Five Americans from Nato-led foreign forces in Afghanistan have died in a helicopter crash, a US official says.
The crash took place in Daman district of Kandahar province on Monday,
"Initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the incident," said the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in a statement.
The US later confirmed all the dead were Americans, adding that a rainstorm had caused the crash.
Helicopter crashes have occurred fairly regularly in Afghanistan - either due to accidents or enemy fire.
Eleven people - including seven US soldiers - died last August when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed, also in southern Afghanistan.
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Also,VAQ-129 lost a Prowler and crew of 3 yesterday in Eastern Washington. No evidence of ejection attempt.
Sad day for our flying fighting forces. Keep them all in your prayers.
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Accidents happen, but it tears me up every time I read about any of our people getting hurt or killed in that God-forsaken country. It is long past time we got the hell out of there.
[Al Ahram] Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya on Friday announced plans to establish "security militias" to protect the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut if Egyptian police -- large numbers of whom have gone on strike -- failed to return to work.
"Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya in Assiut will take over responsibility for the security of the city after hundreds of policemen went on strike and closed the police stations," the group said in a Friday statement.
The announcement was made at the group's headquarters in Assiut.
Police personnel began a strike on Friday in the city's five police stations to demand the resignation of Egypt's interior minister.
Assem Abdel-Maged, a senior member of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, said the ultra-conservative Islamist group would not allow the city to remain in a security vacuum.
Abdel-Maged added that the group had begun setting up "security militias" tasked with securing public and private property in the city, especially banks.
He added that Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya would secure all areas that had been abandoned by police. He also said that the group might coordinate its movements with Egypt's interior ministry.
"Any policeman who wants to leave his position can do so. But he will not be allowed to come back," Abdel-Maged said. "We want to purge the ministry of such elements anyway."
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... a senior member of Assiut's security directorate told Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website that the government would "not allow anyone but police" to keep the peace in the city.
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Oh, this will work out well, Families instead of Police, do you think there'll be favrotism?
I do.
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These "Police" will not be stopping crime, they will be enforcing neighborhood security and political views. PC and self interest sorts of things. Property "around here" Police. If civil unrest and anti-govt. activity is organized they shouldn't present any severe problem.
Mobs as mobs are a threat to property, but organized mobs are another matter. Organized means PLANNED and Led. Neighborhood watch and govt. PC Police won't be much help against that. A lot of people simply don't like Morsi and the boyz .
And what do you suppose the actual Police on strike will be doing...sitting on their butts at home with the TV ? No, they will be part of the action anyway. They will "get involved".
The Police themselves are now a factor in the civil unrest, they will be part of the action. And they will be organized and planning things on their own.
" PC Militias" better watch their back.
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services dismantled an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell, Echorouk reported on Monday (March 11th). Two Malians were among seven suspects taken into custody.
Authorities also seized satellite phones and all-terrain vehicles during the Saturday operation in Bordj Badji Mokhtar, near the Mali border.
The cell was reportedly set up to help jihadists infiltrate Algeria after fleeing Mali.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The main suspect in the February killing of Tunisian opposition party leader Chokri Belaid was allegedly captured in Algeria and extradited to Tunisia, Alchourouk reported on Sunday (March 10th).
Information obtained through satellite surveillance led to the apprehension of Kamel Kadkadi, the Tunisian daily said.
The alleged assassin has reportedly been held for the past six days in an anti-terrorism detention centre in the Tunis area of Bab El Gorjani.
An outspoken opponent of Tunisia's Ennahda-led government, Chokri Belaid was the head of the leftist Unified Democratic Patriots Party (PPDU). His February 6th slaying in Tunis triggered widespread protests that ultimately prompted a government change.
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Something tells me it was not the Algerians or Tunisians doing the satellite surveillance.
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[Dawn] Police said they had nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the deputy head of Bangladesh's main opposition party and a string of top party officials in a major crackdown after festivities rocked the capital Dhaka on Monday.
The arrests came after police in armoured vehicles fired rubber bullets to disperse opposition demonstrators, turning the streets of central Dhaka into a battleground for nearly an hour.
