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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Persis Khambatta aka Lt. Ilia in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)" aka Shakka Holland in "Nighthawks" aka Major Zara in "Megaforce" aka Cobalt in "Phoenix the Warrior" aka Sylvia Kruger in "First Strike" aka Nastasia in "Warrior of the Lost World" Persis Ray in "The Wilby Conspiracy" aka Nanda in "Kamasutra - Vollendung der Liebe" (age 50)
Stella Stevens aka Appassionata Von Climax in "Li'l Abner" aka Linda Rogo in "The Poseidon Adventure" aka Stella Purdy in "The Nutty Professor" aka Dolly in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" aka Hildy in "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" aka Martha Lou Williams in "Advance to the Rear" Gail Hendricks in "The Silencers" aka January 1960 Playmate of the Month (age 73)
#10
As a proud Rantburg troll/lurker formerly known as Asymmetrical Triangulation (-at-) here; I humbly ask what happened to the US warrior man-god, Sir Seafarious? Please know, that even the besotted can be patriotic and loyal to ones Country.
#11
Sir Seafarious was Emily.... a Goddess, perhaps, but not male...
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Seafarious's life got busy, Asymmetrical Triangulation. But she does still poke her head in occasionally, and even more occasionally graces us with a few pointed in-line comments in her inimitable style.
Just another reason not to be tourist anywhere in Africa...
MOMBASA/NAIROBI: Kidnappers escaped into Somalia with an elderly French hostage on Saturday after a gunbattle with Kenyan security forces. Kenyas Tourism Minister Najib Balala told Reuters several of the gang had been wounded and they were holed up on the Somali coast about 25 km (15 miles) from the border with Kenya.
Now that it is dark it is next to impossible to continue to follow. The moment is lost, said Col. John Steed, in charge of the UNs counter-piracy unit in Nairobi. Now it reverts to normal kidnapping negotiations.
The 66-year-old disabled woman was grabbed in the early hours of Saturday from a private house on the island of Manda on Kenyas northern coast.
The victims Kenyan boyfriend, John Lepapa, said six masked men brandishing assault rifles had stormed their beach house. The wheelchair-bound woman was then carried to a waiting boat in the second abduction of a foreign visitor in three weeks.
Theyve crossed the border into Ras Kamboni, Balala said, referring to the southernmost tip of Somalia that is under the control of militia fighters.
There are two aircraft on top of them monitoring their position. The wounded members of the gang appear to be hampering its ability to move deeper inland, he said.
Earlier, Kenyan coastguards surrounded the kidnappers near the border with Somalia and the bandits fired into the air in an attempt to scare off the two boats and a circling aircraft.
Analysts and diplomats in the region had warned that Somali pirates were likely to turn to softer targets, such as tourists in Kenya, in response to much more robust defense of merchant vessels by private security guards.
Lepapa, 39, and a close associate of the couple said the hostage had been battling cancer and was without her medication.
Lepapa and his partner had returned to the island in the Lamu archipelago two days earlier from France, where they spend part of each year, he told Reuters. The raid appeared well planned, he said.
All they were saying was where is the foreigner, where is the foreigner?, he said.
My girlfriend pleaded with them and told them to take whatever they wanted from the house, including the money and to spare her life, said Lepapa. But they would not listen.
Manda island is one of the pearls of the east African countrys tourism sector where visitors snorkel and bask in the sun and dhows meander lazily down the Indian Ocean.
France advised on Saturday against all travel to the archipelagos palm-fringed islands and warned against sailing along Kenyas coast due to the high risk of pirates.
In early September, gunmen attacked British tourists at a camp resort a short speedboat ride away from Lamu, killing a man and kidnapping his wife. Somali pirates said she was being held in Somalia.
The attacks risk harming Kenyan tourism which had been recovering from post-election violence and the global financial crisis.
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This is what happens when you put guns on the ships; you force the pirates to kidnap little old ladies instead! It's all the fault of the wealthy West for interfering with the income stream of the Somalis.
