[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Four coppers were on Wednesday night seriously injured in yet another grenade attack in Mombasa.
The four were in a group of seven officers who were patrolling the town when they were attacked at Leb on Kenyatta Avenue.
A young man suspected to have been in the group of protesters that threw the grenade was also injured and is in hospital.
Three of the coppers were on Wednesday night scheduled for an operation at Pandya Memorial Hospital.
Coast Provincial Criminal Investigations boss Amborse Munyasia, while addressing journalists at the scene, denied that there were any deaths as earlier reported, but confirmed that four officers had been injured.
The attack comes on a day when calm was beginning to return to the coastal town following two days of fierce riots by youths protesting against Monday's killing of Al-Shabaab ... the successor to the Islamic Courts... suspect Sheikh Aboud Rogo.
In court, 24 people were on Wednesday charged with causing the chaos. Acting Internal Security minister Yussuf Haji said they were among 32 set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by police.
The others are still being questioned. The government also named an 11-member team to investigate Sheikh Rogo's killing and the subsequent riots in which four people, including three prison warders, have died.
Local leaders moved from house-to-house in the Kisauni urging people to avoid violence. Speaking at Mtongwe Jetty in Mombasa where he had joined the military brass to receive a new warship, Mr Haji condemned the burning of churches.
"I appeal to all the parents in Mombasa to ask their children to desist from attacking churches and causing mayhem in Mombasa. The government will not condone such behaviour; we will deal with them severely," he warned.
He called on people to be patient as Sheikh Rogo's murder was investigated. The minister praised the religious leaders who resisted attempts to turn the chaos into a Christian versus Mohammedan affair.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... two more prison warders succumbed to injuries sustained in the grenade attack in Kisauni. Eleven others, who were rushed to Jocham Hospital, were in stable, pH balanced condition, according to chief administrator Benjamin Simiyu Wafula.
At the Coast Provincial General Hospital, the chief administrator, Dr David Mwangi, said the officers who died were brought in with multiple injuries. A tuk-tuk driver who was stabbed by the rioters is also admitted and at death's door.
Dr Mwangi said another police officer maimed in the grenade attack had been transferred to Pandya Memorial Hospital for intensive care. At the Mombasa Law Courts, the 24 suspects were before senior resident magistrate Elvis Michieka.
They denied taking part in unlawful assembly and a riot and were remanded in jug until September 3 when the court will rule on whether they would be freed on bond.
On Wednesday morning, Mombasa residents woke up to a more visible presence of security in the estates and streets.
The heavy deployment came ahead of President Kibaki's expected arrival in Mombasa later in the evening for the opening of the Mombasa International Show.
In some areas, police conducted house-to-house searches in a day-long operation. Jamia and Masjid mosques, where the youths have been converging to plan the riots, were ringed by armed police.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Witnesses say Wednesday hundreds of Somali and Kenyan forces with tanks are massing in villages near the main port city of Kismayo controlled by Al shabab cut-thoats.
Somali army officials in Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia said that their troops along with Kenyan army are making military plans for major offensives against the town ofKismayo, just 500 Km south of Mogadishu.
Kismayo, is the largest harbour town still under the cut-thoat group's control. Somali and AU forces are making significant military gains against the war on Al shabab, wresting control of many key areas and towns, mainlyMogadishu, the capital, Beledweyne, Baidoa, Afgoye, Afmadow and Merca, all south and central Somalia.
Local residents expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the ongoing military movements on the outskirts of Kismayo, saying it could result in many civilian casualties.
Keynan warships have in the past carried out several deadly shelling the coastal town, targeting Al shabab bases, with some civilian causality.
In June 9, 2012, Naval warships patrolling the coast of Kismayo have targeted cut-thoat camps and bases in the port city. According to Kenyan military front man Emanuel Chirchir.
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The BIG battle in E. Africa at the end of 2012. This is a big objective for Kenyan forces, but could involve a lot of house-to-house fighting. Kismayo is the biggest city in S. Somalia nad is held by Al-Shabaab - it's a very valuable smuggling port for them. Losing it will cost Al Shabaab a lot.
(Sh. M. Network)-Heavily armed fighters belonging to Al shabab have today launched an ambush attack on military convoy vehicles carrying Somali government soldiers near the southern town of Afmadow, reports said.