Police stormed the headquarters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and took into custody Fakhrul Islam Alamgir -- who as acting secretary general is second in command of the party -- and dozens of senior BNP officials and activists, driving them away in prison vans.
"We've detained him (Alamgir)," Dhaka police front man Masudur Rahman told AFP.
Other detained BNP leaders included its chief parliamentary whip, an ex-mayor of Dhaka and two former ministers including an ex-air force chief.
"They attacked police and created panic and anarchy," deputy police commissioner Mehedi Hasan told news hounds, adding police broke open a room at the BNP headquarters and found 10 small homemade bombs.
A front man for the BNP was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" Police staged the arrests after at least four small homemade bombs went kaboom! at the BNP rally which was being held in front of the party headquarters.
The blasts triggered festivities between about 5,000 brick- and rock-throwing BNP supporters and police who responded by firing rubber bullets.
The BNP has called a nationwide strike on Tuesday to protest the police action amid continuing violence stemming from trials being held over atrocities committed during the nation's bloody war for independence from Pakistain in 1971.
Leaders of the BNP and their ally, Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , the largest Islamic party, are being tried for war crimes by a state-appointed war crimes court.
The government accuses the opposition leaders of being part of pro-Pak militias blamed for much of the carnage in the war. The opposition accuses the government of staging a witch-hunt.
Three of the 12 people placed on trial have been convicted of war crimes of whom two have been sentenced to death. Since the first verdict on January 21, at least 85 people have been killed in festivities.
The government says three million people were killed in the war, but independent estimates put the corpse count much lower at between 300,000 and 500,000.
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Idiot, de "Mouthy Man".
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[An Nahar] Britain's government on Monday challenged a ruling blocking the extradition of Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, saying that the justice system in the Arab nation could be trusted.
The Court of Appeal in London reserved judgment until a later date after hearing arguments from the interior ministry and from Abu Qatada's lawyers.
The hearing came just days after Abu Qatada was rearrested for breaching his bail conditions, although it was unrelated to the bail decision and a separate hearing on that is due on March 21.
Abu Qatada, real name Omar Mohammed Othman, was convicted in absentia in Jordan of involvement in terror attacks in 1998 and successive British governments have been trying for a decade to secure his deportation.
Lawyers for Home Secretary Theresa May are challenging a ruling by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in November that Abu Qatada cannot be deported over fears that evidence obtained through torture could be used against him in any retrial.
Lawyer James Eadie said that SIAC had taken an "erroneous" view of the situation in Jordan.
"There is no real risk of a flagrant denial of justice. The Jordanian courts will consider all the evidence," Eadie told the court.
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Two unidentified individuals have been confirmed killed in ongoing gunfights in Reynosa in Tamaulipas, according to Mexican private news accounts, official government news releases and English language news accounts.
The Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado or attorney general released a press statement Monday saying that much of the fighting in Reynosa has taken place between rival armed groups. Fighting has taken place near the intersection of Bulevar Hidalgo and Avenida Cima near an unidentified convenience store at around 2300 hrs.
An unidentified child was hit and killed by stray gunfire while the child's father was also hit but survived.
At 2323 hrs a taxi driver was found shot to death near the Libramiento de Matamoros and Periférico bridge. The victim was identified as José Luis Vargas Hernandez, 37, who had been shot once in the neck. The report hints Vargas Hernandez was a victim of stray gunfire as well.
The report also said that 22 vehicles were seized by state and local police and seven unidentified suspects were detained.
According to web and social media reports, much of the fighting was between rival factions of the Gulf Drug Cartel. The worst of the fighting took place Sunday, but began Saturday morning when armed suspects stole cars from six car dealerships in Reynosa.
The main fighting occurred Sunday, when a six hour long firefight took place in Rosalinda Guerrero, Vista Hermosa colonies and near the children's hospital (Hospital Materno Infantile).
Roadblocks were put up by rival factions in several locations in the city with as many as 30 vehicles disabled to block roads. According to an account which appeared on BorderlandBeat.com, several vehicle convoys carrying armed suspects have been spotted in various locations in Reynosa.
Some social media have reported as many as 50 dead, but only two of those have been confirmed by officials.
