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I would like to thank all the people, BrerRabbit, for his concern about my well being. I'm fine but tired. I seem to have reached a temporary perfect storm, upgrading clients XP computers, converting clients to a new Medical Billing form (smells like ObamaCare) and income taxes.
When I've had the DGS ready to go the RD-S&T-P has missed publication and other times when it has gone to press I've missed my deadline. I'm sure Fred also has his hands full. We'll get it together.
BrerRabbit, I hope today's offering will be "uplifting and affirming" for you. Take care of that hand.
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Yeah, Ima with you thar GB, time to install XP Service Pack 3 for sure.
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I am living dangerously, still around 90 XP computers on the network that can't be upgraded and bitchery will keep them in place. I look for a weird XP zombie virili to break out any day.
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I read somewhere yesterday that the Germans and the Dutch were paying Microsoft $$$$ to keep supporting their varieties of XP. My wife has Windows 7 on her laptop, and Timmy has Windows 8 on his. I much prefer the XP on my computer, but will probably have to switch when I upgrade boxes. XP may not be as dead as most people believe
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Ship, maybe you need to stick Oooboontoo on them or something.
[Tolo News] The National Directorate of Security (NDS) jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 262 faceless myrmidons and prevented major chaos in the country, a front man to the Afghan intelligence office, Lotfullah Mashal said on Thursday.
The conspiracies were formulated in a joint cooperation among the Haqqani Network, Jundullah, and Afghan and Pak Taliban.
The April 5 presidential and provincial councils elections were held despite the threats and intimidations by the krazed killer groups. The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) worked tirelessly to provide better security to the voting process. The NDS arrested the faceless myrmidons over the last two months.
"We arrested 262 people from 23 provinces who intended to conduct kabooms, suicide kabooms, armed attacks and roadside kabooms around the polling centers," NDS front man Loftullah Mashal said. "We also confiscated 65 vehicles, rocket launchers, ammonium nitrate, mortars and chemicals all of which are used in kabooms."
Pak religious Madrasas were closed and many faceless myrmidons intended to come in Afghanistan to sabotage the elections, but the ANSF reacted effectively to the plots.
The arrests were conducted by the NDS, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian salafists clashed with police Wednesday (April 9th) in Siliana governorate, Tunisie Numerique reported.
Six officers were maimed when Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... members tried to break into the Errouhia cop shoppe. Police used tear gas to disperse some 80 assailants.
The violence arose a day after security forces raided a local mosque and enjugged Please don't kill me! 40 salafists, including several recent returnees from jihad in Syria.
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[Al Ahram] An unknown assailant planted a home-made bomb on Thursday evening under a car that belongs to a Giza traffic officer who was organising traffic in the busy Hossary Square in the 6 of October city, a ministry of interior spokesperson said.
The officer sustained minor injuries and was transferred to a nearby hospital.
Earlier in the evening, Ahram Arabic news website had reported that a bomb-laden vehicle exploded in the 6 October City outside Cairo.
Egypt has been hit by a series of deadly bombings, mainly targeting security forces, since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July of last year.
The attacks were initially focused on the restive Sinai Peninsula before spreading into strategic Nile Delta cities and the capital.
Last week, three explosions outside Cairo University killed a senior police official and injured five others.
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[Al Ahram] A second kaboom has hit Hossary Square in 6 October City, west of Cairo, less than three hours after a first bomb went kaboom! in the busy area and left a police officer with minor injuries, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
No one was injured in the second blast. Security forces closed the street where the bombs detonated and cleared the area in fear of a third attack.
The first kaboom involved a homemade bomb planted under a Giza traffic officer's car.
The officer sustained minor injuries and was transferred to a nearby hospital.
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[DAILYTIMES.NG] Gunmen suspected to be members of the outlawed terrorist 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... , on Wednesday night stormed a football viewing centre killing at least one person.
Police authorities in Yobe confirmed that the gunnies stormed the viewing centre in Potiskum Town of Yobe during the UEFA Champions League clash between Manchester United and Bayern Munich.
Six other viewers were also injured in the attack.
Sanusi Rufai, the Yobe Commissioner of Police, confirmed the incident on Thursday in an interview with newsmen.
