[Shabelle] simultaneous land mine attacks aimed at federal government troops occurred early morning near the ministry of defense offices in Mogadishu.
Eye witness confirmed to Shabelle radio that an kaboom went off at a control check point near the ministry offices. He added that after the kaboom, government troops arrived at the scene in large numbers, minutes later; other land mine kabooms went off simultaneously causing death and injury casualties.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... there are no clear statements released by the government about the kabooms.
Government troops have secured the area and have closed the factory road which is the main road which passes by the defense ministry.
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[Al Ahram] Sudanese rebels on Tuesday said they had resisted for the second time in two weeks an army attempt to retake an area seized during a surprise strike into a previously peaceful region.
They said they remained in control of Abu Kershola in South Kordofan state, where the defence ministry late Monday reported "intensive fighting on the ground and by air."
Insurgents from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) coalition said they seized the government garrison at Abu Kershola on 27 April during attacks on several nearby areas, including Umm Rawaba, the second-largest town in North Kordofan state.
The strike was the rebel coalition's first joint-forces operation.
Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, front man for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), which belongs to the SRF, said the fighting came to a halt Monday and faceless myrmidons were still in control of Abu Kershola.
But on Monday night a defence ministry front man said "the fighting is still going on".
Rebels said last week they repulsed an initial attempt to retake the town, a claim denied by the army.
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Nigeria launched a military campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of their bases in remote border areas, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast.
Nigerian troops deployed in large numbers, part of a plan to rout an insurgency by the Boko Haram Islamist group that has seized control of parts of the region.
"The operations, which will involve massive deployment of men and resources, are aimed at asserting the nation's territorial integrity," a Defense Headquarters statement said.
The campaign targets semi-desert areas of three states in which Jonathan declared an emergency on Tuesday - Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, three of the country's poorest and most remote.
The Islamist insurgency has cost thousands of lives and destabilized Africa's top energy producer since it began in 2009, but it has mostly happened far from economic centers such as Lagos. The capital Abuja was, however, bombed in 2011 and 2012.
It has not affected southern oil fields that provide the bulk of government revenues in Africa's second biggest economy.
Residents and Reuters reporters saw army trucks carrying soldiers enter Yola and Maiduguri to seek out militants from Boko Haram, whose rebellion has targeted the security forces, Christians and politicians in the mainly Muslim north.
The deployment will placate some of Jonathan's critics, who had accused him of not facing up to the gravity of the crisis, but northern politicians voiced concerns over rising tensions.
[An Nahar] A Tanzanian man has been charged with murder in connection with a deadly kaboom on a church in northern Tanzania that killed three people, police said Tuesday.
Nine suspects were tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... following the May 5 kaboom in Arusha, police said, including five Tanzanians, three Emiratis and a Saudi.
The four foreigners have been released without charge and left Tanzania, according to media in their respective countries.
"Investigations conducted by detectives and in collaboration with other specialists such as the FBI and Interpol showed that the foreigners had no connection with the attack," said Arusha's police chief Liberatus Sabas.
The attack was one of the worst such incidents to hit the east African country in years.
One of the five Tanzanian suspects, Victor Ambrose "was brought before a court and charged with murder and attempted murder" on Monday, Sabas said in a statement.
"The interrogation of other suspects continues," he added, noting a police reward of $30,000 (23,000 euros) for information.
In addition to the three people killed in the blast, more than 60 people were maimed when attackers hurled a bomb into the compound of the newly built Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic church. Sabas said that 31 people remained in hospital.
The kaboom, which no group has claimed, was described by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete as "an act of terrorism".
Officials have given no indication as to who might have carried out the attack, but tensions have been high between Tanzania's Christian and Musselmen communities in recent months.
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[Yemen Post] Just as a Finnish couple and a Danish national are landing safely in their respective homeland after months spent in captivity in Yemen, officials reported this Monday that an aid worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Does anyone see a pattern here? Anyone? Bueller?
While the ICRC refused to comment on the matter neither confirming nor denying the attack, CNN quoted three local officials as saying that the aid worker, a Swiss national was being detained by a group of armed men in the southern province of Abyan.
