[Dawn] A rocket fired during fighting Friday in Pakistain's tribal region landed in eastern Afghanistan, killing four children in an area where Orcs and similar vermin launch attacks on US-led forces, officials said.
The rocket landed in Sirkanay district of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral... , an area where more than 100 rockets have landed in the last few days from across the border, provincial police chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad said.
It was unclear who fired the rocket, though Mohammad said there had been Pak military Arclight airstrikes in the region.
An Afghan border police official, Gen. Aminullah Amarkhil, said a neighboring region of Pakistain had seen the military fighting there.
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[An Nahar] Libyan rebel chief Mahmoud Jibril denied Friday suggestions by a Russian envoy that the rebels had been negotiating with Moammer Qadaffy's regime.
"I can assure you there is and there was no negotiation between the NTC and the regime," the head of the rebel National Transitional Council told a presser in Naples.
Speaking alongside Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Jibril said that were negotiations to take place, the NTC would "announce it out of commitment to our friends all over the world".
"We pursue every means possible, whether political, whether military, to liberate our country and establish democratic government based on a constitution and equal rights," he said.
Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov said in Tunis earlier Friday that representatives of Qadaffy had made contact with the rebels in a number of European capitals, including Berlin, Gay Paree and Oslo.
Margelov said the Libyans needed an opportunity to negotiate, "a mechanism that brings them together and if the international community can provide such a mechanism that would be a great help".
Frattini also questioned the possibility of talks between the two sides.
"Italia has always encouraged the search for contacts and a solution based on dialogue but unfortunately the regime has not sent any positive response and has always demanded that Qadaffy's remaining in power be guaranteed," he said.
Frattini said that he trusted in the NTC to "determine the criteria and methods for establishing a channel for dialogue but in no way to legitimize the current regime, which is being isolated internationally".
Frattini predicted that top Libyan leaders would be targeted "in a few days" by international arrest warrants, making it impossible to give them any legitimacy.
International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is seeking arrest warrants for Qadaffy, his son Seif Al-Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, deemed most responsible for crimes against humanity in Libya.
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DAFNIYAH - Libyas rebels tried to push deeper into government-held territory east of the capital Tripoli on Friday and exchanged heavy artillery fire with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near the western city of Zlitan.
The city, 160 km (100 miles) from Tripoli, is the next major town on the Mediterranean coastal road to the capital from the rebel stronghold of Misrata. Capturing it would be a major advance in the rebels strategy of surrounding the capital and cutting it off from all sides.
A Reuters team in Dafniya, on the outskirts of Misrata, said rebels fired artillery and rocket launchers. Rebels said they aimed to hit Libyan tanks and munitions in Naimah near Zlitan.
We had a strategy to finish everything today, but some of the fighters think its a game, a rebel unit commander called Mohammed Ali told Reuters. They shot when they werent supposed to shoot and they have ruined it, he added, after rebels took cover at the main Dafniya front from a mortar barrage.
Warplanes could be heard in the skies above, although it was unclear whether there had been air strikes in the area.
NATO planes resumed bombardments of Tripoli on Friday with six loud explosions ringing out in the south of the city. The rare daytime strikes, which hit the capital before noon, sent columns of thick black smoke into the sky.
State news agency Jana said the strikes killed four people, wounded four more and ruined shops and a stretch of road. A bomb also hit the Al Fateh University, it said. There was no independent confirmation of these claims.
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[Dawn] Hours after loud blasts shook Libya's capital Tripoli, Muammar Qadaffy ... Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years ... vowed to defeat NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... as his forces launched a deadly rocket assault on rebel-held Misrata.
State television on Friday aired Qadaffy's comments in what it said was a live telephone call from the Libyan leader, who has gone underground since Western nations began waging an air war in March to protect civilians from a bloody protest crackdown.
"NATO is bound to be defeated," Qadaffy said in the speech broadcast on loudspeakers in Tripoli's Green Square as thousands of flag-waving regime supporters staged their biggest rally in weeks.
"We are determined to change nothing in our country other than by our own free will... We are resisting, we are fighting," he declared.
The speech came hours after loud kabooms shook Tripoli, where the Qadaffy has his residence, as NATO warplanes constantly overflew the Libyan capital.
At least five further kabooms were heard early Saturday in and around the capital, an AFP journalist reported.
In the western rebel enclave of Misrata, 10 people were killed and 40 maimed when Qadaffy loyalists fired a volley of Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... at the lifeline port city, rebel front man Ahmed Hassan told AFP.
All the victims were civilians, he said, and were hit when rockets slammed into the western and eastern gates of the city. One woman was killed when a rocked struck her home, he said.
