[Beirut Daily Star] At least three people were killed and several maimed in Mogadishu on Friday when a bomb went kaboom! on a busy street in the Somali capital, a police official and witnesses said.
A Rooters witness saw the wrecked government car and five maimed people lying on the street. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
"So far 3 people have died and 10 others were maimed," Farah Nur, a police officer told Rooters. "The kaboom was targeted at a government car. We believe the bomb was planted in the ground."
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[Al Ahram] At least three people were killed in two explosions in Kenya's port city of Mombasa on Saturday, witnesses and local media said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Kenya has been hit in the recent past by gun and grenade attacks in Mombasa and in the capital Nairobi, which the government has blamed on the al Qaeda-linked Somali group al Shabaab.
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[DAWN] An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... to 10 years in prison Saturday over protest violence, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Morsi supporters and put them on mass trials since overthrowing him in July.
The Cairo court sentenced two others to seven years in prison.
Last week a court in the southern city of Minya sentenced 683 people, including the leader of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, to death in an initial ruling.
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[IREPORTS-NG] No fewer than 29 persons have again bit the dust in fresh 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... attacks in Borno state. Those said to have been killed include 19 faceless myrmidons and 10 civilians. One of the incidents was said to have occurred at Benisheikh along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway where some faceless myrmidons barricaded the road and attacked travellers. At least, 10 people were killed by the attackers, while vehicles abandoned by owners and passengers were seized.
Others who attempted escaping from the roadblock mounted by the faceless myrmidons were maimed when they fired sporadic gunshots at the fleeing commuters. Security forces were later invited to the scene where they succeeded in killing some of the faceless myrmidons in a gun-duel while others fled into the bush", a survivor, Ali Musa disclosed.
In another incident which occurred in Gwoza town, 19 Boko Haram were killed in a shootout with soldiers. The attack which lasted for about three hours happened when the turbans stormed a security check point mounted by the military, leading to a fierce shoot-out.
The faceless myrmidons were said to have emerged from the Gwoza hills, took the soldiers unawares when the appeared from different directions and threw several Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) into the direction of the military before opening fire on them.
The faceless myrmidons were however said to have suffered serious casulaties as 19 of them were killed when a combined team of military and coppers attached to the Counter Terrorism Squad (CTS) mobilised to the scene of the attack. No one could confirm how many security agents died in the attack.
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[THESTREETJOURNAL.ORG] Heavy gunfire and loud kabooms jolted residents of Maiduguri from their sleep in the early hours of Saturday as members of the 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... terrorist group launched yet another attack.
Residents around the University of Maiduguri revealed that the shooting started around 2 am and there was exchange of fire for more than one hour. Though the University was not hit, it is believed that the military formation which was attacked earlier in the year was the target of the terrorists.
Back then, the attempt of the snuffies to flee their detained members was believed to have resulted in heavy casualties as the military deployed fighter jets as they fled.
The Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade confirmed that the Saturday incident but said he was yet to have full details.
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[Al Ahram] The Yemeni army on Saturday killed a top Al-Qaeda operative with Chechen links as it pressed an offensive against jihadist hideouts in the restive south, the defence ministry said.
Abu Islam al-Shishani was the second foreign jihadist to be killed this week since the military launched its latest offensive on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
News of his death came as officials blamed AQAP for a suicide kaboom at an intelligence post that maimed two guards, and after gunnies killed an army officer in Aden.
AQAP, regarded by the United States as the global jihadist network's most dangerous franchise, has been the target of an intensifying drone war this year that has killed dozens.
On Friday, AQAP leader Qassem al-Rimi threatened to strike back at any party involved in the drone campaign, and denied that foreigners made up the bulk of the group's jihadists.
Shishani was killed "during military operations... against terrorist elements in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... " province, said a statement posted on defence ministry website 26sep.net.
He had reportedly fought against Russian forces in Chechnya before moving to Yemen to join AQAP, a merger of the network's Yemeni and Saudi branches.
On Friday, the defence minister announced that local jihadist commander Abu Mohammedan al-Uzbeki had been killed in festivities, also in Abyan province.
A security official said Uzbeki travelled in 2011 from Uzbekistan to Yemen, where he was named an AQAP leader in Abyan.
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[Ynet]Indian intelligence interrogates prisoner who admits providing surveillence for the Pak plot; names Pakistain official as handler.
The Pak intelligence agency known as ISI planned terror attacks on US and Israeli consulates in India reported the Press Trust of India on Sunday.
Indian official sources said that proof of the planned attacks was given during the interrogation of Sakir Hussain, a Sri Lankan national who was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on April 29 in Southeast Asia when Sherlocks informed an Indian security agency of his possible connection to planned attacks in India.