(And while I am being sarcastic, we all know the sentiment is real among some of our more progressive brethren.)
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"Now that it is dark it is next to impossible to continue to follow. The moment is lost," said Col. John Steed, in charge of the UN's counter-piracy unit in Nairobi. "Now it reverts to normal kidnapping negotiations."
Quite impossible yes. Besides we've got sundowners and a football game to watch. Silly wanks, vacationing here anyway. Now where are my glasses?
[Iran Press TV] Egypt's military rulers have agreed to amend the country's election law following days of public protests demanding the speedy transfer of power to a civilian rule.
The amendments proposed on Saturday will make it possible for political parties to field candidates in the one-third of seats which were previously reserved for independent candidates, AFP reported.
The decision followed a meeting between military chief of staff Sami Enan and members of the Democratic Coalition, which is an umbrella group for dozens of political groups, including the powerful Moslem Brüderbund and the liberal Wafd Party.
The participants asked for the removal of Article 5 of the election law which considers two-thirds of the seats for parties and the rest for independent candidates.
Opponents of the law fear that the article would help old regime figures return to the Egyptian parliament.
About 60 political parties and groups, including the political wing of the Moslem Brüderbund, had threatened to boycott an upcoming parliamentary election setting a Sunday deadline for the military council to meet their demands.
Cairo was the scene of angry protests in the past few days with the historic Liberation Square filled by people demanding an end to emergency laws and speedy transfer of power to a civilian rule.
Police attacked hundreds of the protesters in the square on Saturday with shields and batons, arresting 10.
At least 846 people were killed during the recent uprising in Egypt, which led to the eventual fall of Mubarak in February.
Most Egyptians are still skeptical about a rapid transition towards democracy and civilian rule in the North African country.
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[An Nahar] A man claiming to be Moussa Ibrahim, front man for Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... , denied on Saturday claims he had been captured by forces of the country's new regime outside of the deposed Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte.
"This information is a lie and does not reflect reality," the man said in a live telephone interview with Syrian-based Arrai television, which has become a conduit for declarations by Qadaffy and other elements of his former regime.
"It was my brother who was dressed in women's clothing. He's always been a little...strange."
On Thursday, field commanders with Libya's National Transitional Council said Ibrahim had been captured as he attempted to flee Sirte in a car, with some reports saying he was dressed as a woman.
Those claims quickly came into question, with a front man for the NTC's Misrata military council saying the next day: "We cannot confirm he was tossed in the clink."
On Friday, the website of the former state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel Allibiya said "Moussa Ibrahim has not been captured."
"This is a mendacious rumor aimed at distracting attention from the rebels'... defeat at the hands of the heroic forces in Sirte."
In the interview on Arrai, the purported Ibrahim said claims of his capture could not be true because at the time he was said to have been captured "I was near the Sirte front with 23 fighters. We were under attack by very well-armed rebels for more than a day and a half, and we suffered fatalities."
Ibrahim was the public voice of the Qadaffy regime.
Since NTC fighters overran Tripoli on August 23, he has continued to issue statements through Syrian-based Arrai television from an unknown location, although not so frequently in recent days.
Late last week, he appealed for resolve against "agents and traitors," denounced what he called "genocide" by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and its "Libyan agents," and criticized the world community for "inaction."
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[An Nahar] Five Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack on the southern city of Zinjibar during an operation aimed at rooting out gun-hung tough guys linked to Al-Qaeda, a medical source said.
The fighting comes a day after one of the beturbanned goon group's top leaders in the Arabian Peninsula country, U.S.-born holy manAnwar al-Awlaqi, was killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike.
"Five soldiers were killed and another three were maimed in festivities in the Bajdar district of Zinjibar," the medical source told Agence La Belle France Presse. Residents confirmed there had been shooting in the area.
On Friday, a military official reported one soldier had been killed and six presumed Al-Qaeda gunniesmaimed in a firefight in the Kud area south of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.
