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There, there, Dr. Steve. I've made you a nice pot of valerian tea (a.k.a. the strong stuff). You sit right next to me and drink it all like a good boy, and then you can have a cookie before you go to bed.
An MC-12 surveillance aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan, claiming the lives of the four crewmembers, announced Air Forces Central Command on April 28.
According to a Pentagon release, the airmen killed in the April 27 mishap were: Capt. Brandon L. Cyr, 28, of Woodbridge, Va., assigned to the 906th Air Refueling Squadron at Scott AFB, Ill.; Capt. Reid K. Nishizuka, 30, of Kailua, Hawaii, assigned to the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale AFB, Calif.; SSgt. Richard A. Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, Calif., assigned to the 306th Intelligence Squadron at Beale; and SSgt. Daniel N. Fannin, 30, of Morehead, Ky., assigned to the 552nd Operations Support Squadron at Tinker AFB, Okla.
The crash occurred at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time in the province of Zabul, about 110 miles northeast of Kandahar Airfield, according to AFCENT. The airmen were serving with Kandahar's 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. The MC-12 was deployed from Beale. Coalition forces secured the crash site and recovered the airmen's remains, according to AFCENT. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Initial reporting indicated there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the crash, according to the Pentagon's release.
[Al Ahram] Taliban beturbanned goons marked the start of their spring offensive on Sunday by claiming responsibility for a remote-controlled roadside kaboom blast that killed three coppers.
In past years, spring has marked a significant upsurge in fighting between the Taliban and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces along with their local allies. This fighting season is a key test, as the international coalition is scheduled to hand over security responsibilities to Afghan forces next year.
In Sunday's attack in Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, a bomb went kaboom! under police vehicles traveling to the district of Zana Khan to take part in a military operation against turbans, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the province's deputy governor, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
He said the blast destroyed the vehicle carrying Col. Mohammad Hussain, the deputy provincial police chief, killing him and two other officers. Ahmadi said two officers also were maimed in the turban operation, which he said clearly targeted Hussain.
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid grabbed credit in an email sent to news media. He called the bombing the first attack in the Taliban spring offensive.
April already has been the deadliest month this year for attacks across the country, where Afghan cops are increasingly taking the lead on the battlefield in the war that has lasted more than 11 years.
Insurgents have escalated attacks recently in a bid to gain power and influence ahead of next year's presidential election and the planned withdrawal of most U.S. and other foreign combat troops by the end of 2014. US-backed efforts to try to reconcile the Islamic Death Eater movement with the Afghan government are gaining little traction.
Also Sunday, the US Air Force said the coalition plane that crashed on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing four service members, was a MC-12 Liberty aircraft. The twin-engine turboprop plane provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or direct support to ground forces. It crashed in Zabul province, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) northeast of Kandahar Air Field, the Air Force statement said.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the Taliban, the Chinese PLA has decided to continue their mountainous camp-out/tailgate inside INside at LADAKH, ordering PLA trucks to bring in more Hotdogs, Burgers, + Chinese Wine for the barbecue.
[Al Ahram] Fear and anger on Sunday followed a Sudanese rebel strike on a major town residents said had been left unguarded and was hit during coordinated attacks in the thugs' most audacious act in years.
In Umm Rawaba, a previously peaceful community of thousands which bore the brunt of Saturday's attack, residents said about 300 youths stoned a convoy carrying North Kordofan state governor Murghani Hussein Zaki-Adeen, and federal Electricity Minister Osama Abdullah Mohammed.
"Where were you yesterday?" witnesses said protesters shouted after the governor visited the homes of people who died in the unrest.
Youths then set fire to local government buildings, said witnesses.
Residents complained that the town, the second largest in North Kordofan, had been left undefended when Islamic fascistibriefly occupied it on Saturday.
The corpse count was unclear but included some coppers, according to residents and officials.
Rebels said eight of their number died during the operation, four in battle and four in accidents.
North Kordofan has been largely free from the insurgencies in the Darfur region to its west, and South Kordofan to its south.
But a rebel coalition, the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), said it attacked Umm Rawaba and several other areas as part of its strategy to reach the capital Khartoum and overthrow the 24-year regime of President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. Umm Rawaba is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the state capital El Obeid, which is home to an air force base and on Sunday was tense with armoured vehicles deployed and soldiers in the streets, a resident said.
