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Coleen Gray aka Fen in "Red River" aka Fay in "The Killing" aka Nettie "Kiss of Death" Helen Foster in "Kansas City Confidential" aka Mrs. Gil Manton in "Sabre Jet" aka June Talbot in "The Leech Woman" aka Liara in "The Phantom Planet" (age 89)
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... bully boyz were on the back foot on Saturday evening as they faced heavy bombardment from multiple fronts from a combined force of Kenyan troops, US drones, African Union peacekeepers and Transitional Federal Government fighters.
Reports from the battlefront indicated that Kenyan troops were advancing towards four al-Shabaab-controlled towns as they launched a final push to capture the Kismayu port and Afmadow in Central Jubaland.
There was progress on the diplomatic front, too, when the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) member states endorsed the military offensive against the bully boyz during a special conference held in Addis Abba Ethiopia on Friday.
The Igad Council of Ministers urged the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council to impose a blockade on Kismayu, a move which will effectively cut off billions of shillings collected by the bully boyz to fund their insurgency.
A statement from the military said Kenyan security forces were advancing towards Burgavo town in southern Somalia after capturing Oddo on Friday. (READ: Kenya targets al-Shabaab's lifeline)
Another group was marching towards the town of Badade from the direction of Kolbio which they conquered on Friday. The troops had earlier bombed areas around Munarani near Oddo from the air, flattening an al-Shabaab command centre.
A third company was moving towards the town of Hayo in Central Jubaland after the heavy rains that have been pounding the area subsided.
Simultaneously, fighters allied to the TFG were closing in on Afmadow amid reports that al-Shabaab bully boyz were regrouping in the town of Bula Haji and heading towards Afmadow.
It is expected that a deadly confrontation between the Kenyan and TFG troops on one side and the bully boyz on the other may be witnessed in that town.
The al-Shabaab bully boyz are reported to have sent fighters around the River Juba area in a bid to stop Kenya and Somalia troops from advancing into Kismayu territories in a bid to cut off billions of shillings they earn in port fees and illegal sale of contrabands goods.
The Kenya army alone is reported to have deployed at least 4,000 soldiers backed by Transitional Federal Somalia Government troops for a ground invasion of Kismayu. Shouldn't the 'Transitional Federal' troops deploy and be backed by the Kenyan troops?
Navy ships fitted with heavy weapons are reported to have arrived in the Somalia territorial waters and set up base around Bajuni Islands of Kudai, Ndoa, Chuvaye, Koyama, Fuma Iyu na Tini and Nchoni Islands.
Reports which could not independently be verified emerged that at least 44 bully boyz were killed following a deadly attack by US drones in Ras Kiamboni on Friday.
A day earlier, another 22 bully boyz had been killed in a similar attack in Kudhaa Island near the Kenyan border, according to reports carried by Press TV.
In Dhobley, one of the six former al-Shabaab strongholds so far captured by the Kenyan forces, Kenyan soldiers were being hailed as heroes after pushing out the bully boyz who have been oppressing locals for years.
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The pulps, whose covers are occasionally relevant here, reflect a time between the world wars where, in distant places, improbable things could be imagined without stretching anyone's credulity.
The only thing standing between a latter-day pulp writer and a couple of heavy-jawed American soldiers of fortune in this dust-up (who take time to run up to Somalia to rescue a cute blonde)is the fact that it's probably classified.
Come to think of it, who'd believe it if it were in a pulp? Remember "True" magazine? And "Stag"? Bring'em back, I say.
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Somalia became too big a threat to the vital Kenyan tourism industry and something had to be done.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] David and Judith Tebbutt planned to wrap up their Kenya vacation in style.
After a week in the vast Maasai Mara wildlife reserve, the British couple headed to the powdery white beaches of Kiwayu Safari Village, an exclusive resort on Kenya's northern coast.
Previous guests at its 18 thatched huts have included movie icon Mick Jagger and Princes William and Harry, but on this particular night the Tebbutts had the place all to themselves.
After dinner the 58-year-old publishing executive and his 56-year-old wife, a social worker, walked in the moonlight along the edge of the sea to their secluded $1,720 (Sh172,000) a-night lodgings.
Shortly after midnight, one of the resort's watchmen heard a single gunshot. David Tebbutt was found face-down across the bed, its mosquito net cradling his head, dead from a bullet through his chest.