The military official also said five gun-hung tough guys were killed in an air raid on the same day.
Hundreds of gun-hung tough guys from the Al-Qaeda linked Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law) group overran Zinjibar in May, and the city and adjacent towns have since been the scene of bitter fighting with the army.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has taken advantage of nearly nine months of sweeping unrest 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... to bolster its presence in the restive south and east Yemen, launching regular attacks.
On Friday -- the same day Awlaqi was killed -- AQAP issued a new claim of responsibility for deadly attacks.
In a statement received by AFP in the main southern Yemeni city Aden, the group said it was behind a series of attacks in the south, but made no mention of Awlaqi's death in an air strike east of Sanaa.
AQAP said it had killed 130 Yemeni troops in an attack on a garrison in Zinjibar, east of Aden, on September 14.
It said it had killed two Yemeni soldiers in an attack on September 11 and 10 in another the following day.
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ANWAR AL AWLAQI
al-Qaeda in Arabia
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion on Friday locked away three alleged members of banned beturbanned goon outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir including two Buet students in front of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday.
The arrestees are Rashidul Islam alias Rana, 22, a 4th year student of electrical engineering and Ahmed Sajid Hasan, 22, a 3rd year student of civil engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) and SM Arafat, 19, a 3rd year student of BBA at International University of Business Agriculture and Technology.
Producing them before newsmen at Rab-3 office in Tikatuli yesterday afternoon, Deputy Director of Rab-3 Chowdhury Md Hamid Al-Mahbub said they locked away the Hizb ut-Tahrir activists around 2:35pm while they were distributing leaflets containing anti-government statements.
The arrestees told news hounds that they were trying to motivate people through distributing leaflets to establish Khilafat and rule of Islam.
They did not disclose the names of their leaders and the source of leaflets.
The Rab official said they found some mobile phone numbers used by Hizb ut-Tahrir men and were trying to trace them.
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[Dawn] A roadside kaboom targeting a police van on Saturday killed three newly recruited coppers and maimed 10 others in northwestern Pakistain, officials said.
The incident took place in Torghar district, a mountainous region of restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, where forces of Evil frequently attack government officials and troops.
"It was a remote-controlled bomb. The target was the police vehicle. Three police recruits were killed and 10 were maimed," Farid Khan, the district's top police officer, told AFP.
Khalid Umarzai, another senior government official in the area confirmed the incident and the casualties.
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[Dawn] The security forces foiled a sabotage attempt and recovered a 30 kilogram bomb and 15 kilogram explosive powder during a search operation near Gomal, about 20 kilometres off Tank city on Friday.
The law-enforcement agencies took the action on information that some anti-state elements were present in the Kot Hakeem village near Gomal Bazaar in Tank.
The security forces and police launched a joint search operation in the area and cordoned off the entire village directing the people to stay indoors.
The operation continued till late in the evening.
The security forces recovered 15 kilogram explosive powder and a 30 kilogram bomb which had been abandoned by the myrmidons in the nearby fields while fleeing before the operation was launched. No arrest was made.
Military authorities told news hounds that the possible targets of the faceless myrmidons could have been the Gomal Bazaar cop shoppe and the Kaur Fort where the army and paramilitary forces were staying.
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[Dawn] A top-ranking jihad boy 'commander' and a close aide to Maulvi Nazir was among three Islamic fascistikilled in a dronezap in South Wazoo on Friday.
The pilotless aircraft fired eight missiles targeting a vehicle carrying Islamic fascistiof the group of Maulavi Nazir, near the ancestral graveyard of Ahmedzai Wazir and Masud tribes in Angoor Adda area. The vehicle was destroyed and three forces of Evil were killed on the spot.
Local people carried away the three bodies. Noorullah, a resident of the area, told Dawn by phone that Islamic fascistiof Maulvi Nazir group reached the area soon after the attack, cordoned it off and took the bodies away.
Sources in intelligence agencies, political administration and witnesses confirmed the death of three jihad boys, including top commander Aleemullah, a close associate of Maulvi Nazir.
