[An Nahar] Israel's foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Egyptian ambassador after statements by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, who said the peace treaty between the two states is "not sacred", Israeli website Ynet reported.
Foreign Ministry Director General Rafi Barak summoned Ambassador Yasser Reda to express Israel's "irritation over the recurrent calls from senior Egyptian officials over the need for modification to the peace treaty," Ynet reported.
During the 30-minute interview at the foreign ministry headquarters in Jerusalem, Barak told Reda that "from Israel's perspective, there are no intentions whatsoever to reopen the peace treaty and the step cannot be taken unilaterally."
Not de jure, perhaps, but de facto is another story. Then there's the traditional ginned up incident, like Turkey is looking for at the moment -- perhaps in the spirit of Muslim brotherliness they could share...
They just might. You wouldn't think the Egyptians and the Turks would work together but circumstances are such that both Erdogan and the Egyptian military rulers could use a diversion. Israel and the Juice of course are always at hand.
You'd think they'd take the gentle hint of five or six wars, choosing to move to a more congenial neighborhood, but they draw encouragement from having won the things, can you imagine?!?
On Thursday, Sharaf said the 1979 peace deal with Israel "is not sacred" in an interview with Turkish television.
"The Camp David treaty is always open to discussion or for modification if that is beneficial for the region and for a just peace. The peace treaty is not something sacred and there can be changes made to it," the official MENA agency quoted Sharaf as saying.
The premier's statement comes a week after protesters ransacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo, forcing the evacuation of staff and the departure of the ambassador.
The attack late on Friday, in which crowds smashed through an external security wall, tossed embassy papers from balconies and tore down the Israeli flag, was the worst since Israel set up its mission in Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to minimize the repercussions of the embassy attack on bilateral ties.
"We are committed to preserving peace with Egypt, which is in the interest of Egypt and Israel," he said
Relations between Egypt and Israel, which have been bound by a peace treaty since 1979, have entered a period of turbulence since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... by a popular uprising in February.
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Israel should remind the Egyptian military how much money they get from the US based on that peace treaty. Its one thing to blather about Israel and another to sacrifice one of the few sources of dependable currency left.
[An Nahar] Fighters loyal to Libya's new leaders on Friday thrust deep into the city of Sirte and into desert oasis Bani Walid, two of runaway Moammar Qadaffy's ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... few remaining bastions, Agence La Belle France Presse news hounds said.
On the political front, officials in Tripoli said a new transitional government would be announced on Sunday, while the U.N. General Assembly gave Libya's U.N. seat to the former rebel National Transitional Council.
Columns of NTC fighters backed by tanks launched an early morning assault on Sirte, Qadaffy's hometown on the central Mediterranean coast, a day after a first attack was repulsed.
Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... ensued at the airport and southeast of the city center.
NTC forces fired anti-aircraft guns and heavy cannon within the city limits and Qadaffy fighters responded with sniper fire and Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
Senior military commander Salem Jeah said NTC forces were nearing the center of Sirte, with an AFP correspondent reporting late in the afternoon that the front line was about one kilometer away.
"We are advancing in from the west and the south towards the city center," Jeah said. "Our forces retreated strategically during the night but are now speeding towards the center and some have already entered."
Field commander Hadi Saleq reported skirmishes on three fronts. "The fighting is concentrated on September 1 Street, residential zone 2 in the city center and around the airport," Saleq said.
The overall casualty figures were six dead and 35 maimed, based on an AFP hospital tally.
Emergency worker Mohammed al-Ashraf said 10 NTC fighters were maimed and one killed in September 1 Street, where there was heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
At least 200 NTC pick-up trucks fanned out from a roundabout on the street firing heavy weapons to clear the area of Qadaffy fighters amid incoming sniper fire and sporadic rocket attacks.
Ironically, resident and university student Abdul al-Mutaly said it was not until Friday that he had learned Tripoli had fallen to the NTC on August 23.
There had been no electricity for a month, "so people were completely in the dark about what was going on outside" Sirte.