According to the residents in Afmadow, the attack took place at Ago-Libah vicinity located on the outskirts of the town, killing at least four combatants.
Military sources said the forces have hit back the attack and killed four Al shabab fighters during the assault. There are No independent verifications on the claim.
Heavy fire of artillery, anti-aircraft rockets, anti-tank weapons, heavy and small machineguns were used in the battle, which started at 02:00 pm local time on Wednesday.
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(Sh. M. Network)-The forces under theSomalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) along with their allied Æthiopian troops reportedly captured several suspected Al shabab fighters and their weapons in Baidoa town, security officials said Wednesday.
Col. Mahad Abdirahman, The police commissioner of Bay region for TFG, told Shabelle Media that the alleged Death Eaters were taken into custody. He said the suspected will soon appear in court once the ongoing investigations are completed.
Mr.Abdirahman, asserted that the allied troops will continue their purge operations against security threats in the town, which has been hit a rise of security development since Al shabab quit.
A Somali government military commander in the town said his forces were moving to the outer edges of the town to ensure they had full control of it.
Baidoa is a city in south-central Somalia, situated 256 kilometres (159 mi) by road northwest of the capital Mogadishu. It is the capital of the Bay region.
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CAIRO: The Egyptian military said yesterday that 11 terrorists have been killed in its campaign against militants in the Sinai peninsula. An army statement, read out on state television, contradicted earlier claims of having killed 20 militants in helicopter strikes, in a campaign launched after gunmen killed 16 soldiers in an Aug. 5 attack on an army outpost.
The armed forces, in cooperation with the police, has arrested 23 people, killed 11 terrorists and wounded one since the start of Operation Eagle, it said of the campaign involving tanks and helicopters.
Earlier, the military said it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula. As of the morning of Aug. 29, in continuation of the military operation, there will be a redeployment of forces in various locations in Sinai to complete the hunt for terrorist elements, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. A military source told Reuters this would involve spreading security forces over a wider area to root out militants.
The campaign is led by the defense minister and head of the armed forces, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, appointed by Mursi in a shake-up of the military top brass on Aug. 12. Sisi briefed Mursi on the Sinai operation on Monday.
Egypt has not given details of the equipment it has sent to Sinai, but security sources had said aircraft and tanks would be used. Egyptian television has shown images of Sisi speaking to troops in Sinai at a camp with tanks and other heavy weaponry.
The unrest has occurred mainly in North Sinai, where many people have guns and where Bedouin tribes have long complained of neglect by central government.
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[Yemen Post] An Arclight airstrike targeted two cars that were believed to be carrying Al-Qaeda forces of Evil in Yemen killing those who were inside one of the cars, Almasdar Online reported on Tuesday quoting local sources.
The strike was carried out in the Qahb Al-Hisan area between Marib and Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... provinces, the website said, adding the area was unpopulated.
"A drone, believed to be a US one, struck one car burning it completely and killing those who were inside," it quoted the sources as adding.
The second car was not affected and bravely ran away, it said, pointing out there were not details about the number of those who were killed.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the website quoted a security source as saying that one of the killed was a Saudi myrmidon named Salim Mubarak Al-Saiary.
The US has been carrying out deadly drone attacks in southern and southeastern regions of Yemen where Al-Qaeda forces of Evil sought shelter amid a continuous hunt for the remaining operatives after their defeat in the south.
The Yemeni army launched in April-May a US-backed offensive and drove Al-Qaeda forces of Evil out of their strongholds in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwa provinces. Hundreds of forces of Evil including big shots were killed in the offensive; some in drone attacks.
In recent weeks, Al-Qaeda has carried out the deadliest suicide kabooms targeting military and security chiefs, personnel, offices and cars in what appeared to be retaliation for its severe defeat.
The US is providing direct support to the Yemeni authorities to fight Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most dangerous branch of Al-Qaeda, which was founded from the Yemeni and Saudi terrorist wings in 2009.
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[MEMRI] Despite being uploaded on February 22, 2012, it appears that the video has been made available recently as suggested by the low number of views and the recently made comments. Based on the date of the video, it is safe to say that the crucified man is Saleh Ahmed Saleh Al-Jamely who was executed on February 12, 2012 after being convicted by a court managed by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Ansar Al-Shari'a.