He was said to be the fourth on the seniority list of commanders of the Nazir group. He belonged to Wana and had beat feet several drone attacks in the past.
The other two Islamic fascistikilled in the attack were identified as Haji Karam and Kharh who hailed from Angoor Adda.
AGENCIES ADD: "A US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle and at least three Islamic fascistiwere killed," a security bigshot said.
At least two other Pak intelligence officials confirmed the drone strike and the corpse count.
The dead were identified as local rustics who fought under a nebulous Taliban umbrella, on behalf of jihad boy leader Maulvi Nazir, whose fighters are allied to the Haqqanis and active in the 10-year war in Afghanistan.
The missile attacks are seen at the most effective weapon Washington has at hitting Al Qaeda and Afghan Islamic fascistilike the Haqqanis in the northwest. There were more than 100 such attacks last year; this year there have been around 50.
Most have hit targets in North Waziristan, considering the main jihad boy sanctuary and the base of the Haqqani network.
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Angoor Adda
COMANDER ALIMULLAH
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
HAJI KARAM
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
KHARH
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
MAULAVI NAZIR
al-Qaeda in Pakistan
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[Dawn] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded death penalty to Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri on Saturday, DawnNews reported. He's to go the way of Omar Saeed Sheikh...
Mr Taseer was assassinated by his security guard and personnel of Punjab Elite Force, Mumtaz Qadri, on January 4, 2011 at Kohsar Market in Islamabad.
"The court has awarded my client with death. The court announced the death sentence for him," Shujaur Rehman, one of Qadri's lawyers, told AFP by telephone.
Judge Pervez Ali Shah announced the verdict at the court behind closed doors in the high-security Adiyala prison in Rawalpindi, the lawyer said.
Qadri had earlier confessed in court that he had killed Punjab governor Salman Taseer for his 'blasphemous' statements.
Qadri's supporters erupted into the streets to denounce the sentence soon after it was handed down.
"By punishing one Mumtaz Qadri, you will produce a thousand Mumtaz Qadris!" one man shouted through a megaphone outside the jail.
The court handed down two death sentences for murder and terrorism to Qadri, who has seven days to file an appeal, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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Reporters and other members of the public were not allowed in to the hearing and it was not known if Qadri attended.
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[Dawn] Several religious and political parties on Friday held protest rallies across the province against the United States.
That's nice. Fresh air, sunshine and a bit of healthy exercise are good for the soul as well as the body.
The Jamaat-i-Islami activists led by provincial naib amir Mushtaq Ahmed, secretary information Israrullah and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar JI amir Bahrullah brought out a rally from Hashtnagri to Ashraf Road.
They were holding banners and placards and shouting slogan against the increasing US influence in the region. The people also set on fire the American flag on the occasion.
Amazingly enough, nobody caught on fire as well.
The leaders asked the government to sever diplomatic ties with the US and change its foreign policy. They said that the rulers were a security risk as they had failed to take a firm stand against the US pressure.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistain (Noorani) also held a rally at Sher Shah Suri Road. The participants holding banners and placards marched on the road and raised anti-US slogans.
The activists of Pakistain Patriotic Movement also held a rally at Sher Shah Suri Road near Cantonment Railways Station and set on fire effigy of US President B.O.. They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans in support of Pakistain army.
CHARSADDA: The activists of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistain blocked the main Charsadda road at Farooq Azam Chowk to lodge protest against US threats.
The workers and local leaders erupted into the streets soon after the Friday prayers. The protesters, holding placards and banners, were raising anti-American slogans to express their anguish over the remarks of US Admiral Mike Mullen.
Addressing the rally, the JUI leaders including former MNA and party district amir Maulana Gohar Shah, former MNA Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq, Fakhar Alam Khan, Maulana Arif and others said that America had once again challenged the ego of Mohammedans and insulting Pakistain to justify attacks.
MARDAN: JUI-F and JUP on Friday organised separate rallies after Friday prayers and lashed out at American demands for action against Haqqani network.