The NTC said its fighters had also entered the oasis town of Bani Walid southeast of Tripoli, but they made a "tactical withdrawal" in the evening due to sniper fire.
"It is useless to hold on to positions overnight in a hostile environment," a commander told AFP.
An NTC front man said earlier "our revolutionaries have entered Bani Walid," 170 kilometers southeast of the capital, adding with what proved to be excessive optimism that "the situation will be resolved this evening."
An AFP photographer reported his driver seeing around a dozen ambulances streaming out of Bani Walid containing NTC casualties. It was not immediately known how many had been killed or maimed.
The photographer also reported fighting at the town's market, while an NTC source said Qadaffy forces were entrenched only in the Dawim area of the town.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Libya on Friday, boosting international support for the NTC a day after Britannia's David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... and La Belle France's Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... became the first foreign leaders to visit the new Libya.
Erdogan was greeted on arrival by NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil.
"I am happy to have been a witness to the advent of democracy in Libya," he said after joining Friday prayers.
He hailed "the memory of deaders who sacrificed themselves for their country and their religion" and urged holdouts in Sirte and Bani Walid to "embrace your brothers and join other Libyans."
His visit came a day after Cameron and Sarkozy, whose forces spearheaded the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... air war that helped topple Qadaffy, were mobbed by jubilant crowds in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi.
But Qadaffy front man Moussa Ibrahim accused them of coming to plunder Libya's riches.
"The visit marks the start of a project of colonization of Libya," Ibrahim charged in a telephone call late on Thursday to Syria-based Arrai television.
"They are hurrying to collect the fruits of the fall of Tripoli ... because they obviously fear the arrival of America and other countries wanting a slice of the cake," he said, without disclosing where he was phoning from.
"They hurried to Tripoli to make secret deals with the collaborators and the traitors, and to take the control of oil and investments under the pretext of rebuilding," Ibrahim said.
Sarkozy had insisted in Tripoli that there was "no ulterior motive" in Western assistance to the new Libya. "We did what we did because we thought it was right," he declared.
Ibrahim added "thousands" of loyalists were ready to fight "on all fronts" and that victory over the NTC forces was assured.
NATO has said about 15 percent of Qadaffy's forces were still operational.
Qadaffy and members of his inner circle have been in hiding since Tripoli was overrun, with the runaway strongman still believed to be in Libya even though members of his family have decamped to Algeria and Niger.
One of them, Qadaffy's son Saadi, is being held in Niger, where the government said he would not be sent back "where he has no chance of receiving a fair trial and where he could face the death penalty."
In other developments, an NTC official said the new government to be announced on Sunday "will comprise 30 members -- it will be representative of all political groups and all regions -- women are included."
In New York, the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to let the NTC take over Libya's U.N. mission. That will allow Abdul Jalil to attend next week's U.N. gathering of world leaders in New York, where he is to meet U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama and other key leaders on the sidelines of the meeting.
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ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > LIBYAN REBELS EXECUTED 85 [pro-Gaddafi]MERCENARIES, includ aproxi 30 later found to be foreigners.
ARTIC = those Mercs whom surrendered or were captured were executed by shot to the head???
Law enforcement agencies have detained 53 militants and 85 militant accomplices in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Dagestan since the start of the year. "A total of 455 firearms, more than 90,000 rounds of ammunition and 365 grenades have been seized," the ministry added.
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IIRC TOPIX [old = paraph]> seems a RUSS GOVT. OFFICIAL opined that ISLAMIST/MILITANT-LED DESTABILIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS, RUSS REGIONS + SOVEREIGN EX-SSRS, CAN LAST FOR MANY YEARS, POSSIBLY DECADES???
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* WORLD MIL FORUM > CHINESE SCHOLARS: US COULD EXPERIENCE UNABATED TERROR THREAT FOR NEXT 10-20 YEAS DUE TO RISE OF CHINA AND BRIC NATIONS. TERROR ATTACKS TO BECOME LARGER-SCALED [focus on higher levels of mass casaulties], MORE VIOLENT, + WID POTENTIAL USE OF NUKES-WMDS.