SRF chief of staff Abdulaziz Al-Hilu on Saturday said rebels seized government garrisons at Abu Kershola and Um Ktera before "chasing" the army to Umm Rawaba, Allah Kareem and to the edge of North Kordofan's El Rahad town.
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[Shabelle] A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia says a known assassin from the krazed killer group al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has shot him in the neck.
Omar Hammami posted on Twitter about what he labeled an liquidation attempt late Thursday as he was sitting in a tea shop. He posted four pictures, one of which shows his face with blood on his neck and a blood-stained blue shirt.
On Friday Hammami tweeted that al-Shabaab's leader was sending forces against him.
Hammami moved from Alabama to Somalia and joined al-Shabaab in about 2006. He has since had a falling-out with the group and has previously publicized two al-Shabaab death threats against him.
The U.S. named Hammami to its Most Wanted terrorist list in March.
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[T]wo al-Shabaab death threats against him...The U.S. named Hammami to its Most Wanted terrorist list in March
[Al Ahram] Gunmen surrounded Libya's foreign ministry on Sunday to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... 's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration. At least 20 pick-up trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles directed the traffic away from the building, witnesses said.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamist insurgents in Nigeria a week ago killed 228 people, a local senator said on Saturday, putting the death toll six times higher than the government's estimate.
Sounds like quite a gun battle...
A large number of civilian deaths will fuel accusations that the military acted heavy-handedly and failed to protect bystanders and might also increase pressure on the government to seek a negotiated settlement with the radical group Boko Haram.
Is there an African military force that isn't heavy-handed and that protects bystanders? I'm not aware of one...
There have been conflicting death tolls from the April 19 operation carried out by joint forces from Nigeria, Chad and Niger against Boko Haram insurgents in the remote northeastern town of Baga.
The Red Thingy Cross is investigating a report by locals that 187 people died, including many civilians, but defense spokesman Chris Olukolade said only 37 were killed.
Moist eyes and hand-wringing to commence shortly...
The military barred aid agencies from entering Baga for several days after the attack. The Red Thingy Cross and some other agencies have since been given access but none has issued a definitive death toll.
"I personally visited three graveyards in Baga and counted 228 graves where victims had been buried," said Senator Maina Maaji Lawan, who represents the northern region of Borno state where the attack took place. Lawan told reporters that 4,000 homes were also destroyed and without significant relief materials there could be a humanitarian disaster.
President Goodluck Jonathan has opened an investigation into the siege, including the actions taken by the military.
Boko Haram and other Islamist terrorist groups, such as the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansaru, have become the greatest threat to security in Africa's second largest economy and top oil producer.
Clashes between the military and Boko Haram are a near daily occurrence in the sect's northeast stronghold. Soldiers killed senior Boko Haram commander Mohammed Chad in an early morning raid on Friday, the military said.
President Jonathan is awaiting a report from a panel he set up to offer an amnesty to the insurgents if they give up their struggle for an Islamic state. Boko Haram has so far shown no interest in talks. The sect, which wants an Islamic state in a country divided roughly equally between Christians and Muslims, has killed hundreds of people in guerrilla-style attacks.
Forget amnesty -- hunt them down.
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I don't recall a lotta handwringing for the Christians killed. Word of advise: Don't be a bystander to a gunfight or a camp follower to a Islamist crazed killer band
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I suspect these casualty reports are as reliable as the Afghan reports of civilian casualties.
This sounds like a good old-fashioned Nigerian shakedown.
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228 Islamists, or not?
If so Very good shooting, MORE, MORE.
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Masked gunmen of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda affiliate attacked a high-ranking military intelligence official and shot him to death in Yemeni province of Hadramout on early Sunday morning, according to an Israeli police intelligence analyst who specializes in Islamic terrorism.
According to Mordacai Ashur, two gunmen wearing masks and riding motorbikes fired at Col. Ahmed Abdul-Razzak, the director of the military intelligence unit in the Hadramout province.
Terrorists from the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) network committed a criminal act and assassinated Col. Abdul-Razzak on a main road near his home in the coastal town of Mukalla, the source reported.
Yemeni police and security officers have repeatedly blamed Islamists from the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for a number of assassinations and bomb attacks, mostly outside of the main cities.
