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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lola Albright aka Palmer Harris in "Champion" aka Edie Hart in "Peter Gunn (TV)" aka Dolly Fletcher in "Kid Galahad" aka Marie Greene in "Lord Love a Duck" aka Poppy Masters in "The Tender Trap" aka Cathy Barrett in "The Monolith Monsters" (age 86)
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid today denied sending a text message to journalists announcing the death of Mullah Omar, saying that his telephone had been hacked. Another Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, also denied by phone that Mullah Omar has died.
Journalists had earlier been sent a text message in which Mujahid announced on behalf of the group that the "Amir-ul-Momineen," or "commander of the Muslim faithful," was dead. That title is reserved for the Taliban leader.
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Bring forth the body and Special Operations someone will make sure he's dead.
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Interesting idea -- hack the mouth piece's phone. He's easy to find. Send out the bogus message. People freak out and try to independently confirm or deny. If you are watching the right ones, then they just led you to your soon-to-be corpse.
[Tolo News] An Afghan Policeman poisoned his seven fellow soldiers and shot them afterwards in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Monday afternoon, local officials said.
The incident happened in a police check post in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province, Dawood Ahmadi, front man for Helmand governor told TOLOnews.
The man beat feet from the area and taken away a police car with some weapons, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... Qari Yosuf Ahmadi, a front man for the Taliban grabbed credit for the incident and said the man worked for the Taliban.
Previously also happened such as cases and Taliban claimed responsibilities.
Lashkar Gah is one of the seven areas that Afghan forces will take over from foreign forces in a few days. Insurgents have recently become more active in the province and use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces.
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[Tolo News] Security responsibilities in eastern quiet provincial capital of Laghman province has been handed over to Afghan cops, officials said on Tuesday.
Security handover of Mehtarlam, capital of Laghman province, is a powerful signal to gunnies that progress is being made in Afghanistan, General James Bucknall, deputy commander of coalition forces, told AP news agency.
During the handover ceremony Afghan military officials emphasised that the process would not be reversible.
This is the beginning of the transition process from international forces to Afghan troops that will last until the end of 2014, the targeted date when Afghan forces are expected to ensure security of most parts of the country and the last foreign combat soldier leave the country considering the conditions on the ground.
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[Tolo News] Assassins of a close advisor to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... were having phone contacts with some inside the country and Pakistain, Interior Minister to parliament on Tuesday.
Interior Minister General Besmellah Mohammadi said Islamic fascistiare making efforts to kill high-ranking and influential officials.
On Tuesday Interior Ministry and Deputy Director of Intelligence organization were called over to the House of Representatives to provide answers about the latest killings of senior Afghan officials, including Jan Mohammad Khan, a close aide of Karzai and Mohammad Hashim Watanwal, an MP who represented Oruzgan in the house.
Jan Mohammad Khan was rubbed out by Dost Mohammad Khan an assailant who was 22- year-old and at the same time Mohammad Hashim Watanwal was killed by another attacker, General Besmellah Mohammadi said.
"We have obtained their cell phones and the last calls they received were from Pakistain and some other provinces inside the country," Interior Ministers told MPs.
Jan Mohammad Khan and Mr Watanwal were killed a late-night thug attack on his home on Sunday this week.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
The deaths came more than a week after President Karzai's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, liquidation by one of his bodyguards at his home.
On Monday President Karzai's Spokesperson told a news conference that targeted and serial killings of high-profile Afghan officials wouldn't go without Dire Revenge™.
Some politicians also expressed concern about increasingly growing province at a time as Afghan cops have begun to take security lead in some of the handover regions.
"The incident has caused widespread concern among the parliamentarians," Speaker of the House Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi said.
Some MPs representing Bamyan, the province now under the lead of Afghan cops, voiced concern about possible security threats.
Fakour Beheshti, an MP representing Bamyan province, said: "There are 800 Afghan forces stationed in Bamyan. It should be doubled. Bamyan is one of the stable areas in Afghanistan and has occasionally been vulnerable from Baghlan province."
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[Al Jazeera] General John Allen, has taken over the command of US-led international troops in Afghanistan from General David Petraeus, hours after a senior aide to Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... was killed in another high-profile liquidation.
Allen was promoted to a four-star general shortly before the handover ceremony in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Monday, to replace his former superior Petraeus.
Petraeus is ending his year of service at the post to head up the Central Intelligence Agency.
