[An Nahar] Fighting between rival Arab tribes in Sudan's Darfur region spread on Monday, after festivities last week left scores dead, a leader of one of the tribes said.
"This morning there was fighting in the Garsila area. It's still going on," said Ahmed Khiri, a Misseriya tribal chief.
The rival Salamat tribe could not immediately be reached for comment and Khiri could say no more. Continued on Page 49
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[Ynet] The Paleostinian news agency Ma'an has reported that two Egyptian coppers were killed by armed terrorist in Sinai in two different incident, one in the cop shoppe in the city of Al Arish and the other in Sheikh Zuweid.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... the Egyptian paper Al Aharam has reported that an Egyptian soldier was killed in an organized attack on a base near Al Arish during Sunday's iftar meal.
[Ynet] Eight Tunisian soldiers were killed by gunnies near the Algerian border on Monday, the president's office said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks on the country's security forces in decades.
The incident occurred in the remote area of Mount Chaambi, where Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist gunnies since December last year.
[An Nahar] A colonel in the Libyan navy was maimed on Monday by a boom-mobileing in central Benghazi, a security front man told Agence La Belle France Presse, calling the blast an "attempted liquidation".
"The kaboom was caused by a device attached to the car," Mohammed Hijazi said after reports of a white pickup truck exploding in the city center and bursting into flames.
"It was an attempted liquidation," Hijazi said, adding that the officer was maimed in the blast.
Witnesses reported that the kaboom was not large, and pictures posted on Internet social networks showed a minimal amount of damage around the vehicle.
Benghazi in eastern Libya was the cradle of the 2011 revolution that ousted the regime of Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... On Sunday, two kabooms outside the courthouse in Benghazi maimed 43 people, according to the latest health ministry toll.
The city last week also saw two army officers and a political activist killed.
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[REUTERS] Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government.
President Moncef Marzouki called the ambush on Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian border, a "terrorist attack" and announced three days of mourning. Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist gunnies in the remote region since December.
Tunisians fear they may be sliding into one of the worst crises in their political transition since autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee during a 2011 uprising that set off revolts across the Arab world.
"We have entered the period of terrorism. We are going to pass through a difficult period but we shall overcome it," Marzouki said in a televised address. "I call on all politicians at this historic moment to stand for the nation and unite."
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Multiple explosions in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday in an area previously targeted by Boko Haram. Several witnesses said they saw dead bodies after hearing multiple bomb blasts in the Sabon Gari district, a predominantly Christian area dominated by ethnic Igbos from the southeast. A policeman in Kano said, "In all bomb attacks 15 were killed."
Local trader Emeka Mike said, "I heard two explode around Enugu Road and another two near Forest Villa Hotel. After the blasts I saw many bodies lying on the ground."
[BBC] Gunmen have killed one of Mexico's highest ranking navy officials in the western state of Michoacan, where the military is trying to regain control of areas dominated by warring narco gangs.
The authorities have now tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three alleged members of the Knights Templar gang in connection with the killing.
Vice Admiral Carlos Miguel Salazar was ambushed on an unpaved road. His car had been diverted from the main road by protesters believed to have been hired by the gunnies.
The attack, which happened near the town of Churintzio, comes days after two coppers were killed in another ambush.
"We will work with all speed to arrest and bring to justice everyone responsible for his death of Vice Adm Carlos Miguel Salazar," President Enrique Pena Nieto said.
Deadly diversion
Adm Salazar was travelling on a motorway connecting Michoacan's capital, Morelia, with the state of Jalisco, where he was serving as commander of a naval base in Puerto Vallarta.
The navy said Adm Salazar's driver was forced to take the rural road when he found the road blocked by a group of men apparently protesting. Gunmen then opened fire on the car, killing the admiral and his bodyguard. The admiral's wife and his driver were maimed.
Despite the deployment of helicopters and hundreds of security officers to the area, so far no one has been detained in connection with the attack.
Except the three Knights Templar goombas mentioned above. But after all, this is the legendary Beeb, and they've got even more editors and fact checkers on staff than the legendary New York Times.
The Mexican navy has landed a number of well-publicised successes against Mexico's powerful narco mobs, including the arrest two weeks ago of leader of the Zetas narco mob, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales.
There has been a recent spike in violence in Michoacan, with narco mobs fighting the security forces and each other.
On Tuesday, two federal coppers and twenty gunnies were killed when gangs carried out a series of six co-ordinated ambushes on the security forces.
