The Nato-led international force in Afghanistan says an Afghan in army uniform has killed three of its soldiers, the latest in a series of so-called "green-on-blue" attacks.
The attack took place in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nato said, but it did not give the exact location nor the nationalities of those killed.
Some 45 coalition troops have died in more than 30 such attacks this year.
Nato is training Afghan troops ahead of its pullout by the end of next year.
The Taliban has been actively recruiting members of the Afghan security forces, publicly announcing that insider attacks were a central part of their strategy against Nato forces.
[An Nahar] A "massive" suicide truck bombing in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar killed four civilians and maimed the provincial police chief overnight, authorities said Tuesday.
The bombing targeted General Abdul Raziq, the Kandahar provincial police chief, who has a strong anti-Taliban background. Raziq survived the bombing with "minor" injuries to his face, arms and a leg.
"His injuries are not serious and he will soon be discharged from the hospital," a statement from the provincial governor's office said.
"He suffers from burns on his face, arms and leg, it's not serious," Jawed Faisal, a front man for the provincial administration, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Faisal said four non-combatants were killed and about 20 others, mostly civilians and members of the same family, were maimed in the blast.
The front man described the kaboom as "massive, very, very huge". He said the truck bomb exploded by a suicide kaboomer as the vehicle of the police chief passed through a neighborhood in Kandahar city.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A prison warder was killed and 14 other security officers injured as the violence triggered by the killing of Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... suspect Aboud Rogo continued for the second day Tuesday.
The riots spread across Mombasa town with mayhem reported in Mwandoni, Bakarani and Bamburi, all in Kisauni, and in Majengo and King'orani areas on the island.
The warder and 13 of his colleagues were in a vehicle that was attacked with a grenade as they rushed in to quell the riots.
The other officers, from the General Service Unit, were maimed in battles at Majengo and King'orani.
On Tuesday, a high level team comprising officers from the government and independent agencies was set up to investigate the killing of Sheikh Rogo.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Keriako Tobiko, appointed assistant deputy DPP Jacob Ondari to coordinate the team that includes representatives from the Independent Police Oversight Authority, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the Law Society of Kenya, the Commission on Administration of Justice and the police. (READ: DPP Tobiko orders joint probe into Rogo killing)
As the riots in Mombasa continued, leaders across the political divide called for calm.
They included Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Mvita MP Najib Balala. In Parliament, MPs demanded that details of the killing of Sheikh Rogo be revealed to the public.
They also want a report on why the police had not locked away You have the right to remain silent... any culprits despite the crime having been committed in "broad daylight".
Sheikh Rogo had been named by the United Nations ...When talk is your weapon it's hard to make yourself heard over the artillery... and United States as Al-Shabaab's chief agent in Kenya, recruiting fighters for the Somali turban group and raising funds.
Eleven of the injured security officers were treated at Jocham Hospital. Two others were referred to Coast General Hospital where the body of the one who was killed was also taken.
The coppers were in a contingent heading to counter marauding youths who had set ablaze Kisauni Presbyterian Church. But as they approached the church compound at Mwandoni, the gang confronted them and a gun-fight ensued.
It is during the fight that one of the rioters hurled a grenade at the police vehicle. A police officer who talked to the Nation at Jocham Hospital said: "One officer is dead, while two are at Coast General Hospital. The rest of the injured are here."
A witness said: "I saw the police vehicle being hit by the grenade. Two coppers fell down with blood all over."
Burning tyres
Tension reigned in Kisauni, which was virtually inaccessible after the rioters barricaded the main road using burning tyres.
A lorry-load of General Service Unit officers later sent to the area had to use a detour through Mishomoroni in a bid to access Mwandoni which was the epicentre of Tuesday's festivities.
Mr Sadique Kakai, Kenya Red Thingy officer in charge of disaster in the Coast region described the situation as "really bad".
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[Nairobi Star] ONE man died and several others were maimed during riots sparked off by the shooting of controversial Islamic holy man Aboud Rogo Mohammed in Mombasa yesterday. The dead man, artisan Joseph Mureithi, was hit by a metal rod by rioting youths at Saba Saba near the Masjid Musa mosque where Rogo had set up his base. Four churches were vandalised - Neno Evangelist Centre, JCC at Buxton, PAG Ziwani, and another one.
Rogo, his wife Khaniya Said Sagaar, his father Abdallah Ali, his five year old daughter Salha and a male relative were driving in a van from Kikambala towards town. Just before midday their vehicle was shot at by unknown people near the entrance to the Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach along the Mombasa-Malindi highway and very close to Bamburi cop shoppe.