Al-Jamely was accused of spying and placing two chips in two cars that were later targeted by U.S. drones. According to a statement issued by the Islamic court of Waqqar Emirate in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... Governorate, dated February 10, 2012, in that attack, ten members of Ansar Al-Shari'a were killed. The other two men, Hassan Naji Hassan Al-Naqeeb - accused of recruiting, delivering chips, and paying spies; and Ramzi Muhammad Qaid Al-Ariqi - accused of spying for the Saudi intelligence by taking photographs of several buildings, were executed in public, but not crucified.[
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Crucified ???
They are drawing hard lines out there.
For a map, click here. For a map of Nuevo Leon state click here For a map of Monterrey, click here
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of 17 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to several news items posted on the website of Milenio news daily.
Three young men were shot and wounded at a soccer field in Monterrey Tuesday evening. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Pino and, where armed suspects travelling aboard a Jeep Cherokee SUV fired on the victims and seven others. The wounded were identified as Adam Ramirez Mendoza, 15, Victor Garcia Maldonado, 18 and Miguel Garcia Moreno, 21.
Three young men were shot to death Monday evening in Guadalupe municipality. The victims were drinking beer at a residence near the intersection of Avenida Guadalupe Avenue and Calle Luis M. Farias in Provivienda La Esperanza colony. According to the news item, armed suspects travelling aboard a taxi stopped and fired on the victims, presumably using assault rifles. The victims were identified as Brayan Andrés Reyes García, 18, Gabriel Esteban Salazar, 23 and Diego Alejandro Dimas Rincón.
Two men were found shot to death in Montemorelos municipality Wednesday evening. The victims were aboard a Jeep Liberty SUV when they were found just off the National Highway at Kilometer 193. A third unidentified female victim was also apparently wounded in the incident, but had fled the scene, later receiving medical attention. The victims were identified as Carlos Fabian de la Cruz Vazquez, 28, and Jorge Luis Morales Manrique, 38. Morales Manrique was formerly a police chief in Galeana municipality.
An unidentified man was found mutilated in Pesquería municipality Wednesday morning. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Miguel Aleman and Francisco Javier Mina in Zacatequitas colony, which is between Apodaca and Pesquería municipal limits.
One unidentified man was found shot to death and another wounded in Apodaca municipality Wednesday morning. The two victims had been reported kidnapped Tuesday night. The victim was found on Calle Río Santiago in Pueblo Nuevo colony. The deceased was identified as Carlos Humberto Gonzalez Carranza 21, while the other victim was identified as Eleazar Aguilar Vazquez, 29.
Three 18 year old men were kidnapped and then shot to death in Santa Catarina municipality Wednesday. The victims were kidnapped by four armed suspects travelling aboard a sedan near the intersection of Calle Solidaridad and a private road in Las Palmas colony. Assault rifles were used in the shootings.
Two unidentified men were found murdered in a van in Juarez municipality Tuesday night. The victims were aboard a Ford Aerostar minivan parked near the Apodaca-Juarez highway. Both victims had been tortured and shot to death. A message was left at the scene, but its contents were not disclosed.
The warden for the Topo Chico Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) was shot to death in Monterrey Wednesday. The victim was identified as Melani Azeneth Castro Barbosa, who was shot at her home on Avendia Joaquin A. Mora in Felipe Carrillo colony. Reports say two unidentified men shot the victim.
Four unidentified individuals including one female were shot to death in Monterrey Wednesday afternoon. The victims were near the intersection of Avenida Rodrigo Gomez and Calle Rio Danubio in Alfonso Reyes colony when armed suspects shot them. The area is a known drug retail sale point in Monterrey.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[Dawn] Six soldiers were killed when Death Eaters attacked a check post in the area of Badar in South Wazoo Agency (SWA), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed.
In retaliation, security forces reportedly killed at least 10 Death Eaters and a dozen Death Eaters had been injured, security sources told Dawn.com.
Dozens of Death Eaters armed with rockets and grenades stormed the checkpost in Farhang Baba Ziarat village, around 30 kilometres north of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal district, a security bigshot in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar told AFP.
