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Daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. I never saw the home but was in the area(Penna.). The Waterfall home. Another famous Architect as I recall lives there now or in the area. Wright was of Welsh descent. Many Welsh settled this area and West Virgina because it was so similar to their homeland.
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Grand-daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman and his wife, Catherine, who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Yes, Deacon you would know. I was thinking more about the other Architect for the Steel building in Pittsburgh who I believe lives in the Waterfall home. The new steel exterior application stains surrounding areas. So a clean up is in order now. That's done now that it"s weathered.
[Tolo News] The Afghan and Pak forces have resumed festivities in Ghosta district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province early Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on Pak forces, local Afghan officials said.
The festivities broke out today morning about 08:00am, when the Pak military forces tried to rebuild the gate of the check-post in Goshta district of Nangarhar, the provincial governor front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
The festivities ended at about 10:30am and there were no Afghan border police casualties, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
He said that the Afghan officials had officially asked the Pakistain government to stop the building of the military check-posts in Gostha district of the province.
"We have already asked Pakistain to stop the building of the military check-posts and we had also summoned the Pak Consular officials.
But they did not care and started the building of the gates in the district again [today]," Abdulzai said.
"The Afghan forces reacted to the move of the Pak military and festivities broke out," he said.
More Afghan cops have been deployed in the area and they are put on alert, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... the Afghan border officials said that at least 30 Pak forces were killed or maimed in the festivities. There are no exact figures of how many Pak forces were killed and how many got maimed.
The Afghan forces have destroyed a Pak military tank and removed two of Pak check-posts during the festivities in which both sides used heavy weapons, the Afghan commanders said.
The Pakistain government has not yet commented about today's festivities.
The festivities between the Afghan and Pak military forces had also taken place last Wednesday over building of the check-posts in Ghosta district of eastern Nangarhar province. At least one Afghan border police was killed in the incident.
Two Pak soldiers were also maimed in the exchange of fire.
Earlier this week, the Afghan Interior Minister Mojtaba Patang warned that Pakistain will face military reaction "if it tries to rebuild military installations in border areas."
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See BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Arab News] KABUL WARNS PAKISTAN OF [You-betcha-it'll-be-bad]CONSEQUENCES AFTER FRESH CLASHES.
VERSUS
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [IDRW.org]JAISH [-e-Mohammed],LeT GROUPS COULD GAIN HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH-LIKE/STYLE STATUS; FORMER RAW CHIEF AMBER SEN.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AFGHAN-PAKISTANI CLASHES RESUME FOR SECOND TIME IN TWO DAYS.
Apparently some Pak-based Hard Boyz chose to exploit the mil clashes between Afghanistan + Pakistan, + Sino-Indian Ladkah Crisis, to attempt to sneak into INDIA while everybody's attention was seemingly diverted - unfortunately, it didn't work as they were caught.
Iff these Afghan-Pak mil clashes escalate, China + India may be brought back into new crisis.
[Tolo News] A Taliban big shot and an hard boy were enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in a joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops operation in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province early Monday, Isaf said.
"An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader and one other hard boy during an operation in Khugyani district, Nangarhar province, today," Isaf said in a statement.
The leader is responsible for a wide range of hard boy activities in Khugyani district. He has planned and directed liquidations against government officials, conducted multiple attacks targeting Afghan and coalition forces, and has facilitated the movement of money, weapons and hard boy fighters throughout the local area, it said.
The statement also said that Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the arrest of a senior hard boy leader with ties to both the Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during an operation in Burkah district, Baghlan province, yesterday.
The leader has operational control over a group of fighters responsible for multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
It comes as eight other beturbanned goons were killed in separate joint operations in the country. The Isaf statement said that two Taliban controllers were also captured in joint operations.
The first Taliban controller and one other hard boy were arrested during an operation in Maiwand district of Kandahar province, today.