A Star photographer was close to the scene of the killing. Aboud Rogo was driving and was shot at least 14 times in chest. He lost control of the vehicle which landed in a ditch. His wife was shot in the right leg and was writhing in pain. Their daughter wailed for her father as she tried to crawl to where her mother was lying.
Police arrived soon afterwards and sealed off the scene Rogo's wife refused any assistance from the police. "Ni nyinyi mapolisi mmemua. Hatutaki postmortem wala usaidizi wenyu ( It is you coppers who have killed him! we don't want a post-mortem or any help from you)," screamed Khaniya.
Police said 15 gun shots were fired from close range at the driver's door. The bullets were 7.6mm calibre used by AK 47,said Mombasa DCIO Benedict Kigen. Members of Moslems for Human Rights arrived within minutes, took Rogo's body and buried him at Kiziwi Moslem cemetery. They also took Khaniya to hospital for treatment of her gunshot wound. The vehicle was towed to the Bamburi cop shoppe.
Khaniya said her husband was taking her to hospital for a check up after she suffered a miscarriage two weeks ago. As the news spread, hundreds of youths took to the street and chaos broke out on Mombasa island including Posta, Kongowea, Majengo and Saba Saba. Angry youth carrying branches and stones vandalized bars, petrol stations and houses as they chanted Allahu Akbar.
The rioting youth broke into shops, looted property and beat up people.They pelted motorists with stones and lit bonfires using tyres and other debris. Riot police and the GSU were deployed to disperse the youth who spread out to Bamburi and Kisauni. At Mewa hospital where the injured were taken for treatment, a vehicle belonging to the Muhuri lobby group was pelted with stones by angry relatives and friends who thought it was carrying journalists.
Muhuri executive director Hussein Khalid said his two officers Topister Juma and Shirleen Njeri were maimed. "They thought my officers were members of the press. Moslem law prohibits an injured woman be photographed and that is why they chased them away," Khalid said. The police denied that they were responsible for Rogo's shooting.
Coast CID boss Ambrose Munyasia said they were treating the incident as a "shoot and run" incident. Unconfirmed sources said a fleeing man was tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! near the Mombasa Polytechnic by flying squad officers. Earlier this year Rogo claimed that his life was in danger and his lawyer Mureithi Mbugua alleged that police had planted incriminating evidence to implicate his client.
In February, Rogo and Samir Khan were released on bond after being charged with being in possession of 102 bomb detonators, 3 guns and 119 bullets and had been released on bond. The case was to be heard on October 17 before principal magistrate K. Gacheru. Rogo also faced other cases in Nairobi including being a member of Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... . In 2005 he was acquitted of involvement in the 2002 Paradise Hotel, Kikambala kaboom in which 14 people died.
Moslem religious leaders yesterday condemned the killing and demanded that the police arrest those responsible. The Kenya National Moslem advisory council chairman Sheikh Juma Ngao said the police should also establish who murdered Samir Khan whose badly mutilated body was found dumped in Tsavo national park in April just hours after he was kidnapped from a bus.
"Even if he had mistakes, the matter was in court. Even the late Osama bin Laden ... who walked in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and didn't make it out... 's allies are being held at Guantanamo bay prison. There are laws in this country and that is the way to go," said Ngao. Sheikh Dor of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya demanded that the police resolve the matter. "They should not take us round in circles this time like they did in the Samir Khan case," he said.
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If it was a state-sanctioned killing - it was a bit too obvious in broad daylight. Also, lacking in precision - 15 or 16 shots by an AK is far more than necessary.
The response of the rioters seems to be a direct provocation by Al Shabaab. Evidently they wield more influence in the suburbs of Mombasa than the Kenyan authorities were willing to admit.
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Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
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Thank you for the literary contribution mojo. Next time I'm in Mombasa I'll have to keep my eyes open for a good Tommy gun - out of respect for poetry, of course :-)
(Sh. M. Network)-- At least two people reported killed and one other injured after a bomb went kaboom! at a cinema in the port city of Marka, the first attack since Somali and AU forces moved in the town on Monday, Witnesses said.
Ahmed Omar Mohamed, a security official, told Shabelle Media that the first blast went off near a cinema, killing a nearby salesperson, wounding one other.
The second bomb burst out at the entrance of a police army in the heart of Merca on Tuesday evening. One person was confirmed dead that attack, according to witnesses.
The blasts happened at around 06.30 pm local time and somali forces quickly sealed the area and began conducting operations over the attacks. No arrests were reported.
