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Good morning
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#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Lindsay Price[Filmography](age 37)



Undercover Design



Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/06/2013 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  This woman looks younger than her age. She is one of those few that will hold on to her looks for a long time. Well that would be nice to see anyway.
Posted by: Dale || 12/06/2013 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  This babe is swaddled in too many blankets.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/06/2013 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  I believe the correct phrase is: "Blankets, why do they hate us?".
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#5  Thank you, goose down contributors.
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#6  It is the Christmas Season, the BABE lay in swaddling cover.
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Africa Horn
At least 8 dead in car bomb attack in Somalia's Puntland: police
[Pak Daily Times] At least eight people were killed Thursday when a suicide boom-mobileer rammed a convoy in Somalia's northern port of Bossasso, a region harbouring Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab forces of Evil where tensions are high ahead of elections in January.

"There was a car kaboom targeting a vehicle of the security forces, he rammed the convoy and then went kaboom!," Abdullahi Said, a police officer in the port town, told AFP.

"Several people have been killed, so far we confirm that eight were killed, but the toll could be higher, many of those who were maimed were rushed to hospital."

Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
's government said in a statement it "strongly condemns" the attack, in which 37 were maimed, including six soldiers. The attack took place in a busy market area of Bossasso, the main port in Somalia's northeastern Puntland region, lying on its Gulf of Aden coast.

Shabaab fighters operate from the rugged Golis mountains southwest of Bossasso, a lawless region under longtime control of warlord, arms dealer and Shabaab ally Mohammed Said Atom, who has been hit with UN Security Council sanctions for "kidnapping, piracy and terrorism." Shabaab militia have attacked military bases near Bossasso in the past, and its suicide commandos regularly launch kabooms or guerrilla raids.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Two more security murders in Benghazi
[Libya Herald] Following fast on the killings of to security officials in Benghazi this morning and the murder of an American schoolteacher, there have been two more politically-motivated murders in the city.

An intelligence officer became the fourth person to be murdered when a bomb planted underneath his car went kaboom! early this afternoon.

Salah Hamouda was heading home from work when the bomb detonated while he was driving near the roudanbout in Hadaiq district.

He was taken to Jelaa hospital but was dead on arrival, a hospital official said.

This evening, at around 11pm, a parachute trainer with the Saiq brigade, 57-year old Saad Saleh Bakr Al-Urafi, was reported to have been shot in the chest and head near Suq Al-arab in the downtown district.

Earlier in the day, an army cadet and a member of Saiqa Brigade, were shot in the head in separate incidents in Benghazi's Selmani and Hay Al-Salam districts, and American school teacher Ronnie Smith was shot while jogging.

The number of security officials to be murdered in the city this month is now eight.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


One Soldier Killed, 6 Wounded in Tripoli
[An Nahar] A soldier was killed and 6 others were maimed on Thursday evening as tension soared again in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
.
In addition to the usual festivities between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, the northern city also witnessed a demonstration by residents protesting the army's measures in the area.

"Clashes resumed on Thursday when troops attempted to defend al-Jadeed television crew that came under attack while covering the situation in (Tripoli's) Syria street," a communique released by the military institution said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


American teacher shot dead in Libya
[Pak Daily Times] An American teacher was bumped off in Libya as he took his morning jog on Thursday, a week before he was to return home for holidays, officials and the school said. Ronnie Smith, a 33-year-old from Texas, had been running in the central Al-Fwihet neighbourhood of the eastern city of Benghazi when he was shot, security services front man Ibrahim al-Sharaa said. No one has yet grabbed credit for the killing, which comes 15 months after the US ambassador and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Libya's second city. International School Benghazi director Adel al-Mansuri said Smith, who was married and the father of a two-year-old boy, had joined the faculty as a chemistry teacher late last year.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Arabia
52 Killed as Militants Storm Yemen Defense Complex
[An Nahar] A jacket wallah rammed an explosives-packed car into the Yemeni defense ministry complex Thursday, followed by an armed assault in which 52 people died, including seven foreign medical staff, officials said.