At the ceremony, Allen said US forces' drawdown, which started earlier this month, did not mean international forces were easing up in their campaign to defeat the Taliban.
"It is my intention to maintain the momentum of the campaign,'' Allen said. "There will be tough days ahead. I have no illusions about the challenges ahead.''
Al Jizz's Bernard Smith, reporting from Kabul, said questions remain about the ability of the Afghan forces as security transition becomes the focus.
"This week, we are seeing the transition take place from foreign forces to Afghan forces. The concern here all the time is whether the Afghan police and national army are ready," he said.
"Many believe they are not."
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UN wants to drum up some funding for its world government.
Totally unquestioning when the UN says things like: We need more money.
Somalia is in this mess BECAUSE the UN ignores it is 3 countries, and refuses to give money to Puntland and Somaliland, instead propping up 500+ fat cats in the "Transitional Federal Government" who rule nothing and nobody.
So now the US wants to stick its oar in and pay to feed al Shabaab who have brought ruin on South Central Somalia.
Like it doesn't have enough starving people in its own country to feed, with one in four on food stamps. US 'to aid Islamist areas of famine-hit Somalia'
The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. Because you can really say that for sure in South Central Somalia ....
The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. There is no difference between al Shabaab and most of the population there. If you help the population you help al Shabaab. The good ones have already fled.
The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. let nature do its job
Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controlslives in large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in its territories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access. Give us your food, now go away. allahu akhbar.
The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. look at the left hand, don't worry about what the right hand is doing..... don't look while we give billions of US taxes to the UN again....
"What we need is assurances from the World Food Programme and from other agencies, the United Nations or other agencies, both public and in the non-governmental sector, who are willing to go into Somalia who will tell us affirmatively that they are not being taxed by al-Shabab, they are not being subjected to bribes from al-Shabab, that they can operate unfettered," Mr Steinberg told the BBC. This joo's on crack
He said the goal was to save lives make money
"not to play a game of 'gotcha' with a UN agency or any other group that is brave enough to go in and provide that assistance".
BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. journos interviewing other journos
In April 2010 US President Barack Obama issued an executive order naming al-Shabab a terrorist organisation, meaning no US aid could go to areas under its control, our analyst adds. well well well but now the UN wants YOU to feed them 'Dangerously inadequate' how about a different sub-heading?
'Stupid idea'
An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. leave them alone and they'll evolve
More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia. didn't like african sharia utopia
The UN said the humanitarian situation in Somalia's southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle districts had deteriorated rapidly and declared them to be suffering a famine. That's the sell, now for the important bit kiddies, here is where the UN holds out its own bloated hand:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed."The overall requirement is $1.6bn (£990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas. And just in case you thought you might not pay because the US is now broke....
Children and adults are dying at an appalling rate," Mr Ban said. oh dear how could we say no? heartless!
Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. they won't be if they give up radical islam
The BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding says the emotive word "famine" is used rarely and carefully by humanitarian organisations, when they want money
and it is the first time since 1992 that the word has been applied to a situation in Somalia.
The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate". derisory? Look after yourselves because we're not going to anymore. US should cut the UN off completely let those fat bureaucrats starve as well.
US should not give a single dollar to the UN or to Somalia. Please, for SOmalia's sake, don't give any money. They have a chance to change but they won't if you keep them the way they are with aid.
And before you give them food, just you remember how that story ended last time -- they dragged the body of a US Marine through the streets of mogadishu, chained to the back of a car, and crowds of kids chased it laughing and screaming. Those kids are adults now and no they're not really sorry about it at all
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington would provide an extra $28m in emergency aid to counter the famine. how many food stamps would that buy back at home?
She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, this is YOUR tax money, citizens of the US. WASTED on Africa. It didn't do any good it just made it worse. Robbed you and made them worse off. Read "dead aid" by dambisa Moyo but that was "not enough".
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the (The UN) were desperately needed.
"The overall requirement (to keep us in 5-star hotels) is $1.6bn (£990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months for me and my henchmen to party to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas.
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The Prime Directive dictates that there can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations, consistent with the historical real world concept of Westphalian sovereignty.
... indicated to include purposeful efforts to improve or change in any way the natural course of such a society, even if that change is well-intentioned and kept completely secret.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Sudan has barred people of Somali origin from entering its territory by road, creating a potential diplomatic and trade crisis with its neighbours.