Mexican Army and marine troops in the area are said to be attempting to clear roads amid the fighting.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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Five alleged kidnappers detained by Tamaulipas state cops
A total of 104 kidnap victims were rescued by a Mexican Naval infantry unit in Nuevo Laredo Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news account which appeared on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, the military unit had been dispatched to a residence in 150 Aniversario colony in Nuevo Laredo where marines found the victims, 91 men and 13 women. A total of 102 victims were from Honduras while two originated from El Salvador.
Meanwhile, a raid in Nuevo Laredo netted a total of five alleged kidnappers.
According to an account which appeared in a separate item on the website of El Diario de Coahuila, the raid came after investigations began following an armed confrontation between armed suspects in Nuevo Laredo March 7th. The gunfight involved Tamaulipas state Policia Ministerial, Policia Estatal Acreditable and Mexican Army units.
According to the report, the gang was responsible for at least 60 murders, as well as robberies and other violent crimes.
The detainees were identified as Fernando Araujo Flores, Carlos Aguilera Romano, Raul Murillo Fraga, Adriana Yacare del Toro Lopez, and José Juan Antonio Carvajal.
It is worth noting that José Juan Antonio Carvajal and Adriana Yacare del Toro Lopez died in the Nuevo Laredo Centro de Ejecuciones de Sancciones (CEDES) only a day after entering the prison. Antonio Carvajal was stabbed to death in a prison brawl while Toro Lopez was found hanged in her cell.
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A total of five prison inmates died Sunday in a Nuevo Laredo prison, according to Mexican government news releases and press accounts.
The Centro de Ejecucion de Sancciones (CEDES) in Nuevo Laredo was the scene where a brawl erupted among inmates using handmade knives Sunday afternoon.
The dead were identified as Alejandro Flores Charles, José Torres Garcia, Gerardo Javier Colunga Padron and José Juan Antonio Carvajal. News accounts say three inmates had claimed alleged responsibility for the deaths. They were identified as Pablo Zamarripa Guerrero, Oscar Velez Andrade and José Angel Vazquez Presa.
The four victims had entered the prison only one day before they were killed.
A second incident at the prison involved a female inmate identified as Adriana Yacare del Toro Lopez, 23. Toro Lopez was found hanged in her cell Sunday afternoon. She had entered the prison only one day before her death.
The CEDES in Nuevo Laredo has seen a large increase in the number of prison inmates as prisoners from two separate prisons in Tamaulipas state were closed and their inmates transferred to the Nuevo Laredo CEDES.
March 9th the CEDES in Ciudad Mante was closed, with its 179 prisoners moved to the CEDES in Nuevo Laredo late last week, while the CEDES in Miguel Aleman was closed just a few days before.
The Miguel Aleman prison was closed only days after a mass prison break where armed suspects forced the release of 12 inmates at gunpoint.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace the dead leader, while forcing the main opposition candidate to delay his entry into the race.
The massive crowd thronged acting President Nicolas Maduro and blocked opposition candidate Henrique Capriles from registering for the April 14 vote by the 2 p.m. deadline.
Full-fledged fascism on display -- especially in WaPo's choice of headline...
The Capriles campaign told The Associated Press that an aide registered for the candidate at the election commission later Monday afternoon.
Maduro also announced a change in Chavez's final resting place Monday, and the information ministry later said that officials had not decided what will happen to the late president's body.
Vultures need to eat same as worms...
Last week, Maduro had said the body would be embalmed and perpetually displayed in the country's military museum.
Thousands applauded from a plaza outside the National Election Commission, waving banners and holding up posters of Chavez as Maduro registered. Many wore the red shirts and baseball caps of Chavez's ruling Socialist Party, letting out a loud cheer when acting President Nicolas Maduro arrived to sign his election papers.
Some cried as Maduro saluted them from the building's balcony, eulogizing Chavez once again as Venezuela's "father redeemer" and asking God to give him "the wisdom to allow me to carry out the orders he gave us."
As interpreted by him, of course...
Later, he launched into a speech of more than two hours in the plaza outside the building,
Criminy, two hours? What is it with these long-winded socialist windbags?
introducing his longtime partner, Attorney General Cilia Flores, and their children and grandchildren to the crowd.
