[TOLONEWS] According to General Zahir Zahir, the head of Kabul Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the incident occurred around 10:00am in Mir Bacha Kot district of Kabul when a jacket wallah driving a vehicle was identified by security forces and consequently detonated his explosives before he reached his target destination, which remains unknown.
One civilian was killed and three other injured who were in the area of the blast. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital to receive emergency care.
"A suicide bomber driving a car from north Afghanistan was trying to enter the capital and lunch a suicide kaboom, but before he reached to his target, security forces identified him and the man detonated his explosives. Two civilians in the area were maimed," Gen. Zahir told TOLOnews.
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MURDER, not suicide bomber.
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MUGADISHU -- A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an African peacekeeping convoy in the Somali capital on Friday, killing two civilians in the latest attack to expose the fragility of recent security gains.
The blast was claimed by Islamist al Shabaab rebels who carried out a deadly assault on a nearby United Nations base last month and another bombing in a Mogadishu market this week. Shaboob Al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Reuters the convoy was carrying a number of American officials - a report that could not be confirmed independently.
"We are behind the martyrdom explosion ... The Americans were our main target," he added.
The blast flattened makeshift shops on Maka Al Mukarama road in central Mogadishu and ripped the wheels off one vehicle belonging to the country's African Union peacekeeping force. The bodies of two civilians were pulled out of the wreckage, a Reuters witness said.
No peacekeepers died but a number of people were wounded, said an official from the Mogadishu mayor's office.
"We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit," the mayor's secretary, Abdikafi Hilowle, told reporters at the scene. "If al Shabaab are Muslims, they would not kill Muslims during Ramadan."
No, no, certainly not!
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"We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit," the mayor's secretary, Abdikafi Hilowle, told reporters at the scene.
let the pigs feed on them
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"We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit"
More, please
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[Ynet] Arab media outlets have reported that Egyptian security forces incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three Paleostinians who attempted to attack sensitive facilities in the Sinai Peninsula. They also arrested a Paleostinian youth who was involved in the attack on the Jordan bound pipeline last week.
The arrests are part of a large operation in the peninsula intended to fight terrorist currently active in Sinai, specifically focusing jihadist strongholds. Sky news has reported F-16s and helicopters are involved in the operation.
[MAGHAREBIA] Residents of the blood-stained Tizi Ouzou town of Imzizou on Thursday (July 11th) demanded the expulsion of a controversial salafist imam, Tout sur l'Algerie reported.
Algerians from several surrounding villages joined in the protest at the Fréha government administration site, claiming that the imam did not abide by their traditions and was trying to impose salafist practices.
The demonstration followed the refusal of the imam to perform a traditional funeral ritual.
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One Egyptian policeman was killed and another was badly wounded on Friday by militants who fired rocket-propelled grenades at security checkpoints in the lawless Sinai peninsula, near the border with Israel, security sources said. Fridays deadly attack took place in the peninsulas northern city of Al-Arish, the sources said.
Earlier on Friday, a police station and two army checkpoints in the city also came under attack by militants firing rocket-propelled grenades, according to the security sources. No one was wounded in those attacks.
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[Nigerian Tribune] IN an apparent denial of a ceasefire, the bearded leader of Nigeria's bad turban Islamic sect, Abubakar Shekau, has threatened to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denied his fighters were killing children.
In a new video released Saturday, Shekau said he, "fully supports" attacks on several schools in northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Children's Fund says at least 48 students and seven teachers have been killed since June, with some burned alive in a dormitory this month.
"We support the work they did at the school, at Mamudo and Damaturu, and other attacks in other schools," said Shekau, who wore military fatigues in the video. "We are going to burn down the schools, if they are not Islamic religious schools for Allah."
But Shekau insisted his fighters do not kill children.
"We don't touch small children, we only burn the schools," he says. "Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women, we don't kill children."
He said his fighters would, however, attack teachers. "School teachers who are teaching Western education? We will kill them! We will kill them!" he warns, wagging his finger.
Shekau is a leader of the bad turban 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... , whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language.
Attacks on schools have continued although thousands of troops have deployed in northeastern Nigeria to put down the Islamic bad turbans' violent campaign which poses the greatest threat in years to the security of Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer.
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... declared a state of emergency on May 14 in the three northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
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[Jpost] The bodyguard of Russia's most wanted bad boy was killed by security forces on Saturday, officials said, as Moscow tries to curb militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there in February.
Russian authorities said Mikhail Musikhanov, killed along with another bully boy in a shootout in Ingushetia's Sunzha region, was the personal bodyguard of rebel leader Doku Count Doku Umarov ... Self-styled first emir of the Caucasus Emirate. Count Doku has announced that his forces will not target civilians, but qualified that statement by saying there aren't any civilians in Russia... who has vowed to use "maximum force" to prevent President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... staging the 2014 Games in Sochi.
"The criminals tried to break through the security cordon. As a result of the ensuing gunfire their resistance was crushed and the bandidos were neutralized," Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said in a statement.
