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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Evangeline Lilly aka Claire in "Afterwards" aka Connie James in "The Hurt Locker" aka Bailey Tallet in "Real Steel" (To be released October 2011) aka Tauriel in "The Hobbit" (In production) aka Kate Austen in "Lost" (TV) (age 33)



No "Junk in the Trunk"
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/03/2011 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  I have got to say something about this picture. Something very unusual about it. Her smile is nearly ear to ear. Well at least from eye to eye.
Look at Dorothy or the man just behind Eva. Well put together otherwise. Not a negative just unusual.
Posted by: Dale || 08/03/2011 20:42 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide attack kills three guards in Afghanistan
[Dawn] Three guards from a private security company that employs Westerners were killed Tuesday after jacket wallahs attacked its offices in northern Afghanistan, local officials said.

The early morning attack, which triggered a firefight with security forces, happened in the city of Kunduz at a building formerly used as a German-run guesthouse. Nine civilians and a policeman were also injured, said provincial front man Mahboobullah Shahedi.

Two Germans working for the security firm, Kaboora, left the building half an hour beforehand but there were no foreign nationals inside when the attack happened, deputy provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Aqtash added.

The Germans were now being questioned by police about what had happened, Aqtash said, adding the building had been used as a guesthouse until about a month ago.

The Taliban sent a text message claiming responsibility for the attack on the security company, which is thought to work with Western organizations.
"we dunnit and were proud. Srsly."
It is the first major strike by cut-throats in Afghanistan since the start of the holy month of Ramadan Monday.
So much for prayer, reflection and charity.
One suicide bomber detonated a car boom at the entrance to the office, allowing the other two to get inside, Shahedi said.

"Three guards were killed, nine civilians were maimed and one policeman was injured in the blast and fighting," he said.

Aqtash said the fighting had finished after the two remaining bombers blew themselves up inside the office in quick succession.

He confirmed the corpse count given by Shahedi and explained that the nine maimed civilians were residents of a nearby house who were hurt by the initial car boom blast.

The Afghan interior ministry issued a statement condemning the attack "in the strongest terms." The north of Afghanistan has traditionally been more secure than south and east of the country, which have suffered much of the worst violence in the near decade-long Taliban-led insurgency.

But a string of violent episodes in recent months, including May's killing of northern Afghanistan's influential police commander in the province of Takhar, which borders Kunduz, have raised fears about the area's stability.

There are currently around 140,000 international troops in Afghanistan battling the Taliban but limited withdrawals have already started ahead of a deadline for all foreign combat troops to leave by the end of 2014.

German forces have a strong presence in northern Afghanistan and have a major base at Kunduz. There are currently around 4,800 German troops serving in Afghanistan as part of a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
-led international force.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


5 Bangladeshi abductees rescued in Afghanistan
[Bangla Daily Star] Five Bangladeshi workers who were kidnapped near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan in December were rescued on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said.

The workers were released after an intense negotiation between the kidnappers and the elderly citizens of Afghanistan under the local government initiative.
Perhaps the writer meant "the Elders"? The age distribution of the Afghan population skews quite young, after all.
All the rescued people were the workers of Samwhan Corporation, a South Korean construction company.

They are excavator operators of the company Md Aminul Islam and Mahbub Ali, grader operator Md Imam Uddin, and surveyors Lovlu Rahman and Shafiqul Alam.

Aminul, Lovlu and Shafiqul hailed from Tangail, Mahbub from Rajshahi and Md Imam Uddin from Chittagong.

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at a press briefing told the newsmen that she had no knowledge whether any ransom were given to the kidnappers in releasing the workers.

The government had taken up all necessary efforts including the diplomatic one to bring back the rescue workers to their homeland.
"We've got all the necessary efforts."
"What about the diplomatic one?"
"Eh, bring it along. There's room in the bag and it might work for once."
She informed that the rescuers are in good heath and stay in the Korean company in Afghanistan.

Dipu Moni said it will take seven to eight days to bring the workers back to Bangladesh.

A gang of Afghan criminals attacked a camp of Samwhan Corporation near Mazar-i-Sharif on December 17 last year, killing Kazi Altaf Hossain, a diploma engineer of Pabna, who had been working as an asphalt plant operator at the company.

Nine construction workers managed to escape the attack while seven were taken hostage by the myrmidons. The abductors freed two of the seven the next day.