It was not yet established whether or not the men were linked to al-Qaeda or if they already had enounced the terms of his release.
It is the third time in less than a week that foreign workers have been kidnapped in the region. Last week two Egyptian nationals and two Indian nationals were attacked in similar circumstances to that of the ICRC worker by armed tribesmen.
They are currently being held in Abyan while the government is looking for an acceptable compromise with the tribe.
Officials are so far incline to believe that the Swiss national was kidnapped by members of the same tribe to force the government into agreeing to its terms rather than another somber terror plot engineered by al-Qaeda.
Since a bomb attack was foiled in Aden on Sunday, Yemen counter-terror services have been on high alert, on the look out for yet another flare up of violence in Yemen southern territories.
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[Yemen Post] As western media are unraveling the series of events which led to the release of Yemen's three western hostages (a Finnish couple and an Austrian national) reports in Austria are now alleging that Oman had to pay up $50 million to their kidnappers in order to secure their freedom.
Following months of failed tribal negotiations and dead-ends, Oman decided to step in the equation by offering to pay a ransom, which according to Yemeni officials the coalition government was reluctant to do as a matter of principle.
Officials have argued that by complying to kidnappers' demands the state would signal its weakness and create a dangerous precedent which would automatically lead to yet more kidnappings as rustics would translate the payment of a ransom as an easy way to manipulate the state into doing their bidding.
As it happened, Oman is said to have paid $16 million for Dominik Neubauer's release, the Austrian national whose heart-wrenching plea earlier this year ultimately led the Omani government to intervene. The Austrian Independent Website also quoted Yemeni sources as saying that a team of tribal negotiators/intermediaries were paid $4 million for their troubles.
The AFP also established that the total ransom amounted to a hefty $50 million, sum which the Omani authorities have yet to confirm.
"Apparently, $50 million were paid for all three hostages," wrote AFP in a report on the kidnappings.
All three hostages were held by al-Qaeda hard boyz since December 2012. The trio was kidnapped by a group of gunnies while out in the capital, Sana'a. They were later on sold out to al-Qaeda operatives. The fact that al-Qaeda had used tribal intermediaries to carry out its plot against foreign nationals deeply troubled officials as it signaled a dangerous change in tactics.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A madrasa teacher has succumbed to bullet wounds he suffered during law enforcers' crackdown on Hefajat-e Islam activists at the city's Shapla Chattar on May 6.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... a police constable, who sustained burn injuries as the Hefajat men set him on fire on May 5, has been sent to Singapore for treatment.
With the death of the madrasa teacher, the toll at Shapla Chattar violence has risen to 16. A policeman was among the dead.
Nazrul Islam, 40, of Narsingdi, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 6:00am on Tuesday, said Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station.
The official said he was admitted to the hospital in the early hours of May 6 with bullet wounds.
Mosharraf Hossain, a cousin of the dear departed, said Nazrul was a teacher of a madrasa at Dhaka and a resident in the capital's Darussalam area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... police constable Md Piarul Islam, who suffered severe burn injuries after the Hefajat men torched him at the office of the deputy commissioner of traffic (East), was flown to Singapore Monday night.
According to Kazi Ziauddin, assistant inspector general (AIG-Media) of police, the police constable has been sent to the General Hospital at Singapore with the personal will of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
Piarul suffered burn wounds at 45 percent of his body. He was undergoing treatment at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit at DMCH. A medical board formed for his treatment had recommended sending him abroad.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A headmistress sustained sprinter injuries in a crude-kaboom on a human hauler in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong during yesterday's countrywide hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
Witnesses said pro-hartal activists had charged three homemade bombs on the vehicle in Amanbazar area around 11:30am.
Preeti Das, headmistress of Chhipatoli Govt High School, sustained several injuries on the back in the attack. She was rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
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... , a key component of BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance had called the hartal protesting its Nayeb-e-Ameer AKM Yusuf's arrest in connection with crimes against humanity committed in 1971.
Apart from some stray incidents of violence in some districts, yesterday's hartal ended peacefully compared to those enforced by Jamaat in the recent days.