No group has said it carried out the attacks
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(Sh.M.Network)-Somalia's parliament elected Prof.Mohamed Osman Jawari as its new speaker on Tuesday with an overwhelming majority vote in Mogadishu.
Prof.Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari has received 119 votes, thereby becoming the new speaker of parliament while runner-up Ali Kahlif Galayr won 79 votes following the last round of the election.
Jawari, the elected speaker replaces Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan who is now MP in the new parliament of Somalia.
"Thanks for electing me, and again I ask your full support for maintaining this heavy responsibility," he told Parliament after politicians broke into applause.
Five candidates have run for the post of speaker, including two former prime ministers, Hassan Abshir Farah and Ali Khalif Galayr.
Mohamed Osman Jawari, a former minister under the regime of Siad Barre, is from the Rahanweyn clan from the southern Baidoa region.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Senior Somali army commander has survived Tuesday an assignation attempt by unknown assailants who attacked his house in Mogadishu with hand grenade, witnesses said.
Ahmed Yare, Somali army chief at Ex-control Afgoye junction, told Shabelle Media by phone that two attackers hurled grenades into his house overnight, but beat feet from the attack unhurt.
"Two unknown gunnies have attacked with grenades into my house last night, but I beat feet from the attack unhurt," he added.
The security forces have carried out search operations over the attack and tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! dozens of suspects in connection with the incident.
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(Sh. M. Network)-The Commander in Chief of the Somali Armed Forces vowed that Somali and AMISOM troops are committed to liberate soon all territories still remained under the control of the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabab.
Giving an interview with Shabelle Media, General Abdikarin Yusuf, said his forces are expanding their takeover against Al shabab controlled area in Lower Shabelle and middle regions, a day after Somali troops with the support of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission (AMISOM) forces seized Merca, a port city 100 Kilometres west of Mogadishu, from Al-Shabaab ... the successor to the Islamic Courts... "Allah willing, we shall set free soon all Al shabab held towns in south and centralSomalia. I urge the population to cooperate with the national army fighting with the orcs," he added.
He stressed that Somali and AU forces are preparing to move to the seaside Kismayo town, the scenic provincial capital of Lower Jubba region, some 500 kilometres south ofMogadishu.
General Abdikarin Yusuf "Dhega-badan" who is commanding the military operations against Al shabab beturbanned goons in south Somalia.
Al shabab commanders are yet to comment onSomalia's military gains against their strongholds in southern country.
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A total of six unidentified armed suspects were killed by Mexican security forces in two separate shootouts in Tamaulipas state Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news item posted on the website of El Sol de Zacatecas news daily reported a joint news release by the Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) and the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP), describing the two incidents. Both incidents involved units of the Mexican Army.
According to the news item, the first took place in Ciudad Victoria, the state capitol of Tamaulipas near the intersection of calles Paseo de los Olmos and Olmo Siberiano in Los Olivos colony, where federal security forces killed an unidentified man in his late 30s who was driving a Honda Accord sedan. Several rifles were found aboard the vehicle.
In the trunk of the car an unidentified 18 year old man was found who had apparently been kidnapped. The victim also suffered minor wounds from the shootout, but is expected to survive.
The second incident took place at around 1130 hrs on the Ciudad Victoria-Llera road at Kilometer 199 near a ranch four kilometers away. Five unidentified civilians were killed there, presumably by Mexican federal security forces.
Seized in the aftermath were four rifles and four vehicles, two of which had been stolen.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Three Georgian troops died and five were maimed in a clash with a squad of saboteurs during an operation in the Kakheti region, close to the Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... section of the Georgian-Russian border, the Georgian Interior Ministry said in a statement released shortly before 4pm local time on Wednesday.
Two of the killed Georgian troops were from the Interior Ministrys special purpose unit and one was an army corporal, who served as a doctor with the Defense Ministrys special operations forces
11 members of the gang have been liquidated, it said.
Currently six saboteurs are surrounded. Measures are ongoing aimed at their detention, the Interior Ministry said.
Earlier a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, Salome Makharadze, told Rustavi 2 TV that anti-terrorist operation with a purpose of neutralizing gang is ongoing.
In last three days the Interior Ministry has been carrying out operation to free several groups of hostages, she said.
Deputy Interior Minister, Shota Khizanishvili, said that all the hostages are freed and are unharmed.
Early on August 28 the Georgian television stations reported that five young men, local residents of the village of Lapankuri, were missing for several days. Later on the same day it was reported that all five men were found and taken to police for questioning; no other details were known at the time.
Lapankuri village is located in 35 kilometers north of Kakheti regions main town of Telavi, not far from the Russian border.