The AQAP, which began its reign of terror in January 2009, is considered the most strategic threat to the Yemeni government and its neighboring oil-rich Saudi Arabia. Numerous members are believed to be Saudis.
[Al Ahram] Bahrain has rounded up 22 people suspected of attacking security forces and blocking roads during protests, including in the lead-up to its Formula One race this month, police said.
The arrests were made in Shiite villages and were related to alleged acts of violence since late February, said a police statement carried late Saturday by BNA state news agency.
In one of the arrests, police enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! six people suspected of participating in a March 7 "terrorist attack" on police patrols in the village of Maqaba, west of the capital Manama, it said, adding security forces were still searching for other suspects.
Others were locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over alleged attacks on police with petrol bombs and metal rods.
Police also arrested two people suspected of blocking roads and setting tyres ablaze in the area of Dair, close the airport, on April 14, when Shiite demonstrations intensified against Bahrain hosting the Formula One Grand Prix race on April 21.
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A total of eight individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in and near Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican press reports.
An article posted Sunday morning on the website of Milenio news daily said that armed suspects entered Jhonny´s Place bar in Guadalupe municipality near the Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo highway Saturday night killing three customers and a guard. Another eight individuals were wounded in the attack.
At nearly the same moment another attack, this time against a traffic cop took place near a dance hall called Villa Antigua in nearby Juarez municipality in Garza y Garza colony. Security elements at the scene found one unidentified local police agent dead and two taxi cab drivers wounded.
Friday afternoon at around 1740 hrs, an Apodaca traffic cop was found shot to death near the intersection of Avenida Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Calle Ojo de Agua. The officer was identified as Joel Rodriguez Martinez, a motorcycle patrol officer.
Two 7.62mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene. Rodriguez Martinez was shot once in the chest and once in the head.
Further south of Monterrey, in Altamira colony, an unidentified man was shot to death and his girlfriend and mother were wounded at a family gathering Saturday night at a residence near the intersection of Privada 7 de Diciembre and Prolongacion Hilario Martinez.
The attack used a handgun and fired seven rounds at the victim, hitting him once in the head and once in the chest.
Separately, a local Monterrey attorney was found shot to death in Monterrey Friday evening.
According to a separate news report which appeared on the website of Milenio, Eliseo Martinez Elizondo was found near the intersection of avenidas Corregidora and Aaron Saenz near Santa Maria and Cumbres del Valle colonies. The victim was blindfolded and had been shot three times. Martinez Elizondo was reportedly kidnapped the day before his body was found.
Martinez Elizondo has been linked to local casinos as a founding member of a gaming company which was bought out by Resolute Operating Company, LLC. He was also general counsel to a number of bars in the Monterrey area and he maintained an office in Texas.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
Police have arrested more suspects in connection with a clash between authorities and assailants that left 21 dead in the western region of Xinjiang, Chinese state media reported Monday.
Eight suspects already were in custody following last Tuesday's clash, which killed 15 police officers and local government officials, and six assailants. Authorities described the gang as terrorists.
The death toll was the highest for a single incident in months in Xinjiang, which sees recurrent outbreaks of violence pitting members of the Turkic Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) group against the authorities and majority ethnic Han Chinese migrants.
China Central Television said Monday that another group of suspects had been captured and interrogated, though it didn't say how many. It also said explosives were seized. The report quoted the state anti-terrorist office and Meng Hongwei, the vice public security minister.
Also Monday, CCTV broadcast images of a memorial service for the 12 men and three women police officers and officials killed in the clash. It said Meng attended, along with more than 1,000 people from local party and government departments.
A leading Uighur activist has questioned the official account of the incident. Local sources said that police sparked it by shooting a Uighur youth during an illegal search of homes, according to Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress.
Authorities previously said 10 of those killed on the government side were Uighurs, three were Han, and two were from the Mongolian ethnic group. It said two other Uighurs were hurt. The ethnicity of the assailants wasn't given.
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And last weekend the TERRORIST-COLLABORATOR media came out with an number of stories on how much the poor-little-musunderstood-boys were victims (they lost their welfare... couldn't find jobs...) and how one had such a promising boxing career.... booo... hooo.... hoo... If they had a Trayvon-little-angelic-boy picture they would have plastered that all over the place.