On Monday, traders of Somali origin asked Juba to relax new regulations that bar them from entering the newest African state.
The traders who have been camping at Nadapal border point, the gateway to South Sudan, termed the new rules as punitive as they subjected them to heavy losses.
A senior Kenya Revenue Authority official, who sought anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the press, said that the rules were introduced two weeks ago due to what is believed to be security reasons.
"Customs officials from South Sudan have remained firm on the new rules, and it is the Foreign Affairs ministry that can intervene on the matter," the official said.
Mr Ahmed Musa, a truck driver affected by the move, said the traders were resorting to hiring non-Somali drivers to cross into South Sudan.
Kenyan traders, including those of Somali origin, have flocked to South Sudan in search of new business opportunities.
"Most of South Sudan receives its essential commodities including cereals and vegetables from Lokichogio and the new rules will interfere with the anticipated boom in trade," the KRA official added.
Kenya has established Immigration and customs offices at the Nadapal border point and built 51 housing units for KRA, public health and police departments.
"Plans are under way to construct more units, including a military barracks," Mr Patrick Muriira, the Turkana West DC said by telephone.
The area had been deserted for long as it was occupied by Sudan People's Liberation Army during the struggle to split from Khartoum.
It has also been a battle zone between members of the Turkana and Toposa communities due to plenty of pasture and water.
Mr Muriira, however, called on the two pastoral communities to discard cattle rustling and banditry and venture into legitimate business.
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[Al Jazeera] US officials have met with representatives of Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... to deliver a message that the embattled Libyan leader must go, a state department spokesperson said.
The rare meeting between US diplomats and Qadaffy envoys on Saturday was held "to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward is for Qadaffy to step down," the official said on Tuesday.
"This was not a negotiation. It was the delivery of a message," the official said in a statement issued in New Delhi, where Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ... , the US secretary of state, is on an official visit.
The meeting involved assistant secretary of state Jeff Feltman and two other American officials, said a senior US official, who declined to say who represented the Qadaffy government or where the meeting occurred, although he said it was not in Libya.
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A State Department official told CNN that the meeting had taken place in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, and had lasted three hours.
The official said the meeting had been initiated by the US following contact by senior Libyan officials which had indicated Tripoli believed Washington's commitment to Qadaffy's departure from power was less firm than its international allies.
"Senior officials in the Qadaffy regime had over a period of weeks made repeated calls to bigwigs in the U.S. and in those conversations they evinced an incorrect sense that somehow the United States was in a different place from other members of the international community and that the U.S. could see a future for Qadaffy in Libya," said the official.
The meeting followed Washington's decision on Friday to formally recognise the Benghazi-based rebel National Transitional Council as the legitimate interim government of Libya at a Contact Group meeting in Turkey.
Libya's government confirmed on Monday it had held talks with US officials and welcomed discussions but only without preconditions.
"We support any dialogue, any peace initiative as long as they don't decide Libya's future from without, they decide it from within," Libyan government front man Ibrahim Moussa told journalist in Tripoli.
"If any country involved in this aggression against us wants to revise its position and genuinely wants peace and democracy in Libya, come to us and we will discuss everything, but do not condition your peace talks. Let Libyans decide their future."
The US is among countries contributing to a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led bombing campaign sanctioned by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to prevent civilians from attack by Qadaffy forces.
The operation has also allowed rebels to make advances in their campaign to overthrow Qadaffy, who has ruled Libya since 1969.
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.' [1
[Emirates 24/7] Residents of a town in southern Yemen overrun by radical Islamists say government shelling has killed more than 20 gunnies in the past two days.
Walid al-Hawshadi said Tuesday he saw a gunnies driving the bodies out of Jaar for burial. Other residents gave similar accounts.
More than five months of mass protests seeking to oust longtime President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... have shaken security across Yemen. Radical groups linked to al-Qaeda have overrun at least two towns in the country's south and government forces have been trying to force them out.
The US fears al-Qaeda and other radical groups could exploit chaos in Yemen to step up operations.
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[Yemen Post] An antigovernment protester was killed when armed people, believed to be police in plainclothes, attacked a demonstration in Yemen's capital Sana'a on Monday.
Hassan Al-Houri was killed and eight other protesters injured when the thugs fired live bullets at the demonstration on Zubairy St afternoon.
Central security forces surrounded the protesters firing live bullets and teargas at them and there were also armed people on rooftops of some public offices including the Youth and Sports Ministry firing at the demonstrators.