* IIRC PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/TOPIX > PANETTA: Al-QAEDA OFFSHOOTS COULD ADOPT "CORE" QAEDA METHODS TO ECON DESTABILIZE US-WEST.
Post-Osama, Zawahiri-led "Core" Al-Qaeda greatly weakened but is still capable of launching selective spectacular attacks from Pakistan.
Ay Pee summarized: the police have been investigating since 2009 for financing terrorism and
recruiting. The man and woman are Finland's first terror arrests..
[Dawn] Pakistain Rangers carrying out random vehicle checks on the National Highway on Thursday afternoon seized weapons found in the vehicle of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) chairman and subsequently jugged him.
The detention of JSQM chief Bashir Qureshi caused tension in the strongholds of the nationalist party, which threatened to call a "province-wide shutter-down strike on Friday if its leaders were not released".
Mr Qureshi was returning from the interior of Sindh when the Rangers stopped and searched his vehicle close to his Gulshan-i-Hadeed residence.
While the Rangers and JSQM leaders had different views on the detention, witnesses said the two sides engaged in an argument before the paramilitary soldiers jugged the nationalist leader along with his gunman and another man.
"Peasant -- do you know who I am?!?"
"Yessir. Don't care. In these troubled times, the Law holds for everyone. Even you, Mr. Basher Qureshi of 14795 Pleasant Tree Lane in lovely Gulshan-i-Hadeed."
The Rangers front man said: "The Rangers personnel during snap checking near Gulshan-i-Hadeed stopped the vehicle of Bashir Qureshi and carried out a search during which they found four sub-machine guns, two pistols and several bullets.
Good bodyguards are hard to find. Best to indulge them a bit about their toys. Besides, it was only several bullets.
One bullet per gun? Tightwad...
"Consequently, the Rangers jugged Bashir Qureshi for initial interrogation."
When asked about detention of any other person along the JSQM chief, the Rangers official said his gunman 'might also have been jugged'.
The official, however, did not disclose the location where the JSQM leader was being 'investigated' insisting that it was not a formal arrest but detention to seek answers about the illegal arms.
"We would hand him over to local police with our initial report for further legal process. The police would take care of the registration of an FIR or any other formality," the Rangers front man added.
The action sparked anger in JSQM ranks, as big shots of the party in Bloody Karachi and other cities of Sindh led street protests.
Tension gripped parts of Bin Qasim Town and Malir Town as regular life in Gulshan-i-Hadeed and Steel Town came to halt after closure of businesses.
Area people and JSQM leaders said the Rangers personnel also jugged two sons of a police officer, who resided in the same area, when they intervened during the argument between the two sides.
"Mr Qureshi's gunman and his guest, Sarwar Shah, were also taken away," they said.
After their leader's detention, some charged youths erupted into the streets in a few districts of the metropolis. They blocked roads with burning tyres in Scheme 33 and Bin Qasim Town.
Similar scenes were witnessed on the National Highway as traffic coming from the interior of Sindh and leaving the city remained suspended for a brief period.
The JSQM leaders rejected the Rangers claim and said the party chief was 'tossed in the clink only for his recent political activism'. But none of them denied that arms were being carried by Mr Qureshi and those jugged along with him. They threatened to call a strike if the JSQM chief was not released or if a case was registered against him.
"If he is not released immediately, a shutter-down strike will be called across Sindh on Friday," said Bloody Karachi JSQM president Illahi Bukhsh Bikik. "He was returning home after visiting flood-affected areas in Sindh when apprehended by the Rangers. Mr Qureshi had security guards with him with licensed weapons."
The authorities did not sound too bothered about the threats of a strike and province-wide protests, vowing to pursue 'the legal course of action against the nationalist leader in line with the defined laws.'
"Anyone found by the law-enforcement agencies violating the law of the land, including possession of unlicensed arms, would be taken to task," Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wassan told Dawn.