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BTW: has any leading Islamic cleric or organization condemmed the action? I don't mean claim that it wasn't 'Islamic' but actually state that it is wrong (with no qualifications) and condemn the two and their actions?
Even though one's dead.
Let Taserov see his brother again, breifly.
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Good pics.
Running a scene like that is a nightmare for the rescuers. You just start and keep going until everyone's triaged to the hospital - then it's their problem.
The civilian who stepped in and put the tourniquet on the guy whose leg was half gone saved his life; good man. Definitely a sheepdog.
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what a piece of shit prez we have....could not call this islamic terrorism and then treated the bastard like a regular criminal....if torture was ever needed it is in this case...
just a piece of shit president obama....he supports assholes like these at every turn in the ME....
MAKES ME SICK...IT IS TIME TO TURN A FEW COUNTRIES INTO GLASS AND SEND A MESSAGE...NOT A CITY BUT AN ENTIRE COUNTY ....START WITH IRAN TO SHOW WHAT TERRORIST SUPPORTERS GET...but our piece of shit in chief supports these aholes
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Maybe even more if that was the patient who helped with the ID.
Nearly everything looks waist and below, so were they sat down in a certain manner rather than just dropped?
From Breitbart. This will require diligent confirmation and digging, of course, but it should surprise no one. Tamerlan didn't become a boomer boy all by himself; he had help and perhaps had more than one helper. Misha is the first identified but I'm betting he isn't the last.
A man known as Misha, who is suspected of being the person who radicalized Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has apparently been identified by the FBI. Misha, a red-bearded, 30ish Armenian-American Christian who had converted to Islam, apparently became the Rasputin-like figure who spent hours indoctrinating Tsarnaev, once even visiting the family home.
Tsarnaevs uncle, Ruslan Tsami said: It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge. This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely. After being swayed by Misha, Tsarnaev stopped his plans to attend music school saying Islam frowned on music, and gave up boxing. He began frequenting jihadist websites and looking for extremist propaganda, and reading al-Qaedas Inspire magazine. He sought out a copy of the infamous anti-semitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claims that Jews want to take over the world.
Elmirza Khozhugov, 26, the ex-husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina, said the Tsarnaevs were not at the mosque frequently until 2008 or 2009, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev met Misha. Khozhugov recalled the visit Misha made to the family home, where he stayed for hours:
Misha was telling him what is Islam, what is good in Islam, what is bad in Islam. This is the best religion and that's it. Mohammed said this and Mohammed said that. It was late, like midnight. His father comes in and says, 'Why is Misha here so late and still in our house? He asked it politely. Tamerlan was so much into the conversation he didn't listen.
Khozhugov said Tamerlan's mother, Zubeidat, said:
Don't interrupt them. They're talking about religion and good things. Misha is teaching him to be good and nice. When Misha would start talking, Tamerlan would stop talking and listen. It upset his father because Tamerlan wouldn't listen to him as much. He would listen to this guy from the mosque who was preaching to him.
Khozhugov added that Tamerlan did not know much about Islam, and wht he did know he got from sources online or from Misha: 'Misha was important, Tamerlan was searching for something. He was searching for something out there.
But Tsarnaevs mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, denied Misha was a factor, saying, Nonsense. He was just a friend.
She continued that Misha was well-versed in Islam but wasnt extreme. She stated that Mishas contact with the Tsarnaevs was brief and he had moved elsewhere in the U.S. but she wouldnt say where.
Why on earth would we listen to Mom here? Anything, anything she says is suspect. If she isn't crazed then she's trying to spin and throw us off the trail.
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If you define crazy = radicalized Islamist then I think she may be crazy.
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This Ruslan Tsmai, is this the same Ruslan Tsami that is married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, former CIA Chief Station, Kabul AFG?
Besoeker, I saw an article last night wherein Mr. Fuller claimed his daughter and Mr. Tsami, nee' Tsarnaev, divorced in 1999 after only three or four years of marriage. I'll see if I can find the link.
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Not many degrees of separation between a number of characters and activities connected with the Marathon Massacre; makes me wonder if there's some fire behind the smoke that the Tsarnaevs were being protected or at least not restricted before the bombings, when one would have expected such. Perhaps they were being recruited as agents?
makes me wonder if there's some fire behind the smoke that the Tsarnaevs were being protected or at least not restricted before the bombings, when one would have expected such. Perhaps they were being recruited as agents?