Since 2011, 29-year-old Musikhanov was part of the inner circle of Umarov, leader of the outlawed Caucasus Emirate, accompanying him everywhere as his bodyguard, NAK said.
[Dawn] A kaboom occurred outside the house of a retired policeman in Dera Murad Jamali's Bohar Mahala area on Saturday.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... no loss of life was reported in the incident.
Police said unknown men planted an bomb outside the house of Kazi Khan Bugti, a retired employee of the police department that went off. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the attack did not result in any casualties.
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[Dawn] At least one passenger was killed and another two injured when armed bully boyz shot up a passenger bus in Kalat district of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... late on Saturday night.
Levies sources told Dawn.com four armed bully boyz on two cycle of violences shot up a passenger bus near Mangochar area of Kalat district.
They said one passenger was killed on the spot and two were critically injured as result of firing. The injured were soon rushed to Kalat for medical treatment.
Levies said the condition of injured passengers was critical.
The enraged passengers and transporters blocked national highway linking Quetta with 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 protest over the firing incident.
Long queues of vehicles could be witnessed on both sides of the road, Levies said. The protesters chanted full-throated slogans against the assailants and administration for its failure to provide protection to people.
The attackers drove off the spot after the strike. Levies said the situation was tense as result of the incident.
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[EDITION.CNN] Two suspected militants were killed when missiles thought to be from a U.S. drone struck in Mir Ali Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, Pakistani intelligence sources said.
Two missiles were fired as the suspected militants rode a motorbike in the village of Mosaki, the sources said.
The attack damaged nearby houses, but no other casualties were immediately reported.
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[An Nahar] Clashes between Iraqi border police and gunnies who crossed from Syria into western Iraq killed a policeman and maimed five on Saturday, an officer said.
The gunnies travelling in five four-wheel-drive vehicles crossed into Iraq's Anbar province about six miles (10 kilometers) from the Al-Waleed border crossing with Syria, Major Shihab Taha of the border police said.
Clashes broke out between the gunnies and the border police inside Iraq, killing one policeman and wounding five, Taha said, putting the number of gunnies killed at two.
The toll could not be confirmed, however, with the gunnies taking the bodies with them when they returned to Syria.
Iraq has sought to publicly avoid taking sides in the civil war between Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's regime and rebels seeking his ouster, but the conflict has spilled over the border on several occasions.
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[REUTERS] Two kabooms near Sunni mosques in the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray after breaking their daily fast for the Moslem holy month of Ramadan on Saturday, police and medics said.
A car packed with explosives went off near the Mulla Hwesh mosque in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... 's western district of Jamia, killing at least seven people, and a jacket wallahwent kaboom! in the southern Doura neighborhood, leaving 16 dead.
"A bomb went kaboom! while worshippers were leaving the mosque of Khalid Bin al-Waleed. Bodies were thrown back by the power of the kaboom," said a policeman at the scene of the blast in Doura.
The violence is part of a sustained campaign of Death Eater attacks since the start of the year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Moslems have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise.
It was not clear who was behind Saturday's kabooms.
Sunni Death Eaters, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been recruiting from Iraq's Sunni minority, which resents Shi'ite domination since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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The Syrian army has discovered a storehouse belonging to rebels in the Damascus area of Jobar, where toxic chemical substances - including chlorine - have been produced and kept, State TV reported.
Military sources reported that the militants "were preparing to fire mortars in the suburbs of the capital and were going to pack missiles with chemical warheads."
A video shot by RTs sister channel Russia Al Youm shows an old, partly ruined building which was set up as a laboratory. After entering the building, Syrian Army officers found scores of canisters and bags laid on the floor and tables. According to a warning sign on the bags, the corrosive substance was made in Saudi Arabia.
On July 7, the Syrian army confiscated 281 barrels filled with dangerous, hazardous chemical materials that they found at a cache belonging to rebels in the city of Banias. The chemicals included monoethylene glycol and polyethylene glycol.
Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said that the chemicals were capable of destroying a whole city, if not the whole country."
Chief UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom and UN disarmament chief Angela Kane are expected in Damascus for talks on Monday, following an invitation from the Syrian government.
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It's one thing to make the stuff. But, difficult as that is, imagine "packing" mortar shells with it.
Either you get a ton of special-built mortar shells empty for filling--those should be around someplace--or you empty the HE rounds--luck with that--and replace with the chemicals.
I'm busy this week, guys, so carry on without me.
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Israeli Dolphin-class submarines are responsible for July 5 attack on Syrian barracks near port city of Latakia; attack reportedly coordinated with US, targeted Russian-made Yakhont P-800 anti-ship missiles. Pretty much squares with the facts - no solid evidence for IAF hits. Plus those are the very thing you would not want in the hands of rebels in the area, be you Israel, or the US.
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P-800 Oniks (SS-N-26), modern export version. Pretty much like a Harpoon missile with more range and unlike the Harpoon or Tomahawk, its supersonic (Mach2+)
Operational range: 120 to 300 km depending on altitude of flight profile
What I cant figure out is the reasoning/timing for this target - these things were delivered back in December 2011. They've been sitting there over a year. Is there something going on that portends Syria or its allies (Iran?) needing increased SS-Naval missile warfare capability?