In response to the crackdown, the organizational committee of the youth-led revolution in Yemen called for massive demonstrations on Tuesday in various Yemeni cities to escalate the antigovernment protests.
Hundreds of pro-regime people who have been camping on the street for months were seen with batons and some with guns.
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[Yemen Post] The UK will not recognize any transitional council to manage Yemen's affairs, said Jonathan Wiliks, the UK ambassdor to Sana'a on Monday, two days after the youth-led revolution council formed a transitional council including opposition figures abroad.
The announced council is still controversial inside change and freedom squares in Yemeni cities and as some of its members said they had no idea about their nominations.
He argued that no country will support such council and that it is very necessary to focus on the suffering of the Yemeni people right now.
He also said that he had advised the youth-led protesters inside squares of change and freedom telling them that they can't form a competent transitional council because of their divisions.
Wiliks warned of negative consequences if power is not transferred to Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, who is managing the country while President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... is being treated in Soddy Arabia.
The refusal of President Saleh and his family to discussing an immediate power transfer will negaitively affect political, economic, security, social landscaptes in the country, the ambassador was qouted as saying by newsyemen.net.
"Yemen is in need for a political change right now under its constitution which enshrined that the president should transfer power to his deputy in case the president is incompetent," he said, stressing the importance of involving all political forces in tackling the current situation to achieve a positive political change.
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* WAFF > ERDOGAN SENDS THUNDERBOLT ON CYPRUS TALKS. Other than the status quo, Turkey may not accept anything less than a TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR CYPRUS, + will not accept any Greek Cypriot Presidency of the EU in 2012 UNLESS A "MUTUAL" RESOLUTION TO CYPRUS' ISSUES IS FIRSTLY REACHED.
What affect CYPRUS affects MALTA = UK projection of strategic milpol influence in the Eastern Med.
(KUNA) -- A soldier was killed and four others were maimed when Talibs attacked a checkpoint Tuesday morning in a Pak tribal agency bordering Afghanistan, said sources.
Militants attacked a security checkpoint in Kurram agency with rockets and heavy weapons, security sources told KUNA, and the forces opened retaliatory fire.
The latest festivities left a soldier and eight gunnies killed, said sources. They added that four soldiers and several gunnies were also maimed.
There were reports of festivities between tribal forces and Talibs but no further details were available.
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Wazoo(KUNA) -- At least five people including the son of a local pro-government tribal figure were killed in a bomb kaboom Tuesday morning in South tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, said officials.
Ayaz Khan and his four associates were going to attend a tribal Jirga when their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in Shakai area of the agency, security officials told KUNA.
Ayaz Khan is the son of a leader of a local tribal peace committee and also a prominent tribal elder.
Officials confirmed that the kaboom killed five people including Ayaz Khan.
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[Dawn] Tension gripped parts of Orangi Town after the killing of a teenage boy in the area on Monday, officials said.
They said that 18-year-old Syed Naveed was hit by a single bullet in the upper torso when he was returning home in a textile company bus that came under an armed attack.
"The incident occurred in Sector 12-L of Orangi Town near Bakra Piri," said an official at the Orangi Town cop shoppe.
"The motive and people behind the firing are not yet clear but we are confident that it is not the kind of the attack on bus that we witnessed in recent weeks during violence. It seems to be a result of random firing incident."
The victim was a textile worker in the SITE area and a resident of the Sector 12-L.
Fear gripped the neighbourhood after the incident as gunshots were heard in the area. Traders and shopkeepers pulled down their shutters and traffic on roads gradually turned thin.
Earlier, near the Government Degree College in Qasba Colony a young man was maimed in firing. He received multiple bullet wounds and was taken to the Civil Hospital where doctors termed his condition critical.
A spokesperson for the Awami National Party said that the victim identified as Jawwad was their party activist and "targeted for his political association".
A few hours later, two passengers of a minibus received gunshot wounds in firing on the minibus on Banaras flyover.
"The morning incident which left a political worker maimed caused some tension in the area and incidents of firing have been reported. We suspect that the bus passengers were hit in that firing, and it was not a specific attack on the bus," said an official at the Peerabad cop shoppe.
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[Dawn] The security forces foiled a plan of forces of Evil to attack Kohat and recovered huge quantity of weapons from a house and a mosque during a clandestine operation here on Monday, sources said.