On the occasion, the religious leaders said that America was the biggest terrorist of the world which had been exporting terrorism to other countries of the world.
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BAHRULLAH
Jamaat-e-Islami
FAKHAR ALAM KHAN
JUI
GHULAM MOHAMAD SADIQ
JUI
ISRARULLAH
Jamaat-e-Islami
MAULANA ARIF
JUI
MAULANA GOHAR SHAH
JUI
MAULANA QAISARUDIN
JUI-F
MAULANA TAJUL AMIN
JUI-F
MOHAMAD FAIAZ KHAN
JUP
MUSHTAQ AHMED
Jamaat-e-Islami
QARI ABDUL HADI
JUP
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[Iran Press TV] Israeli forces have launched an Arclight airstrike on the northern Gazoo Strip that has injured at least three Paleostinians.
Late on Saturday, an Israeli drone fired a rocket at a group of Paleostinians in the town of Beit Hanoun.
The attack injured at least three people, one of whom is reportedly at death's door and has been declared brain dead.
Israeli Arclight airstrikes in the Gazoo Strip have claimed the lives of scores of Paleostinians and injured many more.
In late August, a wave of Israeli violence killed about 26 Paleostinians and maimed dozens of others in the Gazoo Strip, according to Xinhua.
Israel has been launching regular Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip since the end of its December 2008-January 2009 war on the Paleostinian territory.
The 22-day war left over 1,400 Paleostinians dead and injured thousands more.
The three weeks of unrelenting aerial, land, and sea strikes also destroyed thousands of civilian and government buildings and devastated much of Gazoo's infrastructure.
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Kill all the muslim and christian scum in "palestine".
Israel was given to the Jews by God. The christians and muslims must be exterminated or exiled.
This is only your second visit here, Israel4Jews, so you don't know. We do not advocate genocide, here at Rantburg. Do that again, under whatever nym, and you will be banned.
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Hey Abdul, still trying to Moby your way through life? Admit it. The closest you have ever been to anything Jewish is you once passed a kosher hot dog stand while going to council office to collect your welfare check.
TW, he won't last long here. His visa should be approved any day now so he go and marry his Paki sister and be "otherwise occupied". He won't "last long" there either.
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Facinating! But I dare say they'll never replicate with TTL, man's innate capability for cognitive em>remote viewing. "Every soldier citizen a sensor".... and all of that. I want no part of the man's future. It frightens me.
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There was a science fiction book by Gibson that postulated a counter for computerized facial recognition. Basically the computer running the software was hacked. A government secret agency wanted cover for their own agents so when an agent was violating the law of their own country they'd were a piece of clothing with an embedded code that would signal the software not to see them. Of course the hardest thing for a secret agency to do , at least in fiction, is to keep a secret.
The demonstrations are Phase I, the repression is Phase II. This is Phase III...
[Emirates 24/7] Syrian troops fought intense battles with hundreds of fellow soldiers who have turned their weapons against the regime of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... , revealing the increasingly militarised nature of an uprising started months ago by peaceful protesters.
Also Friday, tens of thousands of demonstrators erupted into the streets across the country as they do each week after Friday prayers, braving gunfire by government forces who have waged a relentless crackdown. At least 11 protesters were killed and scores were maimed, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups said.
Opposition activists and the government confirmed a fourth straight day of battles in Rastan, just north of the central city of Homs. The fighting, which began with a government assault on Tuesday, is some of the most intense since the outpouring against Assad's regime began in mid-March.
The army defections as well as reports that once-peaceful protesters are increasingly taking up arms to fight the six-month-old government crackdown have raised concerns of the risk of civil war in a country with a deep sectarian divide.
Around 250 tanks and other army vehicles began entering the town early in the day, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"The army has been trying to push forward in Rastan for the past four days but they have not been able to," said an activist who spoke on condition of anonymity because the sensitivity of the topic. The Syrian government has banned foreign journalists and placed heavy restrictions on local media coverage, making it difficult to independently verify events on the ground. The UN says some 2,700 people have already died in the government crackdown since mid-March.
