[Jpost] Seven Egyptian soldiers were rubbed out by unknown gunnies near the city of El-Arish in the lawless North Sinai region on Thursday, security and medical sources said.
In a separate incident, five soldiers were maimed when gunnies opened fire on an army tent.
CAIRO -- EgyptÂ’s military-backed government authorized the security forces to fire live ammunition against opponents Thursday, underlining its determination to crush with force any lingering challenge posed by supporters of the countryÂ’s ousted elected president in the wake of a bloody crackdown on their camps.
A day after Egyptian soldiers and police killed hundreds of people when they stormed two camps set up by the Muslim Brotherhood to call for the reinstatement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, a separate government statement pledged the use of “all power” to confront the organization, setting the stage for further bloodshed in the days ahead.
Egypt was under a curfew and a state of emergency, one day after police smashed two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps.
Earlier Thursday, Morsi supporters set fire to two local government buildings in Giza, a city across the Nile River from Cairo that is home to the Pyramids, the Associated Press reported.
With supporters of Morsi and of the military urging their followers to take to the streets again Friday, there seemed little prospect of an imminent end to the crisis that has engulfed Egypt since June 30, when millions of people took to the streets to demand the overthrow of their first supposedly democratically elected leader.
Notice how WaPo slips that one in: Morsi was "democratically elected". It was kinda, sorta a fair election. Once he was in office he was doing everything he could to make sure his election was the LAST election Egypt had for a couple decades. But WaPo doesn't bother with that, since Morsi and the Brüderbünd are Champ's guys, and what Champ wants, WaPo delivers.
Interrupting his vacation in MarthaÂ’s Vineyard, Mass., to address the Egyptian crisis, President Obama announced the cancellation Thursday of next monthÂ’s joint military exercises with Egypt, while leaving more than $1 billion in annual military aid in place, as the United States reviews its relations with the most populous Arab nation in the wake of the violence.
The U.N. Security Council said it planned to hold a meeting on Thursday evening to address the crisis in Egypt. The closed-door meeting was convened at the request of Australia, Britain and France, and the United NationsÂ’ deputy secretary general was expected to brief representatives.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which backs Morsi, issued its call for further demonstrations in defiance of a state of emergency declared by the interim government, which took power after a July 3 coup.
By nightfall, the interim government had declared a month-long state of emergency, and Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and vice president, had tendered his resignation in protest over the bloody crackdown.
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Normally crammed with cars and people, the chaotic streets of Cairo were strangely quiet on Thursday, with many shops still shuttered the day after security forces crushed supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
While distraught relatives waited to claim the hundreds of dead, there was little sympathy on show for the Brotherhood among Egyptians who said the Islamists had pushed too far.
The government has imposed a night-time curfew for at least a month and many people had clearly decided to stay home. Some of those who did venture out, pinned the blame on the Brothers.
"We didn't want this to happen, but at the end of the day they pushed us to do it," said Mahmoud Albaz, 33, an actor and real estate agent who lives near the Brotherhood protest camp at the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, now blackened by fire and soot.
"More than 70 percent of Egyptians are against the Brotherhood," he said.
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Wife accidentally went across the beeb and stopped for their tear jerker for team MB. She said the reporter was lucky they didn't kill him, no I said he is doing their advertising...notice that entire segment said absolutely nothing about why it happened or anything about the wounded or dead police.
[An Nahar] At least 578 people were killed in the violence that swept Egypt Wednesday, the health ministry said, with more than 300 of them losing their lives after police assaults on Cairo sit-ins.
The corpse count included 43 coppers and 318 protesters killed in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda square protest camps, senior health ministry official Khaled al-Khatib told Agence La Belle France Presse Thursday.
In total, 535 civilians died nationwide.
The coppers died in festivities with the protesters in Cairo and in attacks on cop shoppes across the country.
On Thursday afternoon, supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi launched attacks on police posts in two provinces, killing at least two coppers, security officials said.
A 21-year-old policeman was fatally shot in the chest and arm in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish after gunnies attacked the Police Club.
Another policeman was killed in an attack on a cop shoppe in the central city of Assiut.
Later in the Sinai peninsula, snuffies killed seven other soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint, security officials said.
The soldiers were killed when gunnies in two cars attacked them in their tents at a checkpoint near a cop shoppe in the town of El-Arish, the officials said.
The northern part of the peninsula has seen a semi-insurgency by Bedouin snuffies since the July 3 military overthrow of Mohammed Morsi.
In Cairo, Islamist protesters stormed the Giza governorate headquarters and set it on fire, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
Private Egyptian television CBC showed footage of the headquarters in flames as men tried to douse the fire with hoses.
In Alexandria, hundreds of Morsi supporters cut the road on the corniche, chanting for their deposed president, state media reported.