Late on August 28 first reports emerged about movement of Georgian troops in direction towards the Dagestan section of Georgian-Russian border via Lapankuri village.
Police pickups and trucks were seen transporting troops overnight on Wednesday via the village; helicopters were hovering over the area.
Late on August 28 the Interior Ministry released a brief statement saying that an gang was detected at the border with Dagestan.
On Wednesday morning the Interior Ministry said that its troops blocked the gorge and were pursuing the gang.
Shortly after 1pm local time on Wednesday the Interior Ministry called the operation anti-terrorist.
Imedi TV and Rustavi 2 TV, two television channels close to the government, reported on August 29, that the squad of saboteurs infiltrated into Georgia apparently from Dagestan and apart of those five men from Lapankuri village also kidnapped several other people; no exact information was available total of how many people were held by the gang.
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[Business Week] A jacket wallah in the southern Russian region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... killed Moslem scholar Said Afandi al- Chirkawi, local authorities said.
Said Afandi and five followers were killed by a female bomber in his home, the region's Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website yesterday, citing preliminary information. Said Afandi was the most important spiritual leader of Dagestani Moslems, said Maxim Shevchenko, a member of President Vladimir Putin's ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he traded places with his sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, and became Prime Minister of Russia, then traded again when his eligibility kicked in again. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his last presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... Council for Inter-Ethnic Relations.
The killing "may lead to a dramatic increase in violence," said Grigory Shvedov, head of Caucasian Knot, a Moscow-based research group. "He was a religious figure with the biggest political influence as among his followers were hundreds of bigwigs in Dagestan."
Dagestan, wedged between the Caspian Sea and Chechnya, where federal forces fought two wars against separatists after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has more killings in armed conflict than any other region in the North Caucasus, according to Caucasian Knot. There were 378 people killed in 2010 and 413 in 2011, it said.
"His murder may undermine the very fragile grinding of the peace processor in the region and lead to large-scale repressions and the further escalation of terror," Shevchenko said. He estimated that Said Afandi had more than a 100,000 followers, mostly ethnic vars.
An ethnic Russian woman, who was both wife and widow of Islamist Death Eaters, was named on Wednesday as the jacket wallah who killed a moderate Moslemholy man in the North Caucasus just as President Vladimir Putin was pleading for national unity.
Police said Aminat Kurbanova had posed as a pilgrim to the holy man's home and detonated an boom belt packed with nails and ball bearings, killing Atsayev, herself and six others, including an 11-year-old boy visiting with his parents.
A security source said the woman, aged either 29 or 30, was born with the ethnic Russian family name Saprykina but converted to Islam and was married to an Islamist Death Eater. Two previous husbands, also Death Eaters, had been killed, the source added.
Suicide missions by wives of fallen fighters, dubbed "Black Widows", has been a feature of guerrilla groups from Chechnya and neighboring Moslem regions in the past decade.
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[Dawn] In another incident of targeted Shia killing, three people of the Hazara community were killed and three others injured when gunnies opened fire on a taxi in the city's Spiny Road area on Monday.
Police sources said that five people were in the taxi, going to Marriabad from Hazara Town. They came under attack near Killi Mubarak area.
A senior police officer said three people hit by a number of bullets was struck down in his prime.
The condition of the injured was serious. They were in the civil hospital.
The dear departed were identified as Habibullah, Mustafa and Mohammad Ali and the injured as Mohammad Amir, Raza Hussian and Asmatullah.
Immediately after the incident, hundreds of people of the Hazara community erupted into the streets and blocked Brewery Road and the road leading to Hazara Town.
They marched on roads and raised slogans against the government.
Activists of the Hazara Democratic Party held a demonstration outside the press club.
They demanded action against police personnel for their failure to protect people's lives.
HDP information secretary Reza Wakil said that at least 600 Hazaras had been killed in acts of violence over the past few years. He said that government inaction had encouraged the forces of Evil who were now killing people in broad daylight.
Mr Wakil accused police of being involved in the killing of Hazaras and said that without their backing the forces of Evil could not attack them with impunity.
He said effective measures should be taken by the government to arrest the criminals who had killed hundreds of people.
The HDP leader said it was government's responsibility to protect life and property of citizens. He called upon human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations to raise their voice against the drive to exterminate the Hazaras.
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[Dawn] A former bodyguard of Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) chief Afaq Ahmed and two workers of the Pakistain People's Party were among the eight people killed in the unabated city violence on Monday.
Police said the MQM-H's Mohammad Rehan, 35, was sitting near the eatery called Baakra Hotel in Kharadar on Monday night when assailants opened fire on him, killing him on the spot.