The army defectors involved in battles in the Rastan area and in the Jabal Al Zawiyah region in the northern Idlib province number around 2,000, according to another prominent rights activist who also spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Syria has a volatile sectarian divide, making this kind of civil unrest one of the most dire scenarios. The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, but the country is overwhelmingly Sunni Mohammedan.
The town of Rastan, from which the Syrian army draws many of its Sunni Mohammedan recruits, has seen some of the largest numbers of defections to date.
Syria-based rights activist Mustafa Osso said Rastan had witnessed more defections in recent days and the deserters were fighting to prevent troops loyal to Assad from entering the town.
Hundreds of Rastan residents came out in demonstrations in support of the defectors, he added.
A military official said the days of festivities in Rastan have killed seven soldiers and coppers as government forces conducted a "qualitative" operation on Thursday and Friday in an effort to crush "gunnies" holed up inside the town.
Thirty-two other troops were maimed, the official said. The comments by the unidentified official were carried by state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... SANA on Friday and were a government acknowledgment of the stiff resistance in Rastan. Many gunnies were also killed or tossed in the clink, the official said. The government describes its armed opponents as "terrorist gangs," not army defectors.
The official said the gunnies had terrorized citizens, blocked roads and set up barriers and explosives.
Friday's protests spread from the capital, Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and its suburbs to the southern province of Daraa, the coastal city of Latakia, the northwestern province of Idlib as well as Hama and Homs.
Eleven people were killed, according to the London-based Observatory and Osso, the activist. Most of the dead were from the province of Hama. Others were killed in Homs and Idlib, they said.
They had no immediate word on Friday's corpse count in Rastan because of the intensity of the fighting.
Amateur videos posted online by activists showed thousands of people shouting in support of Rastan. In the Damascus neighborhood of Hajar Aswad, hundreds chanted, "Rastan is the castle of defiance."
"Rastan will overthrow the regime," read one banner waved by protesters in the Damascus neighborhood of Qadam. Many of the protesters there covered their faces with scarves or masks to hide their identities.
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[An Nahar] A woman and her two daughters were maimed Saturday near Al-Nasiri mosque in Tripoli's Bab Al-Tebbaneh neighborhood due to a hand grenade kaboom, the National News agency reported. The Agency added that the security forces arrived at the scene and started investigating, adding that the maimed were taken to Al-Khairi hospital in Tripoli for medical treatment. The city has been shaken by the uprising in mainly Sunni Syria 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... , an Alawite. In April, six people were killed in festivities sparked by an anti-Assad rally in Tripoli.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian National Council, which is trying to unite opponents to the regime of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... , was holding negotiations behind closed doors in Istanbul on Saturday.
Several opposition movements are trying to reach an alliance, a member of the SNC Halit Hoca told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We have been holding discussions for several days with Burhan Ghalioun, there are also Kurds and representatives of tribes," he said.
Ghalioun, an academic based in La Belle France, was recently designated the leader of a rival opposition grouping, the National Transitional Council, which has Islamist and nationalist supporters.
"When the SNC meets, there will be a new assembly which will be expanded to these new movements," Hoca said, adding that the meeting originally scheduled to be held on Saturday would now not take place before Sunday at the earliest because of the negotiations.
The SNC, the largest and most representative Syrian opposition grouping, was founded in Istanbul at the end of August and numbers 140 figures, half of them living in Syria.
The Istanbul meeting of members currently outside Syria is due to elect the president of the SNC and heads of various committees.
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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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[Dawn] The security forces foiled a sabotage attempt and recovered a 30 kilogram bomb and 15 kilogram explosive powder during a search operation near Gomal, about 20 kilometres off Tank city on Friday.
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Several religious and political parties on Friday held protest rallies across the province against the United States.
[Iran Press TV] Israeli forces have launched an 
President-for-Life Bashir 
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