In the Beni Sueif province, pro-Morsi protesters erupted into the streets to denounce a crackdown by police on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... the interior ministry has instructed police to use live ammunition in dealing with attacks on government buildings and police forces.
"The interior ministry has instructed all forces to use live ammunition to counter any attacks on government buildings or forces," a statement said, after Islamists killed two coppers and torched a provincial government headquarters in Cairo.
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Gee, I wonder who is going to win? Let me guess?
Meanwhile we keep our money in our wallet and watch.
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a reporter in the WaPo actually used the word 'jihadists' and 'Islamists' in the same article today.
Perhaps this is just because many Egyptian muslims are becoming anti Jihadist and anti Islamist and I don't know if this was just an outlier but if the MSM finally learns to use these words it will change the left's narrative.
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At the rooters link, pictures of unarmed people are Pro-Morsi, when there are weapons or naughty behavior, they are Islamists with no regard to which side they are on.
Any bets on what they call the people who burned the red thingy building with people jumping off the roofs, ambushing firefighters en route?
[An Nahar] The United States warned its citizens on Thursday not to travel to Egypt and called on those already there to leave.
The travel warning was issued one day after a brutal crackdown on street protests in Cairo ordered by Egypt's military-backed government left more than 500 people dead.
Any Americans who remain in Egypt despite the warning were urged to obey all local curfews in place and to avoid street demonstrations.
"Political unrest ... shows little sign of abating," the State Department statement said.
The warning said that foreigners caught up in the violence could become targets for "harassment or worse" and noted that a U.S. citizen was killed during a demonstration in Alexandria in June.
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American reporters have been raped, American NGO worker bees have been arrested, charged and sentenced (several dozen of these since June), American looking tourists have been egged and spit on.
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[HISPANICBUSINESS] The corpse count from a weekend attack by Death Eater Islamist sect 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... in north-eastern Nigeria has risen to 60, local media reported Tuesday.
The attack on Moslem worshippers at a mosque in Konduga village, near Borno's state capital Maiduguri, only became known late Monday.
Authorities initially reported 44 deaths and scores injured.
Military authorities in the north-western state of Sokoto said they apprehended 20 Boko Harem members, including one of its kingpins, Malam Mubarak.
The suspects are being interrogated to establish if they were involved in the Borno attack, said Sokoto military spokesperson Musa Yahay.
Nigerian security agencies are on high alert following intelligence reports that said Boko Haram planned to carry out bombings after the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, on August 7.
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Turkish troops returned fire after coming under attack along the Syrian border overnight as more than 1,000 alleged smugglers, including 150 on horseback, tried to cross into Turkey from Syria, the military said.
The incident on Turkey's long Syria frontier, where tensions have been on the rise over the past couple of months, follows a string of similar confrontations between Turkish soldiers and hundreds of people described by the military as smugglers. The clashes in Turkey's Hatay province, where smuggling of fuel and other goods has continued for years, have raised questions about their increase in recent months and about why smugglers would operate in such large numbers.
The soap factory closed due to the civil war, sending all the workers home. But the family still needs to eat, so one does what one can... and does it with those who have money to spend, which isn't any of the neighbors.
Smugglers operate where people have needs and the regular markets have failed. Works for soap and works for ammo...
In one incident last week, the Turkish military said up to 3,000 smugglers had tried to cross the frontier.
Syrian refugees fleeing from the civil war in their homeland often cross over the porous frontier in large numbers and Turkish officials have conceded smugglers sometimes intermingle with the refugees to use them as cover.
The military said it spotted 750-1,000 people on foot, a separate group of 150 people on horseback, and some 40 vehicles forming a line around 300 metres (yards) along the border near the Turkish village of Kusakli in Hatay's Reyhanli district. The troops deployed armoured vehicles and a tank along the frontier to block the group from crossing and issued warnings in Turkish and Arabic to try to keep them back, the military said.
Despite the warnings, the groups continued to approach the border with the "attempt to engage in smuggling".
"Attempt to engage in smuggling"? What on earth does that mean?
The security forces then intervened, it said, without elaborating. Some 15-20 rounds were fired with a pump-action rifle from Kusakli, prompting the soldiers to return fire. The military did not specify whether smugglers or villagers had opened fire.
Following the army's warning shots, the smugglers left the area and 35 containers of petrol were found, the military said.
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Turks didn't have any qualms about smuggling guns into Syria. Then the Syrian economy goes to hell and the Turks get all upset because Syrians want to do a bit of smuggling of their own. That's almost as stupid as some of the things Obama does.
Communist militants have kidnapped a government soldier in the southern Philippines. Corporal Salman Abbas was captured by New People's Army guerrillas at a checkpoint along a village road in Mindanao's Agusan del Sur province on Tuesday morning, said Lieutenant Colonel Leo Bongosia.
