Syria. The regulations ban Americans from doing business with Assad's foreign minister and two other bigwigs. The Treasury Department's action Tuesday also blocks any assets the Syrian officials may have in the United States.
The United States already had imposed sanctions on more than 30 Syrian officials -- including Assad -- and firms, and banned any U.S. import of Syrian oil or petroleum products.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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