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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lynne Frederick aka The last wife of Peter Sellers aka Mary Custance in "No Blade of Grass" aka Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in "Nicholas and Alexandra" aka Catherine Howard in "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" aka Princess Flavia in "The Prisoner of Zenda" (Died in 1994 at age 39)
O brave, brave Lions of Islam -- wanted Dad to fo something, so they kidnapped and hanged a small child.
Kabul - Suspected Talibs hanged an 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after ordering his father, a local police commander, to surrender, a government front man said Saturday.
The child was kidnapped by forces of Evil in Greshk district of the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... four days ago and was hanged on Friday, Daud Ahmadi, provincial governor front man said. 'The forces of Evil had warned his father, who is a local police commander, to surrender with his police vehicle and weapons, otherwise they would kill his son,' Ahmad said.
The Taliban have not commented.
They only comment when they think it makes them look heroic.
Elsewhere, an operation by Afghan and coalition forces in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... left 16 bully boyz dead overnight, officials said They also confiscated a drug cache of 2,000 kilograms of poppy, six kilograms of heroin, 50 kilograms of hashish and 150 kilograms of morphine, as well as 20 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, which is used as an explosive component..
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I agree with Ang on this one. The policeman should be considered a hero. He made a decision that shows the integrity needed to win this struggle. No one on the Taliban side has this moral fiber. I also look forward to reports of "shot while resisting arrest" that result from this story or "a dismembered corpse with signs of torture" story.
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#7: And yet they insist that we negotiate with these creatures. Posted by: CrazyFool|
I'd like to be in charge of the "negotiations". The first thing I'd do is napalm a few dozen villages - half in Afghanistan, half in Pakistan. Then I'd run a 6-ship ARCLIGHT strike down through the middle of Rawalpindi/Islamabad. Then I'd tell the Taliban/ISI/Pakistan they either surrender or I do the same thing to the rest of Pashtunistan/Pakistan. If they didn't surrender, unconditionally, I'd follow through. That's the ONLY way to negotiate with this kind of ingrained, inbred insanity.
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Remember the hideous technique al-Qaeda pulled in Iraq of kidnapping a young boy and roasting him alive, then offering him to his parents with the threat that unless they *supported* al-Qaeda, they would do much worse.
For some reason, this recruiting method didn't work too good.
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OP, we need a Bruce Willis to do some 'negotiating', as he did in The Fifth Element. After shooting first then asking, okay now who else wants to negotiate.
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[Iran Press TV] Moroccan police have clashed with anti-government protesters calling for immediate reforms and social justice as constitutional changes fail to appease demonstrators.
Hundreds of protesters hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government in the capital, Rabat, as well as in the northeastern city of Nador on Sunday.
The demonstrations were organized by the February 20 Movement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a number of pro-government demonstrators gathered in the northern city of Tangiers.
The opposition group which has held protest rallies in the North African nation for several months has expressed strong disapproval to the new changes in the country's constitution, calling them window-dressing.
In a referendum on July 1, voters overwhelmingly approved the constitutional reforms that are aimed at limiting the powers of King Mohammed VI.
The approved reforms included giving the government more executive authority. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the charter will keep the cabinet, army and the judiciary in control of the king.
The February 20 Movement has vowed to continue the protests until more political reforms are introduced.
The protests are inspired by the Arab Spring movements that have toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and shaken long-time autocracies elsewhere in the Arab world.
Still waiting for the Iranian Spring...
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The February 20 Movement has vowed to continue the protests until more political reforms are introduced.
[An Nahar] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... warplanes blitzed a string of military targets in Tripoli on Sunday, an official said, as embattled Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ...dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule... blamed a "colonial plot" for the conflict engulfing his country.
"In Tripoli there were two command and control nodes, two surface-to-air missile launchers and one anti-aircraft gun (hit)," a NATO official said from the mission's headquarters in Naples, Italia.
An Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said two blasts occurred at 00:50 am (2250 GMT) in the area housing Qadaffy's residence in the heart of the capital, followed by others in the city's eastern and southeastern suburbs.