Six soldiers have been confirmed killed in the festivities and seven injured, the official said, adding that the toll was likely to rise. Ten Death Eaters were killed, he said.
Moreover, sources said that nine, and not six, soldiers had died in the attack.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack and said that they had killed at least a dozen soldiers.
TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan said "we have killed more than a dozen soldiers in South Waziristan. Some of the soldiers have been beheaded".
The area is cut off to journalists and aid workers and it was not possible to confirm the corpse count independently.
South Waziristan was once the main stronghold for the Pak Taliban. The military launched a large offensive against Death Eaters there in 2009, but Death Eaters still operate in the area and periodically stage attacks.
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[Dawn] A watchman was rubbed out by security personnel for violating curfew at Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... Bazaar in North Wazoo Agency on Tuesday.
The residents of the area said that the watchman, Mohammad Yousaf, was performing duty at Mali Khan Inn when security personnel opened firing on him as a military convoy was passing through the bazaar.
The watchman was killed on the spot, they said, adding the dear departed was the sole bread earner of his family. The local people appealed to the political administration to compensate the family of the dear departed.
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Shouldn't that headline read "Activists killed, followed by more mindless violence"?
[Dawn] Violence broke out in the Jamshed Quarters area late Tuesday night with gun and arson attacks soon after the assassination of a former local leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... on Jehangir Road, police said.
At least three political activists, including two belonging to the Pakistain People's Party and one to the Awami National Party, were earlier bumped off in targeted attacks in quick succession in different parts of the city.
In the violence that followed the killing of the former MQM unit in charge, a bus was set on fire on Jehangir Road and a political party office was attacked while intense firing forced closure of markets.
Mohammad Mujahid, the former unit head of the party's organizational structure, was riding a cycle of violence when he was targeted in Martin Quarters within the remit of the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe, said SP Gulshan Division Asad Raza.
He added that the victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
Following the incident, some enraged youths attacked an area office of a political party. But notice they're not saying "Jamaat-e-Islami" for fear of giving offense...
Tension spread in the entire neighbourhood with intense firing leading to the closure of shops. ... and a wonderful time was had by all, except for the dead guys... ANP man killed
Earlier, an Awami National Party office-bearer was killed in MPR Colony, off Manghopir Road, said police and party sources.
They added that Amanullah was coming out of a mosque when gunnies riding a motorbike fired multiple shots at him and sped away.
"The riders were masked," said an area police officer.
"They fired three shots at Amanullah and fled," he said.
"Amanullah was president of ANP's MPR Colony ward," said Sindh ANP General Secretary Bashir Jan.
Following the incident, Senator Shahi Syed appealed to party workers to remain calm.
Two PPP men bumped off
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... an office-bearer and a worker of the Pakistain People's Party were killed in a targeted attack in Baldia only a day after
the killings of two party activists in Orangi.
Kashif, 35, and Amjad aka Gogi, 30, were killed in firing near their house in Sector 4-I of Baldia, said an official at the Saeedabad cop shoppe.
Two others, Raja and Mohammad Ali, were maimed in the attack carried out by gunnies riding a motorbike, the police official added.
The victims were rushed to nearby Murshid Hospital and then shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi, where the two party workers were pronounced dead on arrival, the police said.
Amjad was an officer-bearer of the party in PS 90 constituency, the police said.
His brother, Qamar Gogi, was killed in a similar attack some two years back, the police added.
Following the killings, tension gripped different parts of Baldia Town. Some shops and markets were closed down, with reports of intermittent firing in the area.
The four activists belonging to the three parties were among seven victims killed in the city on Tuesday.
Two killed in Lines Area
In Lines Area, two young men were called from their homes and rubbed out near a department store in the early hours of Tuesday, the police said.
ASP Ferozabad Malik Murtaza said someone called Mohammad Danish and Faraz from their residences situated in Jat Lines near the Metro Cash and Carry. They were bumped off within the remit of the Brigade cop shoppe, said the ASP.
Both the youngsters sustained gunshot wounds to their chests and abdomen and were rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where they died during treatment, the police said.
The ASP quoted local residents as saying that both men had a criminal background.