Or could this be disinformation designed to allow the Russians/Syrians a face-saving "cover" for the actual target: the destruction of the S-300 that may have been there too?
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So the Syrians had all their eggs in one basket, did they?
Interesting report. If they were delivered prior to the start of current festivities, Assad would want them (I think) to deter the Israeli Navy, specifically the gunboats and patrol vessels that otherwise could block his ports in any trouble. Also, they'd be useful to attack Israeli ships and oil rig installations in those natural gas fields in the eastern Med.
But storing them with/next to the S-300s? Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy...
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When you are always given everything why be concerned. Rust away. Collect the money. The Arab way. When can I have more please newer and ... say Chinese may be interested now. They are cozy with the Russians temporarily.
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Old Spook is right that the timing raises questions, but there are alternative explanations besides the S-300 guess. In December 2011, there would have been a bigger world reaction to an Israeli strike and, more importantly the risk of Russian anger. As the Syrian conflict has gone on longer and increased in intensity, Israel has much more political cover. It's not that Israel is shy in protecting its interests -- it's that the risk/reward calculus has improved, changing the decision on dealing with lower level risks. Israel could also have been signaling its displeasure over something that isn't in the news and went to their handy target list of (like to strike; not need to strike) Syrian assets. For example, it could be an additional warning of what would happen if S-300 are shipped, rather than actual S-300s that arrived.
Puzzling to me is the economics of Russian-Syrian weapons transactions. Syria's reserves are plummeting. They can't really afford to buy the sort of weapons that risk being vaporized when they could instead be using that money to buy conventional arms that Israel won't strike, not to mention all the government bread and fuel outlays to keep their public from abandoning ship. If Syria is buying on credit, then Russia is taking a large credit risk that seems unwise for such a usually hard-headed bunch.
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Hey, anyone have a clue on what ordinance the Israelis used? was it land attack Harpoons (I don't know if the US Navy has these, but it couldn't be hard to do). Was it a sea launched Delilah or maybe a surface to surface Gabriel? It's not really important, I just want to know.
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Puzzling to me is the economics of Russian-Syrian weapons transactions
It might help if one considers the profit from weapons transactions being one of influence, rather than money.
In the bad old days, the then-Soviet Russians used weaponry to gain favor of the 'customer' and as an extension of their foreign policy. The political-religion may have changed, but IMNSHO, the Russian mindset has not.
The Chinese are in the same game, only it's economic development as a foreign policy tool, rather than supplying weaponry.
IMO Israel real worry in Syria is the presence of Hezbollah, IRGC Quds Force + Foreign Militants, NOT Baby Assad - Israel will worry about Assad only iff he proves unable to get the former to leave SYria for back home.
[An Nahar] An air raid on Syria's famed Krak des Chevaliers castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has damaged one of the fortress's towers, footage shot by activists showed Saturday.
Several videos posted online showed at least one air strike on Friday against the castle in central Homs province, where fighting is raging between government troops and rebel forces.
The footage shows a huge blast as a tower of the Crusader castle, which is built on a hill, appears to take a direct hit, throwing up large clouds of smoke and scattering debris in the air.
A separate video filmed inside the fortress purports to show some of the damage caused by the air strike, including a gaping hole in the ceiling and a pile of rubble below.
"God is great. This is the destruction caused by MiG air strike on the Krak des Chevaliers," says the activist filming the damage.
"Look at the this, oh world. This is Bashir al-Assad bombing the Krak des Chevaliers," he adds of Syria's embattled president whom rebel forces are trying to topple.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a watchdog group, could not confirm direct hits on the castle, but said there were reports of three air strikes in the area on Friday.
The raids came after rebels apparently using the Krak des Chevaliers as a base attacked an Alawite village called Qumayri, killing several people, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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It's OK---it isn't like it was something important (like a mosque).
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The raids came after rebels apparently using the Krak des Chevaliers as a base attacked an Alawite village called Qumayri, killing several people, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
These Sunni rebels are real pieces of work. Assad really needs to get going with the task of convincing Sunnis to relocate to neighboring states, or Syria will run out of antiquities for these people to destroy.
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Wonderful, did you have to do EXACTLY what they wanted Assad?
We have state of the art gear, and we still flattened any Iraqi antiquities used as firing points by Iraqi insurgents. Relatively-speaking, Assad's using Flintstone-era equipment against the insurgents. He can't let them operate from the fortress with impunity. He doesn't have the technical ability to do surgical strikes.
[An Nahar] A series of kabooms on July 5 near the key Syrian port city of Latakia were the result of Israeli air strikes, CNN reported, citing three U.S. officials.
Obama is Israel's very bestest friend . We know it's true because he says so -- often.
In the report late Friday, the network said the strikes were aimed at Russian-made Yakhont missiles that Israel viewed as a threat to its naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Israeli military declined to comment on the report.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based rights group opposed to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime, originally reported the blasts, saying they struck ammunition depots.
The center said there were reports of deaths and injuries but could not provide further details.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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