His wife was gone. Footprints in the sand showed how she had been marched more than a kilometre up the shore to a cove where a skiff (small boat) had apparently been moored.
A search started immediately, but there was little hope of finding her. The resort is only a short distance south of a land that for the past generation has had no law but the gun: Somalia.
The September 11, 2011 incident proved to be only the first in a series of unprecedented attacks.
Twenty nights later and some 110 kilometres farther down the coast, a gang of Somali gunnies kidnapped Marie Dedieu, 66, a retired French journalist.
And two weeks ago, even as Kenya's armed forces strengthened their presence against attacks from the sea, suspected al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... militia members grabbed two Spanish women who were working for Doctors Without Borders in the Dadaab refugee camp, some 240 kilometres inland.
The sprawling city of makeshift tents and huts has become home to roughly 450,000 Somalis who have been driven from their own country by war and famine. (A senior al-Shabaab official denied that his group had anything to do with the abduction.)
Somalia's problems have boiled over and are threatening Kenya. In the past the failed state's pirates confined their attacks to ships on the open sea, and the Islamists focused their ransom kidnappings on aid workers inside Somalia.
Now both groups are making hostage-taking raids on dry land, and Kenya is a victim. Tourism, a mainstay of the economy, was already hit hard by the global recession.
But since the attacks began, many vacationers have cancelled their reservations. Foreign investors have halted funding for major projects until the government sorts out its security problems.
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Slain dictator Moammar Qadaffy's ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... influential son and heir-apparent, Saif al-Islam, has been captured alive and uninjured, rebel sources told NBC News on Saturday.
Saif al-Islam and Moussa Ibrahim, the former front man for the Qadaffy's regime, were both captured in the Libyan city of Nessma, near Bani Walid, and were currently being transported to Misrata, rebel forces told NBC News.
The collaring of Qadaffy's runaway son and front man could not be immediately verified. Rebel forces have been incorrect in the past with their reporting of the conditions and whereabouts of Qadaffy's loyalists.
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Is this the one that has a PhD from the University of London?
I haven't been keeping track.
America showed how to deal with the sons of dictators in Iraq.
[Tripoli Post] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's operations in Libya are very close to completion and it has taken a preliminary decision to end Operation Unified Protector, OUP, at the end of this month, the alliance's secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at the end of the meeting of the North Atlantic Council with the OUP partners to assess the situation in Libya.
In his statement at a presser at the NATO headquarter in Brussels, Friday evening, Mr Rasmussen went on to say that a formal decision is to be taken early next week. In the meantime he will continue consultations with the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... and Libya's National Transitional Council about NATO' involvement.
"We agreed that NATO will wind down the operation, during which period - that means until the 31st of October - NATO would monitor the situation and retain the capacity to respond to threats to civilians if needed," he said.
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[Yemen Post] As soon as the Media announced the adoption of a UN resolution on Yemen, the regime immediately resumed its shelling campaign on Hasaba, a stronghold of Sheikh Sadeeq al-Ahmar, Saleh's main tribal and political opponent, proving to many of his detractors that he never had any intention of stepping down from the presidency.
As loud kabooms were heard across several northern districts of the capital, protesters in the Square also suffered Saleh's wrath as the latter unleashed his elite units, the Elite Republican Guards, onto unarmed protesters.
As fighst raged all through the night between troops loyal to Sheikh Sadeeq al-Ahmar and the government forces, news licked that the rustics were gaining ground against Saleh, many eye-witnesses confirming that the Elite Republican Guards bodies were piling up in Hasaba, while the tribe had only lost 5 of its men.
Defected General Mohsen's military base north of Sana'a was also under attack as Saleh's loyalists started pounding the base with mortar shells and RPGs.
After a brief respite at dawn, festivities resumed in new areas of the capital, leading residents to fear that an all-out war in only hours away.
In al-Jeraf, an area situated between al-Hasaba and Sana'a International Airport, might kabooms were reported by residents, as eye-witnesses added that tunnels of smoke were seen hovering over the area.
Checkpoints throughout the capital have seen an increase in security as soldiers in full gear are carefully checking cars and passengers, preventing any weapons from being smuggled into the "conflict zone".
Members of the Opposition have asked the international community to bear witness of this new bout of violence, stressing that Saleh was looking for war.