But he said the motive for the murder was not clear.
The police Sherlocks seized several spent bullet casings of 9mm and 30-bore pistols at the scene of the crime.
The killings spread panic in the neighbourhood as rumours swirled that the two men belonged to a political party.
Eatery owner rubbed out
The owner of a roadside eatery was rubbed out in New Bloody Karachi, the area police said.
Liaquat, 50, son of Ghulam Mohammad, was at his eatery in Sector 5-J when gunnies riding a cycle of violence pulled up there and shot at him, said Gulberg Division SP Tanvir Odho.
The officer added a bullet lodged in the victim's chest proved fatal while the killers fled without taking any cash or valuables from the hotel.
Later, the body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities, the police said.
"This was apparently an act of assassination but the motive is yet not clear, because he was not associated with any political or sectarian group," the SP said.
Youth killed in Korangi
A young man was bumped off in Korangi 2 ½ late Monday night, the police said.
Raja Zulfiqar, 25, was sitting outside his house where gunnies reportedly tried to rob him, said Korangi Sub-Divisional Police Officer Qasim Ghouri.
The victim was shot twice for resisting the armed robbery within the remit of the Zaman Town cop shoppe.
The area police shifted the body to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.
Man maimed
Earlier, a young man was shot at and maimed on Jehangir Road.
Jamshed Quarters SDPO Qaiser Ali Shah said the victim was identified as Mohammad Saqib. He was rushed to a private hospital on Stadium Road, where he was admitted for treatment, the DSP said.
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[Dawn] Eleven gun-hung tough guys of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, three security personnel and a member of Salarzai Qaumi Lashkar were killed and several others injured as fighting intensified in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur tribal region on Tuesday.
Sources said that fierce festivities between security forces and Taliban have taken place in several areas of Salarzai tehsil in which both sides used heavy weapons.
According to a TTP front man, 15 security personnel were killed in the fighting, but official sources rejected the Taliban claim.
"The fresh fighting which started on Monday night continued till Tuesday evening was one of the heaviest between security forces and Islamic fascistisince festivities started in the area," a local resident said.
Officials of the local administration said that the security forces and volunteers backed by artillery and helicopter gunships attacked Taliban positions in mountainous areas along the border region and at least 11 Islamic fascistiwere killed and several others maimed.
"We have also lost a member of the peace committee. Five security personnel and four volunteers suffered injuries," the official said.
He said that helicopter gunships pounded turbans' hideouts in hilly areas and destroyed some of them.
The official claimed that the forces had taken control of several key positions in the Ghatki area.
Dozens of families were still trapped in the conflict zone.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... Taliban's Malakand Division front man Sirajuddin told newsmen by phone that the gun-hung tough guys would continue to fight Pak forces and their supporters in the agency. He claimed important areas in the region were still under Taliban control.
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[Dawn] Shootings and bombings killed five Iraqi police, including a general, on Wednesday in the latest in a series of attacks targeting the country's security forces, security and medical officials said.
The unrest came after six soldiers were killed nationwide on Tuesday, including a colonel, as gunnies have sought to target security bigshots with liquidations of three top officers in as many days.
In the deadliest of the violence, a spate of bombings in the disputed northern province of Kirkuk killed four coppers and maimed six other security members, police and doctor Abdullah Hassan from Kirkuk city's main hospital said.
Three coppers were killed and three others were maimed by a roadside kaboom targeting the convoy of Brigadier General Sarhad Qader, a senior police official in Kirkuk province, as it was passing through the Al-Riyadh town southwest of the eponymous placid provincial capital. Qader escaped unscathed.
Two separate kabooms in souther Kirkuk city, meanwhile, left one policeman dead and three security force members -- a policeman and two Kurdish peshmerga members -- maimed.
In Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , gunnies killed an Iraqi general on Wednesday morning, the third liquidation of a senior security officer in as many days, security and medical officials said.
The murder of Brigadier General Nadhim Tayeh, the head of police emergency responders in west Storied Baghdad, followed an ambush against the convoy of an army colonel a day earlier, and the shooting of a border guards brigadier general in the capital on Monday.
"Several gunnies opened fire with silenced pistols against Brigadier General Nadhim Tayeh and killed him immediately while he was driving his private car and wearing civilian clothes," an interior ministry official said.