Ah, the AG is his wife. There's a fine example of fascist governance...
"I am not Chavez, but I am his son, and all of us together, the people, we are Chavez," he said.
Opposition supporters denounced the carefully stage-managed event as an affront to basic electoral fairness. The electoral commission is meant to play an impartial role ensuring the vote is fair and free.
Capriles announced his candidacy Sunday, while blasting Chavez's top lieutenants for trying to use the president's death to stoke passions and tilt the election.
"You are playing politics with the president's body," he said, adding that he wasn't convinced the government had been honest about when Chavez died, and had lied to the people during his long illness by insisting he would get better. The government says Chavez succumbed to cancer on Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle. It has offered almost no clinical information.
Capriles previously called Maduro a shameless liar and referred to him condescendingly as "boy."
Maduro appeared right after Capriles on state TV on Sunday, accusing "the losing, miserable candidate" of defaming Chavez and his family. He called Capriles a "fascist" who was trying to provoke violence by insulting the "crystalline, pure image of Commander Chavez."
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Nice start on the sashes and sprockets collection. It's only been, what, a week?
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"You are playing politics with the president's body," he said, adding that he wasn't convinced the government had been honest about when Chavez died, and had lied to the people during his long illness by insisting he would get better. The government says Chavez succumbed to cancer on Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle. It has offered almost no clinical information.
Proof we were right.
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One unidentified armed suspect was killed and two others were detained in a pursuit and firefight in Zacatacas state Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports.
The incident took place on Mexico Federal Highway 54 in Villanueva municipality near the village of El Fuerte. Villanueva is about 25 kilometers south of Zacatecas municipality, the state capital of Zacatecas.
According to the news account, armed suspects were travelling aboard a Nissan SUV about about 1630 hrs when they were observed by a Zacatecas state Policia Estatal Preventiva (PEP) road patrol. The driver of the SUV attempted to flee the scene, but instead ran, and mired his vehicle into a creek bed. Two suspects dismounted and fled, with one of them throwing a hand grenade at the police.
Police return fire hit and killed the suspect, who was reportedly in his 20s. The other suspect fled the scene.
Two suspects were captured at the scene of the crash.
In the aftermath, the state police agents secured a number of weapons, including three AK-47 rifles, one AR-15 rifle, 27 weapons magazines for AK-47, one weapons magazine for AR-15, 707 rounds of ammunition for AK-47, six rounds of ammunition for AR-15, two bulletproof vests, personal quantities of marijuana and cocaine and the vehicle.
Villanueva was the scene last fall of an intergang shootout which cost the lives of four local gang members. Zacatecas had since 2010 been a Los Zetas stronghold, but its control of the state has slipped since the death its top capo, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano last summer at the hands of a Mexican Naval infantry unit in northern Coahuila.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[Dawn] An explosion at a cigarette shop killed at least two people and wounded seven others in Karachi's Landhi area on Monday, police said.
The incident took place in the poor, crowded Khurramabad neighbourhood of the southern port city of 18 million people, which is plagued by murders, kidnappings and politically linked violence.
"At least two people were killed after the explosion at a cigarette shop," local police official Mohammad Khalid.
Bomb disposal official Abdul Hameed said initial investigations showed that the bomb was planted under a motorcycle and detonated with a timer.
According to the initial report by bomb disposal officials, the bomb contained two kilograms of explosive material and was placed near a neighbourhood pan and cigarette shop.
A man and his twelve-year old son were killed as a result of the bomb explosion, which, Khalid said, also damaged eight motorcycles and three nearby shops.
The injured also included two children.
Dr Seemi Jamali, in-charge of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital, told DawnNews that some of the injured were in critical condition.
Pakistan is preparing for a general election expected in May but a surge in violent sectarian attacks, including a bombing in Karachi last weekend that killed 50 people, has raised fears for security at the polls.
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[Dawn] Police raids to arrest the Badami Bagh arsonists continued on Sunday with arrest of over 163 suspects. Raids were on till our going into the press at 12 night.
