[HOSTED.AP.ORG] A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber accidentally detonated his explosives near a popular hotel in the Somali capital. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the bomber appeared to have prematurely detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday as he tried to park near a hotel. No others were hurt or killed in the blast.
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were yesterday repatriated to Belgium to answer charges of terrorism.
You're doing it wrong, folks: they're only supposed to make it part of the way back...
Mohamed Said alias Ben Abdellah Smail (Belgian) and Rachid Benomari (French) were repatriated by Principal Magistrate Joseph Karanja after they appeared before him at Milimani courts, Nairobi. The two together with another third one, Bouyahbaren Mustapha, who was not produced in court were found in Kenya illegally after entering the country from Somalia without any valid documents. They were arrested in Malindi.
The two admitted being in the country illegally before a Mombasa court and were imprisoned to one year. Two other Kenyans, Hussein Omar and Ahmed Omar, who were hosting the three denied terrorism charges.
In a letter produced in court written to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keriako Tobiko, Anti-Terrorism Police Unit boss Njeru Mwaniki said the three who were arrested on July 4, 2013 confessed that they were in the country illegally. He said during interrogation, they were found to be illegally present in Kenya and confessed to have come from Somalia.
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The State Department is offering bounties of up to $3 million each for three members of a Somalia-based extremist group with ties to al-Qaida. The group is al-Shabab, and it claims responsibility for last yearÂ’s deadly attack on a Kenyan shopping mall.
The department says rewards are being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, Yasin Kilwe and Jafar, who goes by one name.
The three men hold senior roles in al-Shabab, which has launched attacks in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. The bounties are part of the “Rewards for Justice” program that offers cash for information about terror suspects.
The department says Abdikadir coordinates al-ShababÂ’s recruitment in Kenya, and Jafar is his deputy. Officials say Kilwe is al-ShabaabÂ’s emir for SomaliaÂ’s Puntland region.
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$4 Million for their heads
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The atmosphere in Buulobarde district in the Hiiraan region was reported to be serene this morning after it was seized from Al-Shabaab by AMISOM and the Somali National Army.
According to news reports from Buulobarde add that within the district yesterday, many bombs were detonated including at the Police Station although casualties are unknown.
This morning, the community spirit was said to be thriving in the Buulobarde district of the Hiiraan region.
You can hear "The Sound of Music" in the hills if you really try...
The Buulobarde district was a strategic key district for Al-ShabaabÂ’s leaders and is now among the many territories liberated from Al-Shabaab.
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...what did they heave? Pies? Manhole covers? Grenades?...
causing casualties broke out last night in Yaaqshiid and Heliwaa districts of Benadir regionÂ’s Mogadishu.
These intense clashes erupted after Al-Shabaab fighters ambushed a military base belonging to AMISOM in both of the districts. Some of the places where the fighting took place include ex-Perfume Factory in Heliwaa districts although number of casualties have not been specified yet.
Mogadishu had a perfume factory?
On the other hand, bombs were thrown last night in the ‘Khat Garden’ of the Hodan district where Somali Government soldiers were stationed and it was confirmed that 5 officers were injured in the attack.
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They HAD a perfume factory, but somehow their fragrance line of BO & garbage never caught on.
#2
Heaving bosoms and batting their eyes,
Damsels peek out at battling guys.
Perfume's too alcoholic,
So the plant (this is comic!)
Now makes candy, which draws 'em like flies.
[An Nahar] A Tunisian court has given a controversial hardline Salafist a three-month suspended prison sentence for preaching at a mosque without permission, a judicial source said Friday.
The ruling comes as authorities seek to regain control of certain mosques they say have fallen under the influence of radical Islamists.
The district court in Mateur, in northern Bizerte province, "gave Khamis Mejri a three-month suspended jail sentence, and he is still being prosecuted in three separate cases," said Mongi Boulares, front man for the public prosecutor in Bizerte.
Khamis Mejri, who does not hide his admiration for slain al-Qaeda criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who has left the building... , is due to appear at a court in Bizerte on March 18, he added.