A medic at Karkh hospital confirmed Tayeh's liquidation.
The latest deaths took to 270 the number of people killed in nationwide attacks so far in August, including 106 members of the security forces, according to an AFP tally based on reports from security and medical officials.
Violence has significantly decreased in Iraq compared to the brutal years of 2006 and 2007, but attacks are still common.
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A trader was killed, decapitated and burned inside his pick-up truck on a road in Yala province on Thursday morning.
Pol Lt Sulkifri Rase said he was informed about 7 a.m. that a man had been shot and burned on local road. A police team hurried to the scene.
At the scene they found a pick-up truck that had been destroyed by fire and the beheaded body of a man in the back of the vehicle. The body was badly burned. The man's head was found about five meters from the vehicle. It had a bullet wound. A bottle of petrol was also found at the scene.
Police investigators learned that the victim was driving alone in his pick-up truck, heading for Muang district of Yala. He was stopped on the way by a group of men, who shot him in the head, chopped off his head and threw it on the roadside before setting the vehicle on fire.
Unconfirmed reports say Syrian rebels have shot down an air force fighter jet in the north-western province of Idlib.
Amateur footage broadcast by Arabic satellite TV stations of the purported incident showed smoke billowing and two figures parachuting to the ground. Details, please. SAM? AA gun?
The reports come amid diplomatic rifts over the Syria conflict at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Iran.
A rights group has alleged that Syrian forces may be targeting civilians queuing for bread in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
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Syrian refugees also faced another pressure after Jordanian Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh said Wednesday that those responsible for violence in a camp near the kingdom's border with Syria border will be deported.
"Back across the border wit yez!"
In announcing his government's plan to expel troublesome refugees, Tarawneh said: "We will be firm in the face of those who break the law and we will send people arrested for attacking police officers back to where they came from."
He did not say how many refugees will be expelled, but a security official said there are 150 Syrian refugees in police custody, including an unspecified number of rioters as well as others who want to return home.
About 200 refugees went on a rampage late Tuesday at Zaatari Camp, a desert tent city that houses 21,000 refugees, to protest conditions there. Police said 28 officers were wounded in the riot, one of them with a fractured skull.
Many of the refugees have said they find the harsh environment in the camp -- set on a parched, treeless stretch of land -- a struggle, citing the constant dust storms, snakes and scorpions.
Given the love between the Jordanians and the Syrians, I'm mildly surprised the border is open at all.
The security official said the suspected Syrian rioters will be sent back across the border, but away from Syria's state control out of concern that they will be prosecuted. He did not say when and spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to make press statements.
The rioting followed a similar incident in the camp Saturday night, when 200 refugees threw stones at Jordanian security guards, wounding several. The refugees were protesting conditions at the camp then as well.
Grateful, ain't they...
Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah said that Jordan "will not tolerate" any such revolts in the future.
On Tuesday, dozens of protesters outside the UN refugee agency in Amman demanded the closure of the Zaatari tent camp due to its harsh desert conditions.
Sure, send 'em back to Syria...
UNHCR representative
The same guys who have messed up Paleostine...
to Jordan Andrew Harper acknowledged the situation at Zaatari was "difficult and tense" following the riot, but said it has calmed down. Harper called hosting the displaced Syrians an "increasing challenge" as their numbers rapidly grow and the capacity to assist them increases, creating logistical challenges.
"We have to focus on enhancing the delivery of services and support to the camp," he said.
Jordan hosts about 180,000 refugees from the civil war in Syria, the largest number in the region. Nearly 4,600 crossed the border in the past 24 hours, as fighting raged between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Maaytah said.
Jordan is racing to open a second refugee camp to handle the influx. Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said the United Arab Emirates was helping to fund the camp in the nearby hamlet of Ribaa Sarhan, which is expected to host 20,000 Syrians.
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Probably making sure the conditions are marginal so the refugees don't try to stay like the Palestinians are prone to do.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas' politburo in Damascus is still open and has not moved to Cairo, the party's representative in Yemen said Wednesday. "The movement's office in Syria did not move to Cairo, it was not closed and Hamas leaders are still in it but because of the current circumstances in Syria, we left and we'll be back when the situation becomes stable," Abdul Muti Zaqqut told Ma'an. So we're there but we're not. But we'll be back any day now, even though we're still there. Or are we? I confuse myself sometime...