Another person, later identified as Umar Gul, was also killed in the firing. A third man was maimed in the same attack.
All the victims were rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , where both men were pronounced dead on arrival while the third victim was admitted for treatment, the police said.
"Rehan was a former guard of Afaq Ahmed and was the main target of the killers," said SSP-South Asif Aijaz Sheikh.
The other man killed at the scene was believed to be a passer-by, SSP Sheikh said.
The maimed victim was also a pedestrian, he added.
A front man for the MQM-H said Rehan was a member of the party's consultative committee and was living in hiding. His family lived in Lines Area, but he lived somewhere in the Port Qasim area, party sources said. He was the father of two.
Two workers of the PPP were bumped off in Orangi Town on Monday night.
Police said the incident took place within the remit of the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe, where Shahid aka Lamba and Shakir Ali were sitting outside their house in Bangla Bazaar, where unknown assailants riding a cycle of violence shot them and rode away.
The police said both victims was struck down in his prime. They had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to their heads and chests. The police shifted the bodies to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
On hearing the news, a large number of PPP workers reached the hospital.
Police found several spent bullet casings of 9mm and 30-bore pistols at the scene of the crime.
Following the killings, tension gripped Bangla Bazaar and different parts of Orangi Town, where shops and markets were closed and heavy firing into the air was resorted to.
Both men were workers of PS-95. Shahid was the father of six. Shakir's father, Mohammad Ali, was killed in a similar manner in 1995 in Orangi Town, party sources said.
A police officer of the area said a number of PPP workers had been killed in Orangi Town this year in what seemed tit-for-tat attacks. The latest killings appeared part of the same series, he added.
Wounded MQM activist dies
An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... who was maimed in Baldia Town with an associate died at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Monday.
Police said Mohammad Rafique died during treatment while Arshad Qureshi was still said to be at death's door.
As the news of Rafique's death spread in Baldia Town, panic once again gripped the locality and intense firing erupted. All shops and markets were forced to shut by unknown persons.
The two MQM activists were maimed with a third person in Baldia Town on Sunday night. Earlier on Sunday, an activist of the defunct People's Amn Committee was killed and his associate was maimed at Balida Town No 4.
Police said the incident took place within the remit of the Saeedabad cop shoppe, where a joint unit-in-charge of Baldia Town, Arshad Qureshi, and his associate Mohammad Rafique were targeted by unknown attackers riding a cycle of violence.
Bodies of two young men
The bodies of two unidentified young men were found in different parts of the city on Monday.
One of them was found in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... early on Monday morning, police said.
They said the incident took place within the remit of the Kalri cop shoppe, where unknown suspects tossed a body, trussed up and stuffed in a gunny bag, from a moving car on Ahmed Shah Bukhari Road.
The victim appeared to have been tortured and shot to the head, the police said. They shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities. Later the body was taken to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.
The police said the victim was in his late 20s and had been killed after being kidnapped at an unknown place. He was subjected to sever torture.
The other unidentified body was found in Landhi on Monday morning, police said.
They said the victim had been shot to the head.
The body was found near the model park in Sector 36-B within the remit of the Landhi cop shoppe.
The victim, in his mid-20s, was wearing shalwar kameez.
The police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities and later the body was taken to the Edhi morgue for want identification.
Pickup driver
A pickup driver was rubbed out in the Garden area on Monday.
Police said unknown suspects riding a cycle of violence fired handgun shots at pickup driver SLearned Elders of Islamn Khan, 24, near Jhanda Chowk within the remit of the Garden cop shoppe. The victim was rushed to the CHK, where he died soon after arrival.
Police said the victim lived in Agra Taj Colony and was heading to Taj Complex on M.A. Jinnah Road after taking tyres from Mauripur Road.
Police were not sure about the motive for the killing.
Pen caretaker
A caretaker of a cattle pen was killed by unknown persons in Memon Goth early on Monday morning.
Police said the incident took place at the guest house of Tehrik-e-Insaaf's Youth Wing vice president Haji Shabbir Jokhio where suspects barged in and shot Arz Jokhio, who was asleep.
Hearing the gunshots, Haji Shabbir came out with his bodyguard but the attackers had fled, area SHO Rao Khalid said.
The victim was the caretaker of a cattle pen in Memon Goth and frequented Haji Shabbir's house, police said.
The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
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[Dawn] Eight hard boyz were killed and two security personnel suffered injuries in a clash in Masozai area of central Kurram tribal region on Monday.
Sources said that a group of hard boyz attacked a checkpost in Masozai with heavy weapons and injured two coppers. Security forces killed eight hard boyz and injured several others in retaliatory action, they added.