Known for his controversial appearances on television, Mejri was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Tuesday after preaching without authorization.
A 1988 law bans "any activity in mosques, in the form of speeches, meetings or writings, by people not belonging to the institution that oversees their work, unless authorized by the prime minister."
The ministry of religious affairs announced on Monday that it had decided to fix the opening hours of mosques in Tunisia, to prevent them from "being used for reasons that are at odds with their religious nature."
According to senior ministry official Abdessattar Badr, around 150 of Tunisia's 5,100 mosques are outside the state's control, including some 50 under the influence of radical imams, or prayer leaders. Others say the real number is higher.
Some fear that the intention behind the authorities' decision to tighten their control of mosques is to silence dissent on the pretext of combating terrorism.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A joint police operation by Spain and Morocco netted an international terror ring that recruited jihadist fighters for Syria, the Spanish interior ministry announced on Friday (March 14th). Seven suspects were placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in the two countries. Additional arrests are expected to follow as the investigation proceeds.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian security forces apprehended eleven takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... st cell members in Monastir, Interior Ministry Spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said on Thursday (March 13th). The suspects were jugged Please don't kill me! Wednesday in Menzel Nour on terrorism charges.
In other news, a court in Mateur gave controversial salafist imam Khamis Mejri a two-month suspended prison sentence for preaching at a mosque without permission, a judicial source told AFP Friday.
Mejri, who "is still being prosecuted in three separate cases", is due to appear in court on March 18th, said Mongi Boulares of the prosecutors' office in Bizerte.
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[MAGHAREBIA] A terrorist with an international bounty on his head was among the al-Qaeda gunnies killed last week by French Arclight airstrikes in Mali, AFP reported Friday (March 14th).
Oumar Ould Hamaha, the front man for the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO ...Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, another offshoot of Qaeda in North Africa. Currently active in Mali and southern Algeria, the idea is to do as much good in West Africa as AQIM has done in North Africa... ) and a former lieutenant to terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, was killed "with weapons in hand", a regional security source confirmed.
Reaper drones, along with Chad-based Mirage 2000 fighters and Tiger helicopters from Mali "made it possible to neutralise" at least 10 Death Eaters in the March 4th operation, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Le Figaro last week.
The AQIM fighters were spotted in the Amettetai Valley, in the Kidal region, by French forces operating the drones, Drian said.
Ould Hamaha, nicknamed "Red Beard" because he regularly died his facial hair with henna, was implicated in the April 2012 abduction of Algerian diplomats in Gao.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Negotiations will start on Friday (March 14th) between Libya and Tunisia to restore commercial activity at the Ras Jedir border crossing.
The talks follow weeks of mounting tension in southern Tunisian cities along the border where trade is an economic lifeline. The most recent closure began March 9th, according to Libya Herald.
Clashes erupted Tuesday after a visit by Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa to Ras Jedir and his failure to find a solution with the Libyan side to hasten the re-opening.
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[DAWN] Taliban negotiators on Friday said the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leadership was ready to hold direct talks with the Pakistain government and condemned today's terrorist incidents in Quetta and 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. calling them a conspiracy being hatched to derail the grinding of the peace processor, DawnNews reported.
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[DAWN] A powerful kaboom killed at least 10 people and injured 35 other on Friday evening in Quetta, the capital of restive 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, police said.
Muhammad Jaffar, the Deputy Inspector General Police (Operations) said snuffies had planted kaboom inside a bicycle parked in the Science College Chowk area of Quetta.
He said the bomb went kaboom! when a local bus was passing through the spot.
Another police official, who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media, told Dawn.com that target of the blast was a Frontier Corps' vehicle, which narrowly escaped the attack.
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Quetta, Razaq Cheema confirmed that 10 people, including one security personnel, were killed in the blast. "Most of the victims are civilians," Cheema added.
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[DAWN] The corpse count from a suicide kaboom targeting police in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. earlier on Friday has now risen to 11, hospital officials said.