It is not clear who was behind either of the attacks yet, but a cartel calling itself the Knights Templar controls parts of Michoacan state.
In May, Mr Pena Nieto sent a general to Michoacan to take over police and military operations in the hope of quelling the violence.
Seventy-thousand people are estimated to have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2007.
Knights Templar narco mob
First emerged in 2011 as an off-shoot of La Familia Michoacana narco mob
Takes its name from a Christian military order from the Middle Ages
Claims to protect Michoacan residents from kidnappings, extortion and robberies committed by rival gangs
Members say they abide by a code of honour which includes not drinking or taking drugs and not abusing family members
Often uses pseudo-religious language to justify acts of violence
Controls much of the methamphetamine and marijuana trade in western Mexico
Cartel members have been accused of murders, kidnappings and extortion
Operates mainly in western Michoacan state
At war with Zetas cartel and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drugs gang
For a map, click here. For a map of Coahuila state, click here. For a map of Durango state, click here
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of seven individuals have been killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Mexico's La Laguna region Monday, according to Mexican news accounts.
Newa accounts which appeared on the online editions of El Siglo de Torreon and El Diario de Coahuila say that five unidentified taxi drivers were gunned down at a taxi stand in Ciudad Lerdo, one of the larger towns in La Laguna region of north central Mexico.
According to the reports, the shooting began at about 1330 hrs when armed suspects with AK-47 rifles fired on the victims in the Centauro del Norte colony near the Ciudad Lerdo to Juarez highway. At the moment reports fail to make clear if anyone survived the shooting other than one unidentified man who was taken for medical treatment.
Only an hour before, in Gomez Palacio, which is directly adjacent to Ciudad Lerdo, two men were shot to death near a primary school.
The victims were identified as Ruben Huereca Gaytan and Jesus Rivera Rangel, and were shot near Benito Juarez primary school in Bellavista colony by armed suspects using AR-15 rifles.
The La Laguna region, which comprises several western Coahuila and eastern Durango municipalities, recently underwent a change in its security status when it was announced that the Mexican Army would take over all police functions. Until that announcement, La Laguna had suffered from a high amount of criminal activity including armed robberies.
Gomez Palacio had part of its police department dismissed earlier in the year and was disarmed by the Mexican Army enforcing the Explosive and Firearms Act.
Mexican federal information policy makes it nearly impossible to gauge how well Mexican federal security operations in the region fare, but as with several other regions in Mexico including La Laguna, La Tarahumara and northern Tamaulipas, it appears that federal security elements may have been redeployed to Michoacan to deal with the renewed violence in that state, leaving the other regions with reduced security deployments.
In other security news in Coahuila state a total of eight unidentified suspects were detained near the town of Cuatro Cienegas by Coahuila state Policia Estatal units, according to a news account posted on El Siglo de Torreon.
The suspects were detained on a variety of offenses including murder, kidnapping and extortion.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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I'm surprised no one picked up on this.
I am not sure if this is WOT or not.
I thought he aided the enemy, though. If all he wanted to do was expose bad things the US had done, he could have selected a few files and posted them. That would have been bad enough. Instead, he dumped everything he could get hold of.
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Unfortunately Penn State + Carlyle Group can't say the same for Manning alter-skelter bad boy MAJOR HASAN = FORT HOOD SHOOTER.
[Dawn] A special anti-terrorist court in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Monday sent Masoom Billa alias Abu Bakar and Muhammad Muawiya, who were locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in relation to the kaboom targeting Sindh High Court's Justice Maqbool Baqar, on judicial remand until August 9.
The two men, associated with the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ), were produced before the court today under strict security.
During the hearing, the court directed the investigation officer to conclude the inquiry at the earliest and produce a charge sheet before it prior to the coming hearing of the case.
Also today, Muawiya told the court that the police had subjected him to torture and had damaged one of his arms.
Justice Baqar, who was the target of the June 26 attack, miraculously survived the bombing. His driver and eight security personnel escorting him died in the attack.
The blast was so powerful that one of the cycle of violences of the Rangers personnel flew and landed on the roof of a mosque and the other on the roof of a nearby home.
The kaboom blew the car of the justice, police mobiles and two cycle of violences of Rangers into pieces. The bomb moreover caused a two feet deep crater on the spot. Windowpanes of homes and shops within the 30-metre area were shattered.
And while all the arrests made in the case have involved members of the LJ, the bombing on the contrary claimed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
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Update at 0830 CT: apparently there's been a "mass jail break" with 250 escapees so far, according to Reuters.