The incident took place on a remote road being constructed between the northern provinces of Samangan and Balkh.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


4 die in Afghan guest house attack
[Bangla Daily Star] Three jacket wallahs attacked a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Tuesday, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company, a senior police detective said.

The raid followed a string of liquidations in the once peaceful north of the country, and came one day after the beginning of the Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan.

One attacker detonated a car boom at the gates of the guesthouse. The other two stormed the building where they fought Afghan forces for a couple of hours before detonating their explosives, said Kunduz police detective Abdul Rahman.

Ten people, including civilians and a police officer, were maimed in the early morning attack, said Rahman. It was not immediately clear if any foreigners were among the maimed.

Rahman said the slain Afghan security guards were employed by German development agency GTZ.

The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack, said front man Zabihullah Mujahid.

Violence has intensified in the north of the country in the past year as forces of Evil seek to demonstrate their reach beyond their traditional southern heartland around Kandahar city.

The police chief of north Afghanistan, General Dawood Dawood, was killed in May in a massive kaboom in Takhar province, along with the Takhar police chief.

In June, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a memorial service for Dawood in Kunduz, killing at least four coppers. The attack appeared to target the police chief of Kunduz province, Sameullah Qatra, whose predecessor in the post was killed by a suicide bomber in March. Qatra was unharmed.

Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since US-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in late 2001, with high levels of foreign troop deaths, and record civilian casualties.

A gradual transition of security control to Afghan forces began last month with when areas were handed over by the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-led International Security Assistance Force. Afghan forces are due to take full control across the country by the end of 2014.

In the past month forces of Evil have carried out a string of destabilising liquidations of high-profile southern leaders, including 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...
's younger brother, and several large attacks killing police and civilians.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Rebels Enter Gadhafi-held Zliten as Russia Says Conflict at 'Dead End'
[An Nahar] Libya's rebels said on Tuesday they launched a post-dawn attack on the western town of Zliten, punching through to the center and sparking fierce festivities with forces loyal to Moammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years...
, as Russia said the fighting in Libya had reached a "dead end."

"The rebels advanced today inside Zliten to control the center. Now there is a vicious fight with Qadaffy's forces," said Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, a military front man based in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

The fight for Zliten -- which lies just 120 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli -- began shortly after sunrise.

In recent weeks Libya's rebels have been slowly advancing on Zliten from their enclave at Misrata, 70 kilometers to the east.

They have been aided by 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 cut of the American pants...
air strikes, which on Monday hit one Qadaffy command and control node and one military facility in the town.

Zliten has long been held by Qadaffy's forces, and was suspected of being a base for multiple rocket attacks on Misrata that have killed scores of civilians.

Meanwhile in the east, Bani said rebels fought for hours with Qadaffy forces at the oil hub of Brega on Tuesday, with a small unit of 45 troops entering the town's eastern residential district.

"There were festivities with Qadaffy's forces and it went on four hours and then they had to retreat back," Bani said.

Earlier on Tuesday Russia said the fighting in Libya had reached a "dead end" that could only be resolved through dialogue and new attempts at negotiation.

"The situation has reached a dead end that confirms that there is no military solution," the head of the foreign ministry's Middle East and North Africa department Sergei Vershinin was quoted as saying by Interfax.

"We have to go back to searching for political and diplomatic solutions," he was quoted as telling a briefing of Russian news hounds.

Russia abstained from a vote on a U.N. Security Council resolution in March that opened the way for air strikes on Qadaffy regime targets in Libya but has since criticized the scale and intent of the NATO-led Western campaign.

It has been involved in attempts to mediate between the rebels controlling the east of the country and the Qadaffy regime in Tripoli.

Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Khadaffy is not dead yet. This thing still has a bit of a way to go.

Russia wants "negotiation" and "peace."?

Russai must be in it for the laughs.
There isnt going to be any "peace." And the "rebels" are killing each other now too. AND they are all Moslems. Do I see a pattern here?

The French can handle it. Parlez vou le poodle? Obama has it all under control, just ask anybody.
Posted by: de Medici || 08/03/2011 4:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Russai[sic] must be in it for the laughs

Russia is in it for Russia's interests.

And the "rebels" are killing each other now too. AND they are all Moslems. Do I see a pattern here?