Jamil Shah, a front man for the Lady Reading Hospital in the scenic provincial capital, confirmed that two more people had shuffled off the mortal coil while being treated for injuries from the powerful kaboom that struck Sarband, an area in the suburbs of Peshawar.
The victims included women, children and coppers. At least 45 others were maimed from the attack, the latest violence to hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
DSP (city) Banaras Khan said the blast appeared to have targeted a police mobile van and was carried out by a jacket wallah.
SP Cantt Faisal Kamran said that due to the sensitive nature of the area, which is situated on the border of the tribal areas, police personnel were using armoured personnel carriers (APC) to conduct routine patrolling when they were targeted by the suicide bomber who was on foot.
The victims were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) where an emergency was imposed. Casualties were also shifted to the Hayatabad Medical complex.
Six bodies were received at the LRH while three were received at the Hayatababad Medical Complex.
Security personnel cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
According to Shafqat Malik, AIG of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), at least eight kilograms of explosives were used in the blast.
According to foreign news agency Rooters, Taliban splinter group Ahrarul Hind grabbed credit for the attack. "We claim both Peshawar and Quetta attacks," Rooters quoted their chief Umar Qasmi as saying. "We don't abide by these talks and will continue to stage attacks."
The leadership of bully boy group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), which the Pak government has engaged in peace talks to end a seven-year insurgency, immediately distanced itself from the Friday attacks.
Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, lies on the edge of Pakistain's tribal areas which have been labelled by Washington as the main sanctuary for Al Qaeda and Talibs in the country.
The city has seen frequent attacks by snuffies in the past few years, with targets ranging from civilians to coppers and other law enforcement personnel.
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[An Nahar] Bombings in and around Storied Baghdad on Friday, including blasts near two markets, killed seven people, the latest in a year-long surge in violence that authorities have failed to quell.
The bloodshed, at its highest level since 2008, came a day after a suicide boom-mobile went off in the middle of a wedding party convoy in the western town of Rawa, killing 15 people, including women and kiddies.
The unrest, which comes barely six weeks before parliamentary elections, is driven principally by widespread discontent among Iraq's Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighboring Syria.
A boom-mobile Friday at a market in Storied Baghdad's predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shuala killed three people, while another blast near a market in Rashid left one dead, security and medical officials said.
Bombings in Taji and Tarmiyah, just north of the capital, killed three others, including two soldiers.
On Thursday evening, a suicide boom-mobile that went off in the middle of a wedding party convoy killed 15 people and maimed 17 others in the town of Rawa, in the Sunni desert province of Anbar.
Anbar has been roiled in recent months by unrest that has seen anti-government fighters take control 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... a city on Storied Baghdad's doorstep, as well as shifting areas of placid provincial capital Ramadi.
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Unknown attackers shot and set on fire a female teacher in Pattani province while she was traveling alone to school yesterday morning. Siriporn Srichai is the 170th teacher killed since the latest unrest in the deep South began in 2003.
Her brutal slaying has shocked the public and has deeply demoralized teachers in the southernmost provinces. Kirinee Promjan said, "Teachers here feel frightened."
Boonsom Thongsri-plai, of the Confederation of Teachers in the Three Southern Border Provinces,"We are so saddened by what happened. This is a heartlessly cruel attack."
Siriporn had lived in Yala province with her mother. Her death means the elderly woman will lose the support she needs. A neighbor said, "Siriporn woke up early and cared for her mother before rushing out to her school every day."
An investigation indicates that while Siriporn was driving along her familiar route yesterday, two men on a motorcycle chased after her. The passenger then shot at her and after Siriporn crashed, he fired more shots. He then poured gasoline over her and set her on fire.
When police arrived at the scene, Siriporn's body was charred and her crash helmet was still on. Police said they found gunshot wounds in her body and head.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army heavily deployed on Friday 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... as intermittent gunfire injure three people, including a soldier, in the area a day after festivities erupted between rival neighborhoods.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the army fortified its posts and deployed heavily in various areas in Tripoli, in particular, in Syria street that separates the rival districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
The NNA said that sporadic sniper gunfire injured Fouad al-Saytari and Walid Daher in al-Qobbeh square.