Sources told the Press Trust of India that Hussain admitted to being paid by the ISI to spy and report on details of the structures and security forces of the Bangalore Israeli consulate and the US consulate in Chennai in southwest India.
Hussain was reportedly incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a short while after arriving in Chennai and taken away for interrogation during which he surrendered the information about the attacks saying that the ISI had planned on sending two operatives from Maldives to India, presumably to carry out the attacks, and Hussain had taken care of providing fake travel documents and safe-houses.
Hussain claimed that his handler in the ISI had been Amir Zubair Siddiq, a counselor at the Pakistain high commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a man already under suspicion as an ISI operative because of previous incidents.
Indian Sherlocks also found surveillance photographs apparently linked to Hussain, picturing roads leading to the two consulates as well as the gates at their entrances. Indian sources said that the photographs had been sent to supposed ISI elements in Pakistain as well as the high commission in Colombo.
Further cyber investigations showed Indian Intelligence that the photos had been downloaded to a computer at the site of the high commission in Colombo.
Sri Lankan authorities have already launched their own investigation into the surrounding events, though Ehtisham claimed that no evidence would be found saying that Pakistain is a responsible state that would not have part in any such attacks.
Just like they had no part in the many attacks on India that have taken place since 1949. Really, they're like little children who think if they cover their eyes the angry Mama can't see them.
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but the Paks are our friends and allies, right?
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The ISI should be a major target of US Intel and CI, and a target for a large amount of drone zapping and wet work.
It doesn't need just to be brought to heel, it needs to be brought to ruin.
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The issue is that there appears to be two organizations. One is the outer ISI group, presented by Pakistan as military personnel assigned to the organization on a short/intermediate term basis. The other is the inner: a long-term, hard core ISI.
There'll be some overlap, with the outer doing work for the inner. Those Pakistani officers who reportedly show up at Taliban camps, for example. Or short-term military assignees planning operations using sterilized information.
While going after it will affect the ISI, the outer layer is the ablative shield; one needs to hit the inner layer to have any effect.
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The ISI should be a major target of US Intel and CI
Target bloody hell! We're RANGER buddies. How else could we have flown back and forth hundreds of miles into PAK airspace without being challenged, and terminated UBL.
We certainly knew where the Champ was THAT fok'n night !
[DAWN] One Frontier Corps (FC) man was killed and another was injured in a bomb kaboom in 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's Bolan district on Saturday, a security official said.
Khan Wasey, a front man for the FC, told Dawn that a security forces' vehicle was on routine patrolling when it was attacked in Bolan's Dhadar area in the morning.
"A loud and powerful kaboom was heard in the area. It appeared to be a remote-controlled blast," Wasey said.
He said two FC personnel inside the vehicle were seriously maimed as a result.
Subsequently, one of the two maimeddeparted this vale of tears on way to a hospital.
The bomb also damaged the security forces' vehicle.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Wasey said he suspected that the attack was the work of Baloch separatists operating in the area.
Bolan is considered to be among the sensitive districts of the southwestern province where separatist gunnies have been targeting power pylons, gas pipelines and other vital installations.
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[DAWN] MINGORA: Four security personnel were maimed when a remotely controlled bomb targeted an army vehicle on Malam Jabba road here on Friday.
The forces' vehicle was going to Teligram area of Malam Jabba valley when it was struck by an improvised bomb near Kadai Seri area, leaving four army men injured. They were identified as Hawaldar Rashid, constable Bilal, driver Azhar and constable Madad. Security forces and police rushed to the spot soon after the incident and shifted the injured to hospital.
Sources said that security forces and police jointly launched a search operation in the area and took more than 80 suspected persons into custody for investigation.
Police registered case against unknown miscreants and began investigation.
DIG Malakand division said 12 kilogram explosives were used in the blast, packed in a pressure cooker.
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[DAWN] Unidentified gunnies opened fire on a vehicle on Saturday killing a lawyer and his driver 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 Orangi Town area, DawnNews reported.
Police said the gunnies had come to attack the vehicle carrying Advocate Chaudhry Idrees, on cycle of violences. His driver Nauman Shah, who is said to be an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) was also killed in the attack.
Following the advocate's killing, lawyers announced a boycott of the city courts.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... Saif Yar Khan, a member of MQM's Coordination Committee, claimed that Shah was an activist of the MQM.
Also today, police in Orangi Town raided various area of the neighbourhood and detained 15 suspects, six of them most wanted.
Police said two of the suspects were involved in an attack on a police van in Baldia's Ittehad Town area.
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We as Americans need to send a support team IMMEDIATELY! Round up , oh say, 10,000 lawyers and get them to Karachi NOW. Before the shooting stops...