The controller is responsible for providing weapons and fighters to multiple hard boy groups in the local area. He has a history of distributing IEDs, grenades, machineguns, ammunition and other military supplies for use in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
Another Taliban controller and four other beturbanned goons were arrested during an operation in Nawah-ye Barakzai district of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, today. The controller has a history of distributing IEDs to various hard boy cells throughout Helmand province. He has also participated in multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
Isaf also confirmed the death of two Taliban leaders in separate operations of the joint forces.
"Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the death of Taliban leader, Shafiq, during an operation in Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar province, Wednesday," the Isaf statement said.
Shafiq, also known as Khan, was responsible for numerous attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Kandahar province. He and his subordinates were involved in IED operations.
The second Taliban leader, Mazloom was killed during an operation in Nawah-ye Barakzai district of Helmand province, April 25. Mazloom was involved in IED operations and direct fire attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
He was also responsible for kidnapping an Afghan National Security Force soldier, training subordinate hard boy fighters and coordinating the movement of ammunition and weapons to Taliban forces.
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All I know is getting buzzed in a ha ha way gets a person's attention.
I'm pretty sure that getting boomed while attempting a free throw would make me miss a couple, nevermind the feeling of getting frogged in the middle of aiming.
[Al Ahram] Clashes erupted late Sunday between opposition protesters and Moslem Brüderbund members in the city of Kafr El-Sheikh, leaving no reported casualties.
The fight started when several assailants, identified as anti-Brotherhood, attacked a hall where members of the Moslem Brüderbund were holding a Labor Day celebration using stones, reported the Ahram Arabic website.
The Moslem Brüderbund in return called for backup from their group's members. Intermittent festivities are still ongoing between the two groups as stones are thrown back and forth. Several were reported injured although no official estimate has yet been announced.
Three police cars rushed to the scene in an attempt to end the conflict although the situation remains tense.
Kafr El-Sheikh has been witnessing many festivities over the past year, mostly between police and anti-Brotherhood protesters. Several demonstrations have been held in Kafr El-Sheikh demanding that the governor who is also a Moslem Brüderbund member, Saad El-Husseini, is replaced.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen on Monday demanded the Libyan government's resignation as they besieged ministries despite the adoption of a law to purge officials from the regime of dead dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... the like of whose wardrobe will never be seen again. At least that's what we hope... from their posts. Yesterday they were standing down. I'm so confused. But wait! No, I'm not.
"We are determined to continue our movement until the departure of (Prime Minister) Ali Zeidan," said Osama Kaabar, a leader of the militias who had promised to lift their siege if the law was passed.
The General National Congress, under pressure from the gunnies, on Sunday voted through the controversial law to exclude former Qadaffy regime officials from public posts in a move that could see the premier removed from office.
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[Al Ahram] Gunmen shot a man dead who was selling alcohol in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an attack security officials said was likely carried out by Islamist krazed killers.
The four gunnies killed Rami Ahmed, 28, at a bar on a main road near El-Arish, a town in the northern Sinai Peninsula. It is an area where Islamist krazed killer influence has expanded since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... more than two years ago.
"We are still in the early stages of the investigation but it is likely that Islamic hardliners were behind the incident," one of the security officials said. He said the victim came from the Nile Delta, north of Cairo, suggesting the shooting was unlikely to be related to local tribal rivalries.
Egypts government has been trying re-establish state authority that collapsed in Sinai following the 2011 uprising against Mubarak. Hardline Islamist groups based mostly in North Sinai have exploited the vacuum to launch attacks both across the border into Israel and on Egyptian targets.
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[Nigerian Tribune] THE Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order, on Monday, said it had jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... suspected killers of war veteran, Major-General Mohammadu Shuwa, in Maiduguri, Borno State.
JTF front man, Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa, who stated this in a statement in Maiduguri, added that the arrest followed series of investigations by the task force.
"It will be recalled that Major-General Mohammadu Shuwa was rubbed out by gunnies in front of his house in Gwange, Maiduguri, on November 12, 2012.