Voice of Leb radio (100.5) reported that soldier Rony Haddad was also maimed.
LBCI reported that another soldier was injured by sniper fire.
Arab Democratic Party media official Abdul Latif Saleh told LBCI that the party announced ceasefire and kicked off negotiations with the families of the victims who were killed in Tripoli's twin blasts in August to restore calm in the city.
The army later on blocked the Abou Ali roundabout -- al-Mallouleh highway and al-Beddawi, keeping the sea road open for traffic.
Media reports said that the military also placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four gunnies, including a Syrian national, in al-Qobbeh area.
Until Friday, at least three people were killed and 36 others injured in the festivities that broke out a day before, the NNA reported.
"We reject attempts to spread violence in the city," al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara told news hounds after a meeting for Tripoli figures at his house.
He stressed that "suspects don't have any political cover," demanding "the state to arrest those who are involved in city's the security incidents."
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[An Nahar] The army tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Friday a Lebanese national on charges of smuggling Syrians into Leb, reported the National News Agency.
It said that it arrested Ahmed H. at the Ain al-Shaab checkpoint in the Bekaa town of Arsal.
LBCI television later identified him as Ahmed al-Hallani.
He is charged of smuggling Syrians from al-Qalamoun into Leb through Arsal.
NNA added that eight Syrians riding in a van were also detained.
It did not disclose the reasons for their arrest.
Arsal, a predominantly Sunni area, backs the uprising against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
The town lies 12 kilometers from the border with Syria and has been used as a conduit for weapons and rebels to enter Syria, while also serving as a refuge for people fleeing the conflict.
The town has seen a massive influx of refugees in the past weeks as a result of the heavy fighting in Syria's al-Qalamoun.
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What, they had run out of cerealians.
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[An Nahar] 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... -based Salafist leader Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi stressed Friday that the northern city's Islamists will not hesitate to go to jihad, or holy war, in support of the regime-besieged Syrian town of Yabrud.
"A lot of those who are collecting extortions in the city are still on the loose and a lot of criminals are still on the lam, while the free men were locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , such as Omar al-Homsi, Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, Dr. Abdul Nasser Shatah and others," Rafehi said outside al-Salam Mosque in Tripoli, after the director of his office Jalal Kalash was arrested at the Rafik Hariri International Airport.
According to state-run National News Agency, Kalash was released prior to the holy man's televised address. Rafehi said the man was freed due to "popular pressure."
"Why are our young men being arrested when they go to Syria and when they return? Why doesn't this apply to Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's fighters?" the holy man asked.
"If they (Lebanese authorities) are afraid of the West, they can rely on the remarks of (Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan) Nasrallah, who had said 'let us go fight in Syria'," Rafehi added.
"We say it loud and clear: we won't back down from supporting our people in Syria, whatever that may cost us. When our people in (Syria's) Qusayr pleaded to us, we heeded their call, and today if Yabrud's people urge us to act, we won't hesitate to wage jihad with them," the Islamist leader vowed.
He called on "Leb's rulers" to "draw lessons," stressing that Syrian President "Bashir al-Assad's rule will not last for long."
"Do not stand by the tyrant," Rafehi went on to say.
He voiced surprise that "an army force is still protecting (Arab Democratic Party leader) Ali Eid's house in Hikr al-Daheri until the moment."
Rafehi revealed that Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji had allegedly promised him to capture Eid once an arrest warrant is issued for him in the case of the deadly bombings that hit Tripoli's al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques.
"When the policy statement faced a deadlock, the Arab Democratic Party was ordered to bombard Tripoli and it is unacceptable that an entire city be punished over the behavior of one young man," Rafehi said, referring to the deadly festivities that erupted Thursday in Tripoli in the wake of the killing of a Jabal Mohsen man.
"When this cabinet was formed, we were surprised by the raids and Tripoli was turned into a military barracks and people became afraid to be on the streets," Rafehi noted.