The brazen daylight attack on the sprawling facility followed a spate of hit-and-run strikes on military personnel and officials, as the country struggles to complete a thorny political transition.

The attacks in the capital and in the south have generally been blamed on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which the United States regards as the jihadist network's most dangerous branch.

"This terrorist act has killed 52 people," Yemen's supreme security committee said.

Two doctors from Germany, two from Vietnam and another from Yemen were killed, as well two female nurses from the Philippines and one from India, said the statement carried by Saba news agency.

They all worked at a hospital within the complex that bore the brunt of the attack.

Earlier, a medic at the hospital had said six doctors -- a Venezuelan, two Filipinos and three Yemenis -- were killed.

All the other "deaders" were civilians and military personnel in the hospital, including a top Yemeni judge and his wife, the committee statement said.

And 167 people were maimed, nine of them seriously.

"A boom-mobile driven by a suicide bomber forced its way into the western entrance of the ministry complex," a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"It was followed by another car whose occupants shot up the complex of buildings," he said.

The attack comes as Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser headed a military delegation on a visit to the United States.

The ministry said gunnies occupied the hospital after the kaboom, but that security forces had regained control of the building.

"The assailants took advantage of some construction work that is taking place to carry out this criminal act," it said, without elaborating.

A security source said that, in another apparently coordinated attack, a shootout raged outside the complex after the kaboom, before government forces regained control and cordoned off the area.

State television aired gory footage of mangled bodies of what it said were suicide bombers, strewn in the hospital yard amid charred vehicles.

It also showed massive destruction within the hospital, whose floors were stained with blood.

The channel broadcast appeals for blood donors to come to hospitals treating the maimed.

Smoke billowed across the complex on the edge of Baba al-Yaman neighborhood after the blast and as the firefight erupted.

"I heard a series of kabooms, and then an exchange of fire," a maimed soldier told AFP.

President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi visited the hospital where his 90-year-old brother, Ahmed, was apparently an in-patient.

Yemen has been going through a difficult political transition since veteran president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
stood down in February 2012 after a year of deadly protests against his 33-year rule.

The transitional process aims to produce a new constitution, paving the way for parliamentary and presidential elections in February, but many hurdles remain.

There are growing demands for the secession of the formerly independent south, in addition to on-off fighting in the north between Shiite Mohammedan rebels and hardline Sunnis.

A national dialogue that began in March and was originally due wrap up in September has yet to conclude.

"The hard boyz behind this heinous crime aim to shake the security of Yemen... and hinder the political solution," said Abdullatif al-Zayani, secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which brokered Saleh's exit deal.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon, whose special envoy Jamal Benomar has been shuttling between the rival sides trying to get the national dialogue back on track, condemned the attacks "in the strongest terms."

"The secretary general firmly believes that the only path to a stable, prosperous and democratic Yemen is through the ongoing peaceful and all-inclusive national dialogue conference," a statement said.

Yemen is also battling AQAP, which often attacks the security forces, despite suffering setbacks in a major army offensive last year and repeated U.S. drone strikes on its commanders.

Last week, in an attempt to halt hit-and-run attacks, the authorities imposed a temporary ban on cycle of violences in Sanaa to prevent shootings that have killed dozens of officials.

Last week, two gunnies on a bike killed a Belarussian defense contractor and maimed another.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


India-Pakistan
City of 'raids, operations' sees seven more dead
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: At least three people were bumped off while four bodies of men were found from different parts of the city on Thursday.

In the first incident, a police informer was bumped off in Ahsanabad within the remits of Sohrab Goth cop shoppe.

Police said that victim, namely 40-year-old Abdul Rasool, son of Rasool Baksh, accompanied three coppers to a drug den, where culprits opened fire. Resultantly Abdul was injured, and died on the way to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, while the culprits managed to escape.

Following the incident, extra contingent of police conducted a raid and recovered a pistol, 500 bullets of Kalashnikov, and one and a half kilogrammes heroin, said DSP Soh-rab Goth Khalid Khan.

In another incident, a man was bumped off and another maimed near mini bus stop within the jurisdiction of Manghopir cop shoppe.