"Preliminary investigation by the JTF has identified two key suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Islamic fascisti- Mohammed Ibn Saleh and Abdulkareem Ibrahim - as the criminal masterminds of the killing," Musa said.
He added that a special operation was carried out by the JTF to get the suspected killers.
"Consequently, a special operation was conducted on November 15, 2012 by the task force, with a view to arresting the culprits, which led to the death of Ibn Saleh during a shootout in a house at Bulabulin Ngarnam.
"Similarly, on December 2, 2012 Abdulkareem was arrested with a fatal injury that resulted in his death on December 6, 2012. A member of the syndicate, one Bulama Bur, died on December 2, 2012 in an encounter with JTF troops," he added.
He said the JTF also arrested four other members of the gang.
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[Nigerian Tribune] JUSTICE Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, held that he has jurisdiction to hear and determine the terrorism suit brought against the prime suspect of the 2011 Christmas Bombing of St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla in Niger State, Kabiru Umar a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto.
The court assumed jurisdiction based on the provision of Section 32 of the Terrorism Prevention amended Act, 2013.
The court also fixed Thursday, May 9, to rule on the bail application brought by the accused.
The suspect, through his counsel, Adamu Ibrahim, had challenged the territorial jurisdiction of a Federal High Court, Abuja to try his client on the ground that the alleged crime as contained in the charge was committed in Niger and Sokoto states.
Ibrahim,however, asked the court to discharge the accused person, as well as an order of court that the proof of evidence did not disclose prima facae case against Kabiru.
In opposing the motion, which challenged the territorial jurisdiction of the court, the prosecuting counsel, Chioma Onuebu, cited several provisions of the law and urged the court to dismiss the application by the defence counsel.
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[An Nahar] A former Nigerian oil minister who was kidnapped at the weekend by gunnies in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , was released on Monday, police said.
"I can confirm that Shettima Ali Monguno has been released today by his abductors," Borno State police chief Abdullahi Yuguda told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A security source who requested anonymity said the kidnappers were paid 50 million naira ($318,000, 242,766 euros), but the police chief declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding the release.
The ex-minister's son, Abubakar Ali Monguno, had told AFP that the kidnappers demanded a ransom hours after the Friday abduction outside a mosque in Maiduguri.
No group has claimed the abduction, but analysts have said that Boko Haram has increasingly turned to ransom payments to finance its insurgency, notably by kidnapping wealthy individuals around Maiduguri.
Criminal groups have also carried out attacks under the guise of Boko Haram.
Monguno, 87, served as Nigeria's oil minister in the 1970s and held the rotating presidency of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 1972.
He was among a group of elders who met President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... in Maiduguri in March to discuss the Boko Haram crisis.
He has repeatedly called for dialogue with the bully boy group and urged Jonathan to reduce the massive security deployment in the city and ease a curfew forcing all residents to stay indoors after sundown.
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[Al Ahram] Kuwait's supreme court on Monday upheld life terms on two Iranians, a Kuwaiti and a stateless person on charges of forming a ring to spy for neighbouring Iran.
The court, whose rulings are final, also upheld the acquittal of two Iranians, including the only woman in the ring, and a Syrian, a statement issued by the court said.
"The court rejects the appeals of the defendants and upholds the (court of appeals) sentences," judge Abdullah al-Jassem said in the statement.
In May last year, the appeals court reduced death sentences against the first three to life and upheld the same term on the fourth. The court also acquitted the Syrian who was sentenced to life by the lower court.
The two Iranians and the Kuwaiti worked for the Kuwait's army at the time of their arrest in May 2010, while the stateless person was a former soldier.
The defendants were accused of spying for Iran and of passing information on the Kuwaiti and US military in the Gulf emirate to the Islamic republic's Revolutionary Guards, an accusation Iran has denied.
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[Al Ahram] At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday.
Dhaka police front man Masudur Rahman said police used sound grenades, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at least 70,000 Islamists who were camped at a key commercial district in a push for a new blasphemy law.