They said that security forces received information that forces of Evil were planning to attack different places in Kohat. The security forces were informed that forces of Evil had dumped huge quantity of heavy weapons under the ground in a house and a mosque at Shahu Khel, an area near the border between Hangu and Orakzai Agency, ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... for the purpose, they added.
They said that security forces raided the places but forces of Evil managed to escape into the nearby jungle. However, Denver is the capital of Colorado... security forces dug the ground in the house and mosque and recovered 75 MMRK guns, 82 MM mortar guns, 86 rockets of MMRK, 29 rockets of 7 RPG, 20 rockets of RRK, huge quantity of automatic weapons and thousands of cartridges of machinegun.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... nine truckers, who were kidnapped from Thall-Parachinar Road in lower Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Sunday, were released by their captors, officials said.
A convoy of trucks coming from Parachinar was attacked on the main road at Charkhel village. The attackers set six trucks on fire and kidnapped 10 drivers. Two others were maimed in the incident.
Sources said that the kidnappers set free nine drivers after interrogation while one was still in their custody.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the body of an unidentified man was found near Arawali area in lower Kurram on Monday.
In Khyber Agency, a security man and a cook received injuries when unidentified persons attacked the living quarters of Khasadar Force with hand grenades in Landi Kotal Bazaar on Sunday night.
Officials said that unidentified persons hurled hand grenades at the living quarters of khasadars at around midnight. Khasadar Sameed Khan and cook Noor Badshah were maimed in the attack, they added. The attackers managed to escape after the attack.
The political administration tossed in the slammer about 40 shopkeepers of the bazaar under the collective responsibility clause of FRC. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... around 30 of them were released after preliminary investigation.
The local traders have taken serious notice of the arrest of their colleagues and demanded their immediate release.
They demanded of the administration to apprehend all khasadars present inside their living quarters at the time of attack and also take to task those coppers, who were posted at the checkpoints around the bazaar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... security forces tossed in the slammer three suspect forces of Evil during routine patrolling in Sur Ghar area of Bara tehsil. The tossed in the slammer men were shifted to an army camp for interrogation.
In Akkakgel area, security forces defused a time device planted at a roadside.
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[Dawn] Eleven forces of Evil and one Pak soldier were killed in a clash in the northwestern tribal region of Kurram, ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... DawnNews reported.
Four soldiers were also injured in the clash.
The army launched a military operation this month to clear forces of Evil from their strongholds, security officials said.
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[Dawn] Mortar shells fired from across the border in Afghanistan hit a Pakistain military border post killing four soldiers, Pakistain security officials said Tuesday.
Two other soldiers were maimed in the attack in South Wazoo tribal district, they said, in the latest in a series of deadly cross-border incidents that have raised tensions between the neighbouring countries.
"Four soldiers were killed and two others were maimed in this cross-border attack," a security bigshot in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar told AFP.
"More than 20 mortar shells were fired from across the border. Three shells slammed into a paramilitary Frontier Corps checkpost in Angoor Adda area," he added.
Another security official in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan tribal district, confirmed the incident and casualties.
Both the officials blamed the Afghan National Army (ANA) for the attack.
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[Al Jazeera] Eight Pak employees of a US-based aid organization are missing and feared kidnapped in Pakistain's volatile southwest bordering Afghanistan, a senior Pak government official said.
The employees of The American Refugee Committee (ARC) were returning after distributing food items from an Afghan refugee camp in Pishin, 50km from Quetta, the capital of 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, on Monday evening when they went missing.
"They distributed some relief goods among the refugees and were probably kidnapped on their way back to Quetta," Mansoor Kakar, Pishin's deputy commissioner, told Rooters.
Security forces launched a search operation in the refugee camp and other suspected areas. No one has grabbed credit as yet.
Kakar said it was not clear who was behind the possible kidnapping: "We don't have any clue so far. Efforts are underway to recover them."
Armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, as well as ethnic Baloch gangs fighting for more autonomy, have been involved in violence in the region, which also borders Iran.
Kidnapping is an industry in Pakistain's lawless tribal regions, with money often the main motivation rather than political demands.
Ransoms are a large source of revenue for the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Baloch fighters.
ARC has worked in refugee camps near Quetta since 2002, focusing on providing healthcare and training members of the community in basic health services, according to the ARC website.
It began operating in northern parts of Pakistain after the devastating earthquake in 2005.
