[Tolo News] An Afghan police officer who was newly assigned to guard the Cure International Hospital opened fire on some Afghan and foreign nationals on Thursday. Three Americans have been murdered in the shooting, according to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
The Afghan security officials have confirmed casualties in the attack, but have provided no further details.
Mohammad Zahir, a 70-year-old shopkeeper in the area gave his eyewitness account of the incident.
"We were sitting here and heard the firing. The guards escaped. I shouted what happened. People said that the guard had shot the foreigners," Zahir said. "Firing stopped and started again few minutes later."
The Afghan Minister of Public Health Dr. Soraya Dalil reached the site moments after the incident happened.
"In today's incident a child specialist who had worked in the hospital for seven years was rubbed out. A father and son who had an appointment with him were killed, and a female hospital employee was maimed," Dalil said. "The police officer who opened fire is also maimed, but I do not have details as to whether or not he fired deliberately on himself."
According to the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI), the attacker has been jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and is getting medical treatment.
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[Tolo News] Deputy Minister of Public Works, Ahmad Shah Waheed, who was kidnapped last Tuesday near his home in Kabul, was freed Wednesday night after spending nine days as a captive in Kapisa province.
Mr. Waheed was kidnapped by unknown assailants last week, but was released by mistake and rescued by security forces on Wednesday.
"I was held captive by my kidnappers for five or six days in a house located in Nejrab and Geiawa districts of Kapisa province," Mr. Waheed told TOLOnews during his first media appearance since being freed. "During that time my location was changed four times, but I was blindfolded afterward and did not know where I was or how many days passed."
Mr. Waheed's house in Kabul was busy Thursday with visits from high ranking government and non-government officials on Thursday. Some visitors even brought sheep to be sacrificed.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA) has said that Mr. Waheed was found as a result of a 10 day search effort by security forces.
"After efforts of the Afghan Security Forces, Mr. Waheed was released by his kidnappers in Kapisa province," Ministry front man Sediq Sediqi said. "Mr. Waheed's kidnapping had political motivations behind it."
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... another source in the Afghan cops, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the release of Mr. Waheed was completely accidental. The source said Mr. Waheed's kidnappers were forced to free him when they ran into coppers in Nejrab while transporting him.
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[An Nahar] Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, adding to hundreds of thousands uprooted by conflict in the Darfur region this year, the U.N. said on Thursday.
Clashes between government forces and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N)in South Kordofan's Rashad district displaced about 6,700 civilians, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its weekly bulletin.
It cited data from Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission.
"Many displaced people have sought shelter in Rashad town," OCHA said.
The U.N. has also received reports that an estimated 4,300 people fled their homes in Blue Nile state because of combat between SPLM-N and government forces, OCHA said.
Almost three years of fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile had already displaced or severely affected more than one million people.
Like the 11-year-old insurgency in western Sudan's Darfur region, the Kordofan-Blue Nile war has been fueled by complaints among non-Arab groups of neglect and discrimination by the Arab-dominated regime.
Khartoum and the SPLM-N on Tuesday began their latest round of 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... -mediated talks aimed at reaching a peace deal.
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An intense violent confrontation erupted late last night near Awdinle of the Bay region between co-allied African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army against Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents.
As AMISOM and the Somali National Army were passing by Awdinle in a several vehicle convoy, fighters from the radical terrorist insurgency attacked the pro-government soldiers leading to aggravated clashes.
Residents reported to Shabelle that casualties and losses were sustained in the conflict that last for a few hours, although they cannot specify the precise number of loss fatalities in which AMISOM and Somali National Army soldiers suffered.
A military official from the Somali Federal Government in Bay region commended the Somali National Army’s role in defeating the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist cell and impounding their weapons before securing it at a military base near Baidoa, he told Shabelle.
Furthermore, the Somali National Army backed by Ethiopian troops serving under AMISOM staged a surprise attack targeting senior Al-Shabaab officials in Qansahdere, a district within the Bay region after being tipped off by residents living near the town.
In Qansahdere, the radical group Al-Shabaab stepped up their military presence in the town due to the retreat of AMISOM and the government troops. The sudden invasion by the terrorist militia to increase their influence in Qansahdere was stopped short last night when the Ethiopian troops fired mortar shells at a distinct location alleged to house the Al-Shabaab officials.