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[An Nahar] Syrian forces entered the key rebel bastion of Yabrud on Friday, one of the last opposition-held areas near the border with Leb, a military source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The Syrian army on Friday entered the town of Yabrud north of Damascus from the east, and advanced along the town's main street," the source said.
"The rebels are fleeing towards Rankus village" to the south. "If their flight continues, the capture of the city is only a matter of days."
Earlier, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported Syrian army units advancing in the Yabrud area, saying they "now control its eastern approaches and northeastern boundary."
The broadcaster said the assault had caused a "breakdown in the ranks of terrorist groups," the government term for rebels battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... was spearheading the fight to dislodge gunnies from Yabrud.
The Britannia-based monitor, which relies on civilian, medical and military sources for its information, said earlier Syrian forces "drove the rebels off the hill of Aqaba" outside the town.
"Fierce fighting is also taking place on the northern edge, between the town of Sahel and Yabrud," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
"They want to completely encircle the Yabrud rebels to dislodge them."
The al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group Al-Nusra Front admitted "one position at Aqaba has fallen... causing brother fighters to fall back to rear bases."
But it denied rebels were retreating, insisting that reinforcements were on the way.
The battle for Yabrud is vital for Hizbullah, which first admitted its fighters were fighting alongside Assad's forces in spring 2013.
Hizbullah wants to sever a key rebel supply line to the Bekaa town of Arsal across the border in eastern Leb.
It says boom-mobiles that have been used to attack its strongholds inside Leb were loaded with explosives in Yabrud and then driven via Arsal to their targets.
On another front in the complex struggle pitting regime loyalists against mainstream rebels and rebels against jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , ISIL on Friday withdrew its fighters from Idlib province in the northwest and Latakia in the west, the Observatory said.
"ISIL is no longer able to defend his fighters" in these areas because of festivities with other rebel factions, it said, adding the withdrawal began a week ago.
"Rebel brigades were about to engage them," it added.
Spurned because of its abuses of civilians and extreme interpretation of Islam, ISIL had already pulled out of several areas in the northern province of Aleppo since January.
It is now entrenched in Raqa province east of Aleppo.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli army said it shelled a Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... position in southern Leb on Friday after an kaboom targeted an Israeli patrol on the border, as the Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... reportedly grabbed credit for the kaboom.
Agence La Belle France Presse quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that Israel shelled southern Leb after an kaboom on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
The Israeli army confirmed that report, saying that it had acted after a border patrol was attacked with explosives.
The Lebanese source said "10 Israeli rockets hit an uninhabited border area" and that "there were no casualties."
"In response to the bomb activated against IDF (Israeli army) soldiers, the IDF fired towards a Hizbullah terror infrastructure in southern Leb. A hit was confirmed," the Israeli army said in statement.
Earlier, the Israeli army radio said "artillery fired at southern Leb in retaliation for the kaboom of a concealed device targeting a patrol."
"The device went kaboom! near soldiers on the border in the Har Dov area," the statement added, using Israel's term for the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Leb's state-run National News Agency said "a 107 mm rocket struck an Israeli army post on the al-Ramta Hill inside the occupied Shebaa Farms." It did not elaborate and it was not immediately clear if it was referring to the same attack on Israeli forces.
Media reports later said that the Qaeda-inspired ISIL grabbed credit for the kaboom on the Israeli patrol.
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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
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.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber accidentally detonated his explosives near a popular hotel in the Somali capital. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the bomber appeared to have prematurely detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday as he tried to park near a hotel. No others were hurt or killed in the blast.
A Belgian and a French 
[MAGHAREBIA] A terrorist with an international bounty on his head was among the al-
Unknown attackers shot and set on fire a female teacher in Pattani province while she was traveling alone to school yesterday morning. Siriporn Srichai is the 170th teacher killed since the latest unrest in the deep South began in 2003. 
[An Nahar] The army 
[An Nahar] Syrian forces entered the key rebel bastion of Yabrud on Friday, one of the last opposition-held areas near the border with 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