A column of smoke was seen over Qadaffy's residential complex, which had been targeted by NATO warplanes on Saturday, when the transatlantic military alliance confirmed seven strikes and said they hit a military command node.
Qadaffy meanwhile late Saturday said in an audio message broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that the unrest that has swept his country since a popular uprising erupted mid-February was a "colonial plot." He did not elaborate.
He also denied accusations by international rights groups of a brutal suppression of dissent and allegations that his regime had killed thousands of protesters.
"They lie to you and say, 'Libya kills its people with bullets, that is why we have come to protect civilians'," Qadaffy said, referring to the NATO air campaign which was mandated by the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... with the aim of protecting civilians in Libya.
"Only eight people have been killed and an inquiry is under way to determine who killed them. There are no protests and no gunfire. Show us where the thousands of people (reportedly killed) are buried," Qadaffy said.
The latest NATO strikes came after rebel forces said they had lost 16 fighters east of Tripoli and had infiltrated the capital and attacked a regime command post where a son of the strongman was among officials targeted.
The rebels, who have been fighting to oust Qadaffy for more than five months, said the assault "seriously injured" a high-ranking member of Qadaffy's security forces.
On Thursday, "there was an attack on an operations center of top regime officials, including Seif al-Islam Qadaffy, ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... " National Transitional Council vice president Ali Essawy said after meeting Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini in Rome.
He said one person was "seriously injured," identifying him as a high-ranking security official.
Frattini said the "rocket attack against an operations center" probably in a Tripoli hotel was aimed at "brass hats ... including Qadaffy's son Seif, and the head of the secret service, Abdullah al-Senussi."
On Thursday, unconfirmed rumors swirled that rebels in Tripoli had tried to assassinate senior regime members that day.
Libyan officials denied the attack occurred and denounced as "criminal and unjustified" what they said were NATO raids that killed six guards at a pipeline factory south of an oil plant in the eastern town of Brega.
"There was no attack," government front man Moussa Ibrahim told news hounds of the rebels' claims that they had attacked a Tripoli command post.
Rebel forces, he said, were losing their battles in the east of the country and to the southwest and were trying "to boost their morale with lies and small victories."
Germany said Sunday meanwhile it was making available to the Libyan rebel National Transitional Council up to 100 million euros ($144 million) in loans for civilian and humanitarian purposes.
"Because of Colonel Qadaffy's war against his own people the situation in Libya is extremely difficult," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement issued in Berlin.
"There is a lack of means to build up the necessary structures and to relieve supply shortages, all the way from medical equipment to food. People are suffering more and more as a result, particularly in eastern Libya."
On the battlefield, the rebels said 16 of their men were killed in two days of fighting for Zliten, the last coastal city between krazed killer-held Misrata and the capital.
The bully boyz have been trying for weeks to take Zliten, 200 kilometers from Tripoli and 40 kilometers west of Misrata.
The rebels say they have chased the bulk of Qadaffy's forces from Brega in the east and are poised to advance toward the capital from Misrata and their other western enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli.
Rebels at Brega now face "negligible" resistance, military front man Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said.
In the west, the Nafusa campaign is focused on Asabah, gateway to the garrison town of Gharyan on the highway to Tripoli.
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In Tripoli there were two command and control nodes, two surface-to-air missile launchers and one anti-aircraft gun (hit)," a NATO official said from the mission's headquarters in Naples, Italia.
[Al Jazeera] The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of kabooms, thought to be the result of 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... Arclight airstrikes, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
At least seven blasts were reported in Tripoli, including some near Bab al-Aziziya, a compound and command centre used by Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... , the Libyan leader, that has been bombed numerous times before.
There was no official word from the Libyan government on the targets or whether there were any casualties. NATO said it had struck a "command and control node".
The kabooms came after what the opposition said was a rare rebel attack on regime officials in the capital on Friday.
Qadaffy's prime minister, al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, was injured when rebel fighters fired rockets at a building where a group of officials were supposedly meeting, said Ali Essawi, the rebels' foreign affairs chief.