"We were forced to act after they unlawfully continued their gathering at Motijheel. They attacked us with bricks, stones, rods and bamboo sticks," he told AFP, adding that the protesters had dispersed early Monday morning.
Police inspector Mozammel Haq at Dhaka Medical College Hospital told AFP 11 bodies were taken to the clinic including several who were hit by bullets and a policeman who had been hacked in the head by protesters with machetes.
Eleven other bodies were taken to three clinics including four at Al Baraka and seven at two branches of Islami Bank hospitals which are based close to the trouble spots.
Hospital officials said hundreds of people were maimed.
The violence erupted Sunday afternoon and continued through until the early hours of Monday morning.
It came after hundreds of thousands of Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving 10 people dead and hundreds injured in the Bangladeshi capital.
Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged", activists from the hardline Hefajat-e-Islam marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities.
Police said about 200,000 people had marched to central Dhaka, where fierce festivities erupted between thousands of rock-throwing protesters and security officials, with police beating back demonstrators with batons.
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[An Nahar] The FBI said Monday it has thwarted a terror attack in a small town in Minnesota after discovering home-made bombs and guns in the home of a local man.
The agency provided few details, saying the investigation into Buford 'Bucky' Rogers, 24, was "ongoing."
"The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were potentially saved," the agency said in a statement.
"The terror plot was discovered and subsequently thwarted through the timely analysis of intelligence and through the cooperation and coordination between" multiple law enforcement agencies, the FBI said.
Investigators found Molotov cocktails, "suspected pipe bombs" and a Romanian AK-M assault rifle during a search of Rogers' home on Friday in Montevideo, a town of fewer than 6,000 people in western Minnesota.
Rogers, who has a conviction on burglary charges, is prohibited from owning firearms but admitted to having fired the assault rifle on two occasions at a nearby gun range, according to charging papers.
He was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... "without incident" on weapons charges.
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Buford had no Islamic connection, therefore he was fair game. Nicely done Bureau.
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Must be from Spokane. Too bad they mirandasized him. Now they won't be able to discern if he was part of a larger network and the real non-Muslim threat to America.
The problem with the label terrorist is it lacks a definition, in the context of the current WOT. So who qualifies for that club?
Glad to know the Alphabet Agencies have resources to find this clown while the real threat lives right under our noses. I feel safer.
[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) distributed leaflets in 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. 's suburban areas of Salman Khel and Mashoo Khel on Monday warning teachers against performing election duties on May 11.
The leaflets were also received at the residences of several school teachers which warned them of 'dire consequences' in case they performed their duties on election day.
The pamphlet issued by the Darra Adma Khel chapter of the TTP also warned the citizens on the lam from participation in the electoral process.
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[Dawn] The 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... alleged on Sunday that workers of its rival party attacked and torched one of its election offices in the Bahadurabad area. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... police denied it.
JI front man Sarfraz Ahmed told Dawn that over one dozen gunnies riding on cycle of violences attacked the election office set up near the Bahadurabad traffic intersection, had gun sex and set it on fire.
He accused a rival political party in the metropolis of the attack and said that the incident occurred at a time when JI chief Munawwar Hasan was addressing an election rally near the Quaid mausoleum.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... New Town SHO Inam Hussain told Dawn that no firing incident took place there.
He said one tent of the election office caught fire mysteriously and the matter was being investigated.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... also claimed that its election office in Nazimabad No 1 was attacked on Sunday evening.
A spokesperson for the party claimed that some gunnies riding three to four cycle of violences had gun sex near the election office for PS-104.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Rizvia society SHO Naveed Nasir said 'one or two' shots were fired near a closed office of the ST.
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[Dawn] At least two workers of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... and as many police constables were maimed when an improvised bomb planted on a roadside went off when a PTI procession was passing from there to attend a public meeting in Gharibabad area of Takhbai tehsil here on Sunday.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Nazir Khan told Dawn that preliminary investigation suggested that a remote-controlled device was went kaboom! by unknown persons to target the PTI procession on Takhtbai road.