The arrests of suspected arsonists, majority of them were said to be Pathans and Afghans, were initiated late on Saturday after the provincial chief executive ordered aggressive and indiscriminate action against the suspects who burned 170 houses in Joseph Colony.
A case of arson attack was registered under Sections 324, 332, 427, 436, 148 and 149 of the Pakistain Penal Code and 7-Anti-Terrorism Act on behalf of the state against 83 nominated and thousands of unidentified people.
A senior police investigator told Dawn that 15 police teams were conducting raids across the city to hunt down suspects.
He said around 40 tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! suspects were either nominated or had been identified with the help of video footage, adding raids would continue to arrest others.
The investigator said majority of arrested people were local traders or their workers.
ILL-POLICE PLANNING: The attack on the Christian community's residential locality was the result of city police managers' failure to anticipate the backlash of alleged blasphemy act. Rioting at the least hint of blasphemy isn't very common in Pakistain, is it?
Sources privy to the development told Dawn that Badami Bagh police forced the Christians to evacuate the colony considering the sensitivity of the situation and also informed their bigwigs about the matter.
They said it was a serious security lapse on part of outgoing SSP (Operations) Sohail Akhtar Sokhaira and City SP (Operations) Multan Khan who did not deploy sufficient coppers to guard the colony. "How many would have been sufficient?"
"Coupla thousand, maybe more."
"How many'd you send?"
"Four."
Sources said some coppers were first deployed on March 8 on the occasion when a mob lodged a protest outside the colony and demanded handing over of the blasphemy accused to them. "Yeah! We gotta rope and a tree! All we need's him!"
On March 9, around 100 coppers took positions, but lack of police command led to the arson attack by thousands of attackers.
Sources said it had yet to be ascertained as to who ordered the evacuation of Christians. Sources said the matter was also conveyed to Capital City Police Officer Amjad Javed Saleemi.
Mr Saleemi, being Sialkot DPO, had earlier faced suspension in connection with the killing of three judges at Sialkot Jail shooting in 2002. The terror attack on Sri Lankan cricket team at Liberty Roundabout in 2009 also took place when Mr Saleemi was Lahore DIG (Operations).
In the first incident, Mr Saleemi was one of the principal accused in a case lodged by a serving judge. In the second incident, a judicial inquiry by a Lahore High Court judge held him responsible for inefficiency and poor security planning. The judge also recommended to the government to not give him any field posting.
A senior police officer said the incidents like Badami Bagh usually happened due to lack of coordination and poor planning. He said the only SOP in sensitive situations was to guard the place with extra-ordinary police deployment.
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[Dawn] Two more Baloch men, who had gone missing in Panjgur, were found rubbed out in the suburb of the metropolis on Sunday.
Earlier on Thursday, bodies of two missing Baloch men, Babu Iftikhar Baloch and Maqbool Ahmad Baloch, were found on the Northern Bypass in the Manghopir area more than a month after their disappearance in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Raees Goth near Baldia Town. Police said that the two bodies were found in the morning along the Link Road that connects the Superhighway with the National Highway within the remit of the Steel Town cop shoppe.
The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. Later, the bodies were taken to the Edhi morgue till the arrival of relatives of the two victims.
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[Dawn] Participants of some demonstrations organised by the Christian community in protest over the Badami Bagh incident turned violent on Sunday when they reportedly pelted moving vehicles with stones and tried to break open shops in the city's electronics and Zainab markets.
Police lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesting crowds and claimed to have arrested about a dozen suspects.
The police said participants of a Muttahida Qaumi Movement rally were returning from the Karachi Press Club after staging a demonstration, another rally arrived in Saddar and some of its participants tried to ransack vendors outside the Zainab Market.
They said the shopkeepers also reacted and formed a group to defend their businesses. Armed with sticks and batons, they confronted with the protesters, said DIG-South Shahid Hayat.
Several motorcycles and many cars parked on Abdullah Haroon Road near Zainab Market were badly damaged in the violence. Two ambulances were also damaged. The protesters also threw stones on the shops and passing vehicles.
The police lobbed teargas shells and managed to arrest several miscreants for resorting to violence, the DIG said.