You sure won't see a Nobel in Literature. Put down your Book of Trite Phrases and do some research on, say, the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. You might see the "pattern" extend through most uprisings.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/03/2011 11:17 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria panel seeks talks with Boko Haram
Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
, the Nigerian president, has set up a committee to negotiate with a radical Islamist group that has grabbed credit for a string of almost daily shootings and kabooms in northeastern Nigeria, the government has announced.

The committee was set up on Saturday after a meeting between Jonathan and local leaders in Borno state, which concluded that the military's strategy against 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...

the group in question, has done more harm than good.

The committee will hold talks with Boko Haram and report back to the federal government on, or before, August 16, a statement from the office of the federal government's secretary said.

Jonathan, who began his first full term in office in late May this year, has previously supported dialogue with the group, but Boko Haram has said that it will only come to table if all of its demands are met. Among those demands is the resignation of the Borno state government.

Jonathan has named the seven members of the panel, which includes the ministers of defence, labour and the federal capital territory of Abuja, the statement said. It said that the panel would act "as a liaison between the federal government ... and Boko Haram and to initiate negotiations with the sect".

The panel will work with the national security adviser to ensure that the country's security forces were acting with "professionalism", the statement said.

Boko Haram has carried out attacks in around Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, with strikes mainly targeting police posts, churches and outdoor drinking areas such as beer gardens. Rights groups say that more than 250 people have been killed by the group, whose name means "western education is sinful", since July 2010.

The seven-man committee will be inaugurated on Tuesday, and is to be led by Usman Gaji Galtimari, a Borno civil servant who previously headed a committee that produced a report on a Boko Haram uprising in 2009. Hundreds of people were killed during that period.

The committee will review security problems in the area and make recommendations for bringing a timely end to the crisis, a government statement said.

Amnesia Amnesty International says that the brutalisation of suspects by security forces in Borno, as well as unlawful arrests, killings and disappearances have become standard operating procedure in Maiduguri in the last few months.

The Nigerian security forces have earlier admitted that the police have been "overzealous" in the past.

Thousands decamped the city earlier this month after festivities between Boko Haram fighters and the security forces intensified.

On Saturday, petrol station workers went on strike following the relocation of a fuel depot, prompting a further exodus.

Borno is located in the remote northeast of Nigeria, bordering Cameroon, Niger and Chad. It is one of the poorest regions in the country.
You'd be poor too if your neighbors were Cameroon, Niger and Chad...
Boko Haram has not limited its attacks to Maiduguri in the past few months, striking as far afield as Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
US Drones Kill 15 in Yemen's Abyan Province
[Yemen Post] Two US drone attacks in Zinjibar, Abyan, killed 15 suspected al-Qaeda gunnies on Monday, a senior military official in Abyan confirmed.

The official said that the drones acted after coordinating with the Yemeni government.

The official added that more than a dozen people were maimed in the attack.

The Arclight airstrikes were the latest in a US/government campaign to try to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked gunnies from Zinjibar and the nearby town of Jaar.

The Yemen Interior Ministry denied on the record the US drones were involved in the attack and said that three air attacks were conducted by the Yemeni government air forces.

Clashes have been ongoing in Abyan since May when suspected al-Qaeda gunnies took over the province.

Locals complain that the government handed the province over to the gunnies by evacuating its forces from the military camps.

At least 35 US drone attacks were reported in Yemen over the last two month, raising the worries of locals.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


China-Japan-Koreas
China police shoot dead two suspects in Xinjiang attacks
[Dawn] Chinese police have rubbed out two suspects being hunted for a deadly attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which an exiled regional leader blamed on Beijing's hardline policies towards her people.

The two suspects, Memtieli Tiliwaldi and Turson Hasan, were shot by police late on Monday in corn fields on the outskirts of Kashgar city, where on Sunday assailants stormed a restaurant, killed the owner and a waiter, then hacked four people to death, according to the Kashgar government website.

The attack was the latest burst of violence to rattle Xinjiang, where many of the minority Mohammedan Uighurs resent the presence of Han Chinese, and the controls imposed by Beijing.

Chinese officials quickly blamed the attack on Uighur Islamic forces of Evil campaigning for an independent homeland, and said the ringleaders received training in making firearms and explosives in Pakistain before returning to China.