Police said unidentified armed riders sprayed bullets and later managed to escape from the scene. As a result Abdul Rehman, 25, son of Abdul Salam and Imran sustained bullet wounds and were rushed to hospital, where doctors pronounced Rehman dead, and admitted Imran for treatment.

The incident seems to be a targeted attack, however, police are still investigating the case to ascertain the motive.

Elsewhere, an unidentified man was bumped off near Qanzal Eemaan Masjid within the precincts of Jamshed Quarter cop shoppe.

The victim was on his way on a cycle of violence, when he was targeted and shot by faceless myrmidons. The body was taken to hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later moved to morgue for identification. The motive behind his killing could only be ascertained after identification.

Separately, two unidentified torture marked bodies of men were found near Niazi Chowk, Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
within the remits of Kalri cop shoppe.

As per details, unidentified culprits kidnapped the victims, tortured them and shot them dead before dumping the bodies at the said place.

The bodies of both victims were taken to Civil Hospital 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...
for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later moved to morgue for identification.

Another body of a man was found from the bushes of Supper Highway within the vicinity of Gaddap City cop shoppe.

According to initial medical examination, the body seems four to five days old. Police shifted the body to the hospital, and later to the morgue after completing medico legal formalities.

Similarly, a 10-day old dead body of a man was found from Keamari within the limits of Docks cop shoppe. As per the procedure, the body has been moved to the morgue for identification.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


71 arrested by police in last 24 hours
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: City Police tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
71 accused including 21 absconders and three Death Eaters from different parts of the metropolis during the past 24 hours, in the on-going drive against criminals. The police also recovered 36 pistols, four Kalashnikov, one riffle, one shot-gun and four hand grenades from the arrested accused, said a statement on Thursday. The detainees are allegedly involved in robberies, and other heinous crimes.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Militants kill policeman in Bannu attack
[Pak Daily Times] Militants killed a policeman and maimed another in an attack on a checkpost in Bannu, officials said on Thursday. "A group of up to five gunnies riding cycle of violences attacked the checkpost late Wednesday night, threw hand grenades and later opened fire, killing one policeman and wounding another one," local police official Noor Wali said. Senior local police official Iqbal Khan also confirmed the incident. The dear departed policeman was identified as Mumtaz Alam. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Motorcycle Bomb Kills One, Wounds 13 in Southwest Pakistan
[An Nahar] A cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! Thursday near a police check-post in a southwestern Pak town near the Afghan border, killing one civilian and wounding 13 others, police said.

The bomb went off in the border town of Chaman in the troubled 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...
province.

"The bomb was planted in a cycle of violence. One person was killed and 13 were maimed -- all of them were civilians," Shahid Saleem, a police official in Chaman told AFP.

Saleem said the apparent target of the bombing was the police check-post but coppers there were unhurt.

Ismail Ibrahim, a senior government official in Chaman, told AFP that the bomb exploded via remote control.

No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack but Balochistan, the least developed province of Pakistain bordering Afghanistan and Iran, has been badly hit by a decade-long Baluch separatist insurgency and sectarian violence mainly targeting Shiites Mohammedans from the ethnic Hazara community.

Chaman is one of two major border crossings between Pakistain and Afghanistan, along with Torkham in the northwest, and is the main land route for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
supplies crossing from Pakistain into Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Iraq
Iraq: Police Storm Mall, Kill Gunmen After Standoff
[Ynet] Police in Iraq say they have stormed a mall in a northern city that gunnies used to attack a cop shoppe, killing three gunnies and ending an hours-long standoff.

Gunmen hid on the roof of the six-story Jawahir mall in Kirkuk on Wednesday and opened fire on a police headquarters nearby in the city. The gunnies later shot at civilians fleeing the mall, trapping 11 shop owners inside. Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, Kirkuk's police commander, said officers stormed the mall Thursday morning before dawn, killing the gunnies. The attack left large parts of the mall burned.
Let us together anticipate the coming revolution in shopping mall design... Something along the lines of a small castle, d'you think?
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#1  Maginot Souk?
Posted by: Shipman || 12/06/2013 17:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Maginot Souk?