He said that two police personnel and two PTI workers suffered injuries in the blast. They were taken to Mardan Medical Complex by Rescue 1122. The injured were identified as PTI activists Shah Zeb and Khalid, and constables Matiullah and Altaf.
The DSP said that the police launched a search operation soon after the blast and had incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 15 suspects, who were being interrogated. The Takhbai police have registered the case against unknown persons.
Tariq Mehmood Aryani, PTI local office-bearer, told Dawn that five of their workers were maimed in the blast. He said that three of them were later referred to 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. for treatment.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... in a statement issued in Peshawar on Sunday the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Caretaker Minister for Information Mussarat Qadeem condemned the attack on an election rally of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf in Takhtbhai, Mardan.
The minister said that the government was striving hard to protect the people as well as candidates of political parties and provide them security. She said that the government was using all resources to ensure holding of peaceful, free and transparent elections in the province.
Ms Qadeem said that it was the main responsibility of the government to protect the lives and property of people. She said that the government would hold the elections in an impartial and free environment.
The minister said that the provincial government had put the security forces on alert to avert any untoward incident during the elections.
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[Dawn] Three relatives of a Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) candidate for PP-51 were bumped off allegedly by the supporters of the Pakistain Mohammedan League-N (PML-N) on Sunday over an election-related dispute in Chak Jhumra, police said.
The Muzaffar Tatla group, of Chak 185-RB, killed Safdar Bajwa, Ghulam Murtaza, Ali Raza and injured Ihtesham at their outhouse.
Police said the Tatla group had arranged a meeting for PML-N candidates for NA-75 Ghulam Rasool Sahi and PP-51 Azad Ali Tabbasum.
The Safdar Bajwa group which was supporting the PTI exchanged words with the Tatla group but locals intervened into the issue and pacified both sides.
Later, the Tatla group called the members of the Bajwa group, including Safdar Bajwa, Ghulam Murtaza, Ali Raza and Ihtesham at their outhouse to settle the issue. During the talks, the armed people of the Bajwa group opened indiscriminate fire killing Bajwa, Mustafa and Raza on the spot.
Ihtesham sustained bullet injuries and was shifted to hospital where his condition was pronounced stable.
Ajmal Cheema told Dawn that the three deceased were his close relatives who were bumped off over the election dispute.
Bajwa said that the killers had celebrated the murders as they danced at the bodies.
City Police Officer Raja Riffat Mukhtar said both groups had brief fallout some three days ago but the issue was resolved. He said the bodies had been shifted to morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and action would be taken against the accused people after the registration of a case. He said both parties were trying to resolve the issue but the situation turned ugly resulting into the killing of three people.
Tariq Bajwa, who is contesting as PPP ticket for NA-75, said the incident was the result of a dispute over tickets distribution by the PML-N and the PTI. He said he had tried hard to pacify both sides but his efforts proved futile owing to the negligence of the police. He said the incident could have been avoided if police had taken precautionary measures after both groups had exchanged words three days ago.
He claimed that Bajwa group had also bumped off two people of Tatla group. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the CPO did not confirm this report.
Bajwa said that the killers had celebrated the murders as they danced at the bodies.
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[An Nahar] Bombings and shootings in five different areas of Iraq killed 10 people and maimed 27 others on Monday, security and medical officials said.
In the deadliest attack, two boom-mobiles went kaboom! northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing five people and wounding 20, officials said.
A roadside kaboom near a restaurant in the Dura area in south Storied Baghdad killed two more people and maimed six.
In Muqdadiyah, northeast of Storied Baghdad, gunnies killed one fighter from the Sahwa anti-al-Qaeda militia in an attack on a checkpoint.
In the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, a bomb near the local headquarters of the Shiite National Alliance killed one of its employees and maimed another, while gunnies killed a man near his house in the town of Hawijah, also in northern Iraq.
