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I noticed she has a head on her shoulders also.
Very active life. Sold over 20 million records.
Songs, CD's, I don't know what they call that now.
Good find GB.
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Her tour should be ended with a concert in Belgrade Arena on 20 October 2011. Brena Lepa Purchased a property on an island off Miami for 1.6 million cash. She's doing something right.
[An Nahar] The first 200 French soldiers left Afghanistan on Wednesday, kickstarting troop withdrawals announced three months ago by Gay Paree as part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... plans to wind down its combat mission by 2014.
In total, a quarter of La Belle France's current troop deployment is scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan before the end of 2012, ahead of a full drawdown of NATO's combat mission scheduled for 2014.
La Belle France has some 4,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan, mostly in the district of Surobi and in the neighboring province of Kapisa, part of the NATO-led force of 130,000 foreign troops, two-thirds of whom are Americans.
The departures are in line with a national transition process that began in seven areas of the country in July, meant to hand responsibility to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
"The United States, the leaders of this coalition, proceeded with a withdrawal, we are proceeding with a proportionate withdrawal," said French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet in Gay Paree.
The United States, Britannia and Belgium have also announced partial withdrawals, with some U.S. troops already heading home this summer as Western voters tire of more than a decade at war against a strong Taliban insurgency.
The contingent took off in a French military A340 jet from Kabul airport at around 5:00 pm (1230 GMT).
The speed of the French withdrawal surprised some military officials, but comes as French President 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... gears up for a presidential election next year and after a particularly deadly summer for the troops.
There are also general concerns within Afghanistan over the ability of Afghan cops to protect the country, given complaints that they are over-reliant on NATO, fail to take initiative and suffer retention problems.
La Belle France lost 17 soldiers between June 1 and September 7, bringing to 75 the number killed as part of military operations in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion drove the Taliban from power.
On July 13, the day after Sarkozy visited Afghanistan to announce the troop withdrawals, five French soldiers died in a suicide strike, the deadliest attack for La Belle France in Afghanistan since an ambush killed 10 soldiers in 2008.
Another French soldier died the following day, leading Gay Paree to announce a safety review. As a result, the number of operations on the ground has slowed, say soldiers in Afghanistan.
"The losses of the French army in July and August caused a slowdown of operations. We're less prominent, less aggressive, take less risks," said Lieutenant Christopher, who could not give his last name in line with policy.
"We just do what we're told. If they say you go out less, we go out less," he said, struggling to conceal a hint of bitterness.
"We've backed off," summed up an officer at Torah base in Surobi.
The French army said it has simply "changed its way of doing things" as part of the process to empower Afghan forces.
"We do a little less in that ... the Afghan army takes charge of its missions," said Colonel Lionel Jeand'heurs, who commands the French contingent deployed in Surobi, explaining that the French troops, once on the front line, are now most often in support of Afghan forces.
The French are working to integrate Surobi, about 50 kilometers east of Kabul, into a second phase of the transition process.
A total of 194 soldiers, including 172 legionnaires from the 2nd Company of the 2nd Foreign Airborne Regiment, based on the island of Corsica southeast of La Belle France, flew out of Kabul airport late Wednesday afternoon.
The departure of the men "will not have an impact on operations at the (Torah) base and the pace of operations," Jeand'heurs told Agence La Belle France Presse recently.
A further 11 troops responsible for training the Afghan army were also part of the departing party.
All are heading to Cyprus for several days of "decompression" before returning to La Belle France, as with all French soldiers leaving the Afghan theater.
The departing legionnaires began their current mission on July 6.
But some feared their efforts had been in vain.
"They want to reduce losses and limit operations. It is poorly controlled, poorly managed," said one on condition of anonymity.
"Today it is a mess," he said.
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[An Nahar] Kenyan jets struck Shebab positions in Somalia Wednesday in a bid to rid the border area of beturbanned fascisti they blame for a spate of abductions, including that of a French woman who died in captivity.