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[Yemen Post] In an interview with Yemeni TV channel, Suhail, which belongs to Sheikh Hameed al-Ahmar, Yemen's richest businessmen and most virulent critic of the regime, defected General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar announced today that he had just uncovered one of Saleh's plans.
According to the General, his information services would have intercepted a phone call between president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , his sons and nephews, in which he was ordering them to finish off the revolutionaries by both striking the Square and Hasaba.
He added that Saleh has specifically told them to lay the ground bare as he did not wish to see one building left standing. "Men, women or children, whoever stands in your way, just get rid of them" Saleh allegedly told his family members.
This new claim is coming amidst rumors that the regime is planning an Arclight airstrike against the revolution's strongholds in the capital. Although the Yemen Post could not independently verify the allegations, several sources both in the government and the Opposition seem to be taking the threat seriously.
"Since Saleh has been furiously attacking the Square and Hasaba from last night, we can expect anything," said a politician.
A young mother of 3, who leaves near Sana'a Textile factory, not too far off from the American Embassy, told the Yemen Post this morning that the Elite Republican Guards came knocking on her door late last night, informing all her neighbors that they had 24 hours to vacate the premises. Terrorized she left her apartment with her 3 children in tow, heading to a safer place in the capital.
Added to that the leaflets left by the regime a couple of days ago warning the dissidents troops that they a choice in between surrendering or dying, things are hitting up fast in the Yemeni capital.
In any case, it seems that Qadaffy's ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... and the UN resolution have both triggered a strong reaction from the regime as more shelling north of the capital is said to be intensifying and spreading to new areas.
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[Yemen Post] For the past few days, Taiz the second largest Yemeni city suffered much violence as kabooms and fierce shootouts resounded well through the night in various districts.
But as in other parts of the country where protesters suddenly felt emboldened by the announcement of Qadaffy's ... who is now napping peacefully in the dirt... departure from the gene pool as it proved them that the people could very well topple their own regime and claim victory, citizens decided that the time of apathy was over.
"We cannot stay on the sideline any longer... at this point in time it is a betrayal of our people...if we die, we die but at least we would have tried," said a school teacher who only recently decided to join in the protests.
Fueled by the Libyan victory and the UN resolution, Taiz rose against the government thugs who had taken refuge in Ekhwah and Shaab Schools, managing to force men loyal to president Saleh out of the premises following a violent confrontation. As a result 6 people were reported injured. According to residents, the matter started Friday as demonstrators started to chant anti-regime slogan, echoed by children who were looking onto the crowd form the school's balcony.
An angry soldier then grabbed a child and threw him out onto the street below where onlookers watched in horror. The child is now receiving treatment at the hospital.
This nonsensical attack on an unarmed and innocent child infuriated the crowd who since yesterday has been trying to dislodge the criminals. Today the people of Taiz eventually managed to free the schools, defeating Saleh's thugs.
In "Liberty Square" protesters were more defiant than even, convinced that Saleh's clock was ticking away its time in the presidency.
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[An Nahar] Turkey on Saturday kept up a major offensive against Kurdish rebels on its border and in northern Iraq on the third day of operations after rebel attacks killed 24 Turkish soldiers.
The military activity continued on both sides of the border, said an AFP photographer in the southeastern town of Cizre, less than 40 miles (70 kilometres) from the Iraqi frontier.
Local residents saw a convoy of 43 military trucks returning from the north of Iraq where members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are holed up, he added.
The operation was continuing in Kazan valley in Hakkari province in the southeast, private NTV television reported.
Turkish helicopters dropped commando units and several Kurdish rebels were killed in festivities, it added.
Fifty-three rebels were killed since the operations began in the Kazan valley, the daily Hurriyet reported on its website, quoting unidentified sources as saying that the toll could increase.
More than 49 of the rebels were killed in two days during a major offensive in the country's mainly Kurdish south, the army announced on Saturday.
"A total of 49 gun-hung tough guys were rendered ineffective over the last two days," said the General Staff in a statement posted on its website, adding that the operation was continuing.
PKK guerrillas last Wednesday killed 24 soldiers and maimed 18 in the mainly Kurdish southeast along the Iraqi border, the army's biggest losses since 1993.
The simultaneous attacks prompted the Turkish military to launch air and land operations against bases of the PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community. Some 10,000 troops on the ground are involved in Turkey's operations, backed by jets and helicopters.