Earlier this month, a Swiss couple was kidnapped by gunnies in the district of Loralai in Balochistan. They have not yet been recovered.
An American official of the UN refugee agency was kidnapped in Quetta in 2009 but was released after two months.
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[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... held talks with his Pak counterpart, Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari, ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Tuesday amid heightened tension between the neighbours and as some Afghan politicians raised fears that Pakistain's spy agency was behind recent liquidations.
Gunmen killed a top adviser to Karzai and a member of the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Sunday in an attack claimed by the Taliban, but some politicians accused the Pakistain military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of being involved.
A senior Pak security official in Islamabad said the allegations were "a figment of someone's sick mind".
The two leaders spoke about the economic and security situation faced by the neighbours and agreed that they should not let anyone disrupt security in either country, Karzai's palace said in a statement.
Zardari also offered his condolences to Karzai on the death of his brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, a powerful and controversial leader in southern Afghanistan who was assassinated by a senior bodyguard in his Kandahar home last week.
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[An Nahar] A local al-Qaeda leader -- named Saddam Hussein -- was sentenced to hang by a court in the Shiite holy city of Karbala in southern Iraq on Tuesday, an official said.
"The criminal court of Karbala sentenced Saddam Hussein, the al-Qaeda leader of (the village of) Khanafsa to death by hanging," said Mohammed Hamid al-Moussawi, chairman of Karbala's provincial council.
"Saddam Hussein was convicted of attacks on pilgrims with car booms and bombs," he said. He was locked away in mid-April in Khanafsa, 30 kilometers north of Karbala.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims visit Karbala several times a year, notably for mourning ceremonies during the Shiite holy day of Ashoura. Attacks by Sunni snuffies against the Shiite pilgrims are common.
Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator toppled in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, was hanged in December 2006.
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[Dawn] Al Qaeda's front group in Iraq grabbed credit for two recent suicide kabooms that killed 37 people, in an Internet posting seen on Tuesday.
A blast on July 5 in the city of Taji north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 35 people and maimed 28, and a June 26 kaboom by a bomber in a wheelchair killed two people and injured 17 at a cop shoppe in a nearby town.
"One heroic martyr targeted Tarmiyah cop shoppe during a meeting," said the statement by the Islamic State of Iraq, posted on Islamist forum Honein on Monday.
"This brother who wore a suicide belt and rode a wheelchair went kaboom!"." The second attack (in Taji) targeted a filthy meeting including security officials and local city council officials."
June saw the highest monthly corpse count for Iraqis so far this year, while the 14 US soldiers killed last month was the highest such figure in three years.
Storied Baghdad has blamed al Qaeda for the increased corpse count for Iraqis, which was up 34 per cent on May, while the US military holds Iranian-backed Shiite militias responsible for the deadly attacks on its troops.
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PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > IRAQ SEES US TRAINERS, NOT SOLDIERS, AFTER 2014.
This will end well - NOT.
* SAME > MP:IRAN ENTITLED TO CONFRONT TERRORISTS + IRAN:IRGC TO CONTINUE MILITARY OPERATIONS AGZ KURDISH REBELS.
* WAFF > THE US-SAUDI DILEMMA:IRAN'S RESHAPING OF PERSIAN GULF POLITICS.
Yuuuuppp.
ARTIC = Pert argues that Iran is running agz a timeline as per US ability, or lack of same, to shift its attemtion from various on-going ME Conflicts + Chaoses, + agz Turkey's ability + desire to grow back into its historical regional role ["Neo-Ottomanism"?]; UNLESS THE US CAN PERMANENTLY BASE SUBSTANTIAL MILFORS IN THE REGION, IRAN WILL BE EFFECTIVELY THE MOST POWERFUL MILITARY STATE/POWER IN THE PERSIAN GULF.
Also, WIDOUT THE US, ANY IMPROVED SAUDI MILPOL POSITION IN THE ME WILL PROVE TO BE "HOLLOW" AGZ SHIA IRAN.
Nine soldiers and seven civilians, including three students, were wounded in a motorcycle bomb explosion in Yala province yesterday morning.
The explosion occurred at about 10:50 a.m. on the Bannang Sata-Than To road near Ban Tao Poon school. Police said the 10 kg homemade bomb was hidden in a parked motorcycle. They believe the attackers detonated the bomb as soldiers from Yala's No.15 special forces unit were passing by on motorcycles. Several cars, including a military GMC truck near the explosion scene, were damaged by the impact.