He said that the gunnies stormed the centre while the fans were watching a match between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, and started shooting.
The commissioner said the corpse of the dear departed had been deposited at the General Hospital, Potiskum, while those injured were receiving treatment at the hospital.
Mr. Rufai said coppers had been mobilised to search for the attackers.
Yobe is one of the three states under emergency rule due to the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram group.
The krazed killers, in one of the recently released videos by its leader, Abubakar Shekau, threatened to attack such viewing centres and schools.
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No Fun League. Islamic version
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[Osun Defender] At least eight persons killed, while about four people maimed in the early hours of April 9, 2014, Wednesday, when unknown gunnies invaded Gwaram Sabuwa, Gwaram local government area of Jigawa state.
The gunnies, suspected to be the members of the radical Islamist 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... sect, entered the town in cars between 2 and 4 am in the morning, bombed the cop shoppe before shooting everyone on sight.
According to the residents, there were about 20 of attackers, who seeded death and chaos, caused severe damage and left the town unhindered.
The gunnies threatened to come back if the people did not to stop enrolling their children in schools, stop accepting polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination and close down all the football viewing centres in the town.
According to the Assistant Inspector of Police in charge of zone 1, Mr Tambari Yabo who confirmed the attack and the killings.
It would be noted that this was the third time Gwaram LGA came under attack by unknown gunnies, but the local authorities did not beef up security to proper level after them.
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[An Nahar] Iranian catspaws believed to be seeking to advance on Yemen's capital have attacked an army post in a neighboring city, killing three soldiers and losing two of their own, tribal sources said Thursday.
The Zaidi rebels, also known as Ansarullah or Huthis, carried out the attack in Amran, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Sanaa, late on Wednesday, tribal sources said.
Military sources have said their objective was to seize Amran and, from there, lay siege to the capital.
The Huthis have fought the government for years, complaining of marginalization under former 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... , who was ousted in 2012 following a year of protests.
Saleh's successor, President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, and party leaders have agreed to transform Yemen into a six-region federation as part of a political transition.
The rebels, who complain that would divide Yemen into rich and poor regions, have been trying to enlarge their zone of influence by pushing out from their mountain strongholds in the far north to areas closer to the capital.
Amran has been the scene of months of sporadic fighting and remained tense Thursday, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent reported.
Both sides have dug trenches in the city and its environs as army tanks deployed across the area.
In early February, they seized parts of Amran province in fighting with local tribes that killed more than 150 people.
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[Al Ahram] Two Saudi soldiers have been killed in a clash with unidentified gunnies who fired on them from across the border with Yemen, the interior ministry said Thursday.
A border guard patrol in the southwestern province of Asir "came under heavy gunfire on Wednesday morning from unknown sources inside Yemeni territory," said the ministry.
The attack triggered a shootout which resulted in the death of sergeant Abdulrazaq al-Qhamidi and soldier Mohammed al-Qahtani, it said in a statement.
The Saudi authorities were coordinating with their counterparts in Yemen to investigate the attack.
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[Jihad Watch] Extremist imams, patrolling Muslim father groups and homemade sharia courts can operate safely in Europe's Muslim-dominated areas, while non-Islamic authorities are regularly attacked. I am glad to see that the Swedish police won this one, though I fear that they will not be able to control the streets in just a few years.
On Sunday evening in Skäggetorp a riot broke out involving some 50 youths attacking the police with stones and fireworks.
It all began with an assault at 18 pm, when a man was ambushed by several masked attackers.
A police officer was injured when he was hit on the leg by a stone. Another police officer went to the hospital with a hand injury. Besides throwing stones and firecrackers, the "youth" built road blocks with road signs.
At midnight, the police managed to encircle about 30 youths from the mob, and got them down on the ground and then arrested them. 50 of people who attended the attack have been identified, most of whom were born in the 90s and are affiliated with gangs. You continue to let them in. What do you expect ?
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Way back when the EU was just getting started someone commented,"You can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, you can't have both. To bad nobody in Europe or the USA listened.
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[DAWN] A lawyer was rubbed out on Thursday when unidentified gunnies opened fire on his car in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, DawnNews reported.
The dear departed, identified as Advocate Waqar Shah, was the vice president of Pakistain Moslem League - Nawaz's lawyers' wing.