MQM leader Wasay Jalil issued a statement that the MQM rally had already dispersed peacefully when the violence broke out in the Fawwara Chowk and Zainab Market area.
Earlier, participants of a protest rally coming from M.A. Jinnah Road and heading towards the Karachi Press Club also resorted to violence in the Electronic Market. The protesters attacked some vendors present at the pavement of the mobile market. However, the police resorted to baton charge on the protesters.
In the third incident of the protest, members of the Christian community blocked the main Sharea Faisal at the FTC intersection and setting fire to tyres on the thoroughfare.
The protesters also pelted passing vehicles with stones causing suspension of vehicular traffic on the main road.
Senior police officers reached the scene and negotiated with the protesters and managed to persuade them to vacate the main road after an hour-long traffic disruption.
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[Dawn] A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 165 in northern Iraq on Monday, while four people were killed in shootings elsewhere in the country, security and medical officials said.
The bomber struck at a police station in the town of Dibis, northwest of the ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk, district official Abdullah al-Salehi told AFP.
Many of the wounded were pupils at an adjacent Kurdish girls' secondary school, Salehi added.
Sadiq Omar Rasul, the head of the Kirkuk health department, said the bombing killed three people and wounded 165.
Dibis is part of a swathe of territory that the Kurds want to join to their autonomous region in northern Iraq, over the objections of the federal government in Baghdad.
Diplomats say the dispute poses the biggest threat to Iraq's long-term stability.
Elsewehere, gunmen killed one person in the Al-Amil district of Baghdad and another north of the capital, security and medical officials said.
Gunmen also killed a blacksmith near Baquba, north of Baghdad, and a soldier in the main northern city of Mosul.
The violence came a day after attacks killed 11 people, including an anti-government protest organiser and a city council member.
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[Al Ahram] Turkish security forces arrested Monday four Syrians linked to President Bashar al-Assad's regime over a deadly bomb attack on the border last month, the interior minister said.
"Our security forces arrested four Syrian nationals and one Turkish citizen" in connection with the February 11 minibus bombing which killed 14 people, Muammer Guler said in televised remarks. "We proved their links with the Syrian intelligence and army."
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[An Nahar] Gunmen went on alert Monday in the One Big Hellhole Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, after a member of the extremist Fatah al-Islam group was shot and wounded.
The incident also left a Palestinian passerby identified as Khaled Ahmed al-Masri dead and three other people wounded, state-run National News Agency reported.
"Fatah al-Islam official Bilal Bader, his brother Kamal, a child named Omar Akroum and an unidentified woman were wounded when an unknown assailant opened fire on them," NNA reported earlier on Monday.
"The Palestinian Follow-Up Committee is conducting a series of contacts in a bid to resolve the situation and restore calm," NNA said.
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[An Nahar] At least three civilians were killed and 28 others wounded on Monday when mortar shells slammed into a neighborhood in southern Damascus, Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported.
"A mortar shell fired by terrorists fell behind a shop on Duwaliya road, killing three civilians and wounding 28 others," SANA said, adding that another shell slammed into nearby Bab Sharqi district causing further casualties.
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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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Five Americans from Nato-led foreign forces in Afghanistan have died in a helicopter crash, a US official says.
[Al Ahram] Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya on Friday announced plans to establish "security militias" to protect the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut if Egyptian police -- large numbers of whom have gone on strike -- failed to return to work.
[MAGHAREBIA] Algerian security services dismantled an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell, Echorouk reported on Monday (March 11th). Two Malians were among seven suspects taken into custody.
[Dawn] Police said they had 
[An Nahar] Britain's government on Monday challenged a ruling blocking the extradition of Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, saying that the justice system in the Arab nation could be trusted.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace the dead leader, while forcing the main opposition candidate to delay his entry into the race.
[Dawn] An explosion at a cigarette shop killed at least two people and wounded seven others in Karachi's Landhi area on Monday, police said.
[Dawn] A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 165 in northern Iraq on Monday, while four people were killed in shootings elsewhere in the country, security and medical officials said.
[Al Ahram] Turkish security forces arrested Monday four Syrians linked to President Bashar al-Assad's regime over a deadly bomb attack on the border last month, the interior minister said.