Shortly after the incident, police detained a suspect identified as Wae-Useng Waesama, 25, from Bannang Sata district.
In Yaha district, a teacher protection unit escaped unharmed when a bomb was detonated. The soldiers were patrolling when the bomb planted on the Tachi-Yaha road exploded. No one was hurt.
In neighboring Pattani province, two teacher protection volunteers were killed and two others injured in an explosion yesterday afternoon.
The explosion took place while the four were taking a break in a hut while working in a coconut plantation. The bomb was planted near the break area.
In another development, police are investigating the murder of Pol Sen Sgt Maj Charoen Kaewmani, 64, a retired police officer, on Monday night. The police officer was waiting for his wife in front of a house when a group of attackers ambushed him and shot him at close range. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two more shooting attacks were also reported on Monday.
The first incident was reported at about 6 p.m. and the second about an hour later. In the first attack, Nibong Songserm, 34, was shot in the leg by a group using AK and M16 rifles. He was riding his motorcycle when he was attacked.
In the second incident, Phornthep Rattana, 34, a village defense volunteer, was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting as she rode her motorcycle with another woman riding pillion.
Meanwhile, border police announced they were stepping up security measures in the southern provinces ahead of Ramadan, which starts on Aug 1.
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VARIOUS BLOGGERS = argue that MALAY RADIC ISLAMISTS/EXTREMISTS, not LOCAL THAI MUSLIMS, are behind the trubles in support of separatism + Malay-Indonesian Islamic regional hegemony in South + SE Asia???
Again, the GWOT = WAR FOR OWG-NWO = as much an INTER-MUSLIM STRUGGLE FOR IDEO, MILPOL POWER + INFLUENCE, .....@ETC. CONTROL OF ISLAM as anything else.
Aka "UMMAH" + POST-"CALIPHATE", POST-US? INTERNAL PECKING ORDER = WHO-IS-VERSUS-WHO-ISN'T widin the Muslim World.
[Al Jazeera] Syrian troops and gangs described by one resident as "death squads" have laid siege to the city of Homs since Monday night, sources said.
Syrian rights activist Rami Abdulrahman, director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the city had been the scene of intense battles since security forces stepped up a crackdown on Monday night.
Homs has been a focal point of the uprising against 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... since the military stormed its districts two months ago to crush anti-government protests.
"Thirteen non-combatants were killed yesterday and today in several parts of Homs when the army opened fire as it carried out an operation in the city," he said.
Abdulrahman said the fighting in Homs erupted after three regime supporters kidnapped last week were killed and their dismembered bodies were returned to their relatives.
"These festivities are a dangerous development that undermines the revolution and serves the interests of its enemies who want it to turn into a civil war," he said.
Al Jizz cannot independently verify events in Syria because of restrictions on reporting.
Updating the Rooters news agency by phone on Tuesday, a Homs resident said, "There are troops and armoured vehicles in every neighbourhood. The irregular forces with them are death squads.
"They have been firing indiscriminately since dawn with rifles and machine guns. No one can leave their homes."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 30 people were killed in Homs in factional fighting over the weekend, with bodies of members of the minority Alawite sect, the same as Assad, found mutilated.
But other estimates offered far lower estimates, with the Syrian National Human Rights Organisation suggesting that only seven people were killed over the weekend.
Activists say the Syrian government's crackdown on pro-democracy and anti-regime protests has left more than 1,400 civilians dead and thousands more imprisoned.
Diplomatic pressure is mounting on Assad after Qatar, previously a major supporter, shut its embassy in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said it was considering tougher sanctions.
Britannia's foreign minister William Hague says more pressure is needed to stop the government's crackdown on freedom fighters:
"The situation remains very serious and if anything is deteriorating. Certainly there will be a time for further sanctions and we need to be discussing now what those would be."
The EU has already imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 34 Syrian individuals and entities, but Hague said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels "work now needs to start so we can add to that if necessary over the coming days and weeks."
A statement agreed by the ministers in Brussels said: "Until the unacceptable violence against the civilian population is halted... the EU will pursue and carry forward its current policy, including through sanctions," it said.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid today denied sending a text message to journalists announcing the death of Mullah Omar, saying that his telephone had been hacked. Another Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, also denied by phone that Mullah Omar has died.
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Nine soldiers and seven civilians, including three students, were wounded in a motorcycle bomb explosion in Yala province yesterday morning.
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