But Rebiah Kadeer, a prominent exiled leader of the region's Uighur minority, offered a starkly different diagnosis of the tensions in her homeland and said she was skeptical about linking the attacks to international terrorist group.

"I am saddened that Han Chinese and Uighurs have bit the dust. At the same time, I cannot blame the Uighurs who carry out such attacks for they have been pushed to despair by Chinese policies," Kadeer said in an emailed statement.

"I condemn the Chinese government for the incident. The Chinese government has created an environment of hopelessness that means it must take responsibility for civilian deaths and injuries caused by their discriminatory policies," said Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, which campaigns for self-rule for Uighurs.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also WORLD NEWS > CHINESE + PAKISTANI RADICAL ISLAMISTS ARE JOINING FORCES IN XINJIANG.

China's allegations of PAK, ETIM links to Xinjiang incidents has scared Islamabad = PAK Govt. into pledging its full support to Beijing as per proactive diplomatic relations + investigative cooperation.

OTOH PAK MIL FORUM BLOGGERS > a number opine or believe that the the latest Xinjiang violence + other denote US preparations to begin launching proxy attacks agz China???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2011 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  How's that friendship with Pakistan working out, China?
Posted by: gromky || 08/03/2011 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  On an acturial basis, Pakistan's continued existance costs us and India a lot more than it costs China, and has gained it parts of Kashmir that Pakistan ceded to China after bleeding heavily in the process of taking them away from India.

So probably, pretty good, even so.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/03/2011 11:54 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Bomb squad, chemical hazard units and helicopters shut down Australian street.
AN exclusive Sydney street has been shut down as the bomb squad examines a suspicious device found in a house.

Police have cordoned off streets in the exclusive suburb of Mosman on Sydney's North Shore and close to the city's Toronga Zoo.

The incident that has seen the bomb squad, chemical hazard units and helicopters descend on the scene.

The bomb squad is examining a suspicious device at the scene after being called to the house by an 18-year-old woman.

Authorities were initially negotiating with an 18-year-old woman inside a property in the suburb, which is home to millionaires and celebrities, but by late afternoon they were able to gain access to the home and examine the device.

Nearby residents were evacuated, while others were warned to stay away from Burrawong Avenue.

Initially, police would only say a "delicate operation" was in progress, but later confirmed they had been called to the house about 2.30pm on reports of a suspicious device.

They confirmed this afternoon they had "established a perimeter around the house" as well as a command post at the scene.

New South Wales Ambulance and rescue crews are also at the scene, with an exclusion zone now established.

The street is home to racing identity Gai Waterhouse, ex-Wallaby Phil Kearns and John Eales.
Posted by: Oztralian || 08/03/2011 04:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Update:

18-year-old reportedly has a bomb fastened around her neck, with a threatening note attached to it.

Initial radio reports claimed the woman was wired to the device and threatening to detonate it.
Posted by: Oztralian || 08/03/2011 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Oztralian || 08/03/2011 5:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently an extortion attempt.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/03/2011 5:35 Comments || Top||

#4  News Link
Posted by: Oztralian || 08/03/2011 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Police believe the ransom note is attached to her neck but bomb experts have been unable at this point to read its contents.

No comment. I hope this ends well. Thank you, dear Oztralian.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  She,s been freed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2011 12:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Good to hear that nobody was injured or worse.

Thanks for the update, TW.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/03/2011 13:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Better than the reaction of the last guy who had a bomb locked around his neck. The cops sat around making jokes until the thing went off.
Posted by: gromky || 08/03/2011 19:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Karachi Korpse Kount: 7; Malik vows action
[Dawn] Seven people were killed in Bloody Karachi on Tuesday as Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
declared that gun-hung tough guys had tested the government enough and action would now be taken against them, DawnNews reported.
I've lost track of the number of corpses littering the Karachi headlines, but apparently they've got a computer in Islamabad that totes them up and it finally hit a magic number that calls for another statement of intent. At some point the statement of intent will be followed by actual action, but that'll probably be after the computer acknowledges that the next ice age has come and gone.
In order to bring back the peace in the city the rangers have been assigned the task to take target action while the Frontier Corps has been given authorities of the police.

A prize money of Rs 5 million has been set for any one who identifies a hit man to the authorities and Rs 10 Million for who ever sends a picture or a video of the hit man, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to the media representatives in Bloody Karachi, Malik said it was time that the mafias operating in Bloody Karachi let go off their gang leaders as nobody could come to their rescue anymore.