Al-Shabaab was assumed to have suffered immense fatalities by the abrupt military offensives although government officials in the Bay region are yet to confirm the precise numbers. The Somali Federal Government or Al-Shabaab high-ranking officials are yet to comment regarding the physical fighting last night in Bay.
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[Egypt Independent] Beni Suef Governor Magdi al-Beteity, said Moslem Brüderbund supporters in al-Maymoun village set a policeman's brother's car on fire as authorities were arresting some of them per a prosecution order.
The Brotherhood supporters also allegedly tried to set the victim's house on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at it, Beteity said on Thursday.
Emergency respondents, however, were able to control the fire that broke out in both the house and the car.
Beni Suef security services had launched campaigns to arrest some suspects over involvement in lawsuits in the village.
After teargas canisters were fired, Brotherhood members dismantled some train track rails off and set tires on fire.
Major General Ibrahim Hodeib, Beni Suef security chief, said on Thursday that the festivities are still ongoing and that the protesters are still blocking the railways as well as the agricultural road. He said he ordered authorities to deal strictly with the protesters to re-operate the train traffic.
Security services locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Wednesday evening nine suspects allegedly affiliated to the Moslem Brüderbund.
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[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda Death Eaters have seized hospitals in southern Yemen to treat maimed comrades following blistering air strikes that killed scores of gunnies in two days, medics said Thursday.
An intensive aerial campaign by U.S. drones and Yemeni jet fighters on al-Qaeda bases in the rugged mountains of nearby Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province killed some 70 Death Eaters over the weekend.
On Sunday, Death Eaters stormed the hospital of Azzan, in Shabwa province, as well as two smaller medical centers in nearby districts, the sources said.
They counted experienced doctors among their number, who tended the maimed.
"They forced us out of the centers along with other members of staff and brought in their maimed," a doctor at a medical center in the town of Al-Saeed told Agence La Belle France Presse.
After the raids, Death Eaters arrived with casualties in pick-up trucks, accompanied by "several doctors, including Arabs and foreigners," he said.
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[DAWN] Police officer Shafiq Tanoli and three others were killed in an kaboom that took place near 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... 's old wholesale vegetable market on Thursday.
Three others were also reported injured in the kaboom.
The kaboom took place in a shop near Tanoli's residence where the inspector was seated with some of his friends.
"The blast killed police official Shafiq Tanoli and two others," senior local police official Tanvir Ahmad Tunio told AFP.
He said there were at least five people in the shop at the time of blast, which targeted Tanoli.
Another local police official confirmed the attack and casualties.
Police official Pir Mohammad Shah said the kaboom appeared to be a suicide kaboom but an investigating was underway.
Shah said Tanoli, who survived several attempts on his life in the past, was targeted for his active campaigning against terrorists.
Tanoli, who had recently been suspended on charges of misconduct, appeared to have been the target of today's attack. No one has so far grabbed credit for the kaboom.
Tanoli has also been targeted several times before.
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[DAWN] Suspected gunnies killed four coppers in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's troubled Naseerabad district on Thursday evening, police said.
A police official who requested anonymity since he was not authorised to speak to media told Dawn that suspected gunnies opened indiscriminate fire on a patrolling police van in Chahtar area of Naseerabad district.
"All four coppers received multiple bullet wounds and was struck down in his prime", he said.
The gunnies sped away on their cycle of violences after the attack.
A huge contingent of police was called from Dera Murad Jamali, the head quarter of Naseerabad district to launch a search operation against the assailants.
The police official said that an exchange of fire also took place between the gunnies and the additional contingent of coppers approaching the attack site.
The dead bodies were shifted to civil hospital Dera Murad Jamali where a large number of people had turned up.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the police sources suspected the involvement of defunct Baloch murderous Moslem group, Baloch Republican Army, in the attack. Right. "Defunct." As someone once said: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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[DAWN] KARACHI: An activist of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... was bumped off and another worker maimed in the Garden area on Wednesday evening while they were returning home after attending a rally, police and ASWJ sources said.
Two passers-by, including a 40-year-old woman, also received gunshot wounds in the attack.
The ASWJ took out a huge rally on M.A. Jinnah Road to mark the death anniversary of Hazrat Abu Bakar on Wednesday.