At least three vehicles were torched and 30 others vandalised while more than 25 homemade bombs were blasted during the 12-hour hartal that ended at 6:00pm, reports our district correspondents.
In Dhaka, myrmidons hurled two cocktails -- of them, one went kaboom! -- at Shahbagh intersection, near the Gonojagoron Mancha. The protesters there were preparing for a scheduled procession to resist Jamaat's hartal.
None has been reported to be injured. Police retrieved the unwent kaboom! bomb.
Witnesses said the myrmidons hurled the bombs from a bus heading towards Elephant Road.
The Shahbagh protesters, however, brought out an hour-long procession and marched up to the Kataban intersection, Ruposhi Bangla Hotel and TSC intersection before returning to the Gonojagoron Mancha area.
They once again vowed to continue their movement until all war criminals are brought to book.
Pro-hartal activists also vandalised several vehicles and blasted a few cocktails in Azimpur, and Dayaganj in Jatrabari.
The number of public and private transports on roads was much higher yesterday than that of the recent day's hartals. Many shops and markets were also seen open in the capital.
In Chittagong, at least 20 homemade bombs were blasted, a vehicle was torched and seven other were vandalised.
In Pabna, Jamaat men vandalised two trucks and blasted two cocktails near the link road of Bangabandhu Bridge in the afternoon. Drivers of the trucks escaped the attack with minor injuries.
In Narayanganj and Rangpur, at least two vehicles were torched and 17 others vandalised.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... Chandpur police yesterday tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... eight activists and leaders of Jamaat-Shibir, including the district ameer of Jamaat, in connection with planning violence.
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Hattip Bright Pebbles, who commented, "Muslim paedophile abuse gang found guilty. MSM dare not say what the common factor is with other muslim paedophile gangs."
[BBC] Seven members of a sex grooming ring have been convicted of abusing children from Oxford.
An Old Bailey jury heard six girls were drugged and suffered sadistic abuse while aged between 11 and 15.
The court heard victims were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to perform sex acts. Some had also been beaten, burnt and threatened.
Nine men had denied charges including rape, arranging child prostitution and trafficking between 2004 and 2012.
Two were acquitted of all charges.
The judge told the guilty men: "You have been convicted of the most serious offences and long custodial sentences are inevitable."
They are due to be sentenced on 26 June.
Lurid details can be read at the link.
A number of opportunities to catch members of the gang are believed to have been missed and prosecutors, the police and social services have apologised for any failings.
Big of them to say so...
The jury at the Old Bailey considered the evidence for two-and-a-half days and returned the following verdicts.
o Kamar Jamil was found guilty of five counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of facilitating child prostitution.
o Akhtar Dogar was found guilty of five counts of rape, three counts of conspiracy to rape, two counts of child prostitution and one count of trafficking.
o Anjum Dogar was found guilty of four counts of rape, two counts of child prostitution, two counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of trafficking.
Assad Hussain was found not guilty of rape and guilty of two counts of sex with a child.
o Mohammed Karrar was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to rape, three counts of rape of a child, one count of using an instrument to procure miscarriage, two counts of trafficking, one count of assault of a child by penetration, one count of child prostitution, one count of rape and one count of supplying a class A drug.
o Bassam Karrar was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape a child, one count of rape of a child, one count of child prostitution, one count of trafficking and one count of conspiracy to rape.
o Zeeshan Ahmed was found guilty of two counts of sex with a child.
Below the article was the following blurb for a related story:
Grooming case council boss to stay
A county council chief says she will not resign after members of a paedophile ring based in Oxford were found guilty of trafficking young girls.
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The crimes took place over eight years and social services and the police have apologised for not acting sooner... it was not until February 2011 that Thames Valley Police and Oxfordshire County Council recognised that the city had a problem with the sexual abuse of children and not until May that year that an investigation was opened. It would be 10 months before the gang could be arrested.
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Counternarcotics operations nets 700+ kilos of pot
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of four unidentified individuals have been killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to separate news accounts on online editions of El Diario de Coahuila and Milenio news dailies, an anti-kidnapping unit of the Nuevo Leon state Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) had been conducting searches since Sunday of the Cadereyta-Jimenez area immediately east of Monterrey based on complaints of kidnappings taking place and reports of armed suspects in the area.