More likely the FBI and CIA were just too blinkered by political correctness to understand what they were looking at. The Russians sent word the boys were "getting really religious" and the Feds response is, "well, that's not the same as 'radicalized'".
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Call me a black helo freak, but I keep going back to the DEBKAfile article. The more connections are revealed, the more plausible DEBKA becomes.
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More likely the FBI and CIA were just too blinkered by political correctness to understand what they were looking at
The FBI had most of its training and interrogation curriculums severely modified by a consortium of 'muslim consultants'. As for the CIA, well, it's gone from as Forsyth termed it, "savagely unprincipled", to merely amoral.
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The FBI had most of its training and interrogation curriculums severely modified by a consortium of 'muslim consultants'.
Are the people who work for the FBI and other agencies incapable of independent thought or analysis? Do they only process the officially dispensed data? I ask this in all seriousness.
Because if that is the case, we're in serious trouble. Even worse than I had assumed.
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"Ive been cooperating entirely with the FBI. I gave them my computer and my phone and everything I wanted to show I havent done anything. And they said they are about to return them to me. And the agents who talked told me they are about to close my case." - "Misha"
Doesn't sound very "Rasputin" like to me. More like BS from the family that fits with the Media's narrative: "They were such good boys until *Misha* make them into extremists."
[Pak Daily Times] At least 11 people were killed across the country on Sunday, as hard boyz continued to target political parties in a bid to disrupt the upcoming general election.
Eight persons were killed and scores other injured in two kabooms targeting independent candidates' elections offices in Kohat and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. districts, officials said.
"Islamic laws and values are from Allah and secular doctrine is from Rousseau, Kant and Bentham. A man cannot be secular and Moslem at a time. These are two different doctrines in nature."
In Peshawar, the elections office of independent candidate Nasir Khan Afridi for NA-46 seat was targeted on Charsadda Road, leaving three people dead and 26 injured.
The blast also damaged some houses and vehicles, according to the local police.
Had the bomb gone off minutes later, it would have killed dozens, Nasir Khan told news hounds, saying a political gathering was scheduled at the office. "The people behind this attack aim to sabotage the upcoming election," he said.
12 injured were at death's door. Two vehicles and windowpanes of nearby houses and shops were also damaged.
Soon after the blast, the Rescue 1122 officials and police reached the site and shifted the injured to Lady Ready Hospital. Emergency was imposed in the hospital.
The police and law enforcing agencies personnel cordoned off the area and started operation to trace the myrmidons. Nasir Khan is a former senator.
The independent candidate is said to be a fierce critic of bully boyz in his Bara constituency, where paramilitary forces were fighting the Taliban for the last three years. The conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, who are living in camps and rented homes.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... five supporters of independent candidate Syed Noor Akbar for NA-39 (Orakzai) seat were killed when his election office was attacked in the morning, according to Kohat police chief Dilawar Khan.
"It was a remote-controlled blast in which five kilogrammes of explosives were used," the police official told local news hounds. "The IED was planted outside the election office. At least five people have been killed and 22 injured," Noor Akbar is canvassing for votes among the numerous Orakzai residents forced to flee the district to Kohat by army operations against hard boys.
Fazal Naeem, a police front man in Kohat, confirmed the attack and told AFP the kaboom had damaged shops and vehicles nearby and also hit an office of the Awami National Party (ANP), which has been targeted repeatedly by the Taliban. "The election office was open at the time and supporters of Noor Akbar were sitting inside. The corpse count may rise, the condition of some of the injured is critical," Tanveer Khan, another police official, told AFP.
Over in Swabi, a remote-controlled blast took place when people were leaving after attending the election rally of Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Ameer Rehman in the PK-32 constituency. Two people, including a seven-year-old, were killed in the attack, while 16 others were maimed. According to AFP, the bomb went kaboom! as Ameer Rehman drove past in a convoy of dozens of vehicles.
Separately, a deadly blast claimed the life of a child and reportedly left five others injured on Sariab Road of Quetta city. The electoral procession of Shams Mengal, an independent candidate for PB-5 Quetta seat, was the target.
Police sources said that unidentified assailant had planted a bomb on a bicycle in Faizabad area of Sariab, where the electoral procession of the Shams Mengal was underway.