The minister also said that 18 to 26 people had become victims of murders since yesterday. And although he stated that the nation would soon witness action in Bloody Karachi, the city saw seven more deaths.

Also present at the occasion was Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan who said that now action against criminal elements would be taken first and the media will be informed afterwards.

A senior government official says Pak authorities have called in paramilitary forces to contain political and criminal violence in the southern city of Bloody Karachi after 34 people were killed here in less than two days.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Blast kills two Pakistani soldiers near Afghan border
[Dawn] Intelligence officials say a roadside kaboom has hit a vehicle carrying Pak soldiers near the Afghan border, killing two of them.
The Taliban Pakistan applying skills learnt from their ISI-approved fellows... That whole sowing and reaping thing is in the Bible, but I suspect not in the Koran. A pity, as it's a useful bit of wisdom.
The officials say the soldiers were patrolling near Ladha town in the South Wazoo tribal area on Tuesday when the attack occurred. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.

South Waziristan was the main sanctuary for the Pak Taliban before the army launched a large ground offensive in 2009. Thousands of soldiers are still based in the area, and violence still occurs frequently.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Rocket kills woman, injures son in Darra
[Dawn] A woman was killed and her son received injuries when a rocket, fired by krazed killers, hit a house in Atariwal village of Darra Adamkhel on Monday.

Officials said that bully boyz fired six rockets from Aka Khel area of Khyber Agency at Zarghun Khel village. One of the rockets hit the house of Khwaja Mohammad in Atariwal, injuring his wife and son.

The injured were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar but the women succumbed to her injuries. Her son identified as Samiullah was being admitted to the hospital fro treatment.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea...
security forces and members of a peace committee destroyed the houses of two alleged bully boyz in Pirwal Khel area of Darra Adamkhel on Monday.

The security forces and peace committee said that the two bully boyz belonging to Tariq Afridi group of banned but still somehow murderously active Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain were involved in attacking passengers and convoys.

Both the alleged bully boyz -- Subhanullah and Qari Zakir -- were wanted by government in various cases of terrorism.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
a prayer leader was rubbed out and two others were maimed in separate incidents in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
on Monday.

Maulvi Mohammad Ismail was offering Maghrib prayer in the limits of Band Korai cop shoppe when unidentified persons opened firing on him. He was killed on the spot.

In the second incident, unidentified attackers fired at two young men -- Haroon Qasuria and Mujib Gandapur. Both of the young men were maimed in the attack.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Three Kurram tribesmen killed near Afghan border
[Dawn] Unidentified persons killed three rustics in 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...
near Afghan border on Monday while Islamic fascisti hiding in Afghanistan again attacked positions of a local lashkar in Upper Dir district, sources said.

Sources said that unidentified persons attacked a tractor trolley of Turi rustics in Munda area near the Afghan border in Kurram Agency and killed three woodcutters.

The victims were identified as Jamil Hussain, Ahmad Hussain and Basit Hussain. The driver of the tractor, Ibrar Hussain, received serious bullet injuries. He was shifted to tehsil headquarters hospital in Alizai.

The rustics organised an armed lashkar and chased the attackers. But the attackers managed to escape.

The residents said that incidents of murder and kidnapping were on the rise in the valley despite military operation in the area.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
a convoy of relief goods including food items and medicines arrived in Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency, on Monday. Majlis-i-Wahdatul Mohammedaneen, an Islamabad-based body, has dispatched relief goods for internally displaced persons of the tribal region.

The deputy secretary general of the organization, Alama Amin Shahidi, was also accompanying the convoy.

The organisers said that police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and authorities in tribal areas had refused to allow the convoy to proceed to Parachinar because of security reasons.

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
after negotiations and intervention of federal government the trucks were permitted to proceed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony...
Islamic fascisti from Afghanistan side once again attacked positions of local lashkar in border areas of Upper Dir on
Sunday night. However,
Denver is the capital of Colorado...
residents of Sro Kallay said that the attack was repulsed successfully.

They said that Islamic fascisti opened firing on positions of villagers, guarding their areas from the attackers hiding in Afghanistan.

Militants have been attacking security forces and local people, who have taken up arms against them, for the last few months.