I'm gonna go with tear gas dispensers and remotely operated gun turrets. Wouldn't hurt to have a little Kevlar in the pull-down shop doors, either.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/06/2013 19:04 Comments || Top||


Five dead in Iraq as Qaeda group claims mall assault
[Pak Daily Times] Attacks in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Thursday killed five people as an al Qaeda front group claimed an assault on a mall and adjoining cop shoppe.

The violence was the latest in a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 6,200 people already this year, forcing the authorities to appeal for international help just months ahead of elections. Officials have blamed a resurgent al Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, but the government has itself been criticised for not doing enough to address the concerns of the disaffected Sunni Arab minority. Shootings and bombings in the capital and Mosul, a restive predominantly Sunni city in north Iraq, killed five people, security and medical officials said, while security forces found the bodies of two anti-al Qaeda militiamen. The militiamen were members of the Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal militias that sided with the US military against their co-religionists in al Qaeda from 2006 onwards. As a result, Sunni Death Eaters regard them as traitors and often target them. The bloodshed came as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed it was behind a massive coordinated attack on a shopping mall and adjoining police intelligence office in the northern tinderbox city of Kirkuk. Overall, the attack -- which involved a boom-mobile, a firefight and several would-be jacket wallahs -- killed 11 people and maimed 79, according to officials. Five Death Eaters were also killed. "Thanks to God, they (ISIL fighters) carried out the order to invade the house of the unbelievers by raiding the headquarters of the intelligence in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" a statement posted on a jihadist forum said. Kirkuk has a mixed population of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. It lies at the centre of a swathe of territory stretching from Iraq's eastern border with Iran to its western frontier with Syria that Kurdish leaders want to incorporate into their autonomous region in the north over strenuous objections from the central government in Storied Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel on Alert Along Lebanon Border after al-Laqqis Murder
[An Nahar] The Israeli army went on alert on the border with southern Leb on Thursday over fears that Hizbullah could retaliate over the liquidation of a top official which it blamed on the Jewish state.

The state-run National News Agency said Israeli troops carried out patrols along the border and monitored the Lebanese side.

Israeli drones also overflew the areas of Shebaa Farms, al-Abbasiyeh and Ghajar, it said.

Also on Leb's side of the border, U.N. peacekeepers intensified their patrols along the U.N.-drawn Blue Line.

Hajj Hassan Hollo al-Laqqis has been shot repeatedly with a silenced handgun near his house in the Sainte Thérèse neighborhood in Hadath, south of Beirut.

Hizbullah said al-Laqqis spent his youth and dedicated all his life in the resistance since its inception up until the last moments of his life.

An official close to the group said al-Laqqis held some of Hizbullah's most sensitive portfolios and was very close to the party leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
, and his inner circle.

Hizbullah blamed Israel. But Israeli officials categorically denied involvement.

Two previously unknown groups identifying themselves as Sunnis issued separate claims of responsibility.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jihadists execute Iraqi cameraman in Syria: RSF
[Pak Daily Times] Rebels loyal to al Qaeda have kidnapped and executed an Iraqi freelance cameraman working in northern Syria, a press freedom watchdog told AFP on Thursday.

"Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili's execution was the first of a foreign journalist in Syria's so-called liberated areas," said Soazig Dollet, head of Reporters Without Borders' Middle East and North Africa desk.

Joumaili had been working as a freelance cameraman for an unidentified Spanish media outlet in strife-torn Aleppo province for about 10 days, Soazig said.

He was kidnapped by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while on his way out of Syria and executed in the northwestern border province of Idlib on Wednesday, she added. Joumaili was in his early 30s and was from the city of 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
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, a key battleground in the insurgency that followed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He was married and had three children. Joumaili had previously worked for Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
English and Rooters, Doullet said. In recent months, ISIL has kidnapped dozens of Syrian activists and news providers, as well as several foreign journalists.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Mortar Shells Fired from Syria Hit Outskirts of Akkar Villages
[An Nahar] Mortar shells fired from war-torn Syria hit overnight the outskirts of the towns of al-Dbabiyeh, al-Noura and Kuishra in in the northern district of Akkar, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.