Police and Frontier Corps personnel rushed to the site shortly after the incident and cordoned off the area.
The dear departed and injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital Quetta. According to the Bomb Disposal Squad, around four kilogrammes of kaboom was used in the blast.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) group grabbed credit for Sunday's blasts, as well as attacks 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... in recent days.
Fear of attacks has meant there have been few large-scale political rallies so far, leading to a lacklustre election campaign.
The TTP said it was attacking political parties because of their "secular doctrine" and because they were behind military operations in the tribal regions.
A statement from TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan explained the hard boys' stance with reference to European philosophers.
"Islamic laws and values are from Allah and secular doctrine is from Rousseau, Kant and Bentham," the statement said. "A man cannot be secular and Moslem at a time. These are two different doctrines in nature."
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[Pak Daily Times] Police claimed to have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at least 25 criminal elements in different targeted raids and operations, huge cache of weapons and ammunitions were also recovered in these search operations conducted in various localities of Orangi Town on Sunday night. Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... around two kilogrammes of explosives was recovered from a Hi-Roof vehicle during police search operation.
According to details, police conducted targeted raids in Mianwali Colony locality of Orangi Town, where they managed to detain at least fourteen suspects and also recovered huge caches of weapons. DSP Zahid Siddiqui said that detainees were shifted to undisclosed locations for further questioning.
DSP Siddiqui said that during operation they found a suspected high-roof van parked in Islamia Colony, in which around two kilograms of kaboom was recovered, however bomb disposal squad was called for the inspection.
Separately, East Zone police also conducted targeted raids in different localities of the zone including Frontier Colony, Quaidabad, Landhi and Sherpao colony, and apprehended at least 11 suspects and recovered weapons and ammunitions from their procession. Police said that suspects were shifted to undisclosed place for further investigation.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Iraq has suspended the licenses of Al Jizz and nine other television channels for allegedly promoting violence and sectarianism, Al Jizz reported, citing a bigwig at the country's media watchdog.
"We took a decision to suspend the license of some satellite channels that adopted language encouraging violence and sectarianism," Mujahid Abu al-Hail of the Communications and Media Commission said yesterday, according to Al Jizz.
In another sign that unrest is gripping the nation, the Iraqi embassy in Amman informed the Jordanian interior ministry that Iraq will close borders with Jordan tomorrow for 48 hours, citing domestic issues, Jordan's state-run news service Petra said. The report cited a statement issued by the interior ministry.
Protests against Iraq's Shiite Moslem government and festivities in Sunni-dominated provinces continued for a fifth day, pushing the corpse count past 200, Al Jizz reported April 27. Tensions have been rising since Sunnis began anti-government protests in December and worsened April 23, when troops backed by helicopters stormed a plaza in Hawija, killing at least 20 protesters.
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[Al Ahram] Dozens of Paleostinians held a sit-in on Sunday in central Gazoo to demand the release of their Salafist relatives, held in jug by the territory's Islamist rulers Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Participants in the protest, mainly women and kiddies, carried banners calling for their relatives to be freed.
"We demand the release of our sons from jail," a female protester who refused to give her name told AFP. "Why are they arresting them and searching houses and shops?"
"They banned us from visiting since they tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... my brother, who has been on hunger strike since April 3," she said. "We hold the Hamas government responsible for their arrest."
According to Salafist sources, Hamas is holding over 20 members of the hardline Mohammedan movement in jug.
The Hamas government has found itself at odds with an array of small jihadist, Salafist groups operating in the Gazoo Strip that have challenged the Islamist movement both over confrontations with Israel and the practice of Islamic rule.
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Methinks "Sinai" also has something to do with it.
[Al Ahram] Israel's air force carried out three strikes early on Sunday in the Gazoo Strip, targeting radical Paleostinian group Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... but causing no casualties, witnesses said.
Two Arclight airstrikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, targeting positions of the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The third was near the southern town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border, said the Paleostinian witnesses.
An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the air force had carried out strikes in the Gazoo Strip but told AFP she could not give further details.
The Israeli authorities also closed on Sunday until further notice the Kerem Shalom goods crossing following a rocket attack, said the defence ministry.
Israel had not carried out GazooArclight airstrikes since early April, when it launched the first strikes since an Egyptian-brokered truce in November ended a deadly eight-day conflict between the Jewish state and faceless myrmidons of Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which rules the territory.