Qadaffy's intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, close aide Mansour Daw and prominent son Saif al-Islam were also in the room with Mahmoudi, Essawi told a news conference in Rome.
A representative of the Free Generation Movement, an opposition group in the capital, said fighters had fired three rocket-propelled grenades at a building in the Hai al-Andalus neighbourhood.
Senussi was uninjured, the activist said, but he did not mention the other officials allegedly present.
Mousa Ibrahim, a regime front man, denied that an attack had taken place but acknowledged there had been an kaboom, which he blamed on a kitchen gas cylinder.
'Much misinformation'
Although Qadaffy said on Thursday that he would not talk with the opposition seeking to end his 42-year-rule, his government is still interested in entering into a dialogue with the United States, Ibrahim said on Friday.
Representatives of the two governments met in Tunisia last weekend.
"We did explain many things to American officials. We realised they did not have the full picture; we corrected much misinformation," he said.
Qadaffy is also encouraging his people to talk to rebels, but he will not speak to them himself, Ibrahim said.
In addition to the rebel attacks the opposition has claimed in the capital, there have been advances on three fronts: near Benghazi in the east, the Nafusa Mountains in the west and in the Misrata area.
After two days of fighting west of Misrata, rebels moved about 4km forward from Dafniyah, a small town between Zliten and Misrata, on Thursday.
"We move forward [now] towards Zliten," said Ayman, an opposition field commander, referring to the coastal town 160km east of Tripoli.
"We are now close to an area called Tuesday Market in Zliten and, God willing, we will liberate our people in Zliten soon from the forces of the tyrant."
The Libyan government said that NATO air strikes targeted civilian sites in Zliten.
Foreign media were shown destroyed buildings and maimed civilians in the town.
General 'captured'
Al Jizz's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from Misrata, said rebels claimed to have captured General Abdul Nabi Zayed, who allegedly co-ordinated the deployment of tanks into Misrata in March.
Qatari munition-labelled boxes sent to Libya
"According to the military commanders here in Misrata, Zayed was actually captured yesterday as they started their offensive towards the town of Zliten," she said.
"He was slightly injured, so he was brought back to the hospital here in Misrata.
"Its also a significant catch because it is happening at the time the opposition started their push towards Zliten.
"They have made significant territorial gains. Rebel commanders are saying they are interrogating General Zayed and they are hoping he will give them significant information."
In the Nafusa Mountains, rebels have recently captured the town of al-Qawalish and are looking to advance on Gharyan, the last regime stronghold in the area, which also controls a main road into Tripoli.
Near Benghazi, rebels have recently mounted an attack on the oil port of Brega, which Qadaffy's forces have held since March.
But fighters have not yet driven regime troops from the town, according to reports.
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" Rebel commanders are saying they are interrogating General Zayed and they are hoping he will give them significant information."
You dont want to know what that sentence really means. Sixteen wolverines sharing one rabbit.
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Wolverines are territorial and quite disagreeable; they can barely stand one another at mating season - never mind sixteen of them tearing at a rabbit.
Your nature lesson for the day, O Purveyor of Purple Prose.
[Dawn] A suicide kaboomer driving a pickup truck packed with explosives went kaboom!" outside an army camp in Yemen's coastal city of Aden on Sunday, killing at least eight soldiers and wounding dozens, security officials said.
The officials said the blast took place near the gate of the camp as a column of vehicles loaded with troops and supplies was preparing to leave for nearby Abyan province to take part in fighting against al-Qaeda-linked hard boys.
Among the dead were two senior officers, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to brief the media.
Yemen, an impoverished nation in the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, is home to one of the most active al-Qaeda branches in the world.
Additionally, the country in the midst of a six-month political crisis, with near daily street protests demanding longtime leader President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... step down.
The US fears al-Qaeda will take advantage of the unrest to expand its haven in the country and plot attacks against the West.
On Wednesday, a bomb planted in a sport utility vehicle killed a British man in Aden. Authorities announced Sunday that they had tossed in the slammer five suspects in that attack.