He said, "The unarmed soldier was riding on his motorcycle on his way to the town proper when stopped and seized by the NPA gunmen disguised as soldiers."
Bongosia said the guerrillas also briefly held local health workers who were on their way to Binicalan to supposedly distribute health cards and enroll more villagers to the government's anti-poverty cash transfer program. The health workers were ordered to turn back. He said, "This clearly shows the NPA do not want development and progress to reach far- flung areas in the countryside such as Binicalan."
The latest kidnapping came just over a week after communist guerrillas freed five government troops they had held in the southern Mindanao city of Davao for some 34 days.
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I saw this movie. Corporal Salman Abbas(?!) is reluctantly held captive by volunteer, Fergie Baybayan al Gorey until Cpl Abbas goes all Old Ben Kenobi ("These are not the Corporals you are looking for...") and gobsmacks Fergie with the tale of The Scorpion and the Frog. Cpl Abba then sprints away from the immobilized volunteer. Curiously hexed Cpl Abbas's own gob is then almost immediately smacked by the alleged titanium-alloy bumper on the absurdly over-priced troop transport sent to rescue him. Much stuff blowing up follows, and the volunteer escapes to Manila and enters into a conflicted relationship with the most-believable local Senora Mariposa anybody ever saw. Much conflicts ensues. Life goes on. Except for Cpl Abbas. Who is still dead.
Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has confirmed the government will continue peace negotiations with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) separatist group. Malaysia has also said BRN representative Hassan Taib will continue to lead the talks.
The premier instructed relevant agencies to study the five demands made by the BRN as a condition for the talks. Among the demands were that ASEAN members, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and international NGOs be permitted to witness the talks, and that the government release all detained suspects and suspend and revoke all arrest warrants concerning national security cases without condition. The BRN also wants to be recognised as a liberation movement, rather than as a separatist group.
In Narathiwat province yesterday, two marines were injured in a roadside bomb explosion as they were about to cross a bridge around noon yesterday. The blast took place when six troops were traveling on three motorcycles during a routine patrol.
[An Nahar] At least 14 people were killed and 212 others maimed in a boom-mobileing that rocked Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday, state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast went off on the public road between Bir al-Abed and Ruwais, according to several television channels.
"There are at least six killed and a large number of maimed," a military source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
Lebanese Red Thingy director Georges Kittani said more than 100 people were maimed.
But NNA said 10 bodies were transported to the Sahel Hospital and four others to the Great Prophet Hospital, while 100 maimed people were rushed to the Great Prophet Hospital, 50 to Bahman Hospital and 20 others to al-Bourj Hospital.
"According to the interior ministry, the blast was caused by a boom-mobile," MTV reported.
"The human remains found 10 meters from the blast location might be those of a jacket wallah," al-Manar television said.
Live TV footage showed burning cars and pillars of black smoke bellowing from the blast scene.
"Gunfire was heard in the vicinity of the blast scene," al-Jadeed television reported.
"The blast went off near Mahfouz Stores in Ruwais," OTV reported, as MTV said the kaboom took place "under a bridge facing the Harkous Chicken Restaurant."
Al-Mayadeen television said a security cordon was imposed around the location.
According to MTV, the bomb weighed between 60 and 80 kilograms of explosives.
Media reports said a large number of families were still trapped inside the burning buildings in the area.
Later on Thursday, a group calling itself the Brigades of Aisha Umm al-Moemeneen claimed the bombing in a YouTube video and threatened further attacks.
The video -- which surfaced shortly after news of the attack broke -- shows three masked men, two of them holding rifles, in front of a white flag inscribed with the Islamic profession of faith.
"We... send a message to (Hizbullah chief Sayyed) Hassan Nasrallah's pigs," said one of the men, wearing a white mask.
The Alarabiya network reported the number of victims of the boom-mobile blast in the Dahiyeh quarter of Beirut has risen to 20. Earlier it was reported that 120 were maimed and that Hezbollah has imposed a curfew in the area.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[An Nahar] At least 578 people were killed in the violence that swept Egypt Wednesday, the health ministry said, with more than 300 of them losing their lives after police assaults on Cairo sit-ins.
Turkish troops returned fire after coming under attack along the Syrian border overnight as more than 1,000 alleged smugglers, including 150 on horseback, tried to cross into Turkey from Syria, the military said.
Communist militants have kidnapped a government soldier in the southern Philippines. Corporal Salman Abbas was captured by New People's Army guerrillas at a checkpoint along a village road in Mindanao's Agusan del Sur province on Tuesday morning, said Lieutenant Colonel Leo Bongosia.
[An Nahar] At least 14 people were killed and 212 others 