In a statement on its website on Friday, the military said the majority of the land and air operations are in Turkey, mainly in the Cukurca region -- the combat zone of the latest PKK attacks. It did not specify how many troops, composed of commando units, gendarmerie and Special Forces, had entered Iraq.
Turkey is seeking support from its neighbors and Europe for its military campaign.
"The PKK is not only Turkey's enemy but also Europe's," Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency on Saturday.
"The security of Gay Paree, Brussels, London begins from Sirnak, Hakkari" provinces in Turkey's southeast, said Bagis. "We must fight against terrorism all together."
The attacks by Kurdish rebels have also mobilized Turkey's civil society. Representatives of non-governmental organizations, business associations and professional chambers across Turkey are readying to meet with the president, prime minister and opposition party leaders, Turkish media reported.
Others in the southeast are expected to go to the Qandil Mountains in an attempt to convince the PKK to lay down arms, it added.
Clashes between the PKK and the army have escalated since the summer. Turkey's last ground incursion into northern Iraq, an autonomous Kurdish region, was in February 2008, when the army struck against the Zap region.
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Libya's transitional leader declared his country's liberation Sunday after an 8-month civil war and set out plans for the future with an Islamist tone. The announcement was clouded, however, by international pressure to explain how ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi had been captured alive days earlier, then ended up dead from a gunshot to his head shortly afterward.
Gadhafi's death in circumstances that are still unclear, and the gruesome spectacle of his body laid out as a trophy in a commercial freezer and on public view, are testing the new Libyan leaders' commitment to the rule of law. Even at the ceremony to declare liberation, a couple speakers in positions of authority essentially said Gadhafi got what he deserved.
But transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, who made the keynote speech, did not mention the events surrounding Gadhafi's end and called on his people to eschew hatred.
"You should only embrace honesty, patience, and mercy," Abdul-Jalil told the crowd at the declaration ceremony in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising against Gadhafi. He urged Libyans to reconcile their differences.
And he laid out a vision for the post-Gadhafi future with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the "basic source" of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In a gesture that showed his own piety, he urged Libyans not to express their joy by firing guns in the air, but rather to chant "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great. He then stepped aside from the podium and knelt to offer a brief prayer of thanks.
Using Sharia as the main source of legislation is stipulated in the constitution of neighboring Egypt. Still, Egyptian laws remain largely secular as Sharia does not cover all aspects of modern day life.
[Dawn] Thousands of locals decamped Bara tehsil on Friday as security forces moved in with tanks and artillery to clear the troubled areas of Khyber Agency of thugs.
Officials in the local administration said that residents of Mandi Kas, Yousuf Talab, Jansi, Malakdin Khel and Sipah were forewarned to leave their abodes in view of the imminent military operation against thugs.
Thursday saw bloody festivities between the security forces and gunnies in Bara which reportedly left 34 gunnies and five soldiers dead.
Maqbali Khan, a resident of Yousuf Talab area, told Dawn that local administration made announcements through mosque loud speakers and local FM radio station on Thursday night asking locals to vacate their houses by 12:00 noon on Friday for
security reasons, adding that the deadline was later extended to 03:00pm.
He contested political tehsildar Farooq Khan's claim that his administration arranged transport for the deserting families and said most of the people, including women, children and the elderly, went to safer places on foot carrying their belongings.
The political tehsildar said people were asked to go to Jalozai camp near Pabbi but they either stayed with relatives in nearby Bara villages or moved to Shiekhan, Naway Kalay, Batta Thal and Badabher areas near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. "Not a single family has so far reached Jalozai camp," he said.
Suhbat Khan, a former agency councilor and a resident of Malakdin Khel, said he struggled to shift his injured aunt to hospital due to unavailability of public transport in the area, adding that his aunt was critically injured when a stray mortar fell on his house on Thursday.
He said most of the families had to leave their belongings, including cattle, after they were ordered to leave on Thursday for safer places without delay though there was no transport available to them.
An official of the local administration said people were told to leave the restive areas ahead of the military operation so as to minimise collateral damage. He said over the last couple of days, around a dozen people, including women and kiddies, died of the critical injuries inflicted on them by mortar shells, which the gunnies fired at their houses.
The official said nearly 1,000 families left the area after notices were served on them to go away.
