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Sorry, guys. Little Justice thought he was being clever by stealing other's nyms, not knowing that his IP is clearly evident. He's like a two year old who covers his eyes, thinking that makes him invisible. It does dovetail nicely with his toilet training anxieties, though, poor lad.
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Think of the money they must save on various uniform, hat, under garment, and shoe sizes. The clothing sales store clerk's job must be quite boring.
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Now, my 2 year old has a professional opposite side of the coin understanding of poo, and within two holes learned two tricks: mechanics of the driver swing and golf cart operations. Nothing like our boy in shod who after five years has the same old trick to get himself worked up before a night out with his boyfriends.
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Speaking of which, we've know the term One Trick Pony, somebody who only seems to be able to do one thing, and usually not all that well. In Soddy Arabia they have a similar saying, the One Trick Camel...have you heard of this? Only there, it means going steady.
[AnNahar] Libyan forces loyal to a rogue general, vowing to flush "terrorists" out of Benghazi, clashed with former rebel Islamist groups in the eastern city Friday, killing 24 people and wounding some 150.
The violence in what was the cradle of Libya's 2011 revolution comes weeks after the government acknowledged for the first time the existence of "terrorist groups" in the country and said it was mobilizing against them.
Authorities have been avoiding a full-blown confrontation with the heavily armed ex-rebels who have bastions in Benghazi and other eastern regions, until they can bolster the army and police.
The festivities erupted after a group led by Khalifa Haftar, a retired general who led ground forces in the 2011 uprising that toppled strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... , pounded a barracks of the "February 17 Brigade", witnesses said.
Warplanes backed up the attack on the Islamists who responded with anti-aircraft fire.
The two groups also fought pitched battles in Sidi Fradj, south of Benghazi, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist said, and witnesses said Haftar's men seized the headquarters of Rafallah al-Sahati militia.
Medical sources at Al-Marj hospital, east of the city, where Haftar's casualties were taken, said four bodies and 70 maimed were brought in.
Benghazi hospitals gave a toll of 16 dead and 49 maimed, without identifying them.
And al-Abyar hospital south of the restive city said it took in four bodies and 27 maimed.
The fighting subsided in the afternoon, an AFP journalist said, as witnesses reported that Haftar's forces were pulling back south to Sidi Fradj.
Haftar heads a group calling itself the "National Army" which launched "a large-scale operation to flush turbans out of Benghazi", said a front man, Mohammed al-Hijazi.
"This is not a civil war. It's an operation against terrorist groups," said Hijazi, who like Haftar was a former officer in Qadaffy's army before defecting.
Libya's armed forces chief of staff, Abdessalam Jadallah al-Salihin, denied any army involvement in the Benghazi festivities.
"The (regular) army has nothing to do with the festivities. The army did not give any orders for any sort of operation" in Benghazi, he said.
Salihin admitted, nevertheless, that some officers and units from the regular army had joined Haftar's group.
Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani denounced Haftar's forces as "outlaws" and told a news conference in 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... that the army was "in control on the ground", urging restraint in Benghazi.
As the fighting raged, Algeria closed its embassy and consulate in Tripoli, saying it had received a "real and imminent threat" to its diplomats and staff.
The foreign ministry in Algiers said the decision, which comes after a wave of abductions and attacks targeting foreign diplomats, was taken in coordination with Libyan authorities.
There was no mention of the violence in Benghazi.
But the festivities in the Mediterranean city underscore the government's struggle to rein in former rebels who helped topple Qadaffy nearly three years ago.
The city has been rocked by almost daily attacks that have killed dozens of members of the security forces, judges and foreigners.
There have been no claims of responsibility but Islamists have been blamed for the bloodshed.
In March, the government issued a statement blaming "terrorists" for dozens of deadly attacks and vowed to eradicate these groups.
Its pledge came after Haftar, in a video posted on the Internet, announced an "initiative" under which the interim government and parliament would be suspended in preparation for elections.
That video sparked rumors on social media that a coup might be in the offing.
The government, which has come in for criticism for failing to defeat lawlessness in Libya, was quick to quash the rumors and insist it was in control.
Weeks later it declared a "war against terrorism". However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... no concrete measures have been taken.