Officials have repeatedly warned that al-Qaeda-linked faceless myrmidons were infiltrating the port city just beyond the southern mouth of the Red Sea to prepare for attacks there against Yemen's security forces.
The faceless myrmidons control two cities in neighboring Abyan province and have held on to them in the face of numerous Arclight airstrikes and a ground offensive by government forces.
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[Dawn] Canada said Saturday it had tossed in the slammer a suspected Pak war criminal, the second such arrest made since the government listed 30 foreigners actively sought on Canadian soil.
Arshad Muhammad, 42, was tossed in the slammer thanks to public tips, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in a statement.
The Toronto Sun said that Muhammad, who also goes by Certosa Aranci, was tossed in the slammer after he was recognized in a store in Mississauga, just west of Toronto.
On Friday, authorities said they had tossed in the slammer former Honduran soldier Cristobal Gonzalez-Ramirez, who had served in a special army unit in Honduras where he allegedly committed war crimes as a soldier.
Ottawa indicated that Muhammad was also "suspected of complicity in a war crime or a crime against humanity," without providing further details.
"The help that Canadians are providing to Canada Border Services is proving to be beyond what we had expected," said Toews. "Those who have been involved in war crimes or crimes against humanity will find no haven on our shores; they will be located, and they will face the consequences." Muhammad's arrest came after the government published a list of 30 men accused of crimes against humanity this week -- including their photos and birth dates -- suspected of hiding on Canadian soil.
Canada adopted a federal law of universal jurisdiction in 2000 for crimes against humanity. Under the law, a Rwandan was sent to prison for life in 2009 for participating in the 1994 genocide there.
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Was he wearing a mounty uniform trying to blend in?
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"The Toronto Sun said that Muhammad, who also goes by Certosa Aranci, was tossed in the slammer after he was recognized in a store in Mississauga, just west of Toronto."
He was recognized in a store? Was it a MajicMart Convenience Store and was he the manager?
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This is a highly encouraging development for all of us angry, white, bitter, gun (registered) clinging, Canuckistanian, old guys.
[Dawn] About 15 persons, apparently armymen, on Saturday took away two coppers, who had tossed in the slammer an army sepoy few days ago reportedly for carrying unathorised ammunition, from Khadezai police checkpost on Hangu Road, official sources said.
Officials quoting District Police Officer Mubarik Zeb said that he was contacting the relevant persons in army, present in the area, to ascertain details of the case and resolve the matter.
However, Denver is the capital of Colorado... about five hours after the incident the DPO confirmed that the two coppers had been released at an abandoned place near Ustarzai.
"And let that be a lesson to you!"
Earlier, when contacted, the Cantt police said that they only knew that two vehicles came to the checkpost on Hangu Road and took away havaldar Wajid and constable Diljan to an unknown place. They said that they could not identify the vehicles' registration numbers because the coppers were picked up from a far-flung place in their jurisdiction. "The victims were taken towards Hangu," the officials said.
They said that local authorities of the army should have first contacted the district police officer through proper channels if they had to arrest the coppers on certain charges.
"At this stage we could not say anything about the case. The SHO Cantt police, who is on the spot collecting eyewitness account, and other senior officers are investigating the matter so that a case can be registered after findings," an official said.
The sources said that the police was in fact under pressure and could not take proper action against the people involved in kidnapping of coppers.
The police media cell, meanwhile, said that some 20-22 gunnies wearing army uniforms attacked the checkpost and took away two coppers.
"The attackers could be real or fake army men. If they were army men they should have talked to the police officials before taking the coppers with them," it said.
The investigations conducted by this correspondent revealed that on July 20 the two coppers had tossed in the slammer a passenger -- Mohammad Akram, a resident of Sialkot -- and seized from his possession 75 bullets of Kalashnikov. He was coming from Parachinar, said the sources.
Mr Akram later told a police investigating team that he was a sepoy in army. Sources in the police said that the army took him away from the courts after he was granted bail in the case and while returning to their camp they also picked up the two coppers.
A police official commented that the tossed in the slammer sepoy did not tell the police team while he was being taken to cop shoppe that he was an armyman.