Hassan said that Qadaffy forces are bombing Misrata nearly every day, and that there were no air strikes by the NATO-led coalition on the loyalist forces on Friday.
Elsewhere, a road linking the towns of Zintan and Yafran was under the complete control of the bully boyz and dotted with destroyed tanks and abandoned government vehicles, an AFP correspondent said.
The road, a key sector of the route to the border with Tunisia, was seized two days after the rebels overran the nearby villages of Ghanymma, Lawania and Zawit Bagoul.
Libyan Prime Minister Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... i al-Mahmudi said the Qadaffy's regime was in contact with rebels for negotiations -- something the bully boyz have repeatedly denied.
"Our doors are open to all and we are in contact with all the parties," Mahmudi told news hounds. "We are sure meetings have taken place" in Egypt, La Belle France, Norway and Tunisia, and we "can name the persons," who attended from the rebels' side.
"Ask the Egyptians, French, Norwegians and Tunisians for information. They will tell you the truth," he said. "We are sure of our meetings and everything has been recorded."
Mahmud Jibril of the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) earlier denied suggestions by a Russian envoy that the rebel leadership had been negotiating with the Qadaffy regime.
"I can assure you there is and there was no negotiation between the NTC and the regime," said Jibril, who is in the Italian city of Naples where NATO's Libya operation is headquartered.
At a joint news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Jibril said that if there were talks, the NTC would "announce it out of commitment to our friends all over the world".
An NTC official in the opposition stronghold Benghazi in eastern Libya was even blunter. "Qadaffy must go. Anyone from the rebel side who negotiates his staying in power would immediately have an NTC arrest warrant issued against him," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
Mahmudi said Thursday that Qadaffy's departure was a "red line" that cannot be crossed, despite growing international calls for him to quit and the armed insurrection against his 41-year rule.
Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov said that Qadaffy representatives had made contact with the rebels in European capitals including Berlin, Gay Paree and Oslo. La Belle France said it had no knowledge of the negotiations.
"If there have been direct contacts, we're not involved and we didn't set them up," foreign ministry front man Bernard Valero said.
NATO on Friday slammed as "cynical" an offer in an Italian newspaper interview by Moamer Qadaffy's son, Seif al-Islam, that the regime in Tripoli was ready to organise internationally supervised elections.
"Once again, it is an instance of what I would call a cynical PR ploy," said alliance spokeswoman Oana Lungescu during a news briefing on the military campaign.
"It is hard to imagine that after 41 years in which Qadaffy abolished elections, the constitution, political parties, trade unions... (That) overnight a dictator would turn into a democrat."
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[An Nahar] A radical Islamist sect has grabbed credit for Nigeria's first suicide kaboom, saying the attack that killed two at Abuja's police headquarters targeted the country's police chief.
"We are responsible for the kaboom on the police headquarters in Abuja which was to prove a point to all those who doubt our capability," the group known as Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... said after the attack late Thursday.
The powerful kaboomdestroyed the car park inside the police headquarters compound, killing a police officer and the bomber, wounding several others and destroying dozens of cars, according to police.
Local media said the corpse count could be higher.
Security experts said it was the first suicide kaboom in Nigeria, a country of 150 million people facing a growing threat from Islamic bully boys.
Boko Haram said it regretted missing its target, "inspector-general of police, Hafiz Ringim."
In the statement signed by front man Abu Zaid, the group said the police chief had recently been making "unguarded utterances to the effect that he will crush us in a matter of days."
Witnesses said the motorcade of a police brass hat had driven into the headquarters just minutes before the attack.
Police said the bomber drove into the car park and set off the bomb when he was about to undergo a routine search. Local media say the bomber was trailing the police chief as he drove into the compound.
Shortly after the attack police blamed Islamists who a day earlier had threatened to step up a campaign of violence that has already seen scores of deadly attacks.
Boko Haram, sometimes called the Nigerian Taliban, had warned Wednesday of "fiercer" attacks saying it was angered by a police declaration that its days were "numbered."
The sect, believed to be based in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, this week admitted links with a foreign Islamist group connected to al-Qaeda, saying some of its members had just returned from training in Somalia. Security experts earlier speculated that it had established ties with Islamists in north Africa.
"We will continue to launch similar attacks on the police headquarters. We will not relent," said the group which has warned it will wage a "jihad" or holy war.
The kaboom, the latest in a series of blasts in recent months, adds to the levels of insecurity in Nigeria just weeks after President Goodwill Jonathan's election late April for his first full term.
Several people were maimed in the kaboom, according to a Red Thingy official Umar Abdul Mairiga, who said volunteers had picked up pieces of human remains, but were unable to tell the numbers killed.
Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is sin, launched an uprising in 2009 which was put down by a brutal military assault that left hundreds dead.
It has pushed for the creation of an Islamic state and been blamed for shootings of police and community leaders, kabooms and raids on churches, cop shoppes and a prison.
Boko Haram grabbed credit for a spate of bombings near Abuja and in the north after Jonathan's inauguration about two weeks ago that killed 18 people.
But until now there had been no suicide kabooms in Nigeria.
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Religion of peace and tolerance strikes again!
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[Emirates 24/7] Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... taken to Soddy Arabia for wounds suffered during an attack on his palace earlier this month, will return to the country within days, a Yemeni official said on Friday.
"The presidency has confirmed to me that the president will return within coming days," Abdu al-Janadi, Yemen's deputy information minister told Rooters. He did not specify a particular date.
"The president's health is improving continuously," he said.
Saleh's health and fate have been the subject of conflicting reports since the attack on June 3 that maimed him and members of his cabinet, and he has not appeared in public since then.
Saudi and Yemeni official media have reported that Saleh has spoken with King Abdullah as well as Bahrain's king in recent days. Saleh's formal renunciation of power, after months of protests against him, is a principal demand of his oppenents, including tribal figures and a group of opposition parties.
Earlier, a Saudi official said that mbattled Yemeni President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"The Yemeni president will not return to Yemen," the official said, requesting anonymity.
"It has not been decided where he will stay," the official added, apparently suggesting that Saleh might eventually leave Soddy Arabia for another country.
The official did not specify whether the decision not to return home was taken by Saleh himself.
The veteran leader was flown to Riyadh on June 4 on board a Saudi medical aircraft, a day after he was maimed in a bomb kaboom at a mosque inside his Sanaa presidential compound.
He has not been seen in public since the attack.
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[Yemen Post] Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, the acting president while Saleh is being treated in Soddy Arabia, met on Wednesday with the leaders of the youth-led uprising in Sana'a after the deadline given to him to clarify his position towards the popular revolution.
The leaders handed Hadi a letter urging him to support the uprising and accept to be a member in the transitional council yet to be formed by the youth-led protesters in the squares of change and freedom in Yemeni cities.
"Hadi is very understanding. He told us that he is for change and for the youth to continue their protests, but said he should busy these days with tackling acute shortages of key supplies such as fuel, cooking gas and maintaining security," said a front man for the protesters in the change square outside Sana'a University.
"Once the situation returns normal across the republic, I will be focused on change...deep change," Hadi told the leaders.
Meantime, Ramzi Al-Sanawi said that the youth-led protesters across Yemen are now deliberating the formation of a transitional council immediately as our protests will continue until the goals of the revolution were met.
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[Yemen Post] The festivities between the army and Islamists in Yemen's southern province of Abyan continued on Thursday, with kabooms and sporadic shootouts heard in many parts of the province.
Dozens have been killed and injured and thousands have decamped their homes to nearby cities since the festivities started weeks ago when Islamists consolidated their control over some cities in Abyan.
Those who are still inside the city remain indoors.
Separately, the authorities in Aden said today ten suspected Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons had been tossed in the clink. The suspects were held while coming from Abyan, security sources said.
Also, weapons inside one of their cars were seized, the sources said, adding that the weapons were hidden under a pepper shipment.
Interrogators are investigating the suspects, they added.
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[Yemen Post] Vice President Abdo Rabu Hadi has shown cooperation with the youth protesters after meeting with them four times in two weeks and asked them to grant him more time. Youth leaders said that Hadi asked for two more weeks in order for him to organize important matters in the country.
Youth leaders are expected to continue meeting with Hadi in order to reach an agreement that will honor the Yemeni revolution.
No comments have been given from the vice presidents office in this regards.
Hadi took charge in Yemen after Saleh was taken to Soddy Arabia for medical treatment after the presidential palace kaboom.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Embattled Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... , being treated for shrapnel wounds in Riyadh, will not return home, a top Saudi official told AFP yesterday, contrary to Sanaa's claims that he will return soon.
"The Yemeni president will not return to Yemen," the official said, requesting anonymity.
"It has not been decided where he will stay," the official added, apparently suggesting that Saleh might eventually leave Soddy Arabia for another country. Maybe Mogadishu?
The official did not specify whether the decision not to return home was taken by Saleh himself.
The veteran leader was flown to Riyadh on June 4 on board a Saudi medical aircraft, a day after he was maimed in a bomb kaboom at a mosque inside his Sanaa presidential compound.
He has not been seen in public since the attack.
Reports on the condition of Saleh's health have been sketchy, but Bahrain's King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... was reported to have called him on Thursday, two days after King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... had a phone conversation with him.