Shah was bumped off while he was on his way to a court after leaving his house.
His body was immediately shifted to Jinnah Hospital.
According to hospital sources, Shah had been shot in the head as well as in the chest.
Waqar Shah was targeted after reconnaissance, the police personnel said.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Two students were rubbed out while others critically maimed in an attack on a restaurant near a prominent seminary in Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.
Gulshan SP Tanveer Hussain said that the victims belonged to the Jamia Dar-ul-Khair.
They added that the students were having tea at the restaurant in Block-15 after Isha prayers when they were attacked.
The victims were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced two of them dead on arrival while three were admitted for treatment, said Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department.
The dear departed were identified as Hayatullah and Ali Ahmed. The maimed were identified as Imran, Abdul Ghani and Ismail. All of them were in a critical condition, added Dr Jamali.
The attack on seminary students triggered a violent protest on the main road leading to the Samama shopping centre.
"This is the third attack on the seminary students over past two years," said the spokesperson for Jamaat Ulema Islam (Sami-ul-Haq group) to whom the seminary belonged. The JUI-S spokesperson, Hafiz Ahmed Ali, added that the seminary head and JUI-S central leader Mufti Usmanyar Khan was also bumped off on Sharea Faisal recently.
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[DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: The district police claimed on Wednesday to have foiled an attempt to blow up the railway track, arresting two alleged forces of Evil and recovering explosives from them.
District Police Officer Suhail Zafar Chattha told a presser that a police team caught two alleged forces of Evil - Riaz and Peerakh - when they were fitting an bomb under the track near Walhar station in Sadiqabad area at 1am.
He said the saboteurs wanted to hit 42/Down Karakoram Express and 39/UP Jaffar Express. The trains were expected to cross the spot shortly.
The police also recovered six kilo kaboom, detonators, cables, two pistols and bullets from them, he added.
Kot Sabzal police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the suspects under the Pakistain Protection Ordinance, he said.
The DPO said the suspects hailed from Sui (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... ) and were reportedly linked to a bad boy outfit, Baloch Republican Army (BRA).
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I believe a detention is in order. Tie them to the tracks til the next train can interrogate them
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[DAWN] GHALANAI: A woman and her minor daughter were seriously injured when they were hit by an improvised explosive device in Baizai tehsil on Wednesday.
Local residents said that the woman was going home along with her daughter when they stepped over the device planted by unidentified miscreants in Speenki Tangi area. As a result of the explosion, they suffered serious injuries. Later, they were shifted to a hospital in Peshawar for treatment.
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[Ynet] Israel's UN envoy Ron Prosor asks the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to suspend Jordanian-born UN official for report in which she said Israel's polices reminiscent of 'worst crimes of the last century'
Israel has requested the UN dismiss Rima Khalaf, currently serving as the UN's under-secretary-general, for anti-Semitic statements she made in an official report.
"The accusation that Israel is conducting ethnic cleansing is the essence of modern anti-Semitism and it is unforgivable," Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Wednesday, in wake of a report penned by Khalaf, a Jordanian national.
"We were hoping that dark opinions like the ones Khalaf expressed had vanished from the world," Prosor wrote in a letter to Ban. "Anti-Israeli incitement sounded under UN sponsorship, while using its resources, is unfathomable," Prosor wrote.
Khalaf, had recently published an official UN report in which she claimed: "Paleostine is still under Israeli occupation which is based on settlement-building and substitution," the latter being a veiled euphemism for ethnic cleansing vis a vis the substitution of one population for another.
The report continued to say that "By pushing for an exclusive Jewish State, Israel propagates the concept of religious or ethnic purity of states, a concept that inflicted on humanity the worst crimes of the last century."
Throughout it's 200 pages, Khalaf accused Israel for being the main cause for the internal tear in the Arab world and its problems in the fields of culture, education and environment and development.
"Israel's violation is not limited to direct occupation of Arab land. Israel makes repeated attacks on neighboring countries... These policies are a threat to the security of Arab citizens across the region... (which) cannot become free without the liberation of those Arab territories currently under Israeli occupation."