Did they give him a chance?
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[Dawn] The security forces tossed in the slammer six suspected gun-hung tough guys and destroyed two hideouts and seized arms during an operation in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday.
Security officials said that a search and cordon operation was conducted in Lalma locality of Akkakhel after the area witnessed a surge in jihad boy activities.
They said that two hideouts of jihad boy organization Lashkar-i-Islam were destroyed and at least six suspected gun-hung tough guys were tossed in the slammer during the daylong operation.
Officials said that the destroyed houses belonged to Said Wali and Awal Khan, officials of Khasadar Force in Bara. The houses were occupied by Lashkar-i-Islam local commanders Mashar Khan and Moeez Khan as the owners had long ago vacated the same owing to insecurity and ongoing military operation in Bara.
Security forces also impounded two cycle of violences and seized 16 boxes of improvised bombs, dozens of mortar
shells and cartridges from the two houses.
In Landi Kotal, local administration claimed to have arranged increased security at the mausoleum of renowned Pashto poet Hanza Baba after Friday night gun-hung tough guys attack on the shrine. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... local sources said that additional force of coppers was still not deployed at the mausoleum.
The authorities have also repaired the damaged portion of the boundary wall of the shrine.
In the meantime, Khasadar Force has also intensified checking on the main roads and at Landi Kotal Bazaar to check movements of suspects.
The Khasadar Force also demolished the house of a heroin manufacturer in Ali Masjid area of Jamrud tehsil.
The khasadars had earlier recovered pressing machine, drums and other equipment used in heroin production from the house owned by Dawal Khan.
The force also tossed in the slammer two persons in Wazir Dhand for their alleged involvement in selling of heroin and other contrabands.
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[Dawn] Security forces clashed with armed faceless myrmidons in the Ali Sherzai area of Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Sunday, resulting in the death of 11 turbans, DawnNews reported.
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[Dawn] 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. ruled out any 'operation' in Bloody Karachi on Sunday, but talking to newsmen after a renewed wave of murders left at least 18 people dead and several others maimed said that police and Rangers would work together to restore order.
The daylong violence caused the authorities to once again impose a ban on riding double that Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan had lifted about a fortnight ago.
While the situation had been tense in Malir and Landhi amid gunbattles between groups going on for the past few days, violence spread to other parts of the city with attacks on a restaurant and a sweetmeat shop on Sunday. There were reports of two rocket attacks in Malir.
Commercial areas were shut and residents stayed indoors with several localities reverberating with gunfire.
The worst-hit areas were Malir, Landhi, North Bloody Karachi, Surjani, F.B. Area, Baldia, Lyari and Orangi. The law-enforcers stayed away from trouble spots and were seen only on main roads.
Mr Malik said President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... had summoned a meeting to review the law and order situation in the city and other parts of the province.
The meeting has been called amid allegations by MQM leaders about patronage of criminals by some ministers and an appeal made by the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) to the president to take notice of what it described as "the political aggression and terrorism against the MQM-H and its members" and to provide them security.
There is a possibility that some decisions would be taken at the meeting about deployment of law-enforcement agencies in the city to address people's concerns.
Mr Malik said all parties would have to work hand in hand to restore peace.
According to sources, development projects in Lyari are likely to be given priority at the meeting and a package is expected to be announced.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:... federal Minister Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan on Sunday. The minister said the federal government would extend all possible assistance to the province in its efforts to maintain law and order and political harmony.
According to a statement issued after the meeting, the two leaders agreed that the entire country needed restoration of law and order in Bloody Karachi.
The chief minister also presided over a meeting held to review the situation in the city. He asked the Sindh Rangers and police chiefs to take ruthless action against myrmidons and maintain peace and tranquillity.
Additional Chief Secretary (home) Waseem Ahmed said the ban on riding double would remain in force till further orders. He said senior citizens and women would be exempted from the ban.
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Four members of the Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades were killed when their car collided with a truck in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported.
According to the report, the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed that Abu Fadi Razayna, a leader in the group, was among the dead.
The Al-Quds Brigades constitute the military wing of Islamic Jihad.