Senior Hamas leaders are reported to have left Damascus, while the head of Hamas' politburo Khalid Meshaal relocated to Qatar amid the country's bloody crackdown against an 18-month uprising. I guess Gaza wasn't an option? Qatar has better booze...
Zaqqut said Hamas was in talks to open offices in other Arab countries but declined to say where. Cuz...it's a secret.
Hamas has been reluctant to criticize its long-time ally President Bashar Assad, who is supported by Hamas' financial backer Iran. Assad allowed Hamas to relocate to Damascus after it was ousted from Jordan in 1999, and the party is said to have significant assets in Syria. But we will be available to dance on his grave when he's dead...
In Cairo in February, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh publicly condemned Assad's brutal crackdown of the uprising challenging his rule, although other party leaders have said Haniyeh's comments did not reflect the movement's position. Yeah, what he said is not what you heard him say. Like us being here or there even though we're not there. Or here.Or are we?
Zaqqut said Haniyeh planned to visit Yemen soon and that Hamas enjoyed good relations with Sanaa. Around 10,000 Palestinians live in Yemen, including 4,000 students. They were not affected by the revolution in the country, Zaqqut said. Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened an office for Hamas in 1996. Ah, Yemen. Another garden spot...
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels claimed on Wednesday they had destroyed five helicopters at a military airport between the northern cities of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... and Idlib, after a watchdog reported fierce festivities there.
Abu Mossab, a rebel who participated in the attack, told Agence Francce Presse via Skype that the rebels had shelled the Taftanaz military airport with two captured military tanks and had destroyed five military helicopters. The claims could not immediately be independently verified.
Fierce fighting broke out at the airport between government troops and rebels near the airport earlier in the day, prompting helicopter gunships to launch attacks on the nearby town of Taftanaz, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Observatory reported that 14 government troops were killed in the fighting at Taftanaz, while two rebels and one civilian died elsewhere in Idlib province.
Explosions could be heard from the airport, a base for fighter planes and helicopters running sorties over the rebel strongholds of Aleppo and Idlib, the Britannia-based watchdog said.
The airport has been the target of several attacks in past weeks by cut-throats entrenched in Aleppo and Idlib, which have suffered daily shelling by government troops.
In Aleppo city, where the army and rebels have battled for over a month for control, fierce festivities broke out between the two sides in several districts, according to the watchdog.
And in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , activists reported a third straight day of army attacks on rebel strongholds in the eastern outer belt of the city, collectively referred to as East Ghuta.
The Local Coordination Committees, a network of activists on the ground, said warplanes and helicopters bombed and strafed all the East Ghuta suburbs, while the Observatory reported attacks by combat helicopters on the eastern suburb of Saqba as well as shelling further into the city in the district of Zamalka.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... festivities broke out between rebels and government troops in the east Damascus neighborhood of Qaboon and five non-combatants were killed in nearby Jubar neighborhood, the Observatory said.
The Syrian Revolution General Council, a local network of opposition activists, reported fierce shelling, along with artillery fire, throughout the eastern limits of the city.
In the suburb of Kfar Batna, it said that mortar fire was landing at the rate of one shell per minute over densely populated areas and farmland, while nearby Irbin was also being shelled.
In the central city of Homs, the districts of Old Homs, Khaldiyeh and Juret al-Shiyah came under army bombardment, while one person was killed in shelling on the town of Rastan, the Observatory said.
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In a video the copters are just sitting there. No attempt to move them. Either no pilots or no maintenance/ground staff.
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Eh, I don't know. It seems neither side has the ability to beat the other. It's going to be WWI-style attritional warfare until one side is just ground down and out of money and manpower.
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas' politburo in Damascus is still open and has not moved to Cairo, the party's representative in Yemen said Wednesday. "The movement's office in Syria did not move to Cairo, it was not closed and Hamas leaders are still in it but because of the current circumstances in Syria, we left and we'll be back when the situation becomes stable," Abdul Muti Zaqqut told Ma'an.
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