According to the El Diario de Coahuila account, on Monday AEI agents encountered armed suspects travelling aboard a Cadillac Escalade SUV and a Chevrolet Suburban SUV in a break that leads to Los Herreras municipality, where gunfire was exchanged and two armed suspects were shot to death.
Three other armed suspects escaped that encounter with two more dying in a separate gunfight a few minutes later near a winery, where four female kidnap victims were found and released.
Among the victims were two minors. AEI agents also seized an undisclosed number of weapons.
A separate counter-narcotics operations took place along Mexico Federal Highway 40D in China municipality Monday where Policia Federal (PF) agents seized a quantity of marijuana, according to a news account on Milenio.
The PF unit had set up a checkpoint and stopped a Ford box van type truck. Police agents discovered a false bottom in the truck where 93 packages of marijuana were hidden. The total seizure was 735 kilograms.
The driver identified as David Aquino Rosas was detained at the scene. The truck was bound for Reynosa in Tamaulipas.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug war and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has taken credit for a suicide bombing on May 11 in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province in Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say at least six people, mostly police and paramilitary soldiers, were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in the attack.
The IMU e-mailed a statement to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on May 13. It said attack was carried out by a 52-year-old IMU member of Tatar origin.
The statement said the attack targeted the "infidel" government of Balochistan. It said the bombing was a "response" to a Pakistani government action against a viper's nest religious school last month, which it claimed caused the death of an IMU member and wounded several others.
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[Pak Daily Times] An alleged hit man and his two cohorts were locked away Please don't kill me! by the police from a house in Bahadar Banda area here on Tuesday. DPO Hangu, Sajid Khan told media that police acted on a tip-off and raided a house in Bahadar Banda area. Alleged hit man Abid alias charger along with two of his cohorts were arrested. Police seized two hand grenades and a pistol from their possession. According to the DPO, Abid was a commander of TTP and wanted in a number of murder cases. He was handed over to the security forces for interrogation, police added.
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[Pak Daily Times] A lawyer for seven terror suspects picked up from outside the Adiala Jail said on Tuesday that tribal officials had sentenced them to up to 14 years in prison.
The seven prisoners who were picked up by spy agencies in May 2010 were produced before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistain Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, raised questions over the process adopted by the political administration of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... for the trial of these prisoners. The bench directed Orakzai Assistant Political Agent Mawaz Khan who convicted the men, and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Additional Law Secretary Shan Zeb to submit copies of the record regarding the trial and conviction of the seven missing prisoners.
The court noted that the detainees had stated that they were never produced before any court of law either for remand or for trial. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... a tehsildar informed them in Kohat District Jail that they had been convicted and sentenced. It must be noted that the Lower Orakzai Agency APA had on May 2, 2013, convicted the seven men and sentenced five of them to 14 years in jail and the two others to five years on the charges of carrying illegal arms and aiding terrorist attacks on convoys of the Pakistain Army.
After examining the Orakzai Agency APA's record, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry said, "Your record showed that the APA convicted the men on May 2 and the court of APA on the same day directed the authorities concerned for production of the accused." He observed that this meant that the seven men were never produced before a court. According to the record, the court of APA set May 17 as next date of hearing for production of the seven accused men before court. But the court announced its judgement on May 2 before the next hearing.
"March 22, 2013 is mentioned as the date of arrest of these seven men in your record but these men were being enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! since long," remarked Justice Jawwad S Khawaja. Expressing concern over the trial and conviction of the detained men the bench directed the attorney general of Pakistain to assist the court on the point whether the convicted men had been dealt with in accordance with Article 10A, which stipulates the right to fair trial.
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[Dawn] A policeman was shot dead in an Orangi Town area on Monday, police said. They said that Assistant Sub-Inspector Maqbool Shah was returning home in Farid Colony after offering Isha prayer when gunmen fired at him and fled. He sustained a single bullet in the head, which proved fatal. He was posted in the security branch of the police.