Kenyan ground troops guided by pro-government Somali forces prepared for a fresh assault against the hard boyz with the blessing of the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and its Ugandan protectors.
Nairobi's unprecedented military incursion into Somalia, which it said had already killed dozens of Shebab fighters, triggered dire warnings by top a Shebab leader of bloody retaliation.
"Our aircraft are involved in the operations," army front man Major Emmanuel Chirchir said, on the fourth day since Kenya declared war on the Shebab militia.
Heavy air strikes are reported to have been hitting Shebab positions in efforts to dislodge the hard boys, before Kenyan-backed Somali government ground troops move in to drive out rebels, according to witnesses.
"Our forces are in good shape to fight this battle to the end," Chirchir said.
The main forward base of Kenyan operations is at Qoqani, some 100 kilometers from the border, as they prepare to push forward to seize Afmadow, which Somali government forces are already fighting to secure.
"In terms of injuries, the first attack saw the death of 73 Shebab," Chirchir said, adding that the only Kenyan deaths were five killed in a helicopter crash.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... a police source in Garissa, on the Kenyan side of the border, told Agence La Belle France Presse that there were Kenyan casualties.
Kenya's shock assault against the hardline Shebab has sparked a fierce reaction with the forces of Evil warning of reprisals on "all fronts."
Security forces are planning a "major operation in Nairobi to get rid of al-Shebab," Assistant Security Minister Orwa Ojode said Wednesday, a rare admission from the government the Shebab threat exists even in the capital.
The Shebab deny any involvement in the recent kidnapping of foreigners, which have raised questions about Kenya's ability to host the million tourists who visit each year and one of the world's largest aid communities.
On Tuesday, a car boomwent kaboom! near the foreign ministry in Mogadishu killing at least five civilians, even as two top Kenyan ministers were holding talks nearby to coordinate the ongoing military operation.
On Wednesday, a roadside kaboom went off in Mogadishu, injuring two.
Kenya's decision to invade came after a British tourist was snatched from a Kenyan resort last month, the French woman from her beachfront home in Lamu and two Spanish aid workers from Dadaab refugee camp last week.
Kenya's assault -- dubbed Linda Nchi ("Defend our Country" in Swahili) -- began without a mandate but Somalia's government and Kenya signed a deal Tuesday to "cooperate in undertaking security and military operations," limiting Kenyan operations to the Lower Juba region.
Uganda, which provides the bulk of the 9,000-strong 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... force protecting the Western-backed Somali government in Mogadishu, said it welcomed Kenya's military operation.
"Kenya has a right of defense when their security is threatened," Ugandan acting foreign affairs minister Henry Okello-Oryem told AFP Wednesday.
Analysts say Kenya has sent at least 2,000 troops into Somalia, but the military would not comment on operational figures.
It is not clear long they intend to stay, but the last time a neighbor invaded Somalia was in late 2006, when Ethiopia toppled an Islamist leadership in Mogadishu.
Ethiopia had tens of thousands of troops for two years but failed to root out the Shebab and ensure the establishment of a robust central government.
Meanwhile two Britons of Somali origin placed in long-term storage Sunday on the Kenyan-Somali border have been deported "under tight security back to their country," police front man Charles Wahong'o said.
The two "brainwashed" young men had travelled to Kenya to "fight a holy war in Somalia," the father of one of the placed in long-term storage men told the BBC.
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TRIPOLI (Rooters) -- One of Moammar Qadaffy's ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... sons, Motassim, is dead and had been hiding with his father, Libyan interim government information minister Mahmoud Shammam told Rooters..
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And the Obama (Nobel Peace Price Winner) Regimes deposing of and assasination of foreign leaders continue through his military support of radical Islamic Revolutionary elements outside of the US. This should give moral boost to the "occupiers" he supports stateside whom Communist China also supports. His list of radical allies has been strengthened.