Security forces moved against an anti-government protest near Hawijah in late April, sparking festivities in which dozens of people died.
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An assistant village leader was gunned down by suspected terrorists militants in Narathiwat province on Monday evening. The victim was identified as Jaeni Jaema, 62, assistant chief of Ban Talo Lae Jae.
The shooting occured when Jaeni was returning home on motorcycle after watching a football match. Two gunmen on motorcycle fired five shots at him and fled. Jaeni was hit and died on the spot.
[Jpost] Three explosions were heard in western Tehran on Tuesday, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage, according to a Tweet by a BBC Persian journalist.
Operation Lemony Snickett lives...
It was not immediately clear if there were injuries or damage in the incident.
In January, both Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency denied reports that a blast had hit the Fordow underground uranium enrichment center near Qom.
A mysterious and massive explosion rocked a military arms depot near Tehran in November 2011, killing 17 Revolutionary Guards Corps officers and wounding 17 others.
Iranian officials said the blast was caused by an accident as soldiers moved munitions at the base in Bidganeh, near Shahriar, 45 km. west of the Iranian capital. The base is also believed to be the storage center for some of Iran's most-advanced long-range ballistic missiles, such as the Shahab 3.
Israel and the United States have been accused over the years of working to sabotage the Islamic Republic's nuclear and ballistic-missile programs.
It's been the Ruritanians, but don't tell anyone...
In October 2010, a similar blast took place at a Revolutionary Guards munitions store in Khoramabad, in western Iran, killing and wounding several servicemen.
Tuesday's report of explosions came days after Israel allegedly carried out two air strikes in Syria over the weekend, targeting Iranian-supplied Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles destined for Hezbollah.
[An Nahar] Two rockets fired from Syrian territory went kaboom! inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Monday, without causing casualties or damage, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
The rockets went kaboom! in a field near the ceasefire line in the southern Golan, she added.
The rocket fire was "apparently connected to the situation inside Syria," she added, suggesting Israel was not targeted but that it was a spillover of fighting between the Syrian regime and rebels.
"The Israeli army combed the sector the rockets fell in and informed the U.N. forces deployed in the Golan," the spokeswoman said.
The rocket fire came as tensions between the two countries soared after Israeli air raids on targets in the Syrian capital on Sunday.
The Golan has been tense since the beginning of the conflict in Syria more than two years ago.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... there have been only minor flare-ups in the region to date, as Syrian shells have crashed in the occupied Golan and Israel has fired at the source in retaliation.
Israel, which is technically at war with Syria, has occupied 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights, which it has annexed, since 1967.
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[Ynet] New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... quotes high-ranking Syrian military official as saying alleged Israeli strike in Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... killed dozens of soldiers, hit Republican Guard bases, long-range missiles storehouses
A day after the latest alleged Israeli strike in Damascus, the New York Times revealed additional details on the targets of the attack.
The attack struck several critical military facilities in some of Syria's most tightly secured and strategic areas, killing dozens of elite troops stationed near the presidential palace, a high-ranking Syrian military official told the newspaper.
Rebels, opposition activists and residents said the strikes hit bases of the elite Republican Guard and storehouses of long-range missiles, in addition to a military research center that American officials have called the country's main chemical weapons facility, the report said.
An American official said a more limited strike early Friday at Damascus International Airport was also meant to destroy weapons being sent from Iran to Hezbollah.
A doctor at the military's Tishreen Hospital said Monday that there were at least 100 dead soldiers and many dozens more maimed, according to the New York Times.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Harrigan had lost the feeling in his legs from the cold. I told 'em they'd never take me alive, he thought. I was right!... Republican Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... said that Syria's air defense system is not as daunting as described by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey. "The Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it fairly easily," he said on "Fox News Sunday. "
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When the elite soldiers are stationed near the prsidential palace, you know the boss' fear isn't invasion.
Said it before: This was a Juice dirty trick. The Syrian IADS isn't as bad as Obama would want us to believe.
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