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[Dawn] Police claimed to have bumped off two suspected faceless myrmidons on Tuesday after they opened indiscriminate firing on a cop shoppe in Badhber area on the outskirts of 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. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the family of one of the dear departed protested outside the Governor House in the bustling provincial capital, claiming foul play by the police.
Family members of Shehryar, a college student in his second year, said he was visiting Badhber area to collect his roll number.
Police shot down the youth suspecting he was a terrorist, the family claimed. The family has demanded senior police officials to order a probe into the incident.
Earlier, Superintendent of Police Rural Shafiullah Khan had said that police had prior information about the possible entry of suspected faceless myrmidons from Dara Adamkhel and as a result security was beefed up.
A suspicious black vehicle was signaled to stop near the cop shoppe. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the myrmidons shot up the personnel and attempted to flee. The resulting exchange of fire left a woman and child injured.
Police chased the car and shot one of the myrmidons, who died on his way to the cop shoppe, they said.
"The other terrorist who had fled to the nearby population was engaged and killed," Khan had said, claiming arms and ammunition were also recovered from the vehicle.
"We have recovered one Klashnikov, a pistol, two hand grenades, a pistol and several rounds of bullets," he claimed. "The identity card of one Saqib Ibrar of Kohat has also been recovered from the car. We are investigating further into the incident."
The identity of the other alleged 'terrorist' was still unclear.
The family members of the dear departed will stage a demonstration again on Wednesday in protest, and have demanded a thorough investigation.
TTP 'commander' tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... 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...Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... CID police with the help of intelligence agencies claimed to have arrested a key myrmidon commander of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in Karachi.
CID police carried out an operation in the city's Karachi area and arrested TTP myrmidon Amir Sahib, who was described as a 'key commander' of the Taliban's Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
group from Swat.
Initial investigation revealed that Amir was mobilizing a team to collect funds and to carry out targeted terrorist activities on Naval installations and government offices, police said. They also claimed to have recovered four hand grenades and other arms and ammunition from the suspect.
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Family members of Shehryar, a college student in his second year, said he was visiting Badhber area to collect his roll number
He was a quiet though odd lad with a fetish for string-cheese; got along well with his dorm-mates at UMass and seemed rather fond of the weed...
[An Nahar] Gunmen armed with silenced weapons rubbed out 12 people at alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, while four people died in other attacks, security and medical officials said.
The gunnies, who were travelling in four vehicles, restrained federal coppers at a checkpoint in the Zayouna area of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , an interior ministry official said.
They then rubbed out 12 people in multiple adjoining alcohol shops nearby, the ministry official said.
A medical official confirmed the toll.
With alcohol forbidden by Islam, Storied Baghdad liquor stores are an attractive target for fundamentalist groups, made more so because they are often staffed by religious minorities.
In other violence on Tuesday, gunnies killed an anti-Qaeda militiaman along with his brother in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... west of Storied Baghdad, while a boom-mobile in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul killed a child and maimed 14 people, police and doctors said.
And gunnies killed anti-government protest organizer Abdulrahman al-Badri near the city of Baquba, north of Storied Baghdad, officials said.
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Rebel fighters battled regime troops inside the walls of the sprawling central prison compound in Syria's largest city Wednesday, hours after blowing open the gate with twin car bombs in an attempted jailbreak, activists said.
The orchestrated assault began at dawn, but by nightfall, the rebels had not dislodged regime forces or freed some 4,000 prisoners held there, according to two pro-opposition monitoring groups.
Across Syria, the Internet was restored after a blackout of more than eight hours, the second nationwide outage in a week. Syria's Communications Ministry blamed a rebel bombing which it said cut a cable north of the capital of Damascus but gave no details. Earlier, the state news agency SANA had linked the outage to a technical problem.
At the United Nations, the General Assembly voted 107-12 with 59 abstentions to approve an Arab-backed resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and condemning President Bashar Assad's regime for "gross violations" of human rights.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
According to Kazi Ziauddin, assistant inspector general (AIG-Media) of police, the police constable has been sent to the General Hospital at Singapore with the personal will of Prime Minister 
The jury at the Old Bailey considered the evidence for two-and-a-half days and returned the following verdicts.