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Makes no sense. Q had billions and plenty of time to buy himself a new home. I don't buy the idea that he stayed behind to fearlessly lead his forces to a dramatic victory. Look-a-like? Is Q slurping Zam Zam in some African enclave?
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Hes dead Jim , tis the only way a meglomanic narcissist dictator should go.
Lets see, over the coming months, how the new found opportunity of freedom turns in to a , dare I say it , quagmire . I severly doubt Libya will become a success story
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Now. The third world is full of dictators. So let's see which one to kill next. Won't be long though any American or American family member that leaves this country to travel abroad won't be able to go any where without having a target on their back by the allies of assasinated tyrants as their sponsors say "pass the popcorn".
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It's the strangest thing about some of these characters. They might have a chance for survival if they would just take their money and leave. But they choose to stick it out and keep fighting to the bitter end.
As for Daffy, I have mixed feelings. I won't lose any sleep over his demise. But the way NATO has gone about it raises a lot of questions. It's kinda like the devil you know and the devil you don't know.
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If they didn't have that sort of stubborn stick-to-it-iveness, they wouldn't have had the drive to become dictators in the first place. It's self-selection in action.
[An Nahar] A court in the Algerian capital Algiers is expected to look into the case of an Algerian money laundering network that includes a Lebanese investor accused by U.S. intelligence of funding Hizbullah, reported Algeria's al-Khabar newspaper.
It said that 31 suspects face "heavy" charges related to money laundering, including the Lebanese national.
The case started when American security apparatuses began questioning the wealth of the Lebanese man accused of funding Hizbullah, stated the newspaper.
They found out the on the lam funds were being transferred to his bank account in Leb in a manner that violates banking law, it added.
Investigations discovered that the investor sought to open three companies aimed at importing iron waste in Leb, Turkey, and Algeria, it continued.
He also sought to establish good ties with customs agents in Algerian and Tunisian ports.
The agents are accused of receiving bribes in exchange for facilitating customs procedures of suspicious operations related to the import of iron and non-iron waste, reported al-Khabar.
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"is expected to look into the case"
Isn't that charming. The Lebanese investor can flee now. No sense in arresting him before we leak the intel...
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Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats," but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth...
"One of Gaddafi's men came out waving his rifle in the air and shouting surrender, but as soon as he saw my face he started shooting at me," he told Reuters.
"Then I think Gaddafi must have told them to stop. 'My master is here, my master is here', he said, 'Muammar Gaddafi is here and he is wounded'," said Bakeer.
"We went in and brought Gaddafi out. He was saying 'what's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on?'. Then we took him and put him in the car," Bakeer said.
At the time of capture, Gaddafi was already wounded with gunshots to his leg and to his back, Bakeer said.
Other government fighters who said they took part in Gaddafi's capture, separately confirmed Bakeer's version of events, though one said the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was shot and wounded at the last minute by one of his own men.
"One of Muammar Gaddafi's guards shot him in the chest," said Omran Jouma Shawan.
Army chief Jabr was also captured alive, Bakeer said. NTC officials later announced he was dead. The stress of being captured was probably too much for him, poor fellow. Yet another case of acute, fulminant cirrhosis...
Fallen electricity cables partially covered the entrance to the pipes and the bodies of three men, apparently Gaddafi bodyguards lay at the entrance to one end, one in shorts probably due to a bandaged wound on his leg.
Four more bodies lay at the other end of the pipes. All black men, one had his brains blown out, another man had been decapitated, his dreadlocked head lying beside his torso.
Joyous government fighters fired their weapons in the air, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and posed for pictures. Others wrote graffiti on the concrete parapets of the highway.
"Gaddafi was captured here," said one simply.
From there Gaddafi was taken to the nearby city of Sirte where he and his dwindling band of die-hard supporters had made a last stand under a rain of missile and artillery fire in a desperate two-month siege.
Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling group of government soldiers who hit him and pulled his hair.
He then appeared to fall to the ground and was enveloped by the crowd. NTC officials later announced Gaddafi had died of his wounds after capture.