Attacks against the army have spurred rustics, soldiers and some ex-rebels to join forces with Haftar against the jihadists.
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Here's a tip: leave egress routes back to Egypt and the sea.
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Sounds like some have had enough, finally. Have to keep on eye on this during the following weeks to see if it's just bad on bad, or some people with actually sense fighting back against Queada.
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Suspected terrorists rebels from Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacked a Chinese plant in northern Cameroon near the town of Waza. The is 12 miles from the Nigerian border near the Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold.
The governor of Far North province Augustine Fonka Awa confirmed the attack but declined to give details.
Xinhua quoted Chinese officials as saying unidentified assailants had attacked the camp of a Chinese enterprise operating in Cameroon on Friday night, wounding one person and leaving 10 unaccounted for.
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As mentioned before, Cameroon is unique in that its military advisors and trainers are French, but its weaponry and some officer-training are supplied by the Chinese.
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China has problems in that they have a "want-to-go-to-war-with" list and can't really pay any attention to anyone not on that list when they're gearing up.
They didn't seem to get too upset about those Chinese nationals that got killed in Karachi a couple years back, remember?
#8
The Chinese government(s) didn't get all that upset about all the Chinese killed in China during WWII. They were more interested in who was going to line their pockets and how to stay in power.
Just like today.
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Naw, don't worry about the Chinese, BH needs to worry about those big lumpy guys who speak French with a Russian accent.
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Can't tell what the Chinese will do, but - their special forces just took the gold and silver medals at the "Special Forces Olympics", according to
I would think that they might want to give their "first team" some practical, hands-on wet work.
[ Ynet] Yemen said late on Thursday it had foiled a number of al-Qaeda attacks on government, military and diplomatic premises in the capital Sanaa and tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! several suspected would-be jacket wallahs.
Two weeks ago, the army launched its biggest offensive in nearly two years to try to dislodge the Islamist Death Eater group from its southern strongholds, after a wave of attacks against government officials, security forces, foreigners and energy facilities.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A teenager walked into a cop shoppe on Friday and rubbed out a 65-year-old man from a minority community accused of blasphemy in a Punjab village, their front man said, the second murder involving Pakistain's controversial blasphemy laws in as many weeks.
Rights activists said the attack, and a spike in the number of blasphemy cases, was evidence of rising intolerance in the country.
Victim Khalil Ahmad and three other Ahmadis had asked a shopkeeper in their village Sharaqpur -- about 55 km (33 miles) northwest of the Punjab capital, Lahore -- earlier this week to remove inflammatory stickers denouncing their community, said Saleemud Din, a front man for the Ahmadi community.
In retaliation, the shopkeeper filed blasphemy charges against the four men on May 12. Ahmad, a father of four, was in police custody when the teenage boy walked in, asked to see him, and shot him dead, Din said.
He said police told him that the shooter, a high school student, had been tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Din said the lapse in security would have to be investigated. Pak police are notoriously poorly trained and security is often lax, critics say.
"They told us the person who shot Mr. Khalil is just a boy," Din told Rooters.
"The hate campaign carried out against us by the mullahs is going on and on and on."
Ahmadis have been arrested in Pakistain for reading the Holy Koran, holding religious celebrations and having Koranic verses on rings or wedding cards. Four years ago, 86 Ahmadis were killed in two simultaneous attacks in Lahore.
The colonial-era law does not define blasphemy but says it is punishable by death. Anyone can file a blasphemy case claiming their religious feelings are injured for any reason.
The accused are often lynched, and lawyers and judges defending or acquitting them have been attacked. Rights groups say the laws are increasingly used to seize money or property.
Two politicians who suggested reforming the law were killed, one by his own bodyguard. Lawyers showered the killer with rose petals when he came to court.
The number of accusations is rising, according to a 2012 study by the Islamabad-based think tank, the Center for Research and Security Studies. In 2001, there was only one such complaint, but in 2011 there were 80.
No more recent figures are available but 2014 looks set to be a record.
Earlier this week, 68 lawyers were charged with blasphemy for using the name 'Umar' in protest slogans against a police official of the same name.