"The government has decided to enforce the writ of the law in the province and this time the government means business. I am here to ensure transparency and evenhanded surgical operation in the province against target-killers, land-grabbers, drug-peddlers and those involved in any kind of crime."
That's that, then.
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[Dawn] Security forces killed four Death Eaters after their attack on the forces convoy with a remote-controlled bomb left two soldiers dead in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Thursday, officials said.
The incident occurred in Gandao area when an improvised bomb planted on a roadside went off when a security convoy was passing by. Two security personnel were killed and one was injured in the kaboom.
Later, the forces cordoned off the area and started indiscriminate firing. The officials said that at least four Death Eaters were killed and six others injured in the retaliatory fire by the security forces. A search operation was also conducted, but no one was tossed in the clink.
In Landi Kotal, the security forces defused an bomb planted on a roadside near Charwazgai security checkpost.
In another incident, the Death Eaters destroyed a government school and private clinic in Speen Qabar area of Bara late on Wednesday night while a thug was killed in bomb kaboom, officials said.
They said that an unidentified thug was killed when kaboom he was trying to plant inside a school in Speen Qabar went kaboom!. They said that other Death Eaters later destroyed the school.
An adjoining private health clinic was also damaged due to the kaboom. The same school was also targeted by Death Eaters a few weeks ago, causing partial damage to its building.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... at least three houses were partially damaged when mortar shells fired by the security forces at the suspected thug positions hit the houses of Azmat Shah and Maulana Abdul Qayyum in Gandao area on Thursday.
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FALLUJA, Iraq - Hundreds of people took to the streets of towns across Iraq's Sunni Muslim province of Anbar to protest against the arrests of eight local terrorists men suspected in the killing of Shia Muslim pilgrims.
The execution-style killings on Monday and the angry reaction threatened to rekindle sectarian tension in Anbar, Iraq's Sunni heartland and a former al Qaeda stronghold that was the scene of some of the worst fighting in the war.
The eight terrorists suspects were captured in Anbar on Thursday by Shia authorities from neighbouring Kerbala province, an action that infuriated Anbar leaders and residents. Terrorists Gunmen attacked two buses carrying Shia pilgrims headed from the city of Kerbala to Syria on Monday, killing 22 men while sparing 15 women, 12 children and two elderly men.
"We will cut the hand of whoever reaches (across) our borders," demonstrators chanted in Ramadi.
Protesters also demonstrated in Falluja, Qaim, Hit and other cities and towns across Anbar, demanding the terrorists suspects be returned and warning of possible new sectarian tension.
Anbar provincial officials accused Mohammed al-Moussawi, chairman of the Kerbala Provincial Council, of "kidnapping" the eight terrorists suspects. "Who gave him this authority to arrest terrorists people from our province? He has no legal right to do that," Anbar Governor Qassim Mohammed told Reuters. "He came here and we received him as a visitor but he acted like a gangster."
Moussawi said the terrorists suspects were arrested after Kerbala authorities, acting on information from the Iraqi government's intelligence service, notified the military leadership of Anbar.
"The arrested terrorists people were moved directly to Baghdad and they are under investigation now," he said. "I am shocked at the unjustified escalation by some people in Anbar province."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki condemned what he called "irresponsible statements that may lead to igniting sedition between Anbar and Kerbala provinces. "They (the terrorists suspects) are in Baghdad under investigation. If anything is proved against them they will get their fair punishment. If they are innocent, they will be released," he said.
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Yo, Sunni dudes. Chill. You don't run the country any more. But remember, you've still got it better than the whites under Mugabe.
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Two people were killed and 40 others wounded in three serial bomb attacks yesterday evening in Narathiwat province, in one of the most violent incidents in the deep South since the new government took over. Unconfirmed reports said a two-year-old girl was the third fatality.
A motorcycle bomb exploded at around 6:40 pm, wounding several people, then the second bomb went off 15 minutes later about 300 meters away, wounding a number of tourists. Later, at 7:20 pm, a car bomb exploded outside the Merlin Hotel, shattering its windows and damaging nearby homes.