On April 19, two rockets fired from the Gazoo Strip hit southern Israel without causing any casualties or damage.
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A Philippine military commander says two army intelligence officers have been killed by suspected al-Qaeda-linked terrorists militants while on a surveillance mission on Basilan Island.
Col. Carlito Galvez says two suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists militants on a motorcycle gunned down the two soldiers Sunday in Lamitan city. The gunmen are believed to be part of an urban-based hit squad.
Galvez says the Abu Sayyaf has also given sanctuary on the island to some foreign terrorists militants linked to Jemaah Islamiyah.
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Once again, wid feeling - "Meanwhile" ...
Back at SABAH ...
* TOPIX > [Globe & Mail] MALAYSIA INVADED, HUNDREDS OF TERRORISTS LAND ON BEACHES, WESTERN MEDIA MUTE.
One ranger was gunned down and two others injured in a separate violent incident in Pattani province on Saturday morning.
In the first incident at 8:50 a.m., Muhammai Saifu Abdultolep was going to work when he was shot by two terrorists militants on a motorcycle in Sai Buri district. He died later at the hospital.
In the other incident, at about 9:30 a.m., terrorists militants detonated a bomb while a team from Ranger Company 4203 was on foot patrol also in Sai Buri. After the blast, a clash between the patrol and the terrorists militants followed. Two rangers were injured.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid on Monday, surviving a blast against his convoy in Damascus, in the latest attack on top members of President Bashar al-Assads regime.
The attack came as Republican lawmakers in the United States stepped up calls for American action after claims Assads regime used chemical weapons against its population during its battle against an uprising now in its third year.
Syrian state television said Halqi was unharmed in the blast in the Mazzeh district of the capital.
The terrorist explosion in Mazzeh was an attempt to target the prime ministers convoy and Dr. Wael al-Halqi was unharmed, state television reported, adding that the blast had caused casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said one of Halqis bodyguards had been killed.
A second bodyguard and the driver are in critical condition, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that the convoy appeared to have been targeted by a remotely-detonated car bomb.
State television said the explosion happened near a public garden and a school in the neighbourhood, a well-secured district that is home to embassies, government buildings, intelligence facilities and several political figures.
[EDITION.CNN] In an attempt to weaken the Syrian government's air power, rebel fighters attacked several military airports across the country Sunday -- including a sprawling base in Idlib province, dissidents said.
"Fighter planes have caused many deaths, so we want to end any such thing as military air power," opposition activist Jehad al-Hamwwi told CNN.
The rebel Free Syrian Army devised a plan to attack the military airports and the regime's other strategic bases, said Zukan Hded, a dissident in Idlib province.
Syrian troops and rebels battled for control of Idlib's Abu al-Zhuhoor military airport, one of the few places in the opposition-dominated province from which government forces can still inflict damage, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Fighter planes and helicopters are deployed from al-Zhuhoor airport to shell Idlib and nearby areas," Hded said. "Also, the airport distributes ammunition by helicopter to nearby military camps."
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't require Greek fire... the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said the Syrian army blocked an attempt by "terrorists" -- the government's blanket term for the opposition -- to storm the Minnegh airport in the Aleppo countryside. But dissidents disputed the report, which claimed the government controlled 60% of the airport Sunday, the opposition Aleppo Media Center said.
At the Hama military airport, rebels from the Free Syrian Army traded Grad missiles for Syrian army mortars Sunday, the Hama Revolutionist Command Council said in a statement.
Rebels also engaged in fierce festivities with Syrian troops and took control of two defense brigades near the Kwaires military airport Saturday, the Aleppo Media Center said.
And in Daraa province, where the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's regime started, rebels acquired a weapons cache after fighters took full control of a strategic air force battalion Saturday, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said.
But on the same day, Syrian forces shelled two villages in the Aleppo countryside from the Nyrab military airport, the Aleppo Media Center said.
For its part, the government said Syrian armed forces inflicted heavy losses on rebel fighters in several hot spots across the war-torn country, SANA said.
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[EDITION.CNN] In an attempt to weaken the Syrian government's air power, rebel fighters attacked several military airports across the country Sunday -- including a sprawling base in Idlib province, dissidents said.
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