An official at the Soldier Bazaar cop shoppe said that the ASWJ had organised a march in Lasbella to observe 'Hazrat Abu Bakr Day'. After the march, the activists were returning home when four suspects riding two cycle of violences opened fire on them on Nishter Road near Zeenat Mahal, leaving four persons maimed. They were taken to the Civil Hospital 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... where doctors pronounced one of them, Amjad Khan, 35, dead on arrival.
Zubaida Ali, Mohammed Tayab and Saeed Noshad were admitted for treatment.
The ASWJ spokesperson said that the firing incident occured after their rally had ended. He said the dear departed was an activist of their group in Hazara Colony of Lyari. He added that Tayab was also their worker. He said that rivals attacked the ASWJ workers.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A 38-year-old general manager of a factory was rubbed out in a targeted attack on his car in the Manghopir area on Wednesday morning, police said.
The Pirabad police added that Ejaz Najaf Shah was attacked by armed motorcyclists near Nusrat Bhutto 'Mor' shortly after he left his residence in his car. He sustained three bullet wounds and was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! on arrival, the officials said.
Pirabad SHO Fasih Zaman said the victim originally hailed from Gilgit. He said that the murder could be related to the ongoing wave of sectarian violence in the metropolis.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... speaking at a presser at Pak Moharram Hall, deputy secretary general of the Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Moslemeen Allama Amin Shaheedi demanded immediate arrest of killers targeting people on sectarian grounds 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... . He said: "At least 10 Shias have been killed in the past couple of weeks."
He said that inaction against banned outfits would have dire consequences for the authorities too. The government should not forget the fact that their image was tarnished and their reputation was put at stake due to unabated killings on sectarian grounds, said Allama Shaheedi who was accompanied by other MWM leaders.
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Likely someone made him "an offer he couldn't refuse," and he did.
[An Nahar] Pakistain fighter jets on Thursday attacked Taliban hideouts in the lawless northwestern tribal belt and killed at least 12 suspected bully boys, officials said.
It was the first time the military is known to have used air strikes on Death Eaters since the Pak Taliban announced a ceasefire on March 1 to help peace talks.
The Taliban said last week it was ending the ceasefire, complaining of little progress in negotiations with the government. A series of bully boy attacks since then have killed seven people in the northwest.
The Arclight airstrikes were staged in mountainous areas of the Khyber tribal district, where the Taliban and the banned bully boy group Lashkar-e-Islam are active.
"At least 12 Death Eaters have been killed but the corpse count may increase," a security official based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Lashkar-e-Islam, led by warlord Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... , is feared for kidnappings and extortion in Khyber, one of seven lawless tribal districts along the Afghan border.
Another security official said the strikes targeted Death Eaters involved in kabooms in the northwestern town of Charsadda and on a fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad which killed 24 people.
Both officials said ground troops also used heavy weapons to pound bully boy targets.
Independent verification of the corpse count was not possible, as journalists are not allowed to enter the area.
Pakistain began talks with the Taliban in February to try to end their seven-year insurgency, which has cost thousands of lives.
Government and Taliban negotiators met in Islamabad on Tuesday to plan a fresh round of talks and to try to persuade the Death Eaters to begin another ceasefire, a Taliban negotiator said.
Since the Taliban began their campaign of violence in 2007, more than 6,800 people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks around Pakistain, according to an AFP tally.
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[Ynet] A woman was lightly maimed Wednesday by stones thrown at a bus in the French Hill in Jerusalem. Magen David Adom Paramedics gave her medical treatment. The bus was damaged in the attack.
[Ynet] Strict Sharia Law implementation in Brunei delayed, but will still go ahead despite heavy critisizm from abroad.
Brunei has postponed its implementation of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin Tuesday and have drawn condemnation from the UN's human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... office and rare criticism at home.
No confirmed new date was given for the start of the sharia penalties - which will eventually include flogging, severing of limbs and death by stoning - but an official told Brunei media they would begin "in the very near future".
Jauyah Zaini, assistant director of the oil-rich sultanate's Islamic Legal Unit, was quoted by the Brunei Times as saying implementation had been delayed "due to unavoidable circumstances". He did not elaborate or give a new date.
Brunei's Sultan - the driving force behind sharia - is visiting Singapore, and the government is believed to be waiting for the all-powerful Islamic monarch to return before introducing the sensitive legal code.