Last week a prominent human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. lawyer defending a Pak university professor accused of blasphemy was shot and killed after being threatened in court by other lawyers.
Advocate Rashid Rehman Khan had been representing the professor, who taught English and was accused by hardline student groups of making blasphemous remarks on his Facebook page in March 2013.
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[Ynet] Paleostinian security forces extricate news hound, photographer from Beitunia after masked Paleostinian men assault them.
Two Israeli journalists had to be extricated by the Paleostinian security forces in Beitunia on Friday after they were attacked by a Paleostinian mob.
Avi Issacharoff, who writes for Hebrew news site Walla and English news site Times of Israel, was one of the journalists attacked.
"Was attacked and beaten by Paleostinian mob. Near Ramallah. Just because I'm an Israeli journalist," he wrote on his Twitter feed shortly after the incident.
Issacharoff was "hit and kicked from behind" by "a mob of Paleostinian masked men," according to his first person account on the Times of Israel website.
"I'm not prone to exaggeration. It was a case of life and death, and I was within moments of falling victim to the kind of lynch that saw two Israeli soldiers who strayed into Ramallah in 2000 beaten to death by a baying mob," he wrote.
"I was there to report on the Nakba Day protests with a cameraman colleague from Walla News. He was some distance from me, when he was approached by several Paleostinian journalists who told him to get out," Issacharoff recounted.
"I walked towards them, and told them that if they had a problem, they should be talking to me. One of the Paleostinian journalists, a young woman, then called over to a group of masked men, who swiftly surrounded me and began attacking me."
Issacharoff, an experienced and well respected journalist who has been covering the Paleostinian territories for many years, said that while he has been in "no shortage of sticky situations," this incident was "totally unexpected."
Following the incident, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai spoke to the head of the Paleostinian intelligence on the mutual interest that lies in security coordination.
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In the late 1980s, public television stations aired a talking head series called Ethics in America. For each show, more than a dozen prominent thinkers sat around a horseshoe-shaped table and tried to answer troubling ethical questions posed by a moderator.
[An] episode was sponsored by Montclair State College in the fall of 1987. Its title was "Under Orders, Under Fire," and most of the panelists were former soldiers talking about the ethical dilemmas of their work. The moderator was Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, who moved from expert to expert asking increasingly difficult questions in the law school's famous Socratic style. During the first half of the show Ogletree made the soldiers squirm about ethical tangles on the battlefield.
Then Ogletree turned to the two most famous members of the evening's panel.. Peter Jennings of World News Tonight and ABC, and Mike Wallace of 6o Minutes and CBS. Ogletree brought them into the same hypothetical war. He asked Jennings to imagine that he worked for a network that had been in contact with the enemy North Kosanese government. After much pleading, the North Kosanese had agreed to let Jennings and his news crew into their country, to film behind the lines and even travel with military units. Would Jennings be willing to go? Of course, Jennings replied. Any reporter would-and in real wars reporters from his network often had.
But while Jennings and his crew are traveling with a North Kosanese unit, to visit the site of an alleged atrocity by American and South Kosanese troops, they unexpectedly cross the trail of a small group of American and South Kosanese soldiers. With Jennings in their midst, the northern soldiers set up a perfect ambush, which will let them gun down the Americans and Southerners, every one. What does Jennings do? Ogletree asks. Would he tell his cameramen to "Roll tape!" as the North Kosanese opened fire? What would go through his mind as he watched the North Kosanese prepare to ambush the Americans? Jennings sat silent for about fifteen seconds after Ogletree asked this question.
"Well, I guess I wouldn't," he finally said. Even if it means losing the story? Ogletree asked.
"Even though it would almost certainly mean losing my life," Jennings replied. "That's purely personal, and other reporters might have a different reaction."
Immediately Mike Wallace spoke up. "I think some other reporters would have a different reaction," he said, obviously referring to himself. "They would regard it simply as a story they were there to cover." "I am astonished, really," at Jennings's answer, Wallace saida moment later. He turned toward Jennings and began to lecture him: "You're a reporter. Granted you're an American"-at least for purposes of the fictional example; Jennings has actually retained Canadian citizenship. "I'm a little bit at a loss to understand why, because you're an American, you would not have covered that story."