According to NNA, the shelling didn't cause any casualties.

The almost three-year long violence in Syria has increasingly spilled over into Leb, with cross-border shelling in the north and east.

Mortars and shells from the Syrian side regularly crash in Leb, causing several casualties. But Lebanese forces have never fired back despite promises of retaliation.

Syrian authorities had threatened to attack Lebanese territories if "terrorists" continue to infiltrate the country from Leb.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Security Agencies Discover Identity of Offender Threatening Charbel
[An Nahar] The competent security agencies uncovered the identity of the person who was behind the video threatening Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Thursday.

A security source rejected to unveil the name of the culprit until he is brought to justice, noting that a permission was granted to pursue him on charges of destabilizing civil peace in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
,incitement and sedition.

"I've heard so many threats in my life... May god forgive him," Charbel told the newspaper.

He pointed out the security forces are carrying out investigations to "deal with this phenomena."

On Tuesday, LBCI aired a one-minute video for an unknown man threatening Charbel over a statement he issued that "if the farce in Tripoli didn't end then the army is ready to engage in another battle like the one in Nahr al-Bared."



The Nahr al-Bared Paleostinian refugee camp in northern Leb was almost totally destroyed during a months-long conflict between the Lebanese army and the al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred.
in 2007.

At least 10 people have been killed and 100 others maimed in festivities between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen since Saturday.

The fighting in the city is linked to the war raging in neighboring Syria. Bab al-Tabbaneh district, which is majority Sunni, and Jabal Mohsen, whose residents are from Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's sect, have been engaged in severe gunbattles since the revolt against him in March 2011.

Tensions soared in the city in August when twin boom-mobileings hit Sunni mosques and left hundreds of casualties.

The latest round of violence erupted last week when Jabal Mohsen residents were shot in their feet in vengeful sectarian attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Charbel Receives New Threat from Extremists
[An Nahar] A new audio recording was circulated online on Thursday where one of the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threatens Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel.

According to LBCI, the threats were made over statements by Charbel concerning the bad boy group.

"We are coming to Leb," he said, describing Charbel as the "enemy of Allah."

"We will sacrifice him," the leader said.

The 45-second voice recording was broadcast by LBCI. The channel didn't clarify how it received the voice recording.

Earlier on Thursday, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported that the competent security agencies uncovered the identity of the person who was behind the video threatening Charbel.

A security source rejected to unveil the name of the culprit until he is brought to justice, noting that a permission was granted to pursue him on charges of destabilizing civil peace in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
,incitement and sedition.

On Tuesday, LBCI aired a one-minute video for an unknown man threatening Charbel over a statement he issued that "if the farce in Tripoli didn't end then the army is ready to engage in another battle like the one in Nahr al-Bared."

"I've heard so many threats in my life... May god forgive him," Charbel told the newspaper. He pointed out the security forces are carrying out investigations to "deal with this phenomena."
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2013-12-06
  52 Killed as Militants Storm Yemen Defense Complex
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  At least 20 killed in attack on Yemen's defense ministry
Wed 2013-12-04
  Top Hezbollah Man Killed, Israel CreditedBlamed
Tue 2013-12-03
  Islamist attacks prompt 24-hour curfew in Nigeria's Maiduguri
Mon 2013-12-02
  North Yemen fighting kills more than 120
Sun 2013-12-01
  41 killed, 22 wounded in latest attacks in Iraq
Sat 2013-11-30
  Tuaregs Declare Return to War against Mali Army
Fri 2013-11-29
  Air base blast near Sebha kills at least ten
Thu 2013-11-28
  15 Islamists with suicide belts detained in Moscow
Wed 2013-11-27
  US warns Karzai it may leave no troops in Afghanistan
Tue 2013-11-26
  Libyan Militiamen Battle Government Forces in Benghazi
Mon 2013-11-25
  More than 160 killed as Syrian rebels try to break siege
Sun 2013-11-24
  Nuclear deal reached with Mad Mullahs™
Sat 2013-11-23
  Belmokhtar deputy killed in Mali
Fri 2013-11-22
  Militias pull out of Libya's capital, Tripoli

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