But the delay could feed perceptions of hesitation by the 67-year-old sultan - one of the world's wealthiest men - who earlier this year faced a backlash from the country's social-media-savvy citizens.
The new criminal code will phase in punishments, including execution by stoning for offences such as sodomy and adultery, severing of limbs for theft, and flogging for violations ranging from abortion to alcohol consumption.
Authorities have in recent weeks conducted a series of briefings for official agencies and non-government organizations to explain sharia.
"When you're trying to make such a leap, issues will arise," said Nizam Bashir, a Malaysian attorney and rights activist, who practices both civil and sharia law.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... he said it was unlikely the criminal code will be scrapped.
Brunei currently has a dual-track legal system of civil courts along with sharia courts handling non-criminal issues like marital and inheritance cases.
Authorities said a sharia "declaration ceremony" would go ahead as planned April 30, but gave no other details.
The sultan announced the new punishments last October as part of moves to shore up Islam in the country as a "firewall" against outside influences.
But the UN's human rights office said this month it was "deeply concerned", adding that penalties like stoning are classified under international law as "torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
Nearly 70 percent of Brunei's 400,000 people are Mohammedan Malays while about 15 percent are non-Mohammedan ethnic Chinese.
Malays have been broadly supportive of the move by their father-figure sultan.
But users of social media, the only outlet for public criticism of authorities, attacked it as barbaric earlier this year, prompting the sultan to publicly order a halt to criticism in late February.
A non-Mohammedan ethnic Chinese Bruneian who spoke on condition of anonymity said she was "scared" by the legal shift.
"I believe that this will cause a wedge, that was previously a tiny crack, between Mohammedans and non-Mohammedans citizens and permanent residents alike," the 28-year-old said.
Non-Mohammedans also expressed anxiety over mixed messages on whether the punishments would apply to them.
Situated on Borneo Island, which it shares with Malaysia and Indonesia, tiny Brunei already practiced a relatively conservative form of Islam compared to its Mohammedan-majority neighbors, banning the sale of alcohol and heavily restricting other religions.
[An Nahar] The army incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Thursday in Arsal ten Syrian nationals who were trying to enter into Leb with fake identification papers, amid a strict security plan that troops have been implementing in the region since more than two weeks.
"The Lebanese Army apprehended on the Wadi Hmayyed checkpoint in the Arsal region 10 Syrians who were trying to enter the country with fake IDs," state-run National News Agency reported.
The detainees are being interrogated by the relevant authorities, according to NNA.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... LBCI television said the ten men had arms in their possession.
On April 9, eight Syrians were arrested by the army in Arsal. They included Mohammed Qassem, who has been described as a "very dangerous" runaway.
Earlier in April, a Syrian member of the Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front was killed and two others were maimed after they fled from the army checkpoint in Wadi Hmayyed.
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[An Nahar] An air strike on a market on Thursday killed at least 21 people, including three children, in a village of the north Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The deadly raid comes amid a massive aerial offensive targeting opposition-held areas across Aleppo city and province that began in December 15.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing campaign has killed hundreds, mostly civilians, and forced thousands of families to flee their homes.
"The number of people killed in an air strike this morning against the market area of Atareb village has risen to 21, including three children," said the Observatory, adding the toll was likely to rise.
Activists distributed video showing scenes of chaos, with bodies lying amid mounds of grey rubble in what was clearly a market.
The amateur footage shows a woman in a white headscarf screaming as she leaned over the body of a loved one.
Another image showed a man attending to a boy whose leg had been ripped off. It was unclear whether the child was alive or dead.
"The area that was struck today is a market area, that's why there were so many civilians killed," said Aleppo-based activist Abu Omar.
"The regime is hitting back against the civilians who support the revolt" against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , he added.
Swathes of Aleppo city and province have been out of army control since 2012.
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Two mortar shells have dropped in Turkey amid fighting between the Syrian opposition and regime forces, according to officials, Anadolu Agency reported.
Did anyone pick them up? Doesn't Turkey have an ordinance on littering?
The shells dropped on an empty field in the Yayladagi district of the Hatay province on Thursday. No casualties were reported. Locals told Anadolu Agency the attacks on the region near the Syrian border had made them feel unsafe.
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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
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[An Nahar] An air strike on a market on Thursday killed at least 21 people, including three children, in a village of the north Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
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