Speaking to Dawn by phone from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, a front man for Lashkar-i-Islam denied the killing of 34 of the banned thug outfit's gunnies by security forces in Malakdin Khel on Thursday and claimed that only five of its armed volunteers were killed in the festivities.
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A tehsildar (Urdu: تحصیلدار, Hindi: तहसीलदार) is a revenue administrative officer in Pakistan and India in charge of obtaining taxation from a tehsil. The term is of imperial Mughal origin made of "tahsil", an Islamic administrative derived from Arabic, meaning "revenue generating; collection" and "dar", Persian for "holder of a position", together meaning tax collector. The role of tehsildar continued during the period of British Rule and was subsequently used by Pakistan and India following their independence from the British. The deputy of a tehsildar is known as a naib tehsildar
Fred modify your translator to replace tehsildar with "revenuer".
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A timber factory owner and his son were injure in a gun attack by suspected terrorists militants in Yala province on Sunday morning.
The incident took place at about 8:30 a.m. when Pradit Lai-arporn, 72, the factory owner, and his son Prapan, 36, arrived at the factory. When the son got out of his truck to open the factory gate, two motorcycles arrived with three men and a woman. The pillion riders, one man and the woman, opened fire at the two with handguns. Mr Pradit was hit once in the head and twice in the body while his son was hit in the right leg.
The attackers fled on their motorcycles after the attack.
[An Nahar] The residents of the town of Tarshish in the Zahleh region prevented on Friday members of Hizbullah from expanding the party's telecommunications network in the area, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
It explained that party members sought to expand the network as a team from the Telecommunications Ministry was installing fiber optic cables to improve internet services.
"The municipal police noticed the party's activity and prevented it from continuing its work," it added.
An Internal Security Forces patrol soon arrived at the scene to tackle the situation.
Soon after, Hizbullah official Hussein Janbey arrived at the scene and a meeting was held between the Tarshish municipal council, headed by Gaby Samaan, and Hizbullah delegation headed by Janbey, reported al-Liwaa daily on Saturday.
The municipal delegation informed Hizbullah of the residents' rejection of the installation of the party's network in the town because they believe it to be illegal.
For its part, Hizbullah insisted on completing its activity, while the residents maintained their position resulting in tensions between the two sides and the "stormy meeting" ended, added the daily.
The party delegation informed the residents that they had experienced more difficult situations in the past, insisting on continuing its activity and stressing that no one would stop it, reported al-Liwaa.
A source from Tarshish told the daily that the town was surprised when Hizbullah members arrive to expand their network, revealing that another meeting will be held to tackle the affair.
In addition, it said that this issue had started three months ago and the government and concerned ministries had not taken any action over this matter "despite the fact the party is trying to expand its network in the town by force."
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea. To make it work, though, she needed the lantern... Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui said in a statement: "No side, whether it is official or unofficial, has the right to use the ministry's network for its personal use without first receiving legal permission from the ministry to do so."
MTV later reported on Saturday that armed individuals and cars with tinted windows have been spotted in Tarshsih after Hizbullah was prevented from expanding its telecommunications network.
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damage to fiber optics lines is very expensive to repair. Just saying
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This has all the earmarks of a 'crosfire' in the making. "Stay tuned," as they say....
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army has bolstered its presence along the Lebanese-Syrian border in light of recent Syrian army incursions into the country, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Saturday.
Field sources told the daily that the army has also intensified its patrols in those areas.
"The residents of Jabal Okroum and Wadi Khaled in the North near the Syrian border have started to sense the army's influence since its deployment in the region and they have become more at ease with the situation following the tensions that have accompanied the Syrian incursions," they added.
A security source told the daily: "The Lebanese army and security forces are constantly present along the north eastern border and they have been performing their duties in maintaining their duties in these regions."
"These forces weren't waiting for security instability in order to carry out their responsibilities," they stated.
"The incidents that have taken place in Arsal and al-Qaa in the Bekaa and Okroum and Wadi Khaled demanded that the military presence in those regions be bolstered," it explained.
"Our northeastern borders are secure and there is nothing to worry about despite some individual incidents," it assured.
"There is no need for tensions because we are dealing with a fraternal state that understands our situation as we understand its own," it stressed.
On Tuesday, conflicting reports said that Syrian troops had infiltrated al-Qaa in the Bekaa region, killing two Syrian army defectors.