Qaddafi kicked off what was then known as the Islamic revival and also still continues. At a time when no one else was ready to do so, he proudly and provocatively advanced Islamic causes by applying aspects of Islamic law, calling on Muslims worldwide to do likewise, and assisting any Muslims in conflict with non-Muslims.
Gaddafi's objective had been a Sunni Arab Islamist empire with himself and later his family as dynastic rulers.
Whatever happens in Libya and North Africa (I'm not optimistic), new hostile forces will now not be able to use Gaddafi's terror and WMD infrastructure.
Gaddafi never surrendered all of his nuclear weapons material. He openly defied the US in Iraq by giving aid and comfort to Saddam. And by 2009 he was confident enough to openly threaten the West with terror attacks.
If Gaddafi had survived then the entire Arab Spring would have been nothing but an anti Western rout. That development has been averted.
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Obviously he was killed in the crossfire like the Interim PM continues to claim, nothing to do with the bullet hole in his forehead. Move along.
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Given the penchant of modern + post-modern leaders to employ both natural or surgically-altered, highly trained lookalikes, the best confirmation remains independent scientific + DNA analysis + autopsy.
Pragmatically, presum that Uncle Muammar is gone, whom is the US-WEST/ALLIED going to use as offset iff Radical Islam takes over Libyuh's Govt legally electorally, + RESUMES LIBYA'S NUKE-WMDS PROGS???
IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > WITH GADDAFI GONE, WHO WILL REPLACE THE DEVIL WE KNEW?
A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Muammar Qaddafi in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday.
The official said the drone and French jet fired on a "large convoy" leaving Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte. A French defense official earlier said about 80 vehicles were in the convoy -- the official said the strike did not destroy the convoy but that fighters on the ground afterward intercepted the vehicle carrying Qaddafi.
President Obama said Thursday that the death of Qaddafi ends a "long and painful chapter" for the Libyan people. The president, speaking in the Rose Garden, announced that Libyans have "won their revolution."
"Today we can definitively say that the Qaddafi regime has come to an end," he said.
Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near Sirte, according to a spokesman for the National Transitional Council in Libya.
[Yemen Post] As Yemen is once again enthralled in a never-ending cycle of violence which led to the deaths of several dozens of protesters, including women and kiddies nationwide, human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups are now condemning any power-transfer deal which would include an immunity clause for president Saleh, his family and close aides.
Rupert Colville, a front man of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in his latest address to the press that international law clearly enounced that no immunity could befall a person facing war-crimes charges.
And since many Yemeni activists, most particularly Tawakkul Karman the 2011 Nobel Peace prize laureate, have every intention of dragging him to the ICC for crimes against humanity and war-crimes, the matter of his immunity could be put in jeopardy.
"We condemn in the strongest terms the reported killing of a number of largely peaceful protesters in Sanaa and Tiez as a result of the indiscriminate use of force by Yemeni security forces since Saturday," said Rupert Colville.
"We are extremely concerned that security forces continue to use excessive force in a climate of complete impunity for crimes resulting in heavy loss of life and injury, despite repeated pledges by the government to the contrary," he added.
Pressure is mounting against the ailing autocrat as the UN Security Council is set to be discussing the Yemen files in the next coming days, following a push of the United Kingdom, Germany and La Belle France as well as the United States of America, a once upon a time staunched ally of Saleh.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... it seems that president Saleh's latest claims that al-Islah, an Islamic political opposing party is using the revolution to serve its own presidential ambitions, having no intention of building a more democratic Yemen, are gaining ground with the population, as many Yemenis are starting to realize that al-Islah is not a viable replacement to President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... and that some of the so-called "crimes" of the regime could have been staged by defected General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, in a bid to discredit Saleh.
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They want him to have no choice but fighting to the last?
[An Nahar] Fifteen Paleostinian prisoners released as part of a swap deal that saw Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit freed from five years of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, captivity arrived in the Qatari capital on Wednesday, an official said.