The accident reportedly occurred near Khan Yunis when the car that the Islamic Jihad men were travelling in struck a truck travelling in the opposite direction.
Four members of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... 's Al-Quds Brigades were killed when their car collided with a truck in the Gazoo Strip on Friday, the Paleostinian Ma'an news agency reported.
According to the report, the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed that Abu Fadi Razayna, a leader in the group, was among the dead.
The Al-Quds Brigades constitute the military wing of Islamic Jihad.
The accident reportedly occurred near Khan Yunis when the car that the Islamic Jihad men were travelling in struck a truck travelling in the opposite direction.
Five teachers and two defense volunteers were injured in a bomb attack early Monday morning, at the entrance of their school in Yala province. The volunteers and the teachers were riding on motorcycles almost reaching their school when terrorists insurgents triggered an explosive reportedly hidden in an iron box near a road sign in front of the school.
The teachers and the volunteers were deafened and suffered from chest pains from the impact of the explosion. The roadside bomb weighed 23 kilograms and the blast left a hole 20 centimeters deep and one meter wide.
[An Nahar] 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... has replaced the governor of Deir Ezzor, the state news agency SANA reported on Sunday two days after massive anti-regime protests in the eastern oil hub.
Assad issued a decree appointing Samir Othman al-Sheikh to replace Hussein Arnoos as governor, the agency said.
Arnoos was appointed the new governor of the Quneitra province near the border with Israel, the agency said.
On Friday more than 550,000 protesters swarmed the streets of Deir Ezzor to protest against a deadly government crackdown on the central flashpoint city of Homs, and against Assad's regime, activists said.
More than 1.2 million Syrians demonstrated in the city and in Hama in the north, the head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman, told Agence La Belle France Presse on Friday.
"More than 1.2 million people marched: in Deir Ezzor there were more than 550,000, and in Hama more than 650,000," he said.
Earlier in July, Assad replaced the governor of Hama after a record 500,000 protesters rallied in the opposition bastion calling for the fall of the regime.
Activists who reported that half a million people protested in Hama on July 1 said at the time it was the single largest demonstration of its kind since the pro-democracy movement erupted on March 15.
Hama is a city with a bloody past: estimated 20,000 people were killed there in 1982 when the army put down an Islamist revolt against the rule of Assad's late father, Hafez al-Assad.
Deir Ezzor has also been a rallying point for pro-democracy protests since mid-March, with massive demonstrations reportedly taking place on Friday after the weekly Mohammedan prayers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the Syrian army took control on Sunday of several neighborhoods in Homs, the scene of deadly violence last week, while security forces conducted a spate of arrests in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , activists said.
"The army and the Syrian security forces have been deployed heavily in Duar al-Fakhoura and around the neighborhood of al-Nazihin" in Homs, said Abdul Karim Rihawi, who heads the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights.
"Military and security operations are increasing in the region," he noted, reached by telephone by AFP.
More than 50 people have been killed in the past week in Homs, 160 kilometers north of Damascus, either by army gunfire or in festivities between rival groups of demonstrators, rights activists have said.
They have accused the regime of sowing sectarian strife among the city's Christians, Sunni Mohammedans and Assad's Alawite minority community.
Residents of Homs observed a strike on Saturday while the army encircled the city, cutting off its supplies of water and electricity.
Elsewhere, hundreds of people were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in the Damascus neighborhoods of Qaboun and Rukneddine, which has a mostly Kurdish population, Rihawi said.
"Army units set up roadblocks on routes into Qaboun, controlling all entry and exit," he said.
Abdul Rahman, for his part, said: "Soldiers armed with automatic rifles are deployed at the main routes into Qaboun and in front of mosques."
"The security forces also searched homes looking for weapons, and made some arrests," he added.
According to the Syrian Observatory 1,483 civilians are now confirmed dead in the government's crackdown on dissent since mid-March.
In that time, at least 12,000 people have been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock and thousands have decamped to neighboring Turkey and Leb. The violence has also claimed the lives of 365 troops and security forces.
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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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