Israel claims that the report compares it with Nazi Germany, because the report claims: "Israel's adamancy that it is a Jewish State, which violates the rights of both the Moslem and Christian indigenous populations and revives the concept of state ethnic and religious purity, which caused egregious human suffering during the twentieth century."
Khalaf serves as Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA. The body is located in Beirut and includes 17 countries and consults the UN's Economic and Social Council regarding development in the Arab world.
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if being anti Semitic is a firing offense, then at least 50% of the UN staff would have to be fired
actually that wouldn't be a bad idea
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It won't matter but the Juice need to make these observations all the time to spotlight and push back. As LG notes, Jooo hate is a job requirement at the UN
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[The Peninsula] Five civilians have been killed and 14 others injured in a random bombarding by Iraqi army of houses in different areas of Fallujah city, capital of Anbar province in west Iraq.
Security sources said five civilians, including a child were killed and 14 others, among them two women and two children, were maimed in mortar shelling of Al Jeghaifi, Al Askari, Al Andalus and Al Shuhadaa neighbourhoods in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... adding that a school was damaged as a result of the shelling.
In another incident 9 Death Eaters were killed and 11 others injured in festivities between the Iraqi army and Death Eaters belonging to Daash or the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIS).
The source said the festivities erupted near a complex of government departments in centre of Ramadi and Al Busha'ban area in western Ramadi.
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[Ynet] Kuwait said three of its citizens have been kidnapped in Syria and it has asked Turkey for help in trying to secure their release.
It was not clear why the Kuwaitis were in Syria or who kidnapped them. Some Gulf Arab citizens have entered Syria to join rebels fighting the forces of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... "There were three Kuwaitis kidnapped in Syria. The Foreign Ministry is following this matter," Kuwait's undersecretary for foreign affairs Khaled al-Jarallah told news hounds late Wednesday.
Kuwait has been in contact with authorities in Turkey, which borders Syria, to try to secure their release, he said.
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Hey Turkey, we and the Saudis are bankrolling your supply routes to the terrorist freedom fighters trying to overthrow the trampler of Homs. Can you ask your guys to look around?
[An Nahar] The army clashed with a number of gunnies on Wednesday evening as it carried out raids in the 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... neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, after arresting three people and raiding an arms and explosives depot during the day.
"Clashes erupted between the army and gunnies in Bab al-Tabbaneh amid raids in Khan al-Askar," OTV reported.
Several other TV networks said gunfire was heard in the area as al-Jadeed said "fighting broke out between the army and gunnies in Syria Street and behind al-Rashwani Mosque in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh."
Earlier on Wednesday, the army announced the arrest of a number of suspects in Tripoli linked to the various security incidents that have taken place in the northern city.
It said in a statement that it raided a weapons storehouse in the city, arresting its owner S.Z.
Army units confiscated various weapons, ammunition, and rockets at the storehouse, as well as material used to manufacture explosives as part of the ongoing security plan being implemented in the city.
In addition, the army had jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a suspect, R.A., in the al-Baraniyeh area in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood in the northern city.
He is held on charges of opening fire at an army patrol.
Troops also arrested A.A. and A.M. in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh neighborhood on charges of carrying out sectarian attacks, said the Army communique.
They also seized a number of ammunition at A.M.'s residence.
The army kicked off its security plan in Tripoli last week.
It is aimed at putting an end to the rounds of festivities between the rival impoverished neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
Tensions between the two districts go back decades but have been exacerbated by the war in Syria, where Alawite Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... faces Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
Successive rounds of violence between the neighborhoods have killed dozens of people and brought parts of the city to a standstill.
The implementation of the security plan was faced with protests and attacks on Tuesday where angry men tossed several hand grenades in al-Baraniyeh as residents shortly blocked the roads of al-Dabagha and wheat market with burning tires.
The grenade attack and the road closure were aimed at stopping the army from carrying out raids to arrest suspects involved in dozens of festivities that the city had witnessed in the past years.
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[An Nahar] Four Syrians were indicted on Thursday with belonging to the al-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... , reported the National News Agency.
It said that Military Examining Magistrate Judge Fadi Sawan charged the four detained Syrians for belonging to ISIL in order to carry out terrorist attacks.