Ogletree pushed Wallace. Didn't Jennings have some higher duty, either patriotic or human, to do something other than just roll film as soldiers from his own country were being shot? "No," Wallace said flatly and immediately. "You don't have a higher duty. No. No. You're a reporter!"
Jennings backtracked fast. Wallace was right, he said. "I chickened out." Jennings said that he had gotten so wrapped up in the hypothetical questions that he had lost sight of his journalistic duty to remain detached.
As Jennings said he agreed with Wallace, everyone else in the room seemed to regard the two of them with horror. Retired Air Force general Brent Scowcroft said it was simply wrong to stand and watch as your side was slaughtered. "What's it worth?" he asked Wallace bitterly. "It's worth thirty seconds on the evening news, as opposed to saving a platoon."
Ogletree turned to Wallace. What about that? Shouldn't the reporter have said something? Wallace gave his most disarming grin, shrugged his shoulders and spread his palms wide in a "Don't ask me!" gesture, and said, "I don't know." He was mugging to the crowd in such a way that he got a big laugh-the first such moment of the discussion. Wallace paused to enjoy the crowd's reaction.
Jennings, however, was all business, and was still concerned about the first answer he had given. "I wish I had made another decision," Jennings said, as if asking permission to live the last five minutes over again.
A few minutes later Ogletree turned to Marine colonel George M. Connell, in full uniform, jaw muscles flexing in anger, with stress on each word, Connell looked at the TV stars and said, "I feel utter . . . contempt. " Two days after this hypothetical episode, Connell Jennings or Wallace might be back with the American forces--and could be wounded by stray fire, as combat journalists often had been before. The instant that happened he said, they wouldn't be "just journalists" any more. Then [American forces] would drag them back, rather than leaving them to bleed to death.
"We'll do it!" Connell said. "And that is what makes me so contemptuous of them. Marines will die going to get ... a couple of journalists." The last few words dripped with disgust. Not even Ogletree knew what to say.
[AnNahar] Syrian rebel rocket fire hit a government-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo Friday, killing at least 13 people, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
"The toll in rockets fired by forces of Evil on Ashrafiyeh district has risen to 13, including women and kiddies," the report said.
Earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven people killed and five hurt in the attack on the western neighborhood.
Once the country's economic hub, control of Aleppo has been divided between the government and opposition since shortly after fighting began there in mid-2012.
Regime war planes have waged an aerial offensive on the eastern, rebel-held districts, frequently dropping barrel bombs on the area.
And opposition forces have also regularly fired rockets into the government-held part of the city, and festivities on the ground continue.
In recent weeks, the city has also been afflicted by a water outage after groups including Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, Al-Nusra Front, cut supplies from a pumping station in the Suleiman al-Halabi district.
After more than a week without water, the Observatory and Syria's Red Islamic Thingy Aleppo branch have reported the return of supply to some parts of both government and rebel areas of the city.
On Thursday, the Red Islamic Thingy's Aleppo branch said on Twitter that the pumping station had resumed operations, but it was unclear if all parts of the city were receiving water yet.
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[AnNahar] Three Internal Security Forces members were maimed during a morning raid carried out in search for a wanted criminal in the northeastern town of Arsal, the ISF announced Friday.
The ISF identified the 28-year-old suspect with his initials as M.Kh., saying he attacked the police unit with three hand grenades and opened fire on them, wounding two ISF officers and one policeman.
But the state-run National News Agency identified him as Mustafa al-Hujairi, who is wanted for involvement in shootings, drug trafficking, robbery and kidnappings.
The unit found huge amounts of drugs at his house, in addition to guns, a hand grenade, military equipment and a night-vision goggle, the ISF said.
It added that his father was jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and that efforts are underway to apprehend him.
Later on Friday, the ISF issued a statement saying 24 runaways were arrested Thursday in the Bekaa region, including "one of the most dangerous chiefs of theft gangs in the Bekaa and his partner."
It identified them as 28-year-old T. A. and 19-year-old B. M., both of whom are Lebanese.
The detained men were wanted on various charges, including drug offenses, theft, forgery, shooting and the impersonation of security personnel, the ISF added.
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