The injured coppers were taken to a hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger.
In Khyber Agency, two members of a banned thug outfit were killed in a remote controlled kaboom in Bazaar-Zakhakhel area on Monday.
Sources said that two members of Bara-based Lashkar-e-Islam were trying to enter a bunker of their rival group Tawheedul Islam when the bomb planted near the bunker went off and killed both of them on the spot.
In Bara, security forces seized huge quantity of opium and hashish during raids on private warehouses in Alam Gudar area. No arrests were, however, made as nobody was present at the warehouses during the raids. The contraband was shifted to nearby FC camp.
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[Dawn] Fresh festivities in Pakistain's northwestern tribal area along the Afghan border on Tuesday left three soldiers and 11 Death Eaters dead, security officials said.
The latest fighting occurred as part of a Pakistain army operation to repel Talibs who had crossed over from Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... in Afghanistan early Friday and occupied the village of Batwar in the Bajaur tribal district.
Officials said several soldiers were also missing in the festivities.
The fighting has so far left 50 dead including 31 jihad boys, three soldiers and two members of a government backed peace committee who were killed on Monday.
"During the ongoing festivities in the Batwar border area of Bajaur, 11 Death Eaters were killed today while several were maimed," a security bigshot based in the region's main city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar told AFP.
"Three security personal have also embraced shahadat (martyrdom) while some are missing," he said.
Pak troops tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight Death Eaters while "the dead bodies of some Death Eaters are in the custody of security forces," he added.
Another government official from Khar, the main town of the Bajaur tribal district, confirmed the latest fighting and new corpse count. He requested anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media.
The area is cut off to journalists and aid workers and it was not possible to confirm the corpse count independently.
Bajaur is one of seven districts in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, where Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters have carved out strongholds used to plot attacks on Pakistain.
Pakistain has lost more than 3,000 soldiers in the fight against homegrown forces of Evil but has resisted US pressure to do more to eliminate havens used by those fighting the Americans in Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] An apparent kaboom on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-bound train early on Wednesday killed at least three and injured around a dozen near Jacobabad in Sindh, DawnNews reported.
The train, Khushal Express, carrying passenger from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and was destined for Peshawar.
According to initial reports, police and rescue teams were reaching the site.
Emergency has been imposed in all hospitals of Jacobabad.
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[An Nahar] Gunmen rubbed out two Iraqi army soldiers, including a lieutenant, in a drive-by shooting in north Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.
The gunnies, who were driving in two cars, opened fire using silenced pistols on a military pick-up truck in Waziriyah, killing the two, an interior ministry official and a medical source said.
The latest fatalities took to 261 the number of people killed in nationwide attacks so far in August, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally based on reports from security and medical officials. They've got lotsa people. The Maliki govt doesn't seem too concerned about hunting down the murderers and killing them.
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[An Nahar] Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, training camps in the Gazoo Strip early Tuesday, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave said.
An Israeli helicopter fired six missiles at two different sites northwest of Gazoo city, both training camps for Hamas' military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, eyewitnesses said.
In addition, an Israeli aircraft fired four rockets at a Qassam training camp south of Gazoo City, according to sources in Gazoo.
There were no injuries in any of the attacks.
The Israeli military confirmed the strikes on the northern Gazoo Strip, without mentioning the third one.
In a statement, the army said its "aircraft targeted two sites -- a weapon manufacturing site and a weapon storage facility in the northern Gazoo Strip."
"Direct hits were confirmed. The sites were targeted in response to the continuous rocket fire towards southern Israel," the statement read.
On Monday, Gazoofaceless myrmidons fired three mortars that hit southern Israel, causing no damages or injuries.
And on Sunday, two factories in the southern Israeli city Sderot were damaged by rockets. A Salafist group from Gazoo, Mujahedeen Shura Council, assumed responsibility for that attack.
Hamas, which rules the Gazoo Strip, has maintained a tacit truce with Israel, but other armed Paleostinian groups regularly fire rockets and mortars across the border, which can spark air strikes in response.
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Air Force bombs weapons production and storage facilities in northern Strip after repeated rocket attacks in past two days. Paleostinians report of two injuries
The IDF retaliated to the recent firing of rockets at Sderot and bombed two weapons production and storage facilities in the northern Gazoo Strip overnight. The IDF confirmed the report.
According to reports, Air Force jets struck a number posts belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing as well as Hamas government security posts. Two Paleostinian officers were maimed.
It was also reported that Gazoo security forces evacuated all of their posts for fear of additional attacks.