In Saleh's absence, his deputy Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has been coming under intensive local and international pressure to heed the demands of protesters to set up an interim ruling council, which would prevent Saleh returning to power.
On Wednesday, Hadi met representatives of youth protests which have raged since late January demanding the ouster of Saleh. They pressed him to give a clear stance on their demands, and gave him two weeks to respond.
The meeting followed talks between Hadi and the parliamentary opposition in which they agreed on calming the situation as a first step towards reviving the political process.
Washington on Thursday welcomed Hadi's talks with opponents of Saleh, who was a key US-ally in the war on al-Qaeda.
"We have been encouraged that Vice President Hadi has started some outreach to the opposition and started some dialogue," said US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Protesters had on Monday given Hadi 24 hours to declare his position on their call for him to join the proposed council which they said would lead the country for a maximum of nine months.
The activists said the council would "appoint a nationalist and compatible figure to form a government of technocrats."
They also called for the dissolution of parliament and Yemen's consultative council, for the formation of a committee to draw up a new constitution, and for dates to hold a referendum on the constitution and for elections.
The ruling General People's Congress and government officials have been adamant that Saleh was quickly recovering and that he would return to Yemen soon.
Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, has steadfastly refused to endorse a Gulf states proposal for him to transfer power to his deputy and resign in return for parliamentary immunity against prosecution.
His presidential term is due to end in 2013.
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Amounting to 1 million barrels in the first four months of 2011 alone, the equivalent of 100 tanker trucks per day.
The cartels have been tapping into PEMEX pipelines, using multiple taps in case one is detected, and have even been restoring pipeline pressure with water to avoid detection. Despite the high risk, authorities are still finding hundreds of taps each year. 556 have been discovered so far this year.
PEMEX has filed lawsuits in May against nine U.S. companies for alleged involvement in buying or processing black market crude or refined Mexican oil.
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PEMEX has filed lawsuits in May against nine U.S. companies for alleged involvement in buying or processing black market crude or refined Mexican oil.
Ah. It's all our fault! $250 million loss? Seems like you could buy one heck of a lot of pipeline security for a fraction of that. And I suspect the "cartels" almost certainly include an army of local officials getting their cut, and deflecting suspicion by "finding" old taps after the new ones are installed.
Gary Samore, a top Obama administration national security official (per conservapedia.com, "WMD Policy Czar", U.P.), warned of new sanctions if North Korea conducted a third round of nuclear tests on Monday, as reports surfaced that North Korea has miniaturized its nuclear warheads so they can be delivered by ballistic missile.
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South Korea has repor deployed Army LR tactical BMS capable of reaching Pyongyang.
* ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > PHILIPPINE MEDIA: CHINA'S STANCE [South China Sea dispute] IS IMPERIALISTIC | CHINA'S TREATMENT OF SOUTH CHINA SEAS LOOKS MUCH LIKE HOW ANCIENT ROMANS'DID THE MEDITERANNEAN: MARE NOSTRUM, OR "OUR SEA".
* SAME > VIETNAM: THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF CAM RANH BAY. Modernizing Vietnam Navy + Armed Forces, + Russia + US to counter China in SCS.
* WAFF > [Philippine] NAVY VOWS "ACTIVE DEFENSE" AFTER DESTROYING CHINA'S SEA MARKER IN WEST PHL SEA [Manila renamed "West Philippine Sea" =
SCS].
* TOPIX > PHILIPPINES' OLD WARSHIP ON "ROUTINE PATROL" IN SPRATLEYS.
[An Nahar] Indian security forces defused a powerful bomb found on a train carrying about 1,000 passengers in the northeastern state of Assam on Friday, a police official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Security forces were conducting a routine search when they found an unattended small but heavy bag and on suspicion they checked and detected the bomb neatly concealed," Assam's inspector general Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta said.
The bomb was found in the early hours Friday just before the train pulled into the state capital Guwahati.
"It was an improvised bomb weighing about 5 kilograms and fitted with a timer. It was a powerful bomb," Mahanta said.
All passengers were evacuated immediately, before bomb disposal experts disabled the device.
At least 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in the tea- and oil-rich region of Assam due to fighting between government forces and rebel groups demanding independence from India.
Earlier this year, one of the strongest rebel groups, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) announced it would join peace talks in a move to end a 31-year-old insurgency.
No-one grabbed credit for Friday's attempted kaboom, but officials told AFP they suspected the involvement of a local cut-thoat group opposed to ongoing negotiations.