Locals said that Islamic fascisti suffered losses during the two previous attacks. They said that Islamic fascisti had sent a letter to a leader of the lashkar and threatened him to get ready for punishment.

According to the residents of Nusrat Darra and Shahteez, Islamic fascisti have entrenched in a forest along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border and are looking for opportunity to launch attacks against the people of these villages.

They said that those Islamic fascisti had beat feet the 2009 military operation in Swat, Buner and Lower Dir. The villages have asked government to ensure deployment of sufficient number of security forces in these areas to foil designs of jihad boys.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
security forces recovered 22 rounds of rocket, three Kalashnikovs and two other rifles from a house in Acaar and Jabar area during a search operation. According to Gandigar cop shoppe, no one was incarcerated during the operation.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Two killed, six wounded in two explosions in Baghdad
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two persons, one military officer, were killed and six wounded, 3 of them were soldiers, in a double bomb blasts in Abu Ghraib area, west Baghdad.

The first explosion took place in front of billiard hall, while the second one occurred in the same place when army patrol arrived.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, one of those infidel billiard halls.. There shall be no fun under sharia.
Posted by: American Delight || 08/03/2011 3:55 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
One dead, six hurt in Philippines blast: police
[Dawn] A suspected cycle of violence bomb killed one person and maimed six others in a huge blast at a drugstore in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, police said.

Local amateur photographer, Gemana Ali, 53, was killed in the kaboom, Superintendent Roberto Badian, the police chief of the southern city of Cotabato said.

A seven-year-old boy was in a critical condition in hospital.

"It appears the bomb was triggered by a cell phone," Badian told news hounds, adding no group had grabbed credit.

He said the remotely-triggered improvised bomb was hidden in a cycle of violence that had been abandoned near the drugstore and a gun shop.

"Initial reports (show) the explosives were kept inside a single cycle of violence," said Chief Superintendent Benjardi Mantele, the police chief for the region.

Cotabato, a city of 164,000 people, has in the past been a target of Mohammedan separatists and Death Eaters linked to the Al-Qaeda movement, whose global leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living...
was killed in a US military raid in Pakistain on May 2.

The attack occurred as Cotabato, a Christian-Mohammedan trading post on the troubled main southern island of Mindanao, observed the second day of Ramadan, the holy fasting month of Islam.
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Israel behind killing of Iranian scientist: report
[Dawn] The Israeli secret service Mossad was responsible for the liquidation last month of an Iranian scientist in Tehran, Germany's Spiegel Online news website reported.

The killing of Dariush Rezaei-Nejad was "the first serious action taken by the new Mossad chief Tamir Pardo," according to an unidentified Israeli intelligence source quoted by Spiegel Online.

Iranian press reports said Rezaei-Nejad was shot five times by unknown assailants as he and his wife were waiting for their child in front of a kindergarten in Tehran on July 23. His wife was maimed in the attack.

The Iranian government blamed the United States and Israel for the attack, the latest in a series targeting Iranian nuclear scientists who are suspected by the West to be working on a nuclear weapon programme.

Tehran denies it has such a programme and insists that its atomic activities are entirely peaceful.

Rezaei-Nejad is believed to have worked on the trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons, Spiegel Online said in its report first published on Monday.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Der Spiegel sez it. So what?

I am not particularly impressed by Der Spiegel. Are you?

That the Iranianman was popped by evil minions with the Star of David embroidered on their underpants or that Felix from the CIA spit out his chewing gum at the scene of the crime as he walked away reloading...well...who really knows?

Der Speigel? Sell me a paper.

Personally, just speaking for myself, hey, Rezael-Nejad was working for building Atomic detonators? He should have realized that sort of expertise requires a private residence, a private car and bodyguards. But his boss Abuwhatchamacallit was too cheap to provide any of that. Some people dont live to be old.

NEXT! Good job, Moishe.
Posted by: de Medici || 08/03/2011 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the Mossad did it. I know it sure wasn't US! The Donks have been quite capable in destroying our covert operations capabilities over the last 50 years. "Wild Bill" Donovan would be appalled at what the CIA has become.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/03/2011 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I say the Mad Mullahs suspected him of collaborating with the Juices and wacked him for that, then blamed the Juices.