On Monday, two rockets hit open areas in Sderot and Shaar Hanegev just minutes after President Shimon Peres had left the area after visiting a local school.
Several hours earlier, a rocket was fired at Sderot shortly after the new school year began. Rockets were fired at the southern city on Sunday as well, hitting two factories. No injuries were reported.
Iran, in continuing to support the Syrian government's crackdown against protestors, publicly stated that it is sending military personnel from its elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to Syria.
"Today, we are involved in fighting every aspect of a war, a military one in Syria, and a cultural one as well,"
"Today, we are involved in fighting every aspect of a war, a military one in Syria, and a cultural one as well," Gen. Salar Abnoush, a Revolutionary Guard commander said in addressing a group of volunteer trainees Monday, as reported by Daneshjoo News Agency, an online pro-regime student-run media platform.
Though many have pointed for quite some time to the symbiotic relationship between Tehran and Damascus, including Iran's training of Syrian cyber police and sending tactical support and cash, the statement appears to be the Iranian regime's first public account of military participation in Syria.
Public acknowledgment of Iran's manpower support and military involvement in Syria comes at a time when international pressure against Syria is at its peak and the Syrian regime's massacre against its civilians is most violent. Syrian military defections are on the rise, and many soldiers are often unwilling to fire at protesting crowds.
"Today, Syria is resisting as our front's surrogate, and we all have a responsibility to support it and to not let the line fall," Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Mullah Hussein Taeb as saying. Taeb is a well-known suppressor of the 2009 Iranian uprisings, as head of intelligence for the Revolutionary Guard, and right-hand man to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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With the election so close Obama has not the will nor the vision to do what is right. He is fine hiding in the shadows as a puppeteer. Perhaps he will wait till after the election when he will have more power to influence these events. The truth is those close to him will have to make the call. Should it turn out well he will take the credit. Now its legacy time for him.
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Time to take the fight to the Iranian stooges. Targetted assassinations in Syria, funding and supplying opposition militias in Iran. Bleed them everywhere
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My impression is that the West started this by using Syria as a pressure point on Iran. However, this conflict is mushrooming into a full-scale war ... especially with so many foreign interests involved. The next major MidEast war could start as the "Syrian War". Not only will Syria be devastated - but it will unlock conflicts across a host of people groups inside the Middle East. Unlike previous ME wars - this is not just Israel vs. Neighbor. There are many hostile influences and many people looking to re-align their borders, extract revenge, or get a tit-for-tat. It has the potential to become a true multi-party conflict before the dust settles.
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according to Debka ... Russians pulling out of Syria this week. If so - it's got nothing to do with Assad. They obviously believe something bigger is coming ... and fast.
[An Nahar] A car boom killed 12 people at a funeral in the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana on the southeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
"Another 48 people were maimed, many critically, in a terrorist car blast that targeted a funeral procession in Jaramana," it said.
"At around 3 pm (1200 GMT), a funeral procession was making its way to the cemetery, when a car parked on the side of the road went kaboom!, killing and injuring many people," an army official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The funeral was held for two supporters of the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... who were killed in a kaboom on Monday, the Britannia-based Observatory said.
The force of the blast completely destroyed the facade of one building, while others suffered heavy damage, an AFP photographer reported.
State media blamed rebel fighters for the bombing, which came amid an intensified bombardment by government troops of eastern districts of Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... that shelter some of the Free Syrian Army's best organized battalions.
But the opposition Syrian National Council accused Assad's regime of staging the bombing against its own supporters in a bid to divert attention from the killings of hundreds of people during an army assault last week on a largely Sunni Mohammedan suburb of the capital.
"The regime wants to cover up for its massacres," SNC front man George Sabra said, alluding to the deaths in the town of Daraya that sparked an international outcry.
"It also wants to punish residents of Jaramana -- who are of mixed religious backgrounds -- for welcoming people who were displaced from nearby towns." Sabra told AFP by telephone
"The regime's fingerprints are clear," charged Sabra, himself a Christian. "The regime does not want anyone to welcome refugees from other cities. And it wants to turn the revolution... into a bloody civil war fought along sectarian lines."
Some 80 percent of Syrians are Sunni Mohammedan, while around 10 percent belong to Assad's Alawite community, five percent are Christian, three percent Druze and one percent Ismaili.
The opposition draws much of its support from the Sunni majority, who have borne the brunt of the government's deadly crackdown.
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[An Nahar] Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riyad Abu Ghida heard on Tuesday the testimonies of ex-Minister Michel Samaha's bodyguard and driver over the bombing attacks plot.