They were also charged with booby-trapping vehicles, manufacturing explosives and rockets, and possessing weapons and explosives in the Bekaa.
Sawan issued an arrest warrant against each of them and referred the case to the permanent military court.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese military carried out raids in several eastern towns in search for wanted individuals at the start of a security plan that armed forces launched on Thursday, amid reports that most runaways had fled the town of Brital.
The state-run National News Agency said the plan which was approved by the government last month, was launched in the eastern Bekaa Valley through raids in the towns of Brital and Hourtaala.
Army units were backed from the air by three helicopters that flew over Brital and its outskirts and the illegal border crossings, NNA said.
"The two runaways A. R. M. and H. M. T. were jugged You have the right to remain silent... and raids are still underway and will extend to areas other than Brital and Hourtaala," the agency announced.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... MTV said that "the runaways of Brital, who are estimated to number between 100 and 150, have left the town."
"Brital's residents are dismayed by the 'violent' raids that were carried out by the army but they have welcomed its presence in their town, and they are saying that all runaways have fled the town," MTV added.
It said the residents "are rejecting the accusation that they were behind facilitating the escape of the runaways and they're saying they did not have good relations with them despite the kinship."
NNA said later in the day that the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau arrested in Brital the Syrians Ismail Ali al-Hussein and Imad Youssef Sweid for their involvement in the brief abduction of the child Michel al-Saqr.
For its part, Al-Arabiya TV said the army will stage raids Friday in Baalbek's al-Sharawneh neighborhood.
Earlier on Thursday, Voice of Leb radio (100.5) said that among the suspects the army is seeking to arrest is Maher Tleis, who has received a life sentence for his alleged involvement in kidnappings.
Reports have said that he has also been accused of preparing booby-trapped cars in Syria, which are later transported to Leb for terrorist acts.
The start of the security plan comes days after armed forces took full control of all checkpoints on the road linking the towns of Arsal and Hermel near the Syrian border.
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... members used to search cars amid a wave of boom-mobiles that killed scores of people.
A similar security plan has gone into effect 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... where scores of suspects have been arrested for their involvement in several rounds of fighting.
President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... said Thursday "it was important and urgent to assist the army (by providing it) with equipment and modern weapons given its huge tasks."
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[Al Ahram] At least 51 jihadist and Islamist fighters were killed as rival forces clashed in Syria on the border with Iraq on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
The fighting erupted at dawn after an assault by the jihadist 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... on posts held by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its allies.
The festivities centred around the border town of Albu Kamal, from which ISIL was expelled from earlier this year, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It said 51 combatants were killed.
The bodies of another 10 fighters, apparently executed by ISIL, were found at two sites near Albu Kamal, the Observatory said, adding there were reports of other summary executions in the same area.
Earlier, the monitoring group's head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that ISIL was advancing in Albu Kamal and had taken control of several districts previously held by Al-Nusra and other Islamist brigades.
The festivities prompted soldiers on the Iraqi side of the border to reinforce their positions.
The border crossing itself on the Syrian side remained in the hands of the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , according to a rebel chief and an AFP news hound on the Iraqi side.
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[An Nahar] The military judiciary issued on Thursday an arrest warrant in absentia against Arab Democratic Party politburo chief Rifaat Eid ...secretary general of the Leb Arab Democratic Party, a Pencilneck regime front organization... days after he was charged with belonging to an gang, possession of arms and inciting sedition.
The state-run National News Agency also reported that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged 15 Lebanese and Syrian suspects in the case of Eid.
He also charged 14 others from Bab al-Tabbaneh, including one apprehended suspect, with belonging to an gang, undermining the state's authority and assaulting civilian and military institutions.
The two cases were referred to the First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida.
On Saturday, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged 12 Lebanese, including Eid, with seeking to carry out terrorist acts and involvement in gunbattles between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh 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... .
Ten suspects, including Eid, are runaways and only one Lebanese suspect was apprehended.
Rifaat's father, Ali Eid, is wanted for questioning over an August twin car kaboom against two Sunni mosques in Tripoli that killed 45 people.
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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
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[DAWN] A lawyer was 
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two students were 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Ynet] Kuwait said three of its citizens have been kidnapped in Syria and it has asked Turkey for help in trying to secure their release.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