This sort of thing has been going around lately, hasn't it...
[Dawn] Pak Talibs in police uniform, in an apparent attempt to free terrorist inmates, attacked the Central Jail in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... late on Monday and are locked in a shootout with police and security forces as around 25 kabooms were heard and a policeman among at least four people injured.
Heavily armed Death Eaters belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) attacked the prison from different sides and managed to make their way in from the Vegetable Market side near Government Girls Degree College D I Khan.
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A few days ago, Michael Ledeen posted an article at PJMedia on the metaphysics of jailbreaks, based on his observations while reporting from Rome in the 1970s. He offers a useful perspective of the choices on offer to jail guards in such situations.
Even as talks for a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace got off to a cautious start in Washington Monday, the ineffectual Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Egypt that no Israelis would be allowed to remain in a future Palestinian state.
He now just has to define the borders...
"In a final solution resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli -- civilian or soldier -- on our lands," Abbas said following a meeting with interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour in Cairo.
Abbas was in Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials and discuss relations between the Palestinian Authority and Cairo as well as to negotiate a relaxing of border restrictions between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Why is he helping Hamas?
To prove that he speaks for all Palestinians, and without him no progress will be made. Granted, no progress will be made with him, either, but that is utterly beside the point.
The Palestinian leader also reiterated that he wants a total freeze on settlement construction, and that he will not agree to any compromise solution that would halt projects in smaller outlying Jewish communities in the West Bank while allowing continued building in the larger settlement blocs
"There was a request, 'We'll only build here, what do you think?' If I agreed, I would legitimize all the rest (of the settlements). I said no. I said out loud and in writing that, to us, settlements in their entirety are illegitimate," said Abbas.
"Please don't kill me!"
In the past, Israeli governments have toyed with a proposal first put forward by former prime minister Ariel Sharon that would see Israel maintain control of some 14% of the West Bank that is home to the larger settlement communities. Earlier this month Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin estimated that, if the Palestinians agreed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would go for such a deal. Other past proposals envisioned a land-swap in which the Palestinians would gain territory from Israel to make up for settlement areas that would become a permanent part of the Jewish State.
Netanyahu, who has expressed support in principle for a Palestinian state, has not specified how much West Bank territory he would be prepared to relinquish in negotiations.
Nor will he until the final moment for a deal arrives...
Do you remember that ancient Greek math puzzle, the one where each step is half so long as the previous one, and the question was how long it would take to reach the end? Like that.
Abbas said that he may be open to the idea of small adjustments in the 1967 border that the Palestinians say is the otherwise nonnegotiable boundary of a future Palestinian state.
"East Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Palestine ... if there were and must be some kind of small exchange (of land) equal in size and value, we are ready to discuss this -- no more, no less," he said.
Abbas also raised the possibility of establishing a multi-national force to act as peacekeepers in the future state for the benefit of both sides.
"An international, multinational presence like in Sinai, Lebanon and Syria -- we are with that," he said and noted that he still supported a proposal that he said was discussed with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert that NATO forces be deployed to keep the peace.
"My brothers are as happy to kill infidels as Jooz," he added softly...
Formal talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were scheduled to begin on Tuesday morning in Washington after the teams met for an informal dinner on Monday night.
Talks are set to resume for approximately three hours with the last 45 minutes devoted to trilateral negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, after which they will deliver a joint press briefing.
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"An international, multinational presence like in Sinai, Lebanon and Syria -- we are with that,"
After all, they've prevented _so_ much bloodshed in Syria.
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So. No Juice in 'Palestine', borders defining which are tbd. Multi-national 'Peacekeepers'. Right. Thinking Saudis, Syrians, Pakistanis, NATO (!!!) etc? And any land given up only from the Israeli side?
Losers. Fuck off and die. I am disgusted that the US has any part in this.
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there's an "Empty Quarter" nearby all nice and Judenfrei. Jus' saying
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As things stand the future PA is going to be a TRILATERAL or QUADRILATERAL STATE, iff not higher, as shared between the Paleos, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, + the UNO [UNO-OWG] - more iff one takes into account the proposed ISLAMIC + MEDITERRANEAN UNIONS.
[An Nahar] The Syrian regime on Monday said the army recaptured a rebel district of Homs, a key symbol of the country's revolt, after a relentless one-month offensive.
Activists on the ground told Agence La Belle France Presse government troops now controlled 90 percent of Khaldiyeh neighborhood.
The takeover is the second military success for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dawn] A special anti-terrorist court in 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