India has been wracked by separatist conflicts since its independence in 1947, with deadly insurgencies in its northwestern Kashmire region and the northeast.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops have defused make-shift bombs placed inside one of the countrys key oil refineries in the latest threat to its expanding petroleum industry, security and oil sector sources said on Friday.
Four explosive devices were defused by the Iraqi army at Doura refinery south of Baghdad on Wednesday, a security official and an oil industry source said. Several Iraqi oil police guards were arrested after the discovery, the sources said.
An initial investigation indicates that someone within the refinery helped terrorists to get the bombs in, an official close to investigation said, asking that he not be identified because it was a sensitive security matter.
Doura, which produces gasoline, gas oil, lubricants and other products, has a refining capacity of 240,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Iraqs oil police, set up to protect refineries and pipelines, say they are still underequipped and understaffed for the job.
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"Iraqs oil police, set up to protect refineries and pipelines, say they are still underequipped and understaffed for the job."
Understaffed is better than overstaffed when the workforce includes insurgents & sympathizers, no?
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[An Nahar] Six people were killed and 22 others maimed on Friday in festivities between gunnies positioned in the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern city of Tripoli, state-run National News Agency and Agence La Belle France Presse reported.
The shootout broke out at Syria Street, which divides the two neighborhoods, after some 600 Lebanese and Syrians staged a demonstration in the city in support of the Syrian people following Friday Mohammedan prayers, said AFP.
The military official of the Arab Democratic Party, Ali Fares, and a Lebanese army soldier were killed in the festivities, in addition to five other people -- three in Bab al-Tabbaneh and two in Jabal Mohsen.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... NNA identified one of the civilian victims as Monzer al-Rifai, who was hit by a bullet to the head while returning home from his workplace in the capital Beirut.
Al-Jadeed television identified the slain army soldier as Mahmoud Abdul Hamid.
"Following the armed festivities that erupted this afternoon in the Bab al-Tabbaneh-Jabal Mohsen area, army units deployed in the area immediately intervened" to contain the situation, the Army Command-Orientation Directorate said in a statement.
The intervening force "came under gunfire which left one soldier dead and two others maimed," the orientation directorate added.
The army command warned that troops "will respond sternly and with force against shooters, to whichever side they may belong, and will not be lenient with any person carrying firearms or trying to jeopardize citizens' lives."
It added that troops were "conducting searches to arrest the gunnies and to restore order."
Despite the military presence, shots were heard and gunnies from both sides could still be seen on the street.
Future News earlier reported that a percussion bomb was thrown at the anti-Syrian regime demonstration as protesters reached the Bab al-Tabbaneh area.
The demonstrators chanted against Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... and some lifted posters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. and Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, AFP reported.
The festivities prompted Prime Minister Najib Miqati, who hails from Tripoli, to cancel a planned appearance in the city later in the evening to receive congratulations following the formation of his government earlier in the week.
"Those who think that they are above the law are mistaken," the premier said at a news conference, noting that he had ordered a probe into the deadly incidents and instructed security forces to strike with an "iron fist."
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BEIRUT: Syrian security forces killed at least 16 people Friday, including a teenage boy, as thousands of people poured into the streets across the country calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad's regime, activists said.
The unrest also appeared to be spilling over into neighboring Lebanon. A senior member of a Lebanese political party allied with Syria and an off-duty soldier were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire and lobbed a grenade near hundreds of people holding an anti-Assad protest in northern Lebanon, a security official said in Beirut.
The protests in Syria came hours after Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships seized control early Friday of another northwestern town in the latest military operation to quell the dissent.
Since the protests erupted in mid-March, Assad has unleashed the military to crush street demonstrations. Human rights activists say more than 1,400 Syrians have been killed and 10,000 detained.
The Syrian crackdown has brought international condemnation and sanctions on the regime. On Friday, a French official said the European Union was preparing new, expanded sanctions that would target the economy.
Syria's state-run TV said Friday that a policeman was killed and more than 20 were wounded when "armed groups" opened fire at them. It added that six police officers were wounded in Deir El-Zour when gunmen attacked a police station in the area.
The Local Coordination Committees, a group that documents the protests, and Syria-based rights activist Mustafa Osso told The Associated Press that nine people were killed in the central city of Homs, two in the eastern town of Deir El-Zour and two in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, one in the major northern city of Aleppo. The 16-year-old, who was in the streets protesting, and another person died in the southern village of Dael, the committees said.
Meanwhile, troops in large numbers poured into Maaret Al-Numan, 45 km from the Turkish border, said Osso. He said other forces were now massing around Khan Sheikhon, to the south, where gunmen attacked army forces earlier this month.
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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.
Qadaffy's regime.
International Criminal Court
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King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
President-for-Life Bashir 