Bodyguard Ali Mallah and driver Fares Barakat, who were enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for questioning on Aug. 9 and later released, testified to Abu Ghida on the transfer of explosives from Syria in an attempt to carry out bombings in northern Leb.
Samaha's lawyer Sakhr al-Hashem met with the former minister at the headquarters of the military police.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... Abu Ghida summoned al-Joumhouria newspaper's editorial director Charles Jabbour and manager Khalil Abu Antoun to hear their testimonies as witnesses for publishing the transcript of Samaha's confessions.
But the session was postponed to next Tuesday.
Samaha was enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch during a raid on his house on Aug. 9.
The former minister, Syrian National Security Bureau head Ali Mamlouk and a Syrian officer identified as Brig. Gen. Adnan were accused on Aug. 11 of plotting to assassinate political and religious figures in Leb and carry out terrorist attacks.
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[An Nahar] The recent release of a Lebanese man who had been cooled for a few years I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in Syria in the past 27 years brought back to the spotlight the issue of the Lebanese who went missing during Leb's 1975-90 Civil War.
The media identified the man as 49-year-old Yaacoub Chamoun, who was seized in the eastern city of Zahle, and later moved to several Syrian prisons during his incarceration, including the notorious Mezze, Saydnaya and Tadmor prisons.
Chamoun was also placed in solitary confinement for four years.
He was later transferred to a civilian prison and was able to secure his release by paying millions in cash through a powerful Syrian lawyer.
The release of Chamoun in July proved that Syrian authorities were still detaining Lebanese political prisoners despite claims that they had set all of them free.
The Assad regime has long denied holding any prisoners of conscience, but on four different occasions between 1976 and 2000 has released Lebanese who had been held in Syrian prisons.
The man confirmed to LBCI TV network that there are Lebanese political prisoners in Syrian jails and said he had encountered five of them but he refused to name them for fears that the revelation would do them harm.
The head of the committee of Lebanese political detainees in Syrian jails, Ali Abu Dehen, told An Nahar daily that a former prisoner had been sent to meet Chamoun and inquire him about other Lebanese.
But the committee failed in getting any additional information , Abu Dehen said.
The civil war has claimed the lives of at least 150,000 people. For over 21 years, more than 600 families -- Lebanese and Paleostinian -- have demanded authorities reveal the fate of the thousands believed to have disappeared at the hands of Syrian troops who entered Leb shortly after the outbreak of the war.
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[An Nahar] Cautious calm engulfed the Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp on Tuesday afternoon after an exchange of gunfire between two members of the Fatah Movement left one of them maimed, state-run National News Agency reported.
Moein Jabr, a bodyguard for prominent Fatah leader Munir al-Maqdah, was maimed as a personal dispute between him and Fatah member Alaa al-Rifai erupted into gunfire.
Radio Voice of Leb (93.3) said al-Rifai is loyal to Paleostinian Armed Struggle chief Mahmoud Issa, aka al-Lino, who is also a Fatah official.
The maimed man was taken to al-Hamshari Hospital in Sidon for treatment, NNA said.
The Paleostinian follow-up committee conducted the necessary contacts in order to hand al-Rifai over to the relevant Lebanese security authorities, NNA added.
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General Salar Abnoush is quoted by the Journal saying in a speech to volunteers (according to Iranian news agency Daneshjoo) -- "Today we are involved in fighting every aspect of a war, a military one in Syria and a cultural one as well."
Other sources cited by the Journal confirm that the decision was taken by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, urged by the commander of the IRGC's elite Qods Force, General Qadim Solaimani and while the actual deployment has not been officially announced or confirmed, Iranian defense minister Ahmad Vahidi said that "Syria is managing this situation very well on its own, but if the government can't resolve the crisis on its own, then based on their request we will fulfill our mutual defense-security pact." And Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar, in Tehran this week, said that "the people of Syria will never forget the support of Iran during these difficult times." could be posturing,
could be some Persians blustering
could be pretense in advance of non aligned meeting
could be pretense in advance of Morsi's and Ban's visit
could be a sign of Persian desperation
could be a sign the Persians think Assad will survive
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A former bodyguard of Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) chief Afaq Ahmed and two workers of the Pakistain People's Party were among the eight people killed in the unabated city violence on Monday.
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[An Nahar] Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riyad Abu Ghida heard on Tuesday the testimonies of ex-Minister Michel Samaha's bodyguard and driver over the bombing attacks plot.
The recent release of a Lebanese man who had been 
Cautious calm engulfed the Ain al-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp on Tuesday afternoon after an exchange of gunfire between two members of the Fatah Movement left one of them 