Mobile-phone signals and electricity were not available for some time after the blasts, possibly because the power stations were affected by the explosions and signals were being jammed to minimise further bomb attacks. Electricity returned at 10 pm.
All three sites were located in business and tourist areas, and the attacks took place on a busy Friday night. Residents were advised by soldiers to stay indoors for security reasons.
A spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command in the South, said a number of suspects had been arrested. He added that another bomb was also found near a Chinese shrine, but was defused in time.
Among the 40 wounded, 13 are in critical condition. The wounded include two policemen, one soldier and a civilian defense volunteer.
Two policemen had earlier been killed and three villagers injured yesterday after a shootout during a Friday prayer at a mosque in Yala province. A police team found that police Senior Sgt-Major Arong Malaya and police volunteer Mahama Yama had been fatally shot in the head. Police said the victims had gone to the mosque to "worship Allah's kindness".
A group of four terrorists insurgents had parked their motorcycles in front of the mosque. Two of them went inside the mosque and were sitting near the worshippers. Suddenly they stood up and shot them. They then escaped from the mosque and disappeared.
[An Nahar] Two Internal Security Forces Information Branch officers were maimed at dawn Friday when gunnies opened fire on their patrol at the Jlala bridge-Chtaura in the Western Bekaa, the National News Agency reported.
NNA said the two-vehicle patrol came under fire from three gunnies riding a Mercedes that turned out to be stolen. One of the patrol's vehicles, a Nissan, was riddled with bullets.
Officer Joseph al-Ashqar received wounds in his arms and legs while Elias Nasrallah was severely injured after bullets reached his abdomen and other parts of his body.
NNA said that the Mercedes was stolen from its owner Salam Massaad in Jeb Jenin hours before the 3:00 am ambush.
ISF took strong security measures in the Bekaa and launched an operation to search for the suspects that decamped towards the international highway that leads to 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....
Security forces later found the vehicle near a waste dump in Jeb Jenin.
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[An Nahar] Security forces in Syria rubbed out at least 46 people in operations across the country on Friday, the Syrian Revolution General Commission said.
In the central city of Homs, two demonstrators were rubbed out by security forces when several thousand people gathered to protest, activists said.
One person was rubbed out by security forces in the Nahr Aisha quarter of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and two in Douma, near the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
And 10 people were killed in Hama city, nearby Hilfaya and villages in the northwest of the country, the Britannia-based group told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Observatory also reported the discovery of 15 bodies in various cities, saying most had been killed in the past 24 hours.
State television said one member of the security forces was killed and another four were maimed at Basr al-Harir in southern Daraa province during an attack by "gangs."
In the city of Hama itself, security agents "surrounded the Saad bin Abi Waqas mosque" anticipating a protest after Friday prayers, activists reported.
In July, Hama saw protests by hundreds of thousands of people calling for the downfall of 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... 's regime, but the rallies were put down by security forces using deadly violence.
Citing activists on the ground, the Observatory also reported several tanks and troop transports bearing down on the northwest town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province.
Elsewhere, communications were still cut on Friday in Zabadani some 50 kilometers northwest of Damascus, where one man has been reported killed and 153 people placed in durance vile since Tuesday.
Opposition protesters had called for more rallies on Friday, the Mohammedan day of weekly prayer when demonstrations tend to be the heaviest, undaunted by the crackdown the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... says has killed more than 2,600 people.
The rallies were staged under the slogan "we advance toward the fall of the regime."
"Six months. More than ever determined to (continue) the March 15 uprising," activists wrote on Facebook page The Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the main engines of the revolt.
The regime blames the violence on "armed terrorist gangs."
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TURKEY: SYRIA'S OPPRESSORS WILL NOT SURVIVE.
Baby Assad must reform or else be [violently]forced out of power like Mubarak + Uncle Muammar.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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President-for-Life Bashir 