On October 4, Syrian tanks crossed the Lebanese border and headed towards the region of Arsal in the Bekaa where they fired at an abandoned battery factory.
On October 3, more than 20 Syrian soldiers infiltrated 500 meters deep into Lebanese territory in the area of Rajam Beit Khalaf and al-Kalkha in Wadi Khaled in the northern province of Akkar.
A few weeks prior to that Syrian troops entered part of northern Leb where they accidentally fired at Lebanese soldiers.
The Secretary General of the Lebanese-Syrian Higher Council Nasri Khoury stressed on Friday the daily coordination between the Lebanese and Syrian armies, adding that they hold field meetings on a weekly basis to this end.
He said after holding talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati: "The Syrian army did not infiltrate Lebanese territory as it had been claimed and the Lebanese army can vouch for this as it is responsible for controlling the situation on the border."
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[An Nahar] Syria's military clampdown on protest hubs, and skirmishes pitting soldiers against armed gunnies, believed to be defectors, killed at least 11 people dead on Saturday, activists said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... Iran, Syria's key ally, took a tougher stance against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , openly condemning its crackdown on dissent that has left more than 3,000 people dead, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad condemned the "killings and massacre" in Syria in an interview with CNN, in the Islamic republic's strongest criticism of its neighbor's deadly repression of protests calling for greater freedom and the fall of the Assad regime.
"We condemn killings and massacre in Syria, whether it is security forces being killed or people and the opposition," Ahmadinejad said, according to excerpts of the interview carried by the website of Iran's state broadcaster.
"We have a clear formula for Syria and that is for all sides to sit together and reach an understanding ... therefore these killings cannot solve any problems and in the long term it will lead to a deadlock," he added.
"When people are being killed, it paves the way for more quarrels ... There should be no foreign interference (in Syria)," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in what appeared to be an indirect warning to Washington.
The United States has repeatedly called for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on 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 was strongly critical of vetoes by China and Russia earlier this month of even a watered-down draft threatening "targeted measures."
Tehran has been concerned about the possible collapse of its principal Middle East ally and had previously avoided speaking out against the regime's deadly crackdown, accusing instead its traditional foes Israel and the United States of stirring up trouble in Syria.
A shift in Iran could bode poorly for Assad's regime, which already lost the support of Turkey, one of its treasured allies in the region, over the violence of its security forces against a primarily peaceful protest movement despite recent reports of mounting armed resistance.
Clashes between the army and gunnies believed to be defectors on Saturday left one person dead in the northwestern province of Idlib, near Turkey, the rights groups said.
In Sermeen, also in Idlib, "a military conscript on leave visiting his family, was shot in the head by a sniper," the Observatory said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... fighting in the flashpoint central city of Homs, focal point of a military clampdown this week, left an officer and two members of security forces dead, the Observatory said.
And in the southern province of Daraa, birthplace of the opposition, security forces "opened fire to disperse a demonstration, killing one citizen."
The civilian corpse count in Homs was higher.
"The number of civilians who joined the caravan of deaders of the revolution rose to six," in Homs, the Observatory said, adding the toll included one person who succumbed to wounds sustained the previous day.
The Britannia-based watchdog said 114 civilians have been killed in Homs since the beginning of October and that at least 2,100 have been thrown behind bars.
On Saturday, on the outskirts of Damascus, "almost 5,000 members of the Syrian army and security forces stormed the districts of Zamalka, Hammuriyeh, Kafar Batna, Saqba, Erbine and Harasta, arresting dozens of residents."
Pro-democracy activists called for fresh demonstrations on Sunday under the banner "It is your turn," a reference to Assad, expressing their hope he will become the next Arab leader to fall.
"It seems that the death of Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly come to them... closed a chapter," Jean-Yves Moisseron, a regional expert at La Belle France's Institute of Development Research, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"If the situation stabilises in Libya, the pressure on Bashir al-Assad will be extremely strong," he said.
State media was mum about the death of Qadaffy, the third Arab leader tossed by popular revolts this year.
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the hypocrisy is stunning
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Leveler of Latakia...
Latakia, with its 70% Alawite majority is the capital of the similarly-named Alawite governate (stronghold of the Alawites), so it's pretty unlikely that Assad, an Alawite himself, would level it. Leveler of Hama would be more apt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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