That's not so hard to figger out, is it?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/03/2011 18:54 Comments || Top||


Five Dead in Hama as Army Storms Damascus Suburb
At least five people were killed on Tuesday as the Syrian army pressed on with its crackdown on the flashpoint protest city of Hama and troops stormed a 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...
suburb.

At least 24 civilians were reported killed across Syria on Monday, among them 10 during protests after special evening prayers, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdul Rahman said.

"Ten deaders fell and several people were maimed by gunfire from security forces during protests in several Syrian towns after the 'tarawih' evening prayers," Abdul Rahman said.

Syrian tanks shelled the outskirts of the flashpoint protest city of Hama late on Monday, he said. The corpse count on the first day of the Ramadan fasting month was 24, while more than 150 people were jugged.

On Tuesday troops tightened their siege on Hama by taking up positions near homes and sending residents fleeing for their lives.

Hama-based activist Omar Hamawi told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that parts of Hama were hit Tuesday morning with heavy machine gun fire after sporadic shelling overnight.

He said a shell hit a compound known as the Palace of Justice in the city center, causing a huge fire that burned much of the building, which is home to several courts.

"A group of armed saboteurs stormed the Palace of Justice in Hama yesterday (Monday) afternoon and set fire to some offices before ransacking them," state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
SANA said, quoting the head of the lawyers' union in Hama.

"Plumes of black smoke were seen yesterday afternoon rising from the complex where several departments were on fire," SANA quoted Mohammed Abbas as saying.

The agency also quoted unnamed sources as saying that "hundreds of masked men riding cycle of violences" attacked the main courthouse and set fire to offices.

Opposition-affiliated Sham News Network reported that security forces on Tuesday rubbed out two people in the Hama neighborhood of al-Mizrab.

Two other people were also killed in Hama Tuesday when security forces shelled a poultry truck near the city's central prison, SNN added, identifying the two as Khaled and Fateh Katil.

And snipers rubbed out a fifth person near Hama's fire department, Abdul Rahman said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
the Hama neighborhood of al-Qsour was heavily bombarded on Tuesday and security forces were shooting at anything that moves, SNN said.

Elsewhere, security forces stormed the Damascus suburb of Arbin during a funeral for Monday's victims, SNN added, reporting "indiscriminate" shooting in the suburb.

Protests erupted Monday evening across the country, with hundreds turning out in cities including Homs, Latakia, the Damascus suburbs and the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

There were scattered protests in Hama, but shelling kept most people inside. Hama has been the target of the recent operation because it has emerged as an opposition stronghold.

Hamawi said that troops advanced about 700 meters from the western entrance of the city overnight, taking up positions near homes and buildings in an area known as Kazo Square. He said the force consisted of eight tanks and several armored personnel carriers.

The activist, who spoke to the AP by telephone, said troops were also reinforced on the eastern side of the city around the Hama Central Prison, an overcrowded jail.

He said residents there saw smoke billowing from the prison overnight and heard sporadic gunfire from inside, leading some to believe the inmates were rioting. He added that it was impossible to know what was exactly going on in the prison or whether there were casualties inside the tightly controlled facility.

Hama has a history of defiance to the Assad family 40-year dynasty in Syria.

In 1982, Assad's father, Hafez Assad, ordered the military to quell a rebellion by Syrian members of the conservative Moslem Brüderbund movement. The city was sealed off and bombs dropped from above smashed swaths of the city and killed between 10,000 and 25,000 people, rights groups say.

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Syria defence minister blacklisted
[Emirates 24/7] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
on Tuesday added Syrian Defence Minister Ali Habib Mahmud and four others to its sanctions blacklist of individuals and businesses associated with a bloody clampdown on dissent.

The EU's official journal also showed that the extended list includes Mohammed Mufleh, head of Syrian military intelligence in Hama, the scene of a crackdown by the army which activists say has left more than 100 dead.

Also among the five now subject to an asset freeze and visa ban, were Major General Tawfiq Yunis, head of "internal security" in the General Intelligence Directorate and Mohammed Makhlouf, also known as Abu Rami, an uncle of 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...
Completing the list is Ayman Jabir who was "directly involved in repression and violence against the civilian population."

"The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague as the sanctions came into effect.

"In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions," Hague added in a statement.

The latest measures bring to 38 the number of people and businesses targeted by the 27-nation bloc, including members of Assad's family and three commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard accused of aiding the crackdown.
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