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[IsraelTimes] Malaysian police have locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! an 11th suspect in an operation to break up Islamic terror groups posing as humanitarian organizations, an official said on Saturday.
Police arrested 10 Malaysians earlier in the week during raids in and around the capital Kuala Lumpur and the northern state of Kedah before a man attempting to flee the country was detained on Thursday, said a Home Ministry official.
"Our biggest worry is organizations using humanitarian missions as the basis to train myrmidons," said Home Minister Zahid Hamidi as cited by Malay-language daily Berita Harian in comments confirmed by the official.
Hamidi said these groups claimed to be on a "jihad (holy war)", according to the newspaper Utusan Malaysia.
The Malay-language publication also reported that police are still tracing a number of other suspects in ongoing investigations.
Malaysia practises moderate Islam and has not seen any notable terror attacks in recent memory, but concern has risen in the multi-faith nation over perceived Islamisation.
The Southeast Asian country has been home to several suspected key figures in myrmidon Islamic groups, such as the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah blamed for the deadly 2002 Bali bombings.
Police have said they are also probing terrorism as one possible reason for the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A source familiar with the arrests told AFP on Monday that those detained were not linked to Jemaah Islamiyah or the disappearance of the jet.
The plane, carrying 239 people, is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, but no sign of wreckage has been found despite weeks of search efforts.
[Beirut Daily Star] The planned evacuation of fighters from rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Homs was delayed Saturday, activists said, though a cease-fire still was holding in the country's third-largest city.
Rebels in the city agreed Friday surrender territory in exchange for safe passage to other opposition-held areas. The agreement came after a blockade by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's forces caused widespread hunger in rebel-held parts of the city, which have been hit relentlessly by government artillery and Arclight airstrikes.
Local activist Samer al-Homsi and other three activists said it wasn't clear why Syrian forces weren't allowing the first phase of several hundred rebel fighters to leave.
One Homs-based activist said rebels were gathering maimed fighters, so they could be taken out as a first priority, beginning Sunday. Other Homs-based activists said they believed the delays were over a plan to allow food and aid into two blockaded areas - one blockaded by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo, and another blockaded by pro-government forces near Homs.
Activists also said a prisoner exchange deal between rebels and Assad's forces in central and northern Syria also could be delaying the move.
Homs was once known as the capital of the Syrian revolution for its fierce opposition to Assad's rule.
Meanwhile Saturday, Syria state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said rebel mortar fire targeting a government-held neighborhood in Aleppo killed at least 12 people.
Activists also said that the corpse count from two boom-mobiles that struck two small villages in the central Syrian province of Hama has risen to 23 people, including 14 children.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that the figure was likely to rise further. The bombs went kaboom! Friday in the villages of Jadreen and Humayri, some 19 kilometers (11 miles) apart. It wasn't clear if the two attacks were coordinated.
State-run Syrian television also reported the bombings Friday.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Syrian bully boyz clashed with Hezbollah fighters on the border with Leb Saturday, a security source told The Daily Star.
The festivities erupted on the outskirts of Brital, east Leb, in the Ain al-Bnayyeh village along the mostly non-existent border.
Hezbollah and Syrian fighters have clashed in the area on several occasions, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
The National News Agency said the fighters were trying to sneak into Leb.
The shadowy group Liwaa Ahrar al-Sunna said on its Twitter feed that members of the radical group engaged in festivities with Hezbollah on the outskirts of Brital.
The group has also claimed Friday it had "captured" three Hezbollah members near Baalbek, and has claimed an ambush against Army soldiers as well as several rockets on Shiite areas associated with Hezbollah.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Lebanese authorities detained 49 Syrian and Paleostinian refugees from Syria at the Beirut airport Saturday morning for allegedly trying to depart the country illegally, a General Security statement said.
The agency said the men and women were trying to travel with forged documents to an unidentified Arab country.
They were referred to the state prosecutor's office and will be further interrogated to reveal the "network of individuals forging travel documents, and whoever is involved in the case," it added.
The agency appealed to foreign and Arab citizens in Leb, particularly Syrian and Paleostinian refugees, to refrain from violating residency regulations or attempting to forge travel documents to move to other country
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[Beirut Daily Star] The Lebanese Army said it detained seven suspects from Beirut's southern suburbs and confiscated weapons in their possession.
In a statement issued Saturday, the military said it raided the Hay al-Gharibe in Sabra, Ruwaiss and Burj al-Barajneh and apprehended seven wanted individuals.
The Army unit also confiscated light and heavy weapons, ammunition and military gear which were in the possession of the suspects.
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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
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[Ynet]Indian intelligence interrogates prisoner who admits providing surveillence for the Pak plot; names Pakistain official as handler.
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