The freed prisoners landed in Doha on a specially chartered Qatari airplane at 3.00 am (00:00 GMT) and were greeted by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Mahmoud, the Paleostinian diplomatic official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the 15 Paleostinians were taken to a hotel and were expected to undergo medical check-ups later Wednesday.
Israel on Tuesday began releasing 1,027 Paleostinians in two stages in exchange for the handover of Shalit, who was snatched by Hamas Death Eaters in June 2006.
Among them were hundreds who were serving life sentences after being convicted of involvement in deadly attacks, in what is the highest price ever paid by the Jewish state for the release of one man.
The 15 Paleostinians who arrived in Doha were among the first batch of 477 detainees freed. Most were sent to the occupied West Bank or to Gazoo but around 40 were deemed too dangerous to remain on Israel's doorstep.
Qatar had said it was ready to host some of the 40, along with Turkey and Egypt.
Shalit was reunited with his family in Israel.
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Kurdish militants launched their most deadly attacks in years on Turkish soldiers and police on Wednesday, killing at least 24 and prompting cross border raids into northern Iraq and airstrikes by Turkish forces. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed: "We will never bow to any attack from inside or outside Turkey."
"Whoever supports terror, feeds it and helps it; whoever tolerates it and ignores its inhumane attacks, tries to cover the bloody face of terror," said Erdogan. "I want to let them all know that Turkey is breathing down their necks all the time."
The Turkish leader reached further, too, blaming unnamed local actors for trying to end Turkey's rise as a regional power. The latest attack, Erdogan said, showed that "terror is a tool in the hands of certain powers. The PKK are subcontractors used by other forces and other powers, trying to provoke Turkish society."
Turkey last week warned Iraqi authorities to deal with attacks staged from its soil, saying its "patience" was running out. Despite the potential regional reverberations, the timing of the attacks fits a previous pattern, experts say. Concurrently next door, a months-long antiregime uprising has already left 3,000 dead and continues in Syria, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has threatened to make Turkey pay for hosting the Syrian opposition.
On the other side of the ethnic Kurdish regions, Iran says it has damaged the Iranian arm of the PKK, known as PJAK, in a series of recent cross-border strikes. Iran is at loggerheads with Ankara for Turkey's recent agreement to host parts of a US-engineered regional missile-defense system, which aims to protect against any potential Iranian missile attack.
Add in rattling sabers at Israel, making faces at the Greeks, playing Islamo-benefactor in Africa, lecturing the Egyptians, and placing an armada off Crete... Recep has been a busy little wannabe Ottoman.
Neo-Ottoman. That's what they call them nowadays, instead of posturing fools.
ANKARA: Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships reportedly launched an incursion into Iraq on Wednesday, hours after Kurdish rebels killed 26 soldiers and wounded 22 others in multiple attacks along the border.
Turkish authorities did not immediately confirm the incursion but the chief of the military as well as interior and defense ministers rushed to the border area and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a visit to Kazakhstan.
NTV television, without citing sources, said Turkish troops had gone some 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) into Iraq and helicopters were ferrying commandos across the border.
The incursion for now appears to be limited in scope. Turkey last staged a major ground offensive against Iraq in early 2008.
It came hours after the rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast, staged simultaneous attacks on military outposts and police stations near the border towns of Cukurca and Yuksekova early Wednesday. The attacks left 26 soldiers dead and 22 others wounded, the Interior Ministry said. It was the deadliest Kurdish rebel attack since 1992, according to a tally by NTV television.
Turkish warplanes and artillery units, positioned just inside Turkey, struck at the Kurdish rebel bases across the border in response, NTV said.
"As a friend and ally, the United States will continue to stand with the people and government of Turkey in their fight against the PKK, which the United States has officially designated as a terrorist organization," said Francis Ricciardone, the US Ambassador to Turkey in a statement on Wednesday. "No political cause, and no religion, can justify terrorism."
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[An Nahar] The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said it carried out attacks that killed 24 Turkish soldiers in retaliation for losses in Turkish air strikes on PKK bases in Iraq, a Kurdish news agency reported.
The attacks were also in response to the arrest of hundreds of Kurdish politicians in urban Turkey, Firatnews quoted the PKK as saying Wednesday.
"Our revolutionary operation ... prevented the attempt of the Turkish army and state at a cross border operation" into Iraq, the PKK said.
The PKK launched the attacks after "friends were killed in air strikes primarily in Khowakirk and ... a political genocide operation against Kurdish people was initiated," it said.
Five rebels were killed in Hakkari assault, PKK said.
Kurdish rebels killed at least 24 soldiers Wednesday in simultaneous attacks in Hakkari near the Iraqi border, marking one of the deadliest days for the army in the 27-year battle against the separatists.
Turkey hit back with new cross-border air strikes on rebel bases and sent troops into neighboring Iraq.
The attacks on the Turkish troops occurred in eight locations in Cukurca and Yuksekova in the early hours of Wednesday, local security sources said.
Hundreds of Kurdish politicians including their elected mayors and officials were placed in long-term storage in recent police operations around Turkey over suspected links to Kurdish rebels.
The pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, whose five parliamentarians are also in jail for the same charges, said almost 4,000 of its members were placed in long-term storage since 2009, while the interior ministry denies the information.
Almost 500 people were placed in long-term storage over suspected links with rebels, the ministry said.
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[Dawn] The political administration of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency has claimed that Khewazai and Baizai areas of the tribal region have been cleared of turbans.
"The writ of government has been established in Baizai and most areas of Khewazai subdivision after the recent military operation," Assistant Political Agent Maqsood Hassan Khan told Dawn here on Tuesday.
He said that Koda Khel, Atmar Khel, Esa Khel, Babazai, Musa Khel, Khoga Khel, Lakhkar Kallay, Manzari Cheena, Shamshah, Shandara, Spinki Tangi, Yara Khel, Jarobi Darra, Jabbar Jawar, Metai Darra, Soran Darra and Sarakhawa areas of the two subdivisions were cleared of turbans.
"Security forces have set up several checkposts in these areas with the help of local peace committees to keep vigil on the activities of suspected persons," he added.
Mr Khan said that situation was normal in the areas. He said that repatriation of displaced families from Nahqi Camp completed after clearance of the areas.
"The repatriating families will be provided dry food, non-food items and free transport to their hometowns," the APA said. He added that several educational and health institutions were destroyed in the areas.
The government initiated Damage Need Assessment and Quick Impact Programme for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the damaged facilities in the areas, he added.
Mr Khan said that all schools in Khewazai and Biazai areas were reopened after three years and teachers were directed to perform their duties regularly. "Proper security has also been provided to the teachers," he added.
He said that more than 80 schools were destroyed in the areas during the past three years, depriving about 20,000 students of education.
"Now situation is normal so developmental work will be initiated in the area soon," Mr Khan added.
FDMA agency coordinator Jamal Khan, when contacted, said that all the 3,200 displaced families had returned to their homes in Soaran Darra, Shamsha, Baidmani, Cheenari and Mettai areas.
He said that all facilities were provided to them.
He said that camps were set up at Nahqi and Danish Kool for displaced rustics in January last when security forces launched operation in Safi, Pandilai and Baizai areas against turbans.
"The Danish Kool camp was closed in March, while now we have also closed down the Nahqi camp because all the displaced families have returned to their homes," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... a person was rubbed out in Kashmire Kor area of Kamali Haleemzai here on Tuesday. Sources said that Taj Mohammad was killed by his rivals when he was coming out of his house.
In other incident Ajebat Khan was electrocuted in Khali Kor area of Baizai subdivision.
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[Dawn] At least three persons, including a minor boy, were killed when mortar shells fired by unidentified people hit four houses in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Tuesday.
Local sources said that a retired subedar of Khasadar Force, Saleh Shah, was killed when a mortar shell hit his house in Najeeb Kallay area of Mandi Kas in Shalobar.In two other similar incidents in the same locality, a local primitive Khiyal Jan and an Afghan minor boy bit the dust. Officials said that the mortar shells were fired by faceless myrmidons from the nearby hilltops.
The official version was, however, disputed by locals who accused security forces of indiscriminate artillery shelling on the suspected bully boy positions in different parts of Bara.
Sources in Akkakhel said that two tribal women, wife of Zar Wali and wife of Hayat Khan, sustained injuries when another mortar shell fell on the house of Zar Wali in Kalanga-Meri Khel area on Tuesday.
In Landi Kotal, a mosque adjacent to the house of MNA Noorul Haq Qadri was hit by a rocket fired by unidentified persons from a nearby hilltop.
Officials said that the rocket attack caused partial damage to the outer wall and main gate of the mosque. No body was hurt in the attack.
Khasadar officials said that they defused another rocket, lying at the same place from where the first one was fired.
The family of Noorul Haq Qadri had shifted to Islamabad few years ago when four of his relatives were killed by person or persons unknown in Jamrud.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... three copperswere maimed by a suspected bully boy a cleanup operation in Meeran Talab area of Akkakhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Tuesday.
Officials said that they demolished at least five houses of local bully boy commanders in the area where they had clashed with faceless myrmidons on Monday. Those who were maimed in the ambush included a subedar, a hawaldar and a naik for the Frontier Corps.
Nine soldiers bit the dust when they came under attack at Meeran Talab area on Monday. Forces claimed to have killed 15 faceless myrmidons in retaliatory action.
Also, in Akkakhel, a prayer leader Mulana Naseeb and two worshippers identified as Shafeeq and Salim Afridi were critically injured when a mortar shell fell on Charsiyano mosque late on Tuesday.
The injured were shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
A portion of the mosque was also damaged in the mortar attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... Said Jamal, a resident of Shalobar, was critically injured when unidentified gunnies opened firing on him when he was going home from Qambarabad Market. He was shifted to a hospital in Peshawar at death's door.
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[Dawn] Police on Tuesday claimed to have tossed in the clink a suspected hit man, said to be involved in the assassinations of 42 people, after an encounter in a Clifton area. Dawn
Clifton SHO Shafeeq Tanoli told that the suspected hit man, Asif Iqbal, was tossed in the clink following a shoot-out and illegal weapons and two grenades were recovered from him.
He said five cases (FIR Nos 265 to 269 of 2011) pertaining to an encounter with police, possessing illicit weapons and two grenades were registered against him under the Pakistain Penal Code, the Pakistain Arms Ordinance, 1965 and the Explosive Act on behalf of the state at the Clifton cop shoppe on Tuesday.
The police said that one 7mm rifle, two TT pistols, two hand grenades and a cycle of violence were recovered from the possession of the suspect.
The police encounter that led to the arrest of the suspect took place within the remit of the Clifton cop shoppe. The suspect was also said to be involved in the murder case of Naveed Tanoli, a brother to the SHO of the Clifton cop shoppe.
SHO Tanoli said that the suspect allegedly confessed to his involvement in the kidnapping and killing of five people whose bullet-riddled bodies had been found in a minibus in a Gulshan-i-Iqbal locality a few months ago.
He said that the suspected hit man was also involved in a 1994 attack on the Mobina Town cop shoppe in which two coppers and as many attackers were killed.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Sheikh Abbas al-Muhamadawi announced today that a source at Baghdad Operations Command informed him that an assassination attempt was to be made against him. Muhamadawi is the secretary general of a political bloc.
Muhamadwi escaped an assassination attempt on 6 October instant, when shots aimed at him, but one of his bodyguards was wounded, as reported by a statement issued by his office.
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G(r)omgoru, I have faith that at least half of those being released will find their way back to the cells they left behind pretty quickly, the others having decided that home and hearth (or whatever they find in Turkey and Qatar) are more important. I also trust that all those arrested fully deserve the experience.
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G(r)omgoru, I have faith that at least half of those being released will find their way back to the cells they left behind pretty quickly, the others having decided that home and hearth (or whatever they find in Turkey and Qatar) are more important. I also trust that all those arrested fully deserve the experience
I don't think these 1000+ are substantially different from hundreds of thousands of other Paleos.
[An Nahar] Activists said at least 15 civilians and seven soldiers were killed on Wednesday in the latest violence sweeping protest-hit Syria, including deadly festivities near the Lebanese border.
Syria's leading opposition grouping, the Syrian National Council, meanwhile, threatened to seek foreign intervention to stop the regime's deadly crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.
Speaking in the Libyan capital, SNC member Najib Ghadbian said they were determined to "bring down" the regime of embattled Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , accusing it of seeking to "militarize" the protest movement.
"If the regime continues to be so irresponsible ... our main objective is to call for the protection of civilians," along the lines of a U.N. no-fly zone set up in Libya that cleared the way to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... air strikes, he said.
On the home front, 15 non-combatants were killed in Syria, including three teenage girls and a woman, while at least seven soldiers died in festivities with suspected army defectors, a watchdog group said.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight people were killed in Homs, central Syria, including four rubbed out by pro-regime "shabiha" militiamen.
The other seven non-combatants were killed in and around the town of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border, where festivities raged between troops and suspected army deserters, the watchdog said.
One woman was hit by a stray bullet while the teenage girls were killed when their home was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade as troops battled the suspected defectors near Qusayr.
Syrian forces raked homes with heavy machine-guns as they raided neighborhoods searching for suspects wanted by the authorities, the Observer said, adding that around 200 people were placed in long-term storage in the raids.
The Observatory also reported that at least seven Syrian soldiers were killed and others maimed in festivities with suspected army defectors in a village near Qusayr.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... estimates more than 3,000 people, including 187 children, have been killed in a fierce crackdown on dissent in Syria since anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March.
Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... efforts to help defuse the deadly violence -- specifically a call for a dialogue between the government and the opposition -- were met with harsh criticism in the official Al-Thawra newspaper on Wednesday.
"It is no longer surprising to see the vaporous Arab League, which is supposed to be concerned with joint Arab action, turn into an instrument of injustice aimed at destabilizing Syria," the newspaper said.
The daily said the 22-member Arab League was "hostage to powers following the agenda of aggressors like the United States, Israel and their European allies."
"Following years of inaction, the Arab League has now become a tool of destabilization, and is acting against Arab interests," the paper said.
Last week the Arab League called for the launch in Cairo of a "national dialogue" between Syria's government and the opposition by the end of the month to help end the violence.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Wednesday aired a broadcast of what it said was a pro-Assad rally in the second city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , Syria's economic hub, claiming it was attended by a million supporters of the president.
And the official Syrian news agency ... and if you can't believe the Official Syrian News Agency who can you believe? SANA reported that authorities placed in long-term storage several "armed terrorists" including two members of the so-called Abu Sham group in Homs while weapons and army uniforms were seized.
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[An Nahar] Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Wednesday aired a broadcast of what it said was a rally in support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in the second city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , Syria's economic hub, claiming it was attended by a million supporters of the embattled leader.
The pro-regime gathering in Aleppo comes a week after a similar rally in the capital, 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... Damascus and Aleppo are the largest cities in Syria and economic powerhouses. The regime is counting on their support to halt the momentum of a 7-month-old uprising.
Also Wednesday, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces and pro-government gunnies killed 10 people in the central district of Homs.
The U.N. says more than 3,000 people have been killed in a crackdown on dissent and international pressure is building on Assad to step down.
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Kurdish militants launched their most deadly attacks in years on Turkish soldiers and police on Wednesday, killing at least 24 and prompting cross border raids into northern Iraq and airstrikes by Turkish forces. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed: "We will never bow to any attack